Yes there are quite a few full mods based on Q3 that come with their own content. For example, you could go get Urban Terror, a very well-made full mod on the Q3 engine.
And yes, the Q3 engine is very much open source and free software at this point. Artwork and level design that came with the original game is not even vaguely related to source code and shouldn't fall into some source licensing debate.
If you want free content, talk to the artists (or their owners), but you can do anything you like with the software of Quake 3.
I have to agree. Windows XP is still being offered on Dell machines (and elsewhere) as a downgrade path from Vista. If you're selling new copies, you're probably bound to warranty it in many countries and states for a short period (often three months to a year) and can't end of life its support.
Since the parent got moderated as a troll because some moderator didn't understand the point, if you don't disclose and immediately start patching, you don't allow the public any ability to defend themselves against the vulnerability in question.
So long as Microsoft holds their head in the sand about a reported vulnerability, you can go and work on a well-thought-out exploit that will take over the Internet, whereas a reported exploit in a full-disclosure or even responsible disclosure group will cause a patch or reasonable response within a much shorter time frame.
To all those who don't get it, go look up "time unpatched" for each of IE's vulnerabilities. That is, time from when they were reported to time when they were patched. That's the time Microsoft left you swinging in the wind.
I bet if some people actually looked up their facts, they'd be shocked at how unbalanced popular opinion is and how completely messed up media reports about the middle east really are in both directions.
PS, there's no justification for hiding military equipment or personnel in "holy sites" or apartment complexes to avoid attack and force your enemy to cause huge civilian casualties, no matter how much you believe in your cause.
Budget video cards have always been available. As higher performance cards become available, game designers take advantage of those additional cycles to make their games look even more impressive than the competitor.
There are still lots of little tricks to try and get every ounce out of a graphics card's performance that could be done away with for higher quality graphics as better cards come out.
At some point, we may actually have cards fast enough to do truly intelligent per-pixel shadows on every applicable object, for example, at good frame rates.
They'd be smart to install intelligent caching boxes at local routing points to save themselves bandwidth. Proxy caches are a good thing for the Internet, and websites that don't work with them are both rare and broken.
Why do people complain about the cost of premium services? That's like complaining about the price of a Cadillac or Viper. If you don't value 100Mbit home service, buy something cheaper.
I never ever make my own cables for long-term PC connection patch cables, only for patch panelswitch connections and cross-overs.
I wired all of my own in-wall cabling at home, but I pay others to do it for work (just for time reasons).
I always use packaged stranded copper patch cables for connecting PCs to wall jacks though, as they're more flexible and resilient to breakage when twisted or bent repeatedly. Solid core cables will snap or degrade rapidly if bent repeatedly or at sharp angles.
Civil does not equal free. A full oppressive police state can be quite "civilized". Or like they are wont to say, "pacified".
I meditate on this periodically as I watch my wonderful neighbours to the south slowly change their laws to have more civility at the expense of freedom and good will. Its sad to watch them devolve into the type of police state they once opposed in other countries.
There was an excellent lecture aired on CBC's radio show "Ideas" dealing with freedom vs. the possibility of another Nazi Germany and avoiding such possibilities through forced voting and limiting of extremist political parties despite the ideal of free speech.
Unfortunately I don't recall the name of the person who gave it:-)
Using BitTorrent "in public" is a little difficult, but wearing a T-shirt that proclaims "I download my music" with a big middle finger to the RIAA on the back might be suitable.
The law exists to maintain order in society. The law does not exist to protect copyright holders or businesses explicitly, those are just side effects of trying to maintain peace and fairness.
If we the people in a democratic country do not believe in specific laws any more, they should in many cases be stricken from the books.
At the very least, suitably (PGP) encrypt the file with a password, upload the encrypted content and share the password with those you wanted to share the file with.
In Canada its "common assault" to raise your arm or threaten bodily harm in any way, without any physical harm having taken place and you can be jailed for it.
Verbal abuse is harassment and is a prosecutable offence as well.
I'm not sure why you'd want the right to harass and bully people exactly, but don't move in next to me.
That last line goes through my head on a regular basis. We've got a society who've somehow developed behaviours into "legal or not" instead of "right or not". If you watch televised courtroom TV (I avoid it), you'll see completely stupid things being brought to court because people just have no concept of doing the right thing and I believe it frustrates even the judiciary to need to intervene in so many "obvious" cases.
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Those people are why renting is so popular for console gaming. I'd love to see a version of Steam that offered renting tbh.
Oh well.
Local stores here take back console games, for exchange only.
Of course, you can trade in your old console games for cash at many stores, and doing so with PC games is nearly impossible.
Personally, its not worth it and I just keep my games usually but my wife recently sold off $100 worth of my old PS2 games I don't play anymore.
Yes there are quite a few full mods based on Q3 that come with their own content. For example, you could go get Urban Terror, a very well-made full mod on the Q3 engine.
