Fark off - USB devices didn't exist on Windows 95 and had a major revision between Windows 98 and Windows 98SE.
This is particularly annoying as the driver installer only checks for Windows 98 and then doesn't check for which edition it is - so you can completely trash the Windows cache of drivers and be unable to uninstall the incorrect version.
There is some evidence of a small increase in risk - but it is small and so hard to prove either way.
http://www.google.com/search?q=power+line+increa se d+cancer&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf- 8
But if you had a choice between living under a powerline, and living half a kilometer away would it influence your decision ? Even without definite proof - why take the risk.
But itgets around the fact that am trying to point out that Ms did not PAY $50 for each harddrive.
If by 'gets around' you mean directly refutes with a reasoned argument then yes, I did 'get round' the fact that Microsoft pay approx $50 per hard drive.
And I think you can guarantee a supply for much less if you guarantee a large purchase.
Yes and as I said, the cheapest hard drives you see being sold are being sold at below cost to get rid of them. You certainly do get some discount for purchasing large numbers - but the manufacturers aren't going to sell anyone a couple of milion hard drives at below cost price.
Every component of the Xbox was supplied with some kind of pre-determined volume and cost structure. They squeezed NV so badly NV wanted to get out of it. NV wouldn't have complained if they were making phat loots off of MS.
Cost structure yes, pre-determined volume no. Nvidia assumed that many more Xboxs would be sold than actually were - and so didn't recoup as their R+D costs as quickly as they thought they would.
The real reason why they want nothing to do with Xbox 2 is because Microsoft tried to fuck them in the ass. When Microsoft finally did the sums and found how much money they were losing per Xbox, they asked Nvidia to change the contract so they'd pay them less per chipset. Nvidia said no. Microsoft said do it or we'll shut you out of the DirectX development. Which is why the last version of DirectX was designed explicitly to take advantage of Atis latest card but not nVidias.
Amusing - you've made the same mistake Microsoft made when speccing out the price of components for the Xbox - searching online for the cheapest hard drives and then saying we can get these things even cheaper.
Ignoring the fact that the second link was to a batch of 2nd hard drives (The other 2% still look & function as if they were brand new BUT have a "Seagate Recertified" sticker on them.) you don't understand how hard drives are priced.
New harddrives come out and are expensive - the harddrive manufacturers make a profit on these. They have production lines setup to make these hard drives. The price for those hard drives drop and the manufacturers make less and less money. When they are no longer making money from selling those hard drives, they stop the production line, and reconfigure it to make a new design of hard drive. This leave a small number (where small = tens of thousands) of the old hard drives in the sales channels. Because these hard drives are the end of a line and because they are limited in number (so no friggin use to pc manufacturers who need a large number of identical drives) they are sold off at what is effectively below cost, to people who only need a couple of hard drives.
So although you can find hard drives at below $50, it's much harder to find a continual guaranteed supply of hard drives below that price.
You have also ignored the fact that a company has to pay more when they want the products to be guaranteed to be delivered on time and to spec - Microsoft can't wait until there's a sale on, they need to know that X amount of hard drives are going to arrive week in week out.
The final thing that adds to the cost of the hard drive is that it adds to the manufacturing costs, including a few more power wires, a beefier power supply, an IDE cable (again you'd probably say 'hey I can get those from my mate for nothing' - Microsoft needs to have a regular supply), the hard drive needs to be formatted and pre-loaded with the Xbox software, they'll be a higher rate of failure amongst Xboxes for the ones that get dropped during transit.
Anyway - the reason that Microsoft are leaving it out is because there is almost rampant piracy on the Xbox. People are renting games, copying them to the hard drive and then taking the game back to Blockbuster. Understandably this has pissed off quite a few publishers, who were making little enough money on the Xbox anyway. Not having a hard drive is one way that Microsoft can convince them that it won't be possible on Xbox 2.
