The utterly insane Killzone footage.
The exclusive for PS3 MGS4.
The amazing MGS4 trailer with live gameplay coming up soon.
Home is looking more and more like the ultimate online system for gamers with the custom spaces for game comapanies, the streaming video, the elegant graphics, the very cool matchmaking and clan stuff.
Ratchet and Clank, Lair, Little Big Planet, Folklore, Warhawk, Infamous, SOCOM
Absolutely insane lineup. Absolutely insane level of graphics power in the PS3.
One of the best E3 conferences ever. I can't figure out if you're a paid astroturfer by Sony trying to make Sony look good or a paid astroturfer by Microsoft trying to make Sony look bad.
Yes, they had a good show. But keep your frickin' pants on.
Have you ever actually watched a movie on your PSP?
I've watched hundred of hours of movies and TV shows on my PSP.
Air travel + PSP + movies (on a memory stick) = Heaven.
No need for a laptop in your carryon means you can "sail" through security. The instant on/off is wonderful as well. You can use it while actually standing in line. One 4Gig stick will hold an entire season of a television show plus a movie or two.
You get good battery life (a little under three hours) because it's not hitting the UMD, but for longer flights you can get: a USB battery box and a USB charging cable. It will suck down batteries (but this setup allows the brightest screen mode) but work like a charm. I went through 16 AA's on a 24 hour flight once.
Oh yeah, I also rest it on the treadmill in front of me while running. I've lost 10 pounds when I never had the patience before. No physical media = no skipping.
I just kick myself for waiting a year to get one. It is by far the best video player available and Sony has marketed it INCREDIBLY poorly.
Never played a UMD though. Those are a waste of money IMO.
On Facebook, my friends are the people I really care about and like to talk to a lot. I see many of them more than once a week. Then seriously, what's Facebook for/i.
Most popular phones are old fashioned, the service is lacking, spotty and uses several standards and only in the US could they come out with a brand new smart phone and NOT feature 3G on it -and sell a shitton of them anyway! 2Gs is not very many Gs.
I agree with lots of the posts from Americans I have seen here in slashdot before that state that if USA is *this* terrible why are people still willing to live there? I really can not understand it, what is it there in the USA that people, even some Britons (I live in Britain today) want to live there??
And he's wrong about algorithms too - since a non-terminating algorithm is always expressible by deconstruction into a series of terminating algorithms.
I have no idea what you just said, and I've been coding for years. State machines. Check it out, they are quite useful.
Just like the Romans used chariots the size of a two horse's side by side, which left grooves which left it's mark of carriages which still existed centuries later and used as the width for the rails of train tracks and which were imported to the US which they blasted holes in mountains to fit and then they had to build the booster rockets for the space shuttle to fit through said mountains so the size of a space shuttle booster rocket is based on a horse's ass.
Ok, this is false but I still really like it so I apologize.
Hopefully for him his market will grow and he will eventually get the services he desires. Internet isn't the only thing that suffers in a small market.
Get VoIP, and you're still getting screwed by Comcast.
How am I getting screwed over by Comcast? In 3.5 years I have had one service outage that last a single night. I pay them $40/month for everything and I use bitTorrent and game online nearly everyday.
I set my Mom up on VOIP... with battery backup. She has a $25/month plan for the internet so she's paying less than $35 for both. No service outages in over a year now.
Get real, if you want a job and a place to live you need a phone. The companies you get regular phone service through are the same companies you get cell service from. And internet companies are either the same again or have the same levels of "service."
Or you could get cable for 40 bucks plus VOIP (I use SunRocket) for $8/month. I know $48/month is a lot to pay for internet access and unlimited free nationwide calling (plus a little international thrown in) but hey, you gotta give a little to get a little.
Indeed. And, at the risk of burning karma, I'll say there's quite likely a statistically significant correlation between those who believe in god and those who believe in the possibility of perpetual motion machines. These are quite different. Many accepted scientific theories have been blown out of the water in the course of human history.
I think it would be more accurate to group those who believe their science is the ultimate truth with those who believe their religion is the ultimate truth.
And most of the homebuilding corporations are getting slaughtered with inventory. It was a speculative boom caused by easy credit, nothing more.
I live in downtown San Diego so I know what you are talking about. Hell, I own two houses here so I've made out like a bandit. But it did not get three times more desirable here in the last eight years. Incomes did not triple over the last eight years. The only thing that has changed has been financing. In fact, people have been LEAVING San Diego for other states since prices go too high.
Again, I'm not saying we need to get rid of banks or anything, I'm simply saying that lending has temporarily distorted prices. They will come back in line.
It's simply there to provide a public service (namely interest-free loans), not to make money as the for-profit banks do.
