It is implied exactly nowhere on that website that *only* Tibet should be freed, and the rest should be ignored. In fact, please note the following partial quote: "...that helping the[sic] Tibet get free is an obvious way to start with." See that 'to start with' bit? That certainly is not saying Tibet should be the *only* group freed.
Why Tibet first, then? Well, note his use of the phrase, "...I believe...". That explains it as well as anything ever will.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...
Thank You for Your truly insightful advice, O Wise Ruler of All Things Technical.
Surely this proves You are best suited to decree what projects should and should not be completed -- how can the community remain blind to that fact? For You are the One True DevGod, and Your omniscience is staggering.
If it pleases You, tell us what other pointless activities are we mere mortals wasting our time chasing? Enlighten us, O Master of Project Management!
[sarcasm mode off. - a hint for all the numbnuts who won't otherwise understand the point of this post]
Why bother? Because it's there. Because someone got an itch and decided to scratch it real good. Because if it's stable it'll be a good way to get some Windows users used to the L&F and features of Gnome without needing Linux installed first.
Just because.
(BTW, telling someone their pet project is stupid is guaranteed to get you ignored or worse, especially if you're not the one funding it.)
Even having read./ for the past several years, it still amazes me that people can get so upset about something that affects them in exactly zero ways. Be calm, no one is going to break into your house and force you at gunpoint to install this thing. You don't have to use it.
I don't see how you folks can say that, for example, a freely available King's Quest I is going to give Baldur's Gate II a hard time at the cash register. Gee, id better not release Castle Wolfenstein to PD, or else Quake I/II/III sales might decline.
Would you really truly play Ultima Underworld I to the exclusion of ?? Or would you kick up a session for nostalgia's sake but soon realise that the graphics are woefully out of date, and then head back to the new stuff?
Just recently PCGamer made a CD with over 10 'classic' games, the full versions. So we know it can be done: old games can be 'given away' without it affecting sales of new games.
This has gone on long enough that it's a regular feature now, and as such, needs its own category. Those of us who wish to block it should be able to do so.
Ok, so I guess if I see you and a squirrel dying on the side of the road, I'll save the squirrel. Cos there's too many people on this earth, and you are one of em. =)
Your attitude is wonderfully self-gratifying until *you* are classified as one of the 'too many'. Just stop and think about that for a while.
Actually, a closer analogy would be selling, not kiddie porn, but items belonging to the kiddie pornographers, confiscated by police when they arrested or killed the KPs. There's no direct parallel between occupation and terrorization of Europe and some obscene pictures.
It's still a very bogus and tenuous argument, that a belt-buckle (uh oh, it's got a swastika on it!) from a Nazi officer is gonna make someone want to start offing Jews. Cos that's what these people are suggesting - that an object's past associations define the morality of its current owner.
47. TDS Healthcare Systems Corp. v. Humana Hosp. Illinois, Inc., 880 F.Supp. 1572; (N.D. GA. 1995).
Alleged breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets relating to computer software for hospital health care information.
Court summarily rejects copyright preemption argument. Computer programs are considered to be literary works within the meaning of the copyright law. The Copyright Act's legislative history makes clear that a breach of trust or confidentiality differs from a copyright infringement and therefore such common law trade secrets claims are not preempted.
The only difference is, theirs was a computer program, this one is a written document. Written documents are copyrighted. Period. Even if it's discussing a subject that isn't copyrighted by the author.
Hehe, that's pretty creative.. there is, however, another discussion going on in this thread regarding the structural soundness of distributing trade secrets under a common license for anyone to pick up and agree to. Wouldn't it just be funny if a court eventually decided that there's no such thing as a public trade secret?
It's printed on every page. Extracting it from the file without reading that license gets you nowhere, cos the first paragraph says you have to have licensed it to read further. And then it's at the bottom of every page after that.
Extracting it from the cab file doesn't do you any good. It certainly doesn't let you bypass the license.
'sold 500,000' copies means they've gotten commitments from places like Walmart and Software Etc to order that many copies for inventory. We have yet to see how many of those will actually get sold to the gaming public and how many languish on shelves or in bargain pits. And it doesn't predict how many will be returned - and there'll be a few, if the demo reviews above are any indication.
So don't go pooh-poohing the naysayers just yet. They haven't proved anyone wrong yet. =)
AFAIK, Romero is the only one in Ion Storm who was at id.
What's funny tho, is that if you listen to Romero, he created Doom and Quake all by himself. No wonder Carmack and the others got rid of him, he's an irritating little monkey who thinks he's good at game design. The only things he's really good at are puffing his own ego and conning people into giving him money.
It's the International Star Registry crap all over again.. basically yer paying for a frameable certificate that you can impress dinner guests with. That's about it. There's no real reason to get more than one, and there shouldn't be any reason to expect it to be legal at all.
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It is implied exactly nowhere on that website that *only* Tibet should be freed, and the rest should be ignored. In fact, please note the following partial quote: "...that helping the[sic] Tibet get free is an obvious way to start with." See that 'to start with' bit? That certainly is not saying Tibet should be the *only* group freed.
Why Tibet first, then? Well, note his use of the phrase, "...I believe...". That explains it as well as anything ever will.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...
Thank You for Your truly insightful advice, O Wise Ruler of All Things Technical.
Surely this proves You are best suited to decree what projects should and should not be completed -- how can the community remain blind to that fact? For You are the One True DevGod, and Your omniscience is staggering.
