Yeah, that was Wing Commander: Secret Ops. It was, at the time, distributed for free, however it was made clear that it was only for a limited time. There's no legitimate way to download the episodes beyond the first (which acts as a demo), but it's included in the Wing Commander: Prophecy Gold package.
Eh, the important controls are really the same as in Wing Commander 1, which ported with a fairly good control scheme to the SNES. Most of the extra controls in Prophecy are kind of nice, but not anywhere near necessary to do well. I can, for example, quite happily play with a two button joystick and no keyboard.
Why would they want to? Prinze played young Blair, Blair in Prophecy was Mark Hamill. Either way, I'll just add that Blair isn't the main character in Prophecy, Lance Casey, the son of Iceman from WC1, is the player character.
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If you actually read the press release, it doesn't really give enough information to come to any sort of conclusion. It doesn't say that Lindows has rights to GPL SCO code, but rather that they have a buisness releationship and, as a result, don't expect to be the target of a lawsuit.
Actually, looking at it, it appears to not even say that SCO has told Lindows that they won't sue. It brings up that SCO will live up to their contractual obligations, but not what obligations they have to Lindows in particular.
As would they if they were to buy on the open market, because that's what people on the market are willing to sell for. When you're getting stocks as an aquisition at fractions of a cent it will be part of some sort of compensation or benifits package. It's effectively just the company paying a bonus, or part of their salary in stock instead of cash. Instead of trading money for stock, they're trading good service to the company for stock.
Why would the company's shareholders feel that they should create stock to give to $random_person?
Why shouldn't it be legal to purchase shares at.1 cent? You can sell shares at whatever the hell price you'd like, just like pretty much any other type of property. It was probably part of a compensation package of some sort. They were properly reported insider trades.
Novell's letter has qualifiers like "to our knowledge" when it says SCO doesn't own the copyrights.
That seems like a pretty standard method of wording in this sort of release. It makes them sound friendlier to third parties, and condescending as hell to SCO.
Hmm... wouldn't that only make situations like this worse and easier to accomplish? It would make the benchmarking even more predictable to the card manufacturers, who could then cheat even better.
And, since one of the main reasons people will buy this is to play flashy and pretty games, ignoring the performance in those games is rediculous.
Which is one of the reasons most people would look at publications that provide multiple types of benchmarks including performance in various popular games or game engines.
It turns out I wasn't even replying to you... I assumed you were actually the person I replied to when you took offense at what I said. Dump your filter down to see, since he's since been modded Troll.
Of course, you've looked at the costs associated with an installation of this size and done a cost analysis before stating that, right? I mean, you wouldn't just make statements up on Slashdot, would you?
If the code were honest to begin with, the reverse engineer part would not be required. These days, it's cheaper to throw out the dis-honest code and hardware and buy some hardware that's well understood.
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Yeah, that was Wing Commander: Secret Ops. It was, at the time, distributed for free, however it was made clear that it was only for a limited time. There's no legitimate way to download the episodes beyond the first (which acts as a demo), but it's included in the Wing Commander: Prophecy Gold package.
Eh, the important controls are really the same as in Wing Commander 1, which ported with a fairly good control scheme to the SNES. Most of the extra controls in Prophecy are kind of nice, but not anywhere near necessary to do well. I can, for example, quite happily play with a two button joystick and no keyboard.
Raylight has the big one on their site. It's not an ingame shot unless they used it as a loading screen or something.
Why would they want to? Prinze played young Blair, Blair in Prophecy was Mark Hamill. Either way, I'll just add that Blair isn't the main character in Prophecy, Lance Casey, the son of Iceman from WC1, is the player character.
If you actually read the press release, it doesn't really give enough information to come to any sort of conclusion. It doesn't say that Lindows has rights to GPL SCO code, but rather that they have a buisness releationship and, as a result, don't expect to be the target of a lawsuit.
Actually, looking at it, it appears to not even say that SCO has told Lindows that they won't sue. It brings up that SCO will live up to their contractual obligations, but not what obligations they have to Lindows in particular.
no front page download link? hey michael, it's GPL! hand over the source code!
[sarcasm]My God! There's no link on the front page of their site! They're obviously breaking the GPL.[/sarcasm]
Two seconds on Google found me their GPL source information here
As would they if they were to buy on the open market, because that's what people on the market are willing to sell for. When you're getting stocks as an aquisition at fractions of a cent it will be part of some sort of compensation or benifits package. It's effectively just the company paying a bonus, or part of their salary in stock instead of cash. Instead of trading money for stock, they're trading good service to the company for stock.
Why would the company's shareholders feel that they should create stock to give to $random_person?
Why shouldn't it be legal to purchase shares at .1 cent? You can sell shares at whatever the hell price you'd like, just like pretty much any other type of property. It was probably part of a compensation package of some sort. They were properly reported insider trades.
Hmm... Looking at the way things have been going lately, I bet Slashdot could then sue SCO for interfering in it's business plan.
Of course, if SCO stops suing people at some point, I'm rather sure there won't be enough of SCO left to be the target of a lawsuit.
Novell's letter has qualifiers like "to our knowledge" when it says SCO doesn't own the copyrights.
That seems like a pretty standard method of wording in this sort of release. It makes them sound friendlier to third parties, and condescending as hell to SCO.
Neat, Unix company fight
Also this development begs the question "What exactly did Microsoft buy from SCO?"
SCO has the right to sublicense the Unix code to third parties... So Microsoft bought a license.
Hehe, how was that in any way offensive? I didn't think it was a particularly funny joke, but why can't you make fun of an alphabet?
The letter B looks like boobies! Hahaha!!!
Oh dear, I've offended all the people out there who can see and use the latin alphabet!
Or Granny pr0n... that was a good day.
Hmm... wouldn't that only make situations like this worse and easier to accomplish? It would make the benchmarking even more predictable to the card manufacturers, who could then cheat even better.
But it still inexcusable that it exists at all and I can't blame MS completely
Sure you can... this is Slashdot.
And, since one of the main reasons people will buy this is to play flashy and pretty games, ignoring the performance in those games is rediculous.
Which is one of the reasons most people would look at publications that provide multiple types of benchmarks including performance in various popular games or game engines.
Nvidia and other companies must open their drivers up because they contribute to Microsofts monopoly.
Yep, that nVidia, always contributing to Microsoft's monopoly with their well made Linux drivers. Dash them. Dash them straight to heck!
At last, telcos are realizing that technology is a helper and not a foe
Because, you know, telephone companies have generally been luddites... what, with Bell Labs and the like...
It turns out I wasn't even replying to you... I assumed you were actually the person I replied to when you took offense at what I said. Dump your filter down to see, since he's since been modded Troll.
Hehe, then you appear to have forgotten the question part.
You wrote a statement in the form of an inequality. It would have helped if you had actually put a question there somehow.
Of course, you've looked at the costs associated with an installation of this size and done a cost analysis before stating that, right? I mean, you wouldn't just make statements up on Slashdot, would you?
Yes, probably.
Wow, what? I can't see where you're going with that question at all...
However, a square is a quadrilateral with each side being of an equal length.
If the code were honest to begin with, the reverse engineer part would not be required. These days, it's cheaper to throw out the dis-honest code and hardware and buy some hardware that's well understood.
Dash those dishonest, lying, binary files!