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PSP Reception Lukewarm in US?
There are plenty of interesting takes available on Sony's new media/game console. The neat tricks seem to be the most popular. An Anonymous Coward writes "A blogger figured out how to batch convert e-books so they can be read on your PSP. Check out the guide here for a complete walkthrough on this method." Meanwhile, RyuuzakiTetsuya writes "PSP Vault has a great story on how to Use Non-Duo Memory Sticks on a PSP! The process involves using an adapter that's meant for a Sony Ericcson phone." Via Joystiq, a way to get Tivo content on your PSP. Out in the real world there is already talk of the opening weekend sales. Doomstalk writes "According to IGN sales of the PSP have been lukewarm, with many outlets selling as little as 10 out of the 80 units they received." The PSP is currently burning up the charts in Japan, though, where the console has been out for a while. Early adopters on a holiday weekend may not be the best yardstick. Official numbers from the first weekend of sales likely available on Monday.
You wrote all that in the 2 seconds after the article was posted? Wow!
I have this really funny quote that I like to put here. Unfortunately, there's this really annoying thing called a char
What's tragic is the stranglehold she has on our nation's news media at the moment.
OMG! Wau!
It seems he's trolling for "Terry", I'm sure his post is just a trojan horse for bringing that message. And it has to be a first post so that eeeverybody sees it and don't forget it (how can we, when no one stops talking about it -- heh I'm guilty of the same crime).
Funny that he can't even spell the name of the person he's trying to "save" right, though he's not the only one.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
"Wow, and it formats Slashdot correctly too."
I use firefox, you insensitive clod!
while those compassionate Americans where killing more brown people for halliburton and the carnegie group
did we mention the 200 people that died in car accidents in USA today ? or how about the 1000 people diagnosed with cancer ?
but yeah keep Terry in your thoughts, life is cheap as long as its a brown person doing the dying
Really, I don't know?!
(Please continue to keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers this holiday weekend as she and the family suffers through this tragic time.)
Also, if you havent spent all your prayer juice on knee jerk media fodder, lets not forget to ask god to bless the 155,131 other people that die every single day on this planet.
Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
--Benjamin Franklin
"Might I ask *you* to please keep this propaganda (garbage) out of a thread for discussions about a *portable gaming system*. If you want to get political, submit a political story. If you're here to game, then bloody well game."
Well Taco, looks like that ".sig" idea isn't going to fly so well. Drop it from the code.
Might I ask *you* to please keep this propaganda (garbage) out of a thread for discussions about a *portable gaming system*. If you want to get political, submit a political story. If you're here to game, then bloody well game.
Ahem. Could you please explain in which way his comment was propaganda? All I can see is the OP asking readers to think and pray for a family who is -- no matter on which side of the issue you stand -- going through an admittedly difficult time.
Nobody's asking you to change what you think about the issue. Good God, have some decency. A family is dealing with the certain death of their daughter.
I think the fact that he called it a 'N0-SPIN' review pretty much guaranteed that it had a serious political agenda.
Okay, so a philosopher, a philologist, and a philatelist walk into a bar...
She's a vegetable, and isn't suffering anything... Hence the statement is propaganda.
(Please continue to keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers this holiday weekend as she and the family suffers through this tragic time.)
(Please continue to write things that have absolutely nothing to do with the original conversation that are in now way part of your sig.)
I also forgot to mention the No-Spin part of your subject. Your idol the sexual harasser Mr. O'Reily would be proud. Call him, maybe he'll pour you some wine and rub your back
If anyone had any decency in regards to this issue, they would leave the family alone. Fucking Republican assholes.
You're a bigger loser than Terri's parents.
"A family is dealing with the certain death of their daughter."
So are millions of people worldwide. Death is a perfectly natural part of life...and apparently synthetic life. I mean really, she's been dead for all intents and purposes and I'm sure the people footing the bill for this worthless experiment are sick of paying for nothing, and they should be. She has no chance to live, it's a waste of money and time and her parents must be nuts if they haven't waited for this day the last 10 years!
I think the only thing sad about this is she's become some kind of martyr for some cause and she is made to die through dehydration and starvation because no one has the balls to blow her head off.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
Also, what do you do that you have fans?
