1. Xbox360 is VERY noisy to be of any use as a modern media appliance. It might have been cool ten years ago but these days you have several cheaper and QUIETER alternatives.
2. Xbox360 is DRM laden and locked down. You can play a DVD but that is pretty much it. Forget streaming video files from NAS/Network Shares unless you have a media streamer (i.e. PC) or formats that MS approves of.
Shame really as a modded classic xbox with XBMC beats the pants out of Xbox360. We're moving backwards instead of forwards.
Viable alternatives are mainly Atom and nVidia Ion GPU based hardware coming out onto the market.
I've recently acquired an Acer Revo. Its tiny, whisper quiet, comes with a Linux only option (read no $100 MS tax) and thanks to its Ion GPU can render 1080p h264 files whilst utilising 10% of the CPU (this is an Atom we are talking about).
All of this on XBMC on Linux. XBMC also offers a wealth of plugins that allow you to stream music, video from the net (you tube) etc.
Its sad state of affairs that it is the open source projects (i.e. non-funded and understaffed) that are leading the way in home entertainment usability whilst these multi billion multinationals are only concerned with limiting and controlling your experience, i.e. propriety formats, cables, DRM..... this shit never ends.
... don't write a web app using Delphi.... and don't write a an app using Paradox.
Having used both circa 1999 and vouch for the awesomeness of both products (at the time), the world has seriously moved on in regards to web development and database platforms.
There are many viable (and cheaper and far more reliable and easier and....) solutions utilising PHP (and their frameworks), Ruby (and its Frameworks), Java and dare I say (wretch) ASP.
>By the time the earth is uninhabitable, we will have terraformed Mars and Europa.
I don't think so somehow. I'd give us all 100 years tops:
* 2030 - Major/Vast global wars over resources * 2035 - All the infrastructure that we take for granted today will be but a dream.... referred to as the golden years. Mad Max 1. * 2045 - Mad Max 2 (lets not talk about Mad Max 3) lifestyle. Nomadic, barbaric and feudal fiefdoms circled around the last few remaining energy resources. * 2100 - humans loose ability to read/write * 2200 - I, for one, welcome out xyz overlords...
Its already too late as no effort is being made to find alternative resources... one days we'll just wake up with, "ZMG!!11oneone... no fuel!"
Humanity as a whole is less interesting in scientific endeavour and natural selection is no longer at work as we actively encourage our stupid/lazy/selfish behaviour via socialism and x-factor (pop star type show).
I did the same with Dell last year when I ordered my XPS M1330. It came with Vista + MS Works (at the time they had no pretend Linux alternative - with lower specs and same price as a Vista laptop).
I wrote to Dell for a refund and enclosed a printed out screenshot (via digital camera) of me ticking the "I reject license" on Vista bootup and another screenshot of Kubuntu running on the laptop.
A month later I was refunded £120 + vat for both Vista and Works. Not bad considering the laptop cost £520 - minus M$ Tax = £400.
Book 8?.. Hmm... not sure. Was that the one where 800 pages were dedicated to progressing the story 20 minutes? You know... where they nuked the...very bad.. place? Then did book nine move the story along another 10 minutes?
Will there be sub-games/mini-games for the following:
* Braid pulling. * Adjusting ones dress. * Complex embroidery design? Maybe have a web portal where other players can design complex dresses. Dress design will be rated by the length and detail of descriptions (minimum description 3000 words or one chapter). MMO even?
Excellent franchise to choose as both the TV series and games can produce multitudes of series/upgrades with no conclusion to plot or story.
A Tip for anyone contemplating reading the whole series. After book three, skip every twenty pages.
Had aborted attempts in 2001/2 with Corel Linux but wasn't that impressed.
Got hooked by Gentoo, however,around 2003/4 when I read through their stage 1 installation process. Learned more in those three days than I did in 10 years in IT about the constituents of an operating system and how it all interacts.
Was hooked even further when installed Gentoo on a chipped XBox, which then ran as my home DNS/File/OpenVPN/SVN server.
The UI might be a tad snappier but the innards, if you will, still remain Vista, which can be seen when running games.
Recent gaming benchmarks show that W7 offers absolutely no improvement when compared to Vista in terms of gaming performance increases. It still trounced by XP (and Ubuntu)
So you statement, "it is very quick", sir, is bullcrap
Any SSH attempt on my server generates an automatic abuse EMAIL to the offender's server and the upstream provider.
I generally get a 70% reply rate on my email from system admins saying that thanks to the notification they have found and patched the trojan responsible.
If enough of us would run this script then any such future attack would generate enough email notifications to all responsible admins then all ssh bots will be cleansed in a couple of attacks.
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I wouldn't really bother:
1. Xbox360 is VERY noisy to be of any use as a modern media appliance. It might have been cool ten years ago but these days you have several cheaper and QUIETER alternatives.
2. Xbox360 is DRM laden and locked down. You can play a DVD but that is pretty much it. Forget streaming video files from NAS/Network Shares unless you have a media streamer (i.e. PC) or formats that MS approves of.
Shame really as a modded classic xbox with XBMC beats the pants out of Xbox360. We're moving backwards instead of forwards.
Viable alternatives are mainly Atom and nVidia Ion GPU based hardware coming out onto the market.
I've recently acquired an Acer Revo. Its tiny, whisper quiet, comes with a Linux only option (read no $100 MS tax) and thanks to its Ion GPU can render 1080p h264 files whilst utilising 10% of the CPU (this is an Atom we are talking about).
All of this on XBMC on Linux. XBMC also offers a wealth of plugins that allow you to stream music, video from the net (you tube) etc.
