what the fuck are you smoking? If bruce's code is gone, then what does he have copyright on? The use of the GPL license?
As another poster points out, if it can be shown that the new code is a derivative work (as defined by the GPL) of the original code then the original licensing terms and intellectual property rights still apply.
Some flunkie in Microsoft is sure going to have his skin flayed.
They were too stupid to follow simple corporate policy, no major corporation would stand for this kind of foolishness.
They were stupid enough to copy JAVASCRIPT code from another vendor and not at least obfuscate it when it is downloaded. (There are tools for this)
They were even too stupid to make significant enough changes to the code that even an amateur couldn't look at it and say "MS code is just a refactoring of Plurk code"
Reamed is an understatement, somewhere someone is hearing the words "Are you fucking retarded?"
I could have answered you with "If only you could see from my camera!", but instead, I'll probably show you some pics -- attack ships on fire at the shoulder of Orion, C-beams glittering through the darkness near the Tannhauser gate, and much more.. wait, you've already seen them? Google image search? Damn, I want more privacy, father!
Somebody totally needs to make a Flicker feed for Roy. Afterall he's already on Facebook
I really do not understand why this has blown up into such a conflagration. Anyone who gives up on science because of this trifling matter is welcome to go back to the dark ages and live their short, wholesome, science-free life.
Humanity is not rational. We sometimes forget that the majority of the planet still believes in a big-sky-daddy god and couldn't perform a single scientific experiment accurately even given all the materials and instructions. You're just asking too much from Joe Sixpack
In the AGW debate, the publicized emails create the appearance that powerful people in the scientific community stifled the dissent, open debate, and peer review that might cast doubt on their views.
Perhaps "excerpts from a few cherry-picked stolen emails, sometimes taken out of context" might be a more accurate description.
Now, now. This is the first time the naysayers have had any concrete evidence about anything at all. Shooting them down immediately is unsporting, at least give them their 15 mins of fame before you point out how ridiculous this is.
I would have been surprised if you had heard a negative comment from participants in a *voluntary* activity.
You have clearly never played WoW. People with no clue about software design are CONSTANTLY bitching about Blizzard. The point was despite the disparaging remarks above the normally intolerant players were actually enjoying the new system. Believe me, when it breaks people complain.
If these images are infrared as they supposedly claim, why can I see them? Humans can't see infrared.
I do hope you were trolling... that's the dumbest question I've heard in a long time. And I have teenagers... (I will show this to them, they will laugh...)
So, assuming it was a joke. Tres drole, tres drole./golfclap
It means that some interesting gameplay aspects that can normally be found in MMORPGs (such as open world pvp) have been pretty much set aside in WoW to make room for more soulless dungeon crawling and loot whoring.
No, it has not been set aside. They have simply made it easy for those people who are already instance grinding to do so easily. Instance grinding has always been "soulless dungeon crawling and loot whoring".
Personally I'm on the last stages of equipping a character for raiding and the ability to go from instance to instance worked great for me yesterday, as it did for everybody I grouped with. I did not hear a single negative comment from anyone yesterday. (And we all know how much players bitch when they don't like a new patch.
Life on Mars would have been at its prime billions of years ago. Whatever is left now would have to be either fossilised and completely inert, or still reproducing.
But I suppose there's a chance it could happen that way (say if life on Mars is a relatively recent phenoma).
Like, say for example, a recent visit from an alien probe managed to infect it with lifeforms from another planet? But who would send probes to mars? Must ponder that...
Hence the verification that the sound is working before clicking away. It's a little trick that professional call "verification of test setup."
It's not quite that easy. I have lots of apps where sound works fine on my laptop (Ubuntu 9.10), and others where it either doesn't work at all or all I get is white noise. Oh... and thanks for not being condescending, it really made my day.
Not to mention the GNU apps that have manpages that (at least on some Linux distros) basically say "Yeah, it's a piece of software, if you want more docs install the info package for it" which is completely unhelpful when you're on a system that barely boots and you can't install packages with the system in its current state.
I've been there... not in a long, long time... but it left deep wounds.
Similarly, try setting up any new machine with any operating system these days without an internet connection... or with an exotic wireless card. How will ordinary mortals survive the 21st century? Let's face it, most of the planet can't tell a mac address from a big mac.
It is your right to disagree, but the level of vitriol with which you wrote your post is really uncalled for. Might I respectfully suggest that you might be taking this a little tiny bit to personally? I understand passion about anything, but really you were pretty over the top.
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But, how did you post the above message?
TCP/SS, TCP/BDor TCP/AC
what the fuck are you smoking? If bruce's code is gone, then what does he have copyright on? The use of the GPL license?
As another poster points out, if it can be shown that the new code is a derivative work (as defined by the GPL) of the original code then the original licensing terms and intellectual property rights still apply.
Some flunkie in Microsoft is sure going to have his skin flayed.
Reamed is an understatement, somewhere someone is hearing the words "Are you fucking retarded?"
