Yeah.. actually. See for yourself at http://www.tapewave.com.
Though I'm willing to bet that the quality of PSP games will be superior in the long (and maybe even the short) run. There will certainly be more of them.
(I'm not counting the huge library of Palm OS games immediately available for the tapwave, only games take advantage of it's 3d capability.
I have one and I love it except the battery life is sucks... rendering it far less usefull than I would like. I get 1.5 - 2 hours max of game playing (and I'm talking Bejeweled, not Duke, if that makes a difference) with brightness & sound turned way down.
I don't see how I could do anything meaningfull with wirless with so little power so I haven't really tried, other than setting up a bluetooth conduit once just to see Slashdot on my handheld. This was way more trouble than it was worth.
Since 50% of the reason I bought the Zodiac was for the PDA functionality, I'm somwewhat disappointed and so I still carry around a black & white Visor that will last a few weeks on a pair of AAAs. I really wish I could depend on the Zodiac not to run out of juice while I'm reading an e-book on a long flight.
Anyone want to trade a Zodiac for a PSP? Not that the PSP will satisfy me either but it' be fun to play with one for a bit.
What is the final verdict on PSP battery life anyway?
Yeah... but if the networks made their shows available for download WITH commercials, guess where I'd be getting my shows from?
Unfortunately for them, the only place I can get them (and I mean, The ONLY place, since I live outside of the US) provides them commercial free.
I'm not complaining though.;)
Actually, considering the fact that I can't find any players/codecs combination that will allow me to actually fast forward easily and accurately through most of the video I download, if the networks released shows with commercials, I think most people would be watching the commercials.
I'm almost certain I told my recruiter (US Air Force) that I played D&D. In fact when I joined, I had a weekly game going on at the rec center across the street from the recruiter's office, with military players involved. I most definitely told told the recruiter I smoked pot (but was quitting, which I did for four years).
They gave me a TS SCI clearance. Also, the Army hired me years later and gave me a Secret... (or they tried... I quit before it came through, nearly two years later. Still, I had a interim secret clearance for that period)
On the other hand... If anyone had ever stuck a gun in my hand and told me to shoot someone, I'd have probably deserted.
I don't understand what's so great about this case. I bought one because of the fawning reviews, about a year and a half ago. Here's what I don't like about it:
- The annoying, swinging front door. I finally ripped it off in frustsration. A sliding door would have been better.
- The punched out, pci card mounting points with the silly plastic cover. If you are in and out of your PC as often as I am, you end up tossing this too, leaving a gaping hole in the back.
- The Rails. I'm with the other guy who said "what's wrong with a phillips?"
- construction feels a bit cheap over all, and not because it's light. The plexiglass windows is cheaply riveted on and there are gaps between the window and the case. Any manufacturing shortcuts (ie punched out pci card mounts) available, appear to have been taken.
Over all I'm much happier with the 30 dollar, no-name, tin mini tower I picked up while bargain shopping. It's only slightly heavier when empty.
I agree. And I'm an ex-employee, assuming that counts for anything.
They should have been GIVING away small form factor reference designs. They ones they did sell weren't all that great, geared mainly to laptop vendors... and way over priced.
That said, people still drool over my small, Crusoe based, laptop; especially after they've watched the SECOND movie with out changing batteries. It's the only laptop I own which I never fear running out of juice on. With a couple of batteries, I can fly just about anywhere in the world with out having to recharge. If only it had a bit more cpu power....
I am pretty happy with my I-river iHP-120, with which I finally replaced my Archos. It works pretty much the same way though you can use 'fancy synch crap' if you like. (i don't)
I fried it after about 6 months using a 6 volt power adapter instead of a 5 volt one, but the RMA process was painless.
Also, these guys (http://www.rockbox.org/) are making progress on an open source OS replacement for it. Their Archos OS really made the thing worth owning.
I use Tbird with exchange 5.5 at work and with 2003 at home. Works great. Better than expected. MS' server IMAP implementation appears to be significantly better than their client IMAP implementations.
This is after using Outlook 2003 for 5 or 6 months and then finally getting fed up with it.
BTW, IMAP appears to be the easiest way to move move mail from one exchange mail box to another since Outlook only allows one exchange account to be configured. I use tbird to move mail between user's accounts when they move around which occurs frequently in my organization.
Calendars & public folders are viewable as imap folders but I don't make much use of either.
But that's not necessarily the best analogy as books are less fragile and generally cost less than 50 bucks a pop. Plus you only covered a few of the bases.
