if you got the thing less than 14 days ago. The law gives you 14 days to cancel if you don't like your service. As for unlocked phones, you don't have to import one from Europe, amazon sells them, as do a lot of other places.
Personally i would recommend T-mobile(since they are actually a European company!) and have fun!
Um, we are talking about a SPORTS announcer here. Baseball teams trade players for cash all the time, and yet I fail to see how baseball players are "enslaved" by any means of the word...
And if that is what slavery is paying nowadays, sign me up!
The old fashioned way, with misinformation of course! With all the information that flies at you in a day, how often can you actually check out the source of that info? Or it's reliability. Just flood the net with rumors while keeping the actual knowledge down to as few people as possible.
Heh, I'm a American living in Germany, and I have no qualms about ripping dvds I own. But I just don't want to spend all that money on a screen I cannot use unless I rebuy....
Plus I watch a lot of Mystery Science Theatre, harder to watch at lower resolutions.
This is all well and good, but it still doesn't make the psp an attractive video player, to steal from a comment I made earlier:
Multimedia:Theoretically, this is where the PSP should really shine what with that oh so sexy screen. However, there are tons of devices that do it better, not the least of which is the iPod video. How can the iPod video do it better? Simple, unless you are watching UMDs Sony limits you to 320x240 for your movies, the exact same as resolution as an iPod. And if you are watching movies it makes no sense not to buy the giga-pack, priced at $299, the same price as the 40 gigabyte iPod. Now granted the battery life while watching movies is short on the iPod, but for most commuters 2 hours a charge is more than enough. And if you don't want to watch movies, you can still store a ton of music on the iPod.
I would love to watch "Kill Bill" on that sexy psp screen, but I have already paid $50 to watch Kill Bill in other formats: $12.50 to see the first one in Japan, $7.50 for a matinee to see the 2nd one, and about $15 for the DVDs. I refuse to spend another $50($25 a UMD) just so I can watch the same content again. Sony artificially limiting the movie playback on the device killed it for me. I'm willing to buy a movie once, but I refuse to buy it multiple times just so I can watch it in different formats.
How can you really tell how many people are infected with spyware? It's not a question like, "do you support proposition 84?" where you can call people at random or talk to them on the street. I would be afraid of the guy who came to my door asking if he could test whether or not my computer was infected with spyware(doubly so since I use a mac:P), and if you just ask people, 9/10 they won't know but will probably make up a answer anyway. They could use the numbers sent to them by customers, but that isn't random at all. Their customers are much more likely to have spyware infections or else they wouldn't be seeking their help.
So yeah, it's a number, but not a very convincing one...
Reminds me of an article I read yesterday on Yahoo Finance. It stated that stocks were rising on both Oracle cutting jobs AND that the US unemployment number fell. It seems like a lot of people say, "I want lots of people to have jobs, but not in companies that I invest in". Seems like a tradgedy of the commons to me...
Whats interesting though is both chips are not super-scalar like all desktop chips have been for quite a while. It will be interesting to see what types of programs will be able to take advantage of lots of cores without speedups like branch predictors etc.
Technically you aren't even allowed to smoke Cuban cigars if you are an American overseas. Sucks because I'm in Germany right now and I see a lot of them for sale, but I have to maintain a security clearance so it's probably best to avoid them....
Actually males have a higher mortality rate even in the womb. There are 1.05 males born for every female, but by the time we get to be around 30, the ratio starts becoming much more even and of course in the over 65 group females outnumber males by a significant margin.
It was like pulling teeth to get them to release a windows version, iTunes was mac only for a while till they realized that the software they bundled in with the iPod on windows wasn't all that great. The real reason they don't support Linux? I'm sure slashdot users have some great conspiracy theories, but the long and short of it is that supporting Linux doesn't really make financial sense. You have to then port it, and then pay people to maintain/support it. Yeah, it might increase your user base a little, but it is probably not worth the extra cost/hassle.
While I wouldn't be as, shall we say, "harsh" as you, I do agree with your overall sentiment. This doesn't sound like anything that much more difficult/time consuming than anything I faced as a computer engineering undergrad at Penn State. It's college, it's not supposed to be a cakewalk(unless your major is business of course:P)
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The PSP tries to be the jack of all trades and ends up being master of none. Let's go through its functions and compare:
1. Games: Supposedly the main reason to get a PSP, but the number of "must haves" can be counted on one hand currently. Not to mention the fact the psp, and in general PSP games are more expensive(around $50 for a game compared to $30 or $35 for DS games. Though some psp publishers are finally wising up and lowering prices). For the cost of a psp and 2 games($350) you can get a DS and 7 games: 4 $35 games and 3 $30 games.
Winner: The DS, but it will depend on the type of games you enjoy.
