The updated PS2 has progressive scan for DVD Video playback only. Only games that are encoded/programmed with progressive scan in mind can be send pscan signals to a EDTV or HDTV.
This is supposed to be "News for Nerds"? What's so Nerdy about this? Other than the fact that Shiela Villalobos hasn't paid me back my $310... This aint news... I want 5 mins of my life back!
We have a very limited amount of choices in terms of broadband providers. For xDSL only two telcos offer it for businesses. Among the two only one of them so far offers it to residentials. For cable there are only three players in the whole country. All of these are only available within the capital, Metro Manila.
One tech insider in my country even speculated that the whole Philippines relied upon 100-200Mbps of Internet backbone to connect overseas.
Residential ADSL connections use dynamic IPs. 128kbps ADSL connection costs around PhP2,000 (US$40) while a 256kbps ADSL connection costs PhP2,500 (US$50). Business 512kbps connections with static IPs costs a whopping PhP18,000 (US$360)
Almost all the cable connections here costs PhP2,000-PhP2750 (US$40-55) with speed caps between 128kbps-512kbps. But sometimes they barely crawl by 5KB/s.
As you can see it's pretty expensive to gain access to the Internet here and with the Philippine Peso exchange rate with the US Dollar so bad (PhP50 = US$1) it could lead to a lot of bizarre things happening.
I rather be safe than sorry. There are ALOT of shams going around in real life. We don't want that kind of CRAP circulating online. People preaching and circulating miracle cures and trends are just plain snake oils. WHO's just doing its job in safeguarding peoples health. It's not a matter of it squashing individuals right to innovate but on what's factual and safe. This is not like software where in freedom to innovate should rein unhindered. Imagine your health practitioner not being duely licensed to practice medice. Scary isn't it?
It's already happening now. You can't get on the Internet without using Internet Explorer, can't download mail without Outlook/Outlook Express, not use free e-mail without Hotmail or chat on IRC without mIRC (that's Microsoft Internet Relay Chat to the public at large).
In my country (I live in the Philippines) a sent SMS costs roughly PhP1.00 per message sent or US$0.02 (US$0.0228885 if you want to be exact using PhP43.69 to a US$1.00). At that price it is very rare for someone to make voice calls, which normally costs PhP8.00/US$0.18 to another mobile within the same cellular network. If you're curious on how much the pre-paid cellular rates are in the Philippines you might want to check out the website of the country's two predominant players, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications.
The only time I would think someone would make a voice call here would be when a message cannot wait. This is due to the fact that a country with a landmass of a small US State can generate more SMS traffic than the whole continent of Europe. With that in mind it normally takes a few minutes to hours before a sent message is received.
Adding to the features zyzko mentioned earlier mobiles here allow IRC-like and IM-like functions, which gives users of certain networks the ability to chat with people of similar interests based on one's ASL (Age/Sex/Location) or communicate with people on your ICQ contact list using your UIN.
Personally one feature I would love to see in the future is updates whether there are classes or not. Take for instance my case, my school is located along the University Belt in Metro Manila, which is regularly flooded whenever there is a typhoon. By the very nature of my school they do not cancel classes until the last possible moment, which is normally after lunch, and when they do they do not have the courtesy of announcing it over the school's loud speakers. This is a real pain when you find out a few hours later and you have to walk through 1 to 3 feet of flood water just to ride on a bus that's stranded due to the floods and not mentioning the horrors of 4-5 hour traffic jams.
As reported by the New York Times, there has been a lot of controversy over SMS from the Department of Education banning them during tests, vehicular accidents, stalkers, anonymity and malicious jokes. What the Times did not report is that SMS issued a libel case against three comedians and a manager of a basketball player, caused the unintentional closure of a national bank, a political movement known as the 'Silent Protest' was spread via SMS and that drug traffickers use it to coordinate their activities. Even the Japanese had a similar problem when kidnappers used pre-paid mobile phones to hide there identities from law enforcers.
If you want more information concerning GSM phones in the Philippines you can check it out here.
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Can this BEEE anymore broken?
That's still the old PS2. It still got the iLink ports.
The updated PS2 has progressive scan for DVD Video playback only. Only games that are encoded/programmed with progressive scan in mind can be send pscan signals to a EDTV or HDTV.
Maybe they're talking about Mandy Moore? Heard she's been breaking a lot of laws recently.
This is supposed to be "News for Nerds"? What's so Nerdy about this? Other than the fact that Shiela Villalobos hasn't paid me back my $310... This aint news... I want 5 mins of my life back!
I didn't know /. likes recycling day old news...
usang post!
