There will probably be a wave of two major camps -- those who say "oh this is nothing! Look at what happens to closed-source leakages from banks, etc, ad nauseum!!1"; there will also be a wave of people who say "this is a major break and someone should be shot..." While I understand both camps' thoughts and opinions, I have a single comment: is there really an expectation (whether FOSS or Closed Source) that it should be secure?
Granted, that person/company is probably relying on the money from ads or what have you so he hopes that things are secure. Really, though, if you don't think the service is secure, go to another one or start your own!
Look at all of the psychopathic kids who go online to "talk" about their problems with others of similar like mind. I also know of kids who are young who have pen pals from other countries that were made through school connections. These friendships have blossomed over the years, even though the program was terminated.
Perhaps the individuals they are studying are the uncomfortable middle "class" of internet citizens, those who have not grown up as the foggies have (making real-life friends and pretty much disclaiming the Internet as a form of intimate communication), or the young'uns who are mySpacing their entire lives to people they have never even text-messaged...
Viral infections and data mining tools that work from WITHIN the messenger itself. No more need to open up those nasty attachments, have a plugin that automagically executes files of all times and dials home without you ever needing to think about it....
I'm not a psychologist, but surely 18 years in a single organization is going to brainwash you to some limited extent. You will either be (a) the corporate lovebug, touting everythign you do as infalliable, or (b) the corporate naysayer, whose sole response to anythign the company puts out is "it isn't read" or "this won't work".
makes for an interestign thought though -- how would one get objectivity (or a close approximation). Someone outside the organization could never truly understand the internal workings, but someone exposed to the internal workings would always hold a pretty strong bias (one way or the other).
...but wouldn't finding a way to lower water consumption (at least in first-world nations where I know places just throw water [excuse the pun] down the toilet) be a better measure. Sure, this can certainly help places (like the mid-western states) where water is very scarce, but maybe we ought to look at the source of the problem?
Pirate: Arr! Bend over me matey while I prepare the long guns to pilage that booty!
Porn Star: Oh! Don't pilage MY booty, at least not until my sorority girlfriends come over to help me repel borders! Oh!
The DS Lite and the DS are the same consoles with certain improvements. Similar to the advancement between the GBA and the GBA-SP, the DS-Lite's screen is much improved and the case is smaller. And I'm sure, sooner or later, we will start seeing a lot more customized case colours (lots have been released in Japan, but only a few select in NA and Eu.
Because we are the only dedicated Homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes (and if not then we will ) i feel its a good time to give a low down on each scene and some pointers about where they are going from my point of view.
First off though lets remind all that Homebrew is not the same as warez, its a shame that so many sites for the want of grabbing visitors post the warezy stuff but this network would rather not get shutdown by the likes of Sony, Nintendo Etc.
Also i would like to point out that each scene owes its life to the many hardware and software hackers who discover the exploits we come to enjoy so much today, they are then followed by the many worldwide coders who make the homebrew scene a free and enjoyable place to hang out and make friends etc.
Lets take a look at each scene.
Sony Playstation Portable
The PSP Homebrew Scene is the one getting the most attention at the moment and rightly so, the ease of getting homebrew to run on this up to the latest 2 firmware releases means millions worldwide can enjoy Games and Emulators for the price of a Memory Card and a copy of Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories depending on what firmware is on the PSP, even the latest firmware releases that support Flash only now have releases appearing and in the space of just over a year there has been hundreds of Games, Demos and Emulators. The power of the PSP makes it an awesome machine for Homebrew fans and once Kernal Mode can be accessed on higher firmwares than v1.5 then the possibilities get even better.
The PSP is the biggest homebrew scene for many years and with so many sites, coders and fans it can only get better. The soon to be Undiluted Platinum Modchip will open the door to everyone who wishes to run homebrew on any firmware, it will also open the door to kernal mode for all, so full speed Nintendo 64 and GBA Emulators come a step closer.
Finally later this year Sony themselves are releasing a PS1 emulator for the PSP so expect that to be a major pull for the handheld.
GP2X - The Linux Based Homebrew Console
The GP2X is a console that was made for homebrew fans and coders, it has a worldwide base of people coding Emulators and Games for it and with 2x200mhz cpus and 64megs ram it sure can deliver the goods. After a ropy start with GPL and firmware issues its now flourishing, Its a great console where teamwork has already delivered near on 200 releases for the system, key emulators for now and the future are the excellent Mame4 All emulator which gives you access to hundreds of arcade classics and the Playstation emulator for the GP2X should in time be running most games at near on full speed, great for fans of the original Playstation.
The GP2X with its dual processors in the future will most likely take over as the kingpin of Homebrew because of its pro homebrew stance and not to mention a fantastic community who are driven to make it a success.
The Nintendo DS
The worlds biggest selling console at this time but surprisingly not the most popular for homebrew fans.
