I don't think requiring school uniforms is some act of removing freedom or gaining security. In some sense, it's an act of teaching kids to follow instructions, and learn to control our id, so to speak.
the clothes you wear didn't really dictate the education.
I'm sure the army wouldn't win more wars if they can all dress the way they REALLY wanted to.
I think one of the biggest problem in America is that everyone overreacts on their "freedom of speech", on people "trampling on their rights", on the government "removing their freedom", so on so on. Obviously some cries are very much warranted (like DVD vs. MPAA for example), but most of them are just unjustified whining that equates to a kid "losing freedom" because he's not allowed to watch TV after 10 at night.
When people learn that not all restrictions and rules are oppression to our rights and freedom, maybe America's future will actually start turning around for the better.
Coming from a city (Hong Kong) where every single school (as far as I know) requires public school kids in uniforms, perhaps I'm missing the point why uniform seems like some conformity suppression placed on poor kids. Why is it necessarily bad? And why is it acceptable when grownups in the army/navy wear uniforms? Is that suppression as well?
Note - I do find the "Patent Pending" icon of our common utensils just as amusing as anyone else, but it's also obvious that icon gives a biased misconception that all patents are bad, and all patents are obvious, and we should outlaw patents and raid the USPTO office.
I find the icon very appropriate for headlines like "Car salesman granted patent for breathing air", but not for "Legit company sues bunch of assholes for stealing non-obvious patented ideas". Perhaps another more appropriate icon for patents that are not as obviously-ridiculous?
Re:Yes, it is. Learn about shit before you post.
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It's _not_ any different - that's the point! In both cases, there's a copyright violation going on
If it's not any different, then it would happen regardless of whether the my.mp3.com service exists or not. mp3.com doesn't make it any easier to pirate CD collections than borrowing it from a friend.
Re:Yes, it is. Learn about shit before you post.
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RIAA Sues MP3.com
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At the very least, there is nothing to stop people from going to their friends, saying "Hey, can I borrow your CD collection tonight?" *POOF*, they now "own" all of those CDs?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even WITHOUT my.mp3.com, couldn't you rip and encode someone's CD collection ANYWAYS if you borrow it? What makes this any different?
Being one of a few (if not the only) negative poster, I'm likely to get branded (and moderated) as a troll/flamebaiter, but please hear me out...
Oh please. You're not one of the few negative posters around slashdot, but you're certainly among the many negative posters that got moderated up - not because your comment was interesting, but you included the "I'm might get moderated down for this..." disclaimer.
I'm wondering if I watched the same presentation as the rest of the posters here... Deitzel and co. effectively skirted the performance/Mhz question, which says to me that they don't have much to brag about in the performance area, otherwise- They would've bragged about performance/Mhz.
I'm sorry to be rude, but duh. That's how marketing works. You emphasize on the fine points of your product, and you skim over the weak points. Even a moron would not try to shift that focus in their own product release.
I could've sworn I was watching an Microsoft/Apple/Intel love-in/press-conference at times. A quote of note: "Crusoe will be a low power internet platform for the future". What the fsck does that mean? There was lots of 'marchitecure', but little in the way of hard performance numbers.
I sure as hell don't konw what's a "Microsoft/Apple/Intel love-in/press-conference", but if you're referring to the catchy marketing phrases, you might want to remind yourself that you ARE listening to a product release.
Transmeta is a privately-funded company. It's not a university research laboratory. They aren't presenting a research paper. They are a company, and they are trying to make money to make a return on their investment.
Also, their product is targetted at OEMs and computer manufacterers, which is why the technical details are in the press pack, and not the webcast.
Looks like Transmeta's smartest move was to hire Linus, 'cause the whole of Slashdot is believing the (and feeding) the hype without knowing all the facts.
I agree. Those moderators that feed the heretic-wannabes really should stop. Sorry if I sound a bit harsh, but I really can't stand these "I have some pissed-off opinion to be moderated up" posts escaping my score 2 threshold anymore.
You might think I'm kidding. I shit you not. Go look up RNWK or Real's own press release.
