Even better is reading their rulings. When you read them, it's like you're reading an eloquent novel. I've never read one of their rulings and thought "man this is stupid".
Even if you disagree with them, they do a great job of asking tough questions and addressing tough issues that guide our country as a whole. Their decisions are well laid out and it's really great to read dissenting opinions. Those are always the most fun.
Use Xbox Media Center. It lets you aggregate all of the content from all over your LAN using SMB and view it on your tv. You can even view it in HD if you have the advanced HD pack for your tv and your TV supports HD.
This is what I do, and I download all of the CSI HD rips and other HD rips and watch them in pefect hd progressive scan on my 97" projected image.
Needless to say, DVDs look perfect from it too. I can't imagine having an xbox without modding it and using xbox media center. I have one for the livingroom and one for my small 27" in my bedroom, all on the lan, all having the same content available to them.
Two words, digital cable. Five more words, dual tuner with digital cable.
My dvr can record two shows while I watch a third in HD from the digital channels. I can only do that with myth if I have 2 cable boxes + ir blasters + hd cards + a lot of freaking work.
Believe me, the cable co dvr is definitely worth it, since it only costs 6 dollars a month and works exactly as advertised. I've heard horror stories with cable/satellite dvr's(with the exception of directivo), but this one is worth its weight in some precious metal.
Using a DVR has totally been a life-changing experience. I don't mean that in a sarcastic way or anything, it really has improved my life. I no longer have to choose between doing something I want to do and watching something I want to watch. I can always do both.
If I was paying for a subscription service to a company that is supposed to let me have tv listings and then the hardware sits there recording, I would be infuriated if they wanted to slap pop ups on it too.
I have 2 cable company(TW)dvr's and even they aren't that evil. I love my DVR, but I guarantee that if they start putting ads in the UI, I will switch to MythTV instantly.
Because I download stuff and I like to receive my instant messages. Plus I like not having to turn it on. I use flat panels, which turn off automagically after 20 minutes.
The computer uses a nominal amount of electricity compared to my washer or dryer or subs or whatever. And in any case, I don't care. I run United Devices(that's my team page, I'm cbenard) 24/7 as well on all the computers.
The country's top three fixed-line telephone companies - Telefónica of Spain; Tele Norte Leste Participações, or Telemar; and Brasil Telecom - have agreed to provide a dial-up Internet connection to participants for 7.50 reais, or less than $3, a month, allowing 15 hours of Web surfing."
It's really amazing how we(Americans) take broadband for granted now. I don't see how I could go back to using dialup; it would seem like cruel and unusual punishment. Yet, to these people, many of whom are poor, just having a computer or internet access would be a boon.
Let alone only having 15 hours a month online! Note, the article says "allowing 15 hours"; I'm assumin that means per month. I download GIGS of stuff every day, and my computers are online 24/7/36[56]. Half an hour a day wouldn't even make me wake up in the morning.
I'll make the obligatory comment: Biometrics! The sooner the price comes down on these and the reliability goes up, they will be much better than passwords. I think today, two factor authentication is enough of a hurdle.
I know fingerprints can be foiled with rubber or BREATHING, but if you combine that with voice print or retinal scan, it should be pretty secure, even today. Add in facial recognition, and you've got a secure environment.
All authentication mechanisms are just hurdles. You have to hope your hurdles are high enough to obstruct the level of cracker that is after your information.
I have convinced people at work that making people change their passwords every month totally backfires; it causes utter INsecurity when the people can't remember the password because they have to change it all the time. They end up putting it on post-it notes in drawers next to the desk. I understand the motive, to increase the time it takes to brute-force the password, but when the users are going to do this in reaction to this because they have so many to remember, then you have zero security.
In short, we NEED biometrics, and we need them widely available and cheap.
I love how it mentions WiX. WiX has generated enormously good will for microsoft, at least with me.
I don't ever see them releasing all of windows open source, but just releasing small utilities like that open source for others to toy with is a HUGE step forward. Pretend that microsoft hadn't released WiX, and it stayed as time called it, insignificant. No one would have bothered with it except MCP's and others, and they would have used WinInstall LE or whatever.
But because microsoft released it free and OSS, an enormous buzz has been generated and an enormous amount of good will as well.
The keys aren't central to skype. They are "exchanged". I have to wonder if this decision will extend to SkypeOut in the US. I can't imagine how they could possibly comply with the orders, even if they wanted to, given their current infrastructure.
