If someone made a reasonably priced, Pentium-M desktop using low power and heat components, I would consider buying it. Especially if it had no fan.
The energy savings alone would make it worthwhile.
Who cares about the energy savings? This baby would be *quiet* and you could really leave your machine on, while sleeping in the room.
How long until they start using these people for harvesting email addresses? I mean any human can translate myname.REMOVE@THIS.mydomain.com to a real address.
And how quickly after they did this would spammers use it to trash people's pagerank?
Good point. That is why they must separate the spam from real mail. That is why the spam must go to it's own folder. Look at the picture..
But how about people who don't classify their mail? There must a spam filter there somewhere. Otherwise Google would offer tips like: "Are you sure you don't want to search 'b1gger pen1s' today?"
But, honestly who buys a phone for the CAMERA? Now we're packing in video editing software and whatnot. Is this really necessary? The quality is usually so poor that it's not worth the small size...
It's a "live for the moment" thing.
First, there is a necessity for the camera. When you need to take a picture, you need to take the picture, and you never know when that time comes. You seldom carry your camera with you, but you almost always take your phone with you when you leave home. To those people who take casual shots it is cool. These shots are not for serious photographer, they are just "cool pictures" that you usually show your friends ("this is the girl I met last night") or send via MMS to other people's phones.
Then there is the necessity to evolve, to make better designs, and (mostly) sell you new products. So how can you improve cheap plastic imitation of camera? Simple: just add more pixels and common people reading the camera adds will think new camera is good.
Do they check internationality? Some of the common folks in Europe might be interrested in putting more money on Bush and seeing your country go down the drain with him.
26 episodes stuffed into 90 to 120 minutes (Akira anyone?)
I love Akira! It's a real classic. The music, the actors, the dialogue, the graphics - this is the anime movie. This is probably the first anime to make it to movie theathers outside Japan and resetting the standards to a new level
Besides, your points againts Akira are weak. Akira was directed by original author of the Akira manga. The spirit of all the episodes is there, even though somebody calculated, that it is 3.33 seconds / page. =)
And Akira is not under 120 minutes. It is 124. =).
It doesn't say, that women buy more tech than men. Maybe they just spend more money than average male consumer, but do they really get more for their money?
The gaming industry is more and more starting to feel like just another Hollywood branch. I wonder how long it takes before they'll start redoing old games, like they're doing with all old classic movies now?
They are redoing the old games. Just not the way you think of it (putting in them fancy new graphics and releasing them on same platform).
In gaming industry, they rerelease the games on new platform. Like Sonic Adventure went from DreamCast to every popular console today, with little or no changes. Like Space Invaders was rereleased with the same format. Like those "Classic XYZ collection" which comes packed with the same old games..
And very rarely they release the game with better graphics, but they have been doing that also. Like releasing SMB again on SNES or Bubble Bobble, but as you can see - these releases are old (in computer gaming sense) and nothing new here.
The point is, that is more easy to release classic games ported to new systems, like on joysticks . Why? Because there is a fanatic group of people out there who still thinks these games are cool. And I'm one of them.
Don't just think your ROMs will just disassemble and compile.
Disassembling ROMs
Disassembling ROMs seems straightforward enough - I mean, if the binary code is there, it can be mapped to assembly code, right? Wrong.
In the early 90s, exe-packers and stuff that compressess the run-time code was used. At least in PC. What this means, is that you get perfectly clear assembly routine of decompression algorithm, and rest is garbage. You just have to decompress it yourself. Manually.
And there's is this thing called self-modifying code, which some assembly coders use. Changing the instruction while program is running is something that only emulators can do.
Getting the c-file to compile
Well, what I would like to say here, that you still need to make the macros and routines to emulate the hardware, eg. map the memory area to screen,play the fm sound and stuff - You would still have to create run-time emulation.
You probably have laptop. Or PDA. Use it for "graphic" stuff and buy only a basic calculator.
