That's becuase it is in a different class than the DS.
The DS is irrelevant in the PSP space.
The one they should be comapred to is Archos and their video players. The PSP is a convergence device, no a gaming machine (well, it does that too).
Sony just decided to attack the memory angle from the other side than the traditional players have here. Rather than going with a big hard drive, they went with a graphics accelerator.
This will be made clear when the psp2 comes out in 2009.
Also, read "Eastern Standard Tripe" and think about the ubiquitos communicators.
How much does that thing cost to make? It feels faaar more expensive than the $250 asking price.
But yeah (re: hardward discounts), when you have your name on every game, those props comes with a couple bucks, so they do make the initial loss in volume.
Also, would you support an Amendment to the Constitution that declares 'Election Day' a National Holiday? Many voters find that working two or three jobs to make ends meet makes it difficult to take the time and educate themselves about all the candidates, much less find the time to do the actual voting. A day of quiet reflection and unrushed voting could do us a world of good, and besides, who doesn't like a candidate that adds more vacations to the year?
Immigration is now part of the Motherland Security department.
For those that like puns, it's gone from INS to ICE.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) relocated March 1 from the Department of Justice to the Department of, Homeland Security, and its operations will be handled by three new agencies.
The transition took place in March [2003], when' the Department of Homeland Security took over its functions and responsibilities. The former INS was split into three agencies:
Bureau of. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (www.bcis.gov).now handles petitions for immigration benefits and naturalization applications.
* Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (www.customs.gov) deals with immigration enforcement and related functions at the borders arid, ports of entry.
* Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (www.bice.immigration.gov) handles the interior enforcement of immigration and customs laws.
So now 'legal' immigrants have to get thoroughly vetted by a larger morass of beaurocrats. This costs money and takes time. The lag in the marketplace creates excess demand, which creates value opportunites, and finally you get this kind of crap every now and again.
My previious statment can be clarified thusly "you can't keep terms straight, and they are all synonyms (to you, as far as I can tell)." That help?
Or are you going to keep trolling (cue, 'Ha, you can't argue so you call me a troll.' (and you ignore, again, the request for you to define what you think these words mean))
O.k. now back to your clarifcication.
Probably the best way I can explain it is this: Islam is to Muslim what Protestant is to Christianity. Well that just explains that Islam is a subset of Muslim, and how much depends on who you talk to. But the main difference is that Islamists believe in a political superiority that drives a nationalistic expansion of their law to the whole world. It is the mixture of the political ambitions with the Muslim religion that makes one an Islamist.
So, what part of Islam or percentage of Muslims (Those that practice Islam) believe in nationalistic expansion? Is there another, more specific term for people that put such things into practice?
As you've pointed out, "Islam is to Muslim what Protestant is to Christianity." Except that makes no sense if you read the dictionary or Wikipedia. "Christianity is to Christian, as Islam is to Muslim" is the only thing that makes the barest sense. "Wahabbism it to Islam, as Protestant is to Christianity" would have made more sense. But again, that's just using a the wikipedia to define terms. "Many Sunni Muslims criticise Wahhabism for its lack of flexibility and general intolerance towards other religions and even towards other Muslim sects. A number of moderate Islamic groups have publicly condemned Wahhabism as being a distortion of historic Islam.
Many non-Muslim commentators refer to it as "Islamic fascism"."
So again, and I think we up to 5 requests now, what definitions do you use for these terms? How do you, personally, differentiate between those that want restore the Caliphate by force of arms and those that want to live in peace?
A Muslin is a person who practices the religion of Islam.
An Islamist, as they have been shortened to, generally follow the radicalized teachines of Wahabbi that gained prominence in Saudi Arabia in the late 60's (IIRC).
To say that all Muslims are Islamists, as you seem to believe, is so factually innaccurate that the mind boggles.
Now stop playing the fool and tell me, exactly, how it is that me and Webster are confused.
such as the distinction I made between muslim and islam
Again, your definition completely contradicts what is in the dictionary, and the generally understood meanings of the words, so I asked you to be more specific.
You can't be, and seem to blame me for this failure.
It's a simple thing really. You don't seem to agree with what a dictionary says, so we have to have a discussion before we can agree upon definitions of terms before this can go any further.
I've put forth what I think the words mean, now I'm asking you. The ball is in your court.
BTW, calling me a racist is funny. What are you going to quote to back that up?
Not suprisingly, there is nothing in there that supports your claim.
Yea, you are right, nothing in those links shows a history of institutionalied racism in the U.S. Your powers of denial about this country's history will always trump my powers of googling. So I'll stop.
Aside from these red-herrings, what was your point again?
LGF is hate-spewing web site.
My point? Ah yes, my intentional use of a loaded term to point out your sloppy use of labels. (Muslim, Islam, Islamist, Wahabbi Terrorist, whatever, it's all the same to you. At least as far as I can tell, as you've yet again failed to differentiate any terms or distinction.)
But I'm with Bill, calling each other the 'n' word is not what one would call progression.
