There are tonnes of classic Amiga games that would be ideally suited to the GBA. Not too complicated (due to the Amiga's control system) and yet damn good fun.
If you're a big fan of Sensible Soccer, why not sign the petition to get it ported to the GBA?
Of course it will. They'll think it's fantastic, right up to the point when they try to install their favourite Windows applications and it all goes horribly wrong.
Then they'll mutter "crock of shit" and take it back to Walmart to complain.
Not that I blame them, Walmart is advertising it as having the ability to run most Microsoft software, which (unless it's changed drastically) isn't quite the case.
I'm all for getting Linux to the masses, but if they oversell what it can do, then they'll end up putting off people rather than attracting them.
Until a virus comes out that seeks out Linux boxes, uses several well known vulnerabilities to attempt to get root only to then set itself up on that box and seek out other boxes to infect.
What? You thing that everyone who runs Linux as a server keeps it fully up to date with all the latest patches?
Face it, if you're connected to the internet -you're stupid to assume you're safe.
So, to correct you: If you don't run Windows you're safer.
Don't be so naive. If you don't ask for a raise, you don't get it. When is the last time a company ever offered you a raise with no prodding (other than the usual token raise once per year)? I have had that happen, but it is definitely not the "norm". Ask and ye shall receive!
Employment is a two-way thing. You give your time, effort and experience and in return they pay you what you are worth. If you have to ask for a pay-rise then it's not very two-way, a company should be able to guage your worth and adjust accordingly.
So what? Your feelings do not define the facts. Get over it, unless you want to continue to live in fantasy-land. But don't expect rational people to take you seriously.
Actually rather than getting over it, I prefer the comment made by someone else that the bulk of the money made by the industries is of the bland tasteless sort.
Which would mean that other artists are suffering with people downloading their music. It's just that the industry makes it's money from 14 year olds with dubious tastes in mainstream music.
Of course, unless we get some decent stats from the music industry about profit and how it relates to which artists/cd's then we'll never know. But it wouldn't surprise me to see that the money came from a small number of big names which outweighs the losses of the others.
By the way, what you read in the comments section of Slashdot isn't always the "facts". Thinking that puts your address firmly in fantasy-land.
I've seen people have this experience before and decided both ways. The answer is simple, you should never accept the counter offer. Two reasons why.
The first question is, if they can afford to pay more for you and feel that you are worth more, why didn't they pay you that in the first place? The reason they haven't paid you is because they thought they could get away with it (and they have). So you're working for a company that doesn't value the work that you do enough to pay you it.
Secondly, what will happen if you take the money? You're now earning more than your co-workers, who probably are being stiffed by your company as well. This means that the next performance review that comes around, the company will use the reason that you're earning more to give you a lower pay rise than your co-workers.
You'll more than likely find that if you stayed for the next couple of years that the gap between your salary and that of your co-workers will be reduced as they seek to return you back to the standardised pay-scale that is throughout the organisation.
In the end, your extra money will be worth very little as every review, your co-workers will get closer to you.
You have a job offer doing the same work from a company that appreciates your worth. Congratulations and I hope it goes well.
I firmly believe that (based on what I've seen) that mp3 sharing does hurt the industy.
Yet, at the same time, they post record profits and album sales.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy into the idea that the majority of people use mp3's as a taster and then go and buy the product. It just doesn't, well, sit right with me.
But at the same time, they are boasting these profits. Sure, there are people who use mp3's as a sampler before purchasing the products but I seriously can't believe they are in the majority.
It's a case of what would appear to be the logical reason sounding... well... wrong. Am I the only one confused by it all?
Try travelling into the city at 8 to 8:30am in the morning when the rest of London does it and then you'll understand what it's like for those of us who really do commute.
If you're travelling at 9 to 9:30am, you've missed the entire rush.
Make an effort, look for places to live in the inner cities
I'll happily live in zone 1 in London. However I'll need to cough up 5 times as much rent for a place smaller than I have now.
People don't use the trains because they're a death trap, smelly, badly maintained, unreliable and nearly always late.
People don't use buses because they're slow, unreliable, smelly, badly maintained and nearly always late.
People don't like using the tubes because they're badly maintained, too hot in the summer, freezing cold in the winter and massivily crowded because other people are using them over buses and trains.
So what do you have left? Cars. Yes it takes longer to get into work, but you don't pay an insanely large amount of money for the privilidge of being rammed up in a stuffy carriage against a glass window with 15 other people shoved against you.
