Yesterday, slashdotter scumdamn posted this: (Moderate this up!)
It's Time to Kill Apogee and send them and 3D Realms to the Planet of the Babes. They knew me and my Lo Wang were the King of carnage and King of action respectively yet they decided to tell us to Hail to the king? I don't think so! They better Come get some and suck my Dr. Proton before I carve The yellow "Duke Nukem" title into their Balls of Steel! It's Zero Hour. I'll give them Max Payne! I'll make them and General Phil Graves my Prey!
I'm going to drop a Bombshell here. Me, Duke Nukem, and Talon Brave were running around in the snow acting like Shadow Warriors. We saw a bunch of Pinball Wizards coming our way. Imagine their surprise when they came upon The yellow nuke symbol we made. (Being a gentleman, I won't go into details on how we made the snow yellow.)
Immediately, I wondered Apogee PR dude Scott Miller's response would be if someone sent him this, so I sent it to him. Here's the reply:
A standard response to the madness!:-)
Anyone who thinks we are trying to control reviews and such are jumping on a bandwagon without really giving it proper consideration. Legally, that's entirely impossible -- but then, most people know less about law than they do making ice.;-)
This policy/agreement simply allows fan sites to use our trademarks and copyright character art, etc. Most developers/publishers do not allow this at all. End of story. We are providing a way for them to do so, though. Lay people, of course, read this policy and become panic mongers. This policy is only for owners of web sites who wish to use our trademarks and copyrights, like www.3dportal.com. Somehow, someone found a link to it and of course jumps to the wrong conclusion, because...hey...it then can become a hot topic.
Also, screen shots are covered by free speech--another fact that people who've made ignorance-based assumptions on this issue do not know...but now you're part of the minority who can help defeat the madness. (It's a tough job...just warning you. )
We might need to make it more clear that reviews are--of course!--not what concern us (nor could we legally prevent negative reviews--that's patently absurd). It's to stop web sites from using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would not allow our logos to be used on a KKK site. BTW, this page was not for public view, and was a work-in-progress.
Thanks for understanding.
Back to important work...
I must say that I'm suprised he make any comments about my intelligence or non-lawyerness. I guess someone reminded him what Public Relations means.
What is this guy selling? MSDN advertisements? I could just see some dude paying this guy $2 for this information, and the seller sends him a letter saying, "For $2500, join MSDN and get all this software free."
IA-64, at least now, only means Itanium. Do we really hate the name Itanium so much that we refuse to call it that? Even the article in which the new name was announced, the title read "Itani-what". The other day, I submitted a story about Itanium prices. It was rejected. If I called it a story about IA-64 prices, Rob would have posted it right away.
The day after the story about this virus broke into the news, I went into my high school's library and sat down at a computer next to several other people. Our computers have win95, netscape navigator, and eudora as a mail client. IE/Outlook are no where to be found on any of the machines in the building. I was sitting there reading/. when one of the librarians walked over behind us. She told us, "For anyone using email, do not open anything that says 'I love you' on it. If you do, you will lose your computer privileges (sp)." Of course, I laughed and mumbled stuff about how our computers don't have outlook, but everyone else seemed to take it seriously.
Yeah! Just started my own open-source project, OpenDIVX. At opendivx.cx, you can find out how to watch DIVX movies under Linux with your DIVX-ROM drive! OpenDIVX will do its best to attempt to not be sued by Circuit Shitty...er, City.
There seems to be a 'boycott' of DVD going on, but many of the same people are saying that they would only buy Episode 1 on DVD. Is there some sort of rule I'm missing? "Thou shalt not buy a DVD, unless the DVD is Star Wars." If we hate the DVD people so much, then we should be happy that Episode 1 is only available on VHS.
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Now, instead of spending $1 to play a video game for 30 seconds, kids can spend their money on something...that isn't such a rip-off.
I'd like to use one of these in my 486.
Did anyone follow the link labeled "Anonymous Coward" that went to http://www.thrall.net? Is that guy in that picture the infamous AC?
id Software Releases IDEYES
This was the second post, and the first post was about the 2.4 kernel (which was more offtopic than funny). How is this redundant?
Line noise, baby!
If this is what we are capable of, then why can I only connect at 26400 bps?
