Please tell me the private key used for signing Xbox games. I'm well aware that we (my wording here is intentional, and a giveaway) managed to circumvent it anyway, but all things are most definitely NOT hackable.
You're free to reflash your cellphone, but will you be able to extract the DRM-protected content on your memorystick?
With DRM, you have to give the user everything needed to play the file. That includes the cryptography algorithm and the key. Thus, all DRM is breakable.
Bollocks - you're assuming you have complete control of the execution environment. That is not the case on some platforms (cellphones springs to mind) and there are incentives (I'm sure you know the acronym) to make a "secure platform" within our normal open platforms to reach the same goal.
The Swedish alphabet is exactly the same as the English, up until our three extra characters. Are you seriously suggesting that we either never use those characters in domain names (why not?) or that we're ONLY allowed to use domainnames consisting of those three characters only?
You don't really know what people use IDN for at all, right?
Yes, I own one. Instead of dropping support for them more programs should start to include support for them. Not everyone is please with the relatively small amount of characters in the English alphabet you know.
Mail to my IDN domain still fails long before they reach my server, and the website cannot be reached with IE unless people install a plugin.
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
Works 100% as advertised in Opera. No easy way to spot it's fake.
On the other hand, this is nothing new. This was predicted a long time ago when debating on how to handle websites with charactersets incompatible with the ones used in Western countries..
... globally the Gamecube has sold almost as much as the Xbox - and that's (up until now) with all cubes going to people who BUY their games. A lot of Xboxes (yes, a LOT) are sold only because they can be chipped - some for piracy and some for the excellent mediacapabilities.
However, Nintendo has a problem since they're doing games everyone can enjoy. I'm 30, and I love their games. They're very well thought through, and you know you cannot "get stuck". I also love the retro-aspects, like the NES parodies in Paper Mario 2.
When I mention Resident Evil 4, and that it's Gamecube exclusive, most Xbox and PS2 owners become very surprised. They have no idea those types of games are on the Gamecube - but when they find out they become quite interested.
Now, they'll become even more so. The cube can (since a few weeks back) be chipped. You still have to swap with an original disc, but the possibility to pirate games has been an enormous factor both in the success of the PSX and the Xbox, when they entered the market. Both times Nintendo has had to rely on the loyal buyers instead of the "cool dudes" who are more interested in building up a huge collection of copied games than actually playing them.
With the incredible autumn-winter lineup of Paper Mario 2, Metroid Prime 2 and Resident Evil 4 - followed up by a new Zelda this summer - maybe we'll see an increased awareness with regards to the Gamecube. It definitely deserves it, the games are THAT good.
The Gamecube has had an extremely strong autumn/winter games-wise. It's too bad a lot of teenagers are too unsure of their manhood to risk buying a cube and having fun. Who knows - someone with a PS2 or Xbox might actually laugh at them.. because.. umm.. not all games have lots of blood in them.
Is someone writing up what can and cannot be done, with screenshots, for those of us who's never used a Mac but are really interested in replacing the Xbox with a mini-Mac?
I'm not even interested in PVR and DD/DTS - the bare bone mini-Mac looks extremely suitable in itself.
Either chip your box or use a software exploit, switch it into NTSC video mode (you can do that without having to change the game region mode - your PAL originals will still work), connect a component videocable, enter the Microsoft Dashboard, select the HDTV resolutions you want from the list under Video - Settings. Play in HDTV.
... yes, all this - and you can still play PAL originals in higher resolution on XboxLive - as long as the chip is off (or the software exploit not used) afterwards.
prepare for 3.5 years of good times, then 3.5 years of hell on earth.
Ok, then this cannot be it. We've just had 4 years of hell on earth, and due to the election outcome in the US we're bound for another 4 years of the same.
It'll be up until we implement the EUCD in our Swedish laws. That's been postponed for a long time now, next "target" is 1:st of July.
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I don't see how being a good estimator makes you good at anything else
On the contrary I'd say it's one of the things that separates the really excellent people from the others.
That, and being able to take a step back, connecting everything you know about just about everything and using _that_ to extrapolate a resonable prediction about the future in almost any area.
Anything else is basically just learning from books. The above two things are either just there or not in some people.
But you see, we (the Swedes) aren't THE LAND OF THE FREE so it doesn't count.
Really.
It only matters if you proclaim yourself to be THE LAND OF THE FREE - it doesn't really matter if you are. As long as the public believes in it. You see.
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All things are hackable.
Please tell me the private key used for signing Xbox games. I'm well aware that we (my wording here is intentional, and a giveaway) managed to circumvent it anyway, but all things are most definitely NOT hackable.
You're free to reflash your cellphone, but will you be able to extract the DRM-protected content on your memorystick?
With DRM, you have to give the user everything needed to play the file. That includes the cryptography algorithm and the key. Thus, all DRM is breakable.
