So let's just throw this fuel cell technology out the window.
We've developed the technology to power engines on hydrogen, an element easily extractable from the most abundant substance on our planet, water, but the fact that these very engines are silent poses a safety issue!
Oh well, we're just consumers. Who says we even have the right to spend less by not buying gasoline or even consider helping our planet by not polluting the air? The very thought!
Well, the justification supposedly is that games are getting more expensive to produce with rendering technologies becoming more advanced and the gradual migration of television owners to high-definition.
I don't feel sympathetic for the game industry. Games are turning too pop-culture for me. The Halo 2 hype we still hear about? Sorry, but that's just too fucking creepy for me.
A 50k node botnet with each zombie contributing to, say, cracking an encryption could be invaluable to hackers and a multi-billion corporation's worst nightmare.
It will not change how web developers create sites
Ahem... every version of IE in the past has changed how we code our pages and stylesheets, and you predict IE7, which was just announced to not have full support for CSS2, to somehow be different?
W3C already is the de facto standard and has been for about half a decade.
The chimpanzees at Microsoft didn't just sit down together and say, "Okay, let's make a font tag! It can handle stuff like size, face, and even color!"
Their aim, I'm sure, was to model IE's rendering engine on the W3C standards, but like chimpanzees, no matter what they did, they just couldn't get that triangular block through that circular hole.
God damn, I actually bought a Ruby book about a month ago, but after seeing the response on this thread, I'd sooner feed it to my dog than join a community full of absolute assholes.
I'd encourage anyone else to do the same. Let's let this "overrated" technology die like it was meant to.
Someone mod this flamebait. While I'm a strong advocate for web standards, I certainly don't throw cheap blows at someone for writing a page that doesn't look like the zen garden.
"The XBoxHD will offer increased functionality but probably not things that are of any dramatic benefit to gamers....More than likely, though, it will offer TiVO like functionality and a way to store and playback media files."
There has been much protest against the speculation that the second Xbox will not be backwards compatible with first-generation Xbox games. Since Xbox games are so highly dependent on a hard drive, (they use the E: partition of the hard drive to save games and the X:, Y:, and Z: partitions to store game-specific content for much quicker load times) a first generation Xbox game could not feasibly run on a second generation box with only a flash drive for internal storage.
If Microsoft manufactures second-generation Xboxes with hard drives, we'll no doubtingly see backwards-compatibility.
It seems Suprnova.org, a very popular torrent file hosting service, has boycotted Halo 2 piracy once again.
When the French version was pirated a couple of weeks ago, Suprnova fiercly watched their newly submitted torrents and pulled each Halo 2 torrent submission in only a few minutes after its posting. Hunting a working Halo 2 torrent file was a three or four hour job. Most sites with the torrent actually had bogus ones that would give the user an error message instructing them to download from EliteTorrents.org. EliteTorrents requires a user create an account before they can download from them, but a new member has a rigid 12 hour waiting minimum before he/she can download anything recent.
This anecdote of Halo 2 piracy is a perfect example of why Bittorrent is another great concept but, in reality, falls short to censorship and gold-digging.
So Linux is not an os but an application that runs on the operating system?
Actually, the xbox uses its own filesystem: FATX. In order to linux on it, the linux root partition is stored in a (by default) 3GB file located on the root of either the E or F partitions. This file contains all linux data in a sort of emulated reiserfs filesystem (assuming you use Gentoox).
The xbox kernel was ported to the xbox and wrapped in an.xbe (XBox Executable) to work as a bootloader. The kernel mounts the F:/rootfs and F:/swap files as folders; this is much like mounting an iso in linux using "mount -t iso9660 -o loop FILE.iso/LOCATION".
Now, if you flash a legal linux BIOS on your modchip and boot it, you'll need to have formatted your xbox with a supported linux filesystem such as fat32, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc. In this case, linux does not run from an "application... on the operating system" but normally, as a PC would.
To save yourself the time looking it up, I'll spend my time explaining it.:)
Microsoft has spent millions on detecting illegit xboxes on their networks for obvious reasons - they don't want people hacking game physics/item counts or, more importantly, potentially crashing the Live server software from unexpected requests sent from modified clients. (this is Microsoft, remember?)
