Try turning on your air conditioner or taking it out of the lead box.
Just kidding. I made the mistake of buying a first-gen ps2 around March. Almost 3 months later to the day, it wouldn't read DVD's. So what I was left with was a ps1 since all the new games are on DVD. I just hocked it for $150 and took the hit. Otherwise Sony would've gotten another $120 off me and I didn't feel like giving them anymore cash. They're super fucking irresponsible for issuing the shortest warranty period of all time.
Yeah that article was hilarious. Intentional misspellings, broad-ranging comments, etc. The bit about Internet Explorer was funny as hell. As an aside, and I don't know how many of you 'Drake users have noticed this yet, but Konqueror in Mandrake has a link to adequacy.org. Even the people at mandrakeforum didn't realize this was a joke..all you have to do is read adequacy's mission statement and you can decide from there.
It has occurred to me that an unusually high number of military personnel, particularly Air Force, lose lots of hair compared to the average joe. What exactly causes this?
I can't believe I'm biting this but...I couldn't resist.
That's Gayle the friendly eco-scientist-hippie thing! S/he is so PC and eco-oriented s/he hasn't chosen a sexual orientation OR a stance on stem cell research! Oh that funky Gayle...always in the middle.
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What you left out was the fact that AMD has failed, and continues to fail, to add thermistors to throttle back the cpu or stop it if it gets too hot. www.tomshardware.com had an article on this recently. If your Athlon loses it's fan or heat sink for even one second, it's roasted and possibly your motherboard also. This is a sad oversight on the part of AMD but something they could easily correct if they felt the need.
Enough about the WTC already. We're bombarded with information, new or not, from every angle. Television, radio, the internet, speakers, churches, ad nauseum. One of the intentions of the terrorists was to completely disrupt our way of life. You can see that it's been sucessful. A 'return to normalcy' is the healthiest possible solution while the government prepares whatever response it feels is necessary.
RMS is right by saying that using terrorist attacks as convenient moves to take away civil liberties is true. Britain's move and resultant general failure to catch any terrorist activity by use of their camera systems should be proof enough. I believe that security should be increased in airports, etc. but face recognition is just a way for FaceCO or whoever to make a quick buck. As any system admin knows, security is an ongoing process and there's no push-button solution for securing ANYTHING. You have to have more than a few things in an airport to lock it down and barely-above-minimum-wage rentacops are a disgustingly sad element to their security solution. Would you buy the crappiest car alarm for your car that doesn't always go off when someone tries to jack your car or an expensive one? I think you know.
All I can say is, I'll be glad when all the damn media hoopla about this event is coming to a close. Do all couhtries sensationalize everything like we do?
..my girlfriend pointed this out to me, even though it was super obvious.
9/11/01 or 911
Unbelievable.
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I bought a psx2 in Frisco, then a month later it quit reading dvds and playstation2 dvd format games. So essentially it became a fast psx. I lost my receipt and they wouldn't make any effort to track down the receipt even though I had my visa transaction number. Months went by arguing with them and Sony and by the time someone actually made an effort at EB, my warranty had expired. So fuck EB. They can kiss my lily-white ass.
I used to install cable modems for AT&T @Home, and in my spare time one day I decided to read the entire user agreement included in the startup kit every customer got. It was pretty revealing and oddly Orwellian in its wording. They basically tell everyone that they have the right to: 1. maintain stats on people (i.e. what content you view and when), 2. monitor their network traffic on each individual node and each individual host, 3. record data on their customers in order to 'provide consistent and valuable service that appeals to @Home users', 4. use that data internally and with 'select AT&T partners' to provide bla bla bla. People never read all this crap and they count on it, even though it's right there in their faces. So basically AT&T @Home can monitor your transmissions, sell your data or give it to another branch to let the marketroids decide what to sell to you in various ways. I don't think they have the right to sell your email address but your browsing habits, yes. @Home, where implemented properly, is a damn fine system, but AT&T is still struggling with the concept of being a big ISP. I imagine that in Australia, hell, the world over where @Home is involved, users get pretty much the same agreement detailing what rights they have. Oh well.
