If you have a laptop with a DVD drive, you can use the AnyDVD driver software to bypass that region encoding bullshit. Or, you can pick up a cheap Chinese or Taiwanese DVD player that will ignore region encoding(So I've heard.)
I can't speak for Nintendo and say I'm positive about how the insides of the DS work, but I do know that the DS contains two processors: an ARM9 and an ARM7. The ARM7 was the core CPU in the GBA, although it is runnning at a higher clock rate in the DS. I'd bet my right leg that when you play a GBA game on the DS, the ARM7 just "downshifts" into GBA mode in order to present GBA games with the exact same instruction set, timing, etc.
I have also heard speculation(or was it official from Nintendo? Can't recall...) that the GBA port could/would be used for additional accessories in the future. Well, even if Nintendo doesn't come through with that idea, at least there's the GBA Movie Player, which has been confirmed to work in the DS.
I'd say that 6-10 hours estimate is pretty accurate. I've been playing my DS for 2+ hours every day since launch day(after one full charging), and the batteries just now champed out today. Haven't been using WiFi though, or wireless at all really, since I haven't gotten to play much with anyone else with a DS.
I just picked one up today. The DS kinda snuck up on me, I didn't even know about it until a few months ago. While one reason I got is because I trust Nintendo to support the hardware well and release the best first-party games(as well as developer support from companies like Sega), the real reason I wanted one is the potential of the hardware crammed into this little package. There is already a pretty good community of amatuer Game Boy Advance development using flash cartridges and neat doodads like the GBA Movie Player. I beleive that a lot more could be done with the capabilities of the DS. A touch screen, integrated wireless networking, microphone, and 3D hardware in a handheld system for $150? Think of the possibilities...PDA functions, web browser, MP3 player, emulators, homebrew 3d games...
There was a site recently called DSLinux that claimed they would give $1000 to the first person who could successfully run Linux on the DS...unfotunately, the site seems to be no more...while I find that odd and a bit disheartening, I hope others will take up where they left off. After all, wouldn't it be so much more fun to hack on a sleek portable system like this than a clunky XBox that can't do that much more than your average low end PC?
Come on guys, don't respond to this troll. Look around, this has been posted in various forms to many topics here, including space weapons, bio-engineering, etc.
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Its no different from driving your car to the store to get the game.
Then why the fuck would I get the game?? I don't play games to experience reality, ya know. I could go outside.
Yeah, I did get it from Get Your War On, I just find that it spoils the joke whenever you see "Ob. foo from bar"...It's distracting. But it's a great strip, I recommend that everyone check it out.
Oh yeah that'll be great...like, remember when we had a War on Drugs, and now you can't get drugs anymore, and then we had a War on Terrorism, and no there's no more terrorists blowing things up and what not? Yeah, that'll be awesome.
Hell, I still have the bugger sitting in a box. Still whip it out occasionally for Space Invaders. 16k of RAM and BASIC on a ROM chip...ahhh, yeah, that's the ticket.
Precisely. Distributors of content do not take advantage of the full capacity of modern storage media, in order to derive higher profit margins. For example, an anime series that I like with 6 episodes sells at Suncoast on 3 DVDs, with 2 episodes per disc. The episodes are 25 MINUTES LONG, and the discs do not come with much in the way of extra features. The DVDs individually sell for $40, making the entire series over $100. I do not have disposable income to buy into this ridiculous scam. Suprnova, here I come.
Lose. Lose. LOSE! Nowhere have I seen this mistake made this frequently but Slashdot. WTF?! Look at the word. Sound it out. "Loose." As in not tight. (Insert "your mom" jokes here.) Surely you've come across the word "loose" before? Surely you notice that it is not pronounced the same as the word "lose," ie. cease to have or control, misplace. What is the damn confusion about this simple, simple word?
I imagine that ol' Bill is really regretting the decision to let Ballmer take over the rains...I mean, come on, I know we all hates the evil Mr. Gates and so on and so forth, but at least when he said demeaning stuff about his competition, he did it with some class. I really can't imagine Gates saying half the things that just seem to randomly escape from Steve Ballmer's mouth.
