I've done a cable install twice now and just having your linux machine there will prevent them from doing anything. The guy will walk over and say, oh, you don't have windows? Then he'll call in all the numbers on his phone.. that's it! done.
It doesn't work that way man. If you get Vacbanned for cheating, you still own the game and you can still play your game online. But you aren't allowed on VAC secured servers anymore.. because you are a known cheater. They don't take your game away for cheating, they remove your ability to shit on everyone else's online experience.
Gentoo is still my fav distro. I think it's the fact that you grow the install from the tiniest of seeds and touch every config to get it all just right.
Normal distro's just don't do it for me anymore.. a fresh kubuntu install feels stillborn.. where's the love? the commitment? Gentoo has always felt like an extension of my psyche. There's something very satisfying in compiling your Kernel for ONLY the bits of hardware in your box. To know that every port open and service running is because you commanded it, not because it's the default thing that came installed.
But there is a flashy installer now, binary distributions of OpenOffice and stuff for those who don't want to compile everything. Gentoo Linux Security Advisories (GLSA) are great for letting you know what hole needs plugging. The best part though.. the community!
Linus would probably take the $Billion and fork the ex-Linux code and rename it into something else. Then he'd have enough Capital to PAY the contributers to the Kernel.. or even build a secret underground lair for hackers to live in and work on the Kernel.
and Sliders too.. FOX execs continuously mauled that show until it died. Fox isn't the only channel that does it though. Lots of good shows died prematurely on their first season: Earth2(NBC), Threshold(CBS), Odyssey5(Showtime), Dresden Files(Sci-Fi), and more.
You would lose access to all your programs but i'm pretty sure whatever programs are already loaded into ram will work just fine. Linux (the OS) would still be running perfectly fine (it's usually on a separate unmounted partition anyways).. it's all the servers, daemons, and other programs that would be missing.
If you setup a temporary environment to work from like on a thumbdrive and rm -fr on the host machine, you'd atleast have a working shell to rebuild from... without needing to reboot and use a livecd.
It's the perfect time to adopt a mad scientist. Seriously, how cool would this be to a Neural Net researcher? I honestly think you should put an advert out saying "looking for researcher to utilize private cluster with 272gb ram and 136 procs".
I think most American theaters were like this years ago. All the mainstream theaters i've been to recently were very well kept (but still expensive). They usually have the movie you want to see in normal, Digital, and Director seating for both. Director seating costs a few dollars more but there's a whole lot more room, comfy seats, and staff that will get you whatever you want to eat/drink during the movie. Imax is sexy too:)
"We began full-force in 2000," he continued, "by raising $3 million, which is about one-tenth of the current MMORPG." Its flagship product, EVE Online has been in development for three years, "the last year of which we had no money, but everyone turned up to work anyway despite us not being able to pay them," he admitted.
"This created a core of people who have gone through hell with us, and helps with the community especially," said Petursson.
"We had publishing problems with Simon & Schuster," he continued, "which resulted in no distribution or marketing, despite having 30,000 players. We ended up buying the rights back at 2002 and going into digital distribution. This has forced us to treat [EVE] more as a service than a product, and using viral marketing techniques to propagate the product out, long before others were doing this."
Petursson said CCP is planning a "massive graphical upgrade to the game," and also predicted that this year would see a total of 200,000 subscribers, after reaching 100,000 subscribers in February of last year.
"We have had different growth than most other games," said Petursson, "because the whole game takes place on a single shard, which allows escalation of power and social equity as the size of the community grows."
I spent 6 months in a coalition log base that had zero internet, phones, pay, tv, or mail services. The only americans were my platoon, an ODA team, some rogue infantry major (a US liaison to another country), and a few commo guys. My platoon chipped in and bought a Satellite and a monthly plan from a local.. we had to pay in cash, however. Each plt member paid $100 the first month and $30 after that. We drove 2 hrs to the nearest FOB a few times a month. It had all the normal services so we could pickup mail for the logbase and get our monthly allowance from finance. I think the service plan we had gave us 12 unique IPs to play with. The service was good too(when there wasn't asshats leaving P2P stuff running all out). However, i recommend you stick to non-live communications as much as possible. Phonecalls make people cry and you just won't be as focused on the job with that kind of stuff to worry about (imo, of course. To each their own).
