While it is obvious that you indeed haven't checked prices for a while: thanks for letting us know that it was (or still is?) cheaper to get a defective-by-design console *and* a last-gen system for less money than a premium next-gen powerhouse.
The point is: the 360 *and* the Wii are already on the decline, technically and software-wise, while the Playstation 3 is still warming up. The latter is the system with the most stuff up its sleeves, and Sony sure are patient guys. The system sellers are not out yet, which could be either a.) a fiasco or b.) build-up before the final blow.
Oops, another one of my Sony-fanboi posts slipped through, gomen nasai.
The concept of 'opening' people's e-mails is somewhat flawed. As long as you don't encrypt everything, the more fitting analogy would be that Google has a quick glance at your postcards. Not that they should do that too much, either, but e-mail is just not a sealed envelope.
In other words, you don't sue or shoot the mailman for accidentally picking up one or two lines from your picture postcard while scanning for your address.
Wow, the Anarchist's Cookbook? That's so - come on - so 1980s, man! On a more serious note, the UK police should focus their attention on the real terrorists' cookbook, the Qu'ran, and outlaw that one. Much higher probability to catch some real sleepers or hate-speakers. Islam is not a religion but an ideology.
You don't have to re-download anything if you properly backup all of the contents onto an external HD (must be FAT32 formatted) and then restore after swapping disks. You will have to do the linux install from scratch, though.
Sorry to disappoint you, but that sentence is neither aggressive nor dirty (except grammatically). Muttersprachler just means native speaker, and there are absolutely no negative connotations involved.
As for being the best language for cursing: keep thinking that way if it helps you picking up a second language. Honestly. I thought the same way about Japanese and it motivated me to learn it, only to understand that cursing makes you sound like an imbecile, like in any other language. It just doesn't matter anymore once you are able to express yourself freely.
Playing an audio file from your phone through speakers requires different permissions than playing the same audio file from the same phone through the same speakers in response to a phone call event... How screwed up is that?
Well, somehow this rule seems to apply to Apple phones only. Most other phones will be happy to play anything playable as a ringer.
Note to consumers: Don't pay for ringtones! Help stop those stupid commercials on TV by making their business model fail. This might be one of the rare occasions where an organized boycott might actually make sense and work out fine.
Furthermore the labels forced Apple to put DRM in its products.
That may well have been the case with the iPod etc. Concerning the iPhone, did the labels force Apple to put DRM into their products the same way they don't force Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry and so on?
Just curious, because my Blackberry has none of that. Any of my MP3s will do as a ringer.
What battery drain? My Blackberry (8800, mind you, so our respective mileages might vary) almost never gets powered down, as it's going one or two weeks without any need for recharging anyway. The only times I have to pull the battery is when it has to reboot after I installed a new theme that otherwise won't be found.
Nobody said they got 4800$ worth of emails. The bill would likely be within the same range if the users only received three emails all in all during that time. The traffic that caused the excessive billing was the iPhones' polling the mail servers 24/7. The roaming services likely charged something like 50 cents per connection, plus some per kilobyte rate. Let's say the iPhone polls once every 5 minutes. That adds up to (for 3 iPhones) 1.50$ twelve times an hour, or 18$/h. Which already puts it at >3000$ a week, so I overestimated my numbers. On the other hand, 25 cents per data exchange doesn't sound awfully expensive if it's from overseas, I figure.
Conclusion: The numbers do even more suggest that AT&T and Apple are at fault for not taking roaming costs into account. Considering the mobility people enjoy nowadays, even Apple users, this is just pure ignorance, plain and simple. You don't need more than a small IF or CASE statement that goes something like: IF (network.id="AT$T") THEN poll() ELSE idle(); to prevent this mess from happening.
Trademarked? A church? For what kind of trade exactly would someone have cared to trademark it?
And don't you think Jesus would have objected if that were the case?
I think the only argument they have is a moral one. Which can be (should be?) rather strong. Compare: Let's have a downloadable map for a game like Resistance, Warhawk, UT3 or CS/S that's modeled around Mecca, to have a shootout in some mosques and around the Kaaba, and now try to imagine what the game designers would have summoned upon themselves.
