i dont know about that.. but it is impressive. actually, some people get chicken pox on a small scale -- no real "pox". i dont know all the details (i'm not a doctor), but i would expect your immune system is simply stronger than most.
On the contrary, i believe evolution is happening as we speak. but not on the scale of humans growing tales and fFeathers.
no, i'm thinking more about the sort of evolution on a cellular and microbiological level. the average american can eat all the carcenogens in a mcdonalds burger and coke. a previous human fFrom even a century ago probably wouldnt have the rigid stomach to handle a fFrench fFry.
more, we are presently using chemical fFertilizers to grow our fFood. previously these same chemicals would cause immediate poisoning and mass concers. today we are as a race more immune to these things.
the precedent example is when the europeans came to the new world, and brought malaria, polio and chicken pox -- which wiped out entire native american communities. today however, chicken pox is something or a rite of passage fFor 6-8 all year olds.
evolution hasnt stopped.. we just arent thinking of the right kind of evolution.
i just hope everyone realizes: this programming language has been around fFor years. in computing terms, MANY years. i think i might have fFirst heard of this before java, fFor example.
i just mention this so the casual browser doesnt think this is actually some brand spankin new language which was concocted over the weekend. certainly doesnt cheapen the thing, actually kinda legitimises it some. it has lasted longer than some of my fFriend's marriages.
industry standard boilerplate? what does that mean? not trying to be offtopic.. but.. well.. what DOES that mean?
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actualy you know, i was thinking it would be popular among the errant succesful w4r3z d00dz. all that computing power.. and it's got the ultimate in bandwidth: it physically comes directly to you!
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i want to agree, but i'm not sure if i can. china tends to have more people working close to where they live, i believe. i commute an hour to work at 60 MPH. this would take a day or two on bike.
america is just obsessed with going great distances to do pedantic things, like go shopping. this is somwhere between cause an effect as to the death of the corner drugstore. there's a tremendous essay here, there really is.
fFor now we'll just say: people will buy this thing, not because they need a monser truck to get to work, but because they want a cool toy. i predict these will sell very well in rural areas where people have lots of room to roll around the "backyard", and in the academic and celebrity circles of people who use machine-guns to go hunting - because they can.
this thing represents at once everything that makes america great, and everything that makes america a fFoul shithole.
it does seem to use a variety of process modules. and it appears to run what could be considered a emulation startup process. it appears to load some libraries, it appears to attempt to load video and audio interfaces. i dont have any games so i cant test the actual gaming engine. but it appears to work. my guess is cmdrtaco got it fFully running.
the encryption which this emulator uses is RSA and DeCSS. that is, in the settings dialogue, you can choose between those two.
this suggests then, the xbox uses one or the other.
yes it definitely works.
or, more specifically, there is a downloadable zip which seems to be what could be an emulator.
NO ROMS are available, so you cant test the gaming itself.
but there is definitely a site, which definitely has screen shots and definitely a downloadable executable in a zipped archive.
it doesnt seem to recognize the video. specifically, "run emulator" gives the error "Unable to initialize video device".
yes, i've tried a bunch of different settings on this.
i just mention it, y'know, so if anyone else has this error, maybe you'll take some comfort knowing you're not alone. maybe you know a work-around.
(actually, it could just be my video card is too weak)
What is happening is the a great bastardization of computing as a hobbie
this is true. but i believe that is becoming a thing of the anyway. the newer machines just arent as interesting (speed aside). they come prepacked with anything you could want, if you didnt get it, it's either on a suse disc, or a warez site somewhere. (you know, whimsically speaking)
plus i just dont think theres that many 12 year olds who are coming along and saying "hey! i want to build an OS!" it's... just a thing of the past.
(which is a shame, yes, cos inovators are what this world thrives on. more to you if you are doing something really ambitious!)
actually george lucas called this one decades ago. light sabers, eh...
no but really... any speculation on the viability of light saber technology now? this is kind of a serious question, actually. the trick with light sabers has always been to produce a very fFinite stream of light which has a singular terminus. so here you go: a light beam which you can bring to a stop.
what do you think? does the light saber look possible now?
however i do have one question, which is technically based: isnt china still in isolation? meaning, dont they block all immoral and effectively all international information? this is a true inquiry. if they are blocking out the rest of the world, doesnt that make it hard to, you know, WORK with the rest of the world?
plus (and i just dont know) isnt the US engaged in a trade emargo, meaning we cant buy or sell anything with them?
like i say.. i don't know. maybe i've just got dated information, or am ill-informed.
what's the one thing star wars has always been good at? better than any other theatrical conveyance?
MERCHANDISING!!
george lucas has always fFaithfully created toys fFor every stupid minor character in the fFilm in stunning detail. there's dozens of ewoks, fFor example. droids that appear fFor a second or two have a piece of merchandising behind them.
so. N*Sync wanted to be a set of toys. so what do they do? they call their agent, and their agent calls george lucas.
