Its just a shame you can't do nested booleans with smart folders, only Condition AND condition AND condition.
It'd also be cool if you could add your own meta-data fields to files. IIRC you can fudge it with "Spotlight Comments" but its not quite what I was looking for.
The real problem Microsoft has is it seems to be completly cut off from its customer. They really needed vendors to tell them that spyware is a problem? They couldn't figure that out on their own?
FF and other alternatives continue to push the envelope of the internet and MS just picks up on the biggest features.
As for why my post was flaggest as insightful, you're gonna have to figure that shit out on you're own. I was making a joke, a bad one at that. I just couldn't resist when Apple comes out with SafariRSS and a month later there is a article on slashdot "RSS in IE 7!". Personally I always thought RSS made more sense in email apps then on a browser.
Specifically I was referring to built in RSS and built in search from a choice of vendors (along with previously unveiled tabbed browsing and, I believe, pop-up blocking, so basically, key features from Safari and Firefox.
As for the user privledges, I dunno, I do most of my surfing from my Mac.
Valid, but does that make it a good business decision? Perhaps there is some bigger picture that my lack of business acumen forces me to miss. Modding makes a system more attractive to some, and better yet from a business prospective, its FREE market research. Sony gets to see what kind of features people want in the next round of handhelds for free, how can they argue with that?
The fact that these hacks exist and there is a demand for them means that people who are on the fence might make the leap and purchase it. You say if people are spending all their time playing SNES game they aren't buying PSP games. Well if those same people don't buy a PSP, they aren't buying any games either.
The fact is, the more people who have the console the better position it puts sony into. When that killer app comes out all the people who bought the console to mod will still have the ability to purchase it. More functionality will not hurt the PSP, rather put it on level ground with the DS, which has the library of GBA games to back it up.
No one is debating that. But carrying around 1 game on a memory stick that costs 100+ isnt economically feasible. It'd be like if DVD+Rs cost $150 a piece but could be written infinitly. The point is, without signifigant cost, you cant carry around a bunch of pirated games to play when the mood strikes you. Rather you can carry around 1 game that you play until you get tired of it and then overwrite it with a new game. Not exactly rampant piracy. If you like several different games, its going to be cheaper to just buy the damn things retail.
On an additional note, adding addition exclamation points and question marks does not reinforce your point.
They will definitly have no profit coming from games if you dont get the hardware into people's hands. The point is, if a great game comes out that appeals to someone, then no matter how many games they have emulated they will be able to buy it because they have a system.
I dont think anyone would buy a machine meerly for emulation at a price of $250. It's more like an incentive, "Hey you get all those cool PSP games, PLUS you can play all your old NES, SNES, Game Boy, SEGA, etc."
Playing Chrono Trigger on the go would be awesome.
There is no reason for Sony to get upset about this. People are simply making their system more marketable. It isnt economically feasible to pirate games using Memory Stick DUO(you might be able to get 1 game on a 1 gig stick, which is freakin expensive), it'd be cheaper to buy the UMDs. As long as the mods dont interfere with the PSPs ability to play retail games, then why would they take legal action?
Just because I have 5 speeding tickets doesn't make me a "high-risk" driver. Everyone speeds. If you go the speed limit, people will honk at you in Texas.
You realize that driving over the speed limit accomplishes little other than burning gas faster? Unless your traveling a distance of over 60 miles away your only going to see negligible gains in travel times (meer seconds).
Slow down, you'll save money in Gas, Tickets and Insurance.
I think some Nintendo fans (don't get me wrong, I love my GCN and GBA SP) refuse to realize some people don't like "kiddy" games. Some people get a real kick out of GTA style games (which are innovative because it was the first big hit with the whole open-ended gameplay thing. Some gamers like stealth action like Splinter Cell, and I could go on for all the "mature" games out there.
South Parks main advantage is how fast they manage to get episodes out. Whenever there is a big news story or relevant social issue they wish to make a point about (no matter how lude they are about making said point) they have a cartoon about it ready to go that week. And thats what makes south park great. They do have "filler" episodes, but they also always have a point they are trying to convey with it all.
They are failing so badly because cheaper alternatives have come up. A lot of cable providers now have their own version of the TiVo hardware. They also boost some features the original does not, like dual tuners that allow for recording two channels at once. On top of that, you just pay for the service, not the hardware, its hard to compete with that.
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It's basically Apple's J2EE container
Its just a shame you can't do nested booleans with smart folders, only Condition AND condition AND condition. It'd also be cool if you could add your own meta-data fields to files. IIRC you can fudge it with "Spotlight Comments" but its not quite what I was looking for.
