The copyright holders have banded together and found a way to destroy the internet in their country? By forcing nigh-impossible requests onto the ISPs and then fining them all into bankruptcy as they fail to keep up with the requests?
Given that last week the creator of Kinect said that PCs are a dead platform for first person shooters, I think it's pretty clear no one in the Xbox division of MS knows what the hell they're talking about.
Does anyone else find the idea of 4chan doing something 'nice' to be completely TERRIFYING? I mean like, I get their usual shenanigans... But I can't even begin to wrap my head around this. I am scared shitless. Because who knows what they'll do next...
About a week ago, I said on IRC that if the legal quagmire around the PSJailbreak drags on, they should just opensource the whole thing. Sure, there'd be less money to be made for their effort (Not that they're able to sell the things right now anyway) but Sony would be pretty hard-pressed to completely suppress the device.
I was impressed by the gesture they made in removing the bootleg playing capability from the version of the code they released, even if the community ultimately turned it into a rather hollow gesture. (But they gained full deniability, way to go!) Their reference design is ugly as sin though. When I make an EagleCAD schematic/board from the design they released, I'll be sure to design a nice, compact, all-SMT version too.:3 Maybe even one that doesn't need the USB port, like it has 'gold fingers' on the end and just slips into the port.
I don't even own a PS3 and I want to make one just for the hell of it. I already have a couple AT90USB chips I haven't used yet.
btw, the Atmel devboard can be had for $30, and the 'Teensy' microcontroller boards can be had for as little as $17. Of course, they're all out of stock now, heh. If you have the know-how to make the board, the components hardly add up to $10.
Maybe I should have a couple-few PCBs churned out the next time I order some prototypes from Gold Phoenix. Strictly for my friends, of course.:D
If someone wanted to start selling these things, the smart thing to do would be to just more or less sell a 'general purpose' board, like the Teensy, and leave it up to the end user to find and install the code. Zero liability, really. Just don't call the thing 'ZOMGPS3HAX2.0' or be all *wink wink* *nudge nudge* in the product description.
I like the idea of putting all this info in one place. I see this more as being a place to put info about repairing older hardware, though. Since not everyone has the know-how and tools to work on today's super-small electronics. If I find the time, I shall endeavor to consolidate all my NEO-GEO arcade hardware repair knowledge and add it to the wiki. It'd be cool to see them including usability mods too, if they haven't already. Like RGB video mods for older consoles, to compliment the regular repair info.
So, now-- in theory --I can have Flash bugger my GPU instead of my CPU and system memory?;) Fabulous!! It would be nice if Adobe would actually fix Flash, though. It's constantly hanging or crashing my browser, and at least once or twice a week, BSODing me. Bastard thing.:( Of course it doesn't help that every webpage EVERYWHERE uses Flash for damn near anything.
I expect to see a massive increase in the volume of cheap '100% working great' Xbox 360 items on eBay in the next couple weeks as they ban the consoles of everyone that plays it off of Xbox Li-- Oh damn.
Nevermind. I imagine Microsoft is quite pleased with this turn of events. What with the increased demand for new 360s and whatnot...
I'm not saying I agree with the idea of having someone go through your trash to make sure you're being a good environmentally-conscious citizen...
But is it really so hard to separate your recycling? Are people really in such a hurry that they can't be bothered to do anything but throw everything in the same garbage can? If you have an empty plastic bottle, it goes in the plastic bin. If you have an empty glass bottle or jar, it goes in the glass bin. That cereal box? Flatten it and put it in the cardboard bin. I mean, seriously. Why is that hard?
I'm a lazy bastard who always looks for the easy way to do things and I have no problem with my recycling.
Of course, anime also depicts the majority of Japanese highschool girls as having huge racks. (I'll leave it at that and let you figure it out on your own.);)
I especially like the point about the sheer number of armed individuals. Makes me think the only semi-viable zombie outbreak scenario is something like Highschool of The Dead, where an outbreak occurs in urban Japan.
But even in Japan, I don't imagine an outbreak would last very long.
I doubt the zombies have much to worry about from the Japanese police though, they've already had an aversion to using their guns ingrained in them through training. Add to that the stress and sheer 'omgwtfbbq'-ness of the situation, and I think it'd be more likely to see many of them either completely freaking out, or making an ultimately futile effort to use batons and riot shields against the zombies. And even the ones that actually use their firearms against the zombies will quickly go through all the ammunition they have access to and be screwed.
I imagine the JGSDF would fare a lot better, even with the psychological factors. The question is, how badly outnumbered would they be by the time someone thinks to officially mobilize them?
