Well, there's no need to call you a pirate, but the fact that this hack exists means that the HD has now become a pirating liability. Add that to the list of reasons why MS wants the HD outta there.
Maybe, but given how cheap DVD burners have become, copying of DVD based game is rife. Only the Gamecube with its mini-discs has escaped so far. Unless, that is, unless MS is planning on making the X-Box 2 games available on demand only, downloaded from a central server when you want to play them.
This doesn't bode well for my purchase of an X-Box 2. One of the things that appealed to me about the X-Box 1 was the fact that you could run games off the hard disk. And before anyone starts going OMG! Pirate! - I put my own legally games on my X-Box hard disk. So all I have to do is shove the games in the cupboard, and then boot up my box and select a game. If the box 2 doesn't have this, I think I'll skip it.
These may be wierd in a 'oo! It's japanese and odd' way, but for my money, the wierdest toys ever can be found at Disturbing Auctions. Just look at the emotionally scarring toys and weep. Half of those are home made and beat hands down anything Japan could come up with.
Even if your call centre cares enough to do something about you repeatedly hanging up - I never found out if my next to last job did - there are sometimes tricks. The call centre job I was in had a phone system so crappy that just hitting a certain button combination (I can't remember which) would crash the phone, disconnecting the call without anyone being any wiser. Nice.
... since that's what the company I used to work for Tech Support had us doing (thankfully, my current employers are a world away from that). Before any return could be authorised, you had to advise the end user to reimage, or there was no return. If you hadn't done this - and the users couldn't lie since the reimage gave out a number we could check on - no return. But here's where it got really sneaky.
Not only did people who didn't buy an extended warrantee for their home PC have to spend 50p - 1.00 a minute on the phone, but they also got no reimage disc. So to get their PCs returned, they needed to reimage, but couldn't reimage without a disc. I doubt this was legal, but we ended up advising users that they had to buy an extended warrantee to get a reimage disc. Or pay 50 pounds for a reimage disc! For a disc which cost maybe 50p tops to make. There are so many tips and tricks the article only skims the surface. Rings a lot of bells for me though.
Pen computers? Anyone here must know how hard it is to keep a pen in an office. But seriously, the security implications of this aren't good. All someone would need to do would be to slip a pen-unit into their pocket, walk off, and they've got your project data.
.. when destruction could be so much more fun. I wonder how far the sim will allow people to take this. Will players be allowed to get their hands on nuclear weapons, or will the scenarios be strictly regulated. If the former, I suspect there'll be Clans set up to see who can cause the most destruction to the virtual world. And what would happen if significant parts of world got nuked? Would it be reset, or would the simulation continue? Now, I'm off to watch 'The Thirteenth Floor' so I can completely break my brain.
It's because on Earth, rocks are just rocks. Whereas on Mars, they're a sign of an ancient civilation who were peaceful, wise, who will one day return from the outer reaches of space to bring us the benefits of their great knowledge. And certainly not fry us with their flying saucers and death rays. Honest.
Ultimately, it's for the same reason that any wisdom from the 'east' is automatically assumed to be of value, no matter how shoddy it may be. Rather like Lobsang Rama, whose philosophies were embraced but who turned out to be a plumber for Plympton.
My god... it's full of hot-dogs!
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Coming soon - Bonanza 2012, starring the head of Lorne Greene: Mars - the new frontier, thousands of fortune seekers stake their claim on the red planet, hoping to make their fortune panning for frankfurters.
Well, given how illiterate today's generations of texters and emailers are becoming we can presumably look forward to ship bound soses such as...
'OMG! U sUnK mY BatT13sH1p U Camp1ng fAg! Plz snd he1p! GG'
Actually, my current all in one works a treat. It cost me 9.99 from ToysRUs - I think it was a Medion or something. As for cost, One-For-All actually do a 50.00 remote, which has touch pad buttons, a light up blue surface. Which may look nice, but given the battering most remotes get, I can't see why anyone would buy that and expect it to last.
At least that's the way it went in my house. I suspect a number of slashdot users - certainly myself - have so many remote controls they replace them with an all-in-one remote. My current cheapy all in one controls my CD player, my TV, sky box, vcr and DVD. And nice as any individual device's remote control may be, I'd rather stick it in a drawer and use the all-for-one instead of having to fumble for more than one remote.
The American Dental Association, for the sudden increase in work coming their way. A Mr Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. will be presented with the award - a special enamel yellow I-Pod - at the next 'Fillings Across America' convention.
'That's Magneto, damn you! And we do the same thing we do ever night, Pinky.. try to take over the world with our rodent superpowers! And how many times do I have to tell you? Stop licking off that blue body paint!'
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Maybe, but given how cheap DVD burners have become, copying of DVD based game is rife. Only the Gamecube with its mini-discs has escaped so far. Unless, that is, unless MS is planning on making the X-Box 2 games available on demand only, downloaded from a central server when you want to play them.
