Hand someone a dual shock and ask them to play Katamari Damacy. They'll be having a blast in no time.
I belive that the analog sticks are not used enough. Commodore 64 and Atari had only analog, then we went to D-Pad. Compare playing Tiger Woods Golf with an analog swing to the otherwise standard 3 click swing in most other golf games.
I'm guessing the major advantage would be that you use google's mail server, meaning one less point of failure.
I have a similar setup to you (using zoneedit to forward my email to gmail, and my family's to their various hotmail accounts), and am interested in hosted gmail in order to improve reliability.
One question - does hosted gmail allow users to forward their emails? (i.e for the above metioned hotmail-using family members?)
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My understanding of the situation is that Region locking is considered anti-competitive, not illegal. We still have region locked DVDs and PS2s, but the circumvention devices are legal. Most new DVD players are still region locked, so i don't think you argument is correct- besides, Australia is such a small marketplace.
I think this has to do with import games being seen as a 'gateway' drug. First you install a mod chip for Katamari or Taiko Drum Master, next thing you know you're awash in a sea of burnt "backups" of which you've just happened to have lost the originals....
No, but all these (bar gapless playback) are basically music management issues. Could be quite simply implimented with the right firmware and right frontend.
Which is where open source is such a brilliant idea. The Rockbox people are looking at creating an open firmware for the H3xx series. (I believe they even went as far as asking iRiver Korea nicely for the source. iRiver nicely said no).
Little addins can be written, the database tweaked and improved (it is currently very very slow, hence i have it turned off and just use an organised directory structure), UI experimented with.
i'd like to see addins that allow better viewing of webcomics and such, and flash-word e-book/text file viewer.
I actually had a dream last night where a binary search was integrated into a d-pad like interface.
Start in the middle (alphabetically).
Press left and right to go to the quarter way points, and so on. Very quick to get where you want. Also maybe make up and down + and - one place.
Crikey.com.au mentioned this today in their mailout.
Apparently the issue is that the data coming in (mainly from ships) is quite crufty, whereas the system expects nice clean data (GIGO anyone?).
Also, apparently a lot of these Brokers have a vested interest in the old system, as the new one will allow major importers (eg. supermarkets) to clear goods themselves, meaning less money for the brokers.
As for delays and ships being turned back- appears to be mainly FUD, with a little bit of lack of foresight and poor planning.
I vaguely remember that omeone was trying to prove it using probabilities, and one mathematician managed to prove every even is the sum of one prime and one other number.
for every even n greater than or equal to 2 there is at least one (odd) prime p less than it.
n - p = another (odd) number
therefore n = another (odd) number + p
ta da!
in fact, a number n can be the sum of every number less than itself and another number.
My understanding of the situation is that it is illegal for a Aussie online gambling company to have Aussie customers.
Overseas company with Australian customer? Fine.
Australian company with overseas customer? Fine.
The cynics suggest that this is the case due to certain gambling interests not wanting the Australian gambling market diluted by online operators (sure, people can use foreign sites, but the increase in xenophobia lately means they're less likely to).
he called his site mp34free (almost a crime of itself). There were suggestions that the linked to content, whilst not in Australia may have been under his control.
One of the other interesting aspects of this case is that one of the ISP employee's was also sued. He is (was...) the system admin, ie set up the webspace and such. The cartel argued that his actions somehow made the relationship between the ISP and mp3 dude different to a standard ISP/customer relationship.
They also argued that the ISP was profiteering from the copyright infringement, but i fail to see how they were profiteering to the tune of $50 million dollars or whatever stupid figure they put on it. They argued that the ISP benefited from the large amount of traffic to the mp3s4free site. But wouldn't that just increase their own bandwidth costs, which would have to be passed on to the mp3 dude, to pass on to the leeches (who weren't paying anything?)
So not only is this guy looking at a lifetime of debt to the cartel, but he also probably spent a fortune just to infringe properly.
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate.".
The Biologist: "They have reproduced".
The Mathematician: "If now exactly one person enters the house then it will be empty again."
After reading it, i wished i hadn't. It changed my stance on censorship. Before i believed everything should be available to adults. Now i believe that are some things that should never be seen. Where to draw that line, i do not know, but for me American Psycho is out.
Also remember that telstra "lent" a flat screen plasma tv to mssrs Alston and Howard for the cricket world cup. Howard was "forgetful" in returning his.
Apparently it was to give the pollies a look at the future of entertainment or some such.
Why couldn't they have given the two a cable connection and the resulting $1200 bill?
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Okay, lets play a game. Get your boss to write down 2 letters. You and your coworker have to guess the 2 letters.