But hey, if all else fails, the US military presence in Japan could probably take care of it themselves. I wonder what kind of legal and bureaucratic messes would be involved in mobilizing the US military for actual combat operations on Japanese soil, even in an emergency...
iirc, it works with ZIP for exactly the same reason. ZIP ignores any data BEFORE the ZIP header.
I could be misremembering though... I just took one of my old files, and WinRAR opened it with both ZIP and RAR extensions... And I'm too lazy to make a new one and find out, lol
I had a nice chuckle when I read in TFA that this 'normally requires specialist software', when I've embedded.zip files in.jpg images using the DOS copy command. This should not be rocket surgery, even for non-savvy folks. It's really like 1+1=2, really.
...the only connection OFF their little island will still only be carrier pigeons with Post-It notes. Enjoy your highspeed internet access! (To the rest of your little country.)
That's totally friggin awesome. I just wish their comment security worked, but it doesn't, so I'll post my comment here instead.
Awesome!:)
I'd say there's two ways to automatically deal with the flipping. The first and easiest, would be to add a small piston or something that flips the vehicle back over, either automatically (After it's been upside down for X number of seconds) or make it so the player has to hit a button.
The second and more complex solution, would be to build a new chassis from scratch that can keep driving regardless of the orientation, and have a simple sensor that tells the software to reverse the steering inputs and rotate the video 180 degrees.
After the flipping issue is resolved, the next obvious step is...MULTIPLAYER!!
The ideas in the comments on/. are awesome as hell though, like ways of implementing boost and whatnot:3
I just don't think that little car can do 'Wipeout boost' fast though.;P Maybe if it were one of those larger scale and disgustingly overpowered brushless competition dealies that go nearly 100mph or something stupid like that... But then you're moving into lolwaytoofast and lolholeinthewall territory.
Somewhere in the federally-declared disaster area I call an apartment, I have an old programming book that details remaking various arcade classics...on the Commodore 64. I'm not sure, but Pac-Man might have been among them. I guess times change.
What the hell?! When did this happen? I _RELY_ on the virtual debit card service when buying from places like Amazon, as well as all my electronic component suppliers! Hell, I just made purchases on Friday! D:
Uhh, wait a second... I just checked and I can still generate cards, so I don't know what the OP is talking about.
Okay, that may be overstating. I'm sure the Odyssey and those other semi-obscure Atari-age consoles are probably going to fade from memory eventually. But the Nintendo? The Super Nintendo? The NEO-GEO? No way. Not a chance.
The NEO-GEO is pretty obscure compared to the other 16-bit era systems, yet it still has a massive userbase. Not to mention the fact that a new game just came out for it a couple months ago. Even with the almost absolute death of the arcade in America, it wouldn't surprise me if the NEO-GEO MVS actually has a larger operating userbase than the home console at this point. And the NEO-GEO userbase is hardcore. They know how to fix their hardware when something cocks up, so they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. And people are still coming out with hardware mods, improvements, and hacks.
Speaking from personal experience, I have over a dozen NEO-GEO MVS motherboards in various states of repair, as well as a fully working 4-slot cabinet and over 40 game cartridges. The cabinet runs pretty much 24/7 and I still feed it quarters on a very regular basis. On top of that, I'm working on an LED array replacement for the horrible EL-panel titlecard backlighting. I also have some interesting ideas about network-enabling the hardware, shared high scores, and other features.;)
I want to do my part to preserve the rest of gaming heritage though, such as getting a full set of Famicom and Super Famicom hardware and refurbishing them to better-than-new with things like RGB video output for the SuperFami. I still have most of my old Super Nintendo carts, but my console itself is long gone.
Honestly, I don't think anything is gone as soon as 'the last working piece of hardware bites the dust'. Didn't some guy just emulate a Sega Genesis in hardware on an FPGA? Hell, didn't some guy build a working 68000 computer in wire-wrap not too long ago? As long as people remember how the hardware works, it's possible for crazy hackers with wire-wrap guns to make new ones. Besides, I have NEO-GEO MVS hardware schematics.:) (Before anyone asks, they're like 3rd generation photocopies in PDF format, and I plan to redraw them in EagleCAD when I have the time.) Other 16-bit consoles like the Super Nintendo may be harder to do, but the NEO-GEO is just a 68000, a Z80, a Yamaha sound chip, and a bunch of off-the-shelf components like logic ICs. The BIOS and other ROMs are available anywhere on the net. Even the 'custom' chips on newer boards are just a bunch of off-the-shelf stuff consolidated into single IC packages.
But hey, all this is just my two yen, adjusted for inflation.
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The copyright holders have banded together and found a way to destroy the internet in their country? By forcing nigh-impossible requests onto the ISPs and then fining them all into bankruptcy as they fail to keep up with the requests?
