Please name your sources. I'm myself my source - being a former Ericsson Mobile Communications employee, Symbian after that, and now consulting at Sony Ericsson..
I think cellphones will naturally become better at playing games - I think "future edition of NGage" is just that - a future edition of any cellphone:)
The Ericsson R380 wasn't a fiasco, and the successors P800 and P900 from Sony Ericsson are selling extremely well. Why on earth should I carry around both a PDA and a phone when my P800 does it all so well?
Clearly you have no conception of the cost of living in America. Lets take pretty much the best case. A one bedroom apartment for $500 a month. $50 a month for electric. $150 a month for food. $300 a month for car payment, insurance and gas. $50 a month for clothes. $50 a month washing the clothes at a laundromat. $25 a month for telephone service.
That's cheap compared to Sweden, and our salaries are lower than in the US. You earn too much, time to come back to earth... and the "Indian outsourcing" seems to be doing exactly that.
Even after having used the new tool and told Windows I don't EVER want to see Windows Media Player again it STILL pops up from time to time, and grabs file associations.
That kind of integration is unwanted, I have other mediaplayers. That's also the kind of behaviour that SHOULD be punished, as the EU seems to be interested in doing.
My passwords are usually >16 characters long, some are more than 30 (depends on the strength of the algorithm they're used in). While I agree that a lot of people use easy to guess passwords, the old zip encryption was most easily broken through the internal key - NOT by brute forcing the password. Do the math if you don't believe me;)
A-Z,a-z,0-9 and a few special chars makes a 24 char password contain 128 bits of entropy. That's secure enough for everyone using symmetric ciphers.
Old zip-encryption used three internal 32-bit keys - which by today's standard is quite easy to break. You need 11 bytes (or was it 14?) of known cleartext though when searching.
The breaking of zip-encryption was considered to be quite a feat when it happened in the middle of the 90's, if memory serves me correctly.
WASTE contains some of the worst source code I've ever seen - and I've seen a lot. It looks like a C-programmer forced to use C++ wrote it, but without a clue as to how you write C++ at all (or any form of object orienting)
Yes, I've cleaned a lot of it up, and fixed a few of the most annoying problems.
It's trivial to break the CSS encryption in real time without the use of a key. This has already been done - thus you don't need a key distributed with the player (or at all).
Only between the two NTSC regions US and Japan. The only way to play PAL (or to get a PAL cube to play US/Jap-games) is through the Freeloader.... for now.
On the contrary, Microsofts knows very well that if the Xbox hadn't been hacked so quickly the would already have had to cancel the Xbox due to poor sales. The easy modding of the Xbox is almost the only thing selling it, something that most people working in stores selling the box can tell you.
The huge security revision between v1.0 and v1.1 that should've put a stop to modchips failed in more than one way. One of those ways was a publically described hole that Microsoft failed to plug... which some interpret to mean that Microsoft didn't want the chipping business to stop.
Maybe the learned the lesson from Sony. There's no way the PSX would have been such a huge hit if it hadn't been extremely easy to mod and burn copies of games for it.
Due to a flaw tmbinc found it's "easy" to extract the necessary key needed to "encrypt" (XOR.. ) a BIOS that the GC will boot. This BIOS could be a pure Linux kernel, untainted by any Nintendo trademarks, copyrights etc.
(And to prevent followup questions, no, it's not enough that the GC BIOS encryption is hacked to allow playing of games off mini-DVDr. It was on the Xbox, but Nintendo has additional security measures)
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Any encryption can be broken given enough time.
If the universe has stopped existing before you've broken the encryption I think most people consider that to be "unbreakable".
Modern crypto is that strong.
Not working? Discontinued in a year?
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Please name your sources. I'm myself my source - being a former Ericsson Mobile Communications employee, Symbian after that, and now consulting at Sony Ericsson
I think cellphones will naturally become better at playing games - I think "future edition of NGage" is just that - a future edition of any cellphone
The Ericsson R380 wasn't a fiasco, and the successors P800 and P900 from Sony Ericsson are selling extremely well. Why on earth should I carry around both a PDA and a phone when my P800 does it all so well?
Clearly you have no conception of the cost of living in America. Lets take pretty much the best case. A one bedroom apartment for $500 a month. $50 a month for electric. $150 a month for food. $300 a month for car payment, insurance and gas. $50 a month for clothes. $50 a month washing the clothes at a laundromat. $25 a month for telephone service.
