Can't you buy a separate phone and then get a pre-paid sim for it? Otherwise I would hope that the operators wisen up after a while. It does seem like they are giving up on their war against "the rest of the world" wrt mobile phone standards at least.
Personally I'd never buy a phone that's branded by an operator. In Sweden then tend not to completely remove features but they do ugly up the interface pretty bad.
Since I'm currently overseas CNN is the only news I get on TV. (Besides japanese, but I don't understand much of those.) This means that I typically get to see the morning and evening shows.
I have to say that as far as news are concerned those programs would perhaps be able to air on the Swedish channel 3 or 5 news. (Ie the worst tripe we get as far as news are concerned.) The good part about the CNN news is that they don't attempt to cut everything down to 30 second sound bites. OTOH I get the feeling that they just attempt to drag out the reports to the next commersial so they can say "And soon we'll talk about... After These Messanges"
If I lived in the US I'd probably try to get news from BBC or something instead. Seriously, you should try to look at what other countries are showing so you can appreciate how bad eg Fox News really are.
(And for the record the Swedish main news are also biased. Typically Swedish news are critical of US-governments, be they republican or democrat.)
There is no edit function on Slashdot because down that road lies edit wars and other problems. (Specifically there are issues with editing + moderation as the mod should reflect the original article and not the edit.)
Sure it would be nice with a "allow edit withing 3 minutes" function which can be found on WWW boards. OTOH Slashdot generates several times the traffic as other sites with webboards.
As was discussed in the original thread one point that this excercise miss is that a compiler will naturally put the temporary variables into registers. So the entire XOR thing is cute but will produce slower and less understandable code.
Naturally neither version will actually use any added memory (as in RAM) but I doubt an optimising compiler will be able to perform strength reduction on the XOR operations.
Don't try to out-think your compiler. The compiler is your friend.
Just to correct you a bit since duo cards are actually smaller than SD. (And about half the thickness I believe.) Mini-SD is smaller though. (And I know becuase I have a bunch of them laying around my workspace.)
CF is only really suitable for dSLR cameras since those are going to be really big anyways. There's not much use in having smaller cards in one of those.
And now MS cards are available from multiple vendors so there's not much more proprietary than SD.
Memory stick DUO is significantly smaller than those other formats you mention. If you get eg mini-SD which is about the same size as MS Duo then the price increases.
I've had to buy 3 different formats of memory cards (for phone, PSP, and cameras). Most of my devices actually use MS, but that doesn't really matter since even if all my devices used the same memory type I'd probably to have to get one for each of them anyways.
First off, the chips are clearly marked TOSHIBA in the first photo. It's on the lower side and upside down, but still easy to see.
Second, Ars is not an Apple fansite. In fact it is in many ways a lot better than Slashdot. In particular their articles on CPU tech are often linked from Slashdot and are of extremely high quality. (As in "the best you'll find online".)
Do you (or anyone else) have recommendations for other podcasts on the topic of development? I haven't really been able to find many high quality tech podcasts. The content on ITconversations is often very good though. But that is from professional speakers with thought through content. Not some random Joe in his garage.
Personally I really liked Enders Game (and Speaker For The Dead, the others didn't do much for me though). Regarding your rants about the book I'd agree that the characters are quite simple, they have some development but it's not a character driven story in that way I guess. (However I can't imagine how you could prefer Niven's Ringworld stories. The characters in those stories are just around to take the reader to different cool places in the universe and have sex.)
I can't really agree with your complaint that it's a black-vs-white thing wrt good and evil neither. Seriously you seem to have missed that the entire point of the book was that the aliens weren't really evil at all. They were just alien. (That may have been in SFTD though.)
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The only thing i normally hear people talking about is either live or gears of war. Being somewhat of a sony fanboy i can only hope that they will botch up the 360 release, giving sony an extra edge on there release.
That's just stupid!
No really, it's just really, really stupid.
Do you know who will win in the next gen consoles? I can tell you that now, and it's the same answer as for the current gen. The winners are the gamers that have all consoles and play the games on the console which they are best on or exclusive to.
Seriously, stop using you consumer choices as a basis for your self image. It will only end you up in therapy.
It doesn't matter if you just alter the title of the page. The entire "article" is just a bunch of PSP vs DS arguements. Or rather a bunch of anti-PSP rethoric.
You just seem hell-bent on finding bad points in the PSP. Since that is your starting point there doesn't seem to be much room for a discussion. Basically if you have that firmly held convictions without even properly testing a PSP then there's no point for me to try to convince you to give it a second chance.
Good luck on the job finding anyways.
And I haven't tried to play a Eu UMD in my PSP and I really doubt I'll ever do it. They cost more than the DVD version of the same movie and have lower quality. I can't see any reason to actually buy that. Oh, and it wears the battery down faster too.
