Why wasn't Quake3 released in a GPL license with a tip-jar http address?
Hmmm....
Why are there next-to-no decent GPL'd games(i.e. artistic software) of ANY sort?
Hmmm....
Because if really smart people who like to make games aren't paid a lot of money then they're going to turn into really smart people who design ERP programs for financial institutions. End result is they still get the money but we get no games.
So maybe in the post-copyright era all the ad jingles will kick ass and the Gap commercials will feature better bullet-dancing sequencies then the Matrix, but we the "art"-loving public will suffer.
Do some research into how badly destroyed the HK movie industry has been by the rampant piracy in HK/China.
Piracy(yes, PIRACY, not "sharing" not "trading") is not an artists friend.
I like MesaGL right now. Esp. the pre-3.3 Mesa in Soldier of Fortune. I can see through doors and some walls;) great help in on-line gaming...
I could fix this by upgrading, but why would i?
I'm not certain that I'm replying to what you're really talking about; however DVD's and MPEG-2 and AC-3 have about a million patents and licenses that go along with them. CSS is really a small part.
To implement and distribute a player that incorporated all those technologies without paying for licenses and/or patents would be illegal.
One of the benefits of using hardware decoding is that the hardware vendor who developed the video card(ATI, etc) already payed the licensing fees. Of course you still have to promise your first born child to get AC-3...
The royalties not only go to Canadian artists on Canadian labels, but they base the amount of money that goes to each artist based on radio airplay. i.e. SOCAN
which means you're paying money to Celine Dion and Brian Adams. The "big" Canadian artists who need the money the least.
Think Application Service Provider. Think leasing software rather than owning it. Think thin client. think Smart Server. Think new revenue models. think thank you linux community for writing our software for us, now pardon me while we screw you up the ass and use your code.
i think there are many reasons to keep sources closed even if there's no copyright. wtout copyright the gpl is dead. without the gpl then every opensource programmer is working for microsoft.
This couldn't be more wrong. If there were no copyright, then there would only be two types of source code:
You are correct. However you can make the distinction between free speach and free beer.
The original poster and his pals(which apparently consist of the entire population of the internet) will argue that you are incorrect, because if there was no copyright then copying/trading software would be everywhere and they'd never have to pay for a copy of 3DSMAX again. (or spend all their time on irc trying to find a decent cracked version).
Ergo, the GPL would not be needed, since they wouldn't care if MS used some GPL code in windows, since windows would be free-to-download.
The theory that often goes along with your comment is something along the lines of "and they can sell T-Shirts and support themselves doing that.".
Otherwise known as the T-Shirt Event Horizon. This is the mythical calculation of how many T-Shirts one must sell on a constant basis to support oneself.
John Carmack can now give away Doom 3 free for all, safe in the knowledge that T-Shirt sales will easily cover all developement costs and pay for his car insurance.
All webmasters, perl monkeys and sys admin can work for free, and sell T-Shirts to delighted customers who want to show off to their friends their dediction to the hacker ethics.
MIT will grant free tuition to all who wish to enter, keeping their Multimedia Labs afloat in clothing sales to the hip ravers and skater kids.
Some of us live in the real world. Would you care to join us?
p.s. if making music is so easy, where can we download your mp3s?
Mp3's and music piracy are one thing, but I cannot for the life of me understand why Napster is this Golden Boy of the slashdot community.
Napster is a closed-source, COMMERCIAL company that hopes to PROFIT from music piracy. Napster is not about a "new model of music distrubution", it's about piracy. In fact, if all music was free and downloadable then Napster would go out of business and all the VC would lose their money.
If you could download artists music in mp3 format straight from their web sites then Napster would be obsolete and wither away and die. Napster survives because it offers a friendly way to obtain otherwise difficult to find illegal data.
The link between piracy and the free-software community is a blight and an abommination. If you create the data then YOU decide on the license, if you don't like the license then DON't BUY OR DOWNLOAD THE DATA.
My Texan friends use a term called "kickbangers". They're robbers who kick down the door and start shooting, on the assumption that the homeowners have guns and will shoot them if they(the thieves) don't shoot first.
Now, I'm just a canadian so they may just tell me all these stories to scare and hype the dangerousness of their wild wild west lives. but they also have shotguns in their trucks, so they may be telling the truth.
I don't think robbers fear people who have guns at home, because if it becomes wide spread they'll just shoot you then rob you, as opposed to just robbing you.
but...this was originally a thread about privacy, not gun control.
Easily. Send up some colonists/scientists and a television crew and sell the TV rights. You think Survivor is kicking in the ratings? Try Survivors on Mars! Of course then we'd have to weed out the ugly astronauts...
Some people enjoy the game, which is disturbing. But even scarier Diakatana has this strange affect on a small, rabidly-loyal group of gamers. These are people who have been playing the old demo for over a year and write up hideously long and ugly fan pages for each other about how elite they are how the new demo/game isn't as good as the old, yadda yadda yadda. They all worship Romero as a god and curse the demon Carmack. very odd.
