I love my PSP. Well, actually, I love Lumines and Katamari Damacy.
But somethings about it really blow. Games seem to take an eternity to load, but apparently Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 takes the biscuit. 6 and a half minutes to go from turning on to playing the game. WTF???
Hilarious video was on youtube but taken down – mirrored over at pspupdates.
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<!Hugh has been a roll since getting a new tablet PC. I can understand why – after 5 minutes of playing with a friend’s tablet, I was smitten. Come on Apple, you know you want to announce a super-thin 12” tablet core duo tomorrow. Please?
Anyway, as usual, Hugh’s sketches are awesome, and having them come thick and fast over the last few days has been great.
Hey, if it works for Hugh and Stormhoek then why shouldn’t it work for Sun and servers?
Johnathan Schwartz, COO of Sun, announced on his blog that Sun is giving away servers for a 60 day free trial. Blog about it and you might get to keep it. Sweet. OK, not quite the same as Stormhoek’s blog-if-you-feel-like-it approach, but still a great idea.
First off, a disclaimer: I used to work for Sun a few years ago…
Since using them extensively at university, I’ve been a big fan of Sun’s hardware. Incredibly well built and rock solid. Sure, it’s often not the fastest thing around, and it certainly isn’t the cheapest, but it’s sweet.
But, since I’m now a whole lot closer to the cashflow of the business, I find it very hard to justify Sun equipment. A bunch of Dells are dirt cheap (I mean, really cheap), reliable and bloomin’ fast. I mean, for the price of the new Sun Niagara, I could get about 8 fully loaded Dell boxen. That’s a whole lot of computing.
However, I was around Sun when the Niagara specs first came around, and was involved with some of the early goings-on, but left the company before any hardware made it to our department. Suddenly Sun is very interesting again. Those specs are something else. The Niagara was designed exactly for what we are up to here. High throughput, low floating point. Dishing up the pages and data as fast as possible. It’s going to have a hard time competing with 8×2.8GHz Xeons, but still, an 8-core Niagara with 16GB of memory is going to fly. Just how high, I don’t know – yet. The single point of failure is a problem, but Suns have 2xPSUs and lots of RAID’d drives. But Sun’s reliability and on-site support are second to none, so hopefully not a problem.
Needless to say, we’ve applied for the trial. Fingers crossed about being accepted. And of course, extensive results will be blogged.
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<!My smiley Finder icon seems to have vacated the dock. What’s up, Happy Finder? Not happy with the dock anymore?
The DS is going to get a cart with Opera on. Sweet! Can imagine it working really well with the stylus and Opera has a lot of experience making awesome small-screen browsers. Hopefully the big N will embed this in future versions of the DS.
via the fantastic 4 colour rebellion
Been watching ‘The IT Crowd’ – the new geek-friendly sitcom. Some amusing moments – but as any new sitcom, it needs a bit of time for characters to warm up, but better than I expected. Obviously some true geeks on the production team, so some geek in-jokes in there and some great retro toys scattered around their office.
Noticed the ‘BBC Buggy’ sat there. I’ve not seen one of those for 20 years or so. Cool. Wonder where they picked that up from? Sweet.
Update: Woah, check out the cool “I’m a BBC Buggy Driver” badge up on ebay. Wicked.
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Idiot Toys provides by far the best review and insight into the just announced Sony Ericsson M600. We need more analysis as indepth and insightful as this.
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<!Oh how I’d forgotten the pain and suffering that comes along with PHP. Having to briefly use PHP. Rails not an option.
Feels… so… dirty…
However, MAMP is proving to be a godsend. Makes the processes just a little bit less painful. Great work, guys. Very very helpful package of PHP, MySQL, Apache and tools for OS X.
This, I didn’t know:
1926
English confectioner Terry’s of York introduces a chocolate apple; 20 segments of chocolate flavored with apple. It proved so popular a chocolate orange was introduced a few years later.
Woah. Terry’s Chocolate Apple. I guess the Chocolate Orange proved a lot more popular in the long run (and is one of my favourite treats). Damn, I want to try the Apple version!!
From the History of Kraft Foods via Seth Godin.