You can guess the letters one at a time (i.e. "is the first letter 'a'?").
Your coworker has to guess the letters two at time (i.e. "is the phrase 'aa'?")
Generally speaking, who wins?
I belive that the analog sticks are not used enough. Commodore 64 and Atari had only analog, then we went to D-Pad. Compare playing Tiger Woods Golf with an analog swing to the otherwise standard 3 click swing in most other golf games.
Maybe because it was part of the Foreign Correspondants dinner, which has a tradition of being a 'roasting' of the President.
Last year had the First Lady saying the Bush Jnr. tried milking a bull.
I'm guessing the major advantage would be that you use google's mail server, meaning one less point of failure. I have a similar setup to you (using zoneedit to forward my email to gmail, and my family's to their various hotmail accounts), and am interested in hosted gmail in order to improve reliability. One question - does hosted gmail allow users to forward their emails? (i.e for the above metioned hotmail-using family members?)
I think this has to do with import games being seen as a 'gateway' drug. First you install a mod chip for Katamari or Taiko Drum Master, next thing you know you're awash in a sea of burnt "backups" of which you've just happened to have lost the originals....
Which is where open source is such a brilliant idea. The Rockbox people are looking at creating an open firmware for the H3xx series. (I believe they even went as far as asking iRiver Korea nicely for the source. iRiver nicely said no).
Little addins can be written, the database tweaked and improved (it is currently very very slow, hence i have it turned off and just use an organised directory structure), UI experimented with.
i'd like to see addins that allow better viewing of webcomics and such, and flash-word e-book/text file viewer.
Start in the middle (alphabetically).
Press left and right to go to the quarter way points, and so on. Very quick to get where you want.
Also maybe make up and down + and - one place.
Yeah but with all the drugs we'd be on, we wouldn't really care.......
Apparently the issue is that the data coming in (mainly from ships) is quite crufty, whereas the system expects nice clean data (GIGO anyone?).
Also, apparently a lot of these Brokers have a vested interest in the old system, as the new one will allow major importers (eg. supermarkets) to clear goods themselves, meaning less money for the brokers.
As for delays and ships being turned back- appears to be mainly FUD, with a little bit of lack of foresight and poor planning.
Seems like a change management failure to me.
for every even n greater than or equal to 2 there is at least one (odd) prime p less than it.
n - p = another (odd) number
therefore n = another (odd) number + p
ta da!
in fact, a number n can be the sum of every number less than itself and another number.
Do it (or at least get one of those swap disk/slide tool thingys). Katamari Damacy is awesome.
Katamari Damacy anyone? Someone should be sued for not releasing that into European and Australian markets.....
My understanding of the situation is that it is illegal for a Aussie online gambling company to have Aussie customers.
Overseas company with Australian customer? Fine.
Australian company with overseas customer? Fine.
The cynics suggest that this is the case due to certain gambling interests not wanting the Australian gambling market diluted by online operators (sure, people can use foreign sites, but the increase in xenophobia lately means they're less likely to).
he called his site mp34free (almost a crime of itself). There were suggestions that the linked to content, whilst not in Australia may have been under his control. One of the other interesting aspects of this case is that one of the ISP employee's was also sued. He is (was...) the system admin, ie set up the webspace and such. The cartel argued that his actions somehow made the relationship between the ISP and mp3 dude different to a standard ISP/customer relationship. They also argued that the ISP was profiteering from the copyright infringement, but i fail to see how they were profiteering to the tune of $50 million dollars or whatever stupid figure they put on it. They argued that the ISP benefited from the large amount of traffic to the mp3s4free site. But wouldn't that just increase their own bandwidth costs, which would have to be passed on to the mp3 dude, to pass on to the leeches (who weren't paying anything?) So not only is this guy looking at a lifetime of debt to the cartel, but he also probably spent a fortune just to infringe properly.
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house. The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate.". The Biologist: "They have reproduced". The Mathematician: "If now exactly one person enters the house then it will be empty again."
yeah, but it did help me come second in a beauty contest.
and - shots of old maps with a moving icon because it would be too boring to show hours on end of Indy hanging onto a submarine.
Well, this movie has had a TLD for years
It actually has been banned in some places.
After reading it, i wished i hadn't. It changed my stance on censorship. Before i believed everything should be available to adults. Now i believe that are some things that should never be seen. Where to draw that line, i do not know, but for me American Psycho is out.
Also remember that telstra "lent" a flat screen plasma tv to mssrs Alston and Howard for the cricket world cup. Howard was "forgetful" in returning his. Apparently it was to give the pollies a look at the future of entertainment or some such. Why couldn't they have given the two a cable connection and the resulting $1200 bill?