...took out the UMD and put in something like an iPod hard drive, with some sort of firmware hack to make the PSP think it has a huge UMD drive yet? I'd love to see that. That would be hilarious.
Did anyone think this was going to be about a Meccano toy set? I was thinking to myself "A meccano toy set that's a computer!? Wow that's a helluva kid's construction toy!".
I remember in GTA:SA there's this funk/soul dj talking about how he likes to meet women at science fiction conventions. That struck me as so off-kilter, it was hilarious.
The creepiest humor on the radio was in GTA:VCS with a commercial for little girls' underwear called "lacy surprise". One of the lyrics says "daddy close your eyes!"
It is funny. It is as if Sony REALLY wants to always have a console at $599. They'll find some way or another to add stuff to it(game, controllers, HD space), but bottom-line have $599 as that magic price point. Here comse the bundles!
Do they have some surplus of $599 stickers they really want to use up? Is there some superstition that the number 599 is lucky that I don't know about?
For me, the quickest path is a nice fine blend of keyboard & mouse. I find myself using the keyboard much more often than the mouse though.
The one thing I realized I can't live without is the mouse wheel. That saves quite a bit of clicking over to the scrollbar arrows, etc. Sadly, it's not supported everywhere, even in 2007. Windows' Remote Desktop often filters it out on scrollbars, which makes kitty unhappy.
Sadly, my middle mouse button(scrollwheel) doesn't close firefox tabs in my newer Logitech & MS mouse like my old MS Intellimouse Explorer used to. that saved me a lot of rt click & close tab actions. The mice made today have a much stiffer wheel that doesn't adapt to your finger over time.
1. Set up wireless AP at my house 2. Wait for WiFI meshing phone to come into range 3. Sniff packet traffic. listen in on calls, or interrupt them. Heck, try to emulate them. 4. profit!
Thank you T-Mobile. You've just given the Phone Losers of America several more years of phun.
I used to watch many of these shows featured(diffrent strokes, silver spoons, etc) on Comcast's On Demand, which lasted only 20 minutes without commercials. It shows you just how brief a 30 minute tv show is.
This just takes it further. Take out the usual main characters insulting each other, some off-topic banter, stitch the main 'situation' and the apology/lesson afterward, and you're done.
Beautiful. It showed you just how formulatic these shows were/are.
1. All software talks to each other. It can be a little, or a lot. Instead of having to manually sync 20 different email address books, they all syncronize each other.
2. All hardware talks to each other. No more oddities of your device X not being able to syncronize with device Y.
Of course, with 1 and 2, security will need to be up-front otherwise viruses & worms will have a field day.
I know the above 2 are a bit vague, but it's better than a freakin' IMAX in your home. I doubt that's going to revolutionize anything except your credit card debt.
Didn't the BBC go all RealPlayer several years ago for TV clips on their website?
I propose a new show: Gordon Ramsay's IT Nightmares. Gordon can go to the web/media dept of the BBC and yell at them for using stupid video formats. "COME ON!"
Just as how middle eastern countries have their fundamentalist wackos shooting AK-47s into the air and hating Jews, we Americans have it too.
But, we have no religion to grasp onto, no AK-47s to shoot, or civilian areas to blow up. So we improvise in a capitalist society. We grasp on to our favorite video game console, car, team, or whatever sellable good/brand. We discuss and agree with others that have made the same purchase we do. We fight with others against who bought a competing product. Our symbols(Chevy brand, Calvin peeing on something) show our loyalty.
So it's basically a fantasy football league for capitalism. Companies know this and will milk you for it. For example, a Nike shirt. YOU pay THEM(Nike) to advertise THEIR product. Sheer genius! It's the most economical form of advertising!
C'mon we live in a capitalist society. It was bound to happen. I mean, my top friends on my myspace friends list is a bottle of Smirnoff ice and a box of tampons.
I'm just curious. Myspace.com seems to be a wonderful stress-tester for web browsers, I realized.
For the last 3 months or so, surfing myspace.com has been near unusuable. It struggles to load images. Wondering if it was something on the backend of myspace, I tried in IE. Ie loaded up profile pictures & such lightning fast.
So, how does Safari work on myspace.com? Either bloated profiles, or just regular pages(browse, forums, groups, etc).
Okay, if you provide a recycling option for your old 'puta ONLY if you buy a new one, that could get sticky. What if you buy a new system as separate parts from different retailers? Neither individual purchase constitutes a "computer", but I'm still going to have an old system to recycle.
