1: Jupiter 2: My toe-nail clippings 3: Profit! 4: A profound sense of well being.
Number 4 on your list you can buy in pretty much any rough neighborhood in almost any major city.
As for number 1, you can come close - you can get a patent on any technology related to Jupiter. The USPTO will let you patent almost anything, including other people's genes!
I have mentioned some of them in other posts, but I summarize them here and also mention what appears to be an untruth in their license webpage.
1. People are forbidden from using non-code content, even in other free projects. Legal, but nasty. 2. Authors are required to allow themselves from being forbidden to use their own content as a condition of being a full contributor. They aren't allowed to contribute content they used in any other game, EVEN IF THEY HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO DO SO, EVEN IF THEY HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO GRANT A COMPLETE UNREVOKABLE LICENSE TO USE THE CONTENT, AND EVEN IF THEY HOLD THE COPYRIGHT.. Very nasty, legal, but extremely unfair. 3. They claim these restrictions are needed to prevent authors from retroactively removing permission to use the content and to prevent authors from denying future uses of their work. A simple non-revocable, assignable, perpetual license granted by the author to the project would be sufficient.
I know they don't want forks, and want to have control, but the license even does the authors wrong.
Only people that would likely agree to those shackles would want to get paid in return. Not good for a free project.
People could only use your artwork in a closed product if they negotiated a separate license with you. You could always agree or refuse to do so with anyone and everyone you please.
Open projects could use your artwork as long as they didn't violate the GPL.
And I would suggest including both the 2D and 3D artwork.
You're free to pick and choose what's released under the GPL and what's not, if it's your material.
They want that right even if it ISN'T THEIR OWN MATERIAL! Read the license - authors are required to agree to restrictions on their own use of their own content. *
* Yes, there is a Joint Copyright license that doesn't bind the author, but the author is required to assign copyright and agree to the shackling of their own work - or they aren't allowed to be a full contributor - read the website and license.
Authors of art work, music, etc are required to assign copyright and are prohibited from using their own work (except as a portfolio to show employers) as a condition of being a full contributor to the project! The Joint Copyright isn't enough to be a full contributor. Would it have been too much to give the author an unlimited license to THEIR OWN WORK. Slashdot people get mad at employers who put these restrictions on people's own work, they should also do so regarding volunteer projects.
So if I had something non-code related to contribute, I have to agree to not distribute my own work, even for free, in order to contribute to a project for which I wouldn't even be paid?
Are they crazy?
They are locking themselves out from even using free content. I would not suggest author's sell their soul (and the right to distribute THEIR OWN WORK) to this project.
If I create something, unless I'm doing it for a paying job, I damn well want the right to do with it as I wish, and not be told I can't be a full contributor to a volunteer project unless I agree to being shackled and enslaved and prohibited from free use of my own work!
If I give a gift of content (I will not say "intellectual property", there is no such thing, just a legal interest in gov't enforced monopolies, which isn't actually property in any non-legalistic sense) I shouldn't be punished for my generousity by being told what I can't do with my own work.
That isn't in the Christmas spirit, or in any spirit of giving.
When I got my Earthlink account it was getting a lot of spam before I even gave the email address out.
Since an account can get spam even if the email address was never given out, it follows logically that an account that was used and is no longer active would still get spam and likely lots of it.
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Converting RGB to CMYK is easy. CMY is just the opposite of RGB,and you can use K to optimize CMY by using as much K as you can to replace C, M, and Y.
CMY:
C=1-R M=1-G Y=1-B
CMYK:
K=min(1-R, 1-G, 1-B) C=1-R-K M=1-G-K Y=1-B-K
The above might be patented though. I disclaim ALL.
Home (actually any) printers use C, M, Y, and K inks. R, G, and B aren't used for inks, you need subtractive color for printers and additive for monitors.
A friend of mine has 2 phones, a cell phone and a VoIP phone. He has no "normal phones". Some statistics would count him as having no phone, even though he has 2.
I personally would feel uncomfortable not having a land line. Of course I also have a cell, as that is a necessity nowadays, especially for any technophile ("geek".:)
If I have an emergency, I want to know I can dial 911 and the line will be working and the local authorities notified (not some remote center) and they will know who and where I am.
Well if you ask prospective employees more about why manhole covers are round than about why it is bad to use a function such as gets() which can cause a buffer overflow what do you expect to happen?
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I called the license fascist, not the people.
Attacking a wrong isn't the same as attacking the one who did it.
1: Jupiter
2: My toe-nail clippings
3: Profit!
4: A profound sense of well being.
Number 4 on your list you can buy in pretty much any rough neighborhood in almost any major city.
As for number 1, you can come close - you can get a patent on any technology related to Jupiter. The USPTO will let you patent almost anything, including other people's genes!
I have mentioned some of them in other posts, but I summarize them here and also mention what appears to be an untruth in their license webpage.
1. People are forbidden from using non-code content, even in other free projects. Legal, but nasty.
2. Authors are required to allow themselves from being forbidden to use their own content as a condition of being a full contributor. They aren't allowed to contribute content they used in any other game, EVEN IF THEY HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO DO SO, EVEN IF THEY HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO GRANT A COMPLETE UNREVOKABLE LICENSE TO USE THE CONTENT, AND EVEN IF THEY HOLD THE COPYRIGHT.. Very nasty, legal, but extremely unfair.
