Yes, and SOCOM on PS2 before that. Socom was, I believe, the first game to support such on a console. It was definitely the first to have a high accuracy rate, in any case.
That's my big fear, really, and I expect them to try it.
Nontheless, it's obvious to anyone and everyone who works in this industry-- SCO _should not_ win this. I'd say "can't", but I know the legal system in this country and I know that there's still a chance we could all lose this..
Maybe. It really depends on what chunks of BSD this lawsuit is going to be covering-- the kernel of MacOS X, IIRC, is based on Mach rather than BSD.
However, in any case, they're trying to strike at BOTH of the big free competitors to Unix. If they can somehow succeed, it could put the Big Hurt on free software in general.
I picked up a SF2CE machine for $300. I'm thinking it'd cost me less than $500 to do the rest of the mods I'd mentioned to it, including the cost of obtaining additional boards.
Your point is valid, but it suffers from one thing that every single post of this kind has suffered from-- it completely ignores the aspect that in a Windows box, you only have to connect it to the internet for it to be broken. In many cases, it's less than 30 seconds.
Linux is not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than Windows for security. Anyone who just "assumes" ANY machine will be 100% hack-proof is just asking for trouble.
Don't give up yet. You can get a single game cabinet relatively cheap if you know the price curve. Extremely old and new stuff is expensive, but it dips towards the center; games of about the SF2 vintage should be cheapest right now.
After that, all you need to do is make a few adjustments to the cabinet and wiring harness; there are converters for old machines to JAMMA out there. In any case, any mods you have to make should be relatively cheap-- it's just a matter of getting any game boards you want, adaptors for those boards, and a switching mechanism.
Funny, that's the same thing I've seen myself. I've been curious about the N-Gage in the same way most people are curious about a fatal car/train/plane/etc wreck, but every time I see a demo unit in a store-- and, I might add, I've checked about half to three quarters of the malls in the area of where I live-- the demo unit is DEAD. I have YET to see a functioning demo unit. Even on the launch day, I could not find a single working demo unit.
Doesn't say much about the hardware reliability, does it?
And that's stopped them how? I mean, they could have easily just said "LAN Only" for cooperative and it STILL would have been a hell of a lot better than taking it out entirely.
Well, considering that they bought out USWest, infrastructure and all, they can be considered to be "the RBOC formerly known as USWest". When I was with a certain long distance phone provider a few years ago, it was well known that dealing with Qwest on either long distance OR local was frustrating and oftentimes fruitless, but they were definitely on the RBOC list.
The only company more irritating to deal with was (at the time) Bell Atlantic.
I really really appreciate this link. I, myself, have been looking for something similar and this looks like it'll fit the bill perfectly. If I had mod points, I'd use those rather than reply-- to be cliche, if you read this and you have mod points, please mod the parent up. This is a really useful link.
Thanks for the link.
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There was at least one virus out there that could destroy a CGA card by doing such. There was another that did similar to MFM harddrives.
Really, we're lucky that the modern virus authors aren't focusing on the BIOS and other destroyable aspects as much as one might expect. I'm only aware of one BIOS-trashing virus..
NAT is a quick and dirty hack that has to be updated for newer, complex protocols-- it wasn't until fairly recently that NAT would actually deal decently with FTP, but it requires mangling the packets.
In the end, the only truly STABLE method for addressing is just to have real IP addresses. NATs just add points of failure and complexity in diagnosis.
It doesn't help that Microsoft's own implementation of the system is nearly impossible to configure-- since NAT is useless for servers, you're only going to see it on clients, and there's your #1 most likely NAT solution to see.
The only problem I have with that idea is that I'd get no sleep at night and have continual ulcers.
I keep up on the latest patches, I have a good Linux-based firewall between my system and the internet, and I avoid the obvious software exploits.
However, what about the ones I don't know about? This sort of condition would open me-- and by no means am I a newcomer to technology; I've been in computers for twenty years!-- to liability on exploits and attacks I not only don't know about, but can't patch or protect myself from! The _nature_ of computing has shown a history of virus attacks that are impossible to predict and extremely fast to spread.
Now licensing internet-based computer use and limiting it to those who can demonstrate that they will follow basic safety rules (and thus protecting themselves and everyone else around them) might work. Make the license extremely cheap and add exemptions for library machines so that the extremely low-income don't get left out..
