While it's true firmware 3.03 requires GTA in order to become hacked, firmwares 2.71 and 2.80 (which are still somewhat plentiful) can be downgraded just by using a exploit in one of the photo libraries. Additionally, new exploits are found every now and then that make more PSPs hackable.
Still, despite that homebrew on the console is very plentiful as the grandparent pointed out.
If you're looking at consoles, last gen MS did have a very short generation relative to Sony and Nintendo. However, if you look at how Wii has been created, you see that Nintendo is trying to make their consoles more like their handhelds. Since 2001, Nintendo has released 3 GBAs and 2 DSes (money that gamers could have spent on more games), and moreover GBA was virtually completely replaced by DS in 2004, just 3.5 years after it was released in North America.
Everything was enabled with no changes to the setup I already had except the special mouse cursors which required a quick patching to the source code and recompiling of Wine (really isn't as bad as it may sound) using a pre-existing Windows installation. I experience maybe a 10% FPS drop which is generally to be expected with Wine. The Wine Application DB has detailed instructions on how to get any game that will work to work in Wine.
In all seriousness, WINE is really gotten a lot better over the past little while. It's actually making gaming on Linux a viable option for me. Today, with only minimal extra effort, I was able to get Command and Conquer 3 working perfectly in WINE on my Ubuntu 7.04 box, something I thought would've been impossible just a few months ago.
IE7 and WMP11 are only artificially locked out of working on Windows 2000. Besides, WMP11 is a huge resource hog and tends to run slow on any computer not built in the last 3 years.
And it's really going to make a difference if a kid plays GTA? I know when I was growing up I watched a whole bunch of violet movies and it didn't "corrupt my moral fiber" or anything of the sort.
I just put it together and installed Sarge yesterday, and I'd rather keep things running stable on it after all that work. Does Etch have any showstopping bugs that would stop a 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? Will it fuck up my apache, proftpd, sshd, or smb servers? Anything I should really know before letting some 600 or so packages change?
Yeah, basically... not to mention you have pretty annoying slowdown once you enter the first level and emulating sound (which sounds rather choppy) makes it slow down to a point beyond playability. Still, considering the emulation environment of N64 even getting where he has is a mighty big accomplishment. Hopefully with time, Mario 64 will actually be full speed.
Are you running AMD64 Linux? I used to on my Sempron 1.6 GHz 1 gig DDR and OO.o would be beyond slow. Since I switched to x86 Ubuntu, OO.o has run far, far faster. With quickstart on (which really only uses a minimal amount of memory), Writer will launch in about 4 seconds and everything feels really responsive.
Exactly. It just so happens that Harper was once a champion of freedom, privacy, and Libertarianism. While some of that luster may have worn off, he still remains generally opposed to infringing on privacy, big-government, and censorship.
There is no Quicktime for Linux, but you can install codecs to view the.mov files in Totem (the default), Xine (my personal favorite), VLC, MPlayer, and etc. It wasn't what I'd call user-friendly in Edgy and especially pre-Dapepr, but with Feisty there is going to be a simple GUI interface to install it and if you don't have the proper codecs in Totem it will automagically download them.
Since Dapper it's had a live CD based GUI installer, and Feisty is going to bring in easy installation of restricted codecs and graphics card drivers. Trust me, it's ready.
As a libertarian who is often confused as a right-winger, I've been a Mozilla/Firefox user for 5 years and a Linux user for 3 years now. Maybe it has something to do with "rightys" and libertarians prefering less restrictions in every day life and this carrying over into the software realm.
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While it's true firmware 3.03 requires GTA in order to become hacked, firmwares 2.71 and 2.80 (which are still somewhat plentiful) can be downgraded just by using a exploit in one of the photo libraries. Additionally, new exploits are found every now and then that make more PSPs hackable.
Still, despite that homebrew on the console is very plentiful as the grandparent pointed out.
In TFA, Pocket Gamer lists DS' weight w/ battery as being 218 grams. This is for the Lite revision. The Chunky original was 275 grams w/ battery.
