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Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus' (Spinner)

Nov 4th 2009 2:52AM Superb show. Utterly owned by internet comment, well done Fiery Furnaces. Not only missing the point by several hundred miles but also getting the number of notes wrong.

Palm kills the Foleo dead (Engadget)

Sep 4th 2007 7:00PM I doubt it's 'down the tubes' anyway - it's reasonable to assume that they'll reinvest some of the Foleo R&D into the next gen Treo, since they're both Linux-based.

How I learned to stop worrying and love Palm again (Download Squad)

Aug 30th 2007 1:56PM Hazkid - you might try "The Prison" for a decent breakout game, if Hardball doesn't work any more:
www.freewarepalm.com/games/theprison.shtml

And check mytreo.net downloads section for games, there are some real gems in there, and the vast majority are not Treo-specific ('Arcade Reality' being the notable exception).

How I learned to stop worrying and love Palm again (Download Squad)

Aug 29th 2007 7:37PM btw the current LJP site is http://little-john.net

One of the main developers is Henk (Metaview), same guy responsible for PalmPDF. Palm should be paying him, IMO.

How I learned to stop worrying and love Palm again (Download Squad)

Aug 29th 2007 5:19PM I'm pretty sure that the T|X has the same specs - more or less - as the Treo 650, which is what I tote. So here are my picks.

Most of my utilities are Treo-centric, but if you have (or buy) a Bluetooth GPS unit, look up CotoGPS for all sorts of cool GPS logging stuff, including the ability to export tracks to Google Earth, which I think is pretty awesome.

As for games, I don't care for the Astraware stuff much, personally. Commercially (with demos), try viex.org (especially Table Tennis 3D) and toyspring.com (especially Bike or Die). Freeware, try RocketChu and Marbles2 (as in 'squared'). My wife is addicted to Marbles. Google the names to get 'em. But the killer app for me is LJP, a fantastic multi-console emulator. It does Atari, NES and GB(C) games especially well. Excitebike, Tennis, RC Pro-Am, all the early Mario games, etc x1000. The games look and run great on the small screen, and the controls adapt really well to the Palm layout, especially with the little d-pad :)

There are other good emulators too, but generally you have to be dedicated to making them work, whereas LJP you just hit the icon and go. Get a nice big SD card for all the roms for the games (that you already legally own, of course).

So.. I'll be buying an iPhone when I can play Prince of Persia on it. Ha! :D

btw, according to this page - http://www.idealog.us/2005/10/using_the_palm_.html - PalmVNC works fine on the TX. Maybe you need a newer version? also, TCPMP did have an AAC codec, but they took it out for legal reasons. It's still available though - ask the big G for help with that.

Acorn Computers to be reborn as laptop maker (Engadget)

May 5th 2006 2:57PM FWIW, Commodore and Amiga mean as much (in fact probably a lot more) to Brits of a certain age than they do to Yanks. When I was in primary school, you either had a Sinclair Spectrum, a C64 or a BBC Micro Model B (which was made by Acorn, and was named as it was the machine chosen by the BBC to be the base for all their "home computer" education programmes). Or a TRS80. If you were way behind the curve, maybe you had a ZX81 or a VIC-20.

Most people had a Speccy cos they were cheap and had loads of games, the 64 was next in popularity and then the big, rather nerdy, worthy old Beeb - a lot less games but better for 'real computing' cos of its full keyboard and copious learning resources.

Still - in-house software division Acornsoft did great arcade ripoffs (their Defender clone 'Planetoid' was awesome), it had the best version of Chuckie Egg, it had Geoff Crammond with Aviator (perhaps the first real flight sim) and Revs (the first real driving sim), and it's where Elite - the grandfather of all space trading/fighting sims was born.

After that though it was all Amiga or Atari ST, with the Acorn offerings way behind. Most of my peers had an Amiga cos it was obviously much better :D (except maybe for MIDI stuff) - I still have my old A500, a A1200, a CDTV(!) and I picked an original A1000 for $10 from Goodwill a couple of years ago. But only geeks in the US know about Amigas.

It didn't matter in the end of course, cos Windows came and killed them all.

I actually went to university with one of the top Archimedes game programmers, Tom Cooper, and spent many a happy hour "beta-testing" Cycloids and Hamsters (instead of doing coursework and going to classes). Great games.

Pontiac unveils Red Bull Solstice GXP drifter to replace GTO (Autoblog)

May 4th 2006 1:05AM Let's get a few things straight. Whether you think it's a sport or not, these guys have serious skills. Sam Hubinette was an ice racer in Sweden, Rhys grew up rally driving (hey, both requires serious sideways car control... go figure..). But I guess ice racing is really just powersliding on ice, and rally is really just powersliding on dirt, and all WRC cars are 20 feet long for the increased polar inertia. Right.

The reason they're winning is cos they're experienced, talented drivers with great teams behind them. The reason that US teams are dominating Formula D is because it's a US championship with a US audience. I don't see too many GM, DCX or Ford teams competing in D1. Cos that's a Japanese championship, with sponsors for a Japanese audience. The sponsors over there tend to be parts and tuners anyway, not manufacturers.

Why aren't the Japanese manufacturers stepping up here? Well they are, just not as overtly. Nissan apparently supplied Chris Forsberg's new car. I believe that Honda has some involvement with Steph Papadakis, not sure about Alex Pfeiffer. But most of the others don't have a RWD sports car (Toyota, Mitsu, Subaru), and Mazda already has a huge motorsports program. Drifting is the wrong image for Lexus and the Euro premiums, so you're left with the US teams.

Secondly, both Rhys and Sam have (at least) one 'day job' each..
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1949623/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1784667/

The figure skating analogy is tired. Plenty of sports/activities are based on judged points outcomes. Skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, hell even boxing is scored by a judging panel. Drifting is judged on technical criteria - entry speed, angle and so on.

When it comes down to it, you're standing at the edge of the track with two cars coming towards you sideways at 80mph, screaming past inches apart with the crowd roaring. At its best, it's a visceral experience, just like motorsport should be. You can smell it, feel it in your stomach, pick the bits of rubber out of your hair. Everyone from my 5 year old son to my 70+ year old father-in-law has enjoyed seeing it live.

Hopefully that helps explain a few things.

TiVo's new pricing includes box, drops lifetime plan (Engadget)

Mar 10th 2006 3:24PM #49: Huh? We (TiVo subscribers) weren't interested in helping TiVo make a profit? Well.. no, that's true, I think we were interested in time-shifting television programs.

Who do you think puts rebate programs together? And why?

I'd love to hear how you figure that long-term, loyal, evangelising subscribers aren't valuable to a company. If not them (us) then who?