Pretty much true I guess... And it can get even worse, I can tell you.
Last week the police over here in the Netherlands lost 78 email addresses of terrorist suspects, that were found after they arrested the terrorist that murdered Dutch cineast Theo van Gogh. The reason: the emails and email addresses were on a hotmail account that was not used for more than 30 days and deleted by Microsoft!!!. For real. Check for example here (in Dutch)...
They are not illegal because they are just flash RAM chips with some control logic so they can be soldered on a PS2/XBOX or GC mainboard. They are not flashed with anything illegal or copyrighted when you buy them. As it is not illegal to sell flash RAM, it is also not illegal to sell modchips. It is also not illegal to flash them with a free BIOS like cromwell and use that to boot linux on your XBOX. However, it *is* illegal to put them in your console and flash them with a copyrighted, reverse-engineered and cracked BIOS to bypass content protection...
This is a matter of personal control I believe. You can drink alcohol and remain relatively in control of your actions.
True, but my point is that alcohol *increases the likelyhood* that you will not stay in control of your actions. It makes you cross or forget about borders you'd normally stay within.
You need not get drunk every time you drink.
Also true, but I suggest you take a look at the people going home at 4am when the bars close here, and see how many of them had one or two to many (I can tell you it's around half of them). People tend to do thinks 'they do not need to do' all the time...
How many times have you been aggressive, done irresponsible actions, or done things you'll later regret while sober? I doubt the answer is zero. Messing up is a symptom of life, not alcohol.
I've never been aggressive myself, not when drunk, not when sober. But I know enough people that do change significantly when drunk, for the worst most of the time. I friend of mine even spent a night in jail after insulting a police officer when he was under the influence alcohol. He has never been in any sort of problems when he was sober.
Alcohol may allow you to disregard your inhibitions, but that needed "force" you to do anything that you don't want to do.
That might be true for you and me, but unfortunately lots of people are not that responsible and forget their limits when drunk. There's just no denying that..
I'm left wondering if a fair chunk of drug related psychosis are due the the drugs illegal nature...
I don't think so. I live in The Netherlands, and here it is legal to use Marijuana (and no: not any other drugs as some people think). I can confirm from my own experience that even then you can get pretty paranoid from smoking weed, to the point that you'd rather stay in then go out where other people are. Also you can get symptoms of hypochondria, I've experienced that myself as well, but I attribute that more to stress than drugs.
That said, this is all *only* when you're already not feeling at ease when you smoke, or when you are under heavy stress. The drug just *enhances* your mood, it does not really change it. That's why I don't use drugs when I'm feeling uncomfortable anymore, and in this case I think Marijuana is completely harmless.
Compared to alcohol: I've done pretty stupid things when I was drunk, even dangerous and irresponsible things, and the day after I was always completely wasted. Alcohol is definitely not healthy. It can induce aggression, irresponsible actions, and make you do things you'll regret later. Marijuana does not have these side effects in my experience, and I don't believe it induces psychosis. I have many friends who use it, but the only one suffering from psychosis has never in her life used Marijuana, so that seems a pretty strong indication that the two are not that closely linked...
Is it just me or shouldn't 9 Year olds be playing outside and having fun with their friends instead of taking exams to become 'Microsoft Certified Professionals'? It sounds like boring stuff for adults to me, and IMO children should be spared this kind of crap until they're older... I mean seriously, when they're older they'll spend 2/3'ths of the rest of their life (excluding sleeping) working, I'd say in your childhood try to have some fun while it lasts...
Don't give me lines about how their pint-sized lineup emphasizes quality over quantity either. Half of the PS2 line is redundant shovelware that could go out the window, but that still makes the shelf at EBGames three times as big, with quality titles like Sly Cooper, GTA, and God of War.
As someone who has owned a GC (sold it because I don't have much time left to play computer games nowadays) and an XBOX (yeah I know, but I only bought it second-hand so I could chip it and use it as a Linux box, which I still do), I can say that at least compared to the XBOX the GC lineup does emphasize quality over quantity. I had much, much more fun with my GC games than with my XBOX.
However, the number of games is IMO not the problem with the GC. The problem is that Sony already had a much bigger userbase, which appeals to developers, and MS bought^H^H^H^H^Hinvested in developers of some of the most highly anticipated GC exclusives, which all moved to the XBOX and PS2 only. Lastly, for some reason the GC completely lacks good games in some genres, especially racing and online titles.
