OpenFirmware users have to deal with GFX cards that are insanely expensive.
I agree that your average ATI/NVidia card (what Apple uses) is pretty expensive, but that's hardly unique to OF systems. PCs pretty much always come with a high end 3D card these days.
EFI probably supports older GFX cards.
What exactly does this mean? The hardware drivers should be built into the boot PROM, so the firmware should have no trouble supporting the card, no matter what it is. That's true of both OpenFirmware and EFI.
Not to mention EFI is non-reversengineerable.
That's the theory, anyway. Reality and a flash card reader/programmer say otherwise.
Their are rumors that the intel macs in '06 will use EFI as opposed to OF/BIOS.
Where do people come up with this stuff? Just because Apple said that they would require Apple hardware for OS X does not mean that EFI will be loaded. In fact, Apple hasn't even admitted to any DRM in their future hardware! For all you know, it may be a special hardware component you need!
Besides, Apple has been using OF for years now, and its openness hasn't bothered them. Why should it begin bothering them now?
OpenFirmware isn't 100% ready for standards in the PC market, like ACPI.
There's nothing stopping an OF implementer from adding the ACPI extensions outside of the OF spec. OF is designed to be customized for each hardware platform.
Since it's a small IEEE group that isn't terribly active, it would take a long time to modify the spec.
As opposed to all the time and money Intel is wasting on making their own spec?
A lot of the OF features listed by./ users can be built into a PC BIOS or EFI firmware.
Of course it can. But it's already in OF, so why reinvent the wheel?
Sun only uses OpenFirmware on their non-x86 platforms
Not entirely true. The Sun bootloader is OpenFirmware. i.e. It's on the disk instead of the Boot ROM.
Apple is going away from OF to EFI in the new Intel Inside Mac
Got a link to prove that? I see absolutely no technical reason why Apple would need to switch to EFI, nor do I see any political reason.
Couldn't you just feign ignorance and get a free discount?
No need. Those discounts are just their OEM prices. Microsoft has a special OEM program for home built systems, where you can get Windows with any hardware purchase. So next time you're upgrading a component, head over to MWave.com and pick up both the component and discounted copy of Windows.
Why would Apple care? They already have OpenFirmware, and it isn't going anywhere. All they're doing is pulling the PowerPC chip out of the board, and throwing in an Intel chip with customized microcode.
Besides, Jobs hates being tied to any particular vendor. Under PowerPC he had both IBM and Motorola. Now he has Intel, AMD, and newfangeled competitors such as Transmeta. Why would he then tie himself to an Intel owned firmware that sucks in comparison to OF?:-)
Not as funny as you might think. The largest waterpark in the U.S. (Noah's Ark) is located in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Wisconsin has been nicknamed "The Frozen Tundra" by football fans who are used to Packers games in the rain and snow. Yet millions of tourists visit the Dells each summer to go to Noah's Ark. Just as many visit in the winter to go to the indoor Kalahari.
You'd be amazed at the things you find far north.;-)
I've said before, and I'll say it again: Why not OpenFirmware/OpenBoot?
Let's go through the list and see what EFI has compared to OpenFirmware, shall we?
1. EFI has a built-in bootloader. (Check) 2. EFI has built-in device drivers. (Check) 3. EFI has a shell environment. (Check, except that OpenFirmware isn't so laughable.) 4. EFI is cross platform. (Check) 5. EFI maintain *some* of the old PC BIOS calls. (No Support in OpenFirmware. Boo hoo.) 6. EFI adds trusted computing. (No Support in OpenFirmware. OF believes in computers being controlled by their owners.)
So why EFI and not OpenFirmware? Could it be a Not Invented Here Syndrome, or something more sinister? Is this the beginning of Trusted Computing for all? How do they expect to get customers to purchase an EFI system when a PC BIOS one is still well supported? Will they try to make an exclusive contract with Dell and invite the wrath of the justice department?
Here's the thing... Russia was/is a very poor country. When the US/Europe was(and the parts that still are) poor, you tend to eat what is available rather than what necessarily tasted the best. And you get used to it in time and kind of like it.
Oh, I understand completely. It just always amazes me how Russians continue to prefer it even after moving here. *shrug* It's all about what you're used to I guess.
My girlfriend makes a dish with pork ribs and sour cabbage(sort of like sauerkraut but you don't let it ferment so it's not as pungent).
