With many games retailing for a lot more than $10, I refuse to buy without a resale option, so I nearly always buy physical media... usually 2nd hand off ebay, since I'm late to the PS3 so even old games are still new to me.
That said, I've downloaded lots of demos from the PSN, and did buy one game off it (lemmings) because it was quite cheap and not being able to trade it in or swap with friends doesn't matter too much.
Another reason is that I've got an old firmware, as I'm still holding on to OtherOs/Linux on my PS3, so I've been blocked from the PSN store, putting about $5 in limbo. I'm hoping a hacked firmware will appear which will renable otheros but allow access to the store, but it seems GeoHot has taken a back seat on that.
I've had a PS3 since late last year - bought a phat just as the slim came out, getting a discount, and I wanted otheros etc. It replaced my (chipped) original xbox (non-360) which was stolen.
I have an E71 which is excellent as a *phone* and a gateway for tethering a laptop - 3G and quad band GSM, wifi and bluetooth... as another poster says, it has native SIP client, you can run fring to access Skype as well as IM services.
I recommend installing Opera Mini because the standard web browser is a bit basic - but it is functional.
The built-in GPS is v useful - free mapping from Nokia; I quite like the Sportstracker app too. There's some fun games too.
Accessories such as car chargers are freely available too.
I would consider the n900 but it's quite chunky and you will need to charge it up a lot more, you need to be a fairly serious geek, but if you are then its incomparable as a handheld computer unless you jailbreak the Motorola Droid/Milestone with its hardware keyboard.
Some readers may remember that Intel was once an Arm licensee, with the PXA StrongArm range, which they sold off to Marvell, a move many found strange at the time and then soon after came Atom which sort of explained it. In the meantime Intel have struggled to keep up with the march of Arm, nearly every CPU in a handheld device is an Arm processor or derivative.
The problem with the earlier N-series atom motherboards is that not so much the atom itself but the support chip set, a problem played down quite a bit by Intel - whilst the CPU might have been less than 10W the motherboard would eat a lot more. The new N-series are quite a bit better.
Some netbooks used the Z5xx series, and that processor was even more frugal, but the support chipset called US15W aka Poulsbo had some interesting design issues, one being that it didn't have SATA support, only PATA (when it was announced PATA was already well on its way out). Also, the GMA500 video chipset has historically been badly supported by Intel - just google for GMA500 linux.
An arm cortex a8 and its entire chipset eats less power than just an atom, which is why they're used in Palm Pre, Nokia N900, iPhone 3GS, Archos tablet, and other handheld devices.
Intel, recently announced the new Moorland Z6xx processors which in theory will be competitive on power with the Arm Cortex. However, a CPU by itself without chipset support, and good driver software etc, is not enough. Hopefully Intel learned that with the Z5xx, even though they have persistently failed to rectify that despite lots of complaints from the community.
there were plenty of good 3G chipsets around at the time where battery life would have been fine; I suspect that Apple's requirement for IP licensing and any lockdown mechanisms meant there wasn't a suitable 3G chipset.
I worked on contract in IT dept of an international bank based in the UK, actually somewhat in the north, more I dare not say. They used addresses from 10/8 like crazy, and when they ran out, started using 11/8
Some of the skeptics will think I'm making it up. Battle-hardened IT pros will probably facepalm and know it has the ring of truth and that no-one would possibly come up with such a stupid plan and therefore it must be true!
@Myopic
no problem, I see your point. yes, the advertisers probably push 10000's of adverts my way for every one I click. I agree it's not very effective, and if I didn't have a 100Mb/s service at work I'd probably block a lot more, I only have 8M adsl at home and on reflection I probably block a lot more adverts to make better use of bandwith.
I rarely boot windows for browsing internet, I use noscript on firefox on linux, so that probably also reduces the nuisance of adverts too.
slashdot have allowed me to turn off adverts, but I haven't. I have adblock installed, but I am not subscribed to any block lists, I generally only block adverts and advertisers which are particularly instrusive (for example, trustedreviews' website has broken adverts which obscure text, and theregister have adverts in the middle of the articles). I occasionally find adverts useful so I would miss them, but I am merely very selective, and I would rather put up with a bit of screen clutter to buy content instead of paying cold hard cash!!
and then there were the "soft quadro" hacks where you could make a low-end nvidia card appear to be a quadro which would unlock a load of features which were in the drivers as well as the graphics card.
the dns hack at least stops the PS3 from trying to update its firmware, which is good for me as it means family members won't try and update it to get on PSN... but I can no longer login to PSN so my ~~$10 of credit is now in limbo.
some time ago I found GMBMG, google the way it used to be, and when I find search results are uselessly bloated with crap, then I turn to this...
http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/
when politicians quit or get thrown out, they like to sign up a few well-paid directorships, so "oiling a few door hinges" beforehand pays dividends in the long run when they come to knock on those doors.
I installed linux - ubuntu - on my fat PS3, which was a process actually supported by Sony.
shame that the newer ones don't support this. anyone would think that sony caught wind that someone had broken the security on the ps3;-)
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I wonder if you graphed app store purchases against localtime + local bar/pub closing times you'd see a big correlation
With many games retailing for a lot more than $10, I refuse to buy without a resale option, so I nearly always buy physical media... usually 2nd hand off ebay, since I'm late to the PS3 so even old games are still new to me. That said, I've downloaded lots of demos from the PSN, and did buy one game off it (lemmings) because it was quite cheap and not being able to trade it in or swap with friends doesn't matter too much.
Another reason is that I've got an old firmware, as I'm still holding on to OtherOs/Linux on my PS3, so I've been blocked from the PSN store, putting about $5 in limbo. I'm hoping a hacked firmware will appear which will renable otheros but allow access to the store, but it seems GeoHot has taken a back seat on that.
