Who would you be buying it from? In most cases you'd just be buying a shady company for a pirated ROM regardless.
Most of the companies that made these games no longer exist. Any IP is going to be owned by a large corp like Nintendo, who will want you to buy their console and not DIY
You are saying you do not want to pirate, while at the same time you want to use this content in an un-authorized/un-approved way.
Piracy is your only real option if you want to play "popular" game ROMs.
Quote: "will let Android phones use virtual machine technology to run a second instance of Android"
We're are not talking about virtualizing different operating systems on android here, just Android under Android. Sheesh, read the description of the article at least if you don't read the article.
How is that not able to run multiple full android OSes at the same time?
Unless for some reason you want to have Android 2.2 and 2.3 running at the same time. Which seems pretty useless.
Why run several instances of a kernel with all the overhead of a VM when you should just do chroot/jails?
Especially with such limited CPU and RAM, just seems like a bad idea.
It's a common practice when you mod your console to play homebrew/backups NEVER to accept another update again.
Obviously something could break (accidentally due to the mod, or on purpose by the company). In other words: DON'T UPDATE IF YOU MOD YOUR HARDWARE.
Everyone gives Nintendo crap about how easily hacked their systems are and how they DIDN'T take many steps to prevent it. Now they're trying to make sure that the 3DS doesn't have the same piracy issues as the other DSes and people are surprised/outraged?
None, which is my point. As a gesture of good-will it isn't much.
Would you accept a free month of netflix if they had gotten all their customers CC info stolen? Probably not, since it's next to worthless.
You can download some games for free, but you must remain a PSN+ member to keep playing those games.
So in reality they're offering you a free month of a service they expect you to keep paying for. Would be much more impressed with a year of free PSN+
Not to you or me maybe; we'll be too used to using our hands.
But what about people who grow up with it?
Maybe in a few decades computers won't even come with mice/keyboard. That's only for old people.:P
I tried the last version of PC-BSD. Was excited to have some ZFS support.
Unfortunately it would freeze under moderate (read: 1 VirtualBox VM running) load.
zfs-fuse has horrible performance; I compared Ubuntu 9.10 with zfs-fuse (0.5) and OpenSolaris... Ubuntu could hardly do 15MB/s read/write, while OpenSolaris could easily do 70MB/s.
I've been in the same boat, trying to find a good OS that has ZFS (without having to take such a huge performance hit from zfs-fuse).
FreeBSD would freeze under heavy load; from what research I did on it, it seemed like a zfs bug with FreeBSD 8.
OpenSolaris on the other hand is a pretty nice desktop (Gnome is pretty much the same everywhere...) and it has a lot of useful packages in it's repository. Flash was installed out of the box, and installing Songbird and Eclipse took only three mouse clicks.
Give OpenSolaris a try (assuming it has support for your hardware).
It's funny how an entire discussion on sociopaths sounds like it was written by sociopaths.
A sociopath is not necessarily going to be violent... and yet people on here are talking about them as if they were animals to be put down. If a person is born a sociopath, but follows the law, what's the problem?
Do you drink coffee? Use a computer/calculator?
As technology increases there will be new ways to enhance the human body and mind.
It's foolish to restrict it to adults who want it.
Busy-bodies can mind their own bodies. Just not mine.
You say NFS sucks, but then mention clients connecting to it that have dynamic IP addresses and the server going down.
Either all the administrators you've talked to have been incompetent, or you are just talking out your ass.
If you have an NFS server, why not a DHCP server with static leases? Why the hell would your clients have dynamic IPs? (This is going to piss off other services too.. including smbfs).
Why is your server going down (and why would you expect clients NOT to be unhappy?)
Zombie processes due to NFS server being down will only happen if you don't allow interrupts (which is by design!). It will all come back when NFS comes back.
One of the reasons NFS is so popular for media servers is that you can be watching a movie, restart the server in the middle of the movie, and the movie will resume playing when the server comes back up!
When it comes to performance for a network filesystem, NFS is great. It's certainly better than SMBfs. You can choose the size of the packets you send/receive, you can choose to use UDP or TCP...
In my experience the only people who have a strong dislike of NFS are those that only experienced it years ago, or who don't know how to use it properly.
I'd love to check it out; unfortunately I use an "unsupported" product. As do most of my classmates going through college for CS.
Guess what platform we like using and developing for?:P It's not Windows/Mac.
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Who would you be buying it from? In most cases you'd just be buying a shady company for a pirated ROM regardless. Most of the companies that made these games no longer exist. Any IP is going to be owned by a large corp like Nintendo, who will want you to buy their console and not DIY You are saying you do not want to pirate, while at the same time you want to use this content in an un-authorized/un-approved way. Piracy is your only real option if you want to play "popular" game ROMs.
Quote: "will let Android phones use virtual machine technology to run a second instance of Android"
We're are not talking about virtualizing different operating systems on android here, just Android under Android. Sheesh, read the description of the article at least if you don't read the article.
How is that not able to run multiple full android OSes at the same time? Unless for some reason you want to have Android 2.2 and 2.3 running at the same time. Which seems pretty useless.
