Well it's not so much that the PSP's CPU is a 3rd as powerful as PS2's; it's that with the cap at 222MHz rather then it's full speed of 333MHz, it ends up a 3rd as powerful. Apparently, softare on the UMD can bring the CPU speed up to 333MHz if the developer wants to or is allowed or something, much like many homebrew games for it do. It's been rumored that GTA: Liberty City Stories and GT4: Mobile will do this out of neccessity.
Also notewourthy is how the PS2 has a really powerful CPU (for it's time at least) that had to do things in software that PSP can do in hardware. PSP also has an actual GPU, while PS2 only has a "Graphics Synthesizer" that relys on the Emotion Engine to function since it doesn't calculate floating point operations.
Apparently you don't read any lick of news. There were reports of DS dead pixles at it's launch as there was at PSP's on any good news site. Of course, after launch reports on both tend to leave these things out.
1) It's not about "winners" and "losers", it's about stopping a virtual monopoly in the portable market, and for that reason I'm all for PSP.
2) DS gets dead pixles just like any other LCD screen out there. From cell phones all the way up to big screen TVs, they are all very capible of getting them.
3) The true pointless gimmick of the DS is the 2 screens. Seriously, one big (by which I mean equal to or larger then the two DS screens combined) touch screen would've been VASTLY better.
4) All systems are experiencing a good game drought of late. Everything's been crap the last few months.
5) Who marked this up as informative? I don't really care what the mods say, but this is just the same as the pointless drivel that's seen all the time over at Gamefaqs by people who just don't know what they're talking about.
Why the hell doesn't Microsoft just tell the truth? If they had a get the facts program saying that most of the programs available for Windows don't have a Linux equivilent, especially those that are a little obscure, and that the vast majority of games don't work on Linux, it'd be reason for home users and corperate users to not use Linux. There's got to be some people out there not taking this into account, and all the stuff they're saying now most people don't believe or trust. And if they were honest they wouldn't get such bad press about it all the time!
True enough. I, for one, run AbiWord on my Linux box despite how reletively bad it is (especially when inserting images...) simply because I don't want to wait for OO.org to load, and then still lag for a bit after it seems loaded.
So did anyone who answered this say that they got most of their gaming info off the internet? I, for one, have been getting my gaming news from online sites for about 7 or 8 years now, since I was a lad not much older then 8 or 9.
A car and a movie are differnt things. As long as distributers are too busy with their hands up their asses pulling out new lawsuits rather then making watching a movie better and easier (read: putting them up for download, even with a fee), then there's going to be people like me downloading them from P2P networks. Legality be damned, I just want to watch a movie without leaving my house, or bothering with a DVD, comfortably, on my computer.
I mean, if you've seen any article about the decline in movie going in the last... however long on Slashdot, at least 90% of the posts say exactly that.
Maybe it's just me, but as long as Microsoft is behind/championing/funding/involved directly/involved closely indirectly, it will never be a truly factual and fair comparison or analysis between Linux and Windows. There's just too much bias being pulled out of their asses.
Great scott! You beat me to it. In doing so you could end up with an event that could unravel the very fabric of time, and destroy the universe! Granted, that's a worse case scenario, it'll probably be isolated to our own galexy.
Australian companies providing Linux products and services may
soon have to pay up to $A5000 a year to licence the operating
system name, if the patents agency IP Australia grants a trademark
application it is reviewing.
About 90 companies with products, services or websites
containing the word "Linux" recently received letters of demand
from Perth lawyer Jeremy Malcolm.
Acting for user group Linux
Australia Inc, he asks recipients to sign statements saying
their use of the word is subject to the group's licence agreement,
which has fees of $A200 to $A5000 under a successful trademark
application. Those using the term in a descriptive sense do not
have to pay, he says.
"It is your legal responsibility to obtain a licence from the
Linux Mark Institute before you are allowed to use the word 'Linux'
as part of your product or service name or brand," Mr Malcolm wrote
to companies.
User group president Jonathan Oxer says the trademark
application is to protect the name from abuse. "At this point, the
exercise is not about extracting fees from people," he says. "It's
an extremely small number of people that are likely to have to
licence it. It's about establishing the trademark. This is the
reality of working in the commercial world that we're in now."
Reactions ranged from support to confusion.
"I suspected it was a scam, so I posted the message (to a local
mailing list) to find out more," says Richard Ham, a Sunshine Coast
IT consultant whose ventures include his EdIT Counsel consultancy
and Linux-related website http://linuxhowtos.net/">linuxhowtos.net.
Investigations relieved Mr Ham's concerns, but not everyone is
so understanding.