The number of titles by itself on each of the consoles is not the problem, on average most console owners only buy around 25 titles for their system before it's obsoleted, and believe me, the GC has that much good games...
I can't understand why Sony would want to withdraw WiFi from the PS3 spec, though.
Probably because they can't deliver what they've promised, just like with the PSX and the PS2: a mouthfull of hype and buzz, but in the end half of the features are pulled, and the performance is nowhere near the initial announcements (remember how the PS2 would be '100 times faster than any PC on the market' at the time it would be launched. See the PS3/Cell buzz right now...
Nintendo however not only 'reverses the anti-online mentality' but also reverses Sony's marketing practices: stay silent and keep your feature set undisclosed until its really sure what the final product will be like, this way not disappointing their future customers.
Still Sony seems to be winning over Nintendo... Which IMO is a pity, not only hardware-wise but also software-wise...
Well I don't know about your dad but I'm pretty sure mine's going to check what this setting to exclude c:\My Documents\school stuff\unimportant reports\drafts\xyz001 was for again...
Not that I'm going to hear about it anyways, I guess;-)
I've already had this idea for years, seriously, I almost made it my graduation project.
Create a distributed spam filter that fingerprints incoming mail based on a number of criteria, have the user mark spam with a certain 'undesiredness factor', blacklist email fingerprinted as spam and propagate this information to other people using the same system... This way it should be possible to create some kind of 'network' that classifies email much more reliable than a simple content filter or address blacklist.
I even thought about how to integrate something like this in existing mail transport agents like exim and into email clients to have them forward/download the fingerprints and scores of incoming email before the email itself is sent on, and how you could create some kind of hierarchy of 'filter authorities' that collect all fingerprints and their scores from lower levels, possibly going up from the user to the ISP to the backbone provider... The user could have a special inbox that shows the fingerprints/subjects of messages on the mail server that are marked as 'undesired' by other users of the network, with the option to re-rate them or to download them anyway...
Anyways, the way it is put in this article it will not be of much help to the internet in general, because the spam messages are only scored by the 'social network', but they will still be delivered to their destination, and thus wasting bandwidth...
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Actually, it is running at 720x576 (a PAL XBOX that is) but I don't see why this is so funny, because that's just the resolution of a PAL TV. Having a higher framebuffer resolution would probably only decrease the output quality when displayed on a normal television.
That said, if you have an HDTV, the XBOX can output at 1920x1080i...
It's only a matter of time until drives come with a gig of cache.
A gig of cache does't make any sense, unless you have a 100TB drive or something. Above a certain amount of cache (depending on the size of the memory that it caches), doubling the cache size only improves the cache hit/miss ratio by a single percent or so. I once knew the calculations that give the hit-miss ratio, but I forgot them. Anyways, it's just standard theory so you should be able to google it up.
Not sure about the 1.6 xbox, but I think it is still possible. And even then, you can pick up a second-hand xbox (almost certain not to be a 1.6) for around $100. The adapter cable cost me $9.00, a USB memory stick (which most people already have) can be borrowed, and you could rent MechAssault for a single day just to do the mod. All in all it would not have to take more than about $115.00.
That doesn't mean I'd recommend anyone to seriously mod an xbox just to play videos, because it took me about 3 days to have everything setup. The difference between me and most other people is, however, that I actually enjoy tinkering with it, soldering in a modchip, repartitioning the drive by hand, installing gentoox on it etc..;-)
There is. It's called an Xbox. And even if you live in an area with anti-modchip laws and strict enforcement thereof, there's always Mini-ITX boxes.
You don't even need a modchip. A simple XBOXUSB adapter cable (not illegal last time I checked) and for example the game MechAssault or 007:Agent under Fire also does the trick. You can even replace the standard HD with a bigger one if you'd like to.
The only downside is if you screw it up, for example by connecting to XBOX live or editing your EEPROM, you'd have to do everything again after that...
Hmm... It seems strange someone would collect 194 of the same consoles, but hey, glad they're sold on eBay, so I can at least be sure they're 'acquired legally'.
I don't think this is possible, because the ECHO framework is heavily dependent on server-side state information. You really have to look at it as a more or less 'normal' Java application that happens to use HTML to display its user interface. You even write Echo applications much like normal Java applications.
What you propose would be the equivalent of a Java application that woul maintain all of its state information in UI elements, with everything running client-side.
