Lets see... 80% of the quality and no one will notice? Umm... well I think I'd notice.
I mean, I've been suffering for years from my overseas friends lambasting me about the superiority of PAL vs. NTSC (Never Twice Same Color or whatever you want to call it). So now our "Americanized" HDTV signals are going to be crippled too?
Crud. Why don't they work on making a cheap way to convert true HDTV signals into something an old analog TV can understand instead of trying to keep the old technology working. Sheesh.
I can see it now, in the year 2056 we'll be buying our new super 3d VR televisions, but they'll have to make it so they conform to the old standard, which conforms to the older standard, ad infinitum, so that bubba can watch rastlin' on his 5" B&W TV.
No one is going to see this as a serious app for the PS2, its like all the dreamcast hacking going on, its more for the, "Hey, cool, lets see if we can do this!" type people.
99.9% of PS2 owners aren't gonna care about the fact that some geek got linux to run on his, but then here's the.1% of the population reading slashdot going, Hey neat! Wanna telnet into my PS2?:)
Well, first of all its not just about whose bot can beat up the other guys. While that's slightly entertaining, the British version has obstacle courses and races that the bots have to get through in order to get to the deathmatch mode. Means you have to design your bot to not only be battle capable, but also have the ability to maneuver well.
Plus Robot Wars, (what its called) the few episodes I have seen were hosted by Craig Charles ("Lister" of "Red Dwarf") who is a lot funnier than those idiots on Comedy Central. IMO.
Yes, its obvious to most slashdot readers that there are numerous ways to get around this... but this isn't really targeting the tech-heads, they are going after the casual user with this, and it might just work for that.
So if they use this method to sell a few million more CDs to people who have no idea how to get around this... well, they'd say it was a success.
This would be a good thing, if, of course, the music industry decided to lower the cost of individual CDs to compensate for the lower instance of copying... but we all know the chances of that happening...
Of course, I realize you said without a base station, what I meant to ask was, what is the problem with having a base station, I know having a self contained system would be neat... but it seems inefficient...
Well, I'm thinking, everyone that I see so far has wanted to put a small computer on your bike.
But I think it would be more efficient, since like you say, to have just a small wireless camera and leave the PC equipment and the web page uploading and whatnot on your support vehicle.
A quick web search on wireless cameras turned up this:
http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk45a.htm
I don't know if this works (its 2.4ghz, I don't know what your problem is with bluelan), but I'm sure that there are similar products out there.
Is it really a good idea to underclock a system? I would think that you would want to keep your bus running at the recommended speed for the rest of your hardware... maybe I'm wrong...
It seems to me that every generation of games there is a new king on the block. Maybe perhaps with the exception of Nintendo from the 8 bit era to the 16 bit era of console gaming.
I say maybe because I don't know who won the sales war back in the 16 bit gaming days.
What I do find amusing is that in almost every generation, the machine that comes out on top isn't necesarily the most powerful bang for the buck.
Coleco was definitely more powerful than the Atari 2600, and comperably priced, but Atari won.
The Sega Master System was technologically better than the Nintendo, but it lost early.
Of the Genesis, SNES, TG16, Jaguar... all systems that around 1991-1993 or so were fairly comperable in price (heck got so bad they were giving the Jaguars away), the Jaguar was arguably the most technically superior per-se, but it had no games, so no one bought it. The SNES had a slower processor but a higher color count, plus it had mario, so it probably won.
Then we have the Playstation, Saturn, N64 era... where N64 and Saturn fall hard to the might of the Sony Playstation. Even though the saturn and N64 had better hardware. True the N64 crippled itself by being a cartrige based system... but...
So we're walking into the era of PS2, Dreamcast, X-box, GameCube (whatever they're calling that these days). Of course, we all know that Dreamcast has already lost. The interesting thing will be watching Microsoft duke it out with Sony, I think. Certainly, both companies have a lot of money with which to fight a war. And when two gaming companies get into a war, the real winners will be the consumers, I think.
