I got a factory job where I need ear protection for safety and listen to music for sanity (listening to machines for 8 hours would drive me MAD MAD I TELL YOU!!!!)
With travel time that is just a little bit to much for my Nomad Zen. So I got two Mp3 player, an iGb-100 (small 1.5gb player from iRiver) in my pockter and the Zen on my belt. I got my wallet of course. Usually some small change and other stuff and my phone. Keys and the job alone adds one for the locker and one tag for signing in and out. A knife and pen. Maybe a roll of drop (candy).
In short I need a belt just to keep my damn pants from sliding down.
I could of course bring a book to read in the breaks or a GBA.
Can you imagine the bulge in my pockets? I don't care about my looks and work in place where people don't care either but in a suit this doesn't look good.
So yeah I see some sense in these multi-capabilty devices. They are not for me as the phone-mp3-game don't have the storage to play music for 8+ hours or the battery life.
No the camera in a phone or pda will never be as good as a dedicated camera. But if you need/want to make photo and send it with your camera then I wish you luck with your external camera, good luck in finding a way to connect the two, in getting the phone to regonize the camera, in making sure the phone messaging format can be used with your camera's storage format. Etc etc etc.
You are walking around with two devices, the guy with the cameraphone with 1. Add an mp3 player and you got 3, the guy with the supergadget still got 1. Add a game platform and you got 4 devices, the guy with supergadget still got one. Add a PDA function and you got 5 devices. The guy with the supergadget only 1.
Sure you will beat him in functionality but he doesn't look like a geek.
SCO SUES their customers. So you got the choice as a small business. Be an anonymous potential target SCO knows nothing about (SCO hasn't sued anyone they do not have relationship with) or become a well known target/sucker to SCO at the price of 700 bucks.
Unlike big companies most small business leaders will have to deal daily with scams like this. Advertising in never published magazines. Bills for goods never deliverd. Goods delivered that were never ordered. Scam insurances.
SCO will just get filed with everything else. If a small business just starts handing out cash to everyone who claims they have a right they would soon be a bankrupt business.
Depends there is one born every minute. Of course not everyone of them has a billion dollars but by the law of averages some of them must have. I hear George W. Bush is pretty rich.
Sorry but am I supposed to feel sorry for this guy? Well okay, I believe that society should show the compassion to criminals that the criminals showed to their victims. So lets see. If he made the virus easy to remove and totally harmless then lets give him an easy and painless sentence like cleaning the toilets for a couple of months for no pay.
but he didn't did he, he showed no compassion for his victims so why should we show him? He wanted to play with the big boys, cause discomfort to countless people, be the though guy. Well now he can be though in jail. Something tells me he is going to be crying for his mommy.
I don't agree with many things american but the saying "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime" I can get behind. This guy was no victim of society. He was not a poor man stealing bread for his family. He was nothing more then a little punk who went around smashing peoples car, a thief stealing every bike around because he is to lazy to walk, a parasite.
Sure he was an idiot but an idiot who deliberatly set out to cause other people harm. What do you suggest we do? Give him a 50 dollar penalty? Slap on the wrist? Then he will be boasting in seconds on the net on how the pigs couldn't touch him and his leet hacking skills brought down the net.
No let him rot for a couple of months. I doubt it will send a message to other script kiddies but there is always the element of revenge. Ghandi may have a thing or two to say about revenge but Ghandi also left a country wich now has been at war for 50 yrs with itself and its neighbour. (tamils and pakistan)
An american judge ruled against MS so MS went to europe to fight lindows. Europe rules against MS and MS claims that the american verdict shows europe has no case.
MS reminds me most of the mafia from the movies. The mafia is free to kill rape and plunder but if someone kills a mafia member they sinned against the family. A real case of being able to dish it out but not being able to take it. Or a cry-baby bully.
Lets see that the Microsoft apologists come up with this time. Will they as ever reach a new low?
We dig small holes into them. That is a bit different. And even when big amounts of earth is moved do you know how?
By digging small holes into it and then putting explosives into it and BOOM, causing the whole big mountain to slide..... into the ocean. Mmmm, exactly the thing you were trying to avoid?
Either you reinforce the rock (there was a similar bbc doc about a rock that could break of and slide into the ocean causing a huge wave), make sure that if it slides it slides slowly or you break it down piece by piece.
