The only known threats on iOS devices have come to jailbroken phones and the jailbreaks themselves.
Apparently you utterly fucking fail at understanding security. Those jailbreaks exploit holes in the walled garden to install tools that do other things, like allowing users to install their own software. Malware authors can exploit those same holes to install their crap.
Even if the garden wall was perfect and didn't have holes, you still have to trust the guard who doesn't work for you, but for the gardener.
When Android doesn't require essentially every app you install to get access to private data BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN FUCKING INSTALL IT, then you MIGHT be able to start talking differently here. Until then you just make it obvious you're nothing more than a fanboy.
Well that time is now because Android doesn't require this. There are so many problems with every security model but by defending iOS in such a half-assed way, you have proven that you are nothing more than a fanboy as well.
If all you want is an offline Wikipedia reader, just use Kiwix. It uses the ZIM format which was created specifically for offline use and runs on Win/Mac/Linux/Android or anything else if you want to compile it yourself.
While the full English Wikipedia ZIM sans pictures is a bit old (January 2012), it has the benefit of being only 10GB and split up into 2GB chunks so it will fit on a FAT32 device like your phone's SD card.
I actually could mod you down, but I'm posting this because there is some confusion that you are having and I would rather inform than just smite.
The word that you're missing is "bootloader". When you apply power to the pi, the boot process starts by the GPU running some closed source binary blob which eventually get around to doing things like turning on the CPU and letting you run your OS.
Yes, you actually do have to use the closed-source video even if you use ssh or run completely headless.
I'm not saying that you should never use a pi, you just should be aware of what it is and what it is not, and it is not completely open.
I'm one of the people who is still mad about the OtherOS removal. Yes, I'm aware that due to how the PS3 hypervisor limits the system that running Linux on a PS3 is comparable to running it on a Raspberry Pi. Heck, you've got more usable RAM on the current Pi than on the PS3. That's not the point.
The end result of the SCEA v. Hotz fiasco is that once the warranty period is up, Sony can do whatever the hell they want to your console. Any feature is fair game. Sony could legally push an update that turns it into a paperweight if they desired and you would have no recourse. As an addendum, the warranty isn't transferable so this could legally kill the used system market if they so desired.
The warranty time used to be a safe period at the beginning of a piece of consumer electronics usable life where if it broke you would be able to get a replacement. Now, it should be seen as the entirety of the devices usable life.
If you are planning on buying a PS4, make sure that you buy the extended (2yr) warranty. Make sure that you get your $450 worth over then next 3 years. Go into this with eyes wide open.
Yes, this doesn't just apply to Sony but they are the ones specifically have it in their warranty clause, went to court to confirm the legality of it, and are otherwise actively hostile to their customers.
Games, just like any other art ever produced, are subject to criticism. Some of this criticism is constructive and some is not. Some of it is downright insipid. The difference between games and most other art is that the audience is well versed in Internet-fu and sadly, is usually immature.
Just like any other artists, developers need to have somewhat thick skins when it comes to taking their criticism. Some like Phil Fish will either start or escalate a flame war and then try to play a victim afterwards. I'm definitely not justifying the comments made against him or his game, but he was not completely blameless in how the events went down.
Like I said, the gaming audience is often immature. Many pieces have been written about how it needs to grow up and how bullying needs to stop but it's not going to change overnight, if ever.
So how about this devs, stop making the violence porn that keeps the gaming audience in its immature larval state and start making more games like Spec Ops: The Line that forces the gamer to think. Bully wasn't flawless but at least it tried. Those are the only two games that I would consider to be mature out of the thousands that the ESRB has rated M.
Don't blame Intel for dropping AHCI on XP. Don't blame AMD for dropping it either. Developing drivers for an OS that Microsoft has been telling people to move away from for over 5 years now is a bad business decision. Driver updates cost money. Not just in developer time but in QA time as well. In AMD's case, it's a completely different model (Kernel vs. WDDM).
