I used to have a Tivo, loved it. Now I have a Cablevision DVR box. By comparison, the UI sucks, and it's 100% very reliable (having said that, neither was my Tivo, for different reasons). However, the huge difference in cost, coupled with being able to record two shows at once and full support for HDTV and Dolby Digital sound mean there's no way I'd go back to Tivo.
Well, looking on the bright side, Sony have gone from competing with Sony to creating some of the best games on that platform. There's nothing stopping Nintendo becoming a software house and publishing those great games (I love monkey ball, mario party, etc) for other platforms.
I've got a bunch of games on my PSP and have been playing them for a while. NFSU is FAR slower than anything else I've played - to the point of being jerky at times. Given the super slickness of games like Ridge Racer, I'd lay the blame at EA's door.
Sony have already taken over a market owned by Nintendo and Sega. Sega no longer make hardware, and Nintendo are left with one marginally successful line (GC), and one which supports their company (GB/DS). I wouldn't be comfortable if I worked for the big N right now.
A 1gb MS Duo is $110, so 40GB would be $4400. Sure it's a lot, but you are out by more than 100%. PSP is not an iPod, plenty of people use flash mp3 players with less than 1gb on them. It might not suit you, but it might suit others just fine.
I can get a portable DVD player, and have all my DVD extras (because I'm fairly certain all the bonus features I buy DVDs for won't be on UMDs), and not have to buy my movies all over again.
Or you can rip your exising DVDs to mp4, and watch them on your PSP for free, just like I do.
Sony really hopes that they can sell tons and tons of Memory Sticks.
Given that they overcharge for MS versus what others (like SanDisk) charge, I don't think they'll be selling many.
So, yeah, it's a gaming device
It's a FUCKING good gaming device. And you're right, that's what's important.
I don't think Apple is in the game of mixing functionalities (I think Sony is a better contender for that). That is why there is no FM tuner in iPods.
So an iPod (a music player) can't have an FM tuner (for listening to music) but can have an address book, calender, games and (now) a photo viewer & TV output? Riiiight...
In the long run, that is a false option. More and more CDs are copy protected and eventually there will be no more cds made, just as they no longer make LPs
Wow. All this brand new vinyl I bought the other day must be a figment of my imagination. Time to lay off the acid...
Sure Sega and Atari have innovated in software - in fact Sega continue to make excellent games. However, this is about hardware platforms. The Xbox, GC & PS2 are technically excellent consoles, which do what the gamers want. They also have created good first party games and licensed good third party ones. Atari came up with the Jaguar (oh my gosh) which let you play Tempest 3k (oh dear) and Sega gave us the Dreamcast, which had it's own problems.
I'm glad Sega are still around (my brother works for them) but I like them more as a software house than a hardware company.
I would hate to see Nintendo go the way of Sega and Atari; beat out of the markets they practically invented (collectively) and are completely dedicated to --by outsiders Sony and Microsoft.
How long the company has been around is unimportant. The company that best provides what the customer wants deserves to win. Atari & Sega failed (as hardware companies) because their products failed in the market. They have no-one to blame for that than themselves.
Can the optical drive in it read/play mini-DVDs/mini-CDs?
No - it can only read UMD discs.
Can you use the craptacular cheap Memory Sticks (not the Memory MG Sitck Duo Extra Gate Super WHAT THE FSCK?!!/Denis Leary) ones?
No, it will only take DUO (which means small in Sony speak) cards - either Pro or not-pro, that doesn't matter.
if i can drop two or three lowly compressed DiVX movies on a 1 Gig stick, i'm in
Yes you can, I do that already. It's not strictly-speaking Divx (it's some baseline mp4 codec) but there are plenty of free (beer) tools which will do the conversion for you.
FYI, I use a 0.5gb card and get a couple of hours video on it at high quality, cost me $60. A 1gb is about $110.
I've got significantly over 3 hours playing Ridge Racer, more again playing Lumines.
One other thing to note - batteries are available and easy to swap out - unlike other handhelds. If you're going on a long hour flight, just take a spare.
