As touchscreens go it's pretty tough, and the flip provides good protection, but I will admit it could never hold its own against an old 3330 in terms of durability. Any kind of treatment that would crack plastic would kill a P900 because obviously there's nothing protecting the LCD or it would render the touchscreen a bit hard to use. I do have a BoxWave Cleartouch on it though - it's not at all impact resistant but it's completely unscratchable.
Well for the price of that one game you do get a memory card and a headset, on top of the year long subscription. The idea is that MS pays for the servers so no games companies need to, AFAIK.
What I do find laughable is games like Phantasy Star Online which charge a further subscription above the one you are already paying for Xbox live.
You can get PuTTY for the P800/900 as well as a VNC client. There are a couple of commercial SSH apps that are more polished and stable than the port of putty.
I strongly reccomend a P900, I have had mine for a month and am as happy as can be with it. There's just nothing else that I've used that matches up (and I've used near enough every phone on the market at work). Get an 128MB memory stick for it and you can get 3 hours of video on for when you're not working - there's even space for a few MAME games too.
Since this is coming for the Nokia Symbian 6 platform, I would think it's only a matter of time until it comes to the Sony Ericsson smartphones.
I work in a computer/phone shop and have used most things on the market - any high end Sony is better than a Nokia. The P900 has plenty of software available (MAME, Opera, AIM to name but a few) - a perl upgrade does not change the fact that Nokia is running Symbian on an inferior piece of hardware.
You'd be suprised - the current speed camera's are about 3m tall and I've seen films of people deliberately smashing them with their (presumably stolen) vehicles. I've even seen someone rip the camera off the pole with a JCB.
I've seen a few people paintballing the lenses too. I guess a nice thick metal box with a solid antenna on top will survive, but anything less is doomed from the start.
I see where you're coming from, but there's one fatal flaw in your logic: software is starting to come on DVD.
Silent Hill 3, the new ISS Game (I think), Encarta, several Linux distros to name but a few. I was actually quite irritated that I had to swap CDs every 10 minutes when I was installing FFXI (it's a 5GB install compressed onto 5 CDs).
As for DVD never taking off properly, I don't agree with that either. The formats you talk of (Zip, LS120, 2.8MB floppy etc.) were all specific computer related formats and weren't up to scratch for various reasons. DVD is already huge, the logical next step is brining it over to computer. I already see some of the great unwashed shelling out on DVD writers ('d00d, fr33 m0Vi3Z'), I own a DVD writer (I routinely deal with Photoshop files above 2GB) and even my grandparents have a DVD player hooked to their TV so they can watch the new movies. Filling the market like that, the transition to computer is comfortable unlike formats that were designed only for the niche market of hardcore geeks who needed more file storage.
Is this the same thing as the DAB radios you get in the UK? We've had them for a few months and they cost about 75.
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That was exactly my point - as with everyone else, I do feel the need to protect myself and others, yet I cannot see a reason that the species should protect itself. Aren't we surviving for the sake of it?
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Unpopular opinions aren't the same as heresies. Dig deeper. You have to have others.
I don't know what this counts as, but here's my
shot, it's something I've been considering for a while.
Nothing we do actually matters. At firs this may not sound shocking, especially to those of you who are, like me, unreligious. Think about it though - I could destroy the planet, erase every life here and every achievement that humanity has ever made, yet it would not cause anything that mattered to happen. Maybe other planets would be affected, maybe the solar system would fall apart, so, who cares? I may get many replies saying 'All life matters' or 'It matters if the solar system is destroyed' but I challenge any of you to back that up factually.
I may be wrong, but I thought that accurate GPS was run over two channels, and that the non-military one was sometimes scrambled to throw off the signal. What happens when the pilot tries to get into an airport and the plane suddenly steers away based on a scrambled GPS report?
There are many good points made in this thread, however the one that you all seem to be missing is that the collective agreement of all the sane people here is that SCO's allegations are completely baseless and will fade away as soon as the stock takes a hit because of it. The illegality of linux would be a major blow to the OSS movement and while it would recover it would take time. Linux is not, however, illegal and we all know it. SCO are simply not going to win here.
