Actually to use it without proper liscensing you would need to violate the GPL.
So rolling it into a closed source app.
The same laws that apply to protecting XP from pirating apply to protecting Linux from closed source hijacking.
The attitude of "Well I can pirate Windows because it is not worth it." is damaging to open source (GPL anyway) as much as closed.
I am building a new computer and am actuqally buying a WinXP liscence by the way. I have been using Linux exclusivly for over a year (crappy hardware reboots windows in 10 minutes, Linux is fairly stable), but I am buying a soanking new machine and all of the sudden I have a chance to game again. Also the lack of being able to play classic games on Linux is a problem for me (WineX is all about new games, it's 2 d is not very good).
In conclusion, don't pirate Windows, doing so undermines the GPL.
The apple displays are only on the better end of middling, at least they were a few months ago, I don't know if things have changed or not. They had a pretty good response with an OK contrast ratio. Also a pretty good brightness that is fairly consistant.
Better then your el cheapo, but certainly not as good as you make it sound. All the best Sony's use Samsung screens now if I am not mistaken.
Sime saying about "too good to be true", and "probably is" comes to mind.
Using electrolosis to make hydrogen is only 10% efficient, and it will always take energy to do so. The enerdy wasted as people start using fuel cells will be emense, and getting it from water in a perfect would still doesn't net us any energy. O2+2H2 = 2H2O Is just going to need to be reversed. In the very best situation Hydrogen is a more efficient (and definatly lighter) battery, it solves none of our long term energy needs.
Most places will only replace for six anyway. So it's not like they are totally out of line there. I don't know where you expect to get replacement for 1.
Except KDE's html renderer is arguably better then Gecko (based on Apple's desicion), so why should they have been expected to let inferior (again, arguably, not nessicerily so).
If the K team can make an HTML renderer that they like more why should they settle for someone else's?
If Novell did that they would be violating the GPL and infringing on the copyrighted work of Open Sorce programmers.
SCO tried almost the exact same thing (They distribute Linux source (including "stolen" code) under the GPL and then insist that it is illegel to distribute under the GPL and that the GPL is invalid and maybe even un American.
Why do you need root Privledges to zombie a personal box?
A stealth remailer should be on an unregistered port, don't want people stumbling onto it by accident.
And why does it need to set stuff up to run at boot up if only one person logs in, and likly even set to auto login at boot. Even if one of 4 usersis infected it is pretty likly any of their personal rc files will get run at any given start up. And since the newest touted feature (well, not really that new) on the desktop is the ability to have lots of people logged in at once, as soon as the stupid user logs in the program is running to never be stopped until a reboot. The only way to really protect users is to noexec the home partition, but the will never be done from a friendliness perspective.
I feel essentially the same way about viruses too. If a virus hoses my system at home, it takes me a total of 2 hours tops to reinstall slackware, more like 45 minutes I would think. All the truly important stuff is in my home directory.
I challenge someone to explain to me how on a one user system how rooting someone means anything worse then the home directory being owned, except for the trivial re-install.
Lexmark is not very well supported by Linux (Inkjet wise anyway). And their Windows drivers are shit too.
I had a Lexmark that would not allow the drivers to be installed for a remote printer. And the driver talked out load when you were using it (very annoying). And had a status that would pop up and display as it said "printing started" and would hang the whole system.
Jobs spooling to this printer would hang in and undeletable state more often then any other porinter I have used too.
Also, another one I have come to own has a linux driver of sorts, but it pauses at the end of every page for 30 seconds before spitting it out.
Your right, I was looking at it as a virus email receiving problem and not a spam one.
With a little bit of thought, someone without a large web presance can find out who is the infected computer sending them virus email relativly easily.
Spam zombies tend to be people you don't know though.
Yup, this is just spoofing... don't give it a second thought.
I would give it a second thought, it is likley someone you have had an email corispondence with and can therfore warn.
The best bet is to find out what virus it is (scan the email). And tracert the originating IP address. this should give you the ISP and maybe a state. Look up the virus to find the file names it creates and tell your family/friends that match the ISP/location to search for the file.
Most Virii can be removed by deleting a registry key rebooting, killing one file.
Especially for a company like ID. All their customers buying (renting) the DOOM/Quake engines will save lots of money, but now ID needs to develope the engine and put out great games. While the competition only needs to put out the games.
If everybody was making their own game engine every time Open Source would make a lot of sense, but as it is in game engines there is tremendous code reuse anyway.
And unless Carmack could get a Doom foundation going it is an incredibly unproffiable business
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Actually to use it without proper liscensing you would need to violate the GPL.
So rolling it into a closed source app.
The same laws that apply to protecting XP from pirating apply to protecting Linux from closed source hijacking.
The attitude of "Well I can pirate Windows because it is not worth it." is damaging to open source (GPL anyway) as much as closed.
I am building a new computer and am actuqally buying a WinXP liscence by the way. I have been using Linux exclusivly for over a year (crappy hardware reboots windows in 10 minutes, Linux is fairly stable), but I am buying a soanking new machine and all of the sudden I have a chance to game again. Also the lack of being able to play classic games on Linux is a problem for me (WineX is all about new games, it's 2 d is not very good).
In conclusion, don't pirate Windows, doing so undermines the GPL.
Except PS/2 mice update faster.
