By the time I'd reached high school I had given up writing in cursive. Too many loops, too messy, too hard to read. I didn't see the point. I don't think I was old enough that I was signing things yet.
At some point when I had to start signing things, I would just sign printed. It was fine for a while, btu at some point someone told me I had to write it in cursive. I said, "but then its not my signature." They disagreed and said it legally had to be in cursive. I said, "well that's stupid," then proceeded to labor through trying to write my name in cursive (just for kicks, I asked the person to show me how to write a capital G so I could make a legal signature).
After that my signature diminished to my first and last initials with little squiggly lines after each. You know, like celebrities sign autographs...
Last year when I was signing papers to buy my house, I signed the first page and the notary almost had a fit. She said I couldn't sign that way or it wouldn't be legal. I protested for a bit, but she wouldn't budge, and she was the one with the stamp, so i reluctantly labored through it again for a few pages, then slowly reverted back to my regular signature (so many pages!).
Signatures are supposed to be personal, like fingerprints. The way I sign my name is supposed to be unique to me. If Joe Dumbass Lawyer can't read my signature, that shouldn't matter. If someone were to hold up a page with my alleged signature, and I can't identify it as mine (or it doesn't match my signature on other documents), it shouldn't be legally binding. For someone to instruct me that I have to use proper penmanship for it to be legal is ridiculous.
I was addressing some envelopes yesterday. It was the first time i've written anything that someone besides myself had to read in a LONG time. Its weird how hard it is to write legibly when you're out of practice. Still my writing is plenty sufficient for emergencies and my own needs.
I think anyone concerned with penmanship (even the word seems a bit too self-important) needs to get over it. My report cards all through elementary school showed "Needs improvement" under penmanship, but it didn't seem to affect my getting A's in everything else. I mean how bad could my writing have been if all of my teachers were able to read and grade it?
If Johnny is playing video games and can't think, he's playing the wrong games. Most of the puzzles (believe it or not, many of the GTA3 missions actually boil down to a puzzle, rather than just shooting anything that moves) require some thought to figure out. Most of the games that are successful are difficult and require thought to figure out how to get through them, or to develop strategies.
Granted, much that you learn in games isn't directly applicable to daily life (when was the last time you had to jump over turtles to get to a princess?). Then again neither is most of what you learn in school, and I've had plenty of schooling to figure that out. The more important lesson is figuring out HOW to learn, and I believe video games can be very effective.
In most games, you are in some fantasy space. You're not bound by the rules of real life. It takes a while to figure out how things work. You learn how to adapt to new situations and unexpected obstacles.
In any case I haven't written in cursive (except when forced) since probably 5th grade. A 6th or 7th grade teacher suggest I should write in cursive, but she soon got over it. I didn't have a computer back then, but still I found printing to be much more readable than cursive, and quicker to write.
I definitely won't miss cursive writing if its gone by the time my kids will have had to learn it.
He did that almost 2 years ago. Prices have dropped dramatically since then, so it can definitely be done cheaper.
Basestations are available for around $100 instead of the $300 he payed. The antenna may not be any cheaper for off-the-shelf, as I have yet to see a Yagi antenna on a shelf anywhere. Rolling your own is definitely cheaper, though it takes more effort.
If your friends can't handle you occasionally not answering your phone, they have problems. Sometimes you're probably busy. Sometimes you leave the phone in another room. Sometimes you don't feel like answering. They'll get over it. Haven't you ever called anyone's mobile and gotten their voicemail? Did you feel hurt? I sure hope not.
The problem is that too many people see your mobile phone as a tool for THEM to reach YOU. I see it as a tool for ME to use to reach others. After all, I'm the one paying for it, not them!
Don't forget that the B&W Sidekick had huge rebates and price drops a couple of months after release. You could by it for under $100, or even free, though there was still a 1-year contract.
I've never understood the "why do you want a (cellphone, pda, whatever)? people will bug you all the time" mentality. My mobile phone (which happens to be a Sidekick) is for me to reach people when I want or need to reach them. It has never been a burden on me.
In fact it has been a tremendous convenience. There have been quite a few times that I've needed to call someone (like to ask my wife which brand of toilet paper to buy... important stuff like that;), and its nice to be able to do it from wherever I am, instead of having to hunt down a quarter and a payphone.
