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I believe you're mistaken. Halo, as I understand it, already supported network play as long as you're on a LAN. What these guys did is write a bridging app that makes many networks over the internet look like a single LAN to the XBox. In esence, Microsoft isn't loosing money on this one.
What they might lose money on is a replacement for their centrilized networking system, where they probably expected to charge you a monthly fee so that you can play games with larger number of people (unlike their current LAN option which limits significantly the number of players). But even this will be highly hackable. I mean, there are many clone servers for Everquest and Ultima Online, it's virtually impossible for microsoft to actually avoid this. They'll have to rely on value added services if they want to make money off their private network.
The BBC and CNN do it again. They oversimplify matters so that they sound like better news than they actually are, in order to satisfy their increasing market of people whose IQ is slightly lower than their shoes size. At least this article didn't twist the facts like the BBC has beeng doing during the last few months (I still can't figure out why, and the whistle has been blown broadly).
I'm pretty sure this guy is running low on cash so he hurried up this test in order to get some media attention that would help him get some more funds. It doesn't really matter really, since I already know who's goign to win. That will be Armadillo Aerospace
They had a crash a few months ago and have recovered very well. their plans are the opposite from what most of the other contestant's are doing. They're working on a design that revolves around the ability to seat people on it, instead of trying to get higher than anyone and then picking up the parts. Actually, now that I think of it, I don't even think they're doing this for the prize, which makes them even better candidates.
Of course, now I am also oversimplifying things, but at least I don't make money doing it, so I encourage you to go to John Carmak's site and check out the logs. Maybe someone here can help out with those Windows ME features he's been having problems with (check out the last few log entries)
I live in Panama (central america) and most ISPs have local access in poor areas. These are not Afghanistan poor, these are people that might have telephones and might have a TV, but the schools have very limited resources. Besides, Cable and Wireless is the local telco, and they might be interested in doing this. I think I'm gonna give them a call. How about etherenet? We could get cheap ADSL service in a room with 20 dreamcasts (yes our poor areas have ADSL access) and make a lot of kids happy...
I have never seen a dreamcast in action other than those demo units you see in some stores, so I'm not sure if what i'm about to say will be as wrong as that email from kabul Katz told us about
Can I buy a dreamcast, a keyboard, connect it to the internet and have it run a browser? if this is so, this is the cheapest way to setup an internet cafe, and since I live in a third world country, I can actually see this being an option for inernet access on very poor regions, where telephone service is available, but computers are out of the question.
anyone knows about this? I think I might be willing to donate several if this is viable.
As always my memory fails me, but I read in Wired Magazine, about a year ago, about this guy that stored the energy generated by your footsteps and then used it to power all sorts of devices. It turns out he was doing pretty well, but I don't know what came out of it.
Now, if we were to identify a real demand for personal power generation, I'm sure there's a combination of strategies we could use, like those footsteps, body heat, chemicals, heck, even blinking!.. If you consider how many calories are burnt every day by our bodies in order to make it work, and how much energy is released in all sorts of ways, I'm sure we could power our cellphones and PDA's forever.
So how did the situation get to where we find it to be?
Doesnt anybory believe in God anymore? isn't it reasonable to believe that we were engineered by a superior being that we could call our creator? And if someone has enough power or wisdom or technology at his disposal to engineer life as complex as ours, wouldn't he/she have god-like ability to our eyes?
I don't know, but THIS is the logical explanation to me.
You know, I think I have a better idea. Not as convenient, but maybe more realistic in the shorter term.
How about a projector? what if the PDA had a small screen for when you don't have a surface to project on, and a little projector lens on the top that you can point to a wall or desk or whatever and have a larger resolution and a larger screen, then use the built in surface only to point and click (a la digitizer tablets)?
if we can fit a high resolution projector in a VR headest (that projects directly into the eye), then maybe we can do this.
Were he a reporter for the Washington Post or New York Times challenging claims of Microsoft or Adobe or Disney, you can only imagine the media furor, and the pressure being brought to bear on politicians and federal officials to get him out.
The reason the media hasn't said jack about Sklyarov is not becaue he's not a journalist, it's because he's not an American.
He's a Russian Hacker. See!? Even to us slashdotters, that almost sounds like a bad thing, but of course it isn't.. That's profiling for you...
Rename regedit.exe to regedit.com, this way the virus can't enter the line in the registry that makes it run everytime you fart or sneeze
Create a folder named "documents i don't want seen by anyone" and move everything you have in \my documents there (even folders). This way the one time the virus will run (when you open the attachment) it won't find shit to send.
