Argh, you are correct. using the word irrelevant was a bad choice. Yes our views are important, and yes we need to express them. I just think this guy really went about it in the wrong way, possibly to the detriment of the rest of the community. This has been the main point im trying to get across.
I didn't make things clear about my personal view on the DMCA. I think it is a horrible law, I think it needs to be repealed. The thing is, until the law is repealed or something, our views on it are irrelevant. It is still the law. Now, since it is currently still the law, then people like modchip makers have to be very careful how they handle things. They shouldn't include MS copyright code on the chips, and they sure as hell shouldnt sell the chips from a warez site!
This guy did not think ahead one bit though. As a result, he is going to jail, and now MS has a bit more leverage for pursuing other modchip makers, even legitimate ones.
I never meant to imply the DMCA is a good law, it isn't. But while it is still law, people like modchip makers have to play a bit of a cat & mouse game with people like MS. They have to lay low, and not flaunt obvious violations. This guy's idea of a cat and mouse game is walking up to the cat's food bowl and taking a crap in it. Of course the cat is going to notice, and of course it is going to come after you with all claws bared. The problem now is, since the cat's food bowl was crapped in, it may not be satisfied with munching on just the one mouse. It might decide to take out the rest of the mice in revenge or a preemptive strike.
To sum up, yes the DMCA is bad, very bad. But while it is still law, there is a subtle game that needs to be played, for everyone's sake, and this guy didn't even bother to read the rules.
His life is being ruined because he is an idiot, plain and simple. He sold a chip which contained modified *MS owned* code, and he sold them from a site who's entire reason for existence is to help people pirate games. This guy had 2 strikes against him before he even sold a single chip. Now, because of his stupidity, the courts have a precedent for shutting down modchip companies. Thanks to Mr Kewl Warez Dude ISOnews Boy, we may see other chip makers, who sell *blank* chips that are technically legal (unlike his), getting shut down as well.
When sending a grip to people, I find it most effective to use the Kung Fu grip! That usually gets their attention
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Macsoft doesn't own the code to the Mac version of Duke Nukem 3d. They simply found a porting team and published the game. 3D Realms owns the Mac code. It's a shame they didn't decide to release it as well.
Anyway, in every case I've ever heard of, the people that do the ports for Mac games do not own the finished code. They will own the rights to any tools and libraries they develop to make the porting job easier, but that's it. Another example is Quake. When the sourcecode for x86 was released, the Mac code was kept private. As a result, it took quite a while for a useable Mac port of the GPL Quake code to appear, in comparison with other platforms.
it doesnt matter anyway, since Safari, like KHTML, is LGPL. The only thing they are 'required' to release are their changes to KHTML, which they have been giving back to the KHTML team as far as I understand.
right now dragging a tab in the latest beta does nothing. In fact, the browser switches to the clicked tab on the mouse down, rather than on mouse up. Offhand, I can't think of any other Apple designed UI elements that actually activate, rather than showing pending activation on mouse down. Most wait until the mouse up signal to actually do their job. Im sure if there are other examples someone will be kind enough to point them out here.
Having the screensaver password turned off will only help a script kiddie if he is *sitting at the machine.* All this does is keep the password box from popping up when the screensaver shuts down due to activity. It doesnt disable the password mechanism for remote connection or anything else like that as far as I can tell. It doesnt tell you to eliminate the password altogether. From what I see it doesnt even log a certain account onto the machine automatically on boot. The screensaver password is just that... a screensaver password.
If by 'peer to peer' you mean MS runs all the servers, then yes, it is peer to peer.[/sarcasm] If I remember correctly, at least 1 game company decided not to support XBox Live because of the fact that they would have had to have MS run the servers for them, and they didn't want to give up that control.
Well, the point of this story is that while you have gone through *3* different palm pilots, there are plenty of people using +5 year old newtons that do pretty much everything your Palm Pilots can. No, maybe you can't go partying with a newton in your pocket (you need bigger pockets) but you could do a lot more partying with all the money you would have saved not buying Palm Pilot after Palm Pilot after Palm Pilot!