Do they teach english where you live? Maybe if you'd had internet access for free when you were growing up, the English language would've been more accessible.
Who needs a p4 1.7 ghz machine to access the internet and do a little surfing? Oh wait, they probably installed win2k, so in order to surf AND use office xp, you need at least 256mb of ram and a 1 ghz machine right?
Believe it or not, the PS2 *does not* depend solely on the DVD format. How else could you play original playstation games on it? It has 2 sets of lenses (or lense hardware). You could just burn a cd with the proper ps1 headers on it and get ready to rock.
It's slashdot, but some people forget to do their homework.
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"Are you saying that writing and distributing viruses is a victimless crime?"
Virii, maybe. Worms that target easily cracked M$ servers...maybe not.
If that means some jail time, so be it.
Jail is the answer for everything isn't it? I suppose it has nothing to do with the breakdown of society to the point where nobody is supervising children while they learn to write and distribute virii/worms. Blame the parents, even if they're 'technically illiterate'. It's their job to get literate. Would you buy your kid a car if you didn't know how to drive one?
You know we've got some senators with too much time on their hands when all they do is search for Pr0n. Actually they're quite a bit luckier than most real employees because they don't have to explain why they have 3 copies of pamandtommy.avi on their computers and why the firewall is logging porn hits and strange ports opening and closing on specific computers. Just like the time when Billy Graham tried to bring a huge lawsuit against Larry Flynt...'I was doing serious research reading these filthy pornographic magazines!. 'Well Bill, uhh, why do you have paper tissues and lotion on your desk?'
Just admit it everyone: you like porn, and porn is good for you if taken in moderation. How many marriages has it saved? Bahahaha.
I didn't have any idea that anyone made non-DOCSIS modems. Did you hit an Ebay auction or something? And with all this talk about research..everyone should know by now that you should call your cable company and ask them what type of modem to purchase.
Confucious say: a fool and his mango are soon parted.
Actually Sony DOES want to give people the idea that the PS2 is a computer. Ever actually SEE a PS2? In big, bold letters all over the box and in the instruction manual, Sony refers to it not as a game machine, or a gaming console, but a 'Computer Entertainment System'. What does that tell you? The Linux kit is Sony responding to demand and at the same time watching a carefully controlled experiment. They want to see if they can put together a nice little distro that allows people to make the PS2 do what they need it to. After all, the PS2's chipset could be the Next Big Thing as far as home computers go. Ever see the pictures of the 'ideal' PS2? It's got a USB keyboard, mouse, broadband adapter, hard drive and Sony flatscreen monitor. Sounds like a computer to me. Particularly with AOL's involvement to bring a mutated version of their connection software to the PS2 for use with the modem. I think there's a connection between the AOL Linux alpha that got leaked and the PS2.
I don't think consumers in general will ever be scared of the PS2. They might be in awe of it but it's not going to get scary, even with an OS and all the trappings that come with your average PC. In fact, since it's running Linux and will be simple and rock-solid, it's really the next step of the evolving console. It's what consumers have wanted for YEARS. A reliable, simple, hard-to-crash game machine that gets them on the internet, easily.
The PS2 already has i.Link networking built in, and Gran Turismo 3 uses it. I'm not sure what the bandwidth is but it's gotta be livable if GT3 can let 6 people race at once in realtime on 6 PS2's. I wish people would read more about the PS2 before posting....'what about storage and networking bla bla'. Sony has already announced a broadband/modem adapter that's both 100baseT and a dialup modem, and a 40gb hard drive is optional.
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Try turning on your air conditioner or taking it out of the lead box.
Just kidding. I made the mistake of buying a first-gen ps2 around March. Almost 3 months later to the day, it wouldn't read DVD's. So what I was left with was a ps1 since all the new games are on DVD. I just hocked it for $150 and took the hit. Otherwise Sony would've gotten another $120 off me and I didn't feel like giving them anymore cash. They're super fucking irresponsible for issuing the shortest warranty period of all time.
