Pardon my posting a reply in a story, but I have no other way of getting a note to you. Hopefully you will see this.
When trying to go to my own user account a typo had me looking at user "r". You've posted some great comments and I decided to mark myself as your fan.
Hopefully this crazy zoo system will help with the 'noise' level of comments on SlashDot; Because I must agree with you that I occaisonally consider giving up.
I suppose I could have answered with simply "Yes it's possible, just get a lawyer.":) I was just crazy enough to supply more details.
Seriously tho... I was encouraged when our lawyers suggested this paragraph and approved our final boilerplate contract. I had these same concerns (as foo_48120) that we would never be able to build a "legal" code library when all these (uneducated) customers insisted we developers have no rights to code.
Another caveat... almost every single one of our customers that got around to reading the contract expressed concern about this paragraph. Granted it never really stopped anyone who was actually interested in Steem, but we did have to use the "reversed" version a few times.
My company (I'm a founder and co-president) has dealt with this type of things many times. The bottom line has been we put a license and ownership statement in the contract.
There are two basic ways (as we see it) to do this.
Keep ownership and grant a license that has a specific list of allowed uses or just the reverse where you give them ownership but retain specific license for yourselves.
You can usually make it work as you need it with either party having ownership, since ownership just means they have final say, can change the license, and get any non-specified (default) rights.
Keeping in mind this is only one small part of the whole contract and I don't promise this is safe or useful for you as it is... here is a paragraph right out of our standard contracts:
(b)Grant of License. Steem hereby grants to Client, upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, a non-transferable, non-fee bearing, single use, worldwide right and license, without the right to sublicense, for software developed by Steem for use with the Web Site. Any artwork, graphics, or designs created to Client specifications for use in the Web Site become property of the Client upon the Web Site Launch. However, Steem retains the right to display any created artwork, graphics, or designs as part of Steem's portfolio of design work. Steem retains sole rights and ownership of all interactive code. The provisions of this Section 7 will survive indefinitely regardless of the completion or termination of this Agreement.
I think the commercial is a done a bit poorly, especially the audio (maybe it's better on a TV instead of as a QT?). But I had Mr HOSTBOT grab it for mirroring anyway.
Id has sent me a cease and desist so the Doom III file is disabled now, along with those other two huge files (NS full, and UT) due to bandwidth reasons.
I'm seriously laughing out loud here!:)
This is pretty much exactly the reaction we expected to the Thong... we don't exactly expect to sell a ton of them. heh:)
I may not be able to keep that Urban Terror one up there too long, that's huge!
Free mirrors provided by Mr HOSTBOT. From that link you can get a free Gig with a new account.
Not a lot of hard data here, just my own experiences:
It sounds to me like you are talking about social interactions surrounding games or in the "LAN party" atmosphere. I think this should be handled quite differently since it is likely to be a side effect of these same people in any competition.
In my experience people sitting around playing a board game can become just as violent if we are talking about people that are "very into" the game.
I've personally felt good levels of stress relief playing the computer, or against players not in the room. When I do get too anxious in those settings it usually goes away when I step away from the game.
FYI The most common MD5 sig for the 0.37 tarball seems to be: b0feebea67655daa440da92099dd5187
But for some reason I also see a different MD5 for what is supposed to also be 0.37: edf50a9c8c6bf09b0a9147f2e6168826 BUT that is actually the signature from 0.35
So the bottom line is, try not to panic. Some mirrors are just a little out of sync. I am still a little nervous running this thing as root since I haven't seen anyone report that it's not a trojan itself. I guess some code review is in order.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Pardon my posting a reply in a story, but I have no other way of getting a note to you. Hopefully you will see this.
When trying to go to my own user account a typo had me looking at user "r". You've posted some great comments and I decided to mark myself as your fan.
Hopefully this crazy zoo system will help with the 'noise' level of comments on SlashDot; Because I must agree with you that I occaisonally consider giving up.