And being unreachable is really, really easy: turn off the phone, or mute it, or just don't answer it. I could be "unreachable" at my desk at work (just ask the people I used to work with!). It just requires some amount of self-control.
If you can't handle owning a mobile phone without feeling like it controls your life, you probably shouldn't own one. Good for you. For those of us who can handle it, its a great convenience.
Multiple levels might involve storing more than one temporary copy. "Undo" doesn't actually undo what was done, it just has to revert to a state before the action was taken.
Even one step of undo could involve thousands of points, but still they have it. So extending that to muliple steps may mean more storage, or writing to files or whatever.
My guess is that most of the Blender developers are using Linux, or Windows, and fewer of them use Mac OSX. While I would love to see all of the features running on OSX, I can understand that a Linux developer would have a different priority set that I do.
If they already have working plugins, why shouldn't they work on new features? If there are Mac users who want the plugins to work, they can look at the source code and start making it happen.
I think a common misconception with Open Source software is that its trying to "beat" commercial software. That's silly. The Maya (and Photoshop) programmers get paid to implement that their customers see as a priority. As long as someone is willing to pay enough for it, it will get done.
On the Open Source side, there is a group of motivated programmers who are making a tool that does what they want. They are motivated primarily by their own needs and desires of what the tool should do. They don't have customers. If it work on their computers, then it works. If it doesn't work on YOUR computer, you have the option to download the source and make it work.
But for a Linux programmer to sit on his thumbs waiting for the Mac port to be finished before adding new capabilities to the system is ridiculous.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a D-Link USB FM tuner in order to record Howard every morning. I have it plugged into my iMac, and set up a cron job to record every morning to an mp3. Then I stream it to my laptop when i wake up.
MPlayer for Mac OSX has buttons for skipping ahead and back 10 seconds, so its very nice for instant replay and commercial skipping (click a few times to skip commercials).
Stallman is very well known, but I can't recall any software he's written other than GNU Emacs. While Emacs alone is a pretty huge contribution, I know there is more that he has done, I just don't know what it is.. and its probably stuff I use all the time.
I think at the root of this is the whole "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux" debate, as that is one of the most prominent cases of not giving credit where credit is due. When that issue was covered on "Revolution OS", Stallman made a very good argument that there are thousands of people contributing GNU software which supports the Linux kernel to make an OS distribution, but GNU gets no credit. Linus's truly brilliant, and well though out response: its mine, so i call it Linux.
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you're a fukin dork, dude.;)
obviously adult film would be interested. they can now produce high quality HD porn for about the same cost as standard video. porn is one of the single largest drivers of technology.
Actually THEY got it backwards in the movie. Mouse says, "Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything!"
The way it should have gone is that they knew what chicken tasted like (somehow) but couldn't figure out how to differentiate the different meats, which is why everything tastes like chicken.
I've never taken a bite of chicken and said, "hmm.. tastes like alligator, or maybe rabbit". I have eaten alligator and rabbit, and both kinda tasted like chicken.
I don't think the movie goes into it, but one of the earlier versions of the Matrix did use cattle. It was way more efficient, and the simulation (which consisted of little more than large fields of grass) were much simpler.
After a few years, however, the machines got tired of waiting for Star Wars Galaxies to be released, so they built the human version of the Matrix.
I buy into that argument. Human beings are perhaps efficient at processing things such as vegetables, meat, and other foods into energy. I don't think the movie claims that humans were a perfect energy source, but rathen an abundant one.
The first generation ReplayTV units, and the first fun od second generation (replay 4000) had "free" service, but (as stated) the price was $200 more than a comparably sized Tivo, so it all evened out.
However, consumers in the store seeing a $400 vs $600 price tag would go for the $400, even though they still had to pay for service, so ReplayTV changed their pricing scheme. They dropped the unit price by $200, then added a $250 service fee (or $9.95 a month, or something).
I don't understand what that has to do with Sonic Blue. They don't make Motorola phones or Chia Pets. They do make the ReplayTV, and I don't think they overhyped or overmarketed it. And I definitely don't think it was underdeveloped, though it does have room for improvement.
On the hype side, they couldn't hype this thing enough. I bought one of the first generation units, and was hooked. I can't watch TV without it anymore. I no longer have to schedule anything around TV shows. Everyone I know who has a ReplayTV (or Tivo) thinks it is the best thing ever. If you haven't used one or don't watch TV, it does sound ridiculous. But if you got one for a week or so, you'd realize how great it is.
