Note: I'm assuming you and all your neighbors are in the same boat.
Well, I know this is a less than optimal solution. But if you (or people you know in the area) have sufficient technical knowledge, you could try putting together some type of bandwidth cooperative and run a T1 (or fractional T3) into the area.
If it's just your PARTICULAR location in the community that's making high bandwidth impossible, ask around for neighbors who DO have high bandwidth and see if you can come to some sort of agreement (pay half his internet bill for a wireless connection, etc).
Seriously, instead of pen pals, or going out and getting falling-down, puking-your-guts-out drunk for "fun", people are interacting on the net?
While there IS some face-to-face contact lost there, I just fail to grasp how this isn't social?
Sure, the perv in his basement whacking to japanese schoolgirl bukakke could probably be doing something more social. But participating in chat rooms, message boards, online multiplayer games, etc?
Under BattleTech, you'd have control over your power systems, power management, weapons systems, cooling systems, all sorts of stuff.
You could control which weapons fired from what triggers. You could control which weapons received recharge priority after firing (want to make your PPC come up faster, sacrifice power to your lasers, etc). You could reroute coolant away from areas that had been cored out to help increase cooling efficiency. You could switch piloting modes from just your joystick and throttle to add the pedals and decide whether pedals or the joystick controlled the torso-twist of the mech. Your radar and sensor displays were controllable. You could even monitor the weapons themselves in various ways.
Actually, take a look at which companies (yes PLURAL) put money into FASA Interactive. And how the rights for all computer BT stuff was signed over to FIT.
It wasn't "spun".
It was a, once formed, self-sustaining entity right from the get go.
He was making a public nuisance (and ass) of himself!
The police tried to escort him away from the mic. He kept acting out and fighting with them.
What the fuck do you THINK is going to happen when you fight with police?
The reason why nothing more came from the crowd (other than some silly little girls screaming over "the horror" of it), was because the police were in the right here.
Had this dumbshit kept his cool, and not tried to fight, he would have had his question answered AND wouldn't have gotten tasered for fighting with police.
Gestapo my ass. Godwin called. He wants his law back.
For anyone who's taken (and passed) a statistics course, one should understand confidence intervals.
Nowadays, the bar for confidence on studies is so low, you'd swear they accept stuff in crayon.
Thirty years ago none of these studies would have made it to publication, But standards have fallen so low now, that pretty much ANYTHING that's nicely written (regarless of how large a piece of tripe it is) will get printed.
As I know people who worked at FASA, FASA Interactive, and FASA Studios, I beg to differ.
Take a look at the people who worked at FASA Studio when Microsoft assumed control of FASA Interactive.
No ripoff there.
As for MW3, it's was a "meh" last-minute slot-in.
MW4 was a conversion of the Virtual World code, begun at FASA Interactive when they and Virtual World Entertainment were occupying the same offices (I've even see the early conversions of RedPlanet).
Unfortunately, FASA Interactive had never released product before. So when the time came to choose between putting out MW3 with the Virtual World code or putting out MechCommander, MechCommander was far closer to being finished.
So MechWarrior3 was farmed out to Zipper Interactive, and the "Git 'er done" was what emerged.
And while MW4 was not a good representation of a mech from a construction POV, it was a decent sim, considering that it's forebearer VWE BattleTech) was designed to run on a custom graphics system with multiple multi-function displays (think Flight Simulator on steroids).
FASA may be gone. FanPro may be gone. But BattleTech and Shadowrun live on.
All the primary developers for CBT and SR for the past 7-ish years are now at Catalyst Game Labs And, already, they've released around half a dozen new products in the last 4 months.
As Robotech Master pointed out, there's still MegaMek.
Heck, if you want a taste of old-school FASA Interactive, there's even an approved copy of the sub-rosa PC BattleTech that JUST became available (thanks to Virtual World and Microsoft).
Conservatives are mean and nasty and close-minded.
Liberals are nice and sweet and open minded.
Conservatives are antisocial and ugly!
Liberals are fun to be with and pretty!
Conservatives are dumb!
Liberals are smart!
