How can you burn a Linux CD-R that'll fit in the smaller drive of the Gamecube? Unless there's some way to hack the broadband adapter (is it out yet?) so that the machine can boot from a network image, there's very little chance of getting things to work.
It takes an XML formatted list of books from one web service, looks these books up via the Amazon API, then runs a search on the titles via the Google API. Combining three separate services into one unified system.
The people wondering "Why bother?" when Google released their Web Service missed the point entirely. One service isn't anything special. It's what you can do when you combine a couple of them that makes things interesting.
Ideally, the Book Watch Plus application can be converted into a Web Service itself, so someone else can use it as a component in THEIR application.
For all Linux's technical superiority to Windows, we as a community must not be seen as childishly attacking Microsoft. (A trivial example being spelling their name with a '$')
Most non-technical people perceive a community by their loudest members. If all the 'Linux' community can offer is "Mickey$oft SUXXX!" and "You're too stupid to write your own device drivers, you don't deserve a computer!" then Linux shall forever remain a niche Operating System.
How well do these work when compared to traditional Solar Cell based components? With the addition of a few capacitors, it would be nice to have OLED lighting which would recharge during the day.
Any speed advantage in the compression algorithms is unfortunately negated by the clunkiness, bugginess and general cancerware-infectedness of the player.
I've owned a variety of consoles for the past six or so years and haven't had any problems with sitting on a Sofa. The best thing is being able to crash out at whatever angle you like.
Or if you're playing multiplayer with someone sat on the same sofa, the occasional elbow-nudge is all part of the fun.
Wasn't a similar product featured on that godawful Robocop TV series?
If I recall, the police were given this ultra-slippery spray foam stuff in order to quell rioters. However, as soon as it was used, the police started falling over themselves, with "amusing" boing noises playing on the soundtrack.
Of course, I could go on to whinge about the legacy of the one good film (the first one) being further driven into disgrace, but that would be -1, Redundant.
People seem to value the "pieces of paper with writing on them" that are in my wallet too.
Especially in large organisations, it pays to have a few extra letters after your name. A degree is an independently verifiable way of judging someone's worth. Which, lets face it, if you get several hundred CVs / Resumes to plough through every day, you don't have time to individually determine a person's worth.
Of course, in large organisations, it's just as easy to PRETEND you've got a degree and hope they don't ask too much!;)
Sony's marketroids have ALWAYS given them the advantage in the console arena, even when facing off against superior consoles.
Of course, it kinda helps that the PS2 catalogue is HUGE, compared to the relatively meagre selection offered by the other two.
Backwards compatibility has its advantages, in terms of brand loyalty. Nintendo had the right idea by making the Game Boy range backwards compatible. Suddenly all the money and time invested in the previous console's games hasn't wasted. That's a huge selling point, especially when parents are deciding what to buy their offspring.
I remember hand-coding a hex-displayer thingie in search for that elusive '35h' byte for Manic Miner. DEC (HL), the opcode was. Got it right first time as well.
The cleverest loading trick, IMHO, was coded by David Jones for the game 'Spellbound'. (Released on Mastertronic Added Dimension for 3 quid!)
Basically, he'd edited the internal representation of the basic loader so that it started the programme 3 bytes on from what the loader appeared to say when looking at the code. e.g. although it claimed to start executing from memory location 31000, it actually started at 31003.
To all intents and purposes it looked just like a a standard "load the code from the tape and execute it" loader, except the 3 byte offset made all the difference. Those first three bytes contained a call to a separate bit of code which displayed a 3D starfield effect and the message "Hello Hacker! Fancy meeting you here!"
A simple, effective trick that was easily bypassed, but fun to do so nevertheless.
That's the most sensible thing anyones said here so far. Damn right it isn't a game. It's war, and we've all got to do what we can to defend life and liberty.
The first World Information War is being fought as you read this. Or do you HONESTLY think that Nimda, and now WTC.EXE, are someone-elses-problem because they don't affect your precious Linux machines.
To all the Quislings out there: Notice the sudden drop in stock prices because of the double whammy of WTC followed by Nimda? Think there isn't a co-incidence? You can't very well play in your Open Source Geek Utopia if the financial and telecoms infrastructure that supports it has been reduced to tatters.
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How can you burn a Linux CD-R that'll fit in the smaller drive of the Gamecube? Unless there's some way to hack the broadband adapter (is it out yet?) so that the machine can boot from a network image, there's very little chance of getting things to work.
Will we be seeing more minor security issues inflated to cataclysmic proportions just so Symantec can sell a few more virus scanners?
I've been wowed by this little application here:
http://mockerybird.com/index.cgi?node=book+watch
It takes an XML formatted list of books from one web service, looks these books up via the Amazon API, then runs a search on the titles via the Google API. Combining three separate services into one unified system.
The people wondering "Why bother?" when Google released their Web Service missed the point entirely. One service isn't anything special. It's what you can do when you combine a couple of them that makes things interesting.