Apparently the trail lead to the account of one Beorge Gush - investigations continue.
.. if you've only got one eye, though.
... Microsoft will be including a scanner which can scan for viruses which get in through security holes in their OS?
Ow. I think I just broke my brain.
I bow before the uber hackerness of anyone who got the neutred Boba Fett toy's missile to fire.
These may be wierd in a 'oo! It's japanese and odd' way, but for my money, the wierdest toys ever can be found at Disturbing Auctions. Just look at the emotionally scarring toys and weep. Half of those are home made and beat hands down anything Japan could come up with.
Even if your call centre cares enough to do something about you repeatedly hanging up - I never found out if my next to last job did - there are sometimes tricks. The call centre job I was in had a phone system so crappy that just hitting a certain button combination (I can't remember which) would crash the phone, disconnecting the call without anyone being any wiser. Nice.
.. which isn't as important as the first, or when I wasn't working in my now non-crappy job, is 'it's a training issue'. Quite useful.
... since that's what the company I used to work for Tech Support had us doing (thankfully, my current employers are a world away from that). Before any return could be authorised, you had to advise the end user to reimage, or there was no return. If you hadn't done this - and the users couldn't lie since the reimage gave out a number we could check on - no return. But here's where it got really sneaky. Not only did people who didn't buy an extended warrantee for their home PC have to spend 50p - 1.00 a minute on the phone, but they also got no reimage disc. So to get their PCs returned, they needed to reimage, but couldn't reimage without a disc. I doubt this was legal, but we ended up advising users that they had to buy an extended warrantee to get a reimage disc. Or pay 50 pounds for a reimage disc! For a disc which cost maybe 50p tops to make. There are so many tips and tricks the article only skims the surface. Rings a lot of bells for me though.
Pen computers? Anyone here must know how hard it is to keep a pen in an office. But seriously, the security implications of this aren't good. All someone would need to do would be to slip a pen-unit into their pocket, walk off, and they've got your project data.
.. when destruction could be so much more fun. I wonder how far the sim will allow people to take this. Will players be allowed to get their hands on nuclear weapons, or will the scenarios be strictly regulated. If the former, I suspect there'll be Clans set up to see who can cause the most destruction to the virtual world. And what would happen if significant parts of world got nuked? Would it be reset, or would the simulation continue? Now, I'm off to watch 'The Thirteenth Floor' so I can completely break my brain.
It's like regular matter, only it has a goatee. I thank yew.
.. it's full of Goths! I hereby dub the matter 'Mopotronium
It's because on Earth, rocks are just rocks. Whereas on Mars, they're a sign of an ancient civilation who were peaceful, wise, who will one day return from the outer reaches of space to bring us the benefits of their great knowledge. And certainly not fry us with their flying saucers and death rays. Honest.
Ultimately, it's for the same reason that any wisdom from the 'east' is automatically assumed to be of value, no matter how shoddy it may be. Rather like Lobsang Rama, whose philosophies were embraced but who turned out to be a plumber for Plympton.
Coming soon - Bonanza 2012, starring the head of Lorne Greene: Mars - the new frontier, thousands of fortune seekers stake their claim on the red planet, hoping to make their fortune panning for frankfurters.
But Lindash may not be in the clear - after all, MS calls its X-Box loader the MS Dashboard..
Well, given how illiterate today's generations of texters and emailers are becoming we can presumably look forward to ship bound soses such as ...
'OMG! U sUnK mY BatT13sH1p U Camp1ng fAg! Plz snd he1p! GG'
Actually, my current all in one works a treat. It cost me 9.99 from ToysRUs - I think it was a Medion or something. As for cost, One-For-All actually do a 50.00 remote, which has touch pad buttons, a light up blue surface. Which may look nice, but given the battering most remotes get, I can't see why anyone would buy that and expect it to last.
At least that's the way it went in my house. I suspect a number of slashdot users - certainly myself - have so many remote controls they replace them with an all-in-one remote. My current cheapy all in one controls my CD player, my TV, sky box, vcr and DVD. And nice as any individual device's remote control may be, I'd rather stick it in a drawer and use the all-for-one instead of having to fumble for more than one remote.
The American Dental Association, for the sudden increase in work coming their way. A Mr Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. will be presented with the award - a special enamel yellow I-Pod - at the next 'Fillings Across America' convention.
I pity the fool who doesn't name an asteroid after one of The Onion's previous interviewees, Mr T.
Surely the title should be.. 'Yahoo! Switches! Search! Engines!'
"Brevity is the soul of wit" said Shakespeare. I say "Wank!" Thus I win. - The League Against Tedium
'What do we do tonight, Brain?'
'That's Magneto, damn you! And we do the same thing we do ever night, Pinky.. try to take over the world with our rodent superpowers! And how many times do I have to tell you? Stop licking off that blue body paint!'