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infobaba:
Welcome to graduation

you are making about as much sense as a bunch of soft bendy bananas

[quote author=ice_zik link=topic=69799.msg3098076#msg3098076 date=1226919679]i come in peace, Earthlings, take me to your leader.  [/quote]Ach! you are kind of late, Martian. our Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, has taken ill (pun intended).

Kim Jong Il is mentally ill (rhymes, abi?)

vescucci:
Quantum of Solace is giving people no solace. Me, am torn between two schools of thought. I actually agree with Ex on the need to revise the franchise but like Justkunmi and Debosky, I do not think they ought to overdo it. Spies do carry gadgets and cannot always ass-kick their way out of every situation.

the only problem is Bond movies, like anything featuring jason statham, say, are bound to be hopelessly predictable and on a single track. the standard Bond formula is: evil stinking rich megalomaniac wants to acquire/utilize clever yet deadly weapons to rule the world (or a portion of it) and the lecherous brit superspy is sent along with a clutch of gadgets to save the day. the plots in Bond movies (most action movies, really) are getting more and more complicated to infuse with anything captivating, interesting.

this is post cold war 21st century: the enemies and grudges of old no longer hold water. the fantastic gadgets which immensely added to the appeal are no longer incredible and awe-inspiring (most can be found in Engadget.com  ), the one-liner jokes are getting harder to come by. and certainly the bang-bang-boom-boom formula action showdowns are showing their age.

its a standard repertoire hardly deviant in like 40 years.

so?

so like every filmmaker who wants to keep eating, something has to give, so its either do something clever with the photography (matrix, sin city, 300, journey to the center of the earth etc) or introduce a very different kind of Bond in order to pique our natural curiousity.


like i said before, i find the new Bond heading satisfiable. the stick-to-formula routine is still there, like i said they are just playing it safe with a franchise having a mass fan following, but there are certain new elements there to make for a refreshing change.

vescucci:
@Ex, hehe, black agent dude in an impala? Mike Myers would be unemployed.

would you rather an Indian in a Tata?

[quote author=ice_zik link=topic=69799.msg3092122#msg3092122 date=1226765114]Greetings![/quote]wot are yer going to say next, "i come in peace, Earthlings, take me to your leader"?

maybe after like 22 or so instalments they are getting fed up with sticking to formula, as i know i am. heck, its about time the franchise tests other waters beyond the standard suave-gadgety-Hot-always-get-out-of-any-sticky-situation-with-hardly-a-scratch-and-a-one-liner-to-crack-us-up Bond of yore.

so what if he drives a ford, an Alfa Romeo or a Saab, so what if Olga is The One That Got Away? so what if the fisticuffs are a little more visceral? Bond has become too predictable over the years and speaking for me im glad they are taking it in a whole different direction with a Bond who relies on brute strength and cunning rather than fantastic gizmos and one immense mojo.

next up, a negro Bond in a pimped out, low-riding Hooptie!

@Tezz

wy do you even bother sef? refer him to Unity.

meanwhile, sad news; Apple finally got app-sharing site Monekys's Ball down. next stop, Appulo.us.

ive just tipped off Engadget.

meanwhile on unrelated news ive been chosen as one of the closed beta testers for Bumptop (www.bumptop.com). its been a while, last time was DeepFish for which i wrote a review.

yay!

most of the cracks on symbian are by the popular group Binpda. they happen to have a cool app that loads up a modified root certificate which allows to install apps cracked by Binpda without bothering with signing apps. this great app is called Secman (security manager). of course, you need TRK installed in order to establish port connection to upload the root cert (TRK is included in the linked package below).

get it here:

http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/attachment.php?attachmentid=115255&d=1211632647

if the apps are not pre-hacked by Binpda, you can sign them in just 4 simple steps.


this is the same app i used to load up cracked Ngage 2.0 games in my N95.

just2nice is also right, Drakkarious is quite easy to use.

look here:

http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/showthread.php?t=97941

actually he has the VGA driver, else he wont even see anthing onscreen!

windows comes with a generic vga driver built in which doesnt go beyond 1024 x 768 resolution. what you mean is he lacks the actual manufacturer drivers for his video card.

justkunmi:
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Guy Ritchiedon't dissappoint. . 

except commercially; RnR bombed.

@tezz

you nailed it, fast wifi. or MTN broadband on a 3G iphone    

however these screenies are from my 16gig 1st gen c0s the 3G is full to the brim


at least you can still get the under 10mbs with a slower link.

i used the computer and downloaded some western fps much like call of juarez but i can't find the app, will download adain now

just watched quantum of solace, and to me its better than casino royale, sure its formulaic but i guess they were just playing it safe because you cant really have too many expectations for a Bond movie. as a convention all bond movies must be james bond-ish.

theere are some good action setpieces, heightened by the fast, taut editing, however sometimes the fast cuts do get choppy.

next serving, quarantine, then burn after reading, all in marathon mode.

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@Texazzpete

here's AppShare being put trhough its paces.

are you sure you no go try? saves you from all that syncing.

our fully refractive geometry. see how the light bounces, curves and reflects? total render time, 5 seconds.

on a celeron 1.6ghz 512mb Sis chipset with 32mb Vram, this will probaly take a minute or more.

our geometry rendered as a reflective object.

the basic mesh being rendered by tracing the light rays to the virtual light source

to demo the power of the iphone here is an app called iTracer. anyone familiar with 3D modelling will no doubt know RayTracing. its a technique for rendering 3D objects by tracing the rays of light bouncing off it to the light source (ie working in reverse). this is great for alphachanelling where you get this cool translucent/glass effects and refractions.

needless to say its hard on the modeller and the machine, with some multi core machines taking as long as 3 hours to render one complex high res object using this method (the game engine I'm using takes 12 hours to render one floor level with no ray tracing; i use light maps and bumps).

anyway this app traces and renders in 6 seconds, though admittedly the light rays are  not too diffused and the objetc is fairly basic.

here is the object.