It is a concept we came up with ourselves, for ourselves. It's been a lot of fun running it! Even a short article in Playboy about it!
Seriously tho... I was encouraged when our lawyers suggested this paragraph and approved our final boilerplate contract. I had these same concerns (as foo_48120) that we would never be able to build a "legal" code library when all these (uneducated) customers insisted we developers have no rights to code.
Another caveat... almost every single one of our customers that got around to reading the contract expressed concern about this paragraph. Granted it never really stopped anyone who was actually interested in Steem, but we did have to use the "reversed" version a few times.
There are two basic ways (as we see it) to do this. Keep ownership and grant a license that has a specific list of allowed uses or just the reverse where you give them ownership but retain specific license for yourselves.
You can usually make it work as you need it with either party having ownership, since ownership just means they have final say, can change the license, and get any non-specified (default) rights.
Keeping in mind this is only one small part of the whole contract and I don't promise this is safe or useful for you as it is... here is a paragraph right out of our standard contracts:
(b)Grant of License. Steem hereby grants to Client, upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, a non-transferable, non-fee bearing, single use, worldwide right and license, without the right to sublicense, for software developed by Steem for use with the Web Site. Any artwork, graphics, or designs created to Client specifications for use in the Web Site become property of the Client upon the Web Site Launch. However, Steem retains the right to display any created artwork, graphics, or designs as part of Steem's portfolio of design work. Steem retains sole rights and ownership of all interactive code. The provisions of this Section 7 will survive indefinitely regardless of the completion or termination of this Agreement.
FinalCommercial.mov (934 KB).
and an overal image
Mirror provided by Mr HOSTBOT.
Id has sent me a cease and desist so the Doom III file is disabled now, along with those other two huge files (NS full, and UT) due to bandwidth reasons.
I'm seriously laughing out loud here! :) :)
This is pretty much exactly the reaction we expected to the Thong... we don't exactly expect to sell a ton of them. heh
Natural Selection Server Patch 1.01 (2.1MB)
Doom III Alpha Patch (2MB)
Urban Terror Beta 2.6 FULL (239MB ouch!)
BF 1942 patch (15MB)
I may not be able to keep that Urban Terror one up there too long, that's huge!
Free mirrors provided by Mr HOSTBOT. From that link you can get a free Gig with a new account.
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Tetris (rm)
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WOH! Sorry, wrong paste nugget. That was meant for those interested in GhostZilla.
correct link
This is a copy from Google cache so it's prolly not of that much value.
View a copy here
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ariel small
ariel large
ramp small
ramp large
all animation small
all animation large
project video
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If their site DOES get Slashdotted...
The 144KB (*ahem* KiB) PDF is also here.
The 144KB (*ahem* KiB) PDF is also here.
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Download game ZIP
Download EXE installer
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Mirror of article (printable version)
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I would also suggest this link as a good place to look for info about the term.
The page is titled "Chronicling The Moments When TV Shows Go Downhill"
Not a lot of hard data here, just my own experiences:
It sounds to me like you are talking about social interactions surrounding games or in the "LAN party" atmosphere. I think this should be handled quite differently since it is likely to be a side effect of these same people in any competition.
In my experience people sitting around playing a board game can become just as violent if we are talking about people that are "very into" the game.
I've personally felt good levels of stress relief playing the computer, or against players not in the room. When I do get too anxious in those settings it usually goes away when I step away from the game.
FYI
:)
The most common MD5 sig for the 0.37 tarball seems to be: b0feebea67655daa440da92099dd5187
But for some reason I also see a different MD5 for what is supposed to also be 0.37:
edf50a9c8c6bf09b0a9147f2e6168826
BUT that is actually the signature from 0.35
So the bottom line is, try not to panic. Some mirrors are just a little out of sync. I am still a little nervous running this thing as root since I haven't seen anyone report that it's not a trojan itself. I guess some code review is in order.
I'm sorry but I hear 'voodoo' and I can't help but think PinStruck!