By using the telephone to cut deals more efficiently. Buy and Sell faster, cheaper.
Which is exactly the way you make money off the Internet. The Internet itself works perfectly. It's the lousy applications they're trying to make money off that just don't work, or they're just trying to find and excuse for the dot com craze and crash (both of them are their own creation)
Trust me, I know. I run a VERY succesful B2B digital marketplace, with ERP integration capabilities, in Panama (Central America), and I've helped big and small companies save millions of dollars with our app.
Unless their solution has some form of serious paper rating system (sorry, slashcode won't do it) and/or peer review guidelines, having a free for all form of publishing will be very bad news for science.
There are many more wanna be scientists, pseudo scientists and profiteers out there than real hard core scientists. The ones that really contribute to human knowledge.
I know information wants to be free, but we need to remember that these pseudo scientists want free publicity. How will we konw where the well written, well tested, well reviewed papers are? It's already hard enough to read your email with all the spam.
You know, I still can't figure it out. Who whould have thought in 1988 that a movie would look modern, cutting edge, and indistinguishable from a new release 13 years later! C'mon, do you think Atlantis, or even Final Fantasy will look up to date 13 years from now? I doubt it!
The really sad thing is, nothing coming today, from disney, dreamworks, heck, even regular hollywood is as entretaining and elaborate.
Anybody dumb enough to get on that island again deserves what he gets
And anybody dumb enough to go see that movie deserves what he gets...
Honestly, didn't you know what to expect when you went to see it? I did, I knew exactly what I was gonna get, and that's what I got. No more No less. But at least I'm not complaining...
Actually, by 2015 you'll have 2MB. which is not bad considering you could then have a bunch of these and actually have some usable memory at molecular speeds and power consumption, not to mention size.
That is, if they can double their memory capacity every two years, and there's no reason they can't do this, or even faster.
1- Last mile connection has always been a problem for telcos because they aren't profitable. it is the service that is profitable (so the cost of the last maile has to be subsidised)
2- Therefore this can only mean good news for big telcos and ISPs
3- Oh, but what if a lot of amateurs just setup a bunch of these and it's free and people don't have to pay for it, are the telco's and ISP's screwed then?
4- Nope. the problem with spread spectrum and other no-license-required frequencies is that, well, no license is required, meaning there's no control over it and eventually they get saturated. so all a telco or ISP has to do is install plenty of these cheap antenas when enough people are using it for it to matter, make sure that those antenas are a tad more powerful than the amateur ones and presto. you took over. ever seen what spread spectrum looks like in El Salvador (and no, San Salvador is not some ugly middle of the jungle place like most americans think)? Caracas? Rio de Janeiro?
5- Once this is done, the demand for this either crashes (due to poor connection quality because of interference), or the big companies steal all the customers....at a price.
hmm just re-read the post and kinda sounds like a troll. that wasn't the intent. sorry.
So they make a comparisson about compression formats, get together several "experts" in the field and the writer sums up the conclusions in a few oversimplified statements for the lazy reader.
God forbid they actually told you ALL the aspects of the story, the complete facts: what're the compression rates? which one compresses more? is there a relation between file size vs. quality (well, of course there is, but is some form of compression significan enough to justify lower quality? or the other way around?)
Sorry for the ranting, but I've been trying to catch up on what's going on in the world today and the more I read the more frustrated I get with regular articles from regular sources (the CNN's and MSNBC's). And has anyone noticed that it's becoming less and less of a practice to actually link the original source of the information?
Oh, and why is slashdot so slow today? maybe I should have named this post "A bad day...".
This is great news indeed, but I wouldn't call it a breakthrough. We still need to figure out a way to print the chip designs using transistors this size, and THAT's gonna be pretty hard.
Best way to go, I would think, is to build microbots that build nanobots, that build nanochips. We won't be able to halndle nano-manufacturing directly I think.
Slashdot Mirror
So in this punchcards world, a hacker tool is an icepick?
"Oh this guy is good!, see here? where he introduced the virus? see how round and aligned those holes are? this guy is a first class hacker man!"
Thank god they didn't write Swordfish back then...
Now we know how little John Connor did it!
I believe you're mistaken. Halo, as I understand it, already supported network play as long as you're on a LAN. What these guys did is write a bridging app that makes many networks over the internet look like a single LAN to the XBox. In esence, Microsoft isn't loosing money on this one.
