Yes except the beauty of a console is that everything is standardized. Besides, I wouldn't want to solder a mod chip on this thing. Installing one on a PS2 was a weekend project for an EE student; you needed a good soldering workstation and some mad soldering skills. I can only imagine how much harder it'll be on this thing.
Well, that's what we have DNS for, isn't it?:) You could easily rig up a service like DNS (say,.phone) and have (country).(areacode).(exchange).(number).phone just like we have now. For IPV6, I'd imagine you have to. The human brain gets really confused when numbers get longer than 7 or 8 digits; as in you start transposing digits, forgetting parts, etc unless you can come up with a mnemonic device to remember them with. So I think it's safe to say it'd have to closely resemble the system we have today. At least from an end-user perspective.
Yeah except you waste $300+ from the get-go buying an Xbox/PC to do this with. Plus a DVD library will expand as you need it to; an Xbox would be able to store about as much as a TiVo can. Which isn't much if you're wanting to archive shows.
Obviously you didn't read the post. He has a fucking TiVo, he wants to ARCHIVE things. As in, store lots of stuff he probably won't ever watch but he can should he ever choose to. DVDs over the long run are cheaper than hard drives, and it's easier to grab off the shelf, stick in the DVD player and hit "play". Also, the DVD idea is probably cheaper anyway. $200 for a DVD-R, as opposed to $300 at the very least (significantly more if you want lots of disk space) for your little plan.
Yes, except blue laser DVDs can only be read by blue laser players. Not to mention blue laser diodes are still REALLY expensive. Blue lasers weren't invented that long ago, 5 years maybe. They're just now getting to lifetime levels acceptable for consumer goods. I wouldn't count on blue laser equipment being readily available or cheap for probably 5 years or more. The recorders will probably start around $2000 and gradually work themselves down. If for no other reason than the hardware manufacturers want to milk as much out of the current standard as they can. So in other words, the current DVD-Rs are going to be around for a while.
Dead on. Betamax was used by a lot of local news stations around the country up until about 2 years ago, when everything went digital. Some friends and I liberated some betamax tapes from a dumpster behind a local news station and put.45 and.223 slugs through them. Too bad we didn't have a player, otherwise we would have seen what was on them so we could know which tapes we REALLY wanted to destroy.
Um, if you wanna draw paralells to Zip/SyQuest, the SyQuest was out much before the Zip was. The SyQuest was basically a hard drive platter in a plastic case. The Zip was MUCH better, it had a larger capacity (100 MB vs 44 or 88,) it was a quarter of the size and the disks were cheap compared to dropping $100 on a 44 meg SyQuest disk. SyQuest died and everyone rejoiced. And then about a year later everyone got CD-Rs which had the added benefit of not needing an extra piece of hardware to read so the point was completely moot.
Only if you use Sega's development kit. KOS is essentially an open source dreamcast development kit (well, actually, it's a basic OS designed to load a single program.. but same thing essentially.) Though I really love how they're selling it without providing any screenshots. Is it really so bad they can't provide any idea of what the game looks like?
Haha, I'm flattered you read my website, but you really have no idea how decimated the job market is here:) Basically, the college students don't have jobs for the most part. The ones who do get fired when all their customers go home for the summer. So the locals are mostly hippies and have no shame working a crappy job in their mid 40s, plus most places aren't hiring right now anyway because 30,000 some odd kids just left town. Besides, at least I'm out looking for a job as opposed to spending all of daddy's money buying a GeForce FX4 Ultra Platinum Diamond Tiger Edition or whatever.
Benchmarks are pretty much only for fanboys who want to dicksize their systems. Ever looked at a gaming message board? Everyone has their 3dmark score in their sig. Other than that, most hardware review sites only mention 3dmark in passing, instead relying on more real world tests (read: games) than some stupid artificial benchmark. Hell even these fanboys will tell you that 3dmark means nothing. And believe me, the OEMs know what they're doing. Most OEMs use NVidia chips for business reasons (NVidia does not make their own cards like ATI does) not because they want to be part of some holy war. The video card market is about as interesting as the SCSI card market right now though. It's gotten to the point where it's just like "It's fast. Who cares what else."