RealNetworks Wins Preliminary Injunction in Landmark Case Protecting Copyright Holders in the Digital Age
Court Bars Streambox From Distributing or Marketing Streambox VCR And Streambox Ferret
SEATTLE, Jan. 18/PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - news), the recognized leader in media delivery on the Internet, said today it is pleased that the Honorable Marsha Pechman of the Western Circuit Court in Washington has granted RealNetworks' motion for a preliminary injunction barring Streambox from distributing products that illegally circumvent the copyright protection in RealAudio and RealVideo. Specifically, Streambox is enjoined from marketing and distributing the Streambox VCR, which records live streams against the wishes of copyright holders, and the Streambox Ferret, which interferes with the appearance and functionality of the RealPlayer®.
``We are very pleased that the court has upheld the basic principle that it is illegal to circumvent copy protection mechanisms in order to record streams against the wishes of copyright holders,'' said Alex Alben, vice president of Government Affairs, RealNetworks, Inc. ``RealNetworks brought this suit to protect the copyright of the content holders who trust RealNetworks' software and systems to not only provide a high quality user experience, but also to provide it in a format that is protected from duplication. We look forward to the opportunity to argue the remaining issues in court and feel confident that we will prevail on all counts at the end of the day.''
``I'm pleased by the Judge's ruling,'' said Cary Sherman, senior executive vice president and general counsel, Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. ``The RIAA fully supports RealNetworks' position in this case for the sake of our members and a legitimate marketplace. RealNetworks' technology is a success in large measure because it protects creators at the same time it givers consumers access to the music they want. Streambox's hacking tools rob creators of the very protection RealNetworks offers. That is precisely what the DMCA was intended to prevent.'' The RIAA members own 90% of legitimate sound recordings produced in the United States.
``Liquid Audio strongly supports RealNetworks' legal efforts to protect the millions of copyright holders around the world by keeping Internet music secure,'' said Gerry Kearby, chief executive officer of Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq: LQID - news). ``As pioneers in secure Internet music delivery, we firmly believe in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as a key legal protection that will help ensure the development of a digital music economy.''
``The decision handed down today illustrates the importance of companies being able to adequately protect their intellectual property through technological means,'' said Keith Kupferschmid, Intellectual Property Counsel for the Software & Information Industry Association. ``Congress clearly respects the technological efforts being made by companies to protect their goods and services online and intended to protect these efforts when it passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Today's decision demonstrates that the courts' also understand importance of the circumvention protections provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.''
The order today addresses two products marketed by Streambox: Streambox VCR, which circumvents RealNetworks' copyright protection measures to save streams to disk; and the Streambox Ferret, which interferes with the appearance and functionality of the RealPlayer® and redirects end-users of the RealPlayer search bar to Streambox's search site instead of the Snap!.com search site. A third product, the Streambox Ripper, which affects only files that have already been stored locally on a user's computer, was not included in the preliminary injunction. All three products were initially enjoined by a temporary restraining order entered on December 23, 1999.
For more information: http://www.realnetworks.com/company/pressroom/stre ambox_litigation.html.
In the event of ZDNet baiting/. with their pro-linux/anti-microsoft articles, the success of this bidding is going to give ZDNet new ideas.
ZDNet bids item with pro-linux description Posted by Roblimo on 04:15 AM April 1st, 2000
ZDNet Employee writes "ZDNet's CEO is auctioning his old Porche for a new Ferrari. The good thing is that the Porche comes with a Redhat 5.1 CD in the back on the trunk. All proceeds go to the CEO and his girlfriend." It's worth $11,342,251 as we speak. Can I bid with my inflated Andover/RedHat stocks?
It's a very offtopic 5, but I think it points out a very big hypocrisy on/.'s part.
apparently, the moderators also believed that this hypocrisy (especially in the light of Rob's obnoxious answer in the/. interview) should be moderated up for more people to see.
If you want something to be open source, get off your ass and write something that's open source. Criticizing other people for what they choose to do with their own software does nothing but annoy people.
If you think that you can write a better slashdot, then go out and do it. I wish you well. The folks that run this site are under no obligation to release anything that they do. The author is the one who ultimately has the rights to the software that he writes, no matter how much you demand otherwise.