Web browsing: The PSP does have a browser, but unless you are a hardcore gamer who occaisionally needs to check email and you can't already do that on your cell phone, a PDA is a much better bargain.
Multimedia:Theoretically, this is where the PSP should really shine what with that oh so sexy screen. However, there are tons of devices that do it better, not the least of which is the iPod video. How can the iPod video do it better? Simple, unless you are watching UMDs Sony limits you to 320x240 for your movies, the exact same as resolution as an iPod. And if you are watching movies it makes no sense not to buy the giga-pack, priced at $299, the same price as the 40 gigabyte iPod. Now granted the battery life while watching movies is short on the iPod, but for most commuters 2 hours a charge is more than enough. And if you don't want to watch movies, you can still store a ton of music on the iPod.
I would love to watch "Kill Bill" on that sexy psp screen, but I have already paid $50 to watch Kill Bill in other formats: $12.50 to see the first one in Japan, $7.50 for a matinee to see the 2nd one, and about $15 for the DVDs. I refuse to spend another $50($25 a UMD) just so I can watch the same content again. Sony artificially limiting the movie playback on the device killed it for me. I'm willing to buy a movie once, but I refuse to buy it multiple times just so I can watch it in different formats.
Um, I think you need to look up the words "ancestors" and "descendant". Kind of hard to punish people who died 1000 years ago for crimes their progeny committed 200 years ago.
Voice chat would be even better than pictochat(of course with the option to turn it off.) They have that microphone right there, why not use it for something other than blowing up your balloons or talking to your dog. Right now I'm living in Europe but I would like to play MarioKart with my friends in the US. I can, but it's just not nearly as good as being there. Voice chat wouldn't be either, but at least you could still call your friend a cheap bastard for using a blue shell to win the race at the last second:P
Also keep in mind that Sega was started in Hawaii by an American:P
And you need to look up what a "hostile takeover" really is. Sega fell on some very hard times, and Sega was very much for sale when Sammy bought them(IE they were looking for an investor). A hostile takeover is where another company buys a controlling stake in your company against your will.
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Dude, it's due to the 120 character limit, if you can find a better term that fits in the limit, feel free to share.
if you got the thing less than 14 days ago. The law gives you 14 days to cancel if you don't like your service. As for unlocked phones, you don't have to import one from Europe, amazon sells them, as do a lot of other places.
Personally i would recommend T-mobile(since they are actually a European company!) and have fun!
Um, we are talking about a SPORTS announcer here. Baseball teams trade players for cash all the time, and yet I fail to see how baseball players are "enslaved" by any means of the word...
And if that is what slavery is paying nowadays, sign me up!
The old fashioned way, with misinformation of course! With all the information that flies at you in a day, how often can you actually check out the source of that info? Or it's reliability. Just flood the net with rumors while keeping the actual knowledge down to as few people as possible.
I do! I do!
Do I get a prize?
Heh, I'm a American living in Germany, and I have no qualms about ripping dvds I own. But I just don't want to spend all that money on a screen I cannot use unless I rebuy....
Plus I watch a lot of Mystery Science Theatre, harder to watch at lower resolutions.
This is all well and good, but it still doesn't make the psp an attractive video player, to steal from a comment I made earlier:
Multimedia:Theoretically, this is where the PSP should really shine what with that oh so sexy screen. However, there are tons of devices that do it better, not the least of which is the iPod video. How can the iPod video do it better? Simple, unless you are watching UMDs Sony limits you to 320x240 for your movies, the exact same as resolution as an iPod. And if you are watching movies it makes no sense not to buy the giga-pack, priced at $299, the same price as the 40 gigabyte iPod. Now granted the battery life while watching movies is short on the iPod, but for most commuters 2 hours a charge is more than enough. And if you don't want to watch movies, you can still store a ton of music on the iPod. I would love to watch "Kill Bill" on that sexy psp screen, but I have already paid $50 to watch Kill Bill in other formats: $12.50 to see the first one in Japan, $7.50 for a matinee to see the 2nd one, and about $15 for the DVDs. I refuse to spend another $50($25 a UMD) just so I can watch the same content again. Sony artificially limiting the movie playback on the device killed it for me. I'm willing to buy a movie once, but I refuse to buy it multiple times just so I can watch it in different formats.
How can you really tell how many people are infected with spyware? It's not a question like, "do you support proposition 84?" where you can call people at random or talk to them on the street. I would be afraid of the guy who came to my door asking if he could test whether or not my computer was infected with spyware(doubly so since I use a mac :P), and if you just ask people, 9/10 they won't know but will probably make up a answer anyway. They could use the numbers sent to them by customers, but that isn't random at all. Their customers are much more likely to have spyware infections or else they wouldn't be seeking their help.