See, here's the thing. I don't like cooked cabbage, and pork is something I take in small quantities. That doesn't leave a whole lot left that I'd actually like. And trust me, I have to suffer through the cooking of relatives quite often.
Pirozhki is good.
The little pastries designed to look like peaches? Yum. My wife and her friend made a bunch of it a few weeks ago. I think I gained a few pounds in process.;-)
I'm afraid that Microsoft didn't "delete" Apple, they just used data that's older than they are. My understanding is that Microsoft is using the USGS Topographical data, which tends to get updated whenever the USGS feels like it. Google, OTOH, uses proprietary data which is only a couple of years out of date (as opposed to decades).
Nice conspiracy theory guys, but I'm afraid that the Register is just having fun getting you all worked up.:-)
Borstch isn't bad, but stuff like walnut jam and Russian Meatloaf will send you screaming in terror. (Unless you're the type to like that stuff.) However, they do have a few tasty pastries.:-)
The small time "mafia" are brutal, messy and get lurid writeups. The really organised criminal only makes the headlines on rare occasions.
Shrek: The mafia is like an Onion.
Donkey: You mean they stink?
Shrek: NO! They have layers, Donkey, LAYERS!
Organized crime often uses far more petty criminals to do its dirty work. That way it's the 15 year old kid who takes the hit when the law catches up, while the mob bosses sit back and drink champaign.
The problem is that in Russia, Moscow is the only place with actual economic opportunity.
Correct. In fact, that's the reason that Russia lost the cold war. Moscow is pretty much the entire economic base of the country. Go to the far east sometime, and you easily come to areas where you're lucky if you can find running water and electricity. Compare that to America where our economic structure is spread throughout the country with no single choke-point. Key centers like New York and San Francisco are important, but not so important that'd we'd lose all economic power and industrial base if they were lost.
The letter is 'ha' and is written like 'X'. And it is not as strong as people claim it is. Most certainly does not warrant a KH spelling.
The KH is just a representation to get as close to the sound as we can. For example, I tried learning Russian from a book. You wouldn't believe how confusing the "SH" vs. "SHCH" sounds were.
'X' is a much more gutteral sound. If you were to spell it with an 'X', you'd sound like you're hocking up a spitwad every time you said it. (Ok, not really. If you're fluent, the difference is mostly inpercetable. Still...)
Simply put, Russian has no 'H' sound as you'd find it in "Hut". So they took up the convention of transliterating the 'H' to a 'G'. (Which I can't properly type because Slashdot refuses to support international characters. GRRRRR...) IMHO, they'd do much better to either leave the name alone (Russians are infatuated with American culture) or fully translate the name into 'XaTa Picca' (Where the P is actually a double vertical line with a line across the top. The letter 'P' is like the English 'R', just in case anyone is wondering.)
A good transliteration of j would be 'd''zh' (stupid slashdot does not allow cyrillic easily), and is actually a good approximation of the sound.
"dZh", "Zsa", and "zh" are all the same letter, depending on who's book you're reading. The actual letter looks like an X with a vertical line through the middle. It's a reasonably correct translation, and sounds very cute when spoken.:-)
2. Many Russians are obsessed with American culture, so the differences are not usually a problem. Most of the problems relate to getting used to the slop they call food (thank God my wife is a good cook and doesn't make me eat a lot of the stuff she likes), and not offending your spouse in discussions about the Russian economy.;-)
3. It's important to understand that my wife was and is highly committed to our marriage, as am I. Because of that, there aren't really many differences between us. Loose marriages are a world-wide problem and end the same everywhere.
4. If you want my advice, just don't get involved with a Russian girl if it can be helped. Love happens on its own time (and usually by accident), so make sure you are getting into a relationship for love, and that you're both truly committed. If you're truly committed, then it doesn't matter what country your wife is from. Otherwise, you'll have LOTS of fun with the INS. (Bloodsucking, #$#$@#$, rasta frasta,...)
5. We have two children. I think it worked out.;-)
That's actually a "Khah" sound (e.g. loch ness), not a hard 'H' sound.
A hamburger cost a month's salary, and the only reason there was a long line several hundred people in length is because the Russian people were so supressed that they desperately [y]earned to try something they only read about or seen on TV.