Neither are easy or cheap or ever been done before.
It appears there is proof waves of this kind of hit before in history and even recent ones on a smaller scale, rock slide on one side of a bay, flood on the other side. It seems pretty sound science but that doesn't tell us how to solve it.
The lawyers just on principle and the reporters for this kind of fabrication.
It ain't a bloody virus. It ain't even a trojan. It is just piece of malware. It doesn't alter the OS, it doesn't install itself and run always. It just dials phone numbers while you are playing the game. A pirated hacked game.
Geez when I was young we had real virusses. They infected your machine and the simple act of sharing a floppy would make you catch it. Removing it was hell as any program installed would be infected as well if it could even do something about the boot sector.
If the final image in the examples is the real result then wow. Projecting a movie into a corner and getting a normal picture is nothing to be sneezed at.
Sure it won't replace regular screen in places where there is room for them, cinema, meeting room, entertainment room, but it seems perfect for holding a demonstration and not having to take a screen with you and for information/commercial displays.
You mention real companies. But real companies are settled. The margins are becoming so tiny as to be almost non-existent. Supermarkets make fractions of a cent on certain products. The most striking is that there is more profit margin on the packing material of harddisks then on the platters.
Shipping, storage, handling, packaging all costs heaps and heaps of money and there really are no more ways to save. But what if you don't need any of that? Google doesn't have to deal with dockworkers strikes, faulty ingredients, recalls, fluctuating material prices, outlawing of certain materials. Nothing. Just make a product and sell sell sell.
Airline companies are going bankrupt while doing real things as you would put it. A single accident killed the concorde, rising oilprices are making airline companies grown and victims of "accidents" are starting to demand massive damages as they learn the accidents happen because of cut downs in maintenance.
So where do you put your money? In clean simple google? Or one of the messy real industries?
The only problem with buying google shares is that is to late. Best time to invest is at the start. Not when the company is already long established.
If you are worried about the price in the first few days after the ipo then you are a speculator (read filth) not an investor.
Someone buying 5 shares is not a speculator. That person would be an investor. Investors are intrested in the long term. Hoping that by lending a company a sum of money now that company can use that money to increase its business thereby increase profits and in the future repay the loan with a nice little interest (dividends). True investment is more like a loan that doesn't have to be paid back unless you make a profit.
Speculation is just hoping that someone else will want to buy your shares for more then you have bought them. It has no intrest in the future of the company.
All the reviews where glowing and then a few months late one by one the mags and websites had to admit they had forgotten to review the game as a game. Sure the critter was nice but you had very little control over it. Often you were punishing it or rewarding it for the wrong action as the interface blew chunks.
The micro management of the villages was another gigantic screw up forcing you not to be a god but an accountant.
The worst mistake was that I tried to be a nice player. Then a I planted a house wrong. It was on a slope with the door underground. So when I destroyed it it turned out I had just torched half the village as a hord of people that had been stuck inside streamed out.
The mouse gestures was a nice idea but while it works in opera it sucked in the game. Apparently nobody told the devs how your mouse works. Namely that it only records certain points and even less if the computer is busy. Meaning a circle drawn to fast becomes a square.
But peter has admitted the mistakes, he himself says that version 1 was not good. Now he wants us to shell out for number 2 again. Kinda like with the dungeon master game?
No peter has some nice ideas but he needs to get some people in his team who actually play the games and have the power to tell him that it sucks.
A good game has you battling the AI and the odds. Not the interface. If I wanted that kinda challenge I would just break my spine and control the game with my tongue and blinking. What next, a racing game where you can only steer left? Oh wait I forgot, nascar.
Why? There are plenty of web applications where it can be enforced wich browser you use. Namely business. If I develop an app using x-forms in the future for a company that company can simply require their employees to use mozilla to access it. Nothing special about that. There are plenty of places were word-perfect is enforced. Or lotus-notes for email.
Secondly is that MS controls the desktop but it does not control mobile devices. Worse its own browser on mobiles devices is even worse then desktop IE. It may have changed recently but I doubt it.
So if the big boys really are going to push this I fear MS might just have to follow, just as MS recently realised it could not keep stringing IE6 along forever.
