As a Mexican, I also prefer Sugar-sweetened Cola. I have tried the Corn-version of the drink and it tastes weird. I also read somewhere that cane-sugar is more healthy than corn-syrup [citation needed].
Use of illegal Wii game copies is rampant (see Wiiso). You do not need a modchip and it is really easy to mod the Wii to make it play illegal game copies.
The guys at hackmii specifically reject such use, however every improvement they make for homebrew will be used by others (wanikoko, wiigator, etc) to ease access to playing illegal copies.
As someone else said before, why do you guys keep using typewriters to comment on/.?
More on topic, yeah, Nintendo has said that they won't sell the console at a loss (IIRC, neither the NES, SNES, N64, and GC where sold at a loss).
They profit from hardware sales and first party titles (they profit from third parties, but in a *much* lower scale than Sony and Microsoft).
I read about the 4.2 menu some days ago (@hackmii) what Nintendo attempted is interesting.
My thought was that this is in "preparation" for the release of the priced-down wii (for christmass season). It is known that Nintendo does minor internal updates (revisions) to the Wii system. Maybe the next revision will have a boot0 or boot1 that make boot2 unmodifiable.
But the guys at Team Twiizers are awesome, once you ignore the pubert-related dramas (with suicide notes and all that) they are a bunch of capable reverse engineers with a lot of time in their hands.
...are the scum of the earth. I can't stand that! Take separate notes! Respect the text for future users! And they always write stupid crap in'em, too.
I more or less agree with that, but only in the case when the book is not of your property (e.g., form a library). I almost never write in any of my dead tree books, however I can understand that sometimes it good to write some "afterthought" you got from reading a paragraph (which makes it easier to understand), that way, the next time you read it, you just have to glance at your previous writings.
Now, I like this snippet from the summary:
bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages â"
That is one of the reasons why I still print all the papers (I do research) I obtain.
There is no reader program (even in standard PC) that allows you to handle a document the way the dead-tree format allows you. For example, there's no way to "bookmark" a specific place in a PDF (there are "bookmark" fields, but they used for the "table of contents". Writing annotations is cumbersome and underlying is impossible unless you get a paid version (and is an awkward process).
So far, I have tested FoxitPDF viewer, adobe reader and these days I have started to use PDF-XChange
, this one I like because I can have several documents open in one window (tabbed-interface); this way I can have different PDF windows open with different research "themes".
Besides, they should've given'em to some real college students, like engineering majors. I'd love to stop carrying a pile 8 inches thick of textbooks around the campus every freakin' day. I mean, that can't be good for your back.
My complaint is that a degree in "computer science" qualifies most people to do little more than run Microsoft-centric shops. You know, install, network, and administer Microsoft Windows, and administer Microsoft Office. Sad, in my opinion.
I agree, for Computer Science, the equivalent of Chemistry, Biology or other "Natural Sciences" taught in High School would would be basic theory of algorithms, basic programming, general computation theory (what is a computer, Turing machine, FSM, blah blah). They used to teach that in my high school (granted, that was in Mexico) when I went there (about 15 years ago).
In the civilized world, we give them an option: don't build the weapon and you get to remain a regular country. Build it, and we fark up your economy.
Yeah, just like all those WMDs that the USA found in those silos in Iraq. I laughed out loud today when I saw the news anchor comparing two pictures of the alleged "iran nuclear plant" where they are making nuclear bombs... mmmm yeeeeeeaaah, I heard the exact same story 6 years ago about Iraq.
And before you label me as a stupid Nintendo fanboy, I know people who have the Xbox and Xbox 360 just for the Halo series.
which makes them Halo fanboys...
PS3 owners? Only one in all the people I know, and that was partially because it's also a Blu-Ray player.
Which makes them what? blu-ray fanboys? or they wanted a Blu-ray at the time and they saw that the PS3 was the best bang for the buck?
I have a wii and let me tell you that the Zelda games are reaaaaaally boring. Metroid was OK (just OK). I have my eyes in a PS3 which maybe will buy for christmass.
That something that I hate. Before the wii got out (when the hype was at its max) I remember reading that the games will cost considerably less than the ones for Xbox360 and PS3.
Nowadays, game prices are the same (or almost the same) and the quality and diversity of games does not compare between the PS3 library and the Wii.
There was a period of time lasting a couple of years ("the Sonic Era") during which Genesis was beating SNES badly in every place but Japan.
It would be every place but Japan and Mexico (I do not know if in other south-america countries as well).
During the NES and SNES era, Nintendo was the absolute winner console in Mexico.