Ehh... that's somewhat true. McDonalds was simply something new and cool at the time. A bit like when the Apple Store opened here in Chicago. Were people lined up at the Apple Store because they were oppressed? Me thinks it had more to do with the Apple Store being new and cool.
It was the same thing with McDonalds. After it existed for a while, it became a much more normal part of Russian life.
I bet you'd find it "progress" if I told you that the cost of the hamburger since then has gone down from a month's sallary to a week's sallary.
I think you're a little behind on the times. Several years ago, the Russian government reissued new currency that has a much better parity when compared to the Dollar. Eating at McDonalds isn't cheap, but it doesn't cost a weeks salary, either.
Sure, there are a handful of millionaires here and there, the vast majority of whom earned their wealth by "stealing" the property and industries that the government abandoned after instituting a more free market.
1. These are generally called "New Russians".
2. Many New Russians obtained their wealth through perfectly honest means. For example, a friend of my wife's family made a killing by starting a door repair/replacement business. Not something you'd think would be a big money-maker, but apparently he became quite weathly from it. Which just goes to show how important property is to Russians now that it's private instead of public.
Sorry, reading your post again, I think I misunderstood. Yes, the posts that make Russia sound like something out of a gangster movie are pretty funny.:-)
Except that the letter "H" is not the letter "H". It's the letter "En". (Letter names in Cyrillic are phonetic, except for the "silent" modifiers like E-Kratkoy.)
My personal favorite transliteration is the conversion of "J" (which exists neither as a sound or a similar character) to the letter "Zsa". I always loved how my wife said my name, right up to the point where she developed an American accent.:-)
As a fellow russian, I find this +5 informative posts about white bear mobs walking around here drinking vodka, making botnets from Comcast customers and firing AKA-47's at one another highly amusing.
Eh?
1. I'm not Russian. My wife is.:-)
2. That's a bit more extreme than I was trying to communicate. Mafia corruption usually happens behind the scenes, where no one can put their finger on it. While the Russian Mafia has been uncharacteristically bold in the past (What were all those American Businessman killings about?), they still don't want to place themselves in the public eye. It's much easier to work from the shadows where cops can be bought off and ties can be made to certain political entities.
Besides, what other country allows its Presidential candidates to be kidnapped? (Or perhaps allows it's candidates to spin believable stories about kidnapping. You decide.);-)
That's not really saying much, is it? Considering that there were probably zero international food chains under the Soviet regime.
IIRC, the first McDonalds was founded just prior to the fall of communism. Now there are McDonalds on every street corner, Pizza Huts (!), Taco Bell, KFC, and others. Even Starbucks is now in the game!
Pretty much nobody does business there of any sort, let alone shady stuff like hacking and spamming, without having connections to the mob.
That's not quite true. The Russian culture is certainly full of corruption given that the KGB effectively became the Mafia, but Moscow has become a booming city ripe with economic opportunity. New freeways, inexpensive cars, waterparks, big businesses (Sun's Russian HQ is right across the street from my father-in-law!), and Aerospace technologies are just a few areas where Moscow has been booming. Another big area is restaurant chains. There are now more international food chains in Russia than ever before!
Russia is something of a third world country that's pulling itself back up into an economic power. Along the way there will be TONS of greed and corruption, but don't confuse that with the honest growth that is occurring.:-)
I have a feeling that this has less to do with his spamming efforts and more to do with the mafia. From what I understand, a lot of spammers, script kiddies, and crackers in Russia have connections to the mob. The reason for this is that the mafia tends to use cyber-warfare (such as DDOSes) for blackmail, and spam for revenue generation. Apparently the spam networks are quite sophisticated, with one person finding and validating addresses then selling them to the highest bidder.
In other words, things may be more complex then they seem...
how can viewing a movie trailer for a real-life movie possibly fit in with the game world?
Just modify the ad to work with the game. i.e. Have an Orc drinking Pepsi, or a Space Captain stating that he loves the classic flavor of Coke. Game designers have been parodying ads in video games for quite awhile. Why not make them real ads with a twist?;-)
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OpenFirmware users have to deal with GFX cards that are insanely expensive.
I agree that your average ATI/NVidia card (what Apple uses) is pretty expensive, but that's hardly unique to OF systems. PCs pretty much always come with a high end 3D card these days.
EFI probably supports older GFX cards.