It will be interesting to see how MS spin this - although it shouldn't have done, having the hard drive in the Xbox did reinforce it's aura of 'power', (dude the Xbox is way more powerful than a GameCube, the Xbox has a hard drive). What's the marketing phrase going to be - Xbox 2, now with less stuff !
It was also number 1 in the games charts for quite a while.
I think the difference is from the fact that it was released much earlier in the UK (late autumn?) rather than just before Christmas in the US and so the sales built Joementum*.
In fact both Eye Toy:Play and EyeToy:groove and still in the top ten. http://www.elspa.co.uk/about/charts/charts.a sp?d=2 0040124&chartType=17
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The problem is made even worse by the fact that Acrobat Reader takes two or three minutes just to load.
If you're feeling brave - 1) Go to you acrobat reader directory, something like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader - 2) make a new directory called plug_ins_disabled
3) move everything from plug_ins to plug_ins_disabled apart from EWH32.api, hls.api, weblink.api, wha.api
4) Watch with amazement as Acrobat reader now starts up in 3 seconds.
OR
4) Curse that dimwit on slashdot who broke your computer....
Obviously don't blame me if it breaks anything on your compuiter.
That page misses off some of the financial transactions Microsoft is undertaking. Microsoft is repurchasing it's own stock at a considerable rate - like $5 Billion a year.
Also Microsoft accounts are seriously opaque - although they have started splitting the accounts of the separate units there is still a large amount of money sloshing around the company from one unit to another. For example the Xbox accounts are seriously a load of bollocks....Microsoft claim that they've only lost a small amount of cash on the console, despite losing cash on each box sold, and spending huge amounts on advertising, R+D and running Xbox Live.
But yes even if they stopped receiving any money they could operate for 5-6 years at the current burn rate.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/draft-boards.ht m
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On 23 Sept 2003, the Defense Department Website called "Defend America" posted a notice for people to join local draft boards. "If a military draft becomes necessary," the notice explained, "approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men, who submit a claim, receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on Federal guidelines."
In early November, that notice started to receive media attention, with articles from the Associated Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , the Oregonian, the Toronto Star, the BBC, and London Guardian (unsurprisingly, none of the major papers or networks in the US covered it).
In a familiar turn of events, the notice suddenly disappeared from the Website. (Thanks to LG for pointing this out.) We've mirrored the page and posted the text below.
It's already an annoying problem for the emegency services that phones dial 911 or 999 accidentally and they have to figure out whether its a real emergency and the person is unable to speak or whether the phone is unlocked in someones pocket.
Now there's just a single freaking button to press ? - That may be a problem.
Can someone please remind me why this is not a criminal act of sabotage ?
Paraphrasing via the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33298.html:
"He found that when the disc was first inserted, it auto-installs a device driver that subsequently interferes with attempts to copying the songs on the CD.
'"The driver examines each CD placed in the machine, and when it recognizes the protected title, it actively interferes with read operations on the audio content,'"
From the Computer Misuse Act http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_1990001 8_en_2.htm#mdiv3:
"3.-(1) A person is guilty of an offence if-
(a) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer; and
(b) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the requisite intent is an intent to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing-
(a) to impair the operation of any computer;"
Unauthorised modification - check. Impairs the operation of the computer - check. Requisite intent and knowledge - check.
But it is of course a crime being committed by a large company, so I guess it doesn't really count.....
If anyone can tell me of any CDs that use this technology and are available in the UK, please let me know so that I can report these EvilDoers to the appropriate police department.
One of the surprising thing is how much women like it.
Normally if you stuck a video game on the TV during a party, all the women would find another party to go to.
With the Eye Toy women (well slightly pissed women) actively enjoy playing the games, which just would not happen normally.
I think that it's actually the lack of a physical controller that is the key feature, rather than having yourself appear on the screen (though that does get people interested in the first place).
Of course when the ladies are jiggling around to play these games, all the blokes at the party get to stand appreciating the skills of the female gamers.
