replying to myself here, just wondering how this is "off-topic"? it relates the product being discussed (the xbox 360) to previous products (the windows line of os'es) from the company that produces the unit in question? albeit their previous products have been software, and this is hardware, but it shows previous trends from the company in question relating to problems with their products....
anyway, i'm not trying to rant, and i know if i don't like it i can meta-mod etc.....
i would tell you to RTFA (if there was one) , but that would be useless as you haven't even read the summery:
I've already been accepted into Carnegie Mellon University, so I don't need to worry about any 'safety' schools. However, I still have my sights set on getting into a school such as MIT or Cal Tech.
why would they? they haven't in the past either.... windows 3.1 was horrendous, so they released windows 95, which was horrendous, so they released windows 98 which was a bit better after second edition came around, and as a upgrade they released ME, which was almost as bad as 95.. and FINALLY they released 2000, then XP which were both a bit better... now Vista which in my opinion isn't much different than XP, because on many levels its better, but on many levels its worse.... so just wait until MS releases Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive XP, and stick with it..... Me, im just gonna buy a PS3 to go with my Wii and have fun..
you might want to check your copy....
Not Found
The requested URL/console/wii/file/zelda_tp_ script.txt was not found on this server.
is where that wget points to (you put a space between tp_[space]script.txt, if you enter the right url, even without page refers turned on, it still prohibits me from accessing the file directly, it looks like its set up to only allow access if you were refered from a spefic or domain...
as far as i can rember google search was never compromised.... googlebombs dont count since that was how google was DESINGED to work... if it has been i dont remember...
so can he use a computer and have IT use the internet? if not, id like to know how i could just "use the internet" without a device to do it for me, as i still don't have the rj45 jack implanted in the back of my skull yet:(
ive heard of chain letters, and chain email, and even more recently chain im's and text messages, but chain slashdot comments, well i guess it goes with the maturity level of the community, but i personally would be to scared to post one for fear one of the zealots would look up my ip, hack my isp, get my address and rape and kill me for being so stupid....
it was my understanding that the submitter to a patch for the kernel could choose the licence s/he wanted, and if it was acceptable, and the patch was well recived, than it would be incorperated in the kernel, which would mean that each contributor to the kernel owns his/her code that contributed to the kernel, in turn causing multipul people to own many different parts of the linux kernel, with Linus owning the lions share...
i dont know if i would consider an add-on drive "comitted" it doesnt seem too far fetched that if hd-dvd fails thta MS could then release a blue-ray drive for the 360 aswell.... sony is Committed to Blue-ray, because if the format fails so does the ps3 where if hd-dvd fails, microsoft has the dvd fallback oprion and the ability to backpeddle and release a blue-ray drive...... just my 0.02 cents....
buddy, im running a athlon 1.2Ghz, 1GB DDR, and a modern geforce 5700fx, my advice DONT UPGRADE TO VISTA, im running vista right now, and compaired to xp its slow as hadies. i mean xp with the suragy gui stuff on, it a annorexic goth compaired to vista in "its full glory" its a blatant ripoff of a mac, and has less application support than XP, alot of my programs break, crash, or freeze, and all vista does it reccomend i upgrade to the latest version, and ive tried the latest stable and beta of alot of programs and still notice instability in the likes of powerarchiver, yahoo messanger, the built in sound daemon, the hibernation stuff... etc, stay with XP like most people will.... might be a good idea to stock pile some legit copys of xp for mass sale when vista hits home pc's as i see millions of people looking to buy a copy of xp and the proce rocketing.....
