The US congress thought steroid use in baseball was so important they dragged barry bonds and co. to washington to talk to them. This is when they are trying to deal with a trillion dollar deficit, they're willing to waste days of peoples time on steroids in baseball. And you think sony fanboys are overreacting to a hack? At least the sony fanboys are actually participating in, and affected by cheaters directly.
To be fair, it's a multimillion dollar federal drug issue at stake here, not just some meatheads smacking balls around.
Showing code and showing the algorithm isn't the same as showing you know how to step through the code or algorithm.
I know lots of idiots I went to school with for computer science who through route memorization knew the algorithm but didn't know what each step meant.
However, the problem is that the benefits do NOT outweigh the costs and downfalls. I'd rather have no homebrew and no cheating than homebrew and cheating.
Handhelds were largely the same. GB? GBC? Flash carts for piracy. GBA? Flash cart for piracy. NeoGeo Pocket? Flash cart for piracy. DS? Flash cart for piracy.
PSP on the other hand, had a flaw in it's 1.0 firmware revision(which came out in Japan only) that didn't check if an EBOOT was signed or not, so there already was a healthy homebrew scene for the PSP when 1.51 came out. In fact, PSP didn't get UMD Emulator until sometime in September of '05. Console had been available in Japan since '04 or so.
Oh for the love of God, no. Not just no, historically no.
It's piracy. it's always been piracy.
The NES had the real first lockout mechanism. Coleco didn't have one, Atari 2600 or the 5200 didn't have one, Intellivision didn't have one.
Really, they didn't need any, ROM chips were expensive then.
When the first real hack came out for the NES? Piracy to get around the lock out chip(Companies like Wisdom Tree came later; 10 in 1, 1000 in 1 carts from overseas on the other hand came well before Wisdom Tree and other companies; very rare but they existed; famicom had no lockout chip, FWIW and pirates kept pumping out cheap bootlegs; same with FDS). SNES? Piracy to load games off of floppies via the Game Disk Doctor. N64? Piracy to load games off of the Doctor V64. PlayStation? Mod chip to play burns. Saturn? Mod circuit to play burns. Dreamcast? Mod chip to play burns. PS2? Mod chip to play burns. Xbox? Mod chip to play pirated games. Xbox 360? DVDROM firmware update so it would play burned games. Wii? Modchip to allow it to play burned games.
PS3? Tool to load an HDLoader for games that never bothered to verify if you actually owned that game. Not to mention one of the first home brews was an FTP client so you could load ISOs over a network.
Fail0verflow and GeoHot's work(well, the work that landed him in legal hot water; releasing the Metldr keys. Sony probably didn't care about him glitching the memory bus) came much later, well after pirates opened up the console.
No, let's be honest here. Pirates do the hard work of breaking the system open.
I'd say that having an IP infrastructure solely for academic, research and non-commercial needs alone is an accomplishment and is a success.
I'd say that the lack of visible results by the common lay person, even technophiles, means that visibily the project has failed on some level. The fact that we haven't found a transition plan to IPv6 from the growing pains of I2 also means on some level, we're looking at some sort of failure(my personal hope of what we'd get from Internet2).
However, given that it's restricted access, the whole thing is largely up in the air and tech columnists and even technogeeks(Unless you're one of those academics who's pushing billions of records across the network to be processed through a giant cluster on the other side of the world) really can't comment on what I2 has achieved. Plus, what constitutes "success" is largely in the eye of the beholder. I doubt there will ever be a quantitative metric we could actually use to measure whether or not I2 is a success or not.
Despite that though, it's continued existence and growth, slow or not, does tell us that it wasn't a mistake, and it's not a failure, but it doesn't tell us whether or not it was a success, and if it is, by what measure.
Jobs wanted to sell Macs to people who didn't care about what went on on the inside. There's more money to be made selling to the masses than to the technogeek.
What Psystar did was more than just selling a hacked kernel, they sold whole machines with the OS preinstalled on it. That's not getting in trouble for "modify then sell your Mac" that's, "Trying to sell something you don't have the license to modify and sell in bulk."
Copyrights are a big threat, but, ultimately unless the open source project is funded by some pretty well off corporate backers, patents represent a far greater threat. Copyright issues can be avoided with the proper licensing agreements. Whether it be the LGPL, GPLv2, v3, BSD, etc.
Patents on the other hand can stop a project cold.
It's not about who's top, it's about what everyone's talking about.
Not many people really give a shit about Android. Most people pick up Android devices because they're cheap and they can get 2 in a BOGO sale at their local telco outlet.
Let's face it, Google lacks Apple's user experience focus, and that's where Apple will continue to keep winning in the field. Apple dictated where the market went when the iPad came out. The fact that we're talking about this market segment means that Apple won. Sure, they're not going to ship as many iOS devices as Google's going to have Android devices out there, but they will probably beat most OEMs and be within the top oh, say, 5 OEMs shipping tablets. And printing money along the way.
