Before you go shooting your mouth off with the same "Its just word 97 made too look fancier" bullshit, go and look under the hood of office 2007, and it is leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessors. Its integration into sharepoint services makes sharing documents within a business a lot more organized and structured, as well as documents in office 2007 look a lot better, and print a lot better(on vista at least) with the new xml based printers. As well, well beneath the hood the vba scripting has become more and more powerful with each release. Not to mention outlook, powerpoint, access, excel, and visio are extremely powerful i couldnt imagine living without, or having to use their alternatives.
Office is a great piece of software, no matter how much ms bashing you do, and the market will back me up on this one.
I will acknowledge that the general public are not developers or hobbiest's before my post. That being said, I take the PSP hands down any day over the DS due to how easy of a device it is to code for. Once you get the psp-sdk(modified gcc for embedded hardware) from www.pspdev.org compiled and running, you can easily start developing games and applications for the psp, without any expensive hardware mods.
With the sdk, comes tonnes of samples which outline how to use the features inside the psp, such as audio,gu,wifi,umd, controller, usb etc.
The PSP development communities also have some amazing tools out, such as PSP-LINK which lets you control your psp via a shell over a wifi connection, and lets you attach gdb debuggers to debug your games. Homebrew is possible on the DS, just not feasible. The PSP on the other hand has got to be my favorite handheld system EVER, mainly for the fact that i have an nes/snes/genesis as well as upcoming n64 and psx emulators, movies, tv episodes etc... right in my hand at 480x272 resolution on a sweet screen. The main driving force in my purchase though was definatly the development options.
They both can be made to perform the same operations, its a matter of cost vs time(currently it just isnt worth it- engineers balance "the right way" and "the cost effective way" every day), and that is dicated by politics.
Until there is some serious political push behind linux, big bad redmond is gonna have all the market share to itself. Same goes for osx.
Half life's source code theft, contrary to popular belief, had NOTHING to do with the game being released a year later. For those who got a hold of the source, it was a half-botched upgrade of the current hl engine(which in turn had a very large portion of quake 1 code). The engine was not feature complete, and all they had was a bunch of tech demo levels(poor ones at that). They didnt have it done plain and simple, and the code theft was a convenient excuse. Nintendo on the other hand has failed to deliver a sub-par zelda game to date.
Try streamwired. For only 8$ a month i get over 100 shows playing 24/7. Its not the greatest quality, but for the money, you cannot beat the value. I love being able to sit down and have simpsons, family guy, american dad, futurama, and even more obscure shows like daria, rocko's modern life, pinky & teh brain, and the list goes on. www.streamwired.com (It might seem like blatant avertising but its worth sharing, im not giving refferer urls)
VII Was a good game, but after VI, it seemed mediocre. I still play FF6 to date on my psp at least once a week, FF7 was good, but just doesnt have the replay value.
Somehow something gets lost in translation from kicking people out of their cars and motorcycles to kicking people off their horses or out of their carriages. Perhaps some GRAND THEFT OREGON TRAIL.
I saw this same question asked about 6 months ago. The general concencus is what do you want to do, not slashdot crowd. although if you are really that one dimensional and need the slashdot crowd to give you an answer, you might as well stick with the higher paying job:P
This is about as handy as running linux + X + apache on your dreamcast.. on its 56k modem. Unfortunatly after starting the kernel, x and apache, there was about 3MB of free ram on the dreamcast for useful stuff to server(unless you included it on your iso image).
While this is useless, the latest psphttpd is somewhat useful if you are near a hotspot and need to transfer stuff off your psp(real nerds carry around usb cables though) via 802.11b.
I better get working on my nes webserver quickly before even your cat has a webserver in it
I dont quite understand why in such an anti-microsoft arena, there is a huge amount of xbox360 news(at least 10% of the past weeks news is xbox related, even the polls). Seems everyone scoffs at them every chance they get. Lighten up, its a gaming console. Boy I wish slashdot was around in 1984 when all the NES hype was going down.
Its rediculous the amount of stupid support calls I get(web design company). One person calls saying their email doesnt work, solution? Try connecting to the internet first. Another person wonders why when they type their website address into a browser, they see their site instead of all their files in an ftp sort of view. UGH.
