exactly. For the love of god. you know that anything attached to the internet is not ever going to be "completely" (heck most things will never even be marginaly) secured so if you want to keep the data safe no matter what kind of data that is. the only way is to keep the damn machines of the net.
I belive some interesting research could be done into the six degrees of separation theory and large networks using gateways and subnets
just how "off the net" is that deep rooted bank system running the ATMs when theres sysadmins that have access directly to it... and probably have access to the company net for conveneince... and that has a gateway... etc...
~~~~ Whats with the To confirm your not a script. Its wasting my precious seconds ~~~~
Well unfortunatly for me im in australia... and belive me.. model M keyboards not only cost an arm and a leg to get imported they also never turn up localy cause theyre that rare anyone smart wont let them go.
Oh the things id do/give for an IBM model M13 in that lovely lovely IBM Stealth Black Seriously... if anyone would contemplate an act of supreme generosity? Perhaps you have one but dont like the Black one so use one of the white ones... damn i sound pathetic lol... oh well *holds up placard "will drop pants for IBM model M13 in IBM Stealth Black " *
and yes these days with the extra key functinality built into the os most keyboard drivers are control software things of varying quality.
seems these are almost everywhere these days. and with all the odd keys a lot of them Do need their own custom drivers for the extra keys and knobs and dials etc.
whatever happend to the good old days when an IBM model M was all you needed:)
As far as im concerned I just use Thunderbird as a newsreader. Google nailed it dead on, when they designed Gmail i think they quite possibly found one of those lofty pinacles that so few programs ever manage to perch on where theres an overwhelming majority that agree wethere they use it or not that it has a superior design. But thats just me;)
Gmail responds faster over my net connection than Thunderbird does and the UI is near perfect. and i am NEVER going to be happy without groups again. theyre a think of absoloute genius. I just wish i could flag my files like that for Google Desktop Search.
there is definatly room for Innovation. Shame that theres so little. But there has to be a "norm" for people or else everyone would give up cause no to things would be alike at all, and using a new program would take valuable time away from people that genuinely use these kinds of programs as buisness tools regardless of how much computer skill they have.
As far as im concerned once the price drops after a few months are over. I only care abou one title.
NetBSD
Honestly
dual threaded 3.2GHz tri core 64 bit custom G5 with 128 bit float precision. I mean For craps sake thats got more damn CPU horsepower than anything even relted to a "normal" computer.
Id buy 2 and write the price off as a donation to charity when i set them up as servers with BOINC stuff soaking up the spare cycles theyd have in spades no matter what i used em for.
that was the one failing reported by the otherwise usualy VERY happy users of NT on other architectures. There was next to bugger all driver and software support.
Oh and if you ever find those CDs mail me cause id kill for them myself. My passion for excentric software is itching to get the last version of NT available for the Alpha just cause its there! lol
Well wether this counts as a hobby or an feat worthy of sisiphus himself is up to yea who read it:p
I quite fondly kept my familys windows 95 A ! compaq pressario 2200 with 133 Mhz cyrix fanless cpu bolted in under the most non standard heatsink ive ever seen alive and kicking for 6 years, without a Reinstall, with out antivirus, without firewall, without security or other MS updates bar the Winsock 2 one:), without spyware removal tools (till the last 4 months when they became part of my life support toolkit;) ) with the IE 5.5 shell parasite attached. And to top it off My dear sweet mother was always fond of just reaching round and turning the big switch at the back off while it was running without a thought to shut down or even close the programs. Her answer to any thing was to flip it off and try again pretty much.
But i persevered and kept it alive without a reinstall for 6 years. I personaly challenge anyone to beat that (and factor in the abusive work enviroment). I watched it meltdown catasrophicaly till DOS failed to boot after nearly 6 and a half years of use. And then as the very machine itself was dying i proceded to coax its 4x CD ROM drive to make one last boot and was able to get the recovery cd to install again. And it still works at the moment (though sits unused thank god)
RIP Monolith First personal experience with windows. 1997 - 2003 ~To great feats of personal distinction. ~Anything is a good thing in the hands of the right person. ~May the binary gods take mercy on the personality Monolith developed over those 6 years through bit rot and hard shutdowns.
