Until you figure out the person you outsourced it to subcontracted it to an source centre in india and all your files are being sold out the backdoor to china...
The outsource centre claims they contracted it out under existing contract clauses and did so in good faith, the indian centre tells you to fuck off because your laws dont matter and the Chinese entity does not even return you calls.
by linking to a response of an article I guess I'm not doing my own argument any favours =D (hey at least I'm honest)
but maybe you should hold off a bit before leaping into what could become a company that disappears over night. Something canonical are unlikely to do.
a decent (not xbox crappy shitty port) remake of mechwarrior as a simulation or Freespace would really float my boat...
Just dont remake it like Chris Sawyer did to Transport Tycoon.... Locomotion is NOT a sequel:( I cried inside when that game allowed you to build bridges as long as you liked higher than the bleeding buildings.
difference is Apple makes good hardware and software.
That cant be said for android at the moment..
What killed apple during the 'clone wars' was that their products were inferior and more expensive than the cloners. Once/If that happens I'm sure Jobs should reconsider licensing the OS. Until then he can just keep raking in the cash with no worries.
If you are going to be pedantic with my comment... provide some better links... I dont spend the same amount of time in my basement these days:) (it was around 8.2 anyway)
I work for Vodafone... and we do support for their mobile broadband... under the 'voluntary code' even facebook is blocked under the content control bar that is placed on EVERY vodafone sim... even eminem cant be downloaded on mobile phones without this bar being removed.
to get removed you need either a valid credit card or go into a vodafone store with proof of ID.
So my question is.... does this come off when you remove the bar or what?
And btw, if you use BT over 3G you are a fucking goon.... 1GB = £15, you'd be cheaper actually buying your stuff. On the flip side of this at least you can go into a vodafone store and have it removed *almost* anonymously with BT it would appear you have to have some form of address and a 'trackable' account.
just my 2 cents - but its a total pita when people do not have a cc and cant access fricking FB
doesn't matter... within a few years you could emulate (if required) the cluster within a virtual machine. More to the point, if that was really the case you wouldn't have any unofficial wow or daoc servers available now like you do. (just google them)
The reason most companies do not want to open source is that ANYONE (including the fans) could take that code base, rewrite the code through love (or whatever else spurs these entities on) and bring out a better mmo than the company had planned as a sequel.
What if for example... Mythic open sources DAOC, the fans rewrote it and hosted it for free - and was, shock horror, better than Warhammer? shareholders would blame the possible bad 'sale' of Warhammer due to the popular demand for an IP that they dont really own anymore.
I don't agree with it AT ALL, I'd love to see the Amiga classic 'jet strike' open sourced or superfrog (or Cannon Fodder!) so I can continue to play it without needing the original hardware or emulation... but it will never happen because these MEDIA companies (from games, music and film) are scared of their past. Team17 (or their current owners) will keep the Cannon Fodder IP on the off chance that maybe some twit will be willing to pay for the same thing again on their PSP. (and they have)
I believe quite strongly that if the MAFIAA want us to conform to not pirating media, a new law should be put in place that ALL digital media after 10 - 20 years becomes open source and freely available to the public domain. This would encourage the sharing of source, the bettering of society and reduce the splurge of sequel after sequel after stinking sequel.
But I admit I live in a dream world where logic exists and money is only an afterthought. The media conglomerates hold the key and the drm and you need to bend over and take it like a man.
Btw. A perfect example of this is Falcon IV. To quote wikipedia
"The game was originally designed and produced by Steve Blankenship and Gilman Louie and published under the MicroProse label. The game was rushed to the market in order to make the 1998 Christmas selling season. Unfortunately, Falcon 4.0's first release contained numerous bugs. The final official patch (version 1.08) fixed most of them. After completion of 1.08 patch, the original development team was laid off by Hasbro Interactive. Nevertheless, Falcon fans still sought further improvements of the game. Early modifications altered the game's multimedia and the executable by editing the hexadecimal code. After the game's source code leak, a Falcon 4.0 player optimized the game further by re-programming parts of the game's original programming code.