I study in university, where graphic calculators are not allowed (you can really do *much* more then programs in the memory) and it really learned me to learn the formulas and conversions and all the other stuff you do with your calculator.
What I'm trying to say, is that calculator should help you with your basic stuff (1+2, sin(0.4)) and not do complex functions for you. If you want some real processing power, try OpenOffice, M$ Excel or GNUmeric instead. You are much better of learning to do that yourself.
(Yes, I know, it helps to see figures, but they don't come handy after college degree)
OK. I guess my dreamcast is finally dead.
There are still games being sold for dreamcast and stores still sell upgrades and games, even consoles.
Too bad.
The latest version is Internet Explorer 5 and no news ever about IE 6 or even that it is been ported.
It has been having great stability problems on my machines after installing java-plugin and latest MacOSX patch and I've been looking for patch or something for months now, and nothing. The Mac page is even harder to find these days.
"Burn DVD's direct from VHS tape. I have software that will do this. Expensive and the DVD's won't even hold a VHS tape if it's 2 hours long. Good quality with no degradation."
You are so wrong. Most people tend to think DVD is like 720x480 MPEG-2 with high bit-rate. They are wrong, too.
If you degrade the resolution to 352x480 (as is possible with DVD Standard) and lower the bitrate you can easily get one VHS tape for one DVD disc. Your software and your DVD player should support this, because it is in the standard.
Considering, that your VHS has no more resolution anyway, this is IMHO the optimal situation. I will not go to lifetime of DVD-R discs, etc. because you can easily make identical copies (no D/A or A/D conversion) after you have one copy. Discs will probably be cheaper in the future, too.
Yes. With an infinite number of universes, there are an infinite number of you typing the code. Most of you will get it right and the computer will average the correct answer for you. So there, an infinite number of monkeys CAN write Shakespere, GUIs or anything else they please.
No, no, no. Haven't you heard of the The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
which proves you wrong?
I ordered the CD-ROM version and would like to tell the people what to expect:
a black CD-ROM with no covers and picture of a dopefish printed on it =)
Episodes 1-3 all in a same directory
Some sort of cheat program for episodes 1-3 (never tested)
Episodes 4-5 all in a same directory
Cheat program for these, too
"Goodies" directory, where there are two FAQ text files and 2 pictures of Galactic Alphabet
Windows autorun installer (which takes more space than episodes 1-5 combined)
Four shareware demos of old games (Hocus Pocus, Math Rescue, Word Rescue, Wacky Wheels)
What is missing from the package:
Episode 6: Aliens ate my baby sitter (never published on CD-ROM?)
Keen Dreams (can be found on shareware CD-ROMS)
Keens 1-3 run on PC speaker, but 4-5 require a legacy support for Adlib sound card, which is not available in all the newest sound cards, so feel free to try the VDMSound project - I did.
The package was definately worth buying! Only thing I would like to see is the source code, so that ports would be more successful..
I remember buing the 4 disc original. What most of you probably don't remember was that the firm who was developing SC2 "leaked" pirate copies to the BBS.
At some point of the game (not melee) these copies would constantly crash. Something that I believe was a good hit to the 0-day warez d00dz. However, after seeing the pirated copy briefly by my friend, I had to buy it!
The graphics were awesome and compared to SC1, the game had changed radically! It was now more of an adventure - more races, more battles and extremely cool music! I have tested atleast 3 programs that extracted the music from the game. Found some Finnish artist as well (RikuNuottajärvi).
What this copy is missing is the starmap (original copy protection) where you can find the big suns (cool stuff always near the big suns). And some slashdotter should release the list of rainbow planets, I'm not searching all five I found again!
I remember buing the 4 disc original. What most of you probably don't remember was that the firm who was developing SC2 "leaked" pirate copies to the BBS.
At some point of the game (not melee) these copies would constantly crash. Something that I believe was a good hit to the 0-day warez d00dz. However, after seeing the pirated copy briefly by my friend, I had to buy it!