As for regular home users. Try this. Give my new web app customer a cd with a branded mozilla or have them use IE and handle all the security problems. Slowly people are starting to get a clue. Now it depends on the non-MS companies to exploit that.
The hardware in the gba is and was not exactly the latest and greatest. Neither was the GB.
I meant in like saying a celeron is a crappy cheap game system. Doesn't mean a celeron is badly made chip. Just that whoever chooses to put it in game system is being cheap.
Sure the GBA with its old hardware has just kept working and working and working but that doesn't count. I want gloss. I want shine. I want sparkly!!!!!
Sonic is keeping on most of the software people. So it seems a straight forward sale of the whole business including people, even the name is going over.
So no employees being screwed over. If anything they will now be in a company that wants to do software not be a music distributor.
What is really needed is another FF tactics advance but hits like that are difficult to predict. The GB had pokemon of course but I can't really remember if the GBA had anything close to that or that it cruised on the GB's succes.
The current battle seems to be that Nintendo is going for original gameplay (rayman in the lineup does not bode well for that that) and Sony is going for graphics. Who will win? Well depends. You see sony is free to add original intresting games to match the best of Nintendo but Nintendo will be unable to match the graphical splendor of Sony.
The ball is now firmly in Sony's hand. Nintendo is just doing what it has always done. Cheap low price crappy hardware but fun. Sony is/seems to be doing quality good pricey hardware. Can it add fun? Handhelds are not consoles. You need a game that can be played for a few minutes, then you transfer to the next public transport and play again. One of the worst gba games was a racing game whose saves consisted of a lengthy char sequence.
So will sony screw up like everyone else or will Nintendo finally be beaten and forced to use some modern tech and good design in their handhelds? Lets face it both GBA's were crap. The first had no light meaning it couldn't be played outside and the second doesn't have a headphone. Clear "duh" designs. They sold because they were fun and there was no real competition. With the PSP I think Nintendo might be in for a rude awakening. Just as nintendo was not ready for sony in the console market I think they may not be ready in the handheld market.
Make a pfffff sound while the astronaut is outside. That should create some excitement.
If people can watch hours and hours of nobody's talking about nothing they can watch a spacewalk.
Personally I don't think it is the audience. I think it is the tv-producers that are the ones to stupid to watch anything wich requires more then 2 braincells.
Considering XP comes on 1 cd and a cd can only contain 700mb and reasoning they did not need to patch the "windows tunes or skins or wallpapers" it can reasonably be argued that SP2 replaces 1/3 of the software. That ain't a patch that is a rebuild. Just translate it to say a building or a car. If your car needed 1/3 of its parts replaced after you only got it for 2 years what would you say to the maker?
And it is not like SP2 is doing anything radical, it is just increasing security, so MS'es product was so badly put together that just to add a tiny level of extra security it had to replace so much code and spend so much time.
This can only be the result of extremely bad management and directionless developement of their software.
No this claim by MS shows that somewhere at the top something is really really wrong. They just don't get linux. The weird thing about linux is not that it is by nature that much more secure, I could easily make a linux install that would make Windows 95 look good. I think the real succes behind Linux is that it is not actively trying to stop you from making a secure system.
Plenty on/. talk about how hard linux is to use. They forget that the world has plenty of techies for whom this is merely a challenge.
A formule 1 car is a nightmare to drive and most people with a license wouldn't even be able to complete one lap in it if they even get manage to not stall or crash at the start. That is because the wheels on a normal car are turned slightly in wich causes the car the want to drive straight forward but a race car got them neutral so that it is easier to steer but hell to keep straight.
Linux is harder to drive but once you learned it you are in control, not some marketing weirdo at redmond. That is why I like linux. I can figure it out, I am in control, it is my OS.
MS real enemy is MS. To many people now have a stake in MS being reduced. Who are MS allies? Only those it can buy. Mercenaries are not known for their loyaltie.
Since you are holding with both hands and it has a mouse replacement you are I think not supposed to move your hand to the mouse. So how do you scroll? How do you use the 3rd mouse button? Not all of us are on a dumbed down OS you know? (intelligence of OS user can be determined by the number of mouse buttons in use by the OS. Apple 1, drool squad. MS 2, barely able to walk upright. *nix 3, homo sapiens.)
