It's cool to bash the prequels, but at the end of the day, geekdom is going to show up and watch them. You may be honest in not wanting to go, but I guarantee you that all 95%+ of these "SW prequel trilogy sucks" zombies is going to stand in line and watch them.
> shots from the N64 were CG renders that still aren't matched in the most powerful PC or console games today.
X-Box is the one that was caught making up screenshots and passing them as real time. We found out on a message board about one of these pictures, and the official X-Box site had to clarify that those were indeed pre-rendered shots (the game was Amped).
Again, because the VPN in my laptop prevents me from making connections to my desktop, which is not part of the VPN network. They've setup it so that when I'm connected to the corporate VPN, there are NO connections allowed to any other network.
I wanted to do something similar with my work laptop, too bad it has VPN when connected to work, and my home desktop is not part of the VPN/corporate network and I can't get VNC to work. So, I'm ordering a KVM switch this week...
> You're such the wizardly coder. If you're using GDS to search through your source code files, then just what are you using?
What do you mean what am I using? I'm using all kinds of tools to edit code, from vi to clunky heavy weight IDEs. I don't understand the question.
> Besides, wasn't my original post about "how was this some killer app" ?
I don't know if this is a killer app, but this is a great utility and it's much better than what you suggested; grep. Grep is great for quick searches in your current directory, log files, code. GDS and the like are better for everyday desktop use when you want the results now.
> And I doubt it will popup ads when I use it.
GDS doesn't popup ads.
> Tell me, how can GDS be so cool, so special?
I already told you, O(1) constant time searches, multiple document formats, cache version of files that you can use for doc history, etc. That's very special when compared to grep. For people that have a lot of files and do many things in the computer, it's a great tool. If you don't need it, good for you!
> I also use "less" and awful lot. Will Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple be competing next year over a utility that lets you scroll through long documents?
You seem to be saying that if there's a basic tool that already does something (grep), there's no need for a much better version of it? Wow.
less... well, I use more, but I wouldn't mind if GDS had a preview link that lets me view the document plaintext in my browser right there. Oh wait it already does something like that, you can read your crappy Outlook emails from work quickly without opening the horrible outlook application, in your browser. That's great, try doing that with less.
As long as we're pulling our history, my first one was an Apple//c in 1984. What does that have to do with anything?
The article is talking about "desktop search", but if you had bothered to read it or understand it, you will see that these are indexed services that search quickly and on a greater variety than something like grep!
Grep is for plain text documents, it's not going to work on PDF files, office documents, and all the other weird formats that exist on a normal PC.
Indexed searching, like web searching, is a way to get to the results basically in O(1) time... constant time. Think of a hashtable.
Regular non indexed search or something like find and/or grep, is iterative, and will never achive constant time by the mere fact that it has to visit the very files you're looking for.
> "Gee, um, I wrote a thesis on roller-coasters 3 years ago, an um, I used the word dorkifier!"
I have thousands upon thousands of documents on my computer, including source code, you're going to tell me that grep is going to be better than GDS in finding all instances of notes, emails, and source discussing a particular API or classname?
It's not only about organizing files, it's about getting the information quickly, and getting it in as many formats as possible. In addition, with GDS I can access older versions (cached) of my files, so it servers as a primitive version history that you get for free?
Why you think this is for idiots or useless really says more about you than the people using it. You don't even seem to grasp the basic essence of what is being discussed here!
First of all, grep has been available on windows for a very long time. However, what does grep have to do with any of these search engines?
Will grep find an instance of a word in a pdf document buried in gigabytes of data? What about a plain text document, who will find it faster, grep or GDS?
You do know these things are indexing your docs right?
Maybe you should invent a dumb search engine that gets rid of all that wasteful indexing nonsense does the following:
NoMoreNicksLeft's search engine (v 1.0)
1) Enter text you want to search 2) Enter "top" URL to start search from 3) Crawl whole internet looking for that string for as many links as can be reached from that "top" document.
Version 2.0 would replace steps 2 and 3 with
2) Randomly select a "top" URL, and visit every registered domain on the internet.
Does that make sense to you, because that's what you're suggesting.
