Yes. People who _work_ with analyzing these kind of things say that Microsoft lost money on the xbox back when it was $299. Parts have gotten cheaper (but not by much since they're special made now when they're old). Best estimates say that MS is still losing ~$100 on every Xbox.
You could probably dig up a few links yourself if you're really interested.
(There's also a popular myth saying _everything_ loses money on the hardware and gain it back on the software. It's wrong. Sony and Nintendo are both making money on the hardware as well)
Lucifer, by IBM. Later known as DES - when the keylength had been lessened but the characteristics of the cipher had been strengthened against differential attacks (then unknown outside the NSA).
... since there are numerous JVMs, aswell as lots of different JIT or non-JIT solutions, your first post said... nothing. Can you be more specific as to which JVM and JIT solution you're comparing the CLR? I'm sure someone (or if someone already has) can point out a solution that works just as the CLR one, or better.
Thank you - you got the point. As long as the customer has bought a copy of the book you agree that he/she should be able to read it in any language? So - if the persons in the article didn't charge anything and only provided it to persons who've bought the original book it _should_ be ok?
On the other hand, on my XP laptop - even after having used "set program access and defaults" - the only way I could get bsplayer to view.avis was to each and every time select "open with". No matter the settings for filetypes - XP would _always_ launch windows media player.
I had to use "set program.." to specifically say NEVER to use windows media player to get it to work - and yet the icons are still wrong.
I'm quite sure it's not a bug - it's a Microsoft feature.
You can't make a copy of an Xbox game and play in an Xbox without modifying the Xbox first. Previously you had to solder in a hacked BIOS - with this hack no soldering is necessary, you don't even have to open up the Xbox.
numbnut: Agreed, their motives were a bit weird. It's nice to see them having released the exploit though - I wonder when mainstream press will realise that this is YET ANOTHER buffer overflow in a platform called _secure_ by Microsoft.
This should be a fatal blow to Microsoft's ambitions in the high end market where secure programming is a necessity.
I also have a Red Hat demo account (installed RH on another machine) and hardly a day goes by that I don't get some sort of "errata" report from them in my inbox.
And that's bad because.. ?
There are just as many erratas for Microsoft - but they let you wait for the non-critical ones until SP-time.
Myself I like that RHN provided me with updated unzip and PHP-packages yesterday. One click in Opera and ~1 hour later they were installed on my server.
I ran SCSI-only from the late 80s to a few weeks ago - and that was news to me.
(I'm not saying that you're wrong - but I never cared which ID the jumpers happened to be set at, except for when they clashed. I think I had my HDs at 3,4 and a cdr at 6.. )
.. and yet what I wrote is correct. I don't care about what LittleLebowski's coworkers say since they obvously are wrong:) Please - look it up.
(ps: Your quotations about what I've said about those sources are not true. If you want to debate - try sticking to the truth. Things become much more fun then!)
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(... and ground D0. It works because it was designed to work that way)
Yes. People who _work_ with analyzing these kind of things say that Microsoft lost money on the xbox back when it was $299. Parts have gotten cheaper (but not by much since they're special made now when they're old). Best estimates say that MS is still losing ~$100 on every Xbox.
You could probably dig up a few links yourself if you're really interested.
(There's also a popular myth saying _everything_ loses money on the hardware and gain it back on the software. It's wrong. Sony and Nintendo are both making money on the hardware as well)
Hi. I am one of the Xbox hackers. There are lots of flaws both in the Xbox hardware and the software (in the proprietary chips as well as the BIOS).
I have no problems with the Apache (2.x) in RH9 and my PHP-site.
FWIW
Feel free to read a few of the news items in my sig.
"World War III will be between the USA and the rest of the world. We don't WANT your twisted views of the world enforced upon us by B52s"
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm? story_id=1908281
Read it - you might learn something about your own country.
All media except Fox. The whole "rescue of Jessica Lynch" operation has been laughed at for quite some time ... you know ... outside the US.
Lucifer, by IBM. Later known as DES - when the keylength had been lessened but the characteristics of the cipher had been strengthened against differential attacks (then unknown outside the NSA).
... since there are numerous JVMs, aswell as lots of different JIT or non-JIT solutions, your first post said ... nothing. Can you be more specific as to which JVM and JIT solution you're comparing the CLR? I'm sure someone (or if someone already has) can point out a solution that works just as the CLR one, or better.
"the JVM"
...
Hint: There's no such thing as _the_ JVM, or _the_ JIT, or
... so, you complain about people not knowing enough about the CLR - but you show your own ignorance and lack of knowledge regarding JVMs.
Ehrm. Point not taken.
Thank you - you got the point. As long as the customer has bought a copy of the book you agree that he/she should be able to read it in any language? So - if the persons in the article didn't charge anything and only provided it to persons who've bought the original book it _should_ be ok?
That's my view anyway.
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a region 1 DVD and view although I live in region 2?
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a Japanese magazine even though I don't understand Japanese - just to view the pictures?
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a Japanes magazine and have a friend write me a translation?
Wouldn't you say that as long as I've paid the author I'm free to translate the work in whatever way I want, to whatever languages I want?
Of course there is. Lots of US spies programming Windows to spy on EU and China.
It's _more_ probable than vice versa given the US track record.
(yes, I know it should be "Germany"
On the other hand, on my XP laptop - even after having used "set program access and defaults" - the only way I could get bsplayer to view .avis was to each and every time select "open with". No matter the settings for filetypes - XP would _always_ launch windows media player.
I had to use "set program.." to specifically say NEVER to use windows media player to get it to work - and yet the icons are still wrong.
I'm quite sure it's not a bug - it's a Microsoft feature.
You can't make a copy of an Xbox game and play in an Xbox without modifying the Xbox first. Previously you had to solder in a hacked BIOS - with this hack no soldering is necessary, you don't even have to open up the Xbox.
numbnut: Agreed, their motives were a bit weird. It's nice to see them having released the exploit though - I wonder when mainstream press will realise that this is YET ANOTHER buffer overflow in a platform called _secure_ by Microsoft.
This should be a fatal blow to Microsoft's ambitions in the high end market where secure programming is a necessity.
Xbox games will be up and playing on PCs within 5 months.
Xbox "emulator"
I also have a Red Hat demo account (installed RH on another machine) and hardly a day goes by that I don't get some sort of "errata" report from them in my inbox.
.. ?
And that's bad because
There are just as many erratas for Microsoft - but they let you wait for the non-critical ones until SP-time.
Myself I like that RHN provided me with updated unzip and PHP-packages yesterday. One click in Opera and ~1 hour later they were installed on my server.
... standard SCSI locations?
.. )
I ran SCSI-only from the late 80s to a few weeks ago - and that was news to me.
(I'm not saying that you're wrong - but I never cared which ID the jumpers happened to be set at, except for when they clashed. I think I had my HDs at 3,4 and a cdr at 6
Regarding backing up what I wrote about Moslems and registration - look it up. It's not some sort of secret.
(ps: click my sig)
(ps: Your quotations about what I've said about those sources are not true. If you want to debate - try sticking to the truth. Things become much more fun then!)
As I said - read up on the technical differences.
WiFi is high bandwidth because they don't have to deal with MANY users - and users who are MOVING AROUND.
3G solves that, with acceptable bandwidth for portable devices (and 4G is planned)
WiFi will _never_ be a threat to 3G - and people who think it is really need to learn about the technical differences.