I own an N-Gage. I even like it. I feel the N-Gage has received a lot of bad, unfair, press with incorrect information setting off people to go into rage of "N-GAGE IS EVIL, MUST DIE, STUPID POS".
The Penny Arcade a year or two back did this. Most of it's facts were incorrect, or misleading, but due to it, thousands of people online decided it was the most evil system on earth and should be abused everytime it was mentioned.
Now I'm not going to go long into why I think the N-Gage is good and try and defend Nokia. I do it too much, and quite frankly, I can't be stuffed anymore - there are too many idiots out there who decide to hate a system they've never really used.
But I would like to point out that the author of this article, is an idiot. The N-Gage is not hard to turn on at all. The power button is located where 75% of all phone's power buttons are, on the top.
The manual is big and contains a lot of information, "How to turn on" is on about page 3.
I'm also Australian and got my PSP in Hong Kong on a holiday, only a few weeks after it was released in Japan.
To tell the truth, it was more of an impulse buy. I went to this huge computer place (I forget it's name, something like Golden City) - they had PSPs everywhere. I just couldn't resist as I knew that it would be months, maybe years before it reached Australia.
As a general rule, we are behind the UK in launches like this, who are behind the US etc. We didn't get the Xbox until a good six months after it was released in the US, and I feel bad for New Zealand who got the Xbox 1-2 years after the US got theirs.
Anyway, getting back to my point, I'm now a little worried about my purchase as the thing is classified Region 2. Not Region 4, with the rest of Australia (for obvious reasons). Now with details of movies being released on UMD, I don't think I'll be able to play them due to this region coding, which is a real shame.
I just hope that a mod-chip type device will be able to save the day bypassing region coding in both games and movies.
So whilst importing may seem like a good idea now, just make sure you don't regret it in the future.
Oh, also, before other people reply, I know the PSP's games don't have region coding *currently*. The technology is there, Sony's official comment was "There are no 'active' plans to utalize this 'feature'". Take that any way you like. Reminds me of the AOL story a day or so ago "Yes, we have the right to screw you over, but we won't. Trust us."
I'm sorry to say this, but that isn't a good thing.
If a webmaster starts to shift his focus from IE to FireFox/Mozilla, he is just being as bad as all the other webmasters who give preference to IE users.
Yes, Firefox is all open source and everything, I agree, it should supported. But that does not mean webmasters should just drop development for other web browsers.
We should be encouraging webmasters to make their websites work in all browsers, not one specific.
Just working in Firefox is no better then just working in IE.
It's important to note the comment "HVD is being seen as a possible successor to Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies."
Blu-ray itself isn't due out to 2006-2007, and assuming it has the same sort of live that DVD had, it will be around for about 5 or so years before it is overtaken by some new technology, such as this. So we are looking at maybe 2012 before this technology is actually first seen, at which time early adopters will pick it up.
Add in another year or two for it to become more main-stream, with movies and games being published on it, and we are looking at 2013, 2014.
So, it will be nearly 10 years before we really see people using this technology - that's a lot of time in terms of computers. As a reader above rightfully pointed out, not even ten years ago they thought 18GB drives were insanely big.
Over the next ten years the size of games, applications, movies, music, pictures will all grow as their quality and features increase. As such, they will need greater space.
There will be a need for this kind of technology by the time it is released.
I have a TiVo season pass to Click Online so I watched these two clips when they were on TV over the last two weeks.
I've got to say, I thought the interviewer (I forget his name) was trying to push a few too many buttons on Bill... Like when he goes "Did you ever think, for a second, that Microsoft was being anti-compeditive"... We all know what Gates' reply was going to be, so I don't see much point in asking the question other to annoy Gates...
I think they said at the start their last interview was three years ago - I'm guessing it's going to be another five before the next...
heh, Google starts to try and do voice recognition and pick up on keywords in your conversation and every few minutes interrupts the call to give you a few ads.
Caller: "Hey Bill, what are you doing this weekend?" Other person: "Oh, not much, probably playing some football with the kids" Google: "Did you know at www.sports.com you can get footballs for low low prices?!" Caller: "That's great!"
Am I the only one who feels this is the start to a disaster movie?
"The year is 2004, and the scientists of the day decide to crack open a comet with a bullet the size of a bathtub. But then the unthinkable happens. The comet bullet causes the comet to change path and come right towards Earth and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Will all Earth will be destroyed? Will our hero be able to save the world? There is only one way to find out..."
Coming to cinemas everywhere this Summer.
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Exactly.
Just by looking at an email from a bank/eBay/PayPal etc. I can tell if it's fake or real. I always have. I've always found the scam emails to be so obvious, yet thousands of people keep falling for it - I wonder to myself, why?
