Hey...you forgot how at least one company in China is makeing Soy Sauce now. Yuck! Human hair not to mention the contaminants that come with hair from hospitals and it didn't just stay in China >_>
Umm...you don't need to "butcher" a DVD player to do that. I've been supporting clients that live in the realm of "too much gaw-damn money" that we've gotten them setup with nicer screens. You can go get yourself a 7" LCD that meant for incar mounting from Xenarc. Hell they even make them with a touchscreen built in that works with Mac OS suposidly. If I didn't live in Las Vegas with this heat (the screen can take it, but I doubt a plastic Mac Mini case can) I'd have one of these in my car allready.
Thats your simcard causing that. I support too many clients that have had that problem. Get it replaced. $16 and your on your mery way. Always happens with the clients that have had thier sim cards the longest and/or insert them into other devices allot. Just do yourself a favor though and trash the WM and keep the SIM. The world will be a better place because of it.
Last I checked Windows Mobile almost doesn't exist in comparison to the installed base of Balckberry and Palm OS Treos (yes I know theres a WM version of Treo, but everyone know it's crap). I smell fud.
Yet a bad sector on an HD usualy is not caught until the user does a complete scandisk of the drive so the bad data continues to march on. With flash based systems the bad sector is caught on the first write. Bad sectors aren't much of an occurance anymore with HDs though. The actuall moveing components is what I was refering to which there are many to have die on you. Also if you actually RTFA this type of application would be for LAPTOPS primarily to save power (not slap another power hungry drive in). Of which the only laptops I've ever seen have RAID is the overpriced Alienwares.
An age old method called write leveling. In practice it usualy doesn't work since most people do it with USB thumb drives and/or flash memorycards which are all removed on a regular basis so the reader/writer of the media gets changed allot or the controler doesn't impliment write leveling. As such the write leveling never really gets done very well. With a system like this the write leveling would be exact and the flash memory would end up outlasting the moveing parts of the hard-disk. Also as parts of the card went bad the controler would skip over those sectors in the future which would lead to it working even longer. Even one part of a regular hard disk goes bad and your boned completely.
Yeah...as an industry outsider your thoughts are about as off as can be.
1) Buyers/Big Press & such have ALWAYS had private behind closed doors meetings. Just developers are begining to allow smaller press into these things which big press has always had no need to brag about (they are big press).
2) Big developers don't just have one massive fsking studio they could fly every fuckwit press person to and it's so not cheaper btw when at E3 you just pay for space, pretty crap & employees, and the press foots thier own bill.
3) Developers don't necicarily want to have masses of press they usualy don't know how they'll act in the studio (I know this very well).
4) Small developer conventions would just end up fragmenting media coverage for them because there could never be just one by your thinking otherwise you'd get one that grew to the point big developers would come to and you'd have E3 just under another name (E3 started out extremely small with small developers back in the day as part of CES btw).
5) E3 requires developers to put up or get shut up. Read PS3 V Wii this past year. Any developer that wants to pull out of E3 pretty much is a developer that either had a WEAK to NO show at this E3 and is worried about the same problem this next year.
Personaly if the bigger developers want to pull out it's fine by me. Far too many are smoke & mirrors anyways, but in reality Next Gen published this story to get some page hits. Thier reputation as a news source is anything, but what I'd call good.
Actually 30 hours Vs 2.5 Hours means allot to those that are really on the go type people (hell I can get 6 hours with my REAL laptop!). Hell imo Treo 650/700p wins out against this monstrocity. Theres a fairly big problem many manufacturers are running into which is options Vs battery life and they are sacking battery life to the point that a regular laptop gets more time away from a wallsocket than these things. When it comes down to it though the Q1 really is not aimed at Joe Windows user. Joe Windows user can barely put up with $400 for some POS Emachines from Best Buy let alone the price of a Q1. This is aimed at the Professional/Prosumer with allot of cash to burn which are more likely to want something NON-Windows based.
They did make some very good points though in thier comparison though. For some reason I get this sneaking suspicion that your a Q1 user thats suffering from buyers defense of thier expensive gadget. That or your a PR troll. I could be wrong though.
That doesn't work so well on newer laptops anymore. They store the bios password in non-volitale memory. You end up haveing to replace the SMD chip with a blank one to gain access.
