Do that, and you'll have Rufus the neighborhood pimp kicking down your door with some of the more colorful weapons in GTA3... Missile launcher? Possibly...:)
Re:Yay! Secret of Mana in the Car!
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Actually, Square has expressed interest in making games for GBA. However, Nintendo's President is an old coot who can't forgive a grudge and essentially told them to fuck off, to the shock of most of the rest of the leadership of Nintendo. It'll eventually happen, but it'll take some sensitive negotiation, but I think Square wants to do it enough that they'll make it happen.
I wholeheartedly agree. What many people forget is that while Microsoft may be a cold, heartless, evil corporation (tm), the people who work there generally are very smart people with lots of clue. If profits suffer, MS is going to fire these people before they lower prices. Lots of work goes into these programs, and while the prices may be a bit steep, just remember that the software you're buying is helping put food on a fellow geek's dinner table.
Re:This raises some frightening questions
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I believe a 50 mm cannon is called a "mortar.";) You're probably thinking of.50 caliber, which is about 12.1 mm, and still a fucking enormous gun. Hell, anything bigger than a.336 will be enough to blow a rather large hole in something (thus why.357 revolvers are classified as "big game hunting" weapons.)
Re:This raises some frightening questions
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Yeah, but a.50 caliber sniper rifle is fair game... Plus the.50 BMG rifles the US uses use the same ammo as a.50 caliber machine gun (BMG stands for Browning Machine Gun) Hell, they're even legal for civilians to own. Not to mention that the M98A1A rifles that US special forces use get 6" groupings at 1000 meters...
Nintendo learned from the N64. In the beginning, the N64 was rushed out the door without stockpiling a supply, and there were mass shortages, so people just bought a Playstation for Christmas. I have a feeling they wanted to avoid that situation again. Just because there are more available GCNs does not mean the GCN is less popular than the XBox. It just means Nintendo properly anticipated the demand and shipped enough units to retailers.
Also, the GCN is $100 less than the XBox. $100 is a non-trivial price difference. Sure, the XBox has "hacking potential" but Joe Consumer doesn't even know that the XBox has a hard drive nor care. With Microsoft and Sony going for the hybrid set top box/game console, Nintendo went back to the basics and designed a game console. Kudos to them on that.
Heh, but this is Tom's Hardware. They probably have more bandwidth and server horsepower than Slashdot. They've done an article or two on their servers and they occupy a couple cabinets. Same for Anandtech. Some sites just don't apply to the Slashdot effect.;)
I'm not sure that hacking Disney's network would be worth using a PDA covered in shit. Just me though... O:)
Re:Oh, the possibilities!
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Yeah, you could... if the XBox had USB. As is, you've gotta use their controllers. Not a big deal for MAME (just take it apart and rewire the button contacts to some arcade buttons) but it obviously wouldn't work on a keyboard.
And contrary to popular opinion, the XBox is NOT standard x86 architecture. Yes, it does run off an x86 CPU, but the memory bus is WAAAAY different than your run of the mill PC. It's sorta like the difference between an old Macintosh and an old Amiga. They both used the same CPU (M68000, which, incidentally, is used in a lot of other stuff too, including microwaves, SCSI cards, and many, many others) but obviously didn't run the same software (it was years before NetBSD would work on both of them.) XBox does support DirectX and Windows, but only because Microsoft has ported them to this new platform. For Linux to work, it would have to be ported as well.
Re:why so negative towards xbox?
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The gaming community as a whole pretty much looks down upon the XBox. Why? Because the XBox has nothing you can't get elsewhere. Sony has already sold umpteen million PS2s, and with games like Metal Gear Solid 2 (finished it yesterday.. Bar none one of the best games I've ever played) there's no real compelling reason to buy an XBox.