Then you need to licence the SDK for an amount Sony will decide. You need approval for your game from Sony in order to buy the development kit - this is to prevent the PS2 market being flooded with crap. Once you have your kit, all the Sony tools are free. (but not as good as the third party tools from Sn Systems.)
Then for each game you need to spend about half a million dollars to get it approved and tested by Sony. They can reject you for any reason and make you pay to have it tested until they are happy. The testing procedure is paid for by the license fees per disk. Again this is a hurdle to prevent crap being released on the market - or would you prefer publishers to be able to publish buggy games in order to hit their deadlines ?
Then do the same with Microsoft and Nintendo. Your first game doesn't have to be released on all three consoles - why not just target one.
The consoles are VERY tightly controlled. Because there are already too many professional games companies making games for the market to support - it is not in anybodies interest in the market for amateurs to flood the market with sub-standard crap.
Wondering whether a link to the actual agreement is available?
Hell no, got told story over beers by a techy person. DirectX is encumbered by all sorts of dumbass patents already - that's one of the reasons why nVidia bought the remains of 3dfx (my favourite is the patent on multi-texturing which is now owned by nVidia).
As I understood it, it was more for Microsoft to be able to use DirectX 9 technology as they see fit ie in a console, without having to pay any license fees.
I imagine NVidia wants/wanted to exercise the same care in the Xbox2 deal, but Microsoft would rather have someone they can walk over. Hence the "troubled partnership."
Too true. Microsoft have been playing hardball with nVidia for quite a while now. Firstly they wanted to renagotiate they terms on which nVidia supplied chips for the Xbox (basically MS realised how much money they were losing per box and wanted nVidia to share some of that loss).
They were also fucking both nVidia and ATI over with respect to the DirectX 9 specification - basically they wanted both companies to hand over their patents for any graphics techniques that would be used in DirectX 9, ATI who were in a bit of a hole at the time (ie before the 9x00 cards came out) agreed, mostly because they were desperate. nVidia told Microsoft to f' off and so Microsoft changed the DirectX 9 specs at a relatively late date, so the cards nVidia was planning to release as the first DirectX 9 cards couldn't be because they didn't have the right pixel shaders.
Anyway whoever does the chip for the Xbox 2 is going to have a massive task on their hands, as it is going to have to be quite different from the chips nVidia and ATI are used to making (because, even now three years after it was released, the PS2 still has a higher fillrate than any PC graphics card)
It seems to me it would be possible to release a proprietary program
which takes a GPL'd source program, patches it and links it with independent binaries to make a new proprietary program
Isn't that called a compiler. I know a friend who has one.
It does not say, as some people think it does, that if you modify the code and copy it, your new work is under the GPL.
If it isn't under the GPL then you have no right to use the code - as it's only by complying with the GPL that you are given the right to use the source code. btw That is why SCO is truly fuxored either they're lying and none of the Linux code is 'owned' by them or if they do 'own' some of the code then they've violated lots of Linux writers code by distributing their own version of Linux that isn't covered by the GPL (as they still claim ownership of their propriatary code.)
Four USB ports. The Xbox controllers are USB devices, just with a different connector. The Xbox-Linux people sell usb-Xbox convertors.
Sure, you get for $300 a full powered server machine...but it has no AGP slot. So much for gaming...
Ex-squeeze me ? It's an nForce motherboard with a builtin GeForce 3 type card (Geforce 3 + a bit extra). So yeah you can't upgrade it to the latest card, but it's more powerful for graphics than 80% of the PCs in use for games today.
Are there updated drivers for the XBox video card available at all?
I believe the standard nVidia linux drivers just work on the XBox.
Yeah it's great not having to check where the frick a function is being defined and not being force to split information about the code between several locations however....
You can write really efficient code with inlined functions in C/C++. This is particularly useful in the games industry where speed of execution is of critical importance.
