For me, PSP games just aren't worth the effort to download. The games that I actually play are few enough, and usually discounted, so I have the originals. And it's not just battery life that makes CFW+rips better than UMD, it's also the "jukebox mode", where all the games are just there on the stick, and I can change games without having to carry a bag full of other crap.
But I haven't been playing either the PSP or the DS in months, simply because I've currently been playing an MMO.
Also, UMD movies are stupid. I actually have one, but I got it for a dollar on clearance from a used book store. I'd say the plastic case is worth the dollar. And it's still shrink wrapped.
The sad thing is that Microsoft is doing what Apple (fortunately) failed to do in the '90s. Apple was trying to re-write the old MacOS with the Copland project. That wasn't their only project to write a new OS, just the one that tried to be the "NT of MacOS". If it had succeeded, Apple would have had yet another unique operating system written from scratch (just like Be) and wouldn't have had the advantage of leveraging the Unix base that they got from NeXT.
Now Microsoft is trying to re-NT their NT operating system. In the end they'll have something not entirely unlike what they had before, but different enough to force everybody to upgrade yet again. Until the users revolt, that is. All the people who still insist upon getting XP are just a start.
The white first gen macbooks certainly had issues. I believe they were the first to attempt a matte finish white plastic case for a laptop computer, which was bound to cause issues with discoloration. There was one bad run of white topcase plastic that stained from skin oil and makeup, though the rest were ok.
Whereas the aluminum models, ever since they replaced the titaniums, (I don't know about the new unibody) had a finish that would be etched by skin oils of some people. Like me. It made some nice pits where my palms rest. That's why I got a Marware pad for my newest one. And the tops of the keyboard keys would erode over time from my fingernails with normal typing.
I'm tired of people saying their apple runs just as good four years later. Its almost technically impossible. Hardware degrades. It has nothing to do with the OS and no, the component quality in a macbook is *not* that much better than what you'd find in a high-end laptop. I guarantee you its NOT running as well as the first day you bought it, you just can't admit it to yourself. No CPU, RAM, harddrive, etc etc etc is going to run as well as it did after four years of usage unless its never getting used in which case the same principles can be applied to any other computer.
...says someone who's never used one. It's not the hardware that degrades, it's MS Windows that degrades, what with all that spyware and virus and bot crap. And those cheaply built Dulls.
Five year old Macs are still quite usable, because Apple isn't cramming more crap into the OS every other year to force people to upgrade. You just don't get to run Parallels Desktop on PowerPC. OS X so far has been consistently able to run the latest version on a five year old machine. But Vista was barely able to run on many computers that it was shipped on when it was new.
It's still a computer. An iPod nano or Shuffle with its firmware replaced could theoretically become a guidance system. All you need is USB-based missile control hardware.
Except that the kind of people who fall for these are too stupid to know the difference, but a scheme named after a person, especially if it's been in the news lately, is more likely to stimulate a brain cell than one named after a pile of rocks. So you want to use the words "Ponzi scheme" with them.
Which, funny enough, is just fine with them. Gamestop makes their money selling used games that they bought for 1/3 or less of what they're selling them for. They make a lot less margin on new games.
I too would love to see a "MacBook Mini". The Air has a particular niche market that it's well suited for, but it's a market that's been around for a few years, and netbooks are relatively new. And it's a new market that Apple definitely needs to get into.
Being familiar with how Steve Jobs thinks, I guess they're waiting until they can introduce something that will somehow revolutionize that market, and take it over completely, like the iPod did to the MP3 player market.
The problem is, most people don't "set up" a new Windows machine. They use the pre-installed OS as-is out of the box. They don't re-install either; they either live with the spyware slow-downs or take it to Geek Squad every few months to have the crap cleaned out.
Compare what you're doing with the Mac OS X experience. New computer, OS pre-installed, boots to registration/setup screen, lets you hook up the previous computer in Firewire Target mode to copy all the settings and user files. (Unfortunately it doesn't copy unix-y customizations like/etc/profile or/usr/local, which most users won't even know about.) The "few hours" it takes is the time to copy files from the old machine, with only a few checkboxes (all checked by default) to tell it what to copy.
Non-geeks won't stand for having to spend hours to set up a computer. They also won't stand for crap like focus-follows-mouse and 3-button copy/paste that X-windows if famous for, and only the most hardcore of geeks love.
It doesn't matter if the software is proprietary and secret if the problem is with the hardware. This sounds like a cheap touch screen that goes out of calibration easily with the kind of use that it gets when used for a voting application.
