WTF? Sounds like you wished you could have written "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." That and you want to hate the XBox.
Re:The other way round
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Machines based on certain variants of the intel 810 family use UMA.
Re:Legality
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Assuming that MS did the same as everybody else in securing their consoles, Microsoft has a public-key crypto algorithm on the boot blocks of the xbox. If you don't have the private key, you can't create media that will load on the unit. You can't put out functional media without it. Short of a fubar on MS's part, without MS cooperation nobody will be releasing software for an unmodified xbox.
Not really a good idea. The strength of the PC market is that different companies can try different ways to make "their" vision of a PC better. By way of being cheaper, faster, etc. And the result is that you have a hundred slightly different platforms and are constrained to using high level APIs to interface with the hardware. The big advantage of consoles is that you have a single specific target to aim at. You can tune your application to deal with the specific strengths of the console, you can avoid the specific weaknesses. As a developer you don't want there to be different versions of the same platform. You need to know exactly how your hardware behaves. Sure there are going to be revisions, but they are typically going to involve minor upgrades or just a matter of throwing out the old and bringing in the new.
Not all programming is art any more than all painting is art. Some painting is just putting a color on a house. It's not artful, it's functional. Some programming is exactly the same way. Being the hundred thousandth CS student to write a quick sort does not make you an artist.
We also aren't talking about using the device, we're talking about "fair-use" and how making a copy and giving it to your friend for "free" isn't "fair-use". It's copyright infringement. This whole section of the law isn't highly relevant to the concept of "fair-use" which is about how you can take a copyrighted work and use it in certain ways. Making an archival copy is one of those ways. Making a copy to pass to your friend isn't.
Actually, making a digital music recording or analog musical recording is a different act than making a duplicate of a preexisting recording, which is a different act than making a duplicate recording of a preexisting recording and giving that copy to your friend/neighbor.
Hmm. The original doom shareware zipped up to a single floppy. Unpacked to something in the area of 2 megs. The original Quake shareware was 5 megs on disk, 9 unpacked. Sure it get's expensive from there, but...
32 M/206 Mhz *is* a lot to work with. The Atari Lynx fer instance, has 64K (8 k of which has to go for a frame buffer.) And 4 Mhz. The original Gameboy wasn't any better equipped.
Um. Is the slashdot crowd so apathetic? Why stand around waiting for someone else to find "a concerted effort", go out there and find it for yourself. Or even better, you and iluvpr0n can go out there and start your own concerted effort to get these things removed. You see, you are allowed, and that's how things change. Not because somebody else did something about a situation, but because you did.
It's funny how everybody figures that they can slap one of these things together from the spare parts in their junk pile. How much do you want to bet that the analog audio portion of this device is better (ie. better S-to-N ratio, wider dynamic range, etc.) ? How about their software? Sure you may be content with a pound sign and a blinking cursor in an x-term, but some of us would rather have a device that actually acts like what it does, rather than pretends to be what it does. I've been building this kind of box in my spare time and it's not trivial. At a price point of $1,000 I'll probably continue with my project, but if they get down to $500, my homebrew solution is out the door.
Dude, usually we use checkboxes, dialogs, etc. to configure software. While a stern, pointed, decisive lecture may feel good to you, merely telling your software explicitly to "never, ever" send network messages won't do the trick.
I don't really follow this sort of thing, but I don't recall ever having the impression that "most of the really cool open source hackers" did work there. Did they?
Speak for yourself my friend. The fact is this guy started up a couple of apps and got posted as an article on slashdot. If somewhere in there he happened to develop a new technique for emulation, perhaps it would be "news for nerds." Or maybe if he was using this to solve some unique and persistent problem that a number of people had encountered... But he didn't. Truly, he just ran some apps. It's no different than me taking a screenshot of my desktop at any random moment and sending it in. Hmmm that gives me ideas...
Vertical searches are searches within a specific category of information, a vertical niche. Much like a vertical business is a business that specializes in something. A horizontal search would be the general case search such as we see now.
Re:Yeah, but can I drop it on the floor?
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Actually tiny laptop harddrives are NOT fragile. They are more robust than their desktop counter parts. Look up the specs sometime.
Err. In every clued in installation I've worked in, all the database servers were sitting in their own private DMZ. With tight ass firewall rules. Only specific hosts can connect to the database servers and then only on specific ports. And the firewalls are stateful and makes sure that the protocols being used are appropriate for talking to the database servers.
Any architect that will sign off on a $500k server installation that doesn't include at least $50k for an HA, stateful firewall spefically in place for that server is an idiot that deserves to be pink slipped.
Slashdot Mirror
Except for that little thing called LATENCY.
WTF? Sounds like you wished you could have written "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." That and you want to hate the XBox.
Machines based on certain variants of the intel 810 family use UMA.
