The author could conceivably release a *new* version under whatever license he chooses. There is nothing saying he has to continue to release under the GPL going forward. But the copies that have already been distributed under the GPL are out there and cannot be revoked. The people who have the code now can continue to legally modify and redistribute it under the GPL and there is nothing he can do about it. If the new version is closed source, people will simply continue developing the GPL'd version, and there is nothing the author can do about it.
Also...don't forget the extra latency introduced when using wireless over any sort of wired connection. Granted, it's not nearly as bad as satellite or even dialup...but it's still there, additional latency. This makes wireless solutions unattractive for online gaming (especially MMORPG's) when a wired solution is available.
Ok, this is nit-picking, but it comes up every time there's a "GPL violation" in the courts/news. Verizon is not being sued for a "GPL violation". The GPL is NOT an EULA, it is a copyright license. They ONLY have the rights to distribute the GPL'd software in question if they abide by the terms of the GPL. If they are not abiding by the terms of the GPL, they don't have the rights to distribute the software *at all*, and since they continue to distribute it, they are distributing it in violation of copyright. Sure, I don't expect the media to get this right, but at least the Slashdot editors could. The subject should read "Verizon being sued for copyright infringement".
The AEGIA thing is what made me laugh. Granted, I know this is a general gaming laptop, but WOW is obviously the focus...and WOW doesn't support that chip. So it'd just be "dead weight" if you were actually playing WOW.
They DO give a title to the people who have completed the Eye attunement quests since the attunement was removed. The quests are still in-game, you just don't have to do them anymore to enter the raid. The title is "Champion of the Naaru", and you can still complete those quests now and get that title if you wish.
I can envision this hidden back room, where Republicans and Democrats cast off their pretentions of being "different" and laugh about all this. "Hey Bob, I've been in power for 8 years now, people are demanding change...so why don't you go out there and show how bad I am and how good you are. They'll vote for you, and we can still keep the same power structure where we both benefit!"
No kidding...my first x86 computer was a 486 DX4-100 (I stuck with my old Apple IIGS until then), and the most RAM I ever had in that thing was 8MB. 4MB (this was around 1997) was around $200 back then too.
Slightly offtopic (or not), but I couldn't resist. That really reminded me of the behavior of the Hybrids in System Shock 2...how they would run at you and beat you with pipes while apologizing to you and screaming for you to run away.
I was waiting for someone to mention that. Someone needs to tag this article totalrecall. I never read the book (from the same author that wrote the books that were adapted into Blade Runner and Minority Report), but the film was great.
No kidding. A lot of games are starting to use Bittorrent for patches now. In particular, World of Warcraft does this. The latest patch clocks in at around 220mb. Granted, there are mirrors available if you can't download the patch for some reason, but those who are not knowledgeable enough to look for this and just know "the Blizzard downloader gave an error" aren't going to know what to do. I'm on Comcast in Portland, OR, and I haven't seen any issues with torrents being shut down. In fact, my upload speed for torrents (even as recently as this week) have always basically stayed at whatever I tell the torrent application to cap the upload speed at. It's possible that Comcast isn't doing this in all areas. I have to agree though...traffic shaping for QoS reasons is perfectly fine. Prioritizing packets by protocol is fine, by source is not. However, doing a man-in-the-middle attack and using spoofed packets to shut down torrents is NOT fine, and is actually illegal, and this needs to be stopped now before other ISP's get ideas.
Same...the last time I bought a CD was in summer of 2000. I don't plan on buying any more, unless they are either direct from an Indie band or from a distributor like Magnatune.
It sounds like it was written for the hardware of a particular series of mainframes and will not compile on anything else. The further back you go, the less abstraction there was, and the more code was written "to the bare metal" so to speak. Give it a week, then there will be a Slashdot article: "Multics ported to i386". There is NO reason that it can't be ported to any architecture, given enough interest. Someone will port it, just because they can.
Neat...so all we have to do is attach huge helium balloons to our cars, then we can lazily float away above all the traffic, with a small electric propeller for propulsion.
I read some more about Gord somewhere (can't remember where now) that said his real name is Gordon Hadrell, and that he did in fact spend several years in Korea before returning to Canada. He opened a place called PC Bang (which is based on a Korean phenomena and translates to "PC Room"), that's kind of like an internet cafe. http://www.pcbang.ca/ is the place.
