> d) pop in Starcraft CD and play
Sorry, Reeves, but I've got to call bullshit on this one.;-)
Starcraft works, this is true. But dozens of other games, even older ones, still don't... I will be pleased with Wine when I can run network games of Civ2 multiplayer gold, Dungeon Keeper, Capitalism, and You Don't Know Jack 1 and 2. As of right now, Starcraft is the ONLY thing I've found to run reliably.
The simple command line tools that Unix/Linux power users love so much are useful because they can be chained together in mighty pipelines... there would have to be some equally simple, equally ubiquitous way to chain components together for the utility of the command line to reach the GUI world. Various object-embedding systems seem to be the start of this, but I can't visualize a way to extend the full utility of pipes into a GUI environment... is there anything out there simpler and more flexible than OLE/COM/wtf ever they call it these days ?
FWIW, it's actually named by the guys who disassembled it after the yummy Mountain Dew beverage. From the bugtraq post:
We've designated this the.ida "Code Red" worm, because part of the worm is
designed to deface webpages with the text "Hacked by Chinese" and also
because code red mountain dew was the only thing that kept us awake all last
night to be able to disassemble this exploit.
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Hmmm... hope you're explicitly setting the umask at the beginning of every single init script. =) Otherwise, you're getting love from a rather cute bug in 2.4.3-6 that makes lots of files world-writable that shouldn't be.
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> Fortunately, in order for it to work, the user needs to be running the tracking software on their computer.
Does the phrase "Microsoft Windows XP" mean anything to you ?
Not that I figure prior art will be hard to come by for this, but I did this in a Squeak/Smalltalk for a CS project my sophomore year in college, 1998. And they've been using this project for several years of this class.
I was pleased. I'm used to having to back up the current roaring penguin release before waxing my Linux system.;-)
It also seems to maybe be more stable, but I haven't had adequate time to really make that judgment yet.
>> PeptoBismol can actually trademark their color of pink!
I'm assuming this was just a for-instance, since there are numerous store-brand and off-brand stomach medicines that are pink... I think I have a bottle of Pink Bismuth in my medicine cabinet atm.
>> Be afraid, be very afraid when the populists are argumenting (sic) that laws should be simplified down to the lowest
>> common denominator in the populace. That way we will eventually end up with a tyranny of idiots.
There's no reason that legible wording prevents strong legislation. Hell, all of this argument is based on:
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
We need more laws like that.
> GDROMs have a special high density section in the center of the disk that is not readable in anything but a Sega GDRom drive.
Just a little nitpicky point, but the track in the center is actually a normal CD track, and the outer track is the GD-Rom. This is why, on rips that are burned onto standard CDs, the video will sometimes skip - the stream is normally read off of the faster outside of the disc.
I can't believe you didn't mention Space Channel 5. It's become one of my favorite games around for any system, bar none... if it just had a little more replay value (I can beat it in about 30 minutes now, and it's more or less the same each time), it would be my uncontested favorite.
as a proof of concept. Now, people have the concept of free availability of media in their heads, indelibly. Hopefully, this news will legitimize the concept of free media, and we'll eventually start seeing that be the rule rather than the exception. Here's hoping, anyway...
Hey, if seeing Elizabeth Hurley in skin tight red latex, French maid outfit and cheerleader uniform doesn't convert you, then you and I obviously have different priorities, pal.
Just to play devil's advocate, this doesn't sound like anything more than Capcom throwing out a buzz word to generate publicity... so they develop a midlayer that exports a generic API on several different platforms, and then code their games to that API. That's *NOT* emulation. That's what SDL does, that's what OpenGL and OpenSound do. It's basic tiered design, and it's a good idea. Hell, the point would be moot if all the game console manufacturers would get together and implement a unified API anyway, which they ought to do. But using the word 'emulation' just to stir up interest is pretty weak, IMHO.
If you read a little further, you'll see that the author says 'by this definition, Unix is an OS, but this definition is outdated', and goes on to say that Unix isn't an OS because it doesn't integrate streaming media, a web browser, email program, etc.
My personal favorite part of this little snippet is this:
Memory management, so that applications have an area in memory in which to run, protected from other applications' bugs that might affect them.
That's odd, by that definition, MacOS 9 isn't an OS, and Unix is...
These aren't exactly new. They were featured as one of the 'Best Geek Christmas Gifts' on the ZDtv show 'The Screen Savers' for X-Mas 99. They've had them for sale at the local Microcentre for months.
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> d) pop in Starcraft CD and play ;-)
Sorry, Reeves, but I've got to call bullshit on this one.
Starcraft works, this is true. But dozens of other games, even older ones, still don't... I will be pleased with Wine when I can run network games of Civ2 multiplayer gold, Dungeon Keeper, Capitalism, and You Don't Know Jack 1 and 2. As of right now, Starcraft is the ONLY thing I've found to run reliably.
There's this thing called the "electoral college". Look in to it.
