Is it just me or does Arnold's acting seemb bad in this trailer? And I don't mean cheesy-Austrian-bad acting I mean BAD !!!!! AS in worse than usual. He sounds like someone trying to "do" Arnold. I don't care how good the movie is if he can't belt out another one of his Oscar caliber performances I just won't see it.....probably.
I'm curious if anyone knows if the FULL range of MAC apps run under MAC on linux. It's great if these apps run native or near native speed on this hard/software combo but I think it would be prudent to wait until the G4 version is available just for the power. Also, is this competitive, price wise, with say, buying an old G3?
I was just wonering if anyone knows for certain how Microsoft is id'ing these boxes. I only ask because it seems to me to be a simple thing for Microsoft to simply use a processor ID. The X-Box uses an Intel pentium chip and I know Intel used to, or still does, put an id number in their chips. Many bioses even allow you to choose if you want to enable the processor ID. It seems that this would be the best way for Microsoft to identify the suspect boxes as if it was software related then eventually Microsoft could assume that a hack would come out that would change the offending boxes ID. It seems to me that these are the only two ways Microsoft could be doing this besides perhaps a unique id in the bios but that would perhaps create production issues and again allow for "easy" reprogramming.
Have you ever read this website? It's the reason you wave a white flag when walking into enemy territory. Why get shot just because someone thinks your on the other team? Moron.
That really is not a fair comparison. X-Box live and live games are (or will be) optimized for online play. Halo multiplayer, since it was assumed you would be directly connected via CAT-5, assumes that you have something like atleast a 10MB/sec connection. The hack that gamespy had that allowed you to play it online noted that the minimum connection requirement, and most likely maximum that most users had, was over 1MB/sec down and 128 Kb/sec up. THe game was not meant to be played that way. Their apples and oranges. I'm not trying to convince you play Live, but it's a horse of an entirely different color, that is, one engineered to do this, rather than some hack to get it to work.
Firstly I bought an X-Box about 3 months ago because my DVD player died. I figured if I was going to spend $150 for a DVD player why not get a console. I chose the X-Box in part because of several reviews I read that said the sound was better on the X-Box for DVD playback and that the video playback was marginally better than PS2. For the record I dual boot Linux and XP. I picked up X-Box Live friday night and it is very cool. Since it's broadband/DSL only I didn't notice any lag what-so-ever playing against 10 other people in MotoGP. Voice chat was very cool, especially considering that I expected to be inundated with a bunch of 15 year olds talking a bunch of smack. Case in point: I went into a turn and wiped out in MotoGP. Just as I get back on my bike soemone comes into the same turn and wipes out right into me, throwing me from my bike. I say "ahhhh crap" loud enough that he hears it and I get a "Sorry Dude!" back. Im sure this will change with time but in the first few days the people seem pretty cool. To everyone that bashes the system. Yes there are not a lot of games out right now, but time will fix that (the demo for Splinter Cell rocked!) Yes you can chat online with a PC using Roger Wilco, for instance, but some of the hype is true for Live in that the sound quality on chat is pretty high. At times it was as clear as a cell phone, other times slightly less so but still WAYYY better than with Roger Wilco. I play a lot of PC games but some games are just more fun on a console like the X-Box. I will never play an RTS on a console and I prefer FPSs on a pc due to the mouse and keyboard, but a game like Halo has a great story. Sports games are better on a console as are racing games. I was spoiled by my Playstation because it made me love force feedback. Jedi Outcast on the PC has support for a force feedback mouse and I happen to have one because it was clearance at CompUSA but as soon as I was done with that game I packed it up and used my regular mouse. I'm not an MS fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but how many MS-haters posting here have said in other posts on this or other websites that Tux Racer rocks? Really. That game is lame. It's a fun diversion but really if it were for sale for $50 no one would ever even see it. My 2 cents anyway.
a Beowulf cluster of Neal Stephensons using power PC 6 processors from IBMac playing chess against those guys who write the Perl Journal......sorry, I thought I had the funny but I guess someone else has it.
