I have to agree with you Dan. While I'd love to get some emulators running on my PSP, they already run great on my clunky old Ipaq 2200. Add in the ports, and its a retrogamers dream toy. Major props to you for your contributions on that front, btw.
With gigs of storage, and extra inexpensive CF & SD cards, it's also a great multimedia device. I use my Ipaq as a voice controlled MP3 jukebox on my commute and keep movies and TV shows to watch when I find unexpected downtime.
The PSP on the other hand, while it's a great device with incredible potential, will never be the ultra-cool multimedia/gaming device it should be. Not only is Sony intent on crippling it from running homebrew, its lack of storage absolutely kills any potential as a multimedia device. Thier determination with pushing memorystick patents is mind boggling, and their insistance on keeping UMD writers off the market blows the only other option for storing media files.
Sony really just wants it to be the next gameboy. They lack ambition, vision, and the willingness to let the PSP market develop to its full potential.
Nix the laptops for audio. They're handy as webpads so I'd still leave one in every room, but laptop audio systems are just plain bad. You'll get noise leaking in from the hard drive and the wireless card, at the very least. Not something you'd want to listen to regularly.
I'd go with a media server in a closet somewhere, small PCs for media access in the different rooms, and full fledged HTPCs in the primary viewing areas (why stop with just audio).
The only thing you can't do easily is pipe the same audio throughout the house. IP Multicasting may sound like fun, but you'll be better off wiring for whole house audio or leveraging the existing wiring. For example, you could get a good quality RF modulator and inject the signal into an open cable channel.
It all depends on how bad the wiring in the house is, how determined you are not to run cable, and how big your ears are.
I've got a different HD box, a pioneer without DVR, and the image quality of the SD channels is rancid. Black levels are light grey, and the whole image has a heavy blur applied. Sure, they blurred out the noise, but it looks like a 60" VCD.
If I take the svideo (active, thankfully) from the same box and run it direct, it looks good. Run it through my HTPC and it looks great.
Conclusion: The image processor was designed by a blind man. This box is a POS.
Wait a sec. Lets be clear about one thing. The patriot act was not drafted to fight terrorism. Terrorism was just the sugar coating used to sell it. It's simply an accumulation of powers the government has wanted for a long time, and they took advantage of the national state of terror to aquire them.
The ATI component adapter is crippled to 640x480 output playing DVDs. It's not worth the $30.
If I were an OEM entering the htpc market, having component output would be a big plus. Maybe a lot of new HDTV sets have VGA or DVI, but they are the minority of the installed base.
Aside from the bias against MCSE's, it had nothing to do with degrees or papers. It had everything to do with experience. College isn't any better since you learn in college will be outdated by the time you graduate.
Besides, in IT you've either got it or you don't. No amount of bookwork or study will make a difference if you don't have the mind for it.
Found this on their download page, while looking for nonexistant information on their DRM scheme:
Notes:
Do not use SonicStage while logged on to a domain user account under Windows 2000
Professional, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition.
Forgetting for a minute that XP Home Edition is incapable of joining a domain, they apparently they don't like domains. This rules out every windows box I own, and since it only works on windows even if I were dumb enough to install their software it wouldn't work anyway.
Is it more important to protect your right to make a backup of content or the content provider's right to get paid for creating the content?
The right to make a backup is more important.
Next question?
If we accept that public policy for a population of 284 million should not be directed at addressing a subset of 100,000, then my question would be:
Of those 284 million people, how many have HDTV? Of those, how many have HD recording capability? Of those, how many can get the HD recording into their computer? Of those how many have the bandwidth and patience to upload a 30gig HD movie stream to the internet successfully?
Let's for arguments sake say that number is 100,000. I know I am grossly overestimating the intelligence of the American populace, but if his argument is true, then the broadcast flag does not fit his own criteria for becoming public policy.
But really, 35 gigs isn't enough to bother with. Even if the drives do work, at face it, this is Iomega we're talking about so probably not, it'll be obsoleted by whatever formated wins out in the HD DVD contest so who cares.
Anybody who buys into this is a fool and deserves to be taken.
Now when I buy a CD, it's because it's a really good CD, not because it was marketed really well. I have P2P to thank for that.
Besides, P2P is just a scapegoat. If sales are down, it's really because more of that disposable income is being spent on DVD movies.
The reason people download music and not books is that it is cheaper and easier to download and burn to a CD.
And here I thought it was because most people are too lazy to read.
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I have to agree with you Dan. While I'd love to get some emulators running on my PSP, they already run great on my clunky old Ipaq 2200. Add in the ports, and its a retrogamers dream toy. Major props to you for your contributions on that front, btw.
With gigs of storage, and extra inexpensive CF & SD cards, it's also a great multimedia device. I use my Ipaq as a voice controlled MP3 jukebox on my commute and keep movies and TV shows to watch when I find unexpected downtime.