Luckily enough for Insomniac, the Church of England has never supported sending out suicide bombers to take care of things that have not been taken care of by legislation.
I think you're absolutely spot on there. I myself have met some outstandingly nice people online, not just nerds and other people trapped in basements, no, real people! Quite some of my acquaintances are actually rather successful businessmen, most of them from Nigeria, who have become real close friends over the course of the last year. Actually, I'm planning to meet some of them next week, for the first time. It's gonna be a blast! They also told me a lot about some exciting business opportunities, which I'm eager to try.
As you can see, the Internets (yes! all of them) are not for losers only any longer. Friendship is possible!
And maybe, just maybe, encoding everything in JOINT STEREO by default is the root of most of the evil the audiophiles seem to hear in MP3s? For most encoders and audio software you'll have to deliberately turn off that very feature that will cripple most of the finer stuff going on within the stereo spectrum.
I mean, what's the point of recording at a bitrate of 320kbps if you don't do it in true stereo? The overall effect may well be that sort of 'listening through a screen door' that the submitter was talking about. Joint stereo is okayish at 64kbps, but please turn it OFF at anything higher. If you are to listen to the result on anything better than an iPod, that is. Don't forget that the audio outs of an iPod are not that much better than the cheap ear buds anyway.
That's what made me choose the Blackberry 8800, too. Wikipedia, Google Maps and GPS. You can even write, adopt and install your own Java applications without any artificial barriers, and on the consumer's side, use any MP3 or MIDI file as a ringer for any / all / a group of callers.
Back to the browsing experience: I don't know what kind of data plan the iPhone is sold with, but it does make me nervous that the iPhone will act as a regular browser and will request the 'bling' version of any website. I mean, loading a slashdot article with some hundred comments will easily be in the MB range.
The Blackberry (among others, I'm sure) kind of protects you from maxing out your whole month's data budget in minutes by having a Blackberry server act as a proxy that strips down websites to bare information. Makes pages load a lot faster as well. That's what I would call smart surfing on a smart phone. The iPhone is to a Blackberry what AOL is to GMail, i figure. Still, it's your choice, and all due respect for a well designed blinkenlights phone goes to Apple.
Damn, that last line will probably get me modded troll again (which would imply me posting stuff that's in contrast to my real opinions, which is of course plain wrong, at least in all my posts so far).
That's too bad for you then. But would you mind to elaborate why you bought a PS3 in the first place if there weren't any games within reach that might interest you? Just curious.
Come again? I was talking about the 360 package if you didn't read my comment. The 360 has a separate brick, yet does overheat just like my wife sometimes does (which means, a lot). The PS3, on the other hand, doesn't sport either of the problems I mentioned: doesn't have an ugly brick, doesn't overheat (and become a brick, mind the pun). It is cool like me (compared to my wife, that is).
Compare that to the one prize Zonk and the original poster (maybe) failed to mention:
Special Commendation for Graphics
Killzone 2
(Guerrilla Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PS3)
If Microsoft at least had the kind of humour that made them include an unlockable chairthrower weapon in Halo 3, then I might reconsider (Whatever I might reconsider. It won't be my choice to not buy a 360, though).
Well, 'actually', it's at #23 right now, which goes to show there's a lot of fluctuation in that list (PS3 boldly defends the top spot, though). Speaking of the 360, elite or not, and having a close look at the picture provided: don't you find it amusing that they depict every minor cable, adapter and what else is within the package, EXCEPT one thing, which is the power brick? Or am I supposed to assume that the power brick is the big box on the left? Very telling, I think. It's not really deceptive marketing, but a rather subtle hiding of some small (eh-heh!) annoyance.
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is . . . more Windows!
Honestly, while I think it is fairly easy to numb Mr. Ballmer's mind, here's an even more mind-numbing concept: even if you multiply the respective numbers of Windows installs with those of all cars on earth, there's still more cockroaches running around than that. Cockroaches win!
Slashdot Mirror
While it is obvious that you indeed haven't checked prices for a while: thanks for letting us know that it was (or still is?) cheaper to get a defective-by-design console *and* a last-gen system for less money than a premium next-gen powerhouse.
