There is no doubt that it won't stop piracy but anyone can pirate DS games. Where as, for instance with the Gameboy, people also pirated games but you couldn't easily do it.
That's what annoyed me when shops start using piracy as an excuse to not allow games returns. It's not something the average person does with cart based games. It would be 10 times easier to get the roms online rather than buying the game, making your own duplication cable, etc.
But with the DS I've even heard uneducated jobless douche bags on the bus bragging about stealing games.
Plus with the original DS and DS lite around games can't be copy protected unless it has a way of turning it off when something in the system doesn't exist which means it'll be piss easy to by-pass.
I was just about to say, Windows 3.11 had folders which could be sized to any shape and left your icons "docked" anywhere on the desktop. Plus there were some 3rd party apps, if I recall, that were more dock-like than the standard 3.11 folders.
The fact her email address had gov in it pretty much says she was using it for business. Secondly if you sift through the zip file you can find subjects to business related emails and...
According to the Guardian, who has looked at the Wikileaks data, among the emails in Palin's account were several from addresses belonging to her aides, including a draft letter to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a discussion of nominations to the state court of appeals, and several bearing "DPS", the acronym for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
DPS supervises the Alaska state troopers. Could the e-mails in question be relevant to the brewing ethics storm over Palin's push to sack her former brother-in-law from the force?
The kid did something stupid and wrong. He should be punished for this but I can't believe the media and law officials are going to ignore the fact she used it for work. I'm surprised the accounts were deleted (and yes no doubt by her) because the leaked stuff implies things and she probably doesn't want anyone enquiring about it. She's already in trouble with troopergate.
I would agree but that doesn't mean she should get away free. At the very least she should be disqualified from holding a public office so no VP or governorship and the kid should get some jail time.
So you rather vote for cancer face who has less morals, will probably die within his first year of office and leave a moronic bimbo in charge who is less qualified to be president than my dog.
That's ignoring the fact the loon goes to church to be protected by witches, her hypocrisy with all her earmarks and her "first dude" is/was a separatists.
This is why American politics continue to go down the drain. No one has the balls to vote in a way that actually helps the country. Instead they get served up to half assed options and will happily pick one of them and neither party cares that much if they lose as there's a 50/50 chance they'll win next time.
Of course they want to stop pirating. Nintendo has been one of the most fair companies when it comes to their portables and allowing people to play imports.
However there is rampant piracy with the DS. It's far too easy to buy multi-game paks from China rather than buying the real item and no matter what you may think that is wrong and should be stopped.
Removing the GBA cart won't stop ds hacking. There is no real use for to continue the GBA slot when GBA games aren't really made and they will continue selling the DS Lite.
As an owner of the Virtual Boy I can attest to the reason it failed is because it was a head of its time and the technology just wasn't there to do the idea justice. This isn't Nintendo's fault and in fact they released it despite everyone thinking it was rubbish based on the fact they held Gumpei in such high regard.
If you're going to troll then at least troll with common sense and facts.
It doesn't. It lags when trying to render a tooltip--a tooltip--when you're using Compiz, probably because it's trying to create another X window.
First that's mostly irrelevant to the people for which linux distros want to grow their market and It's probably PEBKAC related seeing how my outdated Linux machine has no problem with it.;)
Netbeans isn't what my clients who hire me for Java work use--so it's easier for me to use Eclipse like they do. And I don't do Java development for any other reason, so I don't really care.
Then you can't complain. You've opted to do that for the money so it and don't cry or find something else to do.
"Fine" is not the same as "well." You say OpenOffice works fine (I disagree), whereas I say that Office 2003 works well.
Princeton defines Fine as very well or alright. In both instances that gets my point across that it will do what most people will require from it. Now that it we have ODF and OOXML there should be less compatibility issues...aside from the fact Office 2007 is shit (funnily you mentioned version 2003) and a lot of people probably won't move to either format soon. Luckily OpenOffice doesn't do too badly with MS' closed doc format.
I own Adobe CS3. Acrobat works fine for my purposes.
Compare how many copies have been sold of CS3 (hell include the pirated copies too) and compare that to the over all computer owning population. That option isn't available to most people nor would they want to consider it.
