the PS3 can put out a ton of heat, but it's designed to withstand it.
If possible, try to keep that thing vertical. It's more efficient and quiet if you use the chimney design. But Folding at Home does use some electricity. My view is that I did put thousands of dollars into games and systems, so if I'm going to refuse to use it for good causes because of twenty bucks a year in electricity, I'm a bonehead.
Oh, and make sure you have good fire insurance! Unfortunately, my PS3 is often running folding at home while I'm on my xbox360 (not a diss against Sony, it's just my tastes). That PS3 ain't gonna burn up, but you never know about the 360 (I call mine 2.0 because it's been replaced).
I fail to see how this is a response to my comment.
It's not really relevant that you don't like the PS3's games very much. The fact is that the PS3 is far from gameless, as I was explaining through a mere couple of examples. I certainly agree that the 360 has more and better games, but again, it's a simple fact that the PS3 has improved a lot in this area.
Certainly, you are omitting a hell of a lot of really fine games for the PS3 by stating definitively that there are only three great PS3 games. How many Wii games are as nice as Ratchet? 1? 0? And the bar is going to keep going higher as the PS3 continues selling more and more games, consoles, etc. I sincerely doubt that the PS3 will ever be a better buy than the 360, but it's already a better buy than a wii from a certain point of view.
The Wii games you mention are replete with games that really cannot compete with PS3 games like Ratchet. Perhaps you are being unfair. Not to mention, most of them aren't new and are similar in quality to PS2 games. I have all three systems, and I just do not think the wii has anything interesting. If you really are arguing that people should go for a system with tons of ok games, obviously they should get a PS2 or a PS2 compatible PS3. Which is why both the PS2 and PS3 are selling in such high numbers in Europe that they are both approaching Wii console sales. I think the Sony systems were both around 65k and the Wii around 70k for the latest period reported.
Again, you're fine to have your prefs of course, but all I'm saying is that the PS3 is not gameless by any means, and I think you're ruling out several awesome PS3 games. Another banal point, that isn't so relevant to you perhaps, is that many of the good 360 games also exist on the PS3.
Let's see. I mention how I like the 360's game selection. And I mention how the PS3 has a cool factor from these types of interesting applications. So who am I trolling? It's true, the PS3 looks pretty cool, and it's fun to explain all the stuff it can do (linux or folding or whatever little story like this has popped up). It's also true that the 360 has more games selection, and that advantage is likely to persist.
Apparently more than one of you disagree with me (even think I'm trolling), so perhaps someoen else can explain to me why this is such a controversial view. I thought I was being even handed (and correct).
Whether you're right or wrong, the fact is that I can go out on the street and find someone in one minute who knows the basics of word and excel enough to confidently use it. I cannot do the same with virtually any other similarly useful program.
The crazy problems that Office has had over the years, and in my opinion has in 2007, only show how powerful the monopoly is, as I'm sure you'd agree.
It would be freaking expensive to move away from Word at a large company, because the costs would go on and on forever. I can fire my secretary and not have to retrain the next on on how to use Excel and Word.
Particularly to note that this Xbox 360 has helped Sony innovate (and Sony was encouragement for Nintendo to innovate).
Microsoft spent a lot of money to beat Sony, and they will expect me and other gamers to give them that money back. Then they will use that money to build TVs or something.
But I think that eventually a company becomes too unfocused and large and becomes inneffective. Look at Office 2007. Vista is more of a flop than XP ever was. They need to focus on Windows and Office if they expect to keep their advantage. And of course, so much of Microsoft's software is competing with OK free stuff.
Can Sonybeat Microsoft? Of course not. Can Sony beat Microsoft in one area while Google beats Microsoft in another and Ubuntu and Apple beat Microsoft in another? Yep. That's why companies have to stay focused. Google looked at all the crazy crap they were doing and reduced the number of apps they were working on. For good reason.
So while Microsoft dominated the floppy disk era, things are starting to turn around (precisely why Microsoft has decided to diversify in such a broad way). I firmly believe that the world will be ok if Microsoft wins these console wars. Someone will come up with something cheap and fun.
Yeah, totally totally true. Office 2007 makes no sense at all as a strategic move. It is totally different from what people are already able to use, even if it is somehow better (just seems overly simplified to me).
