Do you also predict that the market will reject Windows Vista, Blu Ray and HD DVD players? They all have various draconian DRM measures especially all the recent news about blu ray.
I agree. I love Baen ebooks (and paper books). I read them all the time on my palm. I guess I'm not the only one who likes almost everything Baen publishes:)
I second that. I've purchased books (ebooks and paper books) from baen. They also in some of thier hardback books include CD's with tons of other free ebooks to read. On the CD is printed that it is free to distribute. There are legal torrents around with those cd images if you like sci fi books.
As well baen has lots of free ebooks on thier website to d/l. They've mentioned before that everytime they release a free ebook (often the first in a series), the corresponding paper book sales of that particular book INCREASE. And as well the others in the series paper increase as well.
So despite all the music industry would like you to belive, there ARE models where free distribution of materials INCREASE sales.
DMCA has a lot more of stuff, your statement that it only applies if you distribute is totally false.
For instance it also says its a federal crime to bypass copy protection or DRM. Which is what you would be doing if you copied a DRMed e-book.
Just look at all the things ppl have sued for under DMCA. Garage door maker sued a company that made replacement garage door openers. Because they copied the encrypted door opener code. Printer company sued a replacement cartridge maker company because they copied the chip that says if its empty or not. Hardware Backup company sued (and WON!!) a 3rd party maintence company for typing in thier maintnece password before doing maintence. The equipment was owned (not leased) by a company that was just trying to save a little money so they hired a 3rd party to maintain it. A company could use this ruling (*cough cisco cough*) to prevent all 3rd party maintence just by putting a password into stuff. Then you'd have to have a service contract with the manufacture in order to do anything. They could have a monopoly and charge anything they want (kinda like some of them already do).
Technically doing a backup of a DVD you own is against the DMCA as well since you bypass DRM. And no, I dont think there's any exceptions in there. You might be able to argue fair use in court, but I wouldn't count on it.
Odds are you are right. Considering that violating the DMCA is a federal crime, and violating DRM is agasinst the DMCA.
Kinda like how theres a recent (last few months) federal law passed that says if you take a screenshot of a movie with your cell phone camera, you get automatic 3 years in jail. Oh and BTW, the theatre operators can detain and interrogate you if they wish. And are immune from any civil/criminal penalties or lawsuits if they do so. Kinda like Gestapo. That was all part of the law that was passed a couple months ago.
Well I can think of at least 2 solutions off the top of my head.
a) call them and try to explain. This is the morally right solution, and you have to trust in the rebate house's generosity (ahahhhaahhaha) and willingness to bend the rules (the fine print of the rebate I'm sure says they are not responsible for incomplete rebates).
or b) Wait until they deny, then call and say why did you deny? They will say missing upc, then you can say they must have lost the UPC (note this wording is technically not lying) cause you have a copy right here of all the stuff you sent in (you did make copies right?) and you have a copy of the UPC. And they will say well resubmit it etc. This is kinda in a gray area and will take you longer. But odds are you will get your rebate.
So make the choice. If you choose #1 let me know what they say. Or you can try #1 first then #2.
disclaimer: I'm not advocating one or the other. Just throwing some ideas up into the air. No one should do #2.
Just think it through. Whats the easiest way to accomplish this so it cant be disabled and yet can add info reliably based on the hardware serial number of the laser?
Why by modifying the output JUST before it hits the laser. Flip a few pixels at certain locations.
Similar in idea to having a flashlight lens with a few drops of paint spattered on it. You will see it in the output in same position every time.
Kinda tough to remove an little hardware chip right next to laser (or even inside laser assembly). Sure you could smash it with a hammer if you were lucky, but then the printer would not function. You'd end up having to figure out how the chip works and maybe soldiering a wire or three to bypass it. And how many (even at slashdot) are going to go poking around in thier expensive color laser printers with soldering irons?
All manual updates from windows update are required to validate that its a legit copy.
Security updates through automatic update are still availible, or if you can find the manual link to the update (without using windows update site) you can get security updates that way.
For example, you cannot now get dx9.0c (unless you install it off a game cd) without verification.
BTW, I have all legit versions of XP on my computers, purchased from my school program at a discount, etc.