no they just had to re-impliment the bugs that didnt work properly (ie the buggy bugs) and made sure these new "features" made it into the final release, oh that and they removed the back door in the kernel to slip around the drm protected content;)
heh 18 to 24 months old... i built my system in late 99 early 2000 (some time before 9/11/01 im sure) i put in 1 GB DDR, and a 1.7GHz K7, a nVidia GF 4700Ti, and one 40Gb Drive, since then i upgraded the graphics to a FX5600 about a year ago (probably more), and droped 2 120GB drives in it, and i still use it just fine. Plays UT2K4 fine, windows xp pro has an uptime of over a month before i shut it down, just to boot into linux so i can poke around in ubuntu. Infact theres not much my system cant handle, and its over 6 years old.... minus the graphics card (which still did pretty well in UT2K4 before i upgraded) and the drives which didnt cost too much, and have a practical use.... My Outdated comp runs better than most pre packaged compaq's and hp's because of all the trash they come pre loaded with the the insanely low ammounts of ram they come loaded with. These days i consider 1GB of ram to be pretty much minimum, if your luckey youll get away with 512....
anyway sorry to ramble on, im tired (zZz) and sick (or is that sick and tired) or hearing people bitch about people who run legasy hardware should be shot or laughed at because they cant/wont/dont upgrade, im here to tell you i cant afford to upgrade, i dont see a need to upgrade, and if when i have a need to upgrade, i dont have the money to do so, i wont upgrade. If on the other hand like some of the high class geeks whos mommies and daddies buy them everything i can magicaly come up with the money to upgrade u gladly will, ive been dyeing to try out one of the AMD 64 dual cores....
while your launching giant things into space why not make them solar panels, and beam the energy they generate to a series of sattaliets orbiting the earth (very carefully so as not to fry san fan with this high power microwave beam). these sats could then beam the energy to ground stations, not only solving global warming, but also the polution problem, energy crisis, and allow the earth to revert back to a "clean" state.... but i dont think this idea could ever work because invariably some idiot wouldnt convert from metric to SAE properly in some obscure calculation that is only used once every 5 years, causing one of the beams to miss, thus frying a stripe around the globe killing millions....
Well i havent tried a gentoo install since the gtk installer came around (and for good reason i might add), but i remember my last expirence with trying to build gentoo, it was a simmilar expirence to the author's. I started at stage 1, and set some very basic optimizations for my amd athlon cpu, read all the documentation, and actualy created a bash script to autmoagicaly execute the shell commands that documentation said i needed to do, i still needed to babysit the box to answer the yes / no questions it asked me, but i didnt need to refer to the documentation about what command to issue next (it was nifty), so anyway, i got it all up, and went to emerge xserver (at the time it was xfree still, before the fork) and again thats where all hell broke loose. I dont think its so much gentoo's fault as it is the layout of the x config files, and the lack or a utility to automatically grab the best settings for your card and ask you if youd like to use them as is/edit them/specify your own. I beleave i went wrong when i tried to get my nvidia card up and working (it seems nvidia really needs to provide open source drivers, as its a pain to get x working with binary ones). anyway i searched the forumes on my nvidia problem, and couldnt find any spefic answer there, so i went on irc, and repetedly got told to RTFM, even though i already did and made clear that following the steps in the manual is what got me here, and anything that could be seen as a fix on the fourms didnt seem to work. at the time it seemed to me the community was very hostile to noobs in gentoo, im no newbi to linux in general, ive rolled alot of my own source (which is why i wanted to goto gentoo, to get away from RPM hell, especially when you have rpm-s installed and stuff compiled from source installed too.... anyway, after spending a week without X working and having been told to RTFM countless times, i think a few users tried to help me but gave up when they failed to fix it on the 2 or 3rd try. I eventually gave up, and converted to Debian for a bit, not im a Happy Ubuntu user, although ive heard some buzz about Sabayon Linux supposedly based on gentoo, so i may be taking a stab back inth the wonderful? world of Gentoo... if i get the spare time that is...
you completly missed the point of the article, its ment more as a gaming PC at the moment, install UT2k4 on it, or Quake 4 etc, and frag away in unbeleavablely quiet bliss on a lightning fast machine. I do agree the price is redicously under quoted though, however it could possibly be a bit cheeper if you like most geeks already have some of the stuff lyinge around... an old P4 board / proc, a passivlt cooled nvidia card, ddr ram, case..... ur still looking at the ionic system and the nice power supply and the ram drives, however it just fell from a few thousand dollars to maby a few hundred:)
not anymore, you should look into hughes net and blue(whateverthefuckitis) again, as they now have two way sat communications, but lag is still a major issue.
