1) "Neighbourhood watch" personnel know that they are not supposed to be armed 2) They are warned not to engage, lest they risk legal repercussions. They are to call the police. 3) Zimmerman was specifically told to stand down in this case by a police dispatcher.
That's the only "opinion" I need to have. Zimmerman needs to be charged, just like he would be if he shot some rich white kid.
You sure sound like you are a good teacher. The kind of teacher I liked when I was a lad in school.
More like this guy, please. Our children need to be allowed to grow and be resourceful, not be taught to be obedient little tools with bland, dictated text book knowledge. Having WiFi (with some discipline) can improve their education.
That kind of divisive language is a typical bullying tactic that these repressive cuntservative types use. They try to paint everyone into a corner.
Drawing lines in the sand, and "You're either with us or against us!" like those bible thumping American politicians do.
We need to get rid of "The Harper Government of Canada" (Ominous in itself that they expect everyone to call them that). Canadians made a big mistake in the last election.
I'm not sorry, chump... the whiners tried that in our district school board (in Ontario) and got put in their place. The same thing will happen here at the provincial level too. It is just not credible. WiFi is not the significant factor here.
Every kid gets to use a computer now, because they wheel in cartloads of laptops. They can't run ethernet cabling for all of them, everywhere they are to be used on the school grounds. It figures these anal teachers wouldn't be happy until they are back to the stone age. Teachers here are so unrealistic it's not funny... some of the pettiest people I know are teachers.
The fact that this is a Catholic teacher's union whining on behalf of catholic schools is even more infuriating... because now they suckle the public teat just like the public school system. They still think they get to make their own rules.
It's not about helping or hindering artists, it's about control. Tight fisted, "because we said so!" control freak middlemen who are becoming less important for promotion, production and publishing. They don't want that.
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That's what I was thinking about this whole concept. You really can't tax people on the value of stock, because it's nothing if it's not being sold. It could just as easily become worthless before that happens. (and I would tend to think that stock from a company like Facebook, much of it speculative, based on imaginary money, might have a credible risk of going "poof" if everyone flocks over to Google Circlejerk or whatever new social service comes along)
Well then, the same rationale should be applied to property taxes. Our house is worth absolutely nothing, because it is not for sale. Just because the neighbour's house sold for 1.2 million dollars to some rich city snobs who want to sever the lot for resale and rent the house that's on the other half, doesn't mean our house, that we had built 35 years ago, that is not for sale and as long as we live will never be sold, has risen in value. They should stop trying to raise our property tax.
Now property tax is a different matter, collected by a different government than the feds and it serves a different purpose than income tax. They just want to keep increasing it based on the market value of the property. Perhaps it should not be based on the perceived value of the property, but lot size and number and type of structures on it or something. It would equalize things. Why should someone with a little waterfront cottage have to pay high property taxes just because some rich fool would pay more for it? It's not like their little cottage costs the municipality more. In some cases this behaviour forces people to sell their homes. It's like "If you can't pay these taxes you don't deserve to own what you worked hard for. Sell it to someone willing to pay the appreciated value for it so they can pay us more tax and then go die in an old age home or something"
Slackware is a relatively simple distribution and for a knowledgeable user, it's one of the easiest there is. The scripts are all easy to follow (and well commented), there's build scripts that show you exactly how everything was compiled. There's a no nonsense packaging system that doesn't get in your way, and it's easy to follow as well. Your "package database" is human readable text files in a directory and your querying tools are ls and grep. The system does not work against you, like some of those so called "easy" distributions.
Because it has stayed true to its simplicity, it's also quite reliable.
So, from my perspective, saying it's not nice for people is bollocks. It's not for everyone, but those are the reasons I think it's still the best after all these years.
If I had a dime for every assfuck who said things like that, I'd need a datacenter to hold all the games I could afford to buy.
No, they can't have it any way they want it because we don't blindly follow the rules they have bought. People tend to grant themselves more rights, when someone else isn't playing fair. We decide what's fair, and what we are going to do about it, not them. The power is in our hands... we can decide not to pay for it (because they don't deserve our patronage), AND take it anyway if we wish to.
We don't ask our mothers' permission, nor do we seek approval from condescending twats like you.