Though I own one of the first original playstations to hit US shores, I didn't buy a PS2 because I'm dismayed at how Sony is treating the 3rd party developers this time around. Now that they are no longer the upstart, they think they can make people play by their rules. Ah well. I can't wait to watch the war...;)
I for one wonder how a casual gamer would justify spending the $600 on what looks to be a kickass video card when just around the corner there is a kickass video game machine on the horizon with much the same technology.
And as is referenced by this story, the fact that the CPU and the GPU (I guess) share memory makes the X-box outpace the crap out of PC technology.
And I'm also wondering how long its gonna be before someone hacks this thing so that it can run like a regular PC, since it is kinda a cousin anyway. Sure it would suck for apps but man, what nifty graphics power...
Right, so because you want to kill yourself with a cigarette in a public place means I have to imprison myself in my home. Good thinking.
Listen, I didn't choose to have asthma. As a matter of fact, there are many out there just like me who do frequently avoid public places that I know people will be smoking at just because I could be seriously harmed by your "right" to enjoy a cigarette in public.
One of these places that I have to avoid is my son's little league games. Thats right. So many parents of kids sit there and light up that in order to see my kid play I have to stay in the freaking car at the far end of the field. Pardon me if I attack smokers, in reality, I'm only retaliating. You smokers have taken away my freedoms. If you want to make an all smoking restaurant I say GO FOR IT. If you want all smoking bars, more power too you. But in our society where everywhere has a smoking section I feel like a prisoner.
So pardon me if I view you as a moron. Your "habit" has no benefit to you or the rest of mankind and is in reality a money sucking vice. You can try to justify your "freedom" any way you wish, but it is still non-sensical. If you really want that nicotine hit, why not just take it through a needle. At least then you'd be keeping it out of my lungs.
So easy for you to say, go home. Remove myself from society, eh? Again, pardon me for my "elequent use of Ad Hominem" but you are an asshole sir.
As a long time non-smoker, I can honestly say there is nothing that bothers me more than having some moron smoker not understand that SMOKE TRAVELS.
I don't care if a restaurant has a smoking or a non-smoking section. The truth is, you light up and I can not only smell it, but since I have bad asthma I can NO LONGER BREATHE without the aid of an inhaler. You can be off safe in your "non smoking section" but you're still in the same airspace I am.
And to be quite frank, maybe you don't fit in this category but most smokers I see are NASTY FILTHY individuals. They stink. They are litterbugs. Sometime look along the side of a road or store and see all the nasty cigarette butts people carelessly discard for the world to see.
So while YOU personally might like smoking, there are those of us who like clean air, and you should have the courtesy to respect their needs as well.
If you've ever thrown a cigarette butt on the ground, then you sir, are a moron.
Scene: A small living room in suburban Columbus Ohio. A relatively young couple are enjoying dinner on the floor, and watching a DVD version of "The Matrix".
John: This is my favorite part. I love how the phone glues to his head.
Marsha: Eww...
(There is a knock at the door)
John: Now who could that be. (opens the door) Can I help you?
MPAA Cop (He is a tall man with a russian accent): Your papers. Show us your papers.
John: Uh.. what papers.
MPAA Cop: I grow impatient. You are using a DVD and therefore are using our decryption process. Your papers now. I want to see your license agreement.
John: Well, it's rented.
(The cop motions to a man behind him, the man pulls out a gun and holds it to John's head)
John: HEY! WHAT THE (the cop hits him across the face)
MPAA Cop: I tire of your insolence. If you do not show me your papers then I am authorized to shoot you.
(Marsha suddenly emerges beside the door, holding an AK-47, she kicks the gun out of the second man's hand and shoots them both.)
Marsha: I never wanted to shoot them... I never wanted to be a criminal by watching a movie... I just wanted to be... to be... a LUMBERJACK!
I never stated that other economies aren't concerned with the price of fuel, I was merely stating that it was assinine to state that Americans shouldn't complain about their fuel costs rising, even though ours is cheaper than yours.