It's like he just says any bullshit that comes to mind without stopping to think about if it actually makes sense. Why in the world is this man in charge of a multi-billion dollar company? I wouldn't trust him not to scare away the customers if I hired him as a cashier.
I was merely pointing out that trolls often use this tactic and obfuscate the URLs in ways that are non-obvious.
I indeed looked at the link after you (I'm assuming you're the one who posted the links) insisted they were genuine. After I found out they were not shock sites, I even posted an apology adn explained myself. Yet you continue to lash out with profanity at anyone who dare suggest that the links were not genuine g-mail invites.
Given the circumstances, anyone could, and likely would, mistake this for a troll. What is the big deal about?
No, I used to think that too. Trolls are always trying new and clever ways to disguise the true nature of the link with mirrors, redirects, and other trickery.
Insightful?? What the hell is this? Have things changed since 5.05?
I use Winamp exclusively for my media playing needs and I have seen nary an AOL icon anywhere. If you choose the Classic skin during install, the interface you are presented with is not radically different than Winamp 2.0. I find it rather simple and intuitive, and there are always keyboard commands as well.
Yes, it has lots of features - that's one of the reasons I like it. It's hardly bloated, at least compared to other big-name media players on Windows like WMP and iTunes.
And spyware? I'm scratching my head. Where did you find the spyware in Winamp? You don't mean that anonymous statistics logging that is brought to your attention during install and can easily be disabled, do you? That's the only thing in Winamp I can see that could be conceivably described as 'spyware.'
So yeah....basically...what the hell are you talking about?
Ah, so they are. Perhaps you should log in if you don't want to be suspected as a troll? Or just find a different means to distribute your invites. I've come across too many "nyud.info" links presented in that manner to trust anything that says "G-Mail invite" these days.
If you would take the trouble to dig up the hrefs for those comments, I'd like to see them. Perhaps you forget that non-subscribers cannot see a user's full comment history?
Seriously though, he already mentioned masers in his post, which pertain to microwave frequency radiation. He was wondering about focused-beam tech in the RF region, like what we use for FM and AM broadcasts.
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If you have a laptop with a DVD drive, you can use the AnyDVD driver software to bypass that region encoding bullshit. Or, you can pick up a cheap Chinese or Taiwanese DVD player that will ignore region encoding(So I've heard.)
I can't speak for Nintendo and say I'm positive about how the insides of the DS work, but I do know that the DS contains two processors: an ARM9 and an ARM7. The ARM7 was the core CPU in the GBA, although it is runnning at a higher clock rate in the DS. I'd bet my right leg that when you play a GBA game on the DS, the ARM7 just "downshifts" into GBA mode in order to present GBA games with the exact same instruction set, timing, etc.
I have also heard speculation(or was it official from Nintendo? Can't recall...) that the GBA port could/would be used for additional accessories in the future. Well, even if Nintendo doesn't come through with that idea, at least there's the GBA Movie Player, which has been confirmed to work in the DS.
I'd say that 6-10 hours estimate is pretty accurate. I've been playing my DS for 2+ hours every day since launch day(after one full charging), and the batteries just now champed out today. Haven't been using WiFi though, or wireless at all really, since I haven't gotten to play much with anyone else with a DS.
Mod parent up!!!!!!~1!!eleventy-one
Holy triple-recursion, Batman!
I just picked one up today. The DS kinda snuck up on me, I didn't even know about it until a few months ago. While one reason I got is because I trust Nintendo to support the hardware well and release the best first-party games(as well as developer support from companies like Sega), the real reason I wanted one is the potential of the hardware crammed into this little package. There is already a pretty good community of amatuer Game Boy Advance development using flash cartridges and neat doodads like the GBA Movie Player. I beleive that a lot more could be done with the capabilities of the DS. A touch screen, integrated wireless networking, microphone, and 3D hardware in a handheld system for $150? Think of the possibilities...PDA functions, web browser, MP3 player, emulators, homebrew 3d games...
There was a site recently called DSLinux that claimed they would give $1000 to the first person who could successfully run Linux on the DS...unfotunately, the site seems to be no more...while I find that odd and a bit disheartening, I hope others will take up where they left off. After all, wouldn't it be so much more fun to hack on a sleek portable system like this than a clunky XBox that can't do that much more than your average low end PC?
