Of course you would, we all say we would. But really, would you? Why? You already have linux running on well supported and documented hardware. I mean, really, think about it -- give us, the slashdot massive, an introspective into actually what you would _do_ with it other than sit back and chortle. "weeeeeeeeeeeeee!".
Anyone arguing that allowing Linux on an XBox is going to sell more Xboxen is clearly deluded. The only reason people want to put Linux on an XBox (or any other device that is not sold for such purposes) is for reasons of pure hacker fun (weee, look! linux on xbox! take that m$) and also because we all feel we're poking billg in the eye at the same time. Admit it. I do.
Agreed, but it's a pity really. Back "in the day", Netscape corp was gripped by the hacker ethic, driven by it's then very young visionary, Marc Andreeson as you well know. It was initially a port of Mosaic to X windows -- and its monolithic, C-based architecture never changed; we all have the horrific DHTML hacks put forth in 4.x to attest to that. Microsoft hit the nail on the head with their rewritten 4.0 release (although stability was an issue, it had an amazing DOM model). Anyhow, this is all past history now, we have excellent browsers like Opera, Mozilla-based and, last, but not least IE itself.
The sad thing is, you're probably 100% serious when you say that. It must really sting to discover that microsoft are not at the root of all bad business practices. </troll>
I've recently bought the Flash2Linker eeprom cart for my gameboy, and the CD that comes with it has several video rom images. It is very capable of playing them. I watched a trailer for "ice age" on it, now that I think of it, you can get a TV tuner for it anyhow?
My college roommate played one of these games as a female for a while. He got hit on so much that he said he didn't see how anybody could play as a female.
How sad. This truism doesn't do much to support the good doctor's research now, does it?
- Ois
When I did some contract work at Microsoft a few years ago, I was a v- prefix (a vee dasher). The article suggests that a- was a temp worker. I've seen a-, t- and v- prefixes. Any blue badgers out there that can clarify the prefixes?
True, but even within Europe things can differ. I'm an Irishman, living in London, UK. Their respective censor boards (for rating a cinema release PG, 12, 15, 18 etc) are different, with the Irish censor board being more lenient with sexual content (goes against the Irish church-going stereotype, I know), whereas the the English are more relaxed about violence (very much goes with the English stereotype lager-lout). e.g. A film with heavy sexual content may well be rated 15 in Ireland, and 18 in the UK, and vice-versa with a very violent film. Hmmm.
Prior to EA taking over Westwood, the games were fairly abstract, or at least set way out of context 60 years ago, e.g. C&C Red Alert. I wonder is this the result of EA's marketing honchos?
If the Germans are putting the game on the restricted list because 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts', by extension of the same logic, shouldn't the United States drop the price 50% maybe or, uh, just give it away free?
As regards those of you implying that the Germans shy away from violence on TV, on the contrary -- in my many visits there, I've noticed that some of the content is quite graphic and very violent. But the big difference is that the violence they show on TV is nine times out of ten the real thing: news of robberies, middle-east conflict, wars etc. They tend (AFIACT) to not show depicted/fictional violence which although may be condescending to most of us, implying that we cannot tell the difference between depicted and actual violence, but at least young children will not be wondering if it's real or not.
Additionally, they are well aware of their violent past and are not trying to ignore/hide it. Any time I was there, there was usually some kind of WWII documentary going on somewhere on TV.
If you say it reboots in that configuration, fair enough: I stand correctd. I was pretty sure that the vanilla fresh install of 2k/sp0 didn't automatically reboot. It's been so long since I've seen a BSOD, I may be mistaken. Honestly:)
[flamebait]Since noone here really knows anything about Windows[/flamebait], I'd better answer this one -- on the contrary my friend, you _do_ have several logs of the event (details for default install of win2000):
- An event notification in the NT Event Log
- A carbon copy of the bluescreen data at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\
- System crash dump (choice of small/kernel/complete) at %systemroot%\memory.dmp
- user process space dump at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\user.dmp
Run drwtsn32.exe to see some of these options, additionally, right-click my computer, advanced tab, startup and recovery options.
Additionally, Windows does not have "automatically reboot" enabled by default. Either you or your administrator chose to enable that behaviour.
Enough of the "bah, windows 2000 doesn't do this, nor that" banter. RTFM (yes, I know there is no manual, F1 it mate) or, ATFM "ask the f*ing adminstrator".:)
I'm not trying to bait here, but hello? So everyone's whining (again) because you can't just open up a Word Document directly in OpenOffice / StarOffice / WhateverOffice? You've got better than that -- you've got the DATA, e.g. the English text, and you apply your own styles (xslt etc). This is what XML data exchange is all about no? Presentation is just syntactic sugar, no? Separate your data from presentation.