Its stupid to say that I shouldn't be upset when asked to pay more money for something. Just because you already pay more doesn't mean that I should have to. Or would you have us price fix the entire globe, hmm?
I find it better to set the mouse sensitivity down a bit.
Sure I gotta move the mouse farther and faster, and after about a couple of hours your arm starts to get tired, but nothing beats being able to quickly accurately pinpoint your targetm and put that Rail straight through their brain.
I promised myself I wouldn't make any posts today to lose anymore Karma, but I've never been any good at keeping promises anyway, so...
I think it is rather narrow minded of so called "enlightened" people from other countries laughing at Americans for being concerned over our Gas prices. The fact is, our entire economy is linked to energy prices at one point or another. If the price of fuel raises by 50%, then so too must the price of bread raise, after all, part of the cost is the distribution.
It's linked into everything. It's not about spending $2 more to go to grannies on the weekends, its about keeping the prices of goods and services consistant with our current pay scale. If the price of everything goes up.. well thats inflation, and that's bad.
Also, it's unfair to compare prices on purely a monitary basis. You should also take into consideration the overal economy of an area. If it costs me $600 a month to rent a small 2 bedroom apartment, and elsewhere it costs $300 to rent the same apartment, elsewhere a person making less than I would still have more buying power.
Laugh all you want... our economy is still stronger than yours.
So have a lot of sites. I can't see the one referenced (the filter nazis) but other than that there is Zophar's Domain that has been a good resource for a long time.
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Lets see... 80% of the quality and no one will notice? Umm... well I think I'd notice.
I mean, I've been suffering for years from my overseas friends lambasting me about the superiority of PAL vs. NTSC (Never Twice Same Color or whatever you want to call it). So now our "Americanized" HDTV signals are going to be crippled too?
Crud. Why don't they work on making a cheap way to convert true HDTV signals into something an old analog TV can understand instead of trying to keep the old technology working. Sheesh.
I can see it now, in the year 2056 we'll be buying our new super 3d VR televisions, but they'll have to make it so they conform to the old standard, which conforms to the older standard, ad infinitum, so that bubba can watch rastlin' on his 5" B&W TV.
I hear there's a place in New Mexico that has a horde of Atari games.
Of course... you'd have to bring a shovel....
Dude, Lighten up.
.1% of the population reading slashdot going, Hey neat! Wanna telnet into my PS2? :)
No one is going to see this as a serious app for the PS2, its like all the dreamcast hacking going on, its more for the, "Hey, cool, lets see if we can do this!" type people.
99.9% of PS2 owners aren't gonna care about the fact that some geek got linux to run on his, but then here's the
Yeah, they show it on some PBS, like a lot of other British shows. :) Thats how I've seen it anyway.
Well, first of all its not just about whose bot can beat up the other guys. While that's slightly entertaining, the British version has obstacle courses and races that the bots have to get through in order to get to the deathmatch mode. Means you have to design your bot to not only be battle capable, but also have the ability to maneuver well.
Plus Robot Wars, (what its called) the few episodes I have seen were hosted by Craig Charles ("Lister" of "Red Dwarf") who is a lot funnier than those idiots on Comedy Central. IMO.
You're funny. Perhaps you should do troll standup?
Yes, its obvious to most slashdot readers that there are numerous ways to get around this... but this isn't really targeting the tech-heads, they are going after the casual user with this, and it might just work for that.
So if they use this method to sell a few million more CDs to people who have no idea how to get around this... well, they'd say it was a success.
This would be a good thing, if, of course, the music industry decided to lower the cost of individual CDs to compensate for the lower instance of copying... but we all know the chances of that happening...
I would pay big bucks to see this thing attack the hosts of Comedy Central's Battlebots.
I think the british version is much better...
Of course, I realize you said without a base station, what I meant to ask was, what is the problem with having a base station, I know having a self contained system would be neat... but it seems inefficient...
Well, I'm thinking, everyone that I see so far has wanted to put a small computer on your bike.