Yes, I know MGS2 is supposed to make it to XBox, but that's exactly my point. I'm not going to buy the same game twice. Every major title on XBox is available elsewhere, with the exception of Halo, which I wasn't really impressed with. It's just another FPS (and it felt like a Tribes ripoff) added to the fact that FPS games really don't play well on consoles. I'm not saying the XBox is bad/evil because it's made by Microsoft, I'm saying that I see no real reason to buy one. Most of my "non hardcore" gamer friends feel the same. Their attitude is "I already have a PS2, I don't need another one." The hardcore gamers hate the thing because it's Microsoft. I have a feeling this will be a failed experiment for Bill and Steve.
Re:How fast compared to ATA-100?
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It would almost certainly be faster. FireWire is 400mbs where ATA100 is 100 and more of a drain on the CPU. FireWire is actually based off SCSI, so just imagine that FireWire is SCSI in terms of performance, only faster. Thus you can have a FireWire CD burner going and it won't bog your system like an IDE burner will (or large writes to an IDE hard drive.)
Well.. Sometimes. If it's a true FireWire device (Apple's implementation) then there are 2 extra pins and with current running through them. If it's IEEE 1394 (IBM's implementation) then the bus is unpowered. There's not much power running through it regardless, so a lot of true FireWire drives still need AC adapters. Most devices use a plug simply because they want to be compatible with the unpowered version (which is cheaper and seems to be more popular.)
Not sure if they work under Linux yet, but..
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The SoundBlaster Audigy line, in addition to being fucking awesome sound cards, include FireWire on the card. I'm not sure if they work under Linux (I'm more of a server guy, I don't run Linux on a desktop box so I know little to nothing about audio drivers) IIRC however, there are only two or three companies making FireWire chipsets as the licensing fees are apparently pretty expensive, which greatly cuts down on the number of chipsets Linux has to support. I've personally never used my FireWire (even though I have it on my Athlon and iBook) but I'd love to get my hands on a few of these FireWire drives for the nasty anime DivX habit I have..
I currently attend the University of Texas, and the honors section of the introductory CS course is taught in Scheme. The non-honors sections used to be taught in Haskell and Scheme until last year, when they moved to Java. The upper level classes are now moving to Java as well. This disturbs and upsets me. Not because I hate Java (though I do) but because IMO it's a bad thing to concentrate on learning just one language. It's a good idea to learn one language very well (though I'd prefer C++) and to have a good knowledge of several others. Scheme is a good language to know because it's so radically different from Java/C. If you ever have a chance to take a course in Scheme, I highly reccomend it.
The problem with creating a "Linux division" as you say (MS already has a Mac division) is that a Linux software division really wouldn't be profitable on its own. The Linux userbase, in general, is not interested in paying for software. The Mac division is only profitable because Apple really helps push Office, plus Macs are a lot more prevalent in the corporate desktop market, which is where a lot of Office's (paying) users come from. Linux is used in corporate settings, but less as a general-purpose operating system and more as servers and more embedded-type systems (PoS systems, kiosks, etc,) but not somewhere Office would be useful. Yes, I know that one could find exceptions to this, but for the most part, this is the case.
This is actually more Nintendo not wanting to be left out of the DVD player market. Every other console (XBox, PS2) can play DVDs, so this is more just a special version of the GC that will play DVDs.
Aqua doesn't, however, you can download a rootless X server (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/) that lets you run X apps right along with Aqua apps. The same files are also available on http://macosx.forked.net/ in Mac OS X.pkg files, along with other useful stuff OS X doesn't include, such as ncurses. The window manager, by the way, is whatever window manager you decide to install-- it's just XFree86 ported to a darwin kernel with a rootless option. If you're not running OS X, XDarwin (not XonX) will probably work better for you.. It doesn't have the rootless option, but if you don't have Aqua, you don't really need it. Hope this was of help to some people.