"There's been a mixture of positive support and paranoia, and
that's kind of what I expected," says Mr Malcolm, who was engaged
in a celebrated 2002 anti-spamming case against Perth company
T3.
The trademark action emerged after a 2003 conflict in which an
Adelaide Linux consultancy called itself Linux Australia Pty Ltd.
The user group, in operation for years, took exception to the
name's similarity and blocked the application through IP Australia.
The consultancy changed its name to OpenEra but the incident
highlighted that the Linux name was in legal limbo because it was
unregistered.
The user group acted to become an agent for the Linux Mark
Institute, a US-based organisation created in 2002 to police use of
Linux creator Linus Torvalds' trademark after he became concerned
about a website operator selling pornography through http://linuxchix.com/">linuxchix.com.
The Australian trademark application was lodged with the
trademarks office on January 19 last year. It has an acceptance due
date of September 7.
In the weeks leading to that date, Mr Malcolm hopes to build
momentum for the initiative so the trademark will be granted to Mr
Torvalds, with the user group monitoring use in Australia.
About a dozen letters have been returned and Mr Malcolm is in
talks with IP Australia over whether that is enough.
"I'm hopeful that just to show that we've got positive responses
from some of the most important users of Linux out there will be
enough to convince IP Australia to grant the trademark," he
says.
OpenEra, whose inadvertent naming conflict with the user group
started the process, got its letter last week and "we'll be signing
it", says managing director Hosi Stankovic.
"We have the legacy of (the dispute) and all the hate mails but
we don't really have any objections to (the user group) registering
the name," he says.
"We just want a trademark and to have it safe to trade
with."
This doesn't make a whole lot of sence. I thought Linus Torvalds held the trademark of Linux, not the general userbase. How can they do something like this? Did he not file in Austrailia, and if he didn't would it even been legal for that usergroup to trademark Linux there when it's already in common use? And what would Linus have to say about all this?
The same was true for the first 5ish months of DS' life too, with only the odd crap being released. Only a few months ago did this start to change, with some actually alight games finally coming out for it, but it didn't last long.
This time for PSP also falls in a good game dry spell. Honestly, they've been few and far between for all systems systems, just look at the consoles.
Finally, PSP just had such a huge launch line up that there wasn't enough to stretch over the next months. Poor planing, and dissapointing, but looking at September and Octobers releases, it's looking a lot better.
I've heard a similar yet more radical thing. My friend (who tends to be a real jerk sometimes) didn't get why I use Linux after about 50 times of explaining it, and somehow he let slip that he doesn't care if there's a little spyware/adware/whatever on his computer because it's a P4 3.2 GHz with 512MB of RAM. I've used his computer before, and it was piss slow, and after hearing this I told him his box is probably a Zombie, and that even though he uses FireFox for most things his dad and mom using IE and Outlook Express could easilly have caused it. Yet, he still didn't care, insisting that despite this he said as long as he can still do what he needs to on his box, whether or not it's a Zombie, he doesn't care. It is really quite ridiculous how set in their ways some people are, as he was to lazy to even run a few malware checks!
It could all be one big scheme. MS makes insecure systems, which most people are used to, but finds that when peoples box becomes infested with crap they'll BUY more software from MS to fix it. When this does a bad job, or they're too lazy to run it (as these things tend to take a while), perhaps even because the registry is really gunked up and has nothing to do with malware at all, they'll go out and buy new boxes, benefiting Microsoft since the vast majority have a Windows tax. These computers will face a similar fate, and be discarded long before they're obsolete for tasks like web browsing and word processing. Sad really... I've got to find a way to get these discarded computers...:\
Try installing FireFox to a CD-RW, or a USB flashdrive and using it off that. If it still won't work, rename firefox.exe to something like word.exe and it'll work. It's what I always end up doing.
As a geek, I would have to say that FireFox is merely the best browser that renders pages properly. It's not great, as on my P3 866MHz with a pitiful 128MB of RAM running Linux and GNOME, it takes a long time to open, and to render pages. I find myself more and more using Dillo (which makes most pages look like some kind of horrible shit, and doesn't have support for java, flash, tables..), and text based browsers like Links.
In all honesty, the current state of browsers is horrible. What I'd like is a browser that can render at least 75 - 80% of pages properly, quickly, with support for standards as well as flash and java, and also having tabs on my machine (and before you go there, my connection is 1.5MB/s, so that's not holding me back).
