Locked hardware is a benefit?! For whom? Certainly not for the customer. Maybe for those that love control, such as the MPAA and the RIAA, but not us, the customers.
I think by "locked hardware" he means that all the XBoxen (I refuse to capitalise it all no matter what they say) have the same hardware so you don't have the problem normal PC developers have. If a normal PC developer writes a game that needs an 800Mhz P3 and a GeForce3 only a small amount of the PC user population would be able to play it, if they target P2-300s with Voodoo2s then anyone who has anything better won't be satisfied.
XBox developers can just write a game targeting the XBox and know that all the users will get the same experience.
The first two are both McDonalds sites (I can't remember the proper name of the first one, briefly saw it on a cup) and the second is a site for a movie.
It seems anyone with enough money can get around the.au "restrictions". [sigh]
Let's consider this, though. Platform-independent or not, it's not terribly simple to extract a tar/gz archive on a Windows machine - easy enough, but not quite like a Zip (much less a self-extracting EXE).
Actually, with WinZip extracting a.tar.gz is exactly the same as a.zip
Start with a bare system, one blank floppy and Win95 CD. No bootable CD drive. You have one day. Even making the CDROM bootable doesn't help all that much if there is no partition table
This is not a realistic situation though, since Win95 (or any Windows since that comes on CD) comes with a boot floppy that contains CD drivers for both IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives. You stick that disk in the floppy drive, the Win95 CD in the CD drive, turn the PC on. I believe the Windows setup will create a partition and format it for you.
Okay, this might be a troll but i'll reply anyway;) This is actually a really cool feature, means I can (for example) make it so that it'll prompt to accept cookies for the "big bad Internet" (Internet Zone) but not for stuff i'm testing on my LAN (Intranet Zone). Oh, except it won't prompt me when I visit my online broker because that's in my Trusted Sites list.
Once you play around with the Security Zone stuff in MSIE you'll find that it's a pretty fucken cool idea.
Does PHP happen to have an standard interface to databases, like Perl has? No?
PHP4 does as part of the 'pear' library (kinda like perl's CPAN).
It's one up on perl though, because (since it's small at the moment) all the pear modules come with PHP itself, you don't need to download/install them from an external source.
Paul Steeve (American Suparhero) mentions in the interview that the programmer he is looking for has to have experience working with licensed technology. This implies that he plans to license an engine. I don't think in these times it's financially viable to develop a new engine, it's a lot better use of resources to license Q3 or Unreal.
How soon are any of these ideas going to make it to Linux distributions?
In particular, I think it'd be great to have ssh ship with every Linux distribution.
I downloaded a Debian (Potato) ISO a few weeks ago from an Australian mirror and it had OpenSSH as part of the install? [shrug] When booting you get "Starting OpenSSH daemon" or similar.
Will it work with existing USB peripherals that work under DirectX?
i.e. If I decide to get one of these can I use the Logitech USB Force Feedback Wheel I have already bought for my PC?
There's no reason why not as far as I can see, as long as there is a way to install 'drivers' for 3rd party controllers.
If not, i'll spend the money an X-Box would cost on a processor that's twice as fast and, by the time it's released, a video card that's twice as impressive. Err, that's if I was considering getting one.
Load and Reload are two of Metallica's most heavy albums, just not in the traditional sort of way. Just because they style of music has changed doesn't mean they've "sold out" or any shit like that, it just means they're maturing like any other band. I mean, compare Heavy Metal in the 80s (ie. Master of Puppets) and Heavy Metal in the late 90s (ie. Korn and Slipknot).
Times they are a changing, cope.. I've got all the Metallica albums and I think they're all great, just because it sounds different doesn't automatically means it has to 'suck'.
I'm sure you so called "metalheads" with your heads up your arses will flame away, but fuck you all in advance.