What they might lose money on is a replacement for their centrilized networking system, where they probably expected to charge you a monthly fee so that you can play games with larger number of people (unlike their current LAN option which limits significantly the number of players). But even this will be highly hackable. I mean, there are many clone servers for Everquest and Ultima Online, it's virtually impossible for microsoft to actually avoid this. They'll have to rely on value added services if they want to make money off their private network.
The BBC and CNN do it again. They oversimplify matters so that they sound like better news than they actually are, in order to satisfy their increasing market of people whose IQ is slightly lower than their shoes size. At least this article didn't twist the facts like the BBC has beeng doing during the last few months (I still can't figure out why, and the whistle has been blown broadly).
I'm pretty sure this guy is running low on cash so he hurried up this test in order to get some media attention that would help him get some more funds. It doesn't really matter really, since I already know who's goign to win. That will be Armadillo Aerospace
They had a crash a few months ago and have recovered very well. their plans are the opposite from what most of the other contestant's are doing. They're working on a design that revolves around the ability to seat people on it, instead of trying to get higher than anyone and then picking up the parts. Actually, now that I think of it, I don't even think they're doing this for the prize, which makes them even better candidates.
Of course, now I am also oversimplifying things, but at least I don't make money doing it, so I encourage you to go to John Carmak's site and check out the logs. Maybe someone here can help out with those Windows ME features he's been having problems with (check out the last few log entries)
I live in Panama (central america) and most ISPs have local access in poor areas. These are not Afghanistan poor, these are people that might have telephones and might have a TV, but the schools have very limited resources. Besides, Cable and Wireless is the local telco, and they might be interested in doing this. I think I'm gonna give them a call. How about etherenet? We could get cheap ADSL service in a room with 20 dreamcasts (yes our poor areas have ADSL access) and make a lot of kids happy...
I have never seen a dreamcast in action other than those demo units you see in some stores, so I'm not sure if what i'm about to say will be as wrong as that email from kabul Katz told us about
Can I buy a dreamcast, a keyboard, connect it to the internet and have it run a browser? if this is so, this is the cheapest way to setup an internet cafe, and since I live in a third world country, I can actually see this being an option for inernet access on very poor regions, where telephone service is available, but computers are out of the question.
anyone knows about this? I think I might be willing to donate several if this is viable.
As always my memory fails me, but I read in Wired Magazine, about a year ago, about this guy that stored the energy generated by your footsteps and then used it to power all sorts of devices. It turns out he was doing pretty well, but I don't know what came out of it.
Now, if we were to identify a real demand for personal power generation, I'm sure there's a combination of strategies we could use, like those footsteps, body heat, chemicals, heck, even blinking!.. If you consider how many calories are burnt every day by our bodies in order to make it work, and how much energy is released in all sorts of ways, I'm sure we could power our cellphones and PDA's forever.
It's irrelevant! the fact that we have a god doesn't mean he/she doesn't have one too.
So how did the situation get to where we find it to be?
Doesnt anybory believe in God anymore? isn't it reasonable to believe that we were engineered by a superior being that we could call our creator? And if someone has enough power or wisdom or technology at his disposal to engineer life as complex as ours, wouldn't he/she have god-like ability to our eyes?
I don't know, but THIS is the logical explanation to me.
You know, I think I have a better idea. Not as convenient, but maybe more realistic in the shorter term.
How about a projector? what if the PDA had a small screen for when you don't have a surface to project on, and a little projector lens on the top that you can point to a wall or desk or whatever and have a larger resolution and a larger screen, then use the built in surface only to point and click (a la digitizer tablets)?
if we can fit a high resolution projector in a VR headest (that projects directly into the eye), then maybe we can do this.
Were he a reporter for the Washington Post or New York Times challenging claims of Microsoft or Adobe or Disney, you can only imagine the media furor, and the pressure being brought to bear on politicians and federal officials to get him out.
The reason the media hasn't said jack about Sklyarov is not becaue he's not a journalist, it's because he's not an American.
He's a Russian Hacker. See!? Even to us slashdotters, that almost sounds like a bad thing, but of course it isn't.. That's profiling for you...
Rename regedit.exe to regedit.com, this way the virus can't enter the line in the registry that makes it run everytime you fart or sneeze
Create a folder named "documents i don't want seen by anyone" and move everything you have in \my documents there (even folders). This way the one time the virus will run (when you open the attachment) it won't find shit to send.