The problem with going from a guitar to computer for effects is latency. magic.gibson.com is slashdotted all to hell or i could check, but I'm assuming the guitar has chips onboard to do this kind of thing, or that the signal can be routed to effects pedals like an analog guitar. This would reduce the latency to a minimal amount as opposed to feeding it to a computer for the changes to take place there, then routing the signal back out to a speaker. Yes a computer will have better processing power, but that isnt going to matter in a live show if the audio output is too far behind what you are actually playing because of latency
Actually, Quake 2 was ported by Logicware (many of the Logicware employees went on to form Contraband Entertainment) for commercial release. The fine Fruits of the Dojo version of Quake 2 is based off of the GPL code for q2 which was released a bit later.
You are right however about Quake 3. And OmniGroup did get it basically up and running within a week or two. They can code OS X apps pretty much as well as any Apple employed developer I would imagine. They deserve a lot of credit for setting the example for good OS X apps.
in this theoretical case though, using a wrapper... the app would use whatever the native windowing system was for the system. On, OS X, it would hook up to the aqua API, on linux, it would use xwindows, etc. Best case scenrario, there would be nothing to download, for any platform the app runs on.
Yes, that is a lot. where the money goes probably depends on where the restructuring is. I know they laid off close to 50% of the PowerSchool division, many of them executives. All of these people are getting 2 months severance pay. It wouldn't surprise me if a large chunk of that $20mil came just from the PowerSchool layoffs.
">Konqueror's other great flaw is the single click to open a file. It's as stupid as Windows 98 with Active Desktop turned on.
Millions of Mac users disagree. And so does my mom, and everyone else's who can't figure out when to double or single click.
On a Mac, you double click to launch a program or file when navigating through the file browser. Only items placed in the dock can be launched with a single click. Just thought I would point that out... besides that minor point, This is a pretty good debate going on. keep it up!:)
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Argh, you are correct. using the word irrelevant was a bad choice. Yes our views are important, and yes we need to express them. I just think this guy really went about it in the wrong way, possibly to the detriment of the rest of the community. This has been the main point im trying to get across.
I didn't make things clear about my personal view on the DMCA. I think it is a horrible law, I think it needs to be repealed. The thing is, until the law is repealed or something, our views on it are irrelevant. It is still the law. Now, since it is currently still the law, then people like modchip makers have to be very careful how they handle things. They shouldn't include MS copyright code on the chips, and they sure as hell shouldnt sell the chips from a warez site!
This guy did not think ahead one bit though. As a result, he is going to jail, and now MS has a bit more leverage for pursuing other modchip makers, even legitimate ones.
I never meant to imply the DMCA is a good law, it isn't. But while it is still law, people like modchip makers have to play a bit of a cat & mouse game with people like MS. They have to lay low, and not flaunt obvious violations. This guy's idea of a cat and mouse game is walking up to the cat's food bowl and taking a crap in it. Of course the cat is going to notice, and of course it is going to come after you with all claws bared. The problem now is, since the cat's food bowl was crapped in, it may not be satisfied with munching on just the one mouse. It might decide to take out the rest of the mice in revenge or a preemptive strike.
To sum up, yes the DMCA is bad, very bad. But while it is still law, there is a subtle game that needs to be played, for everyone's sake, and this guy didn't even bother to read the rules.
His life is being ruined because he is an idiot, plain and simple. He sold a chip which contained modified *MS owned* code, and he sold them from a site who's entire reason for existence is to help people pirate games. This guy had 2 strikes against him before he even sold a single chip. Now, because of his stupidity, the courts have a precedent for shutting down modchip companies. Thanks to Mr Kewl Warez Dude ISOnews Boy, we may see other chip makers, who sell *blank* chips that are technically legal (unlike his), getting shut down as well.
When sending a grip to people, I find it most effective to use the Kung Fu grip! That usually gets their attention
Macsoft doesn't own the code to the Mac version of Duke Nukem 3d. They simply found a porting team and published the game. 3D Realms owns the Mac code. It's a shame they didn't decide to release it as well.
Anyway, in every case I've ever heard of, the people that do the ports for Mac games do not own the finished code. They will own the rights to any tools and libraries they develop to make the porting job easier, but that's it. Another example is Quake. When the sourcecode for x86 was released, the Mac code was kept private. As a result, it took quite a while for a useable Mac port of the GPL Quake code to appear, in comparison with other platforms.
dear sweetandsourjesus,
it is the only story in the subject because the logo, and hence the subject were *just* created!
