3 out of the 5 games were developed by Black Isle. But this doesn't mean their engine had nothing in common. Their father (Bioware) is the same:) Btw, they has more than the engine (.exe) in common, lots of data files were inherited by PS:T.
PST IS a Computer Role Playing Game, more so than BlackIsle's next creations (Icewind Dale series).
Arcanum used tile based graphics, TOEE used pre-rendered graphics, maybe they had more in common elsewhere, but the graphic engine is different.
PST and BG2 uses exactly the same area formats and only very small differences in item and creature formats. By all rights, they are of the same family.
The price Monsoon asked for their version of the software is a good base for the damages estimation. It needs to be determined, how much percentage they lifted from the GPL code and how much is their genuine code.
If there are gamer girls, chances are they are just as nerdy looking as gamer boys. At least, the chances of spotting a real good looking girl are very slim. If they want that, they better go to a sex site.
If a picture, any picture, was released as freely reusable commercially, then why they had to ask the person on the picture? What was illegal in Virgin's action? It might have been tasteless, but it is within the usual tastelessness of commercial advertisements. The girl shouldn't have let her picture to be licensed commercially (and if the photographer didn't ask her, it is clearly the photographer's fault).
I bet the Chinese will win this race, even if they have to stand on each other's head to lift their rocket to the Moon! Just because US contractors are paid better, it doesn't mean they work faster. Between 63 and 68, the US was different, they were very motivated to get to the Moon. Just because the Chinese use existing technology, it doesn't mean they can't beat the US, apparently this Russian technology is better (safer and cheaper) than the US technology which built (partly) the 1,000,000lb ISS.
This doesn't mean Google is anticompetitive, more like the competition is incompetent. It isn't Google who closed EU for Yahoo, and it isn't Google who set M$'s business plan.
Thank you your kind question, but no, i didn't want to submit another story. And yes, i think my note was completely relevant to this one.
Apparently you are a fanatic CC zealot who just misdirected a hit. I have no problem with the license itself. My note was about the photographer, who clearly allowed the photo to be used commercially. Commercial means they can rape it for profit. This is not the fault of the license, and this is not the fault of Virgin. The fault was with the photographer's choice of license, i bet he didn't ask the family about letting the picture used commercially.
Nah, improvised devices could look like anything. Would you recognise any and all devices that have exploded in Iraq? This girl got away luckily. By fucking the police this way, you just lower their awareness. Next time, a real bomber comes and they'll ignore that. I hope YOU will be at the airport that time.
Did they sue Flickr, the photographer's ISP, the Internet Backbone, and such? And why to seek damages for the photographer?????? It was the photographer who did any wrong, no?
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Well, Vista video drivers are measured by rps (reboot per seconds) not fps.
What software you can't run on Linux?
The only thing it seems to be lacking is games.
What's wrong about being the first sentient subquark haze?
Same engine means a lot :)
80% of the PST game could be moved under the BG2 engine without change, this entitles us to say they are of the same family.
3 out of the 5 games were developed by Black Isle. But this doesn't mean their engine had nothing in common. :)
Their father (Bioware) is the same
Btw, they has more than the engine (.exe) in common, lots of data files were inherited by PS:T.
PST IS a Computer Role Playing Game, more so than BlackIsle's next creations (Icewind Dale series).
Arcanum used tile based graphics, TOEE used pre-rendered graphics, maybe they had more in common elsewhere, but the graphic engine is different.
PST and BG2 uses exactly the same area formats and only very small differences in item and creature formats. By all rights, they are of the same family.
oookay, where is your photo :)
And don't cheat, i'll recognise Britney.
Heh, first i thought the ISS is cool, but now it seems more like wasted money.
It has only 5 years of useful lifetime?
The price Monsoon asked for their version of the software is a good base for the damages estimation.
It needs to be determined, how much percentage they lifted from the GPL code and how much is their genuine code.
If there are gamer girls, chances are they are just as nerdy looking as gamer boys.
At least, the chances of spotting a real good looking girl are very slim.
If they want that, they better go to a sex site.
Copyright infringement is theft.
The problem with RIAA is that they try to sue people who didn't infringe their copyright.
They admitted they are using GPL code (they mentioned the original FOSS code they lifted).
They simply didn't make the modified sources available.
And linux people don't do illegal stuff, so it is out of question.
a luxury for developers.
If a picture, any picture, was released as freely reusable commercially, then why they had to ask the person on the picture? What was illegal in Virgin's action? It might have been tasteless, but it is within the usual tastelessness of commercial advertisements. The girl shouldn't have let her picture to be licensed commercially (and if the photographer didn't ask her, it is clearly the photographer's fault).
I bet the Chinese will win this race, even if they have to stand on each other's head to lift their rocket to the Moon!
Just because US contractors are paid better, it doesn't mean they work faster.
Between 63 and 68, the US was different, they were very motivated to get to the Moon.
Just because the Chinese use existing technology, it doesn't mean they can't beat the US, apparently this Russian technology is better (safer and cheaper) than the US technology which built (partly) the 1,000,000lb ISS.
This doesn't mean Google is anticompetitive, more like the competition is incompetent.
It isn't Google who closed EU for Yahoo, and it isn't Google who set M$'s business plan.
Yeah, i agree. I looked hard to find any 'friction' that already happened.
And the anonymous reader is most likely a M$ shill.
Thank you your kind question, but no, i didn't want to submit another story.
And yes, i think my note was completely relevant to this one.
Apparently you are a fanatic CC zealot who just misdirected a hit.
I have no problem with the license itself.
My note was about the photographer, who clearly allowed the photo to be used commercially.
Commercial means they can rape it for profit.
This is not the fault of the license, and this is not the fault of Virgin.
The fault was with the photographer's choice of license, i bet he didn't ask the family about letting the picture used commercially.
If they learned something, they wouldn't push DRM so viciously.
Somehow, I don't believe the same vulnerability will affect xpdf on linux and adobe reader on windows. :)
So, I still feel safe
Nah, improvised devices could look like anything.
Would you recognise any and all devices that have exploded in Iraq?
This girl got away luckily.
By fucking the police this way, you just lower their awareness.
Next time, a real bomber comes and they'll ignore that.
I hope YOU will be at the airport that time.
What about $IGNORANT_PERSON chose a wrong $OS_LICENSE?
Did they sue Flickr, the photographer's ISP, the Internet Backbone, and such?
And why to seek damages for the photographer??????
It was the photographer who did any wrong, no?
Skilled female geeks are always welcome :)
The MPL is incompatible with the MPL (Mozilla Public License) too. :P
And, wonder what happens if it is used as a dual license option with BSD