Through its lifetime, Falcon 4.0 has received ongoing fixes and enhancements from various groups of volunteers, which have enhanced the detail and complexity of the simulation over the years to its current state, as well as mended the numerous errors in the original release and its patches. Much of this comes as a result of the source code being available to the developers of modifications. Benchmarksim (BMS) being the premier team to take on the task of user modifications. However, game publisher Atari later issued a cease and desist order against all executable modifications, and thus many modifications were not hosted by websites. Private modification development did continue, even so, as can be seen by the FreeFalcon/RedViper and Open Falcon leaks. It is rumored that the FreeFalcon and RedViper teams have recently separated."
To add pain to the developers... Hasbro did in fact release a sequel to Falcon IV. It is considered 'better' than the original falcon but most enthusiasts still find it too rigid than their hacked ones...
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Until you figure out the person you outsourced it to subcontracted it to an source centre in india and all your files are being sold out the backdoor to china...
The outsource centre claims they contracted it out under existing contract clauses and did so in good faith, the indian centre tells you to fuck off because your laws dont matter and the Chinese entity does not even return you calls.
And the problem with that? maybe ISPs will actually start giving a damn when it comes down to spam.
"when they don't pay the 10$ because the owners of the zombie PCs do.."
Gives them one more to give a fuck about security does it not?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/02/centos_alive/
by linking to a response of an article I guess I'm not doing my own argument any favours =D (hey at least I'm honest)
but maybe you should hold off a bit before leaping into what could become a company that disappears over night. Something canonical are unlikely to do.
Freespace 2 was pretty amazing...
a decent (not xbox crappy shitty port) remake of mechwarrior as a simulation or Freespace would really float my boat...
Just dont remake it like Chris Sawyer did to Transport Tycoon.... Locomotion is NOT a sequel :( I cried inside when that game allowed you to build bridges as long as you liked higher than the bleeding buildings.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1312547&cid=28797959
thanks.. now crawl back under your rock
difference is Apple makes good hardware and software.
That cant be said for android at the moment..
What killed apple during the 'clone wars' was that their products were inferior and more expensive than the cloners.
Once/If that happens I'm sure Jobs should reconsider licensing the OS. Until then he can just keep raking in the cash with no worries.
when jobs came back and took the licenses off the cloners... he did it with a sneaky exception in the license for OS8.2 ?
I dont remember the exact things he did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIgu_7oLm0
If you are going to be pedantic with my comment... provide some better links... I dont spend the same amount of time in my basement these days :) (it was around 8.2 anyway)
I've been waiting on that happening ... .... still waiting.
"Amazon must have been in negotiations for DRM-ed digital music before they came up with a deal to screw apple and free digital music"
There, fixed that for you.
rather than a windows license, £100 a year subscription and a PC ?
errr no.
sorry ... I believe even ....
wait, troll - feed ... will not... must not ... must prevail... ... mmmk thanks. you just carry on living in your own little world. :)
awwwwwwww go throw your toys out the pram
BT has been around since the 1980's and operates in over 170 countries....
I think that beats bit torrent...
guys, please stop calling it BP, for most of the world BP is Brooklyn Philharmonic
-errrr ... NOOOOO!
good point... maybe I'm just cynical that I can see this being abused :-|
The tech companies will only do with it like they did customer service ...
customer service = cost too much
solution? outsource it to poor countries to be done on the illegally cheap (with few to nil regulations)
recycle electronic waste you helped make = cost too much
solution? outsource it to poor countries to be done on the illegally cheap (with few to nil regulations)
And what will happen? The consumer will pay more because the company will still fire on extra charges for the privilege.... thanks government.
budget would actually fit really...
"there is no English word for "preiswert""
oh I dont know ... value ? :P
Vodafone is the same... on contract...
the big difference is ... on contract...
the only way you can do it anon is pay as you surf vodafone and THAT is £15 per gig ...
if you want tied into a 18 month contract then by all means... rape your ass :)
and the ... untitled album is one of my favourite cds of all time... ... one I actually bought, shock, horror!
point taken but bad example :D
Just to let you guys know....
