What I'm saying is plenty of those last-gen games also have bugs. Hell, I can't count the number of times Perfect Dark hard-locked on my N64. If the older systems supported updates, you wouldn't have to deal with them once a patch is released.
I'd doubt that any game more complex than an early Atari 2600 title can claim to have shipped bug free.
Have fun not purchasing any software anymore then.
Bugs are just a fact of life when dealing with any nontrivial program. Personally I'd rather have the ability to download an update compared to having to just deal with it or worse purchase a disc with the updates (I'm looking at you, Morrowind for Xbox)
The QA process should still be treated like you can't release future updates, but denying that ability altogether is just stupid.
Free speech only means the government can't interfere. Private businesses have the right to restrict your speech as much as they want while you're using their services.
To put it in terms relevant to this case, if the US Government was running Spamhaus-based blockers on an Internet-wide or US-wide basis (ignoring the technical issues involved with such an undertaking), then it could be a free speech issue. Since this is not the case and only private businesses are involved, free speech does not apply.
I have a Kill-A-Watt and actually have a gamecube attached to it right now. Here's what I've seen:
Standby (power off): 0w, no draw Idle (power on, no disc): 21-22w Game (3" disc): 22-23w Game (5" disc): 23-24w
The various gadgetry on my desk (PC, LCD, IP phone, wireless router, Xbox 360, various chargers, and alarm clock) pull more power as a whole in standby mode than the Gamecube does when playing a game off discs too large to even fit in a stock console.
I've got a projector with a M1-DA connector on it. Right now I've only got the adapter cables for DVI and VGA+USB, but I can get a HDMI adapter as well if I want. I don't see a purpose though, since I will not be buying a PS3 in the forseeable future except possibly to resell, and both my cable box and the HTPC I'm building have DVI outputs.
I didn't get lucky. It's the law, plain and simple.
No, you got lucky. It may be the law, but based on my experience that really doesn't matter. I'm on Buckeye Cablesystem right now, who you may recall got some nationwide press a few years back for somehow getting the FBI to raid the homes of uncappers. Getting them to even admit CableCard exists took an hour on the phone and only their $15 a month DVR offering has a Firewire port. I don't have a HD tuner right now (new car = no budget for toys), but I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't even get locals if I was to plug one in.
The law only becomes relevant if enough people complain that the FCC actually gets on the cable company's ass.
Did you read what I said? You got lucky. There are a multitude of issues still facing proper QAM support, not the least of which are cable companies encrypting everything or putting the channels on odd frequencies. I guess I should rephrase what I said to "It's easy to build a machine capable of recieving QAM, but whether everything will work right is a crapshoot. It could be perfect out of the box, or it could require tweaking and manuallt mapping channels, or it might not work at all if the cable company isn't doing everything the way they're supposed to (99.9% of their HD customers are using their boxes, so they don't care about the homebrewers).
I'll give you this: In 2004 when I first started looking in to tuning HD with a PC, even OTA was iffy on both Windows and Linux. By early 2005, OTA was pretty much locked down to a science and the first signs of functional QAM were showing. Now in late 2006, if you're willing to buy from a certain list of tuners and take some time debugging, you can probably have a QAM-tuning HTPC. It's still not easy though (I define easy as KnoppMyth + PVR250 + nVidia, which is always point-and-click level painless, and even easier than Windows MCE IMO).
I never said broadcast HDTV was hard, that's worked nicely for quite a while. From what I see when lurking AVS Forum, TheGreenButton, and a few other HTPC sites, QAM is still a crapshoot.
Based on Mactracker's info, the Powermac 6100 had a car crash noise. Another model had a breaking window if I remember correctly.
The LC III the grandparent mentions had the funeral chimes though. I still have one of those somewhere in my pile of obsolete gear, and if I can dig up the other supporting hardware I'd bet it still works.
Long Answer: Dish network can be tuned with a DVB-S card and some serious effort, but information on the exact process is sparse. DirecTV can not be directly fed to a PC. Cable HDTV in theory should at least allow you to tune the broadcast locals and some cable providers are putting other channels out unencrypted, but getting a PC to tune cable HDTV is still sort of voodoo.
If you're bored and have the required equipment, why not give it a shot, but don't plan on it being usable.
Dammit, the HDMI standard does not add any additional DRM. HDCP has been associated with DVI since before HDMI existed. All HDMI does is combine DVI + S/PDIF + a low bandwidth control channel in to one cable.
