Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, and as someone pointed out, Counter Strike were originally done on the old HL engine.
The newer Source engine was designed specifically for that, AND to produce lower cost games that might not be as polished as full titles, but worth the lower price (The Ship, Garry's Mod) as well as create interesting free games that are pure mods. Steam has been doing it, AND created a digital delivery system that has effective enough DRM that isn't as draconian as other systems. They get the majority of my gaming dollars because I can install on multiple computers (but play on one at a time), they autoinstall, they are a great value (hello, Orange Box?), and they *do* protect game makers ability to make a profit while still providing a reasonable price to the consumer.
To me, Gabe has found a perfect balance between consumer and provider, and provides lots of free trials, lets you *give* extra games you get when you buy a package that has a game that you already own, etc. Plus I never install a CD to play, never worry about losing or scratching the CD, and they have great sales, from 10% to 75% off on a regular basis. Steam deserves to succeed, and I hope they continue to do so, because they treat the customer just as good as they do the creator of game content. It isn't perfect, but it is evolving, and doing so in a good way.
I would argue that individualism and manifest destiny aren't so tightly bundled, although I admit that it is hard to get to "Manifest Destiny" except through a culture that praises itself on individualism. Individualism stops at the self, where the concepts of manifest destiny say "and you should be just like me."
Of course, since that is a Windows game and you are likely downloading it on a Windows computer, and Windows will let you create a folder with that name, that phrase doesn't mean what people think it means.;)
Woodrow Wilson *was* a Christian, specifically a Presbyterian. The KKK is founded on their own twisted ideas about Christianity, and is a de facto Christian only organization. Specifically, the group supports Protestant Christianity. Even the "burning cross" they have so tenderly affixed to the front yards of many innocent blacks, is a Christian symbol. They hate jews, atheists, blacks, Catholics and everyone that doesn't accept Jesus as their savior. If you aren't a Christian, you can not be a member. Period.
I already corrected your mistake about Manifest Destiny in another post.
Tradtionally, Manifest Destiny *did* mean spreading "America" all across the continent of North America, but it doesn't take too much looking to see that the concept has evolved to mean spreading "Americanism" to the entire globe. And yes, it is a form of Colonialism, which Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the Romans and virtually every "superpower" thoughout history was known for. The difference is that now many Americans want to spread their form of American Christianism to other countries and are content to leave the actual governance to the locals.
This is a sort of "Colonial Light", where you don't force others to be a part of your country, only forcing them to adopt your values and form of government. Actually, if you read history, the Romans also did something similar where the locals ran things using Roman law (more or less) and Rome got the taxes. This is coopting other countries beliefs into the new system of government, so it looks a lot like the old, but is really managed by the new. Take a close look at Christian holidays, Christmas, Easter, All Saints Day, and you find Pagan origins where the holidays were based around the same time as the pagan holidays and *still* use the same symbols even today: trees (Juletime), eggs (fertility), ghosts (spirits).
The problem is Manifest Destiny. Many American Christians truly believe that God® has commissioned us here in the land of milk and honey to spread democracy to the rest of the world. This is why so many have been missionaries over the years, and why our foreign policy is so phucked up. I understand why we might prefer to do business with countries that have some form of representative government, but we can't force China/Cuba/etc to become "democratic" at the end of a gun barrel or by giving them bibles.
If the US would focus more on "freedom" and less on delivering it to other countries, we would be a stronger country. Right now, our freedoms are eroding, our jobs are at risk, our manufacturing base is rusting away, half of our allies stay pissed at us, all due a national self-rightousness that arrogantly assumes that ALL countries should have a form of government just like ours. And yes, I was in the military, as was my father, so I'm not an isolationist or pacifist. I want us to have a strong defense, but the American delusion of Manifest Destiny undermines it.
I just went into my preferences and chose to exclude samzenpus. Not sure if that excludes him from RSS, but I generally don't use RSS anyway, so that should work for me. I appreciate humorous articles here as much as the next guy, assuming they are actually related to technology in some way. If I want just random stupidity, I can just go to The Onion. I used to come here to get *informed* about what is going on in the world in general, as it applies to technology. Guess I need to explore all the filtering options available here, didn't used to have to do that.
What has this, or half the articles on the front page lately, have to do with "News for Nerds"? Has the tech world suddenly gotten so boring that Slashdot is reduced to publishing stories about "Service Monkeys"?
I get it perfectly. The guy who is NOW trying to recreate a game can't exactly expect people to go provide their own *pak file, the game is abandoned, thus not available. The point isn't "who is liable", the point it, "it is illegal regardless of how you do it".