I never got laughed at, pushing 99fps in cs at lan parties at 1600x1200 with all the visual settings cranked to max was no laughing matter, that was a serious card back in its day. Hell, when I got my voodoo 3, it ran UT99 playably(50fps) at 1600x1200, which was fucking amazing back in its time. Good times 3dfx.
Why in the name of all things holy, would people WANT this on their computers? I seriously doubt one day, hell, one minute goes by with their developers thinking, This product is going to kick ass, and people are going to enjoy our service(ie: MS,Bungie,iD,valve, etc etc etc.). Its a damn shame people that make this crap cant be taken out by the FCC/BBB/someotherauthority. I know people make money off of this stuff, but it drives me crazy as a developer to see how and why people make this.
These things piss me off to no end. First of all they are everywhere, and secondly, they are annoying as hell, as they look fucking stupid. They look like some grade 10 student went trigger happy with the liquify function in photoshop, and to top it all off, have a tacky orange background that doesnt blend or fit into any websites i visit. Their service sucking is a tottally different story in itself....Firefox+adblock are lifesavers, reminds me of browsin g back in 1997.
As far as logitech mice go, the quality has always been top notch. For gaming, the MX1000 is the best mouse I have ever used, extremely comfortable, long battery life, and very accurate
that one game wouldnt happen to be a final fantasy would it? they are awfully slow. In hindsight, it may have been faster to write an emulator and just use that on the ps than "port" the game:P.
What are you bitching about? You are smart enough to make low level accounts, which PREVENT system changes, and then bitch when you cannot change any system files or the operating system. Poor me, I have to use the RunAs service with IE in order to update my system. Honestly I am tired of these uninformed "examples" people put up to make windows look bad, but only in the eyes of people as dumb witted as those who made the example(Which so happens to be about 85% of the general population).
Fusion Frenzy or whatever it was for XBOX used a lot of these, and they were FUN, especially for games when you have people over, and are just looking for fun with a small learning curve.
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Before you go shooting your mouth off with the same "Its just word 97 made too look fancier" bullshit, go and look under the hood of office 2007, and it is leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessors. Its integration into sharepoint services makes sharing documents within a business a lot more organized and structured, as well as documents in office 2007 look a lot better, and print a lot better(on vista at least) with the new xml based printers. As well, well beneath the hood the vba scripting has become more and more powerful with each release. Not to mention outlook, powerpoint, access, excel, and visio are extremely powerful i couldnt imagine living without, or having to use their alternatives.
Office is a great piece of software, no matter how much ms bashing you do, and the market will back me up on this one.
Who didnt see that coming? And here I was thinking I could get 233fps in starfox. Perhaps nextgen?
Yes, for myself the 80$ is no big deal, but those whom you are distributing homebrew to will not buy this.
I will acknowledge that the general public are not developers or hobbiest's before my post. That being said, I take the PSP hands down any day over the DS due to how easy of a device it is to code for. Once you get the psp-sdk(modified gcc for embedded hardware) from www.pspdev.org compiled and running, you can easily start developing games and applications for the psp, without any expensive hardware mods.
With the sdk, comes tonnes of samples which outline how to use the features inside the psp, such as audio,gu,wifi,umd, controller, usb etc.
The PSP development communities also have some amazing tools out, such as PSP-LINK which lets you control your psp via a shell over a wifi connection, and lets you attach gdb debuggers to debug your games. Homebrew is possible on the DS, just not feasible. The PSP on the other hand has got to be my favorite handheld system EVER, mainly for the fact that i have an nes/snes/genesis as well as upcoming n64 and psx emulators, movies, tv episodes etc... right in my hand at 480x272 resolution on a sweet screen. The main driving force in my purchase though was definatly the development options.
They both can be made to perform the same operations, its a matter of cost vs time(currently it just isnt worth it- engineers balance "the right way" and "the cost effective way" every day), and that is dicated by politics. Until there is some serious political push behind linux, big bad redmond is gonna have all the market share to itself. Same goes for osx.
Half life's source code theft, contrary to popular belief, had NOTHING to do with the game being released a year later. For those who got a hold of the source, it was a half-botched upgrade of the current hl engine(which in turn had a very large portion of quake 1 code). The engine was not feature complete, and all they had was a bunch of tech demo levels(poor ones at that). They didnt have it done plain and simple, and the code theft was a convenient excuse. Nintendo on the other hand has failed to deliver a sub-par zelda game to date.
