I still say the 'cast was the coolest. It wasn't too large, fairly portable, cool memory cards with LCDs (yes I was a tamagotch sadist) and mini games. It may not have lived a long life but I hold it in very high regard. Too bad the sony pocketstation never made it over here (see above comment about tamagotch sadist).
Remember the old "Tulsa, a great place to hang your hat" campaign? We always said "Tulsa, a great place to hang your-self!" aahha It was nice growing up and a great place to raise a family. I'm glad I got out tho. Now if I could just earn enough $$ to move to SF bay area.;)
I know I really get pissed when Microsoft builds in some OS functionality and gives it to me for free rather than me having to buy some 3rd party product. I'm cheap like that.
And Amazon's patent practices suck, but they have everything and its cheaper than other stores.:)
True there are some issues with it and T-Mobile US's network but as they release it in the US I imagine they will clear up. I was previously using a Treo 270. The only thing I really miss is the ease and speed of the keyboard entry on the Treo. The handwriting recognition on the P800 is good, but I can "thumb-type" much faster. That and missing a few apps like vindigo. The applications should start appearing now though...finally an ICQ clone client came out and with the publishing of the Opera browser (it is actually out now on Sony Ericsson's download site for the P800) it is getting there. The speaker phone is much much better than on the Treo and it nicely plays MP3, WAV, MIDI, etc on the P800 (as well as for ringtones!).
The GPRS speed (when used as a modem for a laptop via bluetooth) is pretty close to a PC card GPRS modem. Not quite there, but close. I got 36kb/s with the P800 as a modem, but could get 39kb/s with my Sierra AirCard (and they use compression as well on the aircard).
The size is larger than most phones (a bit smaller than an old Nokia 6190 and a bit wider), but the phone itself has an excellent "feel" to it and fits well. It has a good phone weight if that is a description. Feels confortable like a regular land line phone, but is still light and portable.
The price is high for a SIM free version ($650 preorder from SE US), but I would imagine subsidized versions will come out soon from T-Mobile and AT&T.
Overall it is a much nicer phone than the treo and has better integration, but the treo is a bit nicer PDA (due to a huge application base and keyboard). If you have the cash definately pick one up, if you just want a mobile phone that makes calls and no more then this isn't the phone for you. -xen
Yea, forget about killers and rapists et al, lets get this guy and be sure to make him suffer! What crap, I think someone has toooo much time on their hands here. I wish people would get their priorities straight and go after the violent felons.
How about Yahoo just pulls their french sites. After all don't the french think that if it isn't in their language that it doesn't exist?? ahahhahaha!
Why don't we have a big auction site of anti-french stuff and donate it to the EFF.;) (I hope that is the proper acro., the organization that provides free legal support)
Or I hear that Metallica is losing money to Napster and MP3 piracy, maybe they could use the profits???;) -jim
The price is fair as others have said in comparison to what the Japanese pay for their CDs. What isn't fair is the whole regional division thing. I'd love to download some J-pop stuff that is hard to find for me here in the USA, or just to sample some Japanese artists. oh well
maybe they should try citizenship?!?! Jeez! If they want to live here and work here then be a frickin citizen for crying out loud. Now don't get me wrong, Linus is a brilliant man and I'm sure the others involved are also highly skilled and great minds (but obviously overshadowed by the name dropping of Linus), but all this whining about something that gets them permanent residence, but they don't have to be a US citizen? For crying out loud if you want to stay here so bad become a citizen. Maybe there is something I'm missing here, and maybe the US has strange and/or callous laws about dual citizenship, but I still fail to see the sense in having permanent residence in the US and not being a citizen? Oh well, if it weren't for Linus' name in the pot I bet certain media orginazations would have glossed over the whole story. I can see it now...[supervisor to reporter].."hey isn't this Linus fellow the guy that started that Linux or something another thing that we hear about all the time?" ahahha What can you expect after all, he's just a US citizien and not a green card holder? *grin*;)
They need to forget all the propriatry hw garbage and make OS X for x86 and other processors. While they're at it, they need to make some of their cool periphials (the Apple Cinema 22" flat panel - ahah definately not the 1 button mouse) available and compatible for x86 machines as well. Apple has so much style they just dont spread the wealth around. I'd love to toy with their OS, I just don't want to have to buy a G4 to do it. While we're at it, who came up with this one architecture per OS business? BeOS targets multiple chips, Linux targets multiple chips, heck Solaris targets multiple chips. If we're going to have x86 OS choice, why not give us the full gamut. I think that Apple could make $$ from x86 users wanting to run a really grandma-user-friendly OS.
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you can't beat that! Mac users got a game the same time as PC users and it was done by the same devloper. yea blizzard!
I still say the 'cast was the coolest. It wasn't too large, fairly portable, cool memory cards with LCDs (yes I was a tamagotch sadist) and mini games. It may not have lived a long life but I hold it in very high regard. Too bad the sony pocketstation never made it over here (see above comment about tamagotch sadist).
Don't forget the frickin' cold! hehe brrrrrrr
Remember the old "Tulsa, a great place to hang your hat" campaign? We always said "Tulsa, a great place to hang your-self!" aahha It was nice growing up and a great place to raise a family. I'm glad I got out tho. Now if I could just earn enough $$ to move to SF bay area. ;)
That would make a great t-shirt.
