1) Everytime I try the PS3 in a department store, it freezes or is already froze due to overheating.
Of course, that has nothing to do with it being in a sealed display?
2) Silent operation? Not sure about that. But, have you seen the insides of a PS3? It's 50% heatsink. Sure, it might run quiet, but even with the massive heatsink, it still overheats...and the trade off is the size of the system. It's absolutely massive.
I haven't seen a properly placed PS3 overheat yet. I hear more complaints about the need for and size of the xbox 360 external power supply than I do about the size of the PS3.
3) Last I checked, my local target had 5 PS3's, the EB across the street actually has a unit they've had since the first of the year, most stores I go to have "PS3 now in stock" signs (coincidentally right next to the "Wii currently unavailable signs"). Face, it, the PS3 is in stock everywhere. People who say otherwise live in an area that's having a spike in sales/popularity or an area that's getting below average allocations. FUD.
I find it very interesting how you say "people who say otherwise live in an area that's having a spike..." yet your proof is based on stores in your area that you've seen. It couldn't be that PS3 is just having a lull in popularity in your area?
Besides, there are no Atari 2600 on the shelves either. Does that mean it sells as well as Wii? No, that's not a dig at the Wii. Nintendo is either intentionally or unintentionally keeping stock scarce. But using lack of availability as the sole indicator of popularity is misguided.
4) BlueRay has far from won the format war. It's yet to be seen whether the current spike in BlueRay sales has anything to do with the free movie Sony was giving away with PS3's or any of the current buy one get one free BlueRay DVD incentives that have been going on (most definitely Sony throwing fuel on the fire to hype their format...they're dead in the water if it fails).
a) How does a disc that was given away for free a while ago affect SALES in recent times. b) Sony isn't the sole stakeholder in Blu-Ray, nor are they the sole inventor or backer. c) They weren't dead in the water when (Minidisc|Beta|Memory Stick) "failed." Nice Counter-FUD though.;)
I have both systems hooked up to a 50" sony SXRD LCD projection TV and so far . . . I think HD-DVD looks better even though it's displaying at 1080i. (My PS3 is @ 1080p)
Hooked together with what? Interconnects are important. I noticed grainy image with PS3 blu-ray movies using component video. Not so with HDMI.
It is quite possible to use a computer without an operating system. I'm not saying any of these are viable paradigms for today, but none of the original versions of BASIC required an operating system. MUMPS is largely self-contained, no OS needed.
I'm curious. Are you saying that the original BASIC didn't need an operating system, or you didn't need to interact directly with the operating system when you used BASIC? I'm pretty sure the latter is true. Either BASIC interacted with the OS itself, or it WAS the OS (as simple as it would have been.)
Oh, sure, Apple has a $500-$700 model to choose from now, but that's without monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. plus expansion is severely limited. Who wants that except people who do nothing but surf the web, play solitaire, and check email?
You make it sound like that's the minority of computer owners. It isn't. We are. It's a great machine for the majority of people.
History has shown time and time again over the past 25 years that consumers generally do not adopt Sony's proprietary formats: Betamax, Minidiscs, MemoryStick, SACD, UMD, and now Blu-Ray.
You have Blu-Ray in the wrong group. It's was a joint venture between Philips and Sony. And it's a little early to consign it to history, no?
Things that they develop in conjunction with other companies like CDs and eventually DVDs gained widespread adoption.
They didn't develop DVD. They worked with Philips on MultiMedia Compact Disc, while other companies worked on what became DVD. After arbitration (attempting to avoid another format war,) Sony and Philips dropped their efforts, and essentially got screwed in the process.
won't buy into Blu-Ray simply because it's a stupid name.
Stupid names don't stop people from buying products. Just ask the 5 million Wii owners.
"Buy this new movie on VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray Disc". "Blu-Ray Disc" sounds retarded compared to "DVD" which rolls off the tongue.
