He mounted the "sensor bar"-it was really two infrared LED's on a pair of glasses-on his head. The reason, IIRC, was that the Wiimote was rather heavy, and mounting the controller would have been a pain, while the LEDs and batteries didn't weigh that much, and were easy to fit on.
Yes, the Cell is powerful, but you fail to consider that graphics are only one part of what goes into a game. AI, sound, user input, and network operations also need to be considered. Given that, in a normal system architecture, a general purpose CPU handles all of that, and sends off instructions to a specialized GPU, the Cell architecture is radically different from what people are used to. That's what makes it hard.
I sincerely doubt that there are many(if any!) developers programming directly to the Cell processor. They're probably programming to Sony's SDK, which is, reportedly, very difficult to work with.
It depends on how much access the game code has to the OS code, though. Also, you need to remember that the HDD technically standard equipment for the system. It's "optional", as in you can buy a 360 without an HDD, but you need it for all the important stuff.
If it's anything like the way that Windows is for file mounting, it's pretty transparent-all you know is that the drive mount can access data from somewhere.
I'd wager that the 360 OS maps the HDD ISO to the same file mount as the DVD drive normally is whenever a game is started. Since all 360 games at this point did not have the option to install, I'd imagine that they're hard-coded to read from the "DVD drive", which, in the case of an install, would be wherever the ISO is mounted from. This would be pretty transparent from the game code standpoint, so it's probably hard to detect the install.
VAC works with Natural Selection, and wallhacks are a part of the game(there are scan abilities on both sides that allow this). If VAC was going on pure heuristics, it would be easy to ban everyone that played that.
The way copyright law is right now? Yes, it is an attack on free speech.
All any influential(i.e. rich) company or person needs to do is state that they have a copyright over something they don't want distributed, and they can stop anything from being put up on the 'net.
True, but the safe harbor provision states that a provider is a safe harbor if:
the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider; Comcast is selectively blocking certain methods. IANAL, but I think this qualifies as breaking this provision of the act.
And have they changed the contract?
It's a given that they're allowed to(you agreed to it to use their service), but if the updated one is not available, is it still valid?
Verizon settled because they're not paying anything here. They weren't the ones committing the GPL violation-Actiontec was. As a result, the ones paying are Actiontec.
leveled or levelled, leveling or levelling, levels
6. To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone: leveled charges of dishonesty. Looks about right...
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That's why I asked about Perl. I was expecting it. And was confused when I didn't see it mentioned.
What about Perl?
And he said that he's reaching the OpenDNS error page on typos.
He mounted the "sensor bar"-it was really two infrared LED's on a pair of glasses-on his head. The reason, IIRC, was that the Wiimote was rather heavy, and mounting the controller would have been a pain, while the LEDs and batteries didn't weigh that much, and were easy to fit on.
140 characters should be enough for everyone!
Yes, the Cell is powerful, but you fail to consider that graphics are only one part of what goes into a game. AI, sound, user input, and network operations also need to be considered. Given that, in a normal system architecture, a general purpose CPU handles all of that, and sends off instructions to a specialized GPU, the Cell architecture is radically different from what people are used to. That's what makes it hard.
I sincerely doubt that there are many(if any!) developers programming directly to the Cell processor. They're probably programming to Sony's SDK, which is, reportedly, very difficult to work with.
It depends on how much access the game code has to the OS code, though. Also, you need to remember that the HDD technically standard equipment for the system. It's "optional", as in you can buy a 360 without an HDD, but you need it for all the important stuff.
If it's anything like the way that Windows is for file mounting, it's pretty transparent-all you know is that the drive mount can access data from somewhere.
I'd wager that the 360 OS maps the HDD ISO to the same file mount as the DVD drive normally is whenever a game is started. Since all 360 games at this point did not have the option to install, I'd imagine that they're hard-coded to read from the "DVD drive", which, in the case of an install, would be wherever the ISO is mounted from. This would be pretty transparent from the game code standpoint, so it's probably hard to detect the install.
He's modded funny. Get over it.
But can you trust them?
This should be true.
VAC works with Natural Selection, and wallhacks are a part of the game(there are scan abilities on both sides that allow this). If VAC was going on pure heuristics, it would be easy to ban everyone that played that.
ISO C++?
Or pieces fall of the boss that spawn orbs.
They also were a layer of copy protection, often because they were hints or clues to an otherwise completely obscure puzzle.
Grep: 1, McCain: 0?
But useful.
The way copyright law is right now? Yes, it is an attack on free speech. All any influential(i.e. rich) company or person needs to do is state that they have a copyright over something they don't want distributed, and they can stop anything from being put up on the 'net.
And, on top of that, you know it'll end up on bash.org.
Don't tell them about helloworld. Please. I don't think the courts can handle that.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070529-survey-average-broadband-speed-in-us-is-1-9mbps.html Right...
And have they changed the contract? It's a given that they're allowed to(you agreed to it to use their service), but if the updated one is not available, is it still valid?
Verizon settled because they're not paying anything here. They weren't the ones committing the GPL violation-Actiontec was. As a result, the ones paying are Actiontec.
Or it counted dead people. It's near Chicago, after all.
6. To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone: leveled charges of dishonesty.
Looks about right...
Reconstructive surgery should count as profit. Someone's making money.