They have no interest in the music or video abilities or the web browser? Maybe Linux would impress them. "Hey, look at me crop and print your photos on the PS3!"
[CronoCloud@mideel ~]$ lsb_release -a LSB Version::core-3.1-noarch:core-3.1-ppc32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ppc32 Distributor ID: YellowDog Description: Yellow Dog Linux release 6.0 (Pyxis) Release: 6.0 Codename: Pyxis
YDL6 is based on CentOS and thusly RHEL so that's why it's got LSB 3.1 compliance. And yes, mideel is a PS3. I chose YDL because my first Linux was the PS2's funky Kondara-ized Red Hat 6 and I wanted something Redhatty but with reasonably good online support via message boards and the like and good support for the PS3.
That's funny, if you download the game with your master account any user should be able to play it. That's how it works. Did you create a second user account for yourself besides the master account? Also you might want to check the Parental Controls, that in itself could prevent others from playing it.
Not strange at all, SCEfoo and Sony BMG have different ideas about things. Sometimes SCEfoo gets their way and we get Linux on the PS2/PS3 and AAC + MP3 on the PSP and not just ATRAC. Sometimes Sony BMG gets their way and we get overpriced UMD's and limited movie downloads. I love SCEfoo, but Sony BMG annoys me.
Games don't have only 5 downloads, it's unlimited. It's the number of PS3's they're authorized on that's limited to 5. For example, I can download Castlevania SOTN as much as I want, it's tied to my PSN identity. But I can only have it on 5 PS3's. (that may include PSP's too) So I could go to a friends house with a PS3 and download SOTN via my PSN identity and show it off, or if I had multiple PS3's (which I wish I did this one's hard drive is pretty much dedicated to Linux)
You think that color scheme is bright and happy? What, do you wear sunglasses at night to make everything look darker so it's "more gloomy". That sculputure picture you link to is only black and white with perhaps a bit of grey and ivory! Do you really want to play hundreds upon hundreds of hours of a game that's just black and white? No sun? No grass? No rivers running through an autumn wood? No tropical island with sand and frog-things? No mist green-swathed swamp lit by moonlight?
Go outdoors, on a moonlight night. Look to see what color cast the moonlight gives everything. It's bluish, just like that dungeon shot. And if you look at that shot, you'll see there's a HUGE window. That's why it's blue.
These screenshots look nothing like a Mario style color scheme. They're quite in keeping with traditional fantasy artwork, probably moreso than the original Diablo was. Elmore, Easley, Caldwell, Wood. go take a look at them.
Oh please, only on Slashdot could you find someone who thinks those Diablo 3 screenshots look happy happy joy joy. Did you hate Doom 3 because it was too bright? Did you refuse to play Oblivion because the Sun was actually shining in the daytime? Do you only play games that use a million shades of black, brown and red and have names like Darkling Deathspire, or Avenging Bloodscrim?
That blue is not neonish at all, in fact you've probably seen similar bluish tones in horror movies, because moonlight can have a bluish tone. The blue is coming from that large window to the left in that one screenshot.
It looks like Diablo to me, a Diablo that's been influenced by Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance or the Champions of Norrath games, but it's still Diablo.
Better? How? The dreamcast has less RAM, a slower CPU, and worse floating point performance than the PS2 does. It doesn't have USB ports, it doesn't have backwards compatibility with the Saturn and it doesn't keep the same controller, but uses that huge bloated monstrosity that the Xbox controller was obviously based on.
And if you weren't an Sega/Capcom arcade game fanboy the game library didn't have much for you.
Naaah the Wii isn't a 10 year old girl, the Wii is that cute/perky but very annoying soccer mom that somehow gets the band/DJ to play the electric slide so she can dance with all the other cute/perky but annoying soccer moms at every public event like the ACS Relay for Life, or wedding reception she attends.
The PS3 is smart, capable, versatile, a bit quirky, and high maintenance (expensive), it is Lorelai Gilmore of the Gilmore Girls TV show.
The Xbox is Tara Reid, the drunken party girl all the drunken frat boys love.
They all have their pluses and minuses. If you're sitting around bored during some get together, you want the soccer mom who pulls out some kind of party game.
If you're at home alone and want intelligent conversation, some quirky fun, catch up on your blogs, AND listen to the Bangles, Lorelai's your woman.
If you're hanging with your frat boy (or overgrown frat boy) friends, you want Tara Reid.
