I agree, I spend money on strategy and wargames with many complex rules and am given a box with a CD and told to Print the PDFs. I want my manuals back.
Thanks for the *official* info. I hope it doesnt get lost in this unformatted thread. Slashdot seems to get off on running a website whose only real strentgh is message board posting, yet with all these programmers they are missing most of the basic features of something simple as an ezboard, let alone some place like brighthand. Go figure. And if you post again, please use HTML.
I am an iPAQ owner and on your side for this whole thing, i think its a wonderful device, my needs go beyond that of an organizer.
I just have to ask though. SNES on iPAQ? I tried desprately to get it to work. Even if i could put up with the one button issue couldnt find an emulator that would run at any playable speed. What emulator/IPAQ configuration are you using. Memory free? God knows i'd like to play Final Fantasy 3 on my paqqy, but I just can't make it playable.
If you were just touting the SNES to make winCE look all much better, thats ok i guess, but ya really got my hopes up.
With only 32-64 megs of fixed storage (barely enough for one CD if you crunch it down enough)and either no removable storage or access to (expen$ive) CompactFlash and/or SmartMedia removable storage, the typical WinCE PDA would make a poor choice for portable music. (If you have it loaded up with MP3s, where are you going to put those several megs of text files you also want to haul around?) I'm not that impressed with the memory-based MP3-player gadgets for the same reason...the only portable MP3 player I'd consider would be one that uses either a hard drive (OK) or CD-R (better) for storage.
Well, some people get by with the SmartMedia cards and such, but I agree you need hard drive storage on your PocketPC. Thing is.. you can get it. With IBM microdrives (1GB) or a whole slew of PCMCIA harddrives (up to 5 gigs now i think) 1-5 gigs is enough Mp3s to carry with me, and I like PCMCIA cause my main computer is a laptop, so I can do file transfer quite quickly.
You can get 15 hours of CONSTANT use of your Ipaq with backlight on low and power off in 3 minutes?
Wanna Trade?
I didnt get the PCMCIA expansion, which i hear has an extra battery, maybe that helps. But with nonintensive gaming and music playing I get more like 6-9 tops.
I'm pretty sure the Gameboy Advance doesnt have a touch sceen or grafitti area for data entry though. It would be a bitch to have to scroll a list of letters and hit "a" every time we wanted to type a character.
Although, with 6 buttons (A,B, Select, Start, L, R) 2^6 = 64 different characters you could type in some crazy binary typing scheme. (i.e hold A, B and select to type a "K") It would be pretty interesting watching someone type one that thing.
In China, there is, and not just armed dangerous fringe religions, but pacifist movements with enormous followings.
I agree with the general idea of your post, there is indeed a policy to repress religion in China and none in the US. However, be wary of referring to "dangerous fringe religions" lest someone in power decide that your religion (or lack thereof) is dangerous, and on the fringe.
not really. Why, cause of shoemaker-levy? That is a shitty joke. Fuck, Bill Clinton doesnt remind me of the P-Funk all stars just cause his last name is Clinton.
Maybe I'm confused from reading the article, but I dont think they are trying to Tax these things cause they are flying over Califonia "Airspace". That is really quite irrelevant. The problem is these satellites are owned by people in LA
I think the proper way to deal with this is look at these sattelites like an Offshore Rig or something. If I set up a webserver that ran an online gambling site in the middle of the ocean, but I collected the earnings while living in LA, could they tax me on that? If so, tax the satellites, as they are providing service to LA citizens. If they couldnt tax me on a boat out in the ocean, then they shouldnt tax on a satellite in space.
There is a game called the Incredible Machine, that allowed you to make Rube Goldberg-style devices in a free for all mode. Not exactly software legos, but it was pretty cool
Why would you let a bunch of people you've never met make up your mind about right and wrong?
This is why I bolded technically in the above post. I am not discussing the issue of Morally right or ethically right. I'm not discussing should I am disucussing is.
I would never for a second let a government tell me that marijauna, for example, is wrong on some sort of personal level. However, everytime I smoke up I do understand that on a legal, technical level, this is wrong, regardless of my personal feelings on the law. If I were to get caught, whining on my behalf would be just that: whining. I knew what i was doing. When i've paid my debt to society, then I can start up a marijuana legaization rally or something. This holds for Napster, online gambling, and what have you. If you do something against a rule, no matter how insignifigant, and get caught, you should direct your attention to the fight against the unjust rule, not to the fight to save your own ass, IMHO.
"Did he? Then, you must also think that personal web surfing at work is "unauthorized" and you never do it. Yeah, sure you don't. Just remember next time you're doing it, you are engaging in theft from your company and, according to your own theorizing, you can and should be sent to jail and fined for that theft."
Fine, but the personal web surfing, just like the RC5 was still wrong.
People on Slashdot dont seem to understand that you can do something that lots of people do and it can still be technically wrong.
Napster, personal web surfing, marijuana, online gambling. Just cause lots of people do these things doesnt make it technically right. Nothing is unfair about being caught breaking predefined rules. Its called risk. Everyone is risking something when they do these things. Someone gets caught, hell, they knew the risk, that it their own fault.
Now personally i dont have a problem with any of these things. Hell i think laws should change. But it is silly fighting for someone who got caught breaking a known rule. Better to use him as an example of why that particular rule is unjust.
"BTW, did you never notice that most game releases happen at christmas? This is done *deliberately* so that the games industry can flog their most rotten products to non-gamers looking for gifts for gamers; think granny buying a game for her grandson. I've seen flop games increase tenfold their original sale by a cynical christmas release."
