Yes, Toddler Lock is great since it blocks access to other functions. It's better then Zoodles at 6 months for sure. I don't love Zoodles because of the extra fee content that kids try to use but they can't until you pay.
Have you considered writing to a virtual disk file of some kind? You could create your own "disk" file and write to it any way you want. You just need to create your own virtual controller and disk format - though you could probably come up with some open source tools from something like Xen or Bochs to help you.
I don't know that this would be easier but it may not be harder and it could be free. If you do manage to get it to work this way you'll have the advantage of not being locked down to any specific hardware.
In less than one year Google made Chrome faster and more secure than Microsoft was able to make IE since they bought NCSA Mosaic many years ago. Firefox is a great browser but it's still not as fast as Chrome and Chrome has been proven more secure - I'm sure due to its application virtualization technology.
It wouldn't surprise me if Google has a better (faster, more secure, does what most people need) OS than Microsoft or Apple in a year or two.
These are Windows Mobile 6 phones and include the cable and software for you to run powerpoint presentations to a projector or anything else with a vga in.
They actually have an nVidia GoForce 5500 which is a poorly supported but very high end mobile graphics chipset for 24-bit audio as well as hardware video encoding/decoding and 3d graphics acceleration. This should work much better than the card based add-on's available for some pda's.
I have the 6150 and have used the vga out with my projector. The phone actually does 1024x768 to the external device so things look pretty sharp!
The down side is I don't think you'll find these subsidized. They both cost about $600. They are gsm so you can use them with tmobile or at&t. I use mine with at&t.
They both have 128MB of RAM, 256MB of flash, 520MHz intel xscale cpu, GoForce 5500, gprs, edge, umts, hsdpa, bluetooth, 802.11b/g, and include the vga cable/with 1/8" stereo out.
It's tough to find a device that comes with what you need for this. For this price though, you could just buy a laptop.
I guess this is off topic...I was going to say I'm a huge fan of Opera on wierd hardware. For instance, I bought Opera Mobile for my Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC phone. I also had Opera Mini for my old LG CU500 phone. Both are amazingly good at rendering pages accurately. Opera on the wii is great! The only thing I don't like about it is it doesn't support tabs no the wii but this is because it's such pansy hardware, not the browsers fault. I havn't used it much on the PC and when I did (it's been a few years) I didn't like it more than firefox and it had lots of ads at the time.
The demo is a free download from the PS network. It's awesome! Any game where you can throw a disco ball that makes enemies stop shooting at you and dance so you can pick them off is fun for me:)
I guess I'm the only person on/. who doesn't think the PSP is a failure. I also don't understand the comparisons to the DS. They both play games, that's it. The PSP is a mobile entertainment device. The DS plays games that do not require any advanced hardware. The PSP plays home console quality games, video, music, provides some internet access, makes a great photo viewer, and more. I love sports games and the PSP as an excellent library of sports games. I show them to my friends and their jaws drop. I always get comments like "that looks better than on my ps2" or "that looks like the xbox version".
I don't see how you can compare the two on price. If you choose to, that's you're choice. I guess it doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
It boils down to what you want. If you like the games for the ds, buy a ds!!! Don't buy a PSP! If you like the games for the PSP, and there are a ton for a non-nintendo portable, probably at least 300 now, buy a PSP. If you want something you can rip dvd's and copy them to inexpensive flash media for cheap mobile viewing, get a PSP (I got a 4GB msduopro for $70, hardly expensive). If you want a photo viewer, music player, and a tool for light web browsing, get a psp.
Both the ds and the psp have their place I think. I don't understand all the psp hate. If you like to hate, then go for it. If you want a ds, buy one.
Most people who I have heard talk about PSP haven't played with it much if at all. Check it out if you haven't. Give it a chance. It's been an amazing device for my uses.
Wow! That was stupid. I hadn't even heard of that. I think I'd take that over the rootkit though. There are still plenty of companies foolishly (illegally?) using ssn's as usernames and for other things they shouldn't be.
Same here! I switched the year of the rootkit also and have been very happily using taxcut since. I won't be going back and I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why anyone would say they were "stuck with taxcut" this year.
Look for a Trans-reflective LCD. These don't wash out in the sun light. I'm pretty sure all LCD's are active matrix now so you shouldn't need to worry about that.
I thought verizon was the only company arrogant enough to restrict and disable features of their phones. Verizon has been doing this for a long time. I wouldn't have thought tmobile was in the position to do this. I know I will stop suggesting tmobile to people now.
I love my LG CU-500 phone but that's only because of the excellent 3rd party apps I have on it. Whoosh costs me $25 a year but it's a great email client and even lets me read.pdf and.doc attachments! Google Maps and Gmail are also must have 3rd party tools. If you're not using Opera Mini and it works on your phone you're just crazy! I use that to check/., myspace, and facebook anywhere, anytime! Those are all free except Whoosh which I think is cheap and well worth it. If you want a great but less feature rich email client that's free try flurry.
