The problem is that even though most of the hardware is pretty standard, the memory architecture isn't.
The XBox stores all of its data in a single memory block, and all chips (CPU, GPU, sound etc.) have access to it. To emulate that just by wrappers so that 3d acceleration etc would still work is practically impossible.
You would need high level emulation or old fashioned virtual CPU to emulate an X-Box, and without a 10 GHz processor, this would not be playable.
That's what I first hoped. That Slashdot had finally started to mirror URLs they link to, to protect other sites from the rampant bandwidth rape which comes with a mention on/.
I don't have any mod right now, so I'll just flame you.
Support services love stupid users like you. After all, they get paid 299 bucks for a problem which the user could have easily solved by walking through HOWTOs for 15 minutes or (heavens forbid) use a search engine to look for solutions.
So, buy paid support from SuSE here, ask your question and we'll see whether your answer will be "RTFM".
I don't know what the original UI designers at Xerox had in their mind for the desktop, but today's use is simple:
The desktop stores links to other resources.
This applies to applications and to directories. The author of the original article is fundamentally wrong to say that the desktop contains the hard disk. Instead, it just contains a link to the directories "c:\" or "/home/$USER" or whatever.
This makes perfect sense if you want quick access to your folders, exactly as most people want quick access to their favorite applications.
However, he's right that the desktop has its limitations. It's especially stupid if you have to minimize all your windows just for the 5 second job of locating an icon and clicking on it. The taskbar of Windows 98 and the extended start menu of Windows XP do it much better...
Yes, but even though Bitzi is a general file catalogueing project, taking information from other, more specific sources can help (when their license allows it, of course)
For music files, this would of course be FreeDB. For movies, a good choice would be IMDB etc.
When you remove all the marketing talk from that article and the company website, what remains is essentially a protocol which:
a) Uses UDP instead of TCP and implements its own proprietary flow control by sending the data multiple times
b) Has no streaming capabilities whatsoever.
Also, it's pretty evident that no matter how nifty their algorithm is, the data which needs to be transmitted before the file can be reconstructed needs to be at least as big as the size of the original file. Quite probably a lot more because of redundancy since the receiver can't acknowledge data.
I second the originals' posters feelings about the protocol...
Now you just need to combine that with the revolutionary algorithm to compress any data to one bit and power your computer by cold fusion, and you got one heck of a file transferring machine!
> As I recall, Infocom, (...) credited software piracy for the reason for their going out of business way, way back when.
That's because it was hip back then to have died because of piracy. Nowadays, everyone just credits the 9/11 terrorist attacks to divert the blame from incompetent company officers.
H+BEDV is a german software company which makes an excellent virus scanner. Other than most other scanners from mainstream companies, which can mostly be deactivated through a simple change of a few registry keys, it is actually pretty secure from any outside modification.
And there's also a free (beer) version available.
Yeah, but the PNG libraries pass that 4th color along to the calling function. Only later, it's going to get applied when some program (i.e. a web browser) then uses this alpha channel data to merge the image with the background...
So I don't think the PNG library authors are in any danger of breaking this patent. But if it's illegal for other programmers to then use the alpha transparency in their applications, it hurts the PNG group too.
> If there is one thing I hate about all these projects it is the lame excuses for significant and broad invasions of privacy by people who cannot build a decent business model.
Their business model is selling the privacy of their users to ad-companies.
You might not like this (hell, I don't either) but you have to accept that it is a pretty decent one, certainly superior to other ideas like pure banner ads or asking for voluntary contributions.
If you don't like spyware, simply don't use any program that deploys it. Your inane ranting however will do nothing about the mindset of the common Internet user, which is that they accept every oh so damned advertisment scheme as long as they don't have to pay for site content or program licensing.
And since you have been taking the decision to play the "holier-than-thou" side of this discussion, I invite you to either try to make up a better business plan, or to educate an average 15 years old that paying $5 per month for a service they like isn't so bad...
The problem is that simply firing a few billion $ worth of ammunition into the Afghan wastelands does not only accomplish nothing, it actually worsens the situation by driving even more desperate people into the hands of the terrorist groups.
Unless we start caring about the causes (Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc.) and not simply about the symptoms, we can already mark January 11.
And if this crash wasn't a terrorist attack, but a simple accident, it changes nothing about the underlying facts.
The issue is that remembering keys has nothing to do with keyboard shortcuts.
Noone thinks of Ctrl+C when they need to copy stuff, they just put their pinky on the Control key, and press the key which is about 7 cm to the right and 2 cm above.
Keyboard shortcuts are a lot more intuitive to muscle memory than mouseitems can ever get (except context-menus on button-down, but that's another holy war for itself)
Contrary to public misconception partly fueled by Microsoft FUD, there's nothing about open source that prevents the developer from making money.