well, i dont haver sat net myself, but i have expirenced it, and for the price i dont think its worth it, but that aside, uploads and downloads should be comparable to DSL to some extent as the packages being sent back and forth contain alot of information, so once the flow starts, it generaly goes pretty fast, however latence will be an issue with gameing, as with gameing its not just how much information you can send to the servers, but how fast you can get and receve it, and this is where lag time comes from, and latency comes from, i dont have much expirence with MMRPG's on sat net, however i have heard mixed reviews, some claim its unplayable, some say its ok, either way you look at it its not gonne come anywhere Near Comcast, and will have trouble keeping up with DSL.
OK for all of you who couldnt or havent RTFA, basicaly the idea is this (i beleave i saw someone wondering about it somewhat above me) basicaly, determin credibility of text based on age, not user status, as you dont need to have an account to edit a wiki, every user has the same trusted status: untrusted. as such, every edit he makes will apear in red. over the course of time, say 20 edits past his edit, or idealy 200 pageviews or some such time keeping measure as that, the orignal edit gains credibility as noone has corrected it. and will eventualy fade to yellow, then gree, and finally black for fully mature content. as such vandals can keep vandalizing, but its obvious the text has been recently edited, and hasnt had much peer review....
The problem with diebold voting machines is that they rely on the security of a horribly formatted article (secured by the horrible formatting) to ensure noone will read how to access their smart cards....
oh no, oh no, you shouldnt have done that, i can see it now, an army of soccer moms protesting video arcades due to their kids spending all their allowence and lunch money on those infernal machines, instead of better things.. like oh say heroin and a glock. you need to learn to keep your comments to yourself, you just ruined it for all of us buddy!
you inform me of a truly useful and intresting website, and before i can even blick 2ce the site is slashdotted, and theres not even a link to it in the article!
Slashdot Mirror
replying to myself here, just wondering how this is "off-topic"? it relates the product being discussed (the xbox 360) to previous products (the windows line of os'es) from the company that produces the unit in question? albeit their previous products have been software, and this is hardware, but it shows previous trends from the company in question relating to problems with their products.... anyway, i'm not trying to rant, and i know if i don't like it i can meta-mod etc.....
i would tell you to RTFA (if there was one) , but that would be useless as you haven't even read the summery: I've already been accepted into Carnegie Mellon University, so I don't need to worry about any 'safety' schools. However, I still have my sights set on getting into a school such as MIT or Cal Tech.
why would they? they haven't in the past either.... windows 3.1 was horrendous, so they released windows 95, which was horrendous, so they released windows 98 which was a bit better after second edition came around, and as a upgrade they released ME, which was almost as bad as 95.. and FINALLY they released 2000, then XP which were both a bit better... now Vista which in my opinion isn't much different than XP, because on many levels its better, but on many levels its worse.... so just wait until MS releases Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive XP, and stick with it..... Me, im just gonna buy a PS3 to go with my Wii and have fun..
you might want to check your copy.... Not Found The requested URL /console/wii/file/zelda_tp_ script.txt was not found on this server.
is where that wget points to (you put a space between tp_[space]script.txt, if you enter the right url, even without page refers turned on, it still prohibits me from accessing the file directly, it looks like its set up to only allow access if you were refered from a spefic or domain...
as far as i can rember google search was never compromised.... googlebombs dont count since that was how google was DESINGED to work... if it has been i dont remember...
so can he use a computer and have IT use the internet? if not, id like to know how i could just "use the internet" without a device to do it for me, as i still don't have the rj45 jack implanted in the back of my skull yet :(
How about "The Resturant at the end of the Universe"??
ive heard of chain letters, and chain email, and even more recently chain im's and text messages, but chain slashdot comments, well i guess it goes with the maturity level of the community, but i personally would be to scared to post one for fear one of the zealots would look up my ip, hack my isp, get my address and rape and kill me for being so stupid....
it was my understanding that the submitter to a patch for the kernel could choose the licence s/he wanted, and if it was acceptable, and the patch was well recived, than it would be incorperated in the kernel, which would mean that each contributor to the kernel owns his/her code that contributed to the kernel, in turn causing multipul people to own many different parts of the linux kernel, with Linus owning the lions share...