Third party apps make the device for me. So, verizon and tmobile are off my list. I want gsm so sprint/nextel (double wammy for verizon) are off my list no mater what they do with their devices. I just hope cingular doesn't do anything stupid (other than changing their name back to att) so I can stay with them.
I'm not sure Apple deserves so much credit. They have good marketing. I don't think they have much more than that. Apple has just been better at getting the word out. They tell people what their product can do and people buy it without realizing what it can not do. Apple's arrogance and lack of competition has undoubtedly stunted the progress of the mobile media market. I guess you could make a strong argument that they did help the "mp3" market to take off though.
Take a look at the ipod for instance. It's been, technically, the worst mp3 player since it came out. Sure, audio playback is excellent. But similar offerings from companies like iRiver, Samsung, Creative, Archos, and others have pretty much always had other features like line-in recording, fm tuner, fm recording, voice recording via internal mic, optical audio i/o, and support for more audio formats. Apple have never pushed the envelope from what I can think of. They have a cool interface here and there and a lot of people seem to like their hardware designs.
I don't think apple has much of a chance of doing anything exciting in the gaming market. They are artists, not tech geeks. Today's games need tech geeks to optimize the software and hardware required for gaming. Apple's games may be simple enough for any bonehead to use but they won't push the envelope with graphic effects, framerates, or subversive audio. Could they still be fun...well, look at the wii. I'm not a fan of the wii but it sounds like those who have it love it!
I guess we'll have to see what happens but I'm very skeptical of Apple gaming.
I agree. I've installed it on three desktops and a laptop, all machines I use, and am having no problems at all. I haven't had it crash, lock up, or anything like that. Site compatibility problems?!?!? Is the dude sure he isn't running IE7? To me, it's working just like an enhanced 1.5.
I won't install IE7 for at least 6 months probably. I don't trust microsofts first releases. I haven't been done wrong by firefox or thunderbird. Thank you Mozilla team!
It started out as a drive imaging solution that's much more elegant than ghost. Now it has scheduling, can backup files only, can do incremental's, etc. It's very easy to use and supports everything (usb drives, dvd burning, network drives, etc). If you have a backed up image on a network drive you can boot off it's boot cd to restore the image - actually you can create from the boot cd too. I think you can get it at newegg.com for around $35.
...It's a small disc that holds 1.8GB of data...this is more than the physically larger in diameter disc that nintendo uses (1.5GB) in their gamecube. When the system came out flash memory wasn't available at a resonable price - and actually, you still can't find a 2GB cf or sd card for $50 I don't think. So, for a game system, which is normally propriotary anyway, I'm not sure it was such a bad idea. Also, since the psp does have excellent hardware mpeg4 playback why not make movies for the thing since you can do very high quality video with mpeg4 at only 480x272 resolution and have tons of room on a 1.8GB disc for a movie.
I think the place where sony made a bad choice was on the price. I think if the movies were $5 to $15 dollars they would have continued to sell at a good rate - I may have even bought some...but at $15 to $30 when you can get the same move for $10-$18 on dvd for playback on a much bigger screen and with more extra's on the disc, who would want the umd!?!?!? I think the price is what killed the umd movies.
I would say that I like Sony as a company more than I like Microsoft as a company but I would not give Sony a trust rating of A+.
I love my PSP but I don't like any of Sony's DRM efforts (I think the rootkit takes the cake) and I don't like their Chinese menu of flash memory "standards". Compact flash and SD/MMC cover things pretty well. Ok, one tiny one like transflash or miniMMC isn't a bad idea but I don't understand how we need both - and I hope Sony doesn't come up with a competitor to them.
It does SMB, appletalk, and ftp. It's got a nice web interface. It has four usb ports to add usb hard drives and share those as well! It can also share a printer - but the printer must do uni-directional communications and I think most current printers don't. It does 10/100/1000 so take your pick.
The printer thing is the only issue I've run into with it. Other than that I love it.
I reccomend using TrueImage from Acronis if you have a windows machine to backup. It's my favorite imaging software and supports incrementals and scheduling. It's nice because you can mount the image files as drives to get data out!
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Yes, Toddler Lock is great since it blocks access to other functions. It's better then Zoodles at 6 months for sure. I don't love Zoodles because of the extra fee content that kids try to use but they can't until you pay.
I love the new design! It looks slick and clean!
Have you considered writing to a virtual disk file of some kind? You could create your own "disk" file and write to it any way you want. You just need to create your own virtual controller and disk format - though you could probably come up with some open source tools from something like Xen or Bochs to help you.
