If you must have Ogg Vorbis, there's an app being developed for the Series 60 phones (search sourceforge). It's mostly just voice quality at the moment, but it is under current active development and there are 512MB MMC cards that have been proven to work reliably with the N-Gage.
Sony is betting on selling the PSP to the market of teens-early 30 somethings, not as a toy for adults to get for their kids. That's what they think GBAs are for.
Because, of course, Nokia have shown this to be such a profitable, receptive demographic for portable gaming.
...and impress upon them just how much I dislike the actions of their organisation and how they, if they choose to remain employed by the RIAA, are a bad person. Not just the company, but every single individiual that works there.
A company is only made up of people. If enough get a clue that real people think they, as individuals, are scum, perhaps the company's views might change. Not many employees can cope with being constantly told how awful they are as a person because of their boss' descisions, day after day.
...is the, somewhat excessive, Red Bull advertising in one or more or all of the Wipeout futuristic racing series. Funny thing was, when I first played Wipeout 2097 Red Bull wasn't available here so I thought it was a fake product. Since it has arrived on Australian shores I haven't ever bought one or even tried it.
Game developers and publishers should be aware that if the advertising is annoying the sales of their product and future products will be negatively affected. There are TV programs I've given up on because they weren't worth sitting through the ads for -- games are not immune to this effect. Sure, I've already bought the game, but I probably won't buy the sequel or anything I recognise to be from the same development house.
Direct deposit + a Visa check card means you can live quite nicely without handling any physical money (or even checks) at all. Heck, don't most Slashdotters live that way already?
I don't, and I'll tell you why:
Swapmeets
They may be called something different where you live, but garage sales, trash 'n treasure, flea markets, call them what you will, are people buying stuff from people, no companies involved. Therefore no credit card available. It's not that cash is needed for privacy, it's needed because credit cards cost money to process and Visa/Mastercard aren't interested in letting individuals accept credit cards.
I'm not interested in being a "good little consumer" -- I buy secondhand, therefore I need cash.
You'd also need to upgrade your imaginary screen because Tomb Raider's 3D is perfectly fine except for the fact that you go blind trying to make out the detail. Eye strain has been reported widely. Personally I stick to 2D -- I'm playing a lot of Metroid II on my N-Gage at the moment.
The TapWave's hardware is much nicer and as I've said in other forums, if I needed a PDA I'd get one, no question. Thing is, I don't need a PDA. But I do need a mobile phone, so I have an N-Gage.
I did recently install Apache but the service is disabled and the big ad-killing hosts file was added earlier. I'd double-check everything I said, but I can't find a site that I still go to that uses an ad server listed in that hosts file.
Possibly you're running a personal firewall that refuses to respond to port 80 requests. My PC sends an instant "connection denied" response, not a 404.
As the parent post noted, there are reasons, other than ads, for which popups are useful
No, there aren't. There are some non-ad uses of pop-ups in the wild, but they are unnecessary and can easily be worked into the main page body or a frame.
Your arguements are reasonable, but you and your friends are well and truly in the minority. I got 34 replies to my post, saying that there wasn't an iPod big enough for their collection. How many people are there on Slashdot, a million? Even if ten time the number that replied have such large, legitimate, collections it's still only 3 in 10,000. A person could go their whole life and never meet, even unknowningly, a person with a music collection too big to fit on the largest iPod.
People that agree mod me up, people that disagree post. I'm fairly sure my post got modded to the max immediately.
Kill the alias and re-subscribe to all the mailing lists?
I'm guessing that since you made that plural you don't fully understand how the aliasing concept works.
What if the alias that you gave to your most important customer starts getting spam?
And since you said that, you don't understand how spammers get email addresses -- Hint: it's not by magic.
Email aliasing works. I'm sure it's harder for a company than an individual, but the "problems" you list aren't problems. The aliases all manage themselves and point to a single mailbox. Using the right system you can still press "reply" and your outgoing mail is re-aliased perfectly. In the whole time I've been using spamgourmet, only one alias has started receiving spam. Better to cut that loose than poison my entire inbox.
There's no such thing as a positive pop-up. They're only annoying, no matter if they contain ads or a message telling you that your password failed. Put the damn message in the body of the web page.
Spam is easy. Just use a mail aliasing system that allows you to give a unique address to every form and your real one to none. Then if one alias starts receiving spam, kill it. Only problem is that it doesn't fix an account already infected with spam, you have to change address. Best move I ever made was dumping my Yahoo address and signing up for a Spamgourmet account.
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If you must have Ogg Vorbis, there's an app being developed for the Series 60 phones (search sourceforge). It's mostly just voice quality at the moment, but it is under current active development and there are 512MB MMC cards that have been proven to work reliably with the N-Gage.
Let me show my rebuttal. Neither a GC or a GBA are a PDA or a mobile phone.
I was being snide. Or possibly facisious.
Two words: Tapwave Zodiac.
A company is only made up of people. If enough get a clue that real people think they, as individuals, are scum, perhaps the company's views might change. Not many employees can cope with being constantly told how awful they are as a person because of their boss' descisions, day after day.
Game developers and publishers should be aware that if the advertising is annoying the sales of their product and future products will be negatively affected. There are TV programs I've given up on because they weren't worth sitting through the ads for -- games are not immune to this effect. Sure, I've already bought the game, but I probably won't buy the sequel or anything I recognise to be from the same development house.
Swapmeets
They may be called something different where you live, but garage sales, trash 'n treasure, flea markets, call them what you will, are people buying stuff from people, no companies involved. Therefore no credit card available. It's not that cash is needed for privacy, it's needed because credit cards cost money to process and Visa/Mastercard aren't interested in letting individuals accept credit cards.
I'm not interested in being a "good little consumer" -- I buy secondhand, therefore I need cash.
God, no, not my hard disk. That's where I keep all my stuff.
No reason it can't be Firewire or USB2.0 -- they don't have to be limited to outside the case and they're plenty bootable these days.
I think you mean "governatoring". Ahh-nahld is the Governator.
The TapWave's hardware is much nicer and as I've said in other forums, if I needed a PDA I'd get one, no question. Thing is, I don't need a PDA. But I do need a mobile phone, so I have an N-Gage.
Got a URL for an S60 port?
Possibly you're running a personal firewall that refuses to respond to port 80 requests. My PC sends an instant "connection denied" response, not a 404.
That's funny, my PC immediately rejects any attempt to fetch web content from it. Pages load faster, not slower.
People that agree mod me up, people that disagree post. I'm fairly sure my post got modded to the max immediately.
Email aliasing works. I'm sure it's harder for a company than an individual, but the "problems" you list aren't problems. The aliases all manage themselves and point to a single mailbox. Using the right system you can still press "reply" and your outgoing mail is re-aliased perfectly. In the whole time I've been using spamgourmet, only one alias has started receiving spam. Better to cut that loose than poison my entire inbox.
There's no such thing as a positive pop-up. They're only annoying, no matter if they contain ads or a message telling you that your password failed. Put the damn message in the body of the web page.
My favourite is still Proxomitron, even though development ceased a while back.
Spam is easy. Just use a mail aliasing system that allows you to give a unique address to every form and your real one to none. Then if one alias starts receiving spam, kill it. Only problem is that it doesn't fix an account already infected with spam, you have to change address. Best move I ever made was dumping my Yahoo address and signing up for a Spamgourmet account.