The problem is it adds no value to what I really would want it for: playing games. Personally, I couldn't give a damn about high-def movies, or browsing the web or playing games over the internet. There aren't any PS3's left with full back-compatability and of the games exclusive to the console, nothing even remotely interests me.
If you don't care about high-def movies, then take solace in that the PS3 can store something like twice what the 360 in it's games due to the extra space in blu ray disks. That means that the if all you use the PS3 for is playing games, the graphical potential is higher, as well as the sort of Mass Effect epic storyline potential (think of what that game might have been if instead of 7 gigs of available content (dual layer dvd) it had 25 gigs of available content (blu ray)). Browsing the web might not be great for slashdot, but if you do enjoy modding games, it gives you a medium to do so, and thus brings it more to feature parity with PC gaming. As to the backward-capability, yea not all models are created equal, but there are still 80 gig models left in stores (2 out of the 3 gamestops within 3 miles of my house still have a few 80 gigs).
I couldn't give a damn about high-def movies, or browsing the web or playing games over the internet.
Yet the fact that the 360 doesn't come with wireless internet bothers you? I agree that MS wayyyyyyyyyy overcharges for their wireless adapter (I bought mine off of newegg and saved $10. now apparently the savings is $12), but you contradict yourself in saying internet gaming doesn't matter to you, then complaining the 360 doesn't have the wireless internet capabilities.
I don't see why people think that the PS3 is expensive. Think of how much you would pay for each feature of the system separately.
PS3: - Blu Ray player: $250++ (on the low end) - Games: $100++ (PS2 is like $100ish, and the ps3 has much much much better graphics + potential awesomeness due to blu ray capacity) - Internet Gameplay: $50 (Its 50 a year for XBL, for the PS3 its "free" (in the cost of the games and system))
Congrats, now your at $400. Now think of all the other things you can do with it.
- Upscale DVD's - Play PS1 + PS2 games upscaled (if you have the right one =/) - Browse the web (and thus "mod" games. - "Hack the matrix" - Home (the "Second Life"-like game/thing) - and More! (firmware updates)
And yes, it even runs Linux!
Seriously though, for all the things you get, I think the PS3 is by far the best value per dollar of the three next gen consoles.
reading the comments mindlessly defending how this is not "evil". Google is now beholden only to investors and the all-mighty dollar. Everything is fair game.
Actually, this would imply that Google is somewhat at the call of the government. Why they would give up the IP address when they didn't have to is beyond my knowledge, but unless the prosecutors in the case were investors or bribing Google, this only shows that business in a country is bound by the laws in that country.
Ubuntu is (for the most part) a Gnome environment. Kubuntu is the KDE oriented version of Ubuntu. At this point, Kubuntu lacks the polish seen in Ubuntu. As you seem to be getting your feet wet, you probably would want to stick with Ubuntu and its polished Gnome environment.
As I understand it, that is one of the things the K/Ubuntu Dev's want to work on in the next release. Ubuntu has some Gnome only features that they want to transfer over so that Ubuntu + Kubuntu have feature parity, which will probably help with some of the rough edges that you speak of.
This post is the best I've ever read that "confirms" that the majority of the problem is in fragmentation.
There still is some sort of problem though, as this guy notes when he says (emphasis mine):
Our heap is now 29,999,872 bytes! 16,118,072 of that is used (up 4,634,208 bytes from before... which caches am I forgetting to clear?). The rest, a whopping 13,881,800 bytes, is in free blocks! These are mostly scattered in between tiny used blocks. This is bad.
I think it depends on where you live. I live on the South Side of Chicago, not far from where the St. Patrick's day parade runs. It is a very Irish area, with a mixture of "rich" and middle-class people. I say "rich" based off of what people's houses are worth, as a large amount of people bought their houses 15-20 years ago here for under 100k, and with the real estate boom some houses were selling for as much as 500-600k. Essentially what I am trying to say is that (except for race), this area tends to be somewhat diverse in political beliefs, financial status, and religious beliefs.
