I can do that without giving IBM millions of dollars.
Its called nurturing, education and providing the opportunity to succeed.
These kids are in the juenille justice system. There has been an arrest and a conviction. Whatever nuturing, education, or opportunities they had did not keep them out of the system. The only question which remains is to decide what is to be done with them now.
So, the people who chose to keep the Other OS functionality, can no longer buy any new games - so if people needed that functionality, but also play games, then Sony will make them choose:
a) buy another new console so you have one for your other OS; and one for games.
The OtherOS will run - and run very, very well - on dirt-cheap commodity PC hardware. You will have full access to the video sub-system and at least four times the RAM even on the netbook, and, at rock-bottom, a 160-250 GB hard drive.
The FAT PS3 remains a solid platform for home entertainment - PS2 and PS3 gaming. DVD. Blu-Ray, Netflix and PSN.
b) stay with one console with Other OS, but stop playing games on the PS3
God of War 3. Batman: Arkham Asylum. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Red Dead Redemption. Heavy Rain....
c) remove the Other OS, update and only use it for playing. Revenue stream continues for Sony (on new games) - but at the cost of goodwill to the company.
The PS3's installed base is around 24-25 million units. Slashdot front-paged a story about a partial refund to a lone disgruntled geek in the U.K. - and sixteen days out from the firmware upgrade, there is not much else to talk about.
Unless you choose to play on the old man's lawn, he doesn't affect you. He's a jerk, but he's avoidable, much like Apple is.
Microsoft is more like the protection racket; either strong vigilante action (for which Linux is emblematic) or law enforcement are the only way to stand up to those guys.
The Windows platform is open to any program under any license and any development model you care to name. There are hundreds if not thousands of viable - independent - distribution channels.
If your M rated game can't be sold in Australia, your problem is in Australia, it is not in Redmond and it is not with Bill Gates.
Users are advised to boot into a recovery environment and manually replace the file with a clean copy.
Win32/Alureon may modify DNS settings on the host computer, thus the following steps may be required after the Win32/Alureon removal is complete:
If the computer has a network interface that does not receive a configuration using DHCP, reset the DNS configuration if necessary.
If a dial-up connection is sometimes used from the computer, reconfigure the dial-up settings in the rasphone.pbk file as necessary, as Win32/Alureon may set the fields "IpDnsAddress" and "IpDns2Address" in the rasphone.pbk file to the attacker's address. The Microsoft scanner code that automatically removes Win32/Alureon backs up the infected dial-up configuration file to:
I do send money to places like Haiti, already did before the earthquake, and do a lot more good with it without some random number of federal fuck-ups handling the money on the way there