An X-Box will, yes, be mostly a composite of a specific list of PC-clone parts.
But it will be a tightly integrated unit. Games will be specifically compiled for it. Microsoft can tune all the development tools they've designed for general purpose hardware to produce screaming games.
What's wrong with turning 'repackaged computers' into something else? People have been turning cheap PC clones into 'Unix Workstations' by means of Linux and *BSD for years now.
I am by no means qualified to have a very strong opinion on this, but why hasn't somebody just dug into it and reverse engineered the mess that Apple makes with their proprietary boot process?
I run NetBSD on several Mac machines and it's a real disappointment that I have to keep a stubby little MacOS partition to boot from.
I know, I know, if I'm gonna rant, I should dive in and do it...
MkLinux itself was an effort by Apple to cripple the porting of regular Linux to the Mac hardware.
Apple knew that Linux hackers crawl all around in the hardware, reverse engineering features and digging out all the secrets. They figured that by putting out their own 'special' version of Linux, they could kill the impetus for anybody to incorporate the Mac architecture into the mainstream Linux kernel. So they threw out MkLinux, rubbing out the motivation to do a clean port of Linux to the Mac, and kept ownership of their hardware designs private.
Because of that, people who want to run a good freenix on their older Mac hardware use NetBSD instead. (I have a IIci, a Quadra 800, and two SE/30s with NetBSD on them)
You just quoted a couple of politicians, from their speeches. We can all find countless examples of political rhetoric to quote from that reinforce our points.
Perhaps you should focus on legal documents, i.e. the US Constitution, instead.
You have the diesel generator to run your CPU down there in the cellar, too, right? No long wires running out to the generator in the garage that powers it all?
You're encouraged, at your soonest convenience, to head on into the crack district of your nearest major city.
Bring along a grocery bag full of dollar bills. Have fun reasoning with the teenage vandals about how they should share the dollar bills amongst themselves. Maybe you can play a game of chess with some of them at the coffee house.
I recommend you actually try to erase a hard drive (or even a VCR tape) with a magnetic coil.
You need a Major magnetic field to do an effective job. The off-the-shelf Bulk Tape Erasers have to be buzzed right up against a VCR tape for quite a while for the tape to actually be wiped clean.
A concealed coil in the doorway likely wouldn't have any affect, particularly with a hard drive in a somewhat magnetically shielded case, and being carried through the doorway for just a moment.
I'll have to ask around at work about it. If I had a decent EMP source, I have a whole cardboard box full of pacemakers on my bench at work that I could experiment with. The easy test is to see if they can do telemetry after being exposed to the pulse. Then again, maybe they would just POR (Power On Reset) and continue to function.
All I can say is don't drop out of High School and become a 'sysadmin' (IT Janitor). You've got a lot of class time in physics ahead before you should be making such assertions in public, on a discussion site with a lot of people who do know what they are talking about.
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We never would have gotten to where we are if the transistor hadn't been discovered.
We would have run out of Bakelite and Mica by now.
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The power infrastructure to keep them running will be gone, however. It's all based on semiconductor controls. Or do you have a really HUGE tank of diesel fuel connected to that generator??
I wouldn't hazard to say you have a lot of digital vacuum tube equipment (I used to have a timer counter, it had one hell of a lot of dual triode tubes).
Somebody needs to develop some 'fuck the Green propaganda' exploits for SimCity. Naturally they're going to have set up the game so that 'bad' power causes problems in the long run. The whole thing is based on Gaia, an ill-thought-out 'neo-Pagan' based philosophy of 'science' that gets laughed out of academia.
When I want to chat online with friends, I give them an account on my W2K box, which has Interix installed on it. They telnet in and run 'talk' from the command prompt. Nope, if I don't know you, you're not gonna get a logon, obviously...
Yes, with Interix installed on an NT box, any number (within reason) of users can log onto your NT box to a/bin/csh prompt and run programs like 'talk'.
I got the Britannica CD for US $19 after a $10 rebate. But I bought the 'regular' version that didn't have all the multimedia bullshit.
And I have two complete bound sets as well. The 'classic' kind and the one where it's split into three sections (macropaedia, micropaedia..). I paid 40 cents per volume for those at a thrift store.
I much prefer the paper versions, even though they're from 1973 and 1974. Not a lot of what an encyclopedia is good for (history and culture) has changed much since then.
What I lust after now is a set of the Oxford English Dictionary (20 volumes). There's a CD version of that out, but who wants to spend big bucks ($300) on something that only runs in Windows (the retreival method will certainly be obsolete in my lifetime,) when the paper version is only (!) $700 more and has that marvelous paper on ink interface?
WW1/WW2 has a lot to do with the lightbulb, sanitation, plumbing, electronic communications, etc.
Without a modern infrastructure it just wouldn't have been possible to wage War on a worldwide scale. Hitler rose to power as one of the first politicians to take advantage of Mass Communications and modern Media technologies.
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Sure, an X-Box can be used to run Linux.
Just like a Pentium III box with 256 MB of RAM can be used to run MS-DOS 3.3
But who wants that?
I don't think you get it.
An X-Box will, yes, be mostly a composite of a specific list of PC-clone parts.
But it will be a tightly integrated unit. Games will be specifically compiled for it. Microsoft can tune all the development tools they've designed for general purpose hardware to produce screaming games.
What's wrong with turning 'repackaged computers' into something else? People have been turning cheap PC clones into 'Unix Workstations' by means of Linux and *BSD for years now.
I am by no means qualified to have a very strong opinion on this, but why hasn't somebody just dug into it and reverse engineered the mess that Apple makes with their proprietary boot process?