Being successful in technology markets isn't about being #1, it's about making more money than your neighbor. Nintendo knew this, and sold us the GameCube for 99 bucks. The hardware was anemic but I got to play Mario Sunshine, Zelda Windwaker and FZero GX(Am I the only person on earth who liked FZero GX? I digress). It and the DS moved enough units to keep nintendo VERY healthy. Despite the fact that the competition had much better specs on the sheets than they did.
Apple is now proving this axiom by building tablets, phones and other gadgets that provide a rich user experience with out focusing too much on the spec sheets.
The issue at stake here may be whether or not Amazon has the license to stream audio that has been purchased from their store. The article is really light on details, but, if Amazon's the digital distributor of that music, depending on Amazon's licensing terms with the various studios which may strictly prohibit streaming of MP3 content by Amazon.
I'm surprised their lawyer team didn't work things out with the various studios, the RIAA, and the mole people before going live with this thing.
The N8's a decent piece of hardware, don't get me wrong, but, they lost the lead. The N8 is the first Nokia phone to have Multitouch. In 2010. Late 2010 at that, after massive delays.
Nokia has no product vision for the future. Add to that the lag of having to actually release WP7 phones. They're sitting ducks.
If he leaked the metldr keys discreetly, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
This isn't about tinkering with your equipment, this is about leaking bootloader keys. AFAIK, the Wii and Xbox 360's encryption keys are still safe and sound. The second they get leaked, you better bet your ass that Microsoft and Nintendo would come down hard.
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The US congress thought steroid use in baseball was so important they dragged barry bonds and co. to washington to talk to them. This is when they are trying to deal with a trillion dollar deficit, they're willing to waste days of peoples time on steroids in baseball. And you think sony fanboys are overreacting to a hack? At least the sony fanboys are actually participating in, and affected by cheaters directly.
To be fair, it's a multimillion dollar federal drug issue at stake here, not just some meatheads smacking balls around.
Showing code and showing the algorithm isn't the same as showing you know how to step through the code or algorithm.
I know lots of idiots I went to school with for computer science who through route memorization knew the algorithm but didn't know what each step meant.
I disagree.
Homebrew has great potential on a console.
However, the problem is that the benefits do NOT outweigh the costs and downfalls. I'd rather have no homebrew and no cheating than homebrew and cheating.
who owns the metldr keys?
Who owns the right to sign software for the PS3?
Just an addendum.
Handhelds were largely the same. GB? GBC? Flash carts for piracy. GBA? Flash cart for piracy. NeoGeo Pocket? Flash cart for piracy. DS? Flash cart for piracy.
PSP on the other hand, had a flaw in it's 1.0 firmware revision(which came out in Japan only) that didn't check if an EBOOT was signed or not, so there already was a healthy homebrew scene for the PSP when 1.51 came out. In fact, PSP didn't get UMD Emulator until sometime in September of '05. Console had been available in Japan since '04 or so.
Oh for the love of God, no. Not just no, historically no.
It's piracy. it's always been piracy.
The NES had the real first lockout mechanism. Coleco didn't have one, Atari 2600 or the 5200 didn't have one, Intellivision didn't have one.
Really, they didn't need any, ROM chips were expensive then.
When the first real hack came out for the NES? Piracy to get around the lock out chip(Companies like Wisdom Tree came later; 10 in 1, 1000 in 1 carts from overseas on the other hand came well before Wisdom Tree and other companies; very rare but they existed; famicom had no lockout chip, FWIW and pirates kept pumping out cheap bootlegs; same with FDS). SNES? Piracy to load games off of floppies via the Game Disk Doctor. N64? Piracy to load games off of the Doctor V64. PlayStation? Mod chip to play burns. Saturn? Mod circuit to play burns. Dreamcast? Mod chip to play burns. PS2? Mod chip to play burns. Xbox? Mod chip to play pirated games. Xbox 360? DVDROM firmware update so it would play burned games. Wii? Modchip to allow it to play burned games.
PS3? Tool to load an HDLoader for games that never bothered to verify if you actually owned that game. Not to mention one of the first home brews was an FTP client so you could load ISOs over a network.
Fail0verflow and GeoHot's work(well, the work that landed him in legal hot water; releasing the Metldr keys. Sony probably didn't care about him glitching the memory bus) came much later, well after pirates opened up the console.
No, let's be honest here. Pirates do the hard work of breaking the system open.
I'd say that having an IP infrastructure solely for academic, research and non-commercial needs alone is an accomplishment and is a success.
I'd say that the lack of visible results by the common lay person, even technophiles, means that visibily the project has failed on some level. The fact that we haven't found a transition plan to IPv6 from the growing pains of I2 also means on some level, we're looking at some sort of failure(my personal hope of what we'd get from Internet2).