The first video-game convention in Mexico was made for Nintendo (I was there yay!) to present some SNES games (by Gus Rodriguez and Adrian Carbajal lol).
Unfortunately I have to agree with the GP. I got a Wii (preordered for release day!) and was happy for about the first year.
I got Zelda but got bored after about the first hour of playing (nothing happens in that game...), my wife played it a bit more.
I got RedSteel and finished it once, a "just OK" game.
I played WiiPlay, WiiSports, MonkeyBall, Rayman Rabidds and the like with one or two friends, but it got old and boring after the first year.
I bought Metroid Prime recently, it is again just OK, (granted, I think it has been one of the less-crappy titles of the Wii so far). Finished it once and never looked back.
Same with Mario Galaxy, the game is just OK (but, as the Zero Punctuation guy says, why are all Wii games designed for retards?).
Now I am playing call of duty. So far it is OK.
On the other hand, I played Army of Two for the PS3 while visiting my brother, I was blown away, it is really good (not because of the graphics but due to the game play).
The saddest thing is when you go to a game shop, the difference in game offers between Wii, PS3 and Xbox360 are amazing. In addition, 90% of the games available for the wii seem to be done for retards.
Nowadays, I am pondering to buy a PS3, with the price cut I think it is a good time for that. I though about buying an Xbox but after reading about how easy it breaks, I think PS3 is the way to go.
Sure, you can play conspiracy theory and say someone, somewhere, somehow is saving the pictures. There might also be a peeping tom outside your bedroom window.
Lol, the funny thing is that for my family, someone, somewhere really was taking a lot of attention to our data.
See, about 30 years ago (if not more) my grandmother traveled to the USA (from Mexico) for short vacations, in one way or another, she forgot to handle the "going out" paper sheet when she returned (she was about 70 years old).
15 years later, a cousin goes to the USA and (we still don't know how did they know these two persons where relatives) when she is entering (in the USA border, not when getting his VISA) the border agent demanded to know where my grandmother was hiding in the USA, because for all he knew, she had stayed as an illegal alien for 15 years.
Moraleja? the USA government *does* save more information than you think. I always say that, if Google Maps allows us to see all that personal information, imagine what the USA government can do.
And that, is the reason I have decided to stay away from Universal Studios, Epcot center and Disneyworld... (oh, and maybe visiting that pinball museum in Las Vegas).
Too bad I have good memories of the those places from the time I went with my parents (20 years ago). But right now, Europe is providing with so much interesting stuff!
especially for exposing semi-obscure but useful Microsoft Word features (like creating cross references)
Funny you comment on cross-references. I added an icon to my Word2003 toolbar which takes you directly to Insert/Reference/Cross-reference. After that it is just one click away...
. In most of the United States, you can't even take a piss in public! How's that for freedom of expression?
Not only that, but they get grossed out over a mammary gland.
In Germany (at least in the channels I have in my TV here in Sachsen-Anhalt) it is normal to see nude people in open TV... while 5 frames of that freaks out people in the USA...
Ignoring history (or hiding from it) seems to be the basis of these laws.
The funny thing about the censoring of the game is that, the game itself is about the "good guys" (player) kicking the ass of the "bad guys" (Swastika-happy) so that good triumph against evil.
I guess that, even if I was German, I would fill realized by killing the bunch of assholes that committed such atrocities (at least, doing it in a virtual world).
It would be a nice "spin" to give by a magazine, putting this image-change/censorship as a statement of "we do not allow you to kill/attack the National Socialists".
Is there anybody out there who seriously still has a Thatcheristic fear that they'll be burning the Reichstag again?
I am sorry I came late to the discussion, as this is a story which I think I can add some interesting comments (as an expat living in east-Germany).
There are enough people following the Nazi movement in Germany. Enough to form a party (search for NPD). Worst of all is that, in the last elections (In Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt "states") they got from 5% to 9% of votes.
Regarding the nonsense of banning the images I am not so sure. While I was looking at the images, I found the blood and body parts quite gross (and I like Wolfenstein games).
In contrast, here in Germany there is no problem on showing a pair of tits on open TV (even before 9pm), they do not "fear" that kids see a pair of breasts, I guess for them, that is normal, while for the USA blood, gore and massacre is normal (or at least, those are the normal values they want to give to their kids).
I think the time has come and gone when the laws could be justified.
I partially agree. I know there is *still* a general filling of guilt about the holocaust and Germany's actions during WW2. I do not think it such guilt felt by the younger generations is justified. I have some friends that felt so guilty that the joke of "how do you get 55 jews in a VW beetle?: 2 front, 3 back and 50 in the ashtray" got them really upset... (I know, really bad taste joke).
