GC isos are easy to find (I won't give a link, but any large warez-torrent-site should have a few), they're just not very easy to play, since you can't burn them to play... You have to stream it over ethernet, and most games are choppy as hell played that way.
And their old games are still valuable because they can still make re-releases of them for a new system. Just look at all the GBA releases of old NES and SNES games, and there's even Zelda 1 for the cube (they gave out a lot of those discs for free, but still).
As a direct result of the overwhelming response to our October 12 announcement, and in order to provide current and future customers with the timely service and attention such high-volume demand requires, MXS has chosen to extend the beta development for CherryOS. In order to accommodate those who were inconvenienced by the interruption of immediate access to the CherryOS download, and to further validate this breakthrough product, MXS will provide a free trial download of the CherryOS software, in addition to the purchase download on November 25, 2004.
It'll be interresting to see if they will actually still try to release it after it's already been proven to be a fake.
True. The gamecube has a PowerPC CPU, still I haven't seen many gamecube games ported to Mac... In fact I'm pretty sure GC has way more games in common with PC than Mac.
Mplayer works fine, and you can see some more useless screenshots here. Snes9x has also been ported, as well as a couple other emulators (MAME and some neogeo emulator for example). Other than that I haven't found much use for it except for the geek-factor, the memory is too limited to do anything heavy... But playing SNES games on the cube is pretty sweet though.
Vote Kompressor! I can't believe why he doesn't get the media attention he needs, he holds excellent views! He wants to destroy the music industry AND has landscaping experience!
Both NASA and ESA have Really Expensive Rockets [tm] though. If Brazil can lower the prices enough, they might end up with a big chunk of the cake for commercial satellites...
Earths rotation DOES help. A point on the equator moves at something like 450 m/s, for a low earth orbit you have to reach a (horisontal) velocity of about 7500 m/s. So assuming the desired orbit is in the directon of earths rotation these 450 m/s will be "for free". It's also convinient for GEO satellites or any other equatorial orbit since a launch from a more northern/southern launch spot would reqiure a plane change after launch, which can require quite a lot of extra fuel for a large satellite.
For polar orbits a launch pad closer to the poles is often better.
and this stunt pulled by HBO is just one more reason why I believe that the liberal, anti-God media needs to be brought under the strict control of the FCC, and that as soon as possible
Seriously, do Americans actually VOTE for people like this!?
Well, no, it's not new... They started doing this while I was doing my exchange studies in Singapore two years ago. Tried a couple bottles of it too (the first time without knowing where it came from, a friend just gave me a bottle of water...), and well... It's just frickin water.
Yeap they are paied up. I get 25Gb of bandwidth a month (lets hope it will hold with slashdot)
Dude... The movie is almost 8MB. It only takes a little more than 3000 downloads to reach your 25 GB (an eighth of that if it's in gigabits). Or 3307.5 downloads to be exact. That's NOT much for slashdot...
SWEDEN HAS the highest disease and pregnancy(aborted mostly) statistics in the world. And they have been rising. google for sweden national health std pregnancy.
Yeah right... Heard of Africa? Anyway, I tried googling for it. Couldn't find anything saying the rates are high, what I did find however was this: Although Canada's teen pregnancy rate has declined since the 1970s, other Western industrialized countries such as France and Sweden have much lower teen pregnancy rates than Canada. These countries also have lower rates of both teen births and abortions.
So Sweden is here used as an example where the numbers are LOW.
Numbers from that site:
Teen pregnancies per 1000, Sweden: 25.0
Teen pregnancies per 1000, US: 83.6
Teen abortions per 1000, Sweden: 17.2
Teen abortions per 1000, US: 29.2
Sure, a much higher percent of the teen pregnancies end with abortion (which I personally consider a good thing, you may disagree), but both abortion numbers and pregnancy numbers are no where near the US. Numbers from mid-90s. So please check your facts before comming with accusations.
I also found this: The U. S. leads industrialized countries in rates of STDs. For example, in 1996, the reported gonorrhea rate for the U.S. was 50 times that of Sweden, and the primary and secondary syphillis rate was 30 times that of Canada.
Again, Sweden is used as an example where the numbers are low...
Source: here
Go look at the disease and pregnancy statistics, the National health produced ones, last article I saw, said they were highest in the world and rising.
My point exactly. That's not the case in the parts of the world with proper sex-ed, where protection is thaught...
And I'm sorry about the mean remark, had a bad day yesterday:)
Actually nothing works pretty well. As someone who married as/to a virgin at 25/25, I've never had an STD, never lost sleep over her being "late" and never had any of the other problems associated with teenage "safe" sex.