The PSP on the other hand, while it's a great device with incredible potential, will never be the ultra-cool multimedia/gaming device it should be. Not only is Sony intent on crippling it from running homebrew, its lack of storage absolutely kills any potential as a multimedia device. Thier determination with pushing memorystick patents is mind boggling, and their insistance on keeping UMD writers off the market blows the only other option for storing media files.
Sony really just wants it to be the next gameboy. They lack ambition, vision, and the willingness to let the PSP market develop to its full potential.
Nix the laptops for audio. They're handy as webpads so I'd still leave one in every room, but laptop audio systems are just plain bad. You'll get noise leaking in from the hard drive and the wireless card, at the very least. Not something you'd want to listen to regularly.
I'd go with a media server in a closet somewhere, small PCs for media access in the different rooms, and full fledged HTPCs in the primary viewing areas (why stop with just audio).
The only thing you can't do easily is pipe the same audio throughout the house. IP Multicasting may sound like fun, but you'll be better off wiring for whole house audio or leveraging the existing wiring. For example, you could get a good quality RF modulator and inject the signal into an open cable channel.
It all depends on how bad the wiring in the house is, how determined you are not to run cable, and how big your ears are.
I've got a different HD box, a pioneer without DVR, and the image quality of the SD channels is rancid. Black levels are light grey, and the whole image has a heavy blur applied. Sure, they blurred out the noise, but it looks like a 60" VCD.
If I take the svideo (active, thankfully) from the same box and run it direct, it looks good. Run it through my HTPC and it looks great.
Conclusion: The image processor was designed by a blind man. This box is a POS.
The actual HD channels look incredible.
Wait a sec. Lets be clear about one thing. The patriot act was not drafted to fight terrorism. Terrorism was just the sugar coating used to sell it. It's simply an accumulation of powers the government has wanted for a long time, and they took advantage of the national state of terror to aquire them.
The UN matters when they agree with US and doesn't matter when they don't?
Thants pretty much how it works, yes.
The ATI component adapter is crippled to 640x480 output playing DVDs. It's not worth the $30. If I were an OEM entering the htpc market, having component output would be a big plus. Maybe a lot of new HDTV sets have VGA or DVI, but they are the minority of the installed base.
Whenever they start using the C word to justify making something illegal you know they're full of Sh*t.
Sh*t, P*ss, F*ck, C*nt, C*cksucker, Motherf*cker, and T*ts, and now Ch*ldren.
Aside from the bias against MCSE's, it had nothing to do with degrees or papers. It had everything to do with experience. College isn't any better since you learn in college will be outdated by the time you graduate.
Besides, in IT you've either got it or you don't. No amount of bookwork or study will make a difference if you don't have the mind for it.
The real reason for the purchase was to go up against VMWare in the server consolidation arena.
On the other hand, the same company also produced a good commercial PS1 emulator, so hang on to your tinfoil hat.
"duh!"
A few years ago we hired a PC/Network Tech. Any resume with an MCSE on it went straight to the round file.
This should be a free pirk for subscribing to the Starz network, just like On-Demand.
Otherwise, what's the point? Why else would you put up with low quality video, and let Real trash your system?
Forgetting for a minute that XP Home Edition is incapable of joining a domain, they apparently they don't like domains. This rules out every windows box I own, and since it only works on windows even if I were dumb enough to install their software it wouldn't work anyway.
Instead we will use mind-altering drugs/implanted computer chips to "reprogram" you. Even worse, the software would be licensed from Microsoft.
Is it more important to protect your right to make a backup of content or the content provider's right to get paid for creating the content?
The right to make a backup is more important. Next question?
If we accept that public policy for a population of 284 million should not be directed at addressing a subset of 100,000, then my question would be:
Of those 284 million people, how many have HDTV? Of those, how many have HD recording capability? Of those, how many can get the HD recording into their computer? Of those how many have the bandwidth and patience to upload a 30gig HD movie stream to the internet successfully?
Let's for arguments sake say that number is 100,000. I know I am grossly overestimating the intelligence of the American populace, but if his argument is true, then the broadcast flag does not fit his own criteria for becoming public policy.
- continuing with yesterdays data, which should be sufficient for most cases.
I am having a hard time coming up with a scenario where "yesterdays data" wouldn't get me fired.
But really, 35 gigs isn't enough to bother with. Even if the drives do work, at face it, this is Iomega we're talking about so probably not, it'll be obsoleted by whatever formated wins out in the HD DVD contest so who cares.
Anybody who buys into this is a fool and deserves to be taken.
Now when I buy a CD, it's because it's a really good CD, not because it was marketed really well. I have P2P to thank for that. Besides, P2P is just a scapegoat. If sales are down, it's really because more of that disposable income is being spent on DVD movies.
I remember falling out of my chair laughing when afganistan banned the internet.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/14/147233.shtm
This time I'm not laughing.
The reason people download music and not books is that it is cheaper and easier to download and burn to a CD. And here I thought it was because most people are too lazy to read.
We have come a long way. My IPaq has roughly the same specs as some of my older desktop PCs.
And there is a good divx player for pocketPC, called PocketMVP.
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