the magazines i read regulary in austria (schwarzenegger) are c't, iX and the online-mag telepolis. on telepolis there're english articles too and an interessting column named WTC Conspiracy, with the first article about 9/11 posted on 9/13!
other good literature is: linux magazine, freeX and of course SPIEGEL. on the web good places are golem, ORF, n-tv.
unfortunately are the english magazines quite expensive (wired or hustler, both over EUR 10|-!).
grtngs
you can already run different linux distributions on a xbox (debian, mandrake, redhat, suse,...) with a few kernel hacks, _but_ why does nobody make an own linu-X-box?
it should be based on debian . just add a few features from knoppix or XLLPS. make some individual skins for mozilla, gnome or kde (or even an special window maker), gaim, etc. that are optimized for TV-resolution & gamepad as input device, multimedia (divX, mp3, vcr features), emulators (gba, mame, snes, ps, n64,... + VMware _g_) & if you have an easy disto (just put the cd in), that windows user can use without probs then a new hype is started.
what do you think of that idea or is there already an _independend_ X distro?
sure it will. just set the write enable pin of the xbox-flash, run the savegame & flash the bios the way you like it. there is already a new savegame exploit for the M$-game MechAussault, that also updates the xbox-live runtime. perhaps the dashboard is exploitable too & linux gets _independent_ from a modchip or hardware modifications.
yeah that's true! they spend millions on series and movies for actors, sfx, the sets and even the script. i've heard that the etat of one episode of star trek or babylon 5 is about 3 million bucks! so, why are there always some good, a few perfect and a lot of boring episodes? they price of another, good script (for tv series) is marginal & the production costs of a bad episode is the same. i always hated TNG episodes with diana's mother...
why are there always bad n' boring ones (star trek, x-files, macgyver,...), mostly episodes with some social-story and few action?
on/. there was already a whole topic explaining this prob >>> Impossible Movie Stunts?. there is even a worse scene in "James Bond - Goldeneye": right in the beginning 007 escapes climbing in a chesna, that's falling down the mountain, and pulls it up again!
yep and (according to tom clancy) snipers use short impulses of laser to measure the distance to the target and can adjust their equipment exactly. for a good placed shot over a large distance they also measure the wind speed and air pressure and must be careful, that no vein is under their rifle arm. perhaps some soldier or weapon freak can help solving this problem...
the most unbelievable scene i've seen is in my favourite movie "Terminator 2 - Judgment Day". it's in the scene, where the t-1000 is chasing john on the motorbike. the t-800 (arnie) saves john and the big truck smashes in a concrete wall. to explain the explosion of the truck you see the tank leaking and a sparkle from the battery lead ignites it. BUT this truck is surely diesel powered and diesel does not ignite that way!
by the way: i'm from austria and think arnie is the one & only _good_ american!
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sound in space -> this seems to be greatest problem with space movies at all. but i believe there are gadgets (THX certified of course) on the ships or in the ears, that scan the surrounding and give an audio-feedback, so that humans could behave in outer-space--traffic like on earth.
but what really makes me thinking is why nobody complains about all the conversations with aliens in english! okay, on star trek there's a 'universal translator' and in another movie you've to swallow a pill with nanobots, which will do the translation. but why do they use the same frequencies and human-language for conversation? but why bother about the right sound? i'm sure they've all a sony space amplifier, 'cause sound is so essential for flying a spaceship and in battles!
and can anybody explain to me, why all the spaceships (at least in star trek) just use 2 dimensions for flying around? when ships meet, they're always on the same level with the same orientation. and the energy waves (i.e. when a planet explodes) are more like a wave on a lake and no sphere. so the ship always tries to fly away and never uses the z-axis!
perhaps i'm wrong, but i think it could work. the boots just have _enough_ force to keep (or suck, when reactivated during the 'free flight') on the surface of the 1701-e. for walking around you just keep one foot on the surface and lift the boot with your leg > the magnetic force could behave like gravity in this case (when you lift the foot not too hard).
but i'm quite sure that there is a clever circiut in this 23rd century nikes, which controlls the different forces optimal and makes picard & co. feeling no difference to walking around on earth, the ship or some strange, unknown, class M planet.
by the way: it seems to me, that all the scenes _could_ be filmed on earth and the alians seems so humanish...