What exactly does this mean? The hardware drivers should be built into the boot PROM, so the firmware should have no trouble supporting the card, no matter what it is. That's true of both OpenFirmware and EFI.
Not to mention EFI is non-reversengineerable.
That's the theory, anyway. Reality and a flash card reader/programmer say otherwise.
Their are rumors that the intel macs in '06 will use EFI as opposed to OF/BIOS.
Where do people come up with this stuff? Just because Apple said that they would require Apple hardware for OS X does not mean that EFI will be loaded. In fact, Apple hasn't even admitted to any DRM in their future hardware! For all you know, it may be a special hardware component you need!
Besides, Apple has been using OF for years now, and its openness hasn't bothered them. Why should it begin bothering them now?
OpenFirmware isn't 100% ready for standards in the PC market, like ACPI.
./ users can be built into a PC BIOS or EFI firmware.
There's nothing stopping an OF implementer from adding the ACPI extensions outside of the OF spec. OF is designed to be customized for each hardware platform.
Since it's a small IEEE group that isn't terribly active, it would take a long time to modify the spec.
As opposed to all the time and money Intel is wasting on making their own spec?
A lot of the OF features listed by
Of course it can. But it's already in OF, so why reinvent the wheel?
Sun only uses OpenFirmware on their non-x86 platforms
Not entirely true. The Sun bootloader is OpenFirmware. i.e. It's on the disk instead of the Boot ROM.
Apple is going away from OF to EFI in the new Intel Inside Mac
Got a link to prove that? I see absolutely no technical reason why Apple would need to switch to EFI, nor do I see any political reason.
Couldn't you just feign ignorance and get a free discount?
No need. Those discounts are just their OEM prices. Microsoft has a special OEM program for home built systems, where you can get Windows with any hardware purchase. So next time you're upgrading a component, head over to MWave.com and pick up both the component and discounted copy of Windows.
Why would Apple care? They already have OpenFirmware, and it isn't going anywhere. All they're doing is pulling the PowerPC chip out of the board, and throwing in an Intel chip with customized microcode.
:-)
Besides, Jobs hates being tied to any particular vendor. Under PowerPC he had both IBM and Motorola. Now he has Intel, AMD, and newfangeled competitors such as Transmeta. Why would he then tie himself to an Intel owned firmware that sucks in comparison to OF?
Not as funny as you might think. The largest waterpark in the U.S. (Noah's Ark) is located in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Wisconsin has been nicknamed "The Frozen Tundra" by football fans who are used to Packers games in the rain and snow. Yet millions of tourists visit the Dells each summer to go to Noah's Ark. Just as many visit in the winter to go to the indoor Kalahari.
;-)
You'd be amazed at the things you find far north.
I've said before, and I'll say it again: Why not OpenFirmware/OpenBoot?
Let's go through the list and see what EFI has compared to OpenFirmware, shall we?
1. EFI has a built-in bootloader. (Check)
2. EFI has built-in device drivers. (Check)
3. EFI has a shell environment. (Check, except that OpenFirmware isn't so laughable.)
4. EFI is cross platform. (Check)
5. EFI maintain *some* of the old PC BIOS calls. (No Support in OpenFirmware. Boo hoo.)
6. EFI adds trusted computing. (No Support in OpenFirmware. OF believes in computers being controlled by their owners.)
So why EFI and not OpenFirmware? Could it be a Not Invented Here Syndrome, or something more sinister? Is this the beginning of Trusted Computing for all? How do they expect to get customers to purchase an EFI system when a PC BIOS one is still well supported? Will they try to make an exclusive contract with Dell and invite the wrath of the justice department?
Only time will tell.
I won't buy it until it can record...
ONE
MILLION
HOURS!
MWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Where are the frickin sharks with laser beams?
Believe it or not, it operates year round. It's an indoor waterpark. ;-)
Uh, no. He's not that type of guy. :-)
Here's the thing... Russia was/is a very poor country. When the US/Europe was(and the parts that still are) poor, you tend to eat what is available rather than what necessarily tasted the best. And you get used to it in time and kind of like it.
;-)
Oh, I understand completely. It just always amazes me how Russians continue to prefer it even after moving here. *shrug* It's all about what you're used to I guess.
My girlfriend makes a dish with pork ribs and sour cabbage(sort of like sauerkraut but you don't let it ferment so it's not as pungent).
