AFAICT, yes, the 3.42 cracks on youtube are a fake. It would be a great thing if they were real, for me, as it would mean a crack may be possible in the upcoming 3.5 which adds 3d bluray support. At the moment my ps3 is unhacked but still on 3.41 pending a decision to be made about what I do with it.
And yes, linux is an interesting thing, there are many obstacles though.
1. this is a lvl2 (gameos) crack, which could be fixed in a variety of ways by Sony. Until lvl 0 (hypervisor) compromises are made then the homebrew folks aren't going to be able to rest easy. That or someone needs to find out how to (like the PSP) reverse engineer and customise sony firmware versions.
2. the only current SDK is a leaked and therefore illegal one. Linux types prefer to have a fully free software stack and so building bootloaders and the like might have to wait until there's been some basic platform SDK stuff done.
But theoretically, yes, it sounds like we could get linux back, and with access to all the hardware that the games have.
"It's the same false definition people use when claiming the GPL is the most "free" license. It's obviously less free than many other OS licenses, because it puts more restraints on what can be done with it."
Why'd you have to bring up that old troll? BSD grants most freedom to the recipient of the code, GPL grants more freedom to people further down the line, freedoms not given under the other licenses that folks like to argue about.
I feel similarly about the ads - I have adblock installed but I only use it in a manual fashion to block really annoying stuff. It's not so much of a moral thing as a "ok, you went to far, I can't even use your site now" reaction.
In a parliamentary democracy, non-conscience votes are an abomination, IMHO.
You vote for your local representative, they are supposed to represent the needs of their constituents to parliament. In the UK there's the Whip, in Aus a similar party line thing. what this means is that a few people at the top decide policy and it then gets pushed through on the threat of kicking dissenters out of the party.
This is how Jobs and Murdoch start to get money for previously free new info. Murdoch just needs to come up with a newspaper delivery metaphor for iPad owners and they'll walk right in, subscribe to the app and start what uncle rupert has been fantasising about - the return to paid news.
It won't matter that we on/. won't participate. It'll just be another area that the general public perceive us geeks to be weird or even cheap about, as they go around paying for shit we get fro free, at the same time taking their ad-driven revenue generation stats away from non-Steve approved media, killing it.
"After reading the comments to this article it is clear to me that very very few CS people take even a basic chemistry course"
Screw you too buddy!
So what if it is split in the stomach, that still doesn't make the two things identical. That is the basic chemistry. Now, if you want to say they have the same effect on the body then go for it, but don't go sniping at me for telling you that there's a difference between a mixture and a compound.
BTW, "natural" food is not always a sham. No I don't believe "natural" automatically means good, belladonna is natural after all. However, experience has shown that meddling with food, especially when the aims are to make it cheaper, longer lived and more addictive, has resulted in not only the loss of flavour but also health problems and increased calorie intake as people eat lots of sugar without really realising.
HCFS is, by design, essentially liquid table sugar. 50% of it is fructose. Just like table sugar.
Umm.... NO!
It's not. "Table Sugar" is sucrose. HFCS is a mix of fructose and glucose.
Yes, sucrose is a disaccharide made up of glucose and fructose. No, that doesn't make them the same. You understand the difference between a mixture and a compound, don't you? And that these compounds can have radically different properties to the elements they're made up from?
I mean, that was something we learned in chemistry class at the age of about 10.
If you're drinking 40g (approximate amount of sucrose that's in a coke) of glucose in a soft drink it's still pretty unhealthy, IMHO, due to calorific intake if nothing else.
"At +34C in Australia, its usually too hot to enjoy. "
Says you! Some of us moved to Australia (from northern europe) specifically because of the heat. Mid 30s is just right. Anything under about 25 now feels a little chilly to me.
Students ought to have the basics, and maybe a lot of the advanced stuff, in their minds available for quick recall. It's what differentiates the good ones from the merely mediocre.
