I'm in the same boat as you. I've got a PS2 and it does the trick for me and has the games I want available for it. I look at the Xbox360 and the PS3 and the first question I ask is "What >must< have game is going to compel me to buy this console?".
So far, the games that have been announced for the PS3, none fulfill that criteria.
Now, if Insomnia was to release a new R&C game for the PS3, I'd buy one in a heartbeat...
In the strictest sense, you probably wouldn't want to go Leroy Jenkins on them... It helps nothing if you go in to get the sidekick and end up causing a group wipe...
On a serious note, these people are knuckleheads. Under normal circumstances the NYPD could have claimed that they were too busy, but with the publilicty it practically forces them to make arrests and retrieve the stolen property.
And just to think if they had just returned the damn thing... I never realized that pandoras box would look like a sidekick...
Actually you can use FC for ATM and IP, but hardly anybody does because of the expense, and for the fact that it's something different from ethernet. It's only great for storage because of the low latency.
However, if FC doesn't embrace higher speeds such as 10gbit I can see 10gigE displacing it, provided that companies can produce switching hareware that'll have the same latency speed as FC.
For what I use FC for it's great (storage), but I'd be much happier if everything was just Ethernet.
I don't believe the ACM is a great measure of a contries CS talent. I believe it's a great measure of how well a country can concentrate it's CS talent into a single college. The reason is quite simple; scale.
In the state that I live in (MA) we have practially a 100 colleges producing lots and lots of CS people. Worcester MA alone has 10+ colleges, including places such as WPI that turn out extrememly well educated CS majors.
I'm suspecting that the college density in othter countries is less, thus the talent tends to be alot more concentated.
Let's do an inner college ACM contest and take all the top talent from all the colleges and stack them onto a single or a couple of teams from "University USA" and I think they'd do just fine.
This is what I think you could do if you had the right piece of hardware.
My thinking it would be a USB device that when inserted into a port and is detected by the USB hardware sends a command to the memory controller that sends a command to the processor.
The machine would immediately freeze and dump its entire memory contents onto the USB device, then the machine would go into an instant power off state.
You could then go back to the crime lab and disect the memory byte by byte and see what the person was up to, what data was yet to be written to disk, etc.
I'd be happy if when you were walking out of the theater you could buy the DVD right then. I've been to a couple of movies (such as the Incredibles) where basically half way through the movie I had decided that I was going to buy the DVD when it came out. I think there'd be a certain level of impluse buying if a movie was really good.
I think that Movie Theaters should imbrace this and use it as a way to generate additional revenue.
We can only hope his ass is now the recepticle for junk male...
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I think you just need to start shooting more HGH. Then when you have normal sized hands it wouldn't be so unweildy.
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This doesn't suprise me. Sony decided to make the PSP region free for its games, but region locked for its movies. I'm still just pissed that Sony decided to not add a second analong stick and two more shoulder buttons so you you could use the PSP as a PS2 controller...
Though the way the delays keep coming, I suspect the first game available for the PS3 will be Duke Nukem Forever...
What I'd be really interested in knowing is how these cameras have helped deter crime. Ultimately, a bus stop is a public place so if they're going to install a camera, I would think it would be with the idea that if a mugger came along and saw me as an easy mark, they'd look up at the camera and go "Hmm, not such a good idea".
Though I wonder how much evidence that this would just force the criminals into areas without cameras?
I work with a couple of Aussies and they're seriously sharp tacks, so I'll make a broad generalization and assume that all Aussies are smart.
What you guys need is a roaming army of toad killing robots. My solution for the dead toads would be to use them as a fuel for the robots.
You'd have a mother type robot that would contain a miniture Thermal depolymerization plant that would eat toads and then burn the resulting oil to power itself. It would probably need to suppliment it's power usage with solar panels.
This mother robot would then send out smaller all terrain toad capturing robots.
This is why I haven't shopped in a Walmart in over two years. They went from an all American institution to being a whore of chinese imports.
Maybe one day, the WTO will actually listen to the US's complaints and actually hold China accountable for all the WTO agreements that it's systematically been violating.
I know Aibo was a product that you could actually buy, but I thought the Qrio was a research product that never made it into production.
If the Qrio was something that I could have bought, I would have bought one... If only to dress it up in a dog costume and have it walk around the house singing the doom song...
What it comes down to is that they've got enough content that they can't make everybody happy all of the time, so they move the more general content to the standard tier channels that get carried by most cable companies. The other more specialized content gets pushed onto the higher tier channel offerings that you have to pay extra for.
