As long as the mods dont interfere with the PSPs ability to play retail games, then why would they take legal action?
Because if you're spending all your time playing SNES games on an emulator on your PSP, guess what? You're not buying PSP games! They don't expect to make money off of PSP console sales; they make money by selling games for it, and from manufacturing fees for other companies to make games for it.
They want you to play the latest EA shovelware, not classic games that they can sell you a compilation or a rehash of (when they're good and ready).
It's as simple as this: no Wil, no watch. None of this "well, we filmed a couple of scenes with him, but they were the first scenes on the cutting room floor" bullshiat. In fact, they better make this a "The Search for Wesley" episode!
P.S. Just kidding. I know they won't do that, and I don't plan to watch the next one anyhow (I didn't see Nemesis; I heard that I already saw it with a much better performance by Montalban). But if by some wierd chance there's actual Wil content in it, what the heck, why not?
Because of NT's hardware abstraction, most DOS stuff is out of the question, and Windows 9x stuff can be problematic too.
My favorite is how a DOS app can only get direct access to the parallel ports (in my case, for an old EPROM burner) in NT/2K/XP if the display is in full-screen mode! Whoever decided that I/O port access should be dependent on the video mode should be shot.
Uh, folks, I hate to interrupt your "OS X on x86" fanboy wankfest here, but Intel doesn't just make x86 CPUs.
They have this little thing they got from the ruins of DEC called "StrongARM", which is a pretty nice implementation of the ARM architecture. In fact, Apple has even used ARM CPUs before. So what this means is...
APPLE IS BRINGING BACK THE NEWTON!
Okay, maybe not the Newton, but it would be a great way to get some extra CPU power for that video iPod people keep rumbling about.
Besides, I recall hearing years ago when people were trying to make N64 emulators that the "Reality Engine" graphics chip in the N64 was designed in such a way that you could translate use of it into API calls for a 3D system like OpenGL or DirectX, and get higher resolution graphics too.
Of course I'd still prefer an external add-on unit with cartridge slots so that I can play real cartridges through their emulators. It's not like they have to worry about people using it to dump cartridges, since they're already all dumped.
Some laptop hard drives make noise when you shake them even when they're new. In particular, slowly flip one over and it will make a click noise at some point along the way.
Actually, it should be less dangerous. Not only won't it be toxic like CO2, it's not as dangerous to touch because it boils and loses contact with what it is cooling. This is also why it's not such a great liquid coolant for computer use.
The best part is the fog that will come out of your computer... it'll look real cool with all your blue lights shining through it, and *yawn* why am I getting so sleepy?
Wow, I thought that trick stopped working like four years or so ago. I even had one of those kind of entries, but took it out when the search stopped showing them.
Looks like these clowns aren't just limiting themselves to Google...
I mean, geez folks, it's an x.0.0 release. When has one of those ever been perfect? By anybody? I've only upgraded one of my four Macs because that one was the one I use the least, and I still had to tweak it to get what little I used it for working right, because the install overwrote a config file in/etc without even saving a backup copy.
Many times however these flaws and bugs don't crop up and cause a noticeable problem for a long time if ever.
And many of them don't cause the vehicle to go out of control or even fail to operate. Like the wonderful paint GM used in the '90s which had a bad habit of flaking off after a few years. My old Chevy Blazer had that paint, but I didn't really care because I bought it used.
Those low negative number error codes date back to 1984 with the original release of the Macintosh, but usually only a few come up. When you see them with OS X, you know you've got something with roots in the old days, like the HFS file system. And then there are the larger negative numbers (usually 4 digits) from when blocks of error codes were assigned willy-nilly to stuff like the Appletalk network stack and AFP file sharing.
And -36 doesn't help even if you know what it means, because it's just a generic "I/O error". Originally it was for media problems (like an unreadable floppy), usually accompanied by strange sounds from your disk drive, but for a network file system it's kind of silly. So even the old-timers say "yeah, that sure tells me a lot".
Other -3x range errors include file not found (-34?), end of file (-39?), and file name too long. Another good one is -50, parameter error. Well, duuuuuuh, which parameter? What's wrong with it?
The worst one to see is -127. That one means your file system data structures are in deep doodoo.
But seriously, the days of 400K floppy disks are long gone. It's total laziness that nobody bothers to print a text error message along with the number. I've been doing that in my own code since the days of 800K floppies. Even printing out the ten most common error messages as text helps most of the time.