See, here's the thing. I don't like cooked cabbage, and pork is something I take in small quantities. That doesn't leave a whole lot left that I'd actually like. And trust me, I have to suffer through the cooking of relatives quite often.
Pirozhki is good.
The little pastries designed to look like peaches? Yum. My wife and her friend made a bunch of it a few weeks ago. I think I gained a few pounds in process.
I'm afraid that Microsoft didn't "delete" Apple, they just used data that's older than they are. My understanding is that Microsoft is using the USGS Topographical data, which tends to get updated whenever the USGS feels like it. Google, OTOH, uses proprietary data which is only a couple of years out of date (as opposed to decades).
:-)
Nice conspiracy theory guys, but I'm afraid that the Register is just having fun getting you all worked up.
Borstch. (Pronounced Bore-SH)
:-)
Recipe
Borstch isn't bad, but stuff like walnut jam and Russian Meatloaf will send you screaming in terror. (Unless you're the type to like that stuff.) However, they do have a few tasty pastries.
The small time "mafia" are brutal, messy and get lurid writeups. The really organised criminal only makes the headlines on rare occasions.
Shrek: The mafia is like an Onion.
Donkey: You mean they stink?
Shrek: NO! They have layers, Donkey, LAYERS!
Organized crime often uses far more petty criminals to do its dirty work. That way it's the 15 year old kid who takes the hit when the law catches up, while the mob bosses sit back and drink champaign.
The problem is that in Russia, Moscow is the only place with actual economic opportunity.
Correct. In fact, that's the reason that Russia lost the cold war. Moscow is pretty much the entire economic base of the country. Go to the far east sometime, and you easily come to areas where you're lucky if you can find running water and electricity. Compare that to America where our economic structure is spread throughout the country with no single choke-point. Key centers like New York and San Francisco are important, but not so important that'd we'd lose all economic power and industrial base if they were lost.
I almost forgot:
6. You have to put up with the stupid "Mail order bride" jokes. (Just get over it people! The mail-order brides are con games! Yeesh.)
The letter is 'ha' and is written like 'X'. And it is not as strong as people claim it is. Most certainly does not warrant a KH spelling.
:-)
The KH is just a representation to get as close to the sound as we can. For example, I tried learning Russian from a book. You wouldn't believe how confusing the "SH" vs. "SHCH" sounds were.
'X' is a much more gutteral sound. If you were to spell it with an 'X', you'd sound like you're hocking up a spitwad every time you said it. (Ok, not really. If you're fluent, the difference is mostly inpercetable. Still...)
Simply put, Russian has no 'H' sound as you'd find it in "Hut". So they took up the convention of transliterating the 'H' to a 'G'. (Which I can't properly type because Slashdot refuses to support international characters. GRRRRR...) IMHO, they'd do much better to either leave the name alone (Russians are infatuated with American culture) or fully translate the name into 'XaTa Picca' (Where the P is actually a double vertical line with a line across the top. The letter 'P' is like the English 'R', just in case anyone is wondering.)
A good transliteration of j would be 'd''zh' (stupid slashdot does not allow cyrillic easily), and is actually a good approximation of the sound.
"dZh", "Zsa", and "zh" are all the same letter, depending on who's book you're reading. The actual letter looks like an X with a vertical line through the middle. It's a reasonably correct translation, and sounds very cute when spoken.
1. My wife was in the U.S. when I met her.
;-)
...)
;-)
2. Many Russians are obsessed with American culture, so the differences are not usually a problem. Most of the problems relate to getting used to the slop they call food (thank God my wife is a good cook and doesn't make me eat a lot of the stuff she likes), and not offending your spouse in discussions about the Russian economy.
3. It's important to understand that my wife was and is highly committed to our marriage, as am I. Because of that, there aren't really many differences between us. Loose marriages are a world-wide problem and end the same everywhere.
4. If you want my advice, just don't get involved with a Russian girl if it can be helped. Love happens on its own time (and usually by accident), so make sure you are getting into a relationship for love, and that you're both truly committed. If you're truly committed, then it doesn't matter what country your wife is from. Otherwise, you'll have LOTS of fun with the INS. (Bloodsucking, #$#$@#$, rasta frasta,
5. We have two children. I think it worked out.
The cyrillic letter for 'H' is 'X'.
