Anyone remember the episode of Sliders where Quinn (sp) was on the game show of extremely high level math and science questions (while throwing a ball). The perfect world for geeks:D
Ahh yes that was a great episode. I wasnt sure which was worse, that I enjoyed the episode or that I knew more digits of Pi than they asked of him.
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Yes, the TL model is the Compal CL56. This is available through dealers such as chemusa (www.chemusa.com) Its amazing because the dealer prices start around $1500 for that laptop nicely equipped.
The other fragbook is a Clevo (www.clevo.com.tw) and the most well known reseller is Sager - www.sagernotebook.com. Again, much cheaper than this place.
Well, surprisingly enough you arent too far from the truth. Especially on the DSM (Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, etc) tuning utilizing a data logger and laptop is not uncommon at all. One of my roommates drives a low 12s Eagle Talon and he has spent many a night with his laptop hooked up to his ECU driving around at alternately very fast and very slow speeds. His custimizations have made the real difference which gives him a signficant edge on the track.
Yes, it does seem that a lot of people use modchips to pirate games. However, what the industry needs to be concerned with are the people who chip their boxes in order to avoid BUYING the game. It is only lost revenue if the person would have purchased the game if they did not have the ability to pirate it.
I have a modded X-box, and yes I have several "backups" saved. However, the primary purpose of my box is a Media Center. I have well over a 100gb of media on my network, and it can instantly be streamed to my TV + Stereo. Not bad for $150 and a couple of solder points.
Remember, there ARE a lot of legitimate uses for modded consoles; and most modded consoles are not costing the industry money.
well, without getting caught up in the typical slashdot mentality of MS==bad here, lets take a look at the double standard the EU is imposing. Corporations like DuBeers are hands down an order of magnitude worse than microsoft in all sorts of ways. The EU is acting because Microsoft is an American company - not because they are sticking up for some greater ideal.
A friend of mine who runs a fairly succesfull accounting business was nearly ready to purchase a brand new software package to repair that years returns, when he discovered that the tech support was out sourced to india. Now, my friend has no more technical knowledge than the average Joe (and sometimes less) but he knew that he did not want to deal with people in an different country every time he had a problem. He eventually got the CEO on the line and told him exactly why he had lost a sale. Needless to say I was quite impressed. The CEO's excuse: everyones doing it.
It would probably be cheaper just to buy some 700mhz celeron, and set it up as a media player, give it a good graphics and sound card, and install it behind your TV.
Funny, because that is just what my $150 used XBOX accomplishes for me. It cost me nothing to mod the xbox (besides two solder points) and now I have a device that can stream just about any format from my PC (xbox media player), in addition to a myriad of other functions. Why would you pay more for this DVD player when it accomplishes that much less?
It's too bad they probably won't get the 100k. In order to get the files onto the xbox, you need to use a prior exploit that DOES require something(007 save, swapping HDD etc)
Not at all. You do not need to make any modifications to the hardware to use the 007 hack. If you have a memory card with the savegame on it, then you can simply copy that to the HD and load the game. This boots linux with an ftp server. You do NOT need to open the box or solder the pins; you only need to do that if you want to flash the TSOP and effectively mod the bios. Once you use the 007 trick you have temporary ftp access to the box - you can ftp over and replace the font files. Now the box is as good as modded and no one will know the difference. In addition this is safer than flashing the TSOP because the BIOS is simply intercepted in hardware.
So in short - you can have a completley modded xbox without ever opening the cover.
I am a voting resident of Virginia. I am quite happy with this law. You know, the people on/. spend so much of their time whining about how we must stop the spammers, and someone finnally comes along and passes a law that will help curb the worst types of spam, and suddenly it is a horrible trangretion.
You cannot have both sides of this argument. Any restriction the government places on things like this can be interpreted by some people as too broad. Either you take your government in small doses and shy away from government regulation, or you allow the government to regulate. You cannot be wishy-washy and take whichever side of the argument you feel like supporting that day.
Spam with forged headers is bad. I dont pretend to think that this will elimnate the mass amount of email i recieve, but I can only hope.
so phillips is going to charge me a good deal of money to 1) buy their dvd drive 2) buy their inevitably propriatary media and 3) buy their player all so i can listen to a ton of music on the go? hey, it sounds like an ipod or archos or nomad can accomplish that already.
