Comment Re:Different everywhere? (Score 4, Insightful) 451
well I guess you have no summer then...
Comment Re:In Tune... (Score 3, Informative) 338
by "natives" are you referring to the Maori people? Because they're not native to New Zealand
Comment Re:sounds like some rationalization going on (Score 2, Informative) 86
Sonic Adventure
Sega Rally 2
Virtua Fighter 3
Dead or Alive 2
Soul Calibur
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Powerstone
Head Hunter
Phantasy Star Online
Skies of Arcadia
That's just a handful I can think of off the top of my head. The hype for the DC was ridiculous at the time for a console.
Sega Rally 2
Virtua Fighter 3
Dead or Alive 2
Soul Calibur
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Powerstone
Head Hunter
Phantasy Star Online
Skies of Arcadia
That's just a handful I can think of off the top of my head. The hype for the DC was ridiculous at the time for a console.
Comment Re:Nice move by Crytek... (Score 1) 67
get yourself a copy of Far Cry or Crysis. They both come with world editors so you can see what it's like. Basically, it's a bit like that Terragen program, where you draw a greyscale map and it then generates a 3D world from it.
...only a bit more complicated...
Comment Re:X-Box controller (Score 1) 185
No, he's talking about the huge controller that came with the machine at launch. That fucker was enormous.
Incredibly comfortable though...
Incredibly comfortable though...
Comment Re:Flash memory in a keyboard? (Score 1) 275
all those macros are lost once the power is turned off. The only way to save them is to enter them into the driver software in the OS. This indicated to me that any RAM onboard is not flash. I did think before I posted.
Comment Re:What's next? (Score 3, Informative) 275
I feel somewhat obliged to point out that the Sony PSP is vulnerable to a battery hack. If you put in a certain battery, you can then downgrade the system's firmware and play pirated games etc
Comment Re:Flash memory in a keyboard? (Score 1) 275
I'm curious too. I'd be surprised if my Logitech G15 keyboard had read/write memory (all the programs for it run on the OS), so just why the hell does Apple feel the need to make a keyboard with that?
Comment Re:does it matter? (Score 2, Insightful) 237
I'm giving up the opportunity to mod what will undoubtedly be a trollfest in this article's comments so I can post this.
I think that this is a positive sign from Microsoft. For years they've been going on about how the GPL is a virus and communist and will be the death of us all.
Now they've released code under it. It doesn't matter that they had to, it matters that they did it. They undoubtedly had a team of lawyers looking at their options before doing this. If they were of the viro-communist mindset toward the GPL before this, they certainly aren't now. The lawyers must have told Microsoft that if they decided to play the "GPL is invalid" card, it would have been a very long and hard battle for defeat.
I think that this is a positive sign from Microsoft. For years they've been going on about how the GPL is a virus and communist and will be the death of us all.
Now they've released code under it. It doesn't matter that they had to, it matters that they did it. They undoubtedly had a team of lawyers looking at their options before doing this. If they were of the viro-communist mindset toward the GPL before this, they certainly aren't now. The lawyers must have told Microsoft that if they decided to play the "GPL is invalid" card, it would have been a very long and hard battle for defeat.
Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice 284
InfiniteZero writes "According to this WSJ story, 'Two teams of Chinese researchers working separately have reprogrammed mature skin cells of mice to an embryonic-like state and used the resulting cells to create live mouse offspring. The reprogramming may bring scientists one step closer to creating medically useful stem-cell lines for treating human disease without having to resort to controversial laboratory techniques. However, the advance poses fresh ethical challenges because the results could make it easier to create human clones and babies with specific genetic traits.'"
Hacker Group L0pht Making a Comeback 110
angry tapir writes "The news report begins with shots of a tense space shuttle launch. Engineers hunch over computer banks and techno music pounds in the background. There is a countdown, a lift-off, and then you see a young man in a black T-shirt and sunglasses, apparently reporting from 'space.' This is the Hacker News Network, and after a decade offline it is lifting off again, this time with a quirky brand of video reports about security. Hacker News Network is one of the side projects of the Boston-based hacker collective known as L0pht Heavy Industries. They're the guys who famously told the US Congress that they could take down the Internet in about 30 minutes, and who helped invent the way that security bugs are reported to computer companies."
Comment Re:Had This Problem Myself (Score 4, Insightful) 185
"The workaround is to disable the real-time scanner."
Or switch to a better AV product.
Or a better media player. iTunes on Windows is superior only to Quicktime on Windows. Both are (in terms of usability) inferior to... well, pretty much everything else.
AVG Update Breaks iTunes 185
nate_in_ME writes "After getting a positive from the AVG virus detector while playing music on iTunes just a few minutes ago, I did a bit of research. It appears that AVG has recently pushed an update to the virus definitions that flags every iPod/iTunes related file as being infected with the 'Small.BOG' trojan. Interestingly enough, AVG does not have any information on this particular virus in their virus encyclopedia. Discussion on the Apple forum is up to 4 pages and climbing. One user there had an interesting thought: 'Maybe Palm has some shares in AVG...MUAHAAAA!!' (on page 3)."
Comment Re:Impossible (Score 1) 272
- Eliminate all forms of being locked into a contract. Make all cellphone service a monthly deal like any other utility so that the carrier has to earn your business each month. Y'know, by being competitive.
Believe it or not, there is actually a valid reason for contacts. Here in Australia, the Nokia N97 costs $1100 out of contract (and I hear a similar price for the iPhone 3GS). Not that many people can afford to drop that kind of money on a new phone.
Of course, it is a little ludicrous that the iPod Touch is a fraction of the total cost of an iPhone, given that there's not a lot of difference between the two. Perhaps anti-contract laws would force the price of handsets down, but I doubt it.
Having said that though, there is a lot that needs fixing about the US cellular network, from what I gather. Are you really charged to receive calls and SMSes over there? If so, that's crazy shit.
The Best First Language For a Young Programmer 634
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions whether Scheme, a dialect of Lisp taught as part of many first-year CS curricula and considered by some to be the 'latin of programming,' is really the best first language for a young programmer. As he sees it, the essentially write-only Scheme requires you to bore down into the source code just to figure out what a Scheme program is trying to do — excellent for teaching programming but 'lousy for a 15-year-old trying to figure out how to make a computer do stuff on his own.' And though the 'hacker ethic' may in fact be harming today's developers, McAllister still suggests we encourage the young to 'develop the innate curiosity and love of programming that lies at the heart of any really brilliant programmer' by simply encouraging them to fool around with whatever produces the most gratifying results. After all, as Jeff Atwood puts it, 'what we do is craftmanship, not engineering,' and inventing effective software solutions takes insight, inspiration, deduction, and often a sprinkling of luck. 'If that means coding in Visual Basic, so be it. Scheme can come later.'"