He trolls. You have been trolled.
Most people who are close to death do not experience hunger or thirst when deprived of food and water. Their body just begins to shut down and apparently you end up falling asleep from lack of energy. I'm sure Mrs. Veggie won't feel anything.
Many of the protestors keeping a vigil outside of Terry's hospice are Democrats. Among the Roman Catholics who have tried to bring more attention to the case there are just as many Democrats as Republicans. Furthermore, the core constituency of the Republican party has been pretty silent on this issue, with 37% of evangelicals supporting the removal of Terry's feeding tube. This isn't a matter that is limited to one party or the other. Blaming it on "fucking Republican assholes" is a reactionary and inaccurate response.
Actually, Terry's medical costs have been picked up by a donor who is perfectly happy to pay to keep her alive. Furthermore, a business recently offered Michael Schiavo one million dollars to give up the fight to remove the feeding tube (he refused). A lot of people with money do not see this as a "worthless experiment".
Okay, I just have to speak up.
It was one fucking statement, at the very bottom of a well-written review, tucked away in parentheticals. It didn't even advocate a position either way and was non-inflammatory, despite its current "0 Flamebait" moderation.
If you guys are so non-political, you wouldn't even bat an eye at such a statement. Are you so insecure in your position that you see someone dare mention something in a parenthetical at the very bottom of their post and jump to the forefront in a firey political rage? You're the one being political. If you were really so apolitical, the statement wouldn't have meant anything to you either way. It's like preaching tolerance through intolerance. I mean, wtf?
It was a well-written review. It was one little non-relevant statement tucked away at the bottom. You know, just like everybody's signatures. Get over yourselves! And why do I have a feeling if the position had been more toward the side of the husband (i.e., the "left-wing" position), fewer people would be complaining and the post wouldn't have been modded down so much?
Just had to get that off my chest. It was a harmless apolitical statement at the bottom of a long, well-written post. Only on Slashdot will that get a bunch of knee-jerk downmods and flames from people yelling at you to be non-political. Meanwhile, any Bush joke gets +5 funny in any article, no matter the topic. Lame.
Well of course YOU'D say that... Fucking Bull-Moose party asshole.
Whig? Know-Nothing? Stop me when I get warm.
You've got the wrong O'Reilly....
Where did you find a 32 foot "plazma" screen?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Interesting post.
Many of the protestors keeping a vigil outside of Terry's hospice are Democrats. Among the Roman Catholics who have tried to bring more attention to the case there are just as many Democrats as Republicans.
This is all irrelevant. What proportion of the protestors are Democrats (versus Republicans)? What proportion of the Roman Catholics who are bringing more attention to the case are Democrats (versus Republicans)?
Furthermore, the core constituency of the Republican party has been pretty silent on this issue, with 37% of evangelicals supporting the removal of Terry's feeding tube.
This is better. You gave us a number. Unfortunately, it contradicts your argument. 63% of evangelicals support the parents over the husband.
However, a little Googling does provide support for your position. 44% of all people, 46% of Republicans, and 45% of churchgoers support the parents over the husband. So at the level of the citizenry, party affiliation contributes only moderately to one's position.
The problem is with the Republican congressmen. The House voted 203-58 to transfer juridiction of the case to a Federal court. 47 of the 203 were Democrats. So 77% of representatives who support the parents are Republican (versus Democrat). This can be interpreted in several ways.
First, it might mean nothing if the 58 opposed votes followed the same 77%-23% split along party lines. I couldn't quickly find this information, but I'm assuming this is not the case.
Second, it might mean nothing if the 170 odd missing representatives would have voted in a way which would have made the final results commensurate with the preferences of the citizenry. Again, I assume this not the case. (Otherwise, there would have been a loud outcry from the missing reps.)
Third, it might mean the congressmen whom Republican citizens elect do not reflect the full spectrum of their beliefs, but rather concentrate in one part of the ideological pool. This may be the case, especially given that the recent round of elections was largely a referendum on the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism, and on this topic many traditional conservatives (i.e., small government, fiscal responsibility, limited foreign involvement) were less-than-appealing to Republican voters, and perhaps lost in the primaries/caucases to more hawkish competitors.