All the Dell xx07WFP LCDs support HDCP over DVI, as do all HDCP-ready InFocus projectors. I'd imagine that every single display device which has both HDMI and DVI connections supports HDCP over DVI.
I have no sympathy for aoyone who gets infected and ends up hosting a spambot. Hopefully the big bandwidth bill would be a wakeup call to not be a fucking retard online. I've been running Windows XP wide open to the internet with no antivirus and the built-in firewall in a default configuration ever since SP2 came out and have never had a virus, worm, spyware, or anything of the like. Hell, when the WMF vulnerability was published I had to actually TRY to get it to infect a VM I loaded for that purpose.
In my eyes, getting an infection nowadays takes a total lack of brainpower, and if high bills get those people to either get off the internet or learn to use their systems properly, it's a good thing.
How the hell does it screw developers? There's nothing forcing you to use the GPL license on your own code unless you're including someone else's GPLed code in it. In that case, you're getting presumably good software for free, with only that one condition. If you don't like it, find some other code to use.
My N64 has crashed in-game more times than any other gaming system I've owned. The two big-name games, Goldeneye and Mario 64, were the worst offenders. Perfect Dark tended to get a bit unstable with a gameshark, but that can't be blamed on the game. The only console I've crashed more is my Xbox, but this is while testing code I just compiled rather than playing commercially available games.
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Most people who avoid myspace are either old farts who criticize anyone under 30, or nerds living with their parents
Or people who recognize it as Geocities/Angelfire 2.0
The concept is good. The execution is horrible. Myspace gives users far too much freedom to destroy their pages with animated backgrounds, unreadable color schemes, and 50 different videos all set to automatically start playing when the page is opened.
Agreed. I paid $50 2 years ago for a rebuilt 4+ with everything but the duplexer, including toner, and the thing's still running as if it was brand new. According to the self test it has over 500,000 pages on it, and I intend to keep it until it breaks, which I suspect will be around the 1.5 million mark at the earliest.
At the rate I print, that means it'll probably last long past when it becomes hard to find 10mbit-capable switches to plug it in to.
It also has to be the best supported printer I've ever used. I experiment with various OSes every few months, and I have yet to find any OS that supports both TCP/IP and printing, but doesn't support this printer. My inkjet is pretty much a major OS only thing, but the LJ4 if I can ping it I can print to it.
I don't want to have to dedicate my system and my network to Media Center Connect. I run Windows XP and it is already screwed up enough to the point I can't bridge my connection so my Xbox 360 connects to live through it. Microsoft doesn't have an answer except "it should work". However it doesn't. I don't know why, Microsoft created BOTH the XP system, and the 360, and yet it doesn't work? So why should I use that when the only way I can get online is going direct to the router. Do I have to choose between being online and getting my music?
That's because XP's routing and bridging is shitty to begin with. However, you seem to be ignoring the obvious solution, which is to plug the 360 in to your router right next to where your PC is plugged in. If you somehow have a home router which lacks an internal switch, go to any electronics store and pay $10 for a 5 port 10/100 unit.
There, now you get internet to everything at the same time without shitty bridging, and you can use Windows Media Connect.
For example, my wireless LAN is encrypted at home, and yet I see "(name)'s LimeWire Tunes" for neighbors who are not on my network (MAC filtering... etc.).
1. He claims it's encrypted 2. He claims it's MAC filtered 3. He clearly says "neighbors who are not on my network"
To me, that's claiming in no uncertain terms that the neighbors he's seeing in his iTunes share are NOT on his network. Obviously the design of Bonjour means that the poster is wrong, but that's another issue.
When you shut your car door, the implied message is "don't get in"
On the other hand, an out of the box insecure WiFi AP is quite clearly saying "Hi, I'm 'linksys', an AP providing 802.11g service on channel 11!" every few seconds, and then offering an IP address and telling your computer how to find the Internet.
Your car analogy is more akin to an AP with beaconing turned off. It's not obvious, but if you look you'll see the doors are unlocked and the keys are in it.
A wide open AP is more like a free shuttle, advertising its presence and welcoming anyone who happens to get on.
Hate to bust your bubble, but unless you're running a really quirky DNS setup (in which case you'd know), Bonjour only works within one subnet. This means that yes they are on your wireless network.
I'm not advocating it, I'm just against laws or rules which are there solely to protect idiots.