Personally, I think it'll be a great day when the whole system could be both ala-carte and profitable. In the meantime, I'll just have to suffer with my tivo configured so the jump ahead is set to 30sec intervals.
I had heard that DirecTV had ended its relationship with TiVo and I've seen the commericals for their version of TiVo and even the commerial makes it look as though it's second rate to TiVo.
The tragety is that other than no way to get anything off of it other than to hook up some other video recorder and choosing the "Send to VCR" option it really is a great product.
A buddy of mine has the charter/comcast DVR and to put it bluntly, it's shit compared to a TiVo.
PC: Get yourself one of those crazy cases with room for 6+ harddrives and a decent power supply. Decent CPU, but lots of ram (for caching) OS: Linux of some sort. Raid Hardware: 3ware or some other equivalent Network: 1-3 GigE network cards (I'd go with intel) something that support 802.3ad (provied your switch supports it as well) Drives: biggest SATA drives you can get your hands on.
My wife and I generally only played World of Warcraft when we could both play together. There were a few times she got ahead of me or visa versa, but we found that having someone in the same room you could talk to in realtime and discuss stragety really made the game fun.
Then she had a baby two months ago and I think we've logged on twice;-)
I own a duel tuner DirecTivo and I've been very happy with it. My only complaint is that generally the DirecTivo lags behind the regular TiVo in terms of updates, etc. A good example of this is that my DirecTivo has USB ports on the back but no support for a USB ethernet card.
Looking at this there's a couple of things I wish this thing had.
1. A firewire port. I understand why they wouldn't put one in there, but come on. My parents digital TV tuner has a firewire port, this thing should to. 2. A gigE network port. It's 2006... put a real network adapter in this thing.
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Unless you custom built your microwave, it actually runs at 2.4ghz...
However, this is Slashdot... Does your microwave also have a big spoiler (vent), and 30" rims (buttons)?
I'm in the same boat as you. I've got a PS2 and it does the trick for me and has the games I want available for it. I look at the Xbox360 and the PS3 and the first question I ask is "What >must< have game is going to compel me to buy this console?".
So far, the games that have been announced for the PS3, none fulfill that criteria.
Now, if Insomnia was to release a new R&C game for the PS3, I'd buy one in a heartbeat...
Programs can be fooled to think their connected to a 9x OS, but not devices.
Case in point, my mothers shitty old scanner. It worked fine under Win98se, but there aren't any drivers for XP...
In the strictest sense, you probably wouldn't want to go Leroy Jenkins on them... It helps nothing if you go in to get the sidekick and end up causing a group wipe...
On a serious note, these people are knuckleheads. Under normal circumstances the NYPD could have claimed that they were too busy, but with the publilicty it practically forces them to make arrests and retrieve the stolen property.
And just to think if they had just returned the damn thing... I never realized that pandoras box would look like a sidekick...
Face it. We're all wearing the blue dress now...
Actually you can use FC for ATM and IP, but hardly anybody does because of the expense, and for the fact that it's something different from ethernet. It's only great for storage because of the low latency.
However, if FC doesn't embrace higher speeds such as 10gbit I can see 10gigE displacing it, provided that companies can produce switching hareware that'll have the same latency speed as FC.
For what I use FC for it's great (storage), but I'd be much happier if everything was just Ethernet.
Man with hand in pocket, feel cocky all day...
I don't believe the ACM is a great measure of a contries CS talent. I believe it's a great measure of how well a country can concentrate it's CS talent into a single college. The reason is quite simple; scale.
In the state that I live in (MA) we have practially a 100 colleges producing lots and lots of CS people. Worcester MA alone has 10+ colleges, including places such as WPI that turn out extrememly well educated CS majors.
I'm suspecting that the college density in othter countries is less, thus the talent tends to be alot more concentated.
Let's do an inner college ACM contest and take all the top talent from all the colleges and stack them onto a single or a couple of teams from "University USA" and I think they'd do just fine.
This is what I think you could do if you had the right piece of hardware.
My thinking it would be a USB device that when inserted into a port and is detected by the USB hardware sends a command to the memory controller that sends a command to the processor.
The machine would immediately freeze and dump its entire memory contents onto the USB device, then the machine would go into an instant power off state.
You could then go back to the crime lab and disect the memory byte by byte and see what the person was up to, what data was yet to be written to disk, etc.
Of normal human beings? No.