Yep, 1987. Zelda on the low end, and games just to complex to run well on a C64 on the high end. Commodore couldn't compete with both Nintendo and the DOS machines. They needed to get the Amiga price down into the C64 range, but couldn't. So all those people who bought all those C64's as essentially 2600 replacement game machines, thanks to the crash of 83-84, but couldn't afford an Amiga or DOS machine, jumped right to the NES.
Yes, you can, but the problem is you have to set it up to boot with USB storage in the kernel instead of a module. It's also much slower, supposedly the hypervisor makes USB storage access slower than it should be. There's another problem, GameOS can only read FAT drives, not ext3.
I've complained to Sony about the partitioning scheme, I want to be able to choose a 50%/50% split, or better yet any division of it I want.
Yes, you can do multiple partitions and keep the PS3 OS (and thusly play PS3 games) as well as a separate Linux partition.
However there's one little problem in the PS3 partitioning scheme. You can either devote 10GB to Linux and the rest to GameOS, or 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux. Neither is optimal, because 10GB is not really enough for Linux, or GameOS.
Indeed. One of the things that killed the possibility of a trilogy for Deus Ex was the second game, which was made for PC and XBox. The problem was that rather than making it for the PC and then downgrading it for a later console port like what happened with the first game, they made the sequel with the console as a baseline!
Ever play the PS2 port of Deus Ex? It's not actually downgraded. I'd use the term..altered. They upped the graphics (character models are better), divided up levels into pieces, kept most of the interface with some minimal streamlining AND they put keyboard and mouse support in (though I personally recommend playing with analog stick and mouse)
Because some states simply can't afford their own infrastructure. For example, a lot of the infrastructure in the South was paid for by more economically powerful northern states. Money wise the South is a sinkhole, they simply couldn't afford handling their own stuff. Sure, states like Illinois could, but Mississippi? Louisiana? No way. Economically and demographically, they suck. Hell, Alaska would practically have to shut down, there'd be no one left living there but a few miners/trappers/Eskimos/Aleuts. Essentially the blue states are subsidizing the low tax rates in the red states, that those red states use against the blue states to try to attract businesses/people from the blue states....bastards. And as much as I'd like to stick it to the Dixiecrats, I'm too altruistic to want the people to suffer because of the people they elected in the past/still continue to elect.
Do you know how badly staffed social service agencies are? How long the actual clients have to wait to see caseworkers. How much the caseworkers get paid? I know social service folks with college degrees that earn 23000 a year, with many years experience. That means it's very hard for those agencies to actually hire people. Did you ever wonder why there's so many lesbians in social services. It's because social service agencies are so hard up for people they can't afford to be picky even in areas that aren't GLBT friendly, so lesbians with their sense of "working together to make the community better" found a niche. Fraud is a scapegoat used by folks like yourself to justify being selfish.
Yes, but it is extremely difficult to qualify for it unless you're also old and/or disabled, or a minor child. There are a lot of people on Medicare who also qualify for Medicaid, it's called dual eligible.
I would LOVE to get rid of social security. None of my grandparents need it. Its not going to help me when I retire, nor is it even going to help my parents when they do. Why should I pay for your parents? You see, they werent fools who expected others to take care of them. That's also known as being responsible. Why should I pay for you? Why should I be forced to take care of you?
Because this is America and here in America we work together to make things better for all of us. That dog eat dog, I got mine who cares about you attitude has no place in America. If someone simply doesn't earn enough to pay for insurance, or save for retirement, what should they do? Die early because you're selfish and apparently of some affluence? If you're so well off then you don't need a tax cut then, how about that. Do you pay the people who work for you, if any, a living wage? Enough to save for a pension themselves? Enough to afford insurance? Or do you do what most employers do, not even keep the wages up with inflation.
If I want to voluntarily join an establishment to provide common benefits to all *members* regarding health and financial status, then that is my perogative (ie insurance). You have the same.
you did join, it's called the United States of America.
There are times that I would agree with you, but if we had done that back in 1861 there might still be slavery in the Confederacy. Let me use a personal example, I'm transgendered and in Illinois I have certain protections that I would not have in other states. I also believe that people like me in other states deserve the same protections. Why should transgendered folk in Alabama be denied such just because of the large number of Evangelicals there. Same goes for things like labor laws or socialized medicine.