Compare apples to applies. Between Vertical Helical Scan Cassettes, Digital Versatile Discs, High Definition Digital Versatile Discs and Blu-Ray Discs, you think the latter is the most stupid sounding? BD is the acronym for Blu-Ray Disc, Blu-Ray just sounds better.
Sure, kubuntu is great on a desktop, but how does that relate to the article, running Gentoo on a sever? Gentoo lends itself quite nicely to a server environment. Personally any server I've run in the past 4 years has run Gentoo. I've run others before and I've tired others since. I've come to realize that the initial time you spend building a Gentoo server (minus compile time) is about equivalent to the amount of time I've had to spend going back to customize things I didn't like about default install from other, binary based, distros. Even if it does take longer, setting up a sever should.
1. The Federation is supposedly an alliance of planets where aliens of many different races live in peace and harmony. Then why the hell are virtually everyone on Federation starships human? And the few token non-humans are clearly the more human looking. There are no six tentacled creatures serving on Federation starships... there are no non-physical energy beings.
Right, no energy beings! Who do you think makes the food that comes out of replicators? Certainly can't fit a full sized chef in there.
3. They have "abandoned money"? Wait a minute... money is nessicary when there is scarcity and a market economy... and they definitly didn't eliminate scarcity (after all, dilithium crystals are still rare and valuable... there is only one holideck on the Enterprise, not one for every crew memeber, definitly meaning it would require some sort of rationing... the Enterprise is always carrying medicine or supplies, implying that the replicators can only produce certain types of objects). Obviously, the Federation has adopted some sort of anti-free-market command economy - perhaps Soviet style Communism, or Nazi style National Socialism. Either way, despite the pleasant lies of abundance that is spread in Trek propoganda, the Federation is most likely stifling, beurocratic, totalitarian-economic nightmare, with shortages and people lining up Soviet style in order to buy the most basic of goods.
I believe Picard said that they'd abandoned the pursuit of money.
4. We are left to assume that the Federation is some sort of Democracy... then why don't starfleet officers ever talk politics? Why isn't Data a member of one political party, while Wharf is a memeber of another political party, and they have heated (though respectful) political discussions? Why isn't Pickard contiplating his civilian political career after his starfleet career? Why is there never any controversy about Federation policy?
You missed Star Trek:Insurrection. Good for you! I wasn't so lucky.
In my series or movie, the Federation is really a vast imperialist military dictatorship... and Empire that has been slowly and surely conquering the galaxy. The other Star Trek films and series are propoganda films put out by the Federation...
"However, they were still FAR FAR FAR FAR BETTER than any of the prequels, with their wooden acting."
Acting?! The only good acting I remember seeing in ANH was done by Sir Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing. Harrison Ford wasn't bad. The core cast certainly did improve in Empire, but acting was never the strong point for the original trilogy.
Minidisc has been around for 15 years, what exactly is the failure there?
Maybe you don't like ATRAC, but it is a decent codec, and requires far, far less computing power than MP3 does (or did anyways). Don't forget, the first portable MP3 player, the Saehan MPMan, was released seven years after Minidisc entered the market. And you still have to look around to find mp3 players that record. You'd have to look harder for an MP3 unit that records, and has optical input.
Maybe it's not the format for everyone, but it certainly had its purpose. Most of the crap users have had to endure has been because of Sony Music forcing the hardware folks to do stupid crap (SonicStage for instance.)
Also the heart of Automotive Engineering *jobs* is in "pumping gas" and "balancing tires."
You're assuming that software development IS Computer Science. Just because the job requires someone to sit at a keyboard and produce code of some sort doesn't make it a "Computer Science" job.
Their games have gotten better implemented recently, but I've never played a groundbreaking EA game.
You've never played M.U.L.E., Archon, Pinball Construction Set, Bard's Tale, One on One, Seven Cities of Gold, Mail Order Monsters, Racing Destruction Set or Skate Or Die?? If you want to play groundbreaking EA games, all you need is an emulator! Once upon a time they made excellent games. Mind you, they were Electronic Arts back then.