However, given that it's restricted access, the whole thing is largely up in the air and tech columnists and even technogeeks(Unless you're one of those academics who's pushing billions of records across the network to be processed through a giant cluster on the other side of the world) really can't comment on what I2 has achieved. Plus, what constitutes "success" is largely in the eye of the beholder. I doubt there will ever be a quantitative metric we could actually use to measure whether or not I2 is a success or not.
Despite that though, it's continued existence and growth, slow or not, does tell us that it wasn't a mistake, and it's not a failure, but it doesn't tell us whether or not it was a success, and if it is, by what measure.
Jobs wanted to sell Macs to people who didn't care about what went on on the inside. There's more money to be made selling to the masses than to the technogeek.
I have my skepticism about RMS.
Air, water, and carbohydrates needed for life aren't open source. Neither is gravity and most of physics.
If there is an RMS, I suspect he's long dead, Asphyxiation, dehydration, starvation or being flung off the earth aren't things people easily survive.
What Psystar did was more than just selling a hacked kernel, they sold whole machines with the OS preinstalled on it. That's not getting in trouble for "modify then sell your Mac" that's, "Trying to sell something you don't have the license to modify and sell in bulk."
No.
Woz is an engineer, not a manager.
Besides, the closed off mentality only came about during iOS. OSX is still very much open. Hell, the kernel is open sourced!
Bulma from Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z!
The only woman Vegeta fears...
Three. And if you preorder now and trade in your xbox, ps3, your car, toaster and house they'll throw in the genetic modification kit absolutely free!
If emacs had ctrl alt shift meta laserbeam I'd switch. :laser is too clunky.
Copyrights are a big threat, but, ultimately unless the open source project is funded by some pretty well off corporate backers, patents represent a far greater threat. Copyright issues can be avoided with the proper licensing agreements. Whether it be the LGPL, GPLv2, v3, BSD, etc.
Patents on the other hand can stop a project cold.
It's not about who's top, it's about what everyone's talking about.
Not many people really give a shit about Android. Most people pick up Android devices because they're cheap and they can get 2 in a BOGO sale at their local telco outlet.
Let's face it, Google lacks Apple's user experience focus, and that's where Apple will continue to keep winning in the field. Apple dictated where the market went when the iPad came out. The fact that we're talking about this market segment means that Apple won. Sure, they're not going to ship as many iOS devices as Google's going to have Android devices out there, but they will probably beat most OEMs and be within the top oh, say, 5 OEMs shipping tablets. And printing money along the way.
Being successful in technology markets isn't about being #1, it's about making more money than your neighbor. Nintendo knew this, and sold us the GameCube for 99 bucks. The hardware was anemic but I got to play Mario Sunshine, Zelda Windwaker and FZero GX(Am I the only person on earth who liked FZero GX? I digress). It and the DS moved enough units to keep nintendo VERY healthy. Despite the fact that the competition had much better specs on the sheets than they did.
Apple is now proving this axiom by building tablets, phones and other gadgets that provide a rich user experience with out focusing too much on the spec sheets.
if you break into my house and steal my bomb labeled, "Ham dinner" I'm not liable for any damages you incur because my bomb went off in your house.
Capacitive touch screens are only bad when your OS has UI elements that are obscenely small.
Why was the N8 the time for capacitive touch? symbian^3 didn't do anything particularly new.
A LOT.
Of course, DEPENDING on how the contract's worded.
I don't have their contracts in hand, i suspect it's Amazon playing hardball, however, I don't expect them to win this.
The issue at stake here may be whether or not Amazon has the license to stream audio that has been purchased from their store. The article is really light on details, but, if Amazon's the digital distributor of that music, depending on Amazon's licensing terms with the various studios which may strictly prohibit streaming of MP3 content by Amazon.
I'm surprised their lawyer team didn't work things out with the various studios, the RIAA, and the mole people before going live with this thing.
There's a huge difference between having new input options and new video cards.
New input devices have been around since the 2600. Paddles come to mind.
Maybe they were but not anymore.
The N8's a decent piece of hardware, don't get me wrong, but, they lost the lead. The N8 is the first Nokia phone to have Multitouch. In 2010. Late 2010 at that, after massive delays.
Nokia has no product vision for the future. Add to that the lag of having to actually release WP7 phones. They're sitting ducks.
Or as Libertarians like to call it,
"The Good Old Days."
The problem is, is what GeoHot decided to do.
If he leaked the metldr keys discreetly, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
This isn't about tinkering with your equipment, this is about leaking bootloader keys. AFAIK, the Wii and Xbox 360's encryption keys are still safe and sound. The second they get leaked, you better bet your ass that Microsoft and Nintendo would come down hard.
hasn't this guy heard of MAMP or XAMP in some flavor?
Configuring XAMP to run with python isn't exactly difficult. neither are the vast array of text editors available for OSX.
Seriously, what the fuck?