That's actually a "Khah" sound (e.g. loch ness), not a hard 'H' sound.
A hamburger cost a month's salary, and the only reason there was a long line several hundred people in length is because the Russian people were so supressed that they desperately [y]earned to try something they only read about or seen on TV.
Ehh... that's somewhat true. McDonalds was simply something new and cool at the time. A bit like when the Apple Store opened here in Chicago. Were people lined up at the Apple Store because they were oppressed? Me thinks it had more to do with the Apple Store being new and cool.
It was the same thing with McDonalds. After it existed for a while, it became a much more normal part of Russian life.
I bet you'd find it "progress" if I told you that the cost of the hamburger since then has gone down from a month's sallary to a week's sallary.
I think you're a little behind on the times. Several years ago, the Russian government reissued new currency that has a much better parity when compared to the Dollar. Eating at McDonalds isn't cheap, but it doesn't cost a weeks salary, either.
Sure, there are a handful of millionaires here and there, the vast majority of whom earned their wealth by "stealing" the property and industries that the government abandoned after instituting a more free market.
1. These are generally called "New Russians".
2. Many New Russians obtained their wealth through perfectly honest means. For example, a friend of my wife's family made a killing by starting a door repair/replacement business. Not something you'd think would be a big money-maker, but apparently he became quite weathly from it. Which just goes to show how important property is to Russians now that it's private instead of public.
Sorry, reading your post again, I think I misunderstood. Yes, the posts that make Russia sound like something out of a gangster movie are pretty funny. :-)
Except that the letter "H" is not the letter "H". It's the letter "En". (Letter names in Cyrillic are phonetic, except for the "silent" modifiers like E-Kratkoy.)
:-)
My personal favorite transliteration is the conversion of "J" (which exists neither as a sound or a similar character) to the letter "Zsa". I always loved how my wife said my name, right up to the point where she developed an American accent.
As a fellow russian, I find this +5 informative posts about white bear mobs walking around here drinking vodka, making botnets from Comcast customers and firing AKA-47's at one another highly amusing.
:-)
;-)
Eh?
1. I'm not Russian. My wife is.
2. That's a bit more extreme than I was trying to communicate. Mafia corruption usually happens behind the scenes, where no one can put their finger on it. While the Russian Mafia has been uncharacteristically bold in the past (What were all those American Businessman killings about?), they still don't want to place themselves in the public eye. It's much easier to work from the shadows where cops can be bought off and ties can be made to certain political entities.
Besides, what other country allows its Presidential candidates to be kidnapped? (Or perhaps allows it's candidates to spin believable stories about kidnapping. You decide.)
That's not really saying much, is it? Considering that there were probably zero international food chains under the Soviet regime.
IIRC, the first McDonalds was founded just prior to the fall of communism. Now there are McDonalds on every street corner, Pizza Huts (!), Taco Bell, KFC, and others. Even Starbucks is now in the game!
Pretty much nobody does business there of any sort, let alone shady stuff like hacking and spamming, without having connections to the mob.
:-)
That's not quite true. The Russian culture is certainly full of corruption given that the KGB effectively became the Mafia, but Moscow has become a booming city ripe with economic opportunity. New freeways, inexpensive cars, waterparks, big businesses (Sun's Russian HQ is right across the street from my father-in-law!), and Aerospace technologies are just a few areas where Moscow has been booming. Another big area is restaurant chains. There are now more international food chains in Russia than ever before!
Russia is something of a third world country that's pulling itself back up into an economic power. Along the way there will be TONS of greed and corruption, but don't confuse that with the honest growth that is occurring.
I have a feeling that this has less to do with his spamming efforts and more to do with the mafia. From what I understand, a lot of spammers, script kiddies, and crackers in Russia have connections to the mob. The reason for this is that the mafia tends to use cyber-warfare (such as DDOSes) for blackmail, and spam for revenue generation. Apparently the spam networks are quite sophisticated, with one person finding and validating addresses then selling them to the highest bidder.
In other words, things may be more complex then they seem...
how can viewing a movie trailer for a real-life movie possibly fit in with the game world?
;-)
Just modify the ad to work with the game. i.e. Have an Orc drinking Pepsi, or a Space Captain stating that he loves the classic flavor of Coke. Game designers have been parodying ads in video games for quite awhile. Why not make them real ads with a twist?