I rather doubt that including a GPL'd asset into a JAR would or could trigger any kind of requirement, since it really is "mere aggregation", as much as packing them into an ISO image for a distribution would be. The JAR *is* the filesystem in your case.
That said, I would tend, if possible, to steer clear of assets that are GPL'd. The concept of GPL'ing a texture or clip just doesn't make a lot of sense, and it indicates the creator either blindly slapped GPL on without thinking, or it "inherited" the license from its parent project (the latter seems more likely, but you are talking about wikimedia, which has standalone license). It's better to deal with people that put thought into reuse, whether it's code or assets.
Our current legal environment suggests that this will end up being used to break up unpopular demonstrations or groupings even more casually than tear gas, specifically because the physical evidence and chance of permanent injury is so much lower.
I've no doubt about that, but as to being widely deployed, I don't think so. Current ideas around crowd control for demonstrations involve creating extremely wide exclusion zones around whatever you're protecting, then having an army of cops cordon it all off. Shutting down all of downtown, that sort of thing. What better metaphor exists to show who really owns and controls everything than to drop all pretense of metaphor and just assert control, hm?
Anyway, that aside, once you pull out the weapons, demonstrations turn into a riot, and this sort of weapon could spur even a pacifist rally into a murderous rage. So I don't see it being widely deployed for crowd control, with some exceptions: It's sure going to be even less pleasant than usual to be a Palestinian.
Suppose you're a suicide bomber wanting to clear the guards away from the entrance to a military base. This could be just the ticket. Dope yourself up on pain medication (or cover yourself in tinfoil) and then rig a simple microwave emitter (at just the right pain frequency) to your car.
Or make your magic microwave car emit CN gas instead, or dazzle 'em with arrays of lasers, yeah. Something you can just slap right onto any car you're going to blow up. Christ, my eyes hurt from all the rolling.
You know there's more than a couple rent-a-cops guarding the average embassy?
Monofilament puts in an appearance in the Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series too. It's sort of a sci-fi staple. The concept is pretty much bunk unless the wire is some kind of Unobtanium, but you can let your imagination run with it toward more possible scenarios, like making it a sort of nano-machine, with microscopic blades being propelled along the edge of it at high speed. Sort of a monofilament chainsaw, if you will.
I used to run cyberpunk RPGs. I told one character he dropped his monofilament whip and couldn't find the end. He told me he'd just wave his arm around on the floor to grab it. Good thing ol stumpy was near a chop shop to get himself a new hand.
That would explain it. Dynasty Warriors (and its clones, like N3) is a distilled archetype of "repetitive". In these games, you face hundreds, thousands of enemies spawned by the Great Clone Brush In The Sky, and plow through them with spectacular attacks, scattering them by the dozens with each hit. It's really cool, for about a minute of gameplay. Then you realize that gameplay consists inevitably of mashing the same button, over and over and over and over and over and over. For some inexplicable reason, there's this core of purchasers who still buy DW titles, so they keep making them (the latest one slaps a Gundam skin on the same game).
Sounds to me like HS isn't quite as bad as all that, but at six hours, that's the very definition of a rental title.
> gameplay that made me think of God of War, Dynasty Warriors and Ninety-Nine Nights
One of these things is not like the other... If a game has gameplay like God of War, I am sold. Hell, GOW3 together with Ratchet and Clank might move a PS3 for me if I ever stop playing the 360. But from the screens I've seen, it indeed does look more like DW or N3, games where it's fun to mow down enemies for the first minute, then it literally gets as boring as actual mowing.
What do you mean you can't have it both ways? They are getting it both ways. And to turn to a different metaphor, so are we.
> the UK's no parallel imports, so I can't import Vista from the US
Laws like this, and measures like DVD Region Coding a flagrant violation of WTO rules against artificial trade barriers and market segmentation. Not that the rules were ever intended to protect us. I laugh to even think that was ever the intent.
According to his latest filings, his email address is amendmentone@comcast.net -- he claims that TT and Blank Rome are oppressing his first amendment rights.
Yes, I know... but pointing out hypocrisy (take note folks, that's how it's spelled) is just really too easy. In fact, the only discourse I like to have with him is to bait him into further apoplexy. He's more entertaining than any video game that way.
All stories are linear because our lives are linear.
Oblivion was a step back from Morrowind, because Oblivion led you by the nose from the very first step. You didn't even know the plot of Morrowind until a few hours into playing it, but it most certainly had a main plot.
Torment was only "nonlinear" at the start in that it gave you a choice of what order to play some of the factions in.
I've yet to find a JRPG that doesn't make me want to choke the ever-living crap out of the whiny, bratty main actors.
> Idiolistic? certainly. Misguided? probably. But why is he an idiot?
Because, regardless of his intentions, he made everyone purchasing games justify their purchase through his approval. If Brandon Scott didn't think you deserved the game because you didn't meet his approval process, he would not sell you the game.
The idiocy comes in whatever thought process he had that allowed him to think that he had any right to continue being employed by GameStop.