And X.org X11 server and Gnome User Interface and OpenOffice + Firefox + Crappunderbird email client.
The only thing that distinguishes a distro from the other is the "package manager" (which is either deb or rpm), the splash screens (and theme) and the "install process" which the End user should not see.
So, I assume that you carry your Gameboy, Atari Lynx, TurboExpress, GameGear, NeoGeoPocket,Gameboy Advance, N-gage,DS, GP2X and PSP in your belt wherever you go uh?
I migrated my parents to Linux three years ago for my own sanity. I figured "How do I make it do this?" calls were preferable to the "I think I've got another computer virus" calls. They got used to Linux very quickly, and I now spend probably 5% of the time I used to supporting them. I
I don't understand, my mother is generally computer illiterate, she has a computer that she uses to: 1. Check her email, 2. Browse some stuff (mainly university related), 3. Use Skype and 4. Write documents.
She have been using the same computer with Windows XP installation (SP2 I think) since about 2004 and she has never had a problem with viruses and the like (I think she has AVG antivirus).
Where do your parents get virus from? what pages did they visit? I mean... even I got a virus once because I pro-actively opened a crack file downloaded from a dubious web location...
Keep/home on a separate partition, and do a clean install every time. It'll save you loads of trouble.
I have a question about this. We all know that such a partition configuration is the best. I wonder, why isn't it the standard in the "automagic" configurations of today's distros?
I would be trivial to make a check box saying "[ ] Put personal folders in a separate partition " and and a slider to choose the percentage of free space to allocate there... That way, the next time you upgrade or install a different distro, it can use that folder.
On the other hand, I still have to see a distro that detects that you have a/home partition and uses it... those are the things that show Linux still has some way to go...
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It costs them a lot of money to try and stop modding etc, when they will fail every time.
Waste of time, money and reputation.
Hey, this update and subsequent homebrew fix comes just in time for the new release of Wii64 Nintendo64 emulator in the Wii.
Good job these guys are doing.
That, or the fact that The USA has high subsidies for corn.
As a Mexican, I also prefer Sugar-sweetened Cola. I have tried the Corn-version of the drink and it tastes weird. I also read somewhere that cane-sugar is more healthy than corn-syrup [citation needed].
Use of illegal Wii game copies is rampant (see Wiiso). You do not need a modchip and it is really easy to mod the Wii to make it play illegal game copies.
The guys at hackmii specifically reject such use, however every improvement they make for homebrew will be used by others (wanikoko, wiigator, etc) to ease access to playing illegal copies.
As someone else said before, why do you guys keep using typewriters to comment on /.?
More on topic, yeah, Nintendo has said that they won't sell the console at a loss (IIRC, neither the NES, SNES, N64, and GC where sold at a loss).
They profit from hardware sales and first party titles (they profit from third parties, but in a *much* lower scale than Sony and Microsoft).
I read about the 4.2 menu some days ago (@hackmii) what Nintendo attempted is interesting.
My thought was that this is in "preparation" for the release of the priced-down wii (for christmass season). It is known that Nintendo does minor internal updates (revisions) to the Wii system. Maybe the next revision will have a boot0 or boot1 that make boot2 unmodifiable.
But the guys at Team Twiizers are awesome, once you ignore the pubert-related dramas (with suicide notes and all that) they are a bunch of capable reverse engineers with a lot of time in their hands.
...are the scum of the earth. I can't stand that! Take separate notes! Respect the text for future users! And they always write stupid crap in'em, too.
I more or less agree with that, but only in the case when the book is not of your property (e.g., form a library). I almost never write in any of my dead tree books, however I can understand that sometimes it good to write some "afterthought" you got from reading a paragraph (which makes it easier to understand), that way, the next time you read it, you just have to glance at your previous writings.
Now, I like this snippet from the summary:
bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages â"
That is one of the reasons why I still print all the papers (I do research) I obtain.
There is no reader program (even in standard PC) that allows you to handle a document the way the dead-tree format allows you. For example, there's no way to "bookmark" a specific place in a PDF (there are "bookmark" fields, but they used for the "table of contents". Writing annotations is cumbersome and underlying is impossible unless you get a paid version (and is an awkward process).
So far, I have tested FoxitPDF viewer, adobe reader and these days I have started to use PDF-XChange
, this one I like because I can have several documents open in one window (tabbed-interface); this way I can have different PDF windows open with different research "themes".
Besides, they should've given'em to some real college students, like engineering majors. I'd love to stop carrying a pile 8 inches thick of textbooks around the campus every freakin' day. I mean, that can't be good for your back.