As anyone with a passion for other and more esoteric platforms will (or should) know.
Windows NT existed on a number of different architectures other than Intel x86, Including MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC, in versions 3.5 3.51 and 4.0.
The final point to make is that when the work began on Windows 2000, the entire OS was done. The full NT5 beta available from the MSDN when it was released. Did indeed include a PowerPC version as well as the others. ( at least one beta did as far as i can confirm from my discourses with other "wisened veterans" (no mater what their age) of the MS oses. )
The effort involved in MS porting the NT 5 kernel and other systems to the Xbox 360 would have been totaly comparable to the effort needed to strip and optimise the nt 5 core for the Xbox. Which is in fact a very impressive degree of refinement over the original os when you examine the finer details.
( My other boxes are FreeBSD and Solaris so dont dare call me a MS fan, XP is for my games only case wine isnt good enough and i pray it catches up sooner. )
a younger sibling of mine played the Konami (theyre IP (as in Intelectual property not Internet protocol:P ) anyway) Yugioh Online game think... kinda like an online MMORPG trading card game lol
Among the censor list was "good"
made for very interesting mistakes im sure
"good game" becomes "**** Game"
gee i wonder how much more offensive that seems hrm?
online censoring in mulitplayer games seems to be a fad for even vaugely kiddy like stuff.
Your right there. Sunbird Desperatly needs some work and hopefuly as it nears completion it will become a "usable" calendat and scheduling tool on par with the (as much as i hate to say this) "standard" thats set with Outlook. ( *shudder* )
But one thing i have noticed. Is I as a person never go out of my way to schedule things. Yes i know its a bad habit blah blah etc. But its not that i realy Can Not Be Bothered stopping and spending the time to plan thing and so on. Its I dont think that way.
One thing i expect/. to know is that there are always going to be people that think different. (anyone who reads/. with patience and care will note the flamers, the fanboys (i will not under any circumstance be held liable to be P.C. [i use a phrase to make a point and if you feel marginalised because of it then YOU have the problem not me. ] ) , the wizened sages and all the usual online steretypes each with the cliche thinking patterns about things.
I DO need scheduling tools and that goes without saying. But for a tool to work for me, It does the work behind my back. I just dont have the consistency to plan things like when i have to get this done by. I have deadlines of course. But fat luck if they wind up in MY calendar. My calendar is set buy OTHERS not me. Rarely is it that I can go and just jot down something with absolute confidence (even temporarily absolute) that is will happen then.
A way for "my" calendar to fetch dates from other sources is a brillant idea. And being able to get my callendar anywhere is a great one too. But to me a calendar is more than a record of whats going to happen.
If youve seen system logs youve probably thought at some point wouldnt it be nice if important events that HAPPEND were noted down in your calendar. Keeping track of what has happend isnt just a tool for logs and diaries. I think they make the diaries with the calendars and daily planers in them for a reason? Ahem?
just about anything can be made to spit out RSS feed information to a webserver.
Syslogs, Sendmail, System crashes, automatic results from a personal document crawl searching for references to current or any new generaly dated event in your IM conversations or whatever.
It may seem like yould end up with one impossible to use mess with all that. But like all things you pick and chose what works for you. and theres always view filters and categories as well.
I think ive begun to ramble so unless someone encourages more discourse on this. Ill call it an end.
On a side note this kind of thing is (though i cant check exactly im just going from the info i have on what spotlight does cause Well. I dont have a mac:P ) also available for windows machines through programs available at www.sysinternals.com
These guys are utter LORDS of the nt OS by any definiton. ( read their "About us" section and see just how A class it is. A Microsoft Most Valued Proffesional no less )
Anyway. There are filesystem access and notification tools around for nearly any os and its good to see OS X realy making a push with them instead of the way theyer usualy swept under the rug in most OSes publicity stuff (not that many oses have publicity to speak of lol )
Reggie Pulled the new GBA out and showed it off to quite a lot of applause from the croud.