Why is that, well most likely people dont realise that all you need to run homebrew on the Nintendo DS is the Console (obviously), and a Passkey/Flash Cart Combo (with mem card).
Once you have the hardware above then the DS with its touch screen is a monster in the waiting, already it has over a hundred homebrew releases for it but with the touch screen, microphone and rumble addon you have an excellent base for games and more, not to mention the wifi mode.
As with the commercial games the DS cant match the PSP for pure power but it can easily bypass it in the innovation dept just like the commercial scene. With the DS you can also play the many hundreds of excellent GBA Homebrew Releases.
The future for the DS looks awesome, Nintendo dont seem to bother too mu
I'd say that is a bit unfair... One of my theology profs was a recent graduate from Harvard's School of DIvinity, and while he held some liberal ideas, I read some of his papers and they seemed fair and balanced (well, as balanced as theology could possibly be -- you know, given the whole I'm studying the life of a guy who supposedly lived two millenia ago, and our only known evidence stems from books written at least 50, and in some cases 250 years after his death...)
You know, I have always had a problem with things like this. Not because I'm a religious fanatic, not because I stand behind (your) Fearless (incompetant) leader (C), but rather because I have seen science do this quite often. It says, hey now THIS is a good idea! Let's throw it out into the world and see what happens. Then, as Malcolm from Jurassic Park, says: Nature finds a way to control what is being done. SO now we cure certain problems, and new ones will arise.
Anyone ever think that some (certainly not all) diseases arise because of meddling with nature with reckless abandon.
Now I can hear the complaints: if you are going to do science, you can't just stick your head in the sand! Well, that isn't what I'm advocating, but I've seen a lot of scientists motivated by nothing more than fame, and then you see negative results that couldn't be predicted without extensive study. I'd like to see most medications tested for at least 2 generations before being released -- it wouldn't halt everything, but it might stop a reoccurance of Thalidimide...
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There will probably be a wave of two major camps -- those who say "oh this is nothing! Look at what happens to closed-source leakages from banks, etc, ad nauseum!!1"; there will also be a wave of people who say "this is a major break and someone should be shot..." While I understand both camps' thoughts and opinions, I have a single comment: is there really an expectation (whether FOSS or Closed Source) that it should be secure?
Granted, that person/company is probably relying on the money from ads or what have you so he hopes that things are secure. Really, though, if you don't think the service is secure, go to another one or start your own!
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
I, for one, welcome our supersonic, shape-shifting overlords.
May I say that I know many strategic points which you may find enlightening!
Yeah, you're right.... I am talking out of my arse: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/37 /12/2
Look at all of the psychopathic kids who go online to "talk" about their problems with others of similar like mind. I also know of kids who are young who have pen pals from other countries that were made through school connections. These friendships have blossomed over the years, even though the program was terminated.
Perhaps the individuals they are studying are the uncomfortable middle "class" of internet citizens, those who have not grown up as the foggies have (making real-life friends and pretty much disclaiming the Internet as a form of intimate communication), or the young'uns who are mySpacing their entire lives to people they have never even text-messaged...
OR I could do the whole shebang for free
Aside from the fact that it has no business being in that bill
Obviously you must be new here...
Was it blazingly fast? Is this destined to be the new hot item this Christmas? Will IBM come under fire from companies like AMD and Intel?
Viral infections and data mining tools that work from WITHIN the messenger itself. No more need to open up those nasty attachments, have a plugin that automagically executes files of all times and dials home without you ever needing to think about it....
I'm not a psychologist, but surely 18 years in a single organization is going to brainwash you to some limited extent. You will either be (a) the corporate lovebug, touting everythign you do as infalliable, or (b) the corporate naysayer, whose sole response to anythign the company puts out is "it isn't read" or "this won't work".
makes for an interestign thought though -- how would one get objectivity (or a close approximation). Someone outside the organization could never truly understand the internal workings, but someone exposed to the internal workings would always hold a pretty strong bias (one way or the other).
Ways to dispose of hundreds of thousands of dollars of junk food left over from the cafeteria....
...but wouldn't finding a way to lower water consumption (at least in first-world nations where I know places just throw water [excuse the pun] down the toilet) be a better measure. Sure, this can certainly help places (like the mid-western states) where water is very scarce, but maybe we ought to look at the source of the problem?
The Pornographers versus The Pirates!
Pirate: Arr! Bend over me matey while I prepare the long guns to pilage that booty!
Porn Star: Oh! Don't pilage MY booty, at least not until my sorority girlfriends come over to help me repel borders! Oh!
But if he connected the fan to a power inverter, would that make the article suck?
i11.208, the white and user-friendly encryption that is so hip only the coolest will use it (or be able to afford it)..
I jest! I jest! *ducks*
The DS Lite and the DS are the same consoles with certain improvements. Similar to the advancement between the GBA and the GBA-SP, the DS-Lite's screen is much improved and the case is smaller. And I'm sure, sooner or later, we will start seeing a lot more customized case colours (lots have been released in Japan, but only a few select in NA and Eu.
