You're telling me to learn how to read? Take your own advice jack, I said that the license would be good for indie companies that don't have the money, but not so good for the ones that do. I never said he should trash the license, that it was bad, that it was evil, that garage games was providing a bad service, that garage games wasn't great for up and comers, that garage games was the spawn of satan. Merely that there should be an alternative license for people a little higher up in the business.
If your logic is indicative of the intelligence of the garage games community than the torque engine isn't worth the magnetic media it's stored on. Idiot.
It's probably to late for you to see this, but I can explain why I don't like your license. I am currently developing a few commercial games that do NOT use the torque engine, which I am going to self-publish. In order to use the torque engine, I would not be allowed to do that with any torque engine game.
Forcing developers to sell on your site might be good for complete indie guys, but for guys with slightly more money who just want a commercial engine that works for Linux, it's useless. I would be glad to pay a couple thousand for that engine if I could release my product any way I wanted. In fact I would be ecstatic about the oppurtunity, but for now I'll have to roll my own.
I can agree with that, schoolbuses are limited to about 45mph, and despite being very annoying that is to insure the safety of our children. Mack trucks however are often the fastest things on the road! I'm not saying I'm comfortable with that, just that those guys seem like the worst speed limit breakers.
I think it should probably go by what is the safest operating speed. I school bus going 55 in a 55 should be brought under suspicion. I mack truck going 85 in a 75 should be more harshly punished than a car doing the same. Some would call this unfair, but a commercial drivers license should bring with it more responsibility, as should being allowed to drive such a large, potentially destructive vehicle.
I didn't mean to imply that the guy going 55 in a 55 should get in trouble because I am going 65. Merely that the guy going 45 in a 55 should get in just as much trouble as a guy going 65. Both of them are 10mph off the speed limit. As such both of them are putting the other drivers in a situation that is going to cause one driver to come up on another driver at 10mph faster.
Impeding traffic in ANY lane should be ticketed just as heavily as speeding should. Think about it, if I am going 65 in a 55 and you are in front of me, I am coming up on you at 10mph faster. If I am going 55 in a 55 and you are in front of me going 45, I am STILL coming up on you 10mph faster. The situation is just as dangerous.
More dangerous if you want to get picky because there is a slightly smaller percentage difference between 55 and 65 than there is between 55 and 45.
I just wish the cops would realize this and either leave the speeders along or pick on the idiots running 40 in a 55!
Just yesterday I placed an order for an 800mhz new iMac and a 500mhz iBook. I was going to go with just a higher end Mac laptop, for two reasons. First and foremost I wanted to run a UNIX variant. Secondly I needed a laptop. I've been using Linux since 96 and love it to death, but OS X allows me to use applications that linux just doesn't allow, like video and sound editing packages and higher end graphics stuff.
After seeing that the new iMac had the DVD burner available as an option (I thought only PowerMacs had that) I decided to get a higher end iMac and a lower end iBook. I even bought a Sony TRV820 digital camcorder so I can do more with filmmaking than ever before (and burn it to DVD!).
The flat screen on the iMac and the option for wireless networking on the iBook (and iMac as well, but it means more on a portable) were also big selling points.
I'm not sure why anyone should care about this unless they own a PS2 and no PC and want to learn about TCP/IP?
I'm not saying you should be excited about it, but the reason most people are (including me) is that the PS2 is a very different beast from what we are used to working with. Different enough to send most less patient developers running for the hills. I personally can't wait to develop for such a system.
But I am a little bit surprised that their representative and/or the journalist who wrote that story will blatantly lie and claim to be giving people "complete documentation" and the like, when obviously they aren't going to do anything of the kind.
According to the PS2 Linux FAQ you get 6 of the 7 manuals that licensed developers get. The only one missing is the one for stuff covered by the RTE. The graphics system is not a part of the RTE and so you do get the manual for that, the main processor and the Vu's.
Only on Slashdot would anybody complain that that is not enough information about a type of computer system which is historically completely closed to all but those who spend $20,000 and are hand picked by the manufacturer.
1) The mail lady came by every few hours and put mail in the box instead of once per day, and we were expecting important mail. Thus running to the box every few hours and getting junk.
2) I was paying for my mailbox connection
For what it's worth I despise those obvious scam snail mail junk just as much as it's email counterpart.
I just don't understand the significance of ammonia being in dog poop and cigarettes, or urea being in urine and cigarettes. I mean chlorine is in drinking water and poision gas, hydrogen peroxide is in rocket fuel and toothpaste. So what?
Big Tobacco doesn't want you to know this, but Philip Morris has been adding tobacco sauce to their kraft macaroni and cheese for some time now, in hopes of getting younger children addicted earlier.
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And I think you have a very paranoid view, just as the original submitter of the topic. If you have been given express permission to do something, then you cannot be held accountable for doing it. Any sort of prize/reward being offered is more than enough to be considered express permission to do something.
To give an example of cases lawyers will back, a woman burned her chin on a McDonalds hamburger pickle. Not only did the lawyers represent her in her case against Mickey Dees, but also her husband. He was sueing for $40,000 because she was left temporarily unable to perform oral sex. A lawyer took the case, but it didn't make it very far into the judicial system.