Those mac clones used Apple's ROM. It would still be their IP.
Thank you for injecting logic into this fanboy pit of reasoning/rationalizing.
The fact of the matter is, you'll only use headphones when your playing away from home
people around here are going to get mad if you insist on telling them how they will be using a product.
it doesnt matter anyway, since Safari, like KHTML, is LGPL. The only thing they are 'required' to release are their changes to KHTML, which they have been giving back to the KHTML team as far as I understand.
right now dragging a tab in the latest beta does nothing. In fact, the browser switches to the clicked tab on the mouse down, rather than on mouse up. Offhand, I can't think of any other Apple designed UI elements that actually activate, rather than showing pending activation on mouse down. Most wait until the mouse up signal to actually do their job. Im sure if there are other examples someone will be kind enough to point them out here.
Having the screensaver password turned off will only help a script kiddie if he is *sitting at the machine.* All this does is keep the password box from popping up when the screensaver shuts down due to activity. It doesnt disable the password mechanism for remote connection or anything else like that as far as I can tell. It doesnt tell you to eliminate the password altogether. From what I see it doesnt even log a certain account onto the machine automatically on boot. The screensaver password is just that... a screensaver password.
If by 'peer to peer' you mean MS runs all the servers, then yes, it is peer to peer.[/sarcasm] If I remember correctly, at least 1 game company decided not to support XBox Live because of the fact that they would have had to have MS run the servers for them, and they didn't want to give up that control.
Well, the point of this story is that while you have gone through *3* different palm pilots, there are plenty of people using +5 year old newtons that do pretty much everything your Palm Pilots can. No, maybe you can't go partying with a newton in your pocket (you need bigger pockets) but you could do a lot more partying with all the money you would have saved not buying Palm Pilot after Palm Pilot after Palm Pilot!
The problem with going from a guitar to computer for effects is latency. magic.gibson.com is slashdotted all to hell or i could check, but I'm assuming the guitar has chips onboard to do this kind of thing, or that the signal can be routed to effects pedals like an analog guitar. This would reduce the latency to a minimal amount as opposed to feeding it to a computer for the changes to take place there, then routing the signal back out to a speaker. Yes a computer will have better processing power, but that isnt going to matter in a live show if the audio output is too far behind what you are actually playing because of latency
Actually, Quake 2 was ported by Logicware (many of the Logicware employees went on to form Contraband Entertainment) for commercial release. The fine Fruits of the Dojo version of Quake 2 is based off of the GPL code for q2 which was released a bit later.
You are right however about Quake 3. And OmniGroup did get it basically up and running within a week or two. They can code OS X apps pretty much as well as any Apple employed developer I would imagine. They deserve a lot of credit for setting the example for good OS X apps.
i would say.... when homer jumped the shark.
look at this still shot further along the trajectory..
in this theoretical case though, using a wrapper... the app would use whatever the native windowing system was for the system. On, OS X, it would hook up to the aqua API, on linux, it would use xwindows, etc. Best case scenrario, there would be nothing to download, for any platform the app runs on.
or you could write a wrapper for all of the display and UI code, and it would depend much less on any one windowing architecture
i think you meant to link to here
then sprint needs to hurry before a script kiddie beats them to it, dont you think?
Yes, that is a lot. where the money goes probably depends on where the restructuring is. I know they laid off close to 50% of the PowerSchool division, many of them executives. All of these people are getting 2 months severance pay. It wouldn't surprise me if a large chunk of that $20mil came just from the PowerSchool layoffs.
If i remember the film correctly, Robert was quoting his brother Charles when he said that.
correcting a minor point here...
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">Konqueror's other great flaw is the single click to open a file. It's as stupid as Windows 98 with Active Desktop turned on.
Millions of Mac users disagree. And so does my mom, and everyone else's who can't figure out when to double or single click.
On a Mac, you double click to launch a program or file when navigating through the file browser. Only items placed in the dock can be launched with a single click. Just thought I would point that out... besides that minor point, This is a pretty good debate going on. keep it up!