Why run several instances of a kernel with all the overhead of a VM when you should just do chroot/jails? Especially with such limited CPU and RAM, just seems like a bad idea.
It's a common practice when you mod your console to play homebrew/backups NEVER to accept another update again.
Obviously something could break (accidentally due to the mod, or on purpose by the company). In other words: DON'T UPDATE IF YOU MOD YOUR HARDWARE.
Everyone gives Nintendo crap about how easily hacked their systems are and how they DIDN'T take many steps to prevent it. Now they're trying to make sure that the 3DS doesn't have the same piracy issues as the other DSes and people are surprised/outraged?
None, which is my point. As a gesture of good-will it isn't much. Would you accept a free month of netflix if they had gotten all their customers CC info stolen? Probably not, since it's next to worthless.
You can download some games for free, but you must remain a PSN+ member to keep playing those games. So in reality they're offering you a free month of a service they expect you to keep paying for. Would be much more impressed with a year of free PSN+
Not to you or me maybe; we'll be too used to using our hands. But what about people who grow up with it? Maybe in a few decades computers won't even come with mice/keyboard. That's only for old people. :P
...and a promise never to disable functionality again.
They had already made that promise... and then broke it. I find it hard to believe anything Sony says at this point.
I'd rather just see them lose a few million at this point. It's the only way companies seem to learn.
"...improvements in Google's blurring technology"
I love when governments make statements like this.
"Fix this techy thing we have no idea about and make it better. Should be easy right?"
I had 4GB of ram on a dual core AMD 2ghz computer.
I tried the last version of PC-BSD. Was excited to have some ZFS support. Unfortunately it would freeze under moderate (read: 1 VirtualBox VM running) load.
zfs-fuse has horrible performance; I compared Ubuntu 9.10 with zfs-fuse (0.5) and OpenSolaris... Ubuntu could hardly do 15MB/s read/write, while OpenSolaris could easily do 70MB/s.
I've been in the same boat, trying to find a good OS that has ZFS (without having to take such a huge performance hit from zfs-fuse).
FreeBSD would freeze under heavy load; from what research I did on it, it seemed like a zfs bug with FreeBSD 8.
OpenSolaris on the other hand is a pretty nice desktop (Gnome is pretty much the same everywhere...) and it has a lot of useful packages in it's repository. Flash was installed out of the box, and installing Songbird and Eclipse took only three mouse clicks.
Give OpenSolaris a try (assuming it has support for your hardware).
Higher quality product? Same internals as any PC with a shiny case. That's some high quality shit right there.
It's funny how an entire discussion on sociopaths sounds like it was written by sociopaths.
A sociopath is not necessarily going to be violent... and yet people on here are talking about them as if they were animals to be put down. If a person is born a sociopath, but follows the law, what's the problem?
In enterprise, it doesn't matter if the disk has a less likely chance of failing; redundancy for HA is worth the extra cost.
If someone is spending the money on SSD then performance had better be a big factor!
If you pay, are you still forced to listen to music you don't like?
One of the reasons I never used Pandora was that unless I made a new playlist, I couldn't skip songs after a little while.
Do you drink coffee? Use a computer/calculator? As technology increases there will be new ways to enhance the human body and mind. It's foolish to restrict it to adults who want it. Busy-bodies can mind their own bodies. Just not mine.
You say NFS sucks, but then mention clients connecting to it that have dynamic IP addresses and the server going down.
Either all the administrators you've talked to have been incompetent, or you are just talking out your ass.
If you have an NFS server, why not a DHCP server with static leases? Why the hell would your clients have dynamic IPs? (This is going to piss off other services too.. including smbfs).
Why is your server going down (and why would you expect clients NOT to be unhappy?)
Zombie processes due to NFS server being down will only happen if you don't allow interrupts (which is by design!). It will all come back when NFS comes back.
One of the reasons NFS is so popular for media servers is that you can be watching a movie, restart the server in the middle of the movie, and the movie will resume playing when the server comes back up!
When it comes to performance for a network filesystem, NFS is great. It's certainly better than SMBfs. You can choose the size of the packets you send/receive, you can choose to use UDP or TCP...
In my experience the only people who have a strong dislike of NFS are those that only experienced it years ago, or who don't know how to use it properly.
I'd love to check it out; unfortunately I use an "unsupported" product. As do most of my classmates going through college for CS.
:P It's not Windows/Mac.
Guess what platform we like using and developing for?
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Ubuntu 8.04 and flash works just fine on x86 for me as well. Just install it from apt, don't get it from adobe.
PulseAudio, unlike ESD, can handle multiple audio outputs at once.
It used to be that if I had flash open in Firefox, I couldn't pause and play something in mplayer.
Just because some applications have issues with it doesn't make it crap; it's a major improvement.
DHCP logs will only contain the IP address and MAC address; information that cannot be used to identify anything other than a machine (assuming the MAC isn't spoofed; my laptop runs macchanger -A ath0 on startup :)).
Novice users create a directory all the time; it's not a concept people have difficulty with.
I find it very surprising that there are no directories, especially if these "spam" files are getting dumped to the same place you save your documents and other files.
This is a feature that is embarrassing not to have.