This just sounds a lot to me like the old rumor that if you went faster than 30 mph your blood would boil. Also, keep in mind that a singularity is estimated to have a mass many, many million times that of earth. We're talking VERY massive, like "not enough raw material in the solar system" massive.
Oh I don't disagree really:) The US money system is a fossil from 40 years ago. In 20 years though, hard currency will probably be gone. We already have the technology, we just have to wait for society (and with an increased reliance on credit and debit cards, society is catching up quickly.) Then we can tell our grandkids, "When I was your age, we had this thing called money. And it was heavy! Man I had to carry 4 rolls of quarters uphill in the snow each way! You kids have it easy!"
Well, if you can afford the equipment necessary to counterfeit Australian notes well, you can probably hire an artist to recreate the note for you.. which is basically how the REAL counterfeits work. Though yeah, a lot of small scale counterfeiters will print out a few twenties then go have a night on the town. That's basically who these anti-counterfeit measures are designed to stop. The big guys will always be able to fake anything. All it takes is money, and christ, they're printing the stuff anyway, so who cares?
Right, but you're totally missing the point. "I would call [so and so] a hacker" is just hackers trying to modify their word to seem more mainstream (and thus make hackers less social outcasts, though it is the hacker's common fear of social situations that segregates him, not everyone else.) Common reflection word games is all you're playing here. Sure, we could call the guy who built the first train a "hacker," but we'd confuse many less people if we called him an "inventor" or an "entrepreneur." If you call a person a "hacker," the common man understands that to be a computer hacker. That is what the word means, regardless of what you think it should mean or even what the dictionary says.
And basically, you've just taken "science" and replaced it with "hacking" in the comment above. No really, replace every occurrance of the word "hacker" above with "scientist" and the like and it'll make more sense. In the minds of most people, hackers work on computers. Chemists work on chemicals and stuff, and botanists screw with plant genes. You wouldn't call a hacker a botanist, now would you? I think many people are proud of their work in these fields and would not want it misrepresented to the public. Stop playing word games, people have been trying this in philosophy for the past 3000 years; some do it well (Descartes, Nietszche, Mill); most do it poorly.
Yeah, but the point is we're replacing "having a hobby" with "hacking." I'm sure the guys who build little model trainsets are the same way, I wouldn't really call them "hackers." Playing word games doesn't really give you any real insight, but associating with other people in general does. People who like hacking old technology are usually called "historians." It's as good a hobby as any, but people have been tinkering on things forever. Cars, chariots, swords, etc. The blacksmith of yesteryear was replaced by the garage mechanic of yesterday was replaced by the computer hacker of today. It's all the same stuff, it's just one of the three will get you a better job (car mechanic or computer hacker, really depends on your place in the job market;)
I'm not trying to troll here or anything, but what does it matter? If you like doing it, keep doing it, it's basically the same with hacking (or any other hobby.) Some people like working in their yard, some people like doing weird science projects, some people like hacking. It's not the same thing, but they're both good hobbies.
I do have to say though editors, can't we get some more relevant questions? I thought this site had "Stuff that matters."
I think this standard might not matter anymore. Everyone seems to have settled on the preliminary standard, including Apple, the first company to heavily push 802.11b (and firewire, and USB...) The preliminary standard already has a pretty good head of steam and some surprisingly wide deployment, so in the end I think nobody is going to use this standard. There's no point.
Both. It can handle 64 bit instructions, but along with that comes the ability to handle 64 bit memory addresses. Memory address size is more or less limited to the instruction size, though with some dirty tricks in the initial design of a chip you can get around that (I think some of the earlier intel chips did this.. the 286 if I remember correctly.)
Well, there are these things called "bicycles," they're kind of like a segway except you have to pedal them. They also go quite a bit faster than segways, not to mention they're a good bit cheaper.
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Yes except the beauty of a console is that everything is standardized. Besides, I wouldn't want to solder a mod chip on this thing. Installing one on a PS2 was a weekend project for an EE student; you needed a good soldering workstation and some mad soldering skills. I can only imagine how much harder it'll be on this thing.