It's a good idea that a senior NCO has control of the satellite so he can pull it down if he feels there is a good reason (sudden visit by a VIP, for example). The NCO can ensure everyone is running AV and NOT doing anything mission critical with the computer (watch Officers! anything official even memo's should be done on a non-network'd machine). Using a cheap (220v!) Router with assigned MACs is a good control mechanism. This is really only feasible with a small unit. You are responsible for lives and millions in equipment.. i feel there is no reason why you could not run a small network without oversight.
It IS a game and it's enjoyable to participate in. There is probably a happy medium for how serious people should take games. On my last deployment I didn't have access to internet (or phones, or tv) so we played frisbee or came up with stupid pranks.
I think a lot of vets feel the way you do. They get back and go wtf is wrong with you people, arguing over childish things? Probably why so many vets become unsync'd with the society they grew up in. But it's probably better this way. Try to keep the innocent.. innocent. No need for my family to REALLY know how shitty the world truely is, eh?
Ok, so 0.0(zero zero) space is basically lawless solar systems that players can do whatever they want in. This is where the game of EVE gets intense. Sovereignty is recognized by whomever has the controlling number of Starbases in the system. Starbases are structures you can anchor in the Orbit of moons. They are the first steps to living in 0.0 space. This is where your corporation will build from and use as a safe place until you can build/conquer an Outpost. They constantly burn fuel so your corporation will have to mine and refine Ice to get Isotopes the Tower can burn.
Capital Ships are massive (and expensive) tools to support your fleet and tear down enemy Starbases. These ships are so massive they cannot use the normal Stargates to travel between solarsystems. They rely on their own FTL drives that need a Beacon to jump to. So before you can jump a Dreadnought into a system, you need someone to pop a Cyno field.
With a certain level of Sovereignty an alliance can anchor a system-wide CynoJammer to prevent any capital ship from entering the system. They can also establish their own JumpBridges between Starbases. JumpBridges are very important logistical tools for alliances. It creates a safe travel network for industrials and event combat fleets to use.
What the BoB alliance has built up over several years now has been wiped out. Every system is open to attack and their JumpBridge networks are down.
The Sov map is a pretty neat tool to see what's going on. Each dot is an entire solarsytem.. filled with asteroid belts, planets, moons, and plenty of resources to exploit.
I'll translate it into a semi-realworld (fictional) scenario to help out...
"In the world of Business-Politics, the infamous Apple company has been dissolved. It seems that rival Company Microsoft had a [director level] spy in the holding corporation, and he stole money as well as Super-Computers and other assets. The spy then dissolved the company. 'One of Microsoft's stated motivations from their early days as a company was to punish what they viewed as the arrogance of Apple. If they've held true to that ideal, stealing the marketplace out from under Apple effectively means Microsoft has accomplished what they set out to do years ago.' As of 11:00 GMT, Apple lost all its Intellectual Property. (its patents are void now, trademarks are pointless, copyrights are invalid)."
Now if you can imagine the majority of Apple employees were living in their work cubicals when they found out. The next morning all apple employees were then promptly all shoved out into the street with little more than the clothes on their back. Linux and Microsoft gangs bum rushed into the area to quickly rob every apple employee as possible and quickly convert former-apple assets into new workstations and easy cash.
It's probably the biggest zerozero political upheaval in EVE's history.
If there are enough ships constantly coming and going between the stars i don't think you would get that feel. If you could buy your ticket, go to sleep, and wake up in orbit around another world, that would be very cool. But like you said, everyone you knew on the planet you left would be dead. The crew of the ships would see human civilization change before their very eyes as they travel to various worlds. I'd imagine tech would have to plateau eventually and interstellar trade would consist mostly of moving unique items and ideas around.
I liked Alastair Reynolds take on interstellar travel (in Revelation Space and others). Humans didn't have FTL capable ships but they did have ships they called "light huggers" that could creep up to just a fraction below the Speed of Light.
Even still, the trips between stars would take a generation.. so most of the crew remained in sleepers. The lighthuggers used a massive ice shield on the front of the ship to take the hits from stray atoms during the transit.
