Re:X-Box is evil
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Weavus
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· Score: 2, Insightful
This isnt helping Microsoft at all. By buying the Xbox but not getting any games for it and just using it to play old arcade games you are hurting them on a number of levels.
1) Microsoft lose money on the hardware and make it back on the software. Just buying the machine to play old arcade games makes MS loose money.
2) If lots of people buy Xbox's and dont buy any games it looks real bad to publishers who look at stats like games sold/machines sold. If this figure is real bad publishers wont want to release games on this system and will just produce games for other systems.
The trouble with Xbox homebrew is that the DVD's the Xbox use arnt completly standard and cant be burnt at home at the moment. I have not seen any reports of the machine being able to boot off anything but these disks so getting this type of software on the machine if you dont have a development station is going to be hard.
Weavus
Re:X-Box is evil
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sam@caveman.org
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· Score: 2, Insightful
well the gamecube (nintendo) runs an IBM chip, IBM donates tons of money to linux marketing (1 billion) and lots of other open source software stuff. of course the proprietary DVD makes it a bit unwholesome and it's probably the least 'hackable' console, but if you want a console to use to play games without having to fund Microsoft or Sony, probably the best choice.
-sam
-- burn the computers. go back to the abacus.
Re:Gnutella and other p2p networks is the answer..
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sam@caveman.org
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· Score: 3, Insightful
that is a band-aid (TM) on the problem - i agree it will work in the short term, but the obvious solution is to not buy into their licensing and proprietary crap to begin with. you can probably build a better/good-enough MAME machine for less, or even slightly more, which has been said many times over the threads on the XBox, and then be able to simply release openly your kits so everyone can improve them and benefit from them.
If the interfaces work nicely--now we're talking killer app! Now that's irony.
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nohup rm -rf ~/. >& zen &
Re:From the pictures...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Insightful
You forget a few things:
1) The coffee is excellent; usually much better than the neighborhood hole;
2) I don't WANT flaky pseudo-intellectuals engaging me with their boring crap, I want a uniform wearing drone to just serve the damn coffee, take the money, and get the hell out of my way.
I'll never understand some people fascination with "coffee shops" with their little teeny tables and their little chess boards and little open air area where artiste types sit on their skinny ass, with their cigarette hanging daintily from their fingers, and a three day growth of beard, with a hollow-eyed (probably drug induced) look in their eyes.
Coffee shops sucks. The sooner we put them out of business, the better. Heck, just getting rid of places with crappy poetry readings in reason enough to get rid of them.
Display adaptability
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smileyy
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· Score: 3, Insightful
If you need caffeine, and the closest source of caffeine is a Starbucks, then the reasonable course of action is to display some adaptability, and buy from the damn Starbucks.
-- pooptruck
Re:The other way round
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Phork
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· Score: 2, Insightful
No, no PCs use a unified address space. THough i thank some mainframes do.
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free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
Re:My own Xbox notes
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Insightful
Uhhm, the controllers are USB. MS used a proprietary connector, nominally for easy disconnection, but actually to prevent unauthorized (read unlicensed- $$$) controllers from being plugged in.
I give HK 1 month before a XBOX->USB kb adapter happens. Of course, this will be of limited use if the software doesn't support it.:(
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This isnt helping Microsoft at all. By buying the Xbox but not getting any games for it and just using it to play old arcade games you are hurting them on a number of levels.
1) Microsoft lose money on the hardware and make it back on the software. Just buying the machine to play old arcade games makes MS loose money.
2) If lots of people buy Xbox's and dont buy any games it looks real bad to publishers who look at stats like games sold/machines sold. If this figure is real bad publishers wont want to release games on this system and will just produce games for other systems.
The trouble with Xbox homebrew is that the DVD's the Xbox use arnt completly standard and cant be burnt at home at the moment. I have not seen any reports of the machine being able to boot off anything but these disks so getting this type of software on the machine if you dont have a development station is going to be hard.
Weavus
well the gamecube (nintendo) runs an IBM chip, IBM donates tons of money to linux marketing (1 billion) and lots of other open source software stuff. of course the proprietary DVD makes it a bit unwholesome and it's probably the least 'hackable' console, but if you want a console to use to play games without having to fund Microsoft or Sony, probably the best choice.
-sam
burn the computers. go back to the abacus.
that is a band-aid (TM) on the problem - i agree it will work in the short term, but the obvious solution is to not buy into their licensing and proprietary crap to begin with. you can probably build a better/good-enough MAME machine for less, or even slightly more, which has been said many times over the threads on the XBox, and then be able to simply release openly your kits so everyone can improve them and benefit from them.
-sam
burn the computers. go back to the abacus.
I am sure there are other levels as well, depending on you sense of humor.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
If the interfaces work nicely--now we're talking killer app! Now that's irony.
nohup rm -rf ~/. >& zen &
You forget a few things:
1) The coffee is excellent; usually much better than the neighborhood hole;
2) I don't WANT flaky pseudo-intellectuals engaging me with their boring crap, I want a uniform wearing drone to just serve the damn coffee, take the money, and get the hell out of my way.
I'll never understand some people fascination with "coffee shops" with their little teeny tables and their little chess boards and little open air area where artiste types sit on their skinny ass, with their cigarette hanging daintily from their fingers, and a three day growth of beard, with a hollow-eyed (probably drug induced) look in their eyes.
Coffee shops sucks. The sooner we put them out of business, the better. Heck, just getting rid of places with crappy poetry readings in reason enough to get rid of them.
If you need caffeine, and the closest source of caffeine is a Starbucks, then the reasonable course of action is to display some adaptability, and buy from the damn Starbucks.
pooptruck
No, no PCs use a unified address space. THough i thank some mainframes do.
-- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
Uhhm, the controllers are USB. MS used a proprietary connector, nominally for easy disconnection, but actually to prevent unauthorized (read unlicensed- $$$) controllers from being plugged in.
:(
I give HK 1 month before a XBOX->USB kb adapter happens. Of course, this will be of limited use if the software doesn't support it.