You say that as if they have "every right" to restrict their product so it can't be transferred to another owner. No, that is wrong. (I don't care about what's legal)
Piracy is something they are just going to have to get used to, with their attitudes. Every game gets cracked. Ask Ubisoft who tries to do exactly that. (Though personally I have more pride than to give those assholes any satisfaction whatsoever)
Not even MIcrosoft is that arrogant.
Also, that's not really how Steam works. It doesn't withhold parts of your product, it's mainly just a seller and distribution service. If you buy a game that is subject to downloading core content on the fly, that's the game publisher doing it with their own service above and beyond your Steam login. Steam does of course result in a one time sale, but Steam isn't the only way to buy games. The convenience overrides that for most people who use Steam. (Not to mention, most people are smart and wait until games are reduced on Steam. It doesn't take long these days).
For game vendors, after their games bomb out in a year, Steam will be there to sell it for $10 including DLC so they don't get zero for the millions of dollars they spent being cunts.
Software, especially the proprietary kind they want to make money on, goes poof. The only way to make big money on software is dishonestly, like Microsoft who has gamed the system to have a captive audience.
People pirate software (and you can't stop them) and people use free alternatives (and you can't stop them)
I think America had better plan on basing their economy on something real, not imaginary property, for the rest of the world doesn't share their vision.
Yeah, well, when I go to work on trashy Windows 8 computers and I can't read the filesystem with my tools, people are simply going to lose their data. I don't care. I'm sick of working on Microsoft crap anyway. (Time for a change of life)
I have specialized boot disks that don't exactly use a Windows 8 kernel. Every goddamned version of Windows is getting worse for recovery and repair options. I am almost embarrassed to say how many times I have had to "clean install" Vista and Windows 7 because I couldn't find the needle in the haystack. There's "startup repair"... nope, that's almost never relevant to the problem, yet they make you start that anyway before making other options available. There's System Restore. Nope, the restore points are seldom valid and when they are, often it either doesn't solve the problem, or causes other inconsistencies. (It's not an image, and not everything is tracked. Only legitimate changes through Windows APIs, in Normal mode). There's Restore a Full System Backup... nope, nobody ever has one of those. So basically all there is for me, is booting up with other media and working behind Windows' back, loading registry hives, deleting or replacing rootkit drivers with good, correct versions, blanking passwords etc. If I can't read the filesystem, that's all she wrote.
(and for file retrieval I like to use Linux because it will mount damaged filesystems that Windows absolutely refuses. A cp -R command will continue after i/o errors too. At least with the old in kernel NTFS driver... things seem to crap out with NTFS 3G when there are bad sectors, if it even mounts)
I'm not going to maintain a Windows 8 box just so I can hook up hard disks to read Microsoft's latest idiotic filesystem, assuming it will mount. I hate Windows 8 (I have tried a few builds). I'm familiar with the alpha/prerelease/beta/rc thing and I understand they are varying degrees of unfinished product, but I absolutely despise the direction it's going.
There aren't even many useful support articles (i.e. "mskb") for Windows 7 yet, and they are about to bulge a new version of Windows out their rectum. I fucking hate this. When it gets to the point where there are mostly just Windows 8 appliances out there, I'll just have to stop servicing computers. There will be no need for expertise... just someone with a truck to make dump runs.
Grogan MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solitaire Engineer) ---- but don't hold that against me.
Yes, it's about time too. I'd consider going back to Firefox in that case. (Been using Chromium)
I stopped installing Firefox on customer computers too because it got to be too much of a nuisance. Anything that causes me to get time wasting phone calls has to go. I have actually been leaving people alone and just letting them use Internet Explorer. Most people like it better. I have to admit that. (It's not the best thing for them, as I do get more calls for $ervice with IE users)
Some people have Google Chrome that's been foisted on them and they let it become the default. Some people like it (and I praise them for it), but others are grateful to have their default changed back to IE. Chrome is too weird for them... like trying to operate a brick or something with the well hidden user interface elements.
I have always found Tolkien's books hard to read. (Not enjoyable reading)
The only one I have actually finished was The Hobbit, as it was a relatively short one and seemed a bit lighter than the others. Others I have started but never completed.
That's when I was younger though, maybe I should try those books again now that I'm a middle aged geezer.
I know, I love Steam. I buy all of my games through their service. (Moreover, fuck any commercial game that isn't available through Steam) They provide valuable convenience to me.
I didn't always love Steam though. At first I highly resented it and get the great grandparent's point.