They've been a bit down and not that special for a while in the past, but they've come back up I reckon they're gonna keep going up now. For the first time since Win 95 the world at large is just beginning to look at alternatives. OSS has it's inherent problems in the eyes of the companies who may use it (both founded and unfounded worries). Apple has released OSX in a few incarnations, all of which are pretty damn nice, filling the gap nicely when companies want to update their infrastructure.
When high capacity MP3 players are bulky and ugly they come out with iPod series 1. After the hype goes away they swoop in again with more capacity and Windows compatability. Finally they tie it in with the ITMS placating the music industry while locking people into paying them for music rather than any other download service. They don't even get hate mail for this lock in because, quite frankly, their product is good enough that people don't really want to bother with the inferior alternatives. How many people have you heard grumbling that they can't move from ITMS to Napster 2?
When 64 Bit is coming to be not only the next big thing but also buzzword of the day, the G5 comes out and holds its own because, once again, its a damn good product.
Next year the iPod moves into the low end arena and stands to smash the competition if it's priced right and done well (which it probably will be).
Politically, I can't see why Britian still has a royal family. Seems like a bunch of mooches to me.
Officially I believe the Queen has the power to dissolve the government if it became undemocratic, and I think she has some level of official power over the lawmaking process too. She's just a figurehead really now, but those powers could be invoked if neccessary.
AFAICS, however, the unoficial reason is because nobody is bothering to abolish them and they aren't doing much harm to anyone really.
Take all that with more than a small pinch of salt though, my only qualification to speak on the subject is that I'm English and I listened a bit to some debate about the royals;-)
AFAIK the first car to use the inverted electric motors was the Bluebird electric - it was going for the electric land speed record and they had the motors specially designed because normal ones kept burning out.
I don't think they tried anything like putting them in the wheels though.
I completely agree. While the scammers should not have tried it to start with, anyone stupid enough to be taken in by something so well documented after being warned by the police deserves to loose anything they put in. Why does nobody ever point out this side of the story? It's always like the victim was an innocent bystander, not a greedy moron.
Indeed, and they're going to do it while producing a product inferior to the competitors in most aspects and charge twice the price of the people who have less marketshare but make a better item.
Have you used a P900? I didn't like the P800 at all because it was huge and the screen was a bit crap, but I've got a P900 now which replaced my T610 and it's hardly bigger with the flip taken off.
The functions are amazing, the screen looks great and it saves me having to take my MP3 player with me anymore too:-)
I think it's either gonna end up like that, which would be great, or it's gonna end up with the slashdot crowd all being locked up for using Linux on hardware which breaches Uber-DMCA codes and is a tool of the terrorist communist nazis who go round killing puppies.
Having just read back my own post, I'm really hoping we get OSH (open source hardware) going before it becomes illegal to develop.
That's definitely a good foundation, but being picky in huge doese is just as bad as evil in small doses.
A genuinely relaxed attitude will make everyone happier and more productive. I work in a computer shop and I like it purely becuase it doesn't feel like a 'real company' like PC World or any of those kind of shops, it's more like a bunch of people standing around and selling a few things - not to say we don't do alot, just to say it doesn't seem like it.
Examples of relaxedness are things like being able to wear whatever I like without anyone looking twice, being able to bring in my CDs and slap them in the sound system (everyone just takes a 'fair turn', no rotas, no rewards, just put your music in when you think it's OK and enjoy other people's the rest of the time.), being able to joke with anyone and just have a chat without being considered unproductive, not being monitored all the time, etc. etc.
Top 100 for a system that fits in a few units of rackmount space and took less than a day to build is still an extremely respectable figure by my book.
I agree wholeheartedly, I'm 15 and at high school in the UK. Today the latest rules to 'improve discipline and school image' were revealed, they basically consist of forcing girls to remove all make-up (on top of the extremely strict uniform we've already got) and pushing us all to have school IDs which do not, AFAICS, have any purpose at all.