I wonder what the hell has been going on with Vista and Office 2007. Not that MS has ever been brilliant about these things, just the monopoly.
There is a bit of a market for openoffice to fill if they can be seen as the Office 2003 successor to Office 2003. But I still think the whole model is old and we will move to web based software for basic office tasks.
The PS3 does have some nice games now. Warhawk and Ratchet are two 2nd generation PS3 games that are good (not great, but good... like gears of war). There are several others. It's a lot better than the wii, in my opinion, as far as games go. And it's only going to get better for the PS3. There will be no domination for Sony, but it's not as though the PS3 is all bad news. Sony will pull out of this expensive period with a profit. 65nm cheap Ps3s are already out there. Blu-Ray diodes are plummeting in price. And there are already rumors of a new XBOX in the next couple of years. If that's true, PS3 will have the greater installed fanbase in the next 3 years (this sounds ridiculous to me too).
Yeah, Sony is losing serious money on the PS3 and the games ain't what they need to be. But the games situation is starting to get pretty damn good.
admittedly, I would be shocked if I ever find myself using my PS3 more than my 360 because the games are just better on the 360, but the PS3 is cool in and of itself, or at least gives off that impression to me and many others.
While this is silly, and folding at home doesn't prove much, I think these types of supercomputer style marketing efforts really do help sell these consoled. It's too little too late, but it's something.
Maybe this is true eventually. Probably not, as there is no indication that anything will be easier to use than office, but who knows?
Thing is, Office is the cheaper and faster option. It costs too much to go to microsoft free solutions, because the truly expensive stuff are employees (who generally can be expected to know Word and Excel automagically) and training time.
I sure as hell would love for you to be right, and I think maybe Google or others will make online documents in a way that makes Word a dinosaur.
So many companies would love to provide their employees with mere html portals locked to the document program, and with no way to print or save data (unless you are screened well). Enter data, go home. I know it sounds dreadful, but it's probably the future.
For sure, brother. They had those movies recently. Give it a decade, and maybe they'll chill out.
I would love some more Sam and Max, and even the more obscure stuff. Maybe games are like rock band CDs, and once the band gets successful their art loses its flavor.
In other news, Jedi can just fight Jedi. Yeah, you aren't so unique. OK. this mostly fails.
I think there is a need for hybridization here. Same for GTA style games. You don't want a MMOG GTA game beacuse it would be chaotic. Why not have servers of ten players and 1000 NPCs actually rendered in combat areas, though in a way where there is a still massive amount of people in the economy and in social areas.
Obsidian's protests were heard loud and clear when we saw all those stray files that would have been used in the complete game. This is LucasArts being greedy. The game was not supposed to be released that early, but because Obsidian was getting it done so fast, LucasArts decided to get it out for Christmas... even if that meant cutting out tons of content. Load of crap.
That game was such a frustration.
Too bad that effort to finish the game seems to have fizzled, but that's only fair.
I hope this new game is as good as it could be. KOTOR is a really interesting universe.
As nice as print media is, it's usually not nice enough to compete with the free game news you can get on the internet.
I never bought those magazines for the print articles. I got them for the cds full of games (9 out of ten would be worthless, and now I get better from the internet). Of all the print media to be surprised by this, gaming and tech media should be the last. Yeah, my local paper didn't see craigslist coming, but who is going to want a CD of crap?
And that's why we see all the major tech companies embracing the internet, with interactive websites and discussion boards. I don't know who these magazines are for.
My recommendation to the parent is to get more generalized magazines like Scientific American that can be read without making you want to run to your computer and check some game out. It's more up to date, too, since you can only isolate so many quarks or listen to so many quasars in a month.
at least on that thinkpad, the password is stored on a special security chip. Removing the clock battery would not clear. You can use the ship to manage encrypting the hdd and for power on password.
There is almost certainly an override password, and you can replace this chip. I think that's all you can do.
Like I said above, I'm not trying to troll or anything. If you think makes=revenue in this context, you simply don't understand the words.
In this context, if you spent $20 dollars making something and sold it for $10 dollars, when I ask you how much you made, you would actually say "I didn't make any money in this deal, I lost ten dollars."
Make means produced. It means gained. It means the results minus the cost. It's the entire reason the company exists... It's not revenue.