How is paying for the internet any different than paying for cable TV? You have to pay the cable company (ISP) to get basic service, and extra to see the premium channels which have no advertising. Sure, there are all those other channels, but they cut into movies at awkward times to show commercials. Only thing is, advertising on the net simply doesn't work. Keeping a site like slashdot up has got to be expensive (I'd estimate $20,000 a month in bandwidth alone) Plus the guys who work on slashdot have to be paid as well, it's not like they're moneygrubbing fools, but this is their job, they have to put food on the table somehow. It takes a lot more than a snazzy design to keep a successful site up nowadays. It takes real money.
OS X also has a lot of things going for it that Linux does not. Full QuickTime support (native, not through MOL, which is pretty resource-heavy) OS X also has an *EXTREMELY* easy to use programming API (once you learn the quirks of Objective C, it's almost point-and-click GUI programming) as well as native use of AltiVec, PDF and XML, not to mention all the cool transparency stuff.
OS X can also run almost anything Linux can; XDarwin rootless is pretty mature, and has run everything I've thrown at it without a hitch. Coming right around the corner are fully OS X optimized Adobe applications (I've used betas.. those things kick ass, ultra fast) True, you can do all this under Linux with MOL, but as long as you're going to emulate Mac OS, you might as well just run it natively.:P Most of OS X's problems come from its immaturity; give it a year and see what it's like.
I agree with you that there is a problem, but I don't see freezing assets as a solution. eBay, like it or not, is not seen as being as "legitimate" as say, an auction house. It's more like the internet classifieds. Doing business on eBay implies a certain risk, though I do think eBay should have some sort of protection for the seller (as in not charging them a fee) if the buyer bails. There's a certain culture to eBay (look at the wording on the feedback ratings, you'll know what I mean) that just oozes "take with a grain of salt." eBay is "buyer beware" more than anything else.
This is a clear and easy buffer overflow. I can't believe nobody moderated this comment down as (-1, Insecure). Code as buggy as this should never see the light of day. This is how things like red alert start, haven't we learned our lesson?
The end result of this, however, will likely not be widespread use of open source. It will probably just lead to better corporate licensing policies. Which isn't really a bad thing in iself, however.
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Do that, and you'll have Rufus the neighborhood pimp kicking down your door with some of the more colorful weapons in GTA3... Missile launcher? Possibly... :)
Actually, Square has expressed interest in making games for GBA. However, Nintendo's President is an old coot who can't forgive a grudge and essentially told them to fuck off, to the shock of most of the rest of the leadership of Nintendo. It'll eventually happen, but it'll take some sensitive negotiation, but I think Square wants to do it enough that they'll make it happen.
I wholeheartedly agree. What many people forget is that while Microsoft may be a cold, heartless, evil corporation (tm), the people who work there generally are very smart people with lots of clue. If profits suffer, MS is going to fire these people before they lower prices. Lots of work goes into these programs, and while the prices may be a bit steep, just remember that the software you're buying is helping put food on a fellow geek's dinner table.
I believe a 50 mm cannon is called a "mortar." ;) You're probably thinking of .50 caliber, which is about 12.1 mm, and still a fucking enormous gun. Hell, anything bigger than a .336 will be enough to blow a rather large hole in something (thus why .357 revolvers are classified as "big game hunting" weapons.)
Yeah, but a .50 caliber sniper rifle is fair game... Plus the .50 BMG rifles the US uses use the same ammo as a .50 caliber machine gun (BMG stands for Browning Machine Gun) Hell, they're even legal for civilians to own. Not to mention that the M98A1A rifles that US special forces use get 6" groupings at 1000 meters...
Nintendo learned from the N64. In the beginning, the N64 was rushed out the door without stockpiling a supply, and there were mass shortages, so people just bought a Playstation for Christmas. I have a feeling they wanted to avoid that situation again. Just because there are more available GCNs does not mean the GCN is less popular than the XBox. It just means Nintendo properly anticipated the demand and shipped enough units to retailers.
Also, the GCN is $100 less than the XBox. $100 is a non-trivial price difference. Sure, the XBox has "hacking potential" but Joe Consumer doesn't even know that the XBox has a hard drive nor care. With Microsoft and Sony going for the hybrid set top box/game console, Nintendo went back to the basics and designed a game console. Kudos to them on that.
