As of Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has severely tightened its requirements for digital signatures on kernel-mode device drivers. So if you have connected a home-built or low-volume peripheral to your PC, the only way to run self-signed drivers without "Test Mode" always on top in all four corners of the screen is to run Linux on the bare hardware and Windows in a virtual machine. But how well do virtual machines support x86-64?
This response is just begging for this question:
Why does your device do that required it to have a Kernel-Mode driver instead of using the User-Mode Driver Framework?
This update was *configuration*. It was a change to a text file marking a certain signature to watch out for. Microsoft doesn't do that.
Yes they do. Microsoft includes Windows Defender as part of Windows Vista and Windows 7 which, as I recall, has bi-weekly definition updates.
They also have a second free version of it, that also includes an anti-virus, named Microsoft Security Essentials... but are barred from including it with Windows due to anti-trust threats from the like of Symantec and McAfee.
Google is in the middle of a high profile lawsuit between governments of several countries and them, so it's only natural that they are currently getting more press because of it.
From the list of Google stories from the RSS feed: The first, Google Wave Out of Beta is a month old Dupe, which proves that Cmdr. Taco lives in a cave. The second, UK's RIAA Goes After Google Using the US DMCA, involves Google being sued. The third, Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent, also involves Google being sued, this time by the governments of multiple different countries.
Apple stories on the other hand, are almost always "iDevice comes out [today/tomorrow/next week], it's insanely great!" or "Apple announced X support for new iDevice" with the occasional "OSX security update was released today" or "Safari [nextversion] will have support for X." The only recent negative Apple story is actually one on your list: Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update.
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You stuck in the phrase "only from our store so we get a cut", as some stupid attempt to insinuate that this is the whole reason behind the curated app store model.
Any Nintendo DS emulators out there for Windows 7?
I know you were being sarcastic, but no$gba does DS games in the more recent releases. I haven't tried it for DS games, though. The author is currently MIA, though, so there haven't been any releases in 2 years.
However, I find I'm using my DS online less and less, and am considering switching over to WPA (or WPA2, whichever all of my roommates and my other devices support... PCs, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3)
The Wii3D or whatever their next console is going to be is going to do the same thing the 3DS did to the PSP, to the PS3 and the 360. Take a gimmick they have perfected, perhaps add another gimmick, but increase the graphics and remove the one advantage the other two have.
As I understand it... Sony now has 3D TV support on the PS3. In effect, Sony has beaten everyone else to market on this. Of course, from what I understand, only one company makes 3D TVs at this point... Sony.
Also, it only works with certain games released in the past few weeks.
PS2 didn't have a better price than the Dreamcast or the Gamecube. It also didn't have better hardware than the Dreamcast or the Gamecube. So while you can say Sony legitimately beat Sega and Nintendo with the PSX, they did not genuinely beat Sega or Nintendo in the hardware or software with the PS2.
When the PS2 launched, it had a few extra features over the Dreamcast, which was the only console of that generation out at the time. The first was backwards compatibility; it could play the entirety of the (large) PS1 library of games. The second was the ability to play movie DVDs. The third was 3rd party support, whom had left Nintendo (due to Nintendo's decision to use 16-64MB carts as opposed to 700MB CDs) and Sega (not sure why they left Sega, but looking at the Saturn library, it's clear they did) during the previous generation.
The PS3 might have done well in the current generation... but Microsoft, despite being a relative newcomer to the scene, released the Xbox 360 a year before it... and say what you will about Microsoft, the 360 had an extremely impressive showing. The PS3 has been trying to play catch-up with the 360 ever since. Sony was banking on PS2 compatibility and Blu-Ray movie support to sell more units than it actually did. However, even those two features combined couldn't save the PS3 from its largest, most glaring mistake: its price tag. The 60GB model cost twice as much as the PS2 did at launch ($600 vs $300), and six times the cost of a Slim PS2 at the time. DVD was a revolutionary step in video playback. Blu-Ray is an evolutionary step in video playback... it's really just a higher capacity DVD. Four years out, we're finally starting to see games where Blu-Ray discs make a difference, most notably Final Fantasy XIII.
Meanwhile, Nintendo aimed at the casual market... and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The low price point helped considerably; from memory, around the time the PS3/Wii launched, prices were: Wii $249, PS3: $499/$599, Xbox 360: $399/$499)
the only person who's excited to see Team Fortress 2 on a mac mini hooked up to a 50" screen that has all the bells and whistles?
While it might be a new chipset, I wouldn't be surprised if the nVidia 320M graphics chipset has issues with running TF2 with everything on high. It's hard to say though, as Left 4 Dead appears to run it OK according to that post.
However, what resolution do you plan on running it at on a 50" display?