I wanted to give this a fair chance, since if you think about it, a cell phone and a game console don't sound like such a bad idea (this is before I realized how stupid you looked when you used it as a phone).
So I go to the local EB games/gamestop, where I don't buy the consoles but I can at least see a demo. OMG! I'm a very technical person, and I'm not allergic to complicated interfaces, but I couldn't even get the game started. This thing had some weird game selection demos and once I got into the demo startup screen I couldn't even start the game. I tried this at several stores, so I don't think it was a defect!
I forget the name of the game, it was some game that I've seen before, with a character that looked like a clown or a court jester...
Anyways, if you have a product that even the demo is hard to use, you have no chance. Compare this with the Nintendo demos they have at Best Buy, etc. It's intuitive and fun. N-Gage was cumbersome, ugly and it makes you wonder who in the world came up with it's design.
Why don't search engines stop all that silly indexing stuff, and when you search the web, have a script that starts going site by site looking for your query? That make sense to you?
Please try one of these products, compare the speed and then come back and join the discussion. I really find it troubling that there's quite a few people comparing these indexing search engines with "Windows search" and "find". That doesn't make any sense!
It's also missing a lot of other stuff, but at least things like an IR receiver can be added by USB. The only thing that sucks about that is to have "dangling" devices that should be integrated into the box in the first place.
Now, maybe if you had a bluetooth remote control...
I have years of emails, and it takes a long time to do searchers in Outlook. Ironically, GDS is way faster and much better than outlook to search for email, I no longer use Outlook search which is slow and as mentioned by another poster stops me from other work I might be doing with that application.
As it turns out, searching is a common OS like function that is justified to be outside of the individual apps. It's nice that you seem to have a good organization system for all your stuff, but I have so many files that a hierarchy is not going to help me find stuff in 1-2 seconds.
Did you even read the article you linked to? You can tweak it to fit a whole lot more, even 90 minutes with 300 megs.
> You can only use the memory stick duo pro. All other memory stick formats are unrecognized by the PSP.
"article:When you format a Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo stick in your Sony"
You have to use a memory stick DUO , which there are several flavors of (one with magicgate too). You imply that only Duo Pro works, that's not the case.
> The video aspects are underwhelming, unintuitive, unfriendly and unimpressive.
What's unfriendly, the process they described here does not use the Sony software that costs 5 bucks to transfer movies, of course it looks unfriendly, ripping videos is an unfriendly process. Wait for a review of the Sony software before you say that.
I got WinPCap listed too, but to be fair to MS, they do flag it as an "enabler" program and explain on the sidebar what that is and that this program is probably safe, unless you get hijacked.
They mention this could be abused by an attacker...
No, it means the highest brightness setting is way too bright on the PSP when compared to other handhelds, so it's not unreasonable to set it to medium when comparing it.
In their test they got 3.5 hours with full brightness.
If you lower it to medium, it should do much better, and at least for me it's not unreasonable to adjust the screen brightness in a portable system... specially one with such a high quality screen.
I read that the firmware upgrades to it go through the internet, so you can connect to other PSPs, as well as a router.
I have a cybershot too, the only thing that sucks is that my memory sticks won't work with the PSP... because the PSP uses the smaller Duo memor sticks.
So any new memory sticks I'll get in the future (if any) will be Duo for me, since you can make them work with my camera via the included adaptor.
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He put the wrong stock symbol, it's SUNW not SUN. Sun Micro (SUNW) ain't doing too hot either ...
"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,"
You were right Carly, goodbye.
... they're all positive, the bandwidth is as advertised. Now we just have to wait and see what happens when everybody is using it.
(it's available in my area so i might get it soon)
Or he just spends all day posting about this stuff?
It's cool to bash the prequels, but at the end of the day, geekdom is going to show up and watch them. You may be honest in not wanting to go, but I guarantee you that all 95%+ of these "SW prequel trilogy sucks" zombies is going to stand in line and watch them.
> shots from the N64 were CG renders that still aren't matched in the most powerful PC or console games today.