Now, there's a lot of misinformation and anecdotal stuff going around about SP1 and SP2 and how those can be installed. Here's the correct info.
First of all, SP1 locked out a small number of very well known cd keys that were used in a few of the more common pirated versions. If you had those, windows update wouldn't work period. I think you might be able to use a keychanger in that case, but I never tried it.
SP2 info: during the beta of SP2, MS got really anal and blocked a ton of pirated cd keys (basically all pirated ones up to that point). From what I heard, you had to go through a bunch of hoops with special key gens that verified 50 keys with ms servers before they found one that worked. They decided that providing security updates was too important and on the actual live release version of SP2, they backed it down so it only blocked the same few common keys that SP1 had blocked. (most SP2 pirated keys were differant by that time from the sp1 ones and I heard of no keys getting blocked by people who copied xp with sp2 release version integrated, etc)
Finally we come to today. Now all windows update downloads, and microsoft update downloads (including security/critical updates) will require validation. This is a little active X control that installs and checks your cd key to make sure its ok.
BTW, this INCLUDES corporate versions. You may be asked to input some info such as what company you got it from. Then they can match against what company purchased that VLK.
Quote from the link at top: "Validation via WGA will be required for all customers using Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows content, and the Download Center (DC). Security updates remain available to all Windows users -- with or without WGA validation -- via the DC or Automatic Updates."
DC being the download center, i.e. manually finding the knowledge base article for that critical update and downloading it. (without using windows update)
Quote from there about volume liscense customers: "Do Volume License customers need to validate? A: Yes. Customers using a copy of Windows with a valid Volume License will be validated and given full access to all genuine Windows downloads. Volume License keys have been a source of counterfeit in some instances; therefore the WGA validation service is able to recognize and block a Volume License key that is being used improperly."
The complete list of info collected per that FAQ is: "The complete list of information collected in the validation process is shown below:
* OEM product key
* PC Manufacturer
* OS version
* PID/SID
* BIOS info (make, version, date)
* BIOS MD5 Checksum
* User Locale (language setting for displaying Windows)
* System Local (language version of the operating system)"
Anyway, there's the info, and the source for the official MS stuff on it. So you can verify most of this yourself.
Oh one of those little $5 devices from ebay. Compusa has similar ones now for about $12 that are a little more durable.
Note: These are random ebay links from a search for ATX tester. Feel free to choose others or none at all and google for places that sell them. I did not check prices or anything else besides just the pictures for examples of what I'm talking about.
And then these are popping up more frequently, supposedly better than the other two: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =6788023833&category=3670&rd=1 However, just be aware that the supposed ends that test the floppy and hdd, they dont test the voltage correctness. So if you reverse the 5v and 12v leads on a hdd or fdd connector while doing a PSU mod, this device will still show them as being good. It just tests the presense of any voltage period on those connectors. Other than that it is fine.
Actually thats not really a special mode. Movie playback happens at only 1x dvd speed, just like music cd playback happens at 1x cd rom speed. So on a normal 16x speed dvd rom drive, its just slowed down to 1/16th of the normal speed to play a dvd movie. Or for music cds its 1/52nd the normal speed:)
The reality is a bit differant since those are maximum speeds and not constant angular velocities, but you get the idea.
An earlier guy wrote about how he ran cables to his garage and kept his keyboard, monitor, mouse, so he couldn't hear any noise from his computer. It only cost him a few hundred plus labor. But there are alternatives.
Here's some of mine: Get a passive power supply (check the article this whole thing is about, or google for some, or check the SPC site at the top of my post)
Get a passive CPU cooler (they do exist) or use one of the ones that can mount a 120mm fan, make sure all fans are very low noise 120mm fans that can move more air than smaller fans, but at much less noise.
You may want to consider some of the recent AMD64 cpu's that run quite cool and low voltage, but yet very good performance. Like the venice version of the AMD64 90nm 939 pin 3000+ cpu.
Memory doesn't matter so much, you can use them as is.
An alternative is to get one of the mobos that support the Pentium M CPU. That cpu is normally for laptops, but has great performance and very low power and heat. You can also get older graphics cards that are cheaper and passively cooled and put out less heat (my 6600gt gets pretty how) if you aren't going to do any gaming.