The way Echo works it is not possible to do any processing client-side using Javascript/DHTML, since that would require transferring state information to and from the server on every action or event, ie: reloading all frames. This actually happens to be the way this all works, as you already figured out, but without DHTML (since there's no need for or advantage to it).
From what I get of it, they switched to Linux, needed a database to support their e-commerce ideas and then found out they didn't have anyone who knew squat about databases. Could have happened with a Windows/MSSQL solution just as well...
The part I don't get is this:
The biggest challenges are those customers moving from Unix to Linux, who "don't want to rewrite their applications, and most of their staff only know Java"
Either I'm missing something, or this is just plain b*llocks. Last time I checked Java is working perfectly on both Windows and Linux...
Now, if you flash a legal linux BIOS on your modchip and boot it, you'll need to have formatted your xbox with a supported linux filesystem such as fat32, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.
You can also do both (like I did) making use of the 137G HD limit older bioses had. You format everything 8G the way the stock xbox does it (C:,E:,X:,Y:,Z:) for xbox system/game data, then format 8G-137G as a FATX partition (F:) for your own data and use the remainder of the disc for creating linux partitions. This way you can access videos/mp3's etc. from both the xbox (XBMC) as linux (whatever you like).
Because old bioses do not go beyond the 137G limit your linux partitions are safe and can be formatted with reiser, ext3 etc. If you have a dual-bank modchip booting linux is just a case of flipping the bank switch.
You have to create and edit a partition table that linux can use yourself though, which can be tricky, but not using a loopback fs on a FATX partition gives significantly faster disk access, and is *a lot* safer than using the FATX filsystem, which is in my experience still quite buggy (unusable even on 2.6 kernels) and has absolutely no error correction or recovery (there is no fsck.fatx or something).
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Pretty much true I guess... And it can get even worse, I can tell you.
Last week the police over here in the Netherlands lost 78 email addresses of terrorist suspects, that were found after they arrested the terrorist that murdered Dutch cineast Theo van Gogh. The reason: the emails and email addresses were on a hotmail account that was not used for more than 30 days and deleted by Microsoft!!!. For real. Check for example here (in Dutch)...
They are not illegal because they are just flash RAM chips with some control logic so they can be soldered on a PS2/XBOX or GC mainboard. They are not flashed with anything illegal or copyrighted when you buy them. As it is not illegal to sell flash RAM, it is also not illegal to sell modchips. It is also not illegal to flash them with a free BIOS like cromwell and use that to boot linux on your XBOX. However, it *is* illegal to put them in your console and flash them with a copyrighted, reverse-engineered and cracked BIOS to bypass content protection...
THC in the blood stream...
Big deal...
This is a matter of personal control I believe. You can drink alcohol and remain relatively in control of your actions.
True, but my point is that alcohol *increases the likelyhood* that you will not stay in control of your actions. It makes you cross or forget about borders you'd normally stay within.
You need not get drunk every time you drink.
Also true, but I suggest you take a look at the people going home at 4am when the bars close here, and see how many of them had one or two to many (I can tell you it's around half of them). People tend to do thinks 'they do not need to do' all the time...
How many times have you been aggressive, done irresponsible actions, or done things you'll later regret while sober? I doubt the answer is zero. Messing up is a symptom of life, not alcohol.
I've never been aggressive myself, not when drunk, not when sober. But I know enough people that do change significantly when drunk, for the worst most of the time. I friend of mine even spent a night in jail after insulting a police officer when he was under the influence alcohol. He has never been in any sort of problems when he was sober.
Alcohol may allow you to disregard your inhibitions, but that needed "force" you to do anything that you don't want to do.
That might be true for you and me, but unfortunately lots of people are not that responsible and forget their limits when drunk. There's just no denying that..
I'm left wondering if a fair chunk of drug related psychosis are due the the drugs illegal nature...
I don't think so. I live in The Netherlands, and here it is legal to use Marijuana (and no: not any other drugs as some people think). I can confirm from my own experience that even then you can get pretty paranoid from smoking weed, to the point that you'd rather stay in then go out where other people are. Also you can get symptoms of hypochondria, I've experienced that myself as well, but I attribute that more to stress than drugs.
That said, this is all *only* when you're already not feeling at ease when you smoke, or when you are under heavy stress. The drug just *enhances* your mood, it does not really change it. That's why I don't use drugs when I'm feeling uncomfortable anymore, and in this case I think Marijuana is completely harmless.
