....the brothers...X10 was one of their first clients and they tried to screw them out of money. Reading more than one source for news sometimes helps see the story a little better..
Quite the opposite, the beauty of the game is that there is no escape. You screw up, you're getting killed and all your items (along with enough spells/skills to take off about an hours work off your game). Of course, maybe you are in a guild so now the person is kill-on-sight by the guild. Meridian puts the least limits on player's actions as possible and thus becomes the only true player-oriented online RPG. I'm sorry that weinnies from Everquest can't take the fact that Player-vs-Player is fun, not in the Quake sense, but when you have everything to lose going into the battle.
I've never played Meridian59, but I've certainly heard many many stories about it over the years. My "graphical" MMORPG gaming started with UO. (UNIX Muds aside, and bbs DOORS aside)
Thats one thing that made me love UO when it started, man.....you would sweat it when you'd leave certain towns, because if you got jacked-up, you were losing everything you had. But then its a simple matter of rounding up the posse and getting some revenge....when it was open ended, it was more dynamic and fun. Too many games have "pussy-fied" PvP since then...DaoC had a good idea with the frontier-lands for battle, the problem there being, if you are in a large raid, your system will puke on all the polygons it has to render, while juggling CPU resources with network packets, audio, alot of stuff...:p
Someone didn't know this? And even when its not new releases, DVD's that get out early are in the same boat. Just last weekend I watched the full blown "Finding Nemo" DVD at a friend of a friends place, complete menu/extras/etc. Isn't it a given that insiders have something to do with it?
I mean unless your buying something why would you give this info out? people that give out personal info simply because some form is asking for it.. dummies, period
I agree that the "dummy" factor is the main culprit....but then I have to give them some slack here as well...they are buying something, the domain name, and since it's all "official" and on the internet, and they "own" the domain name now, they feel obligied to answer, it's assumed on their part,
Yeah I've seen plenty of bogus contact info, except for the email address maybe, in whois records. Any domain setups that I've done allows you free reign to type in anything you like. I think most people don't realize that
At least it sets some precident in this "case". The fine is measely interms of the FUD they are spreading, hopefully others will follow suit in the legal realm and take SCO to task.
Now, why would SCO germany pay, if they have SUCH a solid case??
Side Note: Babelfish is aptly named, the translations are usually Babble
I'd ask if you'd found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you're in Utah, after all.
Take that offer while you still can, Mr. McBride. So far your so-called ?evidence? is crap; you'd better climb down off your high horse before we shoot that sucker entirely out from under you. How you finish the contract fight you picked with IBM is your problem. As the president of OSI, defending the community of open-source hackers against predators and carpetbaggers is mine ? and if you don't stop trying to destroy Linux and everything else we've worked for I guarantee you won't like what our alliance is cooking up next.
This guy is all over the place, from humor to near, on the fence, threats....but someone has to give McBride some "tough love" and tell it like it is, for his and everyones own good. Ideally this would suffice but I sincerely doubt it will get through the thick skulls over at SCO.
The point being, at an ATM you would be required to look directly at the camera where the machine could get a relatively "straight-on" scan of your face. That would be immensely better than how they were trying to use it
Why would you use each others ATM card? Seperate accounts?
Actually it can work fairly well in controlled enviornments/parameters
At an ATM it can/could work very well, when you're walking down the street, in motion with your head at various angls, no wonder it doesn't work. As far as PC's go thumb would probably be more likely
Depends.....they changed it in later runs of the cart.....I still have a Hitler boss version, my friends and I were all freaking when we first beat the game, we couldn't believe they would use that likeness
If you *read* the Gnu GPL, not that anybody does, it doesn't say that you must distribute source with the binaries. But that you must provide a means whereby the user can request the source code from you, and that you will give the source when requested.
In light of your comment, I agree that many don't actually read the licenses, but feel they have a "well-enough" understanding of what it/they mean, thusly a new acronym.......*drum roll*
For those few who are not aware, the snipers were driving a blue Chevy Celebrity (large car) not a van or truck as initially indicated.
That is one point of that whole investigation that drove me nuts! They kept emphasizing the "white van" in press conferences and media. The Snipers probably said..."hey, let's use this...." and when they were waiting for a victim, they could have also waited for a white van to be near the victim, POW! "I saw the white van, i saw the white van!!" Perpetuating the myth.
Does everyone who uses Linux need a SCO UNIX IP License for Linux?
End users running Linux 2.4 or later versions for commercial purposes need a SCO IP license.
How in the hell can they say and do this when there hasn't been a case/judgement/ruling? They are truly pulling this right out of their asses, which brings me back to the Subject line of this post.:)
And they appear to only be attacking the commercial users so far.....
