Linksys went down the toilet when cisco took them over, basically. Their old stuff was flawed but it generally worked OK... after the cisco takeover they just removed the 'worked ok' bit.
cisco hardware aint that good, but their support (provided you pay for it) is the best out there... which is why people swear by it. linksys is cisco without the support.
Linux is a kernel. There's absolutely nothing stopping a large company from putting a proprietary desktop on top, maybe an active directory server, some nice business friendly stuff and selling it as a specific version. Other distributions would either have to (a) ship the proprietary binaries, or (b) try to copy them (quite a difficult task - look at how long samba has been going and it still has issues).
What? The way I see it, the core version of the 360 is far more better than the core version of the PS3. With the core 360, at least you can always upgrade to the premium package, just by buying the HD seperately, and whatever wires you need. Unless Sony has developed the PS3 so that all the premium features (HDMI, WiFi, memory stick/etc) are removable, it looks like any core users are forever screwed. Gee, way to gouge your users Sony.
Uhh... tell me where the wifi, HFMI and memory stick are on the Xbox 360. Oh, wait, there aren't any.
The core PS3 is *already* upgraded to the level of the expanded Xbox 360.
The base system LACKS: - An extra 40Gb (base has 20, premium has 60). - Memory Stick / SD / Compact Flash support. - Wifi support (802.11 b/g) - HDMI out
Sounds like they're pitching the base system against the xbox360, which also lacks all of these things.
Heck, a full 360 (not core) and 3 or 4 games will cost less than the PS3 with one game.
How do you work that out?
A full 360 w/no games - $569 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B43OY4/qid=1 147174143/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/002-4283626-6601612?%5 Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=468642)
The 360 has an xbox emulator now? Wow.. have to look out for that.
I actually have an old xbox game - embarassingly I bought it thinking they would be compatible just after I got the 360 a few months ago. Would be interesting to see if an emulator can run it.
Lasik is minimum £800 (£400 per eye) for the no frills version. Plus there's the incumbent risk (around 5% of lasik surgery introduces complications making their eyesight worse, ranging from double vision to complete blindness - source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2001-06-28-las ik.htm, amongst others).
Glasses are dirt cheap and absolutely safe. If you don't like the look modern contact lenses are also dirt cheap and absolutely safe.
Like SCO - where they used front companies to do it so it didn't look like they were funding a frivolous lawsuit directly - if they get involved it'll be by an anonymous donation to the 'concerned parents fund' or something like that.
OTOH It's a stretch to believe this is MS funded currently.
The BBC as an organisation doesn't have any particular bias. Their reporters however cannot be free from it - some of them fairly obviously have agendas, others hide their bias below the surface.
The wierd thing is that individual reporters often have conflicting biases, so you end up with the BBC being accused of every form of bias simultaneously - it's Pro US, Anti US, Pro Isreal, Anti Isreal, etc. all at the same time..
The average 14-year-old power gamer/HALO addict is going to vomit with rage over this name and call it the "Nintendo Pee". Too bad for him the MOM usually makes most purchasing decisions in a typical household. Mom is going to be very interested in something that looks good, is cheap, and conveys fun.
Nope. It's the children that make those decisions.. that's why advertising on childrens TV is so lucrative.
Parents don't go into Game, look at 3 different systems an pick one at random.. their 'little darling' has normally been bugging them for months for exactly the one they want.
Oh, and 'wee' doesn't fit your criteria - it already has a meaning, and it's not just 14 year olds that know it (who actually says 'urine' in normal conversation?).
Not even that... for some countries you can get away with it.
A friend of mine went from UK to Ireland and back with no passport... in theory you can do this with any EU country although I've never heard of anyone trying this apart from this one incident.
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Linksys went down the toilet when cisco took them over, basically. Their old stuff was flawed but it generally worked OK... after the cisco takeover they just removed the 'worked ok' bit.
cisco hardware aint that good, but their support (provided you pay for it) is the best out there... which is why people swear by it. linksys is cisco without the support.
Not true at all.
Linux is a kernel. There's absolutely nothing stopping a large company from putting a proprietary desktop on top, maybe an active directory server, some nice business friendly stuff and selling it as a specific version. Other distributions would either have to (a) ship the proprietary binaries, or (b) try to copy them (quite a difficult task - look at how long samba has been going and it still has issues).
Anybody who thinks UMD has done anything but tanked badly is either a paid shill or a fanboy.
Heck, here they've pulled it from the shelves due to lack of sales... you can still get secondhand UMD stuff but that's about it.
psp isn't doing too well either, mainly due to a chronic shortage of games.
What? The way I see it, the core version of the 360 is far more better than the core version of the PS3. With the core 360, at least you can always upgrade to the premium package, just by buying the HD seperately, and whatever wires you need. Unless Sony has developed the PS3 so that all the premium features (HDMI, WiFi, memory stick/etc) are removable, it looks like any core users are forever screwed. Gee, way to gouge your users Sony.