My complaint is that a degree in "computer science" qualifies most people to do little more than run Microsoft-centric shops. You know, install, network, and administer Microsoft Windows, and administer Microsoft Office. Sad, in my opinion.
I agree, for Computer Science, the equivalent of Chemistry, Biology or other "Natural Sciences" taught in High School would would be basic theory of algorithms, basic programming, general computation theory (what is a computer, Turing machine, FSM, blah blah). They used to teach that in my high school (granted, that was in Mexico) when I went there (about 15 years ago).
In the civilized world, we give them an option: don't build the weapon and you get to remain a regular country. Build it, and we fark up your economy.
Yeah, just like all those WMDs that the USA found in those silos in Iraq. I laughed out loud today when I saw the news anchor comparing two pictures of the alleged "iran nuclear plant" where they are making nuclear bombs... mmmm yeeeeeeaaah, I heard the exact same story 6 years ago about Iraq.
Tell us another tale USA.
The difference is that in the last 50+ years, the U.S. has used it's nuclear arsenal exactly twice, and those during a time of war.
In comparison with all other countries who have used their respective nuclear arsenal exactly 0 times?
Did they banned The Simpsons??
A good sleep / hibernate implementation that doesn't use much (or any) power would be indistinguishable from hyperfast booting.
You do know that the hibernate (suspend to disk) function does not require any power (once the computer enters in hibernation state).
What we need is very fast hibernation algorithms implemented in fast non-volatile memory such as Flash or MRAM.
And before you label me as a stupid Nintendo fanboy, I know people who have the Xbox and Xbox 360 just for the Halo series.
which makes them Halo fanboys...
PS3 owners? Only one in all the people I know, and that was partially because it's also a Blu-Ray player.
Which makes them what? blu-ray fanboys? or they wanted a Blu-ray at the time and they saw that the PS3 was the best bang for the buck?
I have a wii and let me tell you that the Zelda games are reaaaaaally boring. Metroid was OK (just OK). I have my eyes in a PS3 which maybe will buy for christmass.
That something that I hate. Before the wii got out (when the hype was at its max) I remember reading that the games will cost considerably less than the ones for Xbox360 and PS3.
Nowadays, game prices are the same (or almost the same) and the quality and diversity of games does not compare between the PS3 library and the Wii.
There is a DVD-Video player for the jailbroken Wii,
Jailbroken? shit, I am getting behind the times with the l33tspeak. What happened to cracked, hacked, modded?
I guess "jailbroken" term makes one chick because it is related to Apple uh?
There was a period of time lasting a couple of years ("the Sonic Era") during which Genesis was beating SNES badly in every place but Japan.
It would be every place but Japan and Mexico (I do not know if in other south-america countries as well).
During the NES and SNES era, Nintendo was the absolute winner console in Mexico.
The first video-game convention in Mexico was made for Nintendo (I was there yay!) to present some SNES games (by Gus Rodriguez and Adrian Carbajal lol).
Unfortunately I have to agree with the GP. I got a Wii (preordered for release day!) and was happy for about the first year.
I got Zelda but got bored after about the first hour of playing (nothing happens in that game...), my wife played it a bit more.
I got RedSteel and finished it once, a "just OK" game.
I played WiiPlay, WiiSports, MonkeyBall, Rayman Rabidds and the like with one or two friends, but it got old and boring after the first year.
I bought Metroid Prime recently, it is again just OK, (granted, I think it has been one of the less-crappy titles of the Wii so far). Finished it once and never looked back.
Same with Mario Galaxy, the game is just OK (but, as the Zero Punctuation guy says, why are all Wii games designed for retards?).
Now I am playing call of duty. So far it is OK.
On the other hand, I played Army of Two for the PS3 while visiting my brother, I was blown away, it is really good (not because of the graphics but due to the game play).
The saddest thing is when you go to a game shop, the difference in game offers between Wii, PS3 and Xbox360 are amazing. In addition, 90% of the games available for the wii seem to be done for retards.
Nowadays, I am pondering to buy a PS3, with the price cut I think it is a good time for that. I though about buying an Xbox but after reading about how easy it breaks, I think PS3 is the way to go.
Sure, you can play conspiracy theory and say someone, somewhere, somehow is saving the pictures. There might also be a peeping tom outside your bedroom window.
Lol, the funny thing is that for my family, someone, somewhere really was taking a lot of attention to our data.
See, about 30 years ago (if not more) my grandmother traveled to the USA (from Mexico) for short vacations, in one way or another, she forgot to handle the "going out" paper sheet when she returned (she was about 70 years old).