Still, even with permission, it seems to me to be wrong that the browser, that portal out to the wild west of the internet, have the power to do this stuff. With the history of browser based exploits factored in it just seems wrong.
But then I guess this capability has been there for a long time now.
1. If the alarms beep during network upgrades MAKE BETTER ALARMS
Hell, if the current models somehow will do this if/when NBN comes around then you get to make money selling people upgrades surely?
2. WTF? No way of knowing when the system is down?
I can see that if some systems rely on power-over-POTS then there's a downside to getting fibre to the home, but seriously, I would have thought these industry types should be rubbing their greasy hands in glee at being able to offer upgrade services.
I was talking about from the programmer's perspective. The server is where you get to play with massive data sets, programs that could be running for years and need to be robust and leak-proof, as well as highly complicated and fast.
Sure, users don't give a rats ass about servers, but what do they know?
I thought most of the interesting stuff took place on the server?
Well either way, I wish them luck. Having competition and diversity in the processor market is a very good thing and forces everyone to step up to the mark, benefiting everyone.
And if they've managed to keep the power envelope down then even better.
Well, I'm not allowed to vote (yet), so I didn't think too hard about who I would have cast a vote for. most likely the sex party and then the greens. Choosing between the major two wasn't possible. On the one hand you've got the filter, on the other scrapping the NBN and putting the religious brigade in charge again.
IMHO, Conroy should not be allowed any more power than choosing his own dinner.
My problem with the original poster was that it was just the usual "OMG! Gubmint services!" nonsense. I dislike authority as much as the next guy, actually probably a lot more, but I take exception to the knee-jerking.
Yes, rights are almost never returned to the people, and that is a terrible thing. It's probably never going to change either....
No, it hasn't proved useful in the UK. they became so ubiquitous that people don't care, the feed quality is bad enough that the recorded video is useless to the police or the courts, there are far too many feeds for anyone to be watching half of them and...
Well, it's that sort of a thing. I guess a lot of these could be 'remedied' by deploying modern CCD based cameras and using some sort of magical computer vision thing. But the main issue here is that it's been found that they jut don't reduce crime.
They may make it easier to catch people afterwards, but they don't actually prevent anything.
Because in any other area that the government provides a service and does it badly it's perfectly right to complain and/or try to get it fixed.
Please leave your stupid paranoia of government services in your head with the other crazy ideas. some things make sense for a government to provide, or even wouldn't happen without it. But i forgot, that's socialism in your mind isn't it? And anything that is tainted with socialism is necessarily bad...
Well, 20 years was a number I pulled out of the air. A monopoly on your own work for a limited time does seem to me to be a reasonable exchange between creators and the general public.
Would you prefer that each individual author specify the term? Otherwise any figure will be arbitrary.
All I can say for sure is that for now it is too long, that here I am in adulthood and I see absolutely no reason why cultural artifacts from my childhood, which are little more than curiosities now, should not be totally in the public domain. That's why 20 fit for me.
Derivative works are an interesting side question. It depends how derivative, IMHO. For instance I would have trouble with someone adding 10% more stuff to a GPL program and then being able to relicense it as they see fit. OTOH things like audio/video mashups I fully support.
There's a WiMax service here in Perth. Speeds are nothing to brag about (up to 3-6MBit depending on time of day it seems) but it's reliable and I just have to plug it into the power socket. Also I plug my phone into the WiMax router. No data or voice wired connection needed!
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AFAICT, yes, the 3.42 cracks on youtube are a fake. It would be a great thing if they were real, for me, as it would mean a crack may be possible in the upcoming 3.5 which adds 3d bluray support. At the moment my ps3 is unhacked but still on 3.41 pending a decision to be made about what I do with it.
And yes, linux is an interesting thing, there are many obstacles though.
1. this is a lvl2 (gameos) crack, which could be fixed in a variety of ways by Sony. Until lvl 0 (hypervisor) compromises are made then the homebrew folks aren't going to be able to rest easy. That or someone needs to find out how to (like the PSP) reverse engineer and customise sony firmware versions.