My first exposure to Steam was Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Even though I bought it on brick and mortar optical media, it still required this Steam shit and that made me angry. Steam probably suffered some growing pains with such a hugely popular title forcefully tied to steam no matter how it was sold, with so many users signing in at once, and there were a few instances where I got disconnected from the service and that further fueled my ire. The problems were few and brief. I soon started to realize that Steam was a great service.
I started to realize that it was pointless to buy Steam games on DVD, or from Direct2Drive only for them to require Steam anyway. Soon, I started buying other games through Steam as well. I'll never go back to installing from optical media, or downloading and extracting big zip files only to spend time running setup after that.
Yes, the fact that Steam always lets you re-download your products is a major consideration. This is one of the criteria that makes me shun EA's services, because they only allow you to download your product for one year after purchase.
I wouldn't accept what behaviour from Microsoft? Microsoft doesn't have one "open source" product that I would ever care about and even if they did, I'd be a fool to use it in a project without hiring lawyers that cost more than my entire project could ever be worth. Even their so called "open document formats" aren't really open in the sense that we would use the word. I don't really accept any behaviour from Microsoft but if I want to play my games, I have to keep a Windows install available. It would be really inconvenient for my ideology to not allow me to have Windows. Free games are nice, and it's a real treat to not have to leave Linux to play them, but I like the rich graphics and stuff in commercial games and that requires me to eat a shit sandwich.
It's not really a matter of accepting behaviour. The issue I was commenting on is only whether or not sourceforge is going to enforce a policy (assuming that having bits of proprietary data in your archive is even disallowed. The way I read it is essentially "code must be under an accepted Free license to be hosted here" not that you can't distribute other data with the code).
While not hosted at sourceforge, the Linux kernel tarballs and trees contain proprietary data different from the kernel license too, for another example. Firmware blobs are bundled for convenience. Some of them are proprietary and only allowed to be used in conjunction with the driver, and some of them are of UNKNOWN licensing. (What could be worse than that?). Some of them are a bit of a contradiction... marked as GPL2+ but no known source available? How can that be? They don't remove it, because they still want users to be able to use the driver.
I can see why sourceforge would allow such things as well.
I do accept the behaviour of say, Sauerbraten for an example affecting me, that has content in the archive that's not under the same license as the source, not because I advocate non free content, but because I don't want to go and download the game data separately from the source code I compile. I want the entire tree in one archive (or source management repository), so I can just compile and play my game. Or, if I'm modifying the sources for another purpose, maybe I want to test my changes on a working data set.
Ads for new releases and games that are on sale on the Steam service. After you exit a game, Steam usually pops up an advertisement dialog. Useful advertisements, if you like to buy games. If not for those ads I probably would never know that a game I was mildly interested in was on sale for $9.99 etc. I have also bought games I've never heard of, because Steam advertised them and the screenshots, trailers and writeup looked good.
Steam is probably the least evil piece of game controlling dictatorware out there. (Microsoft can eat a fat dick for Games for Windows Live and EA can go ride the baloney pony off into the sunset with their Origin client crammed down their own deep throats)
But still... we can appreciate Synerg1y's point. A pirated copy of a game is usually more convenient than a legitimate one.
Nah, sourceforge probably isn't going to do anything about that even if it does violate their terms. The code is compliant, it's just proprietary data licensed only for use with the project. All they'd have to do is distribute the XML database separately from their own site to comply, and that would just inconvenience people while accomplishing nothing. (Moreover, it would make it inconvenient for people to even look at the XML file)
Is sourceforge going to remove open source games as well? They quite often have data (e.g. artwork, textures, sounds etc.) that is licensed differently than the source code. For convenience, the data is provided in the same bundle yet there may be restrictions on how you can use and distribute that data, if you read the license.
Ultimately, if the source code and its use are free you can use it to create your own project with your own data. That is often the intent.
Note that I am not sticking up for $bigbadcompany. In my eyes they are a pack of jackals for doing things like that (the DMCA takedown notice), I'm just commenting on what might be a "grey area" at sourceforge.
It's only counterfeit if it's being misrepresented as the original brand. It is perfectly legal to copy clothing design... it happens to the fashion industry all the time. In most cases you are just paying big bucks for the name, not superior quality or design. Unless you are infringing on some patent for a particular type of cushioned sole or something (which may or may not be recognized in your foreign country), you are perfectly within your rights to design a pair of "Smith and Jones" brand sneakers that look like Nike.
