Given the current trend any game that id Software releases after July 2024, a mere 20 years from this very month, will require a processor which won't even exist in consumer hardware: the 1.4 terahertz processor. It is unclear at this time how id Software plans to cope with this looming crisis, but signs currently point to a voyage to other planets in search of a civilization with sufficiently advanced technology
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Well it is not you, the distributor, who are restricting the use of the source under the GPL, it is patent law. Patent law applies generally not just to you, but to all.
I see it like this, by law it is forbidden to print out xemacs source code(its GPL isnt it?) to a telephone book sized book, whack someone over the head with it and kill him, but you are not required to write this into the license, you can still distribute under the GPL.
(;-) maybe in some states of the USA, you actually need such a disclaimer)
Seriously, why play brain-pool for BillGee and give him any potentially good ideas ?
Of course MS could sell linux software too, but no camp will be enthusiastic about it. We want to see a battle, not a process of assimilation(literally). Woot! fight
I don't believe that a patent can make releasing source illegal, and I'll offer arguments why:
First off, the patent owner had to publish information to the patent office which describes the patent. As your source code is not a product, but just a description of one, it should be legal.
Second you are allowed to do research using others patents, you are just not allowed to sell a product based on the patent. So there is at least one instance where you are allowed to distribute under the GPL, so your release is a valid GPL release.
Third, AFAIK you are allowed to use patentented stuff for research (on it). I wonder whether distributing something for free would be allowed - since you can always claim you are releasing it for people doing research. And since every user has the source, he can do "research". You probably would be forbidden to release binaries though.
This would place the burden on distributors that they may not charge (much) for the distribution, but they do not need to change the license since the burden is placed on them automatically by patent law.
I realize you would have to jump through some legal hoops to actually make use of your rights, but I believe your step from patent illegal => GPL illegal is wrong. At the worst, you still receive rights to the source under the GPL, you just may not exercise them because of other laws(patent).
Patent is a IP. Copyright is a IP. But not: Patent=>Copyright.
Immunization against opiates is very dangerous, since the immune system is at its core a diversity generator, that is, it is random. Drugs and opiates are very similar, that is why they work, so the immune system might react against your own biological signals.
You are almost assured to get some people as a result of the immunization who will be unable to feel joy, and who will learn badly.
I believe you should refuse this treatment for your child unless you have several examples in your family that show a tendancy to abuse drugs. Or unless you live in a really really bad neighborhood and cannot move.
Hi. I'm Rick Woo from Singapore. Thanks to neural interface technology I can work from home now. From my bed. You see I move this small garbage cleaning car all over Singapore.
It's more fun than doing it with a broom and I'm totally immersed the whole day. I even dream of it. I do the work that 60 people would have done. Some of them are in reeducation camps now. But I digress.
"For example, viewers who watch the commercial may be entered in a prize drawing..."
Maybe they mean an automated method. This means MS has patented an idea no one has come up with yet because it is stupid. Its stupid because you don't know whether people are really watching. Applying the technology is similar to the dot com bubble, where people were told they could earn money by surfing.
Thus, I'll have a whole rack of webTVs in my basement running continously so that I'll get entered into all these profitable prize drawings;-)
Well, you can easily fix my objections if you make people click buttons in reaction to the commercial. Might even be entertaining for a while.
You can't patent stupidity, only an implementation of it.
It resembles WarCraft and StarCraft, both are Blizzards investments.
Someone wanted to play StarCraft with Stratagus; Stratagus can be used for any strategy game, but for StarCraft this would require configuring stratagus by scripting and probably also coding new features into stratagus. And graphics.
Personally, I looked at stratagus' scripting and it just scared me stiff;-)
Why do people always have to create their own metaserver ? They could cooperative with another project, maybe ggz and build one source to rule them all.
But you never see the matter actually hit the event horizon!
I've been saying that line before on slashdot - but that does not cover it all, another/. poster(Mike Lynn) has a more sophisticated idea: What happens during black hole formation - you basically have some sun, which collapses, and suddenly some part of it will find itself actually inside the event horizon. However, I think Hawkings math suggests that the black hole/its event horizon isn't a perfect sphere - it preserves information by moving and jiggling a bit, like lots of overlapping bubbles.
