Agreed! I just set mine up when my old PC died, transferring my 2 500GB RAID-1 drives to this bad boy. I was able to get it at newegg for $400 (the Pro model) and am happy. It unfortunately doesn't support NTFS write so I had to convert the drives to the native EXT3, so that took some time to copy my data to another drive and convert them, but after that I was up and running. Their forums (forum.qnap.com) are pretty good as are the support guys if you email them.
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I really like my PSP. I am really happy with the half-dozen games I've sprung for so far, including Ace Combat X, Lumines, Exit, Wipeout Pure, and (somewhat ironically) Sega Genesis collection. I also like encoding my movies and tv shows for on-the-go viewing. The screen is still gorgeous and the system as a whole is perfect for bus rides, trips, and so on. I think the playa hatas out there haven't even played the PSP, much less spent any significant time with it. Yes, the current PSP does fall short of its potential and the next generation of PSP (if it ever gets made) does have room for improvement:
- ditch the UMD (think of all the space inside the PSP's body that thing hogs!), and go flash-memory only (no mechanical HDD either) - add a second analog stick to the face (I see space down and to the left of the face buttons for one of those) - trim a few grams of weight, though I like the solid feel of the PSP - vastly improve the file system to be more flexible. The folder/file-naming is insane. If you have encoded a movie you will know what I mean - release more demos and freebies - more customization and cool tricks for the user interface screen, more external homebrew/application support - quicker boot-up or less stand-by power drain - more colors, scratch-resistance, and better speakers
I really, really want to play these games (and the others like them). I absolutely prefer PC 1st Person shooters over similar console games for the mouselook alone. But I just can't keep up with the hardware joneses any more. I had unacceptable framerates with Far Cry at average quality settings, for instance, on a P4E 3Ghz, 1GB ram, ATI AIW 9800, minimal processes running, and so on. I know that for the most part I will be sucking it up and moving to the new generation of consoles because I and my wallet are losing the PC arms race.
Isn't also ironic that if we are reading less and watching TV more, then few people are going to read his book about people that read less and watch more TV.
I think I just confused myself. I better watch more TV so I can get smarter.
Hell, if it gets the other guys to up their services to match SBC, particularly in a bandwidth increase, then it sounds fine to me. DSL at 256k is too slow for too much cash. A little competition could be good here, even though I'm not sold on the HDTV aspect of it yet.
Overall I liked this movie. It just felt colder and more distant than the first one. Then again, I was pretty far away from the screen and way off to the side!:) Really though, they just threw a lot of stuff at the audience and left a lot hanging. This movie was definately a build-up for Revolutions. I do agree about the villians, though merovingian & company were pretty cool. Hopefully they makes a come-back. I also think that the directors (can't spell those names!) may have been a little too caught up in their technological triumphs.
Likewise, In Washington State, I am charged our sales tax to do on-line business with the in-state companies such as Amazon, Best Buy, etc... But I do not pay sales tax from Newegg, Buy.com, Sierra Trading Post, or any of the other out-of-state stores with no physical presence here. In other words, On-line sales are treated the same way as mail-order stores.
Thanks for the great post! Here in the Pacific northwest (and of course other parts of the world) we have 2 other currently used energy sources that could also play a role (though they are limited in many ways): Hydro-electricty & Wind Power.
Neither are the prettiest things around (though certainly fascinating to look at), but they are relatively clean. I think that these 2 sources of energy could also help push the hydrogen economy along.
I'd certainly like to see a large number of alternative energies given serious government help. Hydrogen is wonderful, but we get so much free energy from the sun, wind, and water, it's a shame to not take advantage of that!
Or one can avoid the problem. A whole new industry is developing on data recovery because IBM (and others) can't make a decent quality Hard Drive. Granted, I couldn't make one either, but I don't have a billion+ in the bank!
HAMAS TOYS WITH DEATH A leading Palestinian militant has been killed by, of all things, a remote-controlled toy plane. Hamas chieftain Nidal Farahat and others had been working on a way to load explosives onto such toys and use them as weapons of terror.
On Sunday, Farahat appeared to fall victim to his own designs. He and five other Hamas operatives died in a Gaza City car bombing. A toy plane was found inside the vehicle.
"This is an assassination done by Israel," Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar, a leader of Hamas, told the New York Times.