But I understand that people come from different backgrounds and have different understandings of their languages. likely, I would not be very good at your native language either. No harm, no foul.
Funny, the headline seems to say that "apple makes"" $831 dollars on each AT&T iPhone."
That means profit alone. If you aren't aware of this, that's fine. After all, many people on the internet are not in English speaking countries, so perhaps you just aren't very familiar with the language we are using.
No big deal, but apple makes a heck of a lot less than 831 per phone. Still a heck of a lot.
he's the one with the valid criticisms, even if they are ultimately wrong.
You're the crazy dude talking about things more disgusting than I'd even imagine... and I can imagine a lot.
Why do we even have a manned space program? Imagine how much more we'd know if all that budget went to the unmanned programs that actually discover things on other planets.
Anyway, you're the loon with the anger problem. Might want to check that out.
hd dvd and bluray drivces read dvds, but dvd drives do not read hd dvds. Therefore, the games that could be released on hd-dvd would only work on some 360s, just as games using the hard drive would only work on some 360s.
That's all that is being said here, and it's a valid criticism. Maybe MS wouldn't allow game use of the HD DVD as they don't with the add-on, but I think they would have to in a couple of years.
because you can't possibly have a fun and gorgeous game at the same time, and video games aren't better if they have great graphics.
right.
nothing about this amazing game diminishes the 360's great lineup, though I think my family will have a lot more fun playing this than we do with our wii paperweight (seriously, ratchet is a better family experience for my family than wiisports).
you can download the demo and see that isn't the case here. This is a gorgeous and fun game. You did know that it is possible for one or two great games to exist on the PS3, right? I know there aren't many, but this is one of them.
the analog button was for legacy support, which used to be very important to Sony. It's goen now, but you still can tell the PS3 to switch functions. I doubt anyone really cares. This button is a tiny factor.
The analog buttons are excellent. The Playstation is used often in racing games and flight simulators, making easy throttle buttons crucial. I hate analog triggers. They are clumsy (especially ont he PS3 controller).
The PS2's controller was a highpoint. I don't understand the point that the dualshocks are haphazard. Especially compared with the XBOX's original controller. The PS2's looks natural and obvious and simple. Yes, it has two sticks "bolted on", but it's bolted in a pretty good place. Would it be better if the analog stick moved to the dpad? No. Go look at third party controllers. Obviously no company is going to invest in that idea.
Fact is, symmetry makes the PS2's controller very easy for hundreds of millions of people to use. It's the universal idea of a controller. The twin sticks are mandatory for 3d environments, and the gamecube and xbox's were wise to copy the dualshock.
Again, I like the 360 controller better, but I think your attacks are a bit too harsh. sixaxis is a joke, lack of rumble is a joke... but onthe other hand I've seen many people hace confusion with XBOX controllers, and I have never seen that with a dualshock. And frankly, the dumbest contorller out there is on the wii. Completely unergonomic and clunky. I know my kid loves it, but they could have done a better job.
The drug thing is sad, but it's a wise move on the part of the pharma companies.
Without billions in profits, these companies will not be able to develop good drugs. The corruption in Africa is partly supported by aid that thugs steal and sell. There is little reason to send drugs that will be stolen if that means new drugs will be longer in development.
Africa needs no aid. Aid is the problem. No one is willing to let this continent try to stand on its own feet, so it's miserable.
I grant that AIDS is a terrible problem in Africa, but the problem is obviously not a lack of AIDS drugs, since those do not prevent AIDS. The problem is that the people are ignorant about sex. Anal sex is the primary contraceptive in the regions of africa suffering from AIDS. Just as in the gay community, anal sex is a very good way to spread this virus... it's bloody (to put an ugly picture on the problem).
Forget AIDS drugs. Send some pamphlets explaining this simple point. Get rid of the aid entirely, and the thugs will run out of money and the people will have an easier time making law and order. It's not as though Africans are so unlike europe that they are unable to make a good society. It's that we are fueling their oppresors to make ourselves feel charitable.
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the PS3 can put out a ton of heat, but it's designed to withstand it.
If possible, try to keep that thing vertical. It's more efficient and quiet if you use the chimney design. But Folding at Home does use some electricity. My view is that I did put thousands of dollars into games and systems, so if I'm going to refuse to use it for good causes because of twenty bucks a year in electricity, I'm a bonehead.
