Back in the day of I had a popular gaming site with a large online community of players. We had forums, lots of game servers, lots of events, LAN parties, good times.
Everything was going pretty well for a while until the teens started showing up. You can't ban them from the forums because they can just login to AOL, or from School. You can't ban their CD keys or IP from game servers because they would also log into other places or beg mommy to buy them a new copy.
I had one guy sending me 'poems' about the different ways he was going to kill me because I was deleting his off topic and 1 liner posts from the forums. I'm sure you know the type. Post count is everything to these morons.
What began as a like 20 or so hard core gamers (all over 21) turned into about 500 obnoxious kids. All the people who helped originally found the community left in frustration and in the end, it was me alone. I felt like some kind of baby sitter. I ended up shutting down the site which was the best thing I ever did.
Got a dog, and wife, better job, lost some weight, started a new business, and pretty much left the gaming world behind.
Even if the University owns the land and the arpartment, the students are renting it from them. This means there is a lease and an expectation of privacy. Nothing in that lease can 'trump' state or federal law and federal law gives very little power to landlords,associations, county officials, or state officials when it comes to regulating unregulated bands. Basically, the school can't do shit.
Its the same as your landland sending you a letter to shut off all your wireless phones or cell phones.
There is a loophole but its arguable. Since the landlord already has a 802.11a antenna which provides the same service. The rules are ambiguous about this plus the students are obviously using it for home networking so they don't have to run cat5 anywhere, the loophole would not apply.
But they are being rented by the students, this gives them an expecation of privacy. Not to mention, noone but the FCC can regulate FCC devices, even if you are running it on someone elses property.
The students win on this one no matter what anyone says. Think about it, do you want your landlands letting you know what FCC regulated devices you can have?
Someone mentioned the 'hotplate' rule. That person is an idiot. There is no federal body that regulates hotplates or a federal law stating only the government can regulate hotplates. In this case, the Federal Government has made it clear. They regulate the air waves and the equipment involved in accessing it. Noone else.
My version. BTW, unlike some people(the author of the original list), I'm not paid to port Linux games to Windows.
# Performance
Many users also find that their games work great in Cedega. If none of their games do work, the most they are out is $15. Chances are, most gamers own 2 or 3 level 4 to level 5 titles that will run perfectly with Cedega. Its true, and obvious to anyone with 1/2 a brain, out of the thousands of titles that exist in the world, Cedega supports only a very small fraction.
# Pricing
Lets get real....$5/month for 3 months. Your complaining over a $15 mininum investment? How many of us have bought a $50 dud a best buy? "PC Gamer- best game ever", IGN - "It will rock your world". I know I have at least 10 of those babies under my belt, thats $500.00. With 10 minutes of research you will pretty much know if Cedega is going to help you or not,and if it doesn't, $15 is not breaking anyone's bank.
# Progress
The five star rating means the game is supported by Transgaming. It means they worked either with the developers or directly with the game to attempt to ensure there are no problems. The reason there are only five is because a lot of problems still crop up with those and because they are 'supported' games, those problems are first on the list to be fixed. Its the same system that CodeWeavers uses. The differences that Codeweavers will usually let you download a new release even if your support contract has died, assuming there were none released during the time of your contract.
# Potential
The potential of Cedega differs from user to user. It depends on how many games you have that are supported and how much time you want to put into fucking with them to get them to work. Its true that because Transgaming is trying to reverse engineer DirectX, they will always be playing catch up. Luckily, noone is forcing you to use Cedega so, if there happens to be someone standing behind you twisting your arm to subscribe, tell him fuck off.
# Priorities
The vast majority of companies who produce a Linux product or contribute to development of FOSS products have many many many other interests besides Linux. Transgaming is just one of them, so is our beloved friend IBM, Redhat, Epic, SGI, HP, Comp Assoc, AOL, Cisco, so on so fourth. Just because a company has a Linux product doesn't mean they have to drop everything else and drape themselves in the open source movement.
# Promises
The code that cannot be released is ILLEGAL to release due to DMCA, as well as the contract. It would even be illegal for the writers of the said code to release the code at this point!!! They had two options, license copy protection code and support a ton of new games, or not license it and hit a brick wall. The CVS version functions without this code.
Packaging
I'm sure we've all heard of and talked about Transgaming asking Gentoo to pull the CVS WineX ebuild. Yada Yada Yada. Various reasons were cited, one of them being that Gentoo, being the gamers distro of choice, was hammering the CVS server. Another one was that people downloading the CVS(development version) were seeking support resources from Transgaming, another was that the CVS version is missing the copy protection code so for people using CVS, it seemed Transgaming was making false claims because they thought it was the same thing. Say what you want, no 'threats' were made, it was a nuetral request. Even the folks at Gentoo said people were blowing it way out of proportion.