Seriously though, you have to take this with a large pinch of salt. You can't just compare any arbitrary encryption systems by means of the length of their "encryption" keys, and any company that tries to promote their product in such a way should set the alarm bells ringing immediately. Comparing their "million bit key" (most likely some kind of symmetric system) against an 512/1024/2048 bit RSA key (entirely assymmetric) just doesn't make sense -- apples and oranges. People often make (or take advantage of) similar mistakes with SSL, which like PGP, is a combination of symmetric/assymmetric systems. Key lengths are not comparable in a linear fashion between different implementations.
Anyhow, it smells of fetid B.S. to me. Time will tell.
Retnal scans, for example, could be used to filter out suspects by race (based on eye color), or provide insight into the quality of someone's vision.
Maybe that's a bad example: looking at the photo on the drivers license -- I see a hispanic wearing glasses. But I'm not sure that I agree with you. It's not about having an ID that other people can identify you with, it's also about having a trustworthy ID that I can identify _myself_ with. A drivers license isn't worth a sh*t for that purpose, IMO.
I don't think it's going to be an issue re: the hard surface. Who says it has to be a hard surface anyhow? why not put a mouse mat under your fingers? I think it's the older crew (descended from using mechanical typewriters) who are used to jabbing the keyboard like a psychotic drill instructor who are going to have to learn to be more light fingered.
re: the joystick, no, not exactly two nails nor for the C64. I used a few relays and a 9v battery for my Amstrad 464;). USGold's Daley Thompson's Decathalon was the game, was it not? Or perhaps Konami's Hypersports? Ah, sweet memories! Who said computer games weren't good physical exercise? I used to sweat like a beast.
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Of course you would, we all say we would. But really, would you? Why? You already have linux running on well supported and documented hardware. I mean, really, think about it -- give us, the slashdot massive, an introspective into actually what you would _do_ with it other than sit back and chortle. "weeeeeeeeeeeeee!".
- Oisin
Anyone arguing that allowing Linux on an XBox is going to sell more Xboxen is clearly deluded. The only reason people want to put Linux on an XBox (or any other device that is not sold for such purposes) is for reasons of pure hacker fun (weee, look! linux on xbox! take that m$) and also because we all feel we're poking billg in the eye at the same time. Admit it. I do.
- Oisin
Ouch! Georgi Guninski must be feeling a little hard done by; he resolved a number of privacy problems for Netscape, but probably only got $1000 a pop.
Agreed, but it's a pity really. Back "in the day", Netscape corp was gripped by the hacker ethic, driven by it's then very young visionary, Marc Andreeson as you well know. It was initially a port of Mosaic to X windows -- and its monolithic, C-based architecture never changed; we all have the horrific DHTML hacks put forth in 4.x to attest to that. Microsoft hit the nail on the head with their rewritten 4.0 release (although stability was an issue, it had an amazing DOM model). Anyhow, this is all past history now, we have excellent browsers like Opera, Mozilla-based and, last, but not least IE itself.
The sad thing is, you're probably 100% serious when you say that. It must really sting to discover that microsoft are not at the root of all bad business practices.
</troll>
whoze fifte3n? eye am elev3n. you fux0r.
Publishing details of an anonymous fast mirror on Slashdot would immediately invalidate the description of it being an "anonymous fast mirror"
- Ois
It's Indian-Style Dodgy Networking.
- Oisin
I've recently bought the Flash2Linker eeprom cart for my gameboy, and the CD that comes with it has several video rom images. It is very capable of playing them. I watched a trailer for "ice age" on it, now that I think of it, you can get a TV tuner for it anyhow?
- Oisin
My college roommate played one of these games as a female for a while. He got hit on so much that he said he didn't see how anybody could play as a female.
How sad. This truism doesn't do much to support the good doctor's research now, does it? - Ois
When I did some contract work at Microsoft a few years ago, I was a v- prefix (a vee dasher). The article suggests that a- was a temp worker. I've seen a-, t- and v- prefixes. Any blue badgers out there that can clarify the prefixes?
- Ois
"Hey Mr. Taco, this story appears three times on the homepage, being attributed twice to you as a poster."
"Yes, I know. April fool! Hahahah!"
"I want to laugh and feel caught out by the joke, but I'm finding it difficult to derive humour from it."
"That's because it was a genuine mistake! hahhah! April Fool!"
"It's still not funny. You're not getting out that easily."
"..."