Try streamwired. For only 8$ a month i get over 100 shows playing 24/7. Its not the greatest quality, but for the money, you cannot beat the value. I love being able to sit down and have simpsons, family guy, american dad, futurama, and even more obscure shows like daria, rocko's modern life, pinky & teh brain, and the list goes on. www.streamwired.com (It might seem like blatant avertising but its worth sharing, im not giving refferer urls)
VII Was a good game, but after VI, it seemed mediocre. I still play FF6 to date on my psp at least once a week, FF7 was good, but just doesnt have the replay value.
Somehow something gets lost in translation from kicking people out of their cars and motorcycles to kicking people off their horses or out of their carriages. Perhaps some GRAND THEFT OREGON TRAIL.
I saw this same question asked about 6 months ago. The general concencus is what do you want to do, not slashdot crowd. although if you are really that one dimensional and need the slashdot crowd to give you an answer, you might as well stick with the higher paying job :P
This is about as handy as running linux + X + apache on your dreamcast.. on its 56k modem. Unfortunatly after starting the kernel, x and apache, there was about 3MB of free ram on the dreamcast for useful stuff to server(unless you included it on your iso image). While this is useless, the latest psphttpd is somewhat useful if you are near a hotspot and need to transfer stuff off your psp(real nerds carry around usb cables though) via 802.11b. I better get working on my nes webserver quickly before even your cat has a webserver in it
I dont quite understand why in such an anti-microsoft arena, there is a huge amount of xbox360 news(at least 10% of the past weeks news is xbox related, even the polls). Seems everyone scoffs at them every chance they get. Lighten up, its a gaming console. Boy I wish slashdot was around in 1984 when all the NES hype was going down.
move along.
Its rediculous the amount of stupid support calls I get(web design company). One person calls saying their email doesnt work, solution? Try connecting to the internet first. Another person wonders why when they type their website address into a browser, they see their site instead of all their files in an ftp sort of view. UGH.
I never got laughed at, pushing 99fps in cs at lan parties at 1600x1200 with all the visual settings cranked to max was no laughing matter, that was a serious card back in its day. Hell, when I got my voodoo 3, it ran UT99 playably(50fps) at 1600x1200, which was fucking amazing back in its time. Good times 3dfx.
Why in the name of all things holy, would people WANT this on their computers? I seriously doubt one day, hell, one minute goes by with their developers thinking, This product is going to kick ass, and people are going to enjoy our service(ie: MS,Bungie,iD,valve, etc etc etc.). Its a damn shame people that make this crap cant be taken out by the FCC/BBB/someotherauthority. I know people make money off of this stuff, but it drives me crazy as a developer to see how and why people make this.
These things piss me off to no end. First of all they are everywhere, and secondly, they are annoying as hell, as they look fucking stupid. They look like some grade 10 student went trigger happy with the liquify function in photoshop, and to top it all off, have a tacky orange background that doesnt blend or fit into any websites i visit. Their service sucking is a tottally different story in itself....Firefox+adblock are lifesavers, reminds me of browsin g back in 1997.
"Your girlfriend will make it pink. Fair warning"
Guys with gameboys dont have girlfriends...
This is another case where people failed to define a problem, and didnt really solve a problem that needed solving...
Must... Not... Give... In...
Bah! Sod It:
Yes, but do they run linux?
As far as logitech mice go, the quality has always been top notch. For gaming, the MX1000 is the best mouse I have ever used, extremely comfortable, long battery life, and very accurate
that one game wouldnt happen to be a final fantasy would it? they are awfully slow. In hindsight, it may have been faster to write an emulator and just use that on the ps than "port" the game :P.
What are you bitching about? You are smart enough to make low level accounts, which PREVENT system changes, and then bitch when you cannot change any system files or the operating system. Poor me, I have to use the RunAs service with IE in order to update my system. Honestly I am tired of these uninformed "examples" people put up to make windows look bad, but only in the eyes of people as dumb witted as those who made the example(Which so happens to be about 85% of the general population).
Fusion Frenzy or whatever it was for XBOX used a lot of these, and they were FUN, especially for games when you have people over, and are just looking for fun with a small learning curve.
but does it run ... Windows?
either that or another beowulf cluster joke.