Agreed. This thing hasn't even been out a full month yet and it's already getting the snot hacked out of it. I'm guessing that the PSP will be getting an offical web browser in May though (when the PSP launches in Korea). When this happens, I am hoping against hopes that Sony includes Macromedia Flash with the browser.
like better MS-Office compatibility, an Access-like program and a more
Forgive me for asking, but what is a "more"? How will it give me a better office experience? Is there a "more" in Microsoft Office that I've been missing all these years? I must download this new build so I can learn about this "more"!
I'm actually surprised that EA was concerned enough to even go as far as sending out a memo. Most companies that demand the hours like what's been said about EA wouldn't even go that far...
I'm almost wondering if that memo wasn't purposefully released as a PR move...
I'm frustrated....
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I'm frustrated with the direction our space program has taken over the past couple decades. I'm grateful to see things like the X Prize happening, but I wish that as a nation we would make space exploration a high priority. I mean perhaps all that's there is a big bunch of rocks, but there are so many benefits that come from the technology built to make space exploration posible.
Whatever happened to exploration for explorations sake? I think that a good measure of the health of a society is it's curiosity about what's around the next corner, and it's willingness to find out. This truly shows the measure of the people.
I know that at this point all of the social bleeding hearts usually chime in "but what about all the problems right here one Earth???". Unfortunately these people are focusing on the problems, not the solution. For these problems to be fixed society has to advance as a whole, not be drug down by social agendas. When a society advances, solutions to the previously mentioned problems will come. It's simply par for the course.
Exploration is fundamental to this advancement. There's an infinite universe of stuff out there that's waiting to be discovered, and we're content to just let it be? How is that healthy? How do we know that there isn't anything there until we look? Just because the few measly areas of the universe we've looked at "don't have anything" doesn't mean there's nothing out there. This would be like flipping open a random book, reading 10 words, and determining that it has no plot.
I for one support space exploration. If the human race is going to grow we need to renew the spirit of exploration. After all, where would we be if nobody questioned the fact that the world is flat and the sun revolves around it?
This just screams "major privacy intrustion"! You're gonna slap a GPS device on my car to um... "track how much I drive"? Geeze, then how long before homeland security gets access to this system to "track terrorist"? Then how long is it until you become a "terrorist" because you drive to "suspicious places".
The world has enough to worry about with RFID. Do we really need this too?
Great introduction to Linux
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This sounds like an interesting book, I may have to pick it up next time I'm at BN.
I think one of the most fantastic things about Knoppix is that it provides a safe gateway for people to get into the Linux world, especially young people. At some point (around 8th grade) they realize there's more to life than Windows, but don't know enough to create a dual boot system. Knoppix is a great way for them to get their feet wet.
It's nice to see a book out on this. Regardless of whether these are truly "hacks" or not is irrelevant. The information it brings forward is interesting.
Actually, most of those "custom headphones" are really regular headphones with an adapter included. I know when I purchased mine I threw the cheap crappy headphones out and just plugged my big gigantic puffy earmuff-like headphones.
Nothing like listening to the GBA through the same headphones I use when playing PC games...
I actually don't have a problem with this. Nature does the same thing with its water cycle, only slower. This is just speeding up the process. As long as I'm certain that the water is truly purified then I'm cool with it.
If you've been following Nintendo at all then you know that this is great news! The big N has been doing a lot lately to clean up their act (anyone watch their E3 breifing? Reggie rocks!). I fully expect Nintendo to be the dominant player duking it out with Microsoft in the next couple generations.
Nintendo recognizes talent when they see it. The Warp Pipe folks created a thriving online community on the Nintendo Gamecube with little to no first party support. The DS has a lot of unique online potential due to its portability. I'm anxious to see what they come up with.
We can spend all day yelling about how evil Microsoft is, we can whine about the future of the industry, and we can shout our declarations that we will never purchase DRM'd material.
It still doesn't change that copyright needs to be fixed.
Microsoft isn't the only evil corporation out there using copyright as a weapon instead of what it was intended to be. We can bat down stuff like Sender ID, heck, we might even get this USB stuff licked, but the abuse is just going to keep coming. Sooner or later there will be too much of it for our protest signs to even make a difference. The real fix to this whole mess is to update copyright law so that it is relevant agin.
Truthfully I don't see the need for Apple to license their FairPlay technology as much as I see the iPod needing to support WMA. Apple has already stated that they don't make money off iTMS, but off iPod sales generated from iTMS interest. Consequently making the iPod able to play just about anything would help further increase their gravy. Most people will still end up using iTMS anyway.