Gperf is pretty much unmaintained -- I imagine a simple request to add the bison skeleton exception to the gperf output would suffice. It's pretty much implied already, but if you're really uncomfortable with it, it's not like perfect hash generation isn't a trivial problem. Googling for it turns up three implementations (even minimal perfect hashes) that aren't gperf, right on the first page.
> Any idea, other than a political clusterfuck, is the plot of Song of Fire and Ice?
If it wasn't obvious to you by the end of the third book, you're as dense as neutronium. I've already forgotten the names of all the characters, but I can still remember it's going to be a three-way conflict between the mongol horde led by the dragon chick in the east (that's the fire), the eskimo monster army from the north led by the bastard Stark dude (the ice), and what's left of the seven (or is it nine?) kingdoms caught in the middle, "led" more or less by the machievellian dwarf and whatserface stark. With a zombie undead Stark or two thrown in for color.
Martin isn't going to leave you hanging forever, because there isn't going to be anyone left alive soon.
I haven't read book four yet. I've been told I may as well wait til book 5 and read them together.
You know, I think there's some justice in leaving the readers hanging forever, being that they're the ones that funded Jordan's descent into filler that was just milking the series for the benjamins. Something of a lesson in what you get when you let someone delay your gratification forever.
On the other hand, it might be even greater justice to just do it half-assed, like oh, all of books 5-10.
> It's like that phony debate between "great taste" and "more filling"
That's "tastes great" and "LESS filling". Clearly you're trying to push a "tastes great" agenda by deliberately misrepresenting the opposing viewpoint. Typical tactics for the tasteistas.
Don't you know anything about space travel? They eat that "space ice cream" stuff, it's dry as a bone. And wash it down with Tang! Honestly, we're failing our kids edumacations here...
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Naw, the wirehead reference was to the tasp addicts. Seems SF really does go for new methods of pain instead of pleasure :-/
I rather doubt that including a GPL'd asset into a JAR would or could trigger any kind of requirement, since it really is "mere aggregation", as much as packing them into an ISO image for a distribution would be. The JAR *is* the filesystem in your case.
That said, I would tend, if possible, to steer clear of assets that are GPL'd. The concept of GPL'ing a texture or clip just doesn't make a lot of sense, and it indicates the creator either blindly slapped GPL on without thinking, or it "inherited" the license from its parent project (the latter seems more likely, but you are talking about wikimedia, which has standalone license). It's better to deal with people that put thought into reuse, whether it's code or assets.
A pleasure ray might be a nice idea for crowd control too. They could call it Soma. You just want to become a wirehead though.
(anyone want to try for a hat trick of SF references?)
Our current legal environment suggests that this will end up being used to break up unpopular demonstrations or groupings even more casually than tear gas, specifically because the physical evidence and chance of permanent injury is so much lower.
I've no doubt about that, but as to being widely deployed, I don't think so. Current ideas around crowd control for demonstrations involve creating extremely wide exclusion zones around whatever you're protecting, then having an army of cops cordon it all off. Shutting down all of downtown, that sort of thing. What better metaphor exists to show who really owns and controls everything than to drop all pretense of metaphor and just assert control, hm?
Anyway, that aside, once you pull out the weapons, demonstrations turn into a riot, and this sort of weapon could spur even a pacifist rally into a murderous rage. So I don't see it being widely deployed for crowd control, with some exceptions: It's sure going to be even less pleasant than usual to be a Palestinian.
Suppose you're a suicide bomber wanting to clear the guards away from the entrance to a military base. This could be just the ticket. Dope yourself up on pain medication (or cover yourself in tinfoil) and then rig a simple microwave emitter (at just the right pain frequency) to your car.
Or make your magic microwave car emit CN gas instead, or dazzle 'em with arrays of lasers, yeah. Something you can just slap right onto any car you're going to blow up. Christ, my eyes hurt from all the rolling.
You know there's more than a couple rent-a-cops guarding the average embassy?
> the saber is a high energy power source that is controlled purely by the force
Han Solo didn't seem to have a problem using Luke's. And no, I don't buy the retconned fanfic crap that makes him into a Jedi.
Lightsabers look cool. End of story. Explaining shit in the Lucasverse is what gave us midichlorians.
> Now a light saber hedge trimmer would save a lot of time and effort.
Tim Burton and George Lucas present: Edward Lightsaberhands.
Monofilament puts in an appearance in the Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series too. It's sort of a sci-fi staple. The concept is pretty much bunk unless the wire is some kind of Unobtanium, but you can let your imagination run with it toward more possible scenarios, like making it a sort of nano-machine, with microscopic blades being propelled along the edge of it at high speed. Sort of a monofilament chainsaw, if you will.
I used to run cyberpunk RPGs. I told one character he dropped his monofilament whip and couldn't find the end. He told me he'd just wave his arm around on the floor to grab it. Good thing ol stumpy was near a chop shop to get himself a new hand.