As for marketing, I have seen a few ads in magazines for Tivo and Replay. I think I may have seen a Tivo commercial on TV. That is a far cry from overmarketed.
Perhaps if they had been able to market better, there would have been more success. People see PVRs as "fancy VCRs", and in that respect can't justify the price tag. VCRs are in teh $100 range, so why spend $500+ for the "same thing".
And as for "underdeveloped", I disagree. This was a totally new type of device. Yes, it is the digital evolution of the VCR, but it went WAY beyond that. When I tried out the DishPVR (long after I was a replay convert), it was basically a digital VCR. All recordings were time+channel based (thursday 8:00-8:30 ch 5). The DishPVR simply replaced a VHS tape with a hard drive.
ReplayTV and Tivo, on the other hand, took advantage of the hard drive and the fact that the device was a computer and did much more. You could record every episode of Friends just by setting up a show-based recording. It could catch the prime-time episode and all reruns on any station. If a show changes time slots, the replaytv follows it (South Park is a good example). Tivo can even reccommend shows for you based on what you choose to record, though I've never used that feature (i watch enough TV as it is.. I don't need my TV telling me to watch more).
Neither device ever seemed like beta quality to me, or like it was released too soon. There are occasional glitches, but they are few and far between (far less than on some popular computer operation systems). I think both companies knew they were breaking new ground, and knew that they couldn't survive with a half-assed product.
I think this is another case of a product that was ahead of its time. As I said above, most people don't get it. Its one of those things you have to try in order to understand what it really does for you. The TV industry was against it because it changed their model, and just like the RIAA says, change is bad.
While this may be "another fine US electronics company bit[ing] the dust", its surely not for the reasons you suggest.
My favorite thing about P2P networks is finding other people with similar musical tastes, then discovering new music through them.
Back in the Napster Era, I would go looking for a couple of songs or an artist I like. When I found someone who had a bunch from that artist, I'd view their library. If something sounded interesting, I'd grab it and check it out. I was introduced to a lot of new music that way, and ended up buying a lot of CDs that I wouldn't have even looked at otherwise.
My other favorite thing was to seach for "bootleg" or "cover" or "rare". I would find all sorts of great live sets, cover songs, and out of print music by artists I liked. It wasn't stuff that I could have found in the store, or otherwise, if not for Napster.
The RIAA is trying to shut down these outlets because they cannot control them. They CAN control the radio stations, and get their pop crap into high rotation in order to sell a predictable number of units. Their "innovations" like "CD Singles", boy bands, and "Padding a 1-hit wonder's single with 10 of the worst songs ever" have not impressed me. All of their efforts do not help me find music I like, so I have not bought a CD in quite a long time.
So where do I fit in the grand scheme of things? I have the money to buy music, but I don't know what music to buy because everything I hear on the radio is crap. I end up listening to the CDs I already own in my car, instead of the radio. I get no exposure to new music.
How many "lost potential sales" does that represent?
For kicks I plugged a spare HD I had lying around into the network adapter. It does spin up, and the little green light goes on when the network adapter gets activated, but the only thing its doing right now, probably, is contriubuting to the noise and heat coming from the PS2.
Yeah. That was a major bummer when I found that out.
I bought a PS2 network adapter to play THPS4. It has an IDE connector, so i plugged a spare drive on it. The drive does nothing, but whatever.
So the sony linux kit comes with a network adapter, a 40G hard drive, a keyboard, mouse, and the all important magical sony linux dvd. All for $200. (oh yeah, and the PS2 linux claims to ONLY work on the HD it comes with, for some reason).
But I already have the network adapter, a HD, keyboard, and mouse. So if I want to run linux, I'm effectively paying $200 for GNU software. I don't quite understand how that works within the GPL. Please explain it to me.
Anyhow I can't bring myself to spend $200 for a bunch of hardware I don't need, so I won't be running linux on my PS2 anytime soon.
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By the time I'd reached high school I had given up writing in cursive. Too many loops, too messy, too hard to read. I didn't see the point. I don't think I was old enough that I was signing things yet.