Oh, and make sure you have good fire insurance! Unfortunately, my PS3 is often running folding at home while I'm on my xbox360 (not a diss against Sony, it's just my tastes). That PS3 ain't gonna burn up, but you never know about the 360 (I call mine 2.0 because it's been replaced).
I fail to see how this is a response to my comment.
It's not really relevant that you don't like the PS3's games very much. The fact is that the PS3 is far from gameless, as I was explaining through a mere couple of examples. I certainly agree that the 360 has more and better games, but again, it's a simple fact that the PS3 has improved a lot in this area.
Certainly, you are omitting a hell of a lot of really fine games for the PS3 by stating definitively that there are only three great PS3 games. How many Wii games are as nice as Ratchet? 1? 0? And the bar is going to keep going higher as the PS3 continues selling more and more games, consoles, etc. I sincerely doubt that the PS3 will ever be a better buy than the 360, but it's already a better buy than a wii from a certain point of view.
The Wii games you mention are replete with games that really cannot compete with PS3 games like Ratchet. Perhaps you are being unfair. Not to mention, most of them aren't new and are similar in quality to PS2 games. I have all three systems, and I just do not think the wii has anything interesting. If you really are arguing that people should go for a system with tons of ok games, obviously they should get a PS2 or a PS2 compatible PS3. Which is why both the PS2 and PS3 are selling in such high numbers in Europe that they are both approaching Wii console sales. I think the Sony systems were both around 65k and the Wii around 70k for the latest period reported.
Again, you're fine to have your prefs of course, but all I'm saying is that the PS3 is not gameless by any means, and I think you're ruling out several awesome PS3 games. Another banal point, that isn't so relevant to you perhaps, is that many of the good 360 games also exist on the PS3.
Let's see. I mention how I like the 360's game selection. And I mention how the PS3 has a cool factor from these types of interesting applications. So who am I trolling? It's true, the PS3 looks pretty cool, and it's fun to explain all the stuff it can do (linux or folding or whatever little story like this has popped up). It's also true that the 360 has more games selection, and that advantage is likely to persist.
Apparently more than one of you disagree with me (even think I'm trolling), so perhaps someoen else can explain to me why this is such a controversial view. I thought I was being even handed (and correct).
Whether you're right or wrong, the fact is that I can go out on the street and find someone in one minute who knows the basics of word and excel enough to confidently use it. I cannot do the same with virtually any other similarly useful program.
The crazy problems that Office has had over the years, and in my opinion has in 2007, only show how powerful the monopoly is, as I'm sure you'd agree.
It would be freaking expensive to move away from Word at a large company, because the costs would go on and on forever. I can fire my secretary and not have to retrain the next on on how to use Excel and Word.
Particularly to note that this Xbox 360 has helped Sony innovate (and Sony was encouragement for Nintendo to innovate).
Microsoft spent a lot of money to beat Sony, and they will expect me and other gamers to give them that money back. Then they will use that money to build TVs or something.
But I think that eventually a company becomes too unfocused and large and becomes inneffective. Look at Office 2007. Vista is more of a flop than XP ever was. They need to focus on Windows and Office if they expect to keep their advantage. And of course, so much of Microsoft's software is competing with OK free stuff.
Can Sonybeat Microsoft? Of course not. Can Sony beat Microsoft in one area while Google beats Microsoft in another and Ubuntu and Apple beat Microsoft in another? Yep. That's why companies have to stay focused. Google looked at all the crazy crap they were doing and reduced the number of apps they were working on. For good reason.
So while Microsoft dominated the floppy disk era, things are starting to turn around (precisely why Microsoft has decided to diversify in such a broad way). I firmly believe that the world will be ok if Microsoft wins these console wars. Someone will come up with something cheap and fun.
Yeah, totally totally true. Office 2007 makes no sense at all as a strategic move. It is totally different from what people are already able to use, even if it is somehow better (just seems overly simplified to me).
I wonder what the hell has been going on with Vista and Office 2007. Not that MS has ever been brilliant about these things, just the monopoly.
There is a bit of a market for openoffice to fill if they can be seen as the Office 2003 successor to Office 2003. But I still think the whole model is old and we will move to web based software for basic office tasks.