Where do you shop? 1gb memory card for the PSP is $110. Not that you need a gig, I can easily fit a couple of hours of video at excellent quality on a 0.5gb card (which cost $60).
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Just to correct some facts:
PSP games are $50 First party PSP games are $40, third party are $50. That's current pricing anyway, we can expect changes I'm sure over time.
1 GB cards start around $150, but you still get less than TV resolution
Actually, they start at $110. And a 512mb (which will easily hold a couple of hours of video at excellent quality) starts at around $55. The picture quality on DVD rips is stunning, the screen on the PSP really is top notch.
Indeed, that has to be one of the ugliest laptops I've ever seen. The quality of construction is terrible.
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Ripping is with your ripper of choice (I use DVD decrypter to rip each episode into a seperate VOB file). There are a number of conversion tools available, personally I use Rapiz which is kinda hacky (and potentially license violating) but it works well. There are a number of other products, some free, some not. Rapiz is mainly based on 3GP so if you google that you should get a lot of info.
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The feature the PSP needs to be sucessful (the ability to view content you already own on your PSP) will probably not happen.
Already has happened. I'm currently trying to "catch up" with Alias (only discovered it recently) so I bought all the box sets. Now I'm watching them every day on my commute to/from work, on my PSP. It's really easy to rip & convert, I even get it in widescreen as originally intended. A 512 mb card can easily hold 2 episodes with excellent quality. I really don't see your problem.
Did you even read my post? No. Or you're too dumb to understand it.
Don't like it? Sue me, i didnt agree to your license and since you didnt force me to prove i read it and agreed before i viewed your code, you lose.
If you didn't read the license, or didn't understand the license then you fall into case 2 of my post - you are bound by regular copyright law. Regular copyright law says you may not use any of my work without my explicit permission. You don't have it. Thus, you're breaking the law. What part of that don't you understand? This is NOTHING to do with the GPL, it's pure copyright law, which has been tested in and out of court hundreds of times.
Analogy: If I post an article on a web page and you copy it for your mid term paper, you've just broken copyright law - simply by making it available for you to READ I do not give you the right to MODIFY or REPUBLISH it.
Personally I don't think it holds water, and ill do whatever I please with any code that was released
If you're doing anything commercial (which I doubt) you're setting your company up for a very big and expensive fall. You deserve to be fired. If (as I suspect) you're some sweaty kid writing crap that no-one wants, carry on. No-one cares about you.
Of course it has "legal weight" - it's a license. Let's say I'm a company who takes GPL product A and modifies it, releasing it to the public in my closed source commercial product B.
Now, one of two things is true:
1) I have exercised the rights granted to me under the GPL to modify and redistribute this code. I thus implicitly acknowledge it's validity and am bound by it. By not releasing the source of my modifications, I am breaking it's terms and have no legal leg to stand on whatsoever. Guilty.
2) I believe the GPL is invalid, and choose to ignore it. In this case, I am breaking standard copyright law - I have taken a copyrighted work and both modified and distributed it without permission. This is exactly the same as standing outside Best Buy selling bootleg DVDs. Guilty.
In short, you either are distributing because you acknowledge the GPL, or you're breaking the law anyway.
Firefox isn't perfect. I'm an experienced html coder, but haven't played with CSS2 much. I was doing a quick page the other day - read the spec, coded the page. Looked at it in IE - fine, just as I had expected it to look (actually I was surprised IE rendered it properly). Then I tried Firefox - big mess.
I won't argue that IE is borked, and FF is a massive improvement - but FF is a long way from being a reference CSS2 impl.
You're thinking too small. This isn't retail banking, it's corporate banking. Accounts with millions flowing through them every day, the transactions will be small enough not to cause a blip. Additionally, if you have access to enter the txn you may well have (or be able to get) access to approve it. Then it's all OK...
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I used to have a Tivo, loved it. Now I have a Cablevision DVR box. By comparison, the UI sucks, and it's 100% very reliable (having said that, neither was my Tivo, for different reasons). However, the huge difference in cost, coupled with being able to record two shows at once and full support for HDTV and Dolby Digital sound mean there's no way I'd go back to Tivo.