Well thats because theres Xbox 360 new games right now and really no new games that are worth much on the other systems outside of the DS. Everyone is working on 360, Wii, PS3, DS and to some extent PSP games. It's fairly eaisy to sell allot of games when theres no current gen competition.
With very simple math. Say your watching Eureaka yesterday at 9pm. They ask your local scifi broadcaster at what timepoints the comercials were on; they get thier data from the broadcaster; they overlay your data of skipping onto thier timeing for the advertisements and whalah you got a pretty pie chart.
Difference is that/. ads tend to be somewhat relevant (I'm looking at a Dice ad right now vs watching comercials to sell me birth control when I'm watching Battlestar Galactica). Also as a sidenote many here use adblocking software. I use it, but/. adverts aren't intruseive enough to make me want to set/. specific rules.
You can use products at this site to screw up these systems pretty good. They aren't IR blockers, but they cause various effects that make the systems unable to read them or causes them to be overexposed. You can always just pick up a piece of IR film, cut it yourself, and put it over your plate too. Just have to make sure a cop thats behind you can read the plate. I know I'll be looking into these as well as some IR film.
Heres the complete list of dual layer games on the PS2. All of which are either packed with bonus crap no one really cares about, tons of video, is Everquest (bloated even on consoles), or is Grand Tourismo. Your argument has pretty huge holes in it.
8.02GB PAL Champions of Norrath
7.94GB JAP GRAN TURISMO Concept
7.94GB JAP Xenosaga
7.93GB USA God of War
7.88GB USA Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
7.74GB USA Champions of Norrath
7.55GB USA The Guy Game
7.20GB JAP Sakura Wars Atsuki Chishiyo Ni
6.47GB USA Madden 2005 Collectors Edition
6.13GB PAL Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
5.99GB USA MGS2: Substance
5.27GB PAL Gran Turismo 4
4.94GB USA Gran Turismo 4
Actually it had more to do with EA haveing to compete directly with Sega with thier sports games back then that kept them from developing for the Dreamcast. Sega's sports games were a hell of allot better than anything EA has EVER brought to the table. Why would they want to develop for a competitor let alone one that makes a better product? Other than that you have Sega burning consumers with Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and the massive ammount of periferials they released. US consumers forget such things pretty fast, but back then Japan meant a whole hell of allot more and Japanese consumers & distributors have a long, long, loooooong memory for such things.
But I'm what you could call a Dreamcast fanboy too probably and I don't get all fanboyish over consoles. I just buy them all and say screw it. I probably play more Dreamcast games right now than any of my other consoles (I've got roughly 200 games for DC). There were some incredible games put out back then especially if you were a shooter or fighter fan that remain gameing gold to this day.
Heh...someone who admits to owning one of those. I used to own an original NGage, but that was when they were paying me to have one. Checks stopped comin and the NGage went to Ebay.
And I can attest to that living in Las Vegas. Fry's little impulse buy line has it's own unintended consequences on me given it's one of the reasons I stay the hell away from the store (besides the employees annoy the hell out of me) because I have no self control through there. Especially if I'm with someone else. Instead if I need something "now" and can't wait to order it online I goto Best Buy. They are trieing to do the same thing here, but they are nowhere near as good at it.
Uhh...right...Just because thats the metric MS & Sony use does not make it the correct one. Look at the DS vs PSP sales figures. Nintendo states "sold to consumers" and Sony states "shipped" which means developers have a hell of a time figureing out which one they should develop for. Sony has suposidly higher shipped numbers month to month (usualy) in the US than Nintendo's sold numbers, but yet I see 10DSs for every PSP in someone's hands.
Also lets not forget what I believe other/.ers have pointed out. Stores that MS ships most of these 360s to have the option to make MS buy the 360s back if they do not sell which is very costly on a console your loseing money on allready. Not to mention a country in Japan where shipped and sold are extremely different numbers with the 360.
Slashdot Mirror
Whichever camera took both of the GP linked shots. Whoever's camera took those is seriously is in need of an internal cleaning in a bad way.
Not to mention all his pics are ruined given he has dirt specs inside the camera.