The graphics were awesome and compared to SC1, the game had changed radically! It was now more of an adventure - more races, more battles and extremely cool music! I have tested atleast 3 programs that extracted the music from the game. Found some Finnish artist as well (Riku Nuottajärvi).
What this copy is missing is the starmap (original copy protection) where you can find the big suns (cool stuff always near the big suns). And some slashdotter should release the list of rainbow planets, I'm not searching all five I found again!
Slashdot Mirror
If someone made a reasonably priced, Pentium-M desktop using low power and heat components, I would consider buying it. Especially if it had no fan. The energy savings alone would make it worthwhile. Who cares about the energy savings? This baby would be *quiet* and you could really leave your machine on, while sleeping in the room.
There is a rumor going on about virtual desktops.
How long until they start using these people for harvesting email addresses? I mean any human can translate myname.REMOVE@THIS.mydomain.com to a real address.
And these addresses would be verified and cheap.
And how quickly after they did this would spammers use it to trash people's pagerank?
Good point. That is why they must separate the spam from real mail. That is why the spam must go to it's own folder. Look at the picture..
But how about people who don't classify their mail? There must a spam filter there somewhere. Otherwise Google would offer tips like: "Are you sure you don't want to search 'b1gger pen1s' today?"
Lex: It's a UNIX system! I know this!
Forget iChat, get Fire.
But, honestly who buys a phone for the CAMERA? Now we're packing in video editing software and whatnot. Is this really necessary? The quality is usually so poor that it's not worth the small size...
It's a "live for the moment" thing.
First, there is a necessity for the camera. When you need to take a picture, you need to take the picture, and you never know when that time comes. You seldom carry your camera with you, but you almost always take your phone with you when you leave home. To those people who take casual shots it is cool. These shots are not for serious photographer, they are just "cool pictures" that you usually show your friends ("this is the girl I met last night") or send via MMS to other people's phones.
Then there is the necessity to evolve, to make better designs, and (mostly) sell you new products. So how can you improve cheap plastic imitation of camera? Simple: just add more pixels and common people reading the camera adds will think new camera is good.
Now that you mention it, http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stable/announce-1.2. 0.html
is out.
It's the PC Emulator for x86 based Linux.
Hey!
Do they check internationality? Some of the common folks in Europe might be interrested in putting more money on Bush and seeing your country go down the drain with him.
26 episodes stuffed into 90 to 120 minutes (Akira anyone?)
I love Akira! It's a real classic. The music, the actors, the dialogue, the graphics - this is the anime movie. This is probably the first anime to make it to movie theathers outside Japan and resetting the standards to a new level
Besides, your points againts Akira are weak. Akira was directed by original author of the Akira manga. The spirit of all the episodes is there, even though somebody calculated, that it is 3.33 seconds / page. =)
And Akira is not under 120 minutes. It is 124. =).
It doesn't say, that women buy more tech than men. Maybe they just spend more money than average male consumer, but do they really get more for their money?
You forgot Braindead.
A hostage has been rescued.
Counter-Terrorists win!
The gaming industry is more and more starting to feel like just another Hollywood branch. I wonder how long it takes before they'll start redoing old games, like they're doing with all old classic movies now?
They are redoing the old games. Just not the way you think of it (putting in them fancy new graphics and releasing them on same platform).
In gaming industry, they rerelease the games on new platform. Like Sonic Adventure went from DreamCast to every popular console today, with little or no changes. Like Space Invaders was rereleased with the same format. Like those "Classic XYZ collection" which comes packed with the same old games..
And very rarely they release the game with better graphics, but they have been doing that also. Like releasing SMB again on SNES or Bubble Bobble, but as you can see - these releases are old (in computer gaming sense) and nothing new here.
The point is, that is more easy to release classic games ported to new systems, like on joysticks . Why? Because there is a fanatic group of people out there who still thinks these games are cool. And I'm one of them.