You could still have a parallel universe inside the black hole, which maybe would be temporary and evaporate, but it would be connected to ours. Actually thats a good thing, since what would you have parallel universes for if they didnt connect to ours ?
Mod. parent Insightful, not parents parent and.. don't mod me redundant,troll;-) Here is why:
Saying that the punishment of cancelling your subscription is in line with the GPL is like saying that "it is legal to have sex with minors, you just have to go to jail for it".
So it's not in line with the GPL if you are being punished for using the rights granted to you under the GPL.
Still I see from that forum that there are two issues mixed here: IMHNLO, the guy posting the binary is in violation of the GPL, and Sveasoft too. Both should know better, but especially Sveasoft, since they are not joe random internet user but professionals.
To argue further, the guy posting the binary needs to post source as well, or he has to remove the binary. He could either get the source by being having legitimately acquired the binary from sveasoft, then he would have to sue Sveasoft for the source code, or, less hassle, he could just subscribe to Sveasoft for a new version of the binary, download the matching source, then distribute it. Then he could distribute source and binary.
The following should be a minor issue: If Sveasoft kicks him from his software channel subscription then for distributing, he could sue Sveasoft for money back because Sveasoft pulled its service without a legit reason. They have no legitimate reason because they declare in contradiction both that they honour the GPL, but that they pull their service if you use your rights.
Now, to counter further arguments, I can imagine that a business indeed has the right to refuse doing business with you for whatever reason, but not if the reason is a right or service that you have acquired in a deal.
There once was a people in India named the Gupta, so someone named Gupta is a bit like one named Johnny English, or Julius Tiberius Franke(=Franks, see below).
Came across it in a boardgame named empire, but you can find proof
I actually read the above link and I'm not sure that the people referred to themselves as "the Gupta", maybe it was just the name of the King.
The first King I saw with the name is Chandragupta Maurya, whose empire is referred to as the Mauryan empire, which is followed by the Gupta Era.
What are laws good for if the universe doesn't obey them ?
So personally I think the information is still somewhere, though I don't think in any useful, accesible or detectable form. I have this quasi-religious belief that the universe keeps track of everything.
Also, if a quantum entangled pair of atomic or subatomic particles gets divided by the appearance of the hole, there is still a connection between them. I guess that would be a rare event though and only happen during black hole formation, and it would be really unlikely to stay unchanged and unobserved.
I would have read the NYT article, but it seems/.ed and I didn't fint it witg google cache.
Readability is why the Rosetta Disk is created such that it can be read by good microscopes.
There is still the problem that it uses our current language and characters, so you need to know at least one language to figure it out.
I think creating an abstract communication bootstrap procedure would be fun, if you want to start such a project, please reply or email me at d31337(di4g@ch33rful.c0m)(or see homepage).
Actually, it did. The reload animation gets played when the number of bullets remaining reaches a multiple of 12. (And the number of bullets is listed on the HUD.)
And the Grenade launcher needs to get reloaded when the number of Grenades drops to a prime number.
Seriously, might be a good way to teach math to kids. Or horses.
I wonder whether one shouldn't actually prefer that the guys a the switch in a Minuteman silo behave like human beings.
After all, some might refuse to launch rockets. I realize their refusal is a bad thing when the enemy can bet on their refusal, but the guys who refuse might just be the same ones that are supposed to refuse a launch when they receive an unorthodox launch request.
So, like in statistics, you have to balance type-I errors(failure to do) with type-II errors (failure to refuse)
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Given the current trend any game that id Software releases after July 2024, a mere 20 years from this very month, will require a processor which won't even exist in consumer hardware: the 1.4 terahertz processor. It is unclear at this time how id Software plans to cope with this looming crisis, but signs currently point to a voyage to other planets in search of a civilization with sufficiently advanced technology 1o1
Well it is not you, the distributor, who are restricting the use of the source under the GPL, it is patent law. Patent law applies generally not just to you, but to all.