Corporate lawyers get paid whether they win or lose. I can assure you they don't have as much problem losing as you might suggest.
I hadn't heard about that, but it's still largely irrelevant. What he was threatened with, and what he would be convicted for are two different things. If somebody is holding a contest to crack something, and you crack it, no jury or judge in the world would convict you, DMCA or not.
Exactly! I've noticed that happens a WHOLE lot on Slashdot too. I don't agree with the DMCA anymore than anyone else, but I have to wonder whether or not the average Slashdotter even knows what the hell it is all about.
I mean, claiming that breaking encryption is illegal under the DMCA when the owners of the encrypted data are the ones that say "Break this" is like claiming you can go to jail for rape if you have sex with your wife when she says "Fuck me!"
X-Box developers told Microsoft in no uncertain terms in the beginning that they were NOT interested in developing for an entertainment hub. So what remains to be seen is, when MS forces the entertainment hub on them through the backdoor like this, will they bend over and take it, or walk away.
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This is part of the reason that I quit watching MTV years ago, the other reasons include that I grew up and oh yeah the music went to shite.
maybe we need some anti-MS commercials like those stupid Truth.com commercials which rarely resemble the truth. They could say things like, "Here is a store in an 'ethnic' community, you'll notice there are no MS products in this convenience store. Here is a computer store in the 'good neighborhood', does MS have something against 'ethnic people'?" That was probably the most annoying "Truth" commercial that really had very little to do with "big tobacco"
or maybe "The IQ of the average Senior UNIX adminstrator is much higher than the IQ of the average 10 year old windows user." That sounds like a very truth.com-like spin.
Not that I have some love for tobacco companies mind you, my mother would probably be alive today if not for cigarettes, it's just that there's only so much we can blame on "big tobacco", which stores advertise their products and which ethnic groups are more susceptible to cancer really are beyond "big tobacco"'s control, but the public sure seems to believe it. And after all "MS has killed more computers than big tobacco has people!" hehe:)
The Beatle Years just recently did a history of the Beatles recording history. Trust me, if you listen to the earlier stuff, done cheaply, and the newer stuff with lots of money to spend and fancier equipment there IS a difference.
You can't say that Boston and the Beatles sound better wiht low budgets than Britney Spears. Boston and the Beatles will ALWAYS sound better than Britney Spears.
You have to judge the same artists, using higher tech and lower tech.
I can build my own electric guitar too, but that doesn't mean it'll sound as good as a Fender. I think you are underestimating what GOOD recording equipment can do for you.
That is one of the reasons it annoys me so when someone says it only costs 25 cents to make a CD. Sure if only the duplication company is allowed to not LOSE money.
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You're telling me to learn how to read? Take your own advice jack, I said that the license would be good for indie companies that don't have the money, but not so good for the ones that do. I never said he should trash the license, that it was bad, that it was evil, that garage games was providing a bad service, that garage games wasn't great for up and comers, that garage games was the spawn of satan. Merely that there should be an alternative license for people a little higher up in the business. If your logic is indicative of the intelligence of the garage games community than the torque engine isn't worth the magnetic media it's stored on. Idiot.
It's probably to late for you to see this, but I can explain why I don't like your license. I am currently developing a few commercial games that do NOT use the torque engine, which I am going to self-publish. In order to use the torque engine, I would not be allowed to do that with any torque engine game.
Forcing developers to sell on your site might be good for complete indie guys, but for guys with slightly more money who just want a commercial engine that works for Linux, it's useless. I would be glad to pay a couple thousand for that engine if I could release my product any way I wanted. In fact I would be ecstatic about the oppurtunity, but for now I'll have to roll my own.
No you aren't! I've been saying that all along. Especially when you see early footage of the Rock.
I can agree with that, schoolbuses are limited to about 45mph, and despite being very annoying that is to insure the safety of our children. Mack trucks however are often the fastest things on the road! I'm not saying I'm comfortable with that, just that those guys seem like the worst speed limit breakers.
I think it should probably go by what is the safest operating speed. I school bus going 55 in a 55 should be brought under suspicion. I mack truck going 85 in a 75 should be more harshly punished than a car doing the same. Some would call this unfair, but a commercial drivers license should bring with it more responsibility, as should being allowed to drive such a large, potentially destructive vehicle.
I didn't mean to imply that the guy going 55 in a 55 should get in trouble because I am going 65. Merely that the guy going 45 in a 55 should get in just as much trouble as a guy going 65. Both of them are 10mph off the speed limit. As such both of them are putting the other drivers in a situation that is going to cause one driver to come up on another driver at 10mph faster.
Impeding traffic in ANY lane should be ticketed just as heavily as speeding should. Think about it, if I am going 65 in a 55 and you are in front of me, I am coming up on you at 10mph faster. If I am going 55 in a 55 and you are in front of me going 45, I am STILL coming up on you 10mph faster. The situation is just as dangerous.
More dangerous if you want to get picky because there is a slightly smaller percentage difference between 55 and 65 than there is between 55 and 45.
I just wish the cops would realize this and either leave the speeders along or pick on the idiots running 40 in a 55!
