Well, they are already doing some fancy tricks to fool the games that believe there's still an ARM7 processor in the machine, so it's not impossible for them to just patch it all out. I have no idea if they are actually doing that, though.
Why isn't there a thin graphics layer in Linux, like a framebuffer that supports acceleration?
This is not the reason why it's not done in Linux, but modern graphics cards accelerate some pretty high-level functionality, so your "thin graphics layer" would not stay very thin for long.
For a website where I regularly see creationist science regularly and rightfully dismissed, I am confused how you have allowed yourselves to otherwise ignore modern science.
I suspect it's because the disdain for creationism isn't, for most people, actually an issue of rationalism. People dress it up as that, but it really just serves the purpose of elevating yourself above others. Creationists are just an easy target. All you need to do is parrot things you read on the internet.
Now, Slashdot has large population of libertarians, and libertarians have ideological issues that makes it hard for them to accept global warming. Therefore, they are taught to question it, and are fed material to parrot to reinforce this belief.
In neither case is there much personal reflection going on. People will vehemently claim otherwise, but that's just how the belief is packaged: Believe this and this, and believe it because you are smarter than the others.
Personally, I'm an atheist, but the kind of close-mindedness and unthinking hatred you see among other atheists, especially on the internet, can be pretty disheartening.
Yes, I didn't read quite all the way to the end of the thread (I blame the interface, of course). They got it far enough to decode some discs.
I'm sure there are quite a number of kinks to work out yet, though, and then the cat-and-mouse game starts. Currents discs already do some checks to see if they are running on a conforming virtual machine and lock up if they don't, and that'll only get stricter from now on. Shouldn't be too big a problem, though, as long as enough people put in the effort to work on it.
Well, I was somewhat mistaken on that, that post was older than I thought. Progress has been made since that. I'm fairly sure it's not quite "solidly" broken yet, but at least it can decode a couple of discs.
Getting it to handle ALL discs is likely to take some further work still, though.
Sure, congratulations on getting this far, but the Slashdot story is entirely exaggerated. People are working hard on BD+, and it'll probably fall sooner or later, but it certainly isn't "solidly broken" yet.
To quote Oopho2ei himself:
The whole project consists of three major tasks: 1. vm instruction processing (95% done) 2. trap implementations (80% done) 3. event/callback processing (10 % done)
I'm sure they'd be happy to get some help, though. There's a lot of programming gruntwork to be done.
So you basically care mostly about the shallowest characteristics of the games, like their names and the characters used, and don't care that the gameplay is radically different between the various games?
Ah, so *that's* why they need laws to stop people from saying nasty or critical things about them, its because they're *popular*...
The people support those laws because the like the king and do not want to hear people speak ill of him. He honestly and truly is hugely popular. Go ask any Thai person.
I read two sentences of that, and then I thought, "Geez, this is horribly written and tries way too hard to be funny, it must be copied from Encyclopedia Dramatica", and whaddya know, it turns out it was.
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Because they wanted to remove the extra ARM7 processor, probably.
Their focus seems to be on nerds who value feature lists over actually having a usable and comfortable device that makes sense.
Well, they are already doing some fancy tricks to fool the games that believe there's still an ARM7 processor in the machine, so it's not impossible for them to just patch it all out. I have no idea if they are actually doing that, though.
Yes, OpenGL is not so thin a layer.
And that still doesn't handle things like accelerated video decoding.
Why isn't there a thin graphics layer in Linux, like a framebuffer that supports acceleration?
This is not the reason why it's not done in Linux, but modern graphics cards accelerate some pretty high-level functionality, so your "thin graphics layer" would not stay very thin for long.
For a website where I regularly see creationist science regularly and rightfully dismissed, I am confused how you have allowed yourselves to otherwise ignore modern science.
I suspect it's because the disdain for creationism isn't, for most people, actually an issue of rationalism. People dress it up as that, but it really just serves the purpose of elevating yourself above others. Creationists are just an easy target. All you need to do is parrot things you read on the internet.
Now, Slashdot has large population of libertarians, and libertarians have ideological issues that makes it hard for them to accept global warming. Therefore, they are taught to question it, and are fed material to parrot to reinforce this belief.
In neither case is there much personal reflection going on. People will vehemently claim otherwise, but that's just how the belief is packaged: Believe this and this, and believe it because you are smarter than the others.
Personally, I'm an atheist, but the kind of close-mindedness and unthinking hatred you see among other atheists, especially on the internet, can be pretty disheartening.
How do we know global warming is happening?
Through measurements and scientific analysis.
How do we know it's not just a natural occurrence?
Through simulation taking into account known factors.
There you go.
We've seen the J2ME version already on other platforms, so it's not like it's a complete unknown.
The point was, it's not much competition if it SUCKS, is it?
I don't think it is, but if you want another reason to rage at them, maybe you can assume it's because they use Java for the interactive features.
Yes, I didn't read quite all the way to the end of the thread (I blame the interface, of course). They got it far enough to decode some discs.
I'm sure there are quite a number of kinks to work out yet, though, and then the cat-and-mouse game starts. Currents discs already do some checks to see if they are running on a conforming virtual machine and lock up if they don't, and that'll only get stricter from now on. Shouldn't be too big a problem, though, as long as enough people put in the effort to work on it.
Well, I was somewhat mistaken on that, that post was older than I thought. Progress has been made since that. I'm fairly sure it's not quite "solidly" broken yet, but at least it can decode a couple of discs.
Getting it to handle ALL discs is likely to take some further work still, though.
It's not broken yet. The work is still very much ongoing, and this Slashdot story is an exaggeration.
There's great work being done for sure, but it's not FINISHED yet by any measure.
Sure, congratulations on getting this far, but the Slashdot story is entirely exaggerated. People are working hard on BD+, and it'll probably fall sooner or later, but it certainly isn't "solidly broken" yet.
To quote Oopho2ei himself:
The whole project consists of three major tasks:
1. vm instruction processing (95% done)
2. trap implementations (80% done)
3. event/callback processing (10 % done)
I'm sure they'd be happy to get some help, though. There's a lot of programming gruntwork to be done.
I seem to recall that Whirlpool was also the ONLY hash submitted to the NESSIE project, so that's not saying all THAT much.
Also, I'd imagine any standard chosen by NIST would be patent free and public domain.
So you basically care mostly about the shallowest characteristics of the games, like their names and the characters used, and don't care that the gameplay is radically different between the various games?
Yeah, but that was painfully obvious
Apparently not to the original poster, who implied the law existed because the king is not really popular.
You will notice I made absolutely no value judgement on the laws in question. I was merely explaining why, in objective terms, they exist.
Don't let that stop you from taking potshots at your imagined political enemies, though.
It's been repeated over and over in this thread, but he is not banning criticism, and doesn't even support the laws in question.
Ah, so *that's* why they need laws to stop people from saying nasty or critical things about them, its because they're *popular*...
The people support those laws because the like the king and do not want to hear people speak ill of him. He honestly and truly is hugely popular. Go ask any Thai person.
That way, the lese-majesty laws stay where they are (stiffling criticism),
He really doesn't need to stifle any criticism, you know. He's incredibly popular.
Why are you telling me I am wrong and then agreeing with me?
I read two sentences of that, and then I thought, "Geez, this is horribly written and tries way too hard to be funny, it must be copied from Encyclopedia Dramatica", and whaddya know, it turns out it was.
You think Slashdot has anything to do with that?
Sorry to break it to you, but the days when Slashdot did anything to affect things on the larger net are long since past.
Also, you can probably link these and they'll still be there three months later, unlike videos on Youtube.