I've had a PS3 since late last year - bought a phat just as the slim came out, getting a discount, and I wanted otheros etc. It replaced my (chipped) original xbox (non-360) which was stolen.
I just pop down to the beach and get a bucket of fuel; it's delivered free by BP.
I have an E71 which is excellent as a *phone* and a gateway for tethering a laptop - 3G and quad band GSM, wifi and bluetooth... as another poster says, it has native SIP client, you can run fring to access Skype as well as IM services.
I recommend installing Opera Mini because the standard web browser is a bit basic - but it is functional.
The built-in GPS is v useful - free mapping from Nokia; I quite like the Sportstracker app too. There's some fun games too.
Accessories such as car chargers are freely available too.
I would consider the n900 but it's quite chunky and you will need to charge it up a lot more, you need to be a fairly serious geek, but if you are then its incomparable as a handheld computer unless you jailbreak the Motorola Droid/Milestone with its hardware keyboard.
http://www.softsailor.com/news/30073-htc-droid-incredible-root-released-by-unrevoked.html
and it being easy to root your device with less risk of permanently bricking it, and not becomign a slave to Apple iTunes app store and music DRM
erm, if you're a serious wardriver you don't scan the channels, you have a wifi card for each channel, as these people showed:
janus project
you can use a wiimote or ps3 controller with linux. quite a few android devices have accelerometers. just sayin.
so why is it that if I go to https://www.google.co.uk/ig it gets redirected to http://www.google.co.uk/ig ?
presumably G will fix this soon? hello Google?
Some readers may remember that Intel was once an Arm licensee, with the PXA StrongArm range, which they sold off to Marvell, a move many found strange at the time and then soon after came Atom which sort of explained it. In the meantime Intel have struggled to keep up with the march of Arm, nearly every CPU in a handheld device is an Arm processor or derivative.
The problem with the earlier N-series atom motherboards is that not so much the atom itself but the support chip set, a problem played down quite a bit by Intel - whilst the CPU might have been less than 10W the motherboard would eat a lot more. The new N-series are quite a bit better.
Some netbooks used the Z5xx series, and that processor was even more frugal, but the support chipset called US15W aka Poulsbo had some interesting design issues, one being that it didn't have SATA support, only PATA (when it was announced PATA was already well on its way out). Also, the GMA500 video chipset has historically been badly supported by Intel - just google for GMA500 linux.
An arm cortex a8 and its entire chipset eats less power than just an atom, which is why they're used in Palm Pre, Nokia N900, iPhone 3GS, Archos tablet, and other handheld devices.
Intel, recently announced the new Moorland Z6xx processors which in theory will be competitive on power with the Arm Cortex. However, a CPU by itself without chipset support, and good driver software etc, is not enough. Hopefully Intel learned that with the Z5xx, even though they have persistently failed to rectify that despite lots of complaints from the community.
there were plenty of good 3G chipsets around at the time where battery life would have been fine; I suspect that Apple's requirement for IP licensing and any lockdown mechanisms meant there wasn't a suitable 3G chipset.
as a punishment he'll be analysing competitors products like windows 7 and symbian, using an old 386SX-based computer running windows 3.1
don't you mean Amazon's T's and C's and their lawyers, not yahoos?
hmm, modded funny. why is there no moderation value "+5 horrific if true"?
I worked on contract in IT dept of an international bank based in the UK, actually somewhat in the north, more I dare not say. They used addresses from 10/8 like crazy, and when they ran out, started using 11/8
Some of the skeptics will think I'm making it up. Battle-hardened IT pros will probably facepalm and know it has the ring of truth and that no-one would possibly come up with such a stupid plan and therefore it must be true!
I still have my iPaq from years ago, and it's not dead yet.
no, it's just resting. beautiful plumage, the ipaq.
@Myopic no problem, I see your point. yes, the advertisers probably push 10000's of adverts my way for every one I click. I agree it's not very effective, and if I didn't have a 100Mb/s service at work I'd probably block a lot more, I only have 8M adsl at home and on reflection I probably block a lot more adverts to make better use of bandwith. I rarely boot windows for browsing internet, I use noscript on firefox on linux, so that probably also reduces the nuisance of adverts too.
that igep board looks very good - the guts of an n900 or pandora or similar for a very reasonable price!
slashdot have allowed me to turn off adverts, but I haven't. I have adblock installed, but I am not subscribed to any block lists, I generally only block adverts and advertisers which are particularly instrusive (for example, trustedreviews' website has broken adverts which obscure text, and theregister have adverts in the middle of the articles). I occasionally find adverts useful so I would miss them, but I am merely very selective, and I would rather put up with a bit of screen clutter to buy content instead of paying cold hard cash!!
and then there were the "soft quadro" hacks where you could make a low-end nvidia card appear to be a quadro which would unlock a load of features which were in the drivers as well as the graphics card.
the dns hack at least stops the PS3 from trying to update its firmware, which is good for me as it means family members won't try and update it to get on PSN... but I can no longer login to PSN so my ~~$10 of credit is now in limbo.
some time ago I found GMBMG, google the way it used to be, and when I find search results are uselessly bloated with crap, then I turn to this... http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/
when politicians quit or get thrown out, they like to sign up a few well-paid directorships, so "oiling a few door hinges" beforehand pays dividends in the long run when they come to knock on those doors.
true, an iphone just works, but then it doesn't actually do that much compared to a real computer!
this is why geeks are buying n900s and android phones, sure they take a bit more effort but are general purpose devices not apple-controlled drones.
I installed linux - ubuntu - on my fat PS3, which was a process actually supported by Sony. ;-)
shame that the newer ones don't support this. anyone would think that sony caught wind that someone had broken the security on the ps3