I remember an episode of the Simpsons that had a movie(or something) advertising "no internet spies". CBG gets thrown out. He asks them how they found out, and you see a desktop computer thrown out. He finishes with "it came with a mouse."
Probably not, as I'm betting a lot of it is dedicated circuits and stuff. I love the fact one of the pictures has those vacuum tube score readouts, while another has a mechanical one! Still, would love one or 2 in my basement.
No high score tables, huh? Well, I guess with communism you could just have a list of all the players with the same scores.
It's like all the jokes about Soviet technology being behind ours came to life in video game form. Still, I'd love to try some of the cruder video games.
I know MAME supports some game that was found in East Germany with no copyright that is a set of games. They look like early-80s CGA text mode games for DOS.
I never heard of it either. But then again, Zonk's sensationalism from his article writing makes me think he's from another planet. On that planet, "Perplex City second season" must be more popular than World of Warcraft.
Seriously, get someone else to write in the games section from Slashdot. In case you don't know, video game news websites on the Internet are a dime a dozen, and that's where you get all your stories from anyway. You can't even filter in the good ones?
I can't believe this wasn't mentioned in TFA. I really want one of those $600 ultra portable laptops which seem like a steal at $600, with a comfy keyboard. That looks to be 100 times more practical than that slide-down underneath keyboard I saw pics of. Gimme one of those.
Over 20 years ago with Scientific Atlanta cable boxes, you could turn the TV to channel 2 or 4(normally you use 3) and scan for channels. Often you would find the premium channels in full clarity. This only worked for a few years.
When I first got my HDTV, I had fun scanning the subchannels, and found the menu background channels for On-demand, but never watched anyone else's on-demand movies.
Perhaps I should re hook-up the coaxial to the TV and try it again. Does this work on Comcast?'
I bought a new system a few months back, so my 5 year old Athlon XP that has worked great(except for some bad ram) was going to be revitalized as a Linux server. I installed ubuntu and things worked great, for 5 minnutes.
After 5-30 minutes of usage, I get verical lines & junk on the screen and the system stops responding. All I can do is move the mouse pointer around and nothing else. I can't fall out of Xwindows, nothing. I have to hard-reset it. It's an okay GeForce card.
I'm going to do a video card swap with my even older system. It seems any time I depreciate a system and install Linux on it, hardware goes on the fritz where it was otherwise fine in Windows land. Perhaps it's just bad luck. Perhaps I should be thankful with Ubuntu that sound worked right off the bat without me studying drivers and such. Heck, I even got the buggy shoucast server & client to work!
What about holliday sales? I could see a lot of consoles being sold around Christmas time just for playing GTA4 or Halo 3. Heck, I caved in and bought a PS2 just to play GTA3 when it looked like no PC release was in sight, and never looked back.
Sadly, you are right. The classic Doctor Who had almost no budget, but brilliant writing to make up for it(see: Genesis of the Daleks). the "new" Who has the opposite problem. A decent budget(CGI and such), but the writing is appallingly bad. The episodes are almost tailored to an American audience with lots of action, etc, but practically zero substance underneath. It didn't used to be like that. Makes me wonder what audiences thought of the introduction of an arch nemesis(the master) in the Pertwee era.
I miss the days of the typical DW episode where the Doctor and his companions get separated, and the Doctor saves the day by reversing the polarity. He ALWAYS reverses the polarity.
..is via social engineering. Want a website to go away?
1. Four magic letters: DMCA. Just email the webmaster saying they are in violation of it. It doesn't matter if the website consists of the Apache default page. They will quickly go into Pavlovian response and shut it down.
2. Just say some of the users are pedos & stuff. With the incredibly trendy demonizing of suspected(or real) pedos, accounts can be deleted instantly, as the article as shown. No need for pesky investigations or anything like that. It's best to shut it down.
Only non-innovators push their GPU strength as the main selling point. Let me guess, the PS4 will consume twice the energy, require it's own air conditioning unit, and be able to render 2600x1400 images at 200fps? OMG CRAZIES!
Not only that, it will only be able to be afforded by the richest kings of Europe.
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...took out the UMD and put in something like an iPod hard drive, with some sort of firmware hack to make the PSP think it has a huge UMD drive yet? I'd love to see that. That would be hilarious.
Did anyone think this was going to be about a Meccano toy set? I was thinking to myself "A meccano toy set that's a computer!? Wow that's a helluva kid's construction toy!".