Other have already mentioned how hard special key combinations will be.
So it is more of a straight text input device rather then something to use for say browsing, launching an app or two and doing "computer" work. More something a typist would use for writing straight text.
Mmmm, many have tried to replace the standard old keyboard and so far the only change I have seen in the real world is the split keyboard and the ones in use in court rooms by clerks. Those devices I believe don't work with a regular alphabet at all.
So the only use I can see for such a device is for providing transcripts. Nice but there already exists stuff for that.
Oh well nice idea. Another replacement keyboard, file it in our cabinet with all the other wannabe replacements? Yeah I know it looks like the dumpster.
The entire question of alien life is wether it exists or not. This is pure speculation as proof one way or the other simply does not exist.
Some people claim that life can only begin under very optimal circumstances pointing at the planet earth. Forgetting neatly that 1. this planet wasn't exactly like today when life started and 2. that even today life exists in places that can only be described as lethal.
Others claim that life can originate pretty much anywhere and that there is no need for it to be based on the same principles as us. They got a tiny point in that on earth a tiny ecology has been found that doesn't rely on the sun for its energy but lives instead in a cycle relying on the earths own heat from its core. They got a huge gaping hole in that everything on earth seems to have the same origin, if life truly was easy we would have more then 1 ancestor to all life on earth. You would also expect to see some proof of life on other planets.
The most annoying bit about alien life is that if it exists why haven't they found us? Surely any halfway curious species would have long since mapped the galaxy and if they are anything like us landed ships to sell beads and mirrors to the natives?
Of course their may be a very depressing answer to explain the lack of contact. That there is no way to travel between the stars. That no-one is trying to contact us because everyone out there is just like us stuck in their solar system.
I don't know wich is more depressing, that we are truly alone or that we are not but doomed to stay in our tiny little bubble of space.
Sony is not some newcomer to the handheld market, it bloody invented portable entertainment or have you forgotten about the walkman or even earlier pocketradio?
My old MD player game with an removable internal recharable batter and a external battery pack. Sleek for the short journeys, long play for the long one. Simple.
If sony has any brains they will have some way to expand the battery life easily. If they do that and it can be played for a longer journey then they got it. The screen is to much of a leap ahead. It is not going to be soso-looking vs great. It is going to be ancient-has-been-geez-I-can't-believe-they-charge- 50-bucks-for-this vs wow-is-that-a-movie-or-game-what-it-costs-only-30- bucks-omfg-that-is-amazing.
I enjoyed my GBA games but it is time to move on. I hope the PSP will deliver.
I still like some GBA games but a lot of it is frankly old ancient stuff that is only there as library filler AND still being sold at full price.
The GBA and GBA SP are nice toys but graphics wise they aged extremely badly. There are racing games for the GBA and they are fun for while but they are definitly hurt by the lack of cpu power.
Screen size and quality is another downer. The GBA SP is a joke, its screen doesn't compare to my old afterburner GBA, has to oft mentioned lack of a headphone jack, and is impossible to hold for an adult.
Sure I still love my commuting sessions of GBA but I am definitly in the market for upgrading. Price? Plenty gamers I know have every console often multiple versions of the same console.
Currently the GBA SP retails for 139 euro. It is 40 euro above the Gamecube. No I think we expect our handhelds to be expensive.
This is a different market, people now have an expensive phone, an expensive Mp3 player. The PSP will simply be another few hundred for a portable game center. When these two are next to each other in the shops nintendo will have a very tough time.
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With travel time that is just a little bit to much for my Nomad Zen. So I got two Mp3 player, an iGb-100 (small 1.5gb player from iRiver) in my pockter and the Zen on my belt. I got my wallet of course. Usually some small change and other stuff and my phone. Keys and the job alone adds one for the locker and one tag for signing in and out. A knife and pen. Maybe a roll of drop (candy).
In short I need a belt just to keep my damn pants from sliding down.
I could of course bring a book to read in the breaks or a GBA.
Can you imagine the bulge in my pockets? I don't care about my looks and work in place where people don't care either but in a suit this doesn't look good.
So yeah I see some sense in these multi-capabilty devices. They are not for me as the phone-mp3-game don't have the storage to play music for 8+ hours or the battery life.