Well no, but you lost your virginity at 25... And you will go your whole life wondering what it would be like with someone else, though you probably wont admit it, ever. (Or maybe I'm just jealous of you cause I'm single...;)
As a non-american (I'm swedish, but living in Germany) I must say I can't at all understand the way many ("christian") americans think. In sweden for example, most people "do it" long before they're 18, and have many many partners during their lives (before marriage) yet STDs and teen pregnancy is not at all common, no where near the case in the US. The reason why? Because the kids KNOW what sex it and they KNOW how to protect themselves. I have friends who have lived/now lives in the US and the things they tell me are downright scary. One friend studied at Virginia Tech for a year, and told me girls there would happily have oral and some even ANAL sex before marriage, as long as they "technically" where still virgins. In my opinion having your daughter butt-fucked (condomless at that) before she even tried (safe) vaginal sex would be way way way worse than her loosing her (vaginal) virginity at an early age...
The thing is, teenagers WILL have sex (not all, but many, many), especially if you tell them they can't. Would you rather they do it without even knowing about the need to protect themselves against STDs and unwanted pregnancy?
An altitude of 130km? How long would a capsule stay at that altitude without additional boost? Just curious, because I don't take astrodynamics until next semester and that seems like a rather low orbit.
According to SMAD III table of earth satellite parameters the estimated orbit lifetime at 100 km is 1 orbit (0.06 days). At 150 km it's 4 orbits, so at 130 I guess it would be about 2 or 3... Without any dV boosts. So orbital flight at 130 km is definitly possible, you just won't get that many orbits:) (the first cosmonauts only did one orbit or so also though...)
This is the best news I've heard all day! Made me dig out my old Sam & Max and DOTT CDs. ScummVM is sweet! And I was planning on getting some work done this weekend:/
Actually played through Beneath a Steel sky the other week too. I sure miss the good old days...
Not that this isn't an extremely impressive move, but seriously - they're going to spend all this money trying to compete with NASA to get to Mars?
Ehm... Nasa went to mars many many years ago... They're not sending people there, just a scientific satellite... People in space is on the whole pretty stupid if you ask me... And IAARS.
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GC isos are easy to find (I won't give a link, but any large warez-torrent-site should have a few), they're just not very easy to play, since you can't burn them to play... You have to stream it over ethernet, and most games are choppy as hell played that way. And their old games are still valuable because they can still make re-releases of them for a new system. Just look at all the GBA releases of old NES and SNES games, and there's even Zelda 1 for the cube (they gave out a lot of those discs for free, but still).
Well, there's already icecast. Works great, and has for the last few years.
Now is your chance
Yeah, cause in 10 minutes it'll be slashdotted...
Actually, they still claim they will release Cherry OS on November 25.
As a direct result of the overwhelming response to our October 12 announcement, and in order to provide current and future customers with the timely service and attention such high-volume demand requires, MXS has chosen to extend the beta development for CherryOS. In order to accommodate those who were inconvenienced by the interruption of immediate access to the CherryOS download, and to further validate this breakthrough product, MXS will provide a free trial download of the CherryOS software, in addition to the purchase download on November 25, 2004.
It'll be interresting to see if they will actually still try to release it after it's already been proven to be a fake.
True. The gamecube has a PowerPC CPU, still I haven't seen many gamecube games ported to Mac... In fact I'm pretty sure GC has way more games in common with PC than Mac.
Who's got the .torrent for the scene, so we can investigate this for ourselves??
Out of pure scientific interrest of course.
Mplayer works fine, and you can see some more useless screenshots here. Snes9x has also been ported, as well as a couple other emulators (MAME and some neogeo emulator for example). Other than that I haven't found much use for it except for the geek-factor, the memory is too limited to do anything heavy... But playing SNES games on the cube is pretty sweet though.
WTF did my link go? :( KOMPRESSOR!. There.
Vote Kompressor! I can't believe why he doesn't get the media attention he needs, he holds excellent views! He wants to destroy the music industry AND has landscaping experience!
That's a good name for an astronaut I guess... Too bad the shuttle isn't worth flying...
ah, fuck me...
Whether the evidence is enough to sway your opinion is a whole other story.
If it's not undeniable it's not an evidence... Per definition.
Both NASA and ESA have Really Expensive Rockets [tm] though. If Brazil can lower the prices enough, they might end up with a big chunk of the cake for commercial satellites...
Earths rotation DOES help. A point on the equator moves at something like 450 m/s, for a low earth orbit you have to reach a (horisontal) velocity of about 7500 m/s. So assuming the desired orbit is in the directon of earths rotation these 450 m/s will be "for free". It's also convinient for GEO satellites or any other equatorial orbit since a launch from a more northern/southern launch spot would reqiure a plane change after launch, which can require quite a lot of extra fuel for a large satellite. For polar orbits a launch pad closer to the poles is often better.
and this stunt pulled by HBO is just one more reason why I believe that the liberal, anti-God media needs to be brought under the strict control of the FCC, and that as soon as possible
Seriously, do Americans actually VOTE for people like this!?