Heh, but this is Tom's Hardware. They probably have more bandwidth and server horsepower than Slashdot. They've done an article or two on their servers and they occupy a couple cabinets. Same for Anandtech. Some sites just don't apply to the Slashdot effect. ;)
I'm not sure that hacking Disney's network would be worth using a PDA covered in shit. Just me though... O:)
Yeah, you could... if the XBox had USB. As is, you've gotta use their controllers. Not a big deal for MAME (just take it apart and rewire the button contacts to some arcade buttons) but it obviously wouldn't work on a keyboard.
And contrary to popular opinion, the XBox is NOT standard x86 architecture. Yes, it does run off an x86 CPU, but the memory bus is WAAAAY different than your run of the mill PC. It's sorta like the difference between an old Macintosh and an old Amiga. They both used the same CPU (M68000, which, incidentally, is used in a lot of other stuff too, including microwaves, SCSI cards, and many, many others) but obviously didn't run the same software (it was years before NetBSD would work on both of them.) XBox does support DirectX and Windows, but only because Microsoft has ported them to this new platform. For Linux to work, it would have to be ported as well.
The gaming community as a whole pretty much looks down upon the XBox. Why? Because the XBox has nothing you can't get elsewhere. Sony has already sold umpteen million PS2s, and with games like Metal Gear Solid 2 (finished it yesterday.. Bar none one of the best games I've ever played) there's no real compelling reason to buy an XBox.
Yes, I know MGS2 is supposed to make it to XBox, but that's exactly my point. I'm not going to buy the same game twice. Every major title on XBox is available elsewhere, with the exception of Halo, which I wasn't really impressed with. It's just another FPS (and it felt like a Tribes ripoff) added to the fact that FPS games really don't play well on consoles. I'm not saying the XBox is bad/evil because it's made by Microsoft, I'm saying that I see no real reason to buy one. Most of my "non hardcore" gamer friends feel the same. Their attitude is "I already have a PS2, I don't need another one." The hardcore gamers hate the thing because it's Microsoft. I have a feeling this will be a failed experiment for Bill and Steve.
It would almost certainly be faster. FireWire is 400mbs where ATA100 is 100 and more of a drain on the CPU. FireWire is actually based off SCSI, so just imagine that FireWire is SCSI in terms of performance, only faster. Thus you can have a FireWire CD burner going and it won't bog your system like an IDE burner will (or large writes to an IDE hard drive.)
Well.. Sometimes. If it's a true FireWire device (Apple's implementation) then there are 2 extra pins and with current running through them. If it's IEEE 1394 (IBM's implementation) then the bus is unpowered. There's not much power running through it regardless, so a lot of true FireWire drives still need AC adapters. Most devices use a plug simply because they want to be compatible with the unpowered version (which is cheaper and seems to be more popular.)
The SoundBlaster Audigy line, in addition to being fucking awesome sound cards, include FireWire on the card. I'm not sure if they work under Linux (I'm more of a server guy, I don't run Linux on a desktop box so I know little to nothing about audio drivers) IIRC however, there are only two or three companies making FireWire chipsets as the licensing fees are apparently pretty expensive, which greatly cuts down on the number of chipsets Linux has to support. I've personally never used my FireWire (even though I have it on my Athlon and iBook) but I'd love to get my hands on a few of these FireWire drives for the nasty anime DivX habit I have..
I currently attend the University of Texas, and the honors section of the introductory CS course is taught in Scheme. The non-honors sections used to be taught in Haskell and Scheme until last year, when they moved to Java. The upper level classes are now moving to Java as well. This disturbs and upsets me. Not because I hate Java (though I do) but because IMO it's a bad thing to concentrate on learning just one language. It's a good idea to learn one language very well (though I'd prefer C++) and to have a good knowledge of several others. Scheme is a good language to know because it's so radically different from Java/C. If you ever have a chance to take a course in Scheme, I highly reccomend it.