;-) maybe in some states of the USA, you actually need such a disclaimer)
I see it like this, by law it is forbidden to print out xemacs source code(its GPL isnt it?) to a telephone book sized book, whack someone over the head with it and kill him, but you are not required to write this into the license, you can still distribute under the GPL.
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Seriously, why play brain-pool for BillGee and give him any potentially good ideas ?
Of course MS could sell linux software too, but no camp will be enthusiastic about it. We want to see a battle, not a process of assimilation(literally). Woot! fight
I don't believe that a patent can make releasing source illegal, and I'll offer arguments why:
First off, the patent owner had to publish information to the patent office which describes the patent. As your source code is not a product, but just a description of one, it should be legal.
Second you are allowed to do research using others patents, you are just not allowed to sell a product based on the patent. So there is at least one instance where you are allowed to distribute under the GPL, so your release is a valid GPL release.
Third, AFAIK you are allowed to use patentented stuff for research (on it). I wonder whether distributing something for free would be allowed - since you can always claim you are releasing it for people doing research. And since every user has the source, he can do "research". You probably would be forbidden to release binaries though.
This would place the burden on distributors that they may not charge (much) for the distribution, but they do not need to change the license since the burden is placed on them automatically by patent law.
I realize you would have to jump through some legal hoops to actually make use of your rights, but I believe your step from patent illegal => GPL illegal is wrong. At the worst, you still receive rights to the source under the GPL, you just may not exercise them because of other laws(patent).
Patent is a IP. Copyright is a IP.
But not: Patent=>Copyright.
Immunization against opiates is very dangerous, since the immune system is at its core a diversity generator, that is, it is random.
Drugs and opiates are very similar, that is why they work, so the immune system might react against your own biological signals.
You are almost assured to get some people as a result of the immunization who will be unable to feel joy, and who will learn badly.
I believe you should refuse this treatment for your child unless you have several examples in your family that show a tendancy to abuse drugs.
Or unless you live in a really really bad neighborhood and cannot move.
If Nigeria becomes home to IT outsourcing, where will Nigeria outsource spam to ?
Hi. I'm Rick Woo from Singapore. Thanks to neural interface technology I can work from home now. From my bed. You see I move this small garbage cleaning car all over Singapore.
;-)
It's more fun than doing it with a broom and I'm totally immersed the whole day. I even dream of it. I do the work that 60 people would have done. Some of them are in reeducation camps now. But I digress.
Have a clean day
"For example, viewers who watch the commercial may be entered in a prize drawing..."
;-)
Maybe they mean an automated method. This means MS has patented an idea no one has come up with yet because it is stupid. Its stupid because you don't know whether people are really watching. Applying the technology is similar to the dot com bubble, where people were told they could earn money by surfing.
Thus, I'll have a whole rack of webTVs in my basement running continously so that I'll get entered into all these profitable prize drawings
Well, you can easily fix my objections if you make people click buttons in reaction to the commercial. Might even be entertaining for a while.
You can't patent stupidity, only an implementation of it.
It resembles WarCraft and StarCraft, both are Blizzards investments.
;-)
Someone wanted to play StarCraft with Stratagus; Stratagus can be used for any strategy game, but for StarCraft this would require configuring stratagus by scripting and probably also coding new features into stratagus. And graphics.
Personally, I looked at stratagus' scripting and it just scared me stiff
Why do people always have to create their own metaserver ? They could cooperative with another project, maybe ggz and build one source to rule them all.
But you never see the matter actually hit the event horizon!
I've been saying that line before on slashdot - but that does not cover it all, anotherWhat happens during black hole formation - you basically have some sun, which collapses, and suddenly some part of it will find itself actually inside the event horizon. However, I think Hawkings math suggests that the black hole/its event horizon isn't a perfect sphere - it preserves information by moving and jiggling a bit, like lots of overlapping bubbles.
You could still have a parallel universe inside the black hole, which maybe would be temporary and evaporate, but it would be connected to ours. Actually thats a good thing, since what would you have parallel universes for if they didnt connect to ours ?