Ideally, the Book Watch Plus application can be converted into a Web Service itself, so someone else can use it as a component in THEIR application.
For all Linux's technical superiority to Windows, we as a community must not be seen as childishly attacking Microsoft. (A trivial example being spelling their name with a '$')
Most non-technical people perceive a community by their loudest members. If all the 'Linux' community can offer is "Mickey$oft SUXXX!" and "You're too stupid to write your own device drivers, you don't deserve a computer!" then Linux shall forever remain a niche Operating System.
How well do these work when compared to traditional Solar Cell based components? With the addition of a few capacitors, it would be nice to have OLED lighting which would recharge during the day.
Any speed advantage in the compression algorithms is unfortunately negated by the clunkiness, bugginess and general cancerware-infectedness of the player.
I've owned a variety of consoles for the past six or so years and haven't had any problems with sitting on a Sofa. The best thing is being able to crash out at whatever angle you like.
Or if you're playing multiplayer with someone sat on the same sofa, the occasional elbow-nudge is all part of the fun.
Wasn't a similar product featured on that godawful Robocop TV series?
If I recall, the police were given this ultra-slippery spray foam stuff in order to quell rioters. However, as soon as it was used, the police started falling over themselves, with "amusing" boing noises playing on the soundtrack.
Of course, I could go on to whinge about the legacy of the one good film (the first one) being further driven into disgrace, but that would be -1, Redundant.
Where the computer works out the most optimal target to hit next and highlights it for them on the projection.
That would be sweet!
I wonder if the nice people at Ask Jeeves are going to mind having their (presumably trademarked) logo swiped for this?
It's called a PS2.
People seem to value the "pieces of paper with writing on them" that are in my wallet too.
;)
Especially in large organisations, it pays to have a few extra letters after your name. A degree is an independently verifiable way of judging someone's worth. Which, lets face it, if you get several hundred CVs / Resumes to plough through every day, you don't have time to individually determine a person's worth.
Of course, in large organisations, it's just as easy to PRETEND you've got a degree and hope they don't ask too much!
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Machine of
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Hey, so I drunk too much coffee today!
It's even worse when the rich companies decide to give their products away!
apt-get wins it over for me. Everything else is just eye-candy. And now expensive eye-candy.
It's nice that even in this increasingly commercialised Open Source world, that there's still a few idealists left.
Sony's marketroids have ALWAYS given them the advantage in the console arena, even when facing off against superior consoles.
Of course, it kinda helps that the PS2 catalogue is HUGE, compared to the relatively meagre selection offered by the other two.
Backwards compatibility has its advantages, in terms of brand loyalty. Nintendo had the right idea by making the Game Boy range backwards compatible. Suddenly all the money and time invested in the previous console's games hasn't wasted. That's a huge selling point, especially when parents are deciding what to buy their offspring.
Praxis.
Wasn't the PET the computer you could POKE a certain memory location with to get it to catch fire or something?
I remember hand-coding a hex-displayer thingie in search for that elusive '35h' byte for Manic Miner. DEC (HL), the opcode was. Got it right first time as well.
The cleverest loading trick, IMHO, was coded by David Jones for the game 'Spellbound'. (Released on Mastertronic Added Dimension for 3 quid!)
Basically, he'd edited the internal representation of the basic loader so that it started the programme 3 bytes on from what the loader appeared to say when looking at the code. e.g. although it claimed to start executing from memory location 31000, it actually started at 31003.
To all intents and purposes it looked just like a a standard "load the code from the tape and execute it" loader, except the 3 byte offset made all the difference. Those first three bytes contained a call to a separate bit of code which displayed a 3D starfield effect and the message "Hello Hacker! Fancy meeting you here!"
A simple, effective trick that was easily bypassed, but fun to do so nevertheless.
*sigh* Memories.
For providing the means to absolutely RUIN on-line console games like Phantasy Star Online.
You've provided a valuable service to the gaming community!
If DVD players could be upgradable like this, then where's the incentive for consumers to buy the 'latest and greatest' models?
It's been around a LOT longer, used to describe an incarnation of Vishnu in the Hindu mythos.
excuse my english, not a naitive speaker
a 10 year old boy, pulled from the wreckage, is saying that a man of arabic decent was waving a gun around in the front of the train
other witness says driver was thrown out of cockpit and door locked as arab forced train to go at high speeds on inner city track
we're lucky it didn't manage to hit the terminus
That's the most sensible thing anyones said here so far. Damn right it isn't a game. It's war, and we've all got to do what we can to defend life and liberty.
The first World Information War is being fought as you read this. Or do you HONESTLY think that Nimda, and now WTC.EXE, are someone-elses-problem because they don't affect your precious Linux machines.
To all the Quislings out there: Notice the sudden drop in stock prices because of the double whammy of WTC followed by Nimda? Think there isn't a co-incidence? You can't very well play in your Open Source Geek Utopia if the financial and telecoms infrastructure that supports it has been reduced to tatters.
Grow up.
"Move F-16 for Infinite Justice"
I can see why they changed the codename now...