Time for my neighbour to fix the dodgy shed door: 2 months. Time for me to fix the dodgy wiring in the kettle: 15 minutes.
Not wanting to be pedantic but the duration of time it takes to fix a bug isn't exactly a great indicator of anything (except maybe, how long it took to fix it).
It's a bit like assuming that a program with 5000 lines is obviously worse than one with 7500 lines.
We know nothing about the internals of IIS and the two bugs are not even remotely related. You simply can't compare the two and come out with anything meaningful.
... comments from people saying "My music collection has grown at the same rate, I only use it to sample, I listen to albums that aren't available from new bands" etc. etc.
The fact of the matter is people used Napster and are using these filesharing applications mainly because they get it for free.
Reducing a product to an insanely cheap price won't work, because you just can't beat free.
Hell, back in the old days Amiga games were 15 pounds and people still pirated them - and before that Spectrum games were 3 pounds and you still found people with 90 minute tapes with 3 odd games shoved on there.
I don't have magic solutions to keep everyone (including the RIAA happy) but I'm sure other people do. But I think that we should really admit what we've known all along that these filesharing allow you to get something for free. Yes, there are legitimate uses for it, but the fraction of those people who do use it like that are in the minority.
A converter would cost as much as a simple firewire card. Firewire cards are not that expensive.
Maybe so, but although I can put a Firewire card in my home computer I can't see work letting me do the same.
If I had a convertor, then I could just plug it into the available USB port without any problems. It may be more expensive, but it would be either that or nothing.
Can you get hold of a Firewire to USB convertor and use that with EphPod/iPod? I can suffer slower download speeds if I don't have to install yet another card (this also would be a bonus for the next question). If so, where can I get one in the UK?
Can I copy songs to and from the iPod with EphPod? That would mean I can put songs on and get them off the iPod (essentially using it for transporting provided you don't need a firewire card in both pc's) - I'm fully aware that iTunes doesn't allow this but I'm also aware that it is possible to circumvent (copyright restrictions acknowledged)
If the answer to both of these is "yes", then I'm off to buy one...!
I'd like the browser to halt with a 'Error: Page invalid' myself. If IE (and all browsers) would do this for nonvalidating HTML and CSS I'd say we'd see things improving pretty fast.
Unfortunately the end user might see this as broken and therefore decide not to update. Personally, I'd avoid updating if it meant that i was going to be denied access to some content because of someone elses cockup.
Maybe what would be better is a javascript error style pop up window informing the user that the page contains invalid HTML, telling them it can guess what the content is, but it might be illegiable and would they like to do this?
At least then, the annoyance of a pop up on your site would force you to do something about it but at the same time not prevent people from not viewing what you've put.
Of course there should be an option to disable this but it definately shouldn't be the default and there shouldn't be a "don't show this again" option on the menu.
The most popular browser in the world is pretty good at following the rules, the permutations of the Gecko engine (here are some: N M C) are all praiseworthy, and on top of that virtuous standards oatmeal is some pretty tasty rendering brown sugar; anti-aliased fonts are here to stay!
Well, yes, I don't think many people but the most hardcore of standards purists could claim that IE isn't pretty good at following the rules. Thats not the issue.
The issue is that it's not very good when the code doesn't follow the rules. The problem here is that IE "guesses" what you're trying to do.
This in itself isn't a bad thing and from an end user perspective is a damn good idea. If I go visit a site that someone has made a basic error then at least I can still view the content, their mistake doesn't prevent me from getting what i want.
The problem comes when people start getting used to writing sloppy HTML because it works on IE (yes, I made that mistake before I found the w3 validator and Opera) and when Microsoft products start producing sloppy HTML (Words and Powerpoint being two apparant examples, although I've not looked personally).
So yes, web-standards great idea. But there should be a standard on what to do with badly formed HTML too.
The Afterburner is a great product...as long as you are not the one to install it.
Lik Sang sell GBA's with Afterburner already installed for 109 USD (74.83 GBP). You can also find places who will fix it for about 35 GBP (probably about 50 USD).
Personally I'd look on EBay for an unused/unwanted GBA, buy one of them and then pay someone to install it. Since you're invalidating your warranty anyway, there's no real point to getting a brand new one - it'll also work out quite a bit cheaper.
For those of you who can't afford to go to this length, the Afterburner backlight upgrade is now shipping.
It does invalidate your warranty, but the pictures on this page show you how impressive it is. Those of you with a PPC will know what the lighting is like.
