Lots of people have commented on Berlin, which I was going to do as well. Given that Berlin seems to be making progress now, and that compatiblity libs for X11 apps is of course a future goal, why patch when there's a project to do it all right from the beginning? Can you specifically say why it makes sense to keep revving X instead of adopting something fresh like Berlin?
I'd like to be able to walk past a movie theater with friends and decide spur of the moment to see something... I'd like it if I looked at my PDA and it automatically had a button for "that movie theater over there on your left". Pushing it of course gets me a schedule of what's playing now or soon that's not already got a full theater. Then I'd walk in, sit down, and watch the movie, then get up and walk out without ever talking to some poor pimply clerk forced to jockey a register for a horde of people arranged in lines thirty feet deep who all already know what they want.
In other words, there's no purchase or check-out transaction... That's all done automatically based on what I do. I go about my life and I can see when I'm pushing on my credit, but I don't have to worry about having exact change or having cash at all or whether I brought my checkbook with me or what have you. I don't want to wait in lines anymore just to have some completely braindead transaction take place. I'm not saying I don't like people, I just think it's ridiculous to have to interact for meaningless exchanges of information that could be done automatically. The ATM and pay-at-the-pump have replaced a whole clumsy ritual of lines and exchange, and I'd like to see that changeover extend to all things in my life... Having one "card" (PDA) instead of a bunch of credit cards that I don't even have to swipe to get what I want is very appealing. When I go to the supermarket, I pick up the food I want, then take it out and put it in my car. There's no line, no checkout, no "paper or plastic", no hassle.
How does this require a big processor? It doesn't. But for me this is the "killer app" that no one is targeting with their PDA. Don't make me use a computer while I'm walking. Take cues from my environment and let me do what I feel like without thinking too much about the unfun details. If I want information, be ready with it, but otherwise, get things the hell out of my way!
I can't seem to find the specific entry for this model on Sony's website, but they apparently offer it as the standard remote for their big screen TVs now. I picked one up at a local Sony store. For about $90, it replaced my VCR, TV, DVD, amp, etc. remotes. It's a little big, but it's got a nice backlit blue LCD screen, is completely programmable, etc. You have to pick from preselected labels for the buttons on the screen, but I found everything I wanted there. Several nice features, including an easy way to link the volume in all states to the volume of your amp. Also three "system state" buttons... I programmed one each for watching TV, video tapes, and DVDs. Each turns on the appropriate items, sets the amp to the correct source, puts the tv on the appropriate input, etc. Very nice remote, and reduced clutter in my living room to nothing. Very easy to find due to size. =)
Incidentally, I learned a little known fact about most TVs in doing the programming of this remote... If you want to have a button that lands you on Video 2, for example, in the course of doing other things, you may think you're screwed because you don't know what video source you were on before that. With only one button that says "TV/Video", how do you properly switch among N sources? It turns out that (with Sonys, and I'm sure many others) you can hold down the TV/Video button while you press the number corresponding to the source you want to watch. Very handy!! Spread the word!
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Soon my army of mechanized KITTENS will take over the WORLD. Muahahahahahhaaha... *gak, cough*
Ahem. Anyway, this opens up all kinds of paranoid speculation about the NSA, but I think it's great. The sooner I can sit staring at an 18-foot monitor inside my brain while driving and talking on my cell phone, the better.
Screw that! Send ALL the money to the FSF. The authors didn't expect to get paid for their comments and contributed their knowledge in the interest of open discussion. If that makes money, then feed it back into the process that created it in the first place, which is free software.
Maybe it could be earmarked specifically for security software...
Also, the fact that they apparently won't try to improve PSX games being emulated (like, why don't they improve the color blending and lack of perspective correction at least? and maybe add in texture filtering and stuff) doesn't make me want to get one for PSX games, not that there's any that I really want which isn't out/coming out for the PC anyway.
You can't just turn those features on and expect the games to look better, or even right. Particularly for perspective-correct texturing... If the developer's saving time and not calculating the perspective because he knows the PSX hardware won't be able to use it, then it's not going to be magically generated by the PSX2. As for filtering, some things SHOULD be filtered, and others SHOULDN'T... Think of text, or video running on a texture. If you turn on filtering across the baord, these things look like crap. You can't decide in hardware what should and shouldn't be changed!
