Your racist revisionism not-withstanding, you're right on the money. It was hands-down the greatest game I ever played on my Commodore Amiga 500+ growing up. Not even Zool, or T2: Judgement day could touch it, especially when you chose to admit defeat and explode hundreds of the little buggers at once with the nuke button. Happy days.
Godspeed my pink, green-haired, lil sluggers. Godspeed.
You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities.
Oh you mean the person using a machine with it's NIC's MAC address set to some arbitrary value and connected via an unsecure wireless access point not under his control? As intimated by the post you're replying to?
When the MIB are knocking on John Q. Lawabide's front door with rubber-gloves donned and electric truth-probes brandished, the real ne'er-do-well will have rolled further down the road, changed his MAC address and hijacked Sally P. Honestface's wireless access point.
The example you refer to is at a University, where the professor was likely connected either from his office, or from a laptop with a MAC address that the IT staff knew (I suspect wireless access is controlled by MAC address at universities). Secondly, his first hop was therefore within the university's network, under their control, and being monitored for suspicious activity/heavy usage.
Eesh! Repeat. id do NOT make the games you want. id make ENGINES and games that showcase them.
A little harsh maybe, but basically correct. If you want a rip-roaring game with a smashing storyline, wait until the first game companies start licensing the tech from id. Until then, like me, you could do a lot worse than forgetting your high-minded, high-falluting city-slicker ambitions and just run around for a while, shooting every demon between you and the blue keycard.
What if your cell phone is paid for by your company? Do you just not get any personal calls except for at home? Would you own two different cell phones?
I did have a work mobile (XDA actually) and my own personal mobile and that's exactly how it was. I could receive personal calls on my work mobile*, but not make them. Reason being, it was paid for by the company but as soon as I used it for personal calls, it became a taxable benefit, and I had to pay for the phone call. Maybe you think that's harsh, but I don't.
At my current job, I call my girlfriend at lunchtime, outside the building, from my personal mobile..why would I want my co-workers to hear everything I might want to say to her?
*I know in some backwater countries you have to pay for incoming calls, but this isn't the case in the UK.
I have known the joy of flying into JFK as a non-citizen, once, and 5 years ago for New Years, and it wasn't so bad, but I'll bow to your greater knowledge on that particular front. I'm sure that if I flew more frequently, or didn't check bags, then yes, I would probably see the benefit of those extra 20 minutes:)
My last flight was from London to Dublin (just enough time in the air to get comfortable in your seat and do a few sudoku) and I didn't see the point of jumping up and rushing off. If I'm on holiday, I'm not in a rush, and it's far less stressful to just amble off.
My next flight will be another trip to New Zealand, 24 hours on two planes with a 1 or 2 hour stop-over. Last time I did it, by the end of the journey, I was too bloody tired to rush off the plane.
I'm sure I'm probably a special case, in that I'm pretty laid-back in that respect. And quite the paradox in that I'd consider changing seats to fare better in a plane crash, but then I also plan mentally for the contingency of zombie invasion...so...ya know...
They are hardware manufacturers. They sell hardware. What the fuck do they have to worry about if they provide documentation on the interface between their hardware and the hardware under my desk? Am I going to suddenly be able to infer the entire design of their hardware (or the source of the drivers they've written for windows), just because I have that knowledge?
Or you could sit patiently in your seat and laugh at all the people frantically scrambling to get off the plane...so they can rush and push and crush their way to the baggage carousels. Where they then wait for 20 minutes...
It's really not "wasting" time, is it? The way I see it, for no extra cost, you could increase the odds of surviving a plane crash, even if only by a minute amount..
And don't be so hard on those old codgers, you'll be one one day. And they may help you survive by absorbing some of the impact!
--EXT: PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD
--INT: PLANE COCKPIT
PILOT #1: Oh wow, I really hope we don't have a crash.
PILOT #2: Me too.
PILOT #1: But they say it's safer than crossing the road!
PILOT #2: Yes, but we have to do that too.
PILOT #1: Best not to think about it.
--EXT: OUTSIDE HOUSE
RICK: Oh no! That plane is going to crash on us!
[Shots of each of the four lads looking up: MIKE, RICK and NEIL with concern, VYVYAN with excitement.]
[KA-BOOOOM!]
Stop trolling, that wasn't his point and, unless you are a prize-winning moron, you know it.
E.g.
The police enforce the laws that stop someone from shooting me in the face. Those laws, and their enforcement are restricting that someone's freedom to shoot people in the face, but are necessary to protect my, more widely recognised, freedom to not get shot in the face.
So too is the GPL neccessary to restrict some people's freedom to rob the community of it's hard work, monetise it and prevent the community from using the modified code.
The TiVo thing is slightly different, in that changes to the code *are* being released, it's just that they're screwing their customers who want to modify the source and have it work on hardware that they legally own.
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Ass-burgers? Crossing our borders? Stealing our jobs? Sleeping with our livestock?! I blame Bush!