Every now and then, just for fun more then anything, I click on one of these links to see exactly what they are asking for. On an eBay scam I saw them asking for your social security number, credit card number, CCV number, PIN number, credit limit... I mean, what site would ever ask these questions? The sites are not SSL secured, even though the page may say "All data sent here is secured", the URL often is just an IP, or has a '@' in it, followed by another address or IP. The emails and/or webpage often have many spelling errors and/or grammical errors.
I guess the main reason is that I know about these scams and receive them daily (though, most are just thrown into the "Spam" folder after my spam checker gets through with it).
Your average computer user, say, an AOL user, mother of three who uses the Internet to send email to her three kids who now live interstate. She receives an email saying that she will be in big trouble if she does not act quickly. Knowing nothing about scams and fearing consequences, they do what the email directs no matter how illogical the questions may be. Why would eBay want to know my PIN number? Oh well, I should just tell them anyway, just in case.
In many ways I feel sorry for the banks/eBay/PayPal. It's hardly their fault the customer was, dare I say, stupid, enough to fill out the webpage. Nor is it really the customer's fault for being, well, stupid.
I use a number of online banking websites, most these days now have warning messages when I login saying "Don't click any links from email" etc. which must be read before you can continue (which can actually be very annoying for someone such as myself who knows all about them).
The only way we can try and solve this problem is to educate the users that it's not logical for eBay to ask for your PIN number, or for your bank to ask for your credit card details on a non-SSL website.
Finally they decide to do what we've been asking for years, to realize that the Internet and peer-to-peer networks really are not that bad and they can make money from it.
I'm glad it only took them 5+ years and a few hundred law suites before they worked it out.
I thought I'd checkout the.com site just to see what everyone was going (no, really...) on Monday afternoon, Australian time, when the story starting hitting online news sites. I was presented with a picture of our friend, the dead gay porn star, naked, in all his glory with quite a... large... piece of equipment pointing at the world.
Below that said image, they started showing pictures of all his videos available for purchase.
One of the news articles I read on Monday said that Telstra was in talks with the owner of the.com site and discussing options. I'm guessing Telstra applied a lot of pressure and made the webmaster of the.com put up a warning page prior to letting the viewer see a pictures of our friend.
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I own an N-Gage. I even like it. I feel the N-Gage has received a lot of bad, unfair, press with incorrect information setting off people to go into rage of "N-GAGE IS EVIL, MUST DIE, STUPID POS".
The Penny Arcade a year or two back did this. Most of it's facts were incorrect, or misleading, but due to it, thousands of people online decided it was the most evil system on earth and should be abused everytime it was mentioned.
Now I'm not going to go long into why I think the N-Gage is good and try and defend Nokia. I do it too much, and quite frankly, I can't be stuffed anymore - there are too many idiots out there who decide to hate a system they've never really used.
But I would like to point out that the author of this article, is an idiot. The N-Gage is not hard to turn on at all. The power button is located where 75% of all phone's power buttons are, on the top.
The manual is big and contains a lot of information, "How to turn on" is on about page 3.
I'm also Australian and got my PSP in Hong Kong on a holiday, only a few weeks after it was released in Japan.
To tell the truth, it was more of an impulse buy. I went to this huge computer place (I forget it's name, something like Golden City) - they had PSPs everywhere. I just couldn't resist as I knew that it would be months, maybe years before it reached Australia.
As a general rule, we are behind the UK in launches like this, who are behind the US etc. We didn't get the Xbox until a good six months after it was released in the US, and I feel bad for New Zealand who got the Xbox 1-2 years after the US got theirs.
Anyway, getting back to my point, I'm now a little worried about my purchase as the thing is classified Region 2. Not Region 4, with the rest of Australia (for obvious reasons). Now with details of movies being released on UMD, I don't think I'll be able to play them due to this region coding, which is a real shame.
I just hope that a mod-chip type device will be able to save the day bypassing region coding in both games and movies.
So whilst importing may seem like a good idea now, just make sure you don't regret it in the future.
Oh, also, before other people reply, I know the PSP's games don't have region coding *currently*. The technology is there, Sony's official comment was "There are no 'active' plans to utalize this 'feature'". Take that any way you like. Reminds me of the AOL story a day or so ago "Yes, we have the right to screw you over, but we won't. Trust us."
I'm sorry to say this, but that isn't a good thing.
If a webmaster starts to shift his focus from IE to FireFox/Mozilla, he is just being as bad as all the other webmasters who give preference to IE users.
Yes, Firefox is all open source and everything, I agree, it should supported. But that does not mean webmasters should just drop development for other web browsers.
We should be encouraging webmasters to make their websites work in all browsers, not one specific.
