Don't generalize. I have a device on my wrist the size of a matchbook that has more computing power than a large room stuffed with 60's-era equipment, and it will run continuously for years without any maintenance beyond keeping it reasonably clean.
The difference is, this one will be *cheaper*. Your car goes about as fast as one made in the 1960s too, but nobody would argue auto technology has stagnated since then.
Another question he didn't answer: If the 360 ever ships with a next-generation DVD player, will it output 1080i over component cables? Or do we all still need to keep waiting for a player that will work with early adopter equipment?
As I understand it, it's not a matter of whether you will be "allowed" or "forbidden" to play a particular game. The 360 will come with an emulator that attempts to run Xbox 1 games. Microsoft will only guarantee (read: put QA resources towards) making it work with certain top-selling games, you're free to try whichever games you want and maybe they'll work if they don't do anything too crazy.
If an adapter can be made for legacy PS* memory cards, an adapter can be made for Xbox 1 memory cards. You'll just need to do the extra step of copying the save from the Xbox HD to the memory card beforehand.
(If it comes as a surprise that the Xbox 1 can use memory cards, that's only because they're a very rare sight because the hard disk is so much better that nobody needs them.)
No, but if Apple demands to know where you got the info, you cannot protect Bob by refusing to rat him out. That's what the Think Secret lawsuit established.
Try the Xbox list. The Chronicles of Riddick game is at #41 (not all-time classic territory, but much better than #183) and rated 89%. And it really was a great game, one of the best games no one played last year.
Also, there was once a licensed game that is still cited frequently as one of the best games ever made (Goldeneye).
Turning off SSID broadcast doesn't make an AP undetectable. It just sets a flag saying "please do not report this AP to the user". It's trivial to find/create a wireless scanner that ignores this flag and reveals hidden networks. And on top of all that an AP can't possibly hide from a directional antenna on the 2.4Ghz band.
The journalist is right- the highest priority for this mission was seeing whether or not anybody died and everything else was secondary to that. That is not healthy; we won't have a real presence in space until it's safe to automatically make the assumption that that won't happen, the way we do with air travel today. If we don't have equipment that can give us that freedom, we won't get anything else done.
Also, everything else about the mission was about keeping the station operational and its crew alive- there wasn't even any real science involved. Again, we have to establish a strong enough base of equipment and techniques that that sort of thing is routine and not worth paying special attention to, or we aren't really accomplishing anything with our space activities.
There are actually five endings to Metroid- the "normal" ending, special endings for coming in under 5 hours, 3 hours, and 1 hour, and one special ending for failing to clear 5 hours with the secret character Armorless Samus.
Somebody is going to weaponize space It's inevitable and unstoppable. Would you prefer the country with the somewhat spotty record or the country with the entirely black, blood-drenched track record?
I agree that there are far too many examples of both in the world, but when push comes to shove the gun beats the ideal every time, so we'd damn well better be the guy with the gun.)
Don't paint RvB as subversives hunted by The Man- they have a licensing agreement and are cooperating fully with Microsoft.
Animation is *still* an expensive, complex, and labor-intensive process. RvB is easy to produce because it's using animations that took the original studio months to create. All they provided were the scripts, voices, and players to use the extremely simplified character controls in the game- all of these can easily be done in spare time and with zero budget and day jobs. Modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating from scratch are far more complicated processes, and they're not going to be simplified anytime soon because specifying the exact appearance and motions of every single movable part of the human body several times a second for the period of several minutes is an inherently labor-intensive task.
You're really arrogant enough to think that anything humans can do would have any effect on the sun? The sun would barely notice if we threw in the entire planet.
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Don't generalize. I have a device on my wrist the size of a matchbook that has more computing power than a large room stuffed with 60's-era equipment, and it will run continuously for years without any maintenance beyond keeping it reasonably clean.
The difference is, this one will be *cheaper*. Your car goes about as fast as one made in the 1960s too, but nobody would argue auto technology has stagnated since then.
Another question he didn't answer: If the 360 ever ships with a next-generation DVD player, will it output 1080i over component cables? Or do we all still need to keep waiting for a player that will work with early adopter equipment?
