The bug had been found by Andrew Morton before, and was already fixed in 2.4.23. Thus, it wasn't unknown. It might even the because it was known that it was exploited aswell, I assume.
Quoting the Bugtraq post:
This problem was found in September by Andrew Morton, but unfortunately that was too late for the 2.4.22 kernel release.
Agreed, I was talking about games sold "in the West" done by software houses paying "western salaries" etc.
The Nintendo iQue looks extremely cheap to manufacture, and the games have already had their time on other consoles before that. They will probably be able to make a profit even with prices low enough for the normal Chinese household income.
I seriously doubt Sony being able to manufacture a PS2 cheap enough though - they should've done the same thing as Nintendo but with their PlaystationOne-on-a-chip.
Not really. The problem is gamers expecting motion capture animations, life-life textures, life-like physics etc - without wanting to pay for the amount of person-time that has to be put into such a project.
It's easy to do the math. The only way out if you want cheaper games is to accept simpler games. Look at toonshading on the Gamecube - or games as simple and fun as ZooCube, Super Monkey Ball etc.
If you want a life-like Star Wars : KotOR - expect to pay a _lot_ for that pleasure. Development takes time, and costs a lot of money.
The USA is only interested in building a pipeline across Afghanistan, and controlling the Iraqi oil reserves. If you really think the USA cares about stopping mass murders you really need to get out more - and maybe listen to some non-US news sources. Did you know that the USA regulary overthrow valid demotratically elected governments just because their political agenda doesn't suit the US?
About the only countries I know of where "Stoned Beaver" wouldn't cause raised eyebrows are the USA, Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. In Sweden, using cannabis is considered to be as dangerous as injecting heroin.
I thought it was the same in Finland in people's minds - but maybe that's why Linus gave it that nickname in the first place...
Well, I'm Swedish and I've never seen one wearing it on the right hand (my own engagement ring is on my left hand). I guess it can vary between countries in Europe, but you're the first one I've ever heard of actually wearing it on the right:) You learn something new each day.
(I was in Copenhagen today, I guess next time I'll have to look more at people's hands;)
.. and I can't say we like it. Since we already have sangberg.se we "had" to get sangberg.se (that's an a with a little circle above it if Slashdot removes the character I wrote) as well to avoid confusion if someone else registered it.
Mod parent up. Windows/Blaster WAS one of the causes of the blackout, something that has been known for quite some time. Nice to see official confirmation. The submitter has taken too much SCO crack me thinks.
SCADA failed to transmit alarm conditions the the monitoring workstations because the Windows platform it was running on was under a denial of service attack.
Psion. Series 5mx over Series 5. I'm sure there are others. They didn't go bust but almost, they haven't been the same since. They were very famous for NOT divulging any info whatsoever on new products just because of this fenomenon.
That was my guess too - but I'm leaning more towards the next Gameboy to be a Gamecube-on-a-chip. Notice the Sony PSP using 6cm 1.8Gb cds - notice the Gamecube using 6cm 1.6Gb cds. That's why the cube used them from the beginning - building up to the same hardware being used in a portable. Instant selection of great games at launch aswell.
The cube hardware is being sold (at a profit, most certainly) for $99. Expect Nintendo to be able to buy cheap displays - and off you go.
RE:make _exceeded_ sales expectations worldwide. The Magicbox had the info a year ago or so.
I'm one of the people who hacked the Xbox btw (v1.1, v1.4/v1.5) - I know the demographics of its followers based on the forums. Teens. The Gamecube-owners I know had NES and SNES when they were younger. So, based on what I can see myself - the cube appeals to _older_ people who appreciate good games - while the Xbox appeals to teens who think "duh, blood and crashing cars is cool".
I'm 29. You are.. ?
(F-Zero GX is probably the best racing game I've ever played btw)
Not hard considering there hasn't been any sequels released yet on the cube. RE:0 is a prequel (and sold well) - RE:2 and RE:3 are straight ports and shouldn't sell well due to outdated graphics. RE:4 is currently an extremely anticipated release that will introduce a free camera to the series.
Uhh.. piracy on the Gamecube was non-existant up until a month ago, and it's still not worthwile (expensive and the quality of the streamed games isn't up to par). The BIOS encryption is hacked now though so expect (expensive) add-ons to appear (external dvd-rom, hd etc).
Nice troll. Motorola's future according to themselves is with Linux, and while they are going to make a MS smartphone they already have smartphones (A920) based on Symbian with successors coming (A925). Sendo started with MS and are now making a Symbian-based phone, and Samsung were in bed with MS _before_ they joined Symbian.
The only reason you would have a hard time doing string operations (descriptors) on Symbian is if you're writing bad code normally. Keeping track of pointers to heap allocated memory and tight string operations are two of the strengths of Symbian.
The library you use to read/write the fileformats is called WINC, and is the same code that runs on Epoc but compiled for Windows. Excellent compatibility.
From what I can remember (I started programming Epoc on the summer of -98) the source to GCC was available the whole time - even externally.
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The bug had been found by Andrew Morton before, and was already fixed in 2.4.23. Thus, it wasn't unknown. It might even the because it was known that it was exploited aswell, I assume.
Quoting the Bugtraq post:
This problem was found in September by Andrew Morton, but unfortunately that was too late for the 2.4.22 kernel release.
Agreed, I was talking about games sold "in the West" done by software houses paying "western salaries" etc.
The Nintendo iQue looks extremely cheap to manufacture, and the games have already had their time on other consoles before that. They will probably be able to make a profit even with prices low enough for the normal Chinese household income.
I seriously doubt Sony being able to manufacture a PS2 cheap enough though - they should've done the same thing as Nintendo but with their PlaystationOne-on-a-chip.
