Because your everyday normal "series of tubes" people can't go to the effort of using your "external apps."
And the only Firefox addon they have is VideoDownloadHelper, because they went on Yahoo Answers asking how they could download YouTube videos.
Yeah... tell that to the million of everyday normal "series of tubes" people (including the thousand harassed by the MAFIAA) who have used your "external apps" to download music and videos.
Of course, it won't catch up in offices because as I see it, currently it is very easy to block torrent traffic (my office do it) whereas if it was *needed* for day to day use they will have a bandwidth nightmare.
High level libraries are a nicety not a necessity for homebrew, at least in my opinion,
The same thing can apply to standard PCs and the "nicety" of using C plus stdlib/C++ STL or even Java instead of pure assembly.
Of course it is quite "straightforward" to program in the DS once you know the structure memory-mapped registers, however you will see very few complex homebrew is developped from there.
For an example look at the Wii homebrew and Grrlib or libwiigui (the explotion in the number of homebrew apps after they were released was amazing), as I said in my previous post, there are a lot of "lazy" programmers such as myself who want to program for these consoles but are lazy to look work at the memory-mapped register level.
For example, I would not be doing the dual-nback game I am doing for the DS would if I needed to spend to much time dealing with the memory mapping. Thanks to the very good quality libraries are available I could use them to sit down one sunday while my wife was away and hack together a first version of the program.
Agreed for most part. However the reverse-engineering of the DS was not done as in the dark as you mention. After all, as you said, the DS had a very similar hardware as the GBA. In addition hardware was mainly an ARM processor for which there *is* documentation. That's why you see a lot of reversee engineering is done using IDA and the like.
I think the most important factor for the complexity of the 3DS will be in the nature of the 3D hardware, which is a propertary processor from a startup (Pica200) from which we may not have a lot of technical information.
Now, regarding what GP said of how "trivial" it is to write the SDK, it seems he does not have a clue what he is talking about. You just have to see projects like PALib which *tried* to create an alternative more "user friendly" DS library (has been discontinued).
Designing and writing a good interface library, even if at the core it is just a definition of memory address access (e.g., GBA memory-mapped registers) takes a hell of a lot of effort and time. Specially if what you want to achieve is a library which "lazy" developpers like myself can use.
Second this. I am a DS homebrew developper... actually I have developped 2 apps which I use for myself but nevet got to "release" them. The first one is a simple translation dictionary (as I was coming to Germany, I needed a fast German - English translator) based on "grepping" a word from a dictionary text-file.
The second is a "port" of the dual n-back game (similar to BrainWorkshop)... this one I am just refining the first version and I hope to release it (GPLv2) soon-ish (work does not let me spend all the time I wish on that).
But I can confirm that devkitARM + ndslib are really nice to work in to program for the DS. Of course you need to know C or C++.
Nevertheless I wonder how easy will it be to brew for the 3DS, given that some homebrew made for the DS does not work on the DSi/XL. Given the new architecture of the DS, we may need to wait a couple of years until teh-leet-hackers release an amazing library similar to ndslib for the 3DS...
In general all new technology is a gimmick until someone finds a way to use if effectively.
3D will be a gimmick unless someone comes with a good design that exploit its potential. Similary to how the Wii controllers can feel "gimmicky" for a lot of games, except the (very few) ones in which their capabilities are used properly
If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it.
Someone has to clean house.
SourceForge is the Island of the Damned.
You can waste an ungodly amount of time there trying to find something alive among the corpses.
you mean like Zombieware??
Anyway, some time ago I found a really neat Java/mySQL whiteboard app which allowed several people to write in a virtual-whiteboard (and saved the data in a mySQL table). I used it into a Dokeos webpage and it was excellent.
THus, I have to agree that a lot of those corpses still have a *lot* of yummy flesh.