I remember in GTA:SA there's this funk/soul dj talking about how he likes to meet women at science fiction conventions. That struck me as so off-kilter, it was hilarious.
The creepiest humor on the radio was in GTA:VCS with a commercial for little girls' underwear called "lacy surprise". One of the lyrics says "daddy close your eyes!"
It is funny. It is as if Sony REALLY wants to always have a console at $599. They'll find some way or another to add stuff to it(game, controllers, HD space), but bottom-line have $599 as that magic price point. Here comse the bundles!
Do they have some surplus of $599 stickers they really want to use up? Is there some superstition that the number 599 is lucky that I don't know about?
For me, the quickest path is a nice fine blend of keyboard & mouse. I find myself using the keyboard much more often than the mouse though.
The one thing I realized I can't live without is the mouse wheel. That saves quite a bit of clicking over to the scrollbar arrows, etc. Sadly, it's not supported everywhere, even in 2007. Windows' Remote Desktop often filters it out on scrollbars, which makes kitty unhappy.
Sadly, my middle mouse button(scrollwheel) doesn't close firefox tabs in my newer Logitech & MS mouse like my old MS Intellimouse Explorer used to. that saved me a lot of rt click & close tab actions. The mice made today have a much stiffer wheel that doesn't adapt to your finger over time.
Hmmm..
1. Set up wireless AP at my house
2. Wait for WiFI meshing phone to come into range
3. Sniff packet traffic. listen in on calls, or interrupt them. Heck, try to emulate them.
4. profit!
Thank you T-Mobile. You've just given the Phone Losers of America several more years of phun.
"Can you hear me now?"
"ROY!"
I used to watch many of these shows featured(diffrent strokes, silver spoons, etc) on Comcast's On Demand, which lasted only 20 minutes without commercials. It shows you just how brief a 30 minute tv show is.
This just takes it further. Take out the usual main characters insulting each other, some off-topic banter, stitch the main 'situation' and the apology/lesson afterward, and you're done.
Beautiful. It showed you just how formulatic these shows were/are.
Screw the article....
1. All software talks to each other. It can be a little, or a lot. Instead of having to manually sync 20 different email address books, they all syncronize each other.
2. All hardware talks to each other. No more oddities of your device X not being able to syncronize with device Y.
Of course, with 1 and 2, security will need to be up-front otherwise viruses & worms will have a field day.
I know the above 2 are a bit vague, but it's better than a freakin' IMAX in your home. I doubt that's going to revolutionize anything except your credit card debt.
..Eat junk food, save the planet.
Plus, they can use the fry oil as fuel. Yes, McDonald's could be the next Exxon if things are done right, heaven forbid.
Didn't the BBC go all RealPlayer several years ago for TV clips on their website?
I propose a new show: Gordon Ramsay's IT Nightmares. Gordon can go to the web/media dept of the BBC and yell at them for using stupid video formats. "COME ON!"
Not only that, there's no guys with handlebar mustaches, top hats, and Thomas Dolby goggles.
Why is this a web page? Why not some French-made turn of the century poster?
Just as how middle eastern countries have their fundamentalist wackos shooting AK-47s into the air and hating Jews, we Americans have it too.
But, we have no religion to grasp onto, no AK-47s to shoot, or civilian areas to blow up. So we improvise in a capitalist society. We grasp on to our favorite video game console, car, team, or whatever sellable good/brand. We discuss and agree with others that have made the same purchase we do. We fight with others against who bought a competing product. Our symbols(Chevy brand, Calvin peeing on something) show our loyalty.
So it's basically a fantasy football league for capitalism. Companies know this and will milk you for it. For example, a Nike shirt. YOU pay THEM(Nike) to advertise THEIR product. Sheer genius! It's the most economical form of advertising!
C'mon we live in a capitalist society. It was bound to happen. I mean, my top friends on my myspace friends list is a bottle of Smirnoff ice and a box of tampons.
I'm just curious. Myspace.com seems to be a wonderful stress-tester for web browsers, I realized.
For the last 3 months or so, surfing myspace.com has been near unusuable. It struggles to load images. Wondering if it was something on the backend of myspace, I tried in IE. Ie loaded up profile pictures & such lightning fast.
So, how does Safari work on myspace.com? Either bloated profiles, or just regular pages(browse, forums, groups, etc).
I was at Discland and saw a black shirt with pixelated lettering saying "You have died of dysentry".
2 days later I was at work, and a coworker had a blue shirt with an old West font saying "you have died of dysentry."