The problem is that humans are sometimes not very good at assessing the price of things. Especially really really expensive purchase made a few times in one's lifetime. It's happen all the time even though the for-profit banks really hate losing money. If this were a government agency, this cost would be passed onto the government reducing the budget for other more vital activities.
Also Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ARE government sponsored agencies designed to do just that. They are not part of the government but supposed to be monitored by the OFHEO. And oh look, they are the ones sponsoring the current boom!
I realize when I say "couldn't" that's a bit excessive. I wouldn't want to prevent people from doing so if they really wanted to.
On the other hand, the cost of labor and resources does not remotely account for the doubling (or tripling!) of home prices in the last ten years. Crazy financing does.
The *only* thing that deprives Adobe of the ability to sell me Photoshop is my unwillingness to purchase it.
I don't know how to make this any clearer. If you use GIMP, or if they sell Photoshop for $10K they still have the ABILITY to sell Photoshop to you. Photoshop is not GIMP and they do NOT have the exact same featureset. If you are already using Photoshop, they are UNABLE to sell it to you because you already have every feature of Photoshop. In this case WHY you are are unwilling to purchase it is important. Using GIMP or that is it too expensive are reasons that they may be able to change your mind about. Already having it for free would require them to compete against that price. There, I hope that makes sense. They might be able to change your mind about the other things... but competing with a free version of their product will put them out of business.
Going back to the GNU GPL, we use that because it promotes free code. If I am using Windows that doesn't use the GPL, can someone else then use Linux in a way that violates the GPL because "it's the same thing".
No. Using GIMP does not deprive Adobe of the ability to sell you Photoshop. Using Photoshop without paying for it does.
When a company overprices something they may "cost themselves a sale". But it doesn't deprive them of the ability to sell it to you at the asking price.
I think the prices of CDs are pretty silly too. I'm not defending them. But if you are going to use music without paying for it at least be intellectually honest. It's the hypocrisy that bugs me.
but offer me a DRM-free album in the format of my choice for $3.99 instead of $9.99, and I will probably drop $50 or more per month on your service, instead of the one album every 2-3 months like I do now.
They are betting that the smaller base at a higher price is worth the missed sales. Good bet? I don't know. I actually hope not!
Which in many cases is not illegal. People like to call it theft and then since theft is illegal they claim that whatever they called theft must thus be illegal and end up wrong.
Oh, it isn't theft. I completely agree. But on the other hand, people like to say it isn't theft and then since it's not theft they claim that whatever isn't must be both legal and moral.
Copying music is no different than me selling code release under GNU GPL.
Just as violating the GNU GPL removes the author's ability to make their work free in that instance, using copied music removes the author's ability to be paid in that instance.
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Yes, they had a good show. But keep your frickin' pants on.
Have you ever actually watched a movie on your PSP?
I've watched hundred of hours of movies and TV shows on my PSP.
Air travel + PSP + movies (on a memory stick) = Heaven.
No need for a laptop in your carryon means you can "sail" through security. The instant on/off is wonderful as well. You can use it while actually standing in line. One 4Gig stick will hold an entire season of a television show plus a movie or two.
You get good battery life (a little under three hours) because it's not hitting the UMD, but for longer flights you can get: a USB battery box and a USB charging cable. It will suck down batteries (but this setup allows the brightest screen mode) but work like a charm. I went through 16 AA's on a 24 hour flight once.
Oh yeah, I also rest it on the treadmill in front of me while running. I've lost 10 pounds when I never had the patience before. No physical media = no skipping.
I just kick myself for waiting a year to get one. It is by far the best video player available and Sony has marketed it INCREDIBLY poorly.
Never played a UMD though. Those are a waste of money IMO.
Chuckle. Must not post when drunk!
Remember the Clinton sponsored government mandated cryptokey fiasco? They wanted to make sure that the govt could break all encryption.
Don't worry, some other administration will do something bad enough to make us forget all about Bush.
Wait a second. I guess you should worry.
Yeah, I was actually making a joke there chuckles.
Two points:
1. I know it's all of South America. I just thought Mexicans sounded funnier.
2. I am looking to retire outside the US.
I agree with lots of the posts from Americans I have seen here in slashdot before that state that if USA is *this* terrible why are people still willing to live there? I really can not understand it, what is it there in the USA that people, even some Britons (I live in Britain today) want to live there??
I don't know. Ask the Mexicans.
I have no idea what you just said, and I've been coding for years. State machines. Check it out, they are quite useful.