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Please don't feed the trolls.
Solution: don't put win2k on laptops.
Yeah that article was hilarious. Intentional misspellings, broad-ranging comments, etc. The bit about Internet Explorer was funny as hell. As an aside, and I don't know how many of you 'Drake users have noticed this yet, but Konqueror in Mandrake has a link to adequacy.org. Even the people at mandrakeforum didn't realize this was a joke..all you have to do is read adequacy's mission statement and you can decide from there.
Laden or unladen?
Uh, anyone have any mirrors or is it Sun or Nothing day?
It has occurred to me that an unusually high number of military personnel, particularly Air Force, lose lots of hair compared to the average joe. What exactly causes this?
I can't believe I'm biting this but...I couldn't resist.
That's Gayle the friendly eco-scientist-hippie thing! S/he is so PC and eco-oriented s/he hasn't chosen a sexual orientation OR a stance on stem cell research! Oh that funky Gayle...always in the middle.
Yeah, notepad really screams!
What you left out was the fact that AMD has failed, and continues to fail, to add thermistors to throttle back the cpu or stop it if it gets too hot. www.tomshardware.com had an article on this recently. If your Athlon loses it's fan or heat sink for even one second, it's roasted and possibly your motherboard also. This is a sad oversight on the part of AMD but something they could easily correct if they felt the need.
These things better have the three laws of robotics built into the software. They go a little like this.
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I can see a few scientists overlooking this little ruleset and losing some limbs to Fujitsubot 2001.
Enough about the WTC already. We're bombarded with information, new or not, from every angle. Television, radio, the internet, speakers, churches, ad nauseum. One of the intentions of the terrorists was to completely disrupt our way of life. You can see that it's been sucessful. A 'return to normalcy' is the healthiest possible solution while the government prepares whatever response it feels is necessary.
RMS is right by saying that using terrorist attacks as convenient moves to take away civil liberties is true. Britain's move and resultant general failure to catch any terrorist activity by use of their camera systems should be proof enough. I believe that security should be increased in airports, etc. but face recognition is just a way for FaceCO or whoever to make a quick buck. As any system admin knows, security is an ongoing process and there's no push-button solution for securing ANYTHING. You have to have more than a few things in an airport to lock it down and barely-above-minimum-wage rentacops are a disgustingly sad element to their security solution. Would you buy the crappiest car alarm for your car that doesn't always go off when someone tries to jack your car or an expensive one? I think you know.
All I can say is, I'll be glad when all the damn media hoopla about this event is coming to a close. Do all couhtries sensationalize everything like we do?
..my girlfriend pointed this out to me, even though it was super obvious.
9/11/01 or 911
Unbelievable.
I bought a psx2 in Frisco, then a month later it quit reading dvds and playstation2 dvd format games. So essentially it became a fast psx. I lost my receipt and they wouldn't make any effort to track down the receipt even though I had my visa transaction number. Months went by arguing with them and Sony and by the time someone actually made an effort at EB, my warranty had expired. So fuck EB. They can kiss my lily-white ass.
I used to install cable modems for AT&T @Home, and in my spare time one day I decided to read the entire user agreement included in the startup kit every customer got. It was pretty revealing and oddly Orwellian in its wording. They basically tell everyone that they have the right to: 1. maintain stats on people (i.e. what content you view and when), 2. monitor their network traffic on each individual node and each individual host, 3. record data on their customers in order to 'provide consistent and valuable service that appeals to @Home users', 4. use that data internally and with 'select AT&T partners' to provide bla bla bla. People never read all this crap and they count on it, even though it's right there in their faces. So basically AT&T @Home can monitor your transmissions, sell your data or give it to another branch to let the marketroids decide what to sell to you in various ways. I don't think they have the right to sell your email address but your browsing habits, yes. @Home, where implemented properly, is a damn fine system, but AT&T is still struggling with the concept of being a big ISP. I imagine that in Australia, hell, the world over where @Home is involved, users get pretty much the same agreement detailing what rights they have. Oh well.
