What is preventing someone from putting out a console capable of running games from all the classic system?
Nothing. It's called a Sega Dreamcast.
www.dcemulation.com has all the emulators and tools you need to put MAME, Stealla, NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, even LINUX on your Dreamcast. That is, assuming you have legally obtained ROMs.
At last check, you could buy these units used for around $50. Sega killed it last Christmas, so there's no new ones to be found. Check your local Funcoland or pawn shop, you'll probably find one.
With the recent attempts at copyright protection by the RIAA, have you seen any technology from your favorite *AA that actually might work to stop piracy of copyrighted material? Anything that you couldn't break or was exceedingly difficult to break?
Maybe I should just patent a method of cutting open the case with a razor blade. Then I can sell something similar to those CD opener tools.
Since they're already wast^H^H^H^H^H investing money on these CD players that are glued shut, it seems odd that they wouldn't use either a non-standard format/size CD and an odd heaphone connector. Once in a long time ago, I was flying a Northwest Airlines flight and the headphone was similar to a stethoscope.. the connector was actually a VERY small speaker, if you cranked up the volume you could actually hear the audio (barely) from the connector. The tubing on the headphones amplified it, so the listenr heard the quality sound, but only the listener. Forget copying it.
I've seen a similar mod before, and it was posted on/.
Some kid decided that the handles on the G4 case would make a great LAN party box, easy to carry and such. Basically the G4 is just a funky ATX bx, as seen both in modding the G4 and building your own from shelf parts.
This is a disaster. A disaster like this can only come from one source: upper management.
I'm a government IT worker. While I'm mostly uninvolved with the election stuff, I do enough with it to understand all the stuff that goes on to make sure the votes are as close as possible.
This has nothing to do with software or even computers. This has to do with human stupidity, laziness, and lack of training. Prior to the election, the precincts receive training from an offical (usually from the county courthouse). The poll workers are trained to do their jobs, they don't just show up at 6:45. They've obviously never been introduced to the new hardware, let alone taught basic troubleshooting. And what's with poll workers not showing up? late? Take them out back and give em a good ass kicking. No excuse for that. They have a job to do, and when it's as important as electing the next officials, you just don't do that.
Whoever is managing/training these folks needs to be shot. At the very least, fired. Obviously those who were supposed to do their jobs didn't.
Now, a word about these ATM/kiosk thingies. Sounds to me liked they were working ok. If the case was that they blue screened and incorrectly tallied votes, that again falls back on someone who didn't test the system. Sounds like everything performed as designed, the blame lies on the idiot poll workers and the trainer who didn't do their job.
That's about the only use I can see for it. I could easily replace every workstation and server in our building with one of these.
I guess colo could be another use, but I'd have to question what you're hosting that needs 64 Itanium processors. More importantly, how well does it handle VM?
Like any good press writeup, it lacks any details that are useful to techies. I want to see a dmesg from this thing, as well as pretty pictures of what's under the hood.
I know a band that does this. Convinced me to buy the CD. I heard every single track, yet the quality was so poor I wouldn't even consider burning it to CD.
There's a few bands I've heard 1 single from. I go to all the online spots, nothing found. No one has the MP3s. Do I take the plunge and buy it? So far, no. If I knew the rest of the CD was as good as the single, I'd run out and buy it today.
A quick check at Walmart.com reveals that Xboxen can be had for $199. An 800Mhz Microtel PC can also be had for $199.
What do you want to do? Do you want a $200 PC? Buy the Microtel. Do you have an afternoon free to show off your 133t h4x0r 5k1115? Buy an Xbox and mod it.
I bought the dreamcast ($50) for it's hackability. I think it's worth the $50, hands down. No hardware mods are essential. The possibilites are not endless, but quite attactive. I think these people who are hacking the Xbox are simply paving the way. When the Xbox can be found at the Pawn shop for $20, I'll buy at least one if I know it can run linux. Heck, I'll be watching the prices over the next 6 months. With the console war, the PS2 is the clear winner. How long until Sony drops the price? How long until Xbox drops price to follow suit? How long until Xbox gets cheap enough to be used as multifunction appliances?
To the people who like to tear things apart and install linux, I wish you the best of luck. You are the geeks who make linux work the way it does.
If you like assembly, and think small, fast code is cool, check out V2OS (or better yet, contribute code!).
I haven't played with it in a long time, but it looks like it's come along by leaps and bounds. The first demo used somewhere around 50 K of floppy space and encompassed a kernel, filesystem, networking, and some basic tools. It appears that there's a stronger application base now, and it probably still sits on a floppy.
Tron was awesome because it wowed the audience with its technical advances. In these days with the Matrix and Star Wars and the like, technology isn't as thrilling. Sure, we like to see Pixar's next film, as they continually create more stunning characters and produce each sequential film is less time. That's cool. But it's not the drop-everything-OH-MY-GOD-let's-go-see-this film that Tron was.
Of course I'll go see it. I think that's a requirement of being a registered linux user, right? my point is that there are some films that had their day, still have their day, and should just be left alone. Tron is one of them.
