I think its easier to turn to your cell phone for brief sessions, ie, a wait in the doctors office, than trying to hull around your psp/ds. Now, would I get rid of my psp/ds. Heck no, but thats because I feel those portables provide a more dedicated gaming experience for longer sessions.
To boot, you have the fact that both the DS and the PSP have been out in market for 5+ years while cell phones making huge hardware gains at break neck speeds.
PSP2 I will not be DOA, neither will the DS. As others have said too, you need something for kids...though I guess you could also give them your old smart phone and access the store via wifi...or in the case of apple, a ipod touch.
On the 3rd floor at work, just took some alergy meds so I thought the swaying I was feeling was a bit of a side effect. That was until everyone else started saying "YOU FEEL THAT??!!!"
I enjoy the fact, with every PS3 update, there seems to be a "UPDATE IS BRICKING CONSOLES!" article.Yet myself and my friends I have done installed every update on our FAT PS3's and have 0 issues.
IMHO, the update isn't bricking systems, its dumb moves by users!
I'm sorry I have to be this harsh....but your a prime example of consumer idiocy. Here is my issue with your comment. You call MS the better company because they go above and beyond with customer service. However are you aware that when it comes to the 360 they waited a year before they actually gave consumers a solution (this after they said it was the consumers fault until it was VERY evident it was their issue). Even then the solution is broke because their fix was just to give you another defective main board and HOPE that it will last you longer. THEY NEVER FIXED THE FREAKING PROBLEM WITH THE ENGINEERING!
Yet, here you are saying Sony doesn't give a rat's ass about reliability? The company that has a lower failure rate, actually QA'ed their product the way it needed to be and from my experience, actually does have good customer service.
To me the 360 doesn't work well cause of a issue they KNEW about and still pushed it to retail and their service and support is like any other companies, which is if you problem meets warranty criteria, well fix it...if not....your paying.
Think of it like this, Lets say I try to sell you a car....sure its cheap but I say "well, there is over a 50 percent chance the engine will blow, well fix it..but that engine will also have a 50 percent change to blow....and the same after that...etc." would you by that car?
I would have to agree with this. The authorized applications that my work place gives me doesn't do half of what I need to it to do to be productive. That or the tools they give me require 5 steps, where software A that everyone in the field uses does it in one step...
Very glad I sold off my ipods and picked up the cowon players. Sure their interface isn't quite as slick but it functions and have great sound and work great
Yeah you really can't get a laptop in its weight class for 200/300 bucks. As soon as I saw this I wanted it. When I saw this I thought "awesome vacation companion"! Why? cause its small, light weight, has net access and for 200 bucks, if it gets jacked (being stolen or broken) WHO CARES!....Now my laptop that I paid around 700 for....Now I'm caring, and its heavy...and battery life is so so...and etc etc.
Its also awesome for say, a backpack. once again, the price, its weight and what it can do make it great for those coffee shop moments:D.
That or OGG. I have been trying to go all OGG for sometime now but its hard when machines that are made to stream media (PS3 for example) just play MP3. Thats what happens when your the top in your market though and people are happy with it.
It would also help if companies would just release there darn codecs. I mean really, would getting a quicktime codec (even if its closed ala Nvida driver) Hurt. I'm all about free and open but at some point, I just want content to work.
Oddly enough, if you compare most midsize sedans, you will notice that most of those Japanese cars are assembled here in America, then you get to say...ohh Ford..and notice the fusion is assembled in Mexico.....hrrrrmmm.....food for thought? (I guess it can be argued that due to trade agreements and such that ford is "forced" to produce vehicles in other countries to stay competitive)
At any rate, I will believe this once AMD releases a statment, until then its the biggest FUD spreaders doing their job...all hail business analyst:D.
