From Ken Kutaragi, they have reduced costs because of how much of the hardware is manufactured in-house, and they've deliberately chosen not to make a profit on the hardware for a year. So probably a combination of the two.
I'd be interested in seeing your sources for some of that information - I doubt it's Sony. From speaking to developers, it has always been described as comparable to PS2 - stronger in some areas, weaker in others.
There's a value pack which includes the PSP, case, handstrap, headphones with remote volume control and some other bits and pieces - presumably for less money than they cost to buy individually.
Which is nice, but claimng that 5 hours is 'not enough' compared to 10 seems to me to be finding fault for the sake of finding fault. Particularly when the battery pack is removable, and if you carry a spare, you have the same battery life as GBA. And with that, a vastly more powerful machine (as it should be for the price).
It's not ideal for a long holiday without access to power points, but it's fine for most situations where you get back to a power point on a daily basis. Let's face it, if you're playing handheld games for more than 5 hours a day you probably have more serious problems than battery life.:P
With PSP, of course, the batteries are rechargeable. The killer with GG and Lynx was that you had to spend the GDP of a small European country on batteries just to keep the thing going.
I'm planning on playing it on the train to and from work. 4 hours is fine for that, and I can recharge it overnight, just like I do with my GBA SP currently.
I've created a device to counter this anti-social and selfish TV-deactivator. And what's more, it's easier and cheaper to construct. Just curl the fingers of your right hand into a tight roll, tucking the tips in towards the palm, and use this device to strike a sharp blow to the arrogant fool who thinks he has the right to mess with your expensive consumer hardware.
Patent is, of course, pending, but I'll be offering a free license for use in this sort of situation.
Nice point, but sadly not true. I presume you just clicked a few times on the limited online demo of the script?
If you'd read the BUGTRAQ posting, you'd have found links to two files that reproducibly crash Firefox on Linux (I'm using build 20041014 Firefox/0.10).
Did you read the BUGTRAQ report? It contains links to two Mozilla-crashing examples, one of which I haven't tested, but the other of which hung a recent Firefox nightly quite handily. He ran the script for over an hour for each browser, AIUI, so getting no hits in 40 attempts isn't a real surprise. IE turned up no crashes in 2 hours.
Attempts to score political points aside, this is a handy test tool, and I'd hope that it leads to those bugs being fixed in Mozilla (and other browsers).
git n : a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so]
In Firefox, of course, you can permit specified sites to open unrequested windows. Means you can get those important sites working, while still avoiding popup ads.
When passwords are required to have 8+ characters with at least one non-alphanumeric, and change every 30-90 days, I (like everyone else) has to resort to writing them down.
Then you, like everyone else, are creating your passwords incorrectly. Come up with a system for taking a word (or better, a phrase - a line from a song, a quote from a movie) and converting it into a string that fits your password requirements. Then you only have to remember the comparatively easy seed data in order to be able to track it back to the password. If your system works well enough, you can actually write the seed on a post-it note and stick it to your monitor (though I'd still advise against it). You might not be able to remember 5je"50d as your password, but it's easy enough to remember that it's Paradise City by Guns'n'Roses.
Damn it! And I'd already bought the staple gun...:(
It's not exactly like that, either, of course. There are perfectly moral uses for mod chips. Plenty of hobbyists have modded XBoxes for running Linux and for use as a media centre. Plenty of people - particularly in the UK, where games are released a lot later than in the US, cost a lot more, and tend to be badly converted - use mod chips for importing games. I even considered it myself, and would probably have had more interest in a mod chip that didn't provide the ability to play pirated games than one that did. I know a fair few people who use such circumvention technologies for homebrew development as well, whether it's on the GBA, Dreamcast or PS2. The modchip isn't the dead babies on the shirt - it's the staple gun.
Over here in the UK, the government uses the more reliable low-tech approach of real paper documents available from laybys to spread information about its secret inner workings.
GCC is pretty good, although it can be a bit of a pain to get configured. Most of the GBA homebrew sites will have some sort of tutorial to get you through the process of getting the compiler up and running. There's a project called HAM on ngine.de which tries to provide a working dev environment. It's mostly Windows oriented, but there was a Linux release a version or two ago.
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Parents of modest means are not the target market for this product.
From Ken Kutaragi, they have reduced costs because of how much of the hardware is manufactured in-house, and they've deliberately chosen not to make a profit on the hardware for a year. So probably a combination of the two.
I'd be interested in seeing your sources for some of that information - I doubt it's Sony. From speaking to developers, it has always been described as comparable to PS2 - stronger in some areas, weaker in others.