But I think it would be more efficient, since like you say, to have just a small wireless camera and leave the PC equipment and the web page uploading and whatnot on your support vehicle.
A quick web search on wireless cameras turned up this:
http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk45a.htm
I don't know if this works (its 2.4ghz, I don't know what your problem is with bluelan), but I'm sure that there are similar products out there.
Just a thought.
Is it really a good idea to underclock a system? I would think that you would want to keep your bus running at the recommended speed for the rest of your hardware... maybe I'm wrong...
... until they figure out a way to download and print a Pizza.
... hmmm
"Hello, Domino's? Can you e-mail me a large pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese?"
But then, that might bring a whole new meaning to "Spam Mail"
It seems to me that every generation of games there is a new king on the block. Maybe perhaps with the exception of Nintendo from the 8 bit era to the 16 bit era of console gaming.
;)
I say maybe because I don't know who won the sales war back in the 16 bit gaming days.
What I do find amusing is that in almost every generation, the machine that comes out on top isn't necesarily the most powerful bang for the buck.
Coleco was definitely more powerful than the Atari 2600, and comperably priced, but Atari won.
The Sega Master System was technologically better than the Nintendo, but it lost early.
Of the Genesis, SNES, TG16, Jaguar... all systems that around 1991-1993 or so were fairly comperable in price (heck got so bad they were giving the Jaguars away), the Jaguar was arguably the most technically superior per-se, but it had no games, so no one bought it. The SNES had a slower processor but a higher color count, plus it had mario, so it probably won.
Then we have the Playstation, Saturn, N64 era... where N64 and Saturn fall hard to the might of the Sony Playstation. Even though the saturn and N64 had better hardware. True the N64 crippled itself by being a cartrige based system... but...
So we're walking into the era of PS2, Dreamcast, X-box, GameCube (whatever they're calling that these days). Of course, we all know that Dreamcast has already lost. The interesting thing will be watching Microsoft duke it out with Sony, I think. Certainly, both companies have a lot of money with which to fight a war. And when two gaming companies get into a war, the real winners will be the consumers, I think.
Though I own one of the first original playstations to hit US shores, I didn't buy a PS2 because I'm dismayed at how Sony is treating the 3rd party developers this time around. Now that they are no longer the upstart, they think they can make people play by their rules. Ah well. I can't wait to watch the war...
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I for one wonder how a casual gamer would justify spending the $600 on what looks to be a kickass video card when just around the corner there is a kickass video game machine on the horizon with much the same technology.
And as is referenced by this story, the fact that the CPU and the GPU (I guess) share memory makes the X-box outpace the crap out of PC technology.
And I'm also wondering how long its gonna be before someone hacks this thing so that it can run like a regular PC, since it is kinda a cousin anyway. Sure it would suck for apps but man, what nifty graphics power...
Right, so because you want to kill yourself with a cigarette in a public place means I have to imprison myself in my home. Good thinking.
Listen, I didn't choose to have asthma. As a matter of fact, there are many out there just like me who do frequently avoid public places that I know people will be smoking at just because I could be seriously harmed by your "right" to enjoy a cigarette in public.
One of these places that I have to avoid is my son's little league games. Thats right. So many parents of kids sit there and light up that in order to see my kid play I have to stay in the freaking car at the far end of the field. Pardon me if I attack smokers, in reality, I'm only retaliating. You smokers have taken away my freedoms. If you want to make an all smoking restaurant I say GO FOR IT. If you want all smoking bars, more power too you. But in our society where everywhere has a smoking section I feel like a prisoner.
So pardon me if I view you as a moron. Your "habit" has no benefit to you or the rest of mankind and is in reality a money sucking vice. You can try to justify your "freedom" any way you wish, but it is still non-sensical. If you really want that nicotine hit, why not just take it through a needle. At least then you'd be keeping it out of my lungs.
So easy for you to say, go home. Remove myself from society, eh? Again, pardon me for my "elequent use of Ad Hominem" but you are an asshole sir.
