If you have a problem with what I post then filter out my comments. I didn't ask to be moderated up and I think I had a legitimate question or I wouldn't have posted it.
But what are you trying to secure on an Xbox really? Your saved games? I know some people are trying to port operating systems to it but if that's the case I would thing the current OS wouldn't much cause of concern.
I feel everyone should play the game just like the next guy, but if someone wants to get into my Xbox just so they can get to the boss without having to work for it I'm not really complaining.
I wasn't aware security was a big issue in gaming consoles. Is this just related to hacking into the hardware and getting the OS off of it or what? (I can't get to the PDF because of the/. effect I think)
If I make a piece of software, and you make a piece of software, why should I lower the price of my software to make it easier for you to come in and sell your software? I get hit two fold: 1) I make less money on every piece of software I sell and 2) You sell more software and I sell less.
Why should Microsoft be forced to lose money and/or bend its business practices because someone wants to use another product than theirs. Is it illegal to say "If you dont use my product exclusively I will not give you as much of a price cut/media props/other benefit."
If Microsoft wants OEM's to use its products exclusively, more power to them. They're not forcing Gateway to use them, and it's not Microsoft's fault that they have a large part of the market share and are a well-known OS. People demand the Windows OS, and people reject it, Gateway and Microsoft can't help that. If Gateway loses customers because they choose to not go with a Microsoft OS or they have to raise prices because Microsoft won't cut them as good of a deal because they aren't using MS exclusively, then tough sh*t. Just because they whine and cry doesn't mean they should get special treatment.
I'm not Pro-MS (although I know it sounds like it) or Anti-MS, but it just seems to me that if you make a good product and people like to use it, that you should be able to market it in any way you see fit to maximize your profits, because that's the point anyway isn't it? Supply and demand, supply and demand.
A slightly less ambition project was submitted by apago
s/ambition/ambitious
Maybe someone should get CoyboyNeal a grammar checker for christmas.
On a note related to the article: Got these cool lights at Target for like $5, have 8 different modes and it's a huge strand of them. Check them out for cool lights.
But why doesn't the RIAA just release everything online and start being the largest producer of blank recordable cd's. They could start with prices low to push out all competition, then raise them and make the profits back.
Then again, I'm a CS major, not a business major. What do I know, right?
What is different between a CD-ROM and a CD Audio player that makes one able to read the CD and one not?
How hard would it be, or better yet, how long will it be before someone comes up with a way to modify current CD-ROM's (or starts producing new CD-ROM's that can read this format all together?)
Maybe we can get the RIAA to give us all a refund on our current CD-ROM's so we can go buy new ones.
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Now all of them will have a platform to start building their companionship from.
--CS Graduate
Does no one at Google remember the NetZero days? Browsing with a sliver of window cluttered by advertisements?
Maybe they were all too rich to need free internet...???
has a much smaller market share...
If you have a problem with what I post then filter out my comments. I didn't ask to be moderated up and I think I had a legitimate question or I wouldn't have posted it.
But what are you trying to secure on an Xbox really? Your saved games? I know some people are trying to port operating systems to it but if that's the case I would thing the current OS wouldn't much cause of concern.
I feel everyone should play the game just like the next guy, but if someone wants to get into my Xbox just so they can get to the boss without having to work for it I'm not really complaining.
I wasn't aware security was a big issue in gaming consoles. Is this just related to hacking into the hardware and getting the OS off of it or what? (I can't get to the PDF because of the /. effect I think)
"I liked both of thesem movies..."
Jar Jar? Jar Jar is that you?
No one grabbed people's wallet's when Windows first appeared and forced them to buy it.
Spouting off opnion is great, but 'when was it ever a good product' doesn't really make me change my mind.
If I make a piece of software, and you make a piece of software, why should I lower the price of my software to make it easier for you to come in and sell your software? I get hit two fold: 1) I make less money on every piece of software I sell and 2) You sell more software and I sell less.
Business isn't about being nice.
Why should Microsoft be forced to lose money and/or bend its business practices because someone wants to use another product than theirs. Is it illegal to say "If you dont use my product exclusively I will not give you as much of a price cut/media props/other benefit."
If Microsoft wants OEM's to use its products exclusively, more power to them. They're not forcing Gateway to use them, and it's not Microsoft's fault that they have a large part of the market share and are a well-known OS. People demand the Windows OS, and people reject it, Gateway and Microsoft can't help that. If Gateway loses customers because they choose to not go with a Microsoft OS or they have to raise prices because Microsoft won't cut them as good of a deal because they aren't using MS exclusively, then tough sh*t. Just because they whine and cry doesn't mean they should get special treatment.
I'm not Pro-MS (although I know it sounds like it) or Anti-MS, but it just seems to me that if you make a good product and people like to use it, that you should be able to market it in any way you see fit to maximize your profits, because that's the point anyway isn't it? Supply and demand, supply and demand.
Modify the CueCat as a retinal scanner for this cat door.
Hey it could happen.
Especially:
Computers will write most of their own software
Now I'm no expert, but doesn't the halting problem that Turing worked on prevent this?
"We will call it the Alan Parsons Project!"
All I see is blue screen, stop error, page fault..
--Yahiko
Ultimately, exoskeletons could transform society
Speaking of Segway, havent we heard this before? Call me when we have suits like the ones the space marines in StarCraft had.
--Yahiko
Or maybe I should not be a dumbass and notice that CmdrTaco posted the article, not CowboyNeal. I dunno wtf I was thinking.
I should stop reading the polls, warping my mind.
--Yahiko
A slightly less ambition project was submitted by apago
s/ambition/ambitious
Maybe someone should get CoyboyNeal a grammar checker for christmas.
On a note related to the article: Got these cool lights at Target for like $5, have 8 different modes and it's a huge strand of them. Check them out for cool lights.
--Yahiko
But why doesn't the RIAA just release everything online and start being the largest producer of blank recordable cd's. They could start with prices low to push out all competition, then raise them and make the profits back.
Then again, I'm a CS major, not a business major. What do I know, right?
--Yahiko
Star wars was just a coverup for an intergalactic garbage disposal unit!
Yahiko
..In the war room at the white house...
"George, stop humping the laser. Why don't you and the laser get a frickin' room?"
--Yahiko
What is different between a CD-ROM and a CD Audio player that makes one able to read the CD and one not?
How hard would it be, or better yet, how long will it be before someone comes up with a way to modify current CD-ROM's (or starts producing new CD-ROM's that can read this format all together?)
Maybe we can get the RIAA to give us all a refund on our current CD-ROM's so we can go buy new ones.
Oh well, back to downloading *fires up LimeWire*
--Yahiko
My response would be "yea, sure i'll bring them back."
:)
What're they gonne do? Fire me?
--Yahiko
"It's not as clear why Seanbaby is important, a vital but endangered Web species ..."
One of the vital "I've been slashdotted" species.
--Yahiko
Quake 4: All your bas... Bah not worth the effort. --Yahiko
In this installment, Indiana has a cane and instead of almost losing his hat he almost breaks his hip multiple times.
--Yahiko