I don't think Square would exactly be thrilled with THAT idea. They'd probably want to *cough* bust a kupo in their collective arses.
Eh, I know it was terrible, I know it's not original, but it had to be said because it's evil. ^^;
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When I took a job at a major telecommunications company in late '99, I didn't find out about the mandatory overtime until I'd actually gotten through training. The "failure to comply means unemployment" attitude was definitely there, as it is pretty much ANYWHERE you have mandatory overtime.
There was a time when you almost couldn't get a job (above the minimum wage fast food level; hell, even retail sales like Walmart had it) without some form of mandatory OT.
I'd say that point #9 breaks down. Here's a more likely one:
9. Management decides the risk is too low compared to the cost to fix it. ("Liability for two deaths stops at $500,000, but it'd cost us a million dollars to fix it. The odds are in our favor as well. Destroy all evidence we ever knew about this problem.")
Surprise, surprise, Sony DOES deny stuff arbitrarily. They've had a rather strict policy of no 2D stuff on PS2 since launch. The policy goes back to PSX days-- Capcom had a LOT of trouble getting some of the Rockman titles okayed for US release and in fact could NOT secure rights for Rockman Complete Works around 1998-1999.
Haven't had any problems with MMBN3, but I've personally seen one on SSF2T-- getting to Akuma hardlocks the game in the US version. Yugioh WWD.. well, didn't see any crash problems in it, but I did notice a REALLY blatant case of cheating or two when I tried it. Absolutely horrible. SPF2T I haven't played enough to say.
Your point, though, is quite valid-- when companies like Konami (Yugioh) and Capcom (SSF2T/SPF2T/MMBN3) can't get these games debugged, something's very wrong. Unfortunately, this is just an attitude coming from the PC world, where the "We'll patch it later" mentality rules. UT2003 drove THAT point home pretty harshly.
In 2001 I picked up a K7T266 Pro, running an Athlon 1.2 on a VIA chipset. My experiences therein and after pretty much taught me a similar story, but I do have to disagree on a few small points.
It's not the AMD cpu, it's the chipset. VIA's chipsets were excrutiatingly bad through the early and mid-Athlon/Athlon XP-era boards, and their drivers only made it worse. There was a notorious 3-way BSOD-on-boot involving XP, VIA chipsets, and Nvidia detonator drivers in the 3x.xx range. In the end, it turns out it was purely between the VIA chipset, the VIA drivers, and the Detonators.
Since then, I haven't had many real crash issues on XP; it's a hell of a lot more stable than 9x ever was for me (and, incidentally, it was very stable before the particular VIA/Nvidia issue started..).
Doesn't mean XP couldn't use a lot of work, though!
is the biggest crock I've seen in quite some time-- well, okay, it's on par with SCO. Are those guys working together or something? This is evil that I'm not certain even Microsoft could compete with.
Wow. Well, he's played his hand now-- but I don't forsee this actually getting him anywhere. ICANN still makes the decisions on this, and with any luck they WON'T wimp out when it comes time to stick their foot down.
Simply amazing, this whole thing-- all the greed, all the idiocy-- and it doesn't look like it's going away any time soon.
Ironic you should say that. I saw one just yesterday. A computer store at the local mall put up a sign announcing that they now have Opterons in stock and are selling them. Of course, they also have the boards for them.
As for the benchmarks, I'd venture to say that you'll get the same performance or nearly so.
For reference, all of the names mentioned for Castlevania 1 (Boris Karloffice, etc) were one-off parodies of famous horror film stars. It looks very deliberate to me because of the precise way each name was changed. They couldn't have used the real names for obvious reasons, but still managed to get across their joke effectively.
Pretty much no warning. Not even rumors until the day it happened.
They started about 10AM, dropping about 15 workers at each meeting and multiple meetings going on simultaneously. This occured at 15 minute intervals for at least the rest of the day-- my group got dumped at 4PM; we hadn't even heard they were laying us all off until they got to us. Of course, they had security "escort" all of us from the building after giving us 10 minutes to pack. All of this was back in late July 2000.
Of course, all the money they saved went to absolutely insane bonuses for the five or so top brass that Christmas. Absolutely amazing they got away with it, considering how precariously balanced the company was at the time, and how much worse things got the next year.
Won't name them, but I'll say it was a major worldwide telecommunications company.
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Yes, and SOCOM on PS2 before that. Socom was, I believe, the first game to support such on a console. It was definitely the first to have a high accuracy rate, in any case.