Now insert "Jocks" and "Nerds".
Gimme a fucking break here people. This kind of self-serving crap, solely to justify one's political and personal leanings helps nobody and nothing. It doesn't even take into account the fact that one's position as a liberal or conservative must be judged on an issue-by-issue basis, as few people are conservative or liberal on EVERY issue.
What's worst? This kind of bullshit inhibits attempts to come to a consensus because "that person is weird and doesn't think like me!"
But another part of me is wondering how well this is going to translate into live action. And whether or not it's going to wind up stepping all over the beloved (though flawed) series that introduced so many people to anime.
Seriously, this reminds me of morons who used to share their entire hard drives out to file sharing apps.
I remember seeing printouts of peoples' password lists, even full bank account and investment broker information, complete with contact info, and all the personal ID data, etc. All found by people trolling the network for more than just MP3s.
I have zero problem with changes being GPL'ed. But the remainder of the code should still carry the BSD attributions.
Just be prepared to continue adjusting your patch for subsequent versions or forking the code. Either way, you still retain the BSD attributions for the code you didn't write.
"That might not be so hard with free code sitting in front of you. That's the beauty of free software. As easy as it may be, it's a duplication of effort and it kind of makes the dual licensing look silly."
If the code is already dual-licensed, there's exactly zero issue here.
"What exactly is a dual license if the GPL provisions don't apply or have force because of the BSD portion?"
GPL doesn't FORCE someone to retain GPL'ed additions to code under other licenses.
"There's a fundamental difference in licensing philosophy that can't be ironed out by using both."
Six simple little words.
FORK THE CODE. RETAIN THE ATTRIBUTIONS.
"At the same time, what's the big deal with people stripping out the bsd portion?"
Because the authors chose to release their code under BSD. About the only thing they want is for their attribution to remain intact. Granted, it's damn near impossible to prove in a proprietary, binaried product, but if the source is available...
How can you expect people to respect your rights under the licenses YOU choose to release code under if you don't respect the rights of others with THEIR licensing requirements?
"GPL and BSD people can live and let live."
If they allow themselves to.
"While it might be argued that BSD code can be used directly by the enemies of software freedom, no one would seriously propose that either the BSD or GPL camp would like to eradicate or subjugate the other."
Of course not, barring certain irrational people who're more interested in jumping up on soap boxes and screaming incoherently, the majority could probably give a shit about this issue as the CORRECT way to proceed with licensing is pretty much cut and dried.
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Seriously, while this is small potatoes change to RIAA, it's a major blow in terms of precedence.
FINALLY, their tactics are coming back to bite them in the ass.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of racketeering bastards.
Note: I'm assuming you and all your neighbors are in the same boat.
Well, I know this is a less than optimal solution. But if you (or people you know in the area) have sufficient technical knowledge, you could try putting together some type of bandwidth cooperative and run a T1 (or fractional T3) into the area.
If it's just your PARTICULAR location in the community that's making high bandwidth impossible, ask around for neighbors who DO have high bandwidth and see if you can come to some sort of agreement (pay half his internet bill for a wireless connection, etc).
It's great to yell and scream about your rights.
It's great to be able to have the ready cash to spend to help defend your rights when they're infringed upon.
Unfortunately, there are other pain-points that can be hit by authorities to make you comply with their wishes.
Lengthy court battles are the root of it. Sure, YOU may not mind taking all that time off work, and spending all that money.
But what about the people you have to drag into it (witnesses, family, etc)?
Moreover, they rely on apathy.
At the time, the anger and outrage are hot enough to barbecue whole cattle.
But, as time goes on, that anger cools. And it becomes harder and harder to keep oneself motivated.
The authorities know this. And time is on their side, ESPECIALLY since they've got the deep pockets to back it up.
Seriously, instead of pen pals, or going out and getting falling-down, puking-your-guts-out drunk for "fun", people are interacting on the net?
While there IS some face-to-face contact lost there, I just fail to grasp how this isn't social?
Sure, the perv in his basement whacking to japanese schoolgirl bukakke could probably be doing something more social. But participating in chat rooms, message boards, online multiplayer games, etc?