But the truth is that a mouse is quicker and easier to use than a remote. Ask yourself this: If a remote is a better interface than a mouse, why don't you use a remote with your computer?
I'm not the person you're replying to, but someone has to say this:
My computer has a remote. I don't use it. Because that's not what my computer is for. My computer & monitor is for me to work on. My TV is for me to watch things on. One I sit up close to, the other farther away.
Not surprisingly, I use a remote control with the one I'm far away from, but not the one I'm close to.
PS: That PSP Sony keeps claiming isn't dead? The one the PSP Go was supposed to show was "still in the game"? If the 3DS isn't the final nail in it's coffin, nothing will be.
The PSP Go was a mistake. I don't know what Sony thought they were doing.
I believe Kotaku summed it up the best (paraphrasing because their site is blocked where I work): "The PSP Go is more expensive than the PSP 3000, has a smaller screen, and can't play games you already own on disc."
Kinesophobes need exactly two control options: take the plunge or don't play. Motion is the way forward for gaming: a better experience in every single respect.
Having played both the Wii and GameCube versions of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, I can tell you that the GameCube version is much, much better, just because it doesn't use those asinine motion controls.
Or maybe more to the point, why the hell doesn't Apple sell a mid-range desktop? Something that is (1) not all-in-one (so not the iMac), (2) has decent specs (so not the Mini), and yet (3) is affordable (so not the Mac Pro)?
I'm not saying I'd necessarily get one (I'd have to actually see the offering before deciding), but if they don't sell them I'm definitely not going to.
I would actually consider buying a Mac for my next computer (sometime in the late 2011 / early 2012 timeframe) if Apple would actually make a decent gaming desktop that isn't over $2000 (the low-end Mac Pro is $2499). My current PC cost me around $900 and I spent another $180 or so more to move from 3GB RAM to 8GB RAM and to move from an nVidia 8600GT to 240GT.
You'd think that now that developers are actually starting to release games on the Mac (like Valve, Firaxis, and TellTale Games) that Apple would actually make a gaming desktop that isn't an integrated unit.
That remains to be seen. Thus far, Xbox 360 hard drives have had custom firmware, preventing you from using standard ones without flashing the firmware first.
I don't know about Microsoft, but I thought Sony announced in advance that they intended for it to be 10 years before the PS3 was replaced. Which means we have about... oh... 6 years to go.
We know that Silverlight is suppoting 64-bit. We know that Microsoft has been pushing 64-bit since 2003. We know all new Windows 7 PCs are coming 64-bit. And we will continue to keep our heads in the sand.
You are aware that the default browser in 64-bit Windows is 32-bit Internet Explorer?
Most Linux distributions release security updates within a day or two after the vulnerability is announced
Which distributions?
Just last week Ubuntu released two kernel updates (at least for x86-64) for 10.4. I can't help but think the reason is that there was a flaw in the first release that forced a second.
This happens less often with Debian, because Debian uses its unstable tree (where Ubuntu gets its packages) to have users check for crashes or conflicts before promoting them to the testing tree, where, if no serious bugs are reported there, will eventually make it into the stable tree.
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This response is just begging for this question:
Why does your device do that required it to have a Kernel-Mode driver instead of using the User-Mode Driver Framework?
and then someone went and installed iCeburg onto it...
...and re-reading the posts, I realize that I misread what the GP was saying. Whoops.
Yes they do. Microsoft includes Windows Defender as part of Windows Vista and Windows 7 which, as I recall, has bi-weekly definition updates.
They also have a second free version of it, that also includes an anti-virus, named Microsoft Security Essentials... but are barred from including it with Windows due to anti-trust threats from the like of Symantec and McAfee.
They also publish a new version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool every month.
Google is in the middle of a high profile lawsuit between governments of several countries and them, so it's only natural that they are currently getting more press because of it.
From the list of Google stories from the RSS feed:
The first, Google Wave Out of Beta is a month old Dupe, which proves that Cmdr. Taco lives in a cave.
The second, UK's RIAA Goes After Google Using the US DMCA, involves Google being sued.
The third, Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent, also involves Google being sued, this time by the governments of multiple different countries.
Apple stories on the other hand, are almost always "iDevice comes out [today/tomorrow/next week], it's insanely great!" or "Apple announced X support for new iDevice" with the occasional "OSX security update was released today" or "Safari [nextversion] will have support for X." The only recent negative Apple story is actually one on your list: Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update.
Note: I an not the GP poster.
It's a reason, certainly not the only one.
I know you were being sarcastic, but no$gba does DS games in the more recent releases. I haven't tried it for DS games, though. The author is currently MIA, though, so there haven't been any releases in 2 years.
Sadly... the same applies for me.
