This is par for Sony products in the last few years. From my Diskman's broken battery cover, to my DVD player with burned out lights, to my 1 year old TV thats been in the shop twice... They used to be the #1 brand for quality consumer electronics but now, sadly, I think of them along with Goldstar or HiVal..02
I've been around and working with software under the GPL license for almost 10 years now. I've seen some very good things come out of it, and in the past I have been a strong supporter of the GPL, I still am to a great extent, well the spirit of the GPL at any rate. For without this great license, it is very doubtful that Id would have made their (in)famous release of the code that most of our work is based upon. In the past months I've had a great deal of problems with the GPL people regarding the QuakeLives project. I am very sad to say that my experiences with these people show that the GPL community as a whole has completely forgotten what they set out to do in the first place, people coming and expecting source codes and explanations and other favors because they believe they have a right to it, not because they wish to use this code to improve it, or use it for their own works, but simply because they wanted it. Out of everyone who ever asked me for the code, everyone demanded it saying it's his or her god-given right to the code. Not a single person said they wanted it for fixing up the numerous bugs, or adding to it, or anything that the GPL is supposed to stand for. So, disappointed with what the community has become, I've decided to take a stand, not for the purpose of avoiding the GPL(most of our sensitive code is not under the GPL so this would not be important at any rate), but to improve the condition of the GPL community as well as the gaming society as a whole. People who speak to us, do it publicly and have their own public intentions and not the benefit to the public(the P in GPL is public) as a whole. And even one of the head coders of Id Software suggested obfuscating the code before releasing to aid in making it difficult to figure out. This defies the real purpose of the GPL as well. So the basic limitation here is the legal letters of the law, where obfuscating the code is 'legal' according to the letter of the law. It completely violates the purposes of the GPL. The legal issues, however, are easily overcome.
You do have a right to the source code, under the GPL. This is law. However much like the Constitutional American "Right to Bear Arms". I have the right to deny you access for exercising this right. While you can bear a concealed handgun, you are not allowed to bring it on a public bus, or many places of business. The signs usually say something like 'No firearms beyond this point'. Which is basically making people to give up their Constitutional rights to bear arms. The rules here will be similar.
To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL. Specifically the rights regarding access to the source code. And while we are obligated to offer you the source code, for up to 3 years until we stop releasing this. To gain access to this site, you are obligated not to ask.
Please note that you have no right to access the binaries, source code or artwork ("Content") produced by QuakeLives or the content herein without specifically agreeing to this. Any other access is illegal. And being as the GPL only regulates HOW we distribute, it does not regulate WHO we distribute to, if you do not agree to this, QuakeLives does not give you permission to access the Content of this site, hence, you legally are not allowed access to these files and doing so is punishable by law.
Also note that you are still allowed to distribute the works within freely, but please be aware that software contained herein is still under the GPL and you personally will be responsible for the licensing restrictions of the GPL. So I strongly suggest that you have people you send to agree to similar terms.
For all those who really don't care about this and just want the game so they can play, I apologize for the delay this has caused.
Am I the only one who cant stand to listen to RealPlayer's audio? That metallic quantinization noise is horrible. Mp3 does a much nicer job of hiding the bad stuff.
...or NeXT, or BSD, or anything else...Just Win98 and a pro-linux attitude.
It might be just me but I have been running into too many pro-linux types who and run around preeching the benifits of Linux and have never, and prolly will never use it.
There are a lot of crackers in the world with the, "I may be a script kiddie today but I'll be a 'hacker' tomorrow" attitude. To some people it doesn't matter if the l33t hack is against a library or school, only that it is destructive against the evil americans.
[Someday] IPV6 with packet level crypto will thawart most of this crap.
Now to undo the evil you have done. You will have to buy one copy of Q3Linux to neutralize your previous buying decision, and another copy of Q3Linux to cast your vote for the new millinium
Fork bombs will slow things down a great deal, but I've never known them to actually kill the kernel. It will make things crawl though:-)
As soon as the process table for that user fills up, nothing more can spawn (until you start killing of course). I think the process table size per user is something like 1024. You can change this in (I think) limits.h in the kernel source.
I am currently tasked with creating a Lotus Notes call tracking system for our company. I didn't know much about Notes before I climbed onto this sinking ship, but now I would like to share some of the delightful experence with everyone.
#1 Our Lotus reps told us that the bundled product DECS would be ideal for accessing our Sybase data. They neglected to tell us that DECS on Solaris is only capable on retreiving ONE record at a time. Multiple records can only be retreived by using LOTUS ENTERPRISE INTEGRATOR at roughly $8000.00. You can use LSX though, if anyone is familiar with ODBC you'll _love_ LSX.
#2 One of our main exports is to a UNIX box. It wants the connection to be on socket 2010. Of course Lotus told us that LotusScript had the ability to create socket connections. -- So far I've found this is only possible through Lotus Enterprise Interigrator. I've heard there is a way through the Notes Java Interface but after the LIES so far I dont know...