-Nasty
I mean seriously what the hell kinda sense does that make? It's like Al got more votes but George won. (-1, Funny)?!!?!!?!!? I think I need to sit down.
Perhaps I should have been more clear, but I needed sleep. Advertising is a lie. Flat out. It's deception, but one of many deceptions that allow us to live as a society with all of us going collectively postal. When I tell someone I'll be with them in a minute, it's a lie, a polite one, but a lie. But they accept it as truth, to my face, even though they know it's a lie. WE walk through are days with a finely crafted willing-suspension-of-disbelief or a cynical acceptance of the way things are but they're what allow us to have a civilization in the first place. Politicians lie, actors lie, slaesman lie and we pay all these people to lie, either explicitly or implicitly. If everyone lies all of the time it seems that at some point it's not really lying anymore. At some point it seems that if lying is necessary for our modern-technocratic-whatever-you-want-to-call-it society to survive then it's not really lying anymore. We used to just call air, "air" it was one of the elements but when we found out about oxygen it wasn't really the same "air" anymore. Lying, from a societal and economic point of view, is oxygen.
Or something like that.
As I write this there are about 538 responses to this post or to the responses to this post. At this point reading them is not feasible but things seem to be breaking down into two areas:
1) The windows vs. OSX/Mac vs. linux arguments that are common curency around here
2) The "Oh my GOD! Microsoft used a model in an add and quoted someone who might not be entirely objective in their opinion!?!?!?"
To those who fall in the first camp I'm glad to see that you are all alive and well and its like a breath of fresh air everytime I see M$, Windoze or Microsuck. It's sort of like when the guy at the office says "Ohhhh BEHAVE!" as if it were still funny.
To those that fall in the second camp I'd like you to sit down for a second.
There is no Santa Claus, your mom may not have loved you best and Wilford Brimley didn't do the goddam oatmeal commercials becuase he loved oatmeal. They paid him. Yup, it's true. The Abe Lincoln you see in the car adds around President's Day? Not the real president. It's not a lie its advertising. I can't believe this is a story to the/. crowd.
-Nasty
This conspiracy stuff is complete nonsense. I don't want to defend Microsoft necessarily and I believe in ownership, but, it is very well documented that Microsoft (and Sony and Nintendo) lose money on their hardware. Software piracy aside MS has the most to lose by allowing or looking the other way on people hacking the X-Box. Their machine is the new kid on the block and if anyone at MS reads this site then it becomes apparent to them that their sales would go through the roof on hardware if it was "open" or easily hackable but their software sales would climb marginally. How many people here would buy one just to put linux on it? Plenty, it seems. I use linux, made the switch 2 months ago and love it. Every time I boot into windows or read more about DRM I get more and more annoyed at MS, however, I can't fault the company for protecting its interests. Fair-use is one thing, but for them to make it easy to install an OS onto the X-Box and avoid buying any of their software is suicide in the market place. For all the people that whine that its a conspiracy or that it isn't easy to hack I don't hear many people come up with an open source solution.
If you want to game and have a pc buy a computer. I'd be very interested in a movment to come up with a gaming OS design for specific hardware that could be purchased off the shelf and completely open. Why doesn't someone come up with that? A standard OS, standard components and completely open source. Perhaps a specific distro heavily modified as an entertainment OS. You go to a site, download an iso, go buy the specific hardware and build your box? It could have every emulator under the sun, support for, say, an all-in-wonder card, and if you have the right hardware the drivers are loaded automatically. This seems like a more reasonable solution than expecting Microsoft to portect your "right" to buy their hardware cheap and not help them to make any money off of it....just my 2 cents.
-Nasty
I just want to say that I know there are going to be stupid, childish, disrespectful comments here and everywhere else any of us decide to look today but I just want to remind every/. reader that it may infuriate, frustrate and maybe even hurt you to see these "Anonymous Coward"'s do this but remember that this is precisely what makes this country great. Better than to be in China where you can be sure that every post has been moderated by your government and that names are being taken down. The freedom to be an idiot and insensitive is just as integral to every other part of our freedoms. Dont' let it get you mad (as it did me at first) just be thankful that we can even have a/. to say all of this at. And corporate or not I appreciate OSDN's gesture today and personally think the coverage in other media is appropriate. WOuld they do this in other countries that aren't as free as ours? I not sure they would.