3. They claim these restrictions are needed to prevent authors from retroactively removing permission to use the content and to prevent authors from denying future uses of their work. A simple non-revocable, assignable, perpetual license granted by the author to the project would be sufficient.
I know they don't want forks, and want to have control, but the license even does the authors wrong.
Only people that would likely agree to those shackles would want to get paid in return. Not good for a free project.
See http://www.planeshift.it/pslicense.html
GPL will do what you want for that also.
People could only use your artwork in a closed product if they negotiated a separate license with you. You could always agree or refuse to do so with anyone and everyone you please.
Open projects could use your artwork as long as they didn't violate the GPL.
And I would suggest including both the 2D and 3D artwork.
You're free to pick and choose what's released under the GPL and what's not, if it's your material.
They want that right even if it ISN'T THEIR OWN MATERIAL! Read the license - authors are required to agree to restrictions on their own use of their own content. *
* Yes, there is a Joint Copyright license that doesn't bind the author, but the author is required to assign copyright and agree to the shackling of their own work - or they aren't allowed to be a full contributor - read the website and license.
Authors of art work, music, etc are required to assign copyright and are prohibited from using their own work (except as a portfolio to show employers) as a condition of being a full contributor to the project! The Joint Copyright isn't enough to be a full contributor. Would it have been too much to give the author an unlimited license to THEIR OWN WORK. Slashdot people get mad at employers who put these restrictions on people's own work, they should also do so regarding volunteer projects.
So if I had something non-code related to contribute, I have to agree to not distribute my own work, even for free, in order to contribute to a project for which I wouldn't even be paid?
Are they crazy?
They are locking themselves out from even using free content. I would not suggest author's sell their soul (and the right to distribute THEIR OWN WORK) to this project.
If I create something, unless I'm doing it for a paying job, I damn well want the right to do with it as I wish, and not be told I can't be a full contributor to a volunteer project unless I agree to being shackled and enslaved and prohibited from free use of my own work!
If I give a gift of content (I will not say "intellectual property", there is no such thing, just a legal interest in gov't enforced monopolies, which isn't actually property in any non-legalistic sense) I shouldn't be punished for my generousity by being told what I can't do with my own work.
That isn't in the Christmas spirit, or in any spirit of giving.
Yeah, try using a browser that doesn't suck.
We celebrate Christmas time at 12 AM PACIFIC time here on Slashdot.
The East Coast has the political capital of the country, the West has the technological capital - let us keep that!
Linux kernel patches, of course.
Friends don't let friends write kernel patches drunk. (e.g. 2.4.20).
It worked during the dot com era, so why not try it now? :)
Stock options in companies without any money were quite popular.
Page sharing and copy-on-write?
But we are talking about Windows, not Linux.
Probably a lot.
When I got my Earthlink account it was getting a lot of spam before I even gave the email address out.
Since an account can get spam even if the email address was never given out, it follows logically that an account that was used and is no longer active would still get spam and likely lots of it.
Email addresses in spam databases rarely die.
ALL YOUR PASSWORDS ARE BELONG TO US!
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Easy way to get your money back.
1. Use credit card to buy.
2. Initiate charge-back when they screw you. Just th threat of one might be enough.
No, it was named after Native American Indian tribe of Apache. See this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#name
It only runs on Windows. Why the hell should we care?
Converting RGB to CMYK is easy. CMY is just the opposite of RGB,and you can use K to optimize CMY by using as much K as you can to replace C, M, and Y.
CMY:
C=1-R
M=1-G
Y=1-B
CMYK:
K=min(1-R, 1-G, 1-B)
C=1-R-K
M=1-G-K
Y=1-B-K
The above might be patented though. I disclaim ALL.
Home (actually any) printers use C, M, Y, and K inks. R, G, and B aren't used for inks, you need subtractive color for printers and additive for monitors.
SCO could have left an anonymous account there by accident.
Is negligence a defense to trespass?
I'm playing the Devil's Advocate here, since SCO very well argue along these lines.
Ask Bill Clinton.
A friend of mine has 2 phones, a cell phone and a VoIP phone. He has no "normal phones". Some statistics would count him as having no phone, even though he has 2.
:)
I personally would feel uncomfortable not having a land line. Of course I also have a cell, as that is a necessity nowadays, especially for any technophile ("geek".
If I have an emergency, I want to know I can dial 911 and the line will be working and the local authorities notified (not some remote center) and they will know who and where I am.
They are both property, with exclusive rights recognized by law.
Heck, you have more property rights with your FTP server than your house.
If the government wants to build a freeway or a train line and your house is in the way - they can take it from you.
Something unfortunately can be insane, but found by a court to be "true".
Look at the DMCA cases.
Well if you ask prospective employees more about why manhole covers are round than about why it is bad to use a function such as gets() which can cause a buffer overflow what do you expect to happen?
The "Devil's tone" is a combination of frequencies in the ratio 1:sqrt(2)
The ratio between the high frequency and one octave above the low frequency is thus sqrt(2):2, which is equal to 1:sqrt(2).
The high frequency is exactly 6 steps up, which is 2**(6/12) which becomes 2**(1/2) which is sqrt(2).
That might be why it sounds so strange when you hear it.
I bet a tone combination in the ratio of 1:1.618033989 (phi, i.e. (1+sqrt(5))/2) would sound nicer.