Great, you've got an opinion. Woohoo. Considering what the word used to entail, I can't help but call that progress, but you (and Mr. Cosby) are free to belive what you want.
Had I seen it I would have rather pointed it out for its obvious over-embelishment of the negative connotations.
Your rhetoric knows no limits, well if you consider historic context to be limits.
I'm sorry that you are unfamiliar with the history of the United States. What country are you from? Sometimes I just assume. Here's a primer on this particular subject. Does the term 'race riots' mean anything to you? Again, primer.
Things have progressed since then.
And attempt to deflect alphapatriot that being laughed at because he isn't black as something other than racism.
No, his assumption about the hate-filled eyes that would be coming to get him if he dared speak to the kids in the 'modern slang' was the racist part. Now it's middle-aged white men getting offended, despite the fact that, unlike Bill Cosby, they never lived in a country that found it cool to discriminate against them.
So, what was your point again?
Stick and stones (and institutionalized racism) can break your bones, names will never hurt you.
My point? Ah yes, my intentional use of a loaded term to point out your sloppy use of labels. (Muslim, Islam, Islamist, Wahabbi Terrorist, whatever, it's all the same to you. At least as far as I can tell, as you've yet to differentiate any terms or distinction.)
Don't think it is lost on me that someone who used the 'n' word in the title of their post is accusing people of being bigoted.
The act wasn't lost on you. The point of it was, but that's not surprising considering your, now documented, ability to completely miss what it is I'm writing.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, there are still people that aren't familiar with ripping DVD's?
I can't imagine...
BTW, how much stuff do you carry around on daily basis?
errr...
Tribe, Tribe.
damn freudian typos.
That's becuase it is in a different class than the DS.
/ramen.
The DS is irrelevant in the PSP space.
The one they should be comapred to is Archos and their video players. The PSP is a convergence device, no a gaming machine (well, it does that too).
Sony just decided to attack the memory angle from the other side than the traditional players have here. Rather than going with a big hard drive, they went with a graphics accelerator.
This will be made clear when the psp2 comes out in 2009.
Also, read "Eastern Standard Tripe" and think about the ubiquitos communicators.
That's the PSP's market.
unfortunately, in this scenario, GALLANT is the lawyer for the defense. They tend not to make very good jurors.
How much does that thing cost to make? It feels faaar more expensive than the $250 asking price.
But yeah (re: hardward discounts), when you have your name on every game, those props comes with a couple bucks, so they do make the initial loss in volume.
/i keed^2
inside the ultracold BEC chamber, they slowed the speed of light down to 60 kilometers an hour.
Curiously enough...this is the same velocity at which I ride my bike...
One thing to keep in mind, if one decides to pursue that avenue of experimentation...we only have one garage to play with.
Now, I believe that 'global warming' is going on, since we are coming out of an Ice Age but I don't believe it is man-made.
Good for you. Now go read the science and see what the data suggests.
Also, close your garage, turn on your car, and see if the changes in your local environment are man-made or part of a natural cycle.
that's a heck of a .sig...for someone who never plays, or talk about, golf.
do theories purport?
Or do people purport theories?
Also, would you support an Amendment to the Constitution that declares 'Election Day' a National Holiday? Many voters find that working two or three jobs to make ends meet makes it difficult to take the time and educate themselves about all the candidates, much less find the time to do the actual voting. A day of quiet reflection and unrushed voting could do us a world of good, and besides, who doesn't like a candidate that adds more vacations to the year?
The bad people, that's who.
Immigration is now part of the Motherland Security department.
For those that like puns, it's gone from INS to ICE.So now 'legal' immigrants have to get thoroughly vetted by a larger morass of beaurocrats. This costs money and takes time. The lag in the marketplace creates excess demand, which creates value opportunites, and finally you get this kind of crap every now and again.
Now, any more clarification needed?
Nah, I think we are safe.
[Well that just explains that Islam is a subset of [those that follow Islam].
Crystal clear, you are.
how much depends on who you talk to.
As I'm talking to you, it kinda depends on you, now doesn't it. So now that we agree, your answer would be...?
jeez. O.k. real slow.
What. Do. The. Following. Words. Mean. To. You. Question mark.
To me, and the rest of the English speaking world, they are defined as follows.
Muslim. Dictionary 1 Wikipedia Dictionary 2
Islam. Dictionary 1 Wikipedia Dictionary 2
Sorry, for being so vague.
My previious statment can be clarified thusly "you can't keep terms straight, and they are all synonyms (to you, as far as I can tell)." That help?
Or are you going to keep trolling (cue, 'Ha, you can't argue so you call me a troll.' (and you ignore, again, the request for you to define what you think these words mean))
O.k. now back to your clarifcication.
Probably the best way I can explain it is this: Islam is to Muslim what Protestant is to Christianity. Well that just explains that Islam is a subset of Muslim, and how much depends on who you talk to. But the main difference is that Islamists believe in a political superiority that drives a nationalistic expansion of their law to the whole world. It is the mixture of the political ambitions with the Muslim religion that makes one an Islamist.