The ships themselves were massive machines composed of nanites that could replicate replacement parts from raw materials or even restructure themselves (although very slowly) if needed.
It's a good series and might help you from becoming too depressed:)
The key to most offensive/defensive tech is simplicity to use. The user should be able to pick it up, read some short numbered instructions and perform the tasks needed to operate it with little thought required.
I really liked Alien Legacy, Caesar III, Homeworld (1 & 2) and of course Half-Life. But you're right.. there hasn't been a good Sierra game in a while.. couple of years probably. I haven't bought one anyways.
Lately my money has gone to Valve, CCP, EA, and THQ. Favorite games being TF2, Left4Dead, EVE-online, Spore, and the Dawn of War series.
Dude, if i sunk $1k into something and didn't realize till it came out of the box it wasn't the shade of something i wanted.. i'd atleast TRY to make the best of what i had. Try.. seriously. She could have gone to one of the computer labs at school and spent an hour firing away basic questions on the Ubuntu forums.. or ANY linux forums and gotten the information she needed.
She tried the "windows only" install CD and it didn't work. She didn't call Verizon. The News station did. Verizon said they'd send a tech out to help her. Calling the provider of your service when something isn't working right isn't technical.. or difficult. I don't think she's dumb, i think she's playing the blame game.
quoted from the Article: "Schubert's computer came with Open Office, a word processing software package that is compatible with Microsoft Word. She says she wasn't aware it was compatible. MATC promised to show her how to save documents in compatible formats so she could enroll in online courses again." This tells me she never plugged in her thumbdrive with docs and even try. Or even looked to see if "office" was installed.. or even notice it wasn't the normal MS office and ask the school about it. I hope you get what i'm trying to say.
You are absolutely right. But i hope that when the World looks at the US as a backward and dangerous government that doesn't care for it's people (outright murders them) they do the following:
Invade. Allow the entire military to surrender, turn in weapons, debrief, and go home (unless you were a figurehead).
Laws. Forbid the previous regime from ever holding power again. Protect and train police forces to keep the peace during the transition period. Allow each family a gun to protect themselves (no registration required).
Rebuild. Pump billions of dollars into the countries infrastructure to rebuild power and government buildings.
Elect. The World led interim government allows the country to publicly elect their own leaders and create their own "free" government.
Protect. The World militaries protect the US citizens from gangs, rogue militaries, and enemy militias during the process from beginning to end.
Leave. The World invaders setup a schedule to egress the US and allow the new country to become sovereign over itself again.
If there has to be an invasion, they should atleast try to be polite, fix the things they broke, then go away when asked.
I still think it's ok for the government to have our fingerprints. The key to biometrics is the bio part, it's not easily duplicated and if it is it doesn't pass a visual inspection and cannot be transported and shared so quickly like passwords and digital authentications are. If my fingerprint could be the pin for my Credit card that would be fantastic.
I completely agree with your views of power and those IN power but i think i direct most of my grievances towards civilian corporations and big businesses and their ability to influence a country's laws and citizens rights. The government doesn't gain much by creating all these garbage laws. Certain civilian factions do gain from it though.. in the form of money. I think like you do that there should be an absolute separation of a politician and the business world. The two should have absolutely very very little to do with one another.
I'd say one of the big reasons is a hardware box doesn't need a license from Divx or anyone else to implement MKV.
Quoted from wikipedia: "The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free Container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.[1] It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software."
If that doesn't sound like a big deal.. it kinda is. Here is a quote from a DIVX Quarterly Report earlier last year: "These downloads include those for which we receive revenue as well as free downloads, such as limited-time trial versions, and downloads provided as upgrades to existing end users of our products. After the significant grass-roots adoption of our codec, the next step towards our goal was to license similar technology to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. Our customers include major consumer video hardware original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs. We are entitled to receive a royalty and/or license fee for DivX Certified devices that our customers ship. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing and related support, advertising and content distribution."
Ah, the notion to visit a distant land has been destroyed. Too much paperwork afterall.. oh, i mean online typing.. too much of that. I've seen the ruins of babylon.. guess how much paperwork THAT took:)
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I've done a cable install twice now and just having your linux machine there will prevent them from doing anything. The guy will walk over and say, oh, you don't have windows? Then he'll call in all the numbers on his phone.. that's it! done.