Given that, depending on what block you live on, you see different things. Some blocks are mostly populated with older folks and so you almost never see anyone. Other blocks, such as my own, have a relatively large number of kids under the age of 16, so I will see kids running around, playing wiffleball in the street intersections, skateboarding (or trying to) along the block, etc. I don't think that if a kid got hurt doing something, unless it was under conditions that warranted action, the parents would sue. Maybe it's just a difference of where you live or the personality's the people on the block, but there are numerous other blocks that have a similar situation to our around our neighborhood.
I think that some parents/members of society get out of hand with the PC issue. Recently there was an article online about mall Santa's not being able to say "Ho Ho Ho" because of the negative homonym (if thats the right -nym) of Ho. That's an example of politically correctness getting out of hand. A sesame street DVD getting rated AO because the cookie monster eats a pipe is also above and beyond bad. However, I think that when you are hearing about the "pussification" of American children, its just the media taking a story and reporting on it, which has that vocal minority effect that makes it look like everyone feels the same way. When on the other hand there are white kids playing ball in the streets here in big bad chicago. How could their parents let them do such a thing!?!? Maybe their different from everyone in the US, or maybe not everyone in America is busy pussifying their children.
I don't think its a problem you'll need to worry about anytime soon. According to this, only 0.41% of about 165000 Steam users (when I just checked) have 2 GPU's. The number is probably way smaller for 3 card users, and probably barely anyone has a 4 card setup. The performance just doesn't scale well enough in SLI/Crossfire for it to be worth it to buy two GPU's. IIRC the performance increase in framerate is only around 30% if you are using two of the same model of GPU. It's just not cost effective enough for the masses to want to spend on these.
SJobs claimed in the keynote when he unveiled Time Machine that 80% knew they should back up regularly, 26% did backup data, but only 4% did backups on a regular basis.
I got those numbers from here, but those numbers were first released (made up?;P) at WWDC earlier this year IIRC.
Only if those big corporations are losing more money to patent trolls than they are gaining through their own patent litigation (or via the market exclusion that their patents afford them). The problem is that the big companies generally benefit from the current patent system overall, even if sometimes they have to pay some small troll.
Reminds me of:
Edward Norton: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Woman: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Slashdot Mirror
I for one, welcome our new nuclear blast surviving Zombie Cockroaches.
I hear those are what "I am Legend" is about.
If you don't care about high-def movies, then take solace in that the PS3 can store something like twice what the 360 in it's games due to the extra space in blu ray disks. That means that the if all you use the PS3 for is playing games, the graphical potential is higher, as well as the sort of Mass Effect epic storyline potential (think of what that game might have been if instead of 7 gigs of available content (dual layer dvd) it had 25 gigs of available content (blu ray)). Browsing the web might not be great for slashdot, but if you do enjoy modding games, it gives you a medium to do so, and thus brings it more to feature parity with PC gaming. As to the backward-capability, yea not all models are created equal, but there are still 80 gig models left in stores (2 out of the 3 gamestops within 3 miles of my house still have a few 80 gigs).
Yet the fact that the 360 doesn't come with wireless internet bothers you? I agree that MS wayyyyyyyyyy overcharges for their wireless adapter (I bought mine off of newegg and saved $10. now apparently the savings is $12), but you contradict yourself in saying internet gaming doesn't matter to you, then complaining the 360 doesn't have the wireless internet capabilities.
Giggle?
I don't see why people think that the PS3 is expensive. Think of how much you would pay for each feature of the system separately.
PS3:
- Blu Ray player: $250++ (on the low end)
- Games: $100++ (PS2 is like $100ish, and the ps3 has much much much better graphics + potential awesomeness due to blu ray capacity)
- Internet Gameplay: $50 (Its 50 a year for XBL, for the PS3 its "free" (in the cost of the games and system))
Congrats, now your at $400. Now think of all the other things you can do with it.
- Upscale DVD's
- Play PS1 + PS2 games upscaled (if you have the right one =/)
- Browse the web (and thus "mod" games.