No the camera in a phone or pda will never be as good as a dedicated camera. But if you need/want to make photo and send it with your camera then I wish you luck with your external camera, good luck in finding a way to connect the two, in getting the phone to regonize the camera, in making sure the phone messaging format can be used with your camera's storage format. Etc etc etc.
You are walking around with two devices, the guy with the cameraphone with 1. Add an mp3 player and you got 3, the guy with the supergadget still got 1. Add a game platform and you got 4 devices, the guy with supergadget still got one. Add a PDA function and you got 5 devices. The guy with the supergadget only 1.
Sure you will beat him in functionality but he doesn't look like a geek.
Unlike big companies most small business leaders will have to deal daily with scams like this. Advertising in never published magazines. Bills for goods never deliverd. Goods delivered that were never ordered. Scam insurances.
SCO will just get filed with everything else. If a small business just starts handing out cash to everyone who claims they have a right they would soon be a bankrupt business.
Depends there is one born every minute. Of course not everyone of them has a billion dollars but by the law of averages some of them must have. I hear George W. Bush is pretty rich.
but he didn't did he, he showed no compassion for his victims so why should we show him? He wanted to play with the big boys, cause discomfort to countless people, be the though guy. Well now he can be though in jail. Something tells me he is going to be crying for his mommy.
I don't agree with many things american but the saying "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime" I can get behind. This guy was no victim of society. He was not a poor man stealing bread for his family. He was nothing more then a little punk who went around smashing peoples car, a thief stealing every bike around because he is to lazy to walk, a parasite.
Sure he was an idiot but an idiot who deliberatly set out to cause other people harm. What do you suggest we do? Give him a 50 dollar penalty? Slap on the wrist? Then he will be boasting in seconds on the net on how the pigs couldn't touch him and his leet hacking skills brought down the net.
No let him rot for a couple of months. I doubt it will send a message to other script kiddies but there is always the element of revenge. Ghandi may have a thing or two to say about revenge but Ghandi also left a country wich now has been at war for 50 yrs with itself and its neighbour. (tamils and pakistan)
MS reminds me most of the mafia from the movies. The mafia is free to kill rape and plunder but if someone kills a mafia member they sinned against the family. A real case of being able to dish it out but not being able to take it. Or a cry-baby bully.
Lets see that the Microsoft apologists come up with this time. Will they as ever reach a new low?
VR Doom3 is easy. Close your eyes and have someone else jump up behind you and say boo.
By digging small holes into it and then putting explosives into it and BOOM, causing the whole big mountain to slide..... into the ocean. Mmmm, exactly the thing you were trying to avoid?
Either you reinforce the rock (there was a similar bbc doc about a rock that could break of and slide into the ocean causing a huge wave), make sure that if it slides it slides slowly or you break it down piece by piece.
Neither are easy or cheap or ever been done before.
It appears there is proof waves of this kind of hit before in history and even recent ones on a smaller scale, rock slide on one side of a bay, flood on the other side. It seems pretty sound science but that doesn't tell us how to solve it.
It ain't a bloody virus. It ain't even a trojan. It is just piece of malware. It doesn't alter the OS, it doesn't install itself and run always. It just dials phone numbers while you are playing the game. A pirated hacked game.
Geez when I was young we had real virusses. They infected your machine and the simple act of sharing a floppy would make you catch it. Removing it was hell as any program installed would be infected as well if it could even do something about the boot sector.
Kids nowadays eh. Got no discipline.
Sure it won't replace regular screen in places where there is room for them, cinema, meeting room, entertainment room, but it seems perfect for holding a demonstration and not having to take a screen with you and for information/commercial displays.
Eeek more commercials. Bad germans.
Shipping, storage, handling, packaging all costs heaps and heaps of money and there really are no more ways to save. But what if you don't need any of that? Google doesn't have to deal with dockworkers strikes, faulty ingredients, recalls, fluctuating material prices, outlawing of certain materials. Nothing. Just make a product and sell sell sell.
Airline companies are going bankrupt while doing real things as you would put it. A single accident killed the concorde, rising oilprices are making airline companies grown and victims of "accidents" are starting to demand massive damages as they learn the accidents happen because of cut downs in maintenance.
So where do you put your money? In clean simple google? Or one of the messy real industries?
