These games from the Humble Indy Bundle have not been released under a free license, nor does it appear they will be. All that is being released are their engines.
Following the ID tradition.
There are already dozens of free software game engines available with no free software games which use them.
And because of Engine only releases Open Source developers have been able to produce a host of new games. From the Quake engines alone we have Tremulous, Warsow, Alien Arena just to name a few.
Having a proven Engine under your Project allows developers to focus on Assets and Level Design and tweaking the gameplay to a much larger degree than is possible if developing the engine as well.
There is another benefit to the original developers and users in that their games survive onto the next era of computing and gaming devices.(iPhones, Androids and insert your favorite tablet device here)
I learned long ago that Creative is a decent Hardware company, unfortunately the software people there are almost as inept as their customer service dept.
For the uneducated, the offending product was the 3DBlaster Video card. Could work beautifully but only for about 10 minutes. 3 returns, finally wrote off the 350 bucks I paid for it.
The whole situation out me off them forever. All these years later you couldn't pay me to install a Creative Sound Card. Before that, it was the exclusive recomendation.
The thing is, the only reason most people run Windows is so they can run legacy Windows applications. A Windows that can't run Windows apps? Yeah, that'll sell like an iPod that can't play MP3s.
Wait, iPods can play MP3s.
What will they think of next. What a time to be alive.
I live in a small (Pawtucket could kick its ass) rural community. If you want to know about what is going on around here there are 2 places to look, the local newspaper and the bulletin board at the local IGA.
The Newspaper has a cute little 1995 style website, but it is less comprehensive than the paper.
That said, I rarely care what is going on around here, and therefore buy the paper nearly never. Although I do scan the headlines at the convenience store.
The web allows me to read the NYTimes, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, The BBC and a thousand blogs a week. I love new media, but Ii still respect the old guild.
OK, sure the guy "recorded" sound, he apparently was very upset that Edison beat him to the patent office and generally received all the glory. Somehow though, I think recording 10 seconds on 2 sheets of paper would make an LP sized recording equivalent to an encyclopedia and thus slightly impractical. http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/03/ancient-audio-and-phonautograph.html
The second case concerns Antigua and Barbuda, a small Caribbean country home to all sorts of online vices, including gambling and DRM circumvention. Antigua took the US to the WTO years ago over charges that the US was unfairly criminalizing access to Antiguan gambling websites...
=> Legal gambling outfits in the US follow strict gambling laws that regulate, among other things, machine calibration, payout ratios, etc. Online gambling from other countries is outlawed in the USA because the mechanisms to ensure fairness can not be physically confirmed by government representatives.
Yeah, thats it. It had nothing to do with protecting the status quo of legalized gambling in the US. I mean it's not like the law outlawing online gambling had exemptions for fantasy football and off track betting.
It would be downright hypocritical of the Congress to pass a law imposing Free Trade Violations that benefit American companies while at the same time disallowing the same activity to other countries. We all know that congress would never do that.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/498603/wto_us_internet_gambling_ban_illegal.html
I'm sure the author would have used better examples, if there were some. The WTO is usually pretty fair when it comes to these issues. The Canadian and Antigua examples are excellent references for that. I agree with your Irish fair use argument, but I would go further and say the artist were already compensated for the broadcast usage and has grounds for appeal.
Thank goodness I can just ignore all the hoopla about Vista. "XP" should be dropped from this story's title - _Windows_ is altogether in its death throes.
Careful there buddy, last time I said that, I got a metric ton of abuse.
Not that I changed my opinion on the matter. 3 more Kubuntu XP replacements this month. Zero Windows installs this year (and last year as well.) Like a huge weight off my shoulders.
Out of all his predictions, I was really pulling for the monkey servants.
From the wikipedia:
As featured on Sky One's "50 Terrible Predictions" programme, Clarke once predicted that apes would function as household servants by the 1960's; "...with our present knowledge of animal psychology, we can certainly solve the servant problem with the help of the monkey kingdom" he said, but quipped "..of course, eventually, our super chimpanzees would start forming trade unions and we'd be right back where we started."
Why don't more professional Golfers play Basketball?
Seriously though, I see a fairly large population of gamers running Linux. We would like more Games though, please. Doing the OSGGFG, I've found there are several large niches of emptiness in open source gaming, just waiting to be filled.
The big guys aren't going to care until they notice that there are as many eeePCs and (k)(x)(ed)ubuntu users as there are wii's and PS3s.
On the other hand, there is always the mindset that Linux users don't buy software. I paid for Halo, HalfLife(both), Jedi Academy, UT (all of em), unfortunately they ring up as windows purchases. Maybe a new effort to package the existing working software with a community effort like wine, could lead to a closer relationships with the gaming industry (shudder) and better track sales figures. Only Canonical could pull something like this off, and we should encourage Mark and Co to do so.
On the gripping hand, I could be persuaded to wait out the mainstream gaming boys. I see a constant rapid improvement in Open Source Gaming. We haven't reached critical mass yet, but in the long run we'll be fine.
There was an "Internet" in the early 1980s, but practically no one had access (I did), so we depended on the few published books, occasional insights in magazines like COMPUTE!, Creative Computing and Byte.