As for hard drive, check this: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article258-page3.htm l Its a 200 gig SATA hard drive with noise levels of 21db idle and around 24db while writing. If this is still too much, get an older 5400 rpm hard drive and enable the noise reduction technology on it. Many many hard drives have utilites you can download from manufacture to enable noise reduction in operation. It slows the performance a slight amount but can often reduce noise quite a lot. I dont know if laptop drives are any quieter, but you could purchase one and use one of those adapters to plug it into a normal IDE plug.
Or if you really want to go extreme in case design, there was a case a couple years ago that was almost $1000 and it was basically one giant heatsink with stuff so you could passive cool cpu and video card to the outside of the case, so you could operate it fanlessly if you wanted.
For fans, if the uber quiet 120mm fans are still too noisey, then run them at 7v or 5v instead of the normal 12v. You can greatly reduce the noise this way and its not a hard thing to do.
This page has a bunch of info and PDF/xls tables on differant fan characteristics with undervolting. You can get fans down to 15 or less db when you run them at 5 volts (the ones that work at that speed) http://www.silentpcreview.com/article25-page1.html
Yeah, thats why I use a cheap little power supply tester on all my PSU's before I connect them. I dont want to risk anything happening to my computer. Of course I try to get good PSU's with built in protections as well like overvoltage protection, overcurrent protection, etc.
Speaking of laptops, give the 1.6ghz pentium M a try. Its low power, low heat, (which means low noise) and very good performance. Nearly as good as a p4 twice the speed.
Easy. This is what I did, paid a visit to directron: http://store.yahoo.com/directron/zmnb47j.html $5 and you are set. Was very easy to remove the old fan, it just had some plastic studs you pushed out. I have a asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo and it works great for me.
Problem 1) it would be pretty expensive if it were even possible (see problem 2) so would you pay a few hundred for it?
Problem 2) The noise canceling stuff is not good with white noise. And in fact some parts of the sound spectrum its not very good at all.
I only use greyscale palms to extend the battery life between charges. I've never been impressed with color on a palm since my primary reason to use one is reading ebooks. I've never given it a serious try though. But I'm sure there are local stores you can try out the color screen at if you want to find out.
Lets not forget that you can disable the censorship (the blocks that appear when you take a shower or use toilet to block the nudity) in the Sims 1 game (probably sims 2 as well) by editing a simple text file setting to go from 1 to 0. And that includes the child nudity from what I hear. Thats child abuse, far more serious than GTA, its time to revoke the Sims rating. And that IS included in the game.
Or how about Q3A or UT2k4? They have nude skins downloadable.
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Do you also predict that the market will reject Windows Vista, Blu Ray and HD DVD players? They all have various draconian DRM measures especially all the recent news about blu ray.
I agree. I love Baen ebooks (and paper books). I read them all the time on my palm. I guess I'm not the only one who likes almost everything Baen publishes :)
I second that. I've purchased books (ebooks and paper books) from baen. They also in some of thier hardback books include CD's with tons of other free ebooks to read. On the CD is printed that it is free to distribute. There are legal torrents around with those cd images if you like sci fi books.
As well baen has lots of free ebooks on thier website to d/l. They've mentioned before that everytime they release a free ebook (often the first in a series), the corresponding paper book sales of that particular book INCREASE. And as well the others in the series paper increase as well.
So despite all the music industry would like you to belive, there ARE models where free distribution of materials INCREASE sales.
DMCA has a lot more of stuff, your statement that it only applies if you distribute is totally false.
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For instance it also says its a federal crime to bypass copy protection or DRM. Which is what you would be doing if you copied a DRMed e-book.
Just look at all the things ppl have sued for under DMCA. Garage door maker sued a company that made replacement garage door openers. Because they copied the encrypted door opener code. Printer company sued a replacement cartridge maker company because they copied the chip that says if its empty or not. Hardware Backup company sued (and WON!!) a 3rd party maintence company for typing in thier maintnece password before doing maintence. The equipment was owned (not leased) by a company that was just trying to save a little money so they hired a 3rd party to maintain it. A company could use this ruling (*cough cisco cough*) to prevent all 3rd party maintence just by putting a password into stuff. Then you'd have to have a service contract with the manufacture in order to do anything. They could have a monopoly and charge anything they want (kinda like some of them already do).
