As my father says, "You aren't truely on vacation until you forget what day it is."
But also keep in mind that not every weekend adventuerer needs or will have one. I think this is mostly going to be going into the hands of small expeditions and the likes. But there will always be the geek who just can't stand not having one. I want one now, and I don't even hike.
Hey an 8 hour battery life may seem lacking for the great outdoors, but there's a good chance you will not have it on all of the time that you're kicking, that is just not needed. And compared to my Dell Axim X3i, I wish I could get 8 hours. 2 if I'm lucky playing SNES Roms.
Sounds like being an outdoors PDA, it wouldn't really need the WiFi, but I guess it would be useful when your at home. Sounds a little like they were just cranking up the price a bit on that one. But none the less, this is one sweet PDA. Think of going hiking with some buddies, and even if your seperated, if you've all got bluetooth, you can still stay in communication. Deffinitely a must have for and outdoor geek.
I find this to be pretty interesting. There are so many terrains on our earth that we have yet to explore. And I think there are deffinite chances of there being some extremely unique creatures at these depths of a cave. People go nuts over exploring Mars. But I think we should put some effort into Earth as well.
"Nayantara's online CCG Star Chamber"
If I am right, CCG stands for collectable card game. Not to be cruel to the author of the article, but more towards the game creators. I suppose I should try it to see how it works. But is it really neccessary to have pictures of cards? They could have maybe called them something else. Anyway, just my half-a-cents worth. I used to be a huge Magic: The Gathering fan, and when I see "online CCG," that just doesn't appeal to my senses at all.
We all should have seen this comming. It is as Thomas Hobbes says in his writting, Leviathan. Basically, we give up some of our rights, so that a large beast, our government, can come in and take over to restore order. The difference is we are not the Fiji islands asking the British for help. We raised this one ourselfs. So bring out the offering plates, I think he's getting hungry again.
Indeed, it would almost appear that this review was specifically to draw the attension of those who do not yet know about the Xecuter 3 modchip that is comming out very soon. I would recomend to all out there that do not know much about this but would like to read up on it to check out Xbox-Scene
Anything you wish to know you can find there.
This reminds me, at the recent ASIMO demonstration that I went to this Thursday at my college, they played a movie. In this movie, they were trying to prove the importance of how the robot looks determines how the public will accept it. And at some point they threw in a picture of a touch screen voting machine and mentioned "Florida" and "elections." I was too caught up in my selective hearing to know why these were mentioned in a video about trusting machines, but my friends and I had a good laugh. After all I have read, I could never trust this failure of a company. They need to fold, tuck their tails and find something else.
Wow, that is some amazing stuff. The axial picture of DNA is my favorite. Even if you aren't looking to analyze these pictures scientifically, they are beautiful.
Why don't we just inject them with gps trackable microchips. That way we always know where they are. Then if the little bastard looses his chip, you know hes up to no good. So death would be proper punishment.
Great now all of those crappy pictures everyone takes with their cell phones will show even more crappy detail.
On a sweet note, cell phone porn is now even better. It's so nice when your bored in class. God bless Google Image Search.
I would recomend a lightsaber if you were trying to keep them away. After all, what is more frightening than having a huge glowing pole shoot out, from a guys pants area, at you? That would scare me away.
I don't know about you, but the general public does not have access to these satallites. The government I am sure knew in a very short amount of time. They just decided it was not in our best interest to tell us at the moment.
To everyone out there saying stuff about needing a modchip, and this wont work. Please skim through this:
1.)The newest versions of Xbox do need a modchip that runs around $50 to run a modified BIOS on load yes. But the older versions do not. You can either flash the internal BIOS, or get a $10 modchip. And if you don't want to flash the internal BIOS, you van make a "bootable from media" [bfm] BIOS. Then hack the xbox dashboard, so that you can access Linux, or another prefered dashboard without ever opening up your xbox. Thus is is still under warranty.