Not only are they wasting their time with pointless rules, they're failing miserably in educating us properly. The fact is that all they are drilling into our heads now is facts to pass exams, not understanding. I generally have a good memory for this type of information and therefore get bored quickly - given the chance I could probably learn a years syllabus in a week and do OK on the exam. IMO the solution would be give the higher ability students the chance to understand the work on a higher level, but not according to the school, all I get is a conversation something along the lines of:
"Why aren't you working?"
"I finished it all."
"Is your shirt button undone?"
"Errr.. yes, sorry"
"Sit in silence for the rest of the lesson, and you've got a detention if that button's undone again"
This is the worse end of the teaching, but it's still a daily occurance.
teenage boys with no social life(something they have no control over)
I am a male teenage geek who has little success with girls, but I think the fact that we have no control over our social lives is a common misconception. I would not consider myself one of the 'cool' people by any stretch of the imagination, but I have my friends and AFAICS socialise quite normally.
It is generally accepted that hardcore geeks have a higher than average IQ (I'm between 130 and 150 depending on what test you believe). Since being cool is, from what I have seen, following a rapidly changing set of patterns in speech, attitude, actions and clothing, logic dictates that those of us with higher academic intelligence would be able to emulate these patterns. I myself have quite accurately predicted the next cool clothing before even the other people realised it was cool since it is quite simple to see how these things work. Basically, if I wanted to I (and most other intelligent geeks) could simply become one of the people in the social top-tier by observing patterns and acting accordingly. The reason that I personally do not take on the persona of one of the 'cool people' is that I would rather be individual and be myself, even at the expense of the perception of who I am by others.
It's also very lucky that the RIAA intend to pass on every cent of the lawsuit settlements directly to the artists who deserve it, and are not in any way interested in bulking out their own wallets at the expense of those who actually create music.
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As touchscreens go it's pretty tough, and the flip provides good protection, but I will admit it could never hold its own against an old 3330 in terms of durability. Any kind of treatment that would crack plastic would kill a P900 because obviously there's nothing protecting the LCD or it would render the touchscreen a bit hard to use. I do have a BoxWave Cleartouch on it though - it's not at all impact resistant but it's completely unscratchable.
Well for the price of that one game you do get a memory card and a headset, on top of the year long subscription. The idea is that MS pays for the servers so no games companies need to, AFAIK.
What I do find laughable is games like Phantasy Star Online which charge a further subscription above the one you are already paying for Xbox live.
You can get PuTTY for the P800/900 as well as a VNC client. There are a couple of commercial SSH apps that are more polished and stable than the port of putty.
I strongly reccomend a P900, I have had mine for a month and am as happy as can be with it. There's just nothing else that I've used that matches up (and I've used near enough every phone on the market at work). Get an 128MB memory stick for it and you can get 3 hours of video on for when you're not working - there's even space for a few MAME games too.
Since this is coming for the Nokia Symbian 6 platform, I would think it's only a matter of time until it comes to the Sony Ericsson smartphones.
I work in a computer/phone shop and have used most things on the market - any high end Sony is better than a Nokia. The P900 has plenty of software available (MAME, Opera, AIM to name but a few) - a perl upgrade does not change the fact that Nokia is running Symbian on an inferior piece of hardware.
You'd be suprised - the current speed camera's are about 3m tall and I've seen films of people deliberately smashing them with their (presumably stolen) vehicles. I've even seen someone rip the camera off the pole with a JCB.
I've seen a few people paintballing the lenses too. I guess a nice thick metal box with a solid antenna on top will survive, but anything less is doomed from the start.
I see where you're coming from, but there's one fatal flaw in your logic: software is starting to come on DVD.
Silent Hill 3, the new ISS Game (I think), Encarta, several Linux distros to name but a few. I was actually quite irritated that I had to swap CDs every 10 minutes when I was installing FFXI (it's a 5GB install compressed onto 5 CDs).