The point is: the 360 *and* the Wii are already on the decline, technically and software-wise, while the Playstation 3 is still warming up. The latter is the system with the most stuff up its sleeves, and Sony sure are patient guys. The system sellers are not out yet, which could be either a.) a fiasco or b.) build-up before the final blow.
Oops, another one of my Sony-fanboi posts slipped through, gomen nasai.
Or more like anywhere between three to five reboots away . . .
Don't you know that if you type 'google' into google, you can break the Internet?
Disclaimer: I'm the head of IT at the company I'm working for, and I have this on good authority.
Yahoo, MSN etc. store your outgoing mails as well. Your point?
The concept of 'opening' people's e-mails is somewhat flawed. As long as you don't encrypt everything, the more fitting analogy would be that Google has a quick glance at your postcards. Not that they should do that too much, either, but e-mail is just not a sealed envelope.
In other words, you don't sue or shoot the mailman for accidentally picking up one or two lines from your picture postcard while scanning for your address.
Wow, the Anarchist's Cookbook? That's so - come on - so 1980s, man! On a more serious note, the UK police should focus their attention on the real terrorists' cookbook, the Qu'ran, and outlaw that one. Much higher probability to catch some real sleepers or hate-speakers. Islam is not a religion but an ideology.
You don't have to re-download anything if you properly backup all of the contents onto an external HD (must be FAT32 formatted) and then restore after swapping disks. You will have to do the linux install from scratch, though.
Well, no one seems to remember a time like that, so . . .
Sorry to disappoint you, but that sentence is neither aggressive nor dirty (except grammatically). Muttersprachler just means native speaker, and there are absolutely no negative connotations involved.
As for being the best language for cursing: keep thinking that way if it helps you picking up a second language. Honestly. I thought the same way about Japanese and it motivated me to learn it, only to understand that cursing makes you sound like an imbecile, like in any other language. It just doesn't matter anymore once you are able to express yourself freely.
Well, somehow this rule seems to apply to Apple phones only. Most other phones will be happy to play anything playable as a ringer.
Note to consumers: Don't pay for ringtones! Help stop those stupid commercials on TV by making their business model fail. This might be one of the rare occasions where an organized boycott might actually make sense and work out fine.
That may well have been the case with the iPod etc. Concerning the iPhone, did the labels force Apple to put DRM into their products the same way they don't force Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry and so on?
Just curious, because my Blackberry has none of that. Any of my MP3s will do as a ringer.
What battery drain? My Blackberry (8800, mind you, so our respective mileages might vary) almost never gets powered down, as it's going one or two weeks without any need for recharging anyway. The only times I have to pull the battery is when it has to reboot after I installed a new theme that otherwise won't be found.
Nobody said they got 4800$ worth of emails. The bill would likely be within the same range if the users only received three emails all in all during that time. The traffic that caused the excessive billing was the iPhones' polling the mail servers 24/7. The roaming services likely charged something like 50 cents per connection, plus some per kilobyte rate. Let's say the iPhone polls once every 5 minutes. That adds up to (for 3 iPhones) 1.50$ twelve times an hour, or 18$/h. Which already puts it at >3000$ a week, so I overestimated my numbers. On the other hand, 25 cents per data exchange doesn't sound awfully expensive if it's from overseas, I figure.
Conclusion: The numbers do even more suggest that AT&T and Apple are at fault for not taking roaming costs into account. Considering the mobility people enjoy nowadays, even Apple users, this is just pure ignorance, plain and simple. You don't need more than a small IF or CASE statement that goes something like: IF (network.id="AT$T") THEN poll() ELSE idle(); to prevent this mess from happening.
Trademarked? A church? For what kind of trade exactly would someone have cared to trademark it?
And don't you think Jesus would have objected if that were the case?
I think the only argument they have is a moral one. Which can be (should be?) rather strong. Compare: Let's have a downloadable map for a game like Resistance, Warhawk, UT3 or CS/S that's modeled around Mecca, to have a shootout in some mosques and around the Kaaba, and now try to imagine what the game designers would have summoned upon themselves.