The problem with creating a "Linux division" as you say (MS already has a Mac division) is that a Linux software division really wouldn't be profitable on its own. The Linux userbase, in general, is not interested in paying for software. The Mac division is only profitable because Apple really helps push Office, plus Macs are a lot more prevalent in the corporate desktop market, which is where a lot of Office's (paying) users come from. Linux is used in corporate settings, but less as a general-purpose operating system and more as servers and more embedded-type systems (PoS systems, kiosks, etc,) but not somewhere Office would be useful. Yes, I know that one could find exceptions to this, but for the most part, this is the case.
This is actually more Nintendo not wanting to be left out of the DVD player market. Every other console (XBox, PS2) can play DVDs, so this is more just a special version of the GC that will play DVDs.
I understand buying the case, those aluminum cases rock and are really worth the dough over a cheap steel case. The light, on the other hand... ;)
Aqua doesn't, however, you can download a rootless X server (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/) that lets you run X apps right along with Aqua apps. The same files are also available on http://macosx.forked.net/ in Mac OS X .pkg files, along with other useful stuff OS X doesn't include, such as ncurses. The window manager, by the way, is whatever window manager you decide to install-- it's just XFree86 ported to a darwin kernel with a rootless option. If you're not running OS X, XDarwin (not XonX) will probably work better for you.. It doesn't have the rootless option, but if you don't have Aqua, you don't really need it. Hope this was of help to some people.
How is paying for the internet any different than paying for cable TV? You have to pay the cable company (ISP) to get basic service, and extra to see the premium channels which have no advertising. Sure, there are all those other channels, but they cut into movies at awkward times to show commercials. Only thing is, advertising on the net simply doesn't work. Keeping a site like slashdot up has got to be expensive (I'd estimate $20,000 a month in bandwidth alone) Plus the guys who work on slashdot have to be paid as well, it's not like they're moneygrubbing fools, but this is their job, they have to put food on the table somehow. It takes a lot more than a snazzy design to keep a successful site up nowadays. It takes real money.
OS X also has a lot of things going for it that Linux does not. Full QuickTime support (native, not through MOL, which is pretty resource-heavy) OS X also has an *EXTREMELY* easy to use programming API (once you learn the quirks of Objective C, it's almost point-and-click GUI programming) as well as native use of AltiVec, PDF and XML, not to mention all the cool transparency stuff.
:P Most of OS X's problems come from its immaturity; give it a year and see what it's like.
OS X can also run almost anything Linux can; XDarwin rootless is pretty mature, and has run everything I've thrown at it without a hitch. Coming right around the corner are fully OS X optimized Adobe applications (I've used betas.. those things kick ass, ultra fast) True, you can do all this under Linux with MOL, but as long as you're going to emulate Mac OS, you might as well just run it natively.
I agree with you that there is a problem, but I don't see freezing assets as a solution. eBay, like it or not, is not seen as being as "legitimate" as say, an auction house. It's more like the internet classifieds. Doing business on eBay implies a certain risk, though I do think eBay should have some sort of protection for the seller (as in not charging them a fee) if the buyer bails. There's a certain culture to eBay (look at the wording on the feedback ratings, you'll know what I mean) that just oozes "take with a grain of salt." eBay is "buyer beware" more than anything else.
This is a clear and easy buffer overflow. I can't believe nobody moderated this comment down as (-1, Insecure). Code as buggy as this should never see the light of day. This is how things like red alert start, haven't we learned our lesson?
take((* with) grain, of->salt);
Heh, the size of the company doesn't dictate how many open source developers they have, the number of open source projects they use does. ;)
The end result of this, however, will likely not be widespread use of open source. It will probably just lead to better corporate licensing policies. Which isn't really a bad thing in iself, however.
Range for DSL is about 15,000 cable feet. Significantly less than 45 miles. ;)