You suspect very wrongly; I simply don't have the time to waste on products that waste my time. Linux remains such on the desktop when Windows just works. The Linux-on-the-desktop types don't understand this. "But Linux is better!" Is it better enough to waste time re-learning what I already know and am productive with? At one point, I thought it might be. Then I realized "holy shit, it's not, I made a mistake."
You're the one that sees it so black and white. Where as I get on fine with either system. Linux is safer than Windows. Fact. So for the average idiot it is a logical solution. It runs better on older hardware. Fact. Hence the reason netbooks use it and MS has to desperately keep XP alive to try to compete in a market they didn't see coming. This is again beneficial to the average person who doesn't buy things like Adobe CS3 or a top of the line Macbook Pro (like I'll be doing in the near future).
I use Dreamweaver as a glorified text editor with IntelliSense and quick-preview (and a bit of the CSS builder functionality, which works well). There may be better, but they don't integrate as well with the rest of my tools, and I'm not interested in screwing up my workflow for arbitrary reasons.
I used to do that too but then I realised it was mostly pointless because Dreamweaver doesn't render things like IE or Firefox so there's no real point in using it when most any editor gives you the option to open your work in the browser of your choice. It's not that hot for languages other than HTML and CSS and yes I could do most of my PHP work in a separate editor if I'm doing proper MVC development but why use two programs when I can use one?
Oh, I love this line. I truly do. The GIMP is not as powerful (CMYK says what? Even the new release doesn't really support it--and yes, I do print work as well, so this is something of a vital feature). The GIMP's user interface is unpleasant to work with; the MDI paradigm is more comfortable. (And the majority of film work done is with CinePaint, which forked from the GIMP way back in version 1.x. It's considerably less annoying than the GIMP because they listen to users and implement suggestions. I still prefer Photoshop.)
Cinepaint is still GIMP when you get down to it and once CMYK support, which is com
I've grown up on Dreamweaver since way back when it was split into two versions. I'm well aware that it is ok for html and css. Aside from that it's not that good. The PHP it generates is appalling.
Just search for Dreamweaver generated code and read up on the security issues and the general lack of quality. XHTML and CSS are quite basic. I don't need my hand held for that when any time saved is wasted by the program throwing out rubbish code at me that needs fixing.
The original argument was that the average person won't use Linux because it's not ready for prime time. So the whole idea that my grandmother is up in arms over Gimp lacking full CMYK support or that she'll get no where in her web dev career with or without dreamweaver is a bit silly.
I use both Windows and Linux and I use a mixture of programs. I'm just as productive with Dreamweaver as I am with Notepad++ (which I use on windows anyway) but again this has no bearing on the needs of the average user who quite frankly probably gets most of what they need in a basic Ubuntu install.
As far as more advanced users who are tied to using certain programs that's obviously understandable and yet another reason why there should be a larger push for open formats. Especially now that Adobe has bought up Macromedia they pretty much own every popular format used for printing and multimedia. Their software will remain over priced and not doubt continue to become even more bloated.
A lot of professionals though aren't much better than the average person and will stick with something rather than learning something new no matter if currents skills are transferable. The sole reason I can't run Linux at work is because the helpdesk doesn't have any skills in that area which is annoying since we're working on a web app that run on Linux and local testing would be beneficial. Running it under Windows is like trying to keep a hard-on with your grandmother in the room.
That's funny. Obviously I must be retarded for calling your holy OS unusable for a desktop. I mean, I was only using RH back about as far as version 4, I totally have to be clueless.
That doesn't mean anything. I've been using Lotus Notes in my job for quite some time but that doesn't make me a Notes expert or mean I've done that much with it.
When Ubuntu rolled around, I even went "I'm going to try to go Windows-free." And you know what? It worked, for small values of "worked." Sure, Eclipse worked--but it was slower than a dog on Linux when it was entirely snappy on Windows. Sure, it worked--when I wasn't starting WINE for Dreamweaver or Photoshop or Office (because OpenOffice sucks, thank you very much, and KOffice, while having potential, is still not very good).
As an ex-Eclipse user I'd say it works the same across both systems. The only thing that slows it down is the amount of plugins you use. But Eclipse in general isn't that great, imo. I prefer Netbeans which has better performance on both Windows and Linux, imo. Open Office works just fine which is why I use iton my Windows and Linux machines. Plus it creates PDFs out of the box unlike MS Office.
Give your aggressive stance, I suspect you're the type of person that gets upset and gives up quickly when you don't get something straight away and just go on claiming that âoeproduct xâ sucks.