So does this mean that now cell phones will be equipped with code keys/paddles for faster entry of SMS messages? dididit dadah dididit. (I don't know morse other than SOS, so I had to look up the M.)
BEN: Luke, I have something for you. Your father asked me to give it to you.
LUKE: Wow, a flashlight!
(SFX: whooshing sound)
(SFX: cutting sound)
LUKE: Oops, sorry about your table, Ben!
Not as bad as I feared, but as the pre-review by DNA's biographer a few weeks ago said, the bit with Humma Kavula was quite pointless. It wasn't really that funny (though Malkovich himself was great as Humma Kavula), and only served only a few weak purposes: 1) to give them an excuse for finding the POV gun, 2) to give them an excuse to stop animating Zaphod's second head, which they end up forgetting about going back for anyhow, 3) to give them an excuse to rescue Trillian, and 4) we've got JOHN FREAKING MALKOVICH, we've gotta use him somewhere! It was also an excuse for the extremely stupid Thinking Cap, which also gets silently forgotten by the end of the movie.
Sure, lots of stuff was different from any other H2G2 story, but most of the rest was at least amusing, aside from losing the joke about the highway bypass plans. And the Magrathea tour was pretty impressive.
Marvin's costume design sucked, and while Alan Rickman was a good choice for the voice, his first few lines didn't sound quite depressed enough.
Basically, if they had been willing to lose the Humma Kavula bit in favor of something actually funny, it could at least have been free from suckage, if far from greatness.
Exactly. Anybody who is on cable or satellite probably won't even notice the difference, because their cable TV will continue to transmit analog signals. Satellite users might notice the local channels going away, but since most of the hardware (MPEG-2 decoder, etc.) is already there, satellite receiver boxes maded in the past couple of years already have ATSC tuners.
Hey,.us slashdotters, how many of you are still watching over-the-air TV signals these days? The most of you who aren't, you don't have any right to bitch about this.
In particular, the "rednecks and welfare recipients" aren't going to have a problem because the rednecks in the middle of nowhere already have 2m dishes, and the welfare recipients manage to pay for cable anyhow.
What this does mean is don't buy a portable TV set unless you know it's got an ATSC tuner, which for handhelds is roughly 0% of the units for sale right now. Even manufacturers of large (25" and up) sets are still selling "HD ready" sets without an ATSC tuner.
One big problem right now is that HDTV tuner units are hard to find. The big box stores (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) get a cut from signing people up for satellite, so they push that instead, and you're lucky to find one model of tuner at $400.
As for me, I don't get cable, and I got an ATSC tuner 15 months or so ago, and am enjoying the extra PBS progamming, the crystal clear picture, and a bit of 5.1 audio every now and then. Right now the main problem is stations that have delayed full power digital transmissions, with two here that are hard to receive, and another broadcasting at a mere 800 watts, which I can barely even detect. Hopefully this summer they will start to get their full power digital transmitters running.
came on at least 3 CD's, the content of which was uncompressed during the installation process to create installations of between 3.5GB and 8GB.
Perhaps the next-next-generation consoles with multiple CPUs can start using some of their extra CPU power to run on-the-fly decompression. I wonder if the Cell subprocessors are general purpose enough to be used to run decompression independently.
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Because if you're spending all your time playing SNES games on an emulator on your PSP, guess what? You're not buying PSP games! They don't expect to make money off of PSP console sales; they make money by selling games for it, and from manufacturing fees for other companies to make games for it.
They want you to play the latest EA shovelware, not classic games that they can sell you a compilation or a rehash of (when they're good and ready).
P.S. Just kidding. I know they won't do that, and I don't plan to watch the next one anyhow (I didn't see Nemesis; I heard that I already saw it with a much better performance by Montalban). But if by some wierd chance there's actual Wil content in it, what the heck, why not?
If he had simply used vi, none of this would have been necessary.
sed!
My favorite is how a DOS app can only get direct access to the parallel ports (in my case, for an old EPROM burner) in NT/2K/XP if the display is in full-screen mode! Whoever decided that I/O port access should be dependent on the video mode should be shot.
They have this little thing they got from the ruins of DEC called "StrongARM", which is a pretty nice implementation of the ARM architecture. In fact, Apple has even used ARM CPUs before. So what this means is...
Okay, maybe not the Newton, but it would be a great way to get some extra CPU power for that video iPod people keep rumbling about.
/viva la revolution!