Technically doing a backup of a DVD you own is against the DMCA as well since you bypass DRM. And no, I dont think there's any exceptions in there. You might be able to argue fair use in court, but I wouldn't count on it.
There's more examples if you search. Here's a few places to start:
small list of gadgets and things that are illigal or potentially so under DMCA and other actions. http://www.eff.org/endangered/list.php
Some of the unintended consequences because DMCA is so broadly written, including news links etc. Its even slowed down science in some areas.
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintend
And here's a more general status/info page on DMCA
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/
If you wish to have more sites that just EFF, google, there's other sites out there. EFF just happens to be a really good source.
Odds are you are right. Considering that violating the DMCA is a federal crime, and violating DRM is agasinst the DMCA.
Kinda like how theres a recent (last few months) federal law passed that says if you take a screenshot of a movie with your cell phone camera, you get automatic 3 years in jail.
Oh and BTW, the theatre operators can detain and interrogate you if they wish. And are immune from any civil/criminal penalties or lawsuits if they do so. Kinda like Gestapo.
That was all part of the law that was passed a couple months ago.
Well I can think of at least 2 solutions off the top of my head.
a) call them and try to explain. This is the morally right solution, and you have to trust in the rebate house's generosity (ahahhhaahhaha) and willingness to bend the rules (the fine print of the rebate I'm sure says they are not responsible for incomplete rebates).
or b) Wait until they deny, then call and say why did you deny? They will say missing upc, then you can say they must have lost the UPC (note this wording is technically not lying) cause you have a copy right here of all the stuff you sent in (you did make copies right?) and you have a copy of the UPC. And they will say well resubmit it etc. This is kinda in a gray area and will take you longer. But odds are you will get your rebate.
So make the choice. If you choose #1 let me know what they say. Or you can try #1 first then #2.
disclaimer: I'm not advocating one or the other. Just throwing some ideas up into the air. No one should do #2.
Just think it through. Whats the easiest way to accomplish this so it cant be disabled and yet can add info reliably based on the hardware serial number of the laser?
Why by modifying the output JUST before it hits the laser. Flip a few pixels at certain locations.
Similar in idea to having a flashlight lens with a few drops of paint spattered on it. You will see it in the output in same position every time.
Kinda tough to remove an little hardware chip right next to laser (or even inside laser assembly). Sure you could smash it with a hammer if you were lucky, but then the printer would not function. You'd end up having to figure out how the chip works and maybe soldiering a wire or three to bypass it. And how many (even at slashdot) are going to go poking around in thier expensive color laser printers with soldering irons?
If you need any advice on book reading software, or software to help convert ebooks to other formats or anything else lemme know.
Here's a good ebook reader that can do txt and html:
http://www.plkr.org/
I also grabbed a 64 meg SD card from officemax on sale for $10 after rebate. So if you see a good sale on something similar might want to grab one.
I use a simpler one that only does txt but I always have to convert first then.
I dont mind helping a fellow palm ebook reader out just give a yell if you want more info.
Thanks! I was able to search for it with the name. Your link got messed up somehow though. This is the working one:/ 1549248&tid=190&tid=106
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/18
Easy enough. Thats about 1 month of 1300 channels. So its roughly 10 times more storage space needed than the typical 100+ channels people have today.
Simply increase the storage system by 10 times and you have that capacity.
Grab a petabox and you can store many millions of hours.
http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
First of all here's the offical link on windows validation info:0 5/07-25WGA1PR.mspx
p x?displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul
All manual updates from windows update are required to validate that its a legit copy.
Security updates through automatic update are still availible, or if you can find the manual link to the update (without using windows update site) you can get security updates that way.
For example, you cannot now get dx9.0c (unless you install it off a game cd) without verification.
BTW, I have all legit versions of XP on my computers, purchased from my school program at a discount, etc.
Now, there's a lot of misinformation and anecdotal stuff going around about SP1 and SP2 and how those can be installed. Here's the correct info.