Just like the Romans used chariots the size of a two horse's side by side, which left grooves which left it's mark of carriages which still existed centuries later and used as the width for the rails of train tracks and which were imported to the US which they blasted holes in mountains to fit and then they had to build the booster rockets for the space shuttle to fit through said mountains so the size of a space shuttle booster rocket is based on a horse's ass.
Ok, this is false but I still really like it so I apologize.
Then why does he keep saying "you"?
Hopefully for him his market will grow and he will eventually get the services he desires. Internet isn't the only thing that suffers in a small market.
Get VoIP, and you're still getting screwed by Comcast.
How am I getting screwed over by Comcast? In 3.5 years I have had one service outage that last a single night. I pay them $40/month for everything and I use bitTorrent and game online nearly everyday.
I set my Mom up on VOIP... with battery backup. She has a $25/month plan for the internet so she's paying less than $35 for both. No service outages in over a year now.
Get real, if you want a job and a place to live you need a phone. The companies you get regular phone service through are the same companies you get cell service from. And internet companies are either the same again or have the same levels of "service."
Or you could get cable for 40 bucks plus VOIP (I use SunRocket) for $8/month. I know $48/month is a lot to pay for internet access and unlimited free nationwide calling (plus a little international thrown in) but hey, you gotta give a little to get a little.
I think it would be more accurate to group those who believe their science is the ultimate truth with those who believe their religion is the ultimate truth.
And most of the homebuilding corporations are getting slaughtered with inventory. It was a speculative boom caused by easy credit, nothing more.
I live in downtown San Diego so I know what you are talking about. Hell, I own two houses here so I've made out like a bandit. But it did not get three times more desirable here in the last eight years. Incomes did not triple over the last eight years. The only thing that has changed has been financing. In fact, people have been LEAVING San Diego for other states since prices go too high.
Again, I'm not saying we need to get rid of banks or anything, I'm simply saying that lending has temporarily distorted prices. They will come back in line.
It's simply there to provide a public service (namely interest-free loans), not to make money as the for-profit banks do.
The problem is that humans are sometimes not very good at assessing the price of things. Especially really really expensive purchase made a few times in one's lifetime. It's happen all the time even though the for-profit banks really hate losing money. If this were a government agency, this cost would be passed onto the government reducing the budget for other more vital activities.
Also Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ARE government sponsored agencies designed to do just that. They are not part of the government but supposed to be monitored by the OFHEO. And oh look, they are the ones sponsoring the current boom!
I realize when I say "couldn't" that's a bit excessive. I wouldn't want to prevent people from doing so if they really wanted to.
On the other hand, the cost of labor and resources does not remotely account for the doubling (or tripling!) of home prices in the last ten years. Crazy financing does.
The *only* thing that deprives Adobe of the ability to sell me Photoshop is my unwillingness to purchase it.
I don't know how to make this any clearer. If you use GIMP, or if they sell Photoshop for $10K they still have the ABILITY to sell Photoshop to you. Photoshop is not GIMP and they do NOT have the exact same featureset. If you are already using Photoshop, they are UNABLE to sell it to you because you already have every feature of Photoshop. In this case WHY you are are unwilling to purchase it is important. Using GIMP or that is it too expensive are reasons that they may be able to change your mind about. Already having it for free would require them to compete against that price. There, I hope that makes sense. They might be able to change your mind about the other things... but competing with a free version of their product will put them out of business.
Going back to the GNU GPL, we use that because it promotes free code. If I am using Windows that doesn't use the GPL, can someone else then use Linux in a way that violates the GPL because "it's the same thing".
Sorry... let's say without including the GPL.
No. Using GIMP does not deprive Adobe of the ability to sell you Photoshop. Using Photoshop without paying for it does.
When a company overprices something they may "cost themselves a sale". But it doesn't deprive them of the ability to sell it to you at the asking price.
I think the prices of CDs are pretty silly too. I'm not defending them. But if you are going to use music without paying for it at least be intellectually honest. It's the hypocrisy that bugs me.
but offer me a DRM-free album in the format of my choice for $3.99 instead of $9.99, and I will probably drop $50 or more per month on your service, instead of the one album every 2-3 months like I do now.
They are betting that the smaller base at a higher price is worth the missed sales. Good bet? I don't know. I actually hope not!
Which in many cases is not illegal. People like to call it theft and then since theft is illegal they claim that whatever they called theft must thus be illegal and end up wrong.
Oh, it isn't theft. I completely agree. But on the other hand, people like to say it isn't theft and then since it's not theft they claim that whatever isn't must be both legal and moral.
Copying music is no different than me selling code release under GNU GPL.
Yes, but it is taking something from them.
Just as violating the GNU GPL removes the author's ability to make their work free in that instance, using copied music removes the author's ability to be paid in that instance.
I think "To use illegally" works best.