2. the only current SDK is a leaked and therefore illegal one. Linux types prefer to have a fully free software stack and so building bootloaders and the like might have to wait until there's been some basic platform SDK stuff done.
But theoretically, yes, it sounds like we could get linux back, and with access to all the hardware that the games have.
Ummm ... wiibrew.org?
There are hundreds of pieces of Wii homebrew. And not all emulators either!
Yeah, because trying to preserve fish stocks and marine habitats from today's massive overfishing is pointless. Clearly.
"It's the same false definition people use when claiming the GPL is the most "free" license. It's obviously less free than many other OS licenses, because it puts more restraints on what can be done with it."
Why'd you have to bring up that old troll?
BSD grants most freedom to the recipient of the code, GPL grants more freedom to people further down the line, freedoms not given under the other licenses that folks like to argue about.
They're differently free.
I feel similarly about the ads - I have adblock installed but I only use it in a manual fashion to block really annoying stuff. It's not so much of a moral thing as a "ok, you went to far, I can't even use your site now" reaction.
But no, it probably doesn't help!
In a parliamentary democracy, non-conscience votes are an abomination, IMHO.
You vote for your local representative, they are supposed to represent the needs of their constituents to parliament. In the UK there's the Whip, in Aus a similar party line thing. what this means is that a few people at the top decide policy and it then gets pushed through on the threat of kicking dissenters out of the party.
It's so anti-democratic it hurts.
This is how Jobs and Murdoch start to get money for previously free new info. Murdoch just needs to come up with a newspaper delivery metaphor for iPad owners and they'll walk right in, subscribe to the app and start what uncle rupert has been fantasising about - the return to paid news.
It won't matter that we on /. won't participate. It'll just be another area that the general public perceive us geeks to be weird or even cheap about, as they go around paying for shit we get fro free, at the same time taking their ad-driven revenue generation stats away from non-Steve approved media, killing it.
Yeah, that's probably paranoid.
They already get upset enough about HomePlug style ethernet-over-power devices.
"After reading the comments to this article it is clear to me that very very few CS people take even a basic chemistry course"
Screw you too buddy!
So what if it is split in the stomach, that still doesn't make the two things identical. That is the basic chemistry. Now, if you want to say they have the same effect on the body then go for it, but don't go sniping at me for telling you that there's a difference between a mixture and a compound.
BTW, "natural" food is not always a sham. No I don't believe "natural" automatically means good, belladonna is natural after all. However, experience has shown that meddling with food, especially when the aims are to make it cheaper, longer lived and more addictive, has resulted in not only the loss of flavour but also health problems and increased calorie intake as people eat lots of sugar without really realising.
HCFS is, by design, essentially liquid table sugar. 50% of it is fructose. Just like table sugar.
Umm .... NO!
It's not. "Table Sugar" is sucrose. HFCS is a mix of fructose and glucose.
Yes, sucrose is a disaccharide made up of glucose and fructose. No, that doesn't make them the same. You understand the difference between a mixture and a compound, don't you? And that these compounds can have radically different properties to the elements they're made up from?
I mean, that was something we learned in chemistry class at the age of about 10.
Surely that depends on your idea of healthy?
If you're drinking 40g (approximate amount of sucrose that's in a coke) of glucose in a soft drink it's still pretty unhealthy, IMHO, due to calorific intake if nothing else.
"At +34C in Australia, its usually too hot to enjoy. "
Says you! Some of us moved to Australia (from northern europe) specifically because of the heat. Mid 30s is just right. Anything under about 25 now feels a little chilly to me.
I disagree.
Students ought to have the basics, and maybe a lot of the advanced stuff, in their minds available for quick recall. It's what differentiates the good ones from the merely mediocre.
Oh, no argument there, and I realise I'm behind the time here, but my objection was that it was *in the browser*.