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the magazines i read regulary in austria (schwarzenegger) are c't, iX and the online-mag telepolis. on telepolis there're english articles too and an interessting column named WTC Conspiracy, with the first article about 9/11 posted on 9/13! other good literature is: linux magazine, freeX and of course SPIEGEL. on the web good places are golem, ORF, n-tv. unfortunately are the english magazines quite expensive (wired or hustler, both over EUR 10|-!). grtngs
it was posted @ xbox-hacker.net find the docu @ http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
you can already run different linux distributions on a xbox (debian, mandrake, redhat, suse, ...) with a few kernel hacks, _but_ why does nobody make an own linu-X-box?
it should be based on debian . just add a few features from knoppix or XLLPS. make some individual skins for mozilla, gnome or kde (or even an special window maker), gaim, etc. that are optimized for TV-resolution & gamepad as input device, multimedia (divX, mp3, vcr features), emulators (gba, mame, snes, ps, n64, ... + VMware _g_) & if you have an easy disto (just put the cd in), that windows user can use without probs then a new hype is started.
what do you think of that idea or is there already an _independend_ X distro?
sure it will. just set the write enable pin of the xbox-flash, run the savegame & flash the bios the way you like it.
there is already a new savegame exploit for the M$-game MechAussault, that also updates the xbox-live runtime. perhaps the dashboard is exploitable too & linux gets _independent_ from a modchip or hardware modifications.
yeah that's true! they spend millions on series and movies for actors, sfx, the sets and even the script. i've heard that the etat of one episode of star trek or babylon 5 is about 3 million bucks! so, why are there always some good, a few perfect and a lot of boring episodes? they price of another, good script (for tv series) is marginal & the production costs of a bad episode is the same. i always hated TNG episodes with diana's mother...
...), mostly episodes with some social-story and few action?
/. nobody knows, that you're a god!
why are there always bad n' boring ones (star trek, x-files, macgyver,
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on /. there was already a whole topic explaining this prob >>> Impossible Movie Stunts?.
/. nobody knows, that you're a god!
there is even a worse scene in "James Bond - Goldeneye": right in the beginning 007 escapes climbing in a chesna, that's falling down the mountain, and pulls it up again!
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yep and (according to tom clancy) snipers use short impulses of laser to measure the distance to the target and can adjust their equipment exactly. for a good placed shot over a large distance they also measure the wind speed and air pressure and must be careful, that no vein is under their rifle arm.
/. nobody knows, that you're a god.
perhaps some soldier or weapon freak can help solving this problem...
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the most unbelievable scene i've seen is in my favourite movie "Terminator 2 - Judgment Day". it's in the scene, where the t-1000 is chasing john on the motorbike. the t-800 (arnie) saves john and the big truck smashes in a concrete wall. to explain the explosion of the truck you see the tank leaking and a sparkle from the battery lead ignites it. BUT this truck is surely diesel powered and diesel does not ignite that way!
/. last month: Comic Book Physics (11-05-01)
and Impossible Movie Stunts? (07-05-01). another interesting link is Movie Mistakes.
/. nobody knows, that you're a god!
by the way: i'm from austria and think arnie is the one & only _good_ american!
there were already quite the same threads on
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sound in space -> this seems to be greatest problem with space movies at all. but i believe there are gadgets (THX certified of course) on the ships or in the ears, that scan the surrounding and give an audio-feedback, so that humans could behave in outer-space--traffic like on earth.
/. nobody knows, that you're a god!
but what really makes me thinking is why nobody complains about all the conversations with aliens in english! okay, on star trek there's a 'universal translator' and in another movie you've to swallow a pill with nanobots, which will do the translation. but why do they use the same frequencies and human-language for conversation?
but why bother about the right sound? i'm sure they've all a sony space amplifier, 'cause sound is so essential for flying a spaceship and in battles!
and can anybody explain to me, why all the spaceships (at least in star trek) just use 2 dimensions for flying around? when ships meet, they're always on the same level with the same orientation. and the energy waves (i.e. when a planet explodes) are more like a wave on a lake and no sphere. so the ship always tries to fly away and never uses the z-axis!
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perhaps i'm wrong, but i think it could work. the boots just have _enough_ force to keep (or suck, when reactivated during the 'free flight') on the surface of the 1701-e. for walking around you just keep one foot on the surface and lift the boot with your leg > the magnetic force could behave like gravity in this case (when you lift the foot not too hard).
/. nobody knows, that you're a god!
but i'm quite sure that there is a clever circiut in this 23rd century nikes, which controlls the different forces optimal and makes picard & co. feeling no difference to walking around on earth, the ship or some strange, unknown, class M planet.
by the way: it seems to me, that all the scenes _could_ be filmed on earth and the alians seems so humanish...
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