Thats what I think when I think of this. I understand they want to protect their revenues, and I for one don't understand pirating games as writeable media, to me, is more assessable to damage and really, how long do you want that junk on your pc's hd. But I do get fustrated that home brew can't "bloom" the way I think it should on these consoles. I think homebrew is a viable way to get people interested in a console and I really hope at some time in the future they can provide a means for Homebrew while keeping the "badies" out
I want to believe it's reason 1, but the added fact that Dell doesn't seem to be advertising this thing at all, and the fact that you actually have to jump through some hoops on the website to even see that the option is available, makes me think that reason 2 isn't entirely impossible either
You know I thought the same, outside of a quick revolving ad their promo for this is pretty weak. Sure we want linux on OEM but the idea is 2 fold (at least for me). Give me a machine with linux preinstalled and made it so that other people have choice. If I was joe average looking for pc and saw that ad that said "ubuntu has arrived" I would be asking myself "WTF IS UBUNTU!!", he might research and find out its linux say to himself "cool, I will give it a go". Now, that's assuming this person even KNOWS what linux is. Most people don't even understand the concept of an Operating System. To them, Windows is the PC and vise versa. heck there monitor is the pc, the hard-drive is memory all that fun usual frustrating supporting end user stuff:P.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE:
The linux option NOT ON A DIFFERENT PAGE. When I go to the 1505 laptop and say customize, there should be listing for ubuntu. When they give "suggestions" on configuration, there at least be 1 linux option. With a link that describes what Linux is in relation to windows. To have this work you must educate your customer base. The fact that if I just click on laptops I don't see ANY of the linux option machines is not what I was expecting. Instead, I click on laptops, go to the top, click "open source PC's" and then I can get to the linux/free dos machines. I really think Dell can push this and what it be really sucessful but the way it is now, After the geeks buy their machines I see it faltering. Which is sad:(
I'm on your side Dan. On my main Desktop all I had to install was the nvidia binary, which *shocking* I had to do on windows for 3d support.
Windows, I had to install drivers for, video, sound, chipset, my gigabit network adapter and some other stuff.
Now I do wish there was "better" support for 3d video and wireless but at the end of the day its not linux's fault. Blame the people that keep the drivers closed up and along with the hardware its drive'n.
No kidding! And in the off shoot she is just intersted in linux, you need to be presuing that cause a woman that WANTS to learn linux is like finding s pre-cut flawless gem in chocolate pudding, AKA damn near impossible
I agree "GO GET SOME"
Now, for the player, amarok is a great application and supports tons of players. If its UMD, then like others said you might be able to script something up in essense, if your using ubuntu, it should be plug in play and there ya go. Unless its one of those whacked out players where you get UMD funcationality thats seperate from the player due to the embeded db they might use. Then that sir, is another fiasco all together.
IMHO the reason why FF failed is because the story strayed way to far from what the video games had going on. FF:SWI boo, but FF:AC, hell ya. I watched that movie and loved it. The detail was awesome, the story was decent and the audio did sync a crap ton better than with SWI.
I'm having a hard time believing you get a 20mbit triple play for 30 a month. Well, for any extended period of time. Be it France, US, China or MARS !!!
Man, this better not be a "well put in the trailer to get people pumped but not in the release" version crap. One movie that comes to mind is "half baked" when in the trailer Jim breuer jumps the parking meter. When I saw the movie later one, the seen was not present.
overall though, I'm stoked for this movie. Robots+global domination = HELLA GOOD TIME!
"Internetnews is reporting on Sun's introduction of JavaFX at JavaOne today. Looks like a combination Applet, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX with a friendly programming interface. Does this really spell the end of AJAX? I sincerely hope so. Nothing built on Javascript will ever achieve the security, cross-platform reliability, and programmatic friendliness that Web 2.0 needs.
Umm....?? eehh....so its a combination of Applet, flash, JAVASCRIPT and AJAX....then you say Nothing built on Javascript is worth its 2 cents in materials. You sir, give me brain worms.
ODM is what kills me on AIX. The fact that their whole system is nothing but one huge script wrapped around a Registry for UNIX isn't my cup of tea. Its weird talking to people an having the say "oh AIX is great cause of SMIT". Well, if it wasn't so damn to run rudimentary commands on the OS you wouldn't have to worry about it!. The only think I like about smit is how easy it is to set ulimts lol. I know retarted but bare with me.
Really, I tried out both THERE and SL at the same time. And sure SL had WAY more options for custom characters etc but it ran (and still does) like crap. You cant walk around because stuff takes about 10 minutes to spawn and then "OH NO, I'M IN A BUILDING" or you land in somone scripted zone etc. The way items work etc.....I'm really surprised at how big it is cause even I, as a tech guy was shunded by how complicated it was at times. THERE however gives you a much smoother experiance, granted not as custom, but also gives you voice operations and at the time, streaming music etc which wasn't available in SL but..I'm sure is now.