Ability To Do Better is NOT a prerequisite to the Right To Complain. If that were true, then:
all movie critics can't complain unless they can make a better movie. all game critics can't complain unless they can make a better game. and so on.
Here I would like to define the phrase reverse dogma. It is most commonly seen on/. when a poster (ie Malc) posts a controversal anti-dogmatic post. Kind of like the anti hero of Signal 11.
I especially dig the phrase "I'll probably get flamed and moderated down for this", since almost every post I see with this phrase gets moderated up. Moderators, they are playing with your mind. It's almost like the poster is say "nah nah, I dare you to moderate me up!"
I think finkployd is on the money when he postulates that Malc is just trying to be funny, or he's craving for karma.
I'm disappointed this ridiculous post actually got moderated to a Score of >>3. It's nothing but a spew of trite Linux/FreeBSD advocacy attacks and flames towards Emmett at a personal level. maybe it's time I set my viewing level even higher.
Funny thing is that if Sun truly opened up their source for Solaris, *except* their kernel, because they intend to sell it, you wouldn't be chiming this sarcastic tune.
"I'm not trying to sound bratty and trying to whine "
You are doing both.
I don't believe that was my full quote. It wasn't a complete sentence that you quoted. Thats for butchering it to make your post sound though.
heck out projects such as counter-strike for Half-Life and countless mods for other fps games. Opening the code for many portions of this code will allow these same people to expand on their ideas without the limitations of calling a dll.
I think you're confusing mod code like UnrealScript with Brandon releasing code that doesn't work well under linux. It has more with "I can't fix this, I hope someone else will" than "here's the code to help out mod authors". If it's out there for mod authors, where's the artistic licensed version for win32? I believe you're the one not in the know.
I'm sure there are people who will also want to play with the unreal linux code.
Just like how there are people who wants to play with OS X's Darwin code and Sun's SCSL-licensed code. obviously you missed the whole point of my post, which wasn't simply about releasing the source.
You're being ungrateful. You don't have to use what is given or bitch about it either. The partially open code isn't a command -- it's an offer. Whether people pick up the code and mould it into something usable is another matter.
I'm not being ungrateful. I'm questioning the intention of their opening up of the code, and the usefulness of that code and its life outside the Unreal engine. Of course, you fail to address that point, and chose to twist and fiddle with my words to turn me into a whiner who wants the whole thing open sourced. If sheep like you who proclaim to be anti-whiners actualy think it's a good thing, then I can imagine other companies following suit soon with their partial-open-sourcing strategy.
They've one-upped id here, at least slightly, in terms of what they've released in their engine. id did NOT release their renderers and audio libraries.
id didn't have to release their renderers and audio libraries, because q3a was designed to be platform-independent to begin with, and they have more competent Linux coders working for them. Brandon admitted in his plan that he released those parts of the code because he couldn't make it better (work more properly), and hopes that someone else can fix it for him.
They've got a LONG history of doing this, while Epic is probably only doing this because they have to match id or UT will be blown out of the water by Q3.
ditto. but their "grace" in opening up parts of their code seems like a wolve in open source clothing to me. Frac
From what's said so far, it seems to me that they aren't opening up their entire engine.
It almost sounds like Apple opening up parts of OS X so the "open source community" can hack away and improve the sales of their commercial product.
And with a little imagination, you can parallel their intentions with Sun - they want to have the advantages of open source without the disadvantages, which are: control of code, and loss of commercial value.
The Unreal engine has made lots of money in terms of licensing for Epic Games - I wasn't totaly surprised that they didn't release all the source. But do notice that the most prized and valuable code that makes the Unreal engine tick is still locked up away from everyone else.
Why? I think Brandon explains it fairly clearly in his.plan:
1. To improve the quality of the Linux port of UT. I'll admit that I simply don't have the time to spend on this port. Disclosing the source gives everybody a chance to make the code better.
I'm not trying to sound bratty and trying to whine Epic into releasing everything (not that it would work anyways;), but I don't understand why we should hack for Epic for the same reasons why we shouldn't hack for Sun.
now everybody get to work and make the linux code better, so Epic can sell more engines!