Its as he said a little smaller, and 2 thrirds the weight of an iPod mini with a slightly larger screen than the current GBA and it will be even brighter, have custom changeable covers... oh and it features fully integrated wifi networking to match the DS and the Revoloution... What were any of you saying about cords?
Nintendo are setting some serious goals here. Including a major deal with a large ubiquitous behmoth online gaming company that garantees free wireless gaming with GBAs and DSs in a ton of places. They arent just going to have console pads. in theory just as the GBA could be a pad for the Gamecube... Its practicaly garanteed there will be similar, if infact far more advanced, uses with Revoloution games, all without having to get any more plugs adapters or anything.
Xbox 360 is just as the original Xbox was. No more than a gigantic "Market Penetration Excerscise"
MS are making the Xbox for company PR, and as a way to Sell other MS stuff though ancilliary channels.
I expect its fairly obvious there will be a point where they release a full OS for it and nice matching versions of their core software suites. All bundled at a discount price for already having gotten the (by the time) near manditory for all the "must have games" Xbox live service (and purely for having the Xbox itself as well) and slowly feeding MS more consitently and reliably than any other method.
But it is good to see that Inside contacts still exist:) theyve been sadly lost for a while.
And i still remember the days when i never in my wildest dreams thought that Sonic would be in a game on a nintendo system. But Sonic Adventure:Battle is right there on the GameCube... Sonic and all.
This i can attest to. Having spent 4 hours strait playing Metroid Prime... I have literaly forgotten i was using a pad.
Something ive never had hapen before in any game on any system. Most GC games are very close to the point where i dont realise im using the pad. But MP certainly went right past that (at let for me).
As obvious as it is that the MPAA are the (insert choise expletive)s behind all the copyright stuff and theyll want all the control they can get... ego... etc...
There remains the fact... Movies Make Money Before Theyre Even Seen
Product Placement... Coke pays $500000 for some (blank) to keep drinking coke at random moments throughout the film.. as their drink of choise... i know $500000 isnt enough to pay for a movie...
But think about how much more they might pay... If anyone could see this gigantic 2 hour video that to them equates to being an ad for their product. And that people might WANT to look at this "ad"... and that more than 1 company is paying for this kind of exposure.
I see at least a few million in Product Placment Acruing regardless of how its distributed. if not more for open/freely distributable movies...
Now this is something id like to see... Ive got more damnable copies of OSX to myself than ill ever use and no urge to go buy hardware to run them on... so getting my gamecube to use my OSX copy sounds wonderful
Well it was a formating problem that mucked up my post. I wasnt quoting you on that PSX-PS2 controler point. It was further down in the replies. But rather than make two separate replies i concatenated them into one and pretty much FUBARed my post in the process without realising it. (forgot to check the formatting differences between them)
My appologies to those annoyed or confused by that post.
The point relevant to the posts parent was mostly lost in a single block of unformatted text. I will reformat and repost it and you can all just blast that one down to (-1). That is, unless I get informed by someone that I shouldn't try and fix my formating error, reposting it in a way that can actualy be read and prove Im not some Troll.
I dont know how much antipathy there is here for people who post after working a 40 hour day and happen to make a minor mistake when submiting it... (before you mention it, i did try to preview but my comp gave me some problems and wouldnt show it, so i posted it in without a preview)
But hopefuly there's no objections to me at least trying to make my point or even just part of it again.
given that the PS2 has more storage space available on the disk, and a better controller
What dream world are you from? I dont see throttleable shoulder buttons on those ghastly overgrown rumble pack ripoff controllers Sony has been using ever since it stole the idea off Nintendo to put a rumble unit in them.