And yes, the Q3 engine is very much open source and free software at this point. Artwork and level design that came with the original game is not even vaguely related to source code and shouldn't fall into some source licensing debate.
If you want free content, talk to the artists (or their owners), but you can do anything you like with the software of Quake 3.
Its very true, but its kinda sad how poorly abstracted professional software really is for long-term development.
Obviously your editor sucks.
I have to agree. Windows XP is still being offered on Dell machines (and elsewhere) as a downgrade path from Vista. If you're selling new copies, you're probably bound to warranty it in many countries and states for a short period (often three months to a year) and can't end of life its support.
Since the parent got moderated as a troll because some moderator didn't understand the point, if you don't disclose and immediately start patching, you don't allow the public any ability to defend themselves against the vulnerability in question.
So long as Microsoft holds their head in the sand about a reported vulnerability, you can go and work on a well-thought-out exploit that will take over the Internet, whereas a reported exploit in a full-disclosure or even responsible disclosure group will cause a patch or reasonable response within a much shorter time frame.
To all those who don't get it, go look up "time unpatched" for each of IE's vulnerabilities. That is, time from when they were reported to time when they were patched. That's the time Microsoft left you swinging in the wind.
Wow nice interpretation of history dude.
I bet if some people actually looked up their facts, they'd be shocked at how unbalanced popular opinion is and how completely messed up media reports about the middle east really are in both directions.
PS, there's no justification for hiding military equipment or personnel in "holy sites" or apartment complexes to avoid attack and force your enemy to cause huge civilian casualties, no matter how much you believe in your cause.
They were just afraid of getting the chair for discrimination.
Budget video cards have always been available. As higher performance cards become available, game designers take advantage of those additional cycles to make their games look even more impressive than the competitor.
There are still lots of little tricks to try and get every ounce out of a graphics card's performance that could be done away with for higher quality graphics as better cards come out.
At some point, we may actually have cards fast enough to do truly intelligent per-pixel shadows on every applicable object, for example, at good frame rates.
They'd be smart to install intelligent caching boxes at local routing points to save themselves bandwidth. Proxy caches are a good thing for the Internet, and websites that don't work with them are both rare and broken.
Why do people complain about the cost of premium services? That's like complaining about the price of a Cadillac or Viper. If you don't value 100Mbit home service, buy something cheaper.
You need to read more speed reports. My cable speed advertises 10Mbit, and I get 10Mbit. Friends of mine who paid for 15Mbit get 15Mbit.
I downloaded Java update 13 so fast (at 1.2MB/s) that a geek friend of mine watching the screen asked whether I had a background downloader installed.
Troll does not mean unfunny.
... so that when my connection drops, the session ends in a HUP? No thanks.
I signal remote process execution, I don't execute long-running non-interactive processes through SSH.
I never ever make my own cables for long-term PC connection patch cables, only for patch panelswitch connections and cross-overs.
I wired all of my own in-wall cabling at home, but I pay others to do it for work (just for time reasons).
I always use packaged stranded copper patch cables for connecting PCs to wall jacks though, as they're more flexible and resilient to breakage when twisted or bent repeatedly. Solid core cables will snap or degrade rapidly if bent repeatedly or at sharp angles.
I meditate on this periodically as I watch my wonderful neighbours to the south slowly change their laws to have more civility at the expense of freedom and good will. Its sad to watch them devolve into the type of police state they once opposed in other countries.
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I am from the second largest country in the world.
There was an excellent lecture aired on CBC's radio show "Ideas" dealing with freedom vs. the possibility of another Nazi Germany and avoiding such possibilities through forced voting and limiting of extremist political parties despite the ideal of free speech.
Unfortunately I don't recall the name of the person who gave it :-)
Using BitTorrent "in public" is a little difficult, but wearing a T-shirt that proclaims "I download my music" with a big middle finger to the RIAA on the back might be suitable.
I've said no to a police request before and succeeded, have you?
The law exists to maintain order in society. The law does not exist to protect copyright holders or businesses explicitly, those are just side effects of trying to maintain peace and fairness.
If we the people in a democratic country do not believe in specific laws any more, they should in many cases be stricken from the books.
I never understood people who paid with real banking information to use a service for illegal purposes.
Call me crazy but isn't that like asking for a safe deposit box at the bank for your crack ... out loud?
At the very least, suitably (PGP) encrypt the file with a password, upload the encrypted content and share the password with those you wanted to share the file with.
In Canada its "common assault" to raise your arm or threaten bodily harm in any way, without any physical harm having taken place and you can be jailed for it.
Verbal abuse is harassment and is a prosecutable offence as well.
I'm not sure why you'd want the right to harass and bully people exactly, but don't move in next to me.
That last line goes through my head on a regular basis. We've got a society who've somehow developed behaviours into "legal or not" instead of "right or not". If you watch televised courtroom TV (I avoid it), you'll see completely stupid things being brought to court because people just have no concept of doing the right thing and I believe it frustrates even the judiciary to need to intervene in so many "obvious" cases.