Not free as in speech, but Elite was one of my favourite '80s games, and is now freely available. Though there appears to be no Mac version, so you'll need an emulator for one of the dozen or so platforms it ran on (c64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Spectrum CPC, Archimedes, BBC, Apple ][, Electron, PC). Classic first-person-3d space combat & trading sim. Oh yeah, and it got better framerates on a C64 than my 300mhz PC does with GL under X.
ObSouthPark: "Like it says in the bible, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." "Dude! That's not the Bible, that's Wrath of Khan!" "Same thing..."
ObLarrySanders: "Put him on speakerphone! Make him say 'Klingon!'" "Hey Bill, uh, we were wondering, um, who were your main enemies on the show?" "Well, DeForest Kelley and I had some problems..."
Right. Star *Search*. Episode IV: A New Hope, with it's unforgettable climax of Luke Walkersky and Garth Evader doing a duet on "The Good Ship Lollypop." Launched the careers of Ed MacMahon, Billy Dee Williams and K-9 from Doctor Who, too.
I've toyed with the idea of building a ReBirth/TB-303 style pattern sequencer + realtime controls prog in C64 assembly. Unfortunately, my 6502 skillz are the opposite of 1337, ie non-existent. And I don't have a hardware C64 anyway. Wouldn't want one as my sole musical instrument, but it would work OK for bleepy-squelchy techno noises...
> Free Software vendors should be indicating the terms of the GPL (assuming some software is GPLed in their distribution) on the outside of the packaging, but even if they don't, again, the license is not restricting any of the rights you would normally have in a software sale so there is no need for prior assent.
Regardless of whether or not that's a good idea morally or ethically, the GPL (according to my friend "wc -l") is 347 lines of text. Even the preamble is something like a page long. Now, if you assume the Free Software in question to be, say, a GNU/Linux distro, those typically include not only GPLed code, but also significant chunks of LGPL, GFDL, BSD, Apache, Artistic, etc., licenses. So, basically, a phonebook's worth of legalese. And as you and others here have mentioned, the various free licences only affect redistribution, modification and in some cases advertising of the software, not actually using it. I'd have a hard time imagining Joe Sixpack walking into Software City, buying the newest Mandrake and being *disappointed* that he's legally allowed to copy it and modify it. I'm sure the store would be glad to sell him Windows XP if that were the case.:-)
The bite covered troll rises from the dead! --more-- It hits with a goatse link--more-- You hear the howling of the Frrstpost--more-- It hits! You die! Do you want your possessions identified?
FVWM is snazzy and all, but it tends to lose a little of that leanness if you try to implement too much of a fancy config (ie by running fvwm-themes). Still, I got a kick outta using PipeRead + awk + cda to implement a point & click, CDDB aware CD player in my wm menus.
Sawfish (without Gnome) and Ouroborus are nice for low-footprint desktop WMs, too...
Or if you're a true hairshirt, there's always twm.
Yeah, just ask all those marijuana users and... what, it's still illegal? Sheeee-it. (throws bong out window, runs for Visine, replaces Grateful Dead record with Pat Boone)
Slashdot? You mean this isnt...? Okay, ob-on-topic: Kudos to RMS for at least doing *something*, even if it wasn't much. Sometimes when the powers that be refuse to listen, you gotta shout a little louder.
Shift magazine did a list of the top 10 video game characters of all time, the "Skinny red Tetris peice" was something like #3... "Remember, you need him more than he needs you."
Me! Well, if by running it, you mean running it for a coupla hours till it crashes (the joys of beta, probably never gonna be updated sounddrivers), then nerve pinch into Linux, read a story like this and decide that my 2.4.17 kernel isn't quite antiquated yet:-)
So it's more than decentralised enough, which is a Good Thing(tm) for those who don't wanna pay royalties. But it's gonna suck donkey balls if you try to use it with dialup... (pats DSL modem affectionately) Mmmm, bandwidth...
Granted, my GTA3 experience is limited to about five minutes fiddling with an in-store demo, but the *civillians* in that game don't take sh*t lying down. I wound up ending my session by carjacking someone, running the car into a light post, having the original driver yank me outta the car & start beating me, and after it turned into a huge enough brawl, some wacko wasted me with a shotgun... Needless to say, I'm off to try this in real life now. What Fun!
Hey, c'mon, the logo and the well-known hippie can be the same thing. I can picture it now, a huge-headed, Pep Boys style cartoon of RMS saying "St. Ignucius sez it's C-x C-Kool!"
It can't be a coincidence that my browser crashed immediately after loading Craig (Microsoft) Mundie's pic. Remind me not to laugh anymore about JPGs bearing virii.
Q: When logic and proportion have fallen by the wayside dead, and you just ate some kind of mushroom, and the Red Queen's "Off with her head", um, do you remember what the doormouse said? A: How does remember what the doormouse said make you feel? Q: Ummm.... never mind.
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Not free as in speech, but Elite was one of my favourite '80s games, and is now freely available. Though there appears to be no Mac version, so you'll need an emulator for one of the dozen or so platforms it ran on (c64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Spectrum CPC, Archimedes, BBC, Apple ][, Electron, PC). Classic first-person-3d space combat & trading sim. Oh yeah, and it got better framerates on a C64 than my 300mhz PC does with GL under X.
ObSouthPark:
"Like it says in the bible, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
"Dude! That's not the Bible, that's Wrath of Khan!"
"Same thing..."
ObLarrySanders:
"Put him on speakerphone! Make him say 'Klingon!'"