They seem to make a lot of friends: how many people have exclusivity agreements with Square now? It is getting so it isnt quite so exclusive anymore....
...that i am the first person to get to make a joke about "Jones" in "Indiana"!!! I mean, I saw that and thought the house was gonna be sued by Lucas....
.. this is the only way that we will ever get digital TV piped into our homes. The manufacterors dont want to pay for the cost of digital recievers, the broadcasters dont want to pay to upgrade, and the consumers dont want to pay extra. Of course, all three parties do want digital and HD. I guess this is where the government steps in...
I think we can safely file THAT particular statistic away with the MPAA's and RIAA's claim that piracy has cost billions and billions of dollars in lost revenue.
Of course, I could see the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA getting together and claiming that the piracy of billions of dollars of software is the CAUSE of traffic doubling every 100 days!
As strange as it sounds, this is actually a good move. We do NOT want jpeg on the list of standards if an entity can maintain patented control over it. Granted we will all still use jpeg, however ISO is definatly trying to make a point here - "you cant exclusively own it, and have it be an open standard" we should be happy that ISO is standing up for this!
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Not that I'm one for integrated graphics anyway.
Exactly!! Anyone who cares about graphics enough that a GeForce4 MX is not good enough, will buy their own card to put in it. This is the sort of chipset you would put into a machine that will generally be not used for games, but when the need to play CS or quake3 comes around, a GeForce4 MX will be able to handle it. Yes, I am sure that Carmack doesnt sanction the GefroceMX line, however that is not the point. If you care that much, you will have your own GPU - the integrated grfxs are not for us!
As far as the dual network ports go, come on people, it costs the OEM no more than a dollar or two to add a second, and for those people who wish to hook up a cable modem, or DSL line, this is invaluable.
You make a very valid point that this could be used to draw out combat and wars into prolonged, non-human affairs. However, you miss one important fact. You are assuming that both sides have robots to do their bidding. Such a situation as the cold war; super-power vs super-power? Who is gonna develop the massive robot army to oppose us? Russia? too broke. China? they cant even feed themselves. The entire point of this use of robotics is to allow the almighty US citizen soldier to be out of harms way. Would you prefer a mechanized division of remotely controlled machines to attack an enemy (whoever, that enemy may be). This both gives us many advantages on the battlefield, as well as protects our soldiers. I mean come on, cut the "AI is gonna take us over so we can all live in the matrix" crap and realize that in the end this saves the lives of American soldiers.
What puzzles me is why a project which is at the forefront of human achievement is only given a declining $30 billion when the US military is getting $343 billion just so it can act all big, tuff and important when the only country it picks on are all impoverished 3rd world countries like Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Vietnam etc. Countries like Britain, France on the other hand are able to maintain equally un-used militaries on about $40 billion, leaving an extra $300 billion, which would obviously mean ISS actually could get seom science done aswell as sending probes to jupiter etc. If the reason for Nasa's decline in funding is the end of the Cold war, then why is the US Military still given such staggering amounts?
Yes, NASAs spending is very low, however you are quite wrong to compare it to the military. Yes, other countries have significantly smaller miliary expenditures, however, we do have a much larger area to defend (and goodness knows we dont want to have the same size military as france, that could mean germany would invade us every 50 years;-))
In any case, the government funding that is totally out of controll is entitlements! More than half of our national budget is used simply to dole out cash to private citizens and charities. In comparison, our defense spending is somewhere around 20%. I think it is incredibly clear what needs to go. Every year, the government writes checks to WAY too many people. We need to seriously scale back these needless expenditures. It is pointless to go after the comparitivly little guy (defense) when we can get much more money elsewhere. Simply cut 10% of entitlements and you have many, many BILLIONs of dollars to spend on space.