Still, even with permission, it seems to me to be wrong that the browser, that portal out to the wild west of the internet, have the power to do this stuff. With the history of browser based exploits factored in it just seems wrong.
But then I guess this capability has been there for a long time now.
... does the idea of just needing a webcam and to go to a web page in your browser to stream video to the world seem completely wrong?
However it does it, it just doesn't seem right that the browser have access to my webcam.
1. If the alarms beep during network upgrades MAKE BETTER ALARMS
Hell, if the current models somehow will do this if/when NBN comes around then you get to make money selling people upgrades surely?
2. WTF? No way of knowing when the system is down?
I can see that if some systems rely on power-over-POTS then there's a downside to getting fibre to the home, but seriously, I would have thought these industry types should be rubbing their greasy hands in glee at being able to offer upgrade services.
I was talking about from the programmer's perspective. The server is where you get to play with massive data sets, programs that could be running for years and need to be robust and leak-proof, as well as highly complicated and fast.
Sure, users don't give a rats ass about servers, but what do they know?
"Really? Doing marches, protesting and that stuff won't work?"
Ah hahahahaha!
When in the last two or three decades has that achieved anything?
Hell, between 1 and 2 million people took to the streets of London to protest the upcoming Iraq War, they were totally and utterly ignored.
I thought most of the interesting stuff took place on the server?
Well either way, I wish them luck. Having competition and diversity in the processor market is a very good thing and forces everyone to step up to the mark, benefiting everyone.
And if they've managed to keep the power envelope down then even better.
Well, I'm not allowed to vote (yet), so I didn't think too hard about who I would have cast a vote for. most likely the sex party and then the greens. Choosing between the major two wasn't possible. On the one hand you've got the filter, on the other scrapping the NBN and putting the religious brigade in charge again.
IMHO, Conroy should not be allowed any more power than choosing his own dinner.
My problem with the original poster was that it was just the usual "OMG! Gubmint services!" nonsense. I dislike authority as much as the next guy, actually probably a lot more, but I take exception to the knee-jerking.
Yes, rights are almost never returned to the people, and that is a terrible thing. It's probably never going to change either....
No, it hasn't proved useful in the UK. they became so ubiquitous that people don't care, the feed quality is bad enough that the recorded video is useless to the police or the courts, there are far too many feeds for anyone to be watching half of them and...
Well, it's that sort of a thing. I guess a lot of these could be 'remedied' by deploying modern CCD based cameras and using some sort of magical computer vision thing. But the main issue here is that it's been found that they jut don't reduce crime.
They may make it easier to catch people afterwards, but they don't actually prevent anything.
Why?
Because in any other area that the government provides a service and does it badly it's perfectly right to complain and/or try to get it fixed.
Please leave your stupid paranoia of government services in your head with the other crazy ideas. some things make sense for a government to provide, or even wouldn't happen without it. But i forgot, that's socialism in your mind isn't it? And anything that is tainted with socialism is necessarily bad...
Moron.
Well, 20 years was a number I pulled out of the air. A monopoly on your own work for a limited time does seem to me to be a reasonable exchange between creators and the general public.
Would you prefer that each individual author specify the term? Otherwise any figure will be arbitrary.
All I can say for sure is that for now it is too long, that here I am in adulthood and I see absolutely no reason why cultural artifacts from my childhood, which are little more than curiosities now, should not be totally in the public domain. That's why 20 fit for me.
Derivative works are an interesting side question. It depends how derivative, IMHO. For instance I would have trouble with someone adding 10% more stuff to a GPL program and then being able to relicense it as they see fit. OTOH things like audio/video mashups I fully support.
Here in Australia I bought my internet in a box!
There's a WiMax service here in Perth. Speeds are nothing to brag about (up to 3-6MBit depending on time of day it seems) but it's reliable and I just have to plug it into the power socket. Also I plug my phone into the WiMax router. No data or voice wired connection needed!