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Well it's not so much that the PSP's CPU is a 3rd as powerful as PS2's; it's that with the cap at 222MHz rather then it's full speed of 333MHz, it ends up a 3rd as powerful. Apparently, softare on the UMD can bring the CPU speed up to 333MHz if the developer wants to or is allowed or something, much like many homebrew games for it do. It's been rumored that GTA: Liberty City Stories and GT4: Mobile will do this out of neccessity.
Also notewourthy is how the PS2 has a really powerful CPU (for it's time at least) that had to do things in software that PSP can do in hardware. PSP also has an actual GPU, while PS2 only has a "Graphics Synthesizer" that relys on the Emotion Engine to function since it doesn't calculate floating point operations.
How many of those were the bundled Spiderman 2?
...Uh, exactly 1 million.
It really is amazing how Nintendo fanboys will defend anything Nintendo does, as if it were as amazing as the dead rising.
Apparently you don't read any lick of news. There were reports of DS dead pixles at it's launch as there was at PSP's on any good news site. Of course, after launch reports on both tend to leave these things out.
1) It's not about "winners" and "losers", it's about stopping a virtual monopoly in the portable market, and for that reason I'm all for PSP.
2) DS gets dead pixles just like any other LCD screen out there. From cell phones all the way up to big screen TVs, they are all very capible of getting them.
3) The true pointless gimmick of the DS is the 2 screens. Seriously, one big (by which I mean equal to or larger then the two DS screens combined) touch screen would've been VASTLY better.
4) All systems are experiencing a good game drought of late. Everything's been crap the last few months.
5) Who marked this up as informative? I don't really care what the mods say, but this is just the same as the pointless drivel that's seen all the time over at Gamefaqs by people who just don't know what they're talking about.
Why the hell doesn't Microsoft just tell the truth? If they had a get the facts program saying that most of the programs available for Windows don't have a Linux equivilent, especially those that are a little obscure, and that the vast majority of games don't work on Linux, it'd be reason for home users and corperate users to not use Linux. There's got to be some people out there not taking this into account, and all the stuff they're saying now most people don't believe or trust. And if they were honest they wouldn't get such bad press about it all the time!
True enough. I, for one, run AbiWord on my Linux box despite how reletively bad it is (especially when inserting images...) simply because I don't want to wait for OO.org to load, and then still lag for a bit after it seems loaded.
So did anyone who answered this say that they got most of their gaming info off the internet? I, for one, have been getting my gaming news from online sites for about 7 or 8 years now, since I was a lad not much older then 8 or 9.
Laporte's already on G4!
A car and a movie are differnt things. As long as distributers are too busy with their hands up their asses pulling out new lawsuits rather then making watching a movie better and easier (read: putting them up for download, even with a fee), then there's going to be people like me downloading them from P2P networks. Legality be damned, I just want to watch a movie without leaving my house, or bothering with a DVD, comfortably, on my computer.
I mean, if you've seen any article about the decline in movie going in the last... however long on Slashdot, at least 90% of the posts say exactly that.
You're not the only one... I'm pretty sure I spent more time reinstalling Windows 95 then I actually spent on Windows 95.
I got the same thing a little while ago. They probably closed it or something.
So true. Just after reading this, I went and played You Don't Know Jack Mock 2... brings me back.
Maybe it's just me, but as long as Microsoft is behind/championing/funding/involved directly/involved closely indirectly, it will never be a truly factual and fair comparison or analysis between Linux and Windows. There's just too much bias being pulled out of their asses.
They have to play EA games? Wow, I feel sorry for them.
Great scott! You beat me to it. In doing so you could end up with an event that could unravel the very fabric of time, and destroy the universe! Granted, that's a worse case scenario, it'll probably be isolated to our own galexy.
FireFox deletes cookies automatically for me, whenever they "expire" (whatever that means).
About 90 companies with products, services or websites containing the word "Linux" recently received letters of demand from Perth lawyer Jeremy Malcolm.
Acting for user group Linux Australia Inc, he asks recipients to sign statements saying their use of the word is subject to the group's licence agreement, which has fees of $A200 to $A5000 under a successful trademark application. Those using the term in a descriptive sense do not have to pay, he says.
"It is your legal responsibility to obtain a licence from the Linux Mark Institute before you are allowed to use the word 'Linux' as part of your product or service name or brand," Mr Malcolm wrote to companies.
User group president Jonathan Oxer says the trademark application is to protect the name from abuse. "At this point, the exercise is not about extracting fees from people," he says. "It's an extremely small number of people that are likely to have to licence it. It's about establishing the trademark. This is the reality of working in the commercial world that we're in now."
Reactions ranged from support to confusion.