X-Box is the one that was caught making up screenshots and passing them as real time. We found out on a message board about one of these pictures, and the official X-Box site had to clarify that those were indeed pre-rendered shots (the game was Amped).
http://sellmic.com/index_old.html
Again, because the VPN in my laptop prevents me from making connections to my desktop, which is not part of the VPN network. They've setup it so that when I'm connected to the corporate VPN, there are NO connections allowed to any other network.
I wanted to do something similar with my work laptop, too bad it has VPN when connected to work, and my home desktop is not part of the VPN/corporate network and I can't get VNC to work. So, I'm ordering a KVM switch this week ...
> You're such the wizardly coder. If you're using GDS to search through your source code files, then just what are you using?
... well, I use more, but I wouldn't mind if GDS had a preview link that lets me view the document plaintext in my browser right there. Oh wait it already does something like that, you can read your crappy Outlook emails from work quickly without opening the horrible outlook application, in your browser. That's great, try doing that with less.
What do you mean what am I using? I'm using all kinds of tools to edit code, from vi to clunky heavy weight IDEs. I don't understand the question.
> Besides, wasn't my original post about "how was this some killer app" ?
I don't know if this is a killer app, but this is a great utility and it's much better than what you suggested; grep. Grep is great for quick searches in your current directory, log files, code. GDS and the like are better for everyday desktop use when you want the results now.
> And I doubt it will popup ads when I use it.
GDS doesn't popup ads.
> Tell me, how can GDS be so cool, so special?
I already told you, O(1) constant time searches, multiple document formats, cache version of files that you can use for doc history, etc. That's very special when compared to grep. For people that have a lot of files and do many things in the computer, it's a great tool. If you don't need it, good for you!
> I also use "less" and awful lot. Will Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple be competing next year over a utility that lets you scroll through long documents?
You seem to be saying that if there's a basic tool that already does something (grep), there's no need for a much better version of it? Wow.
less
... we're talking about (indexed search vs linear search) you're going to put the MS card?
.NET have to do with usage of the tools being talked about in the article?
If you have any clue, you can find an indexed search service for linux, but since I don't think you understand this concept yet let me help you out.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/glimpse/
What does VC++ or
So you've had a computer since 1994. Wow!
//c in 1984. What does that have to do with anything?
... constant time. Think of a hashtable.
As long as we're pulling our history, my first one was an Apple
The article is talking about "desktop search", but if you had bothered to read it or understand it, you will see that these are indexed services that search quickly and on a greater variety than something like grep!
Grep is for plain text documents, it's not going to work on PDF files, office documents, and all the other weird formats that exist on a normal PC.
Indexed searching, like web searching, is a way to get to the results basically in O(1) time
Regular non indexed search or something like find and/or grep, is iterative, and will never achive constant time by the mere fact that it has to visit the very files you're looking for.
> "Gee, um, I wrote a thesis on roller-coasters 3 years ago, an um, I used the word dorkifier!"
I have thousands upon thousands of documents on my computer, including source code, you're going to tell me that grep is going to be better than GDS in finding all instances of notes, emails, and source discussing a particular API or classname?
It's not only about organizing files, it's about getting the information quickly, and getting it in as many formats as possible. In addition, with GDS I can access older versions (cached) of my files, so it servers as a primitive version history that you get for free?
Why you think this is for idiots or useless really says more about you than the people using it. You don't even seem to grasp the basic essence of what is being discussed here!
I really recommend you stop embarassing yourself.
First of all, grep has been available on windows for a very long time. However, what does grep have to do with any of these search engines?
Will grep find an instance of a word in a pdf document buried in gigabytes of data? What about a plain text document, who will find it faster, grep or GDS?
You do know these things are indexing your docs right?
Maybe you should invent a dumb search engine that gets rid of all that wasteful indexing nonsense does the following:
NoMoreNicksLeft's search engine (v 1.0)
1) Enter text you want to search
2) Enter "top" URL to start search from
3) Crawl whole internet looking for that string for as many links as can be reached from that "top" document.
Version 2.0 would replace steps 2 and 3 with
2) Randomly select a "top" URL, and visit every registered domain on the internet.
Does that make sense to you, because that's what you're suggesting.
