This is woefully inadequate, given the current structure of the Internet. Again, Open Source raises its hand, but the teacher refuses to call on it...
-HooD
I had a foot of my small intestine taken out of me, and they refused to let me take it home. Frankly, I couldn't think of a better souvenir of my two weeks in the hospital than a largish chunk of intestine floating inside a formaldehyde-filled Smucker's jar, but the hospital thought the idea was "ridiculous" and "disgusting". Of all the nerve!
I you're paying extra for materials/hardware/equipment because of something you MIGHT do with them, you're essentially being given tacit permission to perform said acts -- instead of paying at the point of purchase, you're paying in advance. It's well in keeping with their current policy of curing a headache by chopping of the head.
This seems to be a disturbing precident. I know that Napster directories are available to be read by everyone, but I really don't like the idea of being target-marketed based on what's on my hard drive ("According to our glance at your Quicken folder, you seem to cheat heavily on your taxes. Perhaps you'd care to make use of our legal services!"). Furthermore, I find it hard to believe that they hire human spammers to do all this dirty work. Dollars to doughnuts that they're running bots on Napster's valued no-bot network. Is Napster doing anything about this?
All they have to do is purchase one robot with the million, then that robot builds ten smaller robots, then those robots build ten smaller robots, which then assemble piles and piles of crisp, 100-dollar bills out of component molecules.
Hmm...I don't necessarily think that you're going to have a flood of Everquests rolling off the line just because the whole deal is GPL'd. I mean, the Genesis3D engine's been available for everyone to use for quite a while, and there hasn't been exactly a flood of quality 3D shooters coming out of it. I think that if you've got tools, talent, and time to spare, you're more likely to get a job at Verant than designing a virtual Nirvana.
Everyone remember Joel Hodgson, genius creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000? Well, he created a gigantic movable set-based show (that, sadly, never made it into syndication). The name of this show/concept/contraption? The X-box!
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This is woefully inadequate, given the current structure of the Internet. Again, Open Source raises its hand, but the teacher refuses to call on it... -HooD
I had a foot of my small intestine taken out of me, and they refused to let me take it home. Frankly, I couldn't think of a better souvenir of my two weeks in the hospital than a largish chunk of intestine floating inside a formaldehyde-filled Smucker's jar, but the hospital thought the idea was "ridiculous" and "disgusting". Of all the nerve!
I you're paying extra for materials/hardware/equipment because of something you MIGHT do with them, you're essentially being given tacit permission to perform said acts -- instead of paying at the point of purchase, you're paying in advance. It's well in keeping with their current policy of curing a headache by chopping of the head.
This seems to be a disturbing precident. I know that Napster directories are available to be read by everyone, but I really don't like the idea of being target-marketed based on what's on my hard drive ("According to our glance at your Quicken folder, you seem to cheat heavily on your taxes. Perhaps you'd care to make use of our legal services!"). Furthermore, I find it hard to believe that they hire human spammers to do all this dirty work. Dollars to doughnuts that they're running bots on Napster's valued no-bot network. Is Napster doing anything about this?
Sounds like that time I tried to learn Perl. "Ok, with this language, it does what it thinks you meant to say."
All they have to do is purchase one robot with the million, then that robot builds ten smaller robots, then those robots build ten smaller robots, which then assemble piles and piles of crisp, 100-dollar bills out of component molecules.
Hmm...I don't necessarily think that you're going to have a flood of Everquests rolling off the line just because the whole deal is GPL'd. I mean, the Genesis3D engine's been available for everyone to use for quite a while, and there hasn't been exactly a flood of quality 3D shooters coming out of it. I think that if you've got tools, talent, and time to spare, you're more likely to get a job at Verant than designing a virtual Nirvana.
Joel should sue both of them.
http://www.gizmonics.com/xboxm.htm/