The only problem with buying google shares is that is to late. Best time to invest is at the start. Not when the company is already long established.
Someone buying 5 shares is not a speculator. That person would be an investor. Investors are intrested in the long term. Hoping that by lending a company a sum of money now that company can use that money to increase its business thereby increase profits and in the future repay the loan with a nice little interest (dividends). True investment is more like a loan that doesn't have to be paid back unless you make a profit.
Speculation is just hoping that someone else will want to buy your shares for more then you have bought them. It has no intrest in the future of the company.
The micro management of the villages was another gigantic screw up forcing you not to be a god but an accountant.
The worst mistake was that I tried to be a nice player. Then a I planted a house wrong. It was on a slope with the door underground. So when I destroyed it it turned out I had just torched half the village as a hord of people that had been stuck inside streamed out.
The mouse gestures was a nice idea but while it works in opera it sucked in the game. Apparently nobody told the devs how your mouse works. Namely that it only records certain points and even less if the computer is busy. Meaning a circle drawn to fast becomes a square.
But peter has admitted the mistakes, he himself says that version 1 was not good. Now he wants us to shell out for number 2 again. Kinda like with the dungeon master game?
No peter has some nice ideas but he needs to get some people in his team who actually play the games and have the power to tell him that it sucks.
A good game has you battling the AI and the odds. Not the interface. If I wanted that kinda challenge I would just break my spine and control the game with my tongue and blinking. What next, a racing game where you can only steer left? Oh wait I forgot, nascar.
so yes this is left handed and I doubt the manufacturer has the kind of production run that makes a left handed device worthwhile.
Secondly is that MS controls the desktop but it does not control mobile devices. Worse its own browser on mobiles devices is even worse then desktop IE. It may have changed recently but I doubt it.
So if the big boys really are going to push this I fear MS might just have to follow, just as MS recently realised it could not keep stringing IE6 along forever.
As for regular home users. Try this. Give my new web app customer a cd with a branded mozilla or have them use IE and handle all the security problems. Slowly people are starting to get a clue. Now it depends on the non-MS companies to exploit that.
I meant in like saying a celeron is a crappy cheap game system. Doesn't mean a celeron is badly made chip. Just that whoever chooses to put it in game system is being cheap.
Sure the GBA with its old hardware has just kept working and working and working but that doesn't count. I want gloss. I want shine. I want sparkly!!!!!
So no employees being screwed over. If anything they will now be in a company that wants to do software not be a music distributor.
The current battle seems to be that Nintendo is going for original gameplay (rayman in the lineup does not bode well for that that) and Sony is going for graphics. Who will win? Well depends. You see sony is free to add original intresting games to match the best of Nintendo but Nintendo will be unable to match the graphical splendor of Sony.
The ball is now firmly in Sony's hand. Nintendo is just doing what it has always done. Cheap low price crappy hardware but fun. Sony is/seems to be doing quality good pricey hardware. Can it add fun? Handhelds are not consoles. You need a game that can be played for a few minutes, then you transfer to the next public transport and play again. One of the worst gba games was a racing game whose saves consisted of a lengthy char sequence.
So will sony screw up like everyone else or will Nintendo finally be beaten and forced to use some modern tech and good design in their handhelds? Lets face it both GBA's were crap. The first had no light meaning it couldn't be played outside and the second doesn't have a headphone. Clear "duh" designs. They sold because they were fun and there was no real competition. With the PSP I think Nintendo might be in for a rude awakening. Just as nintendo was not ready for sony in the console market I think they may not be ready in the handheld market.
If people can watch hours and hours of nobody's talking about nothing they can watch a spacewalk.
Personally I don't think it is the audience. I think it is the tv-producers that are the ones to stupid to watch anything wich requires more then 2 braincells.
And it is not like SP2 is doing anything radical, it is just increasing security, so MS'es product was so badly put together that just to add a tiny level of extra security it had to replace so much code and spend so much time.
This can only be the result of extremely bad management and directionless developement of their software.
No this claim by MS shows that somewhere at the top something is really really wrong. They just don't get linux. The weird thing about linux is not that it is by nature that much more secure, I could easily make a linux install that would make Windows 95 look good. I think the real succes behind Linux is that it is not actively trying to stop you from making a secure system.