Well, that's what we have DNS for, isn't it? :) You could easily rig up a service like DNS (say, .phone) and have (country).(areacode).(exchange).(number).phone just like we have now. For IPV6, I'd imagine you have to. The human brain gets really confused when numbers get longer than 7 or 8 digits; as in you start transposing digits, forgetting parts, etc unless you can come up with a mnemonic device to remember them with. So I think it's safe to say it'd have to closely resemble the system we have today. At least from an end-user perspective.
Yeah except you waste $300+ from the get-go buying an Xbox/PC to do this with. Plus a DVD library will expand as you need it to; an Xbox would be able to store about as much as a TiVo can. Which isn't much if you're wanting to archive shows.
Obviously you didn't read the post. He has a fucking TiVo, he wants to ARCHIVE things. As in, store lots of stuff he probably won't ever watch but he can should he ever choose to. DVDs over the long run are cheaper than hard drives, and it's easier to grab off the shelf, stick in the DVD player and hit "play". Also, the DVD idea is probably cheaper anyway. $200 for a DVD-R, as opposed to $300 at the very least (significantly more if you want lots of disk space) for your little plan.
Yes, except blue laser DVDs can only be read by blue laser players. Not to mention blue laser diodes are still REALLY expensive. Blue lasers weren't invented that long ago, 5 years maybe. They're just now getting to lifetime levels acceptable for consumer goods. I wouldn't count on blue laser equipment being readily available or cheap for probably 5 years or more. The recorders will probably start around $2000 and gradually work themselves down. If for no other reason than the hardware manufacturers want to milk as much out of the current standard as they can. So in other words, the current DVD-Rs are going to be around for a while.
For a good history of BetaMax, I instruct everyone here to watch Cowboy Bebop #18. That is all.
Dead on. Betamax was used by a lot of local news stations around the country up until about 2 years ago, when everything went digital. Some friends and I liberated some betamax tapes from a dumpster behind a local news station and put .45 and .223 slugs through them. Too bad we didn't have a player, otherwise we would have seen what was on them so we could know which tapes we REALLY wanted to destroy.
Um, if you wanna draw paralells to Zip/SyQuest, the SyQuest was out much before the Zip was. The SyQuest was basically a hard drive platter in a plastic case. The Zip was MUCH better, it had a larger capacity (100 MB vs 44 or 88,) it was a quarter of the size and the disks were cheap compared to dropping $100 on a 44 meg SyQuest disk. SyQuest died and everyone rejoiced. And then about a year later everyone got CD-Rs which had the added benefit of not needing an extra piece of hardware to read so the point was completely moot.
Only if you use Sega's development kit. KOS is essentially an open source dreamcast development kit (well, actually, it's a basic OS designed to load a single program.. but same thing essentially.) Though I really love how they're selling it without providing any screenshots. Is it really so bad they can't provide any idea of what the game looks like?
Haha, I'm flattered you read my website, but you really have no idea how decimated the job market is here :) Basically, the college students don't have jobs for the most part. The ones who do get fired when all their customers go home for the summer. So the locals are mostly hippies and have no shame working a crappy job in their mid 40s, plus most places aren't hiring right now anyway because 30,000 some odd kids just left town. Besides, at least I'm out looking for a job as opposed to spending all of daddy's money buying a GeForce FX4 Ultra Platinum Diamond Tiger Edition or whatever.
Benchmarks are pretty much only for fanboys who want to dicksize their systems. Ever looked at a gaming message board? Everyone has their 3dmark score in their sig. Other than that, most hardware review sites only mention 3dmark in passing, instead relying on more real world tests (read: games) than some stupid artificial benchmark. Hell even these fanboys will tell you that 3dmark means nothing. And believe me, the OEMs know what they're doing. Most OEMs use NVidia chips for business reasons (NVidia does not make their own cards like ATI does) not because they want to be part of some holy war. The video card market is about as interesting as the SCSI card market right now though. It's gotten to the point where it's just like "It's fast. Who cares what else."