Many a night was wasted writing and saving to cassette the code of that mag. Always praying no one hit the light switch or tripped over the plug (Happened a maddening # of times.)
Just because you think that it is an idea somebody EVENTUALLY would have come up with? Or the tired arguement that structures and or algorithms involved are prior art?
Microsoft: Yahoo would stay in Silicon Valley
Microsoft bid 'unnerving' to Google co-founder
Analysis: Microsoft will win proxy battle
Microsoft to authorize Yahoo proxy battle
Gates: Microsoft's offer to Yahoo is fair
Yahoo's big investors may back Microsoft
Yahoo's CEO explains Microsoft rebuttal
Newsweek: Why this deal won't happen
Why Google will remain king of search
Vote: Can Microsoft-Yahoo beat Google?
Guess which link doesn't work? Newsweek: Why this deal won't happen
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Our web servers cannot find the page or file you asked for.
The link you followed may be broken or expired.
On the story itself The company also adopted new severance packages that would protect employees in the event of a Microsoft takeover, a move the lawsuit labels as a blatant effort to drive up the cost of an acquisition.
It couldn't be an attempt to protect their employees, nah what does that have to do with profits?
The company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday that workers who lose their jobs without "cause" or quit "for good reason," as Yahoo defines it, would continue to receive their salary and medical benefits for four to 24 months, plus reimbursement for "outplacement services" for two years.
A Yahoo spokeswoman would not say what might constitute good reason.
I dunno, how about: I was purchased by a soul crushing monopolist.
if you have a shitload and I have a shitload, we put them together and it's still a shitload.
Penn & Teller did a bit on this (that I can't seem to find a clip on.) But if memory serves me correct, A shitload + A Shitload = A Mother Fucking Shitload.
I mean, I could stop anytime I wanted. Hold on, just let me check my blog stats. Got to give it another 2 mins to update. Ok like I was saying, technology is not addictive, just because I posted to 7 blogs today and responded to 23 comments doesn't mean I have to. Its just something I enjoy. Gotta reply to this txtmsg, BRB. Kay, anyway ooh 2 mins up. Oh yeah 12 more visitors. Where the hell is Riga, Google says Latvia. Hang on, laptop compile is done, sweet. So anyway, damn IM, hell yeah I want to raid. I gotta go, but my point is Technology isn't addictive, it is empowering, bringing people together and then letting them talk smack to each other.
After reading through a few dozen of his blog posts, the content is probably something CNN does not want to be associated with. It is great content, just not CNN material.
Liberal Bias, well I wake up every morning baffled as to why America hasn't deported George Bush and Dick Cheney may not necessarily be a exclusively liberal view point it is certainly biased.
Great Blog, and at least now he can go home every night and not spend his evenings in the shower scrubbing himself raw chanting Still not Clean, Still not Clean
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These games from the Humble Indy Bundle have not been released under a free license, nor does it appear they will be. All that is being released are their engines.
Following the ID tradition.
There are already dozens of free software game engines available with no free software games which use them.
And because of Engine only releases Open Source developers have been able to produce a host of new games. From the Quake engines alone we have Tremulous, Warsow, Alien Arena just to name a few.
Having a proven Engine under your Project allows developers to focus on Assets and Level Design and tweaking the gameplay to a much larger degree than is possible if developing the engine as well.
There is another benefit to the original developers and users in that their games survive onto the next era of computing and gaming devices.(iPhones, Androids and insert your favorite tablet device here)
Lots Online.
Also, Depending on their age. The western Tradition
Did I mention the 3 card they returned was the card I sent the first time. I initialed the serial sticker.
For the uneducated, the offending product was the 3DBlaster Video card. Could work beautifully but only for about 10 minutes. 3 returns, finally wrote off the 350 bucks I paid for it.
The whole situation out me off them forever. All these years later you couldn't pay me to install a Creative Sound Card. Before that, it was the exclusive recomendation.
What will they think of next. What a time to be alive.
The Newspaper has a cute little 1995 style website, but it is less comprehensive than the paper.
That said, I rarely care what is going on around here, and therefore buy the paper nearly never. Although I do scan the headlines at the convenience store.
The web allows me to read the NYTimes, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, The BBC and a thousand blogs a week. I love new media, but Ii still respect the old guild.
Whoops, http://www.talkingmachine.org/phonautograph.html
For more info on the phonautogragh see http:http://www.talkingmachine.org/phonautograph.html
OK, sure the guy "recorded" sound, he apparently was very upset that Edison beat him to the patent office and generally received all the glory. Somehow though, I think recording 10 seconds on 2 sheets of paper would make an LP sized recording equivalent to an encyclopedia and thus slightly impractical.
http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/03/ancient-audio-and-phonautograph.html
this could be funnier than Office Space and be 100% true! Great movie idea! And we could call it OpenOffice Space.org
It would be downright hypocritical of the Congress to pass a law imposing Free Trade Violations that benefit American companies while at the same time disallowing the same activity to other countries. We all know that congress would never do that.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/498603/wto_us_internet_gambling_ban_illegal.html I'm sure the author would have used better examples, if there were some. The WTO is usually pretty fair when it comes to these issues. The Canadian and Antigua examples are excellent references for that. I agree with your Irish fair use argument, but I would go further and say the artist were already compensated for the broadcast usage and has grounds for appeal.
