Isn't this rather misleading, considering that if you can't get at the source, the project isn't under the BSD license? It doesn't make the BSD license less free if a derivative is not BSD-licensed, it reflects on the license of the derivative. Furthermore, the original BSD-licensed code will always be available once it's been given up to the public (barring the project dying out altogether, which can just as easily happen to a GPL project).
Yet year after year, across all genres, we only see tiny incremental refinements of preexisting games because most mainstream developers refuse to embrace risk.
And because gamers don't want something different. We want the same game (roughly), not a "truly new game experience".
The incredulous way you tell the story (i.e. He works in IT and had never seen VMWare on Linux) loses a little something when you claim he was "putting Active Directory on everyone's computers."
Ever consider that was his way of saying that the guy was joining the computers to the domain? Odd phrasing isn't really worthy of mockery, it's just... odd.
I never said otherwise. At no point did I say that a random person's opinion on constitutionality is legally binding, I merely pointed out that it's not necessary for your opinion to be legally binding for you to point out that something is unconstitutional. The constitutionality of an action is there or it's not, whether a judge recognizes it or not.
Why shouldn't it be in the hands of the common man to determine what is constitutional or not? Now, mind you, I'm not saying that the ramblings of/. users need to carry weight in a court of law, but let's not forget that the term "constitutional" can be used outside a court of law. Anyone can determine whether something is or is not constitutional, it's a free country. It's just that unless you happen to be a judge, your opinion won't be applied to other legal cases, and won't get the law overturned.
Except for the fact that the government doesn't actually have rights (and is the only party who can do something unconstitutional, since the constitution binds only them). Individuals in the government have rights, the government itself does not.
An opinion blog or forum opinion does not determine constitutionality.
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Not so. Anyone can determine constitutionality by examining a law, and the constitution, and telling you whether or not it violates the constitution. Now, that won't save your ass in court, but to say that the only valid judge of constitutionality is the courts is not only wrong, but against the spirit in which our nation was founded (that the people should keep the government in check).
I'm level 79. I'm through all the zones except Storm Peaks and Icecrown. I have mining. I have enemy cast bars turned on (and pay attention to them). I have never, and will never, use quest helper.
I say again, I have seen none of the issues you've mentioned. Not a single one. The polish on this game is as high as it's ever been, from my experience.
Uh... you say that there's a serious lack of polish, and from your description it's a critical problem. How is it, then, that I have yet to see one of the things you mentioned? Not even one. Maybe your game files are out of whack somehow, but the expansion is quite polished.
When someone refers to the "arena" in WoW, they're referring exclusively to PvP as that is the only arena in the game. Such has been requested for PvE based on the EQ system for older raid bosses, but it has yet to happen.
Technically correct, but I believe you're incorrect in this instance. It sounded as though the "arena challenges with increasingly more difficult opponents", both here and in the article, was referring to the Ring of Blood questline in Nagrand, and now the Amphitheater of Anguish in Zul'Drak.
If you're uncomfortable with gayness, I would submit that you aren't actually gay. Note that this means "The thought of myself doing those things is disgusting", not "My parents will be ashamed of me if they find this out". If it's what you are, you shouldn't have any issues about it... but it would be ludicrous to expect a straight person to be comfortable with the idea of themselves doing gay things, just as it would be ludicrous to expect a gay person to be comfortable with the idea of themselves doing straight things.
but I would dispute the "perfectly acceptable" part of your point too... many people commit suicide every year because they are unable to accept their sexuality, many more are assaulted, raped or murdered by others who lash out because of their internalized homophobia. Call me a leftist nutter, but anything that gets thousands of people killed yearly is not something I would tag as "perfectly acceptable".
I won't call you a leftist nutter, but I will call you wrong. There are many things in our world which are "perfectly acceptable", but get people killed because people misuse them or react badly to them. I'm sure more than one person has committed suicide because of their unrequited love for someone, but that doesn't make being in love unacceptable, nor does it make non-reciprocity of love unacceptable. It just means that it's unfortunate that someone couldn't cope with something adequately, and made a bad choice about how to resolve the issue.