Live's protectection first creates a hash of your BIOS, so if you try to connect and don't have the official xbox bios, you get your MAC address banned and you'll be buying another xbox if you want Live again.
Live also checks to see if your HDD is locked or not. This is a little scheme Microsoft uses to keep people from connecting an xbox HDD to a PC and fooling with saves. A modded xbox must use an unlocked hard drive, otherwise it wouldn't be writable. It's possible to easily lock a hard drive again once unlocked.
There are a few newer mod chips (X3 for example) that allow you to deactivate the d0 redirection for a legit booting, but you'll also need to physically replace the hard drive you've bought for your hacked xbox with the original locked hard drive. This may seem like a pain to do frequently, but a solution is to keep your xbox cover off. Personally, I NEVER put my xbox cover back on for a number of reasons. (1) I'm always tinkering in it, (2) I'm always hiding crap in it (who would think to look there?), and (3) a coverless xbox is very much less likely to be stolen in the case of a break-in.
If you're not a lazy bastard, you can deactivate/reactivate all modifications on your xbox in five minutes. The use of once-hacked xboxes on Live is really not as big a hassle one would assume.
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Where are those mod points when you need them? Very insightful.
So let's just throw this fuel cell technology out the window.
We've developed the technology to power engines on hydrogen, an element easily extractable from the most abundant substance on our planet, water, but the fact that these very engines are silent poses a safety issue!
Oh well, we're just consumers. Who says we even have the right to spend less by not buying gasoline or even consider helping our planet by not polluting the air? The very thought!
Is that honestly what you think of when someone mentions FOSS games?
Heh, no wonder Britain holds world records for its amount of piracy.
When Serious Sam and Serious Sam 2: The Second Encounter each came out for PC, they were only $19.99 brand new.
To say that releasing affordable, quality games for retail is impossible is, well, just blatantly wrong.
Well, the justification supposedly is that games are getting more expensive to produce with rendering technologies becoming more advanced and the gradual migration of television owners to high-definition.
I don't feel sympathetic for the game industry. Games are turning too pop-culture for me. The Halo 2 hype we still hear about? Sorry, but that's just too fucking creepy for me.
I'll just stick to writing and playing FOSS games.
I guess if you really want it, you'll figure out how to afford it
Or figure out how to pirate it...
With the rising inclination of gamers to resort to piracy, you'd think game developers would resort to raising game prices last.
*sigh* The economics of game-making is getting so fucked up. Pretty soon, all we'll have will be a plethora of FOSS games.
Sounds good to me.
...can zombies be clustered?
Clustered using a Win32 worm? No.
A botnet node, however, could easily be manipulated to handle distributed computing such as Folding@Home, SETI@Home, or, with Java, Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
A 50k node botnet with each zombie contributing to, say, cracking an encryption could be invaluable to hackers and a multi-billion corporation's worst nightmare.
Don't quit your day job
It will not change how web developers create sites
Ahem... every version of IE in the past has changed how we code our pages and stylesheets, and you predict IE7, which was just announced to not have full support for CSS2, to somehow be different?
Eh, Windows users will likely not go without anything at all... they'll probably just see flawed support for the six-year old CSS1 standards.
It's really a matter of perspective.
You, I take it, are a Windows user-- probably someone who uses IE because it's convenient.
I'm a Linux-using standards-compliant web developer who thinks Microsoft's constant apathy for standards in all media is absolutely intolerable.
For me, I feel Windows users deserve the insecurity they pay for. The joke's on them.
W3C already is the de facto standard and has been for about half a decade.
The chimpanzees at Microsoft didn't just sit down together and say, "Okay, let's make a font tag! It can handle stuff like size, face, and even color!"
Their aim, I'm sure, was to model IE's rendering engine on the W3C standards, but like chimpanzees, no matter what they did, they just couldn't get that triangular block through that circular hole.
So... anyone care to explain exactly what SHA-1 is?
Someone hook us up with some screenies :)
While we're trashing sites, let's see your's...
God damn, I actually bought a Ruby book about a month ago, but after seeing the response on this thread, I'd sooner feed it to my dog than join a community full of absolute assholes.
I'd encourage anyone else to do the same. Let's let this "overrated" technology die like it was meant to.