I know this is completely off topic and a reply to my own reply, but I figure this story is a day old and almost no one will ever read this. This is how desperately pathetic I am. Up until today I had nearly bad karma and an average moderation of 0 or so. When my post got modded to "5, Funny" I walked around the whole damn day with a stupid smile on my face. I'd make a joke to a coworker or my fiance and when they didn't laugh I would indignantly inform them that I am in fact "plus 5, Funny" and therefore, well, funny. It's sad, perhaps, that the best thing to happen to me in the last several days is that a comment I made got "5, Funny). Thank you Slashdot.
I'm sorry, but only a 2 moderation?!?!? I laughed so hard I nearly poo-pooed en mi pantalones. Thank you for this. The "MS is fucked" was my favorite part. Moderate me down to negative infinity.
ummmm..there is no honor among theives. I'm not for a second going to deny that I am a degenerate who has downloaded a warez or two in his day and I am not necessarily proud. Considering that what your'e doing is essentailly stealing it is patently ludicrous to be sickened that someone who was stealing may have filched on a deal. I can't count the number of times I downloaded something only to find out that it was mislabeled for the sole purpose of wasting my time. Maybe I shouldn't have been doing it. I don't think you should be looking for paragons of honesty or be surprised by deception and other shiftlessness among those trading warez.
Word.
I'm too lazy to surf around and find out on my own, but is the current "Amiga" in anyway related to the Amiga computer that I think Commodore (of 64 fame) produced at the end of their lifespan?
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I wish to GOD I had mod points right now...I just about shit myself on that one.
Is it just me or does Arnold's acting seemb bad in this trailer? And I don't mean cheesy-Austrian-bad acting I mean BAD !!!!! AS in worse than usual. He sounds like someone trying to "do" Arnold. I don't care how good the movie is if he can't belt out another one of his Oscar caliber performances I just won't see it.....probably.
will happen first: DSL2 will be rolled out or they'll be able to decide on a freaking nomenclature for it?
I'm curious if anyone knows if the FULL range of MAC apps run under MAC on linux. It's great if these apps run native or near native speed on this hard/software combo but I think it would be prudent to wait until the G4 version is available just for the power. Also, is this competitive, price wise, with say, buying an old G3?
I was just wonering if anyone knows for certain how Microsoft is id'ing these boxes. I only ask because it seems to me to be a simple thing for Microsoft to simply use a processor ID. The X-Box uses an Intel pentium chip and I know Intel used to, or still does, put an id number in their chips. Many bioses even allow you to choose if you want to enable the processor ID. It seems that this would be the best way for Microsoft to identify the suspect boxes as if it was software related then eventually Microsoft could assume that a hack would come out that would change the offending boxes ID. It seems to me that these are the only two ways Microsoft could be doing this besides perhaps a unique id in the bios but that would perhaps create production issues and again allow for "easy" reprogramming.
Have you ever read this website? It's the reason you wave a white flag when walking into enemy territory. Why get shot just because someone thinks your on the other team? Moron.
That really is not a fair comparison. X-Box live and live games are (or will be) optimized for online play. Halo multiplayer, since it was assumed you would be directly connected via CAT-5, assumes that you have something like atleast a 10MB/sec connection. The hack that gamespy had that allowed you to play it online noted that the minimum connection requirement, and most likely maximum that most users had, was over 1MB/sec down and 128 Kb/sec up. THe game was not meant to be played that way. Their apples and oranges. I'm not trying to convince you play Live, but it's a horse of an entirely different color, that is, one engineered to do this, rather than some hack to get it to work.
Firstly I bought an X-Box about 3 months ago because my DVD player died. I figured if I was going to spend $150 for a DVD player why not get a console. I chose the X-Box in part because of several reviews I read that said the sound was better on the X-Box for DVD playback and that the video playback was marginally better than PS2.
