outside of the original parameters of your license to use the work
*cough*
Someone has put a little too much brainwashing into you son. You dont need a license to USE a work. The only time you need a license is if you want to do something on this list. If the License, in the form of the EULA most likely, doesnt grant you any rights you have been denied by law then why would you need, or want, to accept it?
But who cares about the EULA? Take the road so many of us are taking and just dont agree to them. EULAs, in the incarnation they take with most commercial software, are atrocious. Decline them and stick to the rights granted you by the law. The only reason to accept an EULA is in return for considerations or rights that the law restricts, like accepting the GPL so you can redistribute modified code.
When I go up a hill the truck shifts into a lower gear and revs the engine up to much higher RPMs to maintain speed. I would much rather it allow my speed to drop a bit, which is what I do when im driving without cruise on.
Despite the danger of exposing my lack of knowledge about cars... Would my 1994 Chevy C1500 truck have any replacable/reprogrammable chips? I am particulaly interested in INCREASING my fuel efficiency regardless of performance decrease. I put 100+ miles a day on my truck, 90% in-town driving. I am also interested in fixing the cruise control so it doesnt go into overdrive (down shift, up-throttle) when going up even the slightest of hills.
go email these folks and ask how much a replacement ball+mount costs. its for a bowling game. they have a full size, but light weight, bowling ball floating on an air cushion with normal trackball sensors (mechanical) below it.
And said payoff is nowhere near enough to cover the dozens of attempts it takes. If you made it in less, consider yourself lucky. The rifle used in that test is not accurate enough to hit 90% of the targets. Play it out a hundred times, a perfect marksman (perfect aim) wont get 36/40 even 20 times (out of the 100 attempts)
WOW! I wish I had found you guys years ago. I bought the game off a discount rack and really wanted to play but never could. I look forward to finally getting a chance to play. And maybe, if we are lucky, with the source available, some public servers will become available (I would love to see a LAN version of the game, finally get people to stop playing Freelancer).
It being dangerous to stick more than two pieces of bologna on a sandwich, no one is allowed to do so.
Do you not see that this statement, and the rule it produces, are nullified if putting three slices on is not dangerous? A clause like that is a qualifier, it indicates a condition under which the rest of the sentence holds. Maybe if you paraphrase it like this you can see the structure better:
As long as a well regulated militia (as opposed to an army) is necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
PS: why do you guys put a comma between Arms and shall?
------ What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand ----
The part where you insist on clipping it out of context. Maybe you never noticed that that sentence fragment is prefixed by a qualifier. Perhaps it makes more sense if you put the qualifier at the end:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed XXXX A well-regulated Militia [is] necessary to the security of a free State.
At the XXXX you can insert words along the lines of "if" or "while", to make the reformed sentence grammatically correct. And please note the very important phrase, "well regulated". Said regulations cannot, by definition, be infringing said right.
Well, one possible benefit would be finding a heavy element that decays in some unusual and useful way, possibly an easier way to start/stop a fission process (random idea, no feasibility assumed).
One organism takes carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and a bunch of other stuff out of the soil and builds a potato. The other takes gold out of the soil and builds a bigger chunk of gold.
Yeah, its not like potato plants extract anything (nutrients, water, etc) and move it around to form a potato... They just magically appear, spontaneous generation. Thank you mister 1700s.
Noxious weed: any living stage (including seeds and reproductive parts) of a parasitic or other plant of a kind which is of foreign origin, is new to or
not widely prevalent in the U.S., and can directly or indirectly injure crops, other useful plants, livestock, poultry or other interests of agriculture, including irrigation, navigation, fish and wildlife resources, or the public health.
Anyone trying to fit kudzu into THAT definition of Noxious weeds apparently has never driven down the interstate...
(please note the placement of ORs and ANDs in the definition)
Just dont become a cable (modem) installer. Become a contractor, not a sub-contractor. Letting someone 5 steps above you in the chain of command screw up your day by scheduling 5 jobs in 1 hour (not possible, I rock and I do 2 jobs an hour on a good day) and then punishing you for not getting them done is something that gets old really fast.
No, lag isnt a positive thing. But to ignore lag you have to give the client power, which IS a bad thing. Allowing the client to tell the server "hey, i swear i hit that guy, no matter what his client says!" and get away with it is just WRONG. That is why there are so many hacks for HL (CS included). But, even ignoring lag, games should still require you to lead movement.
