Microsoft making a wired toilet was a hoax? No kidding? Can't believe that, I mean a story about a software only company making a wired toilet is fake? Anyone see this coming?
Sometimes I think reporters will believe anything...
"Not since Rise of the Triad on a 386 have I seen such a terrible resolution and absolute mess of pixels."
standard response: IT'S A CELLPHONE!
"blah blah blah...on a very small screen."
standard response: IT'S A CELLPHONE! The screen's 35*41.5mm, so no shit it's a "very small screen".
"The phone should've been longer, or the resolution should've been better, because this "hype" trailer just makes me glad I haven't through twice about buying an N-Gage."
Any longer and it'd be one of those old 80's bagphones, and a better resolution would have no doubt resulted in a even worse battery life than the pitiful current 6 hours game time.
NO one is going to throw their PS2 out for this cellphone, but considering the competition this cellphone/portable game system is AMAZING.
Tell you what: I'll play Red Faction on my N-Gage and you keep playing Pokemon on your GBA and we'll all be happy.
I like the GBA, but the games are designed for 8 year olds, despite the SP redesign that was suppose to appeal to adults.
That's why I'm looking forward to the N-Gage since it's marketed towards adults, with it's high (for a portable console) $299 price tag and the very fact it's a cellphone.
So who's the new Sony device marketed towards?
Another concern is the use of 1.8gig media. Although that sounds very impressive I don't understand why such a large size is needed. Consoles need them for the higher resolutions that TVs support, but the portable console will no doubt have a 240x180 resolution or smaller, so why do they need 1.8gigs? GBAs games get by with only 8 megabytes, which results in some pretty impressive (and long) games like Golden Sun. So why 1.8gigs?
At any rate I'll be watching the Sony device closely. Games available for the Playstation series have been more adult oriented (Grand Theft Auto anyone?) so hopefully this device will be marketed towards adults as well.
My own question is why don't editors post the google cache along with the real link? It's very rare a site can survive a slashdotting, so it only makes sense to post the cache along with the actual link.
And this is after thousands of people have complained about losing millions to paypal: http://www.paypalsucks.com/
If you give him money DO NOT expect to recieve a system. From paypalwarning.com "Merchants finding themselves on the wrong end of a frozen Paypal account will still have to find some way to pay their obligations and fill orders for the weeks and months while the account is restricted. A domino effect occurs when a merchant's account is frozen, leaving them with no means to fill orders. Those orders are then disputed by customers, creating more chargebacks and the illusion of fraudulent activity on the part of the merchant."
What this means is WHEN PAYPAL FREEZES HIS ACCOUNT, HE WILL NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PURCHASE MERCHANDISE TO BUILD YOUR SYSTEM, so in the end you'll be out hundreds of dollars with no system, and he'll be flat broke and probably jailed for alleged fraud.
And if you don't think this really happens think again. Just go read the forums at PaypalSucks.com and you'll realize Paypal routinely steals money from users and nothing can stop them.
Let's see, 3 Slashdot articles in just over a month! How many millions of hits must that be?
You've probably increases his profits 1000x or more..... hey, I have a small business and I could use 1000x more profits, what do I have to do to get/.'d 3 times in a month?
And the owner thought he was having problems picking up girls before...
dork: "hut hut, wanna see my computer?"
chick: "um... sure, I guess"
dork: "Voila! It's got 11.125ghz, transphasic power supply..."
chick: "WHAT THE HELL IS COMING OUT OF THE LEGS OF THAT MANIKIN?!?"
dork: "oh, well those are the cables for my keyboard, mouse and.... hey where you going?!? You didn't get to see my Dragon..."
Is it just me or do these files seem unnecessarily large?
I routinely download excellent looking 43 minute episodes of Enterprise off of Kazaa that are only roughly 82 megs each in DivX format. That's less than 2 megs a minute, while these Red vs Blue files are 5 times larger at 10 megs/min. Also there's not that much movement going on, so that should even further the compression abilities.
"Sony has donated 500 Playstation 2's, Force Feedback Steering Wheels and Gran Turismo 3 games to students of a California high school so that they may practice their Driver Education class.
'I think this Playstation is great!' said one sophmore, 'I'm doing so much better in my Driver Ed class, but I think it's hurt the rest of my studies because I spend all my time playing.'
School officials hope to use the game systems for other classes as well. 'Soon we plan on purchasing 500 copies of Grand Theft Auto 3 as part as our Criminal Law class to demonstrate that crime doesn't pay.' said superintendent Seymour Butts."