Well, for example, when youtube and various sites shut down or become a mere shadow of what they are today, this Canadian will be affected. When America puts economic and political pressure on other countries to adopt their sick laws, non Americans like myself will also be affected.
Fuck off with your fear mongering. It doesn't bode well for game vendors, because nobody NEEDS to buy their games.
Crysis 2 was highly pirated because it wasn't worth buying. Linear, scripted, aggravating and out of the box it didn't even look that good until they came out with a bandaid overlay to tack on some DirectX 11 features. That didn't make up for the lousy game though.
Same with Modern Warfare 3, which is absolutely the worst deal of any Call of Duty game to date. The campaign is a few hours long and the graphics are mediocre at best. It's a boring game, with a "more of the same shit" feel to it. The multiplayer is a drag too and the maps are boring. I didn't buy it, but I played it on my friend's Xbox. I finished the whole campaign while he was sitting on his computer playing World of Wankercraft then proceeded to multiplayer, to get aggravated by a bunch of pimple wizards.
What entitles them to payment of $60 for such rubbish? I'm sure that not everyone hates those two examples and would play them, but they wouldn't want to fork out that money.
"More draconian DRM" means even fewer sales. Some of these games are retarded. I bought Fable III through Steam without reading carefully enough. That it needs Steam is a given, but also it requires Games for Windows Live sign in to play it at all (which is a highly insulting and annoying waste of time) and if that isn't enough, it also has Securom even though it's not on optical media (They are using Securom for an additional method of restrictive product activation). Go fuck yourselves... it would have probably been easier to pirate that game.
It's just something that comes with freedom of information. I don't want other people deciding what I get to know about, so if I have to endure some falsities so be it.
Bad information will also correct itself on the Internet. (like, umm, now) because anyone can refute that too and not everyone subscribes to the mob mentality.
I never want to go back to gatekeepers like Rupert Fucking Murdoch controlling information, thank you.
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Except that there are some facts here.
1) "Neighbourhood watch" personnel know that they are not supposed to be armed
2) They are warned not to engage, lest they risk legal repercussions. They are to call the police.
3) Zimmerman was specifically told to stand down in this case by a police dispatcher.
That's the only "opinion" I need to have. Zimmerman needs to be charged, just like he would be if he shot some rich white kid.
Is there any doubt now that police are our adversaries? I have felt this way for a long time, but it's coming to a head now in our own country.
You sure sound like you are a good teacher. The kind of teacher I liked when I was a lad in school.
More like this guy, please. Our children need to be allowed to grow and be resourceful, not be taught to be obedient little tools with bland, dictated text book knowledge. Having WiFi (with some discipline) can improve their education.
That kind of divisive language is a typical bullying tactic that these repressive cuntservative types use. They try to paint everyone into a corner.
Drawing lines in the sand, and "You're either with us or against us!" like those bible thumping American politicians do.
We need to get rid of "The Harper Government of Canada" (Ominous in itself that they expect everyone to call them that). Canadians made a big mistake in the last election.
I'm not sorry, chump... the whiners tried that in our district school board (in Ontario) and got put in their place. The same thing will happen here at the provincial level too. It is just not credible. WiFi is not the significant factor here.
Every kid gets to use a computer now, because they wheel in cartloads of laptops. They can't run ethernet cabling for all of them, everywhere they are to be used on the school grounds. It figures these anal teachers wouldn't be happy until they are back to the stone age. Teachers here are so unrealistic it's not funny... some of the pettiest people I know are teachers.
The fact that this is a Catholic teacher's union whining on behalf of catholic schools is even more infuriating... because now they suckle the public teat just like the public school system. They still think they get to make their own rules.
It's not about helping or hindering artists, it's about control. Tight fisted, "because we said so!" control freak middlemen who are becoming less important for promotion, production and publishing. They don't want that.
That's what I was thinking about this whole concept. You really can't tax people on the value of stock, because it's nothing if it's not being sold. It could just as easily become worthless before that happens. (and I would tend to think that stock from a company like Facebook, much of it speculative, based on imaginary money, might have a credible risk of going "poof" if everyone flocks over to Google Circlejerk or whatever new social service comes along)
Well then, the same rationale should be applied to property taxes. Our house is worth absolutely nothing, because it is not for sale. Just because the neighbour's house sold for 1.2 million dollars to some rich city snobs who want to sever the lot for resale and rent the house that's on the other half, doesn't mean our house, that we had built 35 years ago, that is not for sale and as long as we live will never be sold, has risen in value. They should stop trying to raise our property tax.