Few CS players will move to CS2, because HL2 will be written well. No more "click on the head, get a head shot" bullshit like in HL/CS. CS players, as a general rule, are incapable of dealing with engines where you have to lead targets for motion and lag. This revelation only recently came to me. I play CS rarely, but after many years I never understood why I performed so poorly. About a month ago someone actually explained to me how aim works in CS (just click on your target). All this time I had been leading my targets. This rift is not easily crossed, and is why CS2, if it ever exists, will not draw a significant number of people from CS.
The beauty of BASIC, and the reason I still us it in various incarnations (VBDOS, DarkBASIC, and VB.NET), is that it is an interpreted language with an integrated IDE (yeah, i know, sounds redundant, but its not, C++ IDEs arent really integrated the way I am talking about). I have never used another language in which it was EASY to break out of the program, modify the code, and then restart execution FROM THE BREAKPOINT, all without losing any of the data in the running app. BASIC allows for faster development and debugging than any other language I have used. Sure, it lacks the flexibility (no pointers until VB3 iirc) of other languages (which is exactly why I learned C in the first place), but thats not at issue when youre first learning. I think the nature of debugging in BASIC is one of the prime reasons many BASIC programmers have trouble moving to other languages, they dislike giving up such useful functionality.
I know you said he wants to make games, but start him out on other sorts of programming that are fun but also much more instant-gratification-esque. I would suggest one of the many games where you can program robots/tanks/gladiators/etc, specifically Robot Battle, C++ Robots, or Core Wars. If he is still interested in programming, get a copy of DarkBASIC for him, its a great way to get started programming good looking 3D games (skip the textual stuff, its just as good to learn with 3D apps and a lot more gratifying and fun).
Im sorry, I must not have made it clear that I was talking about the developers (who I specifically linked to), not the publishers, who are responsible for most of the business side. And, regardless, their failure is not their fault, its how the game market is designed. They have done more with what they have available than some other publishers do with a lot more. Just getting a game onto store shelves (which igames has managed to do rather well) is an immense task.
Savage, and its creators, did everything right. A multiplayer demo, for linux too, with enough of the game to get you hooked and playing, but leave you wanting more. Online CD Key purchase and download. Clients for both windows and linux, servers too. And continuing development that has already improved the gameplay by an order of magnitude. If the big name companies put this much thought into how to make a game right instead of pumping out the next franchise/licensed game as fast as possible us gamers would be in heaven.
Slashdot Mirror
*cough*
Someone has put a little too much brainwashing into you son. You dont need a license to USE a work. The only time you need a license is if you want to do something on this list. If the License, in the form of the EULA most likely, doesnt grant you any rights you have been denied by law then why would you need, or want, to accept it?
You guys apparently never got hit by the Blizzard "buy our LAN license or we will PWN YOU" cease and decist letters for Warcraft 3.
But who cares about the EULA? Take the road so many of us are taking and just dont agree to them. EULAs, in the incarnation they take with most commercial software, are atrocious. Decline them and stick to the rights granted you by the law. The only reason to accept an EULA is in return for considerations or rights that the law restricts, like accepting the GPL so you can redistribute modified code.
lawsuits are what happens when you break someones copyright.
Yes, but they weigh significantly less than their volume, when taken with respect to their contribution to the total weight/volume of the bottle.
When I go up a hill the truck shifts into a lower gear and revs the engine up to much higher RPMs to maintain speed. I would much rather it allow my speed to drop a bit, which is what I do when im driving without cruise on.
Despite the danger of exposing my lack of knowledge about cars... Would my 1994 Chevy C1500 truck have any replacable/reprogrammable chips? I am particulaly interested in INCREASING my fuel efficiency regardless of performance decrease. I put 100+ miles a day on my truck, 90% in-town driving. I am also interested in fixing the cruise control so it doesnt go into overdrive (down shift, up-throttle) when going up even the slightest of hills.
go email these folks and ask how much a replacement ball+mount costs. its for a bowling game. they have a full size, but light weight, bowling ball floating on an air cushion with normal trackball sensors (mechanical) below it.
And said payoff is nowhere near enough to cover the dozens of attempts it takes. If you made it in less, consider yourself lucky. The rifle used in that test is not accurate enough to hit 90% of the targets. Play it out a hundred times, a perfect marksman (perfect aim) wont get 36/40 even 20 times (out of the 100 attempts)
WOW! I wish I had found you guys years ago. I bought the game off a discount rack and really wanted to play but never could. I look forward to finally getting a chance to play. And maybe, if we are lucky, with the source available, some public servers will become available (I would love to see a LAN version of the game, finally get people to stop playing Freelancer).
It being dangerous to stick more than two pieces of bologna on a sandwich, no one is allowed to do so.