Not really. The problem is gamers expecting motion capture animations, life-life textures, life-like physics etc - without wanting to pay for the amount of person-time that has to be put into such a project.
It's easy to do the math. The only way out if you want cheaper games is to accept simpler games. Look at toonshading on the Gamecube - or games as simple and fun as ZooCube, Super Monkey Ball etc.
If you want a life-like Star Wars : KotOR - expect to pay a _lot_ for that pleasure. Development takes time, and costs a lot of money.
The USA is only interested in building a pipeline across Afghanistan, and controlling the Iraqi oil reserves. If you really think the USA cares about stopping mass murders you really need to get out more - and maybe listen to some non-US news sources. Did you know that the USA regulary overthrow valid demotratically elected governments just because their political agenda doesn't suit the US?
Do yourself a favour, and read this
Neither does Microsoft, as shown several times when their updates causes 3rd software to break - even in areas the patch wasn't supposed to touch.
Feel free to Google.
About the only countries I know of where "Stoned Beaver" wouldn't cause raised eyebrows are the USA, Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. In Sweden, using cannabis is considered to be as dangerous as injecting heroin.
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I thought it was the same in Finland in people's minds - but maybe that's why Linus gave it that nickname in the first place
Well, I'm Swedish and I've never seen one wearing it on the right hand (my own engagement ring is on my left hand). I guess it can vary between countries in Europe, but you're the first one I've ever heard of actually wearing it on the right :) You learn something new each day.
;)
(I was in Copenhagen today, I guess next time I'll have to look more at people's hands
No we don't.
.. and I can't say we like it. Since we already have sangberg.se we "had" to get sangberg.se (that's an a with a little circle above it if Slashdot removes the character I wrote) as well to avoid confusion if someone else registered it.
I'm not British :) As soon as you have access to non-US news it becomes painfully clear how biased the US reporting really is.
On the contrary, BBC is well known for reporting the truth when the British government wants to hide it.
Conclusion: You're a troll, and not very good at it.
I have never seen what? Are you trying to imply that I don't have regular access to Fox (among other news channels)?
:)
Weird - I'm quite sure I have
Turn to BBC for quite accurate reporting - Fox "News" is an american joke.
Fox has gained a reputation for excellence by getting the facts reported ahead of others.
Now that was the laugh of the day. "Facts", you said?
(ps: I'm not even a US resident - yet I know that Fox News equals Fox Ficton, at least when it comes to reports about the rest of the world)
Mod parent up. Windows/Blaster WAS one of the causes of the blackout, something that has been known for quite some time. Nice to see official confirmation. The submitter has taken too much SCO crack me thinks.
SCADA failed to transmit alarm conditions the the monitoring workstations because the Windows platform it was running on was under a denial of service attack.
Congratulations - you've fallen for a myth. The only console before the Xbox to have been sold at a loss was the Dreamcast.
By all means, Google.
(ps: The Gamecube is second worldwide - check the official figures from MS and Nintendo)
Psion. Series 5mx over Series 5. I'm sure there are others. They didn't go bust but almost, they haven't been the same since. They were very famous for NOT divulging any info whatsoever on new products just because of this fenomenon.
That was my guess too - but I'm leaning more towards the next Gameboy to be a Gamecube-on-a-chip. Notice the Sony PSP using 6cm 1.8Gb cds - notice the Gamecube using 6cm 1.6Gb cds. That's why the cube used them from the beginning - building up to the same hardware being used in a portable. Instant selection of great games at launch aswell.
The cube hardware is being sold (at a profit, most certainly) for $99. Expect Nintendo to be able to buy cheap displays - and off you go.
RE:make _exceeded_ sales expectations worldwide. The Magicbox had the info a year ago or so.
.. ?
I'm one of the people who hacked the Xbox btw (v1.1, v1.4/v1.5) - I know the demographics of its followers based on the forums. Teens. The Gamecube-owners I know had NES and SNES when they were younger. So, based on what I can see myself - the cube appeals to _older_ people who appreciate good games - while the Xbox appeals to teens who think "duh, blood and crashing cars is cool".
I'm 29. You are
(F-Zero GX is probably the best racing game I've ever played btw)
Not hard considering there hasn't been any sequels released yet on the cube. RE:0 is a prequel (and sold well) - RE:2 and RE:3 are straight ports and shouldn't sell well due to outdated graphics. RE:4 is currently an extremely anticipated release that will introduce a free camera to the series.
Admit when you're wrong instead.
Adult-themed games (all of the Resident Evil sequels, Eternal Darkness) just haven't sold as well
... hint: Actual copies of RE:make sold vs expectations.
You might want to check your facts before posting
Uhh .. piracy on the Gamecube was non-existant up until a month ago, and it's still not worthwile (expensive and the quality of the streamed games isn't up to par). The BIOS encryption is hacked now though so expect (expensive) add-ons to appear (external dvd-rom, hd etc).
Why don't you use Google yourself and realise that everyone else is right and you're wrong?
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Microsoft are losing money on the Xbox, and always have been. You can check their own profit reports for that division on microsoft.com
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The only reason you would have a hard time doing string operations (descriptors) on Symbian is if you're writing bad code normally. Keeping track of pointers to heap allocated memory and tight string operations are two of the strengths of Symbian.
Note: I'm an ex-Symbian employee.
The library you use to read/write the fileformats is called WINC, and is the same code that runs on Epoc but compiled for Windows. Excellent compatibility.
From what I can remember (I started programming Epoc on the summer of -98) the source to GCC was available the whole time - even externally.
Your mileage may vary.