"would you pay, say $59 a month or something for unlimited mp3s? I might..."
I already do: it's called broadband.
But seriously, if it wasn't for mp3s, divx movies and warez I'm not sure if I'd be willing to pay the $$$$ broadband costs. Maybe ISPs should start to stick up for some of these kids by loaning a high-priced lawyer or two?
What year is this, 1976? I can't believe in the year 2003 there's a high school without a computer club.
The real shocker is every election I hear candidates moan about how more technology and education is needed in the classroom, yet it's obvious from this topic that nothing is being done.
Here's an idea: write your congressmen and tell them you were inspired by their promise of more computers in the classroom and want to start a computer club teaching topics like alternative operating systems and system building techniques. Get a list of students who are interested in joining and send that too. Tell them you only need $20,000 to get started, and see if they don't send you a check;)
Add that to the printer you need to get real photo quality (i.e. not inkjet) and it gets really expensive to get 35mm quality in digital.
4x6's printed at Walmart from any media (CD, CF, SD, Smartmedia, floppy, etc) is only 29 cents each.
Multiply that by 24 and you get $6.96, about the same price as real 35mm film and developing.
Don't forget that now you get only the photos you actually want, not the overexposed or accidental photos that didn't turn out, not to mention the fact that you don't have to wait to shoot all 24 photos before development.
not to mention the Vulcan handles a resolution 5x more than the Zaurus (800x480 vs 320x240), very important if you're going view websites since nearly every site is designed for at least 800 across. 320 would require quite a bit of scrolling.
And we'll just ignore the fact that the Vulcan has a 20 gig hard drive verus the Zaurus's 64 meg.
But hey, when you close your eyes, ignore the specs and keep mumbling "but it runs linux..." then they're identical!
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Sometimes I think reporters will believe anything...
Jeez, how big is this thing going to be? The GBA has a 2.3" screen and look how big it is, and Sony's PSP will be nearly double that?!
So much for "inside".
standard response: IT'S A CELLPHONE!
"blah blah blah...on a very small screen."
standard response: IT'S A CELLPHONE!
The screen's 35*41.5mm, so no shit it's a "very small screen".
"The phone should've been longer, or the resolution should've been better, because this "hype" trailer just makes me glad I haven't through twice about buying an N-Gage."
Any longer and it'd be one of those old 80's bagphones, and a better resolution would have no doubt resulted in a even worse battery life than the pitiful current 6 hours game time.
NO one is going to throw their PS2 out for this cellphone, but considering the competition this cellphone/portable game system is AMAZING.
Tell you what: I'll play Red Faction on my N-Gage and you keep playing Pokemon on your GBA and we'll all be happy.
Might be worth a look if anyone is considering a portable console.
That's why I'm looking forward to the N-Gage since it's marketed towards adults, with it's high (for a portable console) $299 price tag and the very fact it's a cellphone.
So who's the new Sony device marketed towards?
Another concern is the use of 1.8gig media. Although that sounds very impressive I don't understand why such a large size is needed. Consoles need them for the higher resolutions that TVs support, but the portable console will no doubt have a 240x180 resolution or smaller, so why do they need 1.8gigs? GBAs games get by with only 8 megabytes, which results in some pretty impressive (and long) games like Golden Sun. So why 1.8gigs?
At any rate I'll be watching the Sony device closely. Games available for the Playstation series have been more adult oriented (Grand Theft Auto anyone?) so hopefully this device will be marketed towards adults as well.
it's that creepy crazy guy from Con Air and Armageddon
not much there though, looks like most of it was pictures and google doesn't cache those.
My own question is why don't editors post the google cache along with the real link? It's very rare a site can survive a slashdotting, so it only makes sense to post the cache along with the actual link.
wow won't he be pissed...
http://www.2khappyware.com/order/
And this is after thousands of people have complained about losing millions to paypal:
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
If you give him money DO NOT expect to recieve a system. From paypalwarning.com
"Merchants finding themselves on the wrong end of a frozen Paypal account will still have to find some way to pay their obligations and fill orders for the weeks and months while the account is restricted. A domino effect occurs when a merchant's account is frozen, leaving them with no means to fill orders. Those orders are then disputed by customers, creating more chargebacks and the illusion of fraudulent activity on the part of the merchant."
