Yes, as well as Warcraft II BNE, Starcraft, Police Quest, and, of course, the Dungeon Masters.
What would really be cool is a multiplayer version of Dungeon Master I or II, possible using the newly-GPLled Quake engine.
You have the axe, he has the lightning gun, but then you mumble MON FUL IR, and he bursts into flames. Very cool. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
That's because we hear about Marx in high school. Also, don't get Marx confused with modern communism. Much of modern communism is that it goes against everything Marx said. Marx was mostly against monarchy, yet modern communists have a dictator, which is basically the same as a monarch.
Basically, Marx's fundamental thesis was not communist as we know it today.
And if sharing with other people is what you call communist, then I guess communism isn't that bad, is it? But that's not what we hate about communism, or at least it's not what we should hate about it.
-------- "I already have all the latest software."
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It just occurred to be that it has to do with the fact that Linux was adopted by a company, RedHat. True, if RedHat had pushed a proprietary system, they would have gone nowhere, but if they had pushed a *BSD system, they may have been just as well-off.
Or not. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
We need to abandon it, and instead use a more rational license like the BSD license, which has the added benefit of allowing capitalistic ventures to flourish, something that the GPV is completely opposed to.
Interesting how RedHat makes quite a bit of money from GPLled software. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Anyone who believes the GPL and the be-all and end-all of everything is a moron.
Compare the GPL to battle armor, protecting free software from the gruesome beating it will take from corporate America. Sure, like armor, it somewhat restricts free software's flexibility, but only a fool would take it off before going into battle.
Compare the GPL to a seat belt on an airplane. When flying through rough winds, you should wear your seat belt. Once you reach your destination, your goal, you can then take off the seatbelt and move around freely. Sure, it restricts your movement while you wear it, but if you refuse to wear it, you are likely to get hurt.
It is true the GPL somewhat restricts people's freedom, but it serves its purpose for the rough times we are experiencing now, and the rougher times we will experience very soon.
-------- "I already have all the latest software."
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Is because of the GPL. If Sun GPLs the Solaris source, then there will be competition for Linux. Until that happens, people who use Linux are likely to stick to it.
Before you yell "BSD!", think for a moment. If people were comfortable with the BSDL, why is Linux enjoying large-scale success, while *BSD is not? It doesn't matter what's more free, it's what developers and users a like are at ease with.
-------- "I already have all the latest software."
Is the middleman (the RIIA) even needed? Assume I'm a musician. I could set up an e-commerce website and sell MP3s of my music directly to the consumer. I could even set different prices for different qualities of my music. I could also set up a fund for people who copied my music from someone they knew (and liked it), so they could legalize it by paying me, say, 75% of the MP3 download price.
The consumer, who knows someone with a CD burner (or has one themself), could burn their favourite MP3s to a CD-R and play it in their car, CD player, or whatever they want. They could also put it on a different media.
This model is not only better for the musician, who can now start up risk-free, but for the consumer as well, who benefits from lower prices and greater selection and flexibility. The only entity who loses out is the RIIA, because it is no longer needed (of course, it could set up an e-commerce hosting service for musicians, and benefit from that). -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Is the middleman (the RIIA) even needed? Assume I'm a musician. I could set up an e-commerce website and sell MP3s of my music directly to the consumer. I could even set different prices for different qualities of my music. I could also set up a fund for people who copied my music from someone they knew (and liked it), so they could legalize it by paying me, say, 75% of the MP3 download price.
The consumer, who knows someone with a CD burner (or has one themself), could burn their favourite MP3s to a CD-R and play it in their car, CD player, or whatever they want. They could also put it on a different media.
This model is not only better for the musician, who can now start up risk-free, but for the consumer as well, who benefits from lower prices and greater selection and flexibility. The only entity who loses out is the RIIA, because it is no longer needed. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Instead of trying to push their stupid encryption and copy protection schemes that clearly are not winning the market, why doesn't the RIIA start selling MP3 CDs? I'd buy them. After all, they already are selling their music on unprotected media (CDs), so why do they insist on clinging to a new system that the market has clearly shown it doesn't want?
And let's not forget that MP3 is nothing more than a lossy compression algorithm, like JPEG or MPEG. Encoding something in MPEG 1 Layer III (mp3) is no more illegal that encoding something using WAV, ADPCM, GSM, GZIP, MIME-64, ASCII, UNICODE, or any other compression algorithm.
And let's also not forget that any security system based on security-though-obscurity (this includes disk copy protection in the 80s, to the PlayStation protection, all the way up to DVD CSS) can *always* be broken. So it is really worth angering the market over something with only marginal benefits?
I think not.