As I understand it, it's not a matter of whether you will be "allowed" or "forbidden" to play a particular game. The 360 will come with an emulator that attempts to run Xbox 1 games. Microsoft will only guarantee (read: put QA resources towards) making it work with certain top-selling games, you're free to try whichever games you want and maybe they'll work if they don't do anything too crazy.
If an adapter can be made for legacy PS* memory cards, an adapter can be made for Xbox 1 memory cards. You'll just need to do the extra step of copying the save from the Xbox HD to the memory card beforehand.
(If it comes as a surprise that the Xbox 1 can use memory cards, that's only because they're a very rare sight because the hard disk is so much better that nobody needs them.)
Screw wallhacking, help me dupe this pile of 20s.
They're bred for their skills in magic, you know.
No, but if Apple demands to know where you got the info, you cannot protect Bob by refusing to rat him out. That's what the Think Secret lawsuit established.
Try the Xbox list. The Chronicles of Riddick game is at #41 (not all-time classic territory, but much better than #183) and rated 89%. And it really was a great game, one of the best games no one played last year.
Also, there was once a licensed game that is still cited frequently as one of the best games ever made (Goldeneye).
Turning off SSID broadcast doesn't make an AP undetectable. It just sets a flag saying "please do not report this AP to the user". It's trivial to find/create a wireless scanner that ignores this flag and reveals hidden networks. And on top of all that an AP can't possibly hide from a directional antenna on the 2.4Ghz band.
The journalist is right- the highest priority for this mission was seeing whether or not anybody died and everything else was secondary to that. That is not healthy; we won't have a real presence in space until it's safe to automatically make the assumption that that won't happen, the way we do with air travel today. If we don't have equipment that can give us that freedom, we won't get anything else done.
Also, everything else about the mission was about keeping the station operational and its crew alive- there wasn't even any real science involved. Again, we have to establish a strong enough base of equipment and techniques that that sort of thing is routine and not worth paying special attention to, or we aren't really accomplishing anything with our space activities.
I think you mean "enable". *Implementing* GZip takes a hell of a lot longer than 5 minutes :)
Yes, it will sell a lot of hardware- a lot of cheap no-name hardware that goes into cheap PCs running these free copies of OS X. Then Apple dies.
The Xbox lockdown was always about pirated games. MS knows that only a small fraction of the audience cares about homebrew or Linux.
There are actually five endings to Metroid- the "normal" ending, special endings for coming in under 5 hours, 3 hours, and 1 hour, and one special ending for failing to clear 5 hours with the secret character Armorless Samus.
Those will appear shortly after the release of the 360, at your local used equipment supplier.
A bundled subscription to Xbox Live Gold, perhaps.
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If you think Win32 is the pinnacle of API design, you have clearly never used Cocoa/*Step.
Somebody is going to weaponize space It's inevitable and unstoppable. Would you prefer the country with the somewhat spotty record or the country with the entirely black, blood-drenched track record?
I agree that there are far too many examples of both in the world, but when push comes to shove the gun beats the ideal every time, so we'd damn well better be the guy with the gun.)
"Dumb"? It was done very, very well (arguably TOO well).
Don't paint RvB as subversives hunted by The Man- they have a licensing agreement and are cooperating fully with Microsoft.
Animation is *still* an expensive, complex, and labor-intensive process. RvB is easy to produce because it's using animations that took the original studio months to create. All they provided were the scripts, voices, and players to use the extremely simplified character controls in the game- all of these can easily be done in spare time and with zero budget and day jobs. Modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating from scratch are far more complicated processes, and they're not going to be simplified anytime soon because specifying the exact appearance and motions of every single movable part of the human body several times a second for the period of several minutes is an inherently labor-intensive task.
Why don't you just buy a console instead? They already follow the model the parent describes and it seems to be working pretty well.
You're really arrogant enough to think that anything humans can do would have any effect on the sun? The sun would barely notice if we threw in the entire planet.
How about "security through they know there are far too many of them to be personally at risk"? Same as for copyright infringement.