That's my big fear, really, and I expect them to try it.
Nontheless, it's obvious to anyone and everyone who works in this industry-- SCO _should not_ win this. I'd say "can't", but I know the legal system in this country and I know that there's still a chance we could all lose this..
Maybe. It really depends on what chunks of BSD this lawsuit is going to be covering-- the kernel of MacOS X, IIRC, is based on Mach rather than BSD.
However, in any case, they're trying to strike at BOTH of the big free competitors to Unix. If they can somehow succeed, it could put the Big Hurt on free software in general.
I picked up a SF2CE machine for $300. I'm thinking it'd cost me less than $500 to do the rest of the mods I'd mentioned to it, including the cost of obtaining additional boards.
Your point is valid, but it suffers from one thing that every single post of this kind has suffered from-- it completely ignores the aspect that in a Windows box, you only have to connect it to the internet for it to be broken. In many cases, it's less than 30 seconds.
Linux is not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than Windows for security. Anyone who just "assumes" ANY machine will be 100% hack-proof is just asking for trouble.
Don't give up yet. You can get a single game cabinet relatively cheap if you know the price curve. Extremely old and new stuff is expensive, but it dips towards the center; games of about the SF2 vintage should be cheapest right now.
After that, all you need to do is make a few adjustments to the cabinet and wiring harness; there are converters for old machines to JAMMA out there. In any case, any mods you have to make should be relatively cheap-- it's just a matter of getting any game boards you want, adaptors for those boards, and a switching mechanism.
Funny, that's the same thing I've seen myself. I've been curious about the N-Gage in the same way most people are curious about a fatal car/train/plane/etc wreck, but every time I see a demo unit in a store-- and, I might add, I've checked about half to three quarters of the malls in the area of where I live-- the demo unit is DEAD. I have YET to see a functioning demo unit. Even on the launch day, I could not find a single working demo unit.
Doesn't say much about the hardware reliability, does it?
I'm definitely not impressed.
And that's stopped them how? I mean, they could have easily just said "LAN Only" for cooperative and it STILL would have been a hell of a lot better than taking it out entirely.
Can't say about surf/skateboards, but I know I've seen at least one snowboard one that's like that.
Well, considering that they bought out USWest, infrastructure and all, they can be considered to be "the RBOC formerly known as USWest". When I was with a certain long distance phone provider a few years ago, it was well known that dealing with Qwest on either long distance OR local was frustrating and oftentimes fruitless, but they were definitely on the RBOC list.
The only company more irritating to deal with was (at the time) Bell Atlantic.
I really really appreciate this link. I, myself, have been looking for something similar and this looks like it'll fit the bill perfectly. If I had mod points, I'd use those rather than reply-- to be cliche, if you read this and you have mod points, please mod the parent up. This is a really useful link.
Thanks for the link.
There was at least one virus out there that could destroy a CGA card by doing such. There was another that did similar to MFM harddrives.
Really, we're lucky that the modern virus authors aren't focusing on the BIOS and other destroyable aspects as much as one might expect. I'm only aware of one BIOS-trashing virus..
NAT is a quick and dirty hack that has to be updated for newer, complex protocols-- it wasn't until fairly recently that NAT would actually deal decently with FTP, but it requires mangling the packets.
In the end, the only truly STABLE method for addressing is just to have real IP addresses. NATs just add points of failure and complexity in diagnosis.
It doesn't help that Microsoft's own implementation of the system is nearly impossible to configure-- since NAT is useless for servers, you're only going to see it on clients, and there's your #1 most likely NAT solution to see.
The only problem I have with that idea is that I'd get no sleep at night and have continual ulcers.
I keep up on the latest patches, I have a good Linux-based firewall between my system and the internet, and I avoid the obvious software exploits.
However, what about the ones I don't know about? This sort of condition would open me-- and by no means am I a newcomer to technology; I've been in computers for twenty years!-- to liability on exploits and attacks I not only don't know about, but can't patch or protect myself from! The _nature_ of computing has shown a history of virus attacks that are impossible to predict and extremely fast to spread.
Now licensing internet-based computer use and limiting it to those who can demonstrate that they will follow basic safety rules (and thus protecting themselves and everyone else around them) might work. Make the license extremely cheap and add exemptions for library machines so that the extremely low-income don't get left out..
