Just because it can be useful to share code doesn't give you the God-given right to have access to anybody's code. They wrote it - they can do what they like with it.
Code represents hard work, and like any other creative work deserves copyright protection.
Since code isn't something that just anybody can do in the blink of an eye, it attains value. If you want that code you can either
a) Come to some agreement with the author for the code (i.e. pay for it)
or
b) Write it yourself
If you find yourself not wishing to take option b) then obviously the code has value, as you don't wish to put in the time and energy yourself. Therefore if the author wishes to be compensated for the time and effort he or she put into creating it, then that seems fair enough, doesn't it?
Luckily many people are prepared to contribute code for the greater good, and this should be encouraged - but coding isn't free.
Actually, their footballing skills are pretty much on a par with America's - their men's team is crap, but their women's team is very good. If you remember, they were in the final against America last time.
Damn straight, America is the country to trust for that kind of thing. You'd never find the American government putting the profits of large mining/drilling companies before environmental concerns.
But I don't think anyone's trying to say that it was meant to be correct. It's just a war movie, not a documentary. I don't like to break it to you but:
THE PLOTS IN MOVIES ARE MADE UP.
it's called a STORY.
This one's just about some submariners who get up to high jinks on the high seas to capture an Enigma device. This is not 'based on a true story'.
Please, if you can't tell the difference between fact and fiction, stop going to the movies...
Bullshit. The film never claims that the Americans broke the Engigma code. It merely has them going after it and capturing one (as were all the allies). In the end credits it lists the Allied ships that managed to capture U-boats with their Enigmas intact - two were British, one was American. It's hardly rewriting history.
Anyway, it's too much to claim that the British cracked it by themselves anyway - much of the original work was done by three Polish mathematicians, if I recall correctly.
The WTC casualties were very highly publicised and originally vastly overestimated. The Afghan casualties have hardly been mentioned at all.
By the way, the "Really, it's not that difficult" was part of my posting, not my.sig. I'll amend my.sig with a couple of leading dashes on a seperate line to prevent any confusion in future.
Darn. now I've changed it the length is too long - changing (3000-3400) to ~3200.
The death toll on the American side has been going down for some time, as many people who were feared dead simply turned out to be missing.
The Afghan death toll continues to rise, and will probably continue to do so for years, considering the amount on unexploded munitions that are lying around in Afghanistan.
But Guerinot isn't ready to dismiss it out of hand: "Any model that starts to accommodate monetizing the artists is worth looking into."
MONETIZING!?
What the hell is wrong with 'paying'? Why is it that buisiness community has to constantly make up stupid longer words to use instead of already existing ones?
It's not big, and it's not clever.
Don't say 'leverage' when you mean 'lever'. Don't say 'burglarized' when you mean 'burgled' Don't say 'monetized' when you mean 'paid'
I just saw a piece about this on BBC News 24 - and is basically works like this:
Three electrodes are put into the rat's brain. One electrode in the part of the brain that detects whisker movement for the left side and one electrode for the right. The third electrode stimulates a 'pleasure' section of the brain.
The researchers then stimulate each of the whisker electrodes and reward the rat with a burst of pleasure when it moves to that side. Soon stimulation of the whiskers can move the rat around.
Therefore, the whole rat brain is still there and working properly (it's not like it's been bypassed or anything), but when offered the chance to get a burst of pleasure the rats seem to comply almost without fail.
Looking at their forums, a lot of the people who contribute (to the forums, at least...) seem to be primarily Linux people who may use Windows a bit. As a result there's a load of people advocating crazy things like putting vim or emacs on the CD... Even programs like the GIMP are going to feel odd to most Windows users with their appalling X-style load/save dialogs...
I didn't say that there's a statistical link between speeding and accidents, I said that there was probably a link between people who speed and people who have more accidents...
He can't put his backing behind any new Star Wars movies that other people decide to make, because then that would is some way legitimise that story arc into the Star Wars Galaxy. He'd lose control, and it is his creation.
Anyway, these are simply the rules of the competition. It's not like you can't go off and make your own little Star Wars-based video if you like (although you probably can't sell it...)
Oh No! Somebody's done something I don't like! GREED! GREED!
If they can cut the base price of the unit, subscriptions are good in my book.
Paying £200 for a lifetime's subscription may sound good, but it's limited to the unit, rather than the user. A lower starting cost/subscription based model strikes me as a better idea as you'll be able to upgrade to something better more often.
You can hypothesise about it all you like. The reason the insurance companies offer something like this is probably be because there's a statistical link between not speeding and having a lower rate of accidents.
