What happens to Loki's Open Source Projects?
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So now that Loki's gone, what will happen to their open source projects? How about the domains that host their projects? Who will get the copyrights?
Prehaps they should take a look at assigning the copyrights to the FSF or other holding organization if this is possible with their creditor situation. What other ogranizations are there that we can trust to hold copyrights? It would be hard to assign a copyright to the FSF and keep the project under a BSD license for example.
I don't know about you, but I love the SDL and openAL. Lots of work has gone into these tools and it would be a shame to see them fall apart because the company supporting them went away.
Does anyone have any past examples of projects/copyrights that were assets of companies that went under? What happened to these?
Is it me or have PC RPG's really gone downhill? I remember back when I was exploring the world in Ultima 6 and it was amazing. This program fit on 6 5+1/4 floppy disks and there was seemingly endless miniquests do and npc's to meet. Granted, no one that was in a recient blockbuster hit did their voices and it wasn't rendered in full 3d but it was a well -written- game.
It seems that, as technology increase, RPG's are becoming more and more linear. They look like a beautifully rendered movie where I get to play through a few fight scenes and maybe choose from 1 of 3 possible endings.
Whatever happened to exploring a world and interacting with it, not just watching it go by? Do those not sell anymore? Why not?
I had flashbacks to reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" while reading this transcription. Does anyone else remember reading the commands listed in the book and quickly running over to a unix box to play?
Honestly, I'm not -too- surprised that this happened. My machine runs:
/bin/date | mail
/sbin/ifconfig -a | mail
(Running dyndns would be interesting also.)
on bootup. I originally did this so that I could keep track of my box and identify when it went down and what the current IP was so I could ssh in and look around more comprehensively, although it has crossed my mind that if my machine were to get stolen it might report back to me where it was. I'd happy to see that it's worked out at least once for someone.
Most ISPS keep logs of usernames and passwords on certain ips (especially if they're static/near static as in a cable modem or dsl connection). From there, it's fairly easy for the ISP for connect that back to a real name.
I'd be very intrested to see if this is enough information to get a search warrent.
Although the primary access point for the HoZone seems to be in Surrey, BC, the HoZone is actually parallel to our entire dimension. It can easily be accessed in Ireland in a few easy steps:
1. Obtain a working dryer
2. Give an irishman 20 pairs of socks to wash
3. Give the irishman sufficient Guinness
4. Send the irishman off to wash
I gaurentee that this method will produce the loss of Sock Matter which adds potential energy to the HoZone.
Those are old tech. They've been used in Transporters for years as in this article. You will notice that, in this case, the Heisenburg Compensation is done with Elmers Glue to make the electrons stay still during transport.
It's not the size of a dishwasher. It's the size of a dryer. In fact it opens a dimensional portal to what we here at the Illuminati like to call the HoZone. For those unfaimilar with the term, this is the place where socks go when you put a pair in the dryer and only one comes out.
In order to derice energy from the HoZone, you must first open a portal. This is a simple initial energy expense which many generators must spend. After that, a rod which you can think of as similar to a lightening rod is pushed into the hole and static electricity is generated as if you put an AOL CD in the microwave. A simple frequency to voltage conversion!
Now for the real secret. HE DOESN'T USE DRYER SHEETS. That's right! Many experiments in the past failed because the scientists added dryer sheets specifically designed to remove static cling!
I'm hoping that no one will take this secret and use it for world domination. Responsibility!
None of this 'we can't make any money on broadband' comes as too much of a shock to me. I mean, we've all known all along how little (if not negative) any given broadband connection pays.
Say I go home to my cable modem and suck down 2 gigabytes of data on my unmetered line. This isn't so unreasonable technologically. Maybe it'll take me a while to do, but hey, it's not that much of an issue for me. On the other hand, my ISP is now not making any money on me this month. ISPs depend on people getting broadband and looking at a few web pages just like all-you-can-eat sushi places depend on people ordering a few pieces and maybe some maki and going home.
As downloadable media becomes larger and more proliferic, we're likely to see more and more ISP's either closing down, raising prices, or capping/metering transfers to survive.
And eliza doesn't know what day it is.
Doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is.
How can he be saved?
From the eternal grave.
eliza can you hear me?
eliza can you hear me?
eliza can you hear me?
