MS Would never do a Linux distro for XBox, nor allow one to be done by a developer. The GNU Public License would screw MS over due to the need to disclose the source code, including the source code for the authentication system.
A BSD distro would be feasable, but VERY unlikely.
The XBox is a game platform. That's all MS wants it to be and they will not do anything to change that.
Don't bother. They've got it in there heads that they are sticking it to The Man and they won't ever let go, no matter how much logic you use.
But let's say that they are right, that MS is losing, say, $40.00 (US) per XBox. After a million units sold they "lose" $40,000,000.00. So what? That's less than lunch money as far as MS is concerned. When these economic terrorsists start costing MS billions of dollars, then it might be work noticing. Sticking it to MS by buying an XBox is like killing a blue whale with a Nerf bat.
Point a digital camera at one of those IR cordless headphone transmitters. What do you see? Why, really bright spots where those almost invisible to the human eye LEDs are! And those LEDs are really low power. High power IR LEDs pointed at a camera might not knock it out for good, but it would glare-blind it.
Please! For the love of the neo-pagan movement we must suppress this! Ten planets will totally screw up all of the Astrologer's charts! What is to become of us when we find that all that we thought we knew bout our futures is wrong because we've been assigned the wrong planet?
Now we find that Jupiter is not ascending, Qualcom, er, Qualuud, er, whateverthehellitscalled is really in the house of Bal Saggoth!
GGRRRRR!!!! I'll never know my lucky lotto numbers!
Can you adjust the timing chain in your car? Rebuild the fuel injectors? Replace the rings? Drop the transmission and replace the clutch? No? Then why the hell are you driving a car?
The days when you needed to be youir own mechanic in order to drive car have been over for decades. The days when you had to be a computer programmer in order to use a computer are over.
To most people a computer is simply a tool to get a job done. They don;t want to spend the time and energy fixing the tool, they want to use the tool to get their work done. Until Linux becomes as easy to use, setup, configure, etc... (that means that a user never has to touch ANY text files, be they.rc files or menu-lists for your windows manager) Microsoft will remaiin King.
Why not use a computer? Doesn't mean he actually has a live net connection. His crime is distributing massive amounts of stiolen software, not using his workstation as a tool to break into anything.
And there is a huge amount of press about child porn on the net. It's not covered by/. and other tech nes pages, but the mainstream press is talking about it. And there have been several huge stings resulting in a sizable number of convictions in recent months.
But you are stealing. You're not stealing from your friend, but from the owner of the copyright. And you are adversly affecting others. In this case, the creators and distributors of twh media in questiion. Sure, the RIAA is rich beyond reason and hurting them feels like a morally justifiable action, but many of the artists who's work you steal are not. Not only does copying their work deny them the few measely pennies of royalties each sale creates, it also lowers the overall sales figures for their CDs, which can put their contracts at risk.
The BOIS being used is a leaked copy from the XBox Devkit. A clear violation of copyright (and the contract between MS and said developer). As an XBox owner you do own a license to use the BIOS in your XBox. You do not, however, have a kicense to use the BIOS from a devkit.
The real issue is that most (if not all) XBox mod chips are using code/software leaked from a XBox devkit. This makes these chips (the ones based on this source) illegal. Making the chips isn't all that hard. The hard part is the software in the chips. Without a legal source for software, everybody in the XBox mod chip business is going to get nailed by MS.
No, you don't. "Fair Use" allows me to copy my CD into MP3s and store them on mu computer so I can listen to them at my desk without toting my CD collection all over the house. It also allows me to put a copy in my portable MP3 player and listen to it while at the gym or on the bus.
It does not allow me to make copies and give them away.
The money from my purchase of your CD is still in your pocket. I'm not going to buy multiple copies of your CD just so I can listen to it at my desk, or at the gym or in my living room.
If you really want to hurt Microsoft, don't buy an XBox. They lose a lot more money from units not sold (ie: 100% of production cost) than from units sold. Simple economics.
Buying an XBox to play games, listen to music and whatch DVDs is a valid reason to buy one.
Buying an XBox to rip it open and play around with the hardware, or even get Linux to run on it, is a valid reason to buy one (a silly reason, IMHO, but valid).
Buying an XBox to "stick it to The Man!" is lame. (Unless "The Man" is Sony Inc.)
Ms scared? Hardly. You see, in order to use one of those keen mpd chips, you have to buy the XBox. And contary to what a lot of puddingheads keep saying, MS loses a lot less money for each XBox sold than for each XBox not sold. Anyoine who's worked higher up the retail system than sale-floor monkey knows that is is far better to sell off your inventory at a slight loss than to have it piling up in some warehouse.
About the cheapest image upgrade you can do, if you don't mind a small image, is almost any composite CGA monitor. The image quality is much higher than almost any non-HDTV TV set.
What you want is the Segate 4096, 80MB, 5-1/4" full height, MFM HDD. I had two of those monsters in my old NEC desktop and they lived through all kinds of crap. I accidently drpped one about tow-1/2 feet. It landed flat on it's bottom and ran like a champ for the next year I used that computer. These drives were absolute tanks! Slow as hell (by today's standards), loud as all get our and hot as the syn, but reliable as anything ever made.
Can't say that this thing excites me at all. But I'm probably not the market they want: I don't have, or want, a cell phone, and after 10-months of trying to find a use for my Palm M100, it now sits, forgotten, in my sock drawer.
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I wouldn't give you $0.50!
