If Virtual Property in videogames can be sold, bought, stolen, arrested for stealing, and jailed for,
then I will be suing nintendo for the countless times in the middle of a long game with no save built into the cartidge that it decided to reboot.
Furthermore!
If I play a mud that I DO NOT pay for, but do spend time on, and the server is taken down, I will sue for my property. It must at least be copied to me in usable form!
And frankly, This post right here...
This post..
I want access to this post for the rest of my lifetime.
And I will sue you if you mod me down, and thus limit others from viewing my post, as it is virtual property, and it will be like littering on my lawn.
My lawn, My rules.
(Ignore the fact that I don't actually own the servers! or the code created! or the bandwidth, or the etc.)
If life is like civilization, as soon as the Chinese make it, our entire society will crumble!
Since we have about 4 Future Technologies already, I beileve we should launch a full scale attack on China, take our scientific research down to 0% to collect as much gold as possible, and start building our own.
While we are at it, we probably shouldn't ask for a UN vote, we will surely fail, and lose there too.
What would be America's best way to win? We've already secured some oil resources, we need to build a harbor!
In two weeks, The SCO Group Inc. intends to begin showing analysts where the Unix code it owns has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel.
Doesn't own.
Why should Linux users take your claim seriously?
Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand
First off, doesn't that sound something more like Microsoft would say, A company that would want to negatively connotate any company running what would be linux, instead of a company which owns intellectual property, and conversely would want as many companies as possible to maximize any money out of a legal settlement they thought they could actually win.
Secondly, I'm pretty sure that Slashdot alone is a majority over anyone else who actually beileves that linux is an operating system built on quicksand.
Thirdly, I hate people who use a number system to outline points. I'll scrap that.
Your letter to 1,500 end-user companies outlining your claim was vague. What is it that you want from these companies?
The one thing that we specifically want from those 1,500 companies that we directly sent those letters to is for them to not take our word on the warning that we sent... but to seek an opinion of their legal counsel as to the issues that we raised.
Finally, a valid point. Do not take their word for it. I can comply.
Again, I have to reitterate. Why in the world would a company that would have everyone else in their clutches for a revenue stream using intellectual property, want everyone else to stop using Linux? Honestly. Please reply with some good reasons, because frankly I cannot think of one.
Also, I'm glad that all it takes to stop development on linux entirely is "potential of an issue."
Should companies remove Linux from their systems?
We're not making any specific recommendations at this time
Is that not what is contained in the previous paragraphs? Am I missing something?!?!
Hmm, it sounds like I missed out on something really good. I never got to really play River City Ransom (and honestly the nes emulators never seemed to deal with the martial arts games properly... especially when you consider the NES controller was half the fun of these games...) though I do remember trying it briefly. I never saw any soccer.
The soccer part was a joke really. The charcters in river city ransom were used in two other games. (The blocky look of the charcters, and the way they interact.) One was a soccer game, the other a vollyball game, and I had them on a 1 cart set. Being a kid ruled.
River City Ransom had a great side scrolling, 2 player, upgrade your charcter in different ways than your friend, both of you stealing each others coins, picking people up and using them as projectiles....
You could buy a smile!
In the game there was a McDonalds rip off, and the big board of purchases had, "Smiles Free"
If you clicked on it, the counter woman blushed...
I really rest my case to the superiority of this game!
Double Dragon was the bomb. I spent more money than a kid should dream of having at that age, on 1 in the co-op. Attacking those large black men on convier belts. Geesh!
Double Dragon used intresting puzzles (how to get from point a to point b with lots of enemies in between.
A big win? What are you smoking? Bonzai duped countless users for years and completely got away with it. They didn't have to pay anything. A big win would be if they got slapped with such a huge fine.
No, A big win would be if they got slapped with a large trout.
I think the SCO has a much better attempt at a lawsuit though. Instead of being undeniably wrong, now they are so confusing I think that maybe I infringed on their contract with intellectual property they may or may not have had intrest leverage, or lawsuit capability regarding the overall goals of which are indicitive...
Am I the only person who sees a new slashdot story coming up, gets mildly excited only to see a review about a book, about something I have absolutely no intrest in.
I'm at work, which I will attempt to use as my excuse to why I would be so excited, and conversely so disappointed, but wow.
I play simsports online, franchise mode has been slowly moving to simsports, even so much as being able to randomly create every player in the league with names, stats and progression, and assign him to a team.