'In 2006, we ran Operation Tracker in which we identified about 130 users who were sharing copies of a security program over the web,' said John Lovelock, chief executive of FAST. 'In the end we got about 100 names out of them, but that cost us £12,000, and that was on top of the investigative costs and the legal fees.'"
Cry ME a fucking river crybaby. Boohoo... we want to screw people, and want to make ISPs screw their customers with laws that we have made by buying legislators... and ISPs are charging us to screw their customers... the nerve of them I say! how can they!
Well "Es Una Pena" (it is a SHAME) that he committed such a crime, but it is also shameful that none of the several articles mention his real last name which is PEÑA (with an Ñ).
let's see how/. copes with that... *click preview*
Yeah I can see it now "No! I was not the only one working on the direction of this movie, NO WAY! Mr. Miller did a lot of work too, not only me! I must credit him in the movie as co-director in a similar way as people do in books, music, and every other fucking media in the planet"
Sheesh I can't believe the amount of ego the guy was spilling, such an arrogant egocentric prick!
Yah but by the looks of it (and my experience of how Mexican "politics" work) there is some kind of "friendly connection" between the guy in the government who approves this shit and the persons who sell it (or their representatives in Mexico).
This way, either they can exchange favors or the politician will get a cut of the deal (or in a parallel deal which the other guy can push).
As a Mexican I have to say that right now Mexico is the worst country where this could be implemented.
Just a quick glance at the horrors people are making in Mexico (just see the pictures of the BlogDelNarco site... you don't need to read Spanish to understand...). For a lot of Mexicans, grabbing the eyes of someone is a trivial task; and the worst problem is that in this manner *they have only something to win* and nothing to lose. Whereas, if the password was in the person's brain, they won't benefit in killing such a person.
It must be noted that the hack itself consists in soldering a chip to the PS3 controller... although it is still OK, it is not as good as it sounds in the summary .
PS3 allows any hard drive, any video camera, any keyoard, any tablet, any printer, etc.
This bit made me chuckle... Seeing how this news is about Sony specifically BANNING the use of "any joystick" with their new firmware.
My thought was... couldn't stores like GameStop (UK)and others who legitimately produce and sell these hardware sue Sony? or is Sony now going to say that "the only use of these controllers is to pirate the PS3"...
I would like to see people porting the hack to some cameras, tablets, printers and whatnot and see Sony's reaction...
I have been programming since I was 9 years old (LOGO, GWBASIC, Pascal, C, then C++ then Java) around 1988) and if someone asks me in what languages am I fluent I would just say Java, and C, because these are the ones I have used *for work* in the last 5 years (granted, I have also used a plethora other languages,like PHP, python, ASM, some SQLs and whatnot).
Some time ago I read an article by Joel Spolsky regarding this topic (can someone whore some Karma by posting the link? plz). The problem is that "newbie" programmers think that knowing a programming language is just a matter of knowing the control flow instructions, memorizing the keywords and maybe learning one or two library functions.
However, the truth is when using a language for *production* code, there really is a difference between a guy who knows the ins and outs of the language, the subtleties, and just reading a book and doing a bunch of hello worlds.
I second this... last year I started seriously learning QT development after some time and in my opinion it is a real pleasure to learn and to use the QT library.
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Because your everyday normal "series of tubes" people can't go to the effort of using your "external apps."
And the only Firefox addon they have is VideoDownloadHelper, because they went on Yahoo Answers asking how they could download YouTube videos.
Yeah... tell that to the million of everyday normal "series of tubes" people (including the thousand harassed by the MAFIAA) who have used your "external apps" to download music and videos.
Of course, it won't catch up in offices because as I see it, currently it is very easy to block torrent traffic (my office do it) whereas if it was *needed* for day to day use they will have a bandwidth nightmare.
High level libraries are a nicety not a necessity for homebrew, at least in my opinion,
The same thing can apply to standard PCs and the "nicety" of using C plus stdlib/C++ STL or even Java instead of pure assembly.
Of course it is quite "straightforward" to program in the DS once you know the structure memory-mapped registers, however you will see very few complex homebrew is developped from there.