And if you haven't bought the game, it is considered piracy. If you are sending it with your new game, it is considered copyright infringement. Not a good idea for a method of distributing your new game.
As someone pointed out, Quake opensourced the engine, not the content. More importantly, if the new game relied on the old game to load textures, etc., then you would have to be distributing the OLD game. This would likely violate the copyright, and open you up for even more lawsuits. Direct distribution of copyright content is worse than making your own version of it (which is often perfectly legal).
When you fire a "right to work" employee without cause, they are fully eligible to claim unemployment benefits. The vast majority of workers in the US are in "right to work" situations, and most of the time it works just fine. I'm not sure if NY's rationale or methods are the best for their situation, but I am not so sure that everyone in a "right to work" situation is slave. As someone who has made a fine living over the last 30 years and has never belonged to a union, I'm confident that being in a union isn't the "only" solution for every situation.
You (and others) seemed to have taken my words a bit out of context. I ran the program, then reblocked the ports. I'm not paranoid about the 'gubmint being out to get me', but I think anyone with any sense of history knows that it is always best to be a bit leery when it comes to governments, which are typically run by people who enjoy power. This is the same government who approved the DCMA, software patents, and the Patriot Act. My sense of "liberty" is obviously not the same as most elected politicians.
If all else fails, I always remember that everything that Hitler did was legal. I'm not afraid of the U.S. government, but I'm smart enough to always be skeptical of the motives of many who are literally enjoying power.
Windows firewall pops up a warning in the middle of the test, which will likely mess up the results since it will cause a delay. Not sure I like unblocking an application that the government is sponsoring either.
Rather than mod you down for what is likely an innocent mistake, I will just point to his bio on http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org, which doesn't mention nuclear engineering. I know he "trained for the position of engineering officer in submarine USS Seawolf, then under construction." and "Carter completed a non-credit introductory course in nuclear reactor power at Union College starting in March 1953" from reading his wikipedia page but that isn't the same thing.
While he is familiar with some aspects of being a of nuclear engineer, he is far from actually being one. Thought you might want to know. And yes, while he is probably a nice guy, he was arguably the least effective president in the last 100 years, so he usually isn't a good example to hold up for any comparison.
Pretty much the only right universally recognized as inalienable--among those who recognize inalienable rights at all--is the right to self-ownership
Here in the US, we all operate under the idea that several rights are unalienable, ie: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, per the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The entire concept of the Bill of Rights was not to grant rights (speech, religion, press, etc.) but to declare that these rights already exist, and to state that the government can't take them away. Everyone already HAS these rights as a birth right. Not just U.S. citizens, but every human. So I would argue (as would many others) that these rights ARE unalienable.
As for contracts, almost all contracts have sections that clearly state that if a portion of the contract is found to be illegal or unconstitutional, it doesn't invalidate the rest of the provisions.
Just imagine if Gentoo users were car mechanics...;)
If you can't swap out a cam, mill your own heads, or at least hone your own cylinder walls, then you shouldn't be driving a car. Any idiot should be able to use a torque wrench.
I have to agree with wjousts on this one. There are plenty of people in my office who might consider ME incompetent because I am lost when it comes to running MS Office or our accounting software, but they have no idea how what "cpu utilization" is. I have managed Linux servers since the RedHat 4.1 days and can tweak an XP box just fine, and still know how to tweak DOS to get maximum lower RAM from my experiences starting the in 1980s, but I don't use Office often enough to be any good at it. I just type letters. Perhaps they would be "incompetent" computer administrators, and I might be an "incompetent" staff member, but that would mean that everyone is "incompetent" in some way or another.
Saying that everyone that uses a computer should understand "cpu utilization" is like saying that everyone that drives should understand the basics of internal combustion. In both cases, it happens under the hood. I am plenty happy that they understand their AV software and know how to do updates, and when to ask questions when they are over their heads. They aren't stupid, they just aren't techies. I don't argue that it is a good idea for people to know more, it is a good idea, but it isn't reasonable (or realistic) to expect everyone that uses a computer to know what cpu utilization is.
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Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, and as someone pointed out, Counter Strike were originally done on the old HL engine.
The newer Source engine was designed specifically for that, AND to produce lower cost games that might not be as polished as full titles, but worth the lower price (The Ship, Garry's Mod) as well as create interesting free games that are pure mods. Steam has been doing it, AND created a digital delivery system that has effective enough DRM that isn't as draconian as other systems. They get the majority of my gaming dollars because I can install on multiple computers (but play on one at a time), they autoinstall, they are a great value (hello, Orange Box?), and they *do* protect game makers ability to make a profit while still providing a reasonable price to the consumer.