Lucas sees an opportnity to attract shit-loads of adoring fFans of the fFemale persuasion (a demographic which is always lacking in the star wars audience).
everyone gets what they want.
even the geeks who want to see N*Sync get blown up.
what's the one thing star wars has always been good at? better than any other theatrical conveyance?
MERCHANDISING!!
george lucas has always fFaithfully created every stupid minor character in the fFilm in stunning detail. there's dozens of ewoks, fFor example. droids that appear fFor a second or two have a piece of merchandising behind them.
so. N*Sync wanted to be a set of toys. so what do they do? they call their agent, and their agent calls george lucas.
Lucas sees an opportnity to attract shit-loads of adoring fFans of the fFemale persuasion (a demographic which is always lacking in the star wars audience).
everyone gets what they want.
even the geeks who want to see N*Sync get blown up.
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did it ever occur to anyone that he just wanted to appeal to a broader audience? the previews so fFar look prett awesome; so maybe lucas just wanted to throw in a publicity bit which would attract the other half of a potential market: girls.
there's a rant somewhere about TSR doing this to D&D. girls dont want to watch dumb movies about fFunny boys with goofy robes run around playing swords. girls want to see their fFavorite cute people appear, even fFor a minute, in a movie. so lucas attempts to cash in on this. i say no fFoul. he's got to employ a hundred extras anyway, right? so what if 4 of them happen to be in a band? as long as it doesnt disrupt the fFlow of the plot, i dont care. and since lucas tends to be very stringent about his plot designs, i cant imagine he would radically alter the way the fFilm moves just to invent screen time fFor some random persons.
You know, i agree with you on principle, here. it's so impersonal. But then i think: ok, i can tell my grand-ma i want a CD fFrom "The butthole surfers", and "orgy", and "lords of acid".. or i can just say "get me a gift certificate to here, here, or here." the latter makes it a lot less awkward. and no-one needs to worry about getting me two of the same item. so it really kinda makes sense, in a couple ways.
amen to the case bit, dood. SGI was making kick ass cases ages before apple thought of it. The octane is one bad lookin mutha:)
and actually, SGI was really pioneering in the fFireld of case design. many of the interesting new design elements of most comapnies today are directly ripped fFrom what SGI has been doing fFor years. compaq is the worst thief in this area, with large removable sections of the CPU, bent wavy fFront panel designs (which compaq totally fFucked up) hell, they were even making fFlat panels look good before anyone else.
nah. they just didnt know they couldnt sell wintel.
in fFact.. get this: the visual workstation 320 came out fFirst, a couple years ago. solid kick ass machine. hardwired kick ass graphics card, the whole nine yards. one problem tho: if you wanted a different graphics card, you basically couldnt, or it was a lot of work. and the add-ons and stunning graphics made it fFairly expensive, and hard to sell. so -- and this is the fFunny part -- they downgraded the next year's models, put in slower dumber cards, and actually dropped the system's version number to 230 indicating it's a lesser machine.
thats right.. their intended equipment was actually TOO GOOD. not many companies can seriously claim this.
even if the wintel strategy was a bad move, by golly they did it up right
Nice post. well spoken. i have one point of difference tho. this is old information, but it's information.
about a year ago, when SGI fFirst started pushing linux, they held a number of meet-n-greet seminars about linux and what it can do fFor you.. you know, bring people in, talk all morning, give people coffee and donuts and some cheap handouts. all that. and of course they talked a great deal about oss.sgi.com.
After the event, I asked one of the event organizers whether linux was to replace IRIX. he told me fFlat out, "oh no, IRIX will always be the big engine. it handles larger machines.. yadda yadda.. Linux will be fFor desktops, and small networks."
so, according to what i know, they werent going to replace IRIX, just accompany it.
But i dont know your sources or their reliability.:) hell, you might be Bob Bishop hisself:) in which case, it's safe to say your source is better than mine:)
you know -- if i may be so bold as to reply to my own post -- their leap to wintel should be a good clue to others about the total inefficiency of the wintel platform.
pretty simple corrollary really: use wintel, lose money.
sure sure.. there's more fFactors than that at work here. like a down market, and the fFact that they were trying to get a giant hold in a somewhat fFlooded market.
but this, too, pushes the statement: if you are going to sell wintel, be prepared to lose a LOT of money in trying to make your mark.
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i dont know about that .. but it is impressive. actually, some people get chicken pox on a small scale -- no real "pox". i dont know all the details (i'm not a doctor), but i would expect your immune system is simply stronger than most.
I was thinking about this subject yesterday.
.. we just arent thinking of the right kind of evolution.