The gamecube controller fits prefectly in most peoples hands. (something X-Box had to fix by making a whole new pad for their japanese sales because no one could use their pad over there)
The throttling shoulder buttons are wonderful, and the "Digital click" when they reach full insertion is excelent, makes it feel like less of a twisted keyboard-joystick gene splicing experiment gone wrong (the impression i always get when i hold a PS2 pad) and more like the precision control device it is.
The asymetrical layout defines clear roles for each hand in gameplay, the left ususual taking motion on the Control stick or occasionaly d-pad, and the right taking the player controls, and camera control with the c-stick.
The shoulder buttons are located and set so that the index or middle finger are able to use them without needing to move from a normal gameplay position.
And the wireless Wavebird Controller is a gift from the gaming gods themselves, an official genuine product wireless controller, that actualy works after years of crap 3rd party ones.
My contoller point made ill move to the games.
Upcoming
~ Metroid Prime 2 : Echoes
If youve played the original you will know just how much this game has to live up to. So far it doesnt look set to disapoint.
Out now
~ F-Zero GX
This game is utterly addictive, classic racing gaming at its best. Nice well planed out courses executed in full 3d complete with loops, twists crossovers, and drops, all in rich 3d settings.
An kick ass soundtrack (so much so i went to the effort of riping the mp3s from the game and converting them to CD audio to take with me everywhere.) and a ship customisation function that adds a huge amount off satisfaction when you manage to make "your" perfect ship. Utterly Flawless gaming, I was able to play a 24 hour stretch of this game without once feeling bored
~ Metroid Prime
The groundbreaking redefinition of the classic metroid series. Lush graphics. With every little finishing touch aplied to them to make it an utterly awesome experience. From the fog, rain, volcanic and toxic resides on her visor, the awesome rendering from the Infravision and X-ray visor, to the jawdropping beam effects. (Fire off a nice long blast from the flamethrower charge up shot mode of the plasma beam and then come back and tell me you dont love it) With the intese atmospheric effects and some very ruthlesly hidden enemies, not to mention the nastiest end of game Boss(es) I have ever seen in a game EVER. (like getting the Spiderdemon and then have Tim Burton do it on crack or something.) This game and its sequel will have me satisfied until i can get a computer capable of playing Doom3, without any doubt. Pull out the Dolby Surround sound, flick off the lights and then wait till you can see your own eyes reflected back on the inside of your visor when you get slamed by an enemy. Totaly Immersive...
I think i may have gone to exessive levels to try and get my point across but stop and think, IS MS capable of producing and fostering such inovative moves on traditional and well know game serieses with the same degree of finesse that Nintendo has almost always had (I wont claim theyre perfect), from Rare blowing us away with the DKC series on the SNES to Goldeneye redefining console FPS games on the N64, and the Bliss that was Ocarina of Time, and the in development Zelda that looks like ganon has gone on an Resident Evil bender right across hyrule.
Can you ever see MS delivering things like these?
So Im not the only one with the urge to have multiple Quad-Core processors that reconfigure dynamicaly from OS based controls...
Hurra for Linux... Just thinking of using Windows to do this give me chest pains.
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exactly. For the love of god. you know that anything attached to the internet is not ever going to be "completely" (heck most things will never even be marginaly) secured so if you want to keep the data safe no matter what kind of data that is. the only way is to keep the damn machines of the net.
I belive some interesting research could be done into the six degrees of separation theory and large networks using gateways and subnets
just how "off the net" is that deep rooted bank system running the ATMs when theres sysadmins that have access directly to it... and probably have access to the company net for conveneince... and that has a gateway... etc...
~~~~
Whats with the To confirm your not a script. Its wasting my precious seconds
~~~~
Well unfortunatly for me im in australia... and belive me.. model M keyboards not only cost an arm and a leg to get imported they also never turn up localy cause theyre that rare anyone smart wont let them go.