And yeah, yeah this where people jump on me and say that good Java compilers can make code almost as efficient C/C++, for big functions maybe but not for code constructed out of small functions that would normally get inline super-efficiently.
For y'all that don't know, Seaman was a bizarre virtual creature game for the Sega Dreamcast where you had to talk to a man/fish creature and help him grow up. He'd understand what you said to him and respond intelligently eg:
Seaman: Do you have a job ? You: Yes. Seaman: What do you do ? You: I'm a programmer. Seaman: That sounds like you're quite boring.
I'm still not sure what the 'aim' of the game was.
Yes, soon the needs of the US Entertainment industry will be driving US foreign policy.
As Eisenhower said 'We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge entertainment and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.'
Gun crime isn't much of an issue in the UK anyway. There's a pretty-persistent rumour of a shoot-to-kill policy amongst the armed police. Perhaps that's a contributory factor:-)
It's not so much a shoot-to-kill policy, it's more that they're meant to shoot only when the gunman is posing an immenent threat to someone else (ie pointing the gun at someone, or saying they're about to shoot). When that happens the armed police have to shoot, and to keep shooting until the threat has been removed (ie the gunman has fallen down).
If the gunman keeps standing and holding the gun despite being shot, the armed police will keep shooting them, and yeah five or so bullets in the chest tend to be fatal....
I did Chemistry at university but it's been a while....
Probably before the catalyst element corrodes too much that it needs to be replaced, as it's efficiency drops too much.
(most)Catalysts work by letting chemicals bind to them temporarily, before the chemicals go on to complete their reaction. In this case the biomass breaks into smaller chunks when it bind onto the catalyst and then the chunks are reduced further to produce the Hydrogen.
In a perfect catalyst, the catalyst would remain unchanged after the process. However some of the reaction products could get left on the surface of the catalyst (which physically blocks that bit of the surface ), also the surface could be deformed at a microscopic level (ie the atoms of the catalyst get moved about) which stops the catalyst from working as the chemicals are unable to bind to the surface.
Or it could just be catalyst in the EU hitting the working hour limit....
but how exactly are satellites that improve the accuracy of GPS over Europe useful for spying?
Being able to build recon drones that know where they are. Being able to give special foces soldiers GPS units that tell them accurately where they are.
Also the phrase that was used in the article is 'denying the use of space for intelligence purposes' so it may cover photo-imaging satelites.
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Fark off - USB devices didn't exist on Windows 95 and had a major revision between Windows 98 and Windows 98SE.
This is particularly annoying as the driver installer only checks for Windows 98 and then doesn't check for which edition it is - so you can completely trash the Windows cache of drivers and be unable to uninstall the incorrect version.
There is some evidence of a small increase in risk - but it is small and so hard to prove either way.
a se d+cancer&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf- 8
http://www.google.com/search?q=power+line+incre
But if you had a choice between living under a powerline, and living half a kilometer away would it influence your decision ? Even without definite proof - why take the risk.
If by 'gets around' you mean directly refutes with a reasoned argument then yes, I did 'get round' the fact that Microsoft pay approx $50 per hard drive.
Yes and as I said, the cheapest hard drives you see being sold are being sold at below cost to get rid of them. You certainly do get some discount for purchasing large numbers - but the manufacturers aren't going to sell anyone a couple of milion hard drives at below cost price.
Cost structure yes, pre-determined volume no. Nvidia assumed that many more Xboxs would be sold than actually were - and so didn't recoup as their R+D costs as quickly as they thought they would.
The real reason why they want nothing to do with Xbox 2 is because Microsoft tried to fuck them in the ass. When Microsoft finally did the sums and found how much money they were losing per Xbox, they asked Nvidia to change the contract so they'd pay them less per chipset. Nvidia said no. Microsoft said do it or we'll shut you out of the DirectX development. Which is why the last version of DirectX was designed explicitly to take advantage of Atis latest card but not nVidias.