Well, everyda more and more telemarketing call centers are being installed outside the US, where this law doesn't apply.
"How do you make money off the telephone?"
By using the telephone to cut deals more efficiently. Buy and Sell faster, cheaper.
Which is exactly the way you make money off the Internet. The Internet itself works perfectly. It's the lousy applications they're trying to make money off that just don't work, or they're just trying to find and excuse for the dot com craze and crash (both of them are their own creation)
Trust me, I know. I run a VERY succesful B2B digital marketplace, with ERP integration capabilities, in Panama (Central America), and I've helped big and small companies save millions of dollars with our app.
I just hope Solotrek's vehicle is more reliable and stable than their web server...
Unless their solution has some form of serious paper rating system (sorry, slashcode won't do it) and/or peer review guidelines, having a free for all form of publishing will be very bad news for science.
There are many more wanna be scientists, pseudo scientists and profiteers out there than real hard core scientists. The ones that really contribute to human knowledge.
I know information wants to be free, but we need to remember that these pseudo scientists want free publicity. How will we konw where the well written, well tested, well reviewed papers are? It's already hard enough to read your email with all the spam.
These are just my thoghts of course.
You know, I still can't figure it out. Who whould have thought in 1988 that a movie would look modern, cutting edge, and indistinguishable from a new release 13 years later! C'mon, do you think Atlantis, or even Final Fantasy will look up to date 13 years from now? I doubt it!
The really sad thing is, nothing coming today, from disney, dreamworks, heck, even regular hollywood is as entretaining and elaborate.
Anybody dumb enough to get on that island again deserves what he gets
And anybody dumb enough to go see that movie deserves what he gets...
Honestly, didn't you know what to expect when you went to see it? I did, I knew exactly what I was gonna get, and that's what I got. No more No less. But at least I'm not complaining...
Actually, by 2015 you'll have 2MB. which is not bad considering you could then have a bunch of these and actually have some usable memory at molecular speeds and power consumption, not to mention size.
That is, if they can double their memory capacity every two years, and there's no reason they can't do this, or even faster.
1- Last mile connection has always been a problem for telcos because they aren't profitable. it is the service that is profitable (so the cost of the last maile has to be subsidised)
2- Therefore this can only mean good news for big telcos and ISPs
3- Oh, but what if a lot of amateurs just setup a bunch of these and it's free and people don't have to pay for it, are the telco's and ISP's screwed then?
4- Nope. the problem with spread spectrum and other no-license-required frequencies is that, well, no license is required, meaning there's no control over it and eventually they get saturated. so all a telco or ISP has to do is install plenty of these cheap antenas when enough people are using it for it to matter, make sure that those antenas are a tad more powerful than the amateur ones and presto. you took over. ever seen what spread spectrum looks like in El Salvador (and no, San Salvador is not some ugly middle of the jungle place like most americans think)? Caracas? Rio de Janeiro?
5- Once this is done, the demand for this either crashes (due to poor connection quality because of interference), or the big companies steal all the customers....at a price.
hmm just re-read the post and kinda sounds like a troll. that wasn't the intent. sorry.
Didn't IBM patent the concept of large hard drive space in small packages?
Toshiba is in deep shite now!
So they make a comparisson about compression formats, get together several "experts" in the field and the writer sums up the conclusions in a few oversimplified statements for the lazy reader.
God forbid they actually told you ALL the aspects of the story, the complete facts: what're the compression rates? which one compresses more? is there a relation between file size vs. quality (well, of course there is, but is some form of compression significan enough to justify lower quality? or the other way around?)
Sorry for the ranting, but I've been trying to catch up on what's going on in the world today and the more I read the more frustrated I get with regular articles from regular sources (the CNN's and MSNBC's). And has anyone noticed that it's becoming less and less of a practice to actually link the original source of the information?
Oh, and why is slashdot so slow today? maybe I should have named this post "A bad day...".
I apologize again for the negative tone.
I know this post came a little late, but here it is anyways. for the complete story on the SJGames Vs. Secret Service saga, check out this link:
http://www.2600.com/secret/sj.html
This is great news indeed, but I wouldn't call it a breakthrough. We still need to figure out a way to print the chip designs using transistors this size, and THAT's gonna be pretty hard.
Best way to go, I would think, is to build microbots that build nanobots, that build nanochips. We won't be able to halndle nano-manufacturing directly I think.
The obligatory reference to Porn.