According to Capcom the PC follow up to Street Fighter IV,Super Street Fighter IV, was canceled because of lots of piracy. But the sales of SFIV were excellent on the PC. OTOH, there is a vibrant modding community giving away for free costumes and pallet swaps that Capcom charges $1-$3 a pop for...
Geohot doesn't suffer any real financial penalties (I hope) and Sony plugs a leak in a nice way. I'm sure they'll be lots of teeth-gnashing here but overall I think they handled this alright. It reminds me of Bleem. So long as it wasn't a commercial product Sony left the emulators alone. I think people forget the role easy piracy played in killing the Dreamcast. Anyone remember the Famicom Disk System:(.
I haven't read the post, but my understanding is cracks like this are possible because companies cut corners to get their code running on low end embedded devices. As chips get faster they stop cutting those corners and the hacks go away:(
Who's going to pay for it? Every state is cutting funding and increasing class sizes. You don't just learn this stuff on your own, and how the heck is a teacher with 45 students (2 or 3 special needs and a few ESL ones mixed in) going to pull that off?
Of course, if your goal is to give public schools impossible goals so they can fail and be replaced by private schools, this is a great idea. It'll mix well with no child left behind. And the great thing about private schools is they get to expel their problem students, so they're numbers always look great!
The number of people I know who think drugs are legal now because of the medical Marijuana laws. Let me be the first to say though, 9 tons of processed plant matter should not be worth $250 million. Isn't that $14k/lb? Who the heck is snorting it at that price? A sub is a small price to pay for that.
*RANT* it's not suppose to be about the articles, it's about the comments in them. I tired to play along and have fun, but every frickin' discussion is flooded with numb-nuts going on about how they hate April fools. OK ppl, please do this: Reach around and pull the giant stick up your butt out and either play along and try and be funny or GO SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR 1 DAY!. *RANT*
I'm an old codger, and even I've upgraded to the 64-bit version. , and I suspect most people are at least running the 128-bit version, although I've heard it's a downgrade.
Once Einstein figured out the physics the rest was pretty easy. There are stories of 'scientists' pushing Uranium samples together with broomsticks during the development of the bomb...
Then you get a darned Lockheed C-5 if that's what it takes. In a crisis like this you expend any amount of resources necessary to contain it. You just described in your post how it all could have been done. All that was lacking was the will power to spend the money to pay everyone. Christ, if you have to you fly in fuel continuously.
If all else really fails, you call in the US Army. And if you have to you PAY for them when it's all over. It could have been done. It would have been a nightmare of logistics and expense. But it could have been done.
Incredibly expensive? Yes. But at least the children of Fukushima don't spend the next 100 years dying of leukemia.
I hate to be a jerk, but citation? Seriously, I mean that. The stories I've read all say it wasn't a failure of pumps, it was the generators going offline when the water hit them. I don't remember reading anything about the pumps being smashed, but it could have happened. Otherwise, I still see TEPCO sitting on their hands hoping for the best and finding out too late it wasn't going to happen like that.
As for the logistics, well, they're just logistics. And it took days for things to get really, really out of hand. That's why I mean when I say hoping for the best...
Nuclear power is perfectly safe when enough money is invested in it. I'm frightened of it when there isn't enough money backing it up. I still think that's what happened here.
Why wasn't this done sooner? And while I'm asking, how come we didn't fly in power generators to keep the pumps running before things started to melt?
Oh wait, that would cost money, and the people with the money can just move. Didn't Marx write something about that? Oh well, all anybody can remember about him is that some dictator or another used his books for rhetoric + free advertising.
e.g., 'You better give us tax breaks, or we won't give you jobs, hahahahaha'. This is why I'm a socialist in favor of strong central gov'ts. No matter how bad the gov't gets, there's always a tiny, tiny chance they'll turn out OK. Corporations are intrinsically jerks.
Anyone know anywhere else that has similar laws? I'm in Arizona, and I can't imagine we have this sort of thing (mostly weak consumer protection). I know California has pretty strict data breach laws, requiring you notify everyone that could be affected.
work harder, for less. Jesus, when did that become OK? Anyway, no amount of 'unconventional lifestyles' is going to help when I'm 50 and can't get health care (but am required by law to have bogus health 'insurance' with copays higher than I can afford). No amount of stretching is going to get around $5/gallon gas and a transportation system built around $0.89 cent/gallon gas. Food prices are shooting way, way up. We're seeing REAL inflation now. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, and btw, you can't fix modern devices. They're either too complicated or built to fall apart and be replaced.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is, the 1 line comment I posted with implied a lot more screwed up stuff. The world if falling apart around us, you can't just make a few tweaks in your lifestyle and pretend it's A-OK.
