Doesn't this have a striking resemblance to a certain Dr. Who episode with the creation of the daleks (as far as I remember, "the genesis of the daleks" episode) where the brains of genetically enhanched ferocious animal was used as a basis for the supreme dalek intellect. So this is where it all began?
Exterminate Exterminate, Slashdot is an enemy of the daleks.. EXTERMINATE
Although mentioned several times already, amazon does a pretty nice job of acting out the role of a 'comprehensive net-based book et al. resource', with the downside of being run by a commercial entity.I for one will embrace free and open alternatives such as this one(have had enough amazon- problems in the past to stay away from them whenever possible)
Also it would be pretty nifty to have other interfaces to the database in addition to the web-based one, like SOAP (as a sidenote, the iblist administration interface for adding books & data is pretty nice)
Another area I feel is in great need of a similar resource is games(especially retro) (computer, board, card, pen & paper, arcade, console, pinball) where relevant comprehensive data is scattered all over the net. "Oh I need information of those kinds of arcade games? system16.com perhaps? klov.com? usenet? aaaargh)
Now if you'd rather give your gameboy advance a severe bashing after stepping into one of those 'less-than-obvious' spike traps for the n'teenth time (if you have a flash-linker of course)
2. Permitted New Creations. Subject to the terms and provisions of this Agreement and so long as you fully comply at all times with this Agreement, ID grants to you the non-exclusive and limited right to create for the Software (except any Software code) your own modifications (the "New Creations") which shall operate only with the Software (but not any demo, test or other version of the Software). ID reserves all rights not granted in this Agreement, including, without limitation, all rights to ID's trademarks. You may include within the New Creations certain textures and other images (the "ID Images") from the Software. You shall not create any New Creations which infringe against any third party right or which are libelous, defamatory, obscene, false, misleading, or otherwise illegal or unlawful. You agree that the New Creations will not be shipped, transferred or exported into any country in violation of the U.S. Export Administration Act (or any other law governing such matters) by you or anyone at your direction and that you will not utilize and will not authorize anyone to utilize, in any other manner, the New Creations in violation of any applicable law. The New Creations shall not be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods or to anyone or into any country who/which are prohibited, by applicable law, from receiving such property. You shall not rent, sell, lease, lend, offer on a pay-per-play basis or otherwise commercially exploit or commercially distribute the New Creations. You are only permitted to distribute, without any cost or charge, the New Creations to other end-users so long as such distribution is not infringing against any third party right and is not otherwise illegal or unlawful. As noted below, in the event you commit any breach of this Agreement, your license and this Agreement shall automatically terminate, without notice. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless ID and Activision and ID's and Activision's respective officers, employees, directors, agents, licensees (excluding you), sub-licensees (excluding you), successors and assigns from and against all losses, lawsuits, damages, causes of action and claims relating to and/or arising from the New Creations or the distribution or other use of the New Creations or relating to and/or arising from your breach of this Agreement. Your obligations set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall survive the cancellation or termination of this Agreement.
Basically, 1. The Mod should only work with the full-blown application, not the demo 2. Do not distribute the modification to anyone that isn't legal allowed to purchase/use the application. 3. Don't sell the modification without going through us 4. Don't distribute if you break any other partys trademarks, copyrights or similar. 5. Break this EULA and you're on your own, ID & affiliates and not responsible for your actions
Now this doesn't seem half as harsh as "grant back to INFOGRAMES and BIOWARE an irrevocable royalty-free right to use and distribute them by any means." basically saying ALL YOUR MODS ARE BELONG TO US (sorry, just had to do that:-)
You don't see photoshop telling us that any creations formed by the use of this application also belongs to adobe.
I seriously doubt that you need to go to this length to protect us and yourselves against hungry law-men.
Speaking for myself, this won't affect my pre-order, I will still wait for the sweet thing to drop down in my mailbox, but I won't be doing any mods (if Wine or a C++ Builder port makes the tools usable under linux)
for a variety of tables, and I *think* rom images (for PinMAME, otherwise the manufacturers usually put them out on their sites for those blessed with an actual machine)
Sad part (for me at least) is that there isn't a similar (or port for that matter) project under Linux. Any pinball-addicted developers up for the challenge?
Except for the previously mentioned fact that Jan didn't have anything to do with the reverse engineering of the crypto & applications (the early rippers used unprotected keys stored inside a commercial player making it more of a crack), DeCSS wasn't the first application to do this.
A fairly "unknown" group previously known as Drink Or Die (RIP) released their "Speed Ripper" a few weeks before DeCSS but received much less media attention in comparison (certain other events changed that)
Didn't see it anywhere on the site, but most competitors in the down-hill snowracers business (as in snowboard games & the likes although few on the PC) always features a bunch of tricks you can preform to obtain higher scores. Something that really increases the replay value. Or why not add weapons and downhill-deathmatch?