Amusing - you've made the same mistake Microsoft made when speccing out the price of components for the Xbox - searching online for the cheapest hard drives and then saying we can get these things even cheaper.
Ignoring the fact that the second link was to a batch of 2nd hard drives (The other 2% still look & function as if they were brand new BUT have a "Seagate Recertified" sticker on them.) you don't understand how hard drives are priced.
New harddrives come out and are expensive - the harddrive manufacturers make a profit on these. They have production lines setup to make these hard drives. The price for those hard drives drop and the manufacturers make less and less money. When they are no longer making money from selling those hard drives, they stop the production line, and reconfigure it to make a new design of hard drive.
This leave a small number (where small = tens of thousands) of the old hard drives in the sales channels. Because these hard drives are the end of a line and because they are limited in number (so no friggin use to pc manufacturers who need a large number of identical drives) they are sold off at what is effectively below cost, to people who only need a couple of hard drives.
So although you can find hard drives at below $50, it's much harder to find a continual guaranteed supply of hard drives below that price.
You have also ignored the fact that a company has to pay more when they want the products to be guaranteed to be delivered on time and to spec - Microsoft can't wait until there's a sale on, they need to know that X amount of hard drives are going to arrive week in week out.
The final thing that adds to the cost of the hard drive is that it adds to the manufacturing costs, including a few more power wires, a beefier power supply, an IDE cable (again you'd probably say 'hey I can get those from my mate for nothing' - Microsoft needs to have a regular supply), the hard drive needs to be formatted and pre-loaded with the Xbox software, they'll be a higher rate of failure amongst Xboxes for the ones that get dropped during transit.
Anyway - the reason that Microsoft are leaving it out is because there is almost rampant piracy on the Xbox. People are renting games, copying them to the hard drive and then taking the game back to Blockbuster. Understandably this has pissed off quite a few publishers, who were making little enough money on the Xbox anyway. Not having a hard drive is one way that Microsoft can convince them that it won't be possible on Xbox 2.
It will be interesting to see how MS spin this - although it shouldn't have done, having the hard drive in the Xbox did reinforce it's aura of 'power', (dude the Xbox is way more powerful than a GameCube, the Xbox has a hard drive). What's the marketing phrase going to be - Xbox 2, now with less stuff !
It was also number 1 in the games charts for quite a while.
a sp?d=2 0040124&chartType=17
I think the difference is from the fact that it was released much earlier in the UK (late autumn?) rather than just before Christmas in the US and so the sales built Joementum*.
In fact both Eye Toy:Play and EyeToy:groove and still in the top ten.
http://www.elspa.co.uk/about/charts/charts.
*Your American politicians are funny.
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If you're feeling brave -
1) Go to you acrobat reader directory, something like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader -
2) make a new directory called plug_ins_disabled
3) move everything from plug_ins to plug_ins_disabled apart from EWH32.api, hls.api, weblink.api, wha.api
4) Watch with amazement as Acrobat reader now starts up in 3 seconds.
OR
4) Curse that dimwit on slashdot who broke your computer....
Obviously don't blame me if it breaks anything on your compuiter.
That page misses off some of the financial transactions Microsoft is undertaking. Microsoft is repurchasing it's own stock at a considerable rate - like $5 Billion a year.
Also Microsoft accounts are seriously opaque - although they have started splitting the accounts of the separate units there is still a large amount of money sloshing around the company from one unit to another. For example the Xbox accounts are seriously a load of bollocks....Microsoft claim that they've only lost a small amount of cash on the console, despite losing cash on each box sold, and spending huge amounts on advertising, R+D and running Xbox Live.
But yes even if they stopped receiving any money they could operate for 5-6 years at the current burn rate.
The US government is at it as wel....
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/draft-boards.h
--------
On 23 Sept 2003, the Defense Department Website called "Defend America" posted a notice for people to join local draft boards. "If a military draft becomes necessary," the notice explained, "approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men, who submit a claim, receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on Federal guidelines."