Microsoft has always been about poor UI choices. Do you not remember Microsoft Bob or Clippy? Do you not remember a time when people complained about how candy coated XP was when compared to Windows 2000 Workstation? Now there was an OS you could be set your watch to, or at least you could until 2007 when Microsoft decided not to release the time zone change patch for it. If you ask me they didn't get bored of "the old way", they embraced it and said "Let's make this look like old Windows!" Everything in 16 colors and only runs fullscreen.
My advice would be to start using Linux. At least with that, you can continue using what you're used to well after the original authors have moved on to relieve their boredom. If you don't like GNOME3 then go fork GNOME2, mate. Take the months that you would have spent ranting and start doing something productive. The idea with Open Source Software is that people can't take it away from you.
There are plenty of Lego clones on the market, Mega Bloks being the easiest one to find in the USA. They are often cheaper than Lego products, both in cost and quality. If all that you care about is cost, go with the them.
The cross-licensing deals are what keeps the products on store shelves (as they do sell very well) at major retailers instead of just hobby shops. If you think that Lego products are expensive now, you really wouldn't like the price if they didn't have the licensed sets.
So everyone, enjoy your Mindstorms. I know I will! But know that these wouldn't exist without Lego also producing licensed stuff, average video games, and other geek reviled products (Bionicle/Hero Factory, Lego Friends, etc.)
I wish I knew about the "one-time showing" bullshit going into this. The other news sites never even mentioned it.
I hop on the Xbox this morning and all it says is that it will start at 8PM. I spend the rest of the day with family/friends ('tis the season) and then before bed I realize that it's after 8 so I should grab it. After downloading their stupid app I get a screen saying that it's over. Huzzah!
I have had a DVR for about 14 years now, and even though I watch considerably less TV now than back then, I am certain of one thing: I watch on my time, not yours. Nielsen data is showing that other people do too.
The really sad thing is that if this was on normal TV, I could have recorded it and watched it when I damn well felt to. Microsoft, this was a pre-recorded film not an event. There was nothing that needed to be streamed live, and nothing that needed to have me schedule time during a holiday weekend outside of some pretty viewer numbers that you can report immediately instead of waiting a nominal time to also include time-shift viewers.
Know this that if you want to replace the usual set-top boxes and be the TV device of choice that you better not have less functionality than a simple DVR. If you do, then you lose the battle. Nintendo, I'd say that you should be paying attention as well, but I've used your hardware and you clearly don't have a clue.
Take a look at the history of Digg to see what happens when you mess with a community site. You have a choice to make. If you screw it up, people will leave.
The certs issues from the Terminal Server Licensing Service were intended to be used only for connections and not code signing. This is Microsoft's blunder. They weren't actually licensing malicious certificates but they were giving people tools to issue what appeared to be valid certs coming from MS.
The fixes are going to be changing TSLS so that its certs can no longer be used to sign code and revoking the intermediate CA certs that are affected.
The OS only ever costs $30. . ..That means you could buy version 10.0 Cheetah all the way to 10.7 Lion for the cost of Windows 7.
Except of course for the fact that it hasn't always been this way. Sure, 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Mountain Lion) may be $30 but previous versions have been much more. Excluding 10.1 which was given away to appease the users of the broken 10.0, OS X has been similarly priced with home versions of Windows. Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4) were both $129. The window between releases there was only two and a half years. If you want to compare Apples to oranges, those two upgrades are practically as much as your Windows 7 Ultimate quoted price.
Also, if you happened to purchase Windows XP back in the day you wouldn't have to upgrade if you didn't want to. Windows XP is still supported with security updates coming until 2014. Apple's support is usually about only three years after release, forcing you to upgrade. On the Windows side you could skip Vista if you wanted to. You may even make it to Windows 8.
Don't get me wrong, I like the Mac. This post was composed on a Mac! I know these prices because I have rode the Mac upgrade train that you are talking about. I just have a problem with posts like yours which are clearly wrong being modded to a +5 informative.
if I create something and decide to stop selling it, lock it away, and never let it see the light of day, that should be my right. At least until it becomes public domain anyway.
Once you start selling it, you have distributed it into the public. Copyright is a limited time after initial distribution where the copyright holder is the only one who can control the distribution for the purposes of profit. The reason others cannot distribute it for free is because it would affect the copyright holders profit. Copyright is not a right, it is a limited privilege granted for the purpose of furthering the creation of more works.