# Portability
I have no personal knowledge of what Transgaming is cooking up. I don't have access to their internal systems, nor have I seen any code or demonstrations of code that prove thier claims true of false. Obviously the author of the original list has insider knowledge,mabye access to the code. Although, considering we went from the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk to the moon in like two generations, emulating some shit on a PS2 pales in comparison
They're hindering progress by running a separate branch and charging for it when they could be working with the wine developers in creating a FREE solid application that would otherwise make people seriously think about switching to Linux.
Hello captain misinformed. Have you checked out thier CVS server? Its all there except for the copy protection code and other proprietary code they licensed. Check it out,./configure; make; make install.
Not to mention, many of the biggest Linux software companies around have seperate commerical branches based off an open source codebase ot procuct....duel licensing. The same as Transgaming. The copyright holder can license under the GPL/LGPL/BSD/QT/etc then turn around and license the exact same work under a difference license to someone. Do you think money magically appears in their bank accounts?
That didn't kill Diamond though. It was the merger between Diamond and crappy S3 (now Sonic Blue) who, at the time, had not made a decent product since the winter of 82'.
I still wonder what happened internally at that company to make it go from good, to shit, so quickly.
It has a menu editor. the first thing I do with a new KDE installtion is reorganize the menus. The start like menu and the toolbars. I don't know of a single person who actually uses the stock menu and toolbars actually.
but they're all derivatives or direct clones of existing games.
I've kinda felt this way about the past couple years of commerical games too, especially for the PC. Of course, we've had a few originals but since Half-Life, there hasn't been a title in the US except maybe BF1942 and UT2004 that has not bored me to tears. I'm an FPS guy so I don't know what has been going on in the RPG/RTS world.
Possible disadvantage? It requires KDE3, so it does require quite some extra bagage you don't normally find on a Mac OS X system, but it *should* work.
Wouldn't an OSX version still require the OSX GUI libraries? Isn't that basically the same thing as reqiring KDE? (note, you don't have to run KDE ro run KDE programs)
...the announcement from Gabe Newell, a Valve Software employee, was created by someone who was able to guess the simple password of "gaben" for Gabe's forum account.
What a dumb ass, you think Gabe would have learned at least something about security by now, espeically taking into account past events. Well, once a Microsoft employee, always a Microsoft employee.
They do not developer softeware for MS. Sorry, they are more like a group of developers who are a linux thinktank of sort. MS has already publiclly stated this.
I heard this from a friend of a friend who actually is a Linux developer at microsoft. I know him as well, he is a complete dumb ass but...
MS has rooms full of Linux computers with people learning Linux and open source software inside and out. Developers are tearing apart the source code to the kernel, KDE, Gnome, Apache, etc using/testing every little feature, making notes, and dicussing where they think the developers will go next. They even have people who monitor development mailing lists and forums.
This is a direct quote:
"The plan is no to patent where Linux is now, the plan is to patent where Linux is going."
Technically, the MS stratefy is the 'head them off at the pass'.
And last pay-to-see anything was girlfriend and made me take her to see Titanic..
Wow, you sound like one fun guy to date!
For every boycotter, there are 100 teeny-boppers waiting to take up the RIAA cause. So, boycott all you want. The only person you are depriving of anything is yourself and apparently your girlfriend as well.
I was wondering, even though its P2P, is it legal for the RIAA to gather evidence how they do? Maybe I don't mind some people in my computer but I don't want the RIAA poking around in my files without my permission.
Yeah, out of the ten thousand+ people that read your post, 1 will actually do it. Assuming he/she spends $500/year on RIAA related stuff, you just cost the RIAA $500. I bet they have more money between the cushions of the couch in the reception area.
That is where your idea is flawed. How many people in the US are actually capable of logic? Maybe a couple states in the north east and CA but most of the whole midwest and south of the capital (plus Maryland) can't even read at jr high level. How could they possibly let go of the conservative issues they grew up with, such as: crazy religion, war, guns, racism, gay hating, etc. There is no reasoning with them.
Changing the license at this point will hurt mySQL bad. Postgres has some big backers now and is already more feature rich than mySQL. Take it form me, I was a mySQL addict and then my boss introducted me to Postgres. I look at mySQL as a kids toy now.
I can't wait till 8.0 when I can start writing my stored procedures in Java. W00t.
Actually it does. Read the GPL and you'll see. If a company wants to distrubute code under the GPL, they cannot do so if the code is not 'royalty free'. I take that to mean if you embed your own patented code, you just released that patent royalty free into the word. This, is a good thing, since software patents are bullshit anyways.
