I agree on the homebrew and in fact did call Sony to complain about it, I also complained on the G.A.P forums. They should do something, even if homebrewers would need to submit their software to Sony for approval before getting them "signed".
I figure that if they could have figured out a way to support Linux easily on the PSP they'd have done that, even if they didn't support homebrew directly on the firmware.
As I've said on other ocassions the PSP is the anomaly among Sony gaming systems, all the others support amateur/hobbyist development. The PS1 with the Yaroze program and the PS2/PS3 with Linux.
Not true entirely. You can't play a movie off your memory stick at the PSP's full resolution. Why? Because Sony crippled memory stick playback to give UMD a visual advantage.
Sure you can, though you'll need firmware 3.30+ to do so, Sohy removed the restriction a few weeks back.
iPods have a lot of storage, but the battery doesn't last long enough to play 30GB of video. The battery on the PSP will last longer than the iPods playing video of the stick.
And the PSP has built in wifi/web browser/RSS/and the ability to stream from a PS3. Watch all your content, download more wherever you go.
Me too, and pretty much for the same reaons, though I don't have a homebrew friendly firmware now. (I upgraded my PSP for the Flash support and RSS)
I do wish sony would be open to homebrew applications, the PSP is an anomaly in this regard, the PS2/PS3 have LInux, so why not allow homebrew. Either say, "we don't support this stuff use at your own risk" or makd deals with homebrew developers "hey we've got a PDF reader, we support this" or "here's a version of nethack, that we authorize"
And I'm still waiting for the Chotto shotto to be released in the US.
One problem I think Sony has with the PSP is that people don't know what the thing is capable of even with just the official firmware, because the marketing for the thing sucks.
Probably he's using PSP video 9 (or something similar) to do the encoding. But it's not difficult to do. Sony does offer their own encoding software, which isn't bad I hear. but most folks just use the free ffmpeg based stuff.
Sylpheed is nice if you don't need/want certain features. I wanted to be able to see HTML e-mail (and use dillo a lot anyway) and spellcheck so I switched to claws. I wish they'd kept an option for the separate folder window though.
But either of them is faster than Thunderbird (I formerly used Thunderbird) and IMHO bogofilter works just a touch better than Thunderbird's built in filtering.
Good luck getting that discontinued PS2 Linux kit.
I pre-ordered it, so I've had mine for years
The PS3 doesn't need anything other than the install media and that otheros.bld thing.
Oh and boy what a powerful system that would be.
Powerful enough for reading e-mail, web browsing, IMing, and Nethack.
Even a PS3 is RAM and hard drive limited versus a PC that cost the same amount.
True, but that $600 PC will not play games as well as the PS3 does. And what RAM and HD the PS3 does have would be quite sufficient for most home computing tasks.
You're not getting my point. A lot of slashdotters say they'd dump Windows if it weren't for commercial games. Well the PS2/PS3 can play commercial games AND run Linux, no mussing about with WINE or Cedega. It's a similar situation to those who dual boot Linux and Windows for games, except without haveing to deal with Windows.
That's the relevance. The PS3 is $600 for basically one reason, it has all those features because it's designed to destroy Microsofts market in the home. Not the Xbox market, the PC market. Remember the days when you didn't need Microsoft operating system to play lots of games and do computing tasks? Well those days are back. Who needs a second or third/fourth PC in the house for lil timmy to do his homework on when Mom or Dad are using the PC when his PS3 runs OpenOffice. With household penetration of computers flattening and people not upgrading their Microsoft software as often, Microsofts been counting on the income from vendors selling multiple PC's. to households keep growing. That income isn't safe anymore. People don't like Microsoft, they don't like dealing with the hassles of Microsoft's software. They'd dump it in a minute if they could do what they wanted to do with something else AND have games. And now they can.
Now I know for a fact this has been going on since the 80's when the original Nintendo generation was supposedly going to spell the demise of the PC for gaming, and of course it never did.
It did kill PC gaming, on the Atari's and Commodores. Remember, PC means more than just the Microsoft/Intel platform. When Atari and Commodore died, PC gaming became a far less mass-market and more hardcore, platform It also became much more expensive, which helped cement the consoles as the mass market gaming device of choice.