There's a value pack which includes the PSP, case, handstrap, headphones with remote volume control and some other bits and pieces - presumably for less money than they cost to buy individually.
Which is nice, but claimng that 5 hours is 'not enough' compared to 10 seems to me to be finding fault for the sake of finding fault. Particularly when the battery pack is removable, and if you carry a spare, you have the same battery life as GBA. And with that, a vastly more powerful machine (as it should be for the price).
:P
It's not ideal for a long holiday without access to power points, but it's fine for most situations where you get back to a power point on a daily basis. Let's face it, if you're playing handheld games for more than 5 hours a day you probably have more serious problems than battery life.
With PSP, of course, the batteries are rechargeable. The killer with GG and Lynx was that you had to spend the GDP of a small European country on batteries just to keep the thing going.
I'm planning on playing it on the train to and from work. 4 hours is fine for that, and I can recharge it overnight, just like I do with my GBA SP currently.
I've created a device to counter this anti-social and selfish TV-deactivator. And what's more, it's easier and cheaper to construct. Just curl the fingers of your right hand into a tight roll, tucking the tips in towards the palm, and use this device to strike a sharp blow to the arrogant fool who thinks he has the right to mess with your expensive consumer hardware.
Patent is, of course, pending, but I'll be offering a free license for use in this sort of situation.
Nice point, but sadly not true. I presume you just clicked a few times on the limited online demo of the script?
If you'd read the BUGTRAQ posting, you'd have found links to two files that reproducibly crash Firefox on Linux (I'm using build 20041014 Firefox/0.10).
Did you read the BUGTRAQ report? It contains links to two Mozilla-crashing examples, one of which I haven't tested, but the other of which hung a recent Firefox nightly quite handily. He ran the script for over an hour for each browser, AIUI, so getting no hits in 40 attempts isn't a real surprise. IE turned up no crashes in 2 hours.
Attempts to score political points aside, this is a handy test tool, and I'd hope that it leads to those bugs being fixed in Mozilla (and other browsers).
If it's Jabber based, then surely it should be 'Gibber'?
Of course he didn't forget Poland. I thought everyone knew Poland is part of Canada...
...but Slashdot managed it with the reply count still in single figures. Who needs lawyers? :)
How does the well-understood solution to #2 address type safety and memory management, out of interest?
As for #3, there's a speed up to be had in 2D by using OpenGL acceleration - check elsewhere in this discussion for how to enable it (or RTFM).
Of course they will. You just won't be able to notice them. After all... these aren't the Druids you're looking for...
In Firefox, of course, you can permit specified sites to open unrequested windows. Means you can get those important sites working, while still avoiding popup ads.
Or does that not apply here?
Then you, like everyone else, are creating your passwords incorrectly. Come up with a system for taking a word (or better, a phrase - a line from a song, a quote from a movie) and converting it into a string that fits your password requirements. Then you only have to remember the comparatively easy seed data in order to be able to track it back to the password. If your system works well enough, you can actually write the seed on a post-it note and stick it to your monitor (though I'd still advise against it). You might not be able to remember 5je"50d as your password, but it's easy enough to remember that it's Paradise City by Guns'n'Roses.
Defending the Brits by trying to force American grammar on them? Well, we appreciate the thought, I suppose.
Or isn't MS allowed to do that any more?
While we're waiting, why not try newsmap, which does some interesting things with Google's news feed.
Damn it! And I'd already bought the staple gun... :(
It's not exactly like that, either, of course. There are perfectly moral uses for mod chips. Plenty of hobbyists have modded XBoxes for running Linux and for use as a media centre. Plenty of people - particularly in the UK, where games are released a lot later than in the US, cost a lot more, and tend to be badly converted - use mod chips for importing games. I even considered it myself, and would probably have had more interest in a mod chip that didn't provide the ability to play pirated games than one that did. I know a fair few people who use such circumvention technologies for homebrew development as well, whether it's on the GBA, Dreamcast or PS2. The modchip isn't the dead babies on the shirt - it's the staple gun.
Over here in the UK, the government uses the more reliable low-tech approach of real paper documents available from laybys to spread information about its secret inner workings.
Roll on 2007. :)
There are such - I worked for a company that developed one. Access to the site was carefully vetted and not available to the general public.
GCC is pretty good, although it can be a bit of a pain to get configured. Most of the GBA homebrew sites will have some sort of tutorial to get you through the process of getting the compiler up and running. There's a project called HAM on ngine.de which tries to provide a working dev environment. It's mostly Windows oriented, but there was a Linux release a version or two ago.