Its sad state of affairs that it is the open source projects (i.e. non-funded and understaffed) that are leading the way in home entertainment usability whilst these multi billion multinationals are only concerned with limiting and controlling your experience, i.e. propriety formats, cables, DRM..... this shit never ends.
I repeat:
DHS == Gestapo
to confirm, DHS === Gestapo
... don't write a web app using Delphi.... and don't write a an app using Paradox.
Having used both circa 1999 and vouch for the awesomeness of both products (at the time), the world has seriously moved on in regards to web development and database platforms.
There are many viable (and cheaper and far more reliable and easier and....) solutions utilising PHP (and their frameworks), Ruby (and its Frameworks), Java and dare I say (wretch) ASP.
Good luck!
Looks neat, but can it run Linux?
I am thinking that extra effort has been made to ensure that it can never run Linux...abit like the xbox and then more successfully the xbox360.
Shame as it is what I love about my PRS-505.
Brought to you from the makers or successful and well beloved products such as the Zune.....
Looks nice but I'm not holding my breath on this one as I expect it to be hobbled/crippled and DRMed to infinity and beyond!
In that case I better invest in some screen wipe stocks, or better still in a screen wipe factory.
>By the time the earth is uninhabitable, we will have terraformed Mars and Europa.
I don't think so somehow. I'd give us all 100 years tops:
* 2030 - Major/Vast global wars over resources
* 2035 - All the infrastructure that we take for granted today will be but a dream.... referred to as the golden years. Mad Max 1.
* 2045 - Mad Max 2 (lets not talk about Mad Max 3) lifestyle. Nomadic, barbaric and feudal fiefdoms circled around the last few remaining energy resources.
* 2100 - humans loose ability to read/write
* 2200 - I, for one, welcome out xyz overlords...
Its already too late as no effort is being made to find alternative resources... one days we'll just wake up with, "ZMG!!11oneone... no fuel!"
Humanity as a whole is less interesting in scientific endeavour and natural selection is no longer at work as we actively encourage our stupid/lazy/selfish behaviour via socialism and x-factor (pop star type show).
Followed links from TFA but could not find any images.... intrigued to see aerial/satellite images of this.
Goes without saying that I, for one, welcome our new plastic bottle overlords
I did the same with Dell last year when I ordered my XPS M1330. It came with Vista + MS Works (at the time they had no pretend Linux alternative - with lower specs and same price as a Vista laptop).
I wrote to Dell for a refund and enclosed a printed out screenshot (via digital camera) of me ticking the "I reject license" on Vista bootup and another screenshot of Kubuntu running on the laptop.
A month later I was refunded £120 + vat for both Vista and Works. Not bad considering the laptop cost £520 - minus M$ Tax = £400.
Or even better, networked X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter
>..without their stupid JavaScript alerting you that their site is their content, blah, blah
FF + NoScript = WIN!
telnet??!!11
I dumped telnet for browsing once I discovered Gopher. Try it. You'll never look back.
Book 11 was not bad (if you read every 10nth page). The story does start moving along (an old character comes back for example).
Plot didn't move along enough though. Considering that the 12th book was to be the final, it had to be over 2000 pages long to conclude the story.
Book 8?.. Hmm... not sure. Was that the one where 800 pages were dedicated to progressing the story 20 minutes? You know... where they nuked the ...very bad.. place? Then did book nine move the story along another 10 minutes?
Thankfully its all a blur.
Oh Frak! Wrong series!
Will there be sub-games/mini-games for the following:
* Braid pulling.
* Adjusting ones dress.
* Complex embroidery design? Maybe have a web portal where other players can design complex dresses. Dress design will be rated by the length and detail of descriptions (minimum description 3000 words or one chapter). MMO even?
Excellent franchise to choose as both the TV series and games can produce multitudes of series/upgrades with no conclusion to plot or story.
A Tip for anyone contemplating reading the whole series. After book three, skip every twenty pages.
Think of the children!
Like you said, the XBox's CPU (a Celeron 600MHZ) is not capable of running an MKV which contain x264 video encoded on anything higher than 720p.
Fortunately, XBMC is also available for both Linux, AppleTV and the Apple Mini.
The Linux editionof XBMC (and I think the Apple version) comes with the bonus that ASS subs are rendered correctly (i.e. as styled in the Subs).
I'm just waiting to find a good Linux supported HD video capture card before I build my new Linux PVR.
What about MKV containers and ASS subtitles. I bet it can't handle those or if it does, it renders these crappily.
No thanks! I'll stick to my chipped XBox server running Samba on Gentoo and my other chipped Xbox running XBMC.
This setup worked better in 2005 than Microsoft's current offering.
Had aborted attempts in 2001/2 with Corel Linux but wasn't that impressed.
Got hooked by Gentoo, however,around 2003/4 when I read through their stage 1 installation process. Learned more in those three days than I did in 10 years in IT about the constituents of an operating system and how it all interacts.
Was hooked even further when installed Gentoo on a chipped XBox, which then ran as my home DNS/File/OpenVPN/SVN server.
Never looked back since!!
The UI might be a tad snappier but the innards, if you will, still remain Vista, which can be seen when running games.
Recent gaming benchmarks show that W7 offers absolutely no improvement when compared to Vista in terms of gaming performance increases. It still trounced by XP (and Ubuntu)
So you statement, "it is very quick", sir, is bullcrap
"lightning-quick Windows 7" my ass!!
Any SSH attempt on my server generates an automatic abuse EMAIL to the offender's server and the upstream provider.
I generally get a 70% reply rate on my email from system admins saying that thanks to the notification they have found and patched the trojan responsible.
If enough of us would run this script then any such future attack would generate enough email notifications to all responsible admins then all ssh bots will be cleansed in a couple of attacks.
Read about and get my script from here: http://panthersoftware.com/articles/view/5
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