It claims to get 10 hours gameplay with the light on, which isn't bad in the slightest.
We are taking full advantage of the technological advancements in Palm OS 5," said C. E. Steuart Dewar, president of Pimlico Software.
Pimlico software make DateBk, which is a diary replacement because Palms own version is... well, crap. It's just too limited when you compare it to Outlook.
As much as I don't like a company going down the pan, if Palm have done it right, Pimlico would find that they won't be able to sell DateBk on the new OS. Because Palm's own diary book should be so good, that people would have no reason to update.
I've said it many times, if Palm can get their new Datebook/Memo/ToDo/Address book to sync 100% with Outlook, then they're onto an instant winner. Just because the population of/. would avoid Outlook like the plague, doesn't mean the rest of the world does. If they can take an *exact* copy of their PC stuff on their new Palm, then they'll be a happy bunch.
(I'm led to believe that even PPC doesn't sync over everything - but at least it's more than Palm)
I've not been following the speeds of chips for a while now, but I'm sure someone can tell me.
Whats the fastest offering by Intel and AMD that is:
Easily available
Happily copes with *most* processor intensive applications
Doesn't cost the earth
Yes I know a lot of this is subjective, but I have a P2-400 at the moment and I'm thinking of boosting the speed a tad, but don't really know what my *realistic* options are. A processor running at 700 gigahertz is going to be nice but probably out of my range price-wise and more than likely won't be used to it's fullest.
What I (and a fair number of my colleagues who rank between computer savvy and not savvy at all) is a product that has all the benifits of Palm Pilot
long battery life
easy to use interface
OS that doesn't lock up, hang or crash
with the benifits of the PocketPC
colour screen - it really makes it much more pleasant to use and you can use colour to hilight things (and yes I know the m505 is colour, but its rather murkey)
integrated 802.11b AND bluetooth
(most important of all) FULL compatibility with Outlook
Yes, the majority of people on here probably don't use Outlook, but when all your emails, contacts, notes and diary are on there, you'd like a PDA that holds an exact copy of it.
(subnote: you can't do alarmed reminders, multiple addresses, linked birthdays and a whole host of other stuff with the Palm - and even if you did use a replacement app, it doesn't sync to and from outlook)
Now if someone could come up with a wireless, peer-to-peer Gnutella type client....
Now that would be cool and something I'd love to have a hack at, however, doesn't 802.11b require a base station? In other words, you can't have two people with wireless cards communicating with each other without going through a base station. If thats the case then you couldn't just wander out into the street and hook up with a bunch of people nearby as they'd need access to your network.
Of course, you could just use bluetooth or IR, but that would mean you'd need 15,000 people stood just a bit too close to each other for comfort.
...that the OSS always seems to turn out better than commercial software?
(emphasis mine)
Always? Why is it that when everyone says this they can only quote about 3 or 4 projects?
Just because Apache is better than IIS doesn't mean that every commercial product is inferior to the OSS version.
Please don't delude yourself. The majority of the time commercial stuff is better than OSS because they have the time and resources to get people working on it.
I still find OpenOffice poorer than MS Office, GIMP poorer than Photoshop and so on.
Yes there are exceptions (such as Apache) but generally OSS is of a slightly poorer quality than commercial - but more than makes up for it by the fact that it's free and doesn't come with restrictive licencing agreements.
Slashdot Mirror
Google: 63,500,000
AllTheWeb: 25,435,205
I think I'll stick with Google :o)
If you're a big fan of Sensible Soccer, why not sign the petition to get it ported to the GBA?
Of course it will. They'll think it's fantastic, right up to the point when they try to install their favourite Windows applications and it all goes horribly wrong.
Then they'll mutter "crock of shit" and take it back to Walmart to complain.
Not that I blame them, Walmart is advertising it as having the ability to run most Microsoft software, which (unless it's changed drastically) isn't quite the case.
I'm all for getting Linux to the masses, but if they oversell what it can do, then they'll end up putting off people rather than attracting them.
Until a virus comes out that seeks out Linux boxes, uses several well known vulnerabilities to attempt to get root only to then set itself up on that box and seek out other boxes to infect.
What? You thing that everyone who runs Linux as a server keeps it fully up to date with all the latest patches?
Face it, if you're connected to the internet -you're stupid to assume you're safe.
So, to correct you: If you don't run Windows you're safer .
At the end of the day, the biggest indicator about how an organisation feels about their employee's is in the amount of money they pay them.