So, what part of Islam or percentage of Muslims (Those that practice Islam) believe in nationalistic expansion? Is there another, more specific term for people that put such things into practice?
As you've pointed out, "Islam is to Muslim what Protestant is to Christianity." Except that makes no sense if you read the dictionary or Wikipedia. "Christianity is to Christian, as Islam is to Muslim" is the only thing that makes the barest sense. "Wahabbism it to Islam, as Protestant is to Christianity" would have made more sense. But again, that's just using a the wikipedia to define terms. "Many Sunni Muslims criticise Wahhabism for its lack of flexibility and general intolerance towards other religions and even towards other Muslim sects. A number of moderate Islamic groups have publicly condemned Wahhabism as being a distortion of historic Islam.
Many non-Muslim commentators refer to it as "Islamic fascism"."
So again, and I think we up to 5 requests now, what definitions do you use for these terms? How do you, personally, differentiate between those that want restore the Caliphate by force of arms and those that want to live in peace?
*yawn*
look in the dictionary.
A Muslin is a person who practices the religion of Islam.
An Islamist, as they have been shortened to, generally follow the radicalized teachines of Wahabbi that gained prominence in Saudi Arabia in the late 60's (IIRC).
To say that all Muslims are Islamists, as you seem to believe, is so factually innaccurate that the mind boggles.
Now stop playing the fool and tell me, exactly, how it is that me and Webster are confused.
Not really, but that is beside the point.
I guess that explains why you keep asking me 'what is the point', and you keep missing it.
Three terms. Give me your defintions.
such as the distinction I made between muslim and islam
Again, your definition completely contradicts what is in the dictionary, and the generally understood meanings of the words, so I asked you to be more specific.
You can't be, and seem to blame me for this failure.
Three words, Define them.
O.k.
The problem with you is that you put far too much faith in disenginuous rhetorical tactics.
The problem with you, and LGF, is that you can't keep terms straight, and they are all synonyms.
Thanks for clearing that up. You have done any *amazing* job of being specific about who it is you are scared of.
Define what you think the words mean.
It's a simple thing really. You don't seem to agree with what a dictionary says, so we have to have a discussion before we can agree upon definitions of terms before this can go any further.
I've put forth what I think the words mean, now I'm asking you. The ball is in your court.
Three words. Go for it.
get back to the point...
As you've yet again failed to differentiate any terms or distinction.
Go for it.
Three terms.
Well, this will be easy. C&P for ya.
BTW, calling me a racist is funny. What are you going to quote to back that up?
Not suprisingly, there is nothing in there that supports your claim.
Yea, you are right, nothing in those links shows a history of institutionalied racism in the U.S. Your powers of denial about this country's history will always trump my powers of googling. So I'll stop.
Aside from these red-herrings, what was your point again?
LGF is hate-spewing web site.
My point? Ah yes, my intentional use of a loaded term to point out your sloppy use of labels. (Muslim, Islam, Islamist, Wahabbi Terrorist, whatever, it's all the same to you. At least as far as I can tell, as you've yet again failed to differentiate any terms or distinction.)
But I'm with Bill, calling each other the 'n' word is not what one would call progression.
Great, you've got an opinion. Woohoo. Considering what the word used to entail, I can't help but call that progress, but you (and Mr. Cosby) are free to belive what you want.
Your rhetoric knows no limits, well if you consider historic context to be limits.
I'm sorry that you are unfamiliar with the history of the United States. What country are you from? Sometimes I just assume. Here's a primer on this particular subject. Does the term 'race riots' mean anything to you? Again, primer.
Things have progressed since then.No, his assumption about the hate-filled eyes that would be coming to get him if he dared speak to the kids in the 'modern slang' was the racist part. Now it's middle-aged white men getting offended, despite the fact that, unlike Bill Cosby, they never lived in a country that found it cool to discriminate against them.
So, what was your point again?
Stick and stones (and institutionalized racism) can break your bones, names will never hurt you.
My point? Ah yes, my intentional use of a loaded term to point out your sloppy use of labels. (Muslim, Islam, Islamist, Wahabbi Terrorist, whatever, it's all the same to you. At least as far as I can tell, as you've yet to differentiate any terms or distinction.)
Don't think it is lost on me that someone who used the 'n' word in the title of their post is accusing people of being bigoted.
The act wasn't lost on you. The point of it was, but that's not surprising considering your, now documented, ability to completely miss what it is I'm writing.
I might write Charles about the article you pointed out myself yet. I do have an account there, though I am a lurker.
Who is surpised by this and your inability to seperate Muslim, Islam and Fundamentalist Wahabbi Islamist Terorists?
Count me un.
I might write Charles about the article you pointed out myself yet.
You do that. It would make LGF seem one post less like a hate site.
strawman
The memos are a straw man. They have been burned to a crisp. Now Bush's holes in his record just sit there and stare at ya.