I don't know that this would be easier but it may not be harder and it could be free. If you do manage to get it to work this way you'll have the advantage of not being locked down to any specific hardware.
In less than one year Google made Chrome faster and more secure than Microsoft was able to make IE since they bought NCSA Mosaic many years ago. Firefox is a great browser but it's still not as fast as Chrome and Chrome has been proven more secure - I'm sure due to its application virtualization technology.
It wouldn't surprise me if Google has a better (faster, more secure, does what most people need) OS than Microsoft or Apple in a year or two.
I wonder if Microsoft will switch to Chrome OS or OSX?
Turn them into MAME arcade machines and sell them on ebay!
These are Windows Mobile 6 phones and include the cable and software for you to run powerpoint presentations to a projector or anything else with a vga in.
They actually have an nVidia GoForce 5500 which is a poorly supported but very high end mobile graphics chipset for 24-bit audio as well as hardware video encoding/decoding and 3d graphics acceleration. This should work much better than the card based add-on's available for some pda's.
I have the 6150 and have used the vga out with my projector. The phone actually does 1024x768 to the external device so things look pretty sharp!
The down side is I don't think you'll find these subsidized. They both cost about $600. They are gsm so you can use them with tmobile or at&t. I use mine with at&t.
They both have 128MB of RAM, 256MB of flash, 520MHz intel xscale cpu, GoForce 5500, gprs, edge, umts, hsdpa, bluetooth, 802.11b/g, and include the vga cable/with 1/8" stereo out.
It's tough to find a device that comes with what you need for this. For this price though, you could just buy a laptop.
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I agree! BeOS is like greased lighting! I don't think I ever saw a full OS that boots faster.
I think Haiku OS http://www.haiku-os.org/ is the best current (only?) active BeOS project out there.
I guess this is off topic...I was going to say I'm a huge fan of Opera on wierd hardware. For instance, I bought Opera Mobile for my Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC phone. I also had Opera Mini for my old LG CU500 phone. Both are amazingly good at rendering pages accurately. Opera on the wii is great! The only thing I don't like about it is it doesn't support tabs no the wii but this is because it's such pansy hardware, not the browsers fault. I havn't used it much on the PC and when I did (it's been a few years) I didn't like it more than firefox and it had lots of ads at the time.
The demo is a free download from the PS network. It's awesome! Any game where you can throw a disco ball that makes enemies stop shooting at you and dance so you can pick them off is fun for me:)
I guess I'm the only person on /. who doesn't think the PSP is a failure. I also don't understand the comparisons to the DS. They both play games, that's it. The PSP is a mobile entertainment device. The DS plays games that do not require any advanced hardware. The PSP plays home console quality games, video, music, provides some internet access, makes a great photo viewer, and more. I love sports games and the PSP as an excellent library of sports games. I show them to my friends and their jaws drop. I always get comments like "that looks better than on my ps2" or "that looks like the xbox version".
I don't see how you can compare the two on price. If you choose to, that's you're choice. I guess it doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
It boils down to what you want. If you like the games for the ds, buy a ds!!! Don't buy a PSP! If you like the games for the PSP, and there are a ton for a non-nintendo portable, probably at least 300 now, buy a PSP. If you want something you can rip dvd's and copy them to inexpensive flash media for cheap mobile viewing, get a PSP (I got a 4GB msduopro for $70, hardly expensive). If you want a photo viewer, music player, and a tool for light web browsing, get a psp.
Both the ds and the psp have their place I think. I don't understand all the psp hate. If you like to hate, then go for it. If you want a ds, buy one.
Most people who I have heard talk about PSP haven't played with it much if at all. Check it out if you haven't. Give it a chance. It's been an amazing device for my uses.
Wow! That was stupid. I hadn't even heard of that. I think I'd take that over the rootkit though. There are still plenty of companies foolishly (illegally?) using ssn's as usernames and for other things they shouldn't be.
Same here! I switched the year of the rootkit also and have been very happily using taxcut since. I won't be going back and I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why anyone would say they were "stuck with taxcut" this year.
Look for a Trans-reflective LCD. These don't wash out in the sun light. I'm pretty sure all LCD's are active matrix now so you shouldn't need to worry about that.
I thought verizon was the only company arrogant enough to restrict and disable features of their phones. Verizon has been doing this for a long time. I wouldn't have thought tmobile was in the position to do this. I know I will stop suggesting tmobile to people now.
.pdf and .doc attachments! Google Maps and Gmail are also must have 3rd party tools. If you're not using Opera Mini and it works on your phone you're just crazy! I use that to check /., myspace, and facebook anywhere, anytime! Those are all free except Whoosh which I think is cheap and well worth it. If you want a great but less feature rich email client that's free try flurry.
