You lost that argument a long time ago. Definitions change with usage. Common usage, whether you like it or not, is to conflate piracy with unauthorised duplication. I say duplication, because current anti-piracy music disk mangling is aimed at preventing duplication, nor distribution. The RIAA tried to go further with their lawsuit against Diamond over the Rio just because it played mp3s, but they backed down on that one, so for the moment, piracy == unauthorised duplication, as it's meant by the people who actually use the word the most.
Bear in mind that the weasels at the top will loot the burning hulk and golden parachute to new jobs with their friends and relatives, while the actual working stiffs at SCO are the ones getting "reorganised" out of the door with nothing to show for their work, some of which will have been performed before SCO went Dark Side.
As is the network design. Before you all go apeshit rating me down, the open source games Netrek and XPilot are examples of smart, clean and original designs that build simple elements into emergent gameplay complexity. BZFlag in comparison is derivative and less than the sum of its parts. The only thing that it has going for it is that it throws polygons rather than bitmaps or polylines at the screen.
Now that I think about it, it's actually kind of sad that far superior games have been eclipsed by something that boasts only eye candy, and awful eye candy at that.
A clapped out portal from the Olden Days thinks up a stupid scheme to get attention and page hits from bored geeks, and it pays off in spades. There's no story here, other than that Lycos want to serve you ads by any means possible.
Because it seems to me that SCO might be willing to pay people to take their farcical licenses, just to generate this kind of pitiful press release. Given that SCO don't crow about how big these 'purchasers' are, it seems reasonable that they're small, and small companies don't in general buy (in the sense of paying money to a vendor) for licenses that they don't need.
Hmm, I wonder if the 'purchasers' insisted on anonymity as a condition of 'sale'? You know, I'm half tempted to give them a call myself and see how much I can squeeze out of them for the priviledge of increasing their UK 'sales' by 50%.
You're talking about moving to an investigative system, which pretty much requires a complete do-over. I actually agree, but it's not going to happen without, er, regime change.
Asks this European gamer, who still can't purchase City of Heroes. No, I'm not going to buy an import. That just further skews the perception of how important regional markets are.
Well, if they didn't have a Cease and Desist from Nintendo before, I'm damn sure they'll get one now. How about we don't report on that?
Honestly, the adage about replacing people with very small shell scripts has never been more apt. Would it be possible to write an 'editor' script for Slashdot that performed worse than the 'editors' who currently draw a salary for 'doing' that 'job'?
It never ceases to amaze me that people who can deal with the difference between &&, ||, & and | can't distinguish between less amount and fewer numbers.
That you're posting in a thread started by a bozo who has no fucking idea about the different licenses, not even with CC there to hold his hand? You could perhaps pick a better example in which to make your point.
But the same applies. Good gravy, look at the modernMiddle Eastern countries that we count among our friends. Read the Quran or Old Testament. They're not exactly feminist tracts (and the Law of the Prophets is actually worse than the Quran). There's little point in playing a historical or geographically placed game if you want to pretend that it's just San Francisco circa 2004 with a little more sand.
Look, I know a guy who's working on it, a really decent man. He has a wife, a child, and another on the way. If you copy this instead of buying it, you're contributing to putting him out of a job just when he needs one the most.
This isn't a theoretical issue. Rockstar aren't some faceless cartel. Please. Do the right thing this time.
Processor power is cheap compared to engineer salaries. If you aren't prepared to take the hit for an "if(foo)" conditional, then be prepared to pay for my time in finding the flaw in your code.
How much investigation did the Slashdot 'editors' do into this before ejaculating it forth? Is there some reason why you think that they are exempt from this Journalist's Code that you seem to believe exists?
If I develop more efficiently, do I get paid more? Does it stave off the inevitable outsourcing to guys working for 10% of my salary? No, you say? Then why, dear heart, should I give a damn?
Up to a point. If an RTOS has nothing to do with a low latency OS, then by your argument an OS with a deterministic response of less then ten minutes is an RTOS.
I didn't say that low latency means realtime, so don't bother refuting it.
I agree that deterministic response time is what's used to define an RTOS, but I happen to dislike the qualitative rather than quantatitive use of "Real Time" as a description. Can we settle on "Deterministically Low Latency OS"?
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You lost that argument a long time ago. Definitions change with usage. Common usage, whether you like it or not, is to conflate piracy with unauthorised duplication. I say duplication, because current anti-piracy music disk mangling is aimed at preventing duplication, nor distribution. The RIAA tried to go further with their lawsuit against Diamond over the Rio just because it played mp3s, but they backed down on that one, so for the moment, piracy == unauthorised duplication, as it's meant by the people who actually use the word the most.