That's... That's fucking genius. :o
Given that last week the creator of Kinect said that PCs are a dead platform for first person shooters, I think it's pretty clear no one in the Xbox division of MS knows what the hell they're talking about.
I've always wondered how long it would be until you could pirate hardware upgrades.
...if the entire first printing sells out almost immediately (Regardless of the reason), doesn't that pretty much ensure it will get another printing?
Does anyone else find the idea of 4chan doing something 'nice' to be completely TERRIFYING? I mean like, I get their usual shenanigans... But I can't even begin to wrap my head around this. I am scared shitless. Because who knows what they'll do next...
About a week ago, I said on IRC that if the legal quagmire around the PSJailbreak drags on, they should just opensource the whole thing. Sure, there'd be less money to be made for their effort (Not that they're able to sell the things right now anyway) but Sony would be pretty hard-pressed to completely suppress the device.
I was impressed by the gesture they made in removing the bootleg playing capability from the version of the code they released, even if the community ultimately turned it into a rather hollow gesture. (But they gained full deniability, way to go!) Their reference design is ugly as sin though. When I make an EagleCAD schematic/board from the design they released, I'll be sure to design a nice, compact, all-SMT version too. :3 Maybe even one that doesn't need the USB port, like it has 'gold fingers' on the end and just slips into the port.
I don't even own a PS3 and I want to make one just for the hell of it. I already have a couple AT90USB chips I haven't used yet.
btw, the Atmel devboard can be had for $30, and the 'Teensy' microcontroller boards can be had for as little as $17. Of course, they're all out of stock now, heh. If you have the know-how to make the board, the components hardly add up to $10.
Maybe I should have a couple-few PCBs churned out the next time I order some prototypes from Gold Phoenix. Strictly for my friends, of course. :D
If someone wanted to start selling these things, the smart thing to do would be to just more or less sell a 'general purpose' board, like the Teensy, and leave it up to the end user to find and install the code. Zero liability, really. Just don't call the thing 'ZOMGPS3HAX2.0' or be all *wink wink* *nudge nudge* in the product description.
(I'm totally getting sued, aren't I?)
...and Wikipedia can't come up with 'spoiler tags'. We really haven't gotten anywhere.
I like the idea of putting all this info in one place. I see this more as being a place to put info about repairing older hardware, though. Since not everyone has the know-how and tools to work on today's super-small electronics. If I find the time, I shall endeavor to consolidate all my NEO-GEO arcade hardware repair knowledge and add it to the wiki. It'd be cool to see them including usability mods too, if they haven't already. Like RGB video mods for older consoles, to compliment the regular repair info.
So, now-- in theory --I can have Flash bugger my GPU instead of my CPU and system memory? ;) Fabulous!! It would be nice if Adobe would actually fix Flash, though. It's constantly hanging or crashing my browser, and at least once or twice a week, BSODing me. Bastard thing. :( Of course it doesn't help that every webpage EVERYWHERE uses Flash for damn near anything.
People NOT the RIAA President saying 'trying to sell garbage at a premium' isn't working.
Holy shit. Microsoft must be LIVID.
I expect to see a massive increase in the volume of cheap '100% working great' Xbox 360 items on eBay in the next couple weeks as they ban the consoles of everyone that plays it off of Xbox Li-- Oh damn.
Nevermind. I imagine Microsoft is quite pleased with this turn of events. What with the increased demand for new 360s and whatnot...
ENGLISH, motherfucker. DO YOU SPEAK IT?
I'm not saying I agree with the idea of having someone go through your trash to make sure you're being a good environmentally-conscious citizen...
But is it really so hard to separate your recycling? Are people really in such a hurry that they can't be bothered to do anything but throw everything in the same garbage can? If you have an empty plastic bottle, it goes in the plastic bin. If you have an empty glass bottle or jar, it goes in the glass bin. That cereal box? Flatten it and put it in the cardboard bin. I mean, seriously. Why is that hard?
I'm a lazy bastard who always looks for the easy way to do things and I have no problem with my recycling.
Nice. I lol'd. :)
Of course, anime also depicts the majority of Japanese highschool girls as having huge racks. (I'll leave it at that and let you figure it out on your own.) ;)
I especially like the point about the sheer number of armed individuals. Makes me think the only semi-viable zombie outbreak scenario is something like Highschool of The Dead, where an outbreak occurs in urban Japan.
But even in Japan, I don't imagine an outbreak would last very long.