I take offense to your post.
As a long time non-smoker, I can honestly say there is nothing that bothers me more than having some moron smoker not understand that SMOKE TRAVELS.
I don't care if a restaurant has a smoking or a non-smoking section. The truth is, you light up and I can not only smell it, but since I have bad asthma I can NO LONGER BREATHE without the aid of an inhaler. You can be off safe in your "non smoking section" but you're still in the same airspace I am.
And to be quite frank, maybe you don't fit in this category but most smokers I see are NASTY FILTHY individuals. They stink. They are litterbugs. Sometime look along the side of a road or store and see all the nasty cigarette butts people carelessly discard for the world to see.
So while YOU personally might like smoking, there are those of us who like clean air, and you should have the courtesy to respect their needs as well.
If you've ever thrown a cigarette butt on the ground, then you sir, are a moron.
This explains a lot, for sure.
I'm boycotting altavista over this one, not that I used it much anyway...
But it really felt like the whole Amazon.Com one click shopping thing to me all over again.
The only ones that win, are the laywers. Bah.
Scene: A small living room in suburban Columbus Ohio. A relatively young couple are enjoying dinner on the floor, and watching a DVD version of "The Matrix".
John: This is my favorite part. I love how the phone glues to his head.
Marsha: Eww...
(There is a knock at the door)
John: Now who could that be. (opens the door) Can I help you?
MPAA Cop (He is a tall man with a russian accent): Your papers. Show us your papers.
John: Uh.. what papers.
MPAA Cop: I grow impatient. You are using a DVD and therefore are using our decryption process. Your papers now. I want to see your license agreement.
John: Well, it's rented.
(The cop motions to a man behind him, the man pulls out a gun and holds it to John's head)
John: HEY! WHAT THE (the cop hits him across the face)
MPAA Cop: I tire of your insolence. If you do not show me your papers then I am authorized to shoot you.
(Marsha suddenly emerges beside the door, holding an AK-47, she kicks the gun out of the second man's hand and shoots them both.)
Marsha: I never wanted to shoot them... I never wanted to be a criminal by watching a movie... I just wanted to be... to be... a LUMBERJACK!
*insert stupid song here*
I never stated that other economies aren't concerned with the price of fuel, I was merely stating that it was assinine to state that Americans shouldn't complain about their fuel costs rising, even though ours is cheaper than yours.
Its stupid to say that I shouldn't be upset when asked to pay more money for something. Just because you already pay more doesn't mean that I should have to. Or would you have us price fix the entire globe, hmm?
I find it better to set the mouse sensitivity down a bit.
Sure I gotta move the mouse farther and faster, and after about a couple of hours your arm starts to get tired, but nothing beats being able to quickly accurately pinpoint your targetm and put that Rail straight through their brain.
Just my 2pyreal.
I promised myself I wouldn't make any posts today to lose anymore Karma, but I've never been any good at keeping promises anyway, so...
I think it is rather narrow minded of so called "enlightened" people from other countries laughing at Americans for being concerned over our Gas prices. The fact is, our entire economy is linked to energy prices at one point or another. If the price of fuel raises by 50%, then so too must the price of bread raise, after all, part of the cost is the distribution.
It's linked into everything. It's not about spending $2 more to go to grannies on the weekends, its about keeping the prices of goods and services consistant with our current pay scale. If the price of everything goes up.. well thats inflation, and that's bad.
Also, it's unfair to compare prices on purely a monitary basis. You should also take into consideration the overal economy of an area. If it costs me $600 a month to rent a small 2 bedroom apartment, and elsewhere it costs $300 to rent the same apartment, elsewhere a person making less than I would still have more buying power.
Laugh all you want... our economy is still stronger than yours.
So where can I download a gameboy emulator for this calculator so my productivity can really be shot.
:)
So have a lot of sites. I can't see the one referenced (the filter nazis) but other than that there is Zophar's Domain that has been a good resource for a long time.
Rom sites don't stay up long though usually...