Running Dreamweaver and PS in Linux is just dumb when Dreamweaver doesn't offer you anything of value anyway unless you need a helping hand in coding. All its generated code is absolute rubbish. I prefer to either use Jedit or Notepad++ and sometimes Netbeans for larger PHP stuff now that it supports that language.
The only benefit to PS is if that's all you know and the fact it's easier to pick up thanks to the fact people think it's cool to steal PS so there's an army of kids writing tutorials for it. Gimp is just as powerful, not as bloated and doesn't include lame software like Bonjour. In fact Hollywood uses Gimp too so if it's good enough for the movies we watch then I don't see how you can be doing something that it can't handle.
Sure, it worked--but I had to run a VM to work in.NET, because Mono wasn't there yet (it is now, mostly, but with all due respect to mhutch and his crew, MonoDevelop is nowhere near as good as Visual Studio).
What little experience I have of C# and other.Net technologies is that C# is ok but I think people like it thanks to Visual Studio's point and click programming. It allows you do a lot without knowing much which is ok until something goes wrong and you don't have much knowledge of what you've done or how it works.
Plus it's ridiculous to support a language that tries to tie you into one system. That might be fine if the whole world decides everything should be run on Windows but in the real world that is far from the truth so why tie yourself into a language that won't allow you to create software for most electronic devices?
Sure, it worked--when my xorg.conf file wasn't magically disappearing (and given that I have an ATI card, that makes it doubly special!).
The only issue I've ever had is that my drivers are restricted so I have to enabled them after installing the operating system. I've never had to touch my xorg.conf file.
Eventually I realized that I got more done in Windows than I did on Linux. So I switched back, and the problems went away. 'Mazing, that. Windows is, for most normal people, the path of productivity and least resistance. Whining that people aren't using your alternative when it is more difficult to use is moronic.
Here's a guideline for the desktop: if you ever have to open a terminal outside of truly exceptional error cases, you have failed to make a good enough desktop. The fact that Linux desktop afici
My guess is someone has paid them in hopes to get the distro's userbase to grow. Or maybe MS is paying them to damage Linux's reputation by picking shitty distros.;)
But I agree with you that these people should be using something like Ubuntu. Their forums alone are paramount for quick newb friendly help.
They could have paid me to tell them that people are generally lazy and ignorant. That they rather be spoonfed the same rubbish rather than learn something new.
The fact they're buying these things with Linux on without realising it shows how many people are too thick to be allowed on the internet.
These people can't even grasp how to use Windows properly. It's no wonder they're scared to move onto something else and sadly these people are allowed to vote on things that affect technology which they have no understanding of.
The internet will eventually become some handicapped politically correct environment to protect these people and further kill the evolutionary process.
It does work well and in fact it works better. It's only downside is it's not very retard friendly which is probably why you find it problematic as a desktop solution.
A woman that has a hysterectomy is still a woman will functioning female breasts or are we now talking about a woman with a hysterectomy that also lost her breasts in a comical incident with a meat grinder?
A woman who has a hysterectomy is still a woman with a vagina and not an orific that is potentially made out of bits of penis and goes into an anal cavity.
Finally a woman who has had a hysterectomy is one who doesn't need pills to make her a woman.
I have nothing against people that want to make the choice to do that to themselves and I'm more than polite enough not to call them a man to their face but the fact remains no matter how you skin a cat, it's still a cat.
But you still only have it as long you don't screw up and lose it and even if the apps are unlike t heir music, and you can download it then you've got to worry about them continuing to offer it.
The DS gives you the game on a good solid format and it's region free making it much easier to backup your media and use it in case you lose the original.
To top it off, the DS is a good gaming platform where as the iphone is a bit shit for games.
While I agree with you post and think the original poster is a bit slow in the head, it's not quite that bad. Q3's source code was release about 5/6 years after its release. Some games had taken longer but I think generally Id does try to get the code out as soon as it can without causing harm to themselves or anyone else involved in the game development.
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There is no doubt that it won't stop piracy but anyone can pirate DS games. Where as, for instance with the Gameboy, people also pirated games but you couldn't easily do it.
That's what annoyed me when shops start using piracy as an excuse to not allow games returns. It's not something the average person does with cart based games. It would be 10 times easier to get the roms online rather than buying the game, making your own duplication cable, etc.