To me, Gabe has found a perfect balance between consumer and provider, and provides lots of free trials, lets you *give* extra games you get when you buy a package that has a game that you already own, etc. Plus I never install a CD to play, never worry about losing or scratching the CD, and they have great sales, from 10% to 75% off on a regular basis. Steam deserves to succeed, and I hope they continue to do so, because they treat the customer just as good as they do the creator of game content. It isn't perfect, but it is evolving, and doing so in a good way.
I would argue that individualism and manifest destiny aren't so tightly bundled, although I admit that it is hard to get to "Manifest Destiny" except through a culture that praises itself on individualism. Individualism stops at the self, where the concepts of manifest destiny say "and you should be just like me."
Don't worry, they're going straight to /dev/null.
Of course, since that is a Windows game and you are likely downloading it on a Windows computer, and Windows will let you create a folder with that name, that phrase doesn't mean what people think it means. ;)
Well, in Canada, all we see about the States is how there is another gun murder, how the white cops beat black people, and how stupid Bush was.
Don't believe everything you see on TV.
There, I fixed that for you. You had them in the wrong order.
I am guessing what you were trying to say was "Take my advice, I'm not using it."
Oh, I forgot to correct your other mistakes.
Woodrow Wilson *was* a Christian, specifically a Presbyterian. The KKK is founded on their own twisted ideas about Christianity, and is a de facto Christian only organization. Specifically, the group supports Protestant Christianity. Even the "burning cross" they have so tenderly affixed to the front yards of many innocent blacks, is a Christian symbol. They hate jews, atheists, blacks, Catholics and everyone that doesn't accept Jesus as their savior. If you aren't a Christian, you can not be a member. Period.
I already corrected your mistake about Manifest Destiny in another post.
Tradtionally, Manifest Destiny *did* mean spreading "America" all across the continent of North America, but it doesn't take too much looking to see that the concept has evolved to mean spreading "Americanism" to the entire globe. And yes, it is a form of Colonialism, which Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the Romans and virtually every "superpower" thoughout history was known for. The difference is that now many Americans want to spread their form of American Christianism to other countries and are content to leave the actual governance to the locals.
This is a sort of "Colonial Light", where you don't force others to be a part of your country, only forcing them to adopt your values and form of government. Actually, if you read history, the Romans also did something similar where the locals ran things using Roman law (more or less) and Rome got the taxes. This is coopting other countries beliefs into the new system of government, so it looks a lot like the old, but is really managed by the new. Take a close look at Christian holidays, Christmas, Easter, All Saints Day, and you find Pagan origins where the holidays were based around the same time as the pagan holidays and *still* use the same symbols even today: trees (Juletime), eggs (fertility), ghosts (spirits).
I usually just walk into the lobby, but I'm an analog kind of guy. Never had a problem with keyloggers yet.
The problem is Manifest Destiny. Many American Christians truly believe that God® has commissioned us here in the land of milk and honey to spread democracy to the rest of the world. This is why so many have been missionaries over the years, and why our foreign policy is so phucked up. I understand why we might prefer to do business with countries that have some form of representative government, but we can't force China/Cuba/etc to become "democratic" at the end of a gun barrel or by giving them bibles.
If the US would focus more on "freedom" and less on delivering it to other countries, we would be a stronger country. Right now, our freedoms are eroding, our jobs are at risk, our manufacturing base is rusting away, half of our allies stay pissed at us, all due a national self-rightousness that arrogantly assumes that ALL countries should have a form of government just like ours. And yes, I was in the military, as was my father, so I'm not an isolationist or pacifist. I want us to have a strong defense, but the American delusion of Manifest Destiny undermines it.
(But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)
What do you mean, like a disk that would boot Microsoft Windows instead?
People are far too enamored with dark matter to bother reading the article.
Fixed that for you.
I just went into my preferences and chose to exclude samzenpus. Not sure if that excludes him from RSS, but I generally don't use RSS anyway, so that should work for me. I appreciate humorous articles here as much as the next guy, assuming they are actually related to technology in some way. If I want just random stupidity, I can just go to The Onion. I used to come here to get *informed* about what is going on in the world in general, as it applies to technology. Guess I need to explore all the filtering options available here, didn't used to have to do that.
What has this, or half the articles on the front page lately, have to do with "News for Nerds"? Has the tech world suddenly gotten so boring that Slashdot is reduced to publishing stories about "Service Monkeys"?
My understanding from friends in the dental industry, a $1000 crown currently costs about $100 to make. The other $900 is "labor" and markup.