Even if your security awareness training is so successful that 50% of your employees do this, an intruder only has to try twice to get in. You gain nothing.
The security aware employees at your office alternate entering the building with the non-aware ones? Odd policy.
Every day I see people who clearly don't know how to drive. They're jerking their car around turns (or slamming on the brakes before a turn) because they have no idea what a proper line through a corner looks like.
Now not that I don't agree with what you're saying. GT 2 and 3 helped me a lot as well. But, a proper line through a corner, as illustrated in the Gran Tourismo 3 manual, puts you in opposing traffic not once, but twice, for a right hand turn (in North America.) You must be very well insured?:)
To add to my submission, I think we should outright BOYCOTT Sony. As consumers, we've put up with rootkits, massive price increases, being treated like criminals when we're customers, faulty products, and just about every other mistreatment imaginable. Well, I think it's ENOUGH. I draw the line at shutting down a perfectly legal and useful business.
No one anywhere, ever said you had to buy their products in the first place? They'll charge what the market will pay, so you can't complain about price increases. Rootkit notwithstanding, other companies that have their feet in media have also been guilty of the other sins you list.
A complete boycott? That means boycotting any product with Sony parts in it. You also ready to do that? How many monitors have Sony tubes? How many PCs have Sony CDs/DVDs. How many cameras use Sony CCDs? You going to prepare a list so everyone knows which products they can actually buy? You really willing to hurt other business just to take a stab at Sony?
What a crock of a conclusion. They failed to mention the interconnects they used on each system, what it was connected to and if it was properly calibrated. Not to mention, they left out half of what makes a DVD player a DVD player - sound! And how about:
Interconnects : A modest component DVD player will have Composite, Component, S-Video, and perhaps DVI/HDMI. Most of the listed video cards do Svideo and DVI only.
Audio Inerconnects: The video cards tested don't have audio. A modest player will usually have stereo, 5.1 analog, Coax and Fiber.
Audio Formats : A modest DVD player will do PCM, 5.1/7.1 DD or DTS and SACD and usually MP3 audio.
Form Factor : If you plan on building a HTPC in the same form factor as a modest DVD player, you'll be paying a bit for it I wager.
How will it look on a : Plasma, projector, HD tube, SD tube?
Power Consumption : I'd love to see what the total cost of running my 6 year old DVD player is compared to what it could have been with a PC sitting there.
Operational Noise : My DVD player is next to completely silent.
How about that heat?
Not to mention I haven't had to install a service pack or patch on my DVD player. Ever.
The RIAA are the only people I know of in the entire world who are legally entitled to slander and sue you for not doing business with them. Imagine if you will, the RIAA taken to another market.
Please. That's not at all what they're doing. They're suing people who are allegedly distributing material copyrighted by their clients, hardly the same thing.
The WWAA (Wood Workers Association of America) has recently monitored your activities in creating a shelf that is exactly the same as the shelf a friend of yours has purchased.
If, in the act of purchasing the shelf, your friend agreed not to allow anyone to make duplicates from it, the WWAA would be well within its rights to sue HIM if you made a duplicate.
The WWAA has deemed it necessary to take legal action because the shelf you made was an exact reproduction of the shelf your friend bought, and because you didn't buy it, but rather built it yourself, you're stealing from them.
Trying to make comparisons between physical property and copyrighted material just doesn't work, period. But that is just one of the silliest, short sighted things I've ever read. If you had all the instruments you needed, and performed the music yourself that would be a more apt comparison to building a shelf. And if you eyeballed someone's shelf and built, by hand, a replica, that would be fine. But, they really don't care about you and your copy of their shelf. They care about the guy handing out templates for the shelf they designed, when he agreed not to when he purchased the original. That's not stealing, that's copyright violation.
