I can't really blame them for this when hacking basicly destroyed the PSP and really limited the games being developed. Vita is only out and it's actually a very promising bit of hardware, there is also no reason for homebrewers to hack it as they are making PS suite available to anyone who wants to make programs for it.
Just for the record I did boycott Sony for quite a few years myself and they have done some downright despicable things like the rootkit and the otherOS removal but I think their improving and so far this year I've bought an eink reader and a Vita from them both purchases I'm pleased with.
I always found rapidshare way to slow to be usable and that's on the very rare occasion I got it to work. They never seemed able to recognise my ISP's transparent proxys that everyone was forced through so where basicly treating the entire ISP as one computer and limiting downloads on that basis.
Kinda weird just before I read this I was just watching a show (Horizon - Playing God) where they were showing spider goats which are basicly geneticly engineered goats which make a lot of silk. I don't know if that's progress or just scary.
Same situation here I've been using the same batteries in my M505 for about a year now as well I'm not sure how long Logitech claimed but I often forget to turn it off and it's still working like the day I bought it.
I think I might be one of the few that actually likes the Atom I have a netbook I actually use for tons of stuff and the Atom gives me over a ten hour battery. I basicly use the netbook for everything I would do on my desktop and it works fine I've even watched 720p videos on it.
I think the early Atoms might have been poor and that's how they got the bad rep but the one in my netbook seems to be pretty good to me and I really like the battery life.
Know nothing about the company I've honestly never heard of them ever but reading this story makes me dislike them. Ironicly I do recognise Noah from revision 3 podcasts so I think it's much more likely him being followed than phonedog. May well be a case of him being bigger than the company and pure jealousy, in my opinion it's very likely the followers will all leave on mass if they do get the account.
The higher the speed you buy here in the UK the more crazy the bandwidth capping and throttling gets. What's the point of having 100mb broadband when it gets throttled during the day when you would actually use it.
If my experience is anything to go by they are just avoiding the guy who put the weird OS on their laptop none of their programs installed on and probably don't want you to do it again.
I would almost be certain they are bothering someone else with their windows problems now. Not a bad strategy actually.
Couldn't you just get a big glass panels that blocked the IR light spectrum I'm pretty sure you can already buy glass that does this and I don't see why it wouldn't work. A bit cumbersome maybe or perhaps I'm missing something.
I've tried it out on my netbook as well and it was pretty flawless I was really impressed at the lack of lag I had and it does mean you can play the newer games on really basic hardware. So far I've only done the free trials but I'm thinking about getting the new Deus Ex game and possibly Homefront on it.
I just find it sickening I think the only reason it's Samsung being targeted and not the others is that they were the first to make devices both thinner more powerful and with better screens than anything Apple has brought to the table. As for Apple claiming foul over design similaritys it's their own fault for being so minimalistic and there were a few almost Identical looking tablets before the iPad was on the scene.
I think it's obvious this isn't even about design it's about not wanting competition on a level playing field.
I think I can top this the UK branch of game tryed to pull a fast one on me basicly I wanted to buy a ridge racer game for the PSP new and I'd lifted the relevent box out of the New games section. The cashier made several attempts to attempt to make me buy a used copy instead (I can only assume they make more profit second hand) after basicly an argument over me not wanting a used copy the sale went through for a new copy.
I got out the door and luckily checked what I'd bought they had given me and obviously used copy and charged me the full retail price, the UMD case was even cracked the manual was a mess after a second argument and a massive waste of my time I eventually got new shrinkwrapped copy.
I don't know how they can possibly believe stunts like this benefit them I haven't bought anything from them since.
I've an iPod Touch 64gb and a lot of games on it but really they just aren't very good and I personally can't wait for the Vita. On top of that the Itunes games are a minefield of freemium and IAP's which I can't stand it's like being harassed by beggars. I've bought a lot of games on itunes probably close to 300 in all and yet there are only a handful I've put any real time into the rest are just space fillers.