Public domain is a right. It is the shared cultural knowledge that moves humanity forward. If you don't want to participate in the public domain then keep your works to yourself! You can't take your ball and go home because once you've distributed it from that first sale, it is now the public's ball not yours.
RAID1 the entire thing and you really have an odd sort of RAID10 going on, but without the assurance that its a "proper" RAID 10.
RAID 10 used to refer to RAID 1+0 which was a striped set of multiple mirrored sets. Conversely, RAID 0+1 referred to a mirrored set of multiple stripe sets. RAID 0+1 (or RAID 01) has actually been rolled into RAID 10 as they both offered the same level of failure resistance. Either setup would be considered a "proper" RAID 10.
Since the device in question is performing its own striping of internal disks, you could just treat it as a single disk for whatever applications you need. Assuming the manufacturer's performance and reliability data is correct then you build your array with that in mind. It's not like you can replace a failed individual disk inside the device anyway.
If a game only uses 200MB of the 1GB disc then shoehorning it into a 700MB CD isn't going to be much of a problem. Most games were well under the size of a CD; those that weren't had extraneous stuff like demos removed to fit. I've been told that sound (simple audio streams) and graphics (really, how the hell would this suffer?) were spot on with a retail release.
I played around with the Utopia disc for homebrew purposes only. Looking back I find it funny (although not so much at the time) as I bought a mod chip that would make my Dreamcast region free and the boot discs basically gave that functionality with the ability to play CD-Rs. Yes, the mod chip wouldn't even play backup discs on it's own.
The Z button on the Gamecube controller can go straight to hell. From the way the analog R slider is designed you either have to use a different finger/thumb to operate Z (very awkward) or you can repeatedly scrape your finger raw on the plastic lip of the R slider (ouch!) or you can press it with your index finger's knuckle (good way to get RSI) or you can say screw it and use your middle finger on the R slider, your index finger on the Z (and the other two fingers left holding the controller will give you a hand charlie horse after only 10 minutes of play).
The controller was designed to be very ergonomic and then the Z button was thrown on as a last minute to appease some jackass. The fact that 9 out of 10 games that used it wouldn't let you configure your buttons made it all the more infuriating. For every game like Pikmin which only used it to change the camera, there was a SSB:M which had two buttons for jump, two buttons for shield, but only one button (Z natch) for drop the item you're carrying. I can see why people play with no items!
Fuck you Z button. You ruined an otherwise good design.
According to Marc Franklin, Nintendo of America's Director of Public Relations, it will not play GameCube games.
Link is down at the moment but this is where I got the news.
Yes, the Wii was based on GameCube architecture so it could theoretically still be possible. The Wii U does not have any GameCube controller ports or memory card slots so they would have to be provided via USB or Bluetooth and associated IO processing would have to performed. It's unknown as to whether or not the slot loading drive on the Wii U will accept the smaller GameCube discs or not.
Not to mention that Nintendo's backwards compatibility usually lasts only one generation. Look at Gameboy/Color games on the Gameboy Advance (gone on the DS) or Gameboy Advance games on the DS (gone on the DSi/3DS)
What I want, nay need to know is whether or not the Doctor destroying Amy's replicant also destroyed his shoes which he got from his ganger. Weren't they made of the flesh too?
How exactly do you trade clothes with a ganger anyway? If all of their clothes are part of them, you couldn't; any more than you could trade feet with them. If all of their clothes are just separate creations produced by the flesh wouldn't they be alive as well? The pile of discarded Jennifers was turning into a pile of dirty jumpsuit laundry with flesh blobs. Would their eyes really be the last thing to go or would it be their clothes?
...and if this alien flesh lifeform is alive and can be pressed into clothes that aren't alive, humanity can use it to replace third world sweat shops making clothes the old fashioned way. I'm thinking something akin to the Torchwood episode Meat.
Of course I wouldn't have to think of such oddities if the episode wasn't such a letdown after last week's decent build-up. I'm not saying it's the Worst Episode Ever but it is my least favorite 11th Doctor episode taking the title away from the previous champion Victory of the iDaleks.