The real problem Microsoft has is it seems to be completly cut off from its customer. They really needed vendors to tell them that spyware is a problem? They couldn't figure that out on their own? FF and other alternatives continue to push the envelope of the internet and MS just picks up on the biggest features. As for why my post was flaggest as insightful, you're gonna have to figure that shit out on you're own. I was making a joke, a bad one at that. I just couldn't resist when Apple comes out with SafariRSS and a month later there is a article on slashdot "RSS in IE 7!". Personally I always thought RSS made more sense in email apps then on a browser.
Specifically I was referring to built in RSS and built in search from a choice of vendors (along with previously unveiled tabbed browsing and, I believe, pop-up blocking, so basically, key features from Safari and Firefox. As for the user privledges, I dunno, I do most of my surfing from my Mac.
...just some of the key features of Firefox and Safari?
Valid, but does that make it a good business decision? Perhaps there is some bigger picture that my lack of business acumen forces me to miss. Modding makes a system more attractive to some, and better yet from a business prospective, its FREE market research. Sony gets to see what kind of features people want in the next round of handhelds for free, how can they argue with that?
The fact that these hacks exist and there is a demand for them means that people who are on the fence might make the leap and purchase it. You say if people are spending all their time playing SNES game they aren't buying PSP games. Well if those same people don't buy a PSP, they aren't buying any games either. The fact is, the more people who have the console the better position it puts sony into. When that killer app comes out all the people who bought the console to mod will still have the ability to purchase it. More functionality will not hurt the PSP, rather put it on level ground with the DS, which has the library of GBA games to back it up.
No one is debating that. But carrying around 1 game on a memory stick that costs 100+ isnt economically feasible. It'd be like if DVD+Rs cost $150 a piece but could be written infinitly. The point is, without signifigant cost, you cant carry around a bunch of pirated games to play when the mood strikes you. Rather you can carry around 1 game that you play until you get tired of it and then overwrite it with a new game. Not exactly rampant piracy. If you like several different games, its going to be cheaper to just buy the damn things retail. On an additional note, adding addition exclamation points and question marks does not reinforce your point.
Why doesn't someone just patent podcasting and be done with the whole industry?? Oh dont say that out loud, for the love of god.
They will definitly have no profit coming from games if you dont get the hardware into people's hands. The point is, if a great game comes out that appeals to someone, then no matter how many games they have emulated they will be able to buy it because they have a system. I dont think anyone would buy a machine meerly for emulation at a price of $250. It's more like an incentive, "Hey you get all those cool PSP games, PLUS you can play all your old NES, SNES, Game Boy, SEGA, etc." Playing Chrono Trigger on the go would be awesome.
The DS has been out a good while longer than the PSP also.
There is no reason for Sony to get upset about this. People are simply making their system more marketable. It isnt economically feasible to pirate games using Memory Stick DUO(you might be able to get 1 game on a 1 gig stick, which is freakin expensive), it'd be cheaper to buy the UMDs. As long as the mods dont interfere with the PSPs ability to play retail games, then why would they take legal action?
Just because I have 5 speeding tickets doesn't make me a "high-risk" driver. Everyone speeds. If you go the speed limit, people will honk at you in Texas. You realize that driving over the speed limit accomplishes little other than burning gas faster? Unless your traveling a distance of over 60 miles away your only going to see negligible gains in travel times (meer seconds). Slow down, you'll save money in Gas, Tickets and Insurance.
Mission Objectives: -Evade the Romans -Heal the Lame -Jesus must survive
Go out and get yourself a copy of earthbound. You actually get to travel the entire game world again and talk to everyone you want to.
I think some Nintendo fans (don't get me wrong, I love my GCN and GBA SP) refuse to realize some people don't like "kiddy" games. Some people get a real kick out of GTA style games (which are innovative because it was the first big hit with the whole open-ended gameplay thing. Some gamers like stealth action like Splinter Cell, and I could go on for all the "mature" games out there.
The funnyness of that mother/son thing was a bit overhyped. Like mom knows what Google is to begin with :)
"sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads" Nice reference :)
Just use MySpace
"Well Excuuuuuuuuse me, princess!" -- Link, every 5 seconds on the damned show
"I cant take it any more it's making my head hurt" "Here, take two of these!" "Wow, Nuprin, little, yellow, different."
Actually no. You can say the f-word exactly once before jumping from PG-13 to R.
South Parks main advantage is how fast they manage to get episodes out. Whenever there is a big news story or relevant social issue they wish to make a point about (no matter how lude they are about making said point) they have a cartoon about it ready to go that week. And thats what makes south park great. They do have "filler" episodes, but they also always have a point they are trying to convey with it all.
They are failing so badly because cheaper alternatives have come up. A lot of cable providers now have their own version of the TiVo hardware. They also boost some features the original does not, like dual tuners that allow for recording two channels at once. On top of that, you just pay for the service, not the hardware, its hard to compete with that.
You can make as many connection profiles for the same network as you please, just make one called browser and your all set!