As an early 20's male riding a crotch rocket, I can see where they come from in the doesn't acknowledge your presence business if you are male and on a vespa.
Something doesn't seem right about riding a more dangerous (the vespa) vehicle while at the same time looking feminine, the tiny wheelbase on scooters makes them horrible over bumps, and the seated position is impossible to escape if you ever stack it, you're stuck essentially.
(last time I checked their wasn't a homebrew scene for the 360, and the only reason to hack is to pirate games)
There is a slight homebrew scene but it's very fledgeling, the hacks involved to run your own software are a lot more involved than that to just play burnt games, involves making your own NAND dumper etc, I bought an old 360 just for this purpose when I figured out how to do it, just been too lazy to finish it.
If this is true why do F/OSS zealots get their collective panties in a bunch when some corporation profits on something that uses some open source code?
Redhat makes millions of profits from their linux distro and nobody cares, what they do care about is when they don't follow the license requirements, which turns it from legitimately using it for free to pirating, essentially.
Apple II and the macintosh were completely different beasts.
Apple II is about as open as you can get in basically every regard, the macintosh is about as closed as you can get. The main difference between them? who was in charge of making them. The apple II was the brainchild of steve wozniak, the macintosh was jobs. Jobs has always been about an extremely controlled experience.
Depends on your idea of successful I guess, they are selling, but the installed base of n95's shits all over that of the iphone. Worldwide the iphone has only sold 30 million units, that's just a drop in the bucket really.
For example, I have the most secure server in world. It's on the floor in my closet
oh really, what would stop someone from say, breaking into your house and physically stealng said server? people all too often forget physical security, when they have physical access you are boned.
microsoft weren't the people to beat in the mobile space, nokia are, and they have failed. The US market is the only real one the iphone has been successful in, which can be partly attributed to the lack of any decent smartphone in that market.(nokia had better phones released earlier.. but US carriers would not take them because of too much functionality)
And having a 4096 byte logical sector size would cause major compatibility issues.
Only with ancient os's, anything in the last five years should handle it just fine. I'm all for backwards compatibility etc.. except when it can gimp current performance through emulation layers etc like what the hardware does with this 512 byte sectors to 4096 byte business.
The real problem is that it is lying about it's sector size, it's reporting 512 bytes when it's using 4k, if it told linux it was using 4k everything would be fine and dandy.
Why does it lie about it's sector size when it doesn't need to? because if it didn't the drives would not work on windows XP at all. Which would not bode well for sales.
Once drives with 4k sectors arrive its up the individual maintainers of each affected tool (fdisk, et. al.) to update their code.
Kernel handles sector sizes, and could handle 4k sectors ages ago, but when the hardware reports something it tends to trust it, which is now apparent it shouldn't. (512 byte sectors being implemented as an emulation layer of sorts on these drives.. and enabled by default)
Speak for yourself sir, I for one like my rs-232 terminals to be handy for when ethernet is down and you can't ssh (and can't be assed hooking up keyboard and monitor). Seriously, anyone adept at the command line uses it far more than the gui to get things done, terminals will never disappear.
I use devices that work well. There's nothing "hipster" about using a device for practical reasons
There is when there are better devices out there for cheaper that do more and more efficiently. Don't get me wrong, apple do what they do well, marketing, shiny cases, and extremely controlled (limited) experiences.
I'm guessing that most people who dislike apple just hate the crazy amount of marketing anything apple gets, I loved apple when the apple II was their main product, ever since the control freak steve jobs took over though, the company lost something, flexibility.
It's hard to reconcile the Jobs that created NeXT, ported it to Macs, and kept building more goodies on top with the hacker-hostile control freak Jobs that released the iPhone.
Jobs has always been very hostile to all forms of user choice, as demonstrated here I loved the apple 2, but the mac was just rediculous.
Apple and more specifically jobs has never been tinker happy at all, he has always been about an extremely controlled experience that suits his taste. example
It's hard to reconcile the Jobs that created NeXT, ported it to Macs
Ah but you see, jobs has always been an extremely good businessman that tries to get the most out of his employees, Mach/BSD already existed when NeXTStep was being made, they essentially just made a new user interface. The openness came from the code they utilized that other people had made, so no surprise.
