Greg Evans is a fraud
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This guy is a fraud
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LOL@goalweiser
Bestselling author Neil Gaiman says piracy was good for him and goalweiser says it isn't true. Are you Neil's publisher?
Piracy has already been proven to increase sales in every industry that has experienced it.
If piracy is to be minimized, however, then prices need to come down for everything, by a lot. Once it becomes more inconvenient to pirate a copy than to buy one, piracy goes away.
Not only th...
5 years is more than long enough for hardware advances to have significantly outpaced the technology in existing consoles.
The existing consoles don't have all of the wonderful things newer versions of Direct3D and OpenGL have specified. They also struggle to maintain 30-60FPS at 720P.
Any new console that comes out needs to have enough horsepower, memory, and memory bandwidth to outpace current desktop performance and probably implement some things ...
Perhaps you missed the link to the .pdf that has screenshots and explanations of the technology in the orginal article?
Duplicate article:
http://n4g.com/news/720969/...
How did this get approved?
As I said in the last article, who cares? Can we get a real next generation please?
Ray casted sparse voxel octrees were shown running in real time on an Nvidia GTX280 at SIGGRAPH in 2008. Future technologies? Voxels have been around for as long as polygon meshes, if not longer. This stuff is happening now, not in the future. Is it good that they make "current" stuff a little more efficient? Yeah, great, whatever. We've seen what is out there now, let's start looking down the road a little bit, you know, maybe we can have a real next generation instea...
Who cares about megameshes and outdated triangle rasterization? The future is ray tracing voxels. Go Go GPU!
I'm sure the anti-Microsoft crowd will find a way to downplay this bit of charity.
Paintsville didn't get owned. Paint was merely pointing out that no one can say who is obligated to donate any particular amount of support for a cause. As was pointed out and even linked for proof, Sony proudly trumpeted the amounts of money they donated to particular causes, so why should Microsoft get lambasted for announcing their support in their own way?
Without gaining from their donation? Seriously? Sony and Nintendo are Japanese companies. I would think that any donation to the cleanup, rescue, and rebuild effort that they make would seriously elevate their status in the eyes of their countrymen. Sony even donated 25,000 SONY brand radios for use during the rescue effort. Their donation is as much in their own self interest as it is for compassion.
Did Katrina hit as hard as the earthquake and tsunami? I don't know, why don't you ask the people along the Gulf coast who still, six years later, are cleaning up the aftermath.
And the video game console as we know it was invented in America by Magnavox you friggin ass clown. Magnavox Odyssey.
I agree with this. How many people died in the Japanese disaster? Now how many people die every day from hunger, AIDS and other disease, traffic accidents, etc.? A donation to a worthy cause is a donation to a worthy cause, whether a sudden natural disaster or an ongoing epidemic. Microsoft, like any other company, wants to be known for their charity. Perhaps they feel genuine compassion, but like any for-profit business, they want others to know about it. I see no reason for the outcry...
Voxels are the future. I think Carmack's thoughts on ray casting (or ray tracing) sparse voxel octrees are the direction we will head in the future. There are so many things that come "free" with SVOs that otherwise consume a lot of resources when done the traditional triangle rasterization way. With GPUs getting more and more parallelization and memory bandwidth, SVOs will be the future for sure. SVOs have their own unique issues, but the benefits outweigh their problems. ...
SecurROM is a Sony rootkit technology that prevents you from playing games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
GeoHot doesn't even need to erase anything.
If he was using TrueCrypt, he could have a hidden volume that should be undetectable.
The 5th Amendment prevents him from being compelled to reveal any passwords. He could just give Sony the encrypted drives and tell them to have fun.
If he wanted to erase data, there are plenty of file shredders available that do secure deletions. He could even use a disk wiper to just clean up the free...
Sony gave you 2 options:
Play games and lose OtherOS
or
Keep OtherOS but lose the ability to play any games that may come out after the FW update that removed OtherOS.
Because games install the firmware they need, anyone playing a game released after the removal of OtherOS would lose OtherOS.
The consumer expects that their PS3 will play ALL PS3 games with ALL original functionality intact. Seeing ...
The custom firmware isn't rebuilt code as far as I can tell.
You must download official firmware from Sony, then you run some utilities and tools that modifies some of the configuration files and signs them, repackages the firmware, then you install the "custom" firmware.
The hackers do not seem to be decompiling Sony code, modifying it, then recompiling it and distributing the binaries as their own. They are distributing tools that you mus...
Read this article on reverse engineering:
http://www.memagazine.org/c...
To the point:
Reverse-engineering is completely legal.
The "hacker" from the article is a fraud
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