Compared to alcohol: I've done pretty stupid things when I was drunk, even dangerous and irresponsible things, and the day after I was always completely wasted. Alcohol is definitely not healthy. It can induce aggression, irresponsible actions, and make you do things you'll regret later. Marijuana does not have these side effects in my experience, and I don't believe it induces psychosis. I have many friends who use it, but the only one suffering from psychosis has never in her life used Marijuana, so that seems a pretty strong indication that the two are not that closely linked...
Yeah but did you take MCP exams as well... Ah well, forget about it... After all, this *is* slashdot ofcourse...
Is it just me or shouldn't 9 Year olds be playing outside and having fun with their friends instead of taking exams to become 'Microsoft Certified Professionals'? It sounds like boring stuff for adults to me, and IMO children should be spared this kind of crap until they're older... I mean seriously, when they're older they'll spend 2/3'ths of the rest of their life (excluding sleeping) working, I'd say in your childhood try to have some fun while it lasts...
Don't give me lines about how their pint-sized lineup emphasizes quality over quantity either. Half of the PS2 line is redundant shovelware that could go out the window, but that still makes the shelf at EBGames three times as big, with quality titles like Sly Cooper, GTA, and God of War.
As someone who has owned a GC (sold it because I don't have much time left to play computer games nowadays) and an XBOX (yeah I know, but I only bought it second-hand so I could chip it and use it as a Linux box, which I still do), I can say that at least compared to the XBOX the GC lineup does emphasize quality over quantity. I had much, much more fun with my GC games than with my XBOX.
However, the number of games is IMO not the problem with the GC. The problem is that Sony already had a much bigger userbase, which appeals to developers, and MS bought^H^H^H^H^Hinvested in developers of some of the most highly anticipated GC exclusives, which all moved to the XBOX and PS2 only. Lastly, for some reason the GC completely lacks good games in some genres, especially racing and online titles.
The number of titles by itself on each of the consoles is not the problem, on average most console owners only buy around 25 titles for their system before it's obsoleted, and believe me, the GC has that much good games...
I can't understand why Sony would want to withdraw WiFi from the PS3 spec, though.
Probably because they can't deliver what they've promised, just like with the PSX and the PS2: a mouthfull of hype and buzz, but in the end half of the features are pulled, and the performance is nowhere near the initial announcements (remember how the PS2 would be '100 times faster than any PC on the market' at the time it would be launched. See the PS3/Cell buzz right now...
Nintendo however not only 'reverses the anti-online mentality' but also reverses Sony's marketing practices: stay silent and keep your feature set undisclosed until its really sure what the final product will be like, this way not disappointing their future customers.
Still Sony seems to be winning over Nintendo... Which IMO is a pity, not only hardware-wise but also software-wise...
Maybe because Xorg still implements the X specification/protocol, version 11, Release 6? Adding eyecandy does not add to or change this at all...
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Well I don't know about your dad but I'm pretty sure mine's going to check what this setting to exclude c:\My Documents\school stuff\unimportant reports\drafts\xyz001 was for again...
;-)
Not that I'm going to hear about it anyways, I guess
I've already had this idea for years, seriously, I almost made it my graduation project.
Create a distributed spam filter that fingerprints incoming mail based on a number of criteria, have the user mark spam with a certain 'undesiredness factor', blacklist email fingerprinted as spam and propagate this information to other people using the same system... This way it should be possible to create some kind of 'network' that classifies email much more reliable than a simple content filter or address blacklist.
I even thought about how to integrate something like this in existing mail transport agents like exim and into email clients to have them forward/download the fingerprints and scores of incoming email before the email itself is sent on, and how you could create some kind of hierarchy of 'filter authorities' that collect all fingerprints and their scores from lower levels, possibly going up from the user to the ISP to the backbone provider... The user could have a special inbox that shows the fingerprints/subjects of messages on the mail server that are marked as 'undesired' by other users of the network, with the option to re-rate them or to download them anyway...
Anyways, the way it is put in this article it will not be of much help to the internet in general, because the spam messages are only scored by the 'social network', but they will still be delivered to their destination, and thus wasting bandwidth...
Cheer up man, it's only a joke...
Too bad the pal xbox is incapable of HDTV mode.