15 years later, a cousin goes to the USA and (we still don't know how did they know these two persons where relatives) when she is entering (in the USA border, not when getting his VISA) the border agent demanded to know where my grandmother was hiding in the USA, because for all he knew, she had stayed as an illegal alien for 15 years.
Moraleja? the USA government *does* save more information than you think. I always say that, if Google Maps allows us to see all that personal information, imagine what the USA government can do.
And that, is the reason I have decided to stay away from Universal Studios, Epcot center and Disneyworld... (oh, and maybe visiting that pinball museum in Las Vegas).
Too bad I have good memories of the those places from the time I went with my parents (20 years ago). But right now, Europe is providing with so much interesting stuff!
especially for exposing semi-obscure but useful Microsoft Word features (like creating cross references)
Funny you comment on cross-references. I added an icon to my Word2003 toolbar which takes you directly to Insert/Reference/Cross-reference. After that it is just one click away...
How is that implemented on the ribbon?
. In most of the United States, you can't even take a piss in public! How's that for freedom of expression?
Not only that, but they get grossed out over a mammary gland.
In Germany (at least in the channels I have in my TV here in Sachsen-Anhalt) it is normal to see nude people in open TV... while 5 frames of that freaks out people in the USA...
Ignoring history (or hiding from it) seems to be the basis of these laws.
The funny thing about the censoring of the game is that, the game itself is about the "good guys" (player) kicking the ass of the "bad guys" (Swastika-happy) so that good triumph against evil.
I guess that, even if I was German, I would fill realized by killing the bunch of assholes that committed such atrocities (at least, doing it in a virtual world).
It would be a nice "spin" to give by a magazine, putting this image-change/censorship as a statement of "we do not allow you to kill/attack the National Socialists".
Is there anybody out there who seriously still has a Thatcheristic fear that they'll be burning the Reichstag again?
I am sorry I came late to the discussion, as this is a story which I think I can add some interesting comments (as an expat living in east-Germany).
There are enough people following the Nazi movement in Germany. Enough to form a party (search for NPD). Worst of all is that, in the last elections (In Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt "states") they got from 5% to 9% of votes.
Regarding the nonsense of banning the images I am not so sure. While I was looking at the images, I found the blood and body parts quite gross (and I like Wolfenstein games).
In contrast, here in Germany there is no problem on showing a pair of tits on open TV (even before 9pm), they do not "fear" that kids see a pair of breasts, I guess for them, that is normal, while for the USA blood, gore and massacre is normal (or at least, those are the normal values they want to give to their kids).
I think the time has come and gone when the laws could be justified.
I partially agree. I know there is *still* a general filling of guilt about the holocaust and Germany's actions during WW2. I do not think it such guilt felt by the younger generations is justified. I have some friends that felt so guilty that the joke of "how do you get 55 jews in a VW beetle?: 2 front, 3 back and 50 in the ashtray" got them really upset... (I know, really bad taste joke).
Linux kernel with a GNU userland.
And X.org X11 server and Gnome User Interface and OpenOffice + Firefox + Crappunderbird email client.
The only thing that distinguishes a distro from the other is the "package manager" (which is either deb or rpm), the splash screens (and theme) and the "install process" which the End user should not see.
So, I assume that you carry your Gameboy, Atari Lynx, TurboExpress, GameGear, NeoGeoPocket,Gameboy Advance, N-gage,DS, GP2X and PSP in your belt wherever you go uh?
I migrated my parents to Linux three years ago for my own sanity. I figured "How do I make it do this?" calls were preferable to the "I think I've got another computer virus" calls. They got used to Linux very quickly, and I now spend probably 5% of the time I used to supporting them. I
I don't understand, my mother is generally computer illiterate, she has a computer that she uses to: 1. Check her email, 2. Browse some stuff (mainly university related), 3. Use Skype and 4. Write documents.
She have been using the same computer with Windows XP installation (SP2 I think) since about 2004 and she has never had a problem with viruses and the like (I think she has AVG antivirus).
Where do your parents get virus from? what pages did they visit? I mean... even I got a virus once because I pro-actively opened a crack file downloaded from a dubious web location...
Keep /home on a separate partition, and do a clean install every time. It'll save you loads of trouble.
I have a question about this. We all know that such a partition configuration is the best. I wonder, why isn't it the standard in the "automagic" configurations of today's distros?
I would be trivial to make a check box saying "[ ] Put personal folders in a separate partition " and and a slider to choose the percentage of free space to allocate there... That way, the next time you upgrade or install a different distro, it can use that folder.
On the other hand, I still have to see a distro that detects that you have a /home partition and uses it... those are the things that show Linux still has some way to go...