Just working in Firefox is no better then just working in IE.
It's important to note the comment "HVD is being seen as a possible successor to Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies."
Blu-ray itself isn't due out to 2006-2007, and assuming it has the same sort of live that DVD had, it will be around for about 5 or so years before it is overtaken by some new technology, such as this. So we are looking at maybe 2012 before this technology is actually first seen, at which time early adopters will pick it up.
Add in another year or two for it to become more main-stream, with movies and games being published on it, and we are looking at 2013, 2014.
So, it will be nearly 10 years before we really see people using this technology - that's a lot of time in terms of computers. As a reader above rightfully pointed out, not even ten years ago they thought 18GB drives were insanely big.
Over the next ten years the size of games, applications, movies, music, pictures will all grow as their quality and features increase. As such, they will need greater space.
There will be a need for this kind of technology by the time it is released.
oooohhh... It's a "Hell Card" space - collect a card from the pile and see what thrills are ready and waiting for you!
I have a TiVo season pass to Click Online so I watched these two clips when they were on TV over the last two weeks.
I've got to say, I thought the interviewer (I forget his name) was trying to push a few too many buttons on Bill... Like when he goes "Did you ever think, for a second, that Microsoft was being anti-compeditive"... We all know what Gates' reply was going to be, so I don't see much point in asking the question other to annoy Gates...
I think they said at the start their last interview was three years ago - I'm guessing it's going to be another five before the next...
heh, Google starts to try and do voice recognition and pick up on keywords in your conversation and every few minutes interrupts the call to give you a few ads.
Caller: "Hey Bill, what are you doing this weekend?"
Other person: "Oh, not much, probably playing some football with the kids"
Google: "Did you know at www.sports.com you can get footballs for low low prices?!"
Caller: "That's great!"
What's it say in the background? The lady is writing something...
"Hacked by redtrocl" ?
Kinda hard to read his name...
Am I the only one who feels this is the start to a disaster movie?
"The year is 2004, and the scientists of the day decide to crack open a comet with a bullet the size of a bathtub. But then the unthinkable happens. The comet bullet causes the comet to change path and come right towards Earth and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Will all Earth will be destroyed? Will our hero be able to save the world? There is only one way to find out..."
Coming to cinemas everywhere this Summer.
Exactly.
Just by looking at an email from a bank/eBay/PayPal etc. I can tell if it's fake or real. I always have. I've always found the scam emails to be so obvious, yet thousands of people keep falling for it - I wonder to myself, why?
Every now and then, just for fun more then anything, I click on one of these links to see exactly what they are asking for. On an eBay scam I saw them asking for your social security number, credit card number, CCV number, PIN number, credit limit... I mean, what site would ever ask these questions? The sites are not SSL secured, even though the page may say "All data sent here is secured", the URL often is just an IP, or has a '@' in it, followed by another address or IP. The emails and/or webpage often have many spelling errors and/or grammical errors.
I guess the main reason is that I know about these scams and receive them daily (though, most are just thrown into the "Spam" folder after my spam checker gets through with it).
Your average computer user, say, an AOL user, mother of three who uses the Internet to send email to her three kids who now live interstate. She receives an email saying that she will be in big trouble if she does not act quickly. Knowing nothing about scams and fearing consequences, they do what the email directs no matter how illogical the questions may be. Why would eBay want to know my PIN number? Oh well, I should just tell them anyway, just in case.
In many ways I feel sorry for the banks/eBay/PayPal. It's hardly their fault the customer was, dare I say, stupid, enough to fill out the webpage. Nor is it really the customer's fault for being, well, stupid.
I use a number of online banking websites, most these days now have warning messages when I login saying "Don't click any links from email" etc. which must be read before you can continue (which can actually be very annoying for someone such as myself who knows all about them).
The only way we can try and solve this problem is to educate the users that it's not logical for eBay to ask for your PIN number, or for your bank to ask for your credit card details on a non-SSL website.
Finally they decide to do what we've been asking for years, to realize that the Internet and peer-to-peer networks really are not that bad and they can make money from it. I'm glad it only took them 5+ years and a few hundred law suites before they worked it out.
There was.
.com site just to see what everyone was going (no, really...) on Monday afternoon, Australian time, when the story starting hitting online news sites. I was presented with a picture of our friend, the dead gay porn star, naked, in all his glory with quite a... large... piece of equipment pointing at the world.
.com site and discussing options. I'm guessing Telstra applied a lot of pressure and made the webmaster of the .com put up a warning page prior to letting the viewer see a pictures of our friend.
I thought I'd checkout the
Below that said image, they started showing pictures of all his videos available for purchase.
One of the news articles I read on Monday said that Telstra was in talks with the owner of the