Did you even bother reading the other posts? A few other posters also noticed that the "answers weren't helpful"
when someone is asking for a simple yes/no answer, and you're making them go click on the hyperlink when you could've answer their question in less keystrokes, that sounds pretty rude to me.
Posts tend to be get the moderation easier, if they:
Start the post with: "I'll know I'll get [flamed/moderated down/shot/offtopic -1] for this, BUT..."
That'll get the attention of the moderators. Now post something pro-[controversial] (ie. Sun, Microsoft, AOL) voila! instant [Insightful/Interesting] marks up for ya.
1999-12-10 16:07:55 Grossman's book slammed on MSNBC (articles,news) (rejected) 1999-12-01 13:57:51 Intel/Dell acknowledges Coppermine bug (articles,intel) (rejected) 1999-12-06 09:21:22 Merced Simulator posted online (articles,news) (rejected) 1999-12-06 14:17:26 3dfx Open Sources Glide API (articles,news) (rejected)
I'm not bitter (okay, maybe a little bitter), but seems like the slashdot submit news process is grossly inefficient. May I suggest that there is a reason should it be rejected?
i.e. (rejected: redundant) or (rejected: CmdrTaco thinks it doesn't matter)
I submitted this story yesterday and it got rejected. I was surprised why it got rejected too. I guess someone at Slashdot originally thought a Coppermine Bug is insignificant.
I think it's time we need another "slashdot" thread just to discuss the growing flaws of the slashdot moderation system and etc. I'll list the ones off the top of my head:
* Stories get rejected for unknown reasons, only to show up again a day later.
(maybe rejected stories should be reviewed somewhere, so we can moderate the storie back up to be posted?)
* On the other hand, there are "new" stories that link to the same article as that other "new" story one month ago. How is linking to an article 9 days ago considered "news"? (IBM porting Linux to S/390, for example)
(have another queue that shows "approved" stories - members can go in and moderate interesting stories up, and repeated or dull stories down)
* news guys that are inserting too much of their own biased opinion into the news stories, shifting the opinion of the comments before anything gets posted! For example, I'm am on the verge of ignoring a certain section on slashdot, because one news guy is frequently jumping the gun on My Rights Online, ie. how a game software developer is tracking me down with my video card model. I appreciate the intention of that section (which is why i haven't dropped it yet), but is it really necessary for the article to acuse the developer having "unconvincing explanations", then later give some half-assed retraction with "oh, this isn't a big deal really, I just didn't really think before I gave out my conspiracy theory.
There are many more problems I (and I presume many of us) have with the current system. We don't want to bitch and moan, we just want a dedicated thread where we can all give out positive criticisms.
This will probably be moderated down, but I really hope malda/hemos/roblimo and etc. will see this.
The author never proclaimed the death of books or magazines. She simply stated that the computer magazines will die eventually if they try to stick with their old and outdated formula, since their bland news/previews/reviews have been replaced by their online equivalents. In fact, she believed that computer magazines need to reestablish themselves as an opinion/commentary based source in order to survive.
I do not think she at any point believed offline material will be phased out completely.
Would anyone still curl up in bed with a computer magazine reading news that you learned of in/. three months ago? I think not.
Slashdot Mirror
the clothes you wear didn't really dictate the education.
I'm sure the army wouldn't win more wars if they can all dress the way they REALLY wanted to.
I think one of the biggest problem in America is that everyone overreacts on their "freedom of speech", on people "trampling on their rights", on the government "removing their freedom", so on so on. Obviously some cries are very much warranted (like DVD vs. MPAA for example), but most of them are just unjustified whining that equates to a kid "losing freedom" because he's not allowed to watch TV after 10 at night.
When people learn that not all restrictions and rules are oppression to our rights and freedom, maybe America's future will actually start turning around for the better.
Coming from a city (Hong Kong) where every single school (as far as I know) requires public school kids in uniforms, perhaps I'm missing the point why uniform seems like some conformity suppression placed on poor kids. Why is it necessarily bad? And why is it acceptable when grownups in the army/navy wear uniforms? Is that suppression as well?
I find the icon very appropriate for headlines like "Car salesman granted patent for breathing air", but not for "Legit company sues bunch of assholes for stealing non-obvious patented ideas". Perhaps another more appropriate icon for patents that are not as obviously-ridiculous?