Do you not see that this statement, and the rule it produces, are nullified if putting three slices on is not dangerous? A clause like that is a qualifier, it indicates a condition under which the rest of the sentence holds. Maybe if you paraphrase it like this you can see the structure better:
As long as a well regulated militia (as opposed to an army) is necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
PS: why do you guys put a comma between Arms and shall?
The part where you insist on clipping it out of context. Maybe you never noticed that that sentence fragment is prefixed by a qualifier. Perhaps it makes more sense if you put the qualifier at the end:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed XXXX A well-regulated Militia [is] necessary to the security of a free State.
At the XXXX you can insert words along the lines of "if" or "while", to make the reformed sentence grammatically correct. And please note the very important phrase, "well regulated". Said regulations cannot, by definition, be infringing said right.
Well, one possible benefit would be finding a heavy element that decays in some unusual and useful way, possibly an easier way to start/stop a fission process (random idea, no feasibility assumed).
How many ways does this rock, let me count the ways...
One organism takes carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and a bunch of other stuff out of the soil and builds a potato. The other takes gold out of the soil and builds a bigger chunk of gold.
Yeah, its not like potato plants extract anything (nutrients, water, etc) and move it around to form a potato... They just magically appear, spontaneous generation. Thank you mister 1700s.
Anyone trying to fit kudzu into THAT definition of Noxious weeds apparently has never driven down the interstate...
(please note the placement of ORs and ANDs in the definition)
Just dont become a cable (modem) installer. Become a contractor, not a sub-contractor. Letting someone 5 steps above you in the chain of command screw up your day by scheduling 5 jobs in 1 hour (not possible, I rock and I do 2 jobs an hour on a good day) and then punishing you for not getting them done is something that gets old really fast.
No, lag isnt a positive thing. But to ignore lag you have to give the client power, which IS a bad thing. Allowing the client to tell the server "hey, i swear i hit that guy, no matter what his client says!" and get away with it is just WRONG. That is why there are so many hacks for HL (CS included). But, even ignoring lag, games should still require you to lead movement.
Few CS players will move to CS2, because HL2 will be written well. No more "click on the head, get a head shot" bullshit like in HL/CS. CS players, as a general rule, are incapable of dealing with engines where you have to lead targets for motion and lag. This revelation only recently came to me. I play CS rarely, but after many years I never understood why I performed so poorly. About a month ago someone actually explained to me how aim works in CS (just click on your target). All this time I had been leading my targets. This rift is not easily crossed, and is why CS2, if it ever exists, will not draw a significant number of people from CS.
Seriously, whats up with the asterisk? Since when are they Wal*Mart instead of just plain old Wal Mart or Wal-Mart?
The beauty of BASIC, and the reason I still us it in various incarnations (VBDOS, DarkBASIC, and VB.NET), is that it is an interpreted language with an integrated IDE (yeah, i know, sounds redundant, but its not, C++ IDEs arent really integrated the way I am talking about). I have never used another language in which it was EASY to break out of the program, modify the code, and then restart execution FROM THE BREAKPOINT, all without losing any of the data in the running app. BASIC allows for faster development and debugging than any other language I have used. Sure, it lacks the flexibility (no pointers until VB3 iirc) of other languages (which is exactly why I learned C in the first place), but thats not at issue when youre first learning. I think the nature of debugging in BASIC is one of the prime reasons many BASIC programmers have trouble moving to other languages, they dislike giving up such useful functionality.
I know you said he wants to make games, but start him out on other sorts of programming that are fun but also much more instant-gratification-esque. I would suggest one of the many games where you can program robots/tanks/gladiators/etc, specifically Robot Battle, C++ Robots, or Core Wars. If he is still interested in programming, get a copy of DarkBASIC for him, its a great way to get started programming good looking 3D games (skip the textual stuff, its just as good to learn with 3D apps and a lot more gratifying and fun).
Im sorry, I must not have made it clear that I was talking about the developers (who I specifically linked to), not the publishers, who are responsible for most of the business side. And, regardless, their failure is not their fault, its how the game market is designed. They have done more with what they have available than some other publishers do with a lot more. Just getting a game onto store shelves (which igames has managed to do rather well) is an immense task.
Savage, and its creators, did everything right. A multiplayer demo, for linux too, with enough of the game to get you hooked and playing, but leave you wanting more. Online CD Key purchase and download. Clients for both windows and linux, servers too. And continuing development that has already improved the gameplay by an order of magnitude. If the big name companies put this much thought into how to make a game right instead of pumping out the next franchise/licensed game as fast as possible us gamers would be in heaven.