I didn't try for the Wii, I looked at Nintendo SDK during the GBA time. And said, OMG, no way, price insane (30k or so). So flash cards that came out back then where a great idea. I love homebrew, really. But the piracy on Wii games is ruining it.
Because they didn't fix the issue, they tried to work around it. Replacing IOS with stubs is of little use if you still have the exploits in place to install on top of those.
The reason for this update is simpel. Backup loaders, the piracy on the Wii is insane. You can run games from burned disks, as well as from an USB harddrive. As every kid on the block starts to know this it will hurt sales of games (just as the R4 hurts game sales on the NDS)
Now, the homebrew scene doesn't want to have anything to do with piracy, but the homebrew channel is the first step in installing piracy stuff. So Nintendo goes to block that.
What I don't understand is that if Nintendo would just allow the homebrew channel, and only block stuff like IOS hacks, then they would stop piracy right in it's tracks. This will keep many of the good hackers at bay, as they have what they want. And will make things a lot harder for pirates.
Ah, but homebrew can help here. The wii-shop update is just a full 4.3 update (it's the carrot on the stick for updates, every update contains a new version of wii-shop to force people to update).
Just a word of warning, waninkoko is known for buggy software that does dangerous things. Only the piracy side of the 'homebrew' people endorse his work.
I know that flash won't survive a good electric storm (A good EMP blast can destroy a lot of electronics) and I kinda assumed everyone knew, and thus aimed for a funny, not an informative...
It's unnatural, while 2D looks flat you know it's not real and a flat image on a screen. With the pseudo 3D movies you get some fancy trick where your mind is tricked in thinking it's 3D, but only if you look at it from the right location, at the right angle, which you never do, as you need to sit at the right place, but also need to keep your head level. There are also focus problems, as you need to focus on the 2D screen on which it's projected while you mind wants to focus on a different distance. Making it stressful.
The gimmick of seeing something float in front of you is great, but it looks holographic, not 100% real. And the effect is gone as soon as the object hits the border of the screen.
It's like a roller-coaster, great fun on the first ride, but riding it to much will make you puke.
Not sure if McDonalds is widespread in Japan, but the Mcdonalds deal doesn't seem to be limited to the US, as I also see "free WiFi" signs popping up here in The Netherlands.
They are sequential, so you just need 1 find a whole load around them.
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From our issue tracker, dated from this monday: "Issue tracker via IE V5 is unusuable", ofcourse it's on "won't fix" now. But they did manage to surprise me.
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Even if you can break a small proportion of power stations, the rest will come on again.
Many large power plants need quite a bit of energy to jump start from an 'off' condition (normally they never go 'off' just in lower power mode). Turning off all power plants at once would be a much bigger mess then you think. I don't think you ever could do it because of fail-safes, but if you could you would start a big mess.
Don't complain at slashdot, complain at the city council. It is possible to detect cyclists with inductive sensors, but they are not installed 99% of the time due to the extra costs. I work at a company that supplies traffic-lights, and I found out recently that one of the lights I used to cycle past as a kid was produced by us. And it had no problems detecting me, giving me green light without stopping.
Also, you don't get a lot of green as a cyclist because cyclist green is 'expensive' in time. They have to set the clearance time to the slowest cyclist. So all that time they cannot give green to any lights that would cross your cycle route, which impacts the flow of traffic a lot. But don't fear yellow lights if you have enough speed, you have plenty time. And if you know the intersection a bit then the beginning of red can also be safe for you. But you might need to do some explaining to the local cop from time to time.
And as last, green waves are not controlled by cameras or induction sensors but by strict timing and communication between the intersections. The first intersection just signals the rest that a group of cars is coming so the rest can prepare for that. Or, in cheap cases, the intersections just run on fixed programs designed so that the green wave always happens (totally sucks for low traffic situations, like at night)
Green waves for fuel is nothing new, we've been doing so for quite some time already. What's new here is the communication between the vehicles and the intersections (which is pretty much still in heavy research state, and involves a lot more partners then just Audi and BMW)
I don't like the way how it's put down (it reads like the Kuran, with lot of hate), but it makes many valid points.
Just to name some: -Implicit copy constructors and assign operator bite. You don't expect them, and the STL makes heavy use of them. -Name mangling is not specified. Try to mix dlls build with gcc and msvc, fixed that hell? Now, try to build an dll with gcc that can replace a dll build with msvc. -Not mentioned in the FQA, but std::string is STUPID. Yeah, it's great to have a string class, it's great that you can overload operators. But if you then build a string class with just = and += as overloaded operators. It's not like we ever do: StringA = StringB + StringC; if (StringA == StringQ)
Reading it will give you an inside on the many issues you can have with C++. I don't oppose C++, but You Have To Know What You Are Doing (TM). Or else all hell breaks lose. Fixing bad C is doable, fixing bad C++ is the 7th circle of hell.
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Could someone please explain to the ignorant politicians in stupid terms even they can understand, the concept of packet switching.
I'll get right on it, as soon as they explained what a 'cyber attack' is.
I didn't try for the Wii, I looked at Nintendo SDK during the GBA time. And said, OMG, no way, price insane (30k or so). So flash cards that came out back then where a great idea. I love homebrew, really. But the piracy on Wii games is ruining it.
Because they didn't fix the issue, they tried to work around it. Replacing IOS with stubs is of little use if you still have the exploits in place to install on top of those.