If it pleases You, tell us what other pointless activities are we mere mortals wasting our time chasing? Enlighten us, O Master of Project Management!
[sarcasm mode off. - a hint for all the numbnuts who won't otherwise understand the point of this post]
Why bother? Because it's there. Because someone got an itch and decided to scratch it real good. Because if it's stable it'll be a good way to get some Windows users used to the L&F and features of Gnome without needing Linux installed first.
./ for the past several years, it still amazes me that people can get so upset about something that affects them in exactly zero ways. Be calm, no one is going to break into your house and force you at gunpoint to install this thing. You don't have to use it.
Just because.
(BTW, telling someone their pet project is stupid is guaranteed to get you ignored or worse, especially if you're not the one funding it.)
Even having read
Uhh, no, not 'funny', was supposed to be 'informative'. Not sure why it decided to change my moderation, but it's all fixed now. Sorry bout that.
..anything.
I got mine today. Walked in and asked for it, they handed it to me no questions asked.
Yeah, you caught them on a bad day.. see if you can find their rip of Warrior of the Lost World - goddamn, that's funny as hell.
Megaweapon! Megaweapon! Make it slooooooww!
It also helps if you've seen a lot of movies and TV shows - otherwise some of the references can sound kinda stupid.
I don't see how you folks can say that, for example, a freely available King's Quest I is going to give Baldur's Gate II a hard time at the cash register. Gee, id better not release Castle Wolfenstein to PD, or else Quake I/II/III sales might decline.
Would you really truly play Ultima Underworld I to the exclusion of ?? Or would you kick up a session for nostalgia's sake but soon realise that the graphics are woefully out of date, and then head back to the new stuff?
Just recently PCGamer made a CD with over 10 'classic' games, the full versions. So we know it can be done: old games can be 'given away' without it affecting sales of new games.
Wow. Better not let all that anti-clue come into contact with a normal clue, or you'll vaporize the universe.
Great. Then since it's a regularly scheduled feature and not a haphazard collection of random stuff, you'll be giving it its own category.
This has gone on long enough that it's a regular feature now, and as such, needs its own category. Those of us who wish to block it should be able to do so.
Your attitude is wonderfully self-gratifying until *you* are classified as one of the 'too many'. Just stop and think about that for a while.
At least there's hope for Penfold now... his condition isn't permanent =)
Actually, a closer analogy would be selling, not kiddie porn, but items belonging to the kiddie pornographers, confiscated by police when they arrested or killed the KPs. There's no direct parallel between occupation and terrorization of Europe and some obscene pictures.
It's still a very bogus and tenuous argument, that a belt-buckle (uh oh, it's got a swastika on it!) from a Nazi officer is gonna make someone want to start offing Jews. Cos that's what these people are suggesting - that an object's past associations define the morality of its current owner.
47. TDS Healthcare Systems Corp. v. Humana Hosp. Illinois, Inc., 880 F.Supp. 1572; (N.D. GA. 1995).
Alleged breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets relating to computer software for hospital health care information.
Court summarily rejects copyright preemption argument. Computer programs are considered to be literary works within the meaning of the copyright law. The Copyright Act's legislative history makes clear that a breach of trust or confidentiality differs from a copyright infringement and therefore such common law trade secrets claims are not preempted.
The only difference is, theirs was a computer program, this one is a written document. Written documents are copyrighted. Period. Even if it's discussing a subject that isn't copyrighted by the author.
Hehe, that one's showing as available. Kick it up =)
Symantec's LiveUpdate is the obvious one. McAfee may have had an auto-update feature too, I don't recall.
It reads like a 6th grade class project. At the very least it doesn't appear that a lot of effort was put into it...
Funny as in ironic. I'd like to see it happen too - that's why I said something about it.
Hehe, that's pretty creative.. there is, however, another discussion going on in this thread regarding the structural soundness of distributing trade secrets under a common license for anyone to pick up and agree to. Wouldn't it just be funny if a court eventually decided that there's no such thing as a public trade secret?
It's printed on every page. Extracting it from the file without reading that license gets you nowhere, cos the first paragraph says you have to have licensed it to read further. And then it's at the bottom of every page after that.
Extracting it from the cab file doesn't do you any good. It certainly doesn't let you bypass the license.
Did you enjoy writing for Monty Python? Had you established your peculiar insanity by then, or was that the catalyst?
'sold 500,000' copies means they've gotten commitments from places like Walmart and Software Etc to order that many copies for inventory. We have yet to see how many of those will actually get sold to the gaming public and how many languish on shelves or in bargain pits. And it doesn't predict how many will be returned - and there'll be a few, if the demo reviews above are any indication.
So don't go pooh-poohing the naysayers just yet. They haven't proved anyone wrong yet. =)
AFAIK, Romero is the only one in Ion Storm who was at id.
What's funny tho, is that if you listen to Romero, he created Doom and Quake all by himself. No wonder Carmack and the others got rid of him, he's an irritating little monkey who thinks he's good at game design. The only things he's really good at are puffing his own ego and conning people into giving him money.
There's too much similarity for a sampling (I saw at least 5 "Where can I find a concise encyclopedia article on xxxxxx?" questions in two reloads).
Plus, none of the questions have any misspellings at all.
It's the International Star Registry crap all over again.. basically yer paying for a frameable certificate that you can impress dinner guests with. That's about it. There's no real reason to get more than one, and there shouldn't be any reason to expect it to be legal at all.