Bollocks - you're assuming you have complete control of the execution environment. That is not the case on some platforms (cellphones springs to mind) and there are incentives (I'm sure you know the acronym) to make a "secure platform" within our normal open platforms to reach the same goal.
No western characters allowed in the string
The Swedish alphabet is exactly the same as the English, up until our three extra characters. Are you seriously suggesting that we either never use those characters in domain names (why not?) or that we're ONLY allowed to use domainnames consisting of those three characters only?
You don't really know what people use IDN for at all, right?
Yes, I own one. Instead of dropping support for them more programs should start to include support for them. Not everyone is please with the relatively small amount of characters in the English alphabet you know.
Mail to my IDN domain still fails long before they reach my server, and the website cannot be reached with IE unless people install a plugin.
http://www.simulation-argument.com
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
Nice Beastie Boys reference there
Works 100% as advertised in Opera. No easy way to spot it's fake.
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On the other hand, this is nothing new. This was predicted a long time ago when debating on how to handle websites with charactersets incompatible with the ones used in Western countries
_was_ a great man?
... globally the Gamecube has sold almost as much as the Xbox - and that's (up until now) with all cubes going to people who BUY their games. A lot of Xboxes (yes, a LOT) are sold only because they can be chipped - some for piracy and some for the excellent mediacapabilities.
However, Nintendo has a problem since they're doing games everyone can enjoy. I'm 30, and I love their games. They're very well thought through, and you know you cannot "get stuck". I also love the retro-aspects, like the NES parodies in Paper Mario 2.
When I mention Resident Evil 4, and that it's Gamecube exclusive, most Xbox and PS2 owners become very surprised. They have no idea those types of games are on the Gamecube - but when they find out they become quite interested.
Now, they'll become even more so. The cube can (since a few weeks back) be chipped. You still have to swap with an original disc, but the possibility to pirate games has been an enormous factor both in the success of the PSX and the Xbox, when they entered the market. Both times Nintendo has had to rely on the loyal buyers instead of the "cool dudes" who are more interested in building up a huge collection of copied games than actually playing them.
With the incredible autumn-winter lineup of Paper Mario 2, Metroid Prime 2 and Resident Evil 4 - followed up by a new Zelda this summer - maybe we'll see an increased awareness with regards to the Gamecube. It definitely deserves it, the games are THAT good.
Really.
The Gamecube has had an extremely strong autumn/winter games-wise. It's too bad a lot of teenagers are too unsure of their manhood to risk buying a cube and having fun. Who knows - someone with a PS2 or Xbox might actually laugh at them .. because .. umm .. not all games have lots of blood in them.
Or something.
*back to playing Resident Evil 4*
Ads? What ads? A few euros gave me the best browser/mail program there is.
Is someone writing up what can and cannot be done, with screenshots, for those of us who's never used a Mac but are really interested in replacing the Xbox with a mini-Mac?
I'm not even interested in PVR and DD/DTS - the bare bone mini-Mac looks extremely suitable in itself.
720p = HDTV - and better than 1080i since it's non-interlaced.
SDTV = 480p
The mini is the player - connected via your internal network to your other machines with lots of space.
We've already done that set up, but with Xboxes as mediaplayers.
Paper Mario 2 - Metroid Prime 2 - Resident Evil 4
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With those games released almost back-to-back, anyone not owning a Gamecube now is most definitely not a gamer
There's nothing free about the US. They only think they are - without knowing anything about the rest of the world.
Yes. Like machines using algorithms have. That was the whole point.
Tell that to someone who speant years on coming up with a totally new plot for a book.
Uhm.
We'll see how long the rest of the world puts up with us
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Too late. A whole generation with anti-american views are growing up. The result will become visible in ~20 years time.
By then, China will be the only world superpower anyway
prepare for 3.5 years of good times, then 3.5 years of hell on earth.
Ok, then this cannot be it. We've just had 4 years of hell on earth, and due to the election outcome in the US we're bound for another 4 years of the same.
It'll be up until we implement the EUCD in our Swedish laws. That's been postponed for a long time now, next "target" is 1:st of July.
I don't see how being a good estimator makes you good at anything else
On the contrary I'd say it's one of the things that separates the really excellent people from the others.
That, and being able to take a step back, connecting everything you know about just about everything and using _that_ to extrapolate a resonable prediction about the future in almost any area.
Anything else is basically just learning from books. The above two things are either just there or not in some people.
But you see, we (the Swedes) aren't THE LAND OF THE FREE so it doesn't count.
Really.
It only matters if you proclaim yourself to be THE LAND OF THE FREE - it doesn't really matter if you are. As long as the public believes in it. You see.
Says the business model of every single video game console ever.
Why state something like that instead of investigating it first?
Here, I Googled for you