I've found that drinking caffeine-laden drinks actually has the reverse effect on me than most people, in that I become groggy if not sleepy after drinking it.
I quit a few years ago, but I was that way too. I guess caffeine would mellow me out, and make it easier to sleep. But I still get drwosy fast at night and can fall asleep the moment I hit the mattress and stay asleep the whole 8 hours, so maybe it wasn't just the caffiene.
In my experience, tea apparently has a slightly different form of caffiene than you get from sodas. I'd visit my mom and she'd make some nice strong tea for iced tea. Two or three days later, even when I'd cut back by a can of soda to compensate, I'd wake up with a nasty headache, and I eventually just had to stop drinking it.
I finally quit sodas by simply reducing my dosage slowly. Since I was drinking nothing but Diet Coke (the sweetener in Coke Classic was inconsistent and sometimes awful; I really missed the original pre-New Coke stuff), I could cut by a can every few days (not too long since I wasn't drinking more than 3/day). The last can was a bit more trouble since it's a bit hard to drink half a can a day when you're too cheap to throw it out, but I learned to nurse the can for a long time to avoid getting a caffiene spike.
When it comes to quitting by slowly reducing dosage, caffeine is very cooperative.
Just search for that on Youtube. You flip a crate on its side, get two guys inside it, and jump real fast. And it starts flying around. And it's so stupid it looks awesome.
I once fell through the floor in a room in OOT. The crazy part was that they had helpfully provided a ladder so that I could get back up to the room.
But the worst glitching on N64 that I remember was in Hexen. Your map would get a bunch of little points where the mapping peeked through all the seams between walls, so you would have a dotted-line outline of rooms you hadn't reached yet.
Slashdot Mirror
We still don't have the voice technology down yet. Participation by the governator's larynx is presumably still required.
But someday we will all have our own computer-generated Majel Barrett voice!
No, but a great deal of American's do have difficulty speaking coherent English of any type.
Or even writing it.
...in which case your "UMD cache" is now the .iso file on your 4GB or larger Memory Stick. You can't reduce your disc access below zero.
#3 - UTTER CRAP (lookin' at you, Lumines, you cheapass soulless Columns-alike).
Hey, Lumines isn't total crap. It unlocked thousands of PSPs before people discovered the battery hack.
For me, PSP games just aren't worth the effort to download. The games that I actually play are few enough, and usually discounted, so I have the originals. And it's not just battery life that makes CFW+rips better than UMD, it's also the "jukebox mode", where all the games are just there on the stick, and I can change games without having to carry a bag full of other crap.
But I haven't been playing either the PSP or the DS in months, simply because I've currently been playing an MMO.
Also, UMD movies are stupid. I actually have one, but I got it for a dollar on clearance from a used book store. I'd say the plastic case is worth the dollar. And it's still shrink wrapped.
The sad thing is that Microsoft is doing what Apple (fortunately) failed to do in the '90s. Apple was trying to re-write the old MacOS with the Copland project. That wasn't their only project to write a new OS, just the one that tried to be the "NT of MacOS". If it had succeeded, Apple would have had yet another unique operating system written from scratch (just like Be) and wouldn't have had the advantage of leveraging the Unix base that they got from NeXT.
Now Microsoft is trying to re-NT their NT operating system. In the end they'll have something not entirely unlike what they had before, but different enough to force everybody to upgrade yet again. Until the users revolt, that is. All the people who still insist upon getting XP are just a start.
The white first gen macbooks certainly had issues. I believe they were the first to attempt a matte finish white plastic case for a laptop computer, which was bound to cause issues with discoloration. There was one bad run of white topcase plastic that stained from skin oil and makeup, though the rest were ok.
Whereas the aluminum models, ever since they replaced the titaniums, (I don't know about the new unibody) had a finish that would be etched by skin oils of some people. Like me. It made some nice pits where my palms rest. That's why I got a Marware pad for my newest one. And the tops of the keyboard keys would erode over time from my fingernails with normal typing.
I'm tired of people saying their apple runs just as good four years later. Its almost technically impossible. Hardware degrades. It has nothing to do with the OS and no, the component quality in a macbook is *not* that much better than what you'd find in a high-end laptop. I guarantee you its NOT running as well as the first day you bought it, you just can't admit it to yourself. No CPU, RAM, harddrive, etc etc etc is going to run as well as it did after four years of usage unless its never getting used in which case the same principles can be applied to any other computer.
...says someone who's never used one. It's not the hardware that degrades, it's MS Windows that degrades, what with all that spyware and virus and bot crap. And those cheaply built Dulls.