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Back in the day of I had a popular gaming site with a large online community of players. We had forums, lots of game servers, lots of events, LAN parties, good times.
Everything was going pretty well for a while until the teens started showing up. You can't ban them from the forums because they can just login to AOL, or from School. You can't ban their CD keys or IP from game servers because they would also log into other places or beg mommy to buy them a new copy.
I had one guy sending me 'poems' about the different ways he was going to kill me because I was deleting his off topic and 1 liner posts from the forums. I'm sure you know the type. Post count is everything to these morons.
What began as a like 20 or so hard core gamers (all over 21) turned into about 500 obnoxious kids. All the people who helped originally found the community left in frustration and in the end, it was me alone. I felt like some kind of baby sitter. I ended up shutting down the site which was the best thing I ever did.
Got a dog, and wife, better job, lost some weight, started a new business, and pretty much left the gaming world behind.
I guess the world of tomorrow doesn't support Mozilla/FireFox. I can't view the page.
Even if the University owns the land and the arpartment, the students are renting it from them. This means there is a lease and an expectation of privacy. Nothing in that lease can 'trump' state or federal law and federal law gives very little power to landlords,associations, county officials, or state officials when it comes to regulating unregulated bands. Basically, the school can't do shit.
Its the same as your landland sending you a letter to shut off all your wireless phones or cell phones.
There is a loophole but its arguable. Since the landlord already has a 802.11a antenna which provides the same service. The rules are ambiguous about this plus the students are obviously using it for home networking so they don't have to run cat5 anywhere, the loophole would not apply.
But they are being rented by the students, this gives them an expecation of privacy. Not to mention, noone but the FCC can regulate FCC devices, even if you are running it on someone elses property.
The students win on this one no matter what anyone says. Think about it, do you want your landlands letting you know what FCC regulated devices you can have?
Someone mentioned the 'hotplate' rule. That person is an idiot. There is no federal body that regulates hotplates or a federal law stating only the government can regulate hotplates. In this case, the Federal Government has made it clear. They regulate the air waves and the equipment involved in accessing it. Noone else.
Actually, under the telecommunication act of 1996, they don't. It specifically makes references to land lords, neighborhood associations, etc.
Why does your company suck so bad?
My version. BTW, unlike some people(the author of the original list), I'm not paid to port Linux games to Windows.
# Performance
Many users also find that their games work great in Cedega. If none of their games do work, the most they are out is $15. Chances are, most gamers own 2 or 3 level 4 to level 5 titles that will run perfectly with Cedega. Its true, and obvious to anyone with 1/2 a brain, out of the thousands of titles that exist in the world, Cedega supports only a very small fraction.
# Pricing
Lets get real....$5/month for 3 months. Your complaining over a $15 mininum investment? How many of us have bought a $50 dud a best buy? "PC Gamer- best game ever", IGN - "It will rock your world". I know I have at least 10 of those babies under my belt, thats $500.00. With 10 minutes of research you will pretty much know if Cedega is going to help you or not,and if it doesn't, $15 is not breaking anyone's bank.
# Progress
The five star rating means the game is supported by Transgaming. It means they worked either with the developers or directly with the game to attempt to ensure there are no problems. The reason there are only five is because a lot of problems still crop up with those and because they are 'supported' games, those problems are first on the list to be fixed. Its the same system that CodeWeavers uses. The differences that Codeweavers will usually let you download a new release even if your support contract has died, assuming there were none released during the time of your contract.
# Potential
The potential of Cedega differs from user to user. It depends on how many games you have that are supported and how much time you want to put into fucking with them to get them to work. Its true that because Transgaming is trying to reverse engineer DirectX, they will always be playing catch up. Luckily, noone is forcing you to use Cedega so, if there happens to be someone standing behind you twisting your arm to subscribe, tell him fuck off.
# Priorities
The vast majority of companies who produce a Linux product or contribute to development of FOSS products have many many many other interests besides Linux. Transgaming is just one of them, so is our beloved friend IBM, Redhat, Epic, SGI, HP, Comp Assoc, AOL, Cisco, so on so fourth. Just because a company has a Linux product doesn't mean they have to drop everything else and drape themselves in the open source movement.
# Promises
The code that cannot be released is ILLEGAL to release due to DMCA, as well as the contract. It would even be illegal for the writers of the said code to release the code at this point!!! They had two options, license copy protection code and support a ton of new games, or not license it and hit a brick wall. The CVS version functions without this code.
Packaging
I'm sure we've all heard of and talked about Transgaming asking Gentoo to pull the CVS WineX ebuild. Yada Yada Yada. Various reasons were cited, one of them being that Gentoo, being the gamers distro of choice, was hammering the CVS server. Another one was that people downloading the CVS(development version) were seeking support resources from Transgaming, another was that the CVS version is missing the copy protection code so for people using CVS, it seemed Transgaming was making false claims because they thought it was the same thing. Say what you want, no 'threats' were made, it was a nuetral request. Even the folks at Gentoo said people were blowing it way out of proportion.