If you're going to remain stuck in the past, at least get it right and use rods per fortnight! :o)
Your racist revisionism not-withstanding, you're right on the money. It was hands-down the greatest game I ever played on my Commodore Amiga 500+ growing up. Not even Zool, or T2: Judgement day could touch it, especially when you chose to admit defeat and explode hundreds of the little buggers at once with the nuke button. Happy days.
Godspeed my pink, green-haired, lil sluggers. Godspeed.
Err...wasn't Apollo Creed the spaceship that took Neil Armstrong to the moon.
You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities.
Only 2 people in those 10 years have worked out how to enable httpd?
Who's using Tor?
Oh you mean the person using a machine with it's NIC's MAC address set to some arbitrary value and connected via an unsecure wireless access point not under his control? As intimated by the post you're replying to?
When the MIB are knocking on John Q. Lawabide's front door with rubber-gloves donned and electric truth-probes brandished, the real ne'er-do-well will have rolled further down the road, changed his MAC address and hijacked Sally P. Honestface's wireless access point.
The example you refer to is at a University, where the professor was likely connected either from his office, or from a laptop with a MAC address that the IT staff knew (I suspect wireless access is controlled by MAC address at universities). Secondly, his first hop was therefore within the university's network, under their control, and being monitored for suspicious activity/heavy usage.
Eesh! Repeat. id do NOT make the games you want. id make ENGINES and games that showcase them.
A little harsh maybe, but basically correct. If you want a rip-roaring game with a smashing storyline, wait until the first game companies start licensing the tech from id. Until then, like me, you could do a lot worse than forgetting your high-minded, high-falluting city-slicker ambitions and just run around for a while, shooting every demon between you and the blue keycard.
Poverty my eye. You've obviously never had a moose bite your sister. Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Too soon.
Electrons...or elections?
Hell, if your parents are Ma Bell and Uncle Sam, then your family tree is a bush...
Just add E'SPLODIN' VANS!!1! Damn hackers and their use of performance-enhancing steroids! When will they learn?
A blistering PII 266 with 32Mb of SDRAM! Reduce, Re-use, Recycle!
At my current job, I call my girlfriend at lunchtime, outside the building, from my personal mobile..why would I want my co-workers to hear everything I might want to say to her?
*I know in some backwater countries you have to pay for incoming calls, but this isn't the case in the UK.
Or if you're underage and from the UK travelling to Ghana, you could get your laptop bag searched frantically for coke.
I have known the joy of flying into JFK as a non-citizen, once, and 5 years ago for New Years, and it wasn't so bad, but I'll bow to your greater knowledge on that particular front. I'm sure that if I flew more frequently, or didn't check bags, then yes, I would probably see the benefit of those extra 20 minutes :)
My last flight was from London to Dublin (just enough time in the air to get comfortable in your seat and do a few sudoku) and I didn't see the point of jumping up and rushing off. If I'm on holiday, I'm not in a rush, and it's far less stressful to just amble off.
My next flight will be another trip to New Zealand, 24 hours on two planes with a 1 or 2 hour stop-over. Last time I did it, by the end of the journey, I was too bloody tired to rush off the plane.
I'm sure I'm probably a special case, in that I'm pretty laid-back in that respect. And quite the paradox in that I'd consider changing seats to fare better in a plane crash, but then I also plan mentally for the contingency of zombie invasion...so...ya know...
They are hardware manufacturers. They sell hardware. What the fuck do they have to worry about if they provide documentation on the interface between their hardware and the hardware under my desk? Am I going to suddenly be able to infer the entire design of their hardware (or the source of the drivers they've written for windows), just because I have that knowledge?
Am I missing something here?
I think someone needs to install git! 2.6.20? psssh.
Or you could sit patiently in your seat and laugh at all the people frantically scrambling to get off the plane...so they can rush and push and crush their way to the baggage carousels. Where they then wait for 20 minutes...
It's really not "wasting" time, is it? The way I see it, for no extra cost, you could increase the odds of surviving a plane crash, even if only by a minute amount..
And don't be so hard on those old codgers, you'll be one one day. And they may help you survive by absorbing some of the impact!
--EXT: PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD
--INT: PLANE COCKPIT
PILOT #1: Oh wow, I really hope we don't have a crash.
PILOT #2: Me too.
PILOT #1: But they say it's safer than crossing the road!
PILOT #2: Yes, but we have to do that too.
PILOT #1: Best not to think about it.
--EXT: OUTSIDE HOUSE
RICK: Oh no! That plane is going to crash on us!
[Shots of each of the four lads looking up: MIKE, RICK and NEIL with concern, VYVYAN with excitement.]
[KA-BOOOOM!]
Stop trolling, that wasn't his point and, unless you are a prize-winning moron, you know it.
E.g.
The police enforce the laws that stop someone from shooting me in the face. Those laws, and their enforcement are restricting that someone's freedom to shoot people in the face, but are necessary to protect my, more widely recognised, freedom to not get shot in the face.
So too is the GPL neccessary to restrict some people's freedom to rob the community of it's hard work, monetise it and prevent the community from using the modified code.
The TiVo thing is slightly different, in that changes to the code *are* being released, it's just that they're screwing their customers who want to modify the source and have it work on hardware that they legally own.
Shit, that was so biting I thought my eyes were going to pop.