At some point when I had to start signing things, I would just sign printed. It was fine for a while, btu at some point someone told me I had to write it in cursive. I said, "but then its not my signature." They disagreed and said it legally had to be in cursive. I said, "well that's stupid," then proceeded to labor through trying to write my name in cursive (just for kicks, I asked the person to show me how to write a capital G so I could make a legal signature).
After that my signature diminished to my first and last initials with little squiggly lines after each. You know, like celebrities sign autographs...
Last year when I was signing papers to buy my house, I signed the first page and the notary almost had a fit. She said I couldn't sign that way or it wouldn't be legal. I protested for a bit, but she wouldn't budge, and she was the one with the stamp, so i reluctantly labored through it again for a few pages, then slowly reverted back to my regular signature (so many pages!).
Signatures are supposed to be personal, like fingerprints. The way I sign my name is supposed to be unique to me. If Joe Dumbass Lawyer can't read my signature, that shouldn't matter. If someone were to hold up a page with my alleged signature, and I can't identify it as mine (or it doesn't match my signature on other documents), it shouldn't be legally binding. For someone to instruct me that I have to use proper penmanship for it to be legal is ridiculous.
But i digress.
I was addressing some envelopes yesterday. It was the first time i've written anything that someone besides myself had to read in a LONG time. Its weird how hard it is to write legibly when you're out of practice. Still my writing is plenty sufficient for emergencies and my own needs.
I think anyone concerned with penmanship (even the word seems a bit too self-important) needs to get over it. My report cards all through elementary school showed "Needs improvement" under penmanship, but it didn't seem to affect my getting A's in everything else. I mean how bad could my writing have been if all of my teachers were able to read and grade it?
If Johnny is playing video games and can't think, he's playing the wrong games. Most of the puzzles (believe it or not, many of the GTA3 missions actually boil down to a puzzle, rather than just shooting anything that moves) require some thought to figure out. Most of the games that are successful are difficult and require thought to figure out how to get through them, or to develop strategies.
Granted, much that you learn in games isn't directly applicable to daily life (when was the last time you had to jump over turtles to get to a princess?). Then again neither is most of what you learn in school, and I've had plenty of schooling to figure that out. The more important lesson is figuring out HOW to learn, and I believe video games can be very effective.
In most games, you are in some fantasy space. You're not bound by the rules of real life. It takes a while to figure out how things work. You learn how to adapt to new situations and unexpected obstacles.
In any case I haven't written in cursive (except when forced) since probably 5th grade. A 6th or 7th grade teacher suggest I should write in cursive, but she soon got over it. I didn't have a computer back then, but still I found printing to be much more readable than cursive, and quicker to write.
I definitely won't miss cursive writing if its gone by the time my kids will have had to learn it.
Come on, dude. Get it right.
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Its to keep the bass from distorting when your headlights are on
Boy Scouts of America?
Have they made a badge for this yet?
He did that almost 2 years ago. Prices have dropped dramatically since then, so it can definitely be done cheaper.
Basestations are available for around $100 instead of the $300 he payed. The antenna may not be any cheaper for off-the-shelf, as I have yet to see a Yagi antenna on a shelf anywhere. Rolling your own is definitely cheaper, though it takes more effort.
I'm still waiting for some hardcore body piercer to turn his penis into an 802.11 antenna.
If your friends can't handle you occasionally not answering your phone, they have problems. Sometimes you're probably busy. Sometimes you leave the phone in another room. Sometimes you don't feel like answering. They'll get over it. Haven't you ever called anyone's mobile and gotten their voicemail? Did you feel hurt? I sure hope not.
The problem is that too many people see your mobile phone as a tool for THEM to reach YOU. I see it as a tool for ME to use to reach others. After all, I'm the one paying for it, not them!
Don't forget that the B&W Sidekick had huge rebates and price drops a couple of months after release. You could by it for under $100, or even free, though there was still a 1-year contract.
I've never understood the "why do you want a (cellphone, pda, whatever)? people will bug you all the time" mentality. My mobile phone (which happens to be a Sidekick) is for me to reach people when I want or need to reach them. It has never been a burden on me.
;), and its nice to be able to do it from wherever I am, instead of having to hunt down a quarter and a payphone.