If you can only harm yourself or your property by violating a law/rule, it shouldn't exist IMO. A nanny state (or nanny apartment complex, as the case may be) is never a good thing. People should be free to leave their networks open to attack, just like they should be free to increase their odds of becoming a red streak on the pavement by not wearing a seatbelt or helmet. If they're too dumb to use common sense on these things, they can learn the hard way.
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What I'm saying is plenty of those last-gen games also have bugs. Hell, I can't count the number of times Perfect Dark hard-locked on my N64. If the older systems supported updates, you wouldn't have to deal with them once a patch is released.
I'd doubt that any game more complex than an early Atari 2600 title can claim to have shipped bug free.
Have fun not purchasing any software anymore then.
Bugs are just a fact of life when dealing with any nontrivial program. Personally I'd rather have the ability to download an update compared to having to just deal with it or worse purchase a disc with the updates (I'm looking at you, Morrowind for Xbox)
The QA process should still be treated like you can't release future updates, but denying that ability altogether is just stupid.
Free speech only means the government can't interfere. Private businesses have the right to restrict your speech as much as they want while you're using their services.
To put it in terms relevant to this case, if the US Government was running Spamhaus-based blockers on an Internet-wide or US-wide basis (ignoring the technical issues involved with such an undertaking), then it could be a free speech issue. Since this is not the case and only private businesses are involved, free speech does not apply.
I have a Kill-A-Watt and actually have a gamecube attached to it right now. Here's what I've seen:
Standby (power off): 0w, no draw
Idle (power on, no disc): 21-22w
Game (3" disc): 22-23w
Game (5" disc): 23-24w
The various gadgetry on my desk (PC, LCD, IP phone, wireless router, Xbox 360, various chargers, and alarm clock) pull more power as a whole in standby mode than the Gamecube does when playing a game off discs too large to even fit in a stock console.
I've got a projector with a M1-DA connector on it. Right now I've only got the adapter cables for DVI and VGA+USB, but I can get a HDMI adapter as well if I want. I don't see a purpose though, since I will not be buying a PS3 in the forseeable future except possibly to resell, and both my cable box and the HTPC I'm building have DVI outputs.
No, you got lucky. It may be the law, but based on my experience that really doesn't matter. I'm on Buckeye Cablesystem right now, who you may recall got some nationwide press a few years back for somehow getting the FBI to raid the homes of uncappers. Getting them to even admit CableCard exists took an hour on the phone and only their $15 a month DVR offering has a Firewire port. I don't have a HD tuner right now (new car = no budget for toys), but I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't even get locals if I was to plug one in.
The law only becomes relevant if enough people complain that the FCC actually gets on the cable company's ass.
Did you read what I said? You got lucky. There are a multitude of issues still facing proper QAM support, not the least of which are cable companies encrypting everything or putting the channels on odd frequencies. I guess I should rephrase what I said to "It's easy to build a machine capable of recieving QAM, but whether everything will work right is a crapshoot. It could be perfect out of the box, or it could require tweaking and manuallt mapping channels, or it might not work at all if the cable company isn't doing everything the way they're supposed to (99.9% of their HD customers are using their boxes, so they don't care about the homebrewers).
I'll give you this: In 2004 when I first started looking in to tuning HD with a PC, even OTA was iffy on both Windows and Linux. By early 2005, OTA was pretty much locked down to a science and the first signs of functional QAM were showing. Now in late 2006, if you're willing to buy from a certain list of tuners and take some time debugging, you can probably have a QAM-tuning HTPC. It's still not easy though (I define easy as KnoppMyth + PVR250 + nVidia, which is always point-and-click level painless, and even easier than Windows MCE IMO).
I never said broadcast HDTV was hard, that's worked nicely for quite a while. From what I see when lurking AVS Forum, TheGreenButton, and a few other HTPC sites, QAM is still a crapshoot.
Based on Mactracker's info, the Powermac 6100 had a car crash noise. Another model had a breaking window if I remember correctly.
The LC III the grandparent mentions had the funeral chimes though. I still have one of those somewhere in my pile of obsolete gear, and if I can dig up the other supporting hardware I'd bet it still works.
Short Answer: It doesn't.
Long Answer: Dish network can be tuned with a DVB-S card and some serious effort, but information on the exact process is sparse. DirecTV can not be directly fed to a PC. Cable HDTV in theory should at least allow you to tune the broadcast locals and some cable providers are putting other channels out unencrypted, but getting a PC to tune cable HDTV is still sort of voodoo.
If you're bored and have the required equipment, why not give it a shot, but don't plan on it being usable.