Of Spammers such as this piece of trash? Yes.
I'd be happy if when you were walking out of the theater you could buy the DVD right then. I've been to a couple of movies (such as the Incredibles) where basically half way through the movie I had decided that I was going to buy the DVD when it came out. I think there'd be a certain level of impluse buying if a movie was really good.
I think that Movie Theaters should imbrace this and use it as a way to generate additional revenue.
We can only hope his ass is now the recepticle for junk male...
I think you just need to start shooting more HGH. Then when you have normal sized hands it wouldn't be so unweildy.
This doesn't suprise me. Sony decided to make the PSP region free for its games, but region locked for its movies. I'm still just pissed that Sony decided to not add a second analong stick and two more shoulder buttons so you you could use the PSP as a PS2 controller...
Though the way the delays keep coming, I suspect the first game available for the PS3 will be Duke Nukem Forever...
Well that sucks. As a passionate Futurama fan, reading that news this weekend gave me some hope, which has suddenly been dashed.
"You win again, Gravity!"
Just remember, it's not that the Chinese can make a better toaster... they just make the same old toaster cheaper.
It's up to you to make the better toaster and leave it to them to toil in a hot factory making a million of them...
The way we as Americans win the outsourcing game is to innovate.
What I'd be really interested in knowing is how these cameras have helped deter crime. Ultimately, a bus stop is a public place so if they're going to install a camera, I would think it would be with the idea that if a mugger came along and saw me as an easy mark, they'd look up at the camera and go "Hmm, not such a good idea".
Though I wonder how much evidence that this would just force the criminals into areas without cameras?
I work with a couple of Aussies and they're seriously sharp tacks, so I'll make a broad generalization and assume that all Aussies are smart.
What you guys need is a roaming army of toad killing robots. My solution for the dead toads would be to use them as a fuel for the robots.
You'd have a mother type robot that would contain a miniture Thermal depolymerization plant that would eat toads and then burn the resulting oil to power itself. It would probably need to suppliment it's power usage with solar panels.
This mother robot would then send out smaller all terrain toad capturing robots.
This is why I haven't shopped in a Walmart in over two years. They went from an all American institution to being a whore of chinese imports.
Maybe one day, the WTO will actually listen to the US's complaints and actually hold China accountable for all the WTO agreements that it's systematically been violating.
I know Aibo was a product that you could actually buy, but I thought the Qrio was a research product that never made it into production.
If the Qrio was something that I could have bought, I would have bought one... If only to dress it up in a dog costume and have it walk around the house singing the doom song...
What it comes down to is that they've got enough content that they can't make everybody happy all of the time, so they move the more general content to the standard tier channels that get carried by most cable companies. The other more specialized content gets pushed onto the higher tier channel offerings that you have to pay extra for.
Personally, I think it'll be a great day when the whole system could be both ala-carte and profitable. In the meantime, I'll just have to suffer with my tivo configured so the jump ahead is set to 30sec intervals.
I had heard that DirecTV had ended its relationship with TiVo and I've seen the commericals for their version of TiVo and even the commerial makes it look as though it's second rate to TiVo.
The tragety is that other than no way to get anything off of it other than to hook up some other video recorder and choosing the "Send to VCR" option it really is a great product.
A buddy of mine has the charter/comcast DVR and to put it bluntly, it's shit compared to a TiVo.
PC: Get yourself one of those crazy cases with room for 6+ harddrives and a decent power supply. Decent CPU, but lots of ram (for caching)
OS: Linux of some sort.
Raid Hardware: 3ware or some other equivalent
Network: 1-3 GigE network cards (I'd go with intel) something that support 802.3ad (provied your switch supports it as well)
Drives: biggest SATA drives you can get your hands on.
My wife and I generally only played World of Warcraft when we could both play together. There were a few times she got ahead of me or visa versa, but we found that having someone in the same room you could talk to in realtime and discuss stragety really made the game fun.
;-)
Then she had a baby two months ago and I think we've logged on twice
I own a duel tuner DirecTivo and I've been very happy with it. My only complaint is that generally the DirecTivo lags behind the regular TiVo in terms of updates, etc. A good example of this is that my DirecTivo has USB ports on the back but no support for a USB ethernet card.
Looking at this there's a couple of things I wish this thing had.
1. A firewire port. I understand why they wouldn't put one in there, but come on. My parents digital TV tuner has a firewire port, this thing should to.
2. A gigE network port. It's 2006... put a real network adapter in this thing.