... and the "Indian outsourcing" seems to be doing exactly that.
That's cheap compared to Sweden, and our salaries are lower than in the US. You earn too much, time to come back to earth
Please tell me which nordic countries have legalized prostitution and cannabis.
.. and I doubt it's Iceland .. which leaves .. ? /me - Swedish
It's not Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Finland
(I agree that we're a lot more free than the US though)
Was sagst du? Mein Deutsch is nicht gut, aber ich kann ein kleines bisschen sprechen. Zwei Bier bitte! :D
(Yes, that's my third language. How many do you speak?)
Even after having used the new tool and told Windows I don't EVER want to see Windows Media Player again it STILL pops up from time to time, and grabs file associations.
That kind of integration is unwanted, I have other mediaplayers. That's also the kind of behaviour that SHOULD be punished, as the EU seems to be interested in doing.
Microsoft are of course free to stop selling software in the EU instead ...
I'll get back to you when the US has liberated _anyone_ ... in the meantime, check out Iraq's history - especially in the 70's.
My passwords are usually >16 characters long, some are more than 30 (depends on the strength of the algorithm they're used in). While I agree that a lot of people use easy to guess passwords, the old zip encryption was most easily broken through the internal key - NOT by brute forcing the password. Do the math if you don't believe me ;)
A-Z,a-z,0-9 and a few special chars makes a 24 char password contain 128 bits of entropy. That's secure enough for everyone using symmetric ciphers.
Old zip-encryption used three internal 32-bit keys - which by today's standard is quite easy to break. You need 11 bytes (or was it 14?) of known cleartext though when searching.
The breaking of zip-encryption was considered to be quite a feat when it happened in the middle of the 90's, if memory serves me correctly.
I have all 3 consoles, and the GC gets far more play than any of the others
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Seconded, same here. The Xbox is used strictly for emulation and movie-watching, and the PS2 was bought for one game only - Silent Hill 3
WASTE contains some of the worst source code I've ever seen - and I've seen a lot. It looks like a C-programmer forced to use C++ wrote it, but without a clue as to how you write C++ at all (or any form of object orienting)
Yes, I've cleaned a lot of it up, and fixed a few of the most annoying problems.
Thank you.
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The above is exactly the reason why most civilized people around the earth despise the USA and a lot of americans today.
Click my signature, the only thing the USA managed to do with Afghanistan is making things _worse_ for the population
It's not false, and ESA is a good source for that.
It has been confirmed on the north pole before, but not the south. That's why it's news.
... however, that is how all commercial software development is done. Think cellphone software, as an example.
(I'm not saying which way's the better, but competition seems always needed to spur innovation)
It's trivial to break the CSS encryption in real time without the use of a key. This has already been done - thus you don't need a key distributed with the player (or at all).
Excellent blog about the protests against Bush in London!
For Linux, a kernel BIOS that loads from the network is all you need. Why would GC-Linux need to be able to read mini-CDs and mini-DVDrs at all?
Only between the two NTSC regions US and Japan. The only way to play PAL (or to get a PAL cube to play US/Jap-games) is through the Freeloader. ... for now.
F-Zero GX and XIII maybe?
Things like the mini-CD spinning the other way..
It doesn't. Open the lid while a game is playing and check for yourself.
Microsoft hates Xbox hacking
... which some interpret to mean that Microsoft didn't want the chipping business to stop.
On the contrary, Microsofts knows very well that if the Xbox hadn't been hacked so quickly the would already have had to cancel the Xbox due to poor sales. The easy modding of the Xbox is almost the only thing selling it, something that most people working in stores selling the box can tell you.
The huge security revision between v1.0 and v1.1 that should've put a stop to modchips failed in more than one way. One of those ways was a publically described hole that Microsoft failed to plug
Maybe the learned the lesson from Sony. There's no way the PSX would have been such a huge hit if it hadn't been extremely easy to mod and burn copies of games for it.
Due to a flaw tmbinc found it's "easy" to extract the necessary key needed to "encrypt" (XOR .. ) a BIOS that the GC will boot. This BIOS could be a pure Linux kernel, untainted by any Nintendo trademarks, copyrights etc.
(And to prevent followup questions, no, it's not enough that the GC BIOS encryption is hacked to allow playing of games off mini-DVDr. It was on the Xbox, but Nintendo has additional security measures)