Look at the name of the analyst - Laura Didio.
Maybe you remember her from her SCO kernel source code news?
Don't just think your ROMs will just disassemble and compile.
Disassembling ROMs
Disassembling ROMs seems straightforward enough - I mean, if the binary code is there, it can be mapped to assembly code, right? Wrong.
In the early 90s, exe-packers and stuff that compressess the run-time code was used. At least in PC. What this means, is that you get perfectly clear assembly routine of decompression algorithm, and rest is garbage. You just have to decompress it yourself. Manually.
And there's is this thing called self-modifying code, which some assembly coders use. Changing the instruction while program is running is something that only emulators can do.
Getting the c-file to compile
Well, what I would like to say here, that you still need to make the macros and routines to emulate the hardware, eg. map the memory area to screen,play the fm sound and stuff - You would still have to create run-time emulation.
You probably have laptop. Or PDA. Use it for "graphic" stuff and buy only a basic calculator.
I study in university, where graphic calculators are not allowed (you can really do *much* more then programs in the memory) and it really learned me to learn the formulas and conversions and all the other stuff you do with your calculator.
What I'm trying to say, is that calculator should help you with your basic stuff (1+2, sin(0.4)) and not do complex functions for you. If you want some real processing power, try OpenOffice, M$ Excel or GNUmeric instead. You are much better of learning to do that yourself.
(Yes, I know, it helps to see figures, but they don't come handy after college degree)
OK. I guess my dreamcast is finally dead. There are still games being sold for dreamcast and stores still sell upgrades and games, even consoles. Too bad.
.. I wouldn't like my name to be published, because my grades would drop significantly.
By releasing these exploits, I am merely getting rid of any competition - people get suspicious, when many students get very good grades.
Best parts I will still be keeping to myself, excluding the backdoor I've written in the proof-of-concept code.
As a Mac user, I've been seen it coming.
The latest version is Internet Explorer 5 and no news ever about IE 6 or even that it is been ported.
It has been having great stability problems on my machines after installing java-plugin and latest MacOSX patch and I've been looking for patch or something for months now, and nothing. The Mac page is even harder to find these days.
"Burn DVD's direct from VHS tape. I have software that will do this. Expensive and the DVD's won't even hold a VHS tape if it's 2 hours long. Good quality with no degradation."
You are so wrong. Most people tend to think DVD is like 720x480 MPEG-2 with high bit-rate. They are wrong, too.
If you degrade the resolution to 352x480 (as is possible with DVD Standard) and lower the bitrate you can easily get one VHS tape for one DVD disc. Your software and your DVD player should support this, because it is in the standard.
Considering, that your VHS has no more resolution anyway, this is IMHO the optimal situation. I will not go to lifetime of DVD-R discs, etc. because you can easily make identical copies (no D/A or A/D conversion) after you have one copy. Discs will probably be cheaper in the future, too.
Yes. With an infinite number of universes, there are an infinite number of you typing the code. Most of you will get it right and the computer will average the correct answer for you. So there, an infinite number of monkeys CAN write Shakespere, GUIs or anything else they please. No, no, no. Haven't you heard of the The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) which proves you wrong?
I ordered the CD-ROM version and would like to tell the people what to expect:
What is missing from the package:
Keens 1-3 run on PC speaker, but 4-5 require a legacy support for Adlib sound card, which is not available in all the newest sound cards, so feel free to try the VDMSound project - I did.
The package was definately worth buying! Only thing I would like to see is the source code, so that ports would be more successful..
Happy gaming! Don't forget to play today!
I remember buing the 4 disc original. What most of you probably don't remember was that the firm who was developing SC2 "leaked" pirate copies to the BBS.
At some point of the game (not melee) these copies would constantly crash. Something that I believe was a good hit to the 0-day warez d00dz. However, after seeing the pirated copy briefly by my friend, I had to buy it!