But with the DS I've even heard uneducated jobless douche bags on the bus bragging about stealing games.
Plus with the original DS and DS lite around games can't be copy protected unless it has a way of turning it off when something in the system doesn't exist which means it'll be piss easy to by-pass.
I was just about to say, Windows 3.11 had folders which could be sized to any shape and left your icons "docked" anywhere on the desktop. Plus there were some 3rd party apps, if I recall, that were more dock-like than the standard 3.11 folders.
From the wiki leaks article: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/VP_contender_Sarah_Palin_hacked
According to the Guardian, who has looked at the Wikileaks data, among the emails in Palin's account were several from addresses belonging to her aides, including a draft letter to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a discussion of nominations to the state court of appeals, and several bearing "DPS", the acronym for the Alaska Department of Public Safety. DPS supervises the Alaska state troopers. Could the e-mails in question be relevant to the brewing ethics storm over Palin's push to sack her former brother-in-law from the force?
The kid did something stupid and wrong. He should be punished for this but I can't believe the media and law officials are going to ignore the fact she used it for work. I'm surprised the accounts were deleted (and yes no doubt by her) because the leaked stuff implies things and she probably doesn't want anyone enquiring about it. She's already in trouble with troopergate.
I would agree but that doesn't mean she should get away free. At the very least she should be disqualified from holding a public office so no VP or governorship and the kid should get some jail time.
So you rather vote for cancer face who has less morals, will probably die within his first year of office and leave a moronic bimbo in charge who is less qualified to be president than my dog.
That's ignoring the fact the loon goes to church to be protected by witches, her hypocrisy with all her earmarks and her "first dude" is/was a separatists.
This is why American politics continue to go down the drain. No one has the balls to vote in a way that actually helps the country. Instead they get served up to half assed options and will happily pick one of them and neither party cares that much if they lose as there's a 50/50 chance they'll win next time.
Of course they want to stop pirating. Nintendo has been one of the most fair companies when it comes to their portables and allowing people to play imports.
However there is rampant piracy with the DS. It's far too easy to buy multi-game paks from China rather than buying the real item and no matter what you may think that is wrong and should be stopped.
Removing the GBA cart won't stop ds hacking. There is no real use for to continue the GBA slot when GBA games aren't really made and they will continue selling the DS Lite.
As an owner of the Virtual Boy I can attest to the reason it failed is because it was a head of its time and the technology just wasn't there to do the idea justice. This isn't Nintendo's fault and in fact they released it despite everyone thinking it was rubbish based on the fact they held Gumpei in such high regard.
If you're going to troll then at least troll with common sense and facts.
From my experience Belkin routers become unreliable quite easily.
It doesn't. It lags when trying to render a tooltip--a tooltip--when you're using Compiz, probably because it's trying to create another X window.
First that's mostly irrelevant to the people for which linux distros want to grow their market and It's probably PEBKAC related seeing how my outdated Linux machine has no problem with it. ;)
Netbeans isn't what my clients who hire me for Java work use--so it's easier for me to use Eclipse like they do. And I don't do Java development for any other reason, so I don't really care.
Then you can't complain. You've opted to do that for the money so it and don't cry or find something else to do.
"Fine" is not the same as "well." You say OpenOffice works fine (I disagree), whereas I say that Office 2003 works well.
Princeton defines Fine as very well or alright. In both instances that gets my point across that it will do what most people will require from it. Now that it we have ODF and OOXML there should be less compatibility issues...aside from the fact Office 2007 is shit (funnily you mentioned version 2003) and a lot of people probably won't move to either format soon. Luckily OpenOffice doesn't do too badly with MS' closed doc format.
I own Adobe CS3. Acrobat works fine for my purposes.
Compare how many copies have been sold of CS3 (hell include the pirated copies too) and compare that to the over all computer owning population. That option isn't available to most people nor would they want to consider it.
You suspect very wrongly; I simply don't have the time to waste on products that waste my time. Linux remains such on the desktop when Windows just works. The Linux-on-the-desktop types don't understand this. "But Linux is better!" Is it better enough to waste time re-learning what I already know and am productive with? At one point, I thought it might be. Then I realized "holy shit, it's not, I made a mistake."