In early November, that notice started to receive media attention, with articles from the Associated Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , the Oregonian, the Toronto Star, the BBC, and London Guardian (unsurprisingly, none of the major papers or networks in the US covered it).
In a familiar turn of events, the notice suddenly disappeared from the Website. (Thanks to LG for pointing this out.) We've mirrored the page and posted the text below.
It's already an annoying problem for the emegency services that phones dial 911 or 999 accidentally and they have to figure out whether its a real emergency and the person is unable to speak or whether the phone is unlocked in someones pocket.
Now there's just a single freaking button to press ? - That may be a problem.
Can someone please remind me why this is not a criminal act of sabotage ?
:
1 8_en_2.htm#mdiv3:
Paraphrasing via the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33298.html
"He found that when the disc was first inserted, it auto-installs a device driver that subsequently interferes with attempts to
copying the songs on the CD.
'"The driver examines each CD placed in the machine, and when it recognizes the protected title, it actively interferes with read
operations on the audio content,'"
From the Computer Misuse Act http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_199000
"3.-(1) A person is guilty of an offence if-
(a) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer; and
(b) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the requisite intent is an intent to cause a modification of the contents of any
computer and by so doing-
(a) to impair the operation of any computer;"
Unauthorised modification - check.
Impairs the operation of the computer - check.
Requisite intent and knowledge - check.
But it is of course a crime being committed by a large company, so I guess it doesn't really count.....
If anyone can tell me of any CDs that use this technology and are available in the UK, please let me know so that I can report these EvilDoers to the appropriate police department.
One of the surprising thing is how much women like it.
Normally if you stuck a video game on the TV during a party, all the women would find another party to go to.
With the Eye Toy women (well slightly pissed women) actively enjoy playing the games, which just would not happen normally.
I think that it's actually the lack of a physical controller that is the key feature, rather than having yourself appear on the screen (though that does get people interested in the first place).
Of course when the ladies are jiggling around to play these games, all the blokes at the party get to stand appreciating the skills of the female gamers.
So I've heard.
-1 Wrong:
Then you need to licence the SDK for an amount Sony will decide.
You need approval for your game from Sony in order to buy the development kit - this is to prevent the PS2 market being flooded with crap. Once you have your kit, all the Sony tools are free. (but not as good as the third party tools from Sn Systems.)
Then for each game you need to spend about half a million dollars to get it approved and tested by Sony. They can reject you for any reason and make you pay to have it tested until they are happy.
The testing procedure is paid for by the license fees per disk. Again this is a hurdle to prevent crap being released on the market - or would you prefer publishers to be able to publish buggy games in order to hit their deadlines ?
Then do the same with Microsoft and Nintendo.
Your first game doesn't have to be released on all three consoles - why not just target one.
The consoles are VERY tightly controlled.
Because there are already too many professional games companies making games for the market to support - it is not in anybodies interest in the market for amateurs to flood the market with sub-standard crap.
Hell no, got told story over beers by a techy person.
DirectX is encumbered by all sorts of dumbass patents already - that's one of the reasons why nVidia bought the remains of 3dfx (my favourite is the patent on multi-texturing which is now owned by nVidia).
As I understood it, it was more for Microsoft to be able to use DirectX 9 technology as they see fit ie in a console, without having to pay any license fees.
Too true. Microsoft have been playing hardball with nVidia for quite a while now. Firstly they wanted to renagotiate they terms on which nVidia supplied chips for the Xbox (basically MS realised how much money they were losing per box and wanted nVidia to share some of that loss).
They were also fucking both nVidia and ATI over with respect to the DirectX 9 specification - basically they wanted both companies to hand over their patents for any graphics techniques that would be used in DirectX 9, ATI who were in a bit of a hole at the time (ie before the 9x00 cards came out) agreed, mostly because they were desperate. nVidia told Microsoft to f' off and so Microsoft changed the DirectX 9 specs at a relatively late date, so the cards nVidia was planning to release as the first DirectX 9 cards couldn't be because they didn't have the right pixel shaders.