The PS3 does have some nice games now. Warhawk and Ratchet are two 2nd generation PS3 games that are good (not great, but good... like gears of war). There are several others. It's a lot better than the wii, in my opinion, as far as games go. And it's only going to get better for the PS3. There will be no domination for Sony, but it's not as though the PS3 is all bad news. Sony will pull out of this expensive period with a profit. 65nm cheap Ps3s are already out there. Blu-Ray diodes are plummeting in price. And there are already rumors of a new XBOX in the next couple of years. If that's true, PS3 will have the greater installed fanbase in the next 3 years (this sounds ridiculous to me too).
Yeah, Sony is losing serious money on the PS3 and the games ain't what they need to be. But the games situation is starting to get pretty damn good.
admittedly, I would be shocked if I ever find myself using my PS3 more than my 360 because the games are just better on the 360, but the PS3 is cool in and of itself, or at least gives off that impression to me and many others.
While this is silly, and folding at home doesn't prove much, I think these types of supercomputer style marketing efforts really do help sell these consoled. It's too little too late, but it's something.
Maybe this is true eventually. Probably not, as there is no indication that anything will be easier to use than office, but who knows?
Thing is, Office is the cheaper and faster option. It costs too much to go to microsoft free solutions, because the truly expensive stuff are employees (who generally can be expected to know Word and Excel automagically) and training time.
I sure as hell would love for you to be right, and I think maybe Google or others will make online documents in a way that makes Word a dinosaur.
So many companies would love to provide their employees with mere html portals locked to the document program, and with no way to print or save data (unless you are screened well). Enter data, go home. I know it sounds dreadful, but it's probably the future.
For sure, brother. They had those movies recently. Give it a decade, and maybe they'll chill out.
I would love some more Sam and Max, and even the more obscure stuff. Maybe games are like rock band CDs, and once the band gets successful their art loses its flavor.
Too bad games cost money to make.
Not to be a geek, but what?
In other news, Jedi can just fight Jedi. Yeah, you aren't so unique. OK. this mostly fails.
I think there is a need for hybridization here. Same for GTA style games. You don't want a MMOG GTA game beacuse it would be chaotic. Why not have servers of ten players and 1000 NPCs actually rendered in combat areas, though in a way where there is a still massive amount of people in the economy and in social areas.
Obsidian's protests were heard loud and clear when we saw all those stray files that would have been used in the complete game. This is LucasArts being greedy. The game was not supposed to be released that early, but because Obsidian was getting it done so fast, LucasArts decided to get it out for Christmas... even if that meant cutting out tons of content. Load of crap.
That game was such a frustration.
Too bad that effort to finish the game seems to have fizzled, but that's only fair.
I hope this new game is as good as it could be. KOTOR is a really interesting universe.
As nice as print media is, it's usually not nice enough to compete with the free game news you can get on the internet.
I never bought those magazines for the print articles. I got them for the cds full of games (9 out of ten would be worthless, and now I get better from the internet). Of all the print media to be surprised by this, gaming and tech media should be the last. Yeah, my local paper didn't see craigslist coming, but who is going to want a CD of crap?
And that's why we see all the major tech companies embracing the internet, with interactive websites and discussion boards. I don't know who these magazines are for.
My recommendation to the parent is to get more generalized magazines like Scientific American that can be read without making you want to run to your computer and check some game out. It's more up to date, too, since you can only isolate so many quarks or listen to so many quasars in a month.
at least on that thinkpad, the password is stored on a special security chip. Removing the clock battery would not clear. You can use the ship to manage encrypting the hdd and for power on password.
There is almost certainly an override password, and you can replace this chip. I think that's all you can do.
Whether you do or not, you seem to know what the hell you're talking about.
I'm curious: is it the case that Firefox and Opera don't error correct in a way that facilitates this type of malware?
Sadly, I've been locked into Internet Explorer (to use sharepoint, one of the most banal programs ever invented), but I never use it otherwise.
Like I said above, I'm not trying to troll or anything. If you think makes=revenue in this context, you simply don't understand the words.
In this context, if you spent $20 dollars making something and sold it for $10 dollars, when I ask you how much you made, you would actually say "I didn't make any money in this deal, I lost ten dollars."
Make means produced. It means gained. It means the results minus the cost. It's the entire reason the company exists... It's not revenue.