(Everything I say above about the RIIA can be applied to the MPAA and their DVD "protection" scheme.) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
That's a pretty weak pricing statement you made. The price of Linux is variable. The price of Windows is not. So Linux + modem can cost $60, and that's if you're not getting a cable/DSL/wireless (high-speed) connection. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
What would be great would be if the W2K release was pushed back a week. Then we could give them a brand-spanking-new copy of Debian 2.2 or something, and say "Tired of waiting? Test-drive this while you wait."
And let them have The Experience. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
We have nothing. Not even a response to this post (before me). Set up a website and a non-profit organisation, and you'll get support. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
The MPAA/DVD CAA made things worse by making a stink. I don't even have any hardware to do with DVDs, but I downloaded all the DeCSS, css-auth, etc. stuff just to help anyone who needs them. I haven't even used the things, but the DVD CAA encouraged me to download them. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
The MPAA/DVD CAA made things worse by making a stink. I don't even have any hardware to do with DVDs, but I downloaded all the DeCSS, css-auth, etc. stuff just to help anyone who needs them. I haven't even used the things, but the DVD CAA encouraged me to download them. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I don't have time to post a whole rant, but I'l say that I totally agree. You're not conservative, you're sensible.
Ever get sick of streaming media and getting 5 seconds of lag just ruining the whole experience? Think Real*. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Where can one find the actual copyrighy law test rearding fair use for the US and (especially) Canada? Many of us would like to look it up ourselves. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
But you don't. There is only one way that I want patents, and that is that they last an absolute maximum of two years - not a day more. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I think I speak for everyone when I say that no matter what license they use, they should not make up their own, incompatible license. We've had enough of this already.
Are you listening, Borland? -------- "I already have all the latest software."
...to start work on a system designed so we can make micropayments to the artists we like. Post the sourceforge address as a reply to this. --------
Genius dies of the same blow that destroys liberty.
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Yes, as well as Warcraft II BNE, Starcraft, Police Quest, and, of course, the Dungeon Masters.
What would really be cool is a multiplayer version of Dungeon Master I or II, possible using the newly-GPLled Quake engine.
You have the axe, he has the lightning gun, but then you mumble MON FUL IR, and he bursts into flames. Very cool.
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"I already have all the latest software."
...and then he'd have an advantage, as he would no longer care that they could nuke his data.
Or maybe he did.
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"I already have all the latest software."
That's because we hear about Marx in high school. Also, don't get Marx confused with modern communism. Much of modern communism is that it goes against everything Marx said. Marx was mostly against monarchy, yet modern communists have a dictator, which is basically the same as a monarch.
Basically, Marx's fundamental thesis was not communist as we know it today.
And if sharing with other people is what you call communist, then I guess communism isn't that bad, is it? But that's not what we hate about communism, or at least it's not what we should hate about it.
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"I already have all the latest software."
It just occurred to be that it has to do with the fact that Linux was adopted by a company, RedHat. True, if RedHat had pushed a proprietary system, they would have gone nowhere, but if they had pushed a *BSD system, they may have been just as well-off.
Or not.
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"I already have all the latest software."
We need to abandon it, and instead use a more rational license like the BSD license, which has the added benefit of allowing capitalistic ventures to flourish, something that the GPV is completely opposed to.
Interesting how RedHat makes quite a bit of money from GPLled software.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Anyone who believes the GPL and the be-all and end-all of everything is a moron.
Compare the GPL to battle armor, protecting free software from the gruesome beating it will take from corporate America. Sure, like armor, it somewhat restricts free software's flexibility, but only a fool would take it off before going into battle.
Compare the GPL to a seat belt on an airplane. When flying through rough winds, you should wear your seat belt. Once you reach your destination, your goal, you can then take off the seatbelt and move around freely. Sure, it restricts your movement while you wear it, but if you refuse to wear it, you are likely to get hurt.
It is true the GPL somewhat restricts people's freedom, but it serves its purpose for the rough times we are experiencing now, and the rougher times we will experience very soon.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Is because of the GPL. If Sun GPLs the Solaris source, then there will be competition for Linux. Until that happens, people who use Linux are likely to stick to it.
Before you yell "BSD!", think for a moment. If people were comfortable with the BSDL, why is Linux enjoying large-scale success, while *BSD is not? It doesn't matter what's more free, it's what developers and users a like are at ease with.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Anyone who is in the same situation as the above poster, post "Me too" here. If this is a success, we can send the figures to the RIIA/MPAA.
"Me Too!"
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"I already have all the latest software."
Because you have something else in the CD drive!
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"I already have all the latest software."
Yeah. That's a _lot_ of pain and suffering I could do without.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Considering what most of the world things of the US, and how much we get stepped on by the US, so we really care what the US thinks of us? I don't.