Hey...you forgot how at least one company in China is makeing Soy Sauce now. Yuck! Human hair not to mention the contaminants that come with hair from hospitals and it didn't just stay in China >_>
j ournals/ijto/vol2n1/soy.xml
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=
Umm...you don't need to "butcher" a DVD player to do that. I've been supporting clients that live in the realm of "too much gaw-damn money" that we've gotten them setup with nicer screens. You can go get yourself a 7" LCD that meant for incar mounting from Xenarc. Hell they even make them with a touchscreen built in that works with Mac OS suposidly. If I didn't live in Las Vegas with this heat (the screen can take it, but I doubt a plastic Mac Mini case can) I'd have one of these in my car allready.
http://www.xenarc.com/product/700ts.html/
Thats your simcard causing that. I support too many clients that have had that problem. Get it replaced. $16 and your on your mery way. Always happens with the clients that have had thier sim cards the longest and/or insert them into other devices allot. Just do yourself a favor though and trash the WM and keep the SIM. The world will be a better place because of it.
Don't worry...we'll just smile and pretend to understand. At the end of the day the white man still runs the company ^^
*note to mods this is a joke before I get moded troll*
Last I checked Windows Mobile almost doesn't exist in comparison to the installed base of Balckberry and Palm OS Treos (yes I know theres a WM version of Treo, but everyone know it's crap). I smell fud.
Yet a bad sector on an HD usualy is not caught until the user does a complete scandisk of the drive so the bad data continues to march on. With flash based systems the bad sector is caught on the first write. Bad sectors aren't much of an occurance anymore with HDs though. The actuall moveing components is what I was refering to which there are many to have die on you. Also if you actually RTFA this type of application would be for LAPTOPS primarily to save power (not slap another power hungry drive in). Of which the only laptops I've ever seen have RAID is the overpriced Alienwares.
An age old method called write leveling. In practice it usualy doesn't work since most people do it with USB thumb drives and/or flash memorycards which are all removed on a regular basis so the reader/writer of the media gets changed allot or the controler doesn't impliment write leveling. As such the write leveling never really gets done very well. With a system like this the write leveling would be exact and the flash memory would end up outlasting the moveing parts of the hard-disk. Also as parts of the card went bad the controler would skip over those sectors in the future which would lead to it working even longer. Even one part of a regular hard disk goes bad and your boned completely.
Yeah...as an industry outsider your thoughts are about as off as can be.
1) Buyers/Big Press & such have ALWAYS had private behind closed doors meetings. Just developers are begining to allow smaller press into these things which big press has always had no need to brag about (they are big press).
2) Big developers don't just have one massive fsking studio they could fly every fuckwit press person to and it's so not cheaper btw when at E3 you just pay for space, pretty crap & employees, and the press foots thier own bill.
3) Developers don't necicarily want to have masses of press they usualy don't know how they'll act in the studio (I know this very well).
4) Small developer conventions would just end up fragmenting media coverage for them because there could never be just one by your thinking otherwise you'd get one that grew to the point big developers would come to and you'd have E3 just under another name (E3 started out extremely small with small developers back in the day as part of CES btw).
5) E3 requires developers to put up or get shut up. Read PS3 V Wii this past year. Any developer that wants to pull out of E3 pretty much is a developer that either had a WEAK to NO show at this E3 and is worried about the same problem this next year.
Personaly if the bigger developers want to pull out it's fine by me. Far too many are smoke & mirrors anyways, but in reality Next Gen published this story to get some page hits. Thier reputation as a news source is anything, but what I'd call good.
Actually 30 hours Vs 2.5 Hours means allot to those that are really on the go type people (hell I can get 6 hours with my REAL laptop!). Hell imo Treo 650/700p wins out against this monstrocity. Theres a fairly big problem many manufacturers are running into which is options Vs battery life and they are sacking battery life to the point that a regular laptop gets more time away from a wallsocket than these things. When it comes down to it though the Q1 really is not aimed at Joe Windows user. Joe Windows user can barely put up with $400 for some POS Emachines from Best Buy let alone the price of a Q1. This is aimed at the Professional/Prosumer with allot of cash to burn which are more likely to want something NON-Windows based.
They did make some very good points though in thier comparison though. For some reason I get this sneaking suspicion that your a Q1 user thats suffering from buyers defense of thier expensive gadget. That or your a PR troll. I could be wrong though.
EXACTLY!!!
That doesn't work so well on newer laptops anymore. They store the bios password in non-volitale memory. You end up haveing to replace the SMD chip with a blank one to gain access.