There are MANY small-scale communist groups that work very well and have been doing so for decades without problem.
And as long as they don't shoot you for trying to leave, there's not a thing in the world wrong with that.
Excellent point, socialism and freedom are in no way contradictory.
What I'd like to know is who the hell is using sticky notes anyway?
I could have answered you with "If only you could see from my camera!", but instead, I'll probably show you some pics -- attack ships on fire at the shoulder of Orion, C-beams glittering through the darkness near the Tannhauser gate, and much more.. wait, you've already seen them? Google image search? Damn, I want more privacy, father!
Somebody totally needs to make a Flicker feed for Roy. Afterall he's already on Facebook
I really do not understand why this has blown up into such a conflagration. Anyone who gives up on science because of this trifling matter is welcome to go back to the dark ages and live their short, wholesome, science-free life.
Humanity is not rational. We sometimes forget that the majority of the planet still believes in a big-sky-daddy god and couldn't perform a single scientific experiment accurately even given all the materials and instructions. You're just asking too much from Joe Sixpack
Perhaps "excerpts from a few cherry-picked stolen emails, sometimes taken out of context" might be a more accurate description.
Now, now. This is the first time the naysayers have had any concrete evidence about anything at all. Shooting them down immediately is unsporting, at least give them their 15 mins of fame before you point out how ridiculous this is.
I would have been surprised if you had heard a negative comment from participants in a *voluntary* activity.
You have clearly never played WoW. People with no clue about software design are CONSTANTLY bitching about Blizzard. The point was despite the disparaging remarks above the normally intolerant players were actually enjoying the new system. Believe me, when it breaks people complain.
I did not hear a single negative comment from anyone yesterday.
Well... I ended up in Occulus *twice* last night.
If these images are infrared as they supposedly claim, why can I see them? Humans can't see infrared.
I do hope you were trolling... that's the dumbest question I've heard in a long time. And I have teenagers... (I will show this to them, they will laugh...)
So, assuming it was a joke. Tres drole, tres drole. /golfclap
It means that some interesting gameplay aspects that can normally be found in MMORPGs (such as open world pvp) have been pretty much set aside in WoW to make room for more soulless dungeon crawling and loot whoring.
No, it has not been set aside. They have simply made it easy for those people who are already instance grinding to do so easily. Instance grinding has always been "soulless dungeon crawling and loot whoring".
Personally I'm on the last stages of equipping a character for raiding and the ability to go from instance to instance worked great for me yesterday, as it did for everybody I grouped with. I did not hear a single negative comment from anyone yesterday. (And we all know how much players bitch when they don't like a new patch.
Life on Mars would have been at its prime billions of years ago. Whatever is left now would have to be either fossilised and completely inert, or still reproducing.
Or migrated?
But I suppose there's a chance it could happen that way (say if life on Mars is a relatively recent phenoma).
Like, say for example, a recent visit from an alien probe managed to infect it with lifeforms from another planet? But who would send probes to mars? Must ponder that...
Really? It's hard enough to force people in my town not to steal or murder, some do it every day. But that doesn't mean that the police give up.
So refusing to spend bandwidth on advertising is analogous to murder? I'd call this a false analogy and give you an F in Logic.
There's also the mobile realm, where I don't think IBM has even stepped foot in.
The IBM JVM is used in mobiles. Lenovo (part owned by IBM) has/had a cellphone division.
Well said sir. Where are my mod points when I need em?
As a parent, and WoW player, I approve this comment.
Most of the Alliance seems to be of the mental age, if not the physical age, of 14.
I resent that, I play alliance and my mental age is no more than 12... and declining.
Tumpach insisted she recorded no more than three minutes while in the theater
So... she's lying in your opinion?
Not the first place I'd start looking. Nuff said. (Heck... there's probably more porn producers in Montreal than porn virgins.)
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Hence the verification that the sound is working before clicking away. It's a little trick that professional call "verification of test setup."
It's not quite that easy. I have lots of apps where sound works fine on my laptop (Ubuntu 9.10), and others where it either doesn't work at all or all I get is white noise. Oh... and thanks for not being condescending, it really made my day.
Not to mention the GNU apps that have manpages that (at least on some Linux distros) basically say "Yeah, it's a piece of software, if you want more docs install the info package for it" which is completely unhelpful when you're on a system that barely boots and you can't install packages with the system in its current state.
I've been there... not in a long, long time... but it left deep wounds.
Similarly, try setting up any new machine with any operating system these days without an internet connection... or with an exotic wireless card. How will ordinary mortals survive the 21st century? Let's face it, most of the planet can't tell a mac address from a big mac.
It is your right to disagree, but the level of vitriol with which you wrote your post is really uncalled for. Might I respectfully suggest that you might be taking this a little tiny bit to personally? I understand passion about anything, but really you were pretty over the top.
Wow... pot, meet kettle.
And thusly did Barrens chat come to Slashdot, and the people cowered.