"no ur brain is what tells the rest of your body when to feel pain, but it doesn't itself feel pain, because it can't really tell itself to hut, this is y when u had brain trauma you pretty much die, and u can't feel it because that is ur brains job.. get it?? kinda??"
I feel informed.
My brain feels pain reading your sentence. Stop trying to post to/. while driving and wait until you are stopped if you're going to post using your phone.
The issue with using Wine is that it's not an emulator, it's a compatibility layer. It passes x86 code from the legacy Windows app to the processor to be executed. It only works if you're running on an x86 system.
There have been projects like Darwine that have incorporated an x86 emulator (in this case QEMU) along with the Wine layer to actually run legacy Windows x86 apps on PPC hardware. This is possible but the result will be very slow due to emulation.
A better method would be to have the OS take care of everything emulating x86 code when needed like Apple's Rosetta because you could use the actual Windows 8 DLLs and pass only the needed x86 code to the emulator. Microsoft has a team doing x86 emulation (or at least virtualization) but it's unknown how portable it would be to ARM. Obviously they have decided that this isn't going to be implemented though, probably due to it being too slow to be useful.
If you want to see how slow an ARM is at emulating x86 code, fire up DOSBox on your smartphone or hacked console. Granted that will also be emulating things like VGA and all but the x86 emulation is the brunt of the work. It's not going to be fast, and it would be a poor experience for most users.
Not at all. If you , or anyone else wants to hack their PS3 great. But downloading someone else's work and applying it to your PS3 is not hacking nor is it knowing how to do so yourself. It's being a script kiddie.
I downloaded and applied Linux to my PS3 back in 2008. That means that... FUCK! It turns out I wasn't hacking at all, I was just being a script kiddie.:(
Contact third party developers that work closely with Sony like Insomniac Games, Sucker Punch Studios, and Atlus and let them know that because of Sony's terrible practices that you will no longer be able to purchase their products while they are Sony exclusives.
Contact Sony owned studios like Media Molecule and Naughty Dog and let them know that you can't support them anymore.
Contact smaller and indie developers and let them know too. Slam Bolt Scrappers may look cool, but let Fire Hose games know that you can't play it. Indie developers may be the most receptive of the whole situation as a lost sale to them means a lot more.
Starve the PS3 of exclusive games and Sony will hurt quite a bit.
They did on the DS. Then they did again a few years later. (Warning sites use flash)
Both of those games are pretty good. The first has an idiotic feature of returning you to a central dungeon periodically but it's still a good game. Then again, I happen to think both Majora's Mask and Windwaker are great games, Twilight Princess is mediocre, and Link to the Past is way too overhyped so you may feel differently. I did really like Ocarina of Time and the original Legend of Zelda though.
The Xbox 360 has always had the ability to backup most of your data through the use of proprietary "Memory Units". With the Spring 2010 Update they added the ability to use standard USB devices as well; granted you do have to partition it to a proprietary format and allow half a gig storage loss for 'security' data. They also impose a 16GB limitation per memory device and allow a max of 2 connected at a time. They don't want to cut into the profitable proprietary hard drive market.
Yes, it is cumbersome but it is possible and at least the data isn't tied specifically to the console it was backed up from, which means that you should be able to move your saves to a new system should your old one die.. unlike say the PS3.
I would suspect that the Wii does not have enough horse power to generate steroscopic 3D (compared to the Playstation).
The Sega Master System was able to generate sterescopic 3D perfectly fine. All of this from a system using a 3.58MHz Z80. I think the Wii is perfectly capable of doing it; horsepower has nothing to do with it. You're going to need glasses to sync with the screen updates (which the Wii could implement somehow...I don't want to give them ideas of more peripherals connected to the Wiimote) and you're going to lose half of your framerate as you're going to be drawing two separate screens (one for each eye) where you would previously only needed one.
Sure it's not going to be as good as the PS3 but that's going to be expected.
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The only known threats on iOS devices have come to jailbroken phones and the jailbreaks themselves.
Apparently you utterly fucking fail at understanding security. Those jailbreaks exploit holes in the walled garden to install tools that do other things, like allowing users to install their own software. Malware authors can exploit those same holes to install their crap.