Porting stuff to the Dreamcast is 1,000 times more constructive than getting Linux to run on an iPod.
You can get a Dreamcast used pretty cheaply now and those of us who like to tinker will happily use this stuff.
That is indeed a power button. I've looked at a few close up shots and it says "power" on it.
It's probably a good thing it's so far out of the way. It would suck if you could accidentally hit it;-)
I recently decided to give Mandrake 10.0 a shot, and I am pleansantly suprised! Except for a few minor glitches that were easy to iron out it installed perfectly on the first try! I would say it's equally as easy as a Windows install.
Also, after setting up the http mirrors I found that software installation was incredibly simple. I was able to install everything I needed in just a few mouse clicks. This included everything from Apache/PHP/mySQL to silly stuff like Gaim.
This is the first Linux install I've ever had where I didn't have to edit at least a couple text files to get it to run properly. I would reccomend it as a great "Linux Desktop" for the Average Joe user.
That's right in line with my own personal experiences. I've had a TON of problems with Verizon lately. Those people are horrible to deal with.
We were on a family plan with Verizon. After a while we realized that we were always going over out alloted minutes each month, so we decided it was time to switch to another plan. The friendly associate who sold us our phones informed us that we were allowed to switch plans any time we want. Seems fair enough right?
Wrong.
The catch is that they won't let you switch plans unless you sign another two-year contract. Unfortunately this would lock us into using our already ancient Motorola-Startacs for another two years too. We were not pleased. I almost canceled right then and there, but I discovered that the cancellation fee would be greater than just paying the bill until the contract ran out. Consequently we threw our Verizon phones in the drawer, signed on with Alltel, and canceled our Verizon plan the day the contract ran out. End of story right?
Wrong
They sent me a bill for a $400 cancellation fee even though I canceled at the right time and the customer service rep said nothing more was to be paid. I called back and they said they would take care of the problem. Unfortunately they did it for only one of the phones as they sent me another bill two weeks later for $200. This time when I called them back they started making references to "turning the bill over to outside agencies". Trust me, I was freaking angry. Eventually I got to another "nice" customer service rep that said it would be taken care of.
We'll see...
I bet that most people pay the $400 just to quit being harassed. These people a freaking crooks! It's unreal! They're threatening to ruin MY credit even though I followed the rules, had perfect pay, and did NOTHING to violate the contract!
No wonder they've got one of the worst customer satisfaction records in the business.
Used right this patent could be a *Very* good thing. If it is enforced against the companies / individuals who are doing this already, but the owners choose not to fill the networks with crap themselves this could seriously clean up the mess that's been created on P2P networks!
I'm currently a Computer Programming student at a local community college. I'm about ready to graduate and I am looking to continue my education at another college. I've done very well (I have a 3.95 GPA) but I am ready to move on to other challenges. I only went to Community College because it was handed to me free (awesome scholarship) but now I'm glad I did it. It gave me enough basic programming skills that I understand why more advanced theory is needed.
The amount of math needed for a CS degree has scared me for a long time. I never took calculus in High School and have been worried that it would hurt me ever since. I am however, very good at algebra and geometry was very easy for me. Looking at this encourages me to move forward.
Now if only I could find a way to pay for it all. (My parents have promised zero support...)
We recently dropped our cable subscription down to the $10/mth 19 channel deal, and we're thinking about dropping that. The problem is that we only ever watched one or two channels and we didn't get enough viewing time to make it worth our $99/mth cable bill.
I would love to be able to just watch the shows that I want, when I want them, and pay strictly for what I watch. I don't want to pay for a bunch of crap I don't want. Why should I be forced to buy HGTV when I'm an overweight fat slob who spends 99% of his day behind a keyboard? All I wanted was Tech Tv (although it's gone downhill bigtime).
I think I could live with the ads if it was definately a free service. The thing that scares me about this is that eventually we'll start seeing services that make you pay AND cram ads down your throat. (see Cable TV)
Also, it depends on what kind of software they make you install to see the ads / access the network. I'm assuming that they'll have to use something because if it's just a proxy I think it would be to easy too defeat. If they make you install special software, is it going to be Windows only?
This is pathetic... I like google just as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day it's just e-mail. Before I'd fork over $200 for an e-mail address I'd register my own domain and create a tricked out one of my own.
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Agreed. This thing hasn't even been out a full month yet and it's already getting the snot hacked out of it. I'm guessing that the PSP will be getting an offical web browser in May though (when the PSP launches in Korea). When this happens, I am hoping against hopes that Sony includes Macromedia Flash with the browser.