As for DVD never taking off properly, I don't agree with that either. The formats you talk of (Zip, LS120, 2.8MB floppy etc.) were all specific computer related formats and weren't up to scratch for various reasons. DVD is already huge, the logical next step is brining it over to computer. I already see some of the great unwashed shelling out on DVD writers ('d00d, fr33 m0Vi3Z'), I own a DVD writer (I routinely deal with Photoshop files above 2GB) and even my grandparents have a DVD player hooked to their TV so they can watch the new movies. Filling the market like that, the transition to computer is comfortable unlike formats that were designed only for the niche market of hardcore geeks who needed more file storage.
Is this the same thing as the DAB radios you get in the UK? We've had them for a few months and they cost about 75.
That was exactly my point - as with everyone else, I do feel the need to protect myself and others, yet I cannot see a reason that the species should protect itself. Aren't we surviving for the sake of it?
Unpopular opinions aren't the same as heresies. Dig deeper. You have to have others.
I don't know what this counts as, but here's my shot, it's something I've been considering for a while.
Nothing we do actually matters. At firs this may not sound shocking, especially to those of you who are, like me, unreligious. Think about it though - I could destroy the planet, erase every life here and every achievement that humanity has ever made, yet it would not cause anything that mattered to happen. Maybe other planets would be affected, maybe the solar system would fall apart, so, who cares? I may get many replies saying 'All life matters' or 'It matters if the solar system is destroyed' but I challenge any of you to back that up factually.
I may be wrong, but I thought that accurate GPS was run over two channels, and that the non-military one was sometimes scrambled to throw off the signal. What happens when the pilot tries to get into an airport and the plane suddenly steers away based on a scrambled GPS report?
There are many good points made in this thread, however the one that you all seem to be missing is that the collective agreement of all the sane people here is that SCO's allegations are completely baseless and will fade away as soon as the stock takes a hit because of it. The illegality of linux would be a major blow to the OSS movement and while it would recover it would take time. Linux is not, however, illegal and we all know it. SCO are simply not going to win here.
They've been a bit down and not that special for a while in the past, but they've come back up I reckon they're gonna keep going up now. For the first time since Win 95 the world at large is just beginning to look at alternatives. OSS has it's inherent problems in the eyes of the companies who may use it (both founded and unfounded worries). Apple has released OSX in a few incarnations, all of which are pretty damn nice, filling the gap nicely when companies want to update their infrastructure.
When high capacity MP3 players are bulky and ugly they come out with iPod series 1. After the hype goes away they swoop in again with more capacity and Windows compatability. Finally they tie it in with the ITMS placating the music industry while locking people into paying them for music rather than any other download service. They don't even get hate mail for this lock in because, quite frankly, their product is good enough that people don't really want to bother with the inferior alternatives. How many people have you heard grumbling that they can't move from ITMS to Napster 2?
When 64 Bit is coming to be not only the next big thing but also buzzword of the day, the G5 comes out and holds its own because, once again, its a damn good product.
Next year the iPod moves into the low end arena and stands to smash the competition if it's priced right and done well (which it probably will be).
Politically, I can't see why Britian still has a royal family. Seems like a bunch of mooches to me.
;-)
Officially I believe the Queen has the power to dissolve the government if it became undemocratic, and I think she has some level of official power over the lawmaking process too. She's just a figurehead really now, but those powers could be invoked if neccessary.
AFAICS, however, the unoficial reason is because nobody is bothering to abolish them and they aren't doing much harm to anyone really.
Take all that with more than a small pinch of salt though, my only qualification to speak on the subject is that I'm English and I listened a bit to some debate about the royals
AFAIK the first car to use the inverted electric motors was the Bluebird electric - it was going for the electric land speed record and they had the motors specially designed because normal ones kept burning out. I don't think they tried anything like putting them in the wheels though.
I would like to believe my family would not agree to steal from a dead man and continue after a warning from the police.