I never thought an educational game would spawn two different t-shirts with its catchphrase.
Okay, if you provide a recycling option for your old 'puta ONLY if you buy a new one, that could get sticky. What if you buy a new system as separate parts from different retailers? Neither individual purchase constitutes a "computer", but I'm still going to have an old system to recycle.
I remember an episode of the Simpsons that had a movie(or something) advertising "no internet spies". CBG gets thrown out. He asks them how they found out, and you see a desktop computer thrown out. He finishes with "it came with a mouse."
Probably not, as I'm betting a lot of it is dedicated circuits and stuff. I love the fact one of the pictures has those vacuum tube score readouts, while another has a mechanical one! Still, would love one or 2 in my basement.
No high score tables, huh? Well, I guess with communism you could just have a list of all the players with the same scores.
It's like all the jokes about Soviet technology being behind ours came to life in video game form. Still, I'd love to try some of the cruder video games.
I know MAME supports some game that was found in East Germany with no copyright that is a set of games. They look like early-80s CGA text mode games for DOS.
I never heard of it either. But then again, Zonk's sensationalism from his article writing makes me think he's from another planet. On that planet, "Perplex City second season" must be more popular than World of Warcraft.
Seriously, get someone else to write in the games section from Slashdot. In case you don't know, video game news websites on the Internet are a dime a dozen, and that's where you get all your stories from anyway. You can't even filter in the good ones?
I can't believe this wasn't mentioned in TFA. I really want one of those $600 ultra portable laptops which seem like a steal at $600, with a comfy keyboard. That looks to be 100 times more practical than that slide-down underneath keyboard I saw pics of. Gimme one of those.
Over 20 years ago with Scientific Atlanta cable boxes, you could turn the TV to channel 2 or 4(normally you use 3) and scan for channels. Often you would find the premium channels in full clarity. This only worked for a few years.
When I first got my HDTV, I had fun scanning the subchannels, and found the menu background channels for On-demand, but never watched anyone else's on-demand movies.
Perhaps I should re hook-up the coaxial to the TV and try it again. Does this work on Comcast?'
Ugh.
I bought a new system a few months back, so my 5 year old Athlon XP that has worked great(except for some bad ram) was going to be revitalized as a Linux server. I installed ubuntu and things worked great, for 5 minnutes.
After 5-30 minutes of usage, I get verical lines & junk on the screen and the system stops responding. All I can do is move the mouse pointer around and nothing else. I can't fall out of Xwindows, nothing. I have to hard-reset it. It's an okay GeForce card.
I'm going to do a video card swap with my even older system. It seems any time I depreciate a system and install Linux on it, hardware goes on the fritz where it was otherwise fine in Windows land. Perhaps it's just bad luck. Perhaps I should be thankful with Ubuntu that sound worked right off the bat without me studying drivers and such. Heck, I even got the buggy shoucast server & client to work!
What about holliday sales? I could see a lot of consoles being sold around Christmas time just for playing GTA4 or Halo 3. Heck, I caved in and bought a PS2 just to play GTA3 when it looked like no PC release was in sight, and never looked back.
Sadly, you are right. The classic Doctor Who had almost no budget, but brilliant writing to make up for it(see: Genesis of the Daleks). the "new" Who has the opposite problem. A decent budget(CGI and such), but the writing is appallingly bad. The episodes are almost tailored to an American audience with lots of action, etc, but practically zero substance underneath. It didn't used to be like that. Makes me wonder what audiences thought of the introduction of an arch nemesis(the master) in the Pertwee era.
I miss the days of the typical DW episode where the Doctor and his companions get separated, and the Doctor saves the day by reversing the polarity. He ALWAYS reverses the polarity.
..is via social engineering. Want a website to go away?
1. Four magic letters: DMCA. Just email the webmaster saying they are in violation of it. It doesn't matter if the website consists of the Apache default page. They will quickly go into Pavlovian response and shut it down.
2. Just say some of the users are pedos & stuff. With the incredibly trendy demonizing of suspected(or real) pedos, accounts can be deleted instantly, as the article as shown. No need for pesky investigations or anything like that. It's best to shut it down.
Only non-innovators push their GPU strength as the main selling point. Let me guess, the PS4 will consume twice the energy, require it's own air conditioning unit, and be able to render 2600x1400 images at 200fps? OMG CRAZIES!
Not only that, it will only be able to be afforded by the richest kings of Europe.