All published information I've seen about Sony's dates *from Sony* states "winter", not "Christmas". The last time I checked, February and even part of March were winter months. Yeah, coming out after Christmas is a big deal, but this doesn't mean they're going back on their word. As far as I can see they never promised to *make* Christmas.
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Lots of people have commented on Berlin, which I was going to do as well. Given that Berlin seems to be making progress now, and that compatiblity libs for X11 apps is of course a future goal, why patch when there's a project to do it all right from the beginning? Can you specifically say why it makes sense to keep revving X instead of adopting something fresh like Berlin?
I'd like to be able to walk past a movie theater with friends and decide spur of the moment to see something... I'd like it if I looked at my PDA and it automatically had a button for "that movie theater over there on your left". Pushing it of course gets me a schedule of what's playing now or soon that's not already got a full theater. Then I'd walk in, sit down, and watch the movie, then get up and walk out without ever talking to some poor pimply clerk forced to jockey a register for a horde of people arranged in lines thirty feet deep who all already know what they want.
In other words, there's no purchase or check-out transaction... That's all done automatically based on what I do. I go about my life and I can see when I'm pushing on my credit, but I don't have to worry about having exact change or having cash at all or whether I brought my checkbook with me or what have you. I don't want to wait in lines anymore just to have some completely braindead transaction take place. I'm not saying I don't like people, I just think it's ridiculous to have to interact for meaningless exchanges of information that could be done automatically. The ATM and pay-at-the-pump have replaced a whole clumsy ritual of lines and exchange, and I'd like to see that changeover extend to all things in my life... Having one "card" (PDA) instead of a bunch of credit cards that I don't even have to swipe to get what I want is very appealing. When I go to the supermarket, I pick up the food I want, then take it out and put it in my car. There's no line, no checkout, no "paper or plastic", no hassle.
How does this require a big processor? It doesn't. But for me this is the "killer app" that no one is targeting with their PDA. Don't make me use a computer while I'm walking. Take cues from my environment and let me do what I feel like without thinking too much about the unfun details. If I want information, be ready with it, but otherwise, get things the hell out of my way!
I can't seem to find the specific entry for this model on Sony's website, but they apparently offer it as the standard remote for their big screen TVs now. I picked one up at a local Sony store. For about $90, it replaced my VCR, TV, DVD, amp, etc. remotes. It's a little big, but it's got a nice backlit blue LCD screen, is completely programmable, etc. You have to pick from preselected labels for the buttons on the screen, but I found everything I wanted there. Several nice features, including an easy way to link the volume in all states to the volume of your amp. Also three "system state" buttons... I programmed one each for watching TV, video tapes, and DVDs. Each turns on the appropriate items, sets the amp to the correct source, puts the tv on the appropriate input, etc. Very nice remote, and reduced clutter in my living room to nothing. Very easy to find due to size. =)
Incidentally, I learned a little known fact about most TVs in doing the programming of this remote... If you want to have a button that lands you on Video 2, for example, in the course of doing other things, you may think you're screwed because you don't know what video source you were on before that. With only one button that says "TV/Video", how do you properly switch among N sources? It turns out that (with Sonys, and I'm sure many others) you can hold down the TV/Video button while you press the number corresponding to the source you want to watch. Very handy!! Spread the word!
Soon my army of mechanized KITTENS will take over the WORLD. Muahahahahahhaaha... *gak, cough*
Ahem. Anyway, this opens up all kinds of paranoid speculation about the NSA, but I think it's great. The sooner I can sit staring at an 18-foot monitor inside my brain while driving and talking on my cell phone, the better.
Screw that! Send ALL the money to the FSF. The authors didn't expect to get paid for their comments and contributed their knowledge in the interest of open discussion. If that makes money, then feed it back into the process that created it in the first place, which is free software.
Maybe it could be earmarked specifically for security software...
You can't just turn those features on and expect the games to look better, or even right. Particularly for perspective-correct texturing... If the developer's saving time and not calculating the perspective because he knows the PSX hardware won't be able to use it, then it's not going to be magically generated by the PSX2. As for filtering, some things SHOULD be filtered, and others SHOULDN'T... Think of text, or video running on a texture. If you turn on filtering across the baord, these things look like crap. You can't decide in hardware what should and shouldn't be changed!
All published information I've seen about Sony's dates *from Sony* states "winter", not "Christmas". The last time I checked, February and even part of March were winter months. Yeah, coming out after Christmas is a big deal, but this doesn't mean they're going back on their word. As far as I can see they never promised to *make* Christmas.