It's also notable that the article lists PSP's weight as being 280 grams while it is in fact 260 grams.
If you're looking at consoles, last gen MS did have a very short generation relative to Sony and Nintendo. However, if you look at how Wii has been created, you see that Nintendo is trying to make their consoles more like their handhelds. Since 2001, Nintendo has released 3 GBAs and 2 DSes (money that gamers could have spent on more games), and moreover GBA was virtually completely replaced by DS in 2004, just 3.5 years after it was released in North America.
Everything was enabled with no changes to the setup I already had except the special mouse cursors which required a quick patching to the source code and recompiling of Wine (really isn't as bad as it may sound) using a pre-existing Windows installation. I experience maybe a 10% FPS drop which is generally to be expected with Wine. The Wine Application DB has detailed instructions on how to get any game that will work to work in Wine.
In all seriousness, WINE is really gotten a lot better over the past little while. It's actually making gaming on Linux a viable option for me. Today, with only minimal extra effort, I was able to get Command and Conquer 3 working perfectly in WINE on my Ubuntu 7.04 box, something I thought would've been impossible just a few months ago.
IE7 and WMP11 are only artificially locked out of working on Windows 2000. Besides, WMP11 is a huge resource hog and tends to run slow on any computer not built in the last 3 years.
No Java 6 runtime support on OS X until October... :(
And it's really going to make a difference if a kid plays GTA? I know when I was growing up I watched a whole bunch of violet movies and it didn't "corrupt my moral fiber" or anything of the sort.
I just put it together and installed Sarge yesterday, and I'd rather keep things running stable on it after all that work. Does Etch have any showstopping bugs that would stop a 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? Will it fuck up my apache, proftpd, sshd, or smb servers? Anything I should really know before letting some 600 or so packages change?
I literally spent the bulk of yesterday installing Sarge to a new server I set up. Son of a fucking bitch.
Yeah, basically... not to mention you have pretty annoying slowdown once you enter the first level and emulating sound (which sounds rather choppy) makes it slow down to a point beyond playability. Still, considering the emulation environment of N64 even getting where he has is a mighty big accomplishment. Hopefully with time, Mario 64 will actually be full speed.
Are you running AMD64 Linux? I used to on my Sempron 1.6 GHz 1 gig DDR and OO.o would be beyond slow. Since I switched to x86 Ubuntu, OO.o has run far, far faster. With quickstart on (which really only uses a minimal amount of memory), Writer will launch in about 4 seconds and everything feels really responsive.
Exactly. It just so happens that Harper was once a champion of freedom, privacy, and Libertarianism. While some of that luster may have worn off, he still remains generally opposed to infringing on privacy, big-government, and censorship.
Actually PS3 is region free for games. As with PSP, it's a simple firmware alteration to be able to play Region 2 Blu-Ray/DVD.
There is no Quicktime for Linux, but you can install codecs to view the .mov files in Totem (the default), Xine (my personal favorite), VLC, MPlayer, and etc. It wasn't what I'd call user-friendly in Edgy and especially pre-Dapepr, but with Feisty there is going to be a simple GUI interface to install it and if you don't have the proper codecs in Totem it will automagically download them.
Since Dapper it's had a live CD based GUI installer, and Feisty is going to bring in easy installation of restricted codecs and graphics card drivers. Trust me, it's ready.
Try installing Amarok on OS X and you'll feel the pain. It took me a full 23 hours to install it via fink, having to compile KDE alone with it...
On that note, do you know when the next LTS release is planned?
If someone gave me a free HDTV, I'd -not- complain spend $9 to buy the cables myself.
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As a libertarian who is often confused as a right-winger, I've been a Mozilla/Firefox user for 5 years and a Linux user for 3 years now. Maybe it has something to do with "rightys" and libertarians prefering less restrictions in every day life and this carrying over into the software realm.
Let me guess: k3d.
Don't vacation in LA during 2036.
It's slightly faster.... TO THE MAX!