Until they get their bandwidth straight, the whole thing screams of LAME and I love how SL is slowly turning into this Blade Runner world where ad's just stream about you and people seem to just eat it up. Once again....LAME.
Actually for anyone looking for a "install it and just watch it work" distro, I have been referring people to "Linux Mint" its pretty much ubuntu but with flash and all the media codes installed. They also have a great "start menu" and other utilities that make in a Drop in solution!
That begs the question though, what are they really selling me? The are selling me standard PC anymore! I can't argue they are Hardware but at the same time, as far as their pcs go, you can't use hardware without an OS. I would buy a mac for the OSX experiance. As for there other software...ehh. I think itunes stinks and the ipod is over hyped especially when you have cowon pumping out great media players (sure not as skinny but they are still nice) and work on EVERY platform and all you do is drag and drop files to the unit....I dunno. I'm not saying apple is not good stuff but I do think they are overhyped.
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I think its easier to turn to your cell phone for brief sessions, ie, a wait in the doctors office, than trying to hull around your psp/ds. Now, would I get rid of my psp/ds. Heck no, but thats because I feel those portables provide a more dedicated gaming experience for longer sessions.
To boot, you have the fact that both the DS and the PSP have been out in market for 5+ years while cell phones making huge hardware gains at break neck speeds.
PSP2 I will not be DOA, neither will the DS. As others have said too, you need something for kids...though I guess you could also give them your old smart phone and access the store via wifi...or in the case of apple, a ipod touch.
Not only did I read it in that fashion, but the mental image I conjured for him was that of that of the Hawking spoof from Family Guy
On the 3rd floor at work, just took some alergy meds so I thought the swaying I was feeling was a bit of a side effect. That was until everyone else started saying "YOU FEEL THAT??!!!"
I enjoy the fact, with every PS3 update, there seems to be a "UPDATE IS BRICKING CONSOLES!" article.Yet myself and my friends I have done installed every update on our FAT PS3's and have 0 issues.
IMHO, the update isn't bricking systems, its dumb moves by users!
I'm sorry I have to be this harsh....but your a prime example of consumer idiocy. Here is my issue with your comment. You call MS the better company because they go above and beyond with customer service. However are you aware that when it comes to the 360 they waited a year before they actually gave consumers a solution (this after they said it was the consumers fault until it was VERY evident it was their issue). Even then the solution is broke because their fix was just to give you another defective main board and HOPE that it will last you longer. THEY NEVER FIXED THE FREAKING PROBLEM WITH THE ENGINEERING!
Yet, here you are saying Sony doesn't give a rat's ass about reliability? The company that has a lower failure rate, actually QA'ed their product the way it needed to be and from my experience, actually does have good customer service.
To me the 360 doesn't work well cause of a issue they KNEW about and still pushed it to retail and their service and support is like any other companies, which is if you problem meets warranty criteria, well fix it...if not....your paying.
Think of it like this, Lets say I try to sell you a car....sure its cheap but I say "well, there is over a 50 percent chance the engine will blow, well fix it..but that engine will also have a 50 percent change to blow....and the same after that...etc." would you by that car?
NANOMACHINES BAD! :)
I would have to agree with this. The authorized applications that my work place gives me doesn't do half of what I need to it to do to be productive. That or the tools they give me require 5 steps, where software A that everyone in the field uses does it in one step...
1 step over 5 sounds more productive to me!
Very glad I sold off my ipods and picked up the cowon players. Sure their interface isn't quite as slick but it functions and have great sound and work great
Its also awesome for say, a backpack. once again, the price, its weight and what it can do make it great for those coffee shop moments
That or OGG. I have been trying to go all OGG for sometime now but its hard when machines that are made to stream media (PS3 for example) just play MP3. Thats what happens when your the top in your market though and people are happy with it. It would also help if companies would just release there darn codecs. I mean really, would getting a quicktime codec (even if its closed ala Nvida driver) Hurt. I'm all about free and open but at some point, I just want content to work.
At any rate, I will believe this once AMD releases a statment, until then its the biggest FUD spreaders doing their job...all hail business analyst :D.