Assuming that MS did the same as everybody else in securing their consoles, Microsoft has a public-key crypto algorithm on the boot blocks of the xbox. If you don't have the private key, you can't create media that will load on the unit. You can't put out functional media without it. Short of a fubar on MS's part, without MS cooperation nobody will be releasing software for an unmodified xbox.
Not really a good idea. The strength of the PC market is that different companies can try different ways to make "their" vision of a PC better. By way of being cheaper, faster, etc. And the result is that you have a hundred slightly different platforms and are constrained to using high level APIs to interface with the hardware. The big advantage of consoles is that you have a single specific target to aim at. You can tune your application to deal with the specific strengths of the console, you can avoid the specific weaknesses. As a developer you don't want there to be different versions of the same platform. You need to know exactly how your hardware behaves. Sure there are going to be revisions, but they are typically going to involve minor upgrades or just a matter of throwing out the old and bringing in the new.
I think the parent needs to be modded up. Don't know why.
Then complain to the people writing the headlines erroneously... not that any of the /. wankers give a shit.
Sounds like it's the six days of christmas at your house...
Umm. Actually you'll want to not get escorted around. You want to be deposited with the group you'll be working with and hang for a bit.
Err, the L in GPL stands for "license". It's no different than any other license in that it details what rights you are given re. the authors riths.
Not all programming is art any more than all painting is art. Some painting is just putting a color on a house. It's not artful, it's functional. Some programming is exactly the same way. Being the hundred thousandth CS student to write a quick sort does not make you an artist.
Interesting you would mention this, seeing as the vast majority of "free" software falls precisely into this category.
We also aren't talking about using the device, we're talking about "fair-use" and how making a copy and giving it to your friend for "free" isn't "fair-use". It's copyright infringement. This whole section of the law isn't highly relevant to the concept of "fair-use" which is about how you can take a copyrighted work and use it in certain ways. Making an archival copy is one of those ways. Making a copy to pass to your friend isn't.
Actually, making a digital music recording or analog musical recording is a different act than making a duplicate of a preexisting recording, which is a different act than making a duplicate recording of a preexisting recording and giving that copy to your friend/neighbor.
Hmm. The original doom shareware zipped up to a single floppy. Unpacked to something in the area of 2 megs. The original Quake shareware was 5 megs on disk, 9 unpacked. Sure it get's expensive from there, but...
32 M/206 Mhz *is* a lot to work with. The Atari Lynx fer instance, has 64K (8 k of which has to go for a frame buffer.) And 4 Mhz. The original Gameboy wasn't any better equipped.
Um. Is the slashdot crowd so apathetic? Why stand around waiting for someone else to find "a concerted effort", go out there and find it for yourself. Or even better, you and iluvpr0n can go out there and start your own concerted effort to get these things removed. You see, you are allowed, and that's how things change. Not because somebody else did something about a situation, but because you did.
Transparent (really transparent) terminals in OS X are quite nice.
No shit brother. I like seeing what's behind my monitor without having to lean to one side or stand up...
It's funny how everybody figures that they can slap one of these things together from the spare parts in their junk pile. How much do you want to bet that the analog audio portion of this device is better (ie. better S-to-N ratio, wider dynamic range, etc.) ? How about their software? Sure you may be content with a pound sign and a blinking cursor in an x-term, but some of us would rather have a device that actually acts like what it does, rather than pretends to be what it does. I've been building this kind of box in my spare time and it's not trivial. At a price point of $1,000 I'll probably continue with my project, but if they get down to $500, my homebrew solution is out the door.
Dude, usually we use checkboxes, dialogs, etc. to configure software. While a stern, pointed, decisive lecture may feel good to you, merely telling your software explicitly to "never, ever" send network messages won't do the trick.
I don't really follow this sort of thing, but I don't recall ever having the impression that "most of the really cool open source hackers" did work there. Did they?
Correct answer: Apple. Apple bought an exclusive license for the technology behind the codec from sorensen.
Speak for yourself my friend. The fact is this guy started up a couple of apps and got posted as an article on slashdot. If somewhere in there he happened to develop a new technique for emulation, perhaps it would be "news for nerds." Or maybe if he was using this to solve some unique and persistent problem that a number of people had encountered... But he didn't. Truly, he just ran some apps. It's no different than me taking a screenshot of my desktop at any random moment and sending it in. Hmmm that gives me ideas...
Vertical searches are searches within a specific category of information, a vertical niche. Much like a vertical business is a business that specializes in something. A horizontal search would be the general case search such as we see now.
Actually tiny laptop harddrives are NOT fragile. They are more robust than their desktop counter parts. Look up the specs sometime.
Err. In every clued in installation I've worked in, all the database servers were sitting in their own private DMZ. With tight ass firewall rules. Only specific hosts can connect to the database servers and then only on specific ports. And the firewalls are stateful and makes sure that the protocols being used are appropriate for talking to the database servers.
Any architect that will sign off on a $500k server installation that doesn't include at least $50k for an HA, stateful firewall spefically in place for that server is an idiot that deserves to be pink slipped.