The first console RTS as well as the first RTS on any platform was Herzog Zwei for the Sega Genesis. Yes, that's right, the RTS genre got it's start on the consoles.
On the PSone, the original C&C predated C&C Red Alert.
but its certainly possible ( if rather annoying ) to play them on gamepad
What, you weren't hardcore enough to have the PSone mouse?:-)
Neither of those brands are known for being good at gaming.
I thought the Dell XPS series were well regarded by gamers.
You want a good PC built by somebody else, for $50-100 the local shop will give you some advice on what you want, and put it together.
Slashdot, where everyone thinks there's a local shop that builds gaming boxes, a Fry's and a LUG that meets at the pub/bar, everywhere.
Most people don't go to their local shop either, even if they have one. They buy their computer from Gateway/Dell or they buy it from a mass merchandizer.
You may not realize this but games are some of the most hardware intensive pieces of software out there. Back in the old days users ran accounting and POS software on machines far far less powerful than say a PS2.
You have to remember that the gaming consoles are optimized for gaming, they have hardware designed specifically with the computing requirements of games built into them. That integrated graphics chip is designed for nothing more strenous than a few 3D visualizationf in a media player, and perhaps older or less graphically intensive 3D games.
I had an "Intel" which wasn't on the list anywhere.
Integrated graphics aren't good for gaming. I've got a Gateway 400SP plus with the i852/855 and my PS2 runs rings around it gamewise. I've tried a few games on it now and then, older ones, like Diablo aren't too bad. FATE from WildTangent ( installed without the web driver using "certain means") is sluggish, and Deus Ex simply doesn't run as well as Deus Ex does on the PS2. I did buy one full price game to try because I'd heard so many good things about it, NWN and it sucked. I wanted to love it, but the UI and choppyness just made it intolerable. So I just stuck with the consoles.
Now admittedly the PS2 doesn't run GIMP as well as the laptop does.( Yeah I've got a PS2 with a Linux kit installed), but for gaming, I'm console all the way.
I'm building the specs for a new gaming rig, and a system with 320 GB HD, 2 GB RAM, Athlon X2 6000, and GeForce 7950GT (or a low-end 8000 series) STILL comes in less than $900!
Most people don't build their own. How much would that machine cost if it came from Dell or Gateway.
And being a PC it clearly does a hell of a lot more than playing games, downloading content, or running a Second Life wannabe.
The PS2 and PS3 both can run Linux so they're PC's too.
A couple years back that was a computer repair place in town that had some old LaserJets for sale for less thatn $50. I thought, "oh nice, whenever I have $50 to spare I'll come and pick one up." I never got around to it and they went out of business.
There's another way to get a parallel port, USB to parellel (or USB to Centronics) depending on the printer.
There aren't hit points, or spells to cast (unless you're in the universe of Rick Cook's Wiz Zumwalt stories),
backslash emacs artoodetoo.lsl exe
The emacs spell is too bloated, he should use vi/vim.
And for those who haven't read them, the books are good reads. Read the first two via the library years ago, never got around to buying them. Thanks for reminding me of them. ahh, the first two are available as free downloads at Baen. Cool!
Define critical mass, theres 4 - 5 times the number of simultaneious users now than when I joined back in July and about 15 - 16 times as many as a year ago. The number of residents is over 7 times as many today as when I joined.
Total Residents:5,710,444 Logged In Last 60 Days:1,776,499 Online Now:28,889 US$ Spent Last 24h:$1,517,552 LindeX Activity Last 24h:$225,178
When I joined SL last July average Online now was about 7000 during busy times, now during busy times it's over 35000. Back then the number of total residents was around 700000. last March the number of simultaneous users was around 2000. We're talking MASSIVE growth, but not among the slashdot crowd which is why you see statements like "SL can't be popular, none of my geek friends plays it."
Slashdot style Geeks tend not to "play" it, stay at home moms with some Photoshop skills do. As do art students of varoius types and other folks with some creative skills.
The FAQ on the Second Life page says that 85% of the 5 million members don't even have a premium account, and therefore can't own land or run a business.
Although a a premium account is rerquired to "own" mainland land it is not required to rent or "own" land on an Island Estate.
Some businesses don't require land at all. Scripters, sex workers, models.
I don't know what the big deal is. An EZ filer doesn't need Turbotax.