Good luck man, since that all that counts these days!
What games do you play? nVidia seems to have better support for less common games. I had trouble with Psyconauts, The Witcher & Dark Crusader of Might and Magic. All B-List stuff (not in quality, but by sales:(, I guess that's why PC gaming is so weak right now ). I really would like to hear back from you if you've got a list of obscure stuff that you played through w/o crashes. But I played a lot of Call of Duty on that 4670 (I know, I typed the wrong # in my post the first time), 12+ hours and no crash, but I could crash Psyconauts and Witcher like clockwork.
OK, to be fair it's been over a year since I ran ATI hardware (a 4650), but I replaced it with nvidia hardware because I couldn't get the darn thing to stop crashing. I miss my ATI hardware. It has nicer image quality and better tv out/in support for my old TV card and games. I ran a 1650 for years, but than again that was just an overclocked 9800, and every bug under the sun was worked out 10 times over on that. Maybe it's my fault for running less popular games, but come 'on. Psychonauts should not crash like clockwork just because the floaty neon things are on screen...
I guess what I'm saying it, AMD, call me when you're drivers can run something other than this years Call of Duty game & WoW
This has been discussed and well documented. Firefox will gobble RAM when it has a chance, but it also does a good job of freeing up that RAM in tight environments. If you've got 4 gigs of RAM free, it's going to use it. Why shouldn't it. I've never understood while people get mad when programs use the RAM they paid for:D.
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According to Capcom the PC follow up to Street Fighter IV ,Super Street Fighter IV, was canceled because of lots of piracy. But the sales of SFIV were excellent on the PC. OTOH, there is a vibrant modding community giving away for free costumes and pallet swaps that Capcom charges $1-$3 a pop for...
Put another way, DRM == Control
Geohot doesn't suffer any real financial penalties (I hope) and Sony plugs a leak in a nice way. I'm sure they'll be lots of teeth-gnashing here but overall I think they handled this alright. It reminds me of Bleem. So long as it wasn't a commercial product Sony left the emulators alone. I think people forget the role easy piracy played in killing the Dreamcast. Anyone remember the Famicom Disk System :(.
I haven't read the post, but my understanding is cracks like this are possible because companies cut corners to get their code running on low end embedded devices. As chips get faster they stop cutting those corners and the hacks go away :(
No, but I've got a hot glue gun and a license to quil...t.
When they pry it from my glitter encrusted hands. Viva la Ponies!
Who's going to pay for it? Every state is cutting funding and increasing class sizes. You don't just learn this stuff on your own, and how the heck is a teacher with 45 students (2 or 3 special needs and a few ESL ones mixed in) going to pull that off?
Of course, if your goal is to give public schools impossible goals so they can fail and be replaced by private schools, this is a great idea. It'll mix well with no child left behind. And the great thing about private schools is they get to expel their problem students, so they're numbers always look great!
The number of people I know who think drugs are legal now because of the medical Marijuana laws. Let me be the first to say though, 9 tons of processed plant matter should not be worth $250 million. Isn't that $14k/lb? Who the heck is snorting it at that price? A sub is a small price to pay for that.
*RANT* it's not suppose to be about the articles, it's about the comments in them. I tired to play along and have fun, but every frickin' discussion is flooded with numb-nuts going on about how they hate April fools. OK ppl, please do this: Reach around and pull the giant stick up your butt out and either play along and try and be funny or GO SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR 1 DAY!. *RANT*
I'm an old codger, and even I've upgraded to the 64-bit version.
, and I suspect most people are at least running the 128-bit version, although I've heard it's a downgrade.
Once Einstein figured out the physics the rest was pretty easy. There are stories of 'scientists' pushing Uranium samples together with broomsticks during the development of the bomb...
Then you get a darned Lockheed C-5 if that's what it takes. In a crisis like this you expend any amount of resources necessary to contain it. You just described in your post how it all could have been done. All that was lacking was the will power to spend the money to pay everyone. Christ, if you have to you fly in fuel continuously.