For the record I dual boot Linux and XP.
I picked up X-Box Live friday night and it is very cool. Since it's broadband/DSL only I didn't notice any lag what-so-ever playing against 10 other people in MotoGP. Voice chat was very cool, especially considering that I expected to be inundated with a bunch of 15 year olds talking a bunch of smack. Case in point: I went into a turn and wiped out in MotoGP. Just as I get back on my bike soemone comes into the same turn and wipes out right into me, throwing me from my bike. I say "ahhhh crap" loud enough that he hears it and I get a "Sorry Dude!" back. Im sure this will change with time but in the first few days the people seem pretty cool.
To everyone that bashes the system. Yes there are not a lot of games out right now, but time will fix that (the demo for Splinter Cell rocked!) Yes you can chat online with a PC using Roger Wilco, for instance, but some of the hype is true for Live in that the sound quality on chat is pretty high. At times it was as clear as a cell phone, other times slightly less so but still WAYYY better than with Roger Wilco. I play a lot of PC games but some games are just more fun on a console like the X-Box. I will never play an RTS on a console and I prefer FPSs on a pc due to the mouse and keyboard, but a game like Halo has a great story. Sports games are better on a console as are racing games. I was spoiled by my Playstation because it made me love force feedback. Jedi Outcast on the PC has support for a force feedback mouse and I happen to have one because it was clearance at CompUSA but as soon as I was done with that game I packed it up and used my regular mouse. I'm not an MS fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but how many MS-haters posting here have said in other posts on this or other websites that Tux Racer rocks? Really. That game is lame. It's a fun diversion but really if it were for sale for $50 no one would ever even see it. My 2 cents anyway.
after reading that review man ohhh MAN are my pants tight. -Nasty
a Beowulf cluster of Neal Stephensons using power PC 6 processors from IBMac playing chess against those guys who write the Perl Journal......sorry, I thought I had the funny but I guess someone else has it. -Nasty
I mean seriously what the hell kinda sense does that make? It's like Al got more votes but George won. (-1, Funny)?!!?!!?!!? I think I need to sit down.
Perhaps I should have been more clear, but I needed sleep. Advertising is a lie. Flat out. It's deception, but one of many deceptions that allow us to live as a society with all of us going collectively postal. When I tell someone I'll be with them in a minute, it's a lie, a polite one, but a lie. But they accept it as truth, to my face, even though they know it's a lie. WE walk through are days with a finely crafted willing-suspension-of-disbelief or a cynical acceptance of the way things are but they're what allow us to have a civilization in the first place. Politicians lie, actors lie, slaesman lie and we pay all these people to lie, either explicitly or implicitly. If everyone lies all of the time it seems that at some point it's not really lying anymore. At some point it seems that if lying is necessary for our modern-technocratic-whatever-you-want-to-call-it society to survive then it's not really lying anymore. We used to just call air, "air" it was one of the elements but when we found out about oxygen it wasn't really the same "air" anymore. Lying, from a societal and economic point of view, is oxygen. Or something like that.
Is it a fricking slow news day or what? I'd like to see a follow-up post about blondes having more fun.
As I write this there are about 538 responses to this post or to the responses to this post. At this point reading them is not feasible but things seem to be breaking down into two areas: 1) The windows vs. OSX/Mac vs. linux arguments that are common curency around here 2) The "Oh my GOD! Microsoft used a model in an add and quoted someone who might not be entirely objective in their opinion!?!?!?" To those who fall in the first camp I'm glad to see that you are all alive and well and its like a breath of fresh air everytime I see M$, Windoze or Microsuck. It's sort of like when the guy at the office says "Ohhhh BEHAVE!" as if it were still funny. To those that fall in the second camp I'd like you to sit down for a second. There is no Santa Claus, your mom may not have loved you best and Wilford Brimley didn't do the goddam oatmeal commercials becuase he loved oatmeal. They paid him. Yup, it's true. The Abe Lincoln you see in the car adds around President's Day? Not the real president. It's not a lie its advertising. I can't believe this is a story to the /. crowd.