It doesn't work that way man. If you get Vacbanned for cheating, you still own the game and you can still play your game online. But you aren't allowed on VAC secured servers anymore.. because you are a known cheater. They don't take your game away for cheating, they remove your ability to shit on everyone else's online experience.
Gentoo is still my fav distro. I think it's the fact that you grow the install from the tiniest of seeds and touch every config to get it all just right.
Normal distro's just don't do it for me anymore.. a fresh kubuntu install feels stillborn.. where's the love? the commitment? Gentoo has always felt like an extension of my psyche. There's something very satisfying in compiling your Kernel for ONLY the bits of hardware in your box. To know that every port open and service running is because you commanded it, not because it's the default thing that came installed.
But there is a flashy installer now, binary distributions of OpenOffice and stuff for those who don't want to compile everything. Gentoo Linux Security Advisories (GLSA) are great for letting you know what hole needs plugging. The best part though.. the community!
Linus would probably take the $Billion and fork the ex-Linux code and rename it into something else. Then he'd have enough Capital to PAY the contributers to the Kernel.. or even build a secret underground lair for hackers to live in and work on the Kernel.
and Sliders too.. FOX execs continuously mauled that show until it died. Fox isn't the only channel that does it though. Lots of good shows died prematurely on their first season: Earth2(NBC), Threshold(CBS), Odyssey5(Showtime), Dresden Files(Sci-Fi), and more.
I would agree with you on how useful this would be for Military Applications... just look at what doors GPS opened up.
You would lose access to all your programs but i'm pretty sure whatever programs are already loaded into ram will work just fine. Linux (the OS) would still be running perfectly fine (it's usually on a separate unmounted partition anyways) .. it's all the servers, daemons, and other programs that would be missing.
If you setup a temporary environment to work from like on a thumbdrive and rm -fr on the host machine, you'd atleast have a working shell to rebuild from... without needing to reboot and use a livecd.
It's the perfect time to adopt a mad scientist. Seriously, how cool would this be to a Neural Net researcher? I honestly think you should put an advert out saying "looking for researcher to utilize private cluster with 272gb ram and 136 procs".
I think most American theaters were like this years ago. All the mainstream theaters i've been to recently were very well kept (but still expensive). They usually have the movie you want to see in normal, Digital, and Director seating for both. Director seating costs a few dollars more but there's a whole lot more room, comfy seats, and staff that will get you whatever you want to eat/drink during the movie. Imax is sexy too :)
Here's a neato graph of Eve Online subs
quoted from CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson on 17 Aug 07
"We began full-force in 2000," he continued, "by raising $3 million, which is about one-tenth of the current MMORPG." Its flagship product, EVE Online has been in development for three years, "the last year of which we had no money, but everyone turned up to work anyway despite us not being able to pay them," he admitted.
"This created a core of people who have gone through hell with us, and helps with the community especially," said Petursson.
"We had publishing problems with Simon & Schuster," he continued, "which resulted in no distribution or marketing, despite having 30,000 players. We ended up buying the rights back at 2002 and going into digital distribution. This has forced us to treat [EVE] more as a service than a product, and using viral marketing techniques to propagate the product out, long before others were doing this."
Petursson said CCP is planning a "massive graphical upgrade to the game," and also predicted that this year would see a total of 200,000 subscribers, after reaching 100,000 subscribers in February of last year.
"We have had different growth than most other games," said Petursson, "because the whole game takes place on a single shard, which allows escalation of power and social equity as the size of the community grows."
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EVE seems to have succeeded because the people who made it love it and won't give up.
I spent 6 months in a coalition log base that had zero internet, phones, pay, tv, or mail services. The only americans were my platoon, an ODA team, some rogue infantry major (a US liaison to another country), and a few commo guys. My platoon chipped in and bought a Satellite and a monthly plan from a local.. we had to pay in cash, however. Each plt member paid $100 the first month and $30 after that. We drove 2 hrs to the nearest FOB a few times a month. It had all the normal services so we could pickup mail for the logbase and get our monthly allowance from finance. I think the service plan we had gave us 12 unique IPs to play with. The service was good too(when there wasn't asshats leaving P2P stuff running all out). However, i recommend you stick to non-live communications as much as possible. Phonecalls make people cry and you just won't be as focused on the job with that kind of stuff to worry about (imo, of course. To each their own).