In January, DebkaFile claimed that Yasser Arafat was arranging for the deployment of new weapons: "Model planes packed with explosives and operated by remote control."
Last month, Palestinian toy importers in Jerusalem and Ramallah were told to order hundreds of these toys for distribution to Palestinian children in hospitals. Subsidies from European Union member-governments could legitimately be allocated to this humanitarian purpose. The model airplanes were purchased in Europe and shipped quite openly to the Palestinian shopkeepers.
According to our sources, not a single toy reached an injured Palestinian child. The model planes were sent to Palestinian workshops for conversion into miniature air bombers with explosive payloads.
DebkaFile estimated that the modified toys could fly for about a kilometer, and an altitude of 300 meters. posted: 5:14 PM
I think it sounds great, if total ananomity is certain (the US gov't may not like that considering the recent directions its taking... heh). On the other hand, perhaps an optional version with some security features would be nice, such as an on-card pin number to frustrate a thief/mugger.
Certainly some Case-modder somewhere has already done something similar by now. Just a guess that this will be another case of the corporation shoving the little guy out of the way.
Don't forget oil. Far to much money to be lost by a few people if we switch to hydrogen. Come to think of it, a hydrogen economy, in its current state, seems to have a lot of parallels to the peer-to-peer/file-sharing world. The thought of distributing purchasing and usability power to the masses would certainly cause some rich and powerful people to sweat!
I definitely have to recommend against this player. This device epitomizes the "so close, yet so far" saying. I haven't tried any Linux software with it, but the Windows version is very bass-ackwards, requiring the creation of playlists instead of direct file addition. Likewise, the software is buggy and stalls out on WinXP very frequesntly.
I like the design and usability of the device, though it won't accept my officially supported 64MB Sandisk MMC. The construction is a little suspect with some superficial cracks developing. It also will drain the battery, even if it is in the off position (yes, I used the new firmware).
It is very useful for exercising because of its small size, but for the price, it leaves a lot to be desired. The service and support is a joke as well. This is from Rio/Sonicblue/whatever they are calling themselves these days, so it may or may not be represntative of their other products.
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Agreed! I just set mine up when my old PC died, transferring my 2 500GB RAID-1 drives to this bad boy. I was able to get it at newegg for $400 (the Pro model) and am happy. It unfortunately doesn't support NTFS write so I had to convert the drives to the native EXT3, so that took some time to copy my data to another drive and convert them, but after that I was up and running. Their forums (forum.qnap.com) are pretty good as are the support guys if you email them.
I really like my PSP. I am really happy with the half-dozen games I've sprung for so far, including Ace Combat X, Lumines, Exit, Wipeout Pure, and (somewhat ironically) Sega Genesis collection. I also like encoding my movies and tv shows for on-the-go viewing. The screen is still gorgeous and the system as a whole is perfect for bus rides, trips, and so on. I think the playa hatas out there haven't even played the PSP, much less spent any significant time with it. Yes, the current PSP does fall short of its potential and the next generation of PSP (if it ever gets made) does have room for improvement:
- ditch the UMD (think of all the space inside the PSP's body that thing hogs!), and go flash-memory only (no mechanical HDD either)
- add a second analog stick to the face (I see space down and to the left of the face buttons for one of those)
- trim a few grams of weight, though I like the solid feel of the PSP
- vastly improve the file system to be more flexible. The folder/file-naming is insane. If you have encoded a movie you will know what I mean
- release more demos and freebies
- more customization and cool tricks for the user interface screen, more external homebrew/application support
- quicker boot-up or less stand-by power drain
- more colors, scratch-resistance, and better speakers
Why oh why can't I be a product consultant??????
I really, really want to play these games (and the others like them). I absolutely prefer PC 1st Person shooters over similar console games for the mouselook alone. But I just can't keep up with the hardware joneses any more. I had unacceptable framerates with Far Cry at average quality settings, for instance, on a P4E 3Ghz, 1GB ram, ATI AIW 9800, minimal processes running, and so on. I know that for the most part I will be sucking it up and moving to the new generation of consoles because I and my wallet are losing the PC arms race.
Bowing out,
Bob
Isn't also ironic that if we are reading less and watching TV more, then few people are going to read his book about people that read less and watch more TV.
I think I just confused myself. I better watch more TV so I can get smarter.
I'll chip in 50 bucks if they make one that looks like Lonestar's Winnebago!