I know that, and you know that but not everyone does. Also Intuit (and others) make lots of money selling tax software every year to people who would never buy/use home accounting software because they live paycheck to paycheck.
I loathe the tax preparation companies. I filled federal free since my income is easily below the limit. You should see the PDF's the HR block site creates, they're crap, useless summary pages, a big www.pdflib.com watermark over every page that hurts legibility.
I also filed free though my states own website. Their PDF's look like actual filled out forms, much better quality.
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I agree on the homebrew and in fact did call Sony to complain about it, I also complained on the G.A.P forums. They should do something, even if homebrewers would need to submit their software to Sony for approval before getting them "signed".
I figure that if they could have figured out a way to support Linux easily on the PSP they'd have done that, even if they didn't support homebrew directly on the firmware.
As I've said on other ocassions the PSP is the anomaly among Sony gaming systems, all the others support amateur/hobbyist development. The PS1 with the Yaroze program and the PS2/PS3 with Linux.
Sure you can, though you'll need firmware 3.30+ to do so, Sohy removed the restriction a few weeks back.
Nintendo's a bunch of whippersnappers, the real pioneers have names like:
Coleco
Atari
Magnavox
RCA
Fairchild
Mattel
iPods have a lot of storage, but the battery doesn't last long enough to play 30GB of video. The battery on the PSP will last longer than the iPods playing video of the stick.
And the PSP has built in wifi/web browser/RSS/and the ability to stream from a PS3. Watch all your content, download more wherever you go.
Me too, and pretty much for the same reaons, though I don't have a homebrew friendly firmware now. (I upgraded my PSP for the Flash support and RSS)
I do wish sony would be open to homebrew applications, the PSP is an anomaly in this regard, the PS2/PS3 have LInux, so why not allow homebrew. Either say, "we don't support this stuff use at your own risk" or makd deals with homebrew developers "hey we've got a PDF reader, we support this" or "here's a version of nethack, that we authorize"
And I'm still waiting for the Chotto shotto to be released in the US.
One problem I think Sony has with the PSP is that people don't know what the thing is capable of even with just the official firmware, because the marketing for the thing sucks.
Probably he's using PSP video 9 (or something similar) to do the encoding. But it's not difficult to do. Sony does offer their own encoding software, which isn't bad I hear. but most folks just use the free ffmpeg based stuff.
Sounds to me like a Sony PSP would suit you better than the iPod. It has most of the features you want.
Sylpheed is nice if you don't need/want certain features. I wanted to be able to see HTML e-mail (and use dillo a lot anyway) and spellcheck so I switched to claws. I wish they'd kept an option for the separate folder window though.
But either of them is faster than Thunderbird (I formerly used Thunderbird) and IMHO bogofilter works just a touch better than Thunderbird's built in filtering.
The PS3 doesn't need anything other than the install media and that otheros.bld thing.
Powerful enough for reading e-mail, web browsing, IMing, and Nethack. True, but that $600 PC will not play games as well as the PS3 does. And what RAM and HD the PS3 does have would be quite sufficient for most home computing tasks.
You're not getting my point. A lot of slashdotters say they'd dump Windows if it weren't for commercial games. Well the PS2/PS3 can play commercial games AND run Linux, no mussing about with WINE or Cedega. It's a similar situation to those who dual boot Linux and Windows for games, except without haveing to deal with Windows.
That's the relevance. The PS3 is $600 for basically one reason, it has all those features because it's designed to destroy Microsofts market in the home. Not the Xbox market, the PC market. Remember the days when you didn't need Microsoft operating system to play lots of games and do computing tasks? Well those days are back. Who needs a second or third/fourth PC in the house for lil timmy to do his homework on when Mom or Dad are using the PC when his PS3 runs OpenOffice. With household penetration of computers flattening and people not upgrading their Microsoft software as often, Microsofts been counting on the income from vendors selling multiple PC's. to households keep growing. That income isn't safe anymore. People don't like Microsoft, they don't like dealing with the hassles of Microsoft's software. They'd dump it in a minute if they could do what they wanted to do with something else AND have games. And now they can.
It did kill PC gaming, on the Atari's and Commodores. Remember, PC means more than just the Microsoft/Intel platform. When Atari and Commodore died, PC gaming became a far less mass-market and more hardcore, platform It also became much more expensive, which helped cement the consoles as the mass market gaming device of choice.
