I have this thing and it's amazing. I get about 24 hours out of it (with the keyboard dock) from full charge to nothing (made it through a 3-day weekend with medium use).
If Nokia had entered what is gearing up to be a very aggressive market with a linux based netbook, I would have expect the BOD to fire the CEO right away!
Asus tried it already and it failed.
Asus created the netbook market with the eeePc, and you consider it a failure?
He's not saying the EEEPC was a failure, just the ones that came pre installed with linux. The ones that shipped with XP out sold the linux ones 3 to 1 so most retailers stopped carrying the linux models. It would be crazy for Nokia to make the success of their new device rely on an operating system that people are still afraid to buy when they can have the comfort of windows they're already familiar with.
I recommend you invest in one of these. You need to plug your amp in anyway, so it's not like you'll ever need to use the pedals somewhere you don't have power. You'll also never have to deal with changing batteries mid-session.
Also, for the record, the Guitar Hero guitars use AAs.
The problem with the PSP is the huge lack of software available at any given time. If you walk in to best buy there's a section for NDS games as big as the PS2 or Wii sections but the PSP games are all in one little 4 foot area.
I own a DS and love it (along with my R4). I'd like a PSP for the media features, but there's so little software worth owning for it I can't justify the cost.
Rock Band is by far one of the most fun and engaging 2-4 player co-op experiences (assuming you all have at least a little bit of interest in music). Lego Star Wars is also an awesome co-op title (and here's hoping Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman turn out decent too).
I don't know which PSN you're accessing, but the one I access only lets me buy in increments of $5, $10, $25 or higher amounts, with no ability to put in an exact amount. The worst is Sony's incessant use of prices ending in $.99, leaving behind pennies every time I buy something. At least on the 360 I can buy points cards at retail stores and not give MS my credit info. Plus since all I usually buy is XBLA games (which only cost $5/10/15/20) a $20 card works out perfectly, with no change left over.
They didn't drive any of those franschises into the gound, they just droped all their old titles
Except for Leisure Suit Larry. They released Magna Cum Laude in 2004, which didn't even remotely resemble the originals; it was just a series of pointless mini games (it did have some decent jokes in it, but nothing compared to any of the originals).
For some reason I thought the joke looked like a duck in your ascii art. I thought it was a better image of 'flying over his head', but maybe I'm just reading way too much into ascii art.
So North Korea gets nukes and we don't care, but if they try to get nukes in space there'll be hell to pay. This sounds like another diversionary tactic of the Bush administration, like Gay Marriage or how we were going to Go to Mars.
The PS3 launch is looking more and more like the 360 launch. Horrible shortages, overheating problems, higher price than most gamers wanted to pay (remember a year ago when $400 for a console seemed like too much?). I was really pulling for Sony when all we had to look at was what Microsoft had done, but they've managed to take every oportunity to make their console less interesting. There's no way I'd buy one at launch now, I'm betting the hardware problems will be worse than the PS2 launch and 360 launch combined. I just hope Sony can bounce back and come up with a quality console, because the industry needs competition. God forbid Microsoft of all people runs the console market.
That being said, I'm probably going to get a Wii at laucnh (Wii + Zelda + Red Steel is still cheaper than a 360). I just hope they make the wiimote very configurable. The hardcore gamer in me still wants the Next Gen HD hotness though, so I'm hoping for a price drop from at least one of them within a year.
At this point, their homepage is changed to a site using Mesothelioma (a rare form of cancer) to ring up high-paying results on the perpetrators' Google ads.
Wow. I had no idea there was a rare form of cancer that could change your homepage. It must be very rare indeed!
Seriously though, what the hell does that sentence mean?
I personally could care less if someone else could look at which CD's I'm interested in.
What about books? What if the government decides they want to come interogate you because you bought The Anarchist's Cookbook? I agree that musical preferences are for the most part harmless data, but Amazon sells quite a few things and we've got a government that's a little too interested in it's citizen's data.
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No problem at all!
I have this thing and it's amazing. I get about 24 hours out of it (with the keyboard dock) from full charge to nothing (made it through a 3-day weekend with medium use).
Since when does all-in-one PC = robot?
Dell especially, since most of their models (retail offerings at least) have the memory soldered to the mobo.
So it seems like a good deal when you get $500 off.
And before I get labeled a Liberal or a Democrat, I'm a centrist who votes for the Libertarians.
I like how you have to cover yourself because you've demonstrated reality's liberal bias.
OOMA is what you're looking for. http://www.ooma.com/products
If Nokia had entered what is gearing up to be a very aggressive market with a linux based netbook, I would have expect the BOD to fire the CEO right away!
Asus tried it already and it failed.
Asus created the netbook market with the eeePc, and you consider it a failure?
He's not saying the EEEPC was a failure, just the ones that came pre installed with linux. The ones that shipped with XP out sold the linux ones 3 to 1 so most retailers stopped carrying the linux models. It would be crazy for Nokia to make the success of their new device rely on an operating system that people are still afraid to buy when they can have the comfort of windows they're already familiar with.
I recommend you invest in one of these. You need to plug your amp in anyway, so it's not like you'll ever need to use the pedals somewhere you don't have power. You'll also never have to deal with changing batteries mid-session.
Also, for the record, the Guitar Hero guitars use AAs.
The problem with the PSP is the huge lack of software available at any given time. If you walk in to best buy there's a section for NDS games as big as the PS2 or Wii sections but the PSP games are all in one little 4 foot area. I own a DS and love it (along with my R4). I'd like a PSP for the media features, but there's so little software worth owning for it I can't justify the cost.
Rock Band is by far one of the most fun and engaging 2-4 player co-op experiences (assuming you all have at least a little bit of interest in music). Lego Star Wars is also an awesome co-op title (and here's hoping Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman turn out decent too).
I don't know which PSN you're accessing, but the one I access only lets me buy in increments of $5, $10, $25 or higher amounts, with no ability to put in an exact amount. The worst is Sony's incessant use of prices ending in $.99, leaving behind pennies every time I buy something. At least on the 360 I can buy points cards at retail stores and not give MS my credit info. Plus since all I usually buy is XBLA games (which only cost $5/10/15/20) a $20 card works out perfectly, with no change left over.
The Kotaku article I read said the editor of GI contacted him and told him it was legit, apparently they're against April fools issues.
For some reason I thought the joke looked like a duck in your ascii art. I thought it was a better image of 'flying over his head', but maybe I'm just reading way too much into ascii art.
Uhh, guys? The game is rated Teen. Both Wal-Mart and the president will let kids buy it without hesitation.
So North Korea gets nukes and we don't care, but if they try to get nukes in space there'll be hell to pay. This sounds like another diversionary tactic of the Bush administration, like Gay Marriage or how we were going to Go to Mars.
The PS3 launch is looking more and more like the 360 launch. Horrible shortages, overheating problems, higher price than most gamers wanted to pay (remember a year ago when $400 for a console seemed like too much?). I was really pulling for Sony when all we had to look at was what Microsoft had done, but they've managed to take every oportunity to make their console less interesting. There's no way I'd buy one at launch now, I'm betting the hardware problems will be worse than the PS2 launch and 360 launch combined. I just hope Sony can bounce back and come up with a quality console, because the industry needs competition. God forbid Microsoft of all people runs the console market.
That being said, I'm probably going to get a Wii at laucnh (Wii + Zelda + Red Steel is still cheaper than a 360). I just hope they make the wiimote very configurable. The hardcore gamer in me still wants the Next Gen HD hotness though, so I'm hoping for a price drop from at least one of them within a year.
Seriously though, what the hell does that sentence mean?