Now property tax is a different matter, collected by a different government than the feds and it serves a different purpose than income tax. They just want to keep increasing it based on the market value of the property. Perhaps it should not be based on the perceived value of the property, but lot size and number and type of structures on it or something. It would equalize things. Why should someone with a little waterfront cottage have to pay high property taxes just because some rich fool would pay more for it? It's not like their little cottage costs the municipality more. In some cases this behaviour forces people to sell their homes. It's like "If you can't pay these taxes you don't deserve to own what you worked hard for. Sell it to someone willing to pay the appreciated value for it so they can pay us more tax and then go die in an old age home or something"
Got to have our dose of fear mongering from Symantec. I hate those vultures and I distrust everything they say.
Slackware is a relatively simple distribution and for a knowledgeable user, it's one of the easiest there is. The scripts are all easy to follow (and well commented), there's build scripts that show you exactly how everything was compiled. There's a no nonsense packaging system that doesn't get in your way, and it's easy to follow as well. Your "package database" is human readable text files in a directory and your querying tools are ls and grep. The system does not work against you, like some of those so called "easy" distributions.
Because it has stayed true to its simplicity, it's also quite reliable.
So, from my perspective, saying it's not nice for people is bollocks. It's not for everyone, but those are the reasons I think it's still the best after all these years.
If I had a dime for every assfuck who said things like that, I'd need a datacenter to hold all the games I could afford to buy.
No, they can't have it any way they want it because we don't blindly follow the rules they have bought. People tend to grant themselves more rights, when someone else isn't playing fair. We decide what's fair, and what we are going to do about it, not them. The power is in our hands... we can decide not to pay for it (because they don't deserve our patronage), AND take it anyway if we wish to.
We don't ask our mothers' permission, nor do we seek approval from condescending twats like you.
You say that as if they have "every right" to restrict their product so it can't be transferred to another owner. No, that is wrong. (I don't care about what's legal)
Piracy is something they are just going to have to get used to, with their attitudes. Every game gets cracked. Ask Ubisoft who tries to do exactly that. (Though personally I have more pride than to give those assholes any satisfaction whatsoever)
Not even MIcrosoft is that arrogant.
Also, that's not really how Steam works. It doesn't withhold parts of your product, it's mainly just a seller and distribution service. If you buy a game that is subject to downloading core content on the fly, that's the game publisher doing it with their own service above and beyond your Steam login. Steam does of course result in a one time sale, but Steam isn't the only way to buy games. The convenience overrides that for most people who use Steam. (Not to mention, most people are smart and wait until games are reduced on Steam. It doesn't take long these days).
For game vendors, after their games bomb out in a year, Steam will be there to sell it for $10 including DLC so they don't get zero for the millions of dollars they spent being cunts.
Software, especially the proprietary kind they want to make money on, goes poof. The only way to make big money on software is dishonestly, like Microsoft who has gamed the system to have a captive audience.
People pirate software (and you can't stop them) and people use free alternatives (and you can't stop them)
I think America had better plan on basing their economy on something real, not imaginary property, for the rest of the world doesn't share their vision.
Yeah, well, when I go to work on trashy Windows 8 computers and I can't read the filesystem with my tools, people are simply going to lose their data. I don't care. I'm sick of working on Microsoft crap anyway. (Time for a change of life)
I have specialized boot disks that don't exactly use a Windows 8 kernel. Every goddamned version of Windows is getting worse for recovery and repair options. I am almost embarrassed to say how many times I have had to "clean install" Vista and Windows 7 because I couldn't find the needle in the haystack. There's "startup repair"... nope, that's almost never relevant to the problem, yet they make you start that anyway before making other options available. There's System Restore. Nope, the restore points are seldom valid and when they are, often it either doesn't solve the problem, or causes other inconsistencies. (It's not an image, and not everything is tracked. Only legitimate changes through Windows APIs, in Normal mode). There's Restore a Full System Backup... nope, nobody ever has one of those. So basically all there is for me, is booting up with other media and working behind Windows' back, loading registry hives, deleting or replacing rootkit drivers with good, correct versions, blanking passwords etc. If I can't read the filesystem, that's all she wrote.