Even if the garden wall was perfect and didn't have holes, you still have to trust the guard who doesn't work for you, but for the gardener.
When Android doesn't require essentially every app you install to get access to private data BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN FUCKING INSTALL IT, then you MIGHT be able to start talking differently here. Until then you just make it obvious you're nothing more than a fanboy.
Well that time is now because Android doesn't require this. There are so many problems with every security model but by defending iOS in such a half-assed way, you have proven that you are nothing more than a fanboy as well.
If all you want is an offline Wikipedia reader, just use Kiwix. It uses the ZIM format which was created specifically for offline use and runs on Win/Mac/Linux/Android or anything else if you want to compile it yourself.
While the full English Wikipedia ZIM sans pictures is a bit old (January 2012), it has the benefit of being only 10GB and split up into 2GB chunks so it will fit on a FAT32 device like your phone's SD card.
I actually could mod you down, but I'm posting this because there is some confusion that you are having and I would rather inform than just smite.
The word that you're missing is "bootloader". When you apply power to the pi, the boot process starts by the GPU running some closed source binary blob which eventually get around to doing things like turning on the CPU and letting you run your OS.
Yes, you actually do have to use the closed-source video even if you use ssh or run completely headless.
I'm not saying that you should never use a pi, you just should be aware of what it is and what it is not, and it is not completely open.
I'm one of the people who is still mad about the OtherOS removal. Yes, I'm aware that due to how the PS3 hypervisor limits the system that running Linux on a PS3 is comparable to running it on a Raspberry Pi. Heck, you've got more usable RAM on the current Pi than on the PS3. That's not the point.
The end result of the SCEA v. Hotz fiasco is that once the warranty period is up, Sony can do whatever the hell they want to your console. Any feature is fair game. Sony could legally push an update that turns it into a paperweight if they desired and you would have no recourse. As an addendum, the warranty isn't transferable so this could legally kill the used system market if they so desired.
The warranty time used to be a safe period at the beginning of a piece of consumer electronics usable life where if it broke you would be able to get a replacement. Now, it should be seen as the entirety of the devices usable life.
If you are planning on buying a PS4, make sure that you buy the extended (2yr) warranty. Make sure that you get your $450 worth over then next 3 years. Go into this with eyes wide open.
Yes, this doesn't just apply to Sony but they are the ones specifically have it in their warranty clause, went to court to confirm the legality of it, and are otherwise actively hostile to their customers.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/02/otheros-class-action-lawsuit-geohot-sony-now-share-same-charge/
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110218181557455
Games, just like any other art ever produced, are subject to criticism. Some of this criticism is constructive and some is not. Some of it is downright insipid. The difference between games and most other art is that the audience is well versed in Internet-fu and sadly, is usually immature.
Just like any other artists, developers need to have somewhat thick skins when it comes to taking their criticism. Some like Phil Fish will either start or escalate a flame war and then try to play a victim afterwards. I'm definitely not justifying the comments made against him or his game, but he was not completely blameless in how the events went down.
Like I said, the gaming audience is often immature. Many pieces have been written about how it needs to grow up and how bullying needs to stop but it's not going to change overnight, if ever.
So how about this devs, stop making the violence porn that keeps the gaming audience in its immature larval state and start making more games like Spec Ops: The Line that forces the gamer to think. Bully wasn't flawless but at least it tried. Those are the only two games that I would consider to be mature out of the thousands that the ESRB has rated M.
Don't blame Intel for dropping AHCI on XP. Don't blame AMD for dropping it either. Developing drivers for an OS that Microsoft has been telling people to move away from for over 5 years now is a bad business decision. Driver updates cost money. Not just in developer time but in QA time as well. In AMD's case, it's a completely different model (Kernel vs. WDDM).
Microsoft has always been about poor UI choices. Do you not remember Microsoft Bob or Clippy? Do you not remember a time when people complained about how candy coated XP was when compared to Windows 2000 Workstation? Now there was an OS you could be set your watch to, or at least you could until 2007 when Microsoft decided not to release the time zone change patch for it. If you ask me they didn't get bored of "the old way", they embraced it and said "Let's make this look like old Windows!" Everything in 16 colors and only runs fullscreen.