2.) The Xbox BIOS at the moment can not run with two harddrives in any order. You cannot remove the DVD drive and replace it, nor can you just throw in a second harddrive. The BIOS cannot handle that, and this would require a very substantial BIOS hack, that is possible, but not likely to be done. Thus Linux is the only way to access both harddrives.
3.) This case is useless. LED status lights are a joke to solder in, and if you want to, then you can get 3 harddrives in the stock xbox case with the DVD drive in as well. It would require a bit of case modding, moving the DVD drive over to the right. In this instance, there is room for 3 harddrives on the left side.
4.) And as for buttons to switch the harddrive that is active, that is also easily done. And I am currently looking into a software method to do this.
Wrong.
Xbox -> $150 New $100 or so used.
Modchip -> Not needed
Kit -> Not needed
- The faceplates can be made and be made to look better. [free]
- The LED's are easy to install. [$1]
- The Other random parts are easy to find.
Estimated kit cost -> [$5-10]
Harddrive -> However much you want to spend.
USB Xbox adapter -> [$10]
- Chop up an old USB cable, or just buy a new one for a cheap price, then hardwire it in. Then get a 4-port expansion.
Keyboard + Mouse -> $40
So that is $210 + harddrive costs. It comes with a stock 10gb, but that's not enough for most. I have two 200gb, so mine was about $400.
I wouldn't venture to compare them to Sega. At least Sega made consoles. These people just seem to be a void of lost money, and bs claims. It sounds to me this is going to be another Dreamcast if it does ever get released. May be a great console, though of course no where near the dc's greatness, but no one will buy it...
And yet another thing for those that love multitasking in their car to do. And in the porn pop-ups case...yet another thing I hope I never see the guy next to me multitasking to.
Slashdot Mirror
"...THERE, INDESTRUCTIBLE."
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*snicker*
Do you perhaps mean they are?
Sorry, happened to me when I made a typo. Got a response immediately.
As my father says, "You aren't truely on vacation until you forget what day it is."
But also keep in mind that not every weekend adventuerer needs or will have one. I think this is mostly going to be going into the hands of small expeditions and the likes. But there will always be the geek who just can't stand not having one. I want one now, and I don't even hike.
Hey an 8 hour battery life may seem lacking for the great outdoors, but there's a good chance you will not have it on all of the time that you're kicking, that is just not needed. And compared to my Dell Axim X3i, I wish I could get 8 hours. 2 if I'm lucky playing SNES Roms.
Erm, please look at the link. It is obivously much thicker than a postcard. RTFA.
Sounds like being an outdoors PDA, it wouldn't really need the WiFi, but I guess it would be useful when your at home. Sounds a little like they were just cranking up the price a bit on that one. But none the less, this is one sweet PDA. Think of going hiking with some buddies, and even if your seperated, if you've all got bluetooth, you can still stay in communication. Deffinitely a must have for and outdoor geek.
I find this to be pretty interesting. There are so many terrains on our earth that we have yet to explore. And I think there are deffinite chances of there being some extremely unique creatures at these depths of a cave. People go nuts over exploring Mars. But I think we should put some effort into Earth as well.
"Nayantara's online CCG Star Chamber" If I am right, CCG stands for collectable card game. Not to be cruel to the author of the article, but more towards the game creators. I suppose I should try it to see how it works. But is it really neccessary to have pictures of cards? They could have maybe called them something else. Anyway, just my half-a-cents worth. I used to be a huge Magic: The Gathering fan, and when I see "online CCG," that just doesn't appeal to my senses at all.
We all should have seen this comming. It is as Thomas Hobbes says in his writting, Leviathan. Basically, we give up some of our rights, so that a large beast, our government, can come in and take over to restore order. The difference is we are not the Fiji islands asking the British for help. We raised this one ourselfs. So bring out the offering plates, I think he's getting hungry again.
I know most of you will hate me, but praise Microsoft for actually developing for the shit they sell us.
Indeed, it would almost appear that this review was specifically to draw the attension of those who do not yet know about the Xecuter 3 modchip that is comming out very soon. I would recomend to all out there that do not know much about this but would like to read up on it to check out Xbox-Scene
Anything you wish to know you can find there.