I completely agree. While the scammers should not have tried it to start with, anyone stupid enough to be taken in by something so well documented after being warned by the police deserves to loose anything they put in. Why does nobody ever point out this side of the story? It's always like the victim was an innocent bystander, not a greedy moron.
Indeed, and they're going to do it while producing a product inferior to the competitors in most aspects and charge twice the price of the people who have less marketshare but make a better item.
Have you used a P900? I didn't like the P800 at all because it was huge and the screen was a bit crap, but I've got a P900 now which replaced my T610 and it's hardly bigger with the flip taken off.
:-)
The functions are amazing, the screen looks great and it saves me having to take my MP3 player with me anymore too
I think it's either gonna end up like that, which would be great, or it's gonna end up with the slashdot crowd all being locked up for using Linux on hardware which breaches Uber-DMCA codes and is a tool of the terrorist communist nazis who go round killing puppies.
Having just read back my own post, I'm really hoping we get OSH (open source hardware) going before it becomes illegal to develop.
That's definitely a good foundation, but being picky in huge doese is just as bad as evil in small doses.
A genuinely relaxed attitude will make everyone happier and more productive. I work in a computer shop and I like it purely becuase it doesn't feel like a 'real company' like PC World or any of those kind of shops, it's more like a bunch of people standing around and selling a few things - not to say we don't do alot, just to say it doesn't seem like it.
Examples of relaxedness are things like being able to wear whatever I like without anyone looking twice, being able to bring in my CDs and slap them in the sound system (everyone just takes a 'fair turn', no rotas, no rewards, just put your music in when you think it's OK and enjoy other people's the rest of the time.), being able to joke with anyone and just have a chat without being considered unproductive, not being monitored all the time, etc. etc.
Top 100 for a system that fits in a few units of rackmount space and took less than a day to build is still an extremely respectable figure by my book.
I agree wholeheartedly, I'm 15 and at high school in the UK. Today the latest rules to 'improve discipline and school image' were revealed, they basically consist of forcing girls to remove all make-up (on top of the extremely strict uniform we've already got) and pushing us all to have school IDs which do not, AFAICS, have any purpose at all.
Not only are they wasting their time with pointless rules, they're failing miserably in educating us properly. The fact is that all they are drilling into our heads now is facts to pass exams, not understanding. I generally have a good memory for this type of information and therefore get bored quickly - given the chance I could probably learn a years syllabus in a week and do OK on the exam. IMO the solution would be give the higher ability students the chance to understand the work on a higher level, but not according to the school, all I get is a conversation something along the lines of:
"Why aren't you working?"
"I finished it all."
"Is your shirt button undone?"
"Errr.. yes, sorry"
"Sit in silence for the rest of the lesson, and you've got a detention if that button's undone again"
This is the worse end of the teaching, but it's still a daily occurance.
teenage boys with no social life(something they have no control over)
I am a male teenage geek who has little success with girls, but I think the fact that we have no control over our social lives is a common misconception. I would not consider myself one of the 'cool' people by any stretch of the imagination, but I have my friends and AFAICS socialise quite normally.
It is generally accepted that hardcore geeks have a higher than average IQ (I'm between 130 and 150 depending on what test you believe). Since being cool is, from what I have seen, following a rapidly changing set of patterns in speech, attitude, actions and clothing, logic dictates that those of us with higher academic intelligence would be able to emulate these patterns. I myself have quite accurately predicted the next cool clothing before even the other people realised it was cool since it is quite simple to see how these things work. Basically, if I wanted to I (and most other intelligent geeks) could simply become one of the people in the social top-tier by observing patterns and acting accordingly. The reason that I personally do not take on the persona of one of the 'cool people' is that I would rather be individual and be myself, even at the expense of the perception of who I am by others.
It's also very lucky that the RIAA intend to pass on every cent of the lawsuit settlements directly to the artists who deserve it, and are not in any way interested in bulking out their own wallets at the expense of those who actually create music.
F2 always did me fine in 9.1, and I agree with those who say they'd rather not rename things when they misjudge the click speed.
Having said that, we're splitting hairs here a little bit, aren't we?