Dammit, the HDMI standard does not add any additional DRM. HDCP has been associated with DVI since before HDMI existed. All HDMI does is combine DVI + S/PDIF + a low bandwidth control channel in to one cable.
All the Dell xx07WFP LCDs support HDCP over DVI, as do all HDCP-ready InFocus projectors. I'd imagine that every single display device which has both HDMI and DVI connections supports HDCP over DVI.
I have no sympathy for aoyone who gets infected and ends up hosting a spambot. Hopefully the big bandwidth bill would be a wakeup call to not be a fucking retard online. I've been running Windows XP wide open to the internet with no antivirus and the built-in firewall in a default configuration ever since SP2 came out and have never had a virus, worm, spyware, or anything of the like. Hell, when the WMF vulnerability was published I had to actually TRY to get it to infect a VM I loaded for that purpose.
In my eyes, getting an infection nowadays takes a total lack of brainpower, and if high bills get those people to either get off the internet or learn to use their systems properly, it's a good thing.
If you don't know where it comes from, clearly you didn't Get The Facts
How the hell does it screw developers? There's nothing forcing you to use the GPL license on your own code unless you're including someone else's GPLed code in it. In that case, you're getting presumably good software for free, with only that one condition. If you don't like it, find some other code to use.
My N64 has crashed in-game more times than any other gaming system I've owned. The two big-name games, Goldeneye and Mario 64, were the worst offenders. Perfect Dark tended to get a bit unstable with a gameshark, but that can't be blamed on the game. The only console I've crashed more is my Xbox, but this is while testing code I just compiled rather than playing commercially available games.
Or people who recognize it as Geocities/Angelfire 2.0
The concept is good. The execution is horrible. Myspace gives users far too much freedom to destroy their pages with animated backgrounds, unreadable color schemes, and 50 different videos all set to automatically start playing when the page is opened.
well..yea..
Agreed. I paid $50 2 years ago for a rebuilt 4+ with everything but the duplexer, including toner, and the thing's still running as if it was brand new. According to the self test it has over 500,000 pages on it, and I intend to keep it until it breaks, which I suspect will be around the 1.5 million mark at the earliest.
At the rate I print, that means it'll probably last long past when it becomes hard to find 10mbit-capable switches to plug it in to.
It also has to be the best supported printer I've ever used. I experiment with various OSes every few months, and I have yet to find any OS that supports both TCP/IP and printing, but doesn't support this printer. My inkjet is pretty much a major OS only thing, but the LJ4 if I can ping it I can print to it.
That's because XP's routing and bridging is shitty to begin with. However, you seem to be ignoring the obvious solution, which is to plug the 360 in to your router right next to where your PC is plugged in. If you somehow have a home router which lacks an internal switch, go to any electronics store and pay $10 for a 5 port 10/100 unit.
There, now you get internet to everything at the same time without shitty bridging, and you can use Windows Media Connect.
err....Comcast owns G4. For a while the channel was exclusively available to Comcast subscribers.
1. He claims it's encrypted
2. He claims it's MAC filtered
3. He clearly says "neighbors who are not on my network"
To me, that's claiming in no uncertain terms that the neighbors he's seeing in his iTunes share are NOT on his network. Obviously the design of Bonjour means that the poster is wrong, but that's another issue.
When you shut your car door, the implied message is "don't get in"
On the other hand, an out of the box insecure WiFi AP is quite clearly saying "Hi, I'm 'linksys', an AP providing 802.11g service on channel 11!" every few seconds, and then offering an IP address and telling your computer how to find the Internet.
Your car analogy is more akin to an AP with beaconing turned off. It's not obvious, but if you look you'll see the doors are unlocked and the keys are in it.
A wide open AP is more like a free shuttle, advertising its presence and welcoming anyone who happens to get on.
Hate to bust your bubble, but unless you're running a really quirky DNS setup (in which case you'd know), Bonjour only works within one subnet. This means that yes they are on your wireless network.
Because they're probably hosted in countries where the authorities couldn't give two shits.
I'm not advocating it, I'm just against laws or rules which are there solely to protect idiots.
If you can only harm yourself or your property by violating a law/rule, it shouldn't exist IMO. A nanny state (or nanny apartment complex, as the case may be) is never a good thing. People should be free to leave their networks open to attack, just like they should be free to increase their odds of becoming a red streak on the pavement by not wearing a seatbelt or helmet. If they're too dumb to use common sense on these things, they can learn the hard way.