Employment is a two-way thing. You give your time, effort and experience and in return they pay you what you are worth. If you have to ask for a pay-rise then it's not very two-way, a company should be able to guage your worth and adjust accordingly.
Actually rather than getting over it, I prefer the comment made by someone else that the bulk of the money made by the industries is of the bland tasteless sort.
Which would mean that other artists are suffering with people downloading their music. It's just that the industry makes it's money from 14 year olds with dubious tastes in mainstream music.
Of course, unless we get some decent stats from the music industry about profit and how it relates to which artists/cd's then we'll never know. But it wouldn't surprise me to see that the money came from a small number of big names which outweighs the losses of the others.
By the way, what you read in the comments section of Slashdot isn't always the "facts". Thinking that puts your address firmly in fantasy-land.
The first question is, if they can afford to pay more for you and feel that you are worth more, why didn't they pay you that in the first place? The reason they haven't paid you is because they thought they could get away with it (and they have). So you're working for a company that doesn't value the work that you do enough to pay you it.
Secondly, what will happen if you take the money? You're now earning more than your co-workers, who probably are being stiffed by your company as well. This means that the next performance review that comes around, the company will use the reason that you're earning more to give you a lower pay rise than your co-workers.
You'll more than likely find that if you stayed for the next couple of years that the gap between your salary and that of your co-workers will be reduced as they seek to return you back to the standardised pay-scale that is throughout the organisation.
In the end, your extra money will be worth very little as every review, your co-workers will get closer to you.
You have a job offer doing the same work from a company that appreciates your worth. Congratulations and I hope it goes well.
Yet, at the same time, they post record profits and album sales.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy into the idea that the majority of people use mp3's as a taster and then go and buy the product. It just doesn't, well, sit right with me.
But at the same time, they are boasting these profits. Sure, there are people who use mp3's as a sampler before purchasing the products but I seriously can't believe they are in the majority.
It's a case of what would appear to be the logical reason sounding ... well ... wrong. Am I the only one confused by it all?
I am?
I commute into work at 9 to 9.30 am
Try travelling into the city at 8 to 8:30am in the morning when the rest of London does it and then you'll understand what it's like for those of us who really do commute.
If you're travelling at 9 to 9:30am, you've missed the entire rush.
I'll happily live in zone 1 in London. However I'll need to cough up 5 times as much rent for a place smaller than I have now.
People don't use the trains because they're a death trap, smelly, badly maintained, unreliable and nearly always late.
People don't use buses because they're slow, unreliable, smelly, badly maintained and nearly always late.
People don't like using the tubes because they're badly maintained, too hot in the summer, freezing cold in the winter and massivily crowded because other people are using them over buses and trains.
So what do you have left? Cars. Yes it takes longer to get into work, but you don't pay an insanely large amount of money for the privilidge of being rammed up in a stuffy carriage against a glass window with 15 other people shoved against you.
Not wanting to be pedantic but the duration of time it takes to fix a bug isn't exactly a great indicator of anything (except maybe, how long it took to fix it).
It's a bit like assuming that a program with 5000 lines is obviously worse than one with 7500 lines.
We know nothing about the internals of IIS and the two bugs are not even remotely related. You simply can't compare the two and come out with anything meaningful.
The fact of the matter is people used Napster and are using these filesharing applications mainly because they get it for free.
Reducing a product to an insanely cheap price won't work, because you just can't beat free.
Hell, back in the old days Amiga games were 15 pounds and people still pirated them - and before that Spectrum games were 3 pounds and you still found people with 90 minute tapes with 3 odd games shoved on there.
I don't have magic solutions to keep everyone (including the RIAA happy) but I'm sure other people do. But I think that we should really admit what we've known all along that these filesharing allow you to get something for free. Yes, there are legitimate uses for it, but the fraction of those people who do use it like that are in the minority.
Maybe so, but although I can put a Firewire card in my home computer I can't see work letting me do the same.
If I had a convertor, then I could just plug it into the available USB port without any problems. It may be more expensive, but it would be either that or nothing.
If the answer to both of these is "yes", then I'm off to buy one ...!
Unfortunately the end user might see this as broken and therefore decide not to update. Personally, I'd avoid updating if it meant that i was going to be denied access to some content because of someone elses cockup.
Maybe what would be better is a javascript error style pop up window informing the user that the page contains invalid HTML, telling them it can guess what the content is, but it might be illegiable and would they like to do this?
At least then, the annoyance of a pop up on your site would force you to do something about it but at the same time not prevent people from not viewing what you've put.