As an aside (and a vent) they (read Theo) aren't not listening to the community. The other BSD's (Free and Net) both are now releasing ISO images to download. When I wanted to do some comparisons of Free/Net/Open BSD's, I wanted to download the ISO's and burn CD's (at work, since at home I only had a 33.6K dial up). For Net and Free BSD's this was not a problem. When I got to OpenBSD, Nope.. No ISO. When I asked (in what I believe to be a polite manner) I was told basically to stick it that if I wanted a CD, I had to purchase it becuase creating an ISO would cause his sales on CD's to go to nothing (Really ? Tell this to RedHat, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.) Sorry, with opensource I try before I buy..
I know it's still not as convenient, but all I did was download the packages directory and base directory for i386, and made my own damn bootable ISO:) Took about 2 hours of downloading, half an hour of burning, and magic. And because it's not for multi-platform like the OpenBSD CDs you buy I have the whole i386 package collection all on one CD. Bleh.
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Where do any of you Australian residents out there buy your tech books? When I was buying some O'Reilly books last time (3 books, about $120 US) the cheapest (including 7-21 day shipping) was Amazon. It worked out to about A$220.. buying it at Angus & Robertson (a physical bookstore) would have cost close to A$300. I also checked ozbooks.com and I think it was thinkgeek.com but they were more expensive.
So is there any obscure little site i've missed that will get me books in Australia faster and cheaper than Amazon?:)
I hear the guys at the Galileo Project: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh0780/ have been working on something similar for sometime, using neat continuous physics.
I haven't actually read the linked page so this may well be what you meant by 'continuous physics' anyway, but what would be cool is a persistent space game where you can get in your ship, point it towards the next star system, accelerate to like 50% of light speed, and then logoff and come back to the game in 24 hours when you're just entering the star system.:)
.. Oh yeah, and hope some Space Banditos (just listen for maracas) haven't taken your ship in the meantime:)
Umm, actually Dr. Sbaitso came with my original SoundBlaster 8-bit mono (the first board ever made by Creative Labs).
I had one of those.. my dad paid like $350 for it (Australian Dollars), then soundcards dropped to like $100 after they got popular, now the 'good' ones are $350 again. Isn't technology grand?:) Same thing has happened with Graphics Cards.
I tried to get Ask Jeeves to say something funny about this, but I couldn't.:(
I always open my personal CD player to stop it (rather than pressing stop), so I get to see the CD spin down.
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I noticed that Carmack finally cut his hair. He looks more respectable now:)
I remember reading something somewhere saying Carmack was interested in making more decent immersive environment stuff, sounded a lot like what The Street was in Snow Crash. Although if the next project is going to be a story based single player thing then maybe the one after will be The Street.:) That would be cool.
Now I have to go and find out what a V5 needs an external powersupply for;) </rant>
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I think by "locked hardware" he means that all the XBoxen (I refuse to capitalise it all no matter what they say) have the same hardware so you don't have the problem normal PC developers have. If a normal PC developer writes a game that needs an 800Mhz P3 and a GeForce3 only a small amount of the PC user population would be able to play it, if they target P2-300s with Voodoo2s then anyone who has anything better won't be satisfied.
XBox developers can just write a game targeting the XBox and know that all the users will get the same experience.
www.mchappyday.com.au (or similar?)
www.burgermeister.com.au
www.pearlharbor.com.au
The first two are both McDonalds sites (I can't remember the proper name of the first one, briefly saw it on a cup) and the second is a site for a movie.
It seems anyone with enough money can get around the .au "restrictions". [sigh]
Actually, with WinZip extracting a .tar.gz is exactly the same as a .zip
Sometimes I feel like booting to DOS and writing a 4KB demo again.
In addition to what the above poster said, you can't get a non-Xeon P3 with 2MB of cache. :)
This is not a realistic situation though, since Win95 (or any Windows since that comes on CD) comes with a boot floppy that contains CD drivers for both IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives. You stick that disk in the floppy drive, the Win95 CD in the CD drive, turn the PC on. I believe the Windows setup will create a partition and format it for you.
Check out Something Awful. They've got a suggestion of what can be done with the Iridium sats.
Okay, this might be a troll but i'll reply anyway ;) This is actually a really cool feature, means I can (for example) make it so that it'll prompt to accept cookies for the "big bad Internet" (Internet Zone) but not for stuff i'm testing on my LAN (Intranet Zone). Oh, except it won't prompt me when I visit my online broker because that's in my Trusted Sites list.