Thats what I think when I think of this. I understand they want to protect their revenues, and I for one don't understand pirating games as writeable media, to me, is more assessable to damage and really, how long do you want that junk on your pc's hd. But I do get fustrated that home brew can't "bloom" the way I think it should on these consoles. I think homebrew is a viable way to get people interested in a console and I really hope at some time in the future they can provide a means for Homebrew while keeping the "badies" out
You know I thought the same, outside of a quick revolving ad their promo for this is pretty weak. Sure we want linux on OEM but the idea is 2 fold (at least for me). Give me a machine with linux preinstalled and made it so that other people have choice. If I was joe average looking for pc and saw that ad that said "ubuntu has arrived" I would be asking myself "WTF IS UBUNTU!!", he might research and find out its linux say to himself "cool, I will give it a go". Now, that's assuming this person even KNOWS what linux is. Most people don't even understand the concept of an Operating System. To them, Windows is the PC and vise versa. heck there monitor is the pc, the hard-drive is memory all that fun usual frustrating supporting end user stuff :P.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE: :(
The linux option NOT ON A DIFFERENT PAGE. When I go to the 1505 laptop and say customize, there should be listing for ubuntu. When they give "suggestions" on configuration, there at least be 1 linux option. With a link that describes what Linux is in relation to windows. To have this work you must educate your customer base. The fact that if I just click on laptops I don't see ANY of the linux option machines is not what I was expecting. Instead, I click on laptops, go to the top, click "open source PC's" and then I can get to the linux/free dos machines. I really think Dell can push this and what it be really sucessful but the way it is now, After the geeks buy their machines I see it faltering. Which is sad
Windows, I had to install drivers for, video, sound, chipset, my gigabit network adapter and some other stuff.
Now I do wish there was "better" support for 3d video and wireless but at the end of the day its not linux's fault. Blame the people that keep the drivers closed up and along with the hardware its drive'n.
I agree "GO GET SOME"
Now, for the player, amarok is a great application and supports tons of players. If its UMD, then like others said you might be able to script something up in essense, if your using ubuntu, it should be plug in play and there ya go. Unless its one of those whacked out players where you get UMD funcationality thats seperate from the player due to the embeded db they might use. Then that sir, is another fiasco all together.
IMHO the reason why FF failed is because the story strayed way to far from what the video games had going on. FF:SWI boo, but FF:AC, hell ya. I watched that movie and loved it. The detail was awesome, the story was decent and the audio did sync a crap ton better than with SWI.
I'm having a hard time believing you get a 20mbit triple play for 30 a month. Well, for any extended period of time. Be it France, US, China or MARS !!!
overall though, I'm stoked for this movie. Robots+global domination = HELLA GOOD TIME!
Umm....?? eehh....so its a combination of Applet, flash, JAVASCRIPT and AJAX....then you say Nothing built on Javascript is worth its 2 cents in materials. You sir, give me brain worms.
ODM is what kills me on AIX. The fact that their whole system is nothing but one huge script wrapped around a Registry for UNIX isn't my cup of tea. Its weird talking to people an having the say "oh AIX is great cause of SMIT". Well, if it wasn't so damn to run rudimentary commands on the OS you wouldn't have to worry about it!. The only think I like about smit is how easy it is to set ulimts lol. I know retarted but bare with me.
Until they get their bandwidth straight, the whole thing screams of LAME and I love how SL is slowly turning into this Blade Runner world where ad's just stream about you and people seem to just eat it up. Once again....LAME.
Actually for anyone looking for a "install it and just watch it work" distro, I have been referring people to "Linux Mint" its pretty much ubuntu but with flash and all the media codes installed. They also have a great "start menu" and other utilities that make in a Drop in solution!
.....however I still think Zuckerberg needs to DIAF. While we are at it, toss Tom in there for good measure
That begs the question though, what are they really selling me? The are selling me standard PC anymore! I can't argue they are Hardware but at the same time, as far as their pcs go, you can't use hardware without an OS. I would buy a mac for the OSX experiance. As for there other software...ehh. I think itunes stinks and the ipod is over hyped especially when you have cowon pumping out great media players (sure not as skinny but they are still nice) and work on EVERY platform and all you do is drag and drop files to the unit....I dunno. I'm not saying apple is not good stuff but I do think they are overhyped.