He only concedes control when it is necessary for a business move that will bring great advantages (adopting existing unix technologies etc) The moment he thinks it would bring significant profit to disabling all user choice in os x, it would occur. But thankfully I doubt that would ever happen.
the dark underside of European treatment of the indigenous inhabitants of the country,
I still find it funny, that internationally people kick up a stink about this and yet nobody mentions what the americans did to the native american indians. and other such examples.
Australia has some advantage over USA in politics in that our vote can get transferred to the next party if the party does not have sufficient out-right win
Advantage? it's ridiculous, because in the end all of the votes for the smaller parties wind up going to one of the big two anyway, which do as they please regardless
Example, I once voted for the shooting party (mainly because of their "make people take responsibility for their actions and don't nanny me" attitude) their votes were passed onto the boating and outdoors party, which hold similar views. Their votes were passed onto rudd, which really doesn't give two hoots about peoples ability to enjoy the outdoors or target shooting. This is wrong.
I currently have a 9500gt in an old p4 system here running linux, and I do have 1080p video acceleration. It's called VDPAU (video decode and presentation api for unix) works a charm.
Saddam Hussein was a appalling leader, I don't think anybody would argue against that.
It would be hard to argue that he wasn't a rather bad person, however considering the circumstances of the country he did at least manage to keep the peace a lot more than after his removal... it was an all out blood bath after he was taken out.
His own people were all too willing to hang him for his crimes.
And you think there aren't people who'd like to see bush hanged within the US? At suddams trial they removed the first judge because they didn't like what he was saying, replacing him with a one that was more likely to give them the result they wanted.. the trial was a farce.
but I don't think anybody would argue that the world's not better off without him.
If there were less violent deaths after he was taken out I'd agree with you, but more people died in the year after his removal than had the whole decade before at his hands. That isn't to say he shouldn't have been removed from power.. but it shouldn't have necessarily been done the way it was.
Sure, it's a bit of a black-and-white view of the world, and some would say a bit primitive, but I challenge anybody to actually tell me they think that these two clowns are good men, who really look out for their people.
Every leader looks out for their people to at least a certain extent, there are only so many people you can piss off before even the military rebel and you get your ass handed to you. If you had two sects of the same religion at war within your country how well do you think you could stop them from killing each other while retaining freedom of the people? It's not as easy as it sounds.
Things aren't as simple as you think. Many factors contribute to what comes to pass.
only older devices can do that, anything really new (less than a year old) you can no longer do that with, they did crazy signing business to specifically block third party apps integrating with ipods.
using qemu, you can run windows program on wine on different architectures than x86, you suffer a decent speed hit, but for non time critical applications it's acceptable.
Also, dual booting is far from an ideal situation, having to drop all your work to reboot for a single application? no thankyou, easier to run windows in a vm if you're going to do it that way.
As for games and myself, I haven't bought a single game that isn't supported in linux in the last ten years almost, but several copies of those that do have ports just to show support, voting with your wallet doesn't have much effect, but one can only hope.
Compare "[ebx+ecx*4h-20h]" to "-0x20(%ebx,%ecx,0x4)"; the former almost tells you what it does even if you're not at all familiar with the syntax, the latter definitely doesn't.
I'm guessing you started with intel syntax then? because I honestly find the latter more readable. As for the % and $ symbols I find it makes for clearer reading, like having comments in your code.
The best thing I find about at&t syntax is that it is portable across architectures. You can code in arm, mips etc all with the same syntax. I have not yet seen intel syntax used on anything but intel.
I had once looked at self modifying code when trying to make a program as small as possible complexity be damned, and in the end it destroys your performance, modern processors aren't designed for that kind of usage, the cache doesn't like it at all.
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art will be too, slashdot has covered the discussion of this being open sourced previously
As an early 20's male riding a crotch rocket, I can see where they come from in the doesn't acknowledge your presence business if you are male and on a vespa.