Wow! I am impressed, you really managed to distort the truth on that one. What the vatican says is, "Don't have premarital sex" which is what would cause the MASSIVE spread of AIDS in africa. You managed to twist "dont have premartial sex, and dont use contraceptives" into "the vatican is making people get AIDS by forbidding contraceptives" Ummm.... i think you missed a few things in between. If these people werent having premartial sex in the FIRST place, then they wouldnt get AIDS, now would they, and you couldnt accuse the vatican of killing people. Doesnt anyone else think it is more than a tad absurd that the vatican is being accused of killing people? I mean, sure censoring web sites is questionable. I am not 100% familiar with the laws in Italy and the content and activities of the site, so I cant make a judgement... but killing people?
just how blinded by their own righteousness some people on slashdot can be. Now, I know that I will be modded down for this, but what the hell: Nuclear reacters are incredibly safe, clean, and efficient. They are the second cheapest form of energy that we can produce (coal is first). Looking simply at the alternatives of coal versus nucelar power, we can either release tons and tons of greenhouse gases and other untold poisens into the atmosphe, or we can create a comparativley small amount of waste, and stick it in a 58 billion dollar fortified facility underneath a mountain in the middle of a dessert. There is an INCREDIBLE amount of protection at this facility. It is amazing how some people can claim to be enviromentally concious and still bash nuclear power. Sure, it is not a wonderfully comfortable feeling to have nuclear waste in your back yard, however it is already! By consolidating our nuclear waste into a very well designed facility, we can ensure it will be protected. Or we can simply burn more coal. (and dont try to claim that solar or hydro electric is the wave of the future - as long as there is coal to be burned, they will because it is incredibly cheap)
One of the greatest moments came this winter when the team was showing off its sound-only version of Quake to other game designers. Keenan, whose blindness started them on their quest, took on the other game designers, all old hands at Quake. ''Tim,'' said Spitzer with a laugh, ''just slaughtered them.''
My question is: how much AI has been programmed into this game for the blind players? I can understand navigating the 'maze' simply by sound alone, however targeting the other players would be very very hard. I wonder if the blind player just has to point in the general direction, or if there is an aim bot.... Still, though it is intruiging.
....I will wait for the Tom's Hardware benchmarks. CPU specs mean nothing to me. Now, if the itaium can get 2000fps in quake3, now that is an accomplishment
One has to think that China has their priorities mixed up here. Considering that this is a country that in which not everyone gets enough to eat, and innocent children are murdered for violating population guidelines. I mean, people die in un-humane conditions in sweatshops in this country, and they are spending a mass amount of money to go to the moon? I fail to see the point.
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Anyone remember the episode of Sliders where Quinn (sp) was on the game show of extremely high level math and science questions (while throwing a ball). The perfect world for geeks :D
Ahh yes that was a great episode. I wasnt sure which was worse, that I enjoyed the episode or that I knew more digits of Pi than they asked of him.
Yes, the TL model is the Compal CL56. This is available through dealers such as chemusa (www.chemusa.com) Its amazing because the dealer prices start around $1500 for that laptop nicely equipped.
The other fragbook is a Clevo (www.clevo.com.tw) and the most well known reseller is Sager - www.sagernotebook.com. Again, much cheaper than this place.
Well, surprisingly enough you arent too far from the truth. Especially on the DSM (Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, etc) tuning utilizing a data logger and laptop is not uncommon at all. One of my roommates drives a low 12s Eagle Talon and he has spent many a night with his laptop hooked up to his ECU driving around at alternately very fast and very slow speeds. His custimizations have made the real difference which gives him a signficant edge on the track.
Yes, it does seem that a lot of people use modchips to pirate games. However, what the industry needs to be concerned with are the people who chip their boxes in order to avoid BUYING the game. It is only lost revenue if the person would have purchased the game if they did not have the ability to pirate it.
I have a modded X-box, and yes I have several "backups" saved. However, the primary purpose of my box is a Media Center. I have well over a 100gb of media on my network, and it can instantly be streamed to my TV + Stereo. Not bad for $150 and a couple of solder points.
Remember, there ARE a lot of legitimate uses for modded consoles; and most modded consoles are not costing the industry money.
well, without getting caught up in the typical slashdot mentality of MS==bad here, lets take a look at the double standard the EU is imposing. Corporations like DuBeers are hands down an order of magnitude worse than microsoft in all sorts of ways. The EU is acting because Microsoft is an American company - not because they are sticking up for some greater ideal.