Well, looking on the bright side, Sony have gone from competing with Sony to creating some of the best games on that platform. There's nothing stopping Nintendo becoming a software house and publishing those great games (I love monkey ball, mario party, etc) for other platforms.
I've got a bunch of games on my PSP and have been playing them for a while. NFSU is FAR slower than anything else I've played - to the point of being jerky at times. Given the super slickness of games like Ridge Racer, I'd lay the blame at EA's door.
s/Xbox/PlayStation/g
s/MS/Sony/g
Sony have already taken over a market owned by Nintendo and Sega. Sega no longer make hardware, and Nintendo are left with one marginally successful line (GC), and one which supports their company (GB/DS). I wouldn't be comfortable if I worked for the big N right now.
40 GB of Memory Stick Duos is over $10K
A 1gb MS Duo is $110, so 40GB would be $4400. Sure it's a lot, but you are out by more than 100%. PSP is not an iPod, plenty of people use flash mp3 players with less than 1gb on them. It might not suit you, but it might suit others just fine.
I can get a portable DVD player, and have all my DVD extras (because I'm fairly certain all the bonus features I buy DVDs for won't be on UMDs), and not have to buy my movies all over again.
Or you can rip your exising DVDs to mp4, and watch them on your PSP for free, just like I do.
Sony really hopes that they can sell tons and tons of Memory Sticks.
Given that they overcharge for MS versus what others (like SanDisk) charge, I don't think they'll be selling many.
So, yeah, it's a gaming device
It's a FUCKING good gaming device. And you're right, that's what's important.
When you can't see out of the hole anymore, stop digging.
I don't think Apple is in the game of mixing functionalities (I think Sony is a better contender for that). That is why there is no FM tuner in iPods.
So an iPod (a music player) can't have an FM tuner (for listening to music) but can have an address book, calender, games and (now) a photo viewer & TV output? Riiiight...
In the long run, that is a false option. More and more CDs are copy protected and eventually there will be no more cds made, just as they no longer make LPs
Wow. All this brand new vinyl I bought the other day must be a figment of my imagination. Time to lay off the acid...
Sure Sega and Atari have innovated in software - in fact Sega continue to make excellent games. However, this is about hardware platforms. The Xbox, GC & PS2 are technically excellent consoles, which do what the gamers want. They also have created good first party games and licensed good third party ones. Atari came up with the Jaguar (oh my gosh) which let you play Tempest 3k (oh dear) and Sega gave us the Dreamcast, which had it's own problems.
I'm glad Sega are still around (my brother works for them) but I like them more as a software house than a hardware company.
I would hate to see Nintendo go the way of Sega and Atari; beat out of the markets they practically invented (collectively) and are completely dedicated to --by outsiders Sony and Microsoft.
How long the company has been around is unimportant. The company that best provides what the customer wants deserves to win. Atari & Sega failed (as hardware companies) because their products failed in the market. They have no-one to blame for that than themselves.
Anyone with a flash card reader can use the DS for movies
Anyone with a flash card reader can use the PSP for movies. Just put your DVD rips on a memory stick and away you go.
Can the optical drive in it read/play mini-DVDs/mini-CDs?
No - it can only read UMD discs.
Can you use the craptacular cheap Memory Sticks (not the Memory MG Sitck Duo Extra Gate Super WHAT THE FSCK?!!/Denis Leary) ones?
No, it will only take DUO (which means small in Sony speak) cards - either Pro or not-pro, that doesn't matter.
if i can drop two or three lowly compressed DiVX movies on a 1 Gig stick, i'm in
Yes you can, I do that already. It's not strictly-speaking Divx (it's some baseline mp4 codec) but there are plenty of free (beer) tools which will do the conversion for you.
FYI, I use a 0.5gb card and get a couple of hours video on it at high quality, cost me $60. A 1gb is about $110.
I've got significantly over 3 hours playing Ridge Racer, more again playing Lumines.
One other thing to note - batteries are available and easy to swap out - unlike other handhelds. If you're going on a long hour flight, just take a spare.