Imagine a 360-inverse-tux-flip or perhaps a tux-slide.. There's no end to the possibilities =)
...Article 19 ? Search and seizure of stored computer data
1. Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to empower its competent authorities to search or similarly access:
...
The bill fails right here, its compentent authorities they say? How can any country/minister that accepts crap like this be called competent?..
So if they can't be deemed competent they couldn't really enforce something where compentence is a dependancy now can they?
Is this "the bill of self-glorification with a few extra lines to stop potential terrorists or tech-savvy kids?)
Would be to let the users themselves set low-level details for the drivers, like different command-buffer sizes and so forth. I'm sure that more than one hardcore tweaker would drewl over the possibilities. With the fanbase many games have there would surely appear an extensive archive of "ultimate" tweaks for each game.
Another feasible option would perhaps be to *cough*OPEN-SOURCE THE DRIVERS*cough*
What is the current status of linux-Radeon 8500 drivers? I'm guessing that more people than me are using their 'nux boxes for 3d-gaming, and would jump at the chance of getting a card with NICE drivers (not to pick on NVdriver *cough*)
OK Guys, don't tell anyone, but there is a huge exploit in IIS involving unicode and mischevious urls..
*DOH*
Ok, CIA/FBI/NSA/Whatever, I'm fairly sure I've broken the law by helping potential terrorists hack your boxes. Book me, and while you're at it, nail that nimdba virus aswell, I'm pretty sure he's crack- I mean hacking...
First XP system sold, for me a frightening reality. Even though warezpuppies and beta-testing windowspuppets been running this for a while, it means another mark in the big-book of Windows users.
Another number in the usage statistics, the same statistics that will serve as a motivator (read excuse) for a company to develop their applications XP style, because are a potential customer. Even if you are a warezpuppy, installing your 3r337 Windows.XP.Final.Beta.Beta.WankerGroup.Repacked you are helping Microsoft. Yes, by installing and running XP you add to these depressing statistics. Then again you're not the ones I feel sorry for.
The one I wouldn't want to be right now is the customer receiving this computer. The same customer that a certain time later will be paying for his service packs, and monthly.
But he will have the latest.net snapshot (cvs -co WinXP excluding the sources), the finest backdoored encryption systems and propably his personal integrity & privacy permanenty mv:ed to/dev/null.
And then even if THEY get caught for killing John Doe's and several others' integrity, they will say: we are so sorry, please forgive us. It won't happen again. DOJ will belive them.
"The Origin of Linux", doesn't sound right, I'd rather have it "The Origin of Linux by means of penguin fanatics".
Comparing the work of Linus (& crew) to the work of Darwin is perhaps not fair, but their work had both a revolutionary effect and was regarded with contempt from many in power.
Not too many people these days questioning evolution right?
Seriously, I've experienced dark spots in local-quality cdr media several times, something I've come to blame my dvd player for (Kiss 1512), I toasted 10 VCD:s and tried 'em in the player, 2 out of 10 tested noname blanks had darker spots rendering those areas unreadable after the first time&spin in the player. 3 others also suffered from black spots after several sessions in the player. The other discs didn't seem to mind.
when RAGNAROK, the last battle of the coders is closing in, there will follow three broken kernel CVS trees in a row. The warm sun will reach even the darkest of dens, not even the script-kiddies will go safe.
Coders will come to fight against eachothers creations resulting in terrible flamewars.
The destructive forces will be gathered, Steve Ballmer(The midgaar serpent) will raise from the depths of Redmond to engulf the net, spreading FUD everywhere.
Richard Stallman(Fenriswolf) will break free from his chains and devour all coders that has refused to share their source-code in the past.
The mighty IBM ship (Nailfather) will set sail for the battle ground armed with organic LED's, Wrist-watches featuring Linux, and chess playing computers.
Illiad (Heimdal?) will blow his horn summoning all geeks (that could be geek-found) to join the fierce battle.
True that the benchmark seems mighty suspicious, but doesn't they slightly resemble a reverted mindcraft one?
It doesn't really matter which OS that wins, the sad thing is that some will take these numbers for authentic and realistic. More useless overhead in the neverending "which OS got the most wang" debate.
Has the FUD-wheel of the mighty penguin started to turn?
Slashdot Mirror
The only winning move is not to play
Doesn't this have a striking resemblance to a certain Dr. Who episode with the creation of the daleks (as far as I remember, "the genesis of the daleks" episode) where the brains of genetically enhanched ferocious animal was used as a basis for the supreme dalek intellect. So this is where it all began?
Exterminate Exterminate, Slashdot is an enemy of the daleks.. EXTERMINATE
The Ents will surely raise hell on this one I tell you..