(and for file retrieval I like to use Linux because it will mount damaged filesystems that Windows absolutely refuses. A cp -R command will continue after i/o errors too. At least with the old in kernel NTFS driver... things seem to crap out with NTFS 3G when there are bad sectors, if it even mounts)
I'm not going to maintain a Windows 8 box just so I can hook up hard disks to read Microsoft's latest idiotic filesystem, assuming it will mount. I hate Windows 8 (I have tried a few builds). I'm familiar with the alpha/prerelease/beta/rc thing and I understand they are varying degrees of unfinished product, but I absolutely despise the direction it's going.
There aren't even many useful support articles (i.e. "mskb") for Windows 7 yet, and they are about to bulge a new version of Windows out their rectum. I fucking hate this. When it gets to the point where there are mostly just Windows 8 appliances out there, I'll just have to stop servicing computers. There will be no need for expertise... just someone with a truck to make dump runs.
Grogan
MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solitaire Engineer) ---- but don't hold that against me.
Yes, it's about time too. I'd consider going back to Firefox in that case. (Been using Chromium)
I stopped installing Firefox on customer computers too because it got to be too much of a nuisance. Anything that causes me to get time wasting phone calls has to go. I have actually been leaving people alone and just letting them use Internet Explorer. Most people like it better. I have to admit that. (It's not the best thing for them, as I do get more calls for $ervice with IE users)
Some people have Google Chrome that's been foisted on them and they let it become the default. Some people like it (and I praise them for it), but others are grateful to have their default changed back to IE. Chrome is too weird for them... like trying to operate a brick or something with the well hidden user interface elements.
I have always found Tolkien's books hard to read. (Not enjoyable reading)
The only one I have actually finished was The Hobbit, as it was a relatively short one and seemed a bit lighter than the others. Others I have started but never completed.
That's when I was younger though, maybe I should try those books again now that I'm a middle aged geezer.
I know, I love Steam. I buy all of my games through their service. (Moreover, fuck any commercial game that isn't available through Steam) They provide valuable convenience to me.
I didn't always love Steam though. At first I highly resented it and get the great grandparent's point.
My first exposure to Steam was Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Even though I bought it on brick and mortar optical media, it still required this Steam shit and that made me angry. Steam probably suffered some growing pains with such a hugely popular title forcefully tied to steam no matter how it was sold, with so many users signing in at once, and there were a few instances where I got disconnected from the service and that further fueled my ire. The problems were few and brief. I soon started to realize that Steam was a great service.
I started to realize that it was pointless to buy Steam games on DVD, or from Direct2Drive only for them to require Steam anyway. Soon, I started buying other games through Steam as well. I'll never go back to installing from optical media, or downloading and extracting big zip files only to spend time running setup after that.
Yes, the fact that Steam always lets you re-download your products is a major consideration. This is one of the criteria that makes me shun EA's services, because they only allow you to download your product for one year after purchase.
I wouldn't accept what behaviour from Microsoft? Microsoft doesn't have one "open source" product that I would ever care about and even if they did, I'd be a fool to use it in a project without hiring lawyers that cost more than my entire project could ever be worth. Even their so called "open document formats" aren't really open in the sense that we would use the word. I don't really accept any behaviour from Microsoft but if I want to play my games, I have to keep a Windows install available. It would be really inconvenient for my ideology to not allow me to have Windows. Free games are nice, and it's a real treat to not have to leave Linux to play them, but I like the rich graphics and stuff in commercial games and that requires me to eat a shit sandwich.
It's not really a matter of accepting behaviour. The issue I was commenting on is only whether or not sourceforge is going to enforce a policy (assuming that having bits of proprietary data in your archive is even disallowed. The way I read it is essentially "code must be under an accepted Free license to be hosted here" not that you can't distribute other data with the code).
While not hosted at sourceforge, the Linux kernel tarballs and trees contain proprietary data different from the kernel license too, for another example. Firmware blobs are bundled for convenience. Some of them are proprietary and only allowed to be used in conjunction with the driver, and some of them are of UNKNOWN licensing. (What could be worse than that?). Some of them are a bit of a contradiction... marked as GPL2+ but no known source available? How can that be? They don't remove it, because they still want users to be able to use the driver.
I can see why sourceforge would allow such things as well.