Up to 200Hz.
I believe for USB mice it is only 125 Hz.
PS/2 is deffinatly faster.
The apple displays are only on the better end of middling, at least they were a few months ago, I don't know if things have changed or not. They had a pretty good response with an OK contrast ratio. Also a pretty good brightness that is fairly consistant.
Better then your el cheapo, but certainly not as good as you make it sound. All the best Sony's use Samsung screens now if I am not mistaken.
Actually you kind of will.
Sime saying about "too good to be true", and "probably is" comes to mind.
Using electrolosis to make hydrogen is only 10% efficient, and it will always take energy to do so. The enerdy wasted as people start using fuel cells will be emense, and getting it from water in a perfect would still doesn't net us any energy. O2+2H2 = 2H2O Is just going to need to be reversed. In the very best situation Hydrogen is a more efficient (and definatly lighter) battery, it solves none of our long term energy needs.
I always thought it was for the multiplyer.
so you 66 Mhz would drop to 33
What about my level 8 from 3 years ago, what can I do with it?
You could use Game cube sized DVDs. I have seen DVD cam corders that burn them.
Still, I would imagine the size and shape is also optimized for lower energy spinning.
Most places will only replace for six anyway. So it's not like they are totally out of line there. I don't know where you expect to get replacement for 1.
And even the good wind-ups are quartz nowadays.
Except KDE's html renderer is arguably better then Gecko (based on Apple's desicion), so why should they have been expected to let inferior (again, arguably, not nessicerily so).
If the K team can make an HTML renderer that they like more why should they settle for someone else's?
How fancy were the bikes though?
I have owned many bikes that I havn't locked up, I had one stolen and left others at places when I got a ride home.
But a 10 dollor bike is a lot different then a 200 dollor bike, and that is a lot different then a 2000 dollor bike.
That is why the GPL is called Viral.
If Novell did that they would be violating the GPL and infringing on the copyrighted work of Open Sorce programmers.
SCO tried almost the exact same thing (They distribute Linux source (including "stolen" code) under the GPL and then insist that it is illegel to distribute under the GPL and that the GPL is invalid and maybe even un American.
or that they are on dialup and can't keep up (home users, a little under half anyway).
Because you cannot go around killing people for non violent crimes.
I understand the desire for an eye for an eye.
But thinking theft justifies murder seems a little wacky to me.
Why do you need root Privledges to zombie a personal box?
A stealth remailer should be on an unregistered port, don't want people stumbling onto it by accident.
And why does it need to set stuff up to run at boot up if only one person logs in, and likly even set to auto login at boot. Even if one of 4 usersis infected it is pretty likly any of their personal rc files will get run at any given start up. And since the newest touted feature (well, not really that new) on the desktop is the ability to have lots of people logged in at once, as soon as the stupid user logs in the program is running to never be stopped until a reboot. The only way to really protect users is to noexec the home partition, but the will never be done from a friendliness perspective.
I feel essentially the same way about viruses too. If a virus hoses my system at home, it takes me a total of 2 hours tops to reinstall slackware, more like 45 minutes I would think. All the truly important stuff is in my home directory.
I challenge someone to explain to me how on a one user system how rooting someone means anything worse then the home directory being owned, except for the trivial re-install.
Lexmark is not very well supported by Linux (Inkjet wise anyway). And their Windows drivers are shit too.
I had a Lexmark that would not allow the drivers to be installed for a remote printer. And the driver talked out load when you were using it (very annoying). And had a status that would pop up and display as it said "printing started" and would hang the whole system.
Jobs spooling to this printer would hang in and undeletable state more often then any other porinter I have used too.
Also, another one I have come to own has a linux driver of sorts, but it pauses at the end of every page for 30 seconds before spitting it out.
They really should of had some the civillian characters as enemy forces with signifigant penalty for killing the wrong ones.
(the no existant civilians you said should have been in there that is).
I am pretty sure I played the same game on the SNES, you might have better odds of getting it their.
Or at least a ROM
Do you knoe what HAH! probably means there?
Your right, I was looking at it as a virus email receiving problem and not a spam one.
With a little bit of thought, someone without a large web presance can find out who is the infected computer sending them virus email relativly easily.
Spam zombies tend to be people you don't know though.
Yup, this is just spoofing... don't give it a second thought.
I would give it a second thought, it is likley someone you have had an email corispondence with and can therfore warn.
The best bet is to find out what virus it is (scan the email). And tracert the originating IP address. this should give you the ISP and maybe a state. Look up the virus to find the file names it creates and tell your family/friends that match the ISP/location to search for the file.
Most Virii can be removed by deleting a registry key rebooting, killing one file.
Especially for a company like ID. All their customers buying (renting) the DOOM/Quake engines will save lots of money, but now ID needs to develope the engine and put out great games. While the competition only needs to put out the games.
If everybody was making their own game engine every time Open Source would make a lot of sense, but as it is in game engines there is tremendous code reuse anyway.
And unless Carmack could get a Doom foundation going it is an incredibly unproffiable business
A cap 5 times what they have charged so far.
It is not a very l;ow cap at all.
"They haven't enhanced it in subsequent releases enough to make people upgrade (not much left to enhance, really.)"
By enhanced it enough do you mean changed the file format?
What about Mozilla and Open Office?