Parallels?
No. No parallels at all, not that an understanding of copyright and the cases wouldn't debunk.
Don't get me wrong, the WAY that the RIAA is going about this is all wrong and for that they deserve to be dragged through the mud. Be my guest if you want to join in. But bashing them for defending their clients' copyrights is stupid, it's exacly what they should be doing. We wouldn't have seen the DMCA had they done it all along.
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20 years ago, my computer wasn't much larger than my keyboard is today.
You know, the one where its legal to share files because they pay taxes.
The law isn't carte-blanche to download software and movies, nor is it legal to distribute copyrighted material.
1) Everytime I try the PS3 in a department store, it freezes or is already froze due to overheating.
Of course, that has nothing to do with it being in a sealed display?
2) Silent operation? Not sure about that. But, have you seen the insides of a PS3? It's 50% heatsink. Sure, it might run quiet, but even with the massive heatsink, it still overheats...and the trade off is the size of the system. It's absolutely massive.
I haven't seen a properly placed PS3 overheat yet. I hear more complaints about the need for and size of the xbox 360 external power supply than I do about the size of the PS3.
3) Last I checked, my local target had 5 PS3's, the EB across the street actually has a unit they've had since the first of the year, most stores I go to have "PS3 now in stock" signs (coincidentally right next to the "Wii currently unavailable signs"). Face, it, the PS3 is in stock everywhere. People who say otherwise live in an area that's having a spike in sales/popularity or an area that's getting below average allocations. FUD.
I find it very interesting how you say "people who say otherwise live in an area that's having a spike..." yet your proof is based on stores in your area that you've seen. It couldn't be that PS3 is just having a lull in popularity in your area?
Besides, there are no Atari 2600 on the shelves either. Does that mean it sells as well as Wii? No, that's not a dig at the Wii. Nintendo is either intentionally or unintentionally keeping stock scarce. But using lack of availability as the sole indicator of popularity is misguided.
4) BlueRay has far from won the format war. It's yet to be seen whether the current spike in BlueRay sales has anything to do with the free movie Sony was giving away with PS3's or any of the current buy one get one free BlueRay DVD incentives that have been going on (most definitely Sony throwing fuel on the fire to hype their format...they're dead in the water if it fails).
a) How does a disc that was given away for free a while ago affect SALES in recent times. b) Sony isn't the sole stakeholder in Blu-Ray, nor are they the sole inventor or backer. c) They weren't dead in the water when (Minidisc|Beta|Memory Stick) "failed." Nice Counter-FUD though.;)
Canada isn't the only nation with slack copyright laws.
s/slack/fair/
I have both systems hooked up to a 50" sony SXRD LCD projection TV and so far . . . I think HD-DVD looks better even though it's displaying at 1080i. (My PS3 is @ 1080p)
Hooked together with what? Interconnects are important. I noticed grainy image with PS3 blu-ray movies using component video. Not so with HDMI.
Further, I'm willing to bet that paying the tax would not protect you from a civil suit from the RIAA.
Not sure how much success the Recording Industry Association of America would have with civil suits in or against Canadians.
In a nutshell, you can make personal copies of whatever you want. You can't make copies for other people.
Online petitions are a joke and a waste of time. To date an online petition has never changed anything.
I see you missed Farscape : The peacekeeper wars. ;)
It is quite possible to use a computer without an operating system. I'm not saying any of these are viable paradigms for today, but none of the original versions of BASIC required an operating system. MUMPS is largely self-contained, no OS needed.
I'm curious. Are you saying that the original BASIC didn't need an operating system, or you didn't need to interact directly with the operating system when you used BASIC? I'm pretty sure the latter is true. Either BASIC interacted with the OS itself, or it WAS the OS (as simple as it would have been.)
Oh, sure, Apple has a $500-$700 model to choose from now, but that's without monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. plus expansion is severely limited. Who wants that except people who do nothing but surf the web, play solitaire, and check email?