The simple command line tools that Unix/Linux power users love so much are useful because they can be chained together in mighty pipelines... there would have to be some equally simple, equally ubiquitous way to chain components together for the utility of the command line to reach the GUI world. Various object-embedding systems seem to be the start of this, but I can't visualize a way to extend the full utility of pipes into a GUI environment... is there anything out there simpler and more flexible than OLE/COM/wtf ever they call it these days ?
FWIW, it's actually named by the guys who disassembled it after the yummy Mountain Dew beverage. From the bugtraq post:
.ida "Code Red" worm, because part of the worm is
We've designated this the
designed to deface webpages with the text "Hacked by Chinese" and also
because code red mountain dew was the only thing that kept us awake all last
night to be able to disassemble this exploit.
Hmmm... hope you're explicitly setting the umask at the beginning of every single init script. =) Otherwise, you're getting love from a rather cute bug in 2.4.3-6 that makes lots of files world-writable that shouldn't be.
> Fortunately, in order for it to work, the user needs to be running the tracking software on their computer.
Does the phrase "Microsoft Windows XP" mean anything to you ?
>> we also have stuff like elvis.
Vim, heathen
Not that I figure prior art will be hard to come by for this, but I did this in a Squeak/Smalltalk for a CS project my sophomore year in college, 1998. And they've been using this project for several years of this class.
I was pleased. I'm used to having to back up the current roaring penguin release before waxing my Linux system. ;-)
It also seems to maybe be more stable, but I haven't had adequate time to really make that judgment yet.
This was the FIRST page I loaded up on shiny new, finally customized and online (with PPPoe) FreeBSD 4.2 system. Somebody's got it in for me, I swear.
Don't post articles with the number '2.5' in them... I was already ftp'ed into kernel.org by the time I'd read the whole headline.
>> PeptoBismol can actually trademark their color of pink!
I'm assuming this was just a for-instance, since there are numerous store-brand and off-brand stomach medicines that are pink... I think I have a bottle of Pink Bismuth in my medicine cabinet atm.
>> Be afraid, be very afraid when the populists are argumenting (sic) that laws should be simplified down to the lowest
>> common denominator in the populace. That way we will eventually end up with a tyranny of idiots.
There's no reason that legible wording prevents strong legislation. Hell, all of this argument is based on:
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
We need more laws like that.
> Really, from and end-user point of view there isn't much difference between 2©2©18 and 2©4©0©
Clearly you don't work very much with firewalls©
> Until Linux supports these formats, its got a disadvantage in the p0rn market.
That's 'pr0n'. Just a heads up.
> GDROMs have a special high density section in the center of the disk that is not readable in anything but a Sega GDRom drive.
Just a little nitpicky point, but the track in the center is actually a normal CD track, and the outer track is the GD-Rom. This is why, on rips that are burned onto standard CDs, the video will sometimes skip - the stream is normally read off of the faster outside of the disc.
I can't believe you didn't mention Space Channel 5. It's become one of my favorite games around for any system, bar none... if it just had a little more replay value (I can beat it in about 30 minutes now, and it's more or less the same each time), it would be my uncontested favorite.
as a proof of concept. Now, people have the concept of free availability of media in their heads, indelibly. Hopefully, this news will legitimize the concept of free media, and we'll eventually start seeing that be the rule rather than the exception. Here's hoping, anyway...
Hey, if seeing Elizabeth Hurley in skin tight red latex, French maid outfit and cheerleader uniform doesn't convert you, then you and I obviously have different priorities, pal.
Just to play devil's advocate, this doesn't sound like anything more than Capcom throwing out a buzz word to generate publicity... so they develop a midlayer that exports a generic API on several different platforms, and then code their games to that API. That's *NOT* emulation. That's what SDL does, that's what OpenGL and OpenSound do. It's basic tiered design, and it's a good idea. Hell, the point would be moot if all the game console manufacturers would get together and implement a unified API anyway, which they ought to do. But using the word 'emulation' just to stir up interest is pretty weak, IMHO.
If you read a little further, you'll see that the author says 'by this definition, Unix is an OS, but this definition is outdated', and goes on to say that Unix isn't an OS because it doesn't integrate streaming media, a web browser, email program, etc.
My personal favorite part of this little snippet is this:
Memory management, so that applications have an area in memory in which to run, protected from other applications' bugs that might affect them.
That's odd, by that definition, MacOS 9 isn't an OS, and Unix is...
I and the rest of the crew of Emperor Linux sang the DeCSS source code at the Friday night Karaoke party at ALS. ;-)
These aren't exactly new. They were featured as one of the 'Best Geek Christmas Gifts' on the ZDtv show 'The Screen Savers' for X-Mas 99. They've had them for sale at the local Microcentre for months.
And guess what ? If it's obvious, odds are I've heard it before.
At least you seem to know it's not pronounced Fox Pass. You're a rarity in that respect.
His sarcasm was misplaced, offtopic, and rude. I responded in kind.