"I suspected it was a scam, so I posted the message (to a local mailing list) to find out more," says Richard Ham, a Sunshine Coast IT consultant whose ventures include his EdIT Counsel consultancy and Linux-related website http://linuxhowtos.net/">linuxhowtos.net.
Investigations relieved Mr Ham's concerns, but not everyone is so understanding.
"There's been a mixture of positive support and paranoia, and that's kind of what I expected," says Mr Malcolm, who was engaged in a celebrated 2002 anti-spamming case against Perth company T3.
The trademark action emerged after a 2003 conflict in which an Adelaide Linux consultancy called itself Linux Australia Pty Ltd. The user group, in operation for years, took exception to the name's similarity and blocked the application through IP Australia. The consultancy changed its name to OpenEra but the incident highlighted that the Linux name was in legal limbo because it was unregistered.
The user group acted to become an agent for the Linux Mark Institute, a US-based organisation created in 2002 to police use of Linux creator Linus Torvalds' trademark after he became concerned about a website operator selling pornography through http://linuxchix.com/">linuxchix.com.
The Australian trademark application was lodged with the trademarks office on January 19 last year. It has an acceptance due date of September 7.
In the weeks leading to that date, Mr Malcolm hopes to build momentum for the initiative so the trademark will be granted to Mr Torvalds, with the user group monitoring use in Australia.
About a dozen letters have been returned and Mr Malcolm is in talks with IP Australia over whether that is enough.
"I'm hopeful that just to show that we've got positive responses from some of the most important users of Linux out there will be enough to convince IP Australia to grant the trademark," he says.
OpenEra, whose inadvertent naming conflict with the user group started the process, got its letter last week and "we'll be signing it", says managing director Hosi Stankovic.
"We have the legacy of (the dispute) and all the hate mails but we don't really have any objections to (the user group) registering the name," he says.
"We just want a trademark and to have it safe to trade with."
This doesn't make a whole lot of sence. I thought Linus Torvalds held the trademark of Linux, not the general userbase. How can they do something like this? Did he not file in Austrailia, and if he didn't would it even been legal for that usergroup to trademark Linux there when it's already in common use? And what would Linus have to say about all this?
The same was true for the first 5ish months of DS' life too, with only the odd crap being released. Only a few months ago did this start to change, with some actually alight games finally coming out for it, but it didn't last long.
This time for PSP also falls in a good game dry spell. Honestly, they've been few and far between for all systems systems, just look at the consoles.
Finally, PSP just had such a huge launch line up that there wasn't enough to stretch over the next months. Poor planing, and dissapointing, but looking at September and Octobers releases, it's looking a lot better.
I've heard a similar yet more radical thing. My friend (who tends to be a real jerk sometimes) didn't get why I use Linux after about 50 times of explaining it, and somehow he let slip that he doesn't care if there's a little spyware/adware/whatever on his computer because it's a P4 3.2 GHz with 512MB of RAM. I've used his computer before, and it was piss slow, and after hearing this I told him his box is probably a Zombie, and that even though he uses FireFox for most things his dad and mom using IE and Outlook Express could easilly have caused it. Yet, he still didn't care, insisting that despite this he said as long as he can still do what he needs to on his box, whether or not it's a Zombie, he doesn't care. It is really quite ridiculous how set in their ways some people are, as he was to lazy to even run a few malware checks!
:\
It could all be one big scheme. MS makes insecure systems, which most people are used to, but finds that when peoples box becomes infested with crap they'll BUY more software from MS to fix it. When this does a bad job, or they're too lazy to run it (as these things tend to take a while), perhaps even because the registry is really gunked up and has nothing to do with malware at all, they'll go out and buy new boxes, benefiting Microsoft since the vast majority have a Windows tax. These computers will face a similar fate, and be discarded long before they're obsolete for tasks like web browsing and word processing. Sad really... I've got to find a way to get these discarded computers...
Try installing FireFox to a CD-RW, or a USB flashdrive and using it off that. If it still won't work, rename firefox.exe to something like word.exe and it'll work. It's what I always end up doing.
As a geek, I would have to say that FireFox is merely the best browser that renders pages properly. It's not great, as on my P3 866MHz with a pitiful 128MB of RAM running Linux and GNOME, it takes a long time to open, and to render pages. I find myself more and more using Dillo (which makes most pages look like some kind of horrible shit, and doesn't have support for java, flash, tables..), and text based browsers like Links.
In all honesty, the current state of browsers is horrible. What I'd like is a browser that can render at least 75 - 80% of pages properly, quickly, with support for standards as well as flash and java, and also having tabs on my machine (and before you go there, my connection is 1.5MB/s, so that's not holding me back).
Uh... not to mention many people call playstation 2 "PS2".