Luckily a growing portion of applications for Windows bring their own Powershell cmdlets for low-level access, nowadays. I was told that Office 2010 is basically a (huge) bunch of Powershell cmdlets and the GUI just wraps around them.
Yeah, but during the first three of those four years the only reason was piracy why people would want to break it. Which is clearly not the intention of those guys. So, technically it was only twelve months since SONY removed the OtherOS mode.
I once read an article about BluRays in the c't which is one of the most credible IT magazines in Germany. From what they said, DVDs were never meant for archival purposes, because of their lack of reliability.
BluRay discs, on the other hand, were specifically designed for that purpose. first, they made the surface a lot more scratch-resistant than a DVD, secondly they crammed three times as much ECC data into a sector.
Okay, I've seen it. Still, I don't get why they disable this feature on PC. And why there is a special argument to activate this. Imagine Flash animations running fluidly again on six-year-old PCs. Or Flash not draining battery because some site forgot to tick the "wmode=gpu" argument...
Cool. But as long as the rest of the rendering is still done by the CPU (vector graphics, for Christ's sake), it will still drain battery like crazy. Just look at this video (in full-screen, please)!
The german version is having these problems, as well, with authors being frustrated, because their articles are being deleted for various stupid reasons (like: only referenced in blogs, no real-world influence, except for some obscure hacker meetings etc.) The discussions have even reached the big media.
Yup, you could place those facilities at the deltas of rivers for a never-ending supply of fresh water which would otherwise go unused. Only try not to kill too many salmons in the process.
Four members of the coalition opposed the law, i.e. SPD (Tauss's former party) had three people vote against it, CDU (the ones who pushed this...thing... through parliament) had one person vote against it (because his daughter, a journalist, probably convinced him).
This guy is one of the authors of ZSNES and since it can use all those shiny wrappers he talked about, just playing a game and roughly measuring the time between a defined action on-screen and the corresponding sound event is probably already sufficient. Add some perception of crackling and stuff and youll get the list he was talking about.
By the way: This latency issue is very application-specific. For example, Mednafen has much better latency with ALSA than with OSS.
Eye Toy on PS2 was different, because the PS2 wasn't capable of estimating the distance of an object the camera sent to it. The first games only used the player as an obstacle, for example. Similar to the stuff Wario Ware does on the DSi. Later games (like that skateboarding game) tried to identify the position of certain body parts, similar to what Project Natal is doing.
The PS3, on the other hand, could estimate the position of an object, probably by its size and stuff and therefore enable that tech guy to do those 3D manipulations shown in that 2005 demo. It was pretty rudimentary stuff back then, but it kinda worked fairly well and whithout any fancy ultrasound Z positioning Project Natal uses IIRC.
Considering SONY already showed stuff like that there four years ago on their E3 keynote... remember the 'bathtub with duckies, battleships and cans' tech demo? Certainly not, I suppose. Go watch it!
Yeah, Flash sucks on OS X. Then again, side-by-side comparisons could be made on a BootCamp partition running whichever OS you'd like to see there. And yes, those two were pretty stupid examples, even though especially in the emulation sector Macs are catching up. Also World of Goo.
How long do you think that customized PC laptop will be running until it gets replaced by a new one, because the latest Web application (i.e. Flash video) doesn't run properly anymore? Or because that game you bought requires a bit more than your machine has to offer? Two years? Three years? A Mac would have lasted you at least one year longer. Besides, a Mac user can still sell his old machine on Ebay for some good price, I doubt that you'll have that much luck with a three years old FSC laptop, for example.
You know, MESS could easily be expanded to any of these systems, as well, looking at the the way it is structured: Every IC, be it a CPU, a graphics chip, you name it, has its very own emulation core which get linked together by so-called 'drivers' which basically provide additional info like memory map, crystal clock speeds etc. Every system/arcade PCB class has its own driver which avoid much redundancy. MAME and MESS basically create a virtual recreation of the PCB.
It would be a lot more efficient if those two teams pooled their resources, because it'd take the Brits aeons to catch up with the work the MAME and MESS devs already did. Imagine having to break that CPS2 encryption - AGAIN!
Well, he was Secretary-General of his small bavarian split-party. Which means that he might at least be able to talk. I don't recall those secretaries having to be able to think by themselves and/or having to be an expert in their ressort. Either this or someone explain to me why someone formerly responsible for agriculture suddenly becomes Secretary of Education (talking about Steffen Flath, by the way).
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Luckily a growing portion of applications for Windows bring their own Powershell cmdlets for low-level access, nowadays. I was told that Office 2010 is basically a (huge) bunch of Powershell cmdlets and the GUI just wraps around them.
Got a link to that one?