Under BattleTech, you'd have control over your power systems, power management, weapons systems, cooling systems, all sorts of stuff.
You could control which weapons fired from what triggers.
You could control which weapons received recharge priority after firing (want to make your PPC come up faster, sacrifice power to your lasers, etc). You could reroute coolant away from areas that had been cored out to help increase cooling efficiency.
You could switch piloting modes from just your joystick and throttle to add the pedals and decide whether pedals or the joystick controlled the torso-twist of the mech.
Your radar and sensor displays were controllable.
You could even monitor the weapons themselves in various ways.
Heck, just look at the Firestorm manual.
The original Tesla stuff was twice as complex.
http://www.virtualworld.com/btfrstrm/manual.shtml
You'd have to ask PropWash about that. He'd know if anyone would.
Actually, take a look at which companies (yes PLURAL) put money into FASA Interactive. And how the rights for all computer BT stuff was signed over to FIT.
It wasn't "spun".
It was a, once formed, self-sustaining entity right from the get go.
Two words "TOO LATE!"
You don't fight with the cops, struggle with them, make a nuisance of yourself, then expect them to just let you walk away.
He was making a public nuisance (and ass) of himself!
The police tried to escort him away from the mic. He kept acting out and fighting with them.
What the fuck do you THINK is going to happen when you fight with police?
The reason why nothing more came from the crowd (other than some silly little girls screaming over "the horror" of it), was because the police were in the right here.
Had this dumbshit kept his cool, and not tried to fight, he would have had his question answered AND wouldn't have gotten tasered for fighting with police.
Gestapo my ass. Godwin called. He wants his law back.
For anyone who's taken (and passed) a statistics course, one should understand confidence intervals.
Nowadays, the bar for confidence on studies is so low, you'd swear they accept stuff in crayon.
Thirty years ago none of these studies would have made it to publication, But standards have fallen so low now, that pretty much ANYTHING that's nicely written (regarless of how large a piece of tripe it is) will get printed.
Ripped off?
As I know people who worked at FASA, FASA Interactive, and FASA Studios, I beg to differ.
Take a look at the people who worked at FASA Studio when Microsoft assumed control of FASA Interactive.
No ripoff there.
As for MW3, it's was a "meh" last-minute slot-in.
MW4 was a conversion of the Virtual World code, begun at FASA Interactive when they and Virtual World Entertainment were occupying the same offices (I've even see the early conversions of RedPlanet).
Unfortunately, FASA Interactive had never released product before. So when the time came to choose between putting out MW3 with the Virtual World code or putting out MechCommander, MechCommander was far closer to being finished.
So MechWarrior3 was farmed out to Zipper Interactive, and the "Git 'er done" was what emerged.
And while MW4 was not a good representation of a mech from a construction POV, it was a decent sim, considering that it's forebearer VWE BattleTech) was designed to run on a custom graphics system with multiple multi-function displays (think Flight Simulator on steroids).
Who says they're being stopped?
FASA may be gone. FanPro may be gone. But BattleTech and Shadowrun live on.
All the primary developers for CBT and SR for the past 7-ish years are now at Catalyst Game Labs And, already, they've released around half a dozen new products in the last 4 months.
As Robotech Master pointed out, there's still MegaMek.
Heck, if you want a taste of old-school FASA Interactive, there's even an approved copy of the sub-rosa PC BattleTech that JUST became available (thanks to Virtual World and Microsoft).
If you're looking for fiction you have BattleCorps and, eventually, Holostreets.
That and the Classic BattleTech and Shadowrun communities have been alive and bustling for the better part of a decade now.
It's not like the Internet isn't going to route around this damage.
The waste of time and money on this is just disheartening (though not unexpected).
All so some silly little fool can feel "safe".
Most people understand that "safe" is a myth. You can't protect everyone from everything (least of all, themselves).
Go ahead and chase that unicorn if you want.
Conservatives are mean and nasty and close-minded.
Liberals are nice and sweet and open minded.
Conservatives are antisocial and ugly!
Liberals are fun to be with and pretty!