Oh the things id do/give for an IBM model M13 in that lovely lovely IBM Stealth Black Seriously... if anyone would contemplate an act of supreme generosity? Perhaps you have one but dont like the Black one so use one of the white ones... damn i sound pathetic lol... oh well *holds up placard "will drop pants for IBM model M13 in IBM Stealth Black " *
and yes these days with the extra key functinality built into the os most keyboard drivers are control software things of varying quality.
seems these are almost everywhere these days. and with all the odd keys a lot of them Do need their own custom drivers for the extra keys and knobs and dials etc.
:)
whatever happend to the good old days when an IBM model M was all you needed
As far as im concerned I just use Thunderbird as a newsreader. Google nailed it dead on, when they designed Gmail i think they quite possibly found one of those lofty pinacles that so few programs ever manage to perch on where theres an overwhelming majority that agree wethere they use it or not that it has a superior design. But thats just me ;)
Gmail responds faster over my net connection than Thunderbird does and the UI is near perfect. and i am NEVER going to be happy without groups again. theyre a think of absoloute genius. I just wish i could flag my files like that for Google Desktop Search.
there is definatly room for Innovation. Shame that theres so little. But there has to be a "norm" for people or else everyone would give up cause no to things would be alike at all, and using a new program would take valuable time away from people that genuinely use these kinds of programs as buisness tools regardless of how much computer skill they have.
Obscurity is a powerful factor in security that shouldnt be overlooked :P
*from one who is trying to build a totaly transparent VAX emulation enviroment on OpenBSD
Up with the VAX! The Most Obscure of All!
Nicely Said, If i had modpoints id giva ya one
Apple is definatly using this to further leverage their iPod as not just a media player. But a genuine personal nessecity.
And for the love of god can the entire splay of AC posts up there get modded down to a nice -1 so i dont have to see them.
HAHA
I was waiting for it.
Nice one!
In Soviet Russia, Space Shuttle Launches You!
Oh dear god thats the first time one of these jokes ever made sence!
As far as im concerned once the price drops after a few months are over. I only care abou one title.
NetBSD
Honestly
dual threaded 3.2GHz tri core 64 bit custom G5 with 128 bit float precision. I mean For craps sake thats got more damn CPU horsepower than anything even relted to a "normal" computer.
Id buy 2 and write the price off as a donation to charity when i set them up as servers with BOINC stuff soaking up the spare cycles theyd have in spades no matter what i used em for.
that was the one failing reported by the otherwise usualy VERY happy users of NT on other architectures. There was next to bugger all driver and software support.
Oh and if you ever find those CDs mail me cause id kill for them myself. My passion for excentric software is itching to get the last version of NT available for the Alpha just cause its there! lol
Well wether this counts as a hobby or an feat worthy of sisiphus himself is up to yea who read it :p
:), without spyware removal tools (till the last 4 months when they became part of my life support toolkit ;) ) with the IE 5.5 shell parasite attached. And to top it off My dear sweet mother was always fond of just reaching round and turning the big switch at the back off while it was running without a thought to shut down or even close the programs. Her answer to any thing was to flip it off and try again pretty much.
:p
I quite fondly kept my familys windows 95 A ! compaq pressario 2200 with 133 Mhz cyrix fanless cpu bolted in under the most non standard heatsink ive ever seen alive and kicking for 6 years, without a Reinstall, with out antivirus, without firewall, without security or other MS updates bar the Winsock 2 one
But i persevered and kept it alive without a reinstall for 6 years. I personaly challenge anyone to beat that (and factor in the abusive work enviroment). I watched it meltdown catasrophicaly till DOS failed to boot after nearly 6 and a half years of use. And then as the very machine itself was dying i proceded to coax its 4x CD ROM drive to make one last boot and was able to get the recovery cd to install again. And it still works at the moment (though sits unused thank god)
RIP
Monolith
First personal experience with windows.
1997 - 2003
~To great feats of personal distinction.