Well, for one, I got the game within minutes of release. No small thing for someone who had to wait four weeks for COD United Offensive to show up in a local store (I live in Europe). Of course I had the US warez version within a day but I had to wait four weeks for a valid key to play on line. Sometimes I think developers should just sell keys online and let the net distribute their software for them... or at least augment normal sales that way. I wonder how many people buy the game after they realized how many cracked servers are running out ther.
For two, more of my dollar went to the developers who really deserve it. (I hope)
I hated Steam at first too but... if they can minimize the hassle, deliver games quickly, and cut out the middle man, more power to them.
There's plenty a point to cracking. I hate CDs. I hate having to put them in the drive to play. I hate it when the game won't play even if it's in the drive. I hate having to carry them around with me when I travel. What if I scratch it? What if I lose it? What if it decays? What if my dog eats it? What if my child tosses it out the window? What if my cd rom drive breaks? What if I don't have a cd rom drive? What about when the next big thing comes along and we ALL don't have cd rom drives? Maybe I won't be playing the game then but maybe I will.
Many of the above scenarios have occured already. More than once. Thank you thank you thank you gamecopyworld.com.
I have no reason to distrust crackers. What reason do you have?
Also.. I have a 9800 Pro and am disappointed with the quality of the drivers. Lots of quirks and the latest version crashed my machine in the middle of gameplay. Never so many issues with all the Nvidia cards I had before.
They say the first connections were laid six weeks ago but I worked next door to a GIG site for the last year and a half and monitored most of the circuits that passed through it and several other sites.
I never got the executive briefing on what, exactly, the GIG is supposed to be but from the ground level it appears to be just another acronym; this one describing the sum total of the military's disparate networks (there are quite a few) and the military's (piss-poor) efforts to manage them. A GIG site is just a room full of your standard military network equpment.. routers, switches (mostly Foundry, in Europe anyway), crypto boxes, satellite & microwave... etc., and they function prety much as you'd expect.
The article provides no useful information other than the price tag.
Windows 200x w/Active Directory is/will be the primary NOS on the IP side of the house, btw.
And the operation of the GIG is almost entirely outsourced to contractors & non-military agencies.
Wrong. SSH traffic sets off alarms on most DOD unclassified networks. It is verboten.
On the other hand, they don't do much traffic analysis other than categorizing by port number so if you run SSH (or anything else for that matter) on 443 (SSL), you will go unnoticed.
My theory of "if they detect encrypted traffic on a port they expect to be encrypted then they won't worry about it" has proven true for several years now. But I suppose it's only a matter of time before they implement something like this:
You read Bin Laden's letter the way some people read the bible. Emphasize what you like, misinterpreting it if necessary, and ignore what you don't like.
I would argue that you really don't need to ready much further than the first answer to the first question, which says it all:
'(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us."
It really is that simple.
My biggest problem with that letter is that he insists that it is necessary to 'erase Israel'. While I agree that it was a bad idea to found a Jewish state in Palestine, it's to late for this kind of solution.
I would dismiss the bit about calling us to his religion. It's ridicoulous. It's more of a way to build support among his followers than it is an actual threat to the west.
There are plenty of Christians who say the same thing about their religious aims in the world and we tolerate them. And yes... I find fundamental Christianity about as offensive as fundamental Islam or Judaism or any other ideology.
If we address the real problem(s), the fundamentalists will be forced to back off with crap like this. They will get no support for violence. And if they didn't back off, I would support a full on war. But only then.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah.. actually. See for yourself at http://www.tapewave.com.
Though I'm willing to bet that the quality of PSP games will be superior in the long (and maybe even the short) run. There will certainly be more of them.
(I'm not counting the huge library of Palm OS games immediately available for the tapwave, only games take advantage of it's 3d capability.
I have one and I love it except the battery life is sucks... rendering it far less usefull than I would like. I get 1.5 - 2 hours max of game playing (and I'm talking Bejeweled, not Duke, if that makes a difference) with brightness &
sound turned way down.
I don't see how I could do anything meaningfull with wirless with so little power so I haven't really tried, other than setting up a bluetooth conduit once just to see Slashdot on my handheld. This was way more trouble than it was worth.
Since 50% of the reason I bought the Zodiac was for the PDA functionality, I'm somwewhat disappointed and so I still carry around a black & white Visor that will last a few weeks on a pair of AAAs. I really wish I could depend on the Zodiac not to run out of juice while I'm reading an e-book on a long flight.