I work for Vodafone ... and we do support for their mobile broadband... under the 'voluntary code' even facebook is blocked under the content control bar that is placed on EVERY vodafone sim... even eminem cant be downloaded on mobile phones without this bar being removed.
to get removed you need either a valid credit card or go into a vodafone store with proof of ID.
So my question is.... does this come off when you remove the bar or what?
And btw, if you use BT over 3G you are a fucking goon .... 1GB = £15, you'd be cheaper actually buying your stuff. On the flip side of this at least you can go into a vodafone store and have it removed *almost* anonymously with BT it would appear you have to have some form of address and a 'trackable' account.
just my 2 cents - but its a total pita when people do not have a cc and cant access fricking FB
doesn't matter... within a few years you could emulate (if required) the cluster within a virtual machine. More to the point, if that was really the case you wouldn't have any unofficial wow or daoc servers available now like you do. (just google them)
The reason most companies do not want to open source is that ANYONE (including the fans) could take that code base, rewrite the code through love (or whatever else spurs these entities on) and bring out a better mmo than the company had planned as a sequel.
What if for example... Mythic open sources DAOC, the fans rewrote it and hosted it for free - and was, shock horror, better than Warhammer? shareholders would blame the possible bad 'sale' of Warhammer due to the popular demand for an IP that they dont really own anymore.
I don't agree with it AT ALL, I'd love to see the Amiga classic 'jet strike' open sourced or superfrog (or Cannon Fodder!) so I can continue to play it without needing the original hardware or emulation... but it will never happen because these MEDIA companies (from games, music and film) are scared of their past. Team17 (or their current owners) will keep the Cannon Fodder IP on the off chance that maybe some twit will be willing to pay for the same thing again on their PSP. (and they have)
I believe quite strongly that if the MAFIAA want us to conform to not pirating media, a new law should be put in place that ALL digital media after 10 - 20 years becomes open source and freely available to the public domain. This would encourage the sharing of source, the bettering of society and reduce the splurge of sequel after sequel after stinking sequel.
But I admit I live in a dream world where logic exists and money is only an afterthought. The media conglomerates hold the key and the drm and you need to bend over and take it like a man.
Btw. A perfect example of this is Falcon IV. To quote wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_4.0
"The game was originally designed and produced by Steve Blankenship and Gilman Louie and published under the MicroProse label. The game was rushed to the market in order to make the 1998 Christmas selling season. Unfortunately, Falcon 4.0's first release contained numerous bugs. The final official patch (version 1.08) fixed most of them. After completion of 1.08 patch, the original development team was laid off by Hasbro Interactive. Nevertheless, Falcon fans still sought further improvements of the game. Early modifications altered the game's multimedia and the executable by editing the hexadecimal code. After the game's source code leak, a Falcon 4.0 player optimized the game further by re-programming parts of the game's original programming code.
Through its lifetime, Falcon 4.0 has received ongoing fixes and enhancements from various groups of volunteers, which have enhanced the detail and complexity of the simulation over the years to its current state, as well as mended the numerous errors in the original release and its patches. Much of this comes as a result of the source code being available to the developers of modifications. Benchmarksim (BMS) being the premier team to take on the task of user modifications. However, game publisher Atari later issued a cease and desist order against all executable modifications, and thus many modifications were not hosted by websites. Private modification development did continue, even so, as can be seen by the FreeFalcon/RedViper and Open Falcon leaks. It is rumored that the FreeFalcon and RedViper teams have recently separated."
To add pain to the developers ... Hasbro did in fact release a sequel to Falcon IV. It is considered 'better' than the original falcon but most enthusiasts still find it too rigid than their hacked ones...
http://www.combatsim.com/memb123/htm/2001/12/f5-part1/
other than all new accounts will be set to use the new player?
I'm sure they haven't thought of that of course.....
huh? who just paid you off today then?