The Expedition 10 crew is expected to leave ISS in April 2004.
They have to be pretty annoyed after having waited for so long then...
Well, no, it's not new... They started doing this while I was doing my exchange studies in Singapore two years ago. Tried a couple bottles of it too (the first time without knowing where it came from, a friend just gave me a bottle of water...), and well... It's just frickin water.
Yeap they are paied up. I get 25Gb of bandwidth a month (lets hope it will hold with slashdot)
Dude... The movie is almost 8MB. It only takes a little more than 3000 downloads to reach your 25 GB (an eighth of that if it's in gigabits). Or 3307.5 downloads to be exact. That's NOT much for slashdot...
X10 MUST BE DESTROYED!
SWEDEN HAS the highest disease and pregnancy(aborted mostly) statistics in the world. And they have been rising. google for sweden national health std pregnancy.
Yeah right... Heard of Africa? Anyway, I tried googling for it. Couldn't find anything saying the rates are high, what I did find however was this:
Although Canada's teen pregnancy rate has declined since the 1970s, other Western industrialized countries such as France and Sweden have much lower teen pregnancy rates than Canada. These countries also have lower rates of both teen births and abortions.
So Sweden is here used as an example where the numbers are LOW.
Source: here
Numbers from that site:
Teen pregnancies per 1000, Sweden: 25.0
Teen pregnancies per 1000, US: 83.6
Teen abortions per 1000, Sweden: 17.2
Teen abortions per 1000, US: 29.2
Sure, a much higher percent of the teen pregnancies end with abortion (which I personally consider a good thing, you may disagree), but both abortion numbers and pregnancy numbers are no where near the US. Numbers from mid-90s. So please check your facts before comming with accusations.
I also found this:
The U. S. leads industrialized countries in rates of STDs. For example, in 1996, the reported gonorrhea rate for the U.S. was 50 times that of Sweden, and the primary and secondary syphillis rate was 30 times that of Canada.
Again, Sweden is used as an example where the numbers are low...
Source: here
Thank you for playing.
Go look at the disease and pregnancy statistics, the National health produced ones, last article I saw, said they were highest in the world and rising.
:)
My point exactly. That's not the case in the parts of the world with proper sex-ed, where protection is thaught...
And I'm sorry about the mean remark, had a bad day yesterday
Actually nothing works pretty well. As someone who married as/to a virgin at 25/25, I've never had an STD, never lost sleep over her being "late" and never had any of the other problems associated with teenage "safe" sex.
;)
Well no, but you lost your virginity at 25... And you will go your whole life wondering what it would be like with someone else, though you probably wont admit it, ever. (Or maybe I'm just jealous of you cause I'm single...
As a non-american (I'm swedish, but living in Germany) I must say I can't at all understand the way many ("christian") americans think. In sweden for example, most people "do it" long before they're 18, and have many many partners during their lives (before marriage) yet STDs and teen pregnancy is not at all common, no where near the case in the US. The reason why? Because the kids KNOW what sex it and they KNOW how to protect themselves. I have friends who have lived/now lives in the US and the things they tell me are downright scary. One friend studied at Virginia Tech for a year, and told me girls there would happily have oral and some even ANAL sex before marriage, as long as they "technically" where still virgins. In my opinion having your daughter butt-fucked (condomless at that) before she even tried (safe) vaginal sex would be way way way worse than her loosing her (vaginal) virginity at an early age...
The thing is, teenagers WILL have sex (not all, but many, many), especially if you tell them they can't. Would you rather they do it without even knowing about the need to protect themselves against STDs and unwanted pregnancy?
An altitude of 130km? How long would a capsule stay at that altitude without additional boost? Just curious, because I don't take astrodynamics until next semester and that seems like a rather low orbit.
:) (the first cosmonauts only did one orbit or so also though...)
According to SMAD III table of earth satellite parameters the estimated orbit lifetime at 100 km is 1 orbit (0.06 days). At 150 km it's 4 orbits, so at 130 I guess it would be about 2 or 3... Without any dV boosts. So orbital flight at 130 km is definitly possible, you just won't get that many orbits
This is the best news I've heard all day! Made me dig out my old Sam & Max and DOTT CDs. ScummVM is sweet! And I was planning on getting some work done this weekend :/
Actually played through Beneath a Steel sky the other week too. I sure miss the good old days...
Not that this isn't an extremely impressive move, but seriously - they're going to spend all this money trying to compete with NASA to get to Mars?
Ehm... Nasa went to mars many many years ago... They're not sending people there, just a scientific satellite... People in space is on the whole pretty stupid if you ask me... And IAARS.