There is also another thing to consider, the red states are dependent on the transfer of tax dollars to them from blue states. Red states are more heavily dependent on such. Think about it, without blue states paying for things like TVA or Rural electrification life in the red states might still be like that described in the song "Coal Miner's Daughter"
Besides, Illinois is the Land of Lincoln and even if the Dixiecrats running the Republican party would love to disavow him, I think he did the right thing, fighting against secession.
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They have no interest in the music or video abilities or the web browser? Maybe Linux would impress them. "Hey, look at me crop and print your photos on the PS3!"
YDL6 is based on CentOS and thusly RHEL so that's why it's got LSB 3.1 compliance. And yes, mideel is a PS3. I chose YDL because my first Linux was the PS2's funky Kondara-ized Red Hat 6 and I wanted something Redhatty but with reasonably good online support via message boards and the like and good support for the PS3.
That's funny, if you download the game with your master account any user should be able to play it. That's how it works. Did you create a second user account for yourself besides the master account? Also you might want to check the Parental Controls, that in itself could prevent others from playing it.
Not strange at all, SCEfoo and Sony BMG have different ideas about things. Sometimes SCEfoo gets their way and we get Linux on the PS2/PS3 and AAC + MP3 on the PSP and not just ATRAC. Sometimes Sony BMG gets their way and we get overpriced UMD's and limited movie downloads. I love SCEfoo, but Sony BMG annoys me.
There are no restrictions on Blu Ray game discs, at all. Buy all the used PS3 games you want. Buy all the Japan release only PS3 games you want.
Games don't have only 5 downloads, it's unlimited. It's the number of PS3's they're authorized on that's limited to 5. For example, I can download Castlevania SOTN as much as I want, it's tied to my PSN identity. But I can only have it on 5 PS3's. (that may include PSP's too) So I could go to a friends house with a PS3 and download SOTN via my PSN identity and show it off, or if I had multiple PS3's (which I wish I did this one's hard drive is pretty much dedicated to Linux)
It's unlimited downloads, but 5 PS3's can be authorized.
God save us from HR Geiger freaks.
You think that color scheme is bright and happy? What, do you wear sunglasses at night to make everything look darker so it's "more gloomy". That sculputure picture you link to is only black and white with perhaps a bit of grey and ivory! Do you really want to play hundreds upon hundreds of hours of a game that's just black and white? No sun? No grass? No rivers running through an autumn wood? No tropical island with sand and frog-things? No mist green-swathed swamp lit by moonlight?
Go outdoors, on a moonlight night. Look to see what color cast the moonlight gives everything. It's bluish, just like that dungeon shot. And if you look at that shot, you'll see there's a HUGE window. That's why it's blue.
These screenshots look nothing like a Mario style color scheme. They're quite in keeping with traditional fantasy artwork, probably moreso than the original Diablo was. Elmore, Easley, Caldwell, Wood. go take a look at them.
Oh please, only on Slashdot could you find someone who thinks those Diablo 3 screenshots look happy happy joy joy. Did you hate Doom 3 because it was too bright? Did you refuse to play Oblivion because the Sun was actually shining in the daytime? Do you only play games that use a million shades of black, brown and red and have names like Darkling Deathspire, or Avenging Bloodscrim?
That blue is not neonish at all, in fact you've probably seen similar bluish tones in horror movies, because moonlight can have a bluish tone. The blue is coming from that large window to the left in that one screenshot.
It looks like Diablo to me, a Diablo that's been influenced by Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance or the Champions of Norrath games, but it's still Diablo.
You've never played any of those fully 3D with a rotatable camera Diablo clones on the PS2 have you?
Better? How? The dreamcast has less RAM, a slower CPU, and worse floating point performance than the PS2 does. It doesn't have USB ports, it doesn't have backwards compatibility with the Saturn and it doesn't keep the same controller, but uses that huge bloated monstrosity that the Xbox controller was obviously based on.
And if you weren't an Sega/Capcom arcade game fanboy the game library didn't have much for you.
I only have a PS3 but I suspect that's pretty close to the mark.
Naaah the Wii isn't a 10 year old girl, the Wii is that cute/perky but very annoying soccer mom that somehow gets the band/DJ to play the electric slide so she can dance with all the other cute/perky but annoying soccer moms at every public event like the ACS Relay for Life, or wedding reception she attends.
The PS3 is smart, capable, versatile, a bit quirky, and high maintenance (expensive), it is Lorelai Gilmore of the Gilmore Girls TV show.
The Xbox is Tara Reid, the drunken party girl all the drunken frat boys love.