The article states a price of $1,500-$2,000. Then it talks about marketing them to COLLEGE STUDENTS. Think about that... the college students are the ones most opposed to DRM technologies! For less than $1,000 I can put together a machine with an ATI All in Wonder Pro DVR and a massive disk without the DRM inhibitions. Funny thing is, college students are the ones to figure this out first.
I'm impressed that MS Press wrote a content packed book. Most of their publications were light on the tech details and more like FUD, it's nice to see they're actually writing some useful material.
And no, there's nothing wrong with posting books about C# or.NET to Slashdot. It's new technology that will affect us in a few years. While I don't like MS, I don't understand C# or.NET, and I know that in 2 years I'll wish I did.
And yet you don't mention the Speakon. The speakon, despite its size, is possibly the world's perfect connector.
It comes in 2, 4 and 8 pole varieties. Invented by Neutrik (the greatest connector manufacturer in the world, may I add) it's designed for connecting speakers. It has much more potential. The contacts are rated at several amps, 250V. Generally they're cabled up using 14 or 12 gauge cable. Installation can be done using a pocket knife and a screwdriver. These could easily be adapted to run up to 4 high voltage circuits between 2 locations. Screw those 3 prong extension cords, use a few Speakons and make yourself a 3 phase extension cord.
Pros in the touring industry absolutely swear by them. They're darn near indestructable. While I'd never use one inside a PC, any instance where you need to move a lot of power can be done with these amazing connectors.
I don't work for Neutrik, I'm an audio professional who uses Neutrik connectors for absolutely EVERYTHING. And now I see that they make Cat5 jacks. Gotta run to the store...:-)
A) students that don't have PCs B) students that don't have credit cards (more likely than A)
The article mentions that they avoid vandalism because they contain no cash, so at least the models they're installing don't accept quarters. I suppose in a dorm you could use student IDs, but what about laundromats? Yes, it would be FREAKING AWESOME to reserve your machine over the internet with your CC, then walk down there with your car load of clothes, but what about the bums who hang out there? How do they do their laundry?
Slashdot Mirror
and just name it RMS/Linux already?
Y6B is a much bigger problem. If the sun burns out, who cares if the universe has crunched.
Your sig is worse.
E-DIRECTORY KICKS ASS
nuff said. Need to admin that linux server, Novell server, and NT server with one ID? Problem solved.
This is a revolution:
/. all day. Go outside or something. See my sig for details.
Get away from the Tivo.
Put down your GBA.
Stop trying to listen to vinyl with your scanner.
Heck, just stop reading
There's supposed to be a firmware patch to fix it, but it may be 'problematic' for users to install.
Does problematic mean "I can't get to the machine to upgrade because there's shards of disc flying at me when I go near it!"?
What is preventing someone from putting out a console capable of running games from all the classic system?
Nothing. It's called a Sega Dreamcast.
www.dcemulation.com has all the emulators and tools you need to put MAME, Stealla, NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, even LINUX on your Dreamcast. That is, assuming you have legally obtained ROMs.
At last check, you could buy these units used for around $50. Sega killed it last Christmas, so there's no new ones to be found. Check your local Funcoland or pawn shop, you'll probably find one.
With the recent attempts at copyright protection by the RIAA, have you seen any technology from your favorite *AA that actually might work to stop piracy of copyrighted material? Anything that you couldn't break or was exceedingly difficult to break?
Maybe I should just patent a method of cutting open the case with a razor blade. Then I can sell something similar to those CD opener tools.
Since they're already wast^H^H^H^H^H investing money on these CD players that are glued shut, it seems odd that they wouldn't use either a non-standard format/size CD and an odd heaphone connector. Once in a long time ago, I was flying a Northwest Airlines flight and the headphone was similar to a stethoscope.. the connector was actually a VERY small speaker, if you cranked up the volume you could actually hear the audio (barely) from the connector. The tubing on the headphones amplified it, so the listenr heard the quality sound, but only the listener. Forget copying it.
I've seen a similar mod before, and it was posted on /.
Some kid decided that the handles on the G4 case would make a great LAN party box, easy to carry and such. Basically the G4 is just a funky ATX bx, as seen both in modding the G4 and building your own from shelf parts.
And how many libraries of congress can it process per second?
This is a disaster. A disaster like this can only come from one source: upper management.
I'm a government IT worker. While I'm mostly uninvolved with the election stuff, I do enough with it to understand all the stuff that goes on to make sure the votes are as close as possible.
This has nothing to do with software or even computers. This has to do with human stupidity, laziness, and lack of training. Prior to the election, the precincts receive training from an offical (usually from the county courthouse). The poll workers are trained to do their jobs, they don't just show up at 6:45. They've obviously never been introduced to the new hardware, let alone taught basic troubleshooting. And what's with poll workers not showing up? late? Take them out back and give em a good ass kicking. No excuse for that. They have a job to do, and when it's as important as electing the next officials, you just don't do that.
Whoever is managing/training these folks needs to be shot. At the very least, fired. Obviously those who were supposed to do their jobs didn't.
Now, a word about these ATM/kiosk thingies. Sounds to me liked they were working ok. If the case was that they blue screened and incorrectly tallied votes, that again falls back on someone who didn't test the system. Sounds like everything performed as designed, the blame lies on the idiot poll workers and the trainer who didn't do their job.