But I understand that people come from different backgrounds and have different understandings of their languages. likely, I would not be very good at your native language either. No harm, no foul.
Funny, the headline seems to say that "apple makes"" $831 dollars on each AT&T iPhone."
That means profit alone. If you aren't aware of this, that's fine. After all, many people on the internet are not in English speaking countries, so perhaps you just aren't very familiar with the language we are using.
No big deal, but apple makes a heck of a lot less than 831 per phone. Still a heck of a lot.
as correct as that explanation is for the 831 number, the math is wrong.
apple doesn't get iphones from fairies. They pay money to build them.
he's the one with the valid criticisms, even if they are ultimately wrong.
You're the crazy dude talking about things more disgusting than I'd even imagine... and I can imagine a lot.
Why do we even have a manned space program? Imagine how much more we'd know if all that budget went to the unmanned programs that actually discover things on other planets.
Anyway, you're the loon with the anger problem. Might want to check that out.
hd dvd and bluray drivces read dvds, but dvd drives do not read hd dvds. Therefore, the games that could be released on hd-dvd would only work on some 360s, just as games using the hard drive would only work on some 360s.
That's all that is being said here, and it's a valid criticism. Maybe MS wouldn't allow game use of the HD DVD as they don't with the add-on, but I think they would have to in a couple of years.
no, porn is a virus that propagates through human beings, like the parent said.
I feel so used.
because you can't possibly have a fun and gorgeous game at the same time, and video games aren't better if they have great graphics.
right.
nothing about this amazing game diminishes the 360's great lineup, though I think my family will have a lot more fun playing this than we do with our wii paperweight (seriously, ratchet is a better family experience for my family than wiisports).
fun and graphics. Expensive, but nice.
you can download the demo and see that isn't the case here. This is a gorgeous and fun game. You did know that it is possible for one or two great games to exist on the PS3, right? I know there aren't many, but this is one of them.
the analog button was for legacy support, which used to be very important to Sony. It's goen now, but you still can tell the PS3 to switch functions. I doubt anyone really cares. This button is a tiny factor.
The analog buttons are excellent. The Playstation is used often in racing games and flight simulators, making easy throttle buttons crucial. I hate analog triggers. They are clumsy (especially ont he PS3 controller).
The PS2's controller was a highpoint. I don't understand the point that the dualshocks are haphazard. Especially compared with the XBOX's original controller. The PS2's looks natural and obvious and simple. Yes, it has two sticks "bolted on", but it's bolted in a pretty good place. Would it be better if the analog stick moved to the dpad? No. Go look at third party controllers. Obviously no company is going to invest in that idea.
Fact is, symmetry makes the PS2's controller very easy for hundreds of millions of people to use. It's the universal idea of a controller. The twin sticks are mandatory for 3d environments, and the gamecube and xbox's were wise to copy the dualshock.
Again, I like the 360 controller better, but I think your attacks are a bit too harsh. sixaxis is a joke, lack of rumble is a joke... but onthe other hand I've seen many people hace confusion with XBOX controllers, and I have never seen that with a dualshock. And frankly, the dumbest contorller out there is on the wii. Completely unergonomic and clunky. I know my kid loves it, but they could have done a better job.
The drug thing is sad, but it's a wise move on the part of the pharma companies.
Without billions in profits, these companies will not be able to develop good drugs. The corruption in Africa is partly supported by aid that thugs steal and sell. There is little reason to send drugs that will be stolen if that means new drugs will be longer in development.
Africa needs no aid. Aid is the problem. No one is willing to let this continent try to stand on its own feet, so it's miserable.
I grant that AIDS is a terrible problem in Africa, but the problem is obviously not a lack of AIDS drugs, since those do not prevent AIDS. The problem is that the people are ignorant about sex. Anal sex is the primary contraceptive in the regions of africa suffering from AIDS. Just as in the gay community, anal sex is a very good way to spread this virus... it's bloody (to put an ugly picture on the problem).
Forget AIDS drugs. Send some pamphlets explaining this simple point. Get rid of the aid entirely, and the thugs will run out of money and the people will have an easier time making law and order. It's not as though Africans are so unlike europe that they are unable to make a good society. It's that we are fueling their oppresors to make ourselves feel charitable.