What brand is it? You might want to look into if there is a new firmware out for it that you can upgrade to. (This can typically be done at a local provider.)
Fortunately most people don't understand the importance of good optics. Well, fortunately for makers of compact cameras anyways.
Besides that there are quite a lot of interesting research on this. Eg Philips are working on a system of fluid optics which are very very small and ideal to incorporate into a mobile phone.
Finally while a mobile phone camera will never rival a high-end dSLR it doesn't have to. It has to be a good enough camera. And the biggest benefit of having a phone with a camera is that the camera that takes the best pictures is the one you are carrying with you.
Donwload GreaseMonkey for Firefox and you can fix that problem for yourself. I'm not sure if there is a script for adding a "move to trash" button specifically but I know there are GMail scripts.
Remember that only casual users like Mr Mossberg are forced to use "whatever interface they give use". The rest of us can change it into something we want.
If you want this to turn into a rational discussion, then please read my analysis of the pros and cons and respond publicly or privately (through my contact page). It can only be rational if you drop the "VS" thing. You don't "win" if you have the "best" system. You "win" if you are having fun playing. And you really should have both system, I bet you'd go through periods where one or the other is "the best" for you
On your page you seem to try really hard to not like the PSP. Really I think you should just try it for yourself and see that it really is a good machine. Sure you could buy 15 machines (slight exaaggeration) to do the same thing, but then you'd need a hockey bag to tote them around.
I can't afford a DS nor a PSP. If I want to buy two PSPs (one for homebrew and one for commercial games), and CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com, and Dice.com list no entry-level IT job opportunities in Fort Wayne, Indiana, then what should I do? Move? Get friends who have one or the other who let you borrow it?
Really, I hope you do manage to get a job and buy toys. But you not affording to buy one or the other is hardly a good criterion for why one platform is better for anyone but you.
For the record I bought my PSP in Japan where it's a lot cheaper (about $140, not "value pack"). Here in Sweden it's really expensive (almost $350, and no we don't make more money than Americans). I sure as hell wouldn't buy 2 of them for that price!
I've had classes like this too. Although in my case we had a brief session of talking amongst ourselves and then briefly present our suggestion. That was free form answers though, not multiple choice.
It would seem like if you have multiple choice questions at a university level which count towards your grade then there is something seriously wrong with your standards of education.
I have had lecturers that asked "multiple choice" of the "Yes - No - Nothing" type. That was solved by the high tech raising of hands.
The best lectures I have attended have had small(-ish) amounts of students (30 or so). The lecturer could then ask specific questions to us in the audience and discuss the answer with us all.
And when all games and movies first published on or after 2006 require firmware that hasn't been cracked yet, then what? Unless and until a switchable modchip comes out, do you suggest buying both a used PSP with 1.5 and a second PSP whose firmware is allowed to be upgraded for commercial games?...
I understand that, but how would a modchip fit inside the PSP case, or would it stick out like the DS passthrough device? And would it be cheap enough to produce that it would beat carrying a homebrew-friendly GPX2 on those days when you want to play homebrew?
Personally I've considered buying a second PSP to use for the latest games. Otherwise I'd say it's up to you if you want to play the latest games or if you prefer to play oldies. I'd get it in Japan though, they are not all that expensive there.
The DS is pretty cheap here, but I can't say I find the games interesting enough so far. (I'm sure I could find a bunch of good games if I got one though.)
AFAIK the GPX2 is still just vapor-ware, you won't be playing much of anything on it.
It's old usenet slang for "welcome to my killfile". I knew that. I asked because I could not understand why you Foed me while issues still remained to be discussed.
Because you are argumentative and obnoxious. You just spew incorrectness and hope some points slip by. It's quite apparent that you like your DS and have no interest in knowing what the PSP can do.
It's not a discussion, I'm just trying to correct your misconceptions so that other people are not misled.
They are getting there though. Take a look at the new Sony Ericsson K750i for instance (mobile-review.com has sample pictures). And IMHO a typical digital compact camera takes crappy pictures compared to me dSLR.
Just to be clear though, I'm not suggesting that phone cameras are better than compact digital. But they are getting close to be "good enough".
Of course you should take into consideration that newer mobile phones have very comptetent cameras. 2Mpx with optical focus are pretty standard for mid-high end phones now.
Those can take pretty good pictures in my experience.
There are also plenty of direct ports of games to PSP, like Quake, Doom, Hexen and emulators for most older consoles. After looking at the two "scenes" it just seems like the PSP homebrew scene is a lot larger. (That doesn't mean that the DS scene is useless though.)
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Can't you buy a separate phone and then get a pre-paid sim for it? Otherwise I would hope that the operators wisen up after a while. It does seem like they are giving up on their war against "the rest of the world" wrt mobile phone standards at least.