Plenty on /. talk about how hard linux is to use. They forget that the world has plenty of techies for whom this is merely a challenge.
A formule 1 car is a nightmare to drive and most people with a license wouldn't even be able to complete one lap in it if they even get manage to not stall or crash at the start. That is because the wheels on a normal car are turned slightly in wich causes the car the want to drive straight forward but a race car got them neutral so that it is easier to steer but hell to keep straight.
Linux is harder to drive but once you learned it you are in control, not some marketing weirdo at redmond. That is why I like linux. I can figure it out, I am in control, it is my OS.
MS real enemy is MS. To many people now have a stake in MS being reduced. Who are MS allies? Only those it can buy. Mercenaries are not known for their loyaltie.
Other have already mentioned how hard special key combinations will be.
So it is more of a straight text input device rather then something to use for say browsing, launching an app or two and doing "computer" work. More something a typist would use for writing straight text.
Mmmm, many have tried to replace the standard old keyboard and so far the only change I have seen in the real world is the split keyboard and the ones in use in court rooms by clerks. Those devices I believe don't work with a regular alphabet at all.
So the only use I can see for such a device is for providing transcripts. Nice but there already exists stuff for that.
Oh well nice idea. Another replacement keyboard, file it in our cabinet with all the other wannabe replacements? Yeah I know it looks like the dumpster.
The entire question of alien life is wether it exists or not. This is pure speculation as proof one way or the other simply does not exist.
Some people claim that life can only begin under very optimal circumstances pointing at the planet earth. Forgetting neatly that 1. this planet wasn't exactly like today when life started and 2. that even today life exists in places that can only be described as lethal.
Others claim that life can originate pretty much anywhere and that there is no need for it to be based on the same principles as us. They got a tiny point in that on earth a tiny ecology has been found that doesn't rely on the sun for its energy but lives instead in a cycle relying on the earths own heat from its core. They got a huge gaping hole in that everything on earth seems to have the same origin, if life truly was easy we would have more then 1 ancestor to all life on earth. You would also expect to see some proof of life on other planets.
The most annoying bit about alien life is that if it exists why haven't they found us? Surely any halfway curious species would have long since mapped the galaxy and if they are anything like us landed ships to sell beads and mirrors to the natives?
Of course their may be a very depressing answer to explain the lack of contact. That there is no way to travel between the stars. That no-one is trying to contact us because everyone out there is just like us stuck in their solar system.
I don't know wich is more depressing, that we are truly alone or that we are not but doomed to stay in our tiny little bubble of space.
At least we can try can't we?
My old MD player game with an removable internal recharable batter and a external battery pack. Sleek for the short journeys, long play for the long one. Simple.
If sony has any brains they will have some way to expand the battery life easily. If they do that and it can be played for a longer journey then they got it. The screen is to much of a leap ahead. It is not going to be soso-looking vs great. It is going to be ancient-has-been-geez-I-can't-believe-they-charge- 50-bucks-for-this vs wow-is-that-a-movie-or-game-what-it-costs-only-30- bucks-omfg-that-is-amazing.
I enjoyed my GBA games but it is time to move on. I hope the PSP will deliver.
The GBA and GBA SP are nice toys but graphics wise they aged extremely badly. There are racing games for the GBA and they are fun for while but they are definitly hurt by the lack of cpu power.
Screen size and quality is another downer. The GBA SP is a joke, its screen doesn't compare to my old afterburner GBA, has to oft mentioned lack of a headphone jack, and is impossible to hold for an adult.
Sure I still love my commuting sessions of GBA but I am definitly in the market for upgrading. Price? Plenty gamers I know have every console often multiple versions of the same console.
Currently the GBA SP retails for 139 euro. It is 40 euro above the Gamecube. No I think we expect our handhelds to be expensive.
This is a different market, people now have an expensive phone, an expensive Mp3 player. The PSP will simply be another few hundred for a portable game center. When these two are next to each other in the shops nintendo will have a very tough time.
So depending on the amount of motion your eyes will notice that you are looking at a computer screen updating too slowly.
The old 30fps is from the tv era. It doesn't account for people being able to see flickering tv monitors or lights.
So same old story, Intel scores at the top end if you got money to burn. AMD provides the best bang for your buck.