You make it sound like that's the minority of computer owners. It isn't. We are. It's a great machine for the majority of people.
History has shown time and time again over the past 25 years that consumers generally do not adopt Sony's proprietary formats: Betamax, Minidiscs, MemoryStick, SACD, UMD, and now Blu-Ray.
You have Blu-Ray in the wrong group. It's was a joint venture between Philips and Sony. And it's a little early to consign it to history, no?
Things that they develop in conjunction with other companies like CDs and eventually DVDs gained widespread adoption.
They didn't develop DVD. They worked with Philips on MultiMedia Compact Disc, while other companies worked on what became DVD. After arbitration (attempting to avoid another format war,) Sony and Philips dropped their efforts, and essentially got screwed in the process.
won't buy into Blu-Ray simply because it's a stupid name.
Stupid names don't stop people from buying products. Just ask the 5 million Wii owners.
"Buy this new movie on VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray Disc". "Blu-Ray Disc" sounds retarded compared to "DVD" which rolls off the tongue.
Compare apples to applies. Between Vertical Helical Scan Cassettes, Digital Versatile Discs, High Definition Digital Versatile Discs and Blu-Ray Discs, you think the latter is the most stupid sounding? BD is the acronym for Blu-Ray Disc, Blu-Ray just sounds better.
OK, you're a jerk ;)
Sure, kubuntu is great on a desktop, but how does that relate to the article, running Gentoo on a sever? Gentoo lends itself quite nicely to a server environment. Personally any server I've run in the past 4 years has run Gentoo. I've run others before and I've tired others since. I've come to realize that the initial time you spend building a Gentoo server (minus compile time) is about equivalent to the amount of time I've had to spend going back to customize things I didn't like about default install from other, binary based, distros. Even if it does take longer, setting up a sever should.
1. The Federation is supposedly an alliance of planets where aliens of many different races live in peace and harmony. Then why the hell are virtually everyone on Federation starships human? And the few token non-humans are clearly the more human looking. There are no six tentacled creatures serving on Federation starships... there are no non-physical energy beings.
Right, no energy beings! Who do you think makes the food that comes out of replicators? Certainly can't fit a full sized chef in there.
3. They have "abandoned money"? Wait a minute... money is nessicary when there is scarcity and a market economy... and they definitly didn't eliminate scarcity (after all, dilithium crystals are still rare and valuable... there is only one holideck on the Enterprise, not one for every crew memeber, definitly meaning it would require some sort of rationing... the Enterprise is always carrying medicine or supplies, implying that the replicators can only produce certain types of objects). Obviously, the Federation has adopted some sort of anti-free-market command economy - perhaps Soviet style Communism, or Nazi style National Socialism. Either way, despite the pleasant lies of abundance that is spread in Trek propoganda, the Federation is most likely stifling, beurocratic, totalitarian-economic nightmare, with shortages and people lining up Soviet style in order to buy the most basic of goods.
I believe Picard said that they'd abandoned the pursuit of money.
4. We are left to assume that the Federation is some sort of Democracy... then why don't starfleet officers ever talk politics? Why isn't Data a member of one political party, while Wharf is a memeber of another political party, and they have heated (though respectful) political discussions? Why isn't Pickard contiplating his civilian political career after his starfleet career? Why is there never any controversy about Federation policy?
You missed Star Trek:Insurrection. Good for you! I wasn't so lucky.
In my series or movie, the Federation is really a vast imperialist military dictatorship... and Empire that has been slowly and surely conquering the galaxy. The other Star Trek films and series are propoganda films put out by the Federation...
So, make Mirror, Mirror into a series?
Acting?! The only good acting I remember seeing in ANH was done by Sir Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing. Harrison Ford wasn't bad. The core cast certainly did improve in Empire, but acting was never the strong point for the original trilogy.
Minidisc has been around for 15 years, what exactly is the failure there?