(World Series Baseball 2k3, College Football 2k3)
The questions as you move into realism is, do you start having "injurys" via courtdates? Do you have teams relocate? Add how Sportswriters, and Fans feel about you? Your players?
Sure, it would be a blast, but when is enough?
I feel as though if you have Randy Moss on your team, you should lose him for 3 weeks for his court dates.
It's only fair. The Vikings must deal with that, you must too!
I agree entirely. The only problem with players moving players is that the computer generally is unable to react to such broad moves.
When playing against a Human, if you move your wr to tight end, I am going to more likely be in a nickel package to take advantage of the quickness.
There are so many things that football games take care of now I am just happy for those. I am not too intrested if the computer can react to Mike Vick being put at corner back, and what that would potentially mean.
The novelty is intresting, but who honestly cares.
It would be different if it detected other gameboys in the vicinity, and changed the game dependant on that, but this is the sun.
Great.
I do this, with sun, something happens.
woot.
I see the sun every day, I don't see how I would be too impressed to have my gameboy notice the difference between sun, and no sun, and make game changes dependant on it.
Slashdot Mirror
No, 100% of statistics are worthless, but 21.53% of all statistics are made up.
Side note.
Adding a decimal point increases the truth of any statistic. 82.34% of people say so.
and we all know just how important to a company it is to impress the slashdot community.
Hell, That whole DCMA thing just went away when we got on the case, huh!
If it's baroque, don't fix it.
If Virtual Property in videogames can be sold, bought, stolen, arrested for stealing, and jailed for,
then I will be suing nintendo for the countless times in the middle of a long game with no save built into the cartidge that it decided to reboot.
Furthermore!
If I play a mud that I DO NOT pay for, but do spend time on, and the server is taken down, I will sue for my property. It must at least be copied to me in usable form!
And frankly, This post right here...
This post..
I want access to this post for the rest of my lifetime.
And I will sue you if you mod me down, and thus limit others from viewing my post, as it is virtual property, and it will be like littering on my lawn.
My lawn, My rules.
(Ignore the fact that I don't actually own the servers! or the code created! or the bandwidth, or the etc.)
Fyoder didn't just toss off a few words, but put some real time and energy into his answers.
Good going insulting the rest of the "ask slashdot" guests.
Would all of the guards then run up to his corpse, and start squating, then standing, then squating?
I do not think you understand! Firaxis is God, and God says that if the Chinese, or any other civ colonises the moon we are destroyed!
Or if we get to 2025. Either way, no more us!
If life is like civilization, as soon as the Chinese make it, our entire society will crumble!
Since we have about 4 Future Technologies already, I beileve we should launch a full scale attack on China, take our scientific research down to 0% to collect as much gold as possible, and start building our own.
While we are at it, we probably shouldn't ask for a UN vote, we will surely fail, and lose there too.
What would be America's best way to win? We've already secured some oil resources, we need to build a harbor!
In two weeks, The SCO Group Inc. intends to begin showing analysts where the Unix code it owns has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel.
... but to seek an opinion of their legal counsel as to the issues that we raised.
Doesn't own.
Why should Linux users take your claim seriously?
Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand
First off, doesn't that sound something more like Microsoft would say, A company that would want to negatively connotate any company running what would be linux, instead of a company which owns intellectual property, and conversely would want as many companies as possible to maximize any money out of a legal settlement they thought they could actually win.
Secondly, I'm pretty sure that Slashdot alone is a majority over anyone else who actually beileves that linux is an operating system built on quicksand.
Thirdly, I hate people who use a number system to outline points. I'll scrap that.
Your letter to 1,500 end-user companies outlining your claim was vague. What is it that you want from these companies?
The one thing that we specifically want from those 1,500 companies that we directly sent those letters to is for them to not take our word on the warning that we sent
Finally, a valid point. Do not take their word for it. I can comply.
Again, I have to reitterate. Why in the world would a company that would have everyone else in their clutches for a revenue stream using intellectual property, want everyone else to stop using Linux? Honestly. Please reply with some good reasons, because frankly I cannot think of one.
Also, I'm glad that all it takes to stop development on linux entirely is "potential of an issue."
Should companies remove Linux from their systems?
We're not making any specific recommendations at this time
Is that not what is contained in the previous paragraphs? Am I missing something?!?!
Hmm, it sounds like I missed out on something really good. I never got to really play River City Ransom (and honestly the nes emulators never seemed to deal with the martial arts games properly... especially when you consider the NES controller was half the fun of these games...) though I do remember trying it briefly. I never saw any soccer.