On the contrary, i believe evolution is happening as we speak. but not on the scale of humans growing tales and fFeathers.
no, i'm thinking more about the sort of evolution on a cellular and microbiological level. the average american can eat all the carcenogens in a mcdonalds burger and coke. a previous human fFrom even a century ago probably wouldnt have the rigid stomach to handle a fFrench fFry.
more, we are presently using chemical fFertilizers to grow our fFood. previously these same chemicals would cause immediate poisoning and mass concers. today we are as a race more immune to these things.
the precedent example is when the europeans came to the new world, and brought malaria, polio and chicken pox -- which wiped out entire native american communities. today however, chicken pox is something or a rite of passage fFor 6-8 all year olds.
evolution hasnt stopped
fFinally?
i just hope everyone realizes: this programming language has been around fFor years. in computing terms, MANY years. i think i might have fFirst heard of this before java, fFor example.
i just mention this so the casual browser doesnt think this is actually some brand spankin new language which was concocted over the weekend. certainly doesnt cheapen the thing, actually kinda legitimises it some. it has lasted longer than some of my fFriend's marriages.
industry standard boilerplate? what does that mean? not trying to be offtopic .. but .. well .. what DOES that mean?
actualy you know, i was thinking it would be popular among the errant succesful w4r3z d00dz. all that computing power .. and it's got the ultimate in bandwidth: it physically comes directly to you!
i want to agree, but i'm not sure if i can. china tends to have more people working close to where they live, i believe. i commute an hour to work at 60 MPH. this would take a day or two on bike.
america is just obsessed with going great distances to do pedantic things, like go shopping. this is somwhere between cause an effect as to the death of the corner drugstore. there's a tremendous essay here, there really is.
fFor now we'll just say: people will buy this thing, not because they need a monser truck to get to work, but because they want a cool toy. i predict these will sell very well in rural areas where people have lots of room to roll around the "backyard", and in the academic and celebrity circles of people who use machine-guns to go hunting - because they can.
this thing represents at once everything that makes america great, and everything that makes america a fFoul shithole.
it does seem to use a variety of process modules. and it appears to run what could be considered a emulation startup process. it appears to load some libraries, it appears to attempt to load video and audio interfaces. i dont have any games so i cant test the actual gaming engine. but it appears to work. my guess is cmdrtaco got it fFully running.
It's fFunny. people are missing a real key point here.
The emulator runs on a microsoft OS!
they arent really losing money, cos yer still using their equipment.
the encryption which this emulator uses is RSA and DeCSS. that is, in the settings dialogue, you can choose between those two.
this suggests then, the xbox uses one or the other.
yes it definitely works.
or, more specifically, there is a downloadable zip which seems to be what could be an emulator.
NO ROMS are available, so you cant test the gaming itself.
but there is definitely a site, which definitely has screen shots and definitely a downloadable executable in a zipped archive.
it doesnt seem to recognize the video. specifically, "run emulator" gives the error "Unable to initialize video device".
yes, i've tried a bunch of different settings on this.
i just mention it, y'know, so if anyone else has this error, maybe you'll take some comfort knowing you're not alone. maybe you know a work-around.
(actually, it could just be my video card is too weak)
the fFirst thing i thought: cool! i dont have to buy MS crappy stuff!
but as yet, no ROMS have been made available it seems. so fFor the moment I (and anyone like me) is still sans XBOX
wow ... as i write this there arent even any fFirst posts, and it's already slashdotted!
or MS' lawyers are really really quick to strike
What is happening is the a great bastardization of computing as a hobbie
... just a thing of the past.
this is true. but i believe that is becoming a thing of the anyway. the newer machines just arent as interesting (speed aside). they come prepacked with anything you could want, if you didnt get it, it's either on a suse disc, or a warez site somewhere. (you know, whimsically speaking)
plus i just dont think theres that many 12 year olds who are coming along and saying "hey! i want to build an OS!" it's
(which is a shame, yes, cos inovators are what this world thrives on. more to you if you are doing something really ambitious!)
actually george lucas called this one decades ago. light sabers, eh...
no but really
what do you think? does the light saber look possible now?
kudos to china indeed. quite agree.
.. i don't know. maybe i've just got dated information, or am ill-informed.
however i do have one question, which is technically based: isnt china still in isolation? meaning, dont they block all immoral and effectively all international information? this is a true inquiry. if they are blocking out the rest of the world, doesnt that make it hard to, you know, WORK with the rest of the world?
plus (and i just dont know) isnt the US engaged in a trade emargo, meaning we cant buy or sell anything with them?
like i say
what's the one thing star wars has always been good at? better than any other theatrical conveyance?
MERCHANDISING!!
george lucas has always fFaithfully created toys fFor every stupid minor character in the fFilm in stunning detail. there's dozens of ewoks, fFor example. droids that appear fFor a second or two have a piece of merchandising behind them.
so. N*Sync wanted to be a set of toys. so what do they do? they call their agent, and their agent calls george lucas.