Personally I'd never buy a phone that's branded by an operator. In Sweden then tend not to completely remove features but they do ugly up the interface pretty bad.
He... He he... Haw haw haw haw... Heeeee..
That was funny.
Oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder!
Since I'm currently overseas CNN is the only news I get on TV. (Besides japanese, but I don't understand much of those.) This means that I typically get to see the morning and evening shows.
... After These Messanges"
I have to say that as far as news are concerned those programs would perhaps be able to air on the Swedish channel 3 or 5 news. (Ie the worst tripe we get as far as news are concerned.) The good part about the CNN news is that they don't attempt to cut everything down to 30 second sound bites. OTOH I get the feeling that they just attempt to drag out the reports to the next commersial so they can say "And soon we'll talk about
If I lived in the US I'd probably try to get news from BBC or something instead. Seriously, you should try to look at what other countries are showing so you can appreciate how bad eg Fox News really are.
(And for the record the Swedish main news are also biased. Typically Swedish news are critical of US-governments, be they republican or democrat.)
There is no edit function on Slashdot because down that road lies edit wars and other problems. (Specifically there are issues with editing + moderation as the mod should reflect the original article and not the edit.)
Sure it would be nice with a "allow edit withing 3 minutes" function which can be found on WWW boards. OTOH Slashdot generates several times the traffic as other sites with webboards.
As was discussed in the original thread one point that this excercise miss is that a compiler will naturally put the temporary variables into registers. So the entire XOR thing is cute but will produce slower and less understandable code.
Naturally neither version will actually use any added memory (as in RAM) but I doubt an optimising compiler will be able to perform strength reduction on the XOR operations.
Don't try to out-think your compiler. The compiler is your friend.
Just to correct you a bit since duo cards are actually smaller than SD. (And about half the thickness I believe.) Mini-SD is smaller though. (And I know becuase I have a bunch of them laying around my workspace.)
CF is only really suitable for dSLR cameras since those are going to be really big anyways. There's not much use in having smaller cards in one of those.
And now MS cards are available from multiple vendors so there's not much more proprietary than SD.
Memory stick DUO is significantly smaller than those other formats you mention. If you get eg mini-SD which is about the same size as MS Duo then the price increases.
I've had to buy 3 different formats of memory cards (for phone, PSP, and cameras). Most of my devices actually use MS, but that doesn't really matter since even if all my devices used the same memory type I'd probably to have to get one for each of them anyways.
First off, the chips are clearly marked TOSHIBA in the first photo. It's on the lower side and upside down, but still easy to see.
Second, Ars is not an Apple fansite. In fact it is in many ways a lot better than Slashdot. In particular their articles on CPU tech are often linked from Slashdot and are of extremely high quality. (As in "the best you'll find online".)
Do you (or anyone else) have recommendations for other podcasts on the topic of development? I haven't really been able to find many high quality tech podcasts. The content on ITconversations is often very good though. But that is from professional speakers with thought through content. Not some random Joe in his garage.
From the desription it seems like Python stackless.
Personally I really liked Enders Game (and Speaker For The Dead, the others didn't do much for me though). Regarding your rants about the book I'd agree that the characters are quite simple, they have some development but it's not a character driven story in that way I guess. (However I can't imagine how you could prefer Niven's Ringworld stories. The characters in those stories are just around to take the reader to different cool places in the universe and have sex.)
I can't really agree with your complaint that it's a black-vs-white thing wrt good and evil neither. Seriously you seem to have missed that the entire point of the book was that the aliens weren't really evil at all. They were just alien. (That may have been in SFTD though.)
The only thing i normally hear people talking about is either live or gears of war. Being somewhat of a sony fanboy i can only hope that they will botch up the 360 release, giving sony an extra edge on there release.
That's just stupid!
No really, it's just really, really stupid.
Do you know who will win in the next gen consoles? I can tell you that now, and it's the same answer as for the current gen. The winners are the gamers that have all consoles and play the games on the console which they are best on or exclusive to.
Seriously, stop using you consumer choices as a basis for your self image. It will only end you up in therapy.
It doesn't matter if you just alter the title of the page. The entire "article" is just a bunch of PSP vs DS arguements. Or rather a bunch of anti-PSP rethoric.
You just seem hell-bent on finding bad points in the PSP. Since that is your starting point there doesn't seem to be much room for a discussion. Basically if you have that firmly held convictions without even properly testing a PSP then there's no point for me to try to convince you to give it a second chance.
Good luck on the job finding anyways.
And I haven't tried to play a Eu UMD in my PSP and I really doubt I'll ever do it. They cost more than the DVD version of the same movie and have lower quality. I can't see any reason to actually buy that. Oh, and it wears the battery down faster too.