Only two comments and the site is slowing down. Here is the coral cache.
Because we are the only dedicated Homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes (and if not then we will ) i feel its a good time to give a low down on each scene and some pointers about where they are going from my point of view.
First off though lets remind all that Homebrew is not the same as warez, its a shame that so many sites for the want of grabbing visitors post the warezy stuff but this network would rather not get shutdown by the likes of Sony, Nintendo Etc.
Also i would like to point out that each scene owes its life to the many hardware and software hackers who discover the exploits we come to enjoy so much today, they are then followed by the many worldwide coders who make the homebrew scene a free and enjoyable place to hang out and make friends etc.
Lets take a look at each scene.
Sony Playstation Portable
The PSP Homebrew Scene is the one getting the most attention at the moment and rightly so, the ease of getting homebrew to run on this up to the latest 2 firmware releases means millions worldwide can enjoy Games and Emulators for the price of a Memory Card and a copy of Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories depending on what firmware is on the PSP, even the latest firmware releases that support Flash only now have releases appearing and in the space of just over a year there has been hundreds of Games, Demos and Emulators. The power of the PSP makes it an awesome machine for Homebrew fans and once Kernal Mode can be accessed on higher firmwares than v1.5 then the possibilities get even better.
The PSP is the biggest homebrew scene for many years and with so many sites, coders and fans it can only get better. The soon to be Undiluted Platinum Modchip will open the door to everyone who wishes to run homebrew on any firmware, it will also open the door to kernal mode for all, so full speed Nintendo 64 and GBA Emulators come a step closer.
Finally later this year Sony themselves are releasing a PS1 emulator for the PSP so expect that to be a major pull for the handheld.
GP2X - The Linux Based Homebrew Console
The GP2X is a console that was made for homebrew fans and coders, it has a worldwide base of people coding Emulators and Games for it and with 2x200mhz cpus and 64megs ram it sure can deliver the goods. After a ropy start with GPL and firmware issues its now flourishing, Its a great console where teamwork has already delivered near on 200 releases for the system, key emulators for now and the future are the excellent Mame4 All emulator which gives you access to hundreds of arcade classics and the Playstation emulator for the GP2X should in time be running most games at near on full speed, great for fans of the original Playstation.
The GP2X with its dual processors in the future will most likely take over as the kingpin of Homebrew because of its pro homebrew stance and not to mention a fantastic community who are driven to make it a success.
The Nintendo DS
The worlds biggest selling console at this time but surprisingly not the most popular for homebrew fans.
Why is that, well most likely people dont realise that all you need to run homebrew on the Nintendo DS is the Console (obviously), and a Passkey/Flash Cart Combo (with mem card).
Once you have the hardware above then the DS with its touch screen is a monster in the waiting, already it has over a hundred homebrew releases for it but with the touch screen, microphone and rumble addon you have an excellent base for games and more, not to mention the wifi mode.
As with the commercial games the DS cant match the PSP for pure power but it can easily bypass it in the innovation dept just like the commercial scene. With the DS you can also play the many hundreds of excellent GBA Homebrew Releases.
The future for the DS looks awesome, Nintendo dont seem to bother too mu
Isn't it the naming convention that all programs starting with a G are Gnome based? Well, it ain't Kermany...
Well, if monkeys can write Shakespeare, surely a team of highly trained bobbing-head birds could do it...
How hard could it possibly be to merely take object X's statistics page, and compare the n unique pagehits versus every other one?
It only took them 8 years to realize Windows 98 was broken.... Not bad.
I jest I jest *ducks*
I'd say that is a bit unfair... One of my theology profs was a recent graduate from Harvard's School of DIvinity, and while he held some liberal ideas, I read some of his papers and they seemed fair and balanced (well, as balanced as theology could possibly be -- you know, given the whole I'm studying the life of a guy who supposedly lived two millenia ago, and our only known evidence stems from books written at least 50, and in some cases 250 years after his death...)
You know, I have always had a problem with things like this. Not because I'm a religious fanatic, not because I stand behind (your) Fearless (incompetant) leader (C), but rather because I have seen science do this quite often. It says, hey now THIS is a good idea! Let's throw it out into the world and see what happens. Then, as Malcolm from Jurassic Park, says: Nature finds a way to control what is being done. SO now we cure certain problems, and new ones will arise.
Anyone ever think that some (certainly not all) diseases arise because of meddling with nature with reckless abandon.
Now I can hear the complaints: if you are going to do science, you can't just stick your head in the sand! Well, that isn't what I'm advocating, but I've seen a lot of scientists motivated by nothing more than fame, and then you see negative results that couldn't be predicted without extensive study. I'd like to see most medications tested for at least 2 generations before being released -- it wouldn't halt everything, but it might stop a reoccurance of Thalidimide...