Every XBOX is capable of HDTV mode...
LOL again.
I guess so...
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But then an Xbox is only running at 800x600. LOL
Actually, it is running at 720x576 (a PAL XBOX that is) but I don't see why this is so funny, because that's just the resolution of a PAL TV. Having a higher framebuffer resolution would probably only decrease the output quality when displayed on a normal television.
That said, if you have an HDTV, the XBOX can output at 1920x1080i...
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This just shows that there are still idiots out there, even at the corporate level.
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I think you made a typo. I think you mean especially at the corporate level
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It's only a matter of time until drives come with a gig of cache.
A gig of cache does't make any sense, unless you have a 100TB drive or something. Above a certain amount of cache (depending on the size of the memory that it caches), doubling the cache size only improves the cache hit/miss ratio by a single percent or so. I once knew the calculations that give the hit-miss ratio, but I forgot them. Anyways, it's just standard theory so you should be able to google it up.
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Not sure about the 1.6 xbox, but I think it is still possible. And even then, you can pick up a second-hand xbox (almost certain not to be a 1.6) for around $100. The adapter cable cost me $9.00, a USB memory stick (which most people already have) can be borrowed, and you could rent MechAssault for a single day just to do the mod. All in all it would not have to take more than about $115.00.
;-)
That doesn't mean I'd recommend anyone to seriously mod an xbox just to play videos, because it took me about 3 days to have everything setup. The difference between me and most other people is, however, that I actually enjoy tinkering with it, soldering in a modchip, repartitioning the drive by hand, installing gentoox on it etc..
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There is. It's called an Xbox. And even if you live in an area with anti-modchip laws and strict enforcement thereof, there's always Mini-ITX boxes.
You don't even need a modchip. A simple XBOXUSB adapter cable (not illegal last time I checked) and for example the game MechAssault or 007:Agent under Fire also does the trick. You can even replace the standard HD with a bigger one if you'd like to.
The only downside is if you screw it up, for example by connecting to XBOX live or editing your EEPROM, you'd have to do everything again after that...
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Hmm... It seems strange someone would collect 194 of the same consoles, but hey, glad they're sold on eBay, so I can at least be sure they're 'acquired legally'.
I don't think this is possible, because the ECHO framework is heavily dependent on server-side state information. You really have to look at it as a more or less 'normal' Java application that happens to use HTML to display its user interface. You even write Echo applications much like normal Java applications.
What you propose would be the equivalent of a Java application that woul maintain all of its state information in UI elements, with everything running client-side.
The way Echo works it is not possible to do any processing client-side using Javascript/DHTML, since that would require transferring state information to and from the server on every action or event, ie: reloading all frames. This actually happens to be the way this all works, as you already figured out, but without DHTML (since there's no need for or advantage to it).
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From what I get of it, they switched to Linux, needed a database to support their e-commerce ideas and then found out they didn't have anyone who knew squat about databases. Could have happened with a Windows/MSSQL solution just as well...
The part I don't get is this:
The biggest challenges are those customers moving from Unix to Linux, who "don't want to rewrite their applications, and most of their staff only know Java"
Either I'm missing something, or this is just plain b*llocks. Last time I checked Java is working perfectly on both Windows and Linux...
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Now, if you flash a legal linux BIOS on your modchip and boot it, you'll need to have formatted your xbox with a supported linux filesystem such as fat32, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.
You can also do both (like I did) making use of the 137G HD limit older bioses had. You format everything 8G the way the stock xbox does it (C:,E:,X:,Y:,Z:) for xbox system/game data, then format 8G-137G as a FATX partition (F:) for your own data and use the remainder of the disc for creating linux partitions. This way you can access videos/mp3's etc. from both the xbox (XBMC) as linux (whatever you like).
Because old bioses do not go beyond the 137G limit your linux partitions are safe and can be formatted with reiser, ext3 etc. If you have a dual-bank modchip booting linux is just a case of flipping the bank switch.
You have to create and edit a partition table that linux can use yourself though, which can be tricky, but not using a loopback fs on a FATX partition gives significantly faster disk access, and is *a lot* safer than using the FATX filsystem, which is in my experience still quite buggy (unusable even on 2.6 kernels) and has absolutely no error correction or recovery (there is no fsck.fatx or something).
Comments like this always get modded down to 0 (as opposed to the parent). Don't bother to waste your time, this is a US-centric site...
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