Conservatives are dumb!
Liberals are smart!
Now insert "Jocks" and "Nerds".
Gimme a fucking break here people. This kind of self-serving crap, solely to justify one's political and personal leanings helps nobody and nothing. It doesn't even take into account the fact that one's position as a liberal or conservative must be judged on an issue-by-issue basis, as few people are conservative or liberal on EVERY issue.
What's worst? This kind of bullshit inhibits attempts to come to a consensus because "that person is weird and doesn't think like me!"
You don't know where it's been (and it's probably better that way).
I know that All Things Microsoft is something you want Linux to aspire to.
And that's your right.
But OOXML is NOT a good standard. And no amount of apologetics on your part is going to make the open source community come to believe otherwise.
Developing tools for interop? Yeah, nice, that's something we SHOULD do.
Standardizing on a faux-open format like OOXML? Nope. Sorry, we may be crazy, but we're not STUPID!
Part of me is going:
OOOH! AHHG! YES!
But another part of me is wondering how well this is going to translate into live action. And whether or not it's going to wind up stepping all over the beloved (though flawed) series that introduced so many people to anime.
Or have they finished with the nails and just started welding the lid shut?
Jack's one of the few who actually think a flashy Chewbacca Defense validates his position.
Loony doesn't NEARLY do him justice.
As to the topic.
The only side ANYONE is ever on is THEIR OWN.
Cornhole your system to the universe?
Y/N: N
Share your files to [INSERT]
Y/N: Y
HAH! TRICK QUESTION! AYBABTU!
*SCHLORP!*
Seriously, this reminds me of morons who used to share their entire hard drives out to file sharing apps.
I remember seeing printouts of peoples' password lists, even full bank account and investment broker information, complete with contact info, and all the personal ID data, etc. All found by people trolling the network for more than just MP3s.
Yeah. The bag-checker could be an accomplice too.
And the manager!
And the janitor!
Ooh! And that random bum down the street!
Come on. We're dealing with reality here. Not "What If".
The reality is that it's damn unlikely that A. Random Customer is in cahoots with your store employee to rip the store off.
Additionally, the bag-checkers aren't looking at the price tags vs the receipt. They're going "1...2...3 items. Have a nice day!"
Let's try for a REAL argument here.
They're some of the best at "arrest and incarcerate first, make something up to cover your ass later".
"Until you show a receipt, the status of your merchandise (purchased or non-purchased) is unknown."
Bull! It's known by the store's representative (the cashier) who checked you out!
Not quite.
I have zero problem with changes being GPL'ed. But the remainder of the code should still carry the BSD attributions.
Just be prepared to continue adjusting your patch for subsequent versions or forking the code. Either way, you still retain the BSD attributions for the code you didn't write.
"That might not be so hard with free code sitting in front of you. That's the beauty of free software. As easy as it may be, it's a duplication of effort and it kind of makes the dual licensing look silly."
If the code is already dual-licensed, there's exactly zero issue here.
"What exactly is a dual license if the GPL provisions don't apply or have force because of the BSD portion?"
GPL doesn't FORCE someone to retain GPL'ed additions to code under other licenses.
"There's a fundamental difference in licensing philosophy that can't be ironed out by using both."
Six simple little words.
FORK THE CODE. RETAIN THE ATTRIBUTIONS.
"At the same time, what's the big deal with people stripping out the bsd portion?"
Because the authors chose to release their code under BSD. About the only thing they want is for their attribution to remain intact. Granted, it's damn near impossible to prove in a proprietary, binaried product, but if the source is available...
How can you expect people to respect your rights under the licenses YOU choose to release code under if you don't respect the rights of others with THEIR licensing requirements?
"GPL and BSD people can live and let live."
If they allow themselves to.
"While it might be argued that BSD code can be used directly by the enemies of software freedom, no one would seriously propose that either the BSD or GPL camp would like to eradicate or subjugate the other."
Of course not, barring certain irrational people who're more interested in jumping up on soap boxes and screaming incoherently, the majority could probably give a shit about this issue as the CORRECT way to proceed with licensing is pretty much cut and dried.