Maybe you don't like ATRAC, but it is a decent codec, and requires far, far less computing power than MP3 does (or did anyways). Don't forget, the first portable MP3 player, the Saehan MPMan, was released seven years after Minidisc entered the market. And you still have to look around to find mp3 players that record. You'd have to look harder for an MP3 unit that records, and has optical input.
Maybe it's not the format for everyone, but it certainly had its purpose. Most of the crap users have had to endure has been because of Sony Music forcing the hardware folks to do stupid crap (SonicStage for instance.)
Also the heart of Automotive Engineering *jobs* is in "pumping gas" and "balancing tires."
You're assuming that software development IS Computer Science. Just because the job requires someone to sit at a keyboard and produce code of some sort doesn't make it a "Computer Science" job.
You've never played M.U.L.E., Archon, Pinball Construction Set, Bard's Tale, One on One, Seven Cities of Gold, Mail Order Monsters, Racing Destruction Set or Skate Or Die?? If you want to play groundbreaking EA games, all you need is an emulator! Once upon a time they made excellent games. Mind you, they were Electronic Arts back then.
The security aware employees at your office alternate entering the building with the non-aware ones? Odd policy.
The levy does not applying to MP3 devices, the Personal Copying clause is still in effect.
Right, Slashdot is known for reading articles!
Now not that I don't agree with what you're saying. GT 2 and 3 helped me a lot as well. But, a proper line through a corner, as illustrated in the Gran Tourismo 3 manual, puts you in opposing traffic not once, but twice, for a right hand turn (in North America.) You must be very well insured? :)
No one anywhere, ever said you had to buy their products in the first place? They'll charge what the market will pay, so you can't complain about price increases. Rootkit notwithstanding, other companies that have their feet in media have also been guilty of the other sins you list.
A complete boycott? That means boycotting any product with Sony parts in it. You also ready to do that? How many monitors have Sony tubes? How many PCs have Sony CDs/DVDs. How many cameras use Sony CCDs? You going to prepare a list so everyone knows which products they can actually buy? You really willing to hurt other business just to take a stab at Sony?
What a crock of a conclusion. They failed to mention the interconnects they used on each system, what it was connected to and if it was properly calibrated. Not to mention, they left out half of what makes a DVD player a DVD player - sound! And how about:
Not to mention I haven't had to install a service pack or patch on my DVD player. Ever.
Yes. Because fragmented paging files work best.
Please. That's not at all what they're doing. They're suing people who are allegedly distributing material copyrighted by their clients, hardly the same thing.
The WWAA (Wood Workers Association of America) has recently monitored your activities in creating a shelf that is exactly the same as the shelf a friend of yours has purchased.If, in the act of purchasing the shelf, your friend agreed not to allow anyone to make duplicates from it, the WWAA would be well within its rights to sue HIM if you made a duplicate.
The WWAA has deemed it necessary to take legal action because the shelf you made was an exact reproduction of the shelf your friend bought, and because you didn't buy it, but rather built it yourself, you're stealing from them.Trying to make comparisons between physical property and copyrighted material just doesn't work, period. But that is just one of the silliest, short sighted things I've ever read. If you had all the instruments you needed, and performed the music yourself that would be a more apt comparison to building a shelf. And if you eyeballed someone's shelf and built, by hand, a replica, that would be fine. But, they really don't care about you and your copy of their shelf. They care about the guy handing out templates for the shelf they designed, when he agreed not to when he purchased the original. That's not stealing, that's copyright violation.
Parallels?No. No parallels at all, not that an understanding of copyright and the cases wouldn't debunk.
Don't get me wrong, the WAY that the RIAA is going about this is all wrong and for that they deserve to be dragged through the mud. Be my guest if you want to join in. But bashing them for defending their clients' copyrights is stupid, it's exacly what they should be doing. We wouldn't have seen the DMCA had they done it all along.