My advice would be to start using Linux. At least with that, you can continue using what you're used to well after the original authors have moved on to relieve their boredom. If you don't like GNOME3 then go fork GNOME2, mate. Take the months that you would have spent ranting and start doing something productive. The idea with Open Source Software is that people can't take it away from you.
There are plenty of Lego clones on the market, Mega Bloks being the easiest one to find in the USA. They are often cheaper than Lego products, both in cost and quality. If all that you care about is cost, go with the them.
The cross-licensing deals are what keeps the products on store shelves (as they do sell very well) at major retailers instead of just hobby shops. If you think that Lego products are expensive now, you really wouldn't like the price if they didn't have the licensed sets.
So everyone, enjoy your Mindstorms. I know I will! But know that these wouldn't exist without Lego also producing licensed stuff, average video games, and other geek reviled products (Bionicle/Hero Factory, Lego Friends, etc.)
I wish I knew about the "one-time showing" bullshit going into this. The other news sites never even mentioned it.
I hop on the Xbox this morning and all it says is that it will start at 8PM. I spend the rest of the day with family/friends ('tis the season) and then before bed I realize that it's after 8 so I should grab it. After downloading their stupid app I get a screen saying that it's over. Huzzah!
I have had a DVR for about 14 years now, and even though I watch considerably less TV now than back then, I am certain of one thing: I watch on my time, not yours. Nielsen data is showing that other people do too.
The really sad thing is that if this was on normal TV, I could have recorded it and watched it when I damn well felt to. Microsoft, this was a pre-recorded film not an event. There was nothing that needed to be streamed live, and nothing that needed to have me schedule time during a holiday weekend outside of some pretty viewer numbers that you can report immediately instead of waiting a nominal time to also include time-shift viewers.
Know this that if you want to replace the usual set-top boxes and be the TV device of choice that you better not have less functionality than a simple DVR. If you do, then you lose the battle. Nintendo, I'd say that you should be paying attention as well, but I've used your hardware and you clearly don't have a clue.
Dear Dice,
Take a look at the history of Digg to see what happens when you mess with a community site. You have a choice to make. If you screw it up, people will leave.
The certs issues from the Terminal Server Licensing Service were intended to be used only for connections and not code signing. This is Microsoft's blunder. They weren't actually licensing malicious certificates but they were giving people tools to issue what appeared to be valid certs coming from MS.
The fixes are going to be changing TSLS so that its certs can no longer be used to sign code and revoking the intermediate CA certs that are affected.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/06/03/microsoft-releases-security-advisory-2718704.aspx
The OS only ever costs $30. . . .That means you could buy version 10.0 Cheetah all the way to 10.7 Lion for the cost of Windows 7.
Except of course for the fact that it hasn't always been this way. Sure, 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Mountain Lion) may be $30 but previous versions have been much more. Excluding 10.1 which was given away to appease the users of the broken 10.0, OS X has been similarly priced with home versions of Windows. Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4) were both $129. The window between releases there was only two and a half years. If you want to compare Apples to oranges, those two upgrades are practically as much as your Windows 7 Ultimate quoted price.
Also, if you happened to purchase Windows XP back in the day you wouldn't have to upgrade if you didn't want to. Windows XP is still supported with security updates coming until 2014. Apple's support is usually about only three years after release, forcing you to upgrade. On the Windows side you could skip Vista if you wanted to. You may even make it to Windows 8.
Don't get me wrong, I like the Mac. This post was composed on a Mac! I know these prices because I have rode the Mac upgrade train that you are talking about. I just have a problem with posts like yours which are clearly wrong being modded to a +5 informative.
if I create something and decide to stop selling it, lock it away, and never let it see the light of day, that should be my right. At least until it becomes public domain anyway.
Once you start selling it, you have distributed it into the public. Copyright is a limited time after initial distribution where the copyright holder is the only one who can control the distribution for the purposes of profit. The reason others cannot distribute it for free is because it would affect the copyright holders profit. Copyright is not a right, it is a limited privilege granted for the purpose of furthering the creation of more works.