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I hear there's rumors of that on those internets. It's clear we need to get rid of the bad internets and keep only the good internets.
Besides, I'm sure Kerry created the internet while on a swift boat.
Time Trax was extremely awesome. I don't know what happened to it; I even emailed the sci-fi channel asking to buy dvd's or vhs or anything they have. I would love to have any versions I could find. Sci-Fi never responded, of course.
I found episodes on Gnutella, but they were all in German.
If there's 2 things Germans are good at, it's pirating digital content and making cars.
(In case you're wondering what I'm talking about, I'm replying to an AC; lower your threshold to see it.)
Anyone who has ever used these type of keyboards knows you need a completely steady surface, it needs to be semi-dark so you can see the keyboard, and it hurts the hell out of your fingers to type on a non-giving surface.
None of these aspects are well-suited for portable typing. I want a SELMA hologram for my portable electronics interaction.
It is a really nice portal someone made for it. There's one of the free sites for the PSP too, if you don't already have one. I have one, but I'm trying to get a free one to sell on eBay. If you care, check my homepage for the link.
IMHO, after playing Wipeout Pure, Ridge Racer, and Twisted Metal, the best game of the three is Ridge Racer. That game truly shows off the graphics of the platform.
I pre-ordered from EB and got mine. I was #30 on the list and they got 40. Everywhere else here is sold out....
except Target.
I'm convinced that no one shops at Target. Click here to see my picture commentary on it. I ended up getting Ridge Racer from Target, since everywhere else is sold out. Target has all the games and a few psp's left, because NO ONE shops there.
With that said, Sony has done a horrible job of mismarketing/undermarketing. Almost none of my non-nerd friends even know what a PSP is. It's really sad. I've seen maybe one commercial total for it.
They need to pimp it as the awesome media machine it is. I love mine, and I have Ridge Racer, Wipeout Pure, and Twisted Metal: Head-On.
Playing on the actual internet from a handheld via WiFi in Twisted Metal is a truly awesome experience. Hopefully Sony will market it, but I guarantee you, this thing will be marketed by word of mouth/view of eye. The PSP is dead sexy and I guarantee you people will be asking me about it at school, since I'll be playing it before class starts and in between classes.
I'll have mine in about 5.5 hours. I'm not about lines, but they didn't do a midnight thing anyway here. I pre-reserved at ebgames and I'll pick it up at 9.
I think I'm going to get wipeout pure and ridge racers. I'll probably put an article in my journal later today with my "findings".
Most that I looked at cost $39. The only one I looked at that was $49 was NFS Rivals. The two I'll be buying at first, Ridge Racers and Wipeout Pure, are both $39.
Still below 300 for a full game plus PSP value pack. After a while, the PSP will be available by itself for $199 without the value pack. Due to supply issues, they have to supply it in the format most people are going to buy anyway.
Who's going to buy that tight ass screen without a cover for it?? Where are you going to store your gamesaves? You need a memory stick.
The "value pack" includes "non-interactive demos". You can read that as "videos of people playing the game". When was the last time you got a console that included a game? I know my last time was the original NES, when I got Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt.
It's not $300+, it's $249. The normal value pack will not include Spiderman 2; only the first million units will. It is indeed a novelty, and the novelty is intended to gain early adopters, like me.
It's not more expensive, or if it is, not by much. The $249 price (at which, I've pre-ordered 3 units) is the "value pack" including spiderman 2 movie, headphones, case, and a 32MB memory stick duo.
The $199 price is the PSP only. That will also be offered later in the US, but Sony found that in Japan, the value pack was far outselling the version that was roughly equivalent to $199.
Even if it was marginally more expensive compared to the japanese value pack, that could easily be explained by the declining dollar.
Regardless of its previous shortcomings, I can't wait to get mine and play wirelessly with friends in Wipeout and Ridge Racers, and hopefully shortly after launch, Burnout.
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Maybe next, they'll get screwed for running their facilities like hard-labor prisons.
Even better is reading their rulings. When you read them, it's like you're reading an eloquent novel. I've never read one of their rulings and thought "man this is stupid".
Even if you disagree with them, they do a great job of asking tough questions and addressing tough issues that guide our country as a whole. Their decisions are well laid out and it's really great to read dissenting opinions. Those are always the most fun.