I run NetBSD on several Mac machines and it's a real disappointment that I have to keep a stubby little MacOS partition to boot from.
I know, I know, if I'm gonna rant, I should dive in and do it...
MkLinux itself was an effort by Apple to cripple the porting of regular Linux to the Mac hardware.
Apple knew that Linux hackers crawl all around in the hardware, reverse engineering features and digging out all the secrets. They figured that by putting out their own 'special' version of Linux, they could kill the impetus for anybody to incorporate the Mac architecture into the mainstream Linux kernel. So they threw out MkLinux, rubbing out the motivation to do a clean port of Linux to the Mac, and kept ownership of their hardware designs private.
Because of that, people who want to run a good freenix on their older Mac hardware use NetBSD instead. (I have a IIci, a Quadra 800, and two SE/30s with NetBSD on them)
You must hang out in a different part of town than I do. The police are polite and friendly here.
You just quoted a couple of politicians, from their speeches. We can all find countless examples of political rhetoric to quote from that reinforce our points.
Perhaps you should focus on legal documents, i.e. the US Constitution, instead.
Right. If it were Open Source, it would have been destroyed the way online play in Quake I was destroyed, after it was Open Sourced.
Nope.
Innovation involves, at a minimum, an actual working bench-top prototype.
I think the word you wanted to use was 'inspiration.' And thoughts are really cheap compared to prototype materials.
You have the diesel generator to run your CPU down there in the cellar, too, right? No long wires running out to the generator in the garage that powers it all?
You're encouraged, at your soonest convenience, to head on into the crack district of your nearest major city.
Bring along a grocery bag full of dollar bills. Have fun reasoning with the teenage vandals about how they should share the dollar bills amongst themselves. Maybe you can play a game of chess with some of them at the coffee house.
I recommend you actually try to erase a hard drive (or even a VCR tape) with a magnetic coil.
You need a Major magnetic field to do an effective job. The off-the-shelf Bulk Tape Erasers have to be buzzed right up against a VCR tape for quite a while for the tape to actually be wiped clean.
A concealed coil in the doorway likely wouldn't have any affect, particularly with a hard drive in a somewhat magnetically shielded case, and being carried through the doorway for just a moment.
I'll have to ask around at work about it. If I had a decent EMP source, I have a whole cardboard box full of pacemakers on my bench at work that I could experiment with. The easy test is to see if they can do telemetry after being exposed to the pulse. Then again, maybe they would just POR (Power On Reset) and continue to function.
There's an implant in your future, dude.
Remember the article a few months ago about a new much cheaper way of producing titanium?
Titanium is the most bio-compatible metal for use in implants. The cases of pacemakers are made out of titanium, for instance.
All I can say is don't drop out of High School and become a 'sysadmin' (IT Janitor). You've got a lot of class time in physics ahead before you should be making such assertions in public, on a discussion site with a lot of people who do know what they are talking about.
We never would have gotten to where we are if the transistor hadn't been discovered.
We would have run out of Bakelite and Mica by now.
The power infrastructure to keep them running will be gone, however. It's all based on semiconductor controls. Or do you have a really HUGE tank of diesel fuel connected to that generator??
I wouldn't hazard to say you have a lot of digital vacuum tube equipment (I used to have a timer counter, it had one hell of a lot of dual triode tubes).
Somebody needs to develop some 'fuck the Green propaganda' exploits for SimCity. Naturally they're going to have set up the game so that 'bad' power causes problems in the long run. The whole thing is based on Gaia, an ill-thought-out 'neo-Pagan' based philosophy of 'science' that gets laughed out of academia.
Yeah, you're right. Run experimental server software that's in early development on my firewall.
What a nifty suggestion!
I like the 'talk' program, thankyouverymuch.
/bin/csh prompt and run programs like 'talk'.
When I want to chat online with friends, I give them an account on my W2K box, which has Interix installed on it. They telnet in and run 'talk' from the command prompt. Nope, if I don't know you, you're not gonna get a logon, obviously...
Yes, with Interix installed on an NT box, any number (within reason) of users can log onto your NT box to a
Probably about none of it.
If you disagree, provide some examples.
I got the Britannica CD for US $19 after a $10 rebate. But I bought the 'regular' version that didn't have all the multimedia bullshit.
And I have two complete bound sets as well. The 'classic' kind and the one where it's split into three sections (macropaedia, micropaedia..). I paid 40 cents per volume for those at a thrift store.
I much prefer the paper versions, even though they're from 1973 and 1974. Not a lot of what an encyclopedia is good for (history and culture) has changed much since then.
What I lust after now is a set of the Oxford English Dictionary (20 volumes). There's a CD version of that out, but who wants to spend big bucks ($300) on something that only runs in Windows (the retreival method will certainly be obsolete in my lifetime,) when the paper version is only (!) $700 more and has that marvelous paper on ink interface?
I think you mean 'Love in the age of syphlis begone, we live in the era of AIDS.'
IOW: 'same as it ever was.'
If somebody had told you in 1970 that we'd pretty much only be going up there one or two times and then it would be over, they'd say you were nuts.
Lifetime non-compete agreements are illegal.
However, a person can not work for Microsoft or GM and then transfer intellectual property developed while on-staff at a competing concern.
Usually there is a period, up to several years, when one's employment options are further restricted, but not a lifetime.
However, you're welcomed to believe whatever you want, if it reinforces your arguement.
WW1/WW2 has a lot to do with the lightbulb, sanitation, plumbing, electronic communications, etc.
Without a modern infrastructure it just wouldn't have been possible to wage War on a worldwide scale. Hitler rose to power as one of the first politicians to take advantage of Mass Communications and modern Media technologies.