They would still have a case, since this case deals with past infringements. But they would have no more "power" (used very loosely) over the current and future direction of Linux. So once the code is shown, like you said, it would be changed immediately and we can go on our merry ways, but that doesn't change whether they have a case on what occured in the past(which they really don't anyways)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/20/tech/mai n578996.shtml
*snip* One of their first big clients was X10, whose security-camera ads soon began appearing all over the Internet.
"When we found out they weren't paying that bill, we were beyond distraught," recalled Chris Vanderhook. *snip*
The natives call it maize :)
I've never played Meridian59, but I've certainly heard many many stories about it over the years. My "graphical" MMORPG gaming started with UO. (UNIX Muds aside, and bbs DOORS aside) Thats one thing that made me love UO when it started, man.....you would sweat it when you'd leave certain towns, because if you got jacked-up, you were losing everything you had. But then its a simple matter of rounding up the posse and getting some revenge....when it was open ended, it was more dynamic and fun. Too many games have "pussy-fied" PvP since then...DaoC had a good idea with the frontier-lands for battle, the problem there being, if you are in a large raid, your system will puke on all the polygons it has to render, while juggling CPU resources with network packets, audio, alot of stuff... :p
Great post, I believe you accurately summarized a good 200 or so slashdot readers' minds on Wednesday September 17, @02:11PM
Exactly. Since when are ISPs required to maintain any logs or files for RIAA/MPAA....are they paying the ISPs for this service?
In other news fire is hot to touch.
I agree that the "dummy" factor is the main culprit....but then I have to give them some slack here as well...they are buying something, the domain name, and since it's all "official" and on the internet, and they "own" the domain name now, they feel obligied to answer, it's assumed on their part,
And as Benny Hill said, "Never assume...."
oooooofffff....curry and lager? My stomach is quivering just thinking about that combo.. :D
Yeah I've seen plenty of bogus contact info, except for the email address maybe, in whois records. Any domain setups that I've done allows you free reign to type in anything you like. I think most people don't realize that
Now, why would SCO germany pay, if they have SUCH a solid case??
Side Note: Babelfish is aptly named, the translations are usually Babble
Take that offer while you still can, Mr. McBride. So far your so-called ?evidence? is crap; you'd better climb down off your high horse before we shoot that sucker entirely out from under you. How you finish the contract fight you picked with IBM is your problem. As the president of OSI, defending the community of open-source hackers against predators and carpetbaggers is mine ? and if you don't stop trying to destroy Linux and everything else we've worked for I guarantee you won't like what our alliance is cooking up next.
This guy is all over the place, from humor to near, on the fence, threats....but someone has to give McBride some "tough love" and tell it like it is, for his and everyones own good. Ideally this would suffice but I sincerely doubt it will get through the thick skulls over at SCO.
Hell of a read though.
The point being, at an ATM you would be required to look directly at the camera where the machine could get a relatively "straight-on" scan of your face. That would be immensely better than how they were trying to use it
Why would you use each others ATM card? Seperate accounts?
At an ATM it can/could work very well, when you're walking down the street, in motion with your head at various angls, no wonder it doesn't work. As far as PC's go thumb would probably be more likely
Depends.....they changed it in later runs of the cart.....I still have a Hitler boss version, my friends and I were all freaking when we first beat the game, we couldn't believe they would use that likeness
hehe, right you are! Thanks!
In light of your comment, I agree that many don't actually read the licenses, but feel they have a "well-enough" understanding of what it/they mean, thusly a new acronym.......*drum roll*
RTFL = Read the Fucking License
Nyaaaa-haaa-haaa! *SCO curls mustache between index finger and thumb*
Remove????? Nawwwwwwwww, they expect the offending code to be paid for! That is the key here, PAID for! Leave it in, just pay SCO their due. *cough*
That is one point of that whole investigation that drove me nuts! They kept emphasizing the "white van" in press conferences and media. The Snipers probably said..."hey, let's use this...." and when they were waiting for a victim, they could have also waited for a white van to be near the victim, POW! "I saw the white van, i saw the white van!!" Perpetuating the myth.
Does everyone who uses Linux need a SCO UNIX IP License for Linux?
End users running Linux 2.4 or later versions for commercial purposes need a SCO IP license.
How in the hell can they say and do this when there hasn't been a case/judgement/ruling? They are truly pulling this right out of their asses, which brings me back to the Subject line of this post. :)
And they appear to only be attacking the commercial users so far.....
Why?
Since none of the functions in your code actually RETURN anything it defeats the point of carrying out the functions in the first place.
Thus "PROFIT!" will never be attained.....
But as far a IT goes, MS advisories are one of the few things you can count on.
wonder how they (DoHS) are feeling about their OS investment already? :)
So you write for the onion? Must be a cool job!