It's a good idea that a senior NCO has control of the satellite so he can pull it down if he feels there is a good reason (sudden visit by a VIP, for example). The NCO can ensure everyone is running AV and NOT doing anything mission critical with the computer (watch Officers! anything official even memo's should be done on a non-network'd machine). Using a cheap (220v!) Router with assigned MACs is a good control mechanism. This is really only feasible with a small unit. You are responsible for lives and millions in equipment.. i feel there is no reason why you could not run a small network without oversight.
It IS a game and it's enjoyable to participate in. There is probably a happy medium for how serious people should take games. On my last deployment I didn't have access to internet (or phones, or tv) so we played frisbee or came up with stupid pranks.
I think a lot of vets feel the way you do. They get back and go wtf is wrong with you people, arguing over childish things? Probably why so many vets become unsync'd with the society they grew up in. But it's probably better this way. Try to keep the innocent.. innocent. No need for my family to REALLY know how shitty the world truely is, eh?
Ok, so 0.0(zero zero) space is basically lawless solar systems that players can do whatever they want in. This is where the game of EVE gets intense. Sovereignty is recognized by whomever has the controlling number of Starbases in the system. Starbases are structures you can anchor in the Orbit of moons. They are the first steps to living in 0.0 space. This is where your corporation will build from and use as a safe place until you can build/conquer an Outpost. They constantly burn fuel so your corporation will have to mine and refine Ice to get Isotopes the Tower can burn.
Capital Ships are massive (and expensive) tools to support your fleet and tear down enemy Starbases. These ships are so massive they cannot use the normal Stargates to travel between solarsystems. They rely on their own FTL drives that need a Beacon to jump to. So before you can jump a Dreadnought into a system, you need someone to pop a Cyno field.
With a certain level of Sovereignty an alliance can anchor a system-wide CynoJammer to prevent any capital ship from entering the system. They can also establish their own JumpBridges between Starbases. JumpBridges are very important logistical tools for alliances. It creates a safe travel network for industrials and event combat fleets to use.
What the BoB alliance has built up over several years now has been wiped out. Every system is open to attack and their JumpBridge networks are down.
The Sov map is a pretty neat tool to see what's going on. Each dot is an entire solarsytem.. filled with asteroid belts, planets, moons, and plenty of resources to exploit.
I'll translate it into a semi-realworld (fictional) scenario to help out...
"In the world of Business-Politics, the infamous Apple company has been dissolved. It seems that rival Company Microsoft had a [director level] spy in the holding corporation, and he stole money as well as Super-Computers and other assets. The spy then dissolved the company. 'One of Microsoft's stated motivations from their early days as a company was to punish what they viewed as the arrogance of Apple. If they've held true to that ideal, stealing the marketplace out from under Apple effectively means Microsoft has accomplished what they set out to do years ago.' As of 11:00 GMT, Apple lost all its Intellectual Property. (its patents are void now, trademarks are pointless, copyrights are invalid)."
Now if you can imagine the majority of Apple employees were living in their work cubicals when they found out. The next morning all apple employees were then promptly all shoved out into the street with little more than the clothes on their back. Linux and Microsoft gangs bum rushed into the area to quickly rob every apple employee as possible and quickly convert former-apple assets into new workstations and easy cash.
It's probably the biggest zerozero political upheaval in EVE's history.
EVE-online for pvp then?
If there are enough ships constantly coming and going between the stars i don't think you would get that feel. If you could buy your ticket, go to sleep, and wake up in orbit around another world, that would be very cool. But like you said, everyone you knew on the planet you left would be dead. The crew of the ships would see human civilization change before their very eyes as they travel to various worlds. I'd imagine tech would have to plateau eventually and interstellar trade would consist mostly of moving unique items and ideas around.
I liked Alastair Reynolds take on interstellar travel (in Revelation Space and others). Humans didn't have FTL capable ships but they did have ships they called "light huggers" that could creep up to just a fraction below the Speed of Light.
Even still, the trips between stars would take a generation.. so most of the crew remained in sleepers. The lighthuggers used a massive ice shield on the front of the ship to take the hits from stray atoms during the transit.