You're the one that sees it so black and white. Where as I get on fine with either system. Linux is safer than Windows. Fact. So for the average idiot it is a logical solution. It runs better on older hardware. Fact. Hence the reason netbooks use it and MS has to desperately keep XP alive to try to compete in a market they didn't see coming. This is again beneficial to the average person who doesn't buy things like Adobe CS3 or a top of the line Macbook Pro (like I'll be doing in the near future).
I use Dreamweaver as a glorified text editor with IntelliSense and quick-preview (and a bit of the CSS builder functionality, which works well). There may be better, but they don't integrate as well with the rest of my tools, and I'm not interested in screwing up my workflow for arbitrary reasons.
I used to do that too but then I realised it was mostly pointless because Dreamweaver doesn't render things like IE or Firefox so there's no real point in using it when most any editor gives you the option to open your work in the browser of your choice. It's not that hot for languages other than HTML and CSS and yes I could do most of my PHP work in a separate editor if I'm doing proper MVC development but why use two programs when I can use one?
Oh, I love this line. I truly do. The GIMP is not as powerful (CMYK says what? Even the new release doesn't really support it--and yes, I do print work as well, so this is something of a vital feature). The GIMP's user interface is unpleasant to work with; the MDI paradigm is more comfortable. (And the majority of film work done is with CinePaint, which forked from the GIMP way back in version 1.x. It's considerably less annoying than the GIMP because they listen to users and implement suggestions. I still prefer Photoshop.)
Cinepaint is still GIMP when you get down to it and once CMYK support, which is com
I've grown up on Dreamweaver since way back when it was split into two versions. I'm well aware that it is ok for html and css. Aside from that it's not that good. The PHP it generates is appalling.
Just search for Dreamweaver generated code and read up on the security issues and the general lack of quality. XHTML and CSS are quite basic. I don't need my hand held for that when any time saved is wasted by the program throwing out rubbish code at me that needs fixing.
The original argument was that the average person won't use Linux because it's not ready for prime time. So the whole idea that my grandmother is up in arms over Gimp lacking full CMYK support or that she'll get no where in her web dev career with or without dreamweaver is a bit silly.
I use both Windows and Linux and I use a mixture of programs. I'm just as productive with Dreamweaver as I am with Notepad++ (which I use on windows anyway) but again this has no bearing on the needs of the average user who quite frankly probably gets most of what they need in a basic Ubuntu install.
As far as more advanced users who are tied to using certain programs that's obviously understandable and yet another reason why there should be a larger push for open formats. Especially now that Adobe has bought up Macromedia they pretty much own every popular format used for printing and multimedia. Their software will remain over priced and not doubt continue to become even more bloated.
A lot of professionals though aren't much better than the average person and will stick with something rather than learning something new no matter if currents skills are transferable. The sole reason I can't run Linux at work is because the helpdesk doesn't have any skills in that area which is annoying since we're working on a web app that run on Linux and local testing would be beneficial. Running it under Windows is like trying to keep a hard-on with your grandmother in the room.
What is the word no illegal to use towards a kid these days?
That's funny. Obviously I must be retarded for calling your holy OS unusable for a desktop. I mean, I was only using RH back about as far as version 4, I totally have to be clueless.
That doesn't mean anything. I've been using Lotus Notes in my job for quite some time but that doesn't make me a Notes expert or mean I've done that much with it.
When Ubuntu rolled around, I even went "I'm going to try to go Windows-free." And you know what? It worked, for small values of "worked." Sure, Eclipse worked--but it was slower than a dog on Linux when it was entirely snappy on Windows. Sure, it worked--when I wasn't starting WINE for Dreamweaver or Photoshop or Office (because OpenOffice sucks, thank you very much, and KOffice, while having potential, is still not very good).
As an ex-Eclipse user I'd say it works the same across both systems. The only thing that slows it down is the amount of plugins you use. But Eclipse in general isn't that great, imo. I prefer Netbeans which has better performance on both Windows and Linux, imo. Open Office works just fine which is why I use iton my Windows and Linux machines. Plus it creates PDFs out of the box unlike MS Office.
Give your aggressive stance, I suspect you're the type of person that gets upset and gives up quickly when you don't get something straight away and just go on claiming that âoeproduct xâ sucks.