Just think... HomestarRunner on PSP...
like better MS-Office compatibility, an Access-like program and a more
Forgive me for asking, but what is a "more"? How will it give me a better office experience? Is there a "more" in Microsoft Office that I've been missing all these years? I must download this new build so I can learn about this "more"!
I'm actually surprised that EA was concerned enough to even go as far as sending out a memo. Most companies that demand the hours like what's been said about EA wouldn't even go that far...
I'm almost wondering if that memo wasn't purposefully released as a PR move...
I'm frustrated with the direction our space program has taken over the past couple decades. I'm grateful to see things like the X Prize happening, but I wish that as a nation we would make space exploration a high priority. I mean perhaps all that's there is a big bunch of rocks, but there are so many benefits that come from the technology built to make space exploration posible.
Whatever happened to exploration for explorations sake? I think that a good measure of the health of a society is it's curiosity about what's around the next corner, and it's willingness to find out. This truly shows the measure of the people.
I know that at this point all of the social bleeding hearts usually chime in "but what about all the problems right here one Earth???". Unfortunately these people are focusing on the problems, not the solution. For these problems to be fixed society has to advance as a whole, not be drug down by social agendas. When a society advances, solutions to the previously mentioned problems will come. It's simply par for the course.
Exploration is fundamental to this advancement. There's an infinite universe of stuff out there that's waiting to be discovered, and we're content to just let it be? How is that healthy? How do we know that there isn't anything there until we look? Just because the few measly areas of the universe we've looked at "don't have anything" doesn't mean there's nothing out there. This would be like flipping open a random book, reading 10 words, and determining that it has no plot.
I for one support space exploration. If the human race is going to grow we need to renew the spirit of exploration. After all, where would we be if nobody questioned the fact that the world is flat and the sun revolves around it?
This just screams "major privacy intrustion"! You're gonna slap a GPS device on my car to um... "track how much I drive"? Geeze, then how long before homeland security gets access to this system to "track terrorist"? Then how long is it until you become a "terrorist" because you drive to "suspicious places".
The world has enough to worry about with RFID. Do we really need this too?
This sounds like an interesting book, I may have to pick it up next time I'm at BN.
I think one of the most fantastic things about Knoppix is that it provides a safe gateway for people to get into the Linux world, especially young people. At some point (around 8th grade) they realize there's more to life than Windows, but don't know enough to create a dual boot system. Knoppix is a great way for them to get their feet wet.
It's nice to see a book out on this. Regardless of whether these are truly "hacks" or not is irrelevant. The information it brings forward is interesting.
Actually, most of those "custom headphones" are really regular headphones with an adapter included. I know when I purchased mine I threw the cheap crappy headphones out and just plugged my big gigantic puffy earmuff-like headphones.
Nothing like listening to the GBA through the same headphones I use when playing PC games...
I actually don't have a problem with this. Nature does the same thing with its water cycle, only slower. This is just speeding up the process. As long as I'm certain that the water is truly purified then I'm cool with it.
If you've been following Nintendo at all then you know that this is great news! The big N has been doing a lot lately to clean up their act (anyone watch their E3 breifing? Reggie rocks!). I fully expect Nintendo to be the dominant player duking it out with Microsoft in the next couple generations.
Nintendo recognizes talent when they see it. The Warp Pipe folks created a thriving online community on the Nintendo Gamecube with little to no first party support. The DS has a lot of unique online potential due to its portability. I'm anxious to see what they come up with.
We can spend all day yelling about how evil Microsoft is, we can whine about the future of the industry, and we can shout our declarations that we will never purchase DRM'd material.
It still doesn't change that copyright needs to be fixed.
Microsoft isn't the only evil corporation out there using copyright as a weapon instead of what it was intended to be. We can bat down stuff like Sender ID, heck, we might even get this USB stuff licked, but the abuse is just going to keep coming. Sooner or later there will be too much of it for our protest signs to even make a difference. The real fix to this whole mess is to update copyright law so that it is relevant agin.
Truthfully I don't see the need for Apple to license their FairPlay technology as much as I see the iPod needing to support WMA. Apple has already stated that they don't make money off iTMS, but off iPod sales generated from iTMS interest. Consequently making the iPod able to play just about anything would help further increase their gravy. Most people will still end up using iTMS anyway.
Porting stuff to the Dreamcast is 1,000 times more constructive than getting Linux to run on an iPod.
You can get a Dreamcast used pretty cheaply now and those of us who like to tinker will happily use this stuff.