Besides, all he really said was he likes living in Canada better.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Is the middleman (the RIIA) even needed? Assume I'm a musician. I could set up an e-commerce website and sell MP3s of my music directly to the consumer. I could even set different prices for different qualities of my music. I could also set up a fund for people who copied my music from someone they knew (and liked it), so they could legalize it by paying me, say, 75% of the MP3 download price.
The consumer, who knows someone with a CD burner (or has one themself), could burn their favourite MP3s to a CD-R and play it in their car, CD player, or whatever they want. They could also put it on a different media.
This model is not only better for the musician, who can now start up risk-free, but for the consumer as well, who benefits from lower prices and greater selection and flexibility. The only entity who loses out is the RIIA, because it is no longer needed (of course, it could set up an e-commerce hosting service for musicians, and benefit from that).
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"I already have all the latest software."
Is the middleman (the RIIA) even needed? Assume I'm a musician. I could set up an e-commerce website and sell MP3s of my music directly to the consumer. I could even set different prices for different qualities of my music. I could also set up a fund for people who copied my music from someone they knew (and liked it), so they could legalize it by paying me, say, 75% of the MP3 download price.
The consumer, who knows someone with a CD burner (or has one themself), could burn their favourite MP3s to a CD-R and play it in their car, CD player, or whatever they want. They could also put it on a different media.
This model is not only better for the musician, who can now start up risk-free, but for the consumer as well, who benefits from lower prices and greater selection and flexibility. The only entity who loses out is the RIIA, because it is no longer needed.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Instead of trying to push their stupid encryption and copy protection schemes that clearly are not winning the market, why doesn't the RIIA start selling MP3 CDs? I'd buy them. After all, they already are selling their music on unprotected media (CDs), so why do they insist on clinging to a new system that the market has clearly shown it doesn't want?
And let's not forget that MP3 is nothing more than a lossy compression algorithm, like JPEG or MPEG. Encoding something in MPEG 1 Layer III (mp3) is no more illegal that encoding something using WAV, ADPCM, GSM, GZIP, MIME-64, ASCII, UNICODE, or any other compression algorithm.
And let's also not forget that any security system based on security-though-obscurity (this includes disk copy protection in the 80s, to the PlayStation protection, all the way up to DVD CSS) can *always* be broken. So it is really worth angering the market over something with only marginal benefits?
I think not.
(Everything I say above about the RIIA can be applied to the MPAA and their DVD "protection" scheme.)
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"I already have all the latest software."
That's a pretty weak pricing statement you made. The price of Linux is variable. The price of Windows is not. So Linux + modem can cost $60, and that's if you're not getting a cable/DSL/wireless (high-speed) connection.
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"I already have all the latest software."
What would be great would be if the W2K release was pushed back a week. Then we could give them a brand-spanking-new copy of Debian 2.2 or something, and say "Tired of waiting? Test-drive this while you wait."
And let them have The Experience.
--------
"I already have all the latest software."
We have nothing. Not even a response to this post (before me). Set up a website and a non-profit organisation, and you'll get support.
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"I already have all the latest software."
messed up my tags.
The MPAA/DVD CAA made things worse by making a stink. I don't even have any hardware to do with DVDs, but I downloaded all the DeCSS, css-auth, etc. stuff just to help anyone who needs them. I haven't even used the things, but the DVD CAA encouraged me to download them.
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"I already have all the latest software."
The MPAA/DVD CAA made things worse by making a stink. I don't even have any hardware to do with DVDs, but I downloaded all the DeCSS, css-auth, etc. stuff just to help anyone who needs them. I haven't even used the things, but the DVD CAA encouraged me to download them.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I don't have time to post a whole rant, but I'l say that I totally agree. You're not conservative, you're sensible.
Ever get sick of streaming media and getting 5 seconds of lag just ruining the whole experience? Think Real*.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Where can one find the actual copyrighy law test rearding fair use for the US and (especially) Canada? Many of us would like to look it up ourselves.
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"I already have all the latest software."
There is only one truely cool case for a Mac:7 .jpg
http://wm.them es.org/php/pic.phtml?src=themes/wm/shots/93474129
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"I already have all the latest software."
But you don't. There is only one way that I want patents, and that is that they last an absolute maximum of two years - not a day more.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I think I speak for everyone when I say that no matter what license they use, they should not make up their own, incompatible license. We've had enough of this already.
Are you listening, Borland?
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"I already have all the latest software."
...to start work on a system designed so we can make micropayments to the artists we like. Post the sourceforge address as a reply to this.
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Genius dies of the same blow that destroys liberty.