Do they teach english where you live? Maybe if you'd had internet access for free when you were growing up, the English language would've been more accessible.
Who needs a p4 1.7 ghz machine to access the internet and do a little surfing? Oh wait, they probably installed win2k, so in order to surf AND use office xp, you need at least 256mb of ram and a 1 ghz machine right?
Believe it or not, the PS2 *does not* depend solely on the DVD format. How else could you play original playstation games on it? It has 2 sets of lenses (or lense hardware). You could just burn a cd with the proper ps1 headers on it and get ready to rock.
It's slashdot, but some people forget to do their homework.
"Are you saying that writing and distributing viruses is a victimless crime?"
Virii, maybe. Worms that target easily cracked M$ servers...maybe not.
If that means some jail time, so be it.
Jail is the answer for everything isn't it? I suppose it has nothing to do with the breakdown of society to the point where nobody is supervising children while they learn to write and distribute virii/worms. Blame the parents, even if they're 'technically illiterate'. It's their job to get literate. Would you buy your kid a car if you didn't know how to drive one?
Here's the next /. poll:
How did you discover porno?
1. Daddy's secret stash
2. Found in an empty field
3. Adult 'bookstore'
4. Cowboyneal
You know we've got some senators with too much time on their hands when all they do is search for Pr0n. Actually they're quite a bit luckier than most real employees because they don't have to explain why they have 3 copies of pamandtommy.avi on their computers and why the firewall is logging porn hits and strange ports opening and closing on specific computers. Just like the time when Billy Graham tried to bring a huge lawsuit against Larry Flynt...'I was doing serious research reading these filthy pornographic magazines!. 'Well Bill, uhh, why do you have paper tissues and lotion on your desk?'
Just admit it everyone: you like porn, and porn is good for you if taken in moderation. How many marriages has it saved? Bahahaha.
I didn't have any idea that anyone made non-DOCSIS modems. Did you hit an Ebay auction or something? And with all this talk about research..everyone should know by now that you should call your cable company and ask them what type of modem to purchase.
Confucious say: a fool and his mango are soon parted.
Actually Sony DOES want to give people the idea that the PS2 is a computer. Ever actually SEE a PS2? In big, bold letters all over the box and in the instruction manual, Sony refers to it not as a game machine, or a gaming console, but a 'Computer Entertainment System'. What does that tell you? The Linux kit is Sony responding to demand and at the same time watching a carefully controlled experiment. They want to see if they can put together a nice little distro that allows people to make the PS2 do what they need it to. After all, the PS2's chipset could be the Next Big Thing as far as home computers go. Ever see the pictures of the 'ideal' PS2? It's got a USB keyboard, mouse, broadband adapter, hard drive and Sony flatscreen monitor. Sounds like a computer to me. Particularly with AOL's involvement to bring a mutated version of their connection software to the PS2 for use with the modem. I think there's a connection between the AOL Linux alpha that got leaked and the PS2.
I don't think consumers in general will ever be scared of the PS2. They might be in awe of it but it's not going to get scary, even with an OS and all the trappings that come with your average PC. In fact, since it's running Linux and will be simple and rock-solid, it's really the next step of the evolving console. It's what consumers have wanted for YEARS. A reliable, simple, hard-to-crash game machine that gets them on the internet, easily.
The PS2 already has i.Link networking built in, and Gran Turismo 3 uses it. I'm not sure what the bandwidth is but it's gotta be livable if GT3 can let 6 people race at once in realtime on 6 PS2's.
I wish people would read more about the PS2 before posting....'what about storage and networking bla bla'. Sony has already announced a broadband/modem adapter that's both 100baseT and a dialup modem, and a 40gb hard drive is optional.