I wanted to give this a fair chance, since if you think about it, a cell phone and a game console don't sound like such a bad idea (this is before I realized how stupid you looked when you used it as a phone).
...
So I go to the local EB games/gamestop, where I don't buy the consoles but I can at least see a demo. OMG! I'm a very technical person, and I'm not allergic to complicated interfaces, but I couldn't even get the game started. This thing had some weird game selection demos and once I got into the demo startup screen I couldn't even start the game. I tried this at several stores, so I don't think it was a defect!
I forget the name of the game, it was some game that I've seen before, with a character that looked like a clown or a court jester
Anyways, if you have a product that even the demo is hard to use, you have no chance. Compare this with the Nintendo demos they have at Best Buy, etc. It's intuitive and fun. N-Gage was cumbersome, ugly and it makes you wonder who in the world came up with it's design.
It treats source code as text files it seems. I know I get results in .h, .c, .cpp, .java, files.
It's also nice because it keeps a sort of version history with it's cache. Be nice if it could also do a diff between cached versions.
Most people don't know how to use the MS indexing service the right way, plus it's number of file types is very limited.
Hello?
Windows search or find?!?!?
Why don't search engines stop all that silly indexing stuff, and when you search the web, have a script that starts going site by site looking for your query? That make sense to you?
Please try one of these products, compare the speed and then come back and join the discussion. I really find it troubling that there's quite a few people comparing these indexing search engines with "Windows search" and "find". That doesn't make any sense!
It's missing an optical audio out.
...
It's also missing a lot of other stuff, but at least things like an IR receiver can be added by USB. The only thing that sucks about that is to have "dangling" devices that should be integrated into the box in the first place.
Now, maybe if you had a bluetooth remote control
I have years of emails, and it takes a long time to do searchers in Outlook. Ironically, GDS is way faster and much better than outlook to search for email, I no longer use Outlook search which is slow and as mentioned by another poster stops me from other work I might be doing with that application.
As it turns out, searching is a common OS like function that is justified to be outside of the individual apps. It's nice that you seem to have a good organization system for all your stuff, but I have so many files that a hierarchy is not going to help me find stuff in 1-2 seconds.
Why would the "article" start talking about a book from another author on outsourcing and make the job to terrorism???
I'm no fan of offshoring jobs, but to put those 2 things together is fairly irresponsible.
> An hour f video fills up a 512 memory stick.
Did you even read the article you linked to? You can tweak it to fit a whole lot more, even 90 minutes with 300 megs.
> You can only use the memory stick duo pro. All other memory stick formats are unrecognized by the PSP.
"article:When you format a Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo stick in your Sony"
You have to use a memory stick DUO , which there are several flavors of (one with magicgate too). You imply that only Duo Pro works, that's not the case.
> The video aspects are underwhelming, unintuitive, unfriendly and unimpressive.
What's unfriendly, the process they described here does not use the Sony software that costs 5 bucks to transfer movies, of course it looks unfriendly, ripping videos is an unfriendly process. Wait for a review of the Sony software before you say that.
I got WinPCap listed too, but to be fair to MS, they do flag it as an "enabler" program and explain on the sidebar what that is and that this program is probably safe, unless you get hijacked.
...
They mention this could be abused by an attacker
Huh?
No, it means the highest brightness setting is way too bright on the PSP when compared to other handhelds, so it's not unreasonable to set it to medium when comparing it.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/574/574557p2.html
... specially one with such a high quality screen.
In their test they got 3.5 hours with full brightness.
If you lower it to medium, it should do much better, and at least for me it's not unreasonable to adjust the screen brightness in a portable system
It does play mp3s, and it does have wifi.
... because the PSP uses the smaller Duo memor sticks.
I read that the firmware upgrades to it go through the internet, so you can connect to other PSPs, as well as a router.
I have a cybershot too, the only thing that sucks is that my memory sticks won't work with the PSP
So any new memory sticks I'll get in the future (if any) will be Duo for me, since you can make them work with my camera via the included adaptor.
I keep hearing 3 to 3 hours and a half.
You have to set it to medium brightness, and yes, medium brightness is brighter than it's DS counterpart.