The soccer part was a joke really. The charcters in river city ransom were used in two other games. (The blocky look of the charcters, and the way they interact.) One was a soccer game, the other a vollyball game, and I had them on a 1 cart set. Being a kid ruled.
River City Ransom had a great side scrolling, 2 player, upgrade your charcter in different ways than your friend, both of you stealing each others coins, picking people up and using them as projectiles....
You could buy a smile!
In the game there was a McDonalds rip off, and the big board of purchases had, "Smiles Free"
If you clicked on it, the counter woman blushed...
I really rest my case to the superiority of this game!
Double Dragon was the bomb. I spent more money than a kid should dream of having at that age, on 1 in the co-op. Attacking those large black men on convier belts. Geesh!
Double Dragon used intresting puzzles (how to get from point a to point b with lots of enemies in between.
And the Helecopters!
A big win? What are you smoking? Bonzai duped countless users for years and completely got away with it. They didn't have to pay anything. A big win would be if they got slapped with such a huge fine.
No, A big win would be if they got slapped with a large trout.
But the thing that made River City Ransom was the fighting elements, the elements of RPGS, and Soccer goodness!
What are some of the type of things you envisioned being traded over BitTorrent?
Do you already have a defense planned if certain acronyms come knocking?
I'm sure you hadn't noticed, but the url on my name (my website) has an explodingdog picture.
Thank you.
A dictionary? That will help me define interest, but I doubt I would be able to find it.
I think the SCO has a much better attempt at a lawsuit though. Instead of being undeniably wrong, now they are so confusing I think that maybe I infringed on their contract with intellectual property they may or may not have had intrest leverage, or lawsuit capability regarding the overall goals of which are indicitive...
See!
Isn't Fark a bit racy?
I had always gotten that impression. Getting fired isn't really ever a goal.
There are only 3 sites that intrest me. Espn, CNN, Slashdot.
Aside from that, I end up reading my online ebooks, but that takes just a bit too much attention.
Any suggestions?
But I have karma to burn.
Am I the only person who sees a new slashdot story coming up, gets mildly excited only to see a review about a book, about something I have absolutely no intrest in.
I'm at work, which I will attempt to use as my excuse to why I would be so excited, and conversely so disappointed, but wow.
I'll just go back and read more about SCO.
I play simsports online, franchise mode has been slowly moving to simsports, even so much as being able to randomly create every player in the league with names, stats and progression, and assign him to a team.
(World Series Baseball 2k3, College Football 2k3)
The questions as you move into realism is, do you start having "injurys" via courtdates? Do you have teams relocate? Add how Sportswriters, and Fans feel about you? Your players?
Sure, it would be a blast, but when is enough?
I feel as though if you have Randy Moss on your team, you should lose him for 3 weeks for his court dates.
It's only fair. The Vikings must deal with that, you must too!
I agree entirely. The only problem with players moving players is that the computer generally is unable to react to such broad moves.
When playing against a Human, if you move your wr to tight end, I am going to more likely be in a nickel package to take advantage of the quickness.
There are so many things that football games take care of now I am just happy for those. I am not too intrested if the computer can react to Mike Vick being put at corner back, and what that would potentially mean.
The novelty is intresting, but who honestly cares.
It would be different if it detected other gameboys in the vicinity, and changed the game dependant on that, but this is the sun.
Great.
I do this, with sun, something happens.
woot.
I see the sun every day, I don't see how I would be too impressed to have my gameboy notice the difference between sun, and no sun, and make game changes dependant on it.
Eh.
.....in the land.... of the free...
...and in the home.... of the... geek....
(Rockets blazing... single tear out of the eye...)
(Cheers!)
It almost feels like we matter in the world... almost.
We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of operation.
And if they actually had UNIX rights, this would mean something.
Then Novell and IBM are walking to the ring, accompanied by Bruce Pearns.
IBM and SCO start out, with IBM teasing a test of strength, SCO begins, but gets scared and immediately tags in Microsoft.
Microsoft and IBM go at it, with Microsoft gaining the upperhand. IBM is almost down and out, when a diving tag in to Novell.
HOT TAG!
Novell clears house, and the crowd is going wild, SCO gets back up, and they start double teaming both until
CHAIRSHOT!
Bruce Pearns jumps out from the side, and knocks Novell out!
JIM ROSS: "OH MUH GOD! THEY'VE BEEN DOUBLE CROSSED!"