Don't worry, your fapping is perfectly safe from your homophobic fears:)
I'm guessing you were joking, since I certainly have been joking about this, but I do feel the need to point something out seriously. Not being comfortable with someone you were attracted to turning out to be male isn't homophobia in the least. Homophobia is having negative reactions towards other people who are gay. Not being comfortable with gayness for yourself, though, is perfectly acceptable. Why choose such a negative-laced word?
Anyone who says it's deep or has any meaning is either delusional, or has never seen any sci-fi ever.
I offer a third, and fourth possibility: you're a troll, or you're an overly-self-important jerk who feels the need to shit on things people enjoy without any provocation whatsoever.
Please don't introduce thoughts like this into my brain when talking about hot female characters... I'll never be able to look at her the same way again!
I can't tell if you're trying to criticize my spelling or not...:/
At any rate, I never felt a need for spell check. Chrome's spell check just annoys the piss out of me, because 99.9% of the time, it's wrong. I'm spelling something legitimately, but because it's not in the rather limited dictionary, it gets flagged. For the spelling on my posts, I guess I've always just been one who gives my post the once-over to make sure that there aren't errors.
Huh? I didn't say that it doesn't make sense to not want to subsidize a phone with your plan. That makes perfect sense. I'm saying, assuming you only pay for your phone plan for sake of argument, you pay your $40 worth of phone bill to the provider every month. What difference does it make if you're paying for some plan, or paying for minutes in advance?
No. This analogy fails. It has nothing to do with Opera implementing stuff first, it has to do with them making up for lack of certain useful features by having their own useful features.
Besides which, spell check, mouse gestures, etc are hardly world-rocking features. It doesn't affect the user experience much if they aren't there.
Out of curiosity, what's the difference between paying $40 to the phone company every month for your normal plan, or paying for more minutes every month? I fail to see how it's any different.
I'm not that guy, but I live in Wisconsin, and Vista has been stable for going on 2 years now. I've been using it since release, and it was rock-solid the entire time.
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Isn't this rather misleading, considering that if you can't get at the source, the project isn't under the BSD license? It doesn't make the BSD license less free if a derivative is not BSD-licensed, it reflects on the license of the derivative. Furthermore, the original BSD-licensed code will always be available once it's been given up to the public (barring the project dying out altogether, which can just as easily happen to a GPL project).
Yet year after year, across all genres, we only see tiny incremental refinements of preexisting games because most mainstream developers refuse to embrace risk.
And because gamers don't want something different. We want the same game (roughly), not a "truly new game experience".
You missed his point, which is that being a gamer in no way precludes reading Dickens (which is what you unjustly implied).
When you improve the software even a tiny bit, you have to give it away for free too.
And yet again, a slashdot user falsely equates "free software" to "software licensed under the GPL or a similar license".
The incredulous way you tell the story (i.e. He works in IT and had never seen VMWare on Linux) loses a little something when you claim he was "putting Active Directory on everyone's computers."
Ever consider that was his way of saying that the guy was joining the computers to the domain? Odd phrasing isn't really worthy of mockery, it's just... odd.
I never said otherwise. At no point did I say that a random person's opinion on constitutionality is legally binding, I merely pointed out that it's not necessary for your opinion to be legally binding for you to point out that something is unconstitutional. The constitutionality of an action is there or it's not, whether a judge recognizes it or not.
Why shouldn't it be in the hands of the common man to determine what is constitutional or not? Now, mind you, I'm not saying that the ramblings of /. users need to carry weight in a court of law, but let's not forget that the term "constitutional" can be used outside a court of law. Anyone can determine whether something is or is not constitutional, it's a free country. It's just that unless you happen to be a judge, your opinion won't be applied to other legal cases, and won't get the law overturned.
Except for the fact that the government doesn't actually have rights (and is the only party who can do something unconstitutional, since the constitution binds only them). Individuals in the government have rights, the government itself does not.
An opinion blog or forum opinion does not determine constitutionality.
<nitpick>
Not so. Anyone can determine constitutionality by examining a law, and the constitution, and telling you whether or not it violates the constitution. Now, that won't save your ass in court, but to say that the only valid judge of constitutionality is the courts is not only wrong, but against the spirit in which our nation was founded (that the people should keep the government in check).
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I'm level 79. I'm through all the zones except Storm Peaks and Icecrown. I have mining. I have enemy cast bars turned on (and pay attention to them). I have never, and will never, use quest helper.
