I have only dabbled in Linux so excuse my ignorance, but some of these apps seem rather important. Why aren't they included in the various Linux distributions? Or are they just better incarnations of included software?
With standardized cell-phone components, I am sure companies will be even more likely to stuff every last feature known to man onto their phones. Personally, I think it's getting ridiculous. I don't want to play Tony Hawk 4 on the 1" x 1" screen on my cell phone or struggle with watered down GPS functionality or grainy photos. On the other hand, what I do hope is that chargers become standardized. Now that would be something useful.
Legislation and regulations are all fine and good, but they must be backed up by fair and thorough enforcement to truly work. Self-enforcement of Government regulations when it applies only to Government is far too tempting.
You may be right, however, "supporting" MP3 may just be a nice way of saying "we'll give you a way to apply our DRM to your MP3 so that it will work on our device". That's exactly what happened with the MiniDisc marketing literature. Go here (click on "Why NET MD" and then on "Supports Multiple Audio Formats"):
http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/e n/imagesProducts/FlashDemo/flash.html
And, of course, they don't actually mean native support.
Very sneaky.
As with the MiniDisc technology, Sony will make the music and video (non-game) functionality of this device completely unusable and inconvenient. Has anyone used one of the Sony NetMD MiniDisc recorders? They are gorgeous devices, but almost a complete write-off as a result of the slow, buggy, and extremely crippling DRM layer. This same technology (OpenMG) was also rolled out in their MP3 players and in their consumer PCs. There is no reason why they won't use the same thing on the PSP.
You know what we did for cotting agents? When one of my squad members got his leg blown off, we've piss on a shu-shu leaf and wrap it around the stump.
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With standardized cell-phone components, I am sure companies will be even more likely to stuff every last feature known to man onto their phones. Personally, I think it's getting ridiculous. I don't want to play Tony Hawk 4 on the 1" x 1" screen on my cell phone or struggle with watered down GPS functionality or grainy photos. On the other hand, what I do hope is that chargers become standardized. Now that would be something useful.
Legislation and regulations are all fine and good, but they must be backed up by fair and thorough enforcement to truly work. Self-enforcement of Government regulations when it applies only to Government is far too tempting.
You may be right, however, "supporting" MP3 may just be a nice way of saying "we'll give you a way to apply our DRM to your MP3 so that it will work on our device". That's exactly what happened with the MiniDisc marketing literature. Go here (click on "Why NET MD" and then on "Supports Multiple Audio Formats"): http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/e n/imagesProducts/FlashDemo/flash.html
And, of course, they don't actually mean native support.
Very sneaky.
As with the MiniDisc technology, Sony will make the music and video (non-game) functionality of this device completely unusable and inconvenient. Has anyone used one of the Sony NetMD MiniDisc recorders? They are gorgeous devices, but almost a complete write-off as a result of the slow, buggy, and extremely crippling DRM layer. This same technology (OpenMG) was also rolled out in their MP3 players and in their consumer PCs. There is no reason why they won't use the same thing on the PSP.
I can't express to you how hard I laughed at this. Excellent, excellent comment. Well done! /mopping coke and sandwich off keyboard and screen
You know what we did for cotting agents? When one of my squad members got his leg blown off, we've piss on a shu-shu leaf and wrap it around the stump.