If it's not any different, then it would happen regardless of whether the my.mp3.com service exists or not. mp3.com doesn't make it any easier to pirate CD collections than borrowing it from a friend.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even WITHOUT my.mp3.com, couldn't you rip and encode someone's CD collection ANYWAYS if you borrow it? What makes this any different?
I agree with e-gold - I would be freaked out too if man in black drags are running around signing arrest warrants.
Oh please. You're not one of the few negative posters around slashdot, but you're certainly among the many negative posters that got moderated up - not because your comment was interesting, but you included the "I'm might get moderated down for this..." disclaimer.
I'm wondering if I watched the same presentation as the rest of the posters here... Deitzel and co. effectively skirted the performance/Mhz question, which says to me that they don't have much to brag about in the performance area, otherwise- They would've bragged about performance/Mhz.
I'm sorry to be rude, but duh. That's how marketing works. You emphasize on the fine points of your product, and you skim over the weak points. Even a moron would not try to shift that focus in their own product release.
I could've sworn I was watching an Microsoft/Apple/Intel love-in/press-conference at times. A quote of note: "Crusoe will be a low power internet platform for the future". What the fsck does that mean? There was lots of 'marchitecure', but little in the way of hard performance numbers.
I sure as hell don't konw what's a "Microsoft/Apple/Intel love-in/press-conference", but if you're referring to the catchy marketing phrases, you might want to remind yourself that you ARE listening to a product release.
Transmeta is a privately-funded company. It's not a university research laboratory. They aren't presenting a research paper. They are a company, and they are trying to make money to make a return on their investment.
Also, their product is targetted at OEMs and computer manufacterers, which is why the technical details are in the press pack, and not the webcast.
Looks like Transmeta's smartest move was to hire Linus, 'cause the whole of Slashdot is believing the (and feeding) the hype without knowing all the facts.
I agree. Those moderators that feed the heretic-wannabes really should stop. Sorry if I sound a bit harsh, but I really can't stand these "I have some pissed-off opinion to be moderated up" posts escaping my score 2 threshold anymore.
RealNetworks Wins Preliminary Injunction in Landmark Case Protecting Copyright Holders in the Digital Age
Court Bars Streambox From Distributing or Marketing Streambox VCR And Streambox Ferret
SEATTLE, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - news), the recognized leader in media delivery on the Internet, said today it is pleased that the Honorable Marsha Pechman of the Western Circuit Court in Washington has granted RealNetworks' motion for a preliminary injunction barring Streambox from distributing products that illegally circumvent the copyright protection in RealAudio and RealVideo. Specifically, Streambox is enjoined from marketing and distributing the Streambox VCR, which records live streams against the wishes of copyright holders, and the Streambox Ferret, which interferes with the appearance and functionality of the RealPlayer®.
``We are very pleased that the court has upheld the basic principle that it is illegal to circumvent copy protection mechanisms in order to record streams against the wishes of copyright holders,'' said Alex Alben, vice president of Government Affairs, RealNetworks, Inc. ``RealNetworks brought this suit to protect the copyright of the content holders who trust RealNetworks' software and systems to not only provide a high quality user experience, but also to provide it in a format that is protected from duplication. We look forward to the opportunity to argue the remaining issues in court and feel confident that we will prevail on all counts at the end of the day.''
``I'm pleased by the Judge's ruling,'' said Cary Sherman, senior executive vice president and general counsel, Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. ``The RIAA fully supports RealNetworks' position in this case for the sake of our members and a legitimate marketplace. RealNetworks' technology is a success in large measure because it protects creators at the same time it givers consumers access to the music they want. Streambox's hacking tools rob creators of the very protection RealNetworks offers. That is precisely what the DMCA was intended to prevent.'' The RIAA members own 90% of legitimate sound recordings produced in the United States.
``Liquid Audio strongly supports RealNetworks' legal efforts to protect the millions of copyright holders around the world by keeping Internet music secure,'' said Gerry Kearby, chief executive officer of Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq: LQID - news). ``As pioneers in secure Internet music delivery, we firmly believe in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as a key legal protection that will help ensure the development of a digital music economy.''