For an example look at the Wii homebrew and Grrlib or libwiigui (the explotion in the number of homebrew apps after they were released was amazing), as I said in my previous post, there are a lot of "lazy" programmers such as myself who want to program for these consoles but are lazy to look work at the memory-mapped register level.
For example, I would not be doing the dual-nback game I am doing for the DS would if I needed to spend to much time dealing with the memory mapping. Thanks to the very good quality libraries are available I could use them to sit down one sunday while my wife was away and hack together a first version of the program.
Agreed for most part. However the reverse-engineering of the DS was not done as in the dark as you mention. After all, as you said, the DS had a very similar hardware as the GBA. In addition hardware was mainly an ARM processor for which there *is* documentation. That's why you see a lot of reversee engineering is done using IDA and the like.
I think the most important factor for the complexity of the 3DS will be in the nature of the 3D hardware, which is a propertary processor from a startup (Pica200) from which we may not have a lot of technical information.
Now, regarding what GP said of how "trivial" it is to write the SDK, it seems he does not have a clue what he is talking about. You just have to see projects like PALib which *tried* to create an alternative more "user friendly" DS library (has been discontinued).
Designing and writing a good interface library, even if at the core it is just a definition of memory address access (e.g., GBA memory-mapped registers) takes a hell of a lot of effort and time. Specially if what you want to achieve is a library which "lazy" developpers like myself can use.
Second this. I am a DS homebrew developper... actually I have developped 2 apps which I use for myself but nevet got to "release" them. The first one is a simple translation dictionary (as I was coming to Germany, I needed a fast German - English translator) based on "grepping" a word from a dictionary text-file.
The second is a "port" of the dual n-back game (similar to BrainWorkshop)... this one I am just refining the first version and I hope to release it (GPLv2) soon-ish (work does not let me spend all the time I wish on that).
But I can confirm that devkitARM + ndslib are really nice to work in to program for the DS. Of course you need to know C or C++.
Nevertheless I wonder how easy will it be to brew for the 3DS, given that some homebrew made for the DS does not work on the DSi /XL. Given the new architecture of the DS, we may need to wait a couple of years until teh-leet-hackers release an amazing library similar to ndslib for the 3DS...
In general all new technology is a gimmick until someone finds a way to use if effectively.
3D will be a gimmick unless someone comes with a good design that exploit its potential. Similary to how the Wii controllers can feel "gimmicky" for a lot of games, except the (very few) ones in which their capabilities are used properly
Wow... I don't know if I want to know what kind of podcasts do you listen to
alternativey.
I told you to stop listening to Microsoft podcasts.
If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it.
Someone has to clean house.
SourceForge is the Island of the Damned.
You can waste an ungodly amount of time there trying to find something alive among the corpses.
you mean like Zombieware??
Anyway, some time ago I found a really neat Java/mySQL whiteboard app which allowed several people to write in a virtual-whiteboard (and saved the data in a mySQL table). I used it into a Dokeos webpage and it was excellent.
THus, I have to agree that a lot of those corpses still have a *lot* of yummy flesh.
'In 2006, we ran Operation Tracker in which we identified about 130 users who were sharing copies of a security program over the web,' said John Lovelock, chief executive of FAST. 'In the end we got about 100 names out of them, but that cost us £12,000, and that was on top of the investigative costs and the legal fees.'"
Cry ME a fucking river crybaby. Boohoo... we want to screw people, and want to make ISPs screw their customers with laws that we have made by buying legislators... and ISPs are charging us to screw their customers... the nerve of them I say! how can they!
Guess who has a copy of the original book?
Hint: it is leaky
No no no... in the case of this product the wasted energy is turned to a yellowish light.
I guess maybe in Setec Astronomy.
Well "Es Una Pena" (it is a SHAME) that he committed such a crime, but it is also shameful that none of the several articles mention his real last name which is PEÑA (with an Ñ).
let's see how /. copes with that... *click preview*
It seems ok..