~Anything is a good thing in the hands of the right person.
~May the binary gods take mercy on the personality Monolith developed over those 6 years through bit rot and hard shutdowns.
I miss ya old girl!
As anyone with a passion for other and more esoteric platforms will (or should) know.
Windows NT existed on a number of different architectures other than Intel x86, Including MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC, in versions 3.5 3.51 and 4.0.
The final point to make is that when the work began on Windows 2000, the entire OS was done. The full NT5 beta available from the MSDN when it was released. Did indeed include a PowerPC version as well as the others. ( at least one beta did as far as i can confirm from my discourses with other "wisened veterans" (no mater what their age) of the MS oses. )
The effort involved in MS porting the NT 5 kernel and other systems to the Xbox 360 would have been totaly comparable to the effort needed to strip and optimise the nt 5 core for the Xbox. Which is in fact a very impressive degree of refinement over the original os when you examine the finer details.
( My other boxes are FreeBSD and Solaris so dont dare call me a MS fan, XP is for my games only case wine isnt good enough and i pray it catches up sooner. )
a younger sibling of mine played the Konami (theyre IP (as in Intelectual property not Internet protocol :P ) anyway) Yugioh Online game think... kinda like an online MMORPG trading card game lol
Among the censor list was "good"
made for very interesting mistakes im sure
"good game" becomes "**** Game"
gee i wonder how much more offensive that seems hrm?
online censoring in mulitplayer games seems to be a fad for even vaugely kiddy like stuff.
Your right there. Sunbird Desperatly needs some work and hopefuly as it nears completion it will become a "usable" calendat and scheduling tool on par with the (as much as i hate to say this) "standard" thats set with Outlook. ( *shudder* )
/. to know is that there are always going to be people that think different. (anyone who reads /. with patience and care will note the flamers, the fanboys (i will not under any circumstance be held liable to be P.C. [i use a phrase to make a point and if you feel marginalised because of it then YOU have the problem not me. ] ) , the wizened sages and all the usual online steretypes each with the cliche thinking patterns about things.
But one thing i have noticed. Is I as a person never go out of my way to schedule things. Yes i know its a bad habit blah blah etc. But its not that i realy Can Not Be Bothered stopping and spending the time to plan thing and so on. Its I dont think that way.
One thing i expect
I DO need scheduling tools and that goes without saying. But for a tool to work for me, It does the work behind my back. I just dont have the consistency to plan things like when i have to get this done by. I have deadlines of course. But fat luck if they wind up in MY calendar. My calendar is set buy OTHERS not me. Rarely is it that I can go and just jot down something with absolute confidence (even temporarily absolute) that is will happen then.
A way for "my" calendar to fetch dates from other sources is a brillant idea. And being able to get my callendar anywhere is a great one too.
But to me a calendar is more than a record of whats going to happen.
If youve seen system logs youve probably thought at some point wouldnt it be nice if important events that HAPPEND were noted down in your calendar. Keeping track of what has happend isnt just a tool for logs and diaries. I think they make the diaries with the calendars and daily planers in them for a reason? Ahem?
just about anything can be made to spit out RSS feed information to a webserver.
Syslogs, Sendmail, System crashes, automatic results from a personal document crawl searching for references to current or any new generaly dated event in your IM conversations or whatever.
It may seem like yould end up with one impossible to use mess with all that. But like all things you pick and chose what works for you. and theres always view filters and categories as well.
I think ive begun to ramble so unless someone encourages more discourse on this. Ill call it an end.
On a side note this kind of thing is (though i cant check exactly im just going from the info i have on what spotlight does cause Well. I dont have a mac :P ) also available for windows machines through programs available at www.sysinternals.com
These guys are utter LORDS of the nt OS by any definiton. ( read their "About us" section and see just how A class it is. A Microsoft Most Valued Proffesional no less )
Anyway. There are filesystem access and notification tools around for nearly any os and its good to see OS X realy making a push with them instead of the way theyer usualy swept under the rug in most OSes publicity stuff (not that many oses have publicity to speak of lol )
You werent paying enought attention i think.