I say again, I have seen none of the issues you've mentioned. Not a single one. The polish on this game is as high as it's ever been, from my experience.
That'd be because it's not Penny Arcade, it's Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Uh... you say that there's a serious lack of polish, and from your description it's a critical problem. How is it, then, that I have yet to see one of the things you mentioned? Not even one. Maybe your game files are out of whack somehow, but the expansion is quite polished.
When someone refers to the "arena" in WoW, they're referring exclusively to PvP as that is the only arena in the game. Such has been requested for PvE based on the EQ system for older raid bosses, but it has yet to happen.
Technically correct, but I believe you're incorrect in this instance. It sounded as though the "arena challenges with increasingly more difficult opponents", both here and in the article, was referring to the Ring of Blood questline in Nagrand, and now the Amphitheater of Anguish in Zul'Drak.
If you're uncomfortable with gayness, I would submit that you aren't actually gay. Note that this means "The thought of myself doing those things is disgusting", not "My parents will be ashamed of me if they find this out". If it's what you are, you shouldn't have any issues about it... but it would be ludicrous to expect a straight person to be comfortable with the idea of themselves doing gay things, just as it would be ludicrous to expect a gay person to be comfortable with the idea of themselves doing straight things.
but I would dispute the "perfectly acceptable" part of your point too... many people commit suicide every year because they are unable to accept their sexuality, many more are assaulted, raped or murdered by others who lash out because of their internalized homophobia. Call me a leftist nutter, but anything that gets thousands of people killed yearly is not something I would tag as "perfectly acceptable".
I won't call you a leftist nutter, but I will call you wrong. There are many things in our world which are "perfectly acceptable", but get people killed because people misuse them or react badly to them. I'm sure more than one person has committed suicide because of their unrequited love for someone, but that doesn't make being in love unacceptable, nor does it make non-reciprocity of love unacceptable. It just means that it's unfortunate that someone couldn't cope with something adequately, and made a bad choice about how to resolve the issue.
Don't worry, your fapping is perfectly safe from your homophobic fears :)
I'm guessing you were joking, since I certainly have been joking about this, but I do feel the need to point something out seriously. Not being comfortable with someone you were attracted to turning out to be male isn't homophobia in the least. Homophobia is having negative reactions towards other people who are gay. Not being comfortable with gayness for yourself, though, is perfectly acceptable. Why choose such a negative-laced word?
You're right, I had forgot about that. Of course, it doesn't rule out the possibility that she had a male cybernetic body at some point... O.o
Anyone who says it's deep or has any meaning is either delusional, or has never seen any sci-fi ever.
I offer a third, and fourth possibility: you're a troll, or you're an overly-self-important jerk who feels the need to shit on things people enjoy without any provocation whatsoever.
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Please don't introduce thoughts like this into my brain when talking about hot female characters... I'll never be able to look at her the same way again!
I can't tell if you're trying to criticize my spelling or not... :/
At any rate, I never felt a need for spell check. Chrome's spell check just annoys the piss out of me, because 99.9% of the time, it's wrong. I'm spelling something legitimately, but because it's not in the rather limited dictionary, it gets flagged. For the spelling on my posts, I guess I've always just been one who gives my post the once-over to make sure that there aren't errors.
Huh? I didn't say that it doesn't make sense to not want to subsidize a phone with your plan. That makes perfect sense. I'm saying, assuming you only pay for your phone plan for sake of argument, you pay your $40 worth of phone bill to the provider every month. What difference does it make if you're paying for some plan, or paying for minutes in advance?
No. This analogy fails. It has nothing to do with Opera implementing stuff first, it has to do with them making up for lack of certain useful features by having their own useful features.
Besides which, spell check, mouse gestures, etc are hardly world-rocking features. It doesn't affect the user experience much if they aren't there.
Apple's policies don't even allow GPL'd software at all, so I couldn't even offer my work to others to begin with.
The GPL isn't a prerequisite for offering your work to others.
Out of curiosity, what's the difference between paying $40 to the phone company every month for your normal plan, or paying for more minutes every month? I fail to see how it's any different.
I'm not that guy, but I live in Wisconsin, and Vista has been stable for going on 2 years now. I've been using it since release, and it was rock-solid the entire time.