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We have a very limited amount of choices in terms of broadband providers. For xDSL only two telcos offer it for businesses. Among the two only one of them so far offers it to residentials. For cable there are only three players in the whole country. All of these are only available within the capital, Metro Manila.
One tech insider in my country even speculated that the whole Philippines relied upon 100-200Mbps of Internet backbone to connect overseas.
Residential ADSL connections use dynamic IPs. 128kbps ADSL connection costs around PhP2,000 (US$40) while a 256kbps ADSL connection costs PhP2,500 (US$50). Business 512kbps connections with static IPs costs a whopping PhP18,000 (US$360)
Almost all the cable connections here costs PhP2,000-PhP2750 (US$40-55) with speed caps between 128kbps-512kbps. But sometimes they barely crawl by 5KB/s.
As you can see it's pretty expensive to gain access to the Internet here and with the Philippine Peso exchange rate with the US Dollar so bad (PhP50 = US$1) it could lead to a lot of bizarre things happening.
If you want more details concerning the Internet bandwidth issues within the Philippines you can check out the Talk about Bandwidth/Broadband/ISP speed here forum thread.
FYI the Philippines will be celebrating the 7th Birthday of the Internet this March 29th.
Gate's The Road Ahead, was published by Penguin.
I rather be safe than sorry. There are ALOT of shams going around in real life. We don't want that kind of CRAP circulating online. People preaching and circulating miracle cures and trends are just plain snake oils. WHO's just doing its job in safeguarding peoples health. It's not a matter of it squashing individuals right to innovate but on what's factual and safe. This is not like software where in freedom to innovate should rein unhindered. Imagine your health practitioner not being duely licensed to practice medice. Scary isn't it?
Isn't learning Microsoft code a form of Child Abuse?
Isn't that a bit TOOOOOOOOO long? My hampster would be dead before that thing expires.
It's already happening now. You can't get on the Internet without using Internet Explorer, can't download mail without Outlook/Outlook Express, not use free e-mail without Hotmail or chat on IRC without mIRC (that's Microsoft Internet Relay Chat to the public at large).
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Next thing you'll know we'll have an innovative triple-ply toilet paper running Linux with Tux on each square with his tongue sticking out.
Pretty good 99%-accurate writeup dude on what's happening in Metro Manila.
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It's worse than that. People 4.5 feet away send SMS' to each other saying "Wassup!?"
In my country (I live in the Philippines) a sent SMS costs roughly PhP1.00 per message sent or US$0.02 (US$0.0228885 if you want to be exact using PhP43.69 to a US$1.00). At that price it is very rare for someone to make voice calls, which normally costs PhP8.00/US$0.18 to another mobile within the same cellular network. If you're curious on how much the pre-paid cellular rates are in the Philippines you might want to check out the website of the country's two predominant players, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications.
The only time I would think someone would make a voice call here would be when a message cannot wait. This is due to the fact that a country with a landmass of a small US State can generate more SMS traffic than the whole continent of Europe. With that in mind it normally takes a few minutes to hours before a sent message is received.
Adding to the features zyzko mentioned earlier mobiles here allow IRC-like and IM-like functions, which gives users of certain networks the ability to chat with people of similar interests based on one's ASL (Age/Sex/Location) or communicate with people on your ICQ contact list using your UIN.
Personally one feature I would love to see in the future is updates whether there are classes or not. Take for instance my case, my school is located along the University Belt in Metro Manila, which is regularly flooded whenever there is a typhoon. By the very nature of my school they do not cancel classes until the last possible moment, which is normally after lunch, and when they do they do not have the courtesy of announcing it over the school's loud speakers. This is a real pain when you find out a few hours later and you have to walk through 1 to 3 feet of flood water just to ride on a bus that's stranded due to the floods and not mentioning the horrors of 4-5 hour traffic jams.
As reported by the New York Times, there has been a lot of controversy over SMS from the Department of Education banning them during tests, vehicular accidents, stalkers, anonymity and malicious jokes. What the Times did not report is that SMS issued a libel case against three comedians and a manager of a basketball player, caused the unintentional closure of a national bank, a political movement known as the 'Silent Protest' was spread via SMS and that drug traffickers use it to coordinate their activities. Even the Japanese had a similar problem when kidnappers used pre-paid mobile phones to hide there identities from law enforcers.
If you want more information concerning GSM phones in the Philippines you can check it out here.
The Graph: Substance that makes techies tick
http://www.gra.ph/
Check out the Macross series...:)
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Really? It does! Thanks for pointing that out Ig0r:) The Graph: Substance that makes techies tick
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Nice to see that the money put into this is yielding results
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