It's also my understanding that the licence has mostly to do with the online service, I can't see verrant cancelling acounts , since that would be shooting themeselves in the foot. IANAL and all, but I really can't see how this in deferent than the usual, "selling compatible blades for verants razors" idea.
My point is still valid, breaking a license is not is not a crime, merely a breach of contract. Violating a copyright is a criminal offense. If I copied the game for others to use, then I would be breaking the law, using the content and graphics in a way other than they intended is still well within my rights.
Umm, you see, in order to have a copyright violation you have to COPY SOMETHING. If I own a legit copy of the game, then I own a perfectly good licence to all the materials in it, and I may use it as I see fit. And no licence agreement can change that. Sure they might have a right to cancel my official EQ service, but then, who really looses out. I hope this sets you straight.
How do you get six months? Even hard core gamers certainly don't upgrade their video card every six months. My 2 year old TNT still plays all the new games just fine. Sure their will be something faster than Xbox after six months, but that does not mean games will not work on it. As far as API's go, API's are SOFTWARE they can be upgraded at any time, just include different libraries on the game cd, you don't even have to worry about a new DirectX breaking your old games.
XBox DOES have more than a few things going for it, namely Internet connectivity (who owns IE, MSN, and WebTV?), every popular PC game will be on it since porting to Xbox will be a no brainner.
Excuse me, but what "illegal moral views" can't you express in Canada. Hell in Canada it's perfectly legal for women to go topless, beat that for "freedom of expression".
It does make sense for MS to port Windows Media Player to Linux since most streaming media on the net supports Real Media, or Real and WMP, but rarely WMP only since it is not available on all major platforms. As far as IE and Office, don't bet on it.
Because there would be no way to know how many copies are being sold to linux users, hence no way to know how much demand their would be for future linux ports.
Linuxconf and other tools like Webmin already do a
good job of simplifiying linux configuration. Why bother starting over from scratch when we already have good tools to start from? In my opinion Web based administation is defenately the way to go since you can provide a universal tool that will work in X, at the console(via lynx), and remotely that is easy and faminiliar to new users.
Actually it's the "alien crossfire addon" that only came out a few months ago. Besides, I would prefer to see quality, rather than "NEW" games ported to Linux first.
I'm sick of hearing all these morons bitch about X. There is nothing wrong with X, Xfree 4 runs great on my hardware, X performs at least as well as citrix ICA over a lan(never tried over the net), and choice of GUI is the first thing that made me want to use Linux. X renders truetype and Type 1 fonts just fine. Some of you people are whinning about problems that have been fixed for ages. If any of you think you can do better, then prove it, join the berlin project or something.
well, without any OS, and next gen hardware texture commpression, 64 megs does not sound to bad. I suspect that most games will use a scalable graphics engine, that will look better on more powerfull PC hardware, but run well on X-Box
The point your missing is that it only takes one person to figure out how to bypass the copy protection system, and then right a program that will let anyone else do the same.
I would say limiting logins per day would be a decent defense against piracy, a filtering system, or a tip off section. I don't think you can stop it completely, but you can surely cut it down.
Well, I would say it's going extremly well, installing the drivers should be a snap with the new 0.93 release since they included a script that does all the work. Performance is great, in both 2d and 3d. the only thing you have to do is make sure you remove mesa from your system, or at least the libGL.so* files
The the Gimp is verry good, free, and popular. Hence to gain a foot hold on Linux they have to give photo-paint away, and hope people will like it so much they will buy the full Draw package.
weel for one, photo-paint has always retailed for a fraction of the cost of the Draw suite( I think I saw it some time ago for about $90 cnd), and secondly, I would say they are trying to prove that software ported to linux is are not the dogs slow apps that many might think.
I would say the sucess of 64bit AMD is really in the hands of Microsoft, and depends on how well MS supports the platform. After all x86 Compat don't mean squate if their is no applications that take advantage of the improved 64 tech.
well ther's NT for 64 bit alpha, as well as FreeBSD for Alpha, it's not merced, but you only said 64 bit. Anyway linux for Itanium is still vaporware, as is any other OS for Itanium.
I would tend to agree to some extent, since games don't need real sucurity, just a big enough road block to cut it down a bit. But cheating has been around in closed surce games for a long time, look at the zbot, at its various clones. I think OSS has a good chance of creating good, reliable networking code for multiplayer games such as quakeforge and others.
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It's also my understanding that the licence has mostly to do with the online service, I can't see verrant cancelling acounts , since that would be shooting themeselves in the foot. IANAL and all, but I really can't see how this in deferent than the usual, "selling compatible blades for verants razors" idea.