If there wasn't, they wouldn't offer the discount.
It's not difficult to get this correct. It used to be a problem with the first couple of generations of graphics cards because they didn't all do things the same way, but nowadays it's pretty straightforward, as anything TNT1 level or later will do it correctly. You just need to offset the coordinates by half a pixel, ensuring that when the sample is taken, no filtering is required.
One of the big Advantages of Counter-Strike is that it is still playable on old hardware. P233 with no 3d accelleration? Fine - it'll still run!
Sure, the engine (A Quake I/II mix) is quite old now, but the creators of CS have done an amazing job with it. The sheer quality of the textures and lighting is amazing. To be honest, from the looks of the screenshots, UT looks like it has a higher polycount, but I don't think the overall impression looks all that much better.
Anyway, graphics can only count for so much. CS is great fun to play (I can't speak for UT, not having played it...), and CS is the most popular online game ever. I remember being amazed when I first tried Counter-Strike that there were over 20,000 CS servers out there. I don't think any other game has come close. CS is *BIG*.
Licenses are the lifeblood of the gaming industry.
Mods are bloody cool, but
a) You don't get them on consoles, and console games make up the majority of games sales. b) They do add value to a game, but for the majority of games with modding ability, the reality is that only a small community of dedicated players actually make/use them.
point b) is a good thing,as it means that the minority who are modding are actually concentrating on a small set of games, rather than being spread around between many games.
The only game I can think of that has resulted in a measureably large increase in sales due to mods is Half-Life, as a result of Counter-Strike and TeamFortress. I suppose you could also say MS Flight Simulator is another example, but really - there aren't many. Quake (I, II, III etc...) have probably been helped by mods, but I don't think their sales have been driven by mods in the same way Half-Life's has.
The age group they were looking at was 6-12 year olds. You're obviously fairly computer literate, and yet you say yourself that you didn't know what an ad was until you were 10. Does it really suprise you that some kids might not work that out until a little later?
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Just because it can be useful to share code doesn't give you the God-given right to have access to anybody's code. They wrote it - they can do what they like with it.
Code represents hard work, and like any other creative work deserves copyright protection.
Since code isn't something that just anybody can do in the blink of an eye, it attains value. If you want that code you can either
a) Come to some agreement with the author for the code (i.e. pay for it)
or
b) Write it yourself
If you find yourself not wishing to take option b) then obviously the code has value, as you don't wish to put in the time and energy yourself. Therefore if the author wishes to be compensated for the time and effort he or she put into creating it, then that seems fair enough, doesn't it?
Luckily many people are prepared to contribute code for the greater good, and this should be encouraged - but coding isn't free.
Actually, their footballing skills are pretty much on a par with America's - their men's team is crap, but their women's team is very good. If you remember, they were in the final against America last time.
Damn straight, America is the country to trust for that kind of thing. You'd never find the American government putting the profits of large mining/drilling companies before environmental concerns.
You needn't be insulted. Just because having (or doing) a Phd implies cleverness does not mean that lack of a Phd implies lesser intelligence.
Remember that the $49 is without sales tax.
once you take off the VAT from the UK price, it comes out as about $58.
But I don't think anyone's trying to say that it was meant to be correct. It's just a war movie, not a documentary. I don't like to break it to you but:
THE PLOTS IN MOVIES ARE MADE UP.
it's called a STORY.
This one's just about some submariners who get up to high jinks on the high seas to capture an Enigma device. This is not 'based on a true story'.
Please, if you can't tell the difference between fact and fiction, stop going to the movies...
Bullshit.
The film never claims that the Americans broke the Engigma code. It merely has them going after it and capturing one (as were all the allies). In the end credits it lists the Allied ships that managed to capture U-boats with their Enigmas intact - two were British, one was American. It's hardly rewriting history.
Anyway, it's too much to claim that the British cracked it by themselves anyway - much of the original work was done by three Polish mathematicians, if I recall correctly.
More a pause for thought.
.sig. I'll amend my .sig with a couple of leading dashes on a seperate line to prevent any confusion in future.
The WTC casualties were very highly publicised and originally vastly overestimated. The Afghan casualties have hardly been mentioned at all.
By the way, the "Really, it's not that difficult" was part of my posting, not my
Darn. now I've changed it the length is too long - changing (3000-3400) to ~3200.
[Shakes fist at sky]
Nooooooooooooo!
I looked them both up on the internet.
The death toll on the American side has been going down for some time, as many people who were feared dead simply turned out to be missing.
The Afghan death toll continues to rise, and will probably continue to do so for years, considering the amount on unexploded munitions that are lying around in Afghanistan.