Anyone want to trade a Zodiac for a PSP? Not that the PSP will satisfy me either but it' be fun to play with one for a bit.
What is the final verdict on PSP battery life anyway?
I rtfa'ed but I don't get this.
How do you order breakfast at Denny's without an actual card?
Did they steal a replacement card from his mailbox? They had his cash advance checks so they must have had access to his mail at some point.
Had his old card expired? Are both the old and new cards active at the same time?
Just wondering... Maybe I didn't read clearly.
Jane, you ignorant slut....
Yeah... but if the networks made their shows available for download WITH commercials, guess where I'd be getting my shows from?
Unfortunately for them, the only place I can get them (and I mean, The ONLY place, since I live outside of the US) provides them commercial free.
I'm not complaining though.
Actually, considering the fact that I can't find any players/codecs combination that will allow me to actually fast forward easily and accurately through most of the video I download, if the networks released shows with commercials, I think most people would be watching the commercials.
Of course that may quickly change....
True... but I wasn't a cook. I was in a Network Operations & Security Center. (you could hardly tell the difference some days)
a /2 005/03/09/international/i121224S64.DTL
Personally, I think it's the IDF that has problems distinguishing fantasy from reality:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/
I'm almost certain I told my recruiter (US Air Force) that I played D&D. In fact when I joined, I had a weekly game going on at the rec center across the street from the recruiter's office, with military players involved. I most definitely told told the recruiter I smoked pot (but was quitting, which I did for four years).
They gave me a TS SCI clearance. Also, the Army hired me years later and gave me a Secret... (or they tried... I quit before it came through, nearly two years later. Still, I had a interim secret clearance for that period)
On the other hand... If anyone had ever stuck a gun in my hand and told me to shoot someone, I'd have probably deserted.
Just a comment about the Lanboy...
I don't understand what's so great about this case. I bought one because of the fawning reviews, about a year and a half ago. Here's what I don't like about it:
- The annoying, swinging front door. I finally ripped it off in frustsration. A sliding door would have been better.
- The punched out, pci card mounting points with the silly plastic cover. If you are in and out of your PC as often as I am, you end up tossing this too, leaving a gaping hole in the back.
- The Rails. I'm with the other guy who said "what's wrong with a phillips?"
- construction feels a bit cheap over all, and not because it's light. The plexiglass windows is cheaply riveted on and there are gaps between the window and the case. Any manufacturing shortcuts (ie punched out pci card mounts) available, appear to have been taken.
Over all I'm much happier with the 30 dollar, no-name, tin mini tower I picked up while bargain shopping. It's only slightly heavier when empty.
What kind of paranoid freak checks his/her cables every time they sit down at their PC?
You really expect normal people to do this?
Hell, most of my users would have to get on their hands and knees and crawl under their desks.
I agree. And I'm an ex-employee, assuming that counts for anything.
They should have been GIVING away small form factor reference designs. They ones they did sell weren't all that great, geared mainly to laptop vendors... and way over priced.
That said, people still drool over my small, Crusoe based, laptop; especially after they've watched the SECOND movie with out changing batteries. It's the only laptop I own which I never fear running out of juice on. With a couple of batteries, I can fly just about anywhere in the world with out having to recharge. If only it had a bit more cpu power....
I am pretty happy with my I-river iHP-120, with which I finally replaced my Archos. It works pretty much the same way though you can use 'fancy synch crap' if you like. (i don't)
I fried it after about 6 months using a 6 volt power adapter instead of a 5 volt one, but the RMA process was painless.
Also, these guys (http://www.rockbox.org/) are making progress on an open source OS replacement for it. Their Archos OS really made the thing worth owning.
I use Tbird with exchange 5.5 at work and with 2003 at home. Works great. Better than expected. MS' server IMAP implementation appears to be significantly better than their client IMAP implementations.
This is after using Outlook 2003 for 5 or 6 months and then finally getting fed up with it.
BTW, IMAP appears to be the easiest way to move move mail from one exchange mail box to another since Outlook only allows one exchange account to be configured. I use tbird to move mail between user's accounts when they move around which occurs frequently in my organization.
Calendars & public folders are viewable as imap folders but I don't make much use of either.
Oh please, please, PLEASE give me the button for "less commercial results". I might even be willing to pay for it.
Yes. I don't have a problem with Steam. Used to hate it but, in it's current state, I'm rather satisfied with it.
