No need for an e-reader, no need for an GBA. You just need a piece of software that can convert the gaming cards into ROMs.
Or, just buy the cards and then use Google to find the roms. I don't figure how you came to the conclusion that a few web searches would be harder than make a hardware interface with the accompanying software..
The cost isn't that big, and this is EXACTLY what we've been asking for all this time. Don't think of it like renting a movie, think of it more like voting with your dollars, showing that this is the kind of system you'd like to have in the future.
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...but it was a damn good read, and the Fritz chip might become reality. Though, one thing the story didn't bring up that I had in my head all the time was that this would open for the absolutely best way to break any copy protection:
The piece talks about how the Fritz chip ran at Ring minus one. From the first mentioning of hacking wetware, I saw one thing; your own body runs at Ring minus TWO. So, if you actually could directly interface with your body, you could extract any information that at some time entered your body. Which means that no matter how secure and complicated the media corporations' deliverance to your eyeballs/ears is, the moment it enters your brain, it's yours. I imagined that somebody would 'hack' their brain into feeding out exactly what they received through their senses - movie in, perfectly copyable rip out. The only way the media corporations would be able to evade THIS would be to check that the person in front of the video screen doesn't have any biological modifications - and there's no way there will be an effective, non-invasive procedure of doing that.
Now, this might be quite some years into the future, but it illustrates that no matter how deeply the media corps entrench their copy prevention systems, there's always the analog hole. And until we can hack our brains, we still have the excellent circumvention techniques known as 'pointing a video camera at the screen' and 'placing a microphone in front of the speaker'.
The sooner RIAA/MPAA realize this, the sooner they can give up trying to lock down everyting and instead try to give the masses what they want instead..
Do my eyes deceive me? [muropaketti.com] I doubt it. WCPUID is noting 3998.24 MHz in that picture! (It's most of the way down the page, if you want to see it in context.)
If you read the english summary, it says that they managed to run the CPU at 3998 MHz, but had to knock it down a notch to keep it stable.
or so it seems like, according to IMDB. Also, the movie had, and will still have a PG rating, so I guess nothing has been cut out. They're probably just adding extra footage at the sides/top/bottom or stretching the movie so it fits the size of IMAX.
And Matrix on IMAX would rock! Hope they decide to transfer that one too.
Well, you see - to continue their excellent steganography service for the Illuminati, they are forced to make these spelling errors at least once a day. Watch those mistakes for a few days, and you'll see the pattern.
Quoth the article: "Black people, who have the lowest income in the United States, now have a higher standard of living than an ordinary Swedish household," the HUI economists said.
And I still would choose to live in Sweden any day over living in USA.
I know you were joking, but the answer is no. The problem with a slashdotting is that it is completely legitimate traffic from tens of thousands of different sites. As far as I figured it out, these guys dynamically block IPs that are identified as DDOS participants (Since a DDOS has far lesser 'attackers' than a slashdotting) and can then make the network more resistant to all the traffic.
(On the other hand, the slashdot effect often takes place because of the stress on the server, not the connection pipe itself, so a simple referrer denial would limit the effect rather much)
"Currently available for United States residents only."
It probably makes sense - credit card payment probably costs more for them when done from a non-US country. But that also means they are missing out on everybody in the rest of the world, which is a loss both for the record company and us international customers.
I don't think you need to talk to one of them to know. It's a well known fact that the teenagers around here are unable to create a complete sentence without dropping some letters here and there...
To clarify a bit: I responded to this comment, which was the infamous London Underground article. In hindsight, I should have made some indication that I was not replying to the article itself.
That game had TONS of enemies onscreen at once, all of them running straight for you. I guess there were 50-100 at most. If nothing else, it shows that even fully 3D games can have more than five enemies at once.
(but that doesn't mean Doom 3 will go for lots of enemies. And sometimes less is better. Remember Alien?)
If anything, I believe piracy has progressed the software industry there, atleast the MS-centric part of it. If they didn't have illegal copies of Windows and VC++ to develop on, there is no way they'd be able to afford the real thing. So in a way, pirated software helps Microsoft, because then more people are able to develop Windows applications.
What's more important is how this monochrome screen behaves - if it's readable from almost all angles and has very little light requirements to be readable, it wouldn't matter if it was monochrome or not. Most books are in monochrome anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
When out of cash?
Is it just me, or does this guy pop into your head whenever the LaGrande technology is mentioned?
Better whip out that voodoo doll..
I've got two word for you:
Flatbed scanner.
No need for an e-reader, no need for an GBA. You just need a piece of software that can convert the gaming cards into ROMs.
Or, just buy the cards and then use Google to find the roms. I don't figure how you came to the conclusion that a few web searches would be harder than make a hardware interface with the accompanying software..
The cost isn't that big, and this is EXACTLY what we've been asking for all this time. Don't think of it like renting a movie, think of it more like voting with your dollars, showing that this is the kind of system you'd like to have in the future.