In fact it has been a tremendous convenience. There have been quite a few times that I've needed to call someone (like to ask my wife which brand of toilet paper to buy... important stuff like that
And being unreachable is really, really easy: turn off the phone, or mute it, or just don't answer it. I could be "unreachable" at my desk at work (just ask the people I used to work with!). It just requires some amount of self-control.
If you can't handle owning a mobile phone without feeling like it controls your life, you probably shouldn't own one. Good for you. For those of us who can handle it, its a great convenience.
Multiple levels might involve storing more than one temporary copy. "Undo" doesn't actually undo what was done, it just has to revert to a state before the action was taken.
Even one step of undo could involve thousands of points, but still they have it. So extending that to muliple steps may mean more storage, or writing to files or whatever.
My guess is that most of the Blender developers are using Linux, or Windows, and fewer of them use Mac OSX. While I would love to see all of the features running on OSX, I can understand that a Linux developer would have a different priority set that I do.
If they already have working plugins, why shouldn't they work on new features? If there are Mac users who want the plugins to work, they can look at the source code and start making it happen.
I think a common misconception with Open Source software is that its trying to "beat" commercial software. That's silly. The Maya (and Photoshop) programmers get paid to implement that their customers see as a priority. As long as someone is willing to pay enough for it, it will get done.
On the Open Source side, there is a group of motivated programmers who are making a tool that does what they want. They are motivated primarily by their own needs and desires of what the tool should do. They don't have customers. If it work on their computers, then it works. If it doesn't work on YOUR computer, you have the option to download the source and make it work.
But for a Linux programmer to sit on his thumbs waiting for the Mac port to be finished before adding new capabilities to the system is ridiculous.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a D-Link USB FM tuner in order to record Howard every morning. I have it plugged into my iMac, and set up a cron job to record every morning to an mp3. Then I stream it to my laptop when i wake up.
MPlayer for Mac OSX has buttons for skipping ahead and back 10 seconds, so its very nice for instant replay and commercial skipping (click a few times to skip commercials).
Stallman is very well known, but I can't recall any software he's written other than GNU Emacs. While Emacs alone is a pretty huge contribution, I know there is more that he has done, I just don't know what it is.. and its probably stuff I use all the time.
I think at the root of this is the whole "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux" debate, as that is one of the most prominent cases of not giving credit where credit is due. When that issue was covered on "Revolution OS", Stallman made a very good argument that there are thousands of people contributing GNU software which supports the Linux kernel to make an OS distribution, but GNU gets no credit. Linus's truly brilliant, and well though out response: its mine, so i call it Linux.
you're a fukin dork, dude. ;)
obviously adult film would be interested. they can now produce high quality HD porn for about the same cost as standard video. porn is one of the single largest drivers of technology.
Actually THEY got it backwards in the movie. Mouse says, "Maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything!"
The way it should have gone is that they knew what chicken tasted like (somehow) but couldn't figure out how to differentiate the different meats, which is why everything tastes like chicken.
I've never taken a bite of chicken and said, "hmm.. tastes like alligator, or maybe rabbit". I have eaten alligator and rabbit, and both kinda tasted like chicken.
I don't think the movie goes into it, but one of the earlier versions of the Matrix did use cattle. It was way more efficient, and the simulation (which consisted of little more than large fields of grass) were much simpler.
After a few years, however, the machines got tired of waiting for Star Wars Galaxies to be released, so they built the human version of the Matrix.
I buy into that argument. Human beings are perhaps efficient at processing things such as vegetables, meat, and other foods into energy. I don't think the movie claims that humans were a perfect energy source, but rathen an abundant one.
heh. I guess their Gigabit connection is stuck behind a dialup somewhere.
The first generation ReplayTV units, and the first fun od second generation (replay 4000) had "free" service, but (as stated) the price was $200 more than a comparably sized Tivo, so it all evened out.
However, consumers in the store seeing a $400 vs $600 price tag would go for the $400, even though they still had to pay for service, so ReplayTV changed their pricing scheme. They dropped the unit price by $200, then added a $250 service fee (or $9.95 a month, or something).
I don't understand what that has to do with Sonic Blue. They don't make Motorola phones or Chia Pets. They do make the ReplayTV, and I don't think they overhyped or overmarketed it. And I definitely don't think it was underdeveloped, though it does have room for improvement.