Although mentioned several times already, amazon does a pretty nice job of acting out the role of a 'comprehensive net-based book et al. resource',
with the downside of being run by a commercial entity.I for one will embrace free and open alternatives such as this one(have had enough amazon- problems in the past to stay away from them whenever possible)
Also it would be pretty nifty to have other interfaces to the database in addition to the web-based one, like SOAP (as a sidenote, the iblist administration interface for adding books & data is pretty nice)
Another area I feel is in great need of a similar resource is games(especially retro) (computer, board, card, pen & paper, arcade, console, pinball) where relevant comprehensive data is scattered all over the net. "Oh I need information of those kinds of arcade games? system16.com perhaps? klov.com? usenet? aaaargh)
You do have the chance to once again experience frustration in the shape of digital "entertainment" thanks to
XRick
Now if you'd rather give your gameboy advance a severe bashing after stepping into one of those 'less-than-obvious' spike traps for the n'teenth time (if you have a flash-linker of course)
Rick Dangerous Advance
You will be able to and hopefully soon.
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. "
./quake3.x86 +set fs_game osp +connect door 27960 +password imagination
:opening /dev/dsp
:...loading libGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display
:self.fetch_coffee.drink
:-)
*check*
"Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound."
*check*
"A dimension of sight."
*check*
"A dimension of mind..."
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh *check*
"... You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone"
why yes indeed
Quake3 EULA, the relevant part:
:-)
2. Permitted New Creations. Subject to the terms and provisions of this Agreement and so long as you fully comply at all times with this Agreement, ID grants to you the non-exclusive and limited right to create for the Software (except any Software code) your own modifications (the "New Creations") which shall operate only with the Software (but not any demo, test or other version of the Software). ID reserves all rights not granted in this Agreement, including, without limitation, all rights to ID's trademarks. You may include within the New Creations certain textures and other images (the "ID Images") from the Software. You shall not create any New Creations which infringe against any third party right or which are libelous, defamatory, obscene, false, misleading, or otherwise illegal or unlawful. You agree that the New Creations will not be shipped, transferred or exported into any country in violation of the U.S. Export Administration Act (or any other law governing such matters) by you or anyone at your direction and that you will not utilize and will not authorize anyone to utilize, in any other manner, the New Creations in violation of any applicable law. The New Creations shall not be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods or to anyone or into any country who/which are prohibited, by applicable law, from receiving such property. You shall not rent, sell, lease, lend, offer on a pay-per-play basis or otherwise commercially exploit or commercially distribute the New Creations. You are only permitted to distribute, without any cost or charge, the New Creations to other end-users so long as such distribution is not infringing against any third party right and is not otherwise illegal or unlawful. As noted below, in the event you commit any breach of this Agreement, your license and this Agreement shall automatically terminate, without notice. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless ID and Activision and ID's and Activision's respective officers, employees, directors, agents, licensees (excluding you), sub-licensees (excluding you), successors and assigns from and against all losses, lawsuits, damages, causes of action and claims relating to and/or arising from the New Creations or the distribution or other use of the New Creations or relating to and/or arising from your breach of this Agreement. Your obligations set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall survive the cancellation or termination of this Agreement.
Basically,
1. The Mod should only work with the full-blown application, not the demo
2. Do not distribute the modification to anyone that isn't legal allowed to purchase/use the application.
3. Don't sell the modification without going through us
4. Don't distribute if you break any other partys trademarks, copyrights or similar.
5. Break this EULA and you're on your own, ID & affiliates and not responsible for your actions
Now this doesn't seem half as harsh as "grant back to INFOGRAMES and BIOWARE an irrevocable royalty-free right to use and distribute them by any means." basically saying ALL YOUR MODS ARE BELONG TO US (sorry, just had to do that
You don't see photoshop telling us that any creations formed by the use of this application also belongs to adobe.
I seriously doubt that you need to go to this length to protect us and yourselves against hungry law-men.
Speaking for myself, this won't affect my pre-order, I will still wait for the sweet thing to drop down in my mailbox, but I won't be doing any mods (if Wine or a C++ Builder port makes the tools usable under linux)
and they're already popping up.. prepare for *gasp*
[Team Fortress Neverwinter Nights]
perhaps complete this with the addition of
[Visual Pinball Homepage]
and
[IR-pinball]
for a variety of tables, and I *think* rom images (for PinMAME, otherwise the manufacturers usually put them out on their sites for those blessed with an actual machine) Sad part (for me at least) is that there isn't a similar (or port for that matter) project under Linux. Any pinball-addicted developers up for the challenge?
Except for the previously mentioned fact that Jan didn't have anything to do with the reverse engineering of the crypto & applications (the early rippers used unprotected keys stored inside a commercial player making it more of a crack), DeCSS wasn't the first application to do this.