Well thats because theres Xbox 360 new games right now and really no new games that are worth much on the other systems outside of the DS. Everyone is working on 360, Wii, PS3, DS and to some extent PSP games. It's fairly eaisy to sell allot of games when theres no current gen competition.
You've played NFL Gameday right? Thats one of the worst sportslines ever. Sony dropped 989 Sports on thier asses for a good reason.
Man it took me a minute to think about that. God those are good memories.
With very simple math. Say your watching Eureaka yesterday at 9pm. They ask your local scifi broadcaster at what timepoints the comercials were on; they get thier data from the broadcaster; they overlay your data of skipping onto thier timeing for the advertisements and whalah you got a pretty pie chart.
Difference is that /. ads tend to be somewhat relevant (I'm looking at a Dice ad right now vs watching comercials to sell me birth control when I'm watching Battlestar Galactica). Also as a sidenote many here use adblocking software. I use it, but /. adverts aren't intruseive enough to make me want to set /. specific rules.
You can use products at this site to screw up these systems pretty good. They aren't IR blockers, but they cause various effects that make the systems unable to read them or causes them to be overexposed. You can always just pick up a piece of IR film, cut it yourself, and put it over your plate too. Just have to make sure a cop thats behind you can read the plate. I know I'll be looking into these as well as some IR film.
http://www.phantomplate.com/photoshield.html
Heres the complete list of dual layer games on the PS2. All of which are either packed with bonus crap no one really cares about, tons of video, is Everquest (bloated even on consoles), or is Grand Tourismo. Your argument has pretty huge holes in it.
8.02GB PAL Champions of Norrath
7.94GB JAP GRAN TURISMO Concept
7.94GB JAP Xenosaga
7.93GB USA God of War
7.88GB USA Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
7.74GB USA Champions of Norrath
7.55GB USA The Guy Game
7.20GB JAP Sakura Wars Atsuki Chishiyo Ni
6.47GB USA Madden 2005 Collectors Edition
6.13GB PAL Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
5.99GB USA MGS2: Substance
5.27GB PAL Gran Turismo 4
4.94GB USA Gran Turismo 4
Actually it had more to do with EA haveing to compete directly with Sega with thier sports games back then that kept them from developing for the Dreamcast. Sega's sports games were a hell of allot better than anything EA has EVER brought to the table. Why would they want to develop for a competitor let alone one that makes a better product? Other than that you have Sega burning consumers with Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and the massive ammount of periferials they released. US consumers forget such things pretty fast, but back then Japan meant a whole hell of allot more and Japanese consumers & distributors have a long, long, loooooong memory for such things.
But I'm what you could call a Dreamcast fanboy too probably and I don't get all fanboyish over consoles. I just buy them all and say screw it. I probably play more Dreamcast games right now than any of my other consoles (I've got roughly 200 games for DC). There were some incredible games put out back then especially if you were a shooter or fighter fan that remain gameing gold to this day.
So....what your saying is if it's tonned down it's censorship and if it's not it's juvenile. OOoOOOOoooook then...
Heh...someone who admits to owning one of those. I used to own an original NGage, but that was when they were paying me to have one. Checks stopped comin and the NGage went to Ebay.
And I can attest to that living in Las Vegas. Fry's little impulse buy line has it's own unintended consequences on me given it's one of the reasons I stay the hell away from the store (besides the employees annoy the hell out of me) because I have no self control through there. Especially if I'm with someone else. Instead if I need something "now" and can't wait to order it online I goto Best Buy. They are trieing to do the same thing here, but they are nowhere near as good at it.
Uhh...right...Just because thats the metric MS & Sony use does not make it the correct one. Look at the DS vs PSP sales figures. Nintendo states "sold to consumers" and Sony states "shipped" which means developers have a hell of a time figureing out which one they should develop for. Sony has suposidly higher shipped numbers month to month (usualy) in the US than Nintendo's sold numbers, but yet I see 10DSs for every PSP in someone's hands.
/.ers have pointed out. Stores that MS ships most of these 360s to have the option to make MS buy the 360s back if they do not sell which is very costly on a console your loseing money on allready. Not to mention a country in Japan where shipped and sold are extremely different numbers with the 360.
Also lets not forget what I believe other