First of all, SP1 locked out a small number of very well known cd keys that were used in a few of the more common pirated versions. If you had those, windows update wouldn't work period. I think you might be able to use a keychanger in that case, but I never tried it.
SP2 info: during the beta of SP2, MS got really anal and blocked a ton of pirated cd keys (basically all pirated ones up to that point). From what I heard, you had to go through a bunch of hoops with special key gens that verified 50 keys with ms servers before they found one that worked.
They decided that providing security updates was too important and on the actual live release version of SP2, they backed it down so it only blocked the same few common keys that SP1 had blocked. (most SP2 pirated keys were differant by that time from the sp1 ones and I heard of no keys getting blocked by people who copied xp with sp2 release version integrated, etc)
Finally we come to today. Now all windows update downloads, and microsoft update downloads (including security/critical updates) will require validation. This is a little active X control that installs and checks your cd key to make sure its ok.
BTW, this INCLUDES corporate versions. You may be asked to input some info such as what company you got it from. Then they can match against what company purchased that VLK.
Quote from the link at top:
"Validation via WGA will be required for all customers using Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows content, and the Download Center (DC). Security updates remain available to all Windows users -- with or without WGA validation -- via the DC or Automatic Updates."
DC being the download center, i.e. manually finding the knowledge base article for that critical update and downloading it. (without using windows update)
Here's the FAQ:
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.as
Quote from there about volume liscense customers:
"Do Volume License customers need to validate?
A: Yes. Customers using a copy of Windows with a valid Volume License will be validated and given full access to all genuine Windows downloads. Volume License keys have been a source of counterfeit in some instances; therefore the WGA validation service is able to recognize and block a Volume License key that is being used improperly."
The complete list of info collected per that FAQ is:
"The complete list of information collected in the validation process is shown below:
* OEM product key
* PC Manufacturer
* OS version
* PID/SID
* BIOS info (make, version, date)
* BIOS MD5 Checksum
* User Locale (language setting for displaying Windows)
* System Local (language version of the operating system)"
Anyway, there's the info, and the source for the official MS stuff on it. So you can verify most of this yourself.
Oh one of those little $5 devices from ebay. Compusa has similar ones now for about $12 that are a little more durable.
m =6787868778&category=51064&rd=1
m =6788579887&category=3670&rd=1
m =6788023833&category=3670&rd=1
Note: These are random ebay links from a search for ATX tester. Feel free to choose others or none at all and google for places that sell them. I did not check prices or anything else besides just the pictures for examples of what I'm talking about.
Here's an example of the product I got at compusa:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
Here's an example of the cheaper ones:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
And then these are popping up more frequently, supposedly better than the other two:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
However, just be aware that the supposed ends that test the floppy and hdd, they dont test the voltage correctness. So if you reverse the 5v and 12v leads on a hdd or fdd connector while doing a PSU mod, this device will still show them as being good. It just tests the presense of any voltage period on those connectors. Other than that it is fine.
Thats a cool funny idea.
Your wife? does she game?
- NX66T128VP.htm
I personally use a 6600gt that is passivly cooled:
http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV
Which distro was that?
Actually thats not really a special mode. Movie playback happens at only 1x dvd speed, just like music cd playback happens at 1x cd rom speed. So on a normal 16x speed dvd rom drive, its just slowed down to 1/16th of the normal speed to play a dvd movie. Or for music cds its 1/52nd the normal speed :)
The reality is a bit differant since those are maximum speeds and not constant angular velocities, but you get the idea.
omg 8" fan? You must have a very strange psu. All others I've seen normally have 80mm fans on the back. google says 80mm is closer to 3"
This site has a lot of ideas:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/
An earlier guy wrote about how he ran cables to his garage and kept his keyboard, monitor, mouse, so he couldn't hear any noise from his computer. It only cost him a few hundred plus labor. But there are alternatives.
Here's some of mine:
Get a passive power supply (check the article this whole thing is about, or google for some, or check the SPC site at the top of my post)
Get a passive CPU cooler (they do exist) or use one of the ones that can mount a 120mm fan, make sure all fans are very low noise 120mm fans that can move more air than smaller fans, but at much less noise.