Battery life playing games on the Ipod is terrible and you are lucky to get an hour and a half on a full charge while my PSP still gets about the 5 hour mark and then has the lucury of switching batterys.
I've been going back to my PSP more and more lately and despite not even liking the 3DS I'm tempted to buy it as a stopgap until Vita although mainly just for the Streetfighter IV 3D.
I can also say that after apples court shennagins with Samsung and some other companys I don't intend to ever replace my iPod for a new one so they have lost at least one customer because of it.
I've always wondered how my netbook can boot so fast I think it's easily within 30 seconds and it isn't even using an ssd just a normal 250gb drive and the Windows 7 it came with.
My desktop is probably only slightly slower and that one is still on vista and needs replaced maybe I've just lucky in this respect.
It does seem strange to me I'd love to see how fast I could boot them with a fast SSD.
I don't rate digital radio at all it's worse quality than FM not to mention the radios themselves suck up way more power and seem to break incredibly quickly. Of all things digital I can think of digital radio is the only one that's really a step backwards in my opinion.
Wouldn't suprise me if they forced this through anyway though for a short term profit.
I just go for pure durability with my watches but the thought of it setting the time itself appealed to me. It corrects the time itself a few times a day and the Solar powered aspect seems to works well I've never seen the power indicator drop. Nice thing about the G-Shock line is there are so many models you can always find something to your taste and their all very hard to damage accidently.
If the names and passwords come from someone cracking them on a big scale I think it says more about the pass list it used than what people are actually using as passwords. For a example if I ran a tiny password list with just a few like letmein love dolphin 12345 password peace god sex etc. I'd no doubt crack a lot of accounts but the amount of people using those exact password could be pretty small. Doesn't mean I couldn't assemble a huge amount of cracked accounts but the password data wouldn't reflect the true picture.
Taxed on our wage directly then taxed extra on every item then taxed again if we sell on the item?
It's got to be a joke living in the UK everything is rising in price and less jobs about something is going to snap.
The taxes are really ridiculous though and hidden everywhere and they will use any excuse under the sun to fine you I wouldn't mind so much if they had any sense with the money but it seems to mostly go to Europe and Immigrants.
Also there is the issue that anyone who is skilled enough to hack anything major will write their own tools anyway, trying to ban software isn't going to do a thing except make systems harder to secure in the long run and more open to hackers and foreign governments alike.
Legislation like this has the potential to backfire tenfold.
I've been wondering what would happen if you just made a bunch of fake mp3 files for every file you wanted a free copy of I know it couldn't be this simple to trick them but the service does seem to invite the possibility of being fooled somehow.
I''m not buying into this whole cloud fad myself I think I'll stick to physical storage.
I might be spoiled in the fact my netbook has around 13 hour life but when I start to get within roughly the 3 hour mark I usually think about charging it. With this having mere 3.5 hours battery life I just can't take it seriously and I certainly wouldn't leave home with it.
With the windows key and the terrible battery I'm thinking someone just wanted to jump on the chromebook buzz as of late and shift some poor performing computers.
On a totally unrelated note I don't like the idea of chromebooks at all personally just much to limited I'd rather have a real OS.
They will be easily recognized and to me seem like a very easy way to rack up someone you don't likes phone bill, all a criminal needs to do to bypass them is simply knock the door.
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Just for the record I did boycott Sony for quite a few years myself and they have done some downright despicable things like the rootkit and the otherOS removal but I think their improving and so far this year I've bought an eink reader and a Vita from them both purchases I'm pleased with.
I always found rapidshare way to slow to be usable and that's on the very rare occasion I got it to work. They never seemed able to recognise my ISP's transparent proxys that everyone was forced through so where basicly treating the entire ISP as one computer and limiting downloads on that basis.
Mine has never been connected to the Internet either so you can add me for proof.