...but it was a damn good read, and the Fritz chip might become reality. Though, one thing the story didn't bring up that I had in my head all the time was that this would open for the absolutely best way to break any copy protection:
The piece talks about how the Fritz chip ran at Ring minus one. From the first mentioning of hacking wetware, I saw one thing; your own body runs at Ring minus TWO. So, if you actually could directly interface with your body, you could extract any information that at some time entered your body. Which means that no matter how secure and complicated the media corporations' deliverance to your eyeballs/ears is, the moment it enters your brain, it's yours. I imagined that somebody would 'hack' their brain into feeding out exactly what they received through their senses - movie in, perfectly copyable rip out.
The only way the media corporations would be able to evade THIS would be to check that the person in front of the video screen doesn't have any biological modifications - and there's no way there will be an effective, non-invasive procedure of doing that.
Now, this might be quite some years into the future, but it illustrates that no matter how deeply the media corps entrench their copy prevention systems, there's always the analog hole. And until we can hack our brains, we still have the excellent circumvention techniques known as 'pointing a video camera at the screen' and 'placing a microphone in front of the speaker'.
The sooner RIAA/MPAA realize this, the sooner they can give up trying to lock down everyting and instead try to give the masses what they want instead..
Now our processors are FOUR times the speed of yours!
(Yeah, yeah. I know that MHz != performance, but still...)
Do my eyes deceive me? [muropaketti.com] I doubt it. WCPUID is noting 3998.24 MHz in that picture! (It's most of the way down the page, if you want to see it in context.)
If you read the english summary, it says that they managed to run the CPU at 3998 MHz, but had to knock it down a notch to keep it stable.
or so it seems like, according to IMDB. Also, the movie had, and will still have a PG rating, so I guess nothing has been cut out. They're probably just adding extra footage at the sides/top/bottom or stretching the movie so it fits the size of IMAX.
And Matrix on IMAX would rock! Hope they decide to transfer that one too.
There is a SLIGHT difference between an 101MB file and an 1MB file. This is not it.
I apply patches all the time that don't require a reboot (this is 2000, NT and 9x require you to reboot for damn near anything).
;)
Well, you still need to reboot for those patches to take effect.
Well, you see - to continue their excellent steganography service for the Illuminati, they are forced to make these spelling errors at least once a day. Watch those mistakes for a few days, and you'll see the pattern.
Or not.
(Offtopic as hell. I know. Mod away.)
..even the poor ones.
A month ago, Reuters reported that Swedes were less well off than poorest Americans.
Quoth the article:
"Black people, who have the lowest income in the United States, now have a higher standard of living than an ordinary Swedish household," the HUI economists said.
And I still would choose to live in Sweden any day over living in USA.
I know you were joking, but the answer is no. The problem with a slashdotting is that it is completely legitimate traffic from tens of thousands of different sites. As far as I figured it out, these guys dynamically block IPs that are identified as DDOS participants (Since a DDOS has far lesser 'attackers' than a slashdotting) and can then make the network more resistant to all the traffic.
(On the other hand, the slashdot effect often takes place because of the stress on the server, not the connection pipe itself, so a simple referrer denial would limit the effect rather much)
"Currently available for United States residents only."
It probably makes sense - credit card payment probably costs more for them when done from a non-US country. But that also means they are missing out on everybody in the rest of the world, which is a loss both for the record company and us international customers.
I don't think you need to talk to one of them to know. It's a well known fact that the teenagers around here are unable to create a complete sentence without dropping some letters here and there...
From the article:
Of them, 19% had "received an unwanted sexual solicitation"...
...the other 81% were the ones who were SENDING unwanted sexual solicitation. (Think horny, puberty-laden 14-year-old boys...)
To clarify a bit:
I responded to this comment, which was the infamous London Underground article. In hindsight, I should have made some indication that I was not replying to the article itself.
That is an urban legend. Bzzt. Thanks for playing.
Look here. It's real, but crappy, like you'd expect it to be.
Just for the record, has anyone here seen any 'sexually explicit' computer games?
Apparently, you've never heard Lula before...
The article doesn't say who sponsored the prize.
God, ofcourse.
Two words:
Serious Sam.
That game had TONS of enemies onscreen at once, all of them running straight for you. I guess there were 50-100 at most. If nothing else, it shows that even fully 3D games can have more than five enemies at once.
(but that doesn't mean Doom 3 will go for lots of enemies. And sometimes less is better. Remember Alien?)
If anything, I believe piracy has progressed the software industry there, atleast the MS-centric part of it. If they didn't have illegal copies of Windows and VC++ to develop on, there is no way they'd be able to afford the real thing. So in a way, pirated software helps Microsoft, because then more people are able to develop Windows applications.
Why it didn't have 'standard' 1024x800 screen mode, I'll never know.
:)
Because as far as I know, 1024x800 is not standard. 1024x768 is.
What's more important is how this monochrome screen behaves - if it's readable from almost all angles and has very little light requirements to be readable, it wouldn't matter if it was monochrome or not. Most books are in monochrome anyway.