That is the most assinine thing I have ever heard. Mayhap they release games at christmas cause thats when everyone will buy them, good or bad. They are not trying to dump anything on you any more than the rest of the year.
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mod this up, I haven't heard it put quite so eloquantly in a long while.
I have my eyes on the prize!
QWEST = Quietly We Enrage Slashdot Trolls
mono is pretty dangerous, was bedridden for 6 weeks after making out with that girl with the penguin shirt on...
I agree, I spend money on strategy and wargames with many complex rules and am given a box with a CD and told to Print the PDFs. I want my manuals back.
this was funny, mod it up!
Thanks for the *official* info. I hope it doesnt get lost in this unformatted thread. Slashdot seems to get off on running a website whose only real strentgh is message board posting, yet with all these programmers they are missing most of the basic features of something simple as an ezboard, let alone some place like brighthand. Go figure. And if you post again, please use HTML.
my ipaq has yet to crash
I am an iPAQ owner and on your side for this whole thing, i think its a wonderful device, my needs go beyond that of an organizer.
I just have to ask though. SNES on iPAQ? I tried desprately to get it to work. Even if i could put up with the one button issue couldnt find an emulator that would run at any playable speed. What emulator/IPAQ configuration are you using. Memory free? God knows i'd like to play Final Fantasy 3 on my paqqy, but I just can't make it playable.
If you were just touting the SNES to make winCE look all much better, thats ok i guess, but ya really got my hopes up.
You can get 15 hours of CONSTANT use of your Ipaq with backlight on low and power off in 3 minutes?
Wanna Trade?
I didnt get the PCMCIA expansion, which i hear has an extra battery, maybe that helps. But with nonintensive gaming and music playing I get more like 6-9 tops.
I'm pretty sure the Gameboy Advance doesnt have a touch sceen or grafitti area for data entry though. It would be a bitch to have to scroll a list of letters and hit "a" every time we wanted to type a character.
Although, with 6 buttons (A,B, Select, Start, L, R) 2^6 = 64 different characters you could type in some crazy binary typing scheme. (i.e hold A, B and select to type a "K") It would be pretty interesting watching someone type one that thing.
I agree with the general idea of your post, there is indeed a policy to repress religion in China and none in the US. However, be wary of referring to "dangerous fringe religions" lest someone in power decide that your religion (or lack thereof) is dangerous, and on the fringe.
And btw, your sig still doesnt make sense to me.
not really. Why, cause of shoemaker-levy? That is a shitty joke. Fuck, Bill Clinton doesnt remind me of the P-Funk all stars just cause his last name is Clinton.
actually i'm pretty sure Sabin's "pummel" was Left-Right-Left (or at least that was some move of his)
Is it really intimidation if a copyright holder wants to know why the hell you've been pirating their media?
Maybe I'm confused from reading the article, but I dont think they are trying to Tax these things cause they are flying over Califonia "Airspace". That is really quite irrelevant. The problem is these satellites are owned by people in LA
I think the proper way to deal with this is look at these sattelites like an Offshore Rig or something. If I set up a webserver that ran an online gambling site in the middle of the ocean, but I collected the earnings while living in LA, could they tax me on that? If so, tax the satellites, as they are providing service to LA citizens. If they couldnt tax me on a boat out in the ocean, then they shouldnt tax on a satellite in space.
There is a game called the Incredible Machine, that allowed you to make Rube Goldberg-style devices in a free for all mode. Not exactly software legos, but it was pretty cool
Why would you let a bunch of people you've never met make up your mind about right and wrong?
This is why I bolded technically in the above post. I am not discussing the issue of Morally right or ethically right. I'm not discussing should I am disucussing is.
I would never for a second let a government tell me that marijauna, for example, is wrong on some sort of personal level. However, everytime I smoke up I do understand that on a legal, technical level, this is wrong, regardless of my personal feelings on the law. If I were to get caught, whining on my behalf would be just that: whining. I knew what i was doing. When i've paid my debt to society, then I can start up a marijuana legaization rally or something. This holds for Napster, online gambling, and what have you. If you do something against a rule, no matter how insignifigant, and get caught, you should direct your attention to the fight against the unjust rule, not to the fight to save your own ass, IMHO.
flamebait? That is offtopic if anything at all. He was commenting on not closing his HTML tag. Yeesh.
They have the story right quite a bit more than slashdot.
Fine, but the personal web surfing, just like the RC5 was still wrong.
People on Slashdot dont seem to understand that you can do something that lots of people do and it can still be technically wrong.
Napster, personal web surfing, marijuana, online gambling. Just cause lots of people do these things doesnt make it technically right. Nothing is unfair about being caught breaking predefined rules. Its called risk. Everyone is risking something when they do these things. Someone gets caught, hell, they knew the risk, that it their own fault.
Now personally i dont have a problem with any of these things. Hell i think laws should change. But it is silly fighting for someone who got caught breaking a known rule. Better to use him as an example of why that particular rule is unjust.
"BTW, did you never notice that most game releases happen at christmas? This is done *deliberately* so that the games industry can flog their most rotten products to non-gamers looking for gifts for gamers; think granny buying a game for her grandson. I've seen flop games increase tenfold their original sale by a cynical christmas release."
That is the most assinine thing I have ever heard. Mayhap they release games at christmas cause thats when everyone will buy them, good or bad. They are not trying to dump anything on you any more than the rest of the year.
When they say 8 decks they are referring to blackjack only, a game which can be played pretty much the same with any number of decks.
Ohh waaa.. someones violating your license? Please get in line behind the RIAA.
Cry about it.