-Nasty
This conspiracy stuff is complete nonsense. I don't want to defend Microsoft necessarily and I believe in ownership, but, it is very well documented that Microsoft (and Sony and Nintendo) lose money on their hardware. Software piracy aside MS has the most to lose by allowing or looking the other way on people hacking the X-Box. Their machine is the new kid on the block and if anyone at MS reads this site then it becomes apparent to them that their sales would go through the roof on hardware if it was "open" or easily hackable but their software sales would climb marginally. How many people here would buy one just to put linux on it? Plenty, it seems. I use linux, made the switch 2 months ago and love it. Every time I boot into windows or read more about DRM I get more and more annoyed at MS, however, I can't fault the company for protecting its interests. Fair-use is one thing, but for them to make it easy to install an OS onto the X-Box and avoid buying any of their software is suicide in the market place. For all the people that whine that its a conspiracy or that it isn't easy to hack I don't hear many people come up with an open source solution. If you want to game and have a pc buy a computer. I'd be very interested in a movment to come up with a gaming OS design for specific hardware that could be purchased off the shelf and completely open. Why doesn't someone come up with that? A standard OS, standard components and completely open source. Perhaps a specific distro heavily modified as an entertainment OS. You go to a site, download an iso, go buy the specific hardware and build your box? It could have every emulator under the sun, support for, say, an all-in-wonder card, and if you have the right hardware the drivers are loaded automatically. This seems like a more reasonable solution than expecting Microsoft to portect your "right" to buy their hardware cheap and not help them to make any money off of it....just my 2 cents. -Nasty
I just want to say that I know there are going to be stupid, childish, disrespectful comments here and everywhere else any of us decide to look today but I just want to remind every /. reader that it may infuriate, frustrate and maybe even hurt you to see these "Anonymous Coward"'s do this but remember that this is precisely what makes this country great. Better than to be in China where you can be sure that every post has been moderated by your government and that names are being taken down. The freedom to be an idiot and insensitive is just as integral to every other part of our freedoms. Dont' let it get you mad (as it did me at first) just be thankful that we can even have a /. to say all of this at. And corporate or not I appreciate OSDN's gesture today and personally think the coverage in other media is appropriate. WOuld they do this in other countries that aren't as free as ours? I not sure they would.
I know this is completely off topic and a reply to my own reply, but I figure this story is a day old and almost no one will ever read this. This is how desperately pathetic I am. Up until today I had nearly bad karma and an average moderation of 0 or so. When my post got modded to "5, Funny" I walked around the whole damn day with a stupid smile on my face. I'd make a joke to a coworker or my fiance and when they didn't laugh I would indignantly inform them that I am in fact "plus 5, Funny" and therefore, well, funny. It's sad, perhaps, that the best thing to happen to me in the last several days is that a comment I made got "5, Funny). Thank you Slashdot.
I'm sorry, but only a 2 moderation?!?!? I laughed so hard I nearly poo-pooed en mi pantalones. Thank you for this. The "MS is fucked" was my favorite part. Moderate me down to negative infinity.
Actually this was the original scripted ending for the matrix but neo had to keep popping quarters into the phone so they cut it down a bit
This was posted over a week ago. I guess its good that its getting to those who missed it but this seems to be happening a lot lately
ummmm..there is no honor among theives. I'm not for a second going to deny that I am a degenerate who has downloaded a warez or two in his day and I am not necessarily proud. Considering that what your'e doing is essentailly stealing it is patently ludicrous to be sickened that someone who was stealing may have filched on a deal. I can't count the number of times I downloaded something only to find out that it was mislabeled for the sole purpose of wasting my time. Maybe I shouldn't have been doing it. I don't think you should be looking for paragons of honesty or be surprised by deception and other shiftlessness among those trading warez. Word.
I'm too lazy to surf around and find out on my own, but is the current "Amiga" in anyway related to the Amiga computer that I think Commodore (of 64 fame) produced at the end of their lifespan?
Hauppage makes a card with HDTV support. Cost about 300 dollars want to say I saw it at Officemax or Officedepot. Check their site.