Running Dreamweaver and PS in Linux is just dumb when Dreamweaver doesn't offer you anything of value anyway unless you need a helping hand in coding. All its generated code is absolute rubbish. I prefer to either use Jedit or Notepad++ and sometimes Netbeans for larger PHP stuff now that it supports that language.
The only benefit to PS is if that's all you know and the fact it's easier to pick up thanks to the fact people think it's cool to steal PS so there's an army of kids writing tutorials for it. Gimp is just as powerful, not as bloated and doesn't include lame software like Bonjour. In fact Hollywood uses Gimp too so if it's good enough for the movies we watch then I don't see how you can be doing something that it can't handle.
Sure, it worked--but I had to run a VM to work in .NET, because Mono wasn't there yet (it is now, mostly, but with all due respect to mhutch and his crew, MonoDevelop is nowhere near as good as Visual Studio).
What little experience I have of C# and other .Net technologies is that C# is ok but I think people like it thanks to Visual Studio's point and click programming. It allows you do a lot without knowing much which is ok until something goes wrong and you don't have much knowledge of what you've done or how it works.
Plus it's ridiculous to support a language that tries to tie you into one system. That might be fine if the whole world decides everything should be run on Windows but in the real world that is far from the truth so why tie yourself into a language that won't allow you to create software for most electronic devices?
Sure, it worked--when my xorg.conf file wasn't magically disappearing (and given that I have an ATI card, that makes it doubly special!).
The only issue I've ever had is that my drivers are restricted so I have to enabled them after installing the operating system. I've never had to touch my xorg.conf file.
Eventually I realized that I got more done in Windows than I did on Linux. So I switched back, and the problems went away. 'Mazing, that. Windows is, for most normal people, the path of productivity and least resistance. Whining that people aren't using your alternative when it is more difficult to use is moronic.
Here's a guideline for the desktop: if you ever have to open a terminal outside of truly exceptional error cases, you have failed to make a good enough desktop. The fact that Linux desktop afici
I certainly wouldn't sell my soul for any amount. I've gotta get rich from it.
My guess is someone has paid them in hopes to get the distro's userbase to grow. Or maybe MS is paying them to damage Linux's reputation by picking shitty distros. ;)
But I agree with you that these people should be using something like Ubuntu. Their forums alone are paramount for quick newb friendly help.
They could have paid me to tell them that people are generally lazy and ignorant. That they rather be spoonfed the same rubbish rather than learn something new.
The fact they're buying these things with Linux on without realising it shows how many people are too thick to be allowed on the internet.
These people can't even grasp how to use Windows properly. It's no wonder they're scared to move onto something else and sadly these people are allowed to vote on things that affect technology which they have no understanding of.
The internet will eventually become some handicapped politically correct environment to protect these people and further kill the evolutionary process.
But Sony is as American as apple pie.
It does work well and in fact it works better. It's only downside is it's not very retard friendly which is probably why you find it problematic as a desktop solution.
Because only a complete turd uses IE6 so it' just completing the theme.
The blogosphere does not exist so people should quit using such a lame word.
I'll be buying this fo' sho'.
A woman that has a hysterectomy is still a woman will functioning female breasts or are we now talking about a woman with a hysterectomy that also lost her breasts in a comical incident with a meat grinder?
A woman who has a hysterectomy is still a woman with a vagina and not an orific that is potentially made out of bits of penis and goes into an anal cavity.
Finally a woman who has had a hysterectomy is one who doesn't need pills to make her a woman.
I have nothing against people that want to make the choice to do that to themselves and I'm more than polite enough not to call them a man to their face but the fact remains no matter how you skin a cat, it's still a cat.
They may be offended but the fact remains they aren't women. Hence the reason they won't be giving birth any time soon.
But you still only have it as long you don't screw up and lose it and even if the apps are unlike t heir music, and you can download it then you've got to worry about them continuing to offer it.
The DS gives you the game on a good solid format and it's region free making it much easier to backup your media and use it in case you lose the original.
To top it off, the DS is a good gaming platform where as the iphone is a bit shit for games.
I chink you don't understand how a PC thug works.
I have every version of the gameboy released in the US and both versions of the DS. So I'll definitely get this.
While I agree with you post and think the original poster is a bit slow in the head, it's not quite that bad. Q3's source code was release about 5/6 years after its release. Some games had taken longer but I think generally Id does try to get the code out as soon as it can without causing harm to themselves or anyone else involved in the game development.