If you haven't yet, I definitely recomment that you watch this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplets_of_belleville
There is only one spoken line in the movie (in French), and it just comes from the radio (so no language barrier to this film). I have a feeling you'll get a kick out of the way "Belleville" (a parody of New York) is portrayed in the film. Everyone is really fat, wearing shirts that say I 3 BIG, everyone drives monstrous SUV's, the status of liberty is depicted as obese and holding a cheeseburger and ice cream cone, etc. This is basically how the "rest of the world" views Americans, though the film depiction is intentionally a little bit over the top.
I actually thought most of that movie was ridiculous when I saw it (especially graphics over a modem that would've been at max 50bps). However, the "grade hacking" is one of the most realistic "hacks" I have ever seen in a movie. For that part anyway, whoever made the movie did a little research. He didn't "hack" anything to change the grades, he used social engineering (getting sent to the principal's office, then creating a distraction so he could look at the password that was hidden in the office). At that point, he had the password, all he had to do is log in and change grades. That was ingenious, and it's sad that most "hacking" these days in movies is portrayed with fancy 3D graphics rather than how it's really done. There was the use of nmap in Matrix Reloaded, but social engineering will usually get people further than any hacking tools, even real ones like nmap.
Keller also postulates a second larger and still unidentified meteor strike after Chicxulub, that left the famous extraterrestrial layer of iridium found in rocks worldwide and pushed earth's ecosystem over the brink. But where's the crater? "I wish I knew," says Keller." Iceland. I watched a documentary on this in the early 90's. The iridium concentration grows as you get closer to Iceland. Iceland is a volcanic island that is the result of a large extraterrestrial object shattering the thin crust on a mid-ocean ridge. It formed a rather large volcano that brought up a lot of material for millions of years, and is still somewhat active even today (Iceland). Iceland is also somewhere between 60 and 70 million years old, which is when the object impacted.
Somehow, I doubt "terrorists" are making explosives with chemistry sets anyway. But they must be making them with child chemistry sets, because it's not like you can make them from common household chemicals available in any grocery store...oh wait, you can. Sarcasm aside, this is just plain stupid.
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The author could conceivably release a *new* version under whatever license he chooses. There is nothing saying he has to continue to release under the GPL going forward. But the copies that have already been distributed under the GPL are out there and cannot be revoked. The people who have the code now can continue to legally modify and redistribute it under the GPL and there is nothing he can do about it. If the new version is closed source, people will simply continue developing the GPL'd version, and there is nothing the author can do about it.
Gentoo should be safe to begin with. The default Gentoo Apache install does NOT run Apache as root, but as its own user.
Also...don't forget the extra latency introduced when using wireless over any sort of wired connection. Granted, it's not nearly as bad as satellite or even dialup...but it's still there, additional latency. This makes wireless solutions unattractive for online gaming (especially MMORPG's) when a wired solution is available.
I believe the misspelling of stake to steak, along with "medium-rare" was intentional and intended to be humorous.
This has been done before, in Animatrix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_(The_Animatrix)
Ok, this is nit-picking, but it comes up every time there's a "GPL violation" in the courts/news. Verizon is not being sued for a "GPL violation". The GPL is NOT an EULA, it is a copyright license. They ONLY have the rights to distribute the GPL'd software in question if they abide by the terms of the GPL. If they are not abiding by the terms of the GPL, they don't have the rights to distribute the software *at all*, and since they continue to distribute it, they are distributing it in violation of copyright. Sure, I don't expect the media to get this right, but at least the Slashdot editors could. The subject should read "Verizon being sued for copyright infringement".
The AEGIA thing is what made me laugh. Granted, I know this is a general gaming laptop, but WOW is obviously the focus...and WOW doesn't support that chip. So it'd just be "dead weight" if you were actually playing WOW.
They DO give a title to the people who have completed the Eye attunement quests since the attunement was removed. The quests are still in-game, you just don't have to do them anymore to enter the raid. The title is "Champion of the Naaru", and you can still complete those quests now and get that title if you wish.
DOJ: "It's over nine thousand!!!!!"