Then I download a copy. (and yes, you can)
But that's not necessarily the best analogy as books are less fragile and generally cost less than 50 bucks a pop. Plus you only covered a few of the bases.
Well, for one, I got the game within minutes of release. No small thing for someone who had to wait four weeks for COD United Offensive to show up in a local store (I live in Europe). Of course I had the US warez version within a day but I had to wait four weeks for a valid key to play on
line. Sometimes I think developers should just sell keys online and let the net distribute their software for them... or at least augment normal sales that way. I wonder how many people buy the game after they realized how many cracked servers are running out ther.
For two, more of my dollar went to the developers who really deserve it. (I hope)
I hated Steam at first too but... if they can minimize the hassle, deliver games quickly, and cut out the middle man, more power to them.
There's plenty a point to cracking. I hate CDs. I hate having to put them in the drive to play. I hate it when the game won't play even if it's in the drive. I hate having to carry them around with me when I travel. What if I scratch it? What if I lose it? What if it decays? What if my dog eats it? What if my child tosses it out the window? What if my cd rom drive breaks? What if I don't have a cd rom drive? What about when the next big thing comes along and we ALL don't have cd rom drives? Maybe I won't be playing the game then but maybe I will.
Many of the above scenarios have occured already. More than once. Thank you thank you thank you gamecopyworld.com.
I have no reason to distrust crackers. What reason do you have?
My bad... Didn't realize there was a 6600 a 6600 GT. Pricewatch does lists the 6600.
God I hate these model names.
Pricewatch is listing the 256MB 6600 for around $150
1 68 &f=1
http://www.pricewatch.com/h/prc.aspx?i=37&a=143
Also.. I have a 9800 Pro and am disappointed with the quality of the drivers. Lots of quirks and the latest version crashed my machine in the middle of gameplay. Never so many issues with all the Nvidia cards I had before.
One last thought....
It's all about spending money on ubiquitous and secure bandwith.
Something we can all appreciate, but these guys are spending an order of magnitude more than what most of us would pay, given the same circumstances.
Who the fuck knows? The article is bullshit.
They say the first connections were laid six weeks ago but I worked next door to a GIG site for the last year and a half and monitored most of the circuits that passed through it and several other sites.
I never got the executive briefing on what, exactly, the GIG is supposed to be but from the ground level it appears to be just another acronym; this one describing the sum total of the military's disparate networks (there are quite a few) and the military's (piss-poor) efforts to manage them. A GIG site is just a room full of your standard military network equpment.. routers, switches (mostly Foundry, in Europe anyway), crypto boxes, satellite & microwave... etc., and they function prety much as you'd expect.
The article provides no useful information other than the price tag.
Windows 200x w/Active Directory is/will be the primary NOS on the IP side of the house, btw.
And the operation of the GIG is almost entirely outsourced to contractors & non-military agencies.
Wrong. SSH traffic sets off alarms on most DOD unclassified networks. It is verboten.
On the other hand, they don't do much traffic analysis other than categorizing by port number so if you run SSH (or anything else for that matter) on 443 (SSL), you will go unnoticed.
My theory of "if they detect encrypted traffic on a port they expect to be encrypted then they won't worry about it" has proven true for several years now. But I suppose it's only a matter of time before they implement something like this:
http://sysadminnews.com/sysadminnews-32-2004092
I'm not a Democrat. And I work for the DOD.
You can't continue to fight this war, this way, without a draft. Period.
My only point is that those that favor the the war and those that are too apathetic to voice an opinion ought to be the first to go.
You read Bin Laden's letter the way some people read the bible. Emphasize what you like, misinterpreting it if necessary, and ignore what you don't like.
I would argue that you really don't need to ready much further than the first answer to the first question, which says it all:
'(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us."
It really is that simple.
My biggest problem with that letter is that he insists that it is necessary to 'erase Israel'. While I agree that it was a bad idea to found a Jewish state in Palestine, it's to late for this kind of solution.
I would dismiss the bit about calling us to his religion. It's ridicoulous. It's more of a way to build support among his followers than it is an actual threat to the west.
There are plenty of Christians who say the same thing about their religious aims in the world and we tolerate them. And yes... I find fundamental Christianity about as offensive as fundamental Islam or Judaism or any other ideology.
If we address the real problem(s), the fundamentalists will be forced to back off with crap like this. They will get no support for violence. And if they didn't back off, I would support a full on war. But only then.
Barack Obama 2008!!!