#3 LotusScript, it's IDE and debugger are complete pieces of CRAP!! You can only display one function at a time, the IDE crashes several times per day, LotusScript does not have common things like enumerated data types, or boolean data types, and all error messages are such that unless you have found the error before, you will never guess what the error might be. Things like "Object failed on object:".
#4 The interface is very wierd. As sick as it sounds I have seen soooooo many more intuitive interfaces on UNIX command line programs than in Notes. Things like 'click on the blue diamond to see the properties'. Most of the interface is left over from Windows 3.1. In the programming environment you cant have real doalog boxes. You can only have other forms with the same field names which share the data.
#5 YOU CANT SAVE YOUR CODE UNTIL IT IS DEBUGGED. THIS REALLY SUX WHEN THE IDE CRASHES SEVERAL TIMES PER DAY. Even curly braces{} will cause the danged thing to crash.
#6 Asking for help gets you spammed to hell.
#7 They will license to you company for $50000.00 by next year.
Brokerage houses are largly self regulating. If they are perceived as 'playing fair' by the other brokerages, the other brokerages will continue to trade with them.
One thing they all try to do is keep the newbies at the shallow end of the pool. Since so many new traders consider themselves experts, they do the screening by asking a few questions that any experienced trader should pick up on. These are often questions like the ones you saw, or questions about the number of trades you've made this year, etc. It's like school. Its easier to answer the questions when you know why they are being asked.
The last thing they want is to get the reputation of selling heating-oil futures to the senile.
When I was searching around for setup information for my Toshiba laptop I remember seeing some postings that the hardware people at Toshiba were not opposed to sharing info with free software developers, but the fact was almost all of their hardware documentation was in Japanese.
BTW, Except for setting up X, installing Redhat6 on my Toshiba Satellite was absolutely painless.
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This is par for Sony products in the last few years. From my Diskman's broken battery cover, to my DVD player with burned out lights, to my 1 year old TV thats been in the shop twice... They used to be the #1 brand for quality consumer electronics but now, sadly, I think of them along with Goldstar or HiVal. .02
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I've been around and working with software under the GPL license for almost 10 years now. I've seen
some very good things come out of it, and in the past I have been a strong supporter of the GPL, I still am to a great extent, well the spirit of the GPL at any rate. For without this great license, it is very doubtful that Id would have made their (in)famous release of the code that most of our work is based upon. In the past months I've had a great deal of problems with the GPL people regarding the QuakeLives project. I am very sad to say that my experiences with these people show that the GPL community as a whole has completely forgotten what they set out to do in the first place, people coming and expecting source codes and explanations and other favors because they believe they have a right to it, not because they wish to use this code to improve it, or use it for their own works, but simply because they wanted it. Out of everyone who ever asked me for the code, everyone demanded it saying it's his or her god-given right to the code. Not a single person said they wanted it for fixing up the numerous bugs, or adding to it, or anything that the GPL is supposed to stand for. So, disappointed with what the community has become, I've decided to take a stand, not for the purpose of avoiding the GPL(most of our sensitive code is not under the GPL so this would not be important at any rate), but to improve the condition of the GPL community as well as the gaming society as a whole. People who speak to us, do it publicly and have their own public intentions and not the benefit to the public(the P in GPL is public) as a whole. And even one of the head coders of Id Software suggested obfuscating the code before releasing to aid in making it difficult to figure out. This defies the real purpose of the GPL as well. So the basic limitation here is the legal letters of the law, where obfuscating the code is 'legal' according to the letter of the law. It completely violates the purposes of the GPL. The legal issues, however, are easily overcome.
You do have a right to the source code, under the GPL. This is law. However much like the Constitutional American "Right to Bear Arms". I have the right to deny you access for exercising this right. While you can bear a concealed handgun, you are not allowed to bring it on a public bus, or many places of business. The signs usually say something like 'No firearms beyond this point'. Which is basically making people to
give up their Constitutional rights to bear arms.
The rules here will be similar.
To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL.
Specifically the rights regarding access to the source code. And while we are obligated to offer you the source code, for up to 3 years until we stop releasing this. To gain access to this site, you are obligated not to ask.
Please note that you have no right to access the binaries, source code or artwork ("Content") produced by QuakeLives or the content herein without specifically agreeing to this. Any other access is illegal. And being as the GPL only regulates HOW we distribute, it does not regulate WHO we distribute to, if you do not agree to this, QuakeLives does not give you permission to access the Content of this site, hence, you legally are not allowed access to these files and doing so is punishable by law.
Also note that you are still allowed to distribute the works within freely, but please be aware that software contained herein is still under the GPL and you personally will be responsible for the licensing restrictions of the GPL. So I strongly suggest that you have people you send to agree to similar terms.
For all those who really don't care about this and just want the game so they can play, I apologize for the delay this has caused.
-- Slade
Am I the only one who cant stand to listen to RealPlayer's audio? That metallic quantinization noise is horrible. Mp3 does a much nicer job of hiding the bad stuff.