Yeah, but during the first three of those four years the only reason was piracy why people would want to break it. Which is clearly not the intention of those guys. So, technically it was only twelve months since SONY removed the OtherOS mode.
I suppose that every Dollar you invest in tax law enforcement should return thousand-fold its value.
BluRay discs, on the other hand, were specifically designed for that purpose. first, they made the surface a lot more scratch-resistant than a DVD, secondly they crammed three times as much ECC data into a sector.
I'm waiting to see someone building a cigarette lighter with that thing!
How about long time data preservation? Wasn't that one of the main pro-arguments to BluRay discs in the first place?
Okay, I've seen it. Still, I don't get why they disable this feature on PC. And why there is a special argument to activate this. Imagine Flash animations running fluidly again on six-year-old PCs. Or Flash not draining battery because some site forgot to tick the "wmode=gpu" argument...
Cool. But as long as the rest of the rendering is still done by the CPU (vector graphics, for Christ's sake), it will still drain battery like crazy. Just look at this video (in full-screen, please)!
Not only the controls, man. The music, oh the horror, what have they done to the soundtrack?!?
The german version is having these problems, as well, with authors being frustrated, because their articles are being deleted for various stupid reasons (like: only referenced in blogs, no real-world influence, except for some obscure hacker meetings etc.) The discussions have even reached the big media.
They just got updated with a fix for that issue.
Yup, you could place those facilities at the deltas of rivers for a never-ending supply of fresh water which would otherwise go unused. Only try not to kill too many salmons in the process.
Four members of the coalition opposed the law, i.e. SPD (Tauss's former party) had three people vote against it, CDU (the ones who pushed this ...thing... through parliament) had one person vote against it (because his daughter, a journalist, probably convinced him).
This guy is one of the authors of ZSNES and since it can use all those shiny wrappers he talked about, just playing a game and roughly measuring the time between a defined action on-screen and the corresponding sound event is probably already sufficient. Add some perception of crackling and stuff and youll get the list he was talking about. By the way: This latency issue is very application-specific. For example, Mednafen has much better latency with ALSA than with OSS.
Eye Toy on PS2 was different, because the PS2 wasn't capable of estimating the distance of an object the camera sent to it. The first games only used the player as an obstacle, for example. Similar to the stuff Wario Ware does on the DSi. Later games (like that skateboarding game) tried to identify the position of certain body parts, similar to what Project Natal is doing.
The PS3, on the other hand, could estimate the position of an object, probably by its size and stuff and therefore enable that tech guy to do those 3D manipulations shown in that 2005 demo. It was pretty rudimentary stuff back then, but it kinda worked fairly well and whithout any fancy ultrasound Z positioning Project Natal uses IIRC.
Considering SONY already showed stuff like that there four years ago on their E3 keynote... remember the 'bathtub with duckies, battleships and cans' tech demo? Certainly not, I suppose. Go watch it!
Considering that in some rare cases taking Lithium can make you impotent...
Yeah, Flash sucks on OS X. Then again, side-by-side comparisons could be made on a BootCamp partition running whichever OS you'd like to see there. And yes, those two were pretty stupid examples, even though especially in the emulation sector Macs are catching up. Also World of Goo.
Let me ask:
How long do you think that customized PC laptop will be running until it gets replaced by a new one, because the latest Web application (i.e. Flash video) doesn't run properly anymore? Or because that game you bought requires a bit more than your machine has to offer? Two years? Three years? A Mac would have lasted you at least one year longer. Besides, a Mac user can still sell his old machine on Ebay for some good price, I doubt that you'll have that much luck with a three years old FSC laptop, for example.
An online game that never needs to connect to the internet again?!? My brains just asploded...
There is already a team of highly skilled developers being very busy at this exact same task. And there's another team of highly skilled developers being very busy at making all torts of computers work on that platform.
You know, MESS could easily be expanded to any of these systems, as well, looking at the the way it is structured: Every IC, be it a CPU, a graphics chip, you name it, has its very own emulation core which get linked together by so-called 'drivers' which basically provide additional info like memory map, crystal clock speeds etc. Every system/arcade PCB class has its own driver which avoid much redundancy. MAME and MESS basically create a virtual recreation of the PCB.
It would be a lot more efficient if those two teams pooled their resources, because it'd take the Brits aeons to catch up with the work the MAME and MESS devs already did. Imagine having to break that CPS2 encryption - AGAIN!
I smell a god-awful pun here.
Well, he was Secretary-General of his small bavarian split-party. Which means that he might at least be able to talk. I don't recall those secretaries having to be able to think by themselves and/or having to be an expert in their ressort. Either this or someone explain to me why someone formerly responsible for agriculture suddenly becomes Secretary of Education (talking about Steffen Flath, by the way).