So yeah, it's a number, but not a very convincing one...
Reminds me of an article I read yesterday on Yahoo Finance. It stated that stocks were rising on both Oracle cutting jobs AND that the US unemployment number fell. It seems like a lot of people say, "I want lots of people to have jobs, but not in companies that I invest in". Seems like a tradgedy of the commons to me...
Whats interesting though is both chips are not super-scalar like all desktop chips have been for quite a while. It will be interesting to see what types of programs will be able to take advantage of lots of cores without speedups like branch predictors etc.
Legos! You can make your own difference engine.
They did say that "America is the leader of Europe"(I only wish I was making this shit up), so your hypothesis isn't beyond reason...
Technically you aren't even allowed to smoke Cuban cigars if you are an American overseas. Sucks because I'm in Germany right now and I see a lot of them for sale, but I have to maintain a security clearance so it's probably best to avoid them....
when they saw those external shots? Makes me miss my little iBook....
Actually males have a higher mortality rate even in the womb. There are 1.05 males born for every female, but by the time we get to be around 30, the ratio starts becoming much more even and of course in the over 65 group females outnumber males by a significant margin.
It was like pulling teeth to get them to release a windows version, iTunes was mac only for a while till they realized that the software they bundled in with the iPod on windows wasn't all that great. The real reason they don't support Linux? I'm sure slashdot users have some great conspiracy theories, but the long and short of it is that supporting Linux doesn't really make financial sense. You have to then port it, and then pay people to maintain/support it. Yeah, it might increase your user base a little, but it is probably not worth the extra cost/hassle.
While I wouldn't be as, shall we say, "harsh" as you, I do agree with your overall sentiment. This doesn't sound like anything that much more difficult/time consuming than anything I faced as a computer engineering undergrad at Penn State. It's college, it's not supposed to be a cakewalk(unless your major is business of course :P)
The PSP tries to be the jack of all trades and ends up being master of none. Let's go through its functions and compare:
1. Games: Supposedly the main reason to get a PSP, but the number of "must haves" can be counted on one hand currently. Not to mention the fact the psp, and in general PSP games are more expensive(around $50 for a game compared to $30 or $35 for DS games. Though some psp publishers are finally wising up and lowering prices). For the cost of a psp and 2 games($350) you can get a DS and 7 games: 4 $35 games and 3 $30 games.
Winner: The DS, but it will depend on the type of games you enjoy.
Web browsing: The PSP does have a browser, but unless you are a hardcore gamer who occaisionally needs to check email and you can't already do that on your cell phone, a PDA is a much better bargain.
Multimedia:Theoretically, this is where the PSP should really shine what with that oh so sexy screen. However, there are tons of devices that do it better, not the least of which is the iPod video. How can the iPod video do it better? Simple, unless you are watching UMDs Sony limits you to 320x240 for your movies, the exact same as resolution as an iPod. And if you are watching movies it makes no sense not to buy the giga-pack, priced at $299, the same price as the 40 gigabyte iPod. Now granted the battery life while watching movies is short on the iPod, but for most commuters 2 hours a charge is more than enough. And if you don't want to watch movies, you can still store a ton of music on the iPod.
I would love to watch "Kill Bill" on that sexy psp screen, but I have already paid $50 to watch Kill Bill in other formats: $12.50 to see the first one in Japan, $7.50 for a matinee to see the 2nd one, and about $15 for the DVDs. I refuse to spend another $50($25 a UMD) just so I can watch the same content again. Sony artificially limiting the movie playback on the device killed it for me. I'm willing to buy a movie once, but I refuse to buy it multiple times just so I can watch it in different formats.
PSP: jack of all trades master of none....
Um, I think you need to look up the words "ancestors" and "descendant". Kind of hard to punish people who died 1000 years ago for crimes their progeny committed 200 years ago.
For mass-producing pop music so bad it makes me want to shove sharp objects in my ear just so I won't have to hear it anymore?
In that we hear the same announcement over and over again!
Or you could just take a bus...
They are traded on the NASDAQ as well, under the same symbol.
Voice chat would be even better than pictochat(of course with the option to turn it off.) They have that microphone right there, why not use it for something other than blowing up your balloons or talking to your dog. Right now I'm living in Europe but I would like to play MarioKart with my friends in the US. I can, but it's just not nearly as good as being there. Voice chat wouldn't be either, but at least you could still call your friend a cheap bastard for using a blue shell to win the race at the last second :P
Also keep in mind that Sega was started in Hawaii by an American :P
And you need to look up what a "hostile takeover" really is. Sega fell on some very hard times, and Sega was very much for sale when Sammy bought them(IE they were looking for an investor). A hostile takeover is where another company buys a controlling stake in your company against your will.