A fairly "unknown" group previously known as Drink Or Die (RIP) released their "Speed Ripper" a few weeks before DeCSS but received much less media attention in comparison (certain other events changed that)
Related link:
The Truth
Didn't see it anywhere on the site, but most competitors in the down-hill snowracers business (as in snowboard games & the likes although few on the PC) always features a bunch of tricks you can preform to obtain higher scores. Something that really increases the replay value. Or why not add weapons and downhill-deathmatch?
Imagine a 360-inverse-tux-flip or perhaps a tux-slide.. There's no end to the possibilities =)
That put aside, the linux version wil be mine.
...Article 19 ? Search and seizure of stored computer data
1. Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to empower its competent authorities to search or similarly access:
...
The bill fails right here, its compentent authorities they say? How can any country/minister that accepts crap like this be called competent?..
So if they can't be deemed competent they couldn't really enforce something where compentence is a dependancy now can they?
Is this "the bill of self-glorification with a few extra lines to stop potential terrorists or tech-savvy kids?)
Would be to let the users themselves set low-level details for the drivers, like different command-buffer sizes and so forth. I'm sure that more than one hardcore tweaker would drewl over the possibilities. With the fanbase many games have there would surely appear an extensive archive of "ultimate" tweaks for each game.
Another feasible option would perhaps be to *cough*OPEN-SOURCE THE DRIVERS*cough*
What is the current status of linux-Radeon 8500 drivers? I'm guessing that more people than me are using their 'nux boxes for 3d-gaming, and would jump at the chance of getting a card with NICE drivers (not to pick on NVdriver *cough*)
how about ogg.vor.biz?
OK Guys, don't tell anyone, but there is a huge exploit in IIS involving unicode and mischevious urls..
*DOH*
Ok, CIA/FBI/NSA/Whatever, I'm fairly sure I've broken the law by helping potential terrorists hack your boxes. Book me, and while you're at it, nail that nimdba virus aswell, I'm pretty sure he's crack- I mean hacking...
First XP system sold, for me a frightening reality. Even though warezpuppies and beta-testing windowspuppets been running this for a while, it means another mark in the big-book of Windows users.
.net snapshot (cvs -co WinXP excluding the sources), the finest backdoored encryption systems and propably his personal integrity & privacy permanenty mv:ed to /dev/null.
Another number in the usage statistics, the same statistics that will serve as a motivator (read excuse) for a company to develop their applications XP style, because are a potential customer. Even if you are a warezpuppy, installing your 3r337 Windows.XP.Final.Beta.Beta.WankerGroup.Repacked you are helping Microsoft. Yes, by installing and running XP you add to these depressing statistics. Then again you're not the ones I feel sorry for.
The one I wouldn't want to be right now is the customer receiving this computer. The same customer that a certain time later will be paying for his service packs, and monthly.
But he will have the latest
And then even if THEY get caught for killing John Doe's and several others' integrity, they will say: we are so sorry, please forgive us. It won't happen again. DOJ will belive them.
"The Origin of Linux", doesn't sound right, I'd rather have it
"The Origin of Linux by means of penguin fanatics".
Comparing the work of Linus (& crew) to the work of Darwin is perhaps not fair, but their work had both a revolutionary effect and was regarded with contempt from many in power.
Not too many people these days questioning evolution right?
my dog eat's them to, but that's another story.
Seriously, I've experienced dark spots in local-quality cdr media several times, something I've come to blame my dvd player for (Kiss 1512), I toasted 10 VCD:s and tried 'em in the player, 2 out of 10 tested noname blanks had darker spots rendering those areas unreadable after the first time&spin in the player. 3 others also suffered from black spots after several sessions in the player. The other discs didn't seem to mind.
today: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie
tomorrow: Rick Dangerous starring Sylvester Stallone
when RAGNAROK, the last battle of the coders is closing in, there will follow three broken kernel CVS trees in a row. The warm sun will reach even the darkest of dens, not even the script-kiddies will go safe.
Coders will come to fight against eachothers creations resulting in terrible flamewars.
The destructive forces will be gathered, Steve Ballmer(The midgaar serpent) will raise from the depths of Redmond to engulf the net, spreading FUD everywhere.
Richard Stallman(Fenriswolf) will break free from his chains and devour all coders that has refused to share their source-code in the past.
The mighty IBM ship (Nailfather) will set sail for the battle ground armed with organic LED's, Wrist-watches featuring Linux, and chess playing computers.
Illiad (Heimdal?) will blow his horn summoning all geeks (that could be geek-found) to join the fierce battle.
....
42 will cease to be.
True that the benchmark seems mighty suspicious, but doesn't they slightly resemble a reverted mindcraft one?
It doesn't really matter which OS that wins, the sad thing is that some will take these numbers for authentic and realistic. More useless overhead in the neverending "which OS got the most wang" debate.
Has the FUD-wheel of the mighty penguin started to turn?
think bigger, imagine BSOD:s during BIOS loading!