A friend of mine who runs a fairly succesfull accounting business was nearly ready to purchase a brand new software package to repair that years returns, when he discovered that the tech support was out sourced to india. Now, my friend has no more technical knowledge than the average Joe (and sometimes less) but he knew that he did not want to deal with people in an different country every time he had a problem. He eventually got the CEO on the line and told him exactly why he had lost a sale. Needless to say I was quite impressed. The CEO's excuse: everyones doing it.
Funny, because that is just what my $150 used XBOX accomplishes for me. It cost me nothing to mod the xbox (besides two solder points) and now I have a device that can stream just about any format from my PC (xbox media player), in addition to a myriad of other functions. Why would you pay more for this DVD player when it accomplishes that much less?
It's too bad they probably won't get the 100k. In order to get the files onto the xbox, you need to use a prior exploit that DOES require something(007 save, swapping HDD etc)
Not at all. You do not need to make any modifications to the hardware to use the 007 hack. If you have a memory card with the savegame on it, then you can simply copy that to the HD and load the game. This boots linux with an ftp server. You do NOT need to open the box or solder the pins; you only need to do that if you want to flash the TSOP and effectively mod the bios. Once you use the 007 trick you have temporary ftp access to the box - you can ftp over and replace the font files. Now the box is as good as modded and no one will know the difference. In addition this is safer than flashing the TSOP because the BIOS is simply intercepted in hardware.
So in short - you can have a completley modded xbox without ever opening the cover.
I am a voting resident of Virginia. I am quite happy with this law. You know, the people on /. spend so much of their time whining about how we must stop the spammers, and someone finnally comes along and passes a law that will help curb the worst types of spam, and suddenly it is a horrible trangretion.
You cannot have both sides of this argument. Any restriction the government places on things like this can be interpreted by some people as too broad. Either you take your government in small doses and shy away from government regulation, or you allow the government to regulate. You cannot be wishy-washy and take whichever side of the argument you feel like supporting that day.
Spam with forged headers is bad. I dont pretend to think that this will elimnate the mass amount of email i recieve, but I can only hope.
-Dan
so phillips is going to charge me a good deal of money to 1) buy their dvd drive 2) buy their inevitably propriatary media and 3) buy their player all so i can listen to a ton of music on the go? hey, it sounds like an ipod or archos or nomad can accomplish that already.
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They seem to make a lot of friends: how many people have exclusivity agreements with Square now? It is getting so it isnt quite so exclusive anymore....
...that i am the first person to get to make a joke about "Jones" in "Indiana"!!! I mean, I saw that and thought the house was gonna be sued by Lucas....
No karma whoring for me now
.. this is the only way that we will ever get digital TV piped into our homes. The manufacterors dont want to pay for the cost of digital recievers, the broadcasters dont want to pay to upgrade, and the consumers dont want to pay extra. Of course, all three parties do want digital and HD. I guess this is where the government steps in...
I think we can safely file THAT particular statistic away with the MPAA's and RIAA's claim that piracy has cost billions and billions of dollars in lost revenue.
Of course, I could see the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA getting together and claiming that the piracy of billions of dollars of software is the CAUSE of traffic doubling every 100 days!
As strange as it sounds, this is actually a good move. We do NOT want jpeg on the list of standards if an entity can maintain patented control over it. Granted we will all still use jpeg, however ISO is definatly trying to make a point here - "you cant exclusively own it, and have it be an open standard" we should be happy that ISO is standing up for this!
Not that I'm one for integrated graphics anyway.
Exactly!! Anyone who cares about graphics enough that a GeForce4 MX is not good enough, will buy their own card to put in it. This is the sort of chipset you would put into a machine that will generally be not used for games, but when the need to play CS or quake3 comes around, a GeForce4 MX will be able to handle it. Yes, I am sure that Carmack doesnt sanction the GefroceMX line, however that is not the point. If you care that much, you will have your own GPU - the integrated grfxs are not for us!
As far as the dual network ports go, come on people, it costs the OEM no more than a dollar or two to add a second, and for those people who wish to hook up a cable modem, or DSL line, this is invaluable.