Don't forget to bring the Americans with Disabilities Act into the fray. How is a quadriplegic supposed to use this?
Of course I'd still prefer an external add-on unit with cartridge slots so that I can play real cartridges through their emulators. It's not like they have to worry about people using it to dump cartridges, since they're already all dumped.
That was made with the other process. Not CVD. CVD diamonds are more perfect than the "real" thing.
The Mars Rover software is still referred to as "flight software", even though both rovers have been ground-pounders for over a year now.
Some laptop hard drives make noise when you shake them even when they're new. In particular, slowly flip one over and it will make a click noise at some point along the way.
Actually, it should be less dangerous. Not only won't it be toxic like CO2, it's not as dangerous to touch because it boils and loses contact with what it is cooling. This is also why it's not such a great liquid coolant for computer use.
The best part is the fog that will come out of your computer... it'll look real cool with all your blue lights shining through it, and *yawn* why am I getting so sleepy?
Looks like these clowns aren't just limiting themselves to Google...
The Atari 2600 game with the walkers was pretty good too.
I mean, geez folks, it's an x.0.0 release. When has one of those ever been perfect? By anybody? I've only upgraded one of my four Macs because that one was the one I use the least, and I still had to tweak it to get what little I used it for working right, because the install overwrote a config file in /etc without even saving a backup copy.
And many of them don't cause the vehicle to go out of control or even fail to operate. Like the wonderful paint GM used in the '90s which had a bad habit of flaking off after a few years. My old Chevy Blazer had that paint, but I didn't really care because I bought it used.
And -36 doesn't help even if you know what it means, because it's just a generic "I/O error". Originally it was for media problems (like an unreadable floppy), usually accompanied by strange sounds from your disk drive, but for a network file system it's kind of silly. So even the old-timers say "yeah, that sure tells me a lot".
Other -3x range errors include file not found (-34?), end of file (-39?), and file name too long. Another good one is -50, parameter error. Well, duuuuuuh, which parameter? What's wrong with it?
The worst one to see is -127. That one means your file system data structures are in deep doodoo.
But seriously, the days of 400K floppy disks are long gone. It's total laziness that nobody bothers to print a text error message along with the number. I've been doing that in my own code since the days of 800K floppies. Even printing out the ten most common error messages as text helps most of the time.
So does this mean that now cell phones will be equipped with code keys/paddles for faster entry of SMS messages? dididit dadah dididit. (I don't know morse other than SOS, so I had to look up the M.)
BEN: Luke, I have something for you. Your father asked me to give it to you.
LUKE: Wow, a flashlight!
(SFX: whooshing sound)
(SFX: cutting sound)
LUKE: Oops, sorry about your table, Ben!
Sure, lots of stuff was different from any other H2G2 story, but most of the rest was at least amusing, aside from losing the joke about the highway bypass plans. And the Magrathea tour was pretty impressive.
Marvin's costume design sucked, and while Alan Rickman was a good choice for the voice, his first few lines didn't sound quite depressed enough.
Basically, if they had been willing to lose the Humma Kavula bit in favor of something actually funny, it could at least have been free from suckage, if far from greatness.
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Hey, .us slashdotters, how many of you are still watching over-the-air TV signals these days? The most of you who aren't, you don't have any right to bitch about this.
In particular, the "rednecks and welfare recipients" aren't going to have a problem because the rednecks in the middle of nowhere already have 2m dishes, and the welfare recipients manage to pay for cable anyhow.
What this does mean is don't buy a portable TV set unless you know it's got an ATSC tuner, which for handhelds is roughly 0% of the units for sale right now. Even manufacturers of large (25" and up) sets are still selling "HD ready" sets without an ATSC tuner.
One big problem right now is that HDTV tuner units are hard to find. The big box stores (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) get a cut from signing people up for satellite, so they push that instead, and you're lucky to find one model of tuner at $400.
As for me, I don't get cable, and I got an ATSC tuner 15 months or so ago, and am enjoying the extra PBS progamming, the crystal clear picture, and a bit of 5.1 audio every now and then. Right now the main problem is stations that have delayed full power digital transmissions, with two here that are hard to receive, and another broadcasting at a mere 800 watts, which I can barely even detect. Hopefully this summer they will start to get their full power digital transmitters running.
Perhaps the next-next-generation consoles with multiple CPUs can start using some of their extra CPU power to run on-the-fly decompression. I wonder if the Cell subprocessors are general purpose enough to be used to run decompression independently.