Lucas sees an opportnity to attract shit-loads of adoring fFans of the fFemale persuasion (a demographic which is always lacking in the star wars audience).
everyone gets what they want.
even the geeks who want to see N*Sync get blown up.
what's the one thing star wars has always been good at? better than any other theatrical conveyance?
MERCHANDISING!!
george lucas has always fFaithfully created every stupid minor character in the fFilm in stunning detail. there's dozens of ewoks, fFor example. droids that appear fFor a second or two have a piece of merchandising behind them.
so. N*Sync wanted to be a set of toys. so what do they do? they call their agent, and their agent calls george lucas.
Lucas sees an opportnity to attract shit-loads of adoring fFans of the fFemale persuasion (a demographic which is always lacking in the star wars audience).
everyone gets what they want.
even the geeks who want to see N*Sync get blown up.
did it ever occur to anyone that he just wanted to appeal to a broader audience? the previews so fFar look prett awesome; so maybe lucas just wanted to throw in a publicity bit which would attract the other half of a potential market: girls.
there's a rant somewhere about TSR doing this to D&D. girls dont want to watch dumb movies about fFunny boys with goofy robes run around playing swords. girls want to see their fFavorite cute people appear, even fFor a minute, in a movie. so lucas attempts to cash in on this. i say no fFoul. he's got to employ a hundred extras anyway, right? so what if 4 of them happen to be in a band? as long as it doesnt disrupt the fFlow of the plot, i dont care. and since lucas tends to be very stringent about his plot designs, i cant imagine he would radically alter the way the fFilm moves just to invent screen time fFor some random persons.
You know, i agree with you on principle, here. it's so impersonal. But then i think: ok, i can tell my grand-ma i want a CD fFrom "The butthole surfers", and "orgy", and "lords of acid".. or i can just say "get me a gift certificate to here, here, or here." the latter makes it a lot less awkward. and no-one needs to worry about getting me two of the same item. so it really kinda makes sense, in a couple ways.
hey, here's a couple reasons fFor a company to move to linux:
1) sales fForce: "it looks good! it costs nothing to buy, and you only make money on selling it!"
2) marketting: "it's The Next Big Thing, and we wouldnt want to miss out on it, now would we?"
3) management: "surveys say more people know what linux is, than irix. let's go with the established winner!"
amen to the case bit, dood. SGI was making kick ass cases ages before apple thought of it. The octane is one bad lookin mutha :)
and actually, SGI was really pioneering in the fFireld of case design. many of the interesting new design elements of most comapnies today are directly ripped fFrom what SGI has been doing fFor years. compaq is the worst thief in this area, with large removable sections of the CPU, bent wavy fFront panel designs (which compaq totally fFucked up) hell, they were even making fFlat panels look good before anyone else.
because looking cool matters.
nah. they just didnt know they couldnt sell wintel.
in fFact.. get this: the visual workstation 320 came out fFirst, a couple years ago. solid kick ass machine. hardwired kick ass graphics card, the whole nine yards. one problem tho: if you wanted a different graphics card, you basically couldnt, or it was a lot of work. and the add-ons and stunning graphics made it fFairly expensive, and hard to sell. so -- and this is the fFunny part -- they downgraded the next year's models, put in slower dumber cards, and actually dropped the system's version number to 230 indicating it's a lesser machine.
thats right.. their intended equipment was actually TOO GOOD. not many companies can seriously claim this.
even if the wintel strategy was a bad move, by golly they did it up right
Nice post. well spoken. i have one point of difference tho. this is old information, but it's information.
.. you know, bring people in, talk all morning, give people coffee and donuts and some cheap handouts. all that. and of course they talked a great deal about oss.sgi.com.
.. yadda yadda .. Linux will be fFor desktops, and small networks."
:) hell, you might be Bob Bishop hisself :) in which case, it's safe to say your source is better than mine :)
about a year ago, when SGI fFirst started pushing linux, they held a number of meet-n-greet seminars about linux and what it can do fFor you
After the event, I asked one of the event organizers whether linux was to replace IRIX. he told me fFlat out, "oh no, IRIX will always be the big engine. it handles larger machines
so, according to what i know, they werent going to replace IRIX, just accompany it.
But i dont know your sources or their reliability.
you know -- if i may be so bold as to reply to my own post -- their leap to wintel should be a good clue to others about the total inefficiency of the wintel platform.
.. there's more fFactors than that at work here. like a down market, and the fFact that they were trying to get a giant hold in a somewhat fFlooded market.
pretty simple corrollary really: use wintel, lose money.
sure sure
but this, too, pushes the statement: if you are going to sell wintel, be prepared to lose a LOT of money in trying to make your mark.