I don't think Square would exactly be thrilled with THAT idea. They'd probably want to *cough* bust a kupo in their collective arses.
Eh, I know it was terrible, I know it's not original, but it had to be said because it's evil. ^^;
When I took a job at a major telecommunications company in late '99, I didn't find out about the mandatory overtime until I'd actually gotten through training. The "failure to comply means unemployment" attitude was definitely there, as it is pretty much ANYWHERE you have mandatory overtime.
There was a time when you almost couldn't get a job (above the minimum wage fast food level; hell, even retail sales like Walmart had it) without some form of mandatory OT.
I'd say that point #9 breaks down. Here's a more likely one:
9. Management decides the risk is too low compared to the cost to fix it. ("Liability for two deaths stops at $500,000, but it'd cost us a million dollars to fix it. The odds are in our favor as well. Destroy all evidence we ever knew about this problem.")
Surprise, surprise, Sony DOES deny stuff arbitrarily. They've had a rather strict policy of no 2D stuff on PS2 since launch. The policy goes back to PSX days-- Capcom had a LOT of trouble getting some of the Rockman titles okayed for US release and in fact could NOT secure rights for Rockman Complete Works around 1998-1999.
Haven't had any problems with MMBN3, but I've personally seen one on SSF2T-- getting to Akuma hardlocks the game in the US version. Yugioh WWD.. well, didn't see any crash problems in it, but I did notice a REALLY blatant case of cheating or two when I tried it. Absolutely horrible. SPF2T I haven't played enough to say. Your point, though, is quite valid-- when companies like Konami (Yugioh) and Capcom (SSF2T/SPF2T/MMBN3) can't get these games debugged, something's very wrong. Unfortunately, this is just an attitude coming from the PC world, where the "We'll patch it later" mentality rules. UT2003 drove THAT point home pretty harshly.
In 2001 I picked up a K7T266 Pro, running an Athlon 1.2 on a VIA chipset. My experiences therein and after pretty much taught me a similar story, but I do have to disagree on a few small points.
It's not the AMD cpu, it's the chipset. VIA's chipsets were excrutiatingly bad through the early and mid-Athlon/Athlon XP-era boards, and their drivers only made it worse. There was a notorious 3-way BSOD-on-boot involving XP, VIA chipsets, and Nvidia detonator drivers in the 3x.xx range. In the end, it turns out it was purely between the VIA chipset, the VIA drivers, and the Detonators.
Since then, I haven't had many real crash issues on XP; it's a hell of a lot more stable than 9x ever was for me (and, incidentally, it was very stable before the particular VIA/Nvidia issue started..).
Doesn't mean XP couldn't use a lot of work, though!
is the biggest crock I've seen in quite some time-- well, okay, it's on par with SCO. Are those guys working together or something? This is evil that I'm not certain even Microsoft could compete with.
Wow. Well, he's played his hand now-- but I don't forsee this actually getting him anywhere. ICANN still makes the decisions on this, and with any luck they WON'T wimp out when it comes time to stick their foot down.
Simply amazing, this whole thing-- all the greed, all the idiocy-- and it doesn't look like it's going away any time soon.
Ironic you should say that. I saw one just yesterday. A computer store at the local mall put up a sign announcing that they now have Opterons in stock and are selling them. Of course, they also have the boards for them.
As for the benchmarks, I'd venture to say that you'll get the same performance or nearly so.
For reference, all of the names mentioned for Castlevania 1 (Boris Karloffice, etc) were one-off parodies of famous horror film stars. It looks very deliberate to me because of the precise way each name was changed. They couldn't have used the real names for obvious reasons, but still managed to get across their joke effectively.
Well, I don't know about you, but I'd sure feel sheepish...
Pretty much no warning. Not even rumors until the day it happened.
They started about 10AM, dropping about 15 workers at each meeting and multiple meetings going on simultaneously. This occured at 15 minute intervals for at least the rest of the day-- my group got dumped at 4PM; we hadn't even heard they were laying us all off until they got to us. Of course, they had security "escort" all of us from the building after giving us 10 minutes to pack. All of this was back in late July 2000.
Of course, all the money they saved went to absolutely insane bonuses for the five or so top brass that Christmas. Absolutely amazing they got away with it, considering how precariously balanced the company was at the time, and how much worse things got the next year.
Won't name them, but I'll say it was a major worldwide telecommunications company.