Use Xbox Media Center. It lets you aggregate all of the content from all over your LAN using SMB and view it on your tv. You can even view it in HD if you have the advanced HD pack for your tv and your TV supports HD.
This is what I do, and I download all of the CSI HD rips and other HD rips and watch them in pefect hd progressive scan on my 97" projected image.
Needless to say, DVDs look perfect from it too. I can't imagine having an xbox without modding it and using xbox media center. I have one for the livingroom and one for my small 27" in my bedroom, all on the lan, all having the same content available to them.
Two words, digital cable. Five more words, dual tuner with digital cable.
My dvr can record two shows while I watch a third in HD from the digital channels. I can only do that with myth if I have 2 cable boxes + ir blasters + hd cards + a lot of freaking work.
Believe me, the cable co dvr is definitely worth it, since it only costs 6 dollars a month and works exactly as advertised. I've heard horror stories with cable/satellite dvr's(with the exception of directivo), but this one is worth its weight in some precious metal.
Using a DVR has totally been a life-changing experience. I don't mean that in a sarcastic way or anything, it really has improved my life. I no longer have to choose between doing something I want to do and watching something I want to watch. I can always do both.
If I was paying for a subscription service to a company that is supposed to let me have tv listings and then the hardware sits there recording, I would be infuriated if they wanted to slap pop ups on it too.
I have 2 cable company(TW) dvr's and even they aren't that evil. I love my DVR, but I guarantee that if they start putting ads in the UI, I will switch to MythTV instantly.
Because I download stuff and I like to receive my instant messages. Plus I like not having to turn it on. I use flat panels, which turn off automagically after 20 minutes.
The computer uses a nominal amount of electricity compared to my washer or dryer or subs or whatever. And in any case, I don't care. I run United Devices(that's my team page, I'm cbenard) 24/7 as well on all the computers.
It's really amazing how we(Americans) take broadband for granted now. I don't see how I could go back to using dialup; it would seem like cruel and unusual punishment. Yet, to these people, many of whom are poor, just having a computer or internet access would be a boon.
Let alone only having 15 hours a month online! Note, the article says "allowing 15 hours"; I'm assumin that means per month. I download GIGS of stuff every day, and my computers are online 24/7/36[56]. Half an hour a day wouldn't even make me wake up in the morning.
It's all about perspective.
Damn, I _WISH_ I only spent $700. I just dropped 500 bucks on a psp, 3 games, 1gb memory stick.
Not to mention all the console games I purchase for the xbox, and then the PC games.
I think 700 would be extremely optimistic for me. This is depressing me; I spend too much of my small amount of money on gaming.
I didn't mean secure as in "no one will steal from your or kill you or, as you said, abuse your spouse". You knew what I meant.
I meant the multiple factor authentication makes the authentication itself inherently more secure.
I hate it when people play semantics on slashdot.
I'll make the obligatory comment: Biometrics! The sooner the price comes down on these and the reliability goes up, they will be much better than passwords. I think today, two factor authentication is enough of a hurdle.
I know fingerprints can be foiled with rubber or BREATHING, but if you combine that with voice print or retinal scan, it should be pretty secure, even today. Add in facial recognition, and you've got a secure environment.
All authentication mechanisms are just hurdles. You have to hope your hurdles are high enough to obstruct the level of cracker that is after your information.
I have convinced people at work that making people change their passwords every month totally backfires; it causes utter INsecurity when the people can't remember the password because they have to change it all the time. They end up putting it on post-it notes in drawers next to the desk. I understand the motive, to increase the time it takes to brute-force the password, but when the users are going to do this in reaction to this because they have so many to remember, then you have zero security.
In short, we NEED biometrics, and we need them widely available and cheap.
I love how it mentions WiX. WiX has generated enormously good will for microsoft, at least with me.
I don't ever see them releasing all of windows open source, but just releasing small utilities like that open source for others to toy with is a HUGE step forward. Pretend that microsoft hadn't released WiX, and it stayed as time called it, insignificant. No one would have bothered with it except MCP's and others, and they would have used WinInstall LE or whatever.
But because microsoft released it free and OSS, an enormous buzz has been generated and an enormous amount of good will as well.
The keys aren't central to skype. They are "exchanged". I have to wonder if this decision will extend to SkypeOut in the US. I can't imagine how they could possibly comply with the orders, even if they wanted to, given their current infrastructure.
I hear there's rumors of that on those internets. It's clear we need to get rid of the bad internets and keep only the good internets.