The first console RTS as well as the first RTS on any platform was Herzog Zwei for the Sega Genesis. Yes, that's right, the RTS genre got it's start on the consoles.
On the PSone, the original C&C predated C&C Red Alert.
What, you weren't hardcore enough to have the PSone mouse?
And since it also runs Linux it does what the PC does too, in addition to all the other things it does.
I thought the Dell XPS series were well regarded by gamers.
Slashdot, where everyone thinks there's a local shop that builds gaming boxes, a Fry's and a LUG that meets at the pub/bar, everywhere.
Most people don't go to their local shop either, even if they have one. They buy their computer from Gateway/Dell or they buy it from a mass merchandizer.
You may not realize this but games are some of the most hardware intensive pieces of software out there. Back in the old days users ran accounting and POS software on machines far far less powerful than say a PS2.
You have to remember that the gaming consoles are optimized for gaming, they have hardware designed specifically with the computing requirements of games built into them. That integrated graphics chip is designed for nothing more strenous than a few 3D visualizationf in a media player, and perhaps older or less graphically intensive 3D games.
Integrated graphics aren't good for gaming. I've got a Gateway 400SP plus with the i852/855 and my PS2 runs rings around it gamewise. I've tried a few games on it now and then, older ones, like Diablo aren't too bad. FATE from WildTangent ( installed without the web driver using "certain means") is sluggish, and Deus Ex simply doesn't run as well as Deus Ex does on the PS2. I did buy one full price game to try because I'd heard so many good things about it, NWN and it sucked. I wanted to love it, but the UI and choppyness just made it intolerable. So I just stuck with the consoles.
Now admittedly the PS2 doesn't run GIMP as well as the laptop does.( Yeah I've got a PS2 with a Linux kit installed), but for gaming, I'm console all the way.
Most people don't build their own. How much would that machine cost if it came from Dell or Gateway.
The PS2 and PS3 both can run Linux so they're PC's too.
Old Deskjets are built like tanks (4xx, 5xx, 6xx series), they aren't so finicky as modern ones, so you can refill their cartridges.
A couple years back that was a computer repair place in town that had some old LaserJets for sale for less thatn $50. I thought, "oh nice, whenever I have $50 to spare I'll come and pick one up." I never got around to it and they went out of business.
There's another way to get a parallel port, USB to parellel (or USB to Centronics) depending on the printer.
backslash emacs artoodetoo.lsl exe
The emacs spell is too bloated, he should use vi/vim.
And for those who haven't read them, the books are good reads. Read the first two via the library years ago, never got around to buying them. Thanks for reminding me of them. ahh, the first two are available as free downloads at Baen. Cool!
http://www.baen.com/library/rcook.htm
Define critical mass, theres 4 - 5 times the number of simultaneious users now than when I joined back in July and about 15 - 16 times as many as a year ago. The number of residents is over 7 times as many today as when I joined.
More like the 5,710,445 person to do so.
Sure seems to be a LOT of nobodies:
Total Residents:5,710,444
Logged In Last 60 Days:1,776,499
Online Now:28,889
US$ Spent Last 24h:$1,517,552
LindeX Activity Last 24h:$225,178
When I joined SL last July average Online now was about 7000 during busy times, now during busy times it's over 35000. Back then the number of total residents was around 700000. last March the number of simultaneous users was around 2000. We're talking MASSIVE growth, but not among the slashdot crowd which is why you see statements like "SL can't be popular, none of my geek friends plays it."
Slashdot style Geeks tend not to "play" it, stay at home moms with some Photoshop skills do. As do art students of varoius types and other folks with some creative skills.
Although a a premium account is rerquired to "own" mainland land it is not required to rent or "own" land on an Island Estate.
Some businesses don't require land at all. Scripters, sex workers, models.
I know that, and you know that but not everyone does. Also Intuit (and others) make lots of money selling tax software every year to people who would never buy/use home accounting software because they live paycheck to paycheck.
I loathe the tax preparation companies. I filled federal free since my income is easily below the limit. You should see the PDF's the HR block site creates, they're crap, useless summary pages, a big www.pdflib.com watermark over every page that hurts legibility.
I also filed free though my states own website. Their PDF's look like actual filled out forms, much better quality.