MS Would never do a Linux distro for XBox, nor allow one to be done by a developer. The GNU Public License would screw MS over due to the need to disclose the source code, including the source code for the authentication system.
A BSD distro would be feasable, but VERY unlikely.
The XBox is a game platform. That's all MS wants it to be and they will not do anything to change that.
Don't bother. They've got it in there heads that they are sticking it to The Man and they won't ever let go, no matter how much logic you use.
But let's say that they are right, that MS is losing, say, $40.00 (US) per XBox. After a million units sold they "lose" $40,000,000.00. So what? That's less than lunch money as far as MS is concerned. When these economic terrorsists start costing MS billions of dollars, then it might be work noticing. Sticking it to MS by buying an XBox is like killing a blue whale with a Nerf bat.
Point a digital camera at one of those IR cordless headphone transmitters. What do you see? Why, really bright spots where those almost invisible to the human eye LEDs are! And those LEDs are really low power. High power IR LEDs pointed at a camera might not knock it out for good, but it would glare-blind it.
Please! For the love of the neo-pagan movement we must suppress this! Ten planets will totally screw up all of the Astrologer's charts! What is to become of us when we find that all that we thought we knew bout our futures is wrong because we've been assigned the wrong planet?
Now we find that Jupiter is not ascending, Qualcom, er, Qualuud, er, whateverthehellitscalled is really in the house of Bal Saggoth!
GGRRRRR!!!! I'll never know my lucky lotto numbers!
It should be named Persephone (per-sef-an-nee), damnit! Larry Niven must be apeased!
Enlightened self-interest is not a bad way to run their business.
What they said.
Lindows isn't aimed at you. Put up with it.
Can you adjust the timing chain in your car? Rebuild the fuel injectors? Replace the rings? Drop the transmission and replace the clutch? No? Then why the hell are you driving a car?
.rc files or menu-lists for your windows manager) Microsoft will remaiin King.
The days when you needed to be youir own mechanic in order to drive car have been over for decades. The days when you had to be a computer programmer in order to use a computer are over.
To most people a computer is simply a tool to get a job done. They don;t want to spend the time and energy fixing the tool, they want to use the tool to get their work done. Until Linux becomes as easy to use, setup, configure, etc... (that means that a user never has to touch ANY text files, be they
Why not use a computer? Doesn't mean he actually has a live net connection. His crime is distributing massive amounts of stiolen software, not using his workstation as a tool to break into anything.
/. and other tech nes pages, but the mainstream press is talking about it. And there have been several huge stings resulting in a sizable number of convictions in recent months.
And there is a huge amount of press about child porn on the net. It's not covered by
But you are stealing. You're not stealing from your friend, but from the owner of the copyright. And you are adversly affecting others. In this case, the creators and distributors of twh media in questiion. Sure, the RIAA is rich beyond reason and hurting them feels like a morally justifiable action, but many of the artists who's work you steal are not. Not only does copying their work deny them the few measely pennies of royalties each sale creates, it also lowers the overall sales figures for their CDs, which can put their contracts at risk.
Ally Sheedy helped a lot, too. Wargames had some iffy computer issues, and the story was a bit simplistic, but it was still a pretty good movie.
Remember that in 1983 not a whole lot of people knew too much about computers, and writers tailor their work to what their audiance will accept.
Do you have a full list of those extensions, or do I need to dig through the "File Types" list?
The BOIS being used is a leaked copy from the XBox Devkit. A clear violation of copyright (and the contract between MS and said developer). As an XBox owner you do own a license to use the BIOS in your XBox. You do not, however, have a kicense to use the BIOS from a devkit.
The real issue is that most (if not all) XBox mod chips are using code/software leaked from a XBox devkit. This makes these chips (the ones based on this source) illegal. Making the chips isn't all that hard. The hard part is the software in the chips. Without a legal source for software, everybody in the XBox mod chip business is going to get nailed by MS.
Speaking as a trained, certified, and licesned RatBastard, I take offence to this post. Do not paint me with your broad brush, sir!
No, you don't. "Fair Use" allows me to copy my CD into MP3s and store them on mu computer so I can listen to them at my desk without toting my CD collection all over the house. It also allows me to put a copy in my portable MP3 player and listen to it while at the gym or on the bus.
It does not allow me to make copies and give them away.
The money from my purchase of your CD is still in your pocket. I'm not going to buy multiple copies of your CD just so I can listen to it at my desk, or at the gym or in my living room.
Buying an XBox to play games, listen to music and whatch DVDs is a valid reason to buy one.
Buying an XBox to rip it open and play around with the hardware, or even get Linux to run on it, is a valid reason to buy one (a silly reason, IMHO, but valid).
Buying an XBox to "stick it to The Man!" is lame. (Unless "The Man" is Sony Inc.)
Ms scared? Hardly. You see, in order to use one of those keen mpd chips, you have to buy the XBox. And contary to what a lot of puddingheads keep saying, MS loses a lot less money for each XBox sold than for each XBox not sold. Anyoine who's worked higher up the retail system than sale-floor monkey knows that is is far better to sell off your inventory at a slight loss than to have it piling up in some warehouse.
About the cheapest image upgrade you can do, if you don't mind a small image, is almost any composite CGA monitor. The image quality is much higher than almost any non-HDTV TV set.
Can't say that this thing excites me at all. But I'm probably not the market they want: I don't have, or want, a cell phone, and after 10-months of trying to find a use for my Palm M100, it now sits, forgotten, in my sock drawer.
What you were expecting to see was a balistic missile. A "rocket" is mererly the motor.
GRRRRR!!!