So, the incentive for following user request is exactly the same as with for-sale software: You get money for it.
Yes, but during the reboot, end users will be sitting at their machines, pressing frantically on Reload and ask themselves why your fucking site doesn't work.
Thus, the explanation "But the downtime was scheduled!" doesn't really help.
I think they are referring to the MSN Community backdoor a few months ago which allowed everyone to access random files on other computers, mostly kiddie porn and similar content...
I have to go with pud and ask: Why the fuck did they need 300 employees to build an encryption program?!
Give me about five other coders who understand their stuff and a $100k budget and I'd deliver them exactly the same product, minus the outrageous development costs that forced them to sell PGP at such a ridiculous price.
Oh well, those MBAs, I'm glad I don't understand how they think...
Most of the vulnerable machines belong to "sysadmins" (quoted as to not offend the real ones) who don't ever patch their boxes, unless they see an article on the front page of the NY Times and get more than 10 irate phone calls a day.
While they did surf by windowsupdate in the aftermath of the Code Red craze, they probably have now gone back to their old habits, and leave both new installed systems as well as reformatted ones in their unpatched state. Since Windows has to be re-installed about every 6 months, the number of vulnerable machines will quite probably be back to the old numbers by february 2002...
Might I also suggest the following domains?
* drexeldotcom.org
* drexeldotcomdotnet.org
* drexeldotcomdotnet.com
* drexeldotcomdotorg.com
* drexeldotcomdotnetdotorg.com
* drexeldotcomdotorgdotnet.org
* drexeldotcomdotcomdotnet.org
I hear that the domain doubleu-doubleu-doubleu-drexel.com might also be useful to attract the boneheads which could otherwise not find their way into the Drexel business school.
Jesus, that sure is a lot of business possibility for network solutions...
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The problem is that even though most of the hardware is pretty standard, the memory architecture isn't.
The XBox stores all of its data in a single memory block, and all chips (CPU, GPU, sound etc.) have access to it. To emulate that just by wrappers so that 3d acceleration etc would still work is practically impossible.
You would need high level emulation or old fashioned virtual CPU to emulate an X-Box, and without a 10 GHz processor, this would not be playable.
That's what I first hoped. That Slashdot had finally started to mirror URLs they link to, to protect other sites from the rampant bandwidth rape which comes with a mention on /.
Alas, it was only a typo...
> These are not the system administrators (...) of tomorrow
yeah right
I don't have any mod right now, so I'll just flame you.
Support services love stupid users like you. After all, they get paid 299 bucks for a problem which the user could have easily solved by walking through HOWTOs for 15 minutes or (heavens forbid) use a search engine to look for solutions.
So, buy paid support from SuSE here, ask your question and we'll see whether your answer will be "RTFM".
Buy them, rip them on some obscure device that can (like a Macintosh) and return them since they don't work in your DVD player :)
I don't know what the original UI designers at Xerox had in their mind for the desktop, but today's use is simple:
The desktop stores links to other resources.
This applies to applications and to directories. The author of the original article is fundamentally wrong to say that the desktop contains the hard disk. Instead, it just contains a link to the directories "c:\" or "/home/$USER" or whatever.
This makes perfect sense if you want quick access to your folders, exactly as most people want quick access to their favorite applications.
However, he's right that the desktop has its limitations. It's especially stupid if you have to minimize all your windows just for the 5 second job of locating an icon and clicking on it. The taskbar of Windows 98 and the extended start menu of Windows XP do it much better...
Yes, but even though Bitzi is a general file catalogueing project, taking information from other, more specific sources can help (when their license allows it, of course)
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For music files, this would of course be FreeDB. For movies, a good choice would be IMDB etc.
For instance, if I look up one of my Nightwish songs, Bitzi gives me the following information:
http://bitzi.com/lookup/TTGZBRZLZ2HLXDHSQYBTEJD33
the data from FreeDB is more accurate, giving the album the song belongs to, the playtime etc.
http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=r
Is there any plans to combine the Bitzi database with FreeDB?
When you remove all the marketing talk from that article and the company website, what remains is essentially a protocol which:
a) Uses UDP instead of TCP and implements its own proprietary flow control by sending the data multiple times
b) Has no streaming capabilities whatsoever.
Also, it's pretty evident that no matter how nifty their algorithm is, the data which needs to be transmitted before the file can be reconstructed needs to be at least as big as the size of the original file. Quite probably a lot more because of redundancy since the receiver can't acknowledge data.
I second the originals' posters feelings about the protocol...