Something doesn't seem right about riding a more dangerous (the vespa) vehicle while at the same time looking feminine, the tiny wheelbase on scooters makes them horrible over bumps, and the seated position is impossible to escape if you ever stack it, you're stuck essentially.
(last time I checked their wasn't a homebrew scene for the 360, and the only reason to hack is to pirate games)
There is a slight homebrew scene but it's very fledgeling, the hacks involved to run your own software are a lot more involved than that to just play burnt games, involves making your own NAND dumper etc, I bought an old 360 just for this purpose when I figured out how to do it, just been too lazy to finish it.
If this is true why do F/OSS zealots get their collective panties in a bunch when some corporation profits on something that uses some open source code?
Redhat makes millions of profits from their linux distro and nobody cares, what they do care about is when they don't follow the license requirements, which turns it from legitimately using it for free to pirating, essentially.
Apple II and the macintosh were completely different beasts.
Apple II is about as open as you can get in basically every regard, the macintosh is about as closed as you can get. The main difference between them? who was in charge of making them. The apple II was the brainchild of steve wozniak, the macintosh was jobs. Jobs has always been about an extremely controlled experience.
Depends on your idea of successful I guess, they are selling, but the installed base of n95's shits all over that of the iphone. Worldwide the iphone has only sold 30 million units, that's just a drop in the bucket really.
For example, I have the most secure server in world. It's on the floor in my closet
oh really, what would stop someone from say, breaking into your house and physically stealng said server? people all too often forget physical security, when they have physical access you are boned.
microsoft weren't the people to beat in the mobile space, nokia are, and they have failed. The US market is the only real one the iphone has been successful in, which can be partly attributed to the lack of any decent smartphone in that market .(nokia had better phones released earlier.. but US carriers would not take them because of too much functionality)
And having a 4096 byte logical sector size would cause major compatibility issues.
Only with ancient os's, anything in the last five years should handle it just fine. I'm all for backwards compatibility etc.. except when it can gimp current performance through emulation layers etc like what the hardware does with this 512 byte sectors to 4096 byte business.
The real problem is that it is lying about it's sector size, it's reporting 512 bytes when it's using 4k, if it told linux it was using 4k everything would be fine and dandy.
Why does it lie about it's sector size when it doesn't need to? because if it didn't the drives would not work on windows XP at all. Which would not bode well for sales.
Once drives with 4k sectors arrive its up the individual maintainers of each affected tool (fdisk, et. al.) to update their code.
Kernel handles sector sizes, and could handle 4k sectors ages ago, but when the hardware reports something it tends to trust it, which is now apparent it shouldn't. (512 byte sectors being implemented as an emulation layer of sorts on these drives.. and enabled by default)
the now-irrelevant concept of a terminal
Speak for yourself sir, I for one like my rs-232 terminals to be handy for when ethernet is down and you can't ssh (and can't be assed hooking up keyboard and monitor). Seriously, anyone adept at the command line uses it far more than the gui to get things done, terminals will never disappear.
The only people making money off of this console generation is nintendo, and by the bucketload ironically.
I use devices that work well. There's nothing "hipster" about using a device for practical reasons
There is when there are better devices out there for cheaper that do more and more efficiently. Don't get me wrong, apple do what they do well, marketing, shiny cases, and extremely controlled (limited) experiences.
I'm guessing that most people who dislike apple just hate the crazy amount of marketing anything apple gets, I loved apple when the apple II was their main product, ever since the control freak steve jobs took over though, the company lost something, flexibility.
It's hard to reconcile the Jobs that created NeXT, ported it to Macs, and kept building more goodies on top with the hacker-hostile control freak Jobs that released the iPhone.
Jobs has always been very hostile to all forms of user choice, as demonstrated here I loved the apple 2, but the mac was just rediculous.
Apple and more specifically jobs has never been tinker happy at all, he has always been about an extremely controlled experience that suits his taste. example
It's hard to reconcile the Jobs that created NeXT, ported it to Macs
Ah but you see, jobs has always been an extremely good businessman that tries to get the most out of his employees, Mach/BSD already existed when NeXTStep was being made, they essentially just made a new user interface. The openness came from the code they utilized that other people had made, so no surprise.