Since about the time of SP2, IIRC. (At least if you meant consumer Windows OS, that is.)
See:
http://mrcopilot.com/2008/01/can-kde-save-dying-windows-platform.html
http://mrcopilot.com/2008/02/windows-platform-death-revisited.html
Not that I changed my opinion on the matter. 3 more Kubuntu XP replacements this month. Zero Windows installs this year (and last year as well.) Like a huge weight off my shoulders.
http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/03/sir-arthur-c-clarke-dead-at-age-90.html
Out of all his predictions, I was really pulling for the monkey servants.
From the wikipedia:
Seriously though, I see a fairly large population of gamers running Linux. We would like more Games though, please. Doing the OSGGFG, I've found there are several large niches of emptiness in open source gaming, just waiting to be filled.
The big guys aren't going to care until they notice that there are as many eeePCs and (k)(x)(ed)ubuntu users as there are wii's and PS3s.
On the other hand, there is always the mindset that Linux users don't buy software. I paid for Halo, HalfLife(both), Jedi Academy, UT (all of em), unfortunately they ring up as windows purchases. Maybe a new effort to package the existing working software with a community effort like wine, could lead to a closer relationships with the gaming industry (shudder) and better track sales figures. Only Canonical could pull something like this off, and we should encourage Mark and Co to do so.
On the gripping hand, I could be persuaded to wait out the mainstream gaming boys. I see a constant rapid improvement in Open Source Gaming. We haven't reached critical mass yet, but in the long run we'll be fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs
You needed a subscription to Antic my friend.http://atarimagazines.planetmirror.com/antic/
Many a night was wasted writing and saving to cassette the code of that mag. Always praying no one hit the light switch or tripped over the plug (Happened a maddening # of times.)
Yes but not for those reasons.
The feature this week is the first half of a lecture given by Professor Eben Moglen on the danger of software patents.
What the hell you got against altruism anyway, uh...Sir?
Maybe its me, Same outcome reported, just seemed rupertized.
Here is a MicroHoo related stories box at MSNBC @ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23237868/
Microsoft: Yahoo would stay in Silicon Valley
Microsoft bid 'unnerving' to Google co-founder
Analysis: Microsoft will win proxy battle
Microsoft to authorize Yahoo proxy battle
Gates: Microsoft's offer to Yahoo is fair
Yahoo's big investors may back Microsoft
Yahoo's CEO explains Microsoft rebuttal
Newsweek: Why this deal won't happen
Why Google will remain king of search
Vote: Can Microsoft-Yahoo beat Google?
Guess which link doesn't work?
Newsweek: Why this deal won't happen
Page not found Our web servers cannot find the page or file you asked for. The link you followed may be broken or expired.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/110796 Nope not expired, guess it was just misplaced.
Oddly enough this link works fine Why Google will remain king of search I guess it was left to show that there are no antitrust issues.
On the story itself
The company also adopted new severance packages that would protect employees in the event of a Microsoft takeover, a move the lawsuit labels as a blatant effort to drive up the cost of an acquisition.
It couldn't be an attempt to protect their employees, nah what does that have to do with profits?
The company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday that workers who lose their jobs without "cause" or quit "for good reason," as Yahoo defines it, would continue to receive their salary and medical benefits for four to 24 months, plus reimbursement for "outplacement services" for two years. A Yahoo spokeswoman would not say what might constitute good reason.
I dunno, how about: I was purchased by a soul crushing monopolist.
Me too, "It's a trap"
Good on Mr Valentine for getting out before this crapware hit the market and ruined his reputation.
Note to Mr Bezos. I am available for hire.
Penn & Teller did a bit on this (that I can't seem to find a clip on.) But if memory serves me correct, A shitload + A Shitload = A Mother Fucking Shitload.
I mean, I could stop anytime I wanted. Hold on, just let me check my blog stats. Got to give it another 2 mins to update. Ok like I was saying, technology is not addictive, just because I posted to 7 blogs today and responded to 23 comments doesn't mean I have to. Its just something I enjoy. Gotta reply to this txtmsg, BRB. Kay, anyway ooh 2 mins up. Oh yeah 12 more visitors. Where the hell is Riga, Google says Latvia. Hang on, laptop compile is done, sweet. So anyway, damn IM, hell yeah I want to raid. I gotta go, but my point is Technology isn't addictive, it is empowering, bringing people together and then letting them talk smack to each other.
Liberal Bias, well I wake up every morning baffled as to why America hasn't deported George Bush and Dick Cheney may not necessarily be a exclusively liberal view point it is certainly biased.
Great Blog, and at least now he can go home every night and not spend his evenings in the shower scrubbing himself raw chanting Still not Clean, Still not Clean
Second, Ive heard this theory BS so much I felt compelled to write. Evolution: Just a Theory? Just so I wouldn't have to type it out every time.