This reminds me, at the recent ASIMO demonstration that I went to this Thursday at my college, they played a movie. In this movie, they were trying to prove the importance of how the robot looks determines how the public will accept it. And at some point they threw in a picture of a touch screen voting machine and mentioned "Florida" and "elections." I was too caught up in my selective hearing to know why these were mentioned in a video about trusting machines, but my friends and I had a good laugh. After all I have read, I could never trust this failure of a company. They need to fold, tuck their tails and find something else.
Wow, that is some amazing stuff. The axial picture of DNA is my favorite. Even if you aren't looking to analyze these pictures scientifically, they are beautiful.
Why don't we just inject them with gps trackable microchips. That way we always know where they are. Then if the little bastard looses his chip, you know hes up to no good. So death would be proper punishment.
Just think of how many pages we could crash with just one article with this tool... *drool*
Great now all of those crappy pictures everyone takes with their cell phones will show even more crappy detail. On a sweet note, cell phone porn is now even better. It's so nice when your bored in class. God bless Google Image Search.
I would recomend a lightsaber if you were trying to keep them away. After all, what is more frightening than having a huge glowing pole shoot out, from a guys pants area, at you? That would scare me away.
If that doesn't scream either hobbit or smurf to you, then you are crazy. If only I weren't a poor college student.
Modchip is not needed. There are now ways to flash the internal BIOS stored on the TSOP. Or you can hack the dashboard.
I don't know about you, but the general public does not have access to these satallites. The government I am sure knew in a very short amount of time. They just decided it was not in our best interest to tell us at the moment.
To everyone out there saying stuff about needing a modchip, and this wont work. Please skim through this:
1.)The newest versions of Xbox do need a modchip that runs around $50 to run a modified BIOS on load yes. But the older versions do not. You can either flash the internal BIOS, or get a $10 modchip. And if you don't want to flash the internal BIOS, you van make a "bootable from media" [bfm] BIOS. Then hack the xbox dashboard, so that you can access Linux, or another prefered dashboard without ever opening up your xbox. Thus is is still under warranty.
2.) The Xbox BIOS at the moment can not run with two harddrives in any order. You cannot remove the DVD drive and replace it, nor can you just throw in a second harddrive. The BIOS cannot handle that, and this would require a very substantial BIOS hack, that is possible, but not likely to be done. Thus Linux is the only way to access both harddrives.
3.) This case is useless. LED status lights are a joke to solder in, and if you want to, then you can get 3 harddrives in the stock xbox case with the DVD drive in as well. It would require a bit of case modding, moving the DVD drive over to the right. In this instance, there is room for 3 harddrives on the left side.
4.) And as for buttons to switch the harddrive that is active, that is also easily done. And I am currently looking into a software method to do this.
Wrong. Xbox -> $150 New $100 or so used. Modchip -> Not needed Kit -> Not needed - The faceplates can be made and be made to look better. [free] - The LED's are easy to install. [$1] - The Other random parts are easy to find. Estimated kit cost -> [$5-10] Harddrive -> However much you want to spend. USB Xbox adapter -> [$10] - Chop up an old USB cable, or just buy a new one for a cheap price, then hardwire it in. Then get a 4-port expansion. Keyboard + Mouse -> $40 So that is $210 + harddrive costs. It comes with a stock 10gb, but that's not enough for most. I have two 200gb, so mine was about $400.
It sounds like a great idea if used properly, but then again so does communism. Tin hat crew stear clear of Chicago
If IP is property, can I shoot someone for port scanning me? Claim tresppassing or something like that.
I wouldn't venture to compare them to Sega. At least Sega made consoles. These people just seem to be a void of lost money, and bs claims. It sounds to me this is going to be another Dreamcast if it does ever get released. May be a great console, though of course no where near the dc's greatness, but no one will buy it...
And yet another thing for those that love multitasking in their car to do. And in the porn pop-ups case...yet another thing I hope I never see the guy next to me multitasking to.