However, I find I'm using my DS online less and less, and am considering switching over to WPA (or WPA2, whichever all of my roommates and my other devices support... PCs, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3)
Are these some sort of stable APIs, or are they the driver APIs that are randomly changed every few kernel versions to break binary compatibility?
As I understand it... Sony now has 3D TV support on the PS3. In effect, Sony has beaten everyone else to market on this. Of course, from what I understand, only one company makes 3D TVs at this point... Sony.
Also, it only works with certain games released in the past few weeks.
When the PS2 launched, it had a few extra features over the Dreamcast, which was the only console of that generation out at the time. The first was backwards compatibility; it could play the entirety of the (large) PS1 library of games. The second was the ability to play movie DVDs. The third was 3rd party support, whom had left Nintendo (due to Nintendo's decision to use 16-64MB carts as opposed to 700MB CDs) and Sega (not sure why they left Sega, but looking at the Saturn library, it's clear they did) during the previous generation.
The PS3 might have done well in the current generation... but Microsoft, despite being a relative newcomer to the scene, released the Xbox 360 a year before it... and say what you will about Microsoft, the 360 had an extremely impressive showing. The PS3 has been trying to play catch-up with the 360 ever since. Sony was banking on PS2 compatibility and Blu-Ray movie support to sell more units than it actually did. However, even those two features combined couldn't save the PS3 from its largest, most glaring mistake: its price tag. The 60GB model cost twice as much as the PS2 did at launch ($600 vs $300), and six times the cost of a Slim PS2 at the time. DVD was a revolutionary step in video playback. Blu-Ray is an evolutionary step in video playback... it's really just a higher capacity DVD. Four years out, we're finally starting to see games where Blu-Ray discs make a difference, most notably Final Fantasy XIII.
Meanwhile, Nintendo aimed at the casual market... and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The low price point helped considerably; from memory, around the time the PS3/Wii launched, prices were: Wii $249, PS3: $499/$599, Xbox 360: $399/$499)
I didn't think Half-Life 2 was available for the 360 before Orange Box came out.
Or did you buy the PC version as well?
While it might be a new chipset, I wouldn't be surprised if the nVidia 320M graphics chipset has issues with running TF2 with everything on high. It's hard to say though, as Left 4 Dead appears to run it OK according to that post.
However, what resolution do you plan on running it at on a 50" display?
I'm not the person you're replying to, but someone has to say this:
My computer has a remote. I don't use it. Because that's not what my computer is for. My computer & monitor is for me to work on. My TV is for me to watch things on. One I sit up close to, the other farther away.
Not surprisingly, I use a remote control with the one I'm far away from, but not the one I'm close to.
The PSP Go was a mistake. I don't know what Sony thought they were doing.
I believe Kotaku summed it up the best (paraphrasing because their site is blocked where I work): "The PSP Go is more expensive than the PSP 3000, has a smaller screen, and can't play games you already own on disc."
Having played both the Wii and GameCube versions of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, I can tell you that the GameCube version is much, much better, just because it doesn't use those asinine motion controls.
I would actually consider buying a Mac for my next computer (sometime in the late 2011 / early 2012 timeframe) if Apple would actually make a decent gaming desktop that isn't over $2000 (the low-end Mac Pro is $2499). My current PC cost me around $900 and I spent another $180 or so more to move from 3GB RAM to 8GB RAM and to move from an nVidia 8600GT to 240GT.
You'd think that now that developers are actually starting to release games on the Mac (like Valve, Firaxis, and TellTale Games) that Apple would actually make a gaming desktop that isn't an integrated unit.
However, since they don't...
We were talking about the PS3 hard drives.
Oh blah, stupid AJAX in-line updating crap. I meant to link to this one.
You want a console with a Blu-Ray drive, built-in WiFi, and 250GB drive from a large company that has shady business products?
Here you go!
Yup, because developers don't develop on consoles because the specs are fixed.
Oh wait, yes they do!
Standard 2.5" (or Notebook) HDD that is.
Just thought I'd clarify that.
But yeah, even the PS3 "charging cable" is just a USB 2.0 A to mini-B connector as I recall.
I don't know about Microsoft, but I thought Sony announced in advance that they intended for it to be 10 years before the PS3 was replaced. Which means we have about... oh... 6 years to go.
You are aware that the default browser in 64-bit Windows is 32-bit Internet Explorer?
Which distributions?
Just last week Ubuntu released two kernel updates (at least for x86-64) for 10.4. I can't help but think the reason is that there was a flaw in the first release that forced a second.
This happens less often with Debian, because Debian uses its unstable tree (where Ubuntu gets its packages) to have users check for crashes or conflicts before promoting them to the testing tree, where, if no serious bugs are reported there, will eventually make it into the stable tree.