You know, people, I have never seen or talked to anyone that owns a Wii. 99% of people I talk with didn't heard about it either. It seems that in Poland, everyone's excited with PS3 instead. PS3 this, PS3 that.
Interesting, how can a couple of dollars and one agreement turn a company that everyone blocked, ignored, or was just being annoyed with into a company that suddenly is a serious threat to our privacy.
"you don't really expect people to buy a 1 GHz ARM machine, do you?"
I'd buy a few of these if they'd be reasonably priced && "open source hardware", capable of running my free OS of choice and apps I'd write for them. My requirements are something like 32 to 64 mb of ram, 1024x768, 10 GB of HD space. I'll be happy running xfce or E16.
And you people? What do your computers do in 2007 that they weren't capable of doing in 1997? Except playing new games, processing video and sound, doing fast parallel processing, booting the computer 2 to 3 times faster, running 3D desktops with wobbly blured transparent animated windows, compiling big projects in hours not days, rendering photorealistic images on the fly, and so on... Well, (AMD || Intel) said the GHz race is over, so whatever...
You'll have to cross-compile a kernel, libc, a shell, some core utils and a compiler to the new architecture, thus you may unintentionally carry a hidden backdoor:
Unless you're also going to write your new free software from *absolute* scratch using *only* your new, open machine, you can not be 100% sure that you won't be controlled by any third party. That's going to be hard.
On the other side, theoretically all you need to bootstrap is a C compiler and its most basic dependencies, then you can compile the 'old' stuff like bash, Linux and GCC.
Well, at the moment I think Poland is not so bad after all. Software patents would be limiting my creativity. I'm really happy to live in a country where no software patents apply.
Shit, it was weeks since I wrote a line of code, I'm moving.
"Or how about procedurally generated content? The idea of creating whole cities, quests and whatnot procedurally isn't a new one, but unfortunately it tends to create boring repetition at the moment.(...)"
Do you *really* need a 666 ghz CPU with 1337 MB of cache to do that? I think it's a matter of creating such a "story engine", not of unsufficient processor power.
BTW, why nobody created one earlier? That would be cool stuff.
waitwaitwait, AFAIR Heroes 1 or 2 had automatically generated random maps, and playing them was actually fun. HOMM ftw.
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Make OLPC's CPU non-x86. Windows is portable like... Like... Like... It's not.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/11 2645487/article.pl
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They say it will be out soon after Duke Nukem Forever...
Time is short... Upgrade your machines...
I had problems with setting up squid, I can roughly imagine the hell of setting up routing through these wormholes...
Back in the days of People's Republic of Poland, people were arrested for things more trivial than an essay.
I know some people that've been there and seen it.
You know, people, I have never seen or talked to anyone that owns a Wii. 99% of people I talk with didn't heard about it either. It seems that in Poland, everyone's excited with PS3 instead. PS3 this, PS3 that.
...nobody is going to use it if it's not x86 compatible.
Interesting, how can a couple of dollars and one agreement turn a company that everyone blocked, ignored, or was just being annoyed with into a company that suddenly is a serious threat to our privacy.
...does it run Linux?
Oh.
"everyone was happy with XP"
I wasn't.
"you don't really expect people to buy a 1 GHz ARM machine, do you?"
I'd buy a few of these if they'd be reasonably priced && "open source hardware", capable of running my free OS of choice and apps I'd write for them. My requirements are something like 32 to 64 mb of ram, 1024x768, 10 GB of HD space. I'll be happy running xfce or E16.
And you people? What do your computers do in 2007 that they weren't capable of doing in 1997? Except playing new games, processing video and sound, doing fast parallel processing, booting the computer 2 to 3 times faster, running 3D desktops with wobbly blured transparent animated windows, compiling big projects in hours not days, rendering photorealistic images on the fly, and so on... Well, (AMD || Intel) said the GHz race is over, so whatever...
You'll have to cross-compile a kernel, libc, a shell, some core utils and a compiler to the new architecture, thus you may unintentionally carry a hidden backdoor:
_ .22Trusting_Trust.22_backdoor_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor#The_classic
Unless you're also going to write your new free software from *absolute* scratch using *only* your new, open machine, you can not be 100% sure that you won't be controlled by any third party. That's going to be hard.
On the other side, theoretically all you need to bootstrap is a C compiler and its most basic dependencies, then you can compile the 'old' stuff like bash, Linux and GCC.
...welcome our new Ruby beginners...
Tell me, can it run Linux?
He should've summoned Bahamut instead, I suppose.
"(...)and then go to a website that would have been easier to just type in?"
You forgot to add
"...and then go to a website to see an advertisement I'd block anyway..."
...Sunshine Reggae!
Shit, it was weeks since I wrote a line of code, I'm moving.
"Or how about procedurally generated content? The idea of creating whole cities, quests and whatnot procedurally isn't a new one, but unfortunately it tends to create boring repetition at the moment.(...)"
Do you *really* need a 666 ghz CPU with 1337 MB of cache to do that? I think it's a matter of creating such a "story engine", not of unsufficient processor power.
BTW, why nobody created one earlier? That would be cool stuff.
waitwaitwait, AFAIR Heroes 1 or 2 had automatically generated random maps, and playing them was actually fun. HOMM ftw.
"...or something very similar to the iPhone coming out by MSFT in the next few months..."
;]
You mean Zune 180?
Maybe this technique could be used to bypass that DRM stuff and capture movies etc right from the screen, how do you think about it?
GTA: Botnets
> It could happen to anyone
Sounds like windows xp running IE 6 is the only set available in this world.
Strange, haven't used that since..... since.... years?...
> I guess it is time for a new application programming language.
How about a mix of COBOL, brainfuck and swahili?
> They must be throwing snowballs in Hell about now....
I've been hit by one.