Someone mod this flamebait. While I'm a strong advocate for web standards, I certainly don't throw cheap blows at someone for writing a page that doesn't look like the zen garden.
This guy is just a jackass.
"The XBoxHD will offer increased functionality but probably not things that are of any dramatic benefit to gamers. ...More than likely, though, it will offer TiVO like functionality and a way to store and playback media files."
There has been much protest against the speculation that the second Xbox will not be backwards compatible with first-generation Xbox games. Since Xbox games are so highly dependent on a hard drive, (they use the E: partition of the hard drive to save games and the X:, Y:, and Z: partitions to store game-specific content for much quicker load times) a first generation Xbox game could not feasibly run on a second generation box with only a flash drive for internal storage.
If Microsoft manufactures second-generation Xboxes with hard drives, we'll no doubtingly see backwards-compatibility.
It seems Suprnova.org, a very popular torrent file hosting service, has boycotted Halo 2 piracy once again.
When the French version was pirated a couple of weeks ago, Suprnova fiercly watched their newly submitted torrents and pulled each Halo 2 torrent submission in only a few minutes after its posting. Hunting a working Halo 2 torrent file was a three or four hour job. Most sites with the torrent actually had bogus ones that would give the user an error message instructing them to download from EliteTorrents.org. EliteTorrents requires a user create an account before they can download from them, but a new member has a rigid 12 hour waiting minimum before he/she can download anything recent.
This anecdote of Halo 2 piracy is a perfect example of why Bittorrent is another great concept but, in reality, falls short to censorship and gold-digging.
I say, fuck Suprnova and put that pirate hat on!
With this software you would, in theory, create a gimpy cluster from a formidable super computer.
That's fantastic!
In my xbox, I hide condoms and my fake drivers license saying I'm over 21.
:)
I'm not worried about the condoms restricting airflow because they're not in there long. I tend to burn through them rather quickly
So Linux is not an os but an application that runs on the operating system?
.xbe (XBox Executable) to work as a bootloader. The kernel mounts the F:/rootfs and F:/swap files as folders; this is much like mounting an iso in linux using "mount -t iso9660 -o loop FILE.iso /LOCATION".
... on the operating system" but normally, as a PC would.
Actually, the xbox uses its own filesystem: FATX. In order to linux on it, the linux root partition is stored in a (by default) 3GB file located on the root of either the E or F partitions. This file contains all linux data in a sort of emulated reiserfs filesystem (assuming you use Gentoox).
The xbox kernel was ported to the xbox and wrapped in an
Now, if you flash a legal linux BIOS on your modchip and boot it, you'll need to have formatted your xbox with a supported linux filesystem such as fat32, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc. In this case, linux does not run from an "application
Hope this makes sense.
To save yourself the time looking it up, I'll spend my time explaining it. :)
Microsoft has spent millions on detecting illegit xboxes on their networks for obvious reasons - they don't want people hacking game physics/item counts or, more importantly, potentially crashing the Live server software from unexpected requests sent from modified clients. (this is Microsoft, remember?)
Live's protectection first creates a hash of your BIOS, so if you try to connect and don't have the official xbox bios, you get your MAC address banned and you'll be buying another xbox if you want Live again.
Live also checks to see if your HDD is locked or not. This is a little scheme Microsoft uses to keep people from connecting an xbox HDD to a PC and fooling with saves. A modded xbox must use an unlocked hard drive, otherwise it wouldn't be writable. It's possible to easily lock a hard drive again once unlocked.
There are a few newer mod chips (X3 for example) that allow you to deactivate the d0 redirection for a legit booting, but you'll also need to physically replace the hard drive you've bought for your hacked xbox with the original locked hard drive. This may seem like a pain to do frequently, but a solution is to keep your xbox cover off. Personally, I NEVER put my xbox cover back on for a number of reasons. (1) I'm always tinkering in it, (2) I'm always hiding crap in it (who would think to look there?), and (3) a coverless xbox is very much less likely to be stolen in the case of a break-in.
If you're not a lazy bastard, you can deactivate/reactivate all modifications on your xbox in five minutes. The use of once-hacked xboxes on Live is really not as big a hassle one would assume.