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Ah yes, silly me. I was googling for '"gba sp" "line out"', and '"gba sp" headphones.' It wan't until later that I thought of googling for "adapters."

I'll go back to my hole now. Please ignore the grandparent.

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To get the sound out of a standard GBA all you need to do is plug it into your stereo using a standard stereo mini-jack to RCA type cable, but what about the GBA SP? I've seen custom headphones that you can buy that will plug into the SP's custom port, but where would you get something to convert that to a stereo line out? I haven't seen any of those anywhere.

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iPods sell like hotcakes despite being not free.

Actually, you can get an iPod for free. Well, it isn't free as in time or effort, but it is free as in cost.

Sound too good to be true? Wired has covered it as well as the New York Sun (Using Google cache because Slashdot doesn't like the NY Sun's URL) and Geek.com.

So step right up and get your free iPod right here.

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iPods sell like hotcakes despite being not free.

Actually, you can get an iPod for free. Well, it isn't free as in time or effort, but it is free as in cost.

Sound too good to be true? Wired has covered it as well as the New York Sun (Using Google cache because Slashdot doesn't like the NY Sun's URL) and Geek.com.

So step right up and get your free iPod right here.

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iPods sell like hotcakes despite being not free.

Actually, you can get an iPod for free. Well, it isn't free as in time or effort, but it is free as in cost.

Sound too good to be true? Wired has covered it as well as the New York Sun (Using Google cache because Slashdot doesn't like the NY Sun's URL) and Geek.com.

So step right up and get your free iPod right here.

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So when are we going to start seeing news sites pop up that do nothing but cover the news that happens in an online world. Imagine digital reporters and journalists that have characters within the game world that do nothing but observe the events. Reporters that follow the top players and take "pictures" of events, sort of like the Paparazzi . They then report to the "news" sites their coverage.

Note that this would be different from someone who plays the game and then does a write-up of their experiences (1st person). A site like this would have other people, reporters (3rd person), that observe the events and then write about them. This type of alternate-universe news coverage may be a little ways off, but I'm sure we'll see it someday.

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As soon as I finish StarCraft I'll give something else a try. I suppose my natural evolution will lean towards Warcraft III or WoW since I'm a Blizzard fan. But really, I just don't have much time for games right now, let alone taking up a new game or spending all the time required to attain Level 60!

Sigh. For now I'll just stick to quick, 20 min. StarCraft multiplayer battles.

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I don'think so. Given that av-firms currently reverse engineer most of the viruses they scan for.

Well, yes, and that's sot of my point. We can all agree that viruses are evil and that they need to be stopped an taken care of as quickly and fully as possible. So it is OK for Anti-virus companies to reverse engineer the viruses (for financial gain) to provide a fix for them.

By the same logic, some people (but not all) can agree that Microsoft is evil and should be stopped as quickly and fully as possible. So by their logic it is OK to reverse engineer Microsoft products for financial gain.

The former is clearly acceptable and a viable and legitimate business model while the latter would get you taken to court by Microsoft's lawyers faster than you could get a virus running an unpatched install of Windows on the Internet. Oh and you'd also lose to Microsoft.

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If major companies start promoting their products on your favorite P2P program, then perhaps the **IA will be less inclined to sue.

Somehow I doubt it. If anything the RIAA or MPAA will then start targeting companies that advertise on the P2P networks. Especially expect to see this if the Induce Act passes. These companies will be a good target simply because they have money which Joe Schmoe file-trader doesn't have. In fact, the **AA might be able to bankroll their lawsuits against Joe Schmoe by suing the larger companies and that way not even take a loss on the hundreds of lawsuits they file against the little guy.

Oh isn't it all just so disgustingly evil?

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Now, just wait for the authors of the Beagle virus to slap them down with a lawsuit for reverse engineering their software. Something to the effect of:

"You have violated the License Agreement of the Beagle virus through your reverse engineering activities. Your publication illustrating how to do this is a clear violation of the DMCA and induces others to also violate their license agreement. Please Cease and Desist all such activities and prepare to see us in court."

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The Mac platform has a pretty good shareware community that is helped by sites like MacUpdate and VersionTracker. The Mac, having a smaller percentage of the market, has the benefit (for shareware developers at least) of having more holes that shareware developers can fill. So if you have a great idea and can turn it into a great app, then you have a good chance of finding success in the Mac market. Watson, Konfabulator, and NetNewsWire are a few great shareware apps on the Mac. Unfortunately Apple might decide to fill the same holes that your app might fill as was the case with Watson and now Konfabulator.

I have found a small amount of success myself with my Shareware app, HyperSpell. But its nothing I could ever quit my day job over. Mainly its something to do in my spare time and it filled a hole that I wanted filled. The biggest problem most shareware developers face is just getting people to know that their app exists (marketing).

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The accomplishment will be included in the 2006 Guinness World Records book, set for release this time next year, as follows:

"On 27 March 2004, NASA's unmanned Hyper-X (X-43A) airplane reached Mach 6.83, almost seven times the speed of sound. The X-43A was boosted to an altitude of 29,000 m (95,000 ft) by a Pegasus rocket launched from beneath a B52-B aircraft. The revolutionary 'scramjet' aircraft then burned its engine for around 11 seconds during flight over the Pacific Ocean."