It's very much like the Amiga syndrome. i.e. the Amiga addicts who to this day will insist their 68040 amigas out-perform a P3 and that Zorro slots are better than PCI, and that Dave Hayne will one day lead the army of Rightenous against the Wicked....
I don't know if there's an official name for this type of behavior but I propose "Amiga Syndrome".
Well, how many times have you done it? I'm not accusing you of downloading illegal mp3's but if you have then how many cheques have you written? I hear a lot of people make this and that arguement about micro-payments and new distrubution models of mp3's; but how many have every found an address and written a cheque?
If.1% of people actually did then pirating mp3's would be a non-issue. Artists would see the money rolling in and record companies would go the way of the dodo's.
Honesty is not exactly a survival trait these days.
> Firewire, aka IEEE 1394, is hardly >dead. Pretty much all HDTV/DTV systems use it to >communicate between receivers and >decoders. It's just not used a lot on PCs is all.
Um...HDTV is deader than firewire. And saying "pretty much all" basically means "the two or three units sold".
>>I can't choose! The "firewall" is Linux because my provider has moved from DHCP to PPPoE... heh heh of the 3 Linux has more apps available more active development on new technologies like PPPoE (followed very closely by FreeBSD).
I'm assuming you mean Sympatico ADSL. Actually, they never bothered to turn off DHCP - I still run my BeOS and Linux boxes straight DHCP - I intend to use the SuSE box as a firewall gateway when they turn it off, but so far that need hasn't arrived.
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For a really cool, color laser 3D scanner check out Arius3D.
Probably very pricey, but they showed off some stuff at SIGGRAPH.
Why wasn't Quake3 released in a GPL license with a tip-jar http address?
Hmmm....
Why are there next-to-no decent GPL'd games(i.e. artistic software) of ANY sort?
Hmmm....
Because if really smart people who like to make games aren't paid a lot of money then they're going to turn into really smart people who design ERP programs for financial institutions. End result is they still get the money but we get no games.
So maybe in the post-copyright era all the ad jingles will kick ass and the Gap commercials will feature better bullet-dancing sequencies then the Matrix, but we the "art"-loving public will suffer.
Do some research into how badly destroyed the HK movie industry has been by the rampant piracy in HK/China.
Piracy(yes, PIRACY, not "sharing" not "trading") is not an artists friend.
What is DVI?
is it the 1.5Gb HDTV serial interface or is it a firewire like connection?
I like MesaGL right now. Esp. the pre-3.3 Mesa in Soldier of Fortune. I can see through doors and some walls ;) great help in on-line gaming...
I could fix this by upgrading, but why would i?
Ern...wrong.
I'm not certain that I'm replying to what you're really talking about; however DVD's and MPEG-2 and AC-3 have about a million patents and licenses that go along with them. CSS is really a small part.
To implement and distribute a player that incorporated all those technologies without paying for licenses and/or patents would be illegal.
One of the benefits of using hardware decoding is that the hardware vendor who developed the video card(ATI, etc) already payed the licensing fees. Of course you still have to promise your first born child to get AC-3...
excuse me waiter, could i have a reality cheque please?
thanks...
Hacktivism?
You think by defacing their web sites you're going to change anything? I think you're the exact problem that the Suck article was trying to address...
real world...make-believe...law suits....hacktivism....
It gets worse.
The royalties not only go to Canadian artists on Canadian labels, but they base the amount of money that goes to each artist based on radio airplay. i.e. SOCAN
which means you're paying money to Celine Dion and Brian Adams. The "big" Canadian artists who need the money the least.
Think Application Service Provider. Think leasing software rather than owning it. Think thin client. think Smart Server. Think new revenue models. think thank you linux community for writing our software for us, now pardon me while we screw you up the ass and use your code.
i think there are many reasons to keep sources closed even if there's no copyright. wtout copyright the gpl is dead. without the gpl then every opensource programmer is working for microsoft.
This couldn't be more wrong. If there were no copyright, then there would only be two types of source code:
You are correct. However you can make the distinction between free speach and free beer.
The original poster and his pals(which apparently consist of the entire population of the internet) will argue that you are incorrect, because if there was no copyright then copying/trading software would be everywhere and they'd never have to pay for a copy of 3DSMAX again. (or spend all their time on irc trying to find a decent cracked version).
Ergo, the GPL would not be needed, since they wouldn't care if MS used some GPL code in windows, since windows would be free-to-download.
The theory that often goes along with your comment is something along the lines of "and they can sell T-Shirts and support themselves doing that.".
Otherwise known as the T-Shirt Event Horizon. This is the mythical calculation of how many T-Shirts one must sell on a constant basis to support oneself.
John Carmack can now give away Doom 3 free for all, safe in the knowledge that T-Shirt sales will easily cover all developement costs and pay for his car insurance.