Uhh... tell me where the wifi, HFMI and memory stick are on the Xbox 360. Oh, wait, there aren't any.
The core PS3 is *already* upgraded to the level of the expanded Xbox 360.
The base system LACKS:
- An extra 40Gb (base has 20, premium has 60).
- Memory Stick / SD / Compact Flash support.
- Wifi support (802.11 b/g)
- HDMI out
Sounds like they're pitching the base system against the xbox360, which also lacks all of these things.
No idea, ask Microsoft.
Oh, you were talking about the PS3... well that's $100 for a 60gb drive and wifi.
$399 is for the *basic* xbox360 with no hard drive, no HD, no wireless controller... not really comparable.
The 360 is already >$500. Amazon have two prices - $569 and $519
Heck, a full 360 (not core) and 3 or 4 games will cost less than the PS3 with one game.
1 147174143/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/002-4283626-6601612?%5 Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=468642)
How do you work that out?
A full 360 w/no games - $569 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B43OY4/qid=
PS3 - $599
You can get 3 or 4 games for $30? Wow.
It's comparable to the xbox 360.
Twice the HD space, wireless network, Bluray player.
xbox360 £279
ps3 £321
The ps3 actually sounds *cheaper* given that I'll need an HD player at some point anyway.
Converting to dollars given that this is a US centric site...
xbox360 $519
ps3 $599
Even if Sony try and pull the stupid $1=£1 conversion trick when they launch in the UK I'll just buy a US unit and ship it.
Not a great idea. Sony are big on region coding... and you can bet the PS3 isn't as easy to chip as the PS1/2 were.
You're right about the price though - only £50 more than the xbox 360 and you get a bluray player thrown in.
The 360 has an xbox emulator now? Wow.. have to look out for that.
I actually have an old xbox game - embarassingly I bought it thinking they would be compatible just after I got the 360 a few months ago. Would be interesting to see if an emulator can run it.
Ahh but you can't afford the lawyers.
Microsoft, however...
heh. You jest but it is a ripoff.
s ik.htm, amongst others).
Lasik is minimum £800 (£400 per eye) for the no frills version. Plus there's the incumbent risk (around 5% of lasik surgery introduces complications making their eyesight worse, ranging from double vision to complete blindness - source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2001-06-28-la
Glasses are dirt cheap and absolutely safe. If you don't like the look modern contact lenses are also dirt cheap and absolutely safe.
You're surprised by this? Of course they do. It's email from iran.
They did the same with email from iraq before the invasion (and quite possibly still do).
If ol' Bill could get college students to write him a completely new OS for 2.5M, he'd probably jump at the chance.
Why, since they already did it for free?
MS wouldn't be involved directly.
Like SCO - where they used front companies to do it so it didn't look like they were funding a frivolous lawsuit directly - if they get involved it'll be by an anonymous donation to the 'concerned parents fund' or something like that.
OTOH It's a stretch to believe this is MS funded currently.
Octopus is an example of a *good* use of this tech. I'd go for that.
Is it RFID though? I'd imagine that had significantly more security than that.
The BBC as an organisation doesn't have any particular bias. Their reporters however cannot be free from it - some of them fairly obviously have agendas, others hide their bias below the surface.
The wierd thing is that individual reporters often have conflicting biases, so you end up with the BBC being accused of every form of bias simultaneously - it's Pro US, Anti US, Pro Isreal, Anti Isreal, etc. all at the same time..
OMFG have you seen the bottom?
Providers can add their own search by including a single line of javascript.
That means that the search dropdown on IE7 will *very* rapidly fill up with porn, casino, etc. sites.. Ugh.
The average 14-year-old power gamer/HALO addict is going to vomit with rage over this name and call it the "Nintendo Pee". Too bad for him the MOM usually makes most purchasing decisions in a typical household. Mom is going to be very interested in something that looks good, is cheap, and conveys fun.
Nope. It's the children that make those decisions.. that's why advertising on childrens TV is so lucrative.
Parents don't go into Game, look at 3 different systems an pick one at random.. their 'little darling' has normally been bugging them for months for exactly the one they want.
Oh, and 'wee' doesn't fit your criteria - it already has a meaning, and it's not just 14 year olds that know it (who actually says 'urine' in normal conversation?).
Flamebait? I almost fell of my chair..
Yeah that was pretty retarted... 'think in russian' whilst connected a very expensive mind reading apparatus vs. press a red button.
OK it's hollywood, but even for them...
Not even that... for some countries you can get away with it.
A friend of mine went from UK to Ireland and back with no passport... in theory you can do this with any EU country although I've never heard of anyone trying this apart from this one incident.
That'd be option 1 then.
Have you any idea how much private healthcare *costs* for people who haven't got 100% perfect health records?
What is it with the unoriginal ship names...
ST:TNG has a pegasus, and an episode named after it
SG1/Atlantis has an entire pegasus galaxy
Therefore BSG had to have a pegasus!
FFS there are a nearly infinite number of names for ships... couldn't they have come up with something a bit more original?