Kinda weird just before I read this I was just watching a show (Horizon - Playing God) where they were showing spider goats which are basicly geneticly engineered goats which make a lot of silk. I don't know if that's progress or just scary.
Same situation here I've been using the same batteries in my M505 for about a year now as well I'm not sure how long Logitech claimed but I often forget to turn it off and it's still working like the day I bought it.
I think the early Atoms might have been poor and that's how they got the bad rep but the one in my netbook seems to be pretty good to me and I really like the battery life.
Know nothing about the company I've honestly never heard of them ever but reading this story makes me dislike them. Ironicly I do recognise Noah from revision 3 podcasts so I think it's much more likely him being followed than phonedog. May well be a case of him being bigger than the company and pure jealousy, in my opinion it's very likely the followers will all leave on mass if they do get the account.
The higher the speed you buy here in the UK the more crazy the bandwidth capping and throttling gets. What's the point of having 100mb broadband when it gets throttled during the day when you would actually use it.
I got windows 98 running on my iPod using iDos so it don't look good.
I would almost be certain they are bothering someone else with their windows problems now. Not a bad strategy actually.
Couldn't you just get a big glass panels that blocked the IR light spectrum I'm pretty sure you can already buy glass that does this and I don't see why it wouldn't work. A bit cumbersome maybe or perhaps I'm missing something.
I've tried it out on my netbook as well and it was pretty flawless I was really impressed at the lack of lag I had and it does mean you can play the newer games on really basic hardware. So far I've only done the free trials but I'm thinking about getting the new Deus Ex game and possibly Homefront on it.
I think it's obvious this isn't even about design it's about not wanting competition on a level playing field.
I got out the door and luckily checked what I'd bought they had given me and obviously used copy and charged me the full retail price, the UMD case was even cracked the manual was a mess after a second argument and a massive waste of my time I eventually got new shrinkwrapped copy.
I don't know how they can possibly believe stunts like this benefit them I haven't bought anything from them since.
Battery life playing games on the Ipod is terrible and you are lucky to get an hour and a half on a full charge while my PSP still gets about the 5 hour mark and then has the lucury of switching batterys.
I've been going back to my PSP more and more lately and despite not even liking the 3DS I'm tempted to buy it as a stopgap until Vita although mainly just for the Streetfighter IV 3D.
I can also say that after apples court shennagins with Samsung and some other companys I don't intend to ever replace my iPod for a new one so they have lost at least one customer because of it.
My desktop is probably only slightly slower and that one is still on vista and needs replaced maybe I've just lucky in this respect.
It does seem strange to me I'd love to see how fast I could boot them with a fast SSD.
Wouldn't suprise me if they forced this through anyway though for a short term profit.
I just go for pure durability with my watches but the thought of it setting the time itself appealed to me. It corrects the time itself a few times a day and the Solar powered aspect seems to works well I've never seen the power indicator drop. Nice thing about the G-Shock line is there are so many models you can always find something to your taste and their all very hard to damage accidently.
Bit early to think he is guilty but I fear they may need a scapegoat anyway.
Hope that makes sense.
It's got to be a joke living in the UK everything is rising in price and less jobs about something is going to snap.
The taxes are really ridiculous though and hidden everywhere and they will use any excuse under the sun to fine you I wouldn't mind so much if they had any sense with the money but it seems to mostly go to Europe and Immigrants.
Also there is the issue that anyone who is skilled enough to hack anything major will write their own tools anyway, trying to ban software isn't going to do a thing except make systems harder to secure in the long run and more open to hackers and foreign governments alike.
Legislation like this has the potential to backfire tenfold.
I''m not buying into this whole cloud fad myself I think I'll stick to physical storage.
With the windows key and the terrible battery I'm thinking someone just wanted to jump on the chromebook buzz as of late and shift some poor performing computers.
On a totally unrelated note I don't like the idea of chromebooks at all personally just much to limited I'd rather have a real OS.
Really not worth the trouble.