"Hey Bill, uh, we were wondering, um, who were your main enemies on the show?"
"Well, DeForest Kelley and I had some problems..."
Right. Star *Search*. Episode IV: A New Hope, with it's unforgettable climax of Luke Walkersky and Garth Evader doing a duet on "The Good Ship Lollypop." Launched the careers of Ed MacMahon, Billy Dee Williams and K-9 from Doctor Who, too.
I've toyed with the idea of building a ReBirth/TB-303 style pattern sequencer + realtime controls prog in C64 assembly. Unfortunately, my 6502 skillz are the opposite of 1337, ie non-existent. And I don't have a hardware C64 anyway. Wouldn't want one as my sole musical instrument, but it would work OK for bleepy-squelchy techno noises...
If you hafta ask, you'll never understand...
> Free Software vendors should be indicating the terms of the GPL (assuming some software is GPLed in their distribution) on the outside of the packaging, but even if they don't, again, the license is not restricting any of the rights you would normally have in a software sale so there is no need for prior assent.
:-)
Regardless of whether or not that's a good idea morally or ethically, the GPL (according to my friend "wc -l") is 347 lines of text. Even the preamble is something like a page long. Now, if you assume the Free Software in question to be, say, a GNU/Linux distro, those typically include not only GPLed code, but also significant chunks of LGPL, GFDL, BSD, Apache, Artistic, etc., licenses. So, basically, a phonebook's worth of legalese. And as you and others here have mentioned, the various free licences only affect redistribution, modification and in some cases advertising of the software, not actually using it. I'd have a hard time imagining Joe Sixpack walking into Software City, buying the newest Mandrake and being *disappointed* that he's legally allowed to copy it and modify it. I'm sure the store would be glad to sell him Windows XP if that were the case.
The bite covered troll rises from the dead! --more--
It hits with a goatse link--more--
You hear the howling of the Frrstpost--more--
It hits! You die! Do you want your possessions identified?
FVWM is snazzy and all, but it tends to lose a little of that leanness if you try to implement too much of a fancy config (ie by running fvwm-themes). Still, I got a kick outta using PipeRead + awk + cda to implement a point & click, CDDB aware CD player in my wm menus.
Sawfish (without Gnome) and Ouroborus are nice for low-footprint desktop WMs, too...
Or if you're a true hairshirt, there's always twm.
Moderation Totals: Funny=3, Overrated=1, Total=4.
There is, sort of. But I was *really* going for -1, Obvious. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those!
Yeah, just ask all those marijuana users and... what, it's still illegal? Sheeee-it. (throws bong out window, runs for Visine, replaces Grateful Dead record with Pat Boone)
Slashdot? You mean this isnt...? Okay, ob-on-topic: Kudos to RMS for at least doing *something*, even if it wasn't much. Sometimes when the powers that be refuse to listen, you gotta shout a little louder.
Yeah, I once thought it was secure, but it looks like now I might have to replace my rot13 encryption with rot26, or even rot52...
> "y do u think u r smart"
/. ain't counting my karma, neither am I.
Well, *I* sure didn't write Windows.
>"y do u wanna work at Microsoft?"
I don't.
>"If you could remove any of the 50 states, which state would it be and why?"
Well, Redmond is in Washington...
G'waaan, mod me down, if
Shift magazine did a list of the top 10 video game characters of all time, the "Skinny red Tetris peice" was something like #3... "Remember, you need him more than he needs you."
Me! Well, if by running it, you mean running it for a coupla hours till it crashes (the joys of beta, probably never gonna be updated sounddrivers), then nerve pinch into Linux, read a story like this and decide that my 2.4.17 kernel isn't quite antiquated yet :-)
So it's more than decentralised enough, which is a Good Thing(tm) for those who don't wanna pay royalties. But it's gonna suck donkey balls if you try to use it with dialup... (pats DSL modem affectionately) Mmmm, bandwidth...
This guy could stand to learn something from... umm, himself. (C'mon, somebody had to post it!)
Granted, my GTA3 experience is limited to about five minutes fiddling with an in-store demo, but the *civillians* in that game don't take sh*t lying down. I wound up ending my session by carjacking someone, running the car into a light post, having the original driver yank me outta the car & start beating me, and after it turned into a huge enough brawl, some wacko wasted me with a shotgun... Needless to say, I'm off to try this in real life now. What Fun!
Plus, what company besides SGI would proudly describe a marketing leaflet as "Translated by GanjaTron?"
Okay, fine, viruxen then. Fscking spelling nazis.
Hey, c'mon, the logo and the well-known hippie can be the same thing. I can picture it now, a huge-headed, Pep Boys style cartoon of RMS saying "St. Ignucius sez it's C-x C-Kool!"
It can't be a coincidence that my browser crashed immediately after loading Craig (Microsoft) Mundie's pic. Remind me not to laugh anymore about JPGs bearing virii.
The last time I checked (which was five seconds ago) AG still had its site & hosted MP3s up.
Fortunately, my habit of giving my snail address as "Beverly Hills, CA, 90210", would work perfectly. Knew that show was good for *something.*
Indeed, there is somebody on Usenet whose real email is something like nospam@foobar.net, and he/she claims to almost never get spam there...
Q: When logic and proportion have fallen by the wayside dead, and you just ate some kind of mushroom, and the Red Queen's "Off with her head", um, do you remember what the doormouse said?
A: How does remember what the doormouse said make you feel?
Q: Ummm.... never mind.