I think the idea is something like this:
1) Take something trivial as panorama stiching and call it somethign cool like "volumetric video".
2) ???
3) Profit.
Oh my god. I just made a "???, Profit" joke. I feel dirty!
What brand is it? You might want to look into if there is a new firmware out for it that you can upgrade to. (This can typically be done at a local provider.)
Fortunately most people don't understand the importance of good optics. Well, fortunately for makers of compact cameras anyways.
Besides that there are quite a lot of interesting research on this. Eg Philips are working on a system of fluid optics which are very very small and ideal to incorporate into a mobile phone.
Finally while a mobile phone camera will never rival a high-end dSLR it doesn't have to. It has to be a good enough camera. And the biggest benefit of having a phone with a camera is that the camera that takes the best pictures is the one you are carrying with you.
Donwload GreaseMonkey for Firefox and you can fix that problem for yourself. I'm not sure if there is a script for adding a "move to trash" button specifically but I know there are GMail scripts.
Oh I just took a look for it. There is a one delete button script and one smart delete button script.
Remember that only casual users like Mr Mossberg are forced to use "whatever interface they give use". The rest of us can change it into something we want.
If you use Firefox it would probably not be too hard to add an interface for "quick delete" using GreaseMonkey.
There are some scripts for GMail already actually. I believe at least one of them fixes the "no preview window" thing.
If you want this to turn into a rational discussion, then please read my analysis of the pros and cons and respond publicly or privately (through my contact page).
It can only be rational if you drop the "VS" thing. You don't "win" if you have the "best" system. You "win" if you are having fun playing. And you really should have both system, I bet you'd go through periods where one or the other is "the best" for you
On your page you seem to try really hard to not like the PSP. Really I think you should just try it for yourself and see that it really is a good machine. Sure you could buy 15 machines (slight exaaggeration) to do the same thing, but then you'd need a hockey bag to tote them around.
I can't afford a DS nor a PSP. If I want to buy two PSPs (one for homebrew and one for commercial games), and CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com, and Dice.com list no entry-level IT job opportunities in Fort Wayne, Indiana, then what should I do?
Move? Get friends who have one or the other who let you borrow it?
Really, I hope you do manage to get a job and buy toys. But you not affording to buy one or the other is hardly a good criterion for why one platform is better for anyone but you.
For the record I bought my PSP in Japan where it's a lot cheaper (about $140, not "value pack"). Here in Sweden it's really expensive (almost $350, and no we don't make more money than Americans). I sure as hell wouldn't buy 2 of them for that price!
I've had classes like this too. Although in my case we had a brief session of talking amongst ourselves and then briefly present our suggestion. That was free form answers though, not multiple choice.
It would seem like if you have multiple choice questions at a university level which count towards your grade then there is something seriously wrong with your standards of education.
I have had lecturers that asked "multiple choice" of the "Yes - No - Nothing" type. That was solved by the high tech raising of hands.
The best lectures I have attended have had small(-ish) amounts of students (30 or so). The lecturer could then ask specific questions to us in the audience and discuss the answer with us all.
Personally I've considered buying a second PSP to use for the latest games. Otherwise I'd say it's up to you if you want to play the latest games or if you prefer to play oldies. I'd get it in Japan though, they are not all that expensive there.
The DS is pretty cheap here, but I can't say I find the games interesting enough so far. (I'm sure I could find a bunch of good games if I got one though.)
AFAIK the GPX2 is still just vapor-ware, you won't be playing much of anything on it.
Because you are argumentative and obnoxious. You just spew incorrectness and hope some points slip by. It's quite apparent that you like your DS and have no interest in knowing what the PSP can do.
It's not a discussion, I'm just trying to correct your misconceptions so that other people are not misled.
Freedom Fighters has gameplay kind of like that. It's a 3rd person shooter though... But it's really good and I'd recommend you to try it.
They are getting there though. Take a look at the new Sony Ericsson K750i for instance (mobile-review.com has sample pictures). And IMHO a typical digital compact camera takes crappy pictures compared to me dSLR.
Just to be clear though, I'm not suggesting that phone cameras are better than compact digital. But they are getting close to be "good enough".
Of course you should take into consideration that newer mobile phones have very comptetent cameras. 2Mpx with optical focus are pretty standard for mid-high end phones now.
Those can take pretty good pictures in my experience.
There is a x86 emulator ported for PSP (http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/). It's not fast but you can run Linux/Win95 on it.
There are also plenty of direct ports of games to PSP, like Quake, Doom, Hexen and emulators for most older consoles. After looking at the two "scenes" it just seems like the PSP homebrew scene is a lot larger. (That doesn't mean that the DS scene is useless though.)