But Guerinot isn't ready to dismiss it out of hand: "Any model that starts to accommodate monetizing the artists is worth looking into."
MONETIZING!?
What the hell is wrong with 'paying'? Why is it that buisiness community has to constantly make up stupid longer words to use instead of already existing ones?
It's not big, and it's not clever.
Don't say 'leverage' when you mean 'lever'.
Don't say 'burglarized' when you mean 'burgled'
Don't say 'monetized' when you mean 'paid'
Really, it's not that difficult...
Here in the UK, we're getting it eight hours before our friends across the pond.. Hurrah!
Uh... hello? hello?
I just saw a piece about this on BBC News 24 - and is basically works like this:
Three electrodes are put into the rat's brain. One electrode in the part of the brain that detects whisker movement for the left side and one electrode for the right. The third electrode stimulates a 'pleasure' section of the brain.
The researchers then stimulate each of the whisker electrodes and reward the rat with a burst of pleasure when it moves to that side. Soon stimulation of the whiskers can move the rat around.
Therefore, the whole rat brain is still there and working properly (it's not like it's been bypassed or anything), but when offered the chance to get a burst of pleasure the rats seem to comply almost without fail.
Looking at their forums, a lot of the people who contribute (to the forums, at least...) seem to be primarily Linux people who may use Windows a bit. As a result there's a load of people advocating crazy things like putting vim or emacs on the CD... Even programs like the GIMP are going to feel odd to most Windows users with their appalling X-style load/save dialogs...
I didn't say that there's a statistical link between speeding and accidents, I said that there was probably a link between people who speed and people who have more accidents...
He can't put his backing behind any new Star Wars movies that other people decide to make, because then that would is some way legitimise that story arc into the Star Wars Galaxy. He'd lose control, and it is his creation.
Anyway, these are simply the rules of the competition. It's not like you can't go off and make your own little Star Wars-based video if you like (although you probably can't sell it...)
Oh No! Somebody's done something I don't like! GREED! GREED!
My Other machine is your Linux Box
Ha ha ha ha
Much funnier than the comment.
If they can cut the base price of the unit, subscriptions are good in my book.
Paying £200 for a lifetime's subscription may sound good, but it's limited to the unit, rather than the user. A lower starting cost/subscription based model strikes me as a better idea as you'll be able to upgrade to something better more often.
Does anybody know of anywhere that sells it in the UK? It doesn't appear to be on the UK Creative website...
You can hypothesise about it all you like. The reason the insurance companies offer something like this is probably be because there's a statistical link between not speeding and having a lower rate of accidents.
If there wasn't, they wouldn't offer the discount.
It's not difficult to get this correct. It used to be a problem with the first couple of generations of graphics cards because they didn't all do things the same way, but nowadays it's pretty straightforward, as anything TNT1 level or later will do it correctly. You just need to offset the coordinates by half a pixel, ensuring that when the sample is taken, no filtering is required.
One of the big Advantages of Counter-Strike is that it is still playable on old hardware. P233 with no 3d accelleration? Fine - it'll still run!
Sure, the engine (A Quake I/II mix) is quite old now, but the creators of CS have done an amazing job with it. The sheer quality of the textures and lighting is amazing. To be honest, from the looks of the screenshots, UT looks like it has a higher polycount, but I don't think the overall impression looks all that much better.
Anyway, graphics can only count for so much. CS is great fun to play (I can't speak for UT, not having played it...), and CS is the most popular online game ever. I remember being amazed when I first tried Counter-Strike that there were over 20,000 CS servers out there. I don't think any other game has come close. CS is *BIG*.
Licenses are the lifeblood of the gaming industry.
Mods are bloody cool, but
a) You don't get them on consoles, and console games make up the majority of games sales.
b) They do add value to a game, but for the majority of games with modding ability, the reality is that only a small community of dedicated players actually make/use them.
point b) is a good thing,as it means that the minority who are modding are actually concentrating on a small set of games, rather than being spread around between many games.
The only game I can think of that has resulted in a measureably large increase in sales due to mods is Half-Life, as a result of Counter-Strike and TeamFortress. I suppose you could also say MS Flight Simulator is another example, but really - there aren't many. Quake (I, II, III etc...) have probably been helped by mods, but I don't think their sales have been driven by mods in the same way Half-Life's has.
The age group they were looking at was 6-12 year olds. You're obviously fairly computer literate, and yet you say yourself that you didn't know what an ad was until you were 10. Does it really suprise you that some kids might not work that out until a little later?