Reggie Pulled the new GBA out and showed it off to quite a lot of applause from the croud.
Its as he said a little smaller, and 2 thrirds the weight of an iPod mini with a slightly larger screen than the current GBA and it will be even brighter, have custom changeable covers... oh and it features fully integrated wifi networking to match the DS and the Revoloution... What were any of you saying about cords?
Nintendo are setting some serious goals here. Including a major deal with a large ubiquitous behmoth online gaming company that garantees free wireless gaming with GBAs and DSs in a ton of places. They arent just going to have console pads. in theory just as the GBA could be a pad for the Gamecube... Its practicaly garanteed there will be similar, if infact far more advanced, uses with Revoloution games, all without having to get any more plugs adapters or anything.
...And MS dont care.
:) theyve been sadly lost for a while.
Xbox 360 is just as the original Xbox was. No more than a gigantic "Market Penetration Excerscise"
MS are making the Xbox for company PR, and as a way to Sell other MS stuff though ancilliary channels.
I expect its fairly obvious there will be a point where they release a full OS for it and nice matching versions of their core software suites. All bundled at a discount price for already having gotten the (by the time) near manditory for all the "must have games" Xbox live service (and purely for having the Xbox itself as well) and slowly feeding MS more consitently and reliably than any other method.
But it is good to see that Inside contacts still exist
And i still remember the days when i never in my wildest dreams thought that Sonic would be in a game on a nintendo system. But Sonic Adventure:Battle is right there on the GameCube... Sonic and all.
Dont Discount something Just because of the past.
This i can attest to.
Having spent 4 hours strait playing Metroid Prime... I have literaly forgotten i was using a pad.
Something ive never had hapen before in any game on any system. Most GC games are very close to the point where i dont realise im using the pad. But MP certainly went right past that (at let for me).
As obvious as it is that the MPAA are the (insert choise expletive)s behind all the copyright stuff and theyll want all the control they can get... ego... etc...
... and that more than 1 company is paying for this kind of exposure.
There remains the fact... Movies Make Money Before Theyre Even Seen
Product Placement... Coke pays $500000 for some (blank) to keep drinking coke at random moments throughout the film.. as their drink of choise... i know $500000 isnt enough to pay for a movie...
But think about how much more they might pay... If anyone could see this gigantic 2 hour video that to them equates to being an ad for their product. And that people might WANT to look at this "ad"
I see at least a few million in Product Placment Acruing regardless of how its distributed. if not more for open/freely distributable movies...
---2c over---
Now this is something id like to see... Ive got more damnable copies of OSX to myself than ill ever use and no urge to go buy hardware to run them on... so getting my gamecube to use my OSX copy sounds wonderful
Well it was a formating problem that mucked up my post. I wasnt quoting you on that PSX-PS2 controler point.
It was further down in the replies.
But rather than make two separate replies i concatenated them into one and pretty much FUBARed my post in the process without realising it. (forgot to check the formatting differences between them)
My appologies to those annoyed or confused by that post.
The point relevant to the posts parent was mostly lost in a single block of unformatted text.
I will reformat and repost it and you can all just blast that one down to (-1).
That is, unless I get informed by someone that I shouldn't try and fix my formating error, reposting it in a way that can actualy be read and prove Im not some Troll.
I dont know how much antipathy there is here for people who post after working a 40 hour day and happen to make a minor mistake when submiting it...
(before you mention it, i did try to preview but my comp gave me some problems and wouldnt show it, so i posted it in without a preview)
But hopefuly there's no objections to me at least trying to make my point or even just part of it again.
So Im not the only one with the urge to have multiple Quad-Core processors that reconfigure dynamicaly from OS based controls... Hurra for Linux... Just thinking of using Windows to do this give me chest pains.