Anyway whoever does the chip for the Xbox 2 is going to have a massive task on their hands, as it is going to have to be quite different from the chips nVidia and ATI are used to making (because, even now three years after it was released, the PS2 still has a higher fillrate than any PC graphics card)
If it isn't under the GPL then you have no right to use the code - as it's only by complying with the GPL that you are given the right to use the source code.
btw That is why SCO is truly fuxored either they're lying and none of the Linux code is 'owned' by them or if they do 'own' some of the code then they've violated lots of Linux writers code by distributing their own version of Linux that isn't covered by the GPL (as they still claim ownership of their propriatary code.)
Luckily my Firewall appears to be mostly protecting be.
Unfortunately the worm still manages to knock over Svchost.exe and so my browsing appears to be a lot more difficult than usual.
Also knocking out svchost appears to disable copy+pasting on my machine. What the fark is that about ?
Four USB ports. The Xbox controllers are USB devices, just with a different connector. The Xbox-Linux people sell usb-Xbox convertors.
Ex-squeeze me ? It's an nForce motherboard with a builtin GeForce 3 type card (Geforce 3 + a bit extra). So yeah you can't upgrade it to the latest card, but it's more powerful for graphics than 80% of the PCs in use for games today.
I believe the standard nVidia linux drivers just work on the XBox.
Yeah it's great not having to check where the frick a function is being defined and not being force to split information about the code between several locations however....
You can write really efficient code with inlined functions in C/C++. This is particularly useful in the games industry where speed of execution is of critical importance.
And yeah, yeah this where people jump on me and say that good Java compilers can make code almost as efficient C/C++, for big functions maybe but not for code constructed out of small functions that would normally get inline super-efficiently.
the spoof Seaman website http://www.yoot.com/.
For y'all that don't know, Seaman was a bizarre virtual creature game for the Sega Dreamcast where you had to talk to a man/fish creature and help him grow up. He'd understand what you said to him and respond intelligently eg:
Seaman: Do you have a job ?
You: Yes.
Seaman: What do you do ?
You: I'm a programmer.
Seaman: That sounds like you're quite boring.
I'm still not sure what the 'aim' of the game was.
of the Military-Industrial-Entertainment complex.
Yes, soon the needs of the US Entertainment industry will be driving US foreign policy.
As Eisenhower said 'We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge entertainment and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.'
It's not so much a shoot-to-kill policy, it's more that they're meant to shoot only when the gunman is posing an immenent threat to someone else (ie pointing the gun at someone, or saying they're about to shoot). When that happens the armed police have to shoot, and to keep shooting until the threat has been removed (ie the gunman has fallen down).
If the gunman keeps standing and holding the gun despite being shot, the armed police will keep shooting them, and yeah five or so bullets in the chest tend to be fatal....
I did Chemistry at university but it's been a while....
Probably before the catalyst element corrodes too much that it needs to be replaced, as it's efficiency drops too much.
(most)Catalysts work by letting chemicals bind to them temporarily, before the chemicals go on to complete their reaction. In this case the biomass breaks into smaller chunks when it bind onto the catalyst and then the chunks are reduced further to produce the Hydrogen.
In a perfect catalyst, the catalyst would remain unchanged after the process. However some of the reaction products could get left on the surface of the catalyst (which physically blocks that bit of the surface ), also the surface could be deformed at a microscopic level (ie the atoms of the catalyst get moved about) which stops the catalyst from working as the chemicals are unable to bind to the surface.
Or it could just be catalyst in the EU hitting the working hour limit....
Being able to build recon drones that know where they are.
Being able to give special foces soldiers GPS units that tell them accurately where they are.
Also the phrase that was used in the article is 'denying the use of space for intelligence purposes' so it may cover photo-imaging satelites.
No SHE isn't !
Laugh, it could be funny.