Luckily enough for Insomniac, the Church of England has never supported sending out suicide bombers to take care of things that have not been taken care of by legislation.
I think you're absolutely spot on there. I myself have met some outstandingly nice people online, not just nerds and other people trapped in basements, no, real people! Quite some of my acquaintances are actually rather successful businessmen, most of them from Nigeria, who have become real close friends over the course of the last year. Actually, I'm planning to meet some of them next week, for the first time. It's gonna be a blast! They also told me a lot about some exciting business opportunities, which I'm eager to try.
As you can see, the Internets (yes! all of them) are not for losers only any longer. Friendship is possible!
Oh dear, help! As much as I like grammar nazis and spelling nazis, but now we also get semantics nazis here on slashdot?
Yeah, I know. I must be new here.
Turning a hate group into a love group? Then peace is near!
And maybe, just maybe, encoding everything in JOINT STEREO by default is the root of most of the evil the audiophiles seem to hear in MP3s? For most encoders and audio software you'll have to deliberately turn off that very feature that will cripple most of the finer stuff going on within the stereo spectrum.
I mean, what's the point of recording at a bitrate of 320kbps if you don't do it in true stereo? The overall effect may well be that sort of 'listening through a screen door' that the submitter was talking about. Joint stereo is okayish at 64kbps, but please turn it OFF at anything higher. If you are to listen to the result on anything better than an iPod, that is. Don't forget that the audio outs of an iPod are not that much better than the cheap ear buds anyway.
That's what made me choose the Blackberry 8800, too. Wikipedia, Google Maps and GPS. You can even write, adopt and install your own Java applications without any artificial barriers, and on the consumer's side, use any MP3 or MIDI file as a ringer for any / all / a group of callers.
Back to the browsing experience: I don't know what kind of data plan the iPhone is sold with, but it does make me nervous that the iPhone will act as a regular browser and will request the 'bling' version of any website. I mean, loading a slashdot article with some hundred comments will easily be in the MB range.
The Blackberry (among others, I'm sure) kind of protects you from maxing out your whole month's data budget in minutes by having a Blackberry server act as a proxy that strips down websites to bare information. Makes pages load a lot faster as well. That's what I would call smart surfing on a smart phone. The iPhone is to a Blackberry what AOL is to GMail, i figure. Still, it's your choice, and all due respect for a well designed blinkenlights phone goes to Apple.
Damn, that last line will probably get me modded troll again (which would imply me posting stuff that's in contrast to my real opinions, which is of course plain wrong, at least in all my posts so far).
That's too bad for you then. But would you mind to elaborate why you bought a PS3 in the first place if there weren't any games within reach that might interest you? Just curious.
Come again? I was talking about the 360 package if you didn't read my comment. The 360 has a separate brick, yet does overheat just like my wife sometimes does (which means, a lot). The PS3, on the other hand, doesn't sport either of the problems I mentioned: doesn't have an ugly brick, doesn't overheat (and become a brick, mind the pun). It is cool like me (compared to my wife, that is).
If Microsoft at least had the kind of humour that made them include an unlockable chairthrower weapon in Halo 3, then I might reconsider (Whatever I might reconsider. It won't be my choice to not buy a 360, though).
The utter stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me. Stop trolling, you don't own a PS3, and no one is forcing you to. Are we cool now?
Well, 'actually', it's at #23 right now, which goes to show there's a lot of fluctuation in that list (PS3 boldly defends the top spot, though). Speaking of the 360, elite or not, and having a close look at the picture provided: don't you find it amusing that they depict every minor cable, adapter and what else is within the package, EXCEPT one thing, which is the power brick? Or am I supposed to assume that the power brick is the big box on the left? Very telling, I think. It's not really deceptive marketing, but a rather subtle hiding of some small (eh-heh!) annoyance.
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is . . . more Windows!
Honestly, while I think it is fairly easy to numb Mr. Ballmer's mind, here's an even more mind-numbing concept: even if you multiply the respective numbers of Windows installs with those of all cars on earth, there's still more cockroaches running around than that. Cockroaches win!