``The decision handed down today illustrates the importance of companies being able to adequately protect their intellectual property through technological means,'' said Keith Kupferschmid, Intellectual Property Counsel for the Software & Information Industry Association. ``Congress clearly respects the technological efforts being made by companies to protect their goods and services online and intended to protect these efforts when it passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Today's decision demonstrates that the courts' also understand importance of the circumvention protections provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.''
The order today addresses two products marketed by Streambox: Streambox VCR, which circumvents RealNetworks' copyright protection measures to save streams to disk; and the Streambox Ferret, which interferes with the appearance and functionality of the RealPlayer® and redirects end-users of the RealPlayer search bar to Streambox's search site instead of the Snap!.com search site. A third product, the Streambox Ripper, which affects only files that have already been stored locally on a user's computer, was not included in the preliminary injunction. All three products were initially enjoined by a temporary restraining order entered on December 23, 1999.
For more information: http://www.realnetworks.com/company/pressroom/stre ambox_litigation.html.
ZDNet bids item with pro-linux description
Posted by Roblimo on 04:15 AM April 1st, 2000
ZDNet Employee writes "ZDNet's CEO is auctioning his old Porche for a new Ferrari. The good thing is that the Porche comes with a Redhat 5.1 CD in the back on the trunk. All proceeds go to the CEO and his girlfriend." It's worth $11,342,251 as we speak. Can I bid with my inflated Andover/RedHat stocks?
apparently, the moderators also believed that this hypocrisy (especially in the light of Rob's obnoxious answer in the /. interview) should be moderated up for more people to see.
If you think that you can write a better slashdot, then go out and do it. I wish you well. The folks that run this site are under no obligation to release anything that they do. The author is the one who ultimately has the rights to the software that he writes, no matter how much you demand otherwise.
Ability To Do Better is NOT a prerequisite to the Right To Complain. If that were true, then:
all movie critics can't complain unless they can make a better movie.
all game critics can't complain unless they can make a better game.
and so on.
I especially dig the phrase "I'll probably get flamed and moderated down for this", since almost every post I see with this phrase gets moderated up. Moderators, they are playing with your mind. It's almost like the poster is say "nah nah, I dare you to moderate me up!"
I think finkployd is on the money when he postulates that Malc is just trying to be funny, or he's craving for karma.
Frac
Gates will remain as chairman, and Steve Balmer, who has earlier replaced Gates as president, will continue to be president and CEO.
I'm disappointed this ridiculous post actually got moderated to a Score of >>3. It's nothing but a spew of trite Linux/FreeBSD advocacy attacks and flames towards Emmett at a personal level. maybe it's time I set my viewing level even higher.
Funny thing is that if Sun truly opened up their source for Solaris, *except* their kernel, because they intend to sell it, you wouldn't be chiming this sarcastic tune.
You are doing both.
I don't believe that was my full quote. It wasn't a complete sentence that you quoted. Thats for butchering it to make your post sound though.
heck out projects such as counter-strike for Half-Life and countless mods for other fps games. Opening the code for many portions of this code will allow these same people to expand on their ideas without the limitations of calling a dll.
I think you're confusing mod code like UnrealScript with Brandon releasing code that doesn't work well under linux. It has more with "I can't fix this, I hope someone else will" than "here's the code to help out mod authors". If it's out there for mod authors, where's the artistic licensed version for win32? I believe you're the one not in the know.
I'm sure there are people who will also want to play with the unreal linux code.
Just like how there are people who wants to play with OS X's Darwin code and Sun's SCSL-licensed code. obviously you missed the whole point of my post, which wasn't simply about releasing the source.
You're being ungrateful. You don't have to use what is given or bitch about it either. The partially open code isn't a command -- it's an offer. Whether people pick up the code and mould it into something usable is another matter.
I'm not being ungrateful. I'm questioning the intention of their opening up of the code, and the usefulness of that code and its life outside the Unreal engine. Of course, you fail to address that point, and chose to twist and fiddle with my words to turn me into a whiner who wants the whole thing open sourced. If sheep like you who proclaim to be anti-whiners actualy think it's a good thing, then I can imagine other companies following suit soon with their partial-open-sourcing strategy.
id didn't have to release their renderers and audio libraries, because q3a was designed to be platform-independent to begin with, and they have more competent Linux coders working for them. Brandon admitted in his plan that he released those parts of the code because he couldn't make it better (work more properly), and hopes that someone else can fix it for him.