No, they use that to dodge taxes and whatnot
Sure, tell that to Winston Groom, Stan Lee, Art Buchwald and Peter Jackson
I hate those taxes too... it is indeed a burden having to pay people for the work they have done for me...
. It became an ego issue with him,
Yeah I can see it now
"No! I was not the only one working on the direction of this movie, NO WAY! Mr. Miller did a lot of work too, not only me! I must credit him in the movie as co-director in a similar way as people do in books, music, and every other fucking media in the planet"
Sheesh I can't believe the amount of ego the guy was spilling, such an arrogant egocentric prick!
What sort of amendment to the First Amendment would you have in mind to prevent protection rackets
Mhhmmm... I think you were a good troll, but after you erased your previous comments I have to say I totally agree with you.
We should prevent protection rackets but... why do we need an amendment for that?
Yah but by the looks of it (and my experience of how Mexican "politics" work) there is some kind of "friendly connection" between the guy in the government who approves this shit and the persons who sell it (or their representatives in Mexico).
This way, either they can exchange favors or the politician will get a cut of the deal (or in a parallel deal which the other guy can push).
Yah, but that is because you Britons have long lost any idea of what individual "Privacy" means.
As a Mexican I have to say that right now Mexico is the worst country where this could be implemented.
Just a quick glance at the horrors people are making in Mexico (just see the pictures of the BlogDelNarco site... you don't need to read Spanish to understand...). For a lot of Mexicans, grabbing the eyes of someone is a trivial task; and the worst problem is that in this manner *they have only something to win* and nothing to lose. Whereas, if the password was in the person's brain, they won't benefit in killing such a person.
It must be noted that the hack itself consists in soldering a chip to the PS3 controller... although it is still OK, it is not as good as it sounds in the summary .
Like using third party controllers??
Uhmmm... I can buy and use cheaper third party controllers with my Wii... and last I saw you could also do it with the XBox360.
For me this really sounds as a huge amount of lawsuits waiting to be happening to Sony...
Just looking a the amount of unofficial controllers shops like Gamestop, GAME, Saturn and the like have here in Europe...
What are they going to do with all that?
PS3 allows any hard drive, any video camera, any keyoard, any tablet, any printer, etc.
This bit made me chuckle... Seeing how this news is about Sony specifically BANNING the use of "any joystick" with their new firmware.
My thought was... couldn't stores like GameStop (UK)and others who legitimately produce and sell these hardware sue Sony? or is Sony now going to say that "the only use of these controllers is to pirate the PS3"...
I would like to see people porting the hack to some cameras, tablets, printers and whatnot and see Sony's reaction...
1. It's "Java", not "JAVA". It's not an acronym.
No, no, you didn't get it the thing is HE WAS SHOUTING to show his point... JAVA does have a similar syntax o as ACTIONSCRIPT.
Spot on.
I have been programming since I was 9 years old (LOGO, GWBASIC, Pascal, C, then C++ then Java) around 1988) and if someone asks me in what languages am I fluent I would just say Java, and C, because these are the ones I have used *for work* in the last 5 years (granted, I have also used a plethora other languages ,like PHP, python, ASM, some SQLs and whatnot).
Some time ago I read an article by Joel Spolsky regarding this topic (can someone whore some Karma by posting the link? plz). The problem is that "newbie" programmers think that knowing a programming language is just a matter of knowing the control flow instructions, memorizing the keywords and maybe learning one or two library functions.
However, the truth is when using a language for *production* code, there really is a difference between a guy who knows the ins and outs of the language, the subtleties, and just reading a book and doing a bunch of hello worlds.
I second this... last year I started seriously learning QT development after some time and in my opinion it is a real pleasure to learn and to use the QT library.
According to one of the comments in TorrentFreak, one ISP (presumably called "Free") started sending the data on identified ISPs in paper.
I really hope French people stand against this.