I can envision this hidden back room, where Republicans and Democrats cast off their pretentions of being "different" and laugh about all this. "Hey Bob, I've been in power for 8 years now, people are demanding change...so why don't you go out there and show how bad I am and how good you are. They'll vote for you, and we can still keep the same power structure where we both benefit!"
Since when is Spam considered food? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Offtopic, but your comment reminded me of the Booterang from World of Warcraft.
No kidding...my first x86 computer was a 486 DX4-100 (I stuck with my old Apple IIGS until then), and the most RAM I ever had in that thing was 8MB. 4MB (this was around 1997) was around $200 back then too.
Slightly offtopic (or not), but I couldn't resist. That really reminded me of the behavior of the Hybrids in System Shock 2...how they would run at you and beat you with pipes while apologizing to you and screaming for you to run away.
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I was waiting for someone to mention that. Someone needs to tag this article totalrecall. I never read the book (from the same author that wrote the books that were adapted into Blade Runner and Minority Report), but the film was great.
No kidding. A lot of games are starting to use Bittorrent for patches now. In particular, World of Warcraft does this. The latest patch clocks in at around 220mb. Granted, there are mirrors available if you can't download the patch for some reason, but those who are not knowledgeable enough to look for this and just know "the Blizzard downloader gave an error" aren't going to know what to do. I'm on Comcast in Portland, OR, and I haven't seen any issues with torrents being shut down. In fact, my upload speed for torrents (even as recently as this week) have always basically stayed at whatever I tell the torrent application to cap the upload speed at. It's possible that Comcast isn't doing this in all areas. I have to agree though...traffic shaping for QoS reasons is perfectly fine. Prioritizing packets by protocol is fine, by source is not. However, doing a man-in-the-middle attack and using spoofed packets to shut down torrents is NOT fine, and is actually illegal, and this needs to be stopped now before other ISP's get ideas.
Same...the last time I bought a CD was in summer of 2000. I don't plan on buying any more, unless they are either direct from an Indie band or from a distributor like Magnatune.
It sounds like it was written for the hardware of a particular series of mainframes and will not compile on anything else. The further back you go, the less abstraction there was, and the more code was written "to the bare metal" so to speak. Give it a week, then there will be a Slashdot article: "Multics ported to i386". There is NO reason that it can't be ported to any architecture, given enough interest. Someone will port it, just because they can.
Neat...so all we have to do is attach huge helium balloons to our cars, then we can lazily float away above all the traffic, with a small electric propeller for propulsion.
I read some more about Gord somewhere (can't remember where now) that said his real name is Gordon Hadrell, and that he did in fact spend several years in Korea before returning to Canada. He opened a place called PC Bang (which is based on a Korean phenomena and translates to "PC Room"), that's kind of like an internet cafe. http://www.pcbang.ca/ is the place.
If you haven't yet, I definitely recomment that you watch this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplets_of_belleville There is only one spoken line in the movie (in French), and it just comes from the radio (so no language barrier to this film). I have a feeling you'll get a kick out of the way "Belleville" (a parody of New York) is portrayed in the film. Everyone is really fat, wearing shirts that say I 3 BIG, everyone drives monstrous SUV's, the status of liberty is depicted as obese and holding a cheeseburger and ice cream cone, etc. This is basically how the "rest of the world" views Americans, though the film depiction is intentionally a little bit over the top.
I actually thought most of that movie was ridiculous when I saw it (especially graphics over a modem that would've been at max 50bps). However, the "grade hacking" is one of the most realistic "hacks" I have ever seen in a movie. For that part anyway, whoever made the movie did a little research. He didn't "hack" anything to change the grades, he used social engineering (getting sent to the principal's office, then creating a distraction so he could look at the password that was hidden in the office). At that point, he had the password, all he had to do is log in and change grades. That was ingenious, and it's sad that most "hacking" these days in movies is portrayed with fancy 3D graphics rather than how it's really done. There was the use of nmap in Matrix Reloaded, but social engineering will usually get people further than any hacking tools, even real ones like nmap.
Somehow, I doubt "terrorists" are making explosives with chemistry sets anyway. But they must be making them with child chemistry sets, because it's not like you can make them from common household chemicals available in any grocery store...oh wait, you can. Sarcasm aside, this is just plain stupid.