You make a very valid point that this could be used to draw out combat and wars into prolonged, non-human affairs. However, you miss one important fact. You are assuming that both sides have robots to do their bidding. Such a situation as the cold war; super-power vs super-power? Who is gonna develop the massive robot army to oppose us? Russia? too broke. China? they cant even feed themselves. The entire point of this use of robotics is to allow the almighty US citizen soldier to be out of harms way. Would you prefer a mechanized division of remotely controlled machines to attack an enemy (whoever, that enemy may be). This both gives us many advantages on the battlefield, as well as protects our soldiers. I mean come on, cut the "AI is gonna take us over so we can all live in the matrix" crap and realize that in the end this saves the lives of American soldiers.
Yes, NASAs spending is very low, however you are quite wrong to compare it to the military. Yes, other countries have significantly smaller miliary expenditures, however, we do have a much larger area to defend (and goodness knows we dont want to have the same size military as france, that could mean germany would invade us every 50 years ;-))
In any case, the government funding that is totally out of controll is entitlements! More than half of our national budget is used simply to dole out cash to private citizens and charities. In comparison, our defense spending is somewhere around 20%. I think it is incredibly clear what needs to go. Every year, the government writes checks to WAY too many people. We need to seriously scale back these needless expenditures. It is pointless to go after the comparitivly little guy (defense) when we can get much more money elsewhere. Simply cut 10% of entitlements and you have many, many BILLIONs of dollars to spend on space.
Wow! I am impressed, you really managed to distort the truth on that one. What the vatican says is, "Don't have premarital sex" which is what would cause the MASSIVE spread of AIDS in africa. You managed to twist "dont have premartial sex, and dont use contraceptives" into "the vatican is making people get AIDS by forbidding contraceptives" Ummm.... i think you missed a few things in between. If these people werent having premartial sex in the FIRST place, then they wouldnt get AIDS, now would they, and you couldnt accuse the vatican of killing people. Doesnt anyone else think it is more than a tad absurd that the vatican is being accused of killing people? I mean, sure censoring web sites is questionable. I am not 100% familiar with the laws in Italy and the content and activities of the site, so I cant make a judgement... but killing people?
just how blinded by their own righteousness some people on slashdot can be. Now, I know that I will be modded down for this, but what the hell: Nuclear reacters are incredibly safe, clean, and efficient. They are the second cheapest form of energy that we can produce (coal is first). Looking simply at the alternatives of coal versus nucelar power, we can either release tons and tons of greenhouse gases and other untold poisens into the atmosphe, or we can create a comparativley small amount of waste, and stick it in a 58 billion dollar fortified facility underneath a mountain in the middle of a dessert. There is an INCREDIBLE amount of protection at this facility. It is amazing how some people can claim to be enviromentally concious and still bash nuclear power. Sure, it is not a wonderfully comfortable feeling to have nuclear waste in your back yard, however it is already! By consolidating our nuclear waste into a very well designed facility, we can ensure it will be protected. Or we can simply burn more coal. (and dont try to claim that solar or hydro electric is the wave of the future - as long as there is coal to be burned, they will because it is incredibly cheap)
One of the greatest moments came this winter when the team was showing off its sound-only version of Quake to other game designers. Keenan, whose blindness started them on their quest, took on the other game designers, all old hands at Quake. ''Tim,'' said Spitzer with a laugh, ''just slaughtered them.''
My question is: how much AI has been programmed into this game for the blind players? I can understand navigating the 'maze' simply by sound alone, however targeting the other players would be very very hard. I wonder if the blind player just has to point in the general direction, or if there is an aim bot.... Still, though it is intruiging.
....I will wait for the Tom's Hardware benchmarks. CPU specs mean nothing to me. Now, if the itaium can get 2000fps in quake3, now that is an accomplishment
One has to think that China has their priorities mixed up here. Considering that this is a country that in which not everyone gets enough to eat, and innocent children are murdered for violating population guidelines. I mean, people die in un-humane conditions in sweatshops in this country, and they are spending a mass amount of money to go to the moon? I fail to see the point.