Because this course of action has already been patented by the USPTO, and as such, you would be infringing on their rights...
i dont know if i would consider an add-on drive "comitted" it doesnt seem too far fetched that if hd-dvd fails thta MS could then release a blue-ray drive for the 360 aswell.... sony is Committed to Blue-ray, because if the format fails so does the ps3 where if hd-dvd fails, microsoft has the dvd fallback oprion and the ability to backpeddle and release a blue-ray drive...... just my 0.02 cents....
buddy, im running a athlon 1.2Ghz, 1GB DDR, and a modern geforce 5700fx, my advice DONT UPGRADE TO VISTA, im running vista right now, and compaired to xp its slow as hadies. i mean xp with the suragy gui stuff on, it a annorexic goth compaired to vista in "its full glory" its a blatant ripoff of a mac, and has less application support than XP, alot of my programs break, crash, or freeze, and all vista does it reccomend i upgrade to the latest version, and ive tried the latest stable and beta of alot of programs and still notice instability in the likes of powerarchiver, yahoo messanger, the built in sound daemon, the hibernation stuff... etc, stay with XP like most people will.... might be a good idea to stock pile some legit copys of xp for mass sale when vista hits home pc's as i see millions of people looking to buy a copy of xp and the proce rocketing.....
no they just had to re-impliment the bugs that didnt work properly (ie the buggy bugs) and made sure these new "features" made it into the final release, oh that and they removed the back door in the kernel to slip around the drm protected content ;)
heh 18 to 24 months old... i built my system in late 99 early 2000 (some time before 9/11/01 im sure) i put in 1 GB DDR, and a 1.7GHz K7, a nVidia GF 4700Ti, and one 40Gb Drive, since then i upgraded the graphics to a FX5600 about a year ago (probably more), and droped 2 120GB drives in it, and i still use it just fine. Plays UT2K4 fine, windows xp pro has an uptime of over a month before i shut it down, just to boot into linux so i can poke around in ubuntu. Infact theres not much my system cant handle, and its over 6 years old.... minus the graphics card (which still did pretty well in UT2K4 before i upgraded) and the drives which didnt cost too much, and have a practical use.... My Outdated comp runs better than most pre packaged compaq's and hp's because of all the trash they come pre loaded with the the insanely low ammounts of ram they come loaded with. These days i consider 1GB of ram to be pretty much minimum, if your luckey youll get away with 512.... anyway sorry to ramble on, im tired (zZz) and sick (or is that sick and tired) or hearing people bitch about people who run legasy hardware should be shot or laughed at because they cant/wont/dont upgrade, im here to tell you i cant afford to upgrade, i dont see a need to upgrade, and if when i have a need to upgrade, i dont have the money to do so, i wont upgrade. If on the other hand like some of the high class geeks whos mommies and daddies buy them everything i can magicaly come up with the money to upgrade u gladly will, ive been dyeing to try out one of the AMD 64 dual cores....
while your launching giant things into space why not make them solar panels, and beam the energy they generate to a series of sattaliets orbiting the earth (very carefully so as not to fry san fan with this high power microwave beam). these sats could then beam the energy to ground stations, not only solving global warming, but also the polution problem, energy crisis, and allow the earth to revert back to a "clean" state.... but i dont think this idea could ever work because invariably some idiot wouldnt convert from metric to SAE properly in some obscure calculation that is only used once every 5 years, causing one of the beams to miss, thus frying a stripe around the globe killing millions....