I love my LG CU-500 phone but that's only because of the excellent 3rd party apps I have on it. Whoosh costs me $25 a year but it's a great email client and even lets me read
Third party apps make the device for me. So, verizon and tmobile are off my list. I want gsm so sprint/nextel (double wammy for verizon) are off my list no mater what they do with their devices. I just hope cingular doesn't do anything stupid (other than changing their name back to att) so I can stay with them.
I'm not sure Apple deserves so much credit. They have good marketing. I don't think they have much more than that. Apple has just been better at getting the word out. They tell people what their product can do and people buy it without realizing what it can not do. Apple's arrogance and lack of competition has undoubtedly stunted the progress of the mobile media market. I guess you could make a strong argument that they did help the "mp3" market to take off though.
Take a look at the ipod for instance. It's been, technically, the worst mp3 player since it came out. Sure, audio playback is excellent. But similar offerings from companies like iRiver, Samsung, Creative, Archos, and others have pretty much always had other features like line-in recording, fm tuner, fm recording, voice recording via internal mic, optical audio i/o, and support for more audio formats. Apple have never pushed the envelope from what I can think of. They have a cool interface here and there and a lot of people seem to like their hardware designs.
I don't think apple has much of a chance of doing anything exciting in the gaming market. They are artists, not tech geeks. Today's games need tech geeks to optimize the software and hardware required for gaming. Apple's games may be simple enough for any bonehead to use but they won't push the envelope with graphic effects, framerates, or subversive audio. Could they still be fun...well, look at the wii. I'm not a fan of the wii but it sounds like those who have it love it!
I guess we'll have to see what happens but I'm very skeptical of Apple gaming.
What planet are you from?
I agree. I've installed it on three desktops and a laptop, all machines I use, and am having no problems at all. I haven't had it crash, lock up, or anything like that. Site compatibility problems?!?!? Is the dude sure he isn't running IE7? To me, it's working just like an enhanced 1.5.
I won't install IE7 for at least 6 months probably. I don't trust microsofts first releases. I haven't been done wrong by firefox or thunderbird. Thank you Mozilla team!
I don't even have a ti calculator and I love seeing things like this. News items like this are the reason I read /. every day!
I'm surprised so many people are complaining about this posting. If you think it's dumb, don't post under it.
I'll bet there are many postings that I'm not interested in that you enjoy. I don't go into them and say why I think they are stupid.
Get TrueImage from Acronis.
It started out as a drive imaging solution that's much more elegant than ghost. Now it has scheduling, can backup files only, can do incremental's, etc. It's very easy to use and supports everything (usb drives, dvd burning, network drives, etc). If you have a backed up image on a network drive you can boot off it's boot cd to restore the image - actually you can create from the boot cd too. I think you can get it at newegg.com for around $35.
...It's a small disc that holds 1.8GB of data...this is more than the physically larger in diameter disc that nintendo uses (1.5GB) in their gamecube. When the system came out flash memory wasn't available at a resonable price - and actually, you still can't find a 2GB cf or sd card for $50 I don't think. So, for a game system, which is normally propriotary anyway, I'm not sure it was such a bad idea. Also, since the psp does have excellent hardware mpeg4 playback why not make movies for the thing since you can do very high quality video with mpeg4 at only 480x272 resolution and have tons of room on a 1.8GB disc for a movie.
I think the place where sony made a bad choice was on the price. I think if the movies were $5 to $15 dollars they would have continued to sell at a good rate - I may have even bought some...but at $15 to $30 when you can get the same move for $10-$18 on dvd for playback on a much bigger screen and with more extra's on the disc, who would want the umd!?!?!? I think the price is what killed the umd movies.
I would say that I like Sony as a company more than I like Microsoft as a company but I would not give Sony a trust rating of A+.
I love my PSP but I don't like any of Sony's DRM efforts (I think the rootkit takes the cake) and I don't like their Chinese menu of flash memory "standards". Compact flash and SD/MMC cover things pretty well. Ok, one tiny one like transflash or miniMMC isn't a bad idea but I don't understand how we need both - and I hope Sony doesn't come up with a competitor to them.
The TeraStation also lets you use more than one and have one backup the other. That's all configured in the web interface:)
Yeah, I have a 1TB Terastation and I love it!
It does SMB, appletalk, and ftp. It's got a nice web interface. It has four usb ports to add usb hard drives and share those as well! It can also share a printer - but the printer must do uni-directional communications and I think most current printers don't. It does 10/100/1000 so take your pick.
The printer thing is the only issue I've run into with it. Other than that I love it.
I reccomend using TrueImage from Acronis if you have a windows machine to backup. It's my favorite imaging software and supports incrementals and scheduling. It's nice because you can mount the image files as drives to get data out!
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