True, but even within Europe things can differ. I'm an Irishman, living in London, UK. Their respective censor boards (for rating a cinema release PG, 12, 15, 18 etc) are different, with the Irish censor board being more lenient with sexual content (goes against the Irish church-going stereotype, I know), whereas the the English are more relaxed about violence (very much goes with the English stereotype lager-lout). e.g. A film with heavy sexual content may well be rated 15 in Ireland, and 18 in the UK, and vice-versa with a very violent film. Hmmm.
- Oisin
Prior to EA taking over Westwood, the games were fairly abstract, or at least set way out of context 60 years ago, e.g. C&C Red Alert. I wonder is this the result of EA's marketing honchos?
If the Germans are putting the game on the restricted list because 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts', by extension of the same logic, shouldn't the United States drop the price 50% maybe or, uh, just give it away free?
As regards those of you implying that the Germans shy away from violence on TV, on the contrary -- in my many visits there, I've noticed that some of the content is quite graphic and very violent. But the big difference is that the violence they show on TV is nine times out of ten the real thing: news of robberies, middle-east conflict, wars etc. They tend (AFIACT) to not show depicted/fictional violence which although may be condescending to most of us, implying that we cannot tell the difference between depicted and actual violence, but at least young children will not be wondering if it's real or not.
Additionally, they are well aware of their violent past and are not trying to ignore/hide it. Any time I was there, there was usually some kind of WWII documentary going on somewhere on TV.
- Oisin
Except he was born in Thailand.
- Ois
If you say it reboots in that configuration, fair enough: I stand correctd. I was pretty sure that the vanilla fresh install of 2k/sp0 didn't automatically reboot. It's been so long since I've seen a BSOD, I may be mistaken. Honestly :)
- Oisin
[flamebait]Since noone here really knows anything about Windows[/flamebait], I'd better answer this one -- on the contrary my friend, you _do_ have several logs of the event (details for default install of win2000):
:)
- An event notification in the NT Event Log
- A carbon copy of the bluescreen data at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\
- System crash dump (choice of small/kernel/complete) at %systemroot%\memory.dmp
- user process space dump at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\user.dmp
Run drwtsn32.exe to see some of these options, additionally, right-click my computer, advanced tab, startup and recovery options.
Additionally, Windows does not have "automatically reboot" enabled by default. Either you or your administrator chose to enable that behaviour.
Enough of the "bah, windows 2000 doesn't do this, nor that" banter. RTFM (yes, I know there is no manual, F1 it mate) or, ATFM "ask the f*ing adminstrator".
- Oisin
I'm not trying to bait here, but hello? So everyone's whining (again) because you can't just open up a Word Document directly in OpenOffice / StarOffice / WhateverOffice? You've got better than that -- you've got the DATA, e.g. the English text, and you apply your own styles (xslt etc). This is what XML data exchange is all about no? Presentation is just syntactic sugar, no? Separate your data from presentation.
- Oisin
Seriously though, you have to take this with a large pinch of salt. You can't just compare any arbitrary encryption systems by means of the length of their "encryption" keys, and any company that tries to promote their product in such a way should set the alarm bells ringing immediately. Comparing their "million bit key" (most likely some kind of symmetric system) against an 512/1024/2048 bit RSA key (entirely assymmetric) just doesn't make sense -- apples and oranges. People often make (or take advantage of) similar mistakes with SSL, which like PGP, is a combination of symmetric/assymmetric systems. Key lengths are not comparable in a linear fashion between different implementations.
Anyhow, it smells of fetid B.S. to me. Time will tell.
- Oisin
Retnal scans, for example, could be used to filter out suspects by race (based on eye color), or provide insight into the quality of someone's vision.
Maybe that's a bad example: looking at the photo on the drivers license -- I see a hispanic wearing glasses. But I'm not sure that I agree with you. It's not about having an ID that other people can identify you with, it's also about having a trustworthy ID that I can identify _myself_ with. A drivers license isn't worth a sh*t for that purpose, IMO.
- Oisin
Ok, guilty as charged. I am a karma whore.
Troll? It's meant to be ironic, or "Funny" for those of you who don't get it.
- Oisin
This story is patently untrue.
- Oisin
I don't think it's going to be an issue re: the hard surface. Who says it has to be a hard surface anyhow? why not put a mouse mat under your fingers? I think it's the older crew (descended from using mechanical typewriters) who are used to jabbing the keyboard like a psychotic drill instructor who are going to have to learn to be more light fingered.
;). USGold's Daley Thompson's Decathalon was the game, was it not? Or perhaps Konami's Hypersports? Ah, sweet memories! Who said computer games weren't good physical exercise? I used to sweat like a beast.
re: the joystick, no, not exactly two nails nor for the C64. I used a few relays and a 9v battery for my Amstrad 464
- Oisin