Here's an example of a passive CPU heatsink (its quite big, but can handle fast modern CPU's)
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/4in1heatpipe/cl -p0071SonicTower/cl-p0071.htm
You may want to consider some of the recent AMD64 cpu's that run quite cool and low voltage, but yet very good performance. Like the venice version of the AMD64 90nm 939 pin 3000+ cpu.
Memory doesn't matter so much, you can use them as is.
Get a graphics card that is passivly cooled. For example, I bought this one and I love it:
http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV- NX66T128VP.htm
Its a nvidia 6600gt pci-express.
An alternative is to get one of the mobos that support the Pentium M CPU. That cpu is normally for laptops, but has great performance and very low power and heat. You can also get older graphics cards that are cheaper and passively cooled and put out less heat (my 6600gt gets pretty how) if you aren't going to do any gaming.
Replace the chipset fan with a heatsink
I used this one on my asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo:
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx= 71&code=014
As for hard drive, check this:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article258-page3.htm l
Its a 200 gig SATA hard drive with noise levels of 21db idle and around 24db while writing.
If this is still too much, get an older 5400 rpm hard drive and enable the noise reduction technology on it. Many many hard drives have utilites you can download from manufacture to enable noise reduction in operation. It slows the performance a slight amount but can often reduce noise quite a lot. I dont know if laptop drives are any quieter, but you could purchase one and use one of those adapters to plug it into a normal IDE plug.
Get a well designed case. Here's a review of a system that runs cooler than an open air test bench and can use a single 120mm 5.5 volt case fan:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article254-page4.htm l
Or if you really want to go extreme in case design, there was a case a couple years ago that was almost $1000 and it was basically one giant heatsink with stuff so you could passive cool cpu and video card to the outside of the case, so you could operate it fanlessly if you wanted.
For fans, if the uber quiet 120mm fans are still too noisey, then run them at 7v or 5v instead of the normal 12v. You can greatly reduce the noise this way and its not a hard thing to do.
This page has a bunch of info and PDF/xls tables on differant fan characteristics with undervolting. You can get fans down to 15 or less db when you run them at 5 volts (the ones that work at that speed)
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article25-page1.html
If this is still too much, you can go with eve
Yeah, thats why I use a cheap little power supply tester on all my PSU's before I connect them. I dont want to risk anything happening to my computer. Of course I try to get good PSU's with built in protections as well like overvoltage protection, overcurrent protection, etc.
Speaking of laptops, give the 1.6ghz pentium M a try. Its low power, low heat, (which means low noise) and very good performance. Nearly as good as a p4 twice the speed.
Easy. This is what I did, paid a visit to directron:
= 71&code=014
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/zmnb47j.html
$5 and you are set. Was very easy to remove the old fan, it just had some plastic studs you pushed out.
I have a asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo and it works great for me.
Here's the zalman page:
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx
Problem 1) it would be pretty expensive if it were even possible (see problem 2) so would you pay a few hundred for it? Problem 2) The noise canceling stuff is not good with white noise. And in fact some parts of the sound spectrum its not very good at all.
Wow your whole post is cool about running the computer in another room.
n =Showitem&id=ID514292&partno=70570&search=USB
I also like the link for that one device USB over CAT5 device. $100 for 150 feet aint bad if you really need an extension.
Another possability, I've seen a 15' extender for about $20 (you connect it to a 15' max length standard USB cable for a total of 30'), but from what you are saying you need more than that.
http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?actio
One of the advantages of a USB would be that you could hot plug a cd or dvd drive and plug in something else if you had other USB devices.
I only use greyscale palms to extend the battery life between charges. I've never been impressed with color on a palm since my primary reason to use one is reading ebooks. I've never given it a serious try though.
But I'm sure there are local stores you can try out the color screen at if you want to find out.
Lets not forget that you can disable the censorship (the blocks that appear when you take a shower or use toilet to block the nudity) in the Sims 1 game (probably sims 2 as well) by editing a simple text file setting to go from 1 to 0. And that includes the child nudity from what I hear. Thats child abuse, far more serious than GTA, its time to revoke the Sims rating. And that IS included in the game.
Or how about Q3A or UT2k4? They have nude skins downloadable.