calagan800xl - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Sony could've gone the other way - pure utopia (Score 1) 261

by calagan800xl on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:35AM (#29655521) Attached to: Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go"

The old Sony (from 15 years ago) would've done the following:
- Open up the console themselves so that people wouldn't need to jailbreak it
- Pitch it as an open, portable multimedia + gaming device. Sell it for more money because people were buying it for the extra features.

Although I've been around since betamax, I've never heard of the "old Sony" or any other major competitor that would be suicidal enough to open up their console as you suggest. The friendly koreans from GamePark attempted it, but they won't be around for much longer.

Comment Re:Piracy didn't harm nintendo (Score 1) 261

by calagan800xl on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:22AM (#29655451) Attached to: Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go"

Both the Wii and DS are far more piracy ridden, and simpler to mod to allow copied games.

Considering that you can hack any PSP for free (except the PSPGo for now), with no additional hardware, in a matter of minutes, I strongly disagree with this statement.

Comment Re:Movies??? - pfui - GAMES (Score 4, Insightful) 261

by calagan800xl on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:14AM (#29655407) Attached to: Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go"

Many people (including you apparently) don't get the fact that the PSPGo is not meant to be a replacement for the PSP-3000. The UMD-friendly PSP will still be available after the PSPGo's launch, so the comparison with the PS3 is not really relevant

Comment yawn (Score 1) 611

by calagan800xl on Monday August 31, 2009 @05:02AM (#29258405) Attached to: India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months

Pakistani and/or Chinese nukes make maneuverability irrelevant

Comment PC gaming is dead (Score 1) 461

by calagan800xl on Monday August 24, 2009 @06:27AM (#29171047) Attached to: Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely

Carmack should reconsider releasing games on PC altogether, whether it is on Windows or Linux. Today's console capabilities -especially when it comes to HD display- make PC gaming irrelevant. Ever since I bought a PS3, My PC became Windows-free as gaming seems to be the only reason to keep paying for a Windows license nowadays.

Comment Re:That's a lot of patches (Score 1) 237

by calagan800xl on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:56AM (#28276525) Attached to: Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday

There are several products like Shavlik Netchk, which allow you to patch commonly-used applications like Adobe, Firefox, Java, etc... at the same time as MS OS and applications.

Comment Re:I need better proxy support (Score 1) 78

by calagan800xl on Monday April 27, 2009 @11:30AM (#27730725) Attached to: Linux Boxee Users Get Hulu Relief

I've subscribed to a UK proxy so I can watch the BBC here in the states, and while boxee lets me enter a web proxy, it doesn't have any provisions for entering a username and password. At least it didn't a couple weeks ago. I really would love that capability...

Sheldon

ntlmaps should do the trick

Comment Re:The Next "Killer App" (Score 1) 78

by calagan800xl on Monday April 27, 2009 @11:28AM (#27730685) Attached to: Linux Boxee Users Get Hulu Relief

I run Boxee on a Mac Mini, despite being a Linux fan. It just works.

I've run Ubuntu Hardy with Boxee on a low-end Mac Mini for months: it works fine too.

Comment Family car (Score 2, Interesting) 128

by calagan800xl on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @05:26AM (#27238607) Attached to: The Lightning Hybrid and the Inizio EV

I think there's a bigger need for a decently-sized, affordable electric car than a Tesla Competitor. That's why EV Innovations' PT Cruiser conversion (Liv Surge), priced at 55K seems much more interesting.

Comment PSN or XBox Live services are the way to go (Score 1) 763

by calagan800xl on Friday February 20, 2009 @11:29AM (#26929745) Attached to: Do Video Games Cost Too Much?

There are more and more excellent games available on recent console's online services. I really applaud Sony for making major titles like Warhawk, Burnout Paradise or WipeOutHD available for below 30$. On the other hand, most of the available addons (eg. all those GH3 addons) don't add enough value to be paid for

Comment Re:Litmus test - Yes (Score 1) 226

by calagan800xl on Friday July 18, 2008 @03:08AM (#24238653) Attached to: GDocs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho vs. MS Office

I have a variety of resumes in different formats (from plain text to Flash depending on where I'm applying to), but for the more sober version, I'm pretty happy with the one I did in Google Docs. It's quite handy to be able to generate a .pdf wherever you are located.

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