> I haven't played Dynasty or N3
That would explain it. Dynasty Warriors (and its clones, like N3) is a distilled archetype of "repetitive". In these games, you face hundreds, thousands of enemies spawned by the Great Clone Brush In The Sky, and plow through them with spectacular attacks, scattering them by the dozens with each hit. It's really cool, for about a minute of gameplay. Then you realize that gameplay consists inevitably of mashing the same button, over and over and over and over and over and over. For some inexplicable reason, there's this core of purchasers who still buy DW titles, so they keep making them (the latest one slaps a Gundam skin on the same game).
Sounds to me like HS isn't quite as bad as all that, but at six hours, that's the very definition of a rental title.
> gameplay that made me think of God of War, Dynasty Warriors and Ninety-Nine Nights
One of these things is not like the other... If a game has gameplay like God of War, I am sold. Hell, GOW3 together with Ratchet and Clank might move a PS3 for me if I ever stop playing the 360. But from the screens I've seen, it indeed does look more like DW or N3, games where it's fun to mow down enemies for the first minute, then it literally gets as boring as actual mowing.
> It goes through everything like butter!
Except another lightsaber, matie. Arr!
What do you mean you can't have it both ways? They are getting it both ways. And to turn to a different metaphor, so are we.
> the UK's no parallel imports, so I can't import Vista from the US
Laws like this, and measures like DVD Region Coding a flagrant violation of WTO rules against artificial trade barriers and market segmentation. Not that the rules were ever intended to protect us. I laugh to even think that was ever the intent.
Maybe you're dead because you sued your own partners and customers. Who cares? In your fantasy world, you're dead because you couldn't compete. Fine.
Just stay dead. The world doesn't even owe you a eulogy.
According to his latest filings, his email address is amendmentone@comcast.net -- he claims that TT and Blank Rome are oppressing his first amendment rights.
... but pointing out hypocrisy (take note folks, that's how it's spelled) is just really too easy. In fact, the only discourse I like to have with him is to bait him into further apoplexy. He's more entertaining than any video game that way.
Yes, I know
All stories are linear because our lives are linear.
Oblivion was a step back from Morrowind, because Oblivion led you by the nose from the very first step. You didn't even know the plot of Morrowind until a few hours into playing it, but it most certainly had a main plot.
Torment was only "nonlinear" at the start in that it gave you a choice of what order to play some of the factions in.
I've yet to find a JRPG that doesn't make me want to choke the ever-living crap out of the whiny, bratty main actors.
God damn, I could feel my IQ being drained with every word of your post.
I award you NO points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
> Idiolistic? certainly. Misguided? probably. But why is he an idiot?
Because, regardless of his intentions, he made everyone purchasing games justify their purchase through his approval. If Brandon Scott didn't think you deserved the game because you didn't meet his approval process, he would not sell you the game.
The idiocy comes in whatever thought process he had that allowed him to think that he had any right to continue being employed by GameStop.
Gperf is pretty much unmaintained -- I imagine a simple request to add the bison skeleton exception to the gperf output would suffice. It's pretty much implied already, but if you're really uncomfortable with it, it's not like perfect hash generation isn't a trivial problem. Googling for it turns up three implementations (even minimal perfect hashes) that aren't gperf, right on the first page.
> Any idea, other than a political clusterfuck, is the plot of Song of Fire and Ice?
If it wasn't obvious to you by the end of the third book, you're as dense as neutronium. I've already forgotten the names of all the characters, but I can still remember it's going to be a three-way conflict between the mongol horde led by the dragon chick in the east (that's the fire), the eskimo monster army from the north led by the bastard Stark dude (the ice), and what's left of the seven (or is it nine?) kingdoms caught in the middle, "led" more or less by the machievellian dwarf and whatserface stark. With a zombie undead Stark or two thrown in for color.
Martin isn't going to leave you hanging forever, because there isn't going to be anyone left alive soon.
I haven't read book four yet. I've been told I may as well wait til book 5 and read them together.
Isn't all fiction speculative?
> Bastard. Now I'll never know how it ends.
You know, I think there's some justice in leaving the readers hanging forever, being that they're the ones that funded Jordan's descent into filler that was just milking the series for the benjamins. Something of a lesson in what you get when you let someone delay your gratification forever.
On the other hand, it might be even greater justice to just do it half-assed, like oh, all of books 5-10.
> It's like that phony debate between "great taste" and "more filling"
That's "tastes great" and "LESS filling". Clearly you're trying to push a "tastes great" agenda by deliberately misrepresenting the opposing viewpoint. Typical tactics for the tasteistas.
(imagine Daffy Duck saying all that)
> I have light speed through 4 dimensions sitting at my desk.
You should get your employer to upgrade you to an XPS or Precision workstation. The cabling on your desk must be a mess.
Don't you know anything about space travel? They eat that "space ice cream" stuff, it's dry as a bone. And wash it down with Tang! Honestly, we're failing our kids edumacations here...
I think you mean creditor, but yeah there they are / she is as a creditor.
What's funny is how many restaurants are in the list of unsecured creditors. Don't these guys even pay their restaurant tabs?