The graphics were awesome and compared to SC1, the game had changed radically! It was now more of an adventure - more races, more battles and extremely cool music! I have tested atleast 3 programs that extracted the music from the game. Found some Finnish artist as well (RikuNuottajärvi).
What this copy is missing is the starmap (original copy protection) where you can find the big suns (cool stuff always near the big suns). And some slashdotter should release the list of rainbow planets, I'm not searching all five I found again!
Oh! Sorry, Google knows everything!
Rainbow planets.
996.0 . 904.0 Groombridge
039.5 . 745.8 Beta Pegasi
766.6 . 866.6 Beta Leporis
468.1 . 091.6 Zeta Sextantis
602.0 . 297.9 Gamma Kepler
283.6 . 785.7 Epsilon Draconis
862.5 . 700.0 Alpha Andromedae
853.4 . 879.7 Gamma Aquarii
714.6 . 508.3 Gamma Reticuli
543.7 . 827.0 Epsilon Lipi
Hope nobody is going to Canada this time!
I go test if I can sell landers in this version, too..
--HarriI remember buing the 4 disc original. What most of you probably don't remember was that the firm who was developing SC2 "leaked" pirate copies to the BBS.
At some point of the game (not melee) these copies would constantly crash. Something that I believe was a good hit to the 0-day warez d00dz. However, after seeing the pirated copy briefly by my friend, I had to buy it!
The graphics were awesome and compared to SC1, the game had changed radically! It was now more of an adventure - more races, more battles and extremely cool music! I have tested atleast 3 programs that extracted the music from the game. Found some Finnish artist as well (Riku Nuottajärvi).
What this copy is missing is the starmap (original copy protection) where you can find the big suns (cool stuff always near the big suns). And some slashdotter should release the list of rainbow planets, I'm not searching all five I found again!
Oh! Sorry, Google knows everything!
Rainbow planets. 996.0 . 904.0 Groombridge 039.5 . 745.8 Beta Pegasi 766.6 . 866.6 Beta Leporis 468.1 . 091.6 Zeta Sextantis 602.0 . 297.9 Gamma Kepler 283.6 . 785.7 Epsilon Draconis 862.5 . 700.0 Alpha Andromedae 853.4 . 879.7 Gamma Aquarii 714.6 . 508.3 Gamma Reticuli 543.7 . 827.0 Epsilon Lipi Quasi space portals. Quasi Normal 530 . 528 775.2 . 890.6 502 . 460 318.3 . 490.6 476 . 496 409.0 . 774.8 488 . 538 973.5 . 315.3 516 . 466 567.3 . 120.7 448 . 504 565.7 . 971.2 468 . 464 921.0 . 610.4 520 . 514 011.1 . 940.4 492 . 492 005.0 . 164.7 476 . 496 611.1 . 414.3 520 . 540 584.4 . 621.3 544 . 532 036.8 . 633.2 506 . 474 190.9 . 092.6 Alien homeworld locations. 197.8 . 596.8 #1 Umgah 400.0 . 543.7 #1 ZoqFot 056.2 . 800.0 #7 WarpPod 052.2 . 052.5 Pkunk 277.6 . 867.3 Aqua Helix 253.5 . 835.8 Thraddash 074.5 . 835.8 Chenjesu 241.6 . 308.7 Spathi 290.8 . 026.9 Shofixti 422.1 . 198.6 Vux 412.5 . 377.0 Syreen 946.9 . 280.6 Druuge 650.0 . 937.2 Utwig Bomb 856.0 . 086.8 Utwig 571.5 . 253.7 Orz 372.1 . 261.9 Object 570.4 . 979.5 Vux Beast 022.9 . 366.6 Ilwrath 600.8 . 263.1 Deep Children 629.1 . 220.8 Juffo-Wup Beta Brahe Special PodHope nobody is going to Canada this time!
I go test if I can sell landers in this version, too..
--Harri