All webmasters, perl monkeys and sys admin can work for free, and sell T-Shirts to delighted customers who want to show off to their friends their dediction to the hacker ethics.
MIT will grant free tuition to all who wish to enter, keeping their Multimedia Labs afloat in clothing sales to the hip ravers and skater kids.
Some of us live in the real world. Would you care to join us?
p.s. if making music is so easy, where can we download your mp3s?
Mp3's and music piracy are one thing, but I cannot for the life of me understand why Napster is this Golden Boy of the slashdot community.
Napster is a closed-source, COMMERCIAL company that hopes to PROFIT from music piracy. Napster is not about a "new model of music distrubution", it's about piracy. In fact, if all music was free and downloadable then Napster would go out of business and all the VC would lose their money.
If you could download artists music in mp3 format straight from their web sites then Napster would be obsolete and wither away and die. Napster survives because it offers a friendly way to obtain otherwise difficult to find illegal data.
The link between piracy and the free-software community is a blight and an abommination. If you create the data then YOU decide on the license, if you don't like the license then DON't BUY OR DOWNLOAD THE DATA.
My Texan friends use a term called "kickbangers". They're robbers who kick down the door and start shooting, on the assumption that the homeowners have guns and will shoot them if they(the thieves) don't shoot first.
Now, I'm just a canadian so they may just tell me all these stories to scare and hype the dangerousness of their wild wild west lives. but they also have shotguns in their trucks, so they may be telling the truth.
I don't think robbers fear people who have guns at home, because if it becomes wide spread they'll just shoot you then rob you, as opposed to just robbing you.
but...this was originally a thread about privacy, not gun control.
Easily. Send up some colonists/scientists and a television crew and sell the TV rights. You think Survivor is kicking in the ratings? Try Survivors on Mars! Of course then we'd have to weed out the ugly astronauts...
Has anyone been able to get flash to work(or any other plugins I guess)? Is it just me, will the old Flash 4 plugins work with Mozilla?
arg.
If a company wants to use your code internally and not publically distribute it, how can you "force" them to give you the updates?
Hired goons? Hidden cameras? On-site audits?
It was probably made by an actual Diakatana fan.
Some people enjoy the game, which is disturbing. But even scarier Diakatana has this strange affect on a small, rabidly-loyal group of gamers. These are people who have been playing the old demo for over a year and write up hideously long and ugly fan pages for each other about how elite they are how the new demo/game isn't as good as the old, yadda yadda yadda. They all worship Romero as a god and curse the demon Carmack.
very odd.
It's very much like the Amiga syndrome. i.e. the Amiga addicts who to this day will insist their 68040 amigas out-perform a P3 and that Zorro slots are better than PCI, and that Dave Hayne will one day lead the army of Rightenous against the Wicked....
I don't know if there's an official name for this type of behavior but I propose "Amiga Syndrome".
Remind me to buy more stuff from Loki, they truly kick ass. Plus they've probably done more to increase the Linux userbase than Redhat.
Well, how many times have you done it? I'm not accusing you of downloading illegal mp3's but if you have then how many cheques have you written? I hear a lot of people make this and that arguement about micro-payments and new distrubution models of mp3's; but how many have every found an address and written a cheque?
.1% of people actually did then pirating mp3's would be a non-issue. Artists would see the money rolling in and record companies would go the way of the dodo's.
If
Honesty is not exactly a survival trait these days.
> Firewire, aka IEEE 1394, is hardly >dead. Pretty much all HDTV/DTV systems use it to >communicate between receivers and
>decoders. It's just not used a lot on PCs is all.
Um...HDTV is deader than firewire. And saying "pretty much all" basically means "the two or three units sold".
Not to insult The Viewer or anything....
One good thing came out of all this DVD gestapo crap - it woke up the grumpy old man inside of me and I finally went out and joined the EFF.
>>I can't choose! ... heh heh of the 3 Linux has more apps available more active development on new technologies like PPPoE (followed very closely by FreeBSD).
The "firewall" is Linux because my provider has moved from DHCP to PPPoE
I'm assuming you mean Sympatico ADSL. Actually, they never bothered to turn off DHCP - I still run my BeOS and Linux boxes straight DHCP - I intend to use the SuSE box as a firewall gateway when they turn it off, but so far that need hasn't arrived.
I shudder to think what Apple's Marketing department would do with those numbers.
"Don't take our word for how fast an iBook is. The new 300MHz G3 iBook's are over 66% faster than a 400MHz Alpha using Linus Torvalds own benchmarks!"
See, if Apple weren't so much fun to abuse no one would do it.
038-549-53-15 is the ASIN for The Code Book : The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
047-111-70-99-24 is the ASIN for Applied Cryptography : Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
the rest of the numbers in the series may be word or page numbers from those books. Hopefully not since the only book I own is Cryptonomicon.
Maybe the rest of the numbers refer to something in the web page for each book on Amazon.com?