They've got a LONG history of doing this, while Epic is probably only doing this because they have to match id or UT will be blown out of the water by Q3.
ditto. but their "grace" in opening up parts of their code seems like a wolve in open source clothing to me. Frac
It almost sounds like Apple opening up parts of OS X so the "open source community" can hack away and improve the sales of their commercial product.
And with a little imagination, you can parallel their intentions with Sun - they want to have the advantages of open source without the disadvantages, which are: control of code, and loss of commercial value.
The Unreal engine has made lots of money in terms of licensing for Epic Games - I wasn't totaly surprised that they didn't release all the source. But do notice that the most prized and valuable code that makes the Unreal engine tick is still locked up away from everyone else.
Why? I think Brandon explains it fairly clearly in his .plan:
I'm not trying to sound bratty and trying to whine Epic into releasing everything (not that it would work anywaysnow everybody get to work and make the linux code better, so Epic can sell more engines!
Frac
Did you even bother reading the other posts? A few other posters also noticed that the "answers weren't helpful"
when someone is asking for a simple yes/no answer, and you're making them go click on the hyperlink when you could've answer their question in less keystrokes, that sounds pretty rude to me.
Capiche?
Posts tend to be get the moderation easier, if they:
Start the post with:
"I'll know I'll get [flamed/moderated down/shot/offtopic -1] for this, BUT..."
That'll get the attention of the moderators. Now post something pro-[controversial] (ie. Sun, Microsoft, AOL) voila! instant [Insightful/Interesting] marks up for ya.
somebody please mod that guy back down... this only encourages people that snap at each other to be modded up.
1999-12-10 16:07:55 Grossman's book slammed on MSNBC (articles,news) (rejected)
1999-12-01 13:57:51 Intel/Dell acknowledges Coppermine bug (articles,intel) (rejected)
1999-12-06 09:21:22 Merced Simulator posted online (articles,news) (rejected)
1999-12-06 14:17:26 3dfx Open Sources Glide API (articles,news) (rejected)
I'm not bitter (okay, maybe a little bitter), but seems like the slashdot submit news process is grossly inefficient. May I suggest that there is a reason should it be rejected?
i.e. (rejected: redundant)
or (rejected: CmdrTaco thinks it doesn't matter)
I think it's time we need another "slashdot" thread just to discuss the growing flaws of the slashdot moderation system and etc. I'll list the ones off the top of my head:
* Stories get rejected for unknown reasons, only to show up again a day later.
(maybe rejected stories should be reviewed somewhere, so we can moderate the storie back up to be posted?)
* On the other hand, there are "new" stories that link to the same article as that other "new" story one month ago. How is linking to an article 9 days ago considered "news"? (IBM porting Linux to S/390, for example)
(have another queue that shows "approved" stories - members can go in and moderate interesting stories up, and repeated or dull stories down)
* news guys that are inserting too much of their own biased opinion into the news stories, shifting the opinion of the comments before anything gets posted! For example, I'm am on the verge of ignoring a certain section on slashdot, because one news guy is frequently jumping the gun on My Rights Online, ie. how a game software developer is tracking me down with my video card model. I appreciate the intention of that section (which is why i haven't dropped it yet), but is it really necessary for the article to acuse the developer having "unconvincing explanations", then later give some half-assed retraction with "oh, this isn't a big deal really, I just didn't really think before I gave out my conspiracy theory.
There are many more problems I (and I presume many of us) have with the current system. We don't want to bitch and moan, we just want a dedicated thread where we can all give out positive criticisms.
This will probably be moderated down, but I really hope malda/hemos/roblimo and etc. will see this.
go ahead and mod me down for off topic, but what's the point of the apache section if apache-relevant stories aren't going to be posted there?
I do not think she at any point believed offline material will be phased out completely.
Would anyone still curl up in bed with a computer magazine reading news that you learned of in /. three months ago? I think not.