On the hype side, they couldn't hype this thing enough. I bought one of the first generation units, and was hooked. I can't watch TV without it anymore. I no longer have to schedule anything around TV shows. Everyone I know who has a ReplayTV (or Tivo) thinks it is the best thing ever. If you haven't used one or don't watch TV, it does sound ridiculous. But if you got one for a week or so, you'd realize how great it is.
As for marketing, I have seen a few ads in magazines for Tivo and Replay. I think I may have seen a Tivo commercial on TV. That is a far cry from overmarketed.
Perhaps if they had been able to market better, there would have been more success. People see PVRs as "fancy VCRs", and in that respect can't justify the price tag. VCRs are in teh $100 range, so why spend $500+ for the "same thing".
And as for "underdeveloped", I disagree. This was a totally new type of device. Yes, it is the digital evolution of the VCR, but it went WAY beyond that. When I tried out the DishPVR (long after I was a replay convert), it was basically a digital VCR. All recordings were time+channel based (thursday 8:00-8:30 ch 5). The DishPVR simply replaced a VHS tape with a hard drive.
ReplayTV and Tivo, on the other hand, took advantage of the hard drive and the fact that the device was a computer and did much more. You could record every episode of Friends just by setting up a show-based recording. It could catch the prime-time episode and all reruns on any station. If a show changes time slots, the replaytv follows it (South Park is a good example). Tivo can even reccommend shows for you based on what you choose to record, though I've never used that feature (i watch enough TV as it is.. I don't need my TV telling me to watch more).
Neither device ever seemed like beta quality to me, or like it was released too soon. There are occasional glitches, but they are few and far between (far less than on some popular computer operation systems). I think both companies knew they were breaking new ground, and knew that they couldn't survive with a half-assed product.
I think this is another case of a product that was ahead of its time. As I said above, most people don't get it. Its one of those things you have to try in order to understand what it really does for you. The TV industry was against it because it changed their model, and just like the RIAA says, change is bad.
While this may be "another fine US electronics company bit[ing] the dust", its surely not for the reasons you suggest.
My favorite thing about P2P networks is finding other people with similar musical tastes, then discovering new music through them.
Back in the Napster Era, I would go looking for a couple of songs or an artist I like. When I found someone who had a bunch from that artist, I'd view their library. If something sounded interesting, I'd grab it and check it out. I was introduced to a lot of new music that way, and ended up buying a lot of CDs that I wouldn't have even looked at otherwise.
My other favorite thing was to seach for "bootleg" or "cover" or "rare". I would find all sorts of great live sets, cover songs, and out of print music by artists I liked. It wasn't stuff that I could have found in the store, or otherwise, if not for Napster.
The RIAA is trying to shut down these outlets because they cannot control them. They CAN control the radio stations, and get their pop crap into high rotation in order to sell a predictable number of units. Their "innovations" like "CD Singles", boy bands, and "Padding a 1-hit wonder's single with 10 of the worst songs ever" have not impressed me. All of their efforts do not help me find music I like, so I have not bought a CD in quite a long time.
So where do I fit in the grand scheme of things? I have the money to buy music, but I don't know what music to buy because everything I hear on the radio is crap. I end up listening to the CDs I already own in my car, instead of the radio. I get no exposure to new music.
How many "lost potential sales" does that represent?
I think Walmart was Lindows's first retail outlet. search slashdot for "walmart" and "lindows" and you'll probably find the announcement.
For kicks I plugged a spare HD I had lying around into the network adapter. It does spin up, and the little green light goes on when the network adapter gets activated, but the only thing its doing right now, probably, is contriubuting to the noise and heat coming from the PS2.
Yeah. That was a major bummer when I found that out.
I bought a PS2 network adapter to play THPS4. It has an IDE connector, so i plugged a spare drive on it. The drive does nothing, but whatever.
So the sony linux kit comes with a network adapter, a 40G hard drive, a keyboard, mouse, and the all important magical sony linux dvd. All for $200. (oh yeah, and the PS2 linux claims to ONLY work on the HD it comes with, for some reason).
But I already have the network adapter, a HD, keyboard, and mouse. So if I want to run linux, I'm effectively paying $200 for GNU software. I don't quite understand how that works within the GPL. Please explain it to me.
Anyhow I can't bring myself to spend $200 for a bunch of hardware I don't need, so I won't be running linux on my PS2 anytime soon.