Hell, if it gets the other guys to up their services to match SBC, particularly in a bandwidth increase, then it sounds fine to me. DSL at 256k is too slow for too much cash. A little competition could be good here, even though I'm not sold on the HDTV aspect of it yet.
Luckily, in this case, my POS can't hit 120.
Overall I liked this movie. It just felt colder and more distant than the first one. Then again, I was pretty far away from the screen and way off to the side! :) Really though, they just threw a lot of stuff at the audience and left a lot hanging. This movie was definately a build-up for Revolutions. I do agree about the villians, though merovingian & company were pretty cool. Hopefully they makes a come-back. I also think that the directors (can't spell those names!) may have been a little too caught up in their technological triumphs.
Likewise, In Washington State, I am charged our sales tax to do on-line business with the in-state companies such as Amazon, Best Buy, etc... But I do not pay sales tax from Newegg, Buy.com, Sierra Trading Post, or any of the other out-of-state stores with no physical presence here. In other words, On-line sales are treated the same way as mail-order stores.
I've learned to be very quick with the alt-F4 keys, like a ninja.
Neither are the prettiest things around (though certainly fascinating to look at), but they are relatively clean. I think that these 2 sources of energy could also help push the hydrogen economy along.
I'd certainly like to see a large number of alternative energies given serious government help. Hydrogen is wonderful, but we get so much free energy from the sun, wind, and water, it's a shame to not take advantage of that!
Or one can avoid the problem. A whole new industry is developing on data recovery because IBM (and others) can't make a decent quality Hard Drive. Granted, I couldn't make one either, but I don't have a billion+ in the bank!
Of interest to this discussion from Defense Tech:
HAMAS TOYS WITH DEATH
A leading Palestinian militant has been killed by, of all things, a remote-controlled toy plane. Hamas chieftain Nidal Farahat and others had been working on a way to load explosives onto such toys and use them as weapons of terror.
On Sunday, Farahat appeared to fall victim to his own designs. He and five other Hamas operatives died in a Gaza City car bombing. A toy plane was found inside the vehicle.
"This is an assassination done by Israel," Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar, a leader of Hamas, told the New York Times.
In January, DebkaFile claimed that Yasser Arafat was arranging for the deployment of new weapons: "Model planes packed with explosives and operated by remote control."
Last month, Palestinian toy importers in Jerusalem and Ramallah were told to order hundreds of these toys for distribution to Palestinian children in hospitals. Subsidies from European Union member-governments could legitimately be allocated to this humanitarian purpose. The model airplanes were purchased in Europe and shipped quite openly to the Palestinian shopkeepers.
According to our sources, not a single toy reached an injured Palestinian child. The model planes were sent to Palestinian workshops for conversion into miniature air bombers with explosive payloads.
DebkaFile estimated that the modified toys could fly for about a kilometer, and an altitude of 300 meters.
posted: 5:14 PM
I think it sounds great, if total ananomity is certain (the US gov't may not like that considering the recent directions its taking... heh). On the other hand, perhaps an optional version with some security features would be nice, such as an on-card pin number to frustrate a thief/mugger.
Reminds of another overhyped, delayed, renamed & underwhelming product: Project Reality -> Ultra 64 -> Nintendo 64. Is the "64" just a coinkidink?
Certainly some Case-modder somewhere has already done something similar by now. Just a guess that this will be another case of the corporation shoving the little guy out of the way.
Don't forget oil. Far to much money to be lost by a few people if we switch to hydrogen. Come to think of it, a hydrogen economy, in its current state, seems to have a lot of parallels to the peer-to-peer/file-sharing world. The thought of distributing purchasing and usability power to the masses would certainly cause some rich and powerful people to sweat!
I definitely have to recommend against this player. This device epitomizes the "so close, yet so far" saying. I haven't tried any Linux software with it, but the Windows version is very bass-ackwards, requiring the creation of playlists instead of direct file addition. Likewise, the software is buggy and stalls out on WinXP very frequesntly.
I like the design and usability of the device, though it won't accept my officially supported 64MB Sandisk MMC. The construction is a little suspect with some superficial cracks developing. It also will drain the battery, even if it is in the off position (yes, I used the new firmware).
It is very useful for exercising because of its small size, but for the price, it leaves a lot to be desired. The service and support is a joke as well. This is from Rio/Sonicblue/whatever they are calling themselves these days, so it may or may not be represntative of their other products.