I get it perfectly. The guy who is NOW trying to recreate a game can't exactly expect people to go provide their own *pak file, the game is abandoned, thus not available. The point isn't "who is liable", the point it, "it is illegal regardless of how you do it".
And if you haven't bought the game, it is considered piracy. If you are sending it with your new game, it is considered copyright infringement. Not a good idea for a method of distributing your new game.
As someone pointed out, Quake opensourced the engine, not the content. More importantly, if the new game relied on the old game to load textures, etc., then you would have to be distributing the OLD game. This would likely violate the copyright, and open you up for even more lawsuits. Direct distribution of copyright content is worse than making your own version of it (which is often perfectly legal).
Patent troll? So they...
1. Make a game.
2. Spend thousands to copyright it AND patent it.
3. Abandon and wait for someone to freeware a derivative.
4. Profit!
Just wanted to point that out. I think you are confused about the difference in patents and copyrights. Or just confused.
When you fire a "right to work" employee without cause, they are fully eligible to claim unemployment benefits. The vast majority of workers in the US are in "right to work" situations, and most of the time it works just fine. I'm not sure if NY's rationale or methods are the best for their situation, but I am not so sure that everyone in a "right to work" situation is slave. As someone who has made a fine living over the last 30 years and has never belonged to a union, I'm confident that being in a union isn't the "only" solution for every situation.
You (and others) seemed to have taken my words a bit out of context. I ran the program, then reblocked the ports. I'm not paranoid about the 'gubmint being out to get me', but I think anyone with any sense of history knows that it is always best to be a bit leery when it comes to governments, which are typically run by people who enjoy power. This is the same government who approved the DCMA, software patents, and the Patriot Act. My sense of "liberty" is obviously not the same as most elected politicians.
If all else fails, I always remember that everything that Hitler did was legal. I'm not afraid of the U.S. government, but I'm smart enough to always be skeptical of the motives of many who are literally enjoying power.
Windows firewall pops up a warning in the middle of the test, which will likely mess up the results since it will cause a delay. Not sure I like unblocking an application that the government is sponsoring either.
Rather than mod you down for what is likely an innocent mistake, I will just point to his bio on http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org, which doesn't mention nuclear engineering. I know he "trained for the position of engineering officer in submarine USS Seawolf, then under construction." and "Carter completed a non-credit introductory course in nuclear reactor power at Union College starting in March 1953" from reading his wikipedia page but that isn't the same thing.
While he is familiar with some aspects of being a of nuclear engineer, he is far from actually being one. Thought you might want to know. And yes, while he is probably a nice guy, he was arguably the least effective president in the last 100 years, so he usually isn't a good example to hold up for any comparison.
You can't make a contract whereby someone becomes a slave, for instance.
Pretty much the only right universally recognized as inalienable--among those who recognize inalienable rights at all--is the right to self-ownership
Here in the US, we all operate under the idea that several rights are unalienable, ie: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, per the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The entire concept of the Bill of Rights was not to grant rights (speech, religion, press, etc.) but to declare that these rights already exist, and to state that the government can't take them away. Everyone already HAS these rights as a birth right. Not just U.S. citizens, but every human. So I would argue (as would many others) that these rights ARE unalienable.
As for contracts, almost all contracts have sections that clearly state that if a portion of the contract is found to be illegal or unconstitutional, it doesn't invalidate the rest of the provisions.
Just imagine if Gentoo users were car mechanics... ;)
If you can't swap out a cam, mill your own heads, or at least hone your own cylinder walls, then you shouldn't be driving a car. Any idiot should be able to use a torque wrench.
I have to agree with wjousts on this one. There are plenty of people in my office who might consider ME incompetent because I am lost when it comes to running MS Office or our accounting software, but they have no idea how what "cpu utilization" is. I have managed Linux servers since the RedHat 4.1 days and can tweak an XP box just fine, and still know how to tweak DOS to get maximum lower RAM from my experiences starting the in 1980s, but I don't use Office often enough to be any good at it. I just type letters. Perhaps they would be "incompetent" computer administrators, and I might be an "incompetent" staff member, but that would mean that everyone is "incompetent" in some way or another.
Saying that everyone that uses a computer should understand "cpu utilization" is like saying that everyone that drives should understand the basics of internal combustion. In both cases, it happens under the hood. I am plenty happy that they understand their AV software and know how to do updates, and when to ask questions when they are over their heads. They aren't stupid, they just aren't techies. I don't argue that it is a good idea for people to know more, it is a good idea, but it isn't reasonable (or realistic) to expect everyone that uses a computer to know what cpu utilization is.
(Yes, I know, a car analogy...)