I've got a Real Working Mach64 right here with me.
id Software Releases IDEYES
Keep up the good work, Malda & Co.
Adding Dreamcast capabilities to a PC seems attractive to me.
It's Time to Kill Apogee and send them and 3D Realms to the Planet of the Babes. They knew me and my Lo Wang were the King of carnage and King of action respectively yet they decided to tell us to Hail to the king? I don't think so! They better Come get some and suck my Dr. Proton before I carve The yellow "Duke Nukem" title into their Balls of Steel! It's Zero Hour. I'll give them Max Payne! I'll make them and General Phil Graves my Prey!
I'm going to drop a Bombshell here. Me, Duke Nukem, and Talon Brave were running around in the snow acting like Shadow Warriors. We saw a bunch of Pinball Wizards coming our way. Imagine their surprise when they came upon The yellow nuke symbol we made. (Being a gentleman, I won't go into details on how we made the snow yellow.)
Immediately, I wondered Apogee PR dude Scott Miller's response would be if someone sent him this, so I sent it to him. Here's the reply:
A standard response to the madness! :-)
Anyone who thinks we are trying to control reviews and such are jumping on a bandwagon without really giving it proper consideration. Legally, that's entirely impossible -- but then, most people know less about law than they do making ice. ;-)
This policy/agreement simply allows fan sites to use our trademarks and copyright character art, etc. Most developers/publishers do not allow this at all. End of story. We are providing a way for them to do so, though. Lay people, of course, read this policy and become panic mongers. This policy is only for owners of web sites who wish to use our trademarks and copyrights, like www.3dportal.com. Somehow, someone found a link to it and of course jumps to the wrong conclusion, because...hey...it then can become a hot topic.
Also, screen shots are covered by free speech--another fact that people who've made ignorance-based assumptions on this issue do not know...but now you're part of the minority who can help defeat the madness. (It's a tough job...just warning you. )
We might need to make it more clear that reviews are--of course!--not what concern us (nor could we legally prevent negative reviews--that's patently absurd). It's to stop web sites from using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would not allow our logos to be used on a KKK site. BTW, this page was not for public view, and was a work-in-progress.
Thanks for understanding.
Back to important work...
I must say that I'm suprised he make any comments about my intelligence or non-lawyerness. I guess someone reminded him what Public Relations means.
What is this guy selling? MSDN advertisements? I could just see some dude paying this guy $2 for this information, and the seller sends him a letter saying, "For $2500, join MSDN and get all this software free."
IA-64, at least now, only means Itanium. Do we really hate the name Itanium so much that we refuse to call it that? Even the article in which the new name was announced, the title read "Itani-what". The other day, I submitted a story about Itanium prices. It was rejected. If I called it a story about IA-64 prices, Rob would have posted it right away.
The day after the story about this virus broke into the news, I went into my high school's library and sat down at a computer next to several other people. Our computers have win95, netscape navigator, and eudora as a mail client. IE/Outlook are no where to be found on any of the machines in the building. I was sitting there reading /. when one of the librarians walked over behind us. She told us, "For anyone using email, do not open anything that says 'I love you' on it. If you do, you will lose your computer privileges (sp)." Of course, I laughed and mumbled stuff about how our computers don't have outlook, but everyone else seemed to take it seriously.
I did something like that. Instead, I got to Leap Over All Linux Insurrectionist Nerds.
Definitely not off topic. 386 is a very important number, especially as it relates to this article.
I think you are recycling a horoscope from last week's The Onion.
yes and Linux isn't Unix.
You mean GNU's Not Unix, right?
Yeah! Just started my own open-source project, OpenDIVX. At opendivx.cx, you can find out how to watch DIVX movies under Linux with your DIVX-ROM drive! OpenDIVX will do its best to attempt to not be sued by Circuit Shitty...er, City.
For sale? Here in Madison, WI, it is free.
I used to have 5 of them, but my parents got rid of them.
Look at street addresses. The buildings with an address ending with zero are always on the same side of the street as the evens.
You guys are odd.
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There seems to be a 'boycott' of DVD going on, but many of the same people are saying that they would only buy Episode 1 on DVD. Is there some sort of rule I'm missing? "Thou shalt not buy a DVD, unless the DVD is Star Wars." If we hate the DVD people so much, then we should be happy that Episode 1 is only available on VHS.