He only concedes control when it is necessary for a business move that will bring great advantages (adopting existing unix technologies etc) The moment he thinks it would bring significant profit to disabling all user choice in os x, it would occur. But thankfully I doubt that would ever happen.
the dark underside of European treatment of the indigenous inhabitants of the country,
I still find it funny, that internationally people kick up a stink about this and yet nobody mentions what the americans did to the native american indians. and other such examples.
Australia has some advantage over USA in politics in that our vote can get transferred to the next party if the party does not have sufficient out-right win
Advantage? it's ridiculous, because in the end all of the votes for the smaller parties wind up going to one of the big two anyway, which do as they please regardless
Example, I once voted for the shooting party (mainly because of their "make people take responsibility for their actions and don't nanny me" attitude) their votes were passed onto the boating and outdoors party, which hold similar views. Their votes were passed onto rudd, which really doesn't give two hoots about peoples ability to enjoy the outdoors or target shooting. This is wrong.
V16's are completely balanced engines, unfortunate there are so few of them. V12's are very smooth but far from perfectly balanced.
In some countries, it is legal to make a single dump of a cartridge you own and use it so long as you aren't playing the original at the same time.
granted very few people actually dump their own carts, but still.
cancelling accidental mod
I currently have a 9500gt in an old p4 system here running linux, and I do have 1080p video acceleration. It's called VDPAU (video decode and presentation api for unix) works a charm.
Saddam Hussein was a appalling leader, I don't think anybody would argue against that.
It would be hard to argue that he wasn't a rather bad person, however considering the circumstances of the country he did at least manage to keep the peace a lot more than after his removal... it was an all out blood bath after he was taken out.
His own people were all too willing to hang him for his crimes.
And you think there aren't people who'd like to see bush hanged within the US? At suddams trial they removed the first judge because they didn't like what he was saying, replacing him with a one that was more likely to give them the result they wanted.. the trial was a farce.
but I don't think anybody would argue that the world's not better off without him.
If there were less violent deaths after he was taken out I'd agree with you, but more people died in the year after his removal than had the whole decade before at his hands. That isn't to say he shouldn't have been removed from power.. but it shouldn't have necessarily been done the way it was.
Sure, it's a bit of a black-and-white view of the world, and some would say a bit primitive, but I challenge anybody to actually tell me they think that these two clowns are good men, who really look out for their people.
Every leader looks out for their people to at least a certain extent, there are only so many people you can piss off before even the military rebel and you get your ass handed to you. If you had two sects of the same religion at war within your country how well do you think you could stop them from killing each other while retaining freedom of the people? It's not as easy as it sounds.
Things aren't as simple as you think. Many factors contribute to what comes to pass.
only older devices can do that, anything really new (less than a year old) you can no longer do that with, they did crazy signing business to specifically block third party apps integrating with ipods.
using qemu, you can run windows program on wine on different architectures than x86, you suffer a decent speed hit, but for non time critical applications it's acceptable.
Also, dual booting is far from an ideal situation, having to drop all your work to reboot for a single application? no thankyou, easier to run windows in a vm if you're going to do it that way.
As for games and myself, I haven't bought a single game that isn't supported in linux in the last ten years almost, but several copies of those that do have ports just to show support, voting with your wallet doesn't have much effect, but one can only hope.
Compare "[ebx+ecx*4h-20h]" to "-0x20(%ebx,%ecx,0x4)"; the former almost tells you what it does even if you're not at all familiar with the syntax, the latter definitely doesn't.
I'm guessing you started with intel syntax then? because I honestly find the latter more readable. As for the % and $ symbols I find it makes for clearer reading, like having comments in your code.
The best thing I find about at&t syntax is that it is portable across architectures. You can code in arm, mips etc all with the same syntax. I have not yet seen intel syntax used on anything but intel.
I had once looked at self modifying code when trying to make a program as small as possible complexity be damned, and in the end it destroys your performance, modern processors aren't designed for that kind of usage, the cache doesn't like it at all.