I doubt the zombies have much to worry about from the Japanese police though, they've already had an aversion to using their guns ingrained in them through training. Add to that the stress and sheer 'omgwtfbbq'-ness of the situation, and I think it'd be more likely to see many of them either completely freaking out, or making an ultimately futile effort to use batons and riot shields against the zombies. And even the ones that actually use their firearms against the zombies will quickly go through all the ammunition they have access to and be screwed.
I imagine the JGSDF would fare a lot better, even with the psychological factors. The question is, how badly outnumbered would they be by the time someone thinks to officially mobilize them?
But hey, if all else fails, the US military presence in Japan could probably take care of it themselves. I wonder what kind of legal and bureaucratic messes would be involved in mobilizing the US military for actual combat operations on Japanese soil, even in an emergency...
Doesn't something like 90% of the population fall somewhere on the autistic spectrum as it is? ;o
iirc, it works with ZIP for exactly the same reason. ZIP ignores any data BEFORE the ZIP header.
I could be misremembering though... I just took one of my old files, and WinRAR opened it with both ZIP and RAR extensions... And I'm too lazy to make a new one and find out, lol
Touche.
I had a nice chuckle when I read in TFA that this 'normally requires specialist software', when I've embedded .zip files in .jpg images using the DOS copy command. This should not be rocket surgery, even for non-savvy folks. It's really like 1+1=2, really.
...the only connection OFF their little island will still only be carrier pigeons with Post-It notes. Enjoy your highspeed internet access! (To the rest of your little country.)
That's totally friggin awesome. I just wish their comment security worked, but it doesn't, so I'll post my comment here instead.
The ideas in the comments on /. are awesome as hell though, like ways of implementing boost and whatnot :3
I just don't think that little car can do 'Wipeout boost' fast though. ;P Maybe if it were one of those larger scale and disgustingly overpowered brushless competition dealies that go nearly 100mph or something stupid like that... But then you're moving into lolwaytoofast and lolholeinthewall territory.
Somewhere in the federally-declared disaster area I call an apartment, I have an old programming book that details remaking various arcade classics...on the Commodore 64. I'm not sure, but Pac-Man might have been among them. I guess times change.
What the hell?! When did this happen? I _RELY_ on the virtual debit card service when buying from places like Amazon, as well as all my electronic component suppliers! Hell, I just made purchases on Friday! D:
Uhh, wait a second... I just checked and I can still generate cards, so I don't know what the OP is talking about.
Okay, that may be overstating. I'm sure the Odyssey and those other semi-obscure Atari-age consoles are probably going to fade from memory eventually. But the Nintendo? The Super Nintendo? The NEO-GEO? No way. Not a chance.
The NEO-GEO is pretty obscure compared to the other 16-bit era systems, yet it still has a massive userbase. Not to mention the fact that a new game just came out for it a couple months ago. Even with the almost absolute death of the arcade in America, it wouldn't surprise me if the NEO-GEO MVS actually has a larger operating userbase than the home console at this point. And the NEO-GEO userbase is hardcore. They know how to fix their hardware when something cocks up, so they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. And people are still coming out with hardware mods, improvements, and hacks.
Speaking from personal experience, I have over a dozen NEO-GEO MVS motherboards in various states of repair, as well as a fully working 4-slot cabinet and over 40 game cartridges. The cabinet runs pretty much 24/7 and I still feed it quarters on a very regular basis. On top of that, I'm working on an LED array replacement for the horrible EL-panel titlecard backlighting. I also have some interesting ideas about network-enabling the hardware, shared high scores, and other features. ;)
I want to do my part to preserve the rest of gaming heritage though, such as getting a full set of Famicom and Super Famicom hardware and refurbishing them to better-than-new with things like RGB video output for the SuperFami. I still have most of my old Super Nintendo carts, but my console itself is long gone.
Honestly, I don't think anything is gone as soon as 'the last working piece of hardware bites the dust'. Didn't some guy just emulate a Sega Genesis in hardware on an FPGA? Hell, didn't some guy build a working 68000 computer in wire-wrap not too long ago? As long as people remember how the hardware works, it's possible for crazy hackers with wire-wrap guns to make new ones. Besides, I have NEO-GEO MVS hardware schematics. :) (Before anyone asks, they're like 3rd generation photocopies in PDF format, and I plan to redraw them in EagleCAD when I have the time.) Other 16-bit consoles like the Super Nintendo may be harder to do, but the NEO-GEO is just a 68000, a Z80, a Yamaha sound chip, and a bunch of off-the-shelf components like logic ICs. The BIOS and other ROMs are available anywhere on the net. Even the 'custom' chips on newer boards are just a bunch of off-the-shelf stuff consolidated into single IC packages.
But hey, all this is just my two yen, adjusted for inflation.
They're working their way towards being able to charge extra for the plane being on-time. Mark my words.