That is indeed a power button. I've looked at a few close up shots and it says "power" on it. ;-)
It's probably a good thing it's so far out of the way. It would suck if you could accidentally hit it
I recently decided to give Mandrake 10.0 a shot, and I am pleansantly suprised! Except for a few minor glitches that were easy to iron out it installed perfectly on the first try! I would say it's equally as easy as a Windows install.
Also, after setting up the http mirrors I found that software installation was incredibly simple. I was able to install everything I needed in just a few mouse clicks. This included everything from Apache/PHP/mySQL to silly stuff like Gaim.
This is the first Linux install I've ever had where I didn't have to edit at least a couple text files to get it to run properly. I would reccomend it as a great "Linux Desktop" for the Average Joe user.
Think they're going to sue one of their own clients for copyright infringement?
Never stopped the RIAA...
That's right in line with my own personal experiences. I've had a TON of problems with Verizon lately. Those people are horrible to deal with.
We were on a family plan with Verizon. After a while we realized that we were always going over out alloted minutes each month, so we decided it was time to switch to another plan. The friendly associate who sold us our phones informed us that we were allowed to switch plans any time we want. Seems fair enough right?
Wrong.
The catch is that they won't let you switch plans unless you sign another two-year contract. Unfortunately this would lock us into using our already ancient Motorola-Startacs for another two years too. We were not pleased. I almost canceled right then and there, but I discovered that the cancellation fee would be greater than just paying the bill until the contract ran out. Consequently we threw our Verizon phones in the drawer, signed on with Alltel, and canceled our Verizon plan the day the contract ran out. End of story right?
Wrong
They sent me a bill for a $400 cancellation fee even though I canceled at the right time and the customer service rep said nothing more was to be paid. I called back and they said they would take care of the problem. Unfortunately they did it for only one of the phones as they sent me another bill two weeks later for $200. This time when I called them back they started making references to "turning the bill over to outside agencies". Trust me, I was freaking angry. Eventually I got to another "nice" customer service rep that said it would be taken care of.
We'll see...
I bet that most people pay the $400 just to quit being harassed. These people a freaking crooks! It's unreal! They're threatening to ruin MY credit even though I followed the rules, had perfect pay, and did NOTHING to violate the contract!
No wonder they've got one of the worst customer satisfaction records in the business.
Used right this patent could be a *Very* good thing. If it is enforced against the companies / individuals who are doing this already, but the owners choose not to fill the networks with crap themselves this could seriously clean up the mess that's been created on P2P networks!
Finally! A killer app for Linux!
I'm currently a Computer Programming student at a local community college. I'm about ready to graduate and I am looking to continue my education at another college. I've done very well (I have a 3.95 GPA) but I am ready to move on to other challenges. I only went to Community College because it was handed to me free (awesome scholarship) but now I'm glad I did it. It gave me enough basic programming skills that I understand why more advanced theory is needed.
The amount of math needed for a CS degree has scared me for a long time. I never took calculus in High School and have been worried that it would hurt me ever since. I am however, very good at algebra and geometry was very easy for me. Looking at this encourages me to move forward.
Now if only I could find a way to pay for it all. (My parents have promised zero support...)
To the media, what's the difference? Anyone who commits a crime involving a computer is considered a hacker to them...
We recently dropped our cable subscription down to the $10 /mth 19 channel deal, and we're thinking about dropping that. The problem is that we only ever watched one or two channels and we didn't get enough viewing time to make it worth our $99 /mth cable bill.
I would love to be able to just watch the shows that I want, when I want them, and pay strictly for what I watch. I don't want to pay for a bunch of crap I don't want. Why should I be forced to buy HGTV when I'm an overweight fat slob who spends 99% of his day behind a keyboard? All I wanted was Tech Tv (although it's gone downhill bigtime).
Ahem... They offer a free account with ads and a paid account that's inexpensive with no ads. Seems like a pretty good business model.
I think I could live with the ads if it was definately a free service. The thing that scares me about this is that eventually we'll start seeing services that make you pay AND cram ads down your throat. (see Cable TV)
Also, it depends on what kind of software they make you install to see the ads / access the network. I'm assuming that they'll have to use something because if it's just a proxy I think it would be to easy too defeat. If they make you install special software, is it going to be Windows only?
I don't have enough details to make judgment yet.
This is pathetic... I like google just as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day it's just e-mail. Before I'd fork over $200 for an e-mail address I'd register my own domain and create a tricked out one of my own.
Great, now everyone can surf for their porn in the dark!