Public domain is a right. It is the shared cultural knowledge that moves humanity forward. If you don't want to participate in the public domain then keep your works to yourself! You can't take your ball and go home because once you've distributed it from that first sale, it is now the public's ball not yours.
RAID1 the entire thing and you really have an odd sort of RAID10 going on, but without the assurance that its a "proper" RAID 10.
RAID 10 used to refer to RAID 1+0 which was a striped set of multiple mirrored sets. Conversely, RAID 0+1 referred to a mirrored set of multiple stripe sets. RAID 0+1 (or RAID 01) has actually been rolled into RAID 10 as they both offered the same level of failure resistance. Either setup would be considered a "proper" RAID 10.
Since the device in question is performing its own striping of internal disks, you could just treat it as a single disk for whatever applications you need. Assuming the manufacturer's performance and reliability data is correct then you build your array with that in mind. It's not like you can replace a failed individual disk inside the device anyway.
Please tell me that you are joking.
If a game only uses 200MB of the 1GB disc then shoehorning it into a 700MB CD isn't going to be much of a problem. Most games were well under the size of a CD; those that weren't had extraneous stuff like demos removed to fit. I've been told that sound (simple audio streams) and graphics (really, how the hell would this suffer?) were spot on with a retail release.
I played around with the Utopia disc for homebrew purposes only. Looking back I find it funny (although not so much at the time) as I bought a mod chip that would make my Dreamcast region free and the boot discs basically gave that functionality with the ability to play CD-Rs. Yes, the mod chip wouldn't even play backup discs on it's own.
The Z button on the Gamecube controller can go straight to hell. From the way the analog R slider is designed you either have to use a different finger/thumb to operate Z (very awkward) or you can repeatedly scrape your finger raw on the plastic lip of the R slider (ouch!) or you can press it with your index finger's knuckle (good way to get RSI) or you can say screw it and use your middle finger on the R slider, your index finger on the Z (and the other two fingers left holding the controller will give you a hand charlie horse after only 10 minutes of play).
The controller was designed to be very ergonomic and then the Z button was thrown on as a last minute to appease some jackass. The fact that 9 out of 10 games that used it wouldn't let you configure your buttons made it all the more infuriating. For every game like Pikmin which only used it to change the camera, there was a SSB:M which had two buttons for jump, two buttons for shield, but only one button (Z natch) for drop the item you're carrying. I can see why people play with no items!
Fuck you Z button. You ruined an otherwise good design.
There, I feel better.
According to Marc Franklin, Nintendo of America's Director of Public Relations, it will not play GameCube games.
Link is down at the moment but this is where I got the news.
Yes, the Wii was based on GameCube architecture so it could theoretically still be possible. The Wii U does not have any GameCube controller ports or memory card slots so they would have to be provided via USB or Bluetooth and associated IO processing would have to performed. It's unknown as to whether or not the slot loading drive on the Wii U will accept the smaller GameCube discs or not.
Not to mention that Nintendo's backwards compatibility usually lasts only one generation. Look at Gameboy/Color games on the Gameboy Advance (gone on the DS) or Gameboy Advance games on the DS (gone on the DSi/3DS)
tl;dr - I wouldn't get your hopes up.
What I want, nay need to know is whether or not the Doctor destroying Amy's replicant also destroyed his shoes which he got from his ganger. Weren't they made of the flesh too?
How exactly do you trade clothes with a ganger anyway? If all of their clothes are part of them, you couldn't; any more than you could trade feet with them. If all of their clothes are just separate creations produced by the flesh wouldn't they be alive as well? The pile of discarded Jennifers was turning into a pile of dirty jumpsuit laundry with flesh blobs. Would their eyes really be the last thing to go or would it be their clothes?
...and if this alien flesh lifeform is alive and can be pressed into clothes that aren't alive, humanity can use it to replace third world sweat shops making clothes the old fashioned way. I'm thinking something akin to the Torchwood episode Meat.
Of course I wouldn't have to think of such oddities if the episode wasn't such a letdown after last week's decent build-up. I'm not saying it's the Worst Episode Ever but it is my least favorite 11th Doctor episode taking the title away from the previous champion Victory of the iDaleks.