The reason for this update is simpel. Backup loaders, the piracy on the Wii is insane. You can run games from burned disks, as well as from an USB harddrive. As every kid on the block starts to know this it will hurt sales of games (just as the R4 hurts game sales on the NDS)
Now, the homebrew scene doesn't want to have anything to do with piracy, but the homebrew channel is the first step in installing piracy stuff. So Nintendo goes to block that.
What I don't understand is that if Nintendo would just allow the homebrew channel, and only block stuff like IOS hacks, then they would stop piracy right in it's tracks. This will keep many of the good hackers at bay, as they have what they want. And will make things a lot harder for pirates.
Ah, but homebrew can help here. The wii-shop update is just a full 4.3 update (it's the carrot on the stick for updates, every update contains a new version of wii-shop to force people to update).
However, you can update just the wii-shop with DOP-Mii: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/DOP-Mii
Just a word of warning, waninkoko is known for buggy software that does dangerous things. Only the piracy side of the 'homebrew' people endorse his work.
They are shipping now. Yes, it's taking much longer then they planned (3x as long I guess) but they are shipping.
Guess you are looking for an openpandora then? http://openpandora.org/
I know that flash won't survive a good electric storm (A good EMP blast can destroy a lot of electronics) and I kinda assumed everyone knew, and thus aimed for a funny, not an informative...
Seriously, what is it like?
It's unnatural, while 2D looks flat you know it's not real and a flat image on a screen. With the pseudo 3D movies you get some fancy trick where your mind is tricked in thinking it's 3D, but only if you look at it from the right location, at the right angle, which you never do, as you need to sit at the right place, but also need to keep your head level. There are also focus problems, as you need to focus on the 2D screen on which it's projected while you mind wants to focus on a different distance. Making it stressful.
The gimmick of seeing something float in front of you is great, but it looks holographic, not 100% real. And the effect is gone as soon as the object hits the border of the screen.
It's like a roller-coaster, great fun on the first ride, but riding it to much will make you puke.
I'm just joking of course
Duh. Everyone knows an iPhone has priority over paying the rent.
Flash disks are non-magnetic. But if you want something that survives better then I suggest something like engravings on stone tablets.
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I guess you just replied to the other one ;-)
Not sure if McDonalds is widespread in Japan, but the Mcdonalds deal doesn't seem to be limited to the US, as I also see "free WiFi" signs popping up here in The Netherlands.
2 words: Orbit, Nuke.
They are sequential, so you just need 1 find a whole load around them.
From our issue tracker, dated from this monday: "Issue tracker via IE V5 is unusuable", ofcourse it's on "won't fix" now. But they did manage to surprise me.
Or just install XP x64?
Even if you can break a small proportion of power stations, the rest will come on again.
Many large power plants need quite a bit of energy to jump start from an 'off' condition (normally they never go 'off' just in lower power mode). Turning off all power plants at once would be a much bigger mess then you think. I don't think you ever could do it because of fail-safes, but if you could you would start a big mess.
Don't complain at slashdot, complain at the city council. It is possible to detect cyclists with inductive sensors, but they are not installed 99% of the time due to the extra costs. I work at a company that supplies traffic-lights, and I found out recently that one of the lights I used to cycle past as a kid was produced by us. And it had no problems detecting me, giving me green light without stopping.
Also, you don't get a lot of green as a cyclist because cyclist green is 'expensive' in time. They have to set the clearance time to the slowest cyclist. So all that time they cannot give green to any lights that would cross your cycle route, which impacts the flow of traffic a lot. But don't fear yellow lights if you have enough speed, you have plenty time. And if you know the intersection a bit then the beginning of red can also be safe for you. But you might need to do some explaining to the local cop from time to time.
And as last, green waves are not controlled by cameras or induction sensors but by strict timing and communication between the intersections. The first intersection just signals the rest that a group of cars is coming so the rest can prepare for that. Or, in cheap cases, the intersections just run on fixed programs designed so that the green wave always happens (totally sucks for low traffic situations, like at night)
Green waves for fuel is nothing new, we've been doing so for quite some time already. What's new here is the communication between the vehicles and the intersections (which is pretty much still in heavy research state, and involves a lot more partners then just Audi and BMW)
made struct vs class into two different worlds.
And you say it like that's a bad thing?
RAII? Easy in C, there are functions that create and initialize the memory. Almost all C libraries work that way.
C syntax: FILE* bla = fopen("bla", "rb");
Java syntax: File bla = new File("bla", "rb");
I don't like the way how it's put down (it reads like the Kuran, with lot of hate), but it makes many valid points.
Just to name some:
-Implicit copy constructors and assign operator bite. You don't expect them, and the STL makes heavy use of them.
-Name mangling is not specified. Try to mix dlls build with gcc and msvc, fixed that hell? Now, try to build an dll with gcc that can replace a dll build with msvc.
-Not mentioned in the FQA, but std::string is STUPID. Yeah, it's great to have a string class, it's great that you can overload operators. But if you then build a string class with just = and += as overloaded operators. It's not like we ever do: StringA = StringB + StringC; if (StringA == StringQ)
In C you also have to know what you are doing, but the possible options are way less, and they are way less 'side effects' that you need to know.
If you want to link to any FAQ, don't forget the FQA about C++ http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
Reading it will give you an inside on the many issues you can have with C++. I don't oppose C++, but You Have To Know What You Are Doing (TM). Or else all hell breaks lose. Fixing bad C is doable, fixing bad C++ is the 7th circle of hell.