And I haven't really seen the listings for UMD movies, so, pardon me if I'm a bit dubious as to the use of that particular venue
Just rip your DVD collection to memory sticks, I've been watching movies (and TV shows) on my PSP for a while now.
another $250 (US) for 1GB + Memory Cards
Where do you shop? 1gb memory card for the PSP is $110. Not that you need a gig, I can easily fit a couple of hours of video at excellent quality on a 0.5gb card (which cost $60).
Just to correct some facts:
PSP games are $50
First party PSP games are $40, third party are $50. That's current pricing anyway, we can expect changes I'm sure over time.
1 GB cards start around $150, but you still get less than TV resolution
Actually, they start at $110. And a 512mb (which will easily hold a couple of hours of video at excellent quality) starts at around $55. The picture quality on DVD rips is stunning, the screen on the PSP really is top notch.
Indeed, that has to be one of the ugliest laptops I've ever seen. The quality of construction is terrible.
Ripping is with your ripper of choice (I use DVD decrypter to rip each episode into a seperate VOB file). There are a number of conversion tools available, personally I use Rapiz which is kinda hacky (and potentially license violating) but it works well. There are a number of other products, some free, some not. Rapiz is mainly based on 3GP so if you google that you should get a lot of info.
The feature the PSP needs to be sucessful (the ability to view content you already own on your PSP) will probably not happen.
Already has happened. I'm currently trying to "catch up" with Alias (only discovered it recently) so I bought all the box sets. Now I'm watching them every day on my commute to/from work, on my PSP. It's really easy to rip & convert, I even get it in widescreen as originally intended. A 512 mb card can easily hold 2 episodes with excellent quality. I really don't see your problem.
What the guy posted was VBScript, only available on Internet Explorer.
And ASP...
Did you even read my post? No. Or you're too dumb to understand it.
Don't like it? Sue me, i didnt agree to your license and since you didnt force me to prove i read it and agreed before i viewed your code, you lose.
If you didn't read the license, or didn't understand the license then you fall into case 2 of my post - you are bound by regular copyright law. Regular copyright law says you may not use any of my work without my explicit permission. You don't have it. Thus, you're breaking the law. What part of that don't you understand? This is NOTHING to do with the GPL, it's pure copyright law, which has been tested in and out of court hundreds of times.
Analogy: If I post an article on a web page and you copy it for your mid term paper, you've just broken copyright law - simply by making it available for you to READ I do not give you the right to MODIFY or REPUBLISH it.
Personally I don't think it holds water, and ill do whatever I please with any code that was released
If you're doing anything commercial (which I doubt) you're setting your company up for a very big and expensive fall. You deserve to be fired. If (as I suspect) you're some sweaty kid writing crap that no-one wants, carry on. No-one cares about you.
Of course it has "legal weight" - it's a license. Let's say I'm a company who takes GPL product A and modifies it, releasing it to the public in my closed source commercial product B.
Now, one of two things is true:
1) I have exercised the rights granted to me under the GPL to modify and redistribute this code. I thus implicitly acknowledge it's validity and am bound by it. By not releasing the source of my modifications, I am breaking it's terms and have no legal leg to stand on whatsoever. Guilty.
2) I believe the GPL is invalid, and choose to ignore it. In this case, I am breaking standard copyright law - I have taken a copyrighted work and both modified and distributed it without permission. This is exactly the same as standing outside Best Buy selling bootleg DVDs. Guilty.
In short, you either are distributing because you acknowledge the GPL, or you're breaking the law anyway.
Firefox isn't perfect. I'm an experienced html coder, but haven't played with CSS2 much. I was doing a quick page the other day - read the spec, coded the page. Looked at it in IE - fine, just as I had expected it to look (actually I was surprised IE rendered it properly). Then I tried Firefox - big mess.
I won't argue that IE is borked, and FF is a massive improvement - but FF is a long way from being a reference CSS2 impl.
Did no-one pay any attention to SpiderMan 2? I mean I know Kirsten's nipples are distracting and all, but come on - it's all there!
You're thinking too small. This isn't retail banking, it's corporate banking. Accounts with millions flowing through them every day, the transactions will be small enough not to cause a blip. Additionally, if you have access to enter the txn you may well have (or be able to get) access to approve it. Then it's all OK...