From your results:
"no ur brain is what tells the rest of your body when to feel pain, but it doesn't itself feel pain, because it can't really tell itself to hut, this is y when u had brain trauma you pretty much die, and u can't feel it because that is ur brains job.. get it?? kinda??"
I feel informed.
My brain feels pain reading your sentence. Stop trying to post to /. while driving and wait until you are stopped if you're going to post using your phone.
The issue with using Wine is that it's not an emulator, it's a compatibility layer. It passes x86 code from the legacy Windows app to the processor to be executed. It only works if you're running on an x86 system.
There have been projects like Darwine that have incorporated an x86 emulator (in this case QEMU) along with the Wine layer to actually run legacy Windows x86 apps on PPC hardware. This is possible but the result will be very slow due to emulation.
A better method would be to have the OS take care of everything emulating x86 code when needed like Apple's Rosetta because you could use the actual Windows 8 DLLs and pass only the needed x86 code to the emulator. Microsoft has a team doing x86 emulation (or at least virtualization) but it's unknown how portable it would be to ARM. Obviously they have decided that this isn't going to be implemented though, probably due to it being too slow to be useful.
If you want to see how slow an ARM is at emulating x86 code, fire up DOSBox on your smartphone or hacked console. Granted that will also be emulating things like VGA and all but the x86 emulation is the brunt of the work. It's not going to be fast, and it would be a poor experience for most users.
Not at all. If you , or anyone else wants to hack their PS3 great. But downloading someone else's work and applying it to your PS3 is not hacking nor is it knowing how to do so yourself. It's being a script kiddie.
I downloaded and applied Linux to my PS3 back in 2008. That means that... FUCK! It turns out I wasn't hacking at all, I was just being a script kiddie. :(
Contact third party developers that work closely with Sony like Insomniac Games, Sucker Punch Studios, and Atlus and let them know that because of Sony's terrible practices that you will no longer be able to purchase their products while they are Sony exclusives.
Contact Sony owned studios like Media Molecule and Naughty Dog and let them know that you can't support them anymore.
Contact smaller and indie developers and let them know too. Slam Bolt Scrappers may look cool, but let Fire Hose games know that you can't play it. Indie developers may be the most receptive of the whole situation as a lost sale to them means a lot more.
Starve the PS3 of exclusive games and Sony will hurt quite a bit.
They did on the DS. Then they did again a few years later. (Warning sites use flash)
Both of those games are pretty good. The first has an idiotic feature of returning you to a central dungeon periodically but it's still a good game. Then again, I happen to think both Majora's Mask and Windwaker are great games, Twilight Princess is mediocre, and Link to the Past is way too overhyped so you may feel differently. I did really like Ocarina of Time and the original Legend of Zelda though.
As always, the solution to a Microsoft problem is in the Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981974?sd=xbox
The Xbox 360 has always had the ability to backup most of your data through the use of proprietary "Memory Units". With the Spring 2010 Update they added the ability to use standard USB devices as well; granted you do have to partition it to a proprietary format and allow half a gig storage loss for 'security' data. They also impose a 16GB limitation per memory device and allow a max of 2 connected at a time. They don't want to cut into the profitable proprietary hard drive market.
Yes, it is cumbersome but it is possible and at least the data isn't tied specifically to the console it was backed up from, which means that you should be able to move your saves to a new system should your old one die.. unlike say the PS3.
...even though you aren't really a microbe in the ocean.
The blue whale doesn't care about a single krill; it doesn't care about krill in general, but it is still dependent on the krill for its existence.
I would suspect that the Wii does not have enough horse power to generate steroscopic 3D (compared to the Playstation).
The Sega Master System was able to generate sterescopic 3D perfectly fine. All of this from a system using a 3.58MHz Z80. I think the Wii is perfectly capable of doing it; horsepower has nothing to do with it. You're going to need glasses to sync with the screen updates (which the Wii could implement somehow...I don't want to give them ideas of more peripherals connected to the Wiimote) and you're going to lose half of your framerate as you're going to be drawing two separate screens (one for each eye) where you would previously only needed one.
Sure it's not going to be as good as the PS3 but that's going to be expected.