Mod. parent Insightful, not parents parent and .. don't mod me redundant,troll ;-) Here is why:
Saying that the punishment of cancelling your subscription is in line with the GPL is like saying that "it is legal to have sex with minors, you just have to go to jail for it".
So it's not in line with the GPL if you are being punished for using the rights granted to you under the GPL.
Still I see from that forum that there are two issues mixed here: IMHNLO, the guy posting the binary is in violation of the GPL, and Sveasoft too. Both should know better, but especially Sveasoft, since they are not joe random internet user but professionals.
To argue further, the guy posting the binary needs to post source as well, or he has to remove the binary. He could either get the source by being having legitimately acquired the binary from sveasoft, then he would have to sue Sveasoft for the source code, or, less hassle, he could just subscribe to Sveasoft for a new version of the binary, download the matching source, then distribute it.
Then he could distribute source and binary.
The following should be a minor issue: If Sveasoft kicks him from his software channel subscription then for distributing, he could sue Sveasoft for money back because Sveasoft pulled its service without a legit reason. They have no legitimate reason because they declare in contradiction both that they honour the GPL, but that they pull their service if you use your rights.
Now, to counter further arguments, I can imagine that a business indeed has the right to refuse doing business with you for whatever reason, but not if the reason is a right or service that you have acquired in a deal.
Came across it in a boardgame named empire, but you can find proof
I actually read the above link and I'm not sure that the people referred to themselves as "the Gupta", maybe it was just the name of the King.
The first King I saw with the name is Chandragupta Maurya, whose empire is referred to as the Mauryan empire, which is followed by the Gupta Era.
The hackers slashdot id was 0 ;-)
.. and they still may be buying more.
MS might come out with a new filesystem anyway that is indexed. So lets see how blinkx does.
It's the same sort of posturing that Saddam Hussein used
Ah yes, and it worked for Saddam (holed up and captured).For communications ..
Does this mean they will finally get to replace their aging psychic monkeys, which they currently use, with gravity wave communication ?
I'm curious, how do they produce the gravity waves - create a micro black hole and wiggle it ?!
And will they give up their former scheme of detonating nukes whose shockwaves can be detected to alert their subs that a nuclear war has started ?
Like patents, other IP should be forced to provide the information that is needed to reproduce it after copyright expires.
A central key escrow or an unprotected copy of every work at the Library of Congress would be ok(in that respect).
And I'll hear it again when finally when the day comes where he announces he "lost" the bet. And it will be on slashdot again.
And I guess I'll hear it again when finally it is confirmed by some observation or math.
I think the other bet mentioned involving a penthouse magazine subscription is this one about the existance of black holes
What are laws good for if the universe doesn't obey them ?
So personally I think the information is still somewhere, though I don't think in any useful, accesible or detectable form. I have this quasi-religious belief that the universe keeps track of everything.
Also, if a quantum entangled pair of atomic or subatomic particles gets divided by the appearance of the hole, there is still a connection between them. I guess that would be a rare event though and only happen during black hole formation, and it would be really unlikely to stay unchanged and unobserved.
I would have read the NYT article, but it seems /.ed and I didn't fint it witg google cache.
There is still the problem that it uses our current language and characters, so you need to know at least one language to figure it out.
I think creating an abstract communication bootstrap procedure would be fun, if you want to start such a project, please reply or email me at d31337(di4g@ch33rful.c0m)(or see homepage).
When you have "killed" someone you do then get this persons target as your next target ?
And the Grenade launcher needs to get reloaded when the number of Grenades drops to a prime number.
Seriously, might be a good way to teach math to kids. Or horses.I recommend Thief Of Time by Terry Pratchett if you want to see an example how fiddling with the smallest units of the universe can mess up ;-)
I wonder whether one shouldn't actually prefer that the guys a the switch in a Minuteman silo behave like human beings.
After all, some might refuse to launch rockets.
I realize their refusal is a bad thing when the enemy can bet on their refusal, but the guys who refuse might just be the same ones that are supposed to refuse a launch when they receive an unorthodox launch request.
So, like in statistics, you have to balance type-I errors(failure to do) with type-II errors (failure to refuse)