If all else really fails, you call in the US Army. And if you have to you PAY for them when it's all over. It could have been done. It would have been a nightmare of logistics and expense. But it could have been done.
Incredibly expensive? Yes. But at least the children of Fukushima don't spend the next 100 years dying of leukemia.
I hate to be a jerk, but citation? Seriously, I mean that. The stories I've read all say it wasn't a failure of pumps, it was the generators going offline when the water hit them. I don't remember reading anything about the pumps being smashed, but it could have happened. Otherwise, I still see TEPCO sitting on their hands hoping for the best and finding out too late it wasn't going to happen like that.
As for the logistics, well, they're just logistics. And it took days for things to get really, really out of hand. That's why I mean when I say hoping for the best... Nuclear power is perfectly safe when enough money is invested in it. I'm frightened of it when there isn't enough money backing it up. I still think that's what happened here.
The gov't invented and manages large parts of the Internet.... Please, please tell me this is not just a half jest, but full on irony at work ;)
Why wasn't this done sooner? And while I'm asking, how come we didn't fly in power generators to keep the pumps running before things started to melt?
Oh wait, that would cost money, and the people with the money can just move. Didn't Marx write something about that? Oh well, all anybody can remember about him is that some dictator or another used his books for rhetoric + free advertising.
"I usually believe laws are bad"... unless they directly benefit me. Then they're Grrreat!
:)
Sorry, I'm a bitter socialist
e.g., 'You better give us tax breaks, or we won't give you jobs, hahahahaha'. This is why I'm a socialist in favor of strong central gov'ts. No matter how bad the gov't gets, there's always a tiny, tiny chance they'll turn out OK. Corporations are intrinsically jerks.
Anyone know anywhere else that has similar laws? I'm in Arizona, and I can't imagine we have this sort of thing (mostly weak consumer protection). I know California has pretty strict data breach laws, requiring you notify everyone that could be affected.
work harder, for less. Jesus, when did that become OK? Anyway, no amount of 'unconventional lifestyles' is going to help when I'm 50 and can't get health care (but am required by law to have bogus health 'insurance' with copays higher than I can afford). No amount of stretching is going to get around $5/gallon gas and a transportation system built around $0.89 cent/gallon gas. Food prices are shooting way, way up. We're seeing REAL inflation now. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, and btw, you can't fix modern devices. They're either too complicated or built to fall apart and be replaced.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is, the 1 line comment I posted with implied a lot more screwed up stuff. The world if falling apart around us, you can't just make a few tweaks in your lifestyle and pretend it's A-OK.
Good luck man, since that all that counts these days!
A wage that hasn't been declining since 1970.
What games do you play? nVidia seems to have better support for less common games. I had trouble with Psyconauts, The Witcher & Dark Crusader of Might and Magic. All B-List stuff (not in quality, but by sales :(, I guess that's why PC gaming is so weak right now ). I really would like to hear back from you if you've got a list of obscure stuff that you played through w/o crashes. But I played a lot of Call of Duty on that 4670 (I know, I typed the wrong # in my post the first time), 12+ hours and no crash, but I could crash Psyconauts and Witcher like clockwork.
OK, to be fair it's been over a year since I ran ATI hardware (a 4650), but I replaced it with nvidia hardware because I couldn't get the darn thing to stop crashing. I miss my ATI hardware. It has nicer image quality and better tv out/in support for my old TV card and games. I ran a 1650 for years, but than again that was just an overclocked 9800, and every bug under the sun was worked out 10 times over on that. Maybe it's my fault for running less popular games, but come 'on. Psychonauts should not crash like clockwork just because the floaty neon things are on screen...
I guess what I'm saying it, AMD, call me when you're drivers can run something other than this years Call of Duty game & WoW
I mostly listen to music while biking, so low quality doesn't matter. You can't hear highs and lows over the wind anyway...
I understand it requires one of them new 3D graphic accelerators, like a Rendition Verite or Voodoo Rush.
This has been discussed and well documented. Firefox will gobble RAM when it has a chance, but it also does a good job of freeing up that RAM in tight environments. If you've got 4 gigs of RAM free, it's going to use it. Why shouldn't it. I've never understood while people get mad when programs use the RAM they paid for :D.
Failure is not an option, it comes bundles with your Microsoft product.