How can she be saved?
The problem here is that they don't trying to make money. Or they believe that some advertising from companies that are failing will pay for it. If you want to make money, you must sell a product, not just advertise for other people.
I know that 'tell that to NBC' is going to come up. The problem is that tv/newspapers/etc are accepted places to advertise. Advertisers believe that it makes it to the audience so that it influences them. Most advertisers don't believe that web advertising makes it to anyone. With TV, sometimes people change the channel. With newspapers, sometimes people turn the page. With the web, most people don't even -see- ads anymore.
Quick. Without looking, can you tell me what the banner ad at the top of the page is for? Can you even tell me what color it is? I can't.
Without actual products to sell, websites will not be able to make money in the near future.
So now that we can plug directly into the optical nerve, why stop at replacing eyes? I mean wouldn't it be nice to see full spectrum? Infrared? Ultraviolet? Imagine lowlight for night driving and telescopic/microscopic for astronomy/bio class. Possibly a Van Eik (sp?) Monitor for seeing a monitor from far off. Why not have an external jack? It would certainly decrease wearable computer sizes. Imagine Quake? Full Eye View! Nintendo directly into your brain! Why stop there? I mean you could build a pager into your body. Tracking devices. GPS. The possibilities are endless. Please refer to your nearest CyberPunk(tm) manual for details.
Just Please....Don't run it on WinCE... Blue Eye of Death!
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So now that Loki's gone, what will happen to their open source projects? How about the domains that host their projects? Who will get the copyrights?
Prehaps they should take a look at assigning the copyrights to the FSF or other holding organization if this is possible with their creditor situation. What other ogranizations are there that we can trust to hold copyrights? It would be hard to assign a copyright to the FSF and keep the project under a BSD license for example.
I don't know about you, but I love the SDL and openAL. Lots of work has gone into these tools and it would be a shame to see them fall apart because the company supporting them went away.
Does anyone have any past examples of projects/copyrights that were assets of companies that went under? What happened to these?
IANAL - I don't even play one on slashdot.
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Mike
bash: fortune: command not found, stupid.
If you install w95 and then edit the msdos.sys file, you can add
BootGUI=0
Logo=0
and the machine will start up to a command prompt.
You can then go delete all shell(w95) related things.
--
Mike
We here at the illuminati don't use DOS.
Is it me or have PC RPG's really gone downhill? I remember back when I was exploring the world in Ultima 6 and it was amazing. This program fit on 6 5+1/4 floppy disks and there was seemingly endless miniquests do and npc's to meet. Granted, no one that was in a recient blockbuster hit did their voices and it wasn't rendered in full 3d but it was a well -written- game.
It seems that, as technology increase, RPG's are becoming more and more linear. They look like a beautifully rendered movie where I get to play through a few fight scenes and maybe choose from 1 of 3 possible endings.
Whatever happened to exploring a world and interacting with it, not just watching it go by? Do those not sell anymore? Why not?
--
Mike
Oldsk00l W1z4rdy, b4BY! (sarcasm)
I had flashbacks to reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" while reading this transcription. Does anyone else remember reading the commands listed in the book and quickly running over to a unix box to play?
Honestly, I'm not -too- surprised that this happened. My machine runs:
/bin/date | mail
/sbin/ifconfig -a | mail
(Running dyndns would be interesting also.)
on bootup. I originally did this so that I could keep track of my box and identify when it went down and what the current IP was so I could ssh in and look around more comprehensively, although it has crossed my mind that if my machine were to get stolen it might report back to me where it was. I'd happy to see that it's worked out at least once for someone.
Most ISPS keep logs of usernames and passwords on certain ips (especially if they're static/near static as in a cable modem or dsl connection). From there, it's fairly easy for the ISP for connect that back to a real name.
I'd be very intrested to see if this is enough information to get a search warrent.
Does this mean we can copy
#include
from one of the source files and no longer have to say that linux is a "unix-like OS"?
--
Mike
Sick of being corrected on this.
Although the primary access point for the HoZone seems to be in Surrey, BC, the HoZone is actually parallel to our entire dimension. It can easily be accessed in Ireland in a few easy steps:
1. Obtain a working dryer
2. Give an irishman 20 pairs of socks to wash
3. Give the irishman sufficient Guinness
4. Send the irishman off to wash
I gaurentee that this method will produce the loss of Sock Matter which adds potential energy to the HoZone.