Well i havent tried a gentoo install since the gtk installer came around (and for good reason i might add), but i remember my last expirence with trying to build gentoo, it was a simmilar expirence to the author's. I started at stage 1, and set some very basic optimizations for my amd athlon cpu, read all the documentation, and actualy created a bash script to autmoagicaly execute the shell commands that documentation said i needed to do, i still needed to babysit the box to answer the yes / no questions it asked me, but i didnt need to refer to the documentation about what command to issue next (it was nifty), so anyway, i got it all up, and went to emerge xserver (at the time it was xfree still, before the fork) and again thats where all hell broke loose. I dont think its so much gentoo's fault as it is the layout of the x config files, and the lack or a utility to automatically grab the best settings for your card and ask you if youd like to use them as is/edit them/specify your own. I beleave i went wrong when i tried to get my nvidia card up and working (it seems nvidia really needs to provide open source drivers, as its a pain to get x working with binary ones). anyway i searched the forumes on my nvidia problem, and couldnt find any spefic answer there, so i went on irc, and repetedly got told to RTFM, even though i already did and made clear that following the steps in the manual is what got me here, and anything that could be seen as a fix on the fourms didnt seem to work. at the time it seemed to me the community was very hostile to noobs in gentoo, im no newbi to linux in general, ive rolled alot of my own source (which is why i wanted to goto gentoo, to get away from RPM hell, especially when you have rpm-s installed and stuff compiled from source installed too.... anyway, after spending a week without X working and having been told to RTFM countless times, i think a few users tried to help me but gave up when they failed to fix it on the 2 or 3rd try. I eventually gave up, and converted to Debian for a bit, not im a Happy Ubuntu user, although ive heard some buzz about Sabayon Linux supposedly based on gentoo, so i may be taking a stab back inth the wonderful? world of Gentoo... if i get the spare time that is...
you completly missed the point of the article, its ment more as a gaming PC at the moment, install UT2k4 on it, or Quake 4 etc, and frag away in unbeleavablely quiet bliss on a lightning fast machine. I do agree the price is redicously under quoted though, however it could possibly be a bit cheeper if you like most geeks already have some of the stuff lyinge around... an old P4 board / proc, a passivlt cooled nvidia card, ddr ram, case..... ur still looking at the ionic system and the nice power supply and the ram drives, however it just fell from a few thousand dollars to maby a few hundred :)
not anymore, you should look into hughes net and blue(whateverthefuckitis) again, as they now have two way sat communications, but lag is still a major issue.
well, i dont haver sat net myself, but i have expirenced it, and for the price i dont think its worth it, but that aside, uploads and downloads should be comparable to DSL to some extent as the packages being sent back and forth contain alot of information, so once the flow starts, it generaly goes pretty fast, however latence will be an issue with gameing, as with gameing its not just how much information you can send to the servers, but how fast you can get and receve it, and this is where lag time comes from, and latency comes from, i dont have much expirence with MMRPG's on sat net, however i have heard mixed reviews, some claim its unplayable, some say its ok, either way you look at it its not gonne come anywhere Near Comcast, and will have trouble keeping up with DSL.
OK for all of you who couldnt or havent RTFA, basicaly the idea is this (i beleave i saw someone wondering about it somewhat above me) basicaly, determin credibility of text based on age, not user status, as you dont need to have an account to edit a wiki, every user has the same trusted status: untrusted. as such, every edit he makes will apear in red. over the course of time, say 20 edits past his edit, or idealy 200 pageviews or some such time keeping measure as that, the orignal edit gains credibility as noone has corrected it. and will eventualy fade to yellow, then gree, and finally black for fully mature content. as such vandals can keep vandalizing, but its obvious the text has been recently edited, and hasnt had much peer review....
The problem with diebold voting machines is that they rely on the security of a horribly formatted article (secured by the horrible formatting) to ensure noone will read how to access their smart cards....
oh no, oh no, you shouldnt have done that, i can see it now, an army of soccer moms protesting video arcades due to their kids spending all their allowence and lunch money on those infernal machines, instead of better things.. like oh say heroin and a glock. you need to learn to keep your comments to yourself, you just ruined it for all of us buddy!
you inform me of a truly useful and intresting website, and before i can even blick 2ce the site is slashdotted, and theres not even a link to it in the article!
oh god, its pink....
jackass