By the same logic you could prevent technologists from assisting the intelligence community. But the government has tons of money to offer, so it's not practical to cut off the supply of talent. Perhaps some sort of blacklist would work...
Despite the fact that we have the right to crack it, Valve uses technical measures to kick us out if we do. I don't see that as a problem because I don't need to crack it. I don't even see it as software, I see it as an entertainment service. I'm not interested in reverse engineering it, I just want to shoot some guys for a few hours after work.
Thats a nice rant, but you're way off. It's not actually inconvenient to have your games automatically installed and updated just by logging in to Steam. The only people Steam hurts are the ones who want to cheat or steal. I'm sure it will be cracked, and all of the cheaters and theives will play CS:S on their cracked servers, and it will suck because everyone will be using aimbots. Have fun with that.
You have the right, but Steam gives them the power to "disable" you if you do it, and there's nothing you can do about it.
It might be possible to crack Steam for good, but you could never use it online after that. In other words, no patches, and no CS:S.
Slashdot's vendetta against Amazon is rediculous. Freedom of choice is more important than silly patents. You may click the link in the article to buy it from B&N, or this link to buy it from Amazon.
I haven't been following too closely, but it seems like he just keeps coming up with stuff like this, and just keeps getting smacked down, because even an idiot can tell it's not reasonable. Why doesn't he find a new cause?
It's not been proven that any Iraqi civilians have ever been beaten and abused by the United States military. You are obviously just hating America because it is "cool" to do so, rather than having any actual facts.
Alpha would blow the doors off PPC64 if had been developed. It would easily be past 2 GHz today and would also have SMT and/or multiple cores on a single die. Fuck you Compaq. Fuck you Hewlett Packard. Fuck you Tipper Gore. Oh wait...
If you don't like constant upgrades, that's what consoles are for. I like PC Gaming because of the constant flow of new technology, and I think this is one of the main reasons to game on a PC instead of a console.
Perhaps that is only the original source code which they developed their product on. Other companies have tried to get away with that, but if they've derived their own software from the original GPL software, they must distribute their own code along with it. I've seen other companies try to get away with only distributing the upstream source code that could be downloaded anywhere else.
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By the same logic you could prevent technologists from assisting the intelligence community. But the government has tons of money to offer, so it's not practical to cut off the supply of talent. Perhaps some sort of blacklist would work...
You can't tell a story like that and then NOT tell us what you did to piss them off.
A beowulf cluster of these things?
Take your blinders off.
What?
Despite the fact that we have the right to crack it, Valve uses technical measures to kick us out if we do. I don't see that as a problem because I don't need to crack it. I don't even see it as software, I see it as an entertainment service. I'm not interested in reverse engineering it, I just want to shoot some guys for a few hours after work.
Thats a nice rant, but you're way off. It's not actually inconvenient to have your games automatically installed and updated just by logging in to Steam. The only people Steam hurts are the ones who want to cheat or steal. I'm sure it will be cracked, and all of the cheaters and theives will play CS:S on their cracked servers, and it will suck because everyone will be using aimbots. Have fun with that.
You have the right, but Steam gives them the power to "disable" you if you do it, and there's nothing you can do about it. It might be possible to crack Steam for good, but you could never use it online after that. In other words, no patches, and no CS:S.
Now that all the torrent sites are shut down I'm going to have to do the work myself. :P
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Slashdot's vendetta against Amazon is rediculous. Freedom of choice is more important than silly patents. You may click the link in the article to buy it from B&N, or this link to buy it from Amazon.
Tell Sergey to give me some money please.
Unfortunately Steve Jobs is the only person who is sufficiently out of his mind to run Apple. When he dies, Apple dies.
Duplicates are getting out of hand.
Add a spellchecker too.
Build a log bot, run it in a few large channels on Freenode.
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In return I give you this: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.ht
You know if you use a real email address Microsoft might give you more free stuff in the future. No guarantees but it's happened before.
I haven't been following too closely, but it seems like he just keeps coming up with stuff like this, and just keeps getting smacked down, because even an idiot can tell it's not reasonable. Why doesn't he find a new cause?
I still have my ::CueCat.
It's not been proven that any Iraqi civilians have ever been beaten and abused by the United States military. You are obviously just hating America because it is "cool" to do so, rather than having any actual facts.
Alpha would blow the doors off PPC64 if had been developed. It would easily be past 2 GHz today and would also have SMT and/or multiple cores on a single die. Fuck you Compaq. Fuck you Hewlett Packard. Fuck you Tipper Gore. Oh wait...
on the grounds that if it somehow falls back to earth, it will spread nuclear disaster o'er the surface of the world.
irreguardless GG, nextmap.
If you don't like constant upgrades, that's what consoles are for. I like PC Gaming because of the constant flow of new technology, and I think this is one of the main reasons to game on a PC instead of a console.
Seriously I hope they have a more reliable system than that.
Perhaps that is only the original source code which they developed their product on. Other companies have tried to get away with that, but if they've derived their own software from the original GPL software, they must distribute their own code along with it. I've seen other companies try to get away with only distributing the upstream source code that could be downloaded anywhere else.
So reverse engineering is not a problem in this case. In fact, it's not unlikely that AMD simply handed them the documentation.