Come on guys, don't respond to this troll. Look around, this has been posted in various forms to many topics here, including space weapons, bio-engineering, etc.
Then why the fuck would I get the game?? I don't play games to experience reality, ya know. I could go outside.
If I get shark DNA injected, they better take the time to install a frickin' laser on my head as well.
Yeah, I did get it from Get Your War On, I just find that it spoils the joke whenever you see "Ob. foo from bar"...It's distracting. But it's a great strip, I recommend that everyone check it out.
Oh yeah that'll be great...like, remember when we had a War on Drugs, and now you can't get drugs anymore, and then we had a War on Terrorism, and no there's no more terrorists blowing things up and what not? Yeah, that'll be awesome.
I'm sure they are, but I guess they are not so constant. Perhaps they should be called fundamental variables?
Hell, I still have the bugger sitting in a box. Still whip it out occasionally for Space Invaders. 16k of RAM and BASIC on a ROM chip...ahhh, yeah, that's the ticket.
Precisely. Distributors of content do not take advantage of the full capacity of modern storage media, in order to derive higher profit margins. For example, an anime series that I like with 6 episodes sells at Suncoast on 3 DVDs, with 2 episodes per disc. The episodes are 25 MINUTES LONG, and the discs do not come with much in the way of extra features. The DVDs individually sell for $40, making the entire series over $100. I do not have disposable income to buy into this ridiculous scam. Suprnova, here I come.
Lose. Lose. LOSE! Nowhere have I seen this mistake made this frequently but Slashdot. WTF?! Look at the word. Sound it out. "Loose." As in not tight. (Insert "your mom" jokes here.) Surely you've come across the word "loose" before? Surely you notice that it is not pronounced the same as the word "lose," ie. cease to have or control, misplace. What is the damn confusion about this simple, simple word?
Never ascribe to conspiracy what can easily be explained by stupidity.
It's like he just says any bullshit that comes to mind without stopping to think about if it actually makes sense. Why in the world is this man in charge of a multi-billion dollar company? I wouldn't trust him not to scare away the customers if I hired him as a cashier.
I indeed looked at the link after you (I'm assuming you're the one who posted the links) insisted they were genuine. After I found out they were not shock sites, I even posted an apology adn explained myself. Yet you continue to lash out with profanity at anyone who dare suggest that the links were not genuine g-mail invites.
Given the circumstances, anyone could, and likely would, mistake this for a troll. What is the big deal about?
No, I used to think that too. Trolls are always trying new and clever ways to disguise the true nature of the link with mirrors, redirects, and other trickery.
I use Winamp exclusively for my media playing needs and I have seen nary an AOL icon anywhere. If you choose the Classic skin during install, the interface you are presented with is not radically different than Winamp 2.0. I find it rather simple and intuitive, and there are always keyboard commands as well.
Yes, it has lots of features - that's one of the reasons I like it. It's hardly bloated, at least compared to other big-name media players on Windows like WMP and iTunes.
And spyware? I'm scratching my head. Where did you find the spyware in Winamp? You don't mean that anonymous statistics logging that is brought to your attention during install and can easily be disabled, do you? That's the only thing in Winamp I can see that could be conceivably described as 'spyware.'
So yeah....basically...what the hell are you talking about?
Ah, so they are. Perhaps you should log in if you don't want to be suspected as a troll? Or just find a different means to distribute your invites. I've come across too many "nyud.info" links presented in that manner to trust anything that says "G-Mail invite" these days.
I would pre-emptively mod this down. I'm not even touching those links. I have a pretty good idea of what they point to(hint: not g-mail invites.)
If you would take the trouble to dig up the hrefs for those comments, I'd like to see them. Perhaps you forget that non-subscribers cannot see a user's full comment history?
Digital media without DRM is like fish without bicycles.
Seriously though, he already mentioned masers in his post, which pertain to microwave frequency radiation. He was wondering about focused-beam tech in the RF region, like what we use for FM and AM broadcasts.