In all my backpacking through Europe, I'd say the most valuable piece of technology I had was my good old fashioned compass. Its important to be able to exit a train station and immediately orient yourself. Say you know the river is south of the train station and your hostel is located along the river near some famous bridge, its a piece of cake to find with just a compass.
And don't take the laptop. Internet cafes are everywhere, but I WOULD take a nice big USB key and make sure you have some dump space somewhere on the internet to stick pictures or anything else. A skype account is also useful to call all your peoples back home.
You realize that slashdot has now become part of their viral marketing engine? This is all going exactly as planned.
Now they just need an article in the NYT ranting about how sony put up fake advertising, which would of course provide links to that very advertising as slashdot has done. Bingo bango, here's an extra 50,000 PSPs sold.
Sure the kernel is less buggy than anything else, but I've found that most of my linux applications crash WAY more often than any of my windows software.
Dude you can't go around saying this stuff sucks because it's hip. If you do that, you are in fact being hip yourself because it's cool to do whats cool but not "cool yet"
The only way to get out of this cycle of doing something because it's the current fad is to ignore it and judge purely on what you like instead of whats hip. But that should go without saying.
Only about 20 or 30 of us stayed after for the LAN. We played a lot of UT2004, Quake I and even some Natural Selection. The most important part I think was that we found a whole bunch of new people that want to have LAN parties so we're going to try to get a monthly thing going.
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In all my backpacking through Europe, I'd say the most valuable piece of technology I had was my good old fashioned compass. Its important to be able to exit a train station and immediately orient yourself. Say you know the river is south of the train station and your hostel is located along the river near some famous bridge, its a piece of cake to find with just a compass. And don't take the laptop. Internet cafes are everywhere, but I WOULD take a nice big USB key and make sure you have some dump space somewhere on the internet to stick pictures or anything else. A skype account is also useful to call all your peoples back home.
You realize that slashdot has now become part of their viral marketing engine? This is all going exactly as planned. Now they just need an article in the NYT ranting about how sony put up fake advertising, which would of course provide links to that very advertising as slashdot has done. Bingo bango, here's an extra 50,000 PSPs sold.
1.5 billion for one launch? Why don't they just build a f**king space elevator?
Sure the kernel is less buggy than anything else, but I've found that most of my linux applications crash WAY more often than any of my windows software.
There's also something called VHCS (http://www.vhcs.net/) I haven't yet actually gotten it installed, but it looks pretty nice and is free as in beer.
Dude you can't go around saying this stuff sucks because it's hip. If you do that, you are in fact being hip yourself because it's cool to do whats cool but not "cool yet" The only way to get out of this cycle of doing something because it's the current fad is to ignore it and judge purely on what you like instead of whats hip. But that should go without saying.
Great, so now after we finish destroying our ecosystem we can move on to theirs.
Only about 20 or 30 of us stayed after for the LAN. We played a lot of UT2004, Quake I and even some Natural Selection. The most important part I think was that we found a whole bunch of new people that want to have LAN parties so we're going to try to get a monthly thing going.