Besides, I'm sure Kerry created the internet while on a swift boat.
Time Trax was extremely awesome. I don't know what happened to it; I even emailed the sci-fi channel asking to buy dvd's or vhs or anything they have. I would love to have any versions I could find. Sci-Fi never responded, of course.
I found episodes on Gnutella, but they were all in German.
If there's 2 things Germans are good at, it's pirating digital content and making cars.
(In case you're wondering what I'm talking about, I'm replying to an AC; lower your threshold to see it.)
Anyone who has ever used these type of keyboards knows you need a completely steady surface, it needs to be semi-dark so you can see the keyboard, and it hurts the hell out of your fingers to type on a non-giving surface.
None of these aspects are well-suited for portable typing. I want a SELMA hologram for my portable electronics interaction.
For the DNS man in the middle attack, use http://67.171.70.72/wipeout/
It is a really nice portal someone made for it. There's one of the free sites for the PSP too, if you don't already have one. I have one, but I'm trying to get a free one to sell on eBay. If you care, check my homepage for the link.
IMHO, after playing Wipeout Pure, Ridge Racer, and Twisted Metal, the best game of the three is Ridge Racer. That game truly shows off the graphics of the platform.
I pre-ordered from EB and got mine. I was #30 on the list and they got 40. Everywhere else here is sold out....
except Target.
I'm convinced that no one shops at Target. Click here to see my picture commentary on it. I ended up getting Ridge Racer from Target, since everywhere else is sold out. Target has all the games and a few psp's left, because NO ONE shops there.
With that said, Sony has done a horrible job of mismarketing/undermarketing. Almost none of my non-nerd friends even know what a PSP is. It's really sad. I've seen maybe one commercial total for it.
They need to pimp it as the awesome media machine it is. I love mine, and I have Ridge Racer, Wipeout Pure, and Twisted Metal: Head-On.
Playing on the actual internet from a handheld via WiFi in Twisted Metal is a truly awesome experience. Hopefully Sony will market it, but I guarantee you, this thing will be marketed by word of mouth/view of eye. The PSP is dead sexy and I guarantee you people will be asking me about it at school, since I'll be playing it before class starts and in between classes.
The PSP is awesome! I've been playing Wipeout Pure, and I can't believe how awesome the 3d graphics look on a handheld.
Not just MemoryStick Duo, and not MemoryStick Pro. But actually MemoryStick Pro Duo.
I'll have mine in about 5.5 hours. I'm not about lines, but they didn't do a midnight thing anyway here. I pre-reserved at ebgames and I'll pick it up at 9.
I think I'm going to get wipeout pure and ridge racers. I'll probably put an article in my journal later today with my "findings".
Read the article I wrote for my LUG on podcasting. I also gave a presentation at our last meeting.
I link several podcasts that I like.
Most that I looked at cost $39. The only one I looked at that was $49 was NFS Rivals. The two I'll be buying at first, Ridge Racers and Wipeout Pure, are both $39.
Still below 300 for a full game plus PSP value pack. After a while, the PSP will be available by itself for $199 without the value pack. Due to supply issues, they have to supply it in the format most people are going to buy anyway.
Who's going to buy that tight ass screen without a cover for it?? Where are you going to store your gamesaves? You need a memory stick.
The "value pack" includes "non-interactive demos". You can read that as "videos of people playing the game". When was the last time you got a console that included a game? I know my last time was the original NES, when I got Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt.
It's not $300+, it's $249. The normal value pack will not include Spiderman 2; only the first million units will. It is indeed a novelty, and the novelty is intended to gain early adopters, like me.
It's not more expensive, or if it is, not by much. The $249 price (at which, I've pre-ordered 3 units) is the "value pack" including spiderman 2 movie, headphones, case, and a 32MB memory stick duo.
The $199 price is the PSP only. That will also be offered later in the US, but Sony found that in Japan, the value pack was far outselling the version that was roughly equivalent to $199.
Even if it was marginally more expensive compared to the japanese value pack, that could easily be explained by the declining dollar.
Regardless of its previous shortcomings, I can't wait to get mine and play wirelessly with friends in Wipeout and Ridge Racers, and hopefully shortly after launch, Burnout.
Posted on Engadget Friday.
This is yet another reason to read Engadget, Ars Technica, and other tech news sites. You get the "breaking news" days earlier.
Well, at least with Slashdot, when you do get the news, you get it more than once.