What this means is WHEN PAYPAL FREEZES HIS ACCOUNT, HE WILL NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PURCHASE MERCHANDISE TO BUILD YOUR SYSTEM, so in the end you'll be out hundreds of dollars with no system, and he'll be flat broke and probably jailed for alleged fraud.
And if you don't think this really happens think again. Just go read the forums at PaypalSucks.com and you'll realize Paypal routinely steals money from users and nothing can stop them.
sad, isn't it?
Let's see, 3 Slashdot articles in just over a month! How many millions of hits must that be?
/.'d 3 times in a month?
You've probably increases his profits 1000x or more..... hey, I have a small business and I could use 1000x more profits, what do I have to do to get
And the owner thought he was having problems picking up girls before...
dork: "hut hut, wanna see my computer?"
chick: "um... sure, I guess"
dork: "Voila! It's got 11.125ghz, transphasic power supply..."
chick: "WHAT THE HELL IS COMING OUT OF THE LEGS OF THAT MANIKIN?!?"
dork: "oh, well those are the cables for my keyboard, mouse and.... hey where you going?!? You didn't get to see my Dragon..."
I routinely download excellent looking 43 minute episodes of Enterprise off of Kazaa that are only roughly 82 megs each in DivX format. That's less than 2 megs a minute, while these Red vs Blue files are 5 times larger at 10 megs/min. Also there's not that much movement going on, so that should even further the compression abilities.
What settings were for these DivX files?
Is anyone else disappointed that it was a toy car? I was hoping for a real water-rocket-powered car.
Think someone needs to seriously consider changing the title of this article.
I also don't think it'll replace laptops either since laptops are designed to be portable PCs not requiring a separate screen, keyboard, etc.
Could you use it on a Plane?
Could you use it on a Train?
They already have a tiny PC you just plug into any monitor and keyboard and suddenly it's your PC. It's called the Cappuccino Mini Book PC.
Only twist with this is Intel's device adds wireless connectivity, so it's compatible with about 0.1% of PCs currently in use. Can't wait to buy one!
"Sony has donated 500 Playstation 2's, Force Feedback Steering Wheels and Gran Turismo 3 games to students of a California high school so that they may practice their Driver Education class.
'I think this Playstation is great!' said one sophmore, 'I'm doing so much better in my Driver Ed class, but I think it's hurt the rest of my studies because I spend all my time playing.'
School officials hope to use the game systems for other classes as well. 'Soon we plan on purchasing 500 copies of Grand Theft Auto 3 as part as our Criminal Law class to demonstrate that crime doesn't pay.' said superintendent Seymour Butts."
I might not have passed cal 3 yet, but last time I checked 275,000 tracks x $0.99 per track does not equal $100,000.
So where is the other ~$175,000, or is the Register wrong?
What a crock.
I already do: it's called broadband.
But seriously, if it wasn't for mp3s, divx movies and warez I'm not sure if I'd be willing to pay the $$$$ broadband costs. Maybe ISPs should start to stick up for some of these kids by loaning a high-priced lawyer or two?
Might? They want $2500 for a slimline PC & LCD with a 1.8ghz & 80gigs.
think that speaks for itself
The real shocker is every election I hear candidates moan about how more technology and education is needed in the classroom, yet it's obvious from this topic that nothing is being done.
Here's an idea: write your congressmen and tell them you were inspired by their promise of more computers in the classroom and want to start a computer club teaching topics like alternative operating systems and system building techniques. Get a list of students who are interested in joining and send that too. Tell them you only need $20,000 to get started, and see if they don't send you a check ;)
I bought two of these printers and never plan on buying another printer for b&w use ever.
4x6's printed at Walmart from any media (CD, CF, SD, Smartmedia, floppy, etc) is only 29 cents each.
Multiply that by 24 and you get $6.96, about the same price as real 35mm film and developing.
Don't forget that now you get only the photos you actually want, not the overexposed or accidental photos that didn't turn out, not to mention the fact that you don't have to wait to shoot all 24 photos before development.
not to mention the Vulcan handles a resolution 5x more than the Zaurus (800x480 vs 320x240), very important if you're going view websites since nearly every site is designed for at least 800 across. 320 would require quite a bit of scrolling.
And we'll just ignore the fact that the Vulcan has a 20 gig hard drive verus the Zaurus's 64 meg.
But hey, when you close your eyes, ignore the specs and keep mumbling "but it runs linux..." then they're identical!
Umm... the Lifebook is a full-size laptop. If you hadn't noticed the Vulcan is a palmtop. That's like comparing your Lifebook to a desktop.