The ships themselves were massive machines composed of nanites that could replicate replacement parts from raw materials or even restructure themselves (although very slowly) if needed.
It's a good series and might help you from becoming too depressed :)
The key to most offensive/defensive tech is simplicity to use. The user should be able to pick it up, read some short numbered instructions and perform the tasks needed to operate it with little thought required.
I really liked Alien Legacy, Caesar III, Homeworld (1 & 2) and of course Half-Life. But you're right.. there hasn't been a good Sierra game in a while.. couple of years probably. I haven't bought one anyways.
Lately my money has gone to Valve, CCP, EA, and THQ. Favorite games being TF2, Left4Dead, EVE-online, Spore, and the Dawn of War series.
Dude, if i sunk $1k into something and didn't realize till it came out of the box it wasn't the shade of something i wanted.. i'd atleast TRY to make the best of what i had. Try.. seriously. She could have gone to one of the computer labs at school and spent an hour firing away basic questions on the Ubuntu forums.. or ANY linux forums and gotten the information she needed.
She tried the "windows only" install CD and it didn't work. She didn't call Verizon. The News station did. Verizon said they'd send a tech out to help her. Calling the provider of your service when something isn't working right isn't technical.. or difficult. I don't think she's dumb, i think she's playing the blame game.
quoted from the Article: "Schubert's computer came with Open Office, a word processing software package that is compatible with Microsoft Word. She says she wasn't aware it was compatible. MATC promised to show her how to save documents in compatible formats so she could enroll in online courses again." This tells me she never plugged in her thumbdrive with docs and even try. Or even looked to see if "office" was installed.. or even notice it wasn't the normal MS office and ask the school about it. I hope you get what i'm trying to say.
OSS typically doesn't mean lots of $$$ to spend on hardware : /
You are absolutely right. But i hope that when the World looks at the US as a backward and dangerous government that doesn't care for it's people (outright murders them) they do the following:
Invade. Allow the entire military to surrender, turn in weapons, debrief, and go home (unless you were a figurehead).
Laws. Forbid the previous regime from ever holding power again. Protect and train police forces to keep the peace during the transition period. Allow each family a gun to protect themselves (no registration required).
Rebuild. Pump billions of dollars into the countries infrastructure to rebuild power and government buildings.
Elect. The World led interim government allows the country to publicly elect their own leaders and create their own "free" government.
Protect. The World militaries protect the US citizens from gangs, rogue militaries, and enemy militias during the process from beginning to end.
Leave. The World invaders setup a schedule to egress the US and allow the new country to become sovereign over itself again.
If there has to be an invasion, they should atleast try to be polite, fix the things they broke, then go away when asked.
I still think it's ok for the government to have our fingerprints. The key to biometrics is the bio part, it's not easily duplicated and if it is it doesn't pass a visual inspection and cannot be transported and shared so quickly like passwords and digital authentications are. If my fingerprint could be the pin for my Credit card that would be fantastic.
I completely agree with your views of power and those IN power but i think i direct most of my grievances towards civilian corporations and big businesses and their ability to influence a country's laws and citizens rights. The government doesn't gain much by creating all these garbage laws. Certain civilian factions do gain from it though.. in the form of money. I think like you do that there should be an absolute separation of a politician and the business world. The two should have absolutely very very little to do with one another.
I'd say one of the big reasons is a hardware box doesn't need a license from Divx or anyone else to implement MKV.
Quoted from wikipedia: "The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free Container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.[1] It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software."
If that doesn't sound like a big deal.. it kinda is. Here is a quote from a DIVX Quarterly Report earlier last year: "These downloads include those for which we receive revenue as well as free downloads, such as limited-time trial versions, and downloads provided as upgrades to existing end users of our products. After the significant grass-roots adoption of our codec, the next step towards our goal was to license similar technology to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. Our customers include major consumer video hardware original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs. We are entitled to receive a royalty and/or license fee for DivX Certified devices that our customers ship. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing and related support, advertising and content distribution."
Ah, the notion to visit a distant land has been destroyed. Too much paperwork afterall.. oh, i mean online typing.. too much of that. I've seen the ruins of babylon.. guess how much paperwork THAT took :)