Remember in the USA we are prudes so that violence isn't so bad, but nudity, damn, call the cops! You got to help the childern!
Rumor spreadin' around...
DVD Jon will ride in on a white horse. I still think they need a shirt that says "DVD Jon cracked my a**" Imagine the hilarity and the obscurity.
Slam on Dreamcast? That is my all time favorite game console. I miss sega consoles.
I know I really get pissed when Microsoft builds in some OS functionality and gives it to me for free rather than me having to buy some 3rd party product. I'm cheap like that.
:)
And Amazon's patent practices suck, but they have everything and its cheaper than other stores.
Dvorak is that like this Metric thing I keep hearing about? Darn kids these days. ;)
That does not make sense!
True there are some issues with it and T-Mobile US's network but as they release it in the US I imagine they will clear up. I was previously using a Treo 270. The only thing I really miss is the ease and speed of the keyboard entry on the Treo. The handwriting recognition on the P800 is good, but I can "thumb-type" much faster. That and missing a few apps like vindigo. The applications should start appearing now though...finally an ICQ clone client came out and with the publishing of the Opera browser (it is actually out now on Sony Ericsson's download site for the P800) it is getting there. The speaker phone is much much better than on the Treo and it nicely plays MP3, WAV, MIDI, etc on the P800 (as well as for ringtones!).
The GPRS speed (when used as a modem for a laptop via bluetooth) is pretty close to a PC card GPRS modem. Not quite there, but close. I got 36kb/s with the P800 as a modem, but could get 39kb/s with my Sierra AirCard (and they use compression as well on the aircard).
The size is larger than most phones (a bit smaller than an old Nokia 6190 and a bit wider), but the phone itself has an excellent "feel" to it and fits well. It has a good phone weight if that is a description. Feels confortable like a regular land line phone, but is still light and portable.
The price is high for a SIM free version ($650 preorder from SE US), but I would imagine subsidized versions will come out soon from T-Mobile and AT&T.
Overall it is a much nicer phone than the treo and has better integration, but the treo is a bit nicer PDA (due to a huge application base and keyboard). If you have the cash definately pick one up, if you just want a mobile phone that makes calls and no more then this isn't the phone for you.
-xen
Now anti games home page says "This site has been taken down due to a denial service attack which keeps persisting, sorry for the incovenience"
That was too classic not to share. I assume the "Dos" is just the slashdot effect, but I could be mistaken.
-jim
Sweeeeet! I was married 5 years ago today. Good luck and Congratz!
Thanks for the mirror, awesome bandwidth! :)))
I've got the original atlas and it is a wonderful treasure of information on Tolkien's world. Has anything changed in this latest printing?
-jim
Yea, forget about killers and rapists et al, lets get this guy and be sure to make him suffer! What crap, I think someone has toooo much time on their hands here. I wish people would get their priorities straight and go after the violent felons.
this is good. Wasn't the whole star wars saga supposed to be originally about the 2 droids (3po and r2)?
I thought you were going to say even better...
"french people piss me off!" ahahhahahahahah
-jim
How about Yahoo just pulls their french sites. After all don't the french think that if it isn't in their language that it doesn't exist?? ahahhahaha!
;) (I hope that is the proper acro., the organization that provides free legal support)
;)
Why don't we have a big auction site of anti-french stuff and donate it to the EFF.
Or I hear that Metallica is losing money to Napster and MP3 piracy, maybe they could use the profits???
-jim
Anyone thinking this is happening very close to april 1? I just cannot fathom the ultima series without its original designer.
The price is fair as others have said in comparison to what the Japanese pay for their CDs. What isn't fair is the whole regional division thing. I'd love to download some J-pop stuff that is hard to find for me here in the USA, or just to sample some Japanese artists.
oh well
maybe they should try citizenship?!?! Jeez! If they want to live here and work here then be a frickin citizen for crying out loud. Now don't get me wrong, Linus is a brilliant man and I'm sure the others involved are also highly skilled and great minds (but obviously overshadowed by the name dropping of Linus), but all this whining about something that gets them permanent residence, but they don't have to be a US citizen? For crying out loud if you want to stay here so bad become a citizen. Maybe there is something I'm missing here, and maybe the US has strange and/or callous laws about dual citizenship, but I still fail to see the sense in having permanent residence in the US and not being a citizen? Oh well, if it weren't for Linus' name in the pot I bet certain media orginazations would have glossed over the whole story. I can see it now...[supervisor to reporter].."hey isn't this Linus fellow the guy that started that Linux or something another thing that we hear about all the time?" ahahha What can you expect after all, he's just a US citizien and not a green card holder? *grin* ;)
They need to forget all the propriatry hw garbage and make OS X for x86 and other processors. While they're at it, they need to make some of their cool periphials (the Apple Cinema 22" flat panel - ahah definately not the 1 button mouse) available and compatible for x86 machines as well. Apple has so much style they just dont spread the wealth around. I'd love to toy with their OS, I just don't want to have to buy a G4 to do it. While we're at it, who came up with this one architecture per OS business? BeOS targets multiple chips, Linux targets multiple chips, heck Solaris targets multiple chips. If we're going to have x86 OS choice, why not give us the full gamut. I think that Apple could make $$ from x86 users wanting to run a really grandma-user-friendly OS.