Once you play around with the Security Zone stuff in MSIE you'll find that it's a pretty fucken cool idea.
PHP4 does as part of the 'pear' library (kinda like perl's CPAN).
It's one up on perl though, because (since it's small at the moment) all the pear modules come with PHP itself, you don't need to download/install them from an external source.
Or am I wrong and you can play an incomplete MP3 as long as you've got the 'header'?
Paul Steeve (American Suparhero) mentions in the interview that the programmer he is looking for has to have experience working with licensed technology. This implies that he plans to license an engine. I don't think in these times it's financially viable to develop a new engine, it's a lot better use of resources to license Q3 or Unreal.
Der! That's the idea of Kuro5hin! The stories that appear on the front page are what the audience is interested in seeing up there.
Yes they have.
So what happens once you've thrown out the 5 million polygons? Does it stop working? Doesn't sound very useful.
Hell, go to japan, buy the 64 meg VMU, the 10/100 megabit ethernet adaptor and a 64meg vmu
One 64MB VMU would be enough, I think.
'telnet dreamcast.slashdot.org'
'killall crazy_taxi'
heh.
In particular, I think it'd be great to have ssh ship with every Linux distribution.
I downloaded a Debian (Potato) ISO a few weeks ago from an Australian mirror and it had OpenSSH as part of the install? [shrug] When booting you get "Starting OpenSSH daemon" or similar.
Will it work with existing USB peripherals that work under DirectX?
i.e. If I decide to get one of these can I use the Logitech USB Force Feedback Wheel I have already bought for my PC?
There's no reason why not as far as I can see, as long as there is a way to install 'drivers' for 3rd party controllers.
If not, i'll spend the money an X-Box would cost on a processor that's twice as fast and, by the time it's released, a video card that's twice as impressive. Err, that's if I was considering getting one.
Which are, from what I remember reading, pre-rendered.
Geeze! What the fuck are you smoking?!
Load and Reload are two of Metallica's most heavy albums, just not in the traditional sort of way. Just because they style of music has changed doesn't mean they've "sold out" or any shit like that, it just means they're maturing like any other band. I mean, compare Heavy Metal in the 80s (ie. Master of Puppets) and Heavy Metal in the late 90s (ie. Korn and Slipknot).
Times they are a changing, cope.. I've got all the Metallica albums and I think they're all great, just because it sounds different doesn't automatically means it has to 'suck'.
I'm sure you so called "metalheads" with your heads up your arses will flame away, but fuck you all in advance.
I know it's still not as convenient, but all I did was download the packages directory and base directory for i386, and made my own damn bootable ISO :) Took about 2 hours of downloading, half an hour of burning, and magic. And because it's not for multi-platform like the OpenBSD CDs you buy I have the whole i386 package collection all on one CD. Bleh.
So is there any obscure little site i've missed that will get me books in Australia faster and cheaper than Amazon? :)
Hehe.. I'm going to have to make myself a cup of coffee before I start listening to this one.
Whee!
I haven't actually read the linked page so this may well be what you meant by 'continuous physics' anyway, but what would be cool is a persistent space game where you can get in your ship, point it towards the next star system, accelerate to like 50% of light speed, and then logoff and come back to the game in 24 hours when you're just entering the star system. :)
I had one of those.. my dad paid like $350 for it (Australian Dollars), then soundcards dropped to like $100 after they got popular, now the 'good' ones are $350 again. Isn't technology grand? :) Same thing has happened with Graphics Cards.
I tried to get Ask Jeeves to say something funny about this, but I couldn't. :(
I always open my personal CD player to stop it (rather than pressing stop), so I get to see the CD spin down.
I remember reading something somewhere saying Carmack was interested in making more decent immersive environment stuff, sounded a lot like what The Street was in Snow Crash. Although if the next project is going to be a story based single player thing then maybe the one after will be The Street. :) That would be cool.
Now I have to go and find out what a V5 needs an external powersupply for ;) </rant>