Super Monkey Ball

moto chaser

Asphalt Elite 4

Google Earth (not a game)

me neighborhood

Real Soccer 2009

crash nitro cart

nanosaur 2

Bugdom2, a full 3D free roaming adventure.

" yanking my chain and --"

funny.

unfortunately you cannot see my lightheartedness in all this; its either the distance or something else.

maybe im just plain weary about going on about how the iphone is still cool in spite of the shortcomings. is there such a thing as a perfect device? remember porting contacts from sim, sms multicasting, contacts search and third party apps were absent in the early firmware but later apple added all these features. perhaps down the road all the things missing in the iphone will be part of some upgrade, maybe firmware 3.0.

me, i dont miss bluetooth or mms all that much; i hardly use either in all the phones i own. i get my music online and the whole catalog reside on my computers so it makes some sense syncing. and i can count the number of people i know using mms on three fingers.

but thats just me right?


anyway:

Kroll, a pseudo-3D side scrolling platformer.

rubbish, all user paswords, including admin, are stored in windows/system32/config/sam

the SAM is the security account manager where user passwords are encrypted and stored in hash form. with a proper DOS bootdisk i can do SAM auditing anytime in less than a minute. however the less nerdy can try lots of tools and boot cds to completely bypass the admin account. one of such is password changer from www.password-changer.com

look for a crack in www.thepiratebay.com.

PC Mag? since when does the windows-ruled PC world has anything nice to say about the competition? however i do remember reading in some pc mag of 2007 mr ulanoff saying the iphone would fly when his boss predicted the phone would flop, the same issue ulanoff took over as editor.

i don't need a mr ulanoff to tell me what sort of satisfaction i get buying apple stuff, thank you ver much. i think my common sense would suffice.

hey, lets not reduce this to another pissing contest; i see things your way: we apple consumers are mindless zombies always looking out to buy the next apple branded shrink-wrapped pile of dog turd and we have a collective penchant for worshipping the ground steve jobs pisses on.

so there. happy now?

yah, it riles me when your type suggest all apple customers are blind drooling stupid senseless fanboys hypnotised by jobs' reality distortion field, as they call it, mutely handing over cash for essentially apple-logo'd bricks.

dude, i'll feel more like an idiot buying a turd-brown Zune, say, than i would buying an iphone.

i dont ever remember running into steve jobs in Apple Store, or online in MacMall, so i cant see how he can sell me moonrocks, or anything really.

someone seems to feel this way:


"iPhone 3G overtakes the RAZR as best-selling domestic handset"

"According to a report from NPD, sales of cellphones have shifted in a manner which should shock and stun even a casual observer. Apparently for the first time in years, Motorola's ubiquitous RAZR has been overtaken in consumer sales, by the iPhone 3G. This is a watershed moment for handset sales in the US, marking not only a shift away from the dominant market leader, but a turn towards more complex, full-featured devices. The news comes hot on the heels of NPD's previous findings, which still placed the RAZR in the top spot -- though with ever-decreasing numbers. In that same report, the iPhone found itself in second place, but it appears that flagging interest in the inescapable dumbphone coupled with the recent iPhone PR blitz have put Apple's moneymaker into the top position. The news is also buoyed by recent reports that Apple has overtaken RIM as the number two smartphone vendor, and a J.D. Power study which found affection for the device waxing in the extreme. Overall, however, handset sales fell 15 percent year-over-year, and LG managed to snag the top brand position, with two models in the top five. Still, if there already wasn't a clear indication of the market moving towards both smartphones and touchscreen devices, this should give everyone a clearer picture of both the public's wants, and the power of Cupertino's ad-men."

http://www.engadget.com/page/2/

meanwhile Tezz, it seems the dude behind Cydia (jay freeman aka saurik) has installed Debian Linux on a jailbroken android G1.

@vesc

cult bad guy? what does that even mean?


sephiroth isnt that memorable a bad guy.

and russell crowe in virtuosity feels ill-fit for the meanie role.

true. its been out in the uk. hmm.

hmm, not much has been happening here.

oh well, here goes.

INSTALL CRACKED IPAs WITHOUT ITUNES AND OPENSSH.

we all know (well, some of us do) that you need a cracked mobileinstallation file to install hacked ipas, and to upload the cracked file you need to have SSH open a port for FTP, right? after all that fiddling you then have to hand your phone over to itunes and wait for looooong syncs while you play tetris on your nokia 62whatever.

now no more. you can modify your mobileinstallation using an app in cydia without SSH.

enter the following as source in Cydia:

http://cydia.hackulo.us


now go to Sections>hackulo.us

*if you have already uploaded a modified mobeinstallation file, skip to 2

1. run miPatch to patch your mobileinstallation file. reboot the phone.

2. its always a good idea to install one free app from the iphone's appstore after installing a patched MI so do so if you havent already.


next go back to hackulo.us and install Installous FIRST, then install AppShare.

run Appshare, select either Monkey's Ball or Appulous, click on the the app of your choice, select DOWNLOAD (never INSTALL within AppShare), after downloading click INSTALLOUS on the bottom right of AppsShare's screen.

select Install.

Voila. no respring required.

a great way to install cracked apps without OpennSSH, Itunes and Syncing. and the good thing is apps downloaded this way sync with itunes too.