Just yesterday I placed an order for an 800mhz new iMac and a 500mhz iBook. I was going to go with just a higher end Mac laptop, for two reasons. First and foremost I wanted to run a UNIX variant. Secondly I needed a laptop. I've been using Linux since 96 and love it to death, but OS X allows me to use applications that linux just doesn't allow, like video and sound editing packages and higher end graphics stuff.
After seeing that the new iMac had the DVD burner available as an option (I thought only PowerMacs had that) I decided to get a higher end iMac and a lower end iBook. I even bought a Sony TRV820 digital camcorder so I can do more with filmmaking than ever before (and burn it to DVD!).
The flat screen on the iMac and the option for wireless networking on the iBook (and iMac as well, but it means more on a portable) were also big selling points.
I'm not saying you should be excited about it, but the reason most people are (including me) is that the PS2 is a very different beast from what we are used to working with. Different enough to send most less patient developers running for the hills. I personally can't wait to develop for such a system.
According to the PS2 Linux FAQ you get 6 of the 7 manuals that licensed developers get. The only one missing is the one for stuff covered by the RTE. The graphics system is not a part of the RTE and so you do get the manual for that, the main processor and the Vu's.
Only on Slashdot would anybody complain that that is not enough information about a type of computer system which is historically completely closed to all but those who spend $20,000 and are hand picked by the manufacturer.
You're implying the guy should stick around and cuddle, and you are calling Taco gay?!
Disclaimer to all potential mates, that was a joke. I have nothing against cuddling. :)
1) The mail lady came by every few hours and put mail in the box instead of once per day, and we were expecting important mail. Thus running to the box every few hours and getting junk.
2) I was paying for my mailbox connection
For what it's worth I despise those obvious scam snail mail junk just as much as it's email counterpart.
You forgot to say whether you are male or female! ;-)
I just don't understand the significance of ammonia being in dog poop and cigarettes, or urea being in urine and cigarettes. I mean chlorine is in drinking water and poision gas, hydrogen peroxide is in rocket fuel and toothpaste. So what?
Truth is contagious; Infect-truth.
DISCLAIMER:This parody is in no way associated with Infect-truth or truth.com. Had this been a really infect-truth commercial, it would have been much less logical.
You get paid to buy games? That's pretty cool! :)
And I think you have a very paranoid view, just as the original submitter of the topic. If you have been given express permission to do something, then you cannot be held accountable for doing it. Any sort of prize/reward being offered is more than enough to be considered express permission to do something.
To give an example of cases lawyers will back, a woman burned her chin on a McDonalds hamburger pickle. Not only did the lawyers represent her in her case against Mickey Dees, but also her husband. He was sueing for $40,000 because she was left temporarily unable to perform oral sex. A lawyer took the case, but it didn't make it very far into the judicial system.
Corporate lawyers get paid whether they win or lose. I can assure you they don't have as much problem losing as you might suggest.
I hadn't heard about that, but it's still largely irrelevant. What he was threatened with, and what he would be convicted for are two different things. If somebody is holding a contest to crack something, and you crack it, no jury or judge in the world would convict you, DMCA or not.
Exactly! I've noticed that happens a WHOLE lot on Slashdot too. I don't agree with the DMCA anymore than anyone else, but I have to wonder whether or not the average Slashdotter even knows what the hell it is all about.
I mean, claiming that breaking encryption is illegal under the DMCA when the owners of the encrypted data are the ones that say "Break this" is like claiming you can go to jail for rape if you have sex with your wife when she says "Fuck me!"
MTV Plays music?!
You forgot the predicate: "was in the U.S."
maybe we need some anti-MS commercials like those stupid Truth.com commercials which rarely resemble the truth. They could say things like, "Here is a store in an 'ethnic' community, you'll notice there are no MS products in this convenience store. Here is a computer store in the 'good neighborhood', does MS have something against 'ethnic people'?" That was probably the most annoying "Truth" commercial that really had very little to do with "big tobacco" :)
or maybe "The IQ of the average Senior UNIX adminstrator is much higher than the IQ of the average 10 year old windows user." That sounds like a very truth.com-like spin.
Not that I have some love for tobacco companies mind you, my mother would probably be alive today if not for cigarettes, it's just that there's only so much we can blame on "big tobacco", which stores advertise their products and which ethnic groups are more susceptible to cancer really are beyond "big tobacco"'s control, but the public sure seems to believe it. And after all "MS has killed more computers than big tobacco has people!" hehe
The Beatle Years just recently did a history of the Beatles recording history. Trust me, if you listen to the earlier stuff, done cheaply, and the newer stuff with lots of money to spend and fancier equipment there IS a difference. You can't say that Boston and the Beatles sound better wiht low budgets than Britney Spears. Boston and the Beatles will ALWAYS sound better than Britney Spears. You have to judge the same artists, using higher tech and lower tech.
I can build my own electric guitar too, but that doesn't mean it'll sound as good as a Fender. I think you are underestimating what GOOD recording equipment can do for you.
That is one of the reasons it annoys me so when someone says it only costs 25 cents to make a CD. Sure if only the duplication company is allowed to not LOSE money.