They all have their pluses and minuses. If you're sitting around bored during some get together, you want the soccer mom who pulls out some kind of party game.
If you're at home alone and want intelligent conversation, some quirky fun, catch up on your blogs, AND listen to the Bangles, Lorelai's your woman.
If you're hanging with your frat boy (or overgrown frat boy) friends, you want Tara Reid.
Yep, 1987. Zelda on the low end, and games just to complex to run well on a C64 on the high end. Commodore couldn't compete with both Nintendo and the DOS machines. They needed to get the Amiga price down into the C64 range, but couldn't. So all those people who bought all those C64's as essentially 2600 replacement game machines, thanks to the crash of 83-84, but couldn't afford an Amiga or DOS machine, jumped right to the NES.
Yes, you can, but the problem is you have to set it up to boot with USB storage in the kernel instead of a module. It's also much slower, supposedly the hypervisor makes USB storage access slower than it should be. There's another problem, GameOS can only read FAT drives, not ext3.
I've complained to Sony about the partitioning scheme, I want to be able to choose a 50%/50% split, or better yet any division of it I want.
I just visited those Xenon and RSX pages and compared the stats and it looks like the RSX has a bit of an edge.
However there's one little problem in the PS3 partitioning scheme. You can either devote 10GB to Linux and the rest to GameOS, or 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux. Neither is optimal, because 10GB is not really enough for Linux, or GameOS.
Ever play the PS2 port of Deus Ex? It's not actually downgraded. I'd use the term..altered. They upped the graphics (character models are better), divided up levels into pieces, kept most of the interface with some minimal streamlining AND they put keyboard and mouse support in (though I personally recommend playing with analog stick and mouse)
Because some states simply can't afford their own infrastructure. For example, a lot of the infrastructure in the South was paid for by more economically powerful northern states. Money wise the South is a sinkhole, they simply couldn't afford handling their own stuff. Sure, states like Illinois could, but Mississippi? Louisiana? No way. Economically and demographically, they suck. Hell, Alaska would practically have to shut down, there'd be no one left living there but a few miners/trappers/Eskimos/Aleuts. Essentially the blue states are subsidizing the low tax rates in the red states, that those red states use against the blue states to try to attract businesses/people from the blue states....bastards. And as much as I'd like to stick it to the Dixiecrats, I'm too altruistic to want the people to suffer because of the people they elected in the past/still continue to elect.
Librarians are the keepers of knowledge and should be more highly respected and given the accolades we give to football players.
Do you know how badly staffed social service agencies are? How long the actual clients have to wait to see caseworkers. How much the caseworkers get paid? I know social service folks with college degrees that earn 23000 a year, with many years experience. That means it's very hard for those agencies to actually hire people. Did you ever wonder why there's so many lesbians in social services. It's because social service agencies are so hard up for people they can't afford to be picky even in areas that aren't GLBT friendly, so lesbians with their sense of "working together to make the community better" found a niche. Fraud is a scapegoat used by folks like yourself to justify being selfish.
Yes, but it is extremely difficult to qualify for it unless you're also old and/or disabled, or a minor child. There are a lot of people on Medicare who also qualify for Medicaid, it's called dual eligible.
Because this is America and here in America we work together to make things better for all of us. That dog eat dog, I got mine who cares about you attitude has no place in America. If someone simply doesn't earn enough to pay for insurance, or save for retirement, what should they do? Die early because you're selfish and apparently of some affluence? If you're so well off then you don't need a tax cut then, how about that. Do you pay the people who work for you, if any, a living wage? Enough to save for a pension themselves? Enough to afford insurance? Or do you do what most employers do, not even keep the wages up with inflation.
you did join, it's called the United States of America.
There are times that I would agree with you, but if we had done that back in 1861 there might still be slavery in the Confederacy. Let me use a personal example, I'm transgendered and in Illinois I have certain protections that I would not have in other states. I also believe that people like me in other states deserve the same protections. Why should transgendered folk in Alabama be denied such just because of the large number of Evangelicals there. Same goes for things like labor laws or socialized medicine.
There is also another thing to consider, the red states are dependent on the transfer of tax dollars to them from blue states. Red states are more heavily dependent on such. Think about it, without blue states paying for things like TVA or Rural electrification life in the red states might still be like that described in the song "Coal Miner's Daughter"
Besides, Illinois is the Land of Lincoln and even if the Dixiecrats running the Republican party would love to disavow him, I think he did the right thing, fighting against secession.