- "Hack the matrix"
- Home (the "Second Life"-like game/thing)
- and More! (firmware updates)
And yes, it even runs Linux!
Seriously though, for all the things you get, I think the PS3 is by far the best value per dollar of the three next gen consoles.
The J is silent.
fox news?
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wjat?
Shouldn't that be something more like:
...
1. Get fired for sloppy licensing.
2. Rat your ex company out to the BSA.
3. ???
4. ???
41. ???
42. Profit!
Shhhhh...
/me puts on tinfoil hat
you never know then their listening [/whisper]
As I understand it, that is one of the things the K/Ubuntu Dev's want to work on in the next release. Ubuntu has some Gnome only features that they want to transfer over so that Ubuntu + Kubuntu have feature parity, which will probably help with some of the rough edges that you speak of.
Something bad happening to one or two P2P site admins could give new meaning to the "MAFIAA" moniker of the RIAA/MPAA/CRIA.
There still is some sort of problem though, as this guy notes when he says (emphasis mine):
They don't need to "take crack", but at least reading some of the literature on the subject might help.
I think it depends on where you live. I live on the South Side of Chicago, not far from where the St. Patrick's day parade runs. It is a very Irish area, with a mixture of "rich" and middle-class people. I say "rich" based off of what people's houses are worth, as a large amount of people bought their houses 15-20 years ago here for under 100k, and with the real estate boom some houses were selling for as much as 500-600k. Essentially what I am trying to say is that (except for race), this area tends to be somewhat diverse in political beliefs, financial status, and religious beliefs. Given that, depending on what block you live on, you see different things. Some blocks are mostly populated with older folks and so you almost never see anyone. Other blocks, such as my own, have a relatively large number of kids under the age of 16, so I will see kids running around, playing wiffleball in the street intersections, skateboarding (or trying to) along the block, etc. I don't think that if a kid got hurt doing something, unless it was under conditions that warranted action, the parents would sue. Maybe it's just a difference of where you live or the personality's the people on the block, but there are numerous other blocks that have a similar situation to our around our neighborhood. I think that some parents/members of society get out of hand with the PC issue. Recently there was an article online about mall Santa's not being able to say "Ho Ho Ho" because of the negative homonym (if thats the right -nym) of Ho. That's an example of politically correctness getting out of hand. A sesame street DVD getting rated AO because the cookie monster eats a pipe is also above and beyond bad. However, I think that when you are hearing about the "pussification" of American children, its just the media taking a story and reporting on it, which has that vocal minority effect that makes it look like everyone feels the same way. When on the other hand there are white kids playing ball in the streets here in big bad chicago. How could their parents let them do such a thing!?!? Maybe their different from everyone in the US, or maybe not everyone in America is busy pussifying their children.
I don't think its a problem you'll need to worry about anytime soon. According to this, only 0.41% of about 165000 Steam users (when I just checked) have 2 GPU's. The number is probably way smaller for 3 card users, and probably barely anyone has a 4 card setup. The performance just doesn't scale well enough in SLI/Crossfire for it to be worth it to buy two GPU's. IIRC the performance increase in framerate is only around 30% if you are using two of the same model of GPU. It's just not cost effective enough for the masses to want to spend on these.
Wow, and here I was thinking 11 on a scale of 10 was badass. Just goes to show you how quickly you can get out of the loop with the newest technology.
www.pornotube.com
www.youporn.com
obviously NSFW.
Happy now? I bet you are (or will be in afew minutes). =)
Yes.
Its listed under system and finder.
Or is it?...
DUN DUN DUN!
Posts like this getting modded insightful scare the shit out of me.
SJobs claimed in the keynote when he unveiled Time Machine that 80% knew they should back up regularly, 26% did backup data, but only 4% did backups on a regular basis.
;P) at WWDC earlier this year IIRC.
I got those numbers from here, but those numbers were first released (made up?
I used to get in trouble at work for playing multiplayer notepad.
Known more commonly as IRC.