This just sounds a lot to me like the old rumor that if you went faster than 30 mph your blood would boil. Also, keep in mind that a singularity is estimated to have a mass many, many million times that of earth. We're talking VERY massive, like "not enough raw material in the solar system" massive.
Yeah, but often I'll get caught by the lameness filter when I'm posting a "no karma bonus" short reply to another post. Like this one.
Oh I don't disagree really :) The US money system is a fossil from 40 years ago. In 20 years though, hard currency will probably be gone. We already have the technology, we just have to wait for society (and with an increased reliance on credit and debit cards, society is catching up quickly.) Then we can tell our grandkids, "When I was your age, we had this thing called money. And it was heavy! Man I had to carry 4 rolls of quarters uphill in the snow each way! You kids have it easy!"
Then they'd sue you for terrorism :( It's technically biological warfare to send your tapeworm-infested feces to anyone.
Well, if you can afford the equipment necessary to counterfeit Australian notes well, you can probably hire an artist to recreate the note for you.. which is basically how the REAL counterfeits work. Though yeah, a lot of small scale counterfeiters will print out a few twenties then go have a night on the town. That's basically who these anti-counterfeit measures are designed to stop. The big guys will always be able to fake anything. All it takes is money, and christ, they're printing the stuff anyway, so who cares?
Right, but you're totally missing the point. "I would call [so and so] a hacker" is just hackers trying to modify their word to seem more mainstream (and thus make hackers less social outcasts, though it is the hacker's common fear of social situations that segregates him, not everyone else.) Common reflection word games is all you're playing here. Sure, we could call the guy who built the first train a "hacker," but we'd confuse many less people if we called him an "inventor" or an "entrepreneur." If you call a person a "hacker," the common man understands that to be a computer hacker. That is what the word means, regardless of what you think it should mean or even what the dictionary says.
And basically, you've just taken "science" and replaced it with "hacking" in the comment above. No really, replace every occurrance of the word "hacker" above with "scientist" and the like and it'll make more sense. In the minds of most people, hackers work on computers. Chemists work on chemicals and stuff, and botanists screw with plant genes. You wouldn't call a hacker a botanist, now would you? I think many people are proud of their work in these fields and would not want it misrepresented to the public. Stop playing word games, people have been trying this in philosophy for the past 3000 years; some do it well (Descartes, Nietszche, Mill); most do it poorly.
They forgot to remove debugging symbols. Then it's really easy. :)
Yeah, but the point is we're replacing "having a hobby" with "hacking." I'm sure the guys who build little model trainsets are the same way, I wouldn't really call them "hackers." Playing word games doesn't really give you any real insight, but associating with other people in general does. People who like hacking old technology are usually called "historians." It's as good a hobby as any, but people have been tinkering on things forever. Cars, chariots, swords, etc. The blacksmith of yesteryear was replaced by the garage mechanic of yesterday was replaced by the computer hacker of today. It's all the same stuff, it's just one of the three will get you a better job (car mechanic or computer hacker, really depends on your place in the job market ;)
I'm not trying to troll here or anything, but what does it matter? If you like doing it, keep doing it, it's basically the same with hacking (or any other hobby.) Some people like working in their yard, some people like doing weird science projects, some people like hacking. It's not the same thing, but they're both good hobbies.
I do have to say though editors, can't we get some more relevant questions? I thought this site had "Stuff that matters."
oops, bit stoned and I totally misread the article. Sorry!
I think this standard might not matter anymore. Everyone seems to have settled on the preliminary standard, including Apple, the first company to heavily push 802.11b (and firewire, and USB...) The preliminary standard already has a pretty good head of steam and some surprisingly wide deployment, so in the end I think nobody is going to use this standard. There's no point.
Both. It can handle 64 bit instructions, but along with that comes the ability to handle 64 bit memory addresses. Memory address size is more or less limited to the instruction size, though with some dirty tricks in the initial design of a chip you can get around that (I think some of the earlier intel chips did this.. the 286 if I remember correctly.)
Actually not really. It can process instructions that are twice as long as 32 bit per clock cycle.
Well, there are these things called "bicycles," they're kind of like a segway except you have to pedal them. They also go quite a bit faster than segways, not to mention they're a good bit cheaper.