My point is still valid, breaking a license is not is not a crime, merely a breach of contract. Violating a copyright is a criminal offense. If I copied the game for others to use, then I would be breaking the law, using the content and graphics in a way other than they intended is still well within my rights.
Umm, you see, in order to have a copyright violation you have to COPY SOMETHING. If I own a legit copy of the game, then I own a perfectly good licence to all the materials in it, and I may use it as I see fit. And no licence agreement can change that. Sure they might have a right to cancel my official EQ service, but then, who really looses out. I hope this sets you straight.
A better idea is to set the boot delay to 0 and use lilo -R to set defaults for next boot( for you dual booters out there)
Well, ya, when you buy a new car you probably should check it's history to see if their are any major known problems with the car.
How do you get six months? Even hard core gamers certainly don't upgrade their video card every six months. My 2 year old TNT still plays all the new games just fine. Sure their will be something faster than Xbox after six months, but that does not mean games will not work on it. As far as API's go, API's are SOFTWARE they can be upgraded at any time, just include different libraries on the game cd, you don't even have to worry about a new DirectX breaking your old games.
XBox DOES have more than a few things going for it, namely Internet connectivity (who owns IE, MSN, and WebTV?), every popular PC game will be on it since porting to Xbox will be a no brainner.
Excuse me, but what "illegal moral views" can't you express in Canada. Hell in Canada it's perfectly legal for women to go topless, beat that for "freedom of expression".
It does make sense for MS to port Windows Media Player to Linux since most streaming media on the net supports Real Media, or Real and WMP, but rarely WMP only since it is not available on all major platforms. As far as IE and Office, don't bet on it.
Because there would be no way to know how many copies are being sold to linux users, hence no way to know how much demand their would be for future linux ports.
Linuxconf and other tools like Webmin already do a good job of simplifiying linux configuration. Why bother starting over from scratch when we already have good tools to start from? In my opinion Web based administation is defenately the way to go since you can provide a universal tool that will work in X, at the console(via lynx), and remotely that is easy and faminiliar to new users.
it does not appear to curently run on Linux, but if it's open source, then you can bet it will be ported asap.
Actually it's the "alien crossfire addon" that only came out a few months ago. Besides, I would prefer to see quality, rather than "NEW" games ported to Linux first.
I'm sick of hearing all these morons bitch about X. There is nothing wrong with X, Xfree 4 runs great on my hardware, X performs at least as well as citrix ICA over a lan(never tried over the net), and choice of GUI is the first thing that made me want to use Linux. X renders truetype and Type 1 fonts just fine. Some of you people are whinning about problems that have been fixed for ages. If any of you think you can do better, then prove it, join the berlin project or something.
well, without any OS, and next gen hardware texture commpression, 64 megs does not sound to bad. I suspect that most games will use a scalable graphics engine, that will look better on more powerfull PC hardware, but run well on X-Box
The point your missing is that it only takes one person to figure out how to bypass the copy protection system, and then right a program that will let anyone else do the same.
These people who say "well, someday computers
will be so easy to use that you won't need support!" aI would say limiting logins per day would be a decent defense against piracy, a filtering system, or a tip off section. I don't think you can stop it completely, but you can surely cut it down.
Well, I would say it's going extremly well, installing the drivers should be a snap with the new 0.93 release since they included a script that does all the work. Performance is great, in both 2d and 3d. the only thing you have to do is make sure you remove mesa from your system, or at least the libGL.so* files
The the Gimp is verry good, free, and popular. Hence to gain a foot hold on Linux they have to give photo-paint away, and hope people will like it so much they will buy the full Draw package.
that has to be the weakest troll I've read in a while. Practice makes perfect.
weel for one, photo-paint has always retailed for a fraction of the cost of the Draw suite( I think I saw it some time ago for about $90 cnd), and secondly, I would say they are trying to prove that software ported to linux is are not the dogs slow apps that many might think.
I would say the sucess of 64bit AMD is really in the hands of Microsoft, and depends on how well MS supports the platform. After all x86 Compat don't mean squate if their is no applications that take advantage of the improved 64 tech.
well ther's NT for 64 bit alpha, as well as FreeBSD for Alpha, it's not merced, but you only said 64 bit. Anyway linux for Itanium is still vaporware, as is any other OS for Itanium.
I would tend to agree to some extent, since games don't need real sucurity, just a big enough road block to cut it down a bit. But cheating has been around in closed surce games for a long time, look at the zbot, at its various clones. I think OSS has a good chance of creating good, reliable networking code for multiplayer games such as quakeforge and others.
thanks for heading us off, I was *this* close to killing this guy