--
Mike
We will not talk of the Illuminatus.
Those are old tech. They've been used in Transporters for years as in this article. You will notice that, in this case, the Heisenburg Compensation is done with Elmers Glue to make the electrons stay still during transport.
--
Mike
I eat glue!
It's not the size of a dishwasher. It's the size of a dryer. In fact it opens a dimensional portal to what we here at the Illuminati like to call the HoZone. For those unfaimilar with the term, this is the place where socks go when you put a pair in the dryer and only one comes out.
In order to derice energy from the HoZone, you must first open a portal. This is a simple initial energy expense which many generators must spend. After that, a rod which you can think of as similar to a lightening rod is pushed into the hole and static electricity is generated as if you put an AOL CD in the microwave. A simple frequency to voltage conversion!
Now for the real secret. HE DOESN'T USE DRYER SHEETS. That's right! Many experiments in the past failed because the scientists added dryer sheets specifically designed to remove static cling!
I'm hoping that no one will take this secret and use it for world domination. Responsibility!
--
Mike
What's a rave?
None of this 'we can't make any money on broadband' comes as too much of a shock to me. I mean, we've all known all along how little (if not negative) any given broadband connection pays.
Say I go home to my cable modem and suck down 2 gigabytes of data on my unmetered line. This isn't so unreasonable technologically. Maybe it'll take me a while to do, but hey, it's not that much of an issue for me. On the other hand, my ISP is now not making any money on me this month. ISPs depend on people getting broadband and looking at a few web pages just like all-you-can-eat sushi places depend on people ordering a few pieces and maybe some maki and going home.
As downloadable media becomes larger and more proliferic, we're likely to see more and more ISP's either closing down, raising prices, or capping/metering transfers to survive.
And eliza doesn't know what day it is.
Doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is.
How can he be saved?
From the eternal grave.
eliza can you hear me?
eliza can you hear me?
eliza can you hear me?
How can she be saved?
--
Mike
The online comic strip revenue model doesn't work.
Here is a good indication of that.
The problem here is that they don't trying to make money. Or they believe that some advertising from companies that are failing will pay for it. If you want to make money, you must sell a product, not just advertise for other people.
I know that 'tell that to NBC' is going to come up. The problem is that tv/newspapers/etc are accepted places to advertise. Advertisers believe that it makes it to the audience so that it influences them. Most advertisers don't believe that web advertising makes it to anyone. With TV, sometimes people change the channel. With newspapers, sometimes people turn the page. With the web, most people don't even -see- ads anymore.
Quick. Without looking, can you tell me what the banner ad at the top of the page is for? Can you even tell me what color it is? I can't.
Without actual products to sell, websites will not be able to make money in the near future.
--
Mike
American Airlines reports that it was flight 587, an Airbus 300 that was outbound from JFK to the Dominican Republic, and it crashed about 2 minutes after takeoff© There were 247 passengers and 9 crewmembers©
From what I've heard it crashed in the Rockaways at 122nd street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard©
The FAA is saying that there is no indication of terrorism right now©
The Queens/Midtown tunns are closed, Lincoln outbound is closed until further notice©
Also, JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports are closed©
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Mike Nugent
Programmer/Author
http://www©illuminatus©org
So now that we can plug directly into the optical nerve, why stop at replacing eyes? I mean wouldn't it be nice to see full spectrum? Infrared? Ultraviolet? Imagine lowlight for night driving and telescopic/microscopic for astronomy/bio class. Possibly a Van Eik (sp?) Monitor for seeing a monitor from far off. Why not have an external jack? It would certainly decrease wearable computer sizes. Imagine Quake? Full Eye View! Nintendo directly into your brain! Why stop there? I mean you could build a pager into your body. Tracking devices. GPS. The possibilities are endless. Please refer to your nearest CyberPunk(tm) manual for details.
Just Please....Don't run it on WinCE...
Blue Eye of Death!
Robin, ;)
April Fools was a month and a 1/2 ago. I'll keep an eye on userfriendly.org to see if they get an 'email' also
--
Mike