Please make your mind up whether you're pro-free market or against it.
Bear in mind that the weasels at the top will loot the burning hulk and golden parachute to new jobs with their friends and relatives, while the actual working stiffs at SCO are the ones getting "reorganised" out of the door with nothing to show for their work, some of which will have been performed before SCO went Dark Side.
You are now the third least awful FOSS game!
As is the network design. Before you all go apeshit rating me down, the open source games Netrek and XPilot are examples of smart, clean and original designs that build simple elements into emergent gameplay complexity. BZFlag in comparison is derivative and less than the sum of its parts. The only thing that it has going for it is that it throws polygons rather than bitmaps or polylines at the screen.
Now that I think about it, it's actually kind of sad that far superior games have been eclipsed by something that boasts only eye candy, and awful eye candy at that.
However, I DO love Saddam and want to put him back in charge.
A clapped out portal from the Olden Days thinks up a stupid scheme to get attention and page hits from bored geeks, and it pays off in spades. There's no story here, other than that Lycos want to serve you ads by any means possible.
We should have lots of them.
Because it seems to me that SCO might be willing to pay people to take their farcical licenses, just to generate this kind of pitiful press release. Given that SCO don't crow about how big these 'purchasers' are, it seems reasonable that they're small, and small companies don't in general buy (in the sense of paying money to a vendor) for licenses that they don't need.
Hmm, I wonder if the 'purchasers' insisted on anonymity as a condition of 'sale'? You know, I'm half tempted to give them a call myself and see how much I can squeeze out of them for the priviledge of increasing their UK 'sales' by 50%.
You're talking about moving to an investigative system, which pretty much requires a complete do-over. I actually agree, but it's not going to happen without, er, regime change.
How come there isn't an open source solution already?
Asks this European gamer, who still can't purchase City of Heroes. No, I'm not going to buy an import. That just further skews the perception of how important regional markets are.
Anywhere but Slashdot, I mean.
Well, if they didn't have a Cease and Desist from Nintendo before, I'm damn sure they'll get one now. How about we don't report on that?
Honestly, the adage about replacing people with very small shell scripts has never been more apt. Would it be possible to write an 'editor' script for Slashdot that performed worse than the 'editors' who currently draw a salary for 'doing' that 'job'?
That every portable hard disk based music player is inferior to an iPod until we hear otherwise? We get the message.
That means we're both cretins. Hurrah!
i bouet it and my peniss grew 3'' OVERNITE!!!! emily cornbred form ohio DIDN@T BUY IT and next week she was RUN OVIR BY A TRANE!!!!
It never ceases to amaze me that people who can deal with the difference between &&, ||, & and | can't distinguish between less amount and fewer numbers.
Be still my beating heart!
That you're posting in a thread started by a bozo who has no fucking idea about the different licenses, not even with CC there to hold his hand? You could perhaps pick a better example in which to make your point.
But the same applies. Good gravy, look at the modern Middle Eastern countries that we count among our friends. Read the Quran or Old Testament. They're not exactly feminist tracts (and the Law of the Prophets is actually worse than the Quran). There's little point in playing a historical or geographically placed game if you want to pretend that it's just San Francisco circa 2004 with a little more sand.
Look, I know a guy who's working on it, a really decent man. He has a wife, a child, and another on the way. If you copy this instead of buying it, you're contributing to putting him out of a job just when he needs one the most.
This isn't a theoretical issue. Rockstar aren't some faceless cartel. Please. Do the right thing this time.
Processor power is cheap compared to engineer salaries. If you aren't prepared to take the hit for an "if(foo)" conditional, then be prepared to pay for my time in finding the flaw in your code.
How much investigation did the Slashdot 'editors' do into this before ejaculating it forth? Is there some reason why you think that they are exempt from this Journalist's Code that you seem to believe exists?
If I develop more efficiently, do I get paid more? Does it stave off the inevitable outsourcing to guys working for 10% of my salary? No, you say? Then why, dear heart, should I give a damn?
Up to a point. If an RTOS has nothing to do with a low latency OS, then by your argument an OS with a deterministic response of less then ten minutes is an RTOS.
I didn't say that low latency means realtime, so don't bother refuting it.
I agree that deterministic response time is what's used to define an RTOS, but I happen to dislike the qualitative rather than quantatitive use of "Real Time" as a description. Can we settle on "Deterministically Low Latency OS"?