Of course there should be an option to disable this but it definately shouldn't be the default and there shouldn't be a "don't show this again" option on the menu.
If people want it off, they have to hunt for it.
Well, yes, I don't think many people but the most hardcore of standards purists could claim that IE isn't pretty good at following the rules. Thats not the issue.
The issue is that it's not very good when the code doesn't follow the rules. The problem here is that IE "guesses" what you're trying to do.
This in itself isn't a bad thing and from an end user perspective is a damn good idea. If I go visit a site that someone has made a basic error then at least I can still view the content, their mistake doesn't prevent me from getting what i want.
The problem comes when people start getting used to writing sloppy HTML because it works on IE (yes, I made that mistake before I found the w3 validator and Opera) and when Microsoft products start producing sloppy HTML (Words and Powerpoint being two apparant examples, although I've not looked personally).
So yes, web-standards great idea. But there should be a standard on what to do with badly formed HTML too.
Lik Sang sell GBA's with Afterburner already installed for 109 USD (74.83 GBP). You can also find places who will fix it for about 35 GBP (probably about 50 USD).
Personally I'd look on EBay for an unused/unwanted GBA, buy one of them and then pay someone to install it. Since you're invalidating your warranty anyway, there's no real point to getting a brand new one - it'll also work out quite a bit cheaper.
It does invalidate your warranty, but the pictures on this page show you how impressive it is. Those of you with a PPC will know what the lighting is like.
It claims to get 10 hours gameplay with the light on, which isn't bad in the slightest.
Pimlico software make DateBk, which is a diary replacement because Palms own version is ... well, crap. It's just too limited when you compare it to Outlook.
As much as I don't like a company going down the pan, if Palm have done it right, Pimlico would find that they won't be able to sell DateBk on the new OS. Because Palm's own diary book should be so good, that people would have no reason to update.
I've said it many times, if Palm can get their new Datebook/Memo/ToDo/Address book to sync 100% with Outlook, then they're onto an instant winner. Just because the population of /. would avoid Outlook like the plague, doesn't mean the rest of the world does. If they can take an *exact* copy of their PC stuff on their new Palm, then they'll be a happy bunch.
(I'm led to believe that even PPC doesn't sync over everything - but at least it's more than Palm)
Whats the fastest offering by Intel and AMD that is:
- Easily available
- Happily copes with *most* processor intensive applications
- Doesn't cost the earth
Yes I know a lot of this is subjective, but I have a P2-400 at the moment and I'm thinking of boosting the speed a tad, but don't really know what my *realistic* options are. A processor running at 700 gigahertz is going to be nice but probably out of my range price-wise and more than likely won't be used to it's fullest.- long battery life
- easy to use interface
- OS that doesn't lock up, hang or crash
with the benifits of the PocketPC- colour screen - it really makes it much more pleasant to use and you can use colour to hilight things (and yes I know the m505 is colour, but its rather murkey)
- integrated 802.11b AND bluetooth
- (most important of all) FULL compatibility with Outlook
Yes, the majority of people on here probably don't use Outlook, but when all your emails, contacts, notes and diary are on there, you'd like a PDA that holds an exact copy of it.(subnote: you can't do alarmed reminders, multiple addresses, linked birthdays and a whole host of other stuff with the Palm - and even if you did use a replacement app, it doesn't sync to and from outlook)
Most Palm based PDA's can't but a fair number of the PPC's do. Problem is that the microdrive reduces the already short battery life even more.
Now that would be cool and something I'd love to have a hack at, however, doesn't 802.11b require a base station? In other words, you can't have two people with wireless cards communicating with each other without going through a base station. If thats the case then you couldn't just wander out into the street and hook up with a bunch of people nearby as they'd need access to your network.
Of course, you could just use bluetooth or IR, but that would mean you'd need 15,000 people stood just a bit too close to each other for comfort.
(emphasis mine)
Always? Why is it that when everyone says this they can only quote about 3 or 4 projects?
Just because Apache is better than IIS doesn't mean that every commercial product is inferior to the OSS version.
Please don't delude yourself. The majority of the time commercial stuff is better than OSS because they have the time and resources to get people working on it.
I still find OpenOffice poorer than MS Office, GIMP poorer than Photoshop and so on.
Yes there are exceptions (such as Apache) but generally OSS is of a slightly poorer quality than commercial - but more than makes up for it by the fact that it's free and doesn't come with restrictive licencing agreements.