Fourth, it might mean that the Republican leadership has seized upon this as an issue that will activate the social conservatives (including evangelicals) while not turning off other segments of the base to the degree that they defect to other parties. In other words, it is the 2005 analog of gay marriage.
In my mind, the third and fourth explanations are most likely. Adopting the last of these does not make one a reactionary.
No, actually, her name is spelled Terri. And, she stays at the hospice she is in for free because she is officially categorized "indigent" and the rest of her costs are covered by Medicaid.
The husband has refused any private donations for her care.
All of the above has been documented ad nauseum by the AP, Fox, and CBS.
Nevertheless, if the husband has refused donations, that means donations were offered. That does not congrue with the assertion made above that no one is interested in contributing money to her care.
Her cerebral cortex has been obliterated. While the human brain has shown an amazing capacity to recover from even extensive damage, the cerebral cortex is absolutely critical to everything that can be classified as thought and it's function cannot be replicated by any other structure in the brain.
We're talking about the outer surface of the brain here. You know how people say that intelligence of vertebrates is roughly proportional to the surface area of the brain? That's because the size of the cerebral cortex is proportional to the surface area.
Her medulla oblongata is intact so her heart still beats and she can blink, breath, digest food, and can display some limited reflex actions.
So her medulla keeps ticking away with its secretarial functions but without the cerebral cortex the rest of the brain is useless. She can't access her memories. Her sensory data can't be processed (aside from the extremely primitive processing in the medulla and spinal cord). She no longer has anything that can be identified as a mind.
Currently death is medically determined by an absence of brain activity. She is alive by this metric. However, all of the brain activity that characterizes human beings is absent. This is a living death and some people view the idea of being kept alive in such a state as an abomination.
Agreed-she's been dead long before now.
A "vegetable" doesn't respond to it's surroundings. Unlike Terri.
If I can do as much editing as they did on the Terri video's, I can make a dead horse respond to it's surroundings.
"Why don't you just take a new nickname of "YOU'RE ALL HYPOCRITES!!!111one" so you can post empty comments and still pass on as much insight?
Hint: there are over 800,000 of us here. Regardless of what you may think, or may post, we are not all the same person."
So lets see. We all are completely random from everyone else (which is what you mean).
So that means then that from a statistical standpoint this isn't a GEEK site. The jokes about GIRLFRIENDS or SEX doesn't get a (+5 funny) every time. We all LOVE corporations, and have no ANTI-CORPORATION positions. We LOVE Microsoft, and don't fill pages with "MS (+5) Sux" posts. WE completely back IP, and see IP as a valid term.
See the point of all the above is that you (specifically you, not some random 800,000 you) think we all are stupid by bringing up the "we all aren't alike" when we all know perfectly well that from a statistical standpoint this forum does indeed hew to certain POV's, and has a moderation system that skews the "completely random" towards those POVs.* That's "exactly" why the tagline is "News for NERDS, STUFF that matters".
*That's why there's such a thing as a "BELL CURVE" instead of the "We all aren't alike" WHITE NOISE you all want to belive this forum actually is.
"Get over yourself. It's tiring seeing you post some inane comment about "Slashdot hypocrasy" in every other story."
Feeling guilty? Since obviously you don't fall under any of the characterisations (slashdot hypocrisy) it shouldn't bother you so.
Then where the hell are people priorities? Keeping a vegetable alive or maybe sending this money to the working poor families and children that need it.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
Where is the review?
"I tried very hard to get myself to buy the PSP this weekend but in the end I thankfully stopped myself."
That is not a review. You are like all those tards on Amazon that post "reviews" for items that haven't shipped yet. I'd at least expect you to rent the psp before reviewing it and calling a "NO-SPIN" review. Or does no spin refer to you not "spinning" up the umd discs before doing the "review"? Man, what a troll.
Just count the number of I's, me's, and my's in that article. Somehow that "review" comes across as more about Amsterdam Vallon than the PSP.
Vote we change the title to: AMSTERDAM VALLON'S N0-SPIN REVIEW OF AMSTERDAM VALLON