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The X-43A flight easily set a world speed record for an air-breathing engine aircraft. The previous known record was held by a ramjet-powered missile, which achieved slightly more than Mach 5. A ramjet operates by subsonic combustion of fuel in a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft itself, as opposed to a normal jet engine, in which the compressor section (the fan blades) compresses the air. A scramjet (supersonic-combustion ramjet) is a ramjet engine in which the airflow through the whole engine remains supersonic.

The highest speed attained by a rocket-powered airplane, NASA's X-15 aircraft, was Mach 6.7. The fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3. The X-43A more than doubled the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71.

From the article:

The final flight in the Hyper-X program is scheduled to take place in October, when another X-43A aircraft will attempt to fly at Mach 10 -- ten times the speed of sound -- or 7,200 mph.

So if 10x the speed of sound is 7,200 mph, then the speed of sound is roughly 720 mph.

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And it won't until I get mine. ;)

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it'd need to have a complete software re-write.

Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. The idea is that ATMs are already accurate, scalable and speedy and widely available. Also, wouldn't it be great to use the huge network that ATMs already use to report the votes?

Basically my position/idea is that ATMs already do a good job at what they do and there are thousands of them. If we could use that existing infrastructure for electronic voting then it would be great. It does open electronic voting up to a lot of other problems, but it sure would be convenient. ;)

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Well, yes, exactly, but taking it a bit further. Why not use the nation-wide ATM banking network for electronic voting? Instead of going to a polling place to vote, just go to your bank. This could introduce a bunch of other problems (as well as introduce a lot more conspiracy theories), but they could be solved and with this solution the infrastructure is already in place (with thousands of ATMs nation-wide). Only the ATM software would need to be modified to handle voting.

With this kind of voting maybe you could limit it to just bank ATMs as opposed to the ATMs at a gas station or convenience store. Also, make each bank go through a certification process to make sure that their ATM software is up to par AND that they have people on location to help and collect the printed ballot (since all ATMs can already print a receipt just have the voting software print a receipt and have the voter deposit it into a ballot box.
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If we can make ATMs that work well then we should be able to make voting machines that work just as well. In fact, why don't we get the people that Make ATMs to make voting machines as well. Let's see, do ATMs stand up to his four criteria?

• Accuracy - Yep.
• Anonymity - No, but we could modify them.
• Scalability - Yep, there's bazillions of these things.
• Speed - Yep.

Let's take that a bit further, why not turn ATMs into voting machines? They're already part of a large, secure, nation-wide network, they're built for security, and there's bazillions of them. Wouldn't it be great to just go to your bank to vote? That would eliminate the need to go to a polling place and should reduce the lines tremendously.

Sure there might be other problems with this approach, but banks already have years of experience securing and relying on ATMs.

I think these guys should really demand some kind of profit sharing or a percentage of each game's revenues. Of course this probably won't work for the average code-monkey, but at least the lead engineers and game designers should have enough sway to be able to get it. The big game companies are making millions off of their backs so they should at least get some of it.

I imagine that behemoths like EA wouldn't give their workers this, but some of the senior developers should demand it. I've always been impressed with the OmniGroup's policy: (though they're not a game company)

Bonuses: We pay bonuses when our revenues and profitability allow it. Some years, it's a lot of money, and when we have an unprofitable year, it's not.

They seem to be a company that recognizes that their developers are important.

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Apple's Airport Express has been the perfect solution to play music from my computer. It would be nice if you could play more than just stuff from iTunes, but it's a really great product and great for vacations too.

I'd love to see something like this that you could use to broadcast Video too, but for that I'll have to wait I guess.

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To go a little further down that road...

SCO claims Linux is "legally scary" because no Linux vendor will provide indemnification.
Linux vendors then provide indemnification (effectively saying SCO is full of it).
SCO then says, "See Linux has legal problems, otherwise why would you need indemnification?"

If we then follow SCO's logic...

Microsoft's products must have legal problems, otherwise why do they need to indemnify their customers?

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"I think it would be extremely naive of us, Mr. President, to imagine that these new developments are going to cause any change in Chinese savant-expansionist policy. I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other savant technology, in order to create savants more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out with superior savants!

Mr. President, we must not allow... a mega-savant gap!"

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From the article:

The three-year road map will help show that Bluetooth has staying power, Foley said.

Under the road map, the SIG plans to complete the Bluetooth Version 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) specification by the end of this year, increasing the data rate to 3Mbit/sec., up from 1Mbit/sec. in the current Version 1.2, Foley said. Products are expected to appear with the EDR as early as June 2005, he said. The newer-version products will also be backward-compatible with older versions.

So it will go from 1 Mbit/sec. to 3Mbit/sec which isn't too bad considering its uses. I mean, really, how much bandwidth does your keyboard and mouse need? Or your cell phone earpiece? I don't think anyone needs to show that Bluetooth has "staying power." It targets a particular market and particular applications and does its job very well. You don't need 1Gbit/sec of bandwidth (which you'll get with UWB) to use your keyboard, mouse, or earpiece.

I think the most interesting thing is the multicasting to seven other devices. That should allow a lot of fun and interesting applications.

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I could obfuscate code so bad that it would crash the compiler, impregnate the linker and produce a fat binary.

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I don't think anyone has suggested that bloggers are going to be replacing journalists anytime soon or that blogs are going to be taking over the media. But bloggers can be very good fact-checkers as was displayed in the CBS/Dan Rather memo flap.

That incident was a great example of a large group of volunteers rallying together experts that could show a news story to be false.

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