No doubt. I've never really been excited about GNUradio. How can you say it's more exciting than Linux, Samba, or LTSP?
Thin client!!!!
That's about the only use I can see for it. I could easily replace every workstation and server in our building with one of these.
I guess colo could be another use, but I'd have to question what you're hosting that needs 64 Itanium processors. More importantly, how well does it handle VM?
Like any good press writeup, it lacks any details that are useful to techies. I want to see a dmesg from this thing, as well as pretty pictures of what's under the hood.
I know a band that does this. Convinced me to buy the CD. I heard every single track, yet the quality was so poor I wouldn't even consider burning it to CD.
There's a few bands I've heard 1 single from. I go to all the online spots, nothing found. No one has the MP3s. Do I take the plunge and buy it? So far, no. If I knew the rest of the CD was as good as the single, I'd run out and buy it today.
A quick check at Walmart.com reveals that Xboxen can be had for $199. An 800Mhz Microtel PC can also be had for $199.
What do you want to do? Do you want a $200 PC? Buy the Microtel. Do you have an afternoon free to show off your 133t h4x0r 5k1115? Buy an Xbox and mod it.
I bought the dreamcast ($50) for it's hackability. I think it's worth the $50, hands down. No hardware mods are essential. The possibilites are not endless, but quite attactive. I think these people who are hacking the Xbox are simply paving the way. When the Xbox can be found at the Pawn shop for $20, I'll buy at least one if I know it can run linux. Heck, I'll be watching the prices over the next 6 months. With the console war, the PS2 is the clear winner. How long until Sony drops the price? How long until Xbox drops price to follow suit? How long until Xbox gets cheap enough to be used as multifunction appliances?
To the people who like to tear things apart and install linux, I wish you the best of luck. You are the geeks who make linux work the way it does.
more space, smaller package, shorter warranty.
No thanks, I'll stick with my Seagate. While Maxtor will always be on the cheap end, Seagate's warranty track record has been outstanding.
If you like assembly, and think small, fast code is cool, check out V2OS (or better yet, contribute code!).
I haven't played with it in a long time, but it looks like it's come along by leaps and bounds. The first demo used somewhere around 50 K of floppy space and encompassed a kernel, filesystem, networking, and some basic tools. It appears that there's a stronger application base now, and it probably still sits on a floppy.
Why do we need a sequel?
Tron was awesome because it wowed the audience with its technical advances. In these days with the Matrix and Star Wars and the like, technology isn't as thrilling. Sure, we like to see Pixar's next film, as they continually create more stunning characters and produce each sequential film is less time. That's cool. But it's not the drop-everything-OH-MY-GOD-let's-go-see-this film that Tron was.
Of course I'll go see it. I think that's a requirement of being a registered linux user, right? my point is that there are some films that had their day, still have their day, and should just be left alone. Tron is one of them.
The article states a price of $1,500-$2,000. Then it talks about marketing them to COLLEGE STUDENTS. Think about that... the college students are the ones most opposed to DRM technologies! For less than $1,000 I can put together a machine with an ATI All in Wonder Pro DVR and a massive disk without the DRM inhibitions. Funny thing is, college students are the ones to figure this out first.
I'm impressed that MS Press wrote a content packed book. Most of their publications were light on the tech details and more like FUD, it's nice to see they're actually writing some useful material.
.NET to Slashdot. It's new technology that will affect us in a few years. While I don't like MS, I don't understand C# or .NET, and I know that in 2 years I'll wish I did.
And no, there's nothing wrong with posting books about C# or
And yet you don't mention the Speakon. The speakon, despite its size, is possibly the world's perfect connector.
:-)
It comes in 2, 4 and 8 pole varieties. Invented by Neutrik (the greatest connector manufacturer in the world, may I add) it's designed for connecting speakers. It has much more potential. The contacts are rated at several amps, 250V. Generally they're cabled up using 14 or 12 gauge cable. Installation can be done using a pocket knife and a screwdriver. These could easily be adapted to run up to 4 high voltage circuits between 2 locations. Screw those 3 prong extension cords, use a few Speakons and make yourself a 3 phase extension cord.
Pros in the touring industry absolutely swear by them. They're darn near indestructable. While I'd never use one inside a PC, any instance where you need to move a lot of power can be done with these amazing connectors.
I don't work for Neutrik, I'm an audio professional who uses Neutrik connectors for absolutely EVERYTHING. And now I see that they make Cat5 jacks. Gotta run to the store...
While this is, indeed, a cool hack, what about
A) students that don't have PCs
B) students that don't have credit cards (more likely than A)
The article mentions that they avoid vandalism because they contain no cash, so at least the models they're installing don't accept quarters. I suppose in a dorm you could use student IDs, but what about laundromats? Yes, it would be FREAKING AWESOME to reserve your machine over the internet with your CC, then walk down there with your car load of clothes, but what about the bums who hang out there? How do they do their laundry?
What the heck are Breakfast Pants?
I did a search on Google and came up with a Concept post involving pants with built in toasters. Is this what your breakfast pants are based on?