I do accept the behaviour of say, Sauerbraten for an example affecting me, that has content in the archive that's not under the same license as the source, not because I advocate non free content, but because I don't want to go and download the game data separately from the source code I compile. I want the entire tree in one archive (or source management repository), so I can just compile and play my game. Or, if I'm modifying the sources for another purpose, maybe I want to test my changes on a working data set.
BluRay doesn't exist to me. The only time I see the word is in the filename of ripped bluray movies :-)
I refuse to deal with such restrictive DRM.
So fuck you, Sony Baloney. I automatically hate anything that has come out of Sony's rectum anyway.
Ads for new releases and games that are on sale on the Steam service. After you exit a game, Steam usually pops up an advertisement dialog. Useful advertisements, if you like to buy games. If not for those ads I probably would never know that a game I was mildly interested in was on sale for $9.99 etc. I have also bought games I've never heard of, because Steam advertised them and the screenshots, trailers and writeup looked good.
Steam is probably the least evil piece of game controlling dictatorware out there. (Microsoft can eat a fat dick for Games for Windows Live and EA can go ride the baloney pony off into the sunset with their Origin client crammed down their own deep throats)
But still... we can appreciate Synerg1y's point. A pirated copy of a game is usually more convenient than a legitimate one.
Nah, sourceforge probably isn't going to do anything about that even if it does violate their terms. The code is compliant, it's just proprietary data licensed only for use with the project. All they'd have to do is distribute the XML database separately from their own site to comply, and that would just inconvenience people while accomplishing nothing. (Moreover, it would make it inconvenient for people to even look at the XML file)
Is sourceforge going to remove open source games as well? They quite often have data (e.g. artwork, textures, sounds etc.) that is licensed differently than the source code. For convenience, the data is provided in the same bundle yet there may be restrictions on how you can use and distribute that data, if you read the license.
Ultimately, if the source code and its use are free you can use it to create your own project with your own data. That is often the intent.
Note that I am not sticking up for $bigbadcompany. In my eyes they are a pack of jackals for doing things like that (the DMCA takedown notice), I'm just commenting on what might be a "grey area" at sourceforge.
It's only counterfeit if it's being misrepresented as the original brand. It is perfectly legal to copy clothing design... it happens to the fashion industry all the time. In most cases you are just paying big bucks for the name, not superior quality or design. Unless you are infringing on some patent for a particular type of cushioned sole or something (which may or may not be recognized in your foreign country), you are perfectly within your rights to design a pair of "Smith and Jones" brand sneakers that look like Nike.
Well, for example, when youtube and various sites shut down or become a mere shadow of what they are today, this Canadian will be affected. When America puts economic and political pressure on other countries to adopt their sick laws, non Americans like myself will also be affected.
Fuck off with your fear mongering. It doesn't bode well for game vendors, because nobody NEEDS to buy their games.
Crysis 2 was highly pirated because it wasn't worth buying. Linear, scripted, aggravating and out of the box it didn't even look that good until they came out with a bandaid overlay to tack on some DirectX 11 features. That didn't make up for the lousy game though.
Same with Modern Warfare 3, which is absolutely the worst deal of any Call of Duty game to date. The campaign is a few hours long and the graphics are mediocre at best. It's a boring game, with a "more of the same shit" feel to it. The multiplayer is a drag too and the maps are boring. I didn't buy it, but I played it on my friend's Xbox. I finished the whole campaign while he was sitting on his computer playing World of Wankercraft then proceeded to multiplayer, to get aggravated by a bunch of pimple wizards.
What entitles them to payment of $60 for such rubbish? I'm sure that not everyone hates those two examples and would play them, but they wouldn't want to fork out that money.
"More draconian DRM" means even fewer sales. Some of these games are retarded. I bought Fable III through Steam without reading carefully enough. That it needs Steam is a given, but also it requires Games for Windows Live sign in to play it at all (which is a highly insulting and annoying waste of time) and if that isn't enough, it also has Securom even though it's not on optical media (They are using Securom for an additional method of restrictive product activation). Go fuck yourselves... it would have probably been easier to pirate that game.
That's why we need to have many sources of information.
It's just something that comes with freedom of information. I don't want other people deciding what I get to know about, so if I have to endure some falsities so be it.
Bad information will also correct itself on the Internet. (like, umm, now) because anyone can refute that too and not everyone subscribes to the mob mentality.
I never want to go back to gatekeepers like Rupert Fucking Murdoch controlling information, thank you.