# Portability
I have no personal knowledge of what Transgaming is cooking up. I don't have access to their internal systems, nor have I seen any code or demonstrations of code that prove thier claims true of false. Obviously the author of the original list has insider knowledge,mabye access to the code. Although, considering we went from the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk to the moon in like two generations, emulating some shit on a PS2 pales in comparison
Maybe you should try Transgaming's FOSS version...
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=17631
They're hindering progress by running a separate branch and charging for it when they could be working with the wine developers in creating a FREE solid application that would otherwise make people seriously think about switching to Linux.
Hello captain misinformed. Have you checked out thier CVS server? Its all there except for the copy protection code and other proprietary code they licensed. Check it out, ./configure; make; make install.
Not to mention, many of the biggest Linux software companies around have seperate commerical branches based off an open source codebase ot procuct....duel licensing. The same as Transgaming. The copyright holder can license under the GPL/LGPL/BSD/QT/etc then turn around and license the exact same work under a difference license to someone. Do you think money magically appears in their bank accounts?
Is this covered by the DMCA though?
That didn't kill Diamond though. It was the merger between Diamond and crappy S3 (now Sonic Blue) who, at the time, had not made a decent product since the winter of 82'. I still wonder what happened internally at that company to make it go from good, to shit, so quickly.
It has a menu editor. the first thing I do with a new KDE installtion is reorganize the menus. The start like menu and the toolbars. I don't know of a single person who actually uses the stock menu and toolbars actually.
I've kinda felt this way about the past couple years of commerical games too, especially for the PC. Of course, we've had a few originals but since Half-Life, there hasn't been a title in the US except maybe BF1942 and UT2004 that has not bored me to tears. I'm an FPS guy so I don't know what has been going on in the RPG/RTS world.
Wouldn't an OSX version still require the OSX GUI libraries? Isn't that basically the same thing as reqiring KDE? (note, you don't have to run KDE ro run KDE programs)
Well, I'm glad the marketing folks from FileMaker decided to grace us with a reply. Thanks!
What a dumb ass, you think Gabe would have learned at least something about security by now, espeically taking into account past events. Well, once a Microsoft employee, always a Microsoft employee.
They do not developer softeware for MS. Sorry, they are more like a group of developers who are a linux thinktank of sort. MS has already publiclly stated this.
I heard this from a friend of a friend who actually is a Linux developer at microsoft. I know him as well, he is a complete dumb ass but...
MS has rooms full of Linux computers with people learning Linux and open source software inside and out. Developers are tearing apart the source code to the kernel, KDE, Gnome, Apache, etc using/testing every little feature, making notes, and dicussing where they think the developers will go next. They even have people who monitor development mailing lists and forums.
This is a direct quote:
"The plan is no to patent where Linux is now, the plan is to patent where Linux is going."
Technically, the MS stratefy is the 'head them off at the pass'.
Wow, you sound like one fun guy to date!
For every boycotter, there are 100 teeny-boppers waiting to take up the RIAA cause. So, boycott all you want. The only person you are depriving of anything is yourself and apparently your girlfriend as well.
I was wondering, even though its P2P, is it legal for the RIAA to gather evidence how they do? Maybe I don't mind some people in my computer but I don't want the RIAA poking around in my files without my permission.
Yeah, out of the ten thousand+ people that read your post, 1 will actually do it. Assuming he/she spends $500/year on RIAA related stuff, you just cost the RIAA $500. I bet they have more money between the cushions of the couch in the reception area.
You mean the stick that says "RATED M FOR MATURE" isn't displaying rating informatiom?
That is where your idea is flawed. How many people in the US are actually capable of logic? Maybe a couple states in the north east and CA but most of the whole midwest and south of the capital (plus Maryland) can't even read at jr high level. How could they possibly let go of the conservative issues they grew up with, such as: crazy religion, war, guns, racism, gay hating, etc. There is no reasoning with them.
Changing the license at this point will hurt mySQL bad. Postgres has some big backers now and is already more feature rich than mySQL. Take it form me, I was a mySQL addict and then my boss introducted me to Postgres. I look at mySQL as a kids toy now.
I can't wait till 8.0 when I can start writing my stored procedures in Java. W00t.
Actually it does. Read the GPL and you'll see. If a company wants to distrubute code under the GPL, they cannot do so if the code is not 'royalty free'. I take that to mean if you embed your own patented code, you just released that patent royalty free into the word. This, is a good thing, since software patents are bullshit anyways.