Now you just need to combine that with the revolutionary algorithm to compress any data to one bit and power your computer by cold fusion, and you got one heck of a file transferring machine!
Take a look at some 0day warez websites and the software the offer (or rather, they claim to offer to trick you into banner clicks)
95% is complete and utter crap which noone in their right mind would ever download.
> As I recall, Infocom, (...) credited software piracy for the reason for their going out of business way, way back when.
That's because it was hip back then to have died because of piracy. Nowadays, everyone just credits the 9/11 terrorist attacks to divert the blame from incompetent company officers.
uuhm, what about "make clean"?
H+BEDV is a german software company which makes an excellent virus scanner. Other than most other scanners from mainstream companies, which can mostly be deactivated through a simple change of a few registry keys, it is actually pretty secure from any outside modification.
And there's also a free (beer) version available.
Yeah, but the PNG libraries pass that 4th color along to the calling function. Only later, it's going to get applied when some program (i.e. a web browser) then uses this alpha channel data to merge the image with the background...
So I don't think the PNG library authors are in any danger of breaking this patent. But if it's illegal for other programmers to then use the alpha transparency in their applications, it hurts the PNG group too.
> If there is one thing I hate about all these projects it is the lame excuses for significant and broad invasions of privacy by people who cannot build a decent business model.
Their business model is selling the privacy of their users to ad-companies.
You might not like this (hell, I don't either) but you have to accept that it is a pretty decent one, certainly superior to other ideas like pure banner ads or asking for voluntary contributions.
If you don't like spyware, simply don't use any program that deploys it. Your inane ranting however will do nothing about the mindset of the common Internet user, which is that they accept every oh so damned advertisment scheme as long as they don't have to pay for site content or program licensing.
And since you have been taking the decision to play the "holier-than-thou" side of this discussion, I invite you to either try to make up a better business plan, or to educate an average 15 years old that paying $5 per month for a service they like isn't so bad...
The problem is that simply firing a few billion $ worth of ammunition into the Afghan wastelands does not only accomplish nothing, it actually worsens the situation by driving even more desperate people into the hands of the terrorist groups.
Unless we start caring about the causes (Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc.) and not simply about the symptoms, we can already mark January 11.
And if this crash wasn't a terrorist attack, but a simple accident, it changes nothing about the underlying facts.
The issue is that remembering keys has nothing to do with keyboard shortcuts.
Noone thinks of Ctrl+C when they need to copy stuff, they just put their pinky on the Control key, and press the key which is about 7 cm to the right and 2 cm above.
Keyboard shortcuts are a lot more intuitive to muscle memory than mouseitems can ever get (except context-menus on button-down, but that's another holy war for itself)
Contrary to public misconception partly fueled by Microsoft FUD, there's nothing about open source that prevents the developer from making money.
So, the incentive for following user request is exactly the same as with for-sale software: You get money for it.
Yes, but during the reboot, end users will be sitting at their machines, pressing frantically on Reload and ask themselves why your fucking site doesn't work.
Thus, the explanation "But the downtime was scheduled!" doesn't really help.
I think they are referring to the MSN Community backdoor a few months ago which allowed everyone to access random files on other computers, mostly kiddie porn and similar content...
I have to go with pud and ask: Why the fuck did they need 300 employees to build an encryption program?!
Give me about five other coders who understand their stuff and a $100k budget and I'd deliver them exactly the same product, minus the outrageous development costs that forced them to sell PGP at such a ridiculous price.
Oh well, those MBAs, I'm glad I don't understand how they think...
My university switched from Sendmail to Exchange last year. In the process, we went from 1 Solaris machine to 4 Dual-Pentium/II Windows boxes.
That's how you win market share...
Most of the vulnerable machines belong to "sysadmins" (quoted as to not offend the real ones) who don't ever patch their boxes, unless they see an article on the front page of the NY Times and get more than 10 irate phone calls a day.
While they did surf by windowsupdate in the aftermath of the Code Red craze, they probably have now gone back to their old habits, and leave both new installed systems as well as reformatted ones in their unpatched state. Since Windows has to be re-installed about every 6 months, the number of vulnerable machines will quite probably be back to the old numbers by february 2002...
Might I also suggest the following domains?
* drexeldotcom.org
* drexeldotcomdotnet.org
* drexeldotcomdotnet.com
* drexeldotcomdotorg.com
* drexeldotcomdotnetdotorg.com
* drexeldotcomdotorgdotnet.org
* drexeldotcomdotcomdotnet.org
I hear that the domain doubleu-doubleu-doubleu-drexel.com might also be useful to attract the boneheads which could otherwise not find their way into the Drexel business school.
Jesus, that sure is a lot of business possibility for network solutions...