Five year old Macs are still quite usable, because Apple isn't cramming more crap into the OS every other year to force people to upgrade. You just don't get to run Parallels Desktop on PowerPC. OS X so far has been consistently able to run the latest version on a five year old machine. But Vista was barely able to run on many computers that it was shipped on when it was new.
Did you at least have a stapler?
It's still a computer. An iPod nano or Shuffle with its firmware replaced could theoretically become a guidance system. All you need is USB-based missile control hardware.
Except that the kind of people who fall for these are too stupid to know the difference, but a scheme named after a person, especially if it's been in the news lately, is more likely to stimulate a brain cell than one named after a pile of rocks. So you want to use the words "Ponzi scheme" with them.
At least Twitter is so obvious that you know when they are around. Does anybody else use M$ any more apart from Twitter's sock puppets?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020722h.gif
CD jewel case games are even easier. You just pop the hinges and flip the lid upwards.
Which, funny enough, is just fine with them. Gamestop makes their money selling used games that they bought for 1/3 or less of what they're selling them for. They make a lot less margin on new games.
As OS X user, I don't have stock command to bad sector check foreign filesystems (in fact, even its own) so I don't know the Linux commands.
Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility.app
I too would love to see a "MacBook Mini". The Air has a particular niche market that it's well suited for, but it's a market that's been around for a few years, and netbooks are relatively new. And it's a new market that Apple definitely needs to get into.
Being familiar with how Steve Jobs thinks, I guess they're waiting until they can introduce something that will somehow revolutionize that market, and take it over completely, like the iPod did to the MP3 player market.
The problem is, most people don't "set up" a new Windows machine. They use the pre-installed OS as-is out of the box. They don't re-install either; they either live with the spyware slow-downs or take it to Geek Squad every few months to have the crap cleaned out.
Compare what you're doing with the Mac OS X experience. New computer, OS pre-installed, boots to registration/setup screen, lets you hook up the previous computer in Firewire Target mode to copy all the settings and user files. (Unfortunately it doesn't copy unix-y customizations like /etc/profile or /usr/local, which most users won't even know about.) The "few hours" it takes is the time to copy files from the old machine, with only a few checkboxes (all checked by default) to tell it what to copy.
Non-geeks won't stand for having to spend hours to set up a computer. They also won't stand for crap like focus-follows-mouse and 3-button copy/paste that X-windows if famous for, and only the most hardcore of geeks love.
It doesn't matter if the software is proprietary and secret if the problem is with the hardware. This sounds like a cheap touch screen that goes out of calibration easily with the kind of use that it gets when used for a voting application.
And I don't like ice in my tea. (You can dissolve much more sugar in warm tea.) And the servings tend to be a bit larger than a 12oz soda.
I've found that drinking caffeine-laden drinks actually has the reverse effect on me than most people, in that I become groggy if not sleepy after drinking it.
I quit a few years ago, but I was that way too. I guess caffeine would mellow me out, and make it easier to sleep. But I still get drwosy fast at night and can fall asleep the moment I hit the mattress and stay asleep the whole 8 hours, so maybe it wasn't just the caffiene.
In my experience, tea apparently has a slightly different form of caffiene than you get from sodas. I'd visit my mom and she'd make some nice strong tea for iced tea. Two or three days later, even when I'd cut back by a can of soda to compensate, I'd wake up with a nasty headache, and I eventually just had to stop drinking it.
I finally quit sodas by simply reducing my dosage slowly. Since I was drinking nothing but Diet Coke (the sweetener in Coke Classic was inconsistent and sometimes awful; I really missed the original pre-New Coke stuff), I could cut by a can every few days (not too long since I wasn't drinking more than 3/day). The last can was a bit more trouble since it's a bit hard to drink half a can a day when you're too cheap to throw it out, but I learned to nurse the can for a long time to avoid getting a caffiene spike.
When it comes to quitting by slowly reducing dosage, caffeine is very cooperative.
Just search for that on Youtube. You flip a crate on its side, get two guys inside it, and jump real fast. And it starts flying around. And it's so stupid it looks awesome.
I once fell through the floor in a room in OOT. The crazy part was that they had helpfully provided a ladder so that I could get back up to the room.
But the worst glitching on N64 that I remember was in Hexen. Your map would get a bunch of little points where the mapping peeked through all the seams between walls, so you would have a dotted-line outline of rooms you hadn't reached yet.
Flash Crowd - which a web site being slashdotted is a form of.
Wait, what's the dog going to do with an iPod?
Use it as a chew toy, what did you expect?