...or NeXT, or BSD, or anything else...Just Win98 and a pro-linux attitude.
It might be just me but I have been running into too many pro-linux types who and run around preeching the benifits of Linux and have never, and prolly will never use it.
There are a lot of crackers in the world with the, "I may be a script kiddie today but I'll be a 'hacker' tomorrow" attitude. To some people it doesn't matter if the l33t hack is against a library or school, only that it is destructive against the evil americans.
[Someday] IPV6 with packet level crypto will thawart most of this crap.
Now to undo the evil you have done. You will have to buy one copy of Q3Linux to neutralize your previous buying decision, and another copy of Q3Linux to cast your vote for the new millinium
If you have above-average intelligence, you'll have the common sense to make correct answers for the rest of the test.
No, I've never had voilent thoughts.
No, I love school and all of my classmates.
Yes, everything about my family is good.
I think the real lesson in school is to learn to play ball with idiots.
Here here! I just used my Cybertool to repair my Palm III. They have all sizes of screwdrivers including torx-tip. This was a very cool present.
While doing some Y2K work yeasterday, I ran across this little gem in a CA-IDEAL (Cobol style) program written in 1995.
SET W-TIME = $TIME('HHMMSS')
SET W-DATE = $DATE('YYMMDD')
SET W-TODAYS-DATE = $STRING("19",W-DATE)
Notice adding the string 19 to the 2 digit year to determine todays date. There was no other windowing logic. Ugly ugly ugly.
-Scott__
Fork bombs will slow things down a great deal, but I've never known them to actually kill the kernel. It will make things crawl though :-)
As soon as the process table for that user fills up, nothing more can spawn (until you start killing of course). I think the process table size per user is something like 1024. You can change this in (I think) limits.h in the kernel source.
-scott__
And how about rounding off PI to a nice even three?
:-)
--Scott
I am currently tasked with creating a Lotus Notes call tracking system for our company. I didn't know much about Notes before I climbed onto this sinking ship, but now I would like to share some of the delightful experence with everyone.
#1 Our Lotus reps told us that the bundled product DECS would be ideal for accessing our Sybase data. They neglected to tell us that DECS on Solaris is only capable on retreiving ONE record at a time. Multiple records can only be retreived by using LOTUS ENTERPRISE INTEGRATOR at roughly $8000.00. You can use LSX though, if anyone is familiar with ODBC you'll _love_ LSX.
#2 One of our main exports is to a UNIX box. It wants the connection to be on socket 2010. Of course Lotus told us that LotusScript had the ability to create socket connections. -- So far I've found this is only possible through Lotus Enterprise Interigrator. I've heard there is a way through the Notes Java Interface but after the LIES so far I dont know...
#3 LotusScript, it's IDE and debugger are complete pieces of CRAP!! You can only display one function at a time, the IDE crashes several times per day, LotusScript does not have common things like enumerated data types, or boolean data types, and all error messages are such that unless you have found the error before, you will never guess what the error might be. Things like "Object failed on object:".
#4 The interface is very wierd. As sick as it sounds I have seen soooooo many more intuitive interfaces on UNIX command line programs than in Notes. Things like 'click on the blue diamond to see the properties'. Most of the interface is left over from Windows 3.1. In the programming environment you cant have real doalog boxes. You can only have other forms with the same field names which share the data.
#5 YOU CANT SAVE YOUR CODE UNTIL IT IS DEBUGGED. THIS REALLY SUX WHEN THE IDE CRASHES SEVERAL TIMES PER DAY. Even curly braces{} will cause the danged thing to crash.
#6 Asking for help gets you spammed to hell.
#7 They will license to you company for $50000.00 by next year.
#8 They are sleazy.
#9 It's a flat-file database.
#10 They are sleazy.
-Love scott__
Remember, Windows was 16 bit for years running on Intel's 32-bit hardware.
The main reason mp3 is doing so well is its small size.
I imagine that within the next 5 years the average connection speed will be fast enough to stream full 16 bit PCM without compression.
The music business _will_ have to change their business model. It's 1910 and Henry Ford just rolled into your buggy dealership in a Model T.
-scott__
Brokerage houses are largly self regulating. If they are perceived as 'playing fair' by the other brokerages, the other brokerages will continue to trade with them.
One thing they all try to do is keep the newbies at the shallow end of the pool. Since so many new traders consider themselves experts, they do the screening by asking a few questions that any experienced trader should pick up on. These are often questions like the ones you saw, or questions about the number of trades you've made this year, etc. It's like school. Its easier to answer the questions when you know why they are being asked.
The last thing they want is to get the reputation of selling heating-oil futures to the senile.
$0.02
-Scott__
So maybe with 16 or so of these babys I could run PVM, and then hack floppy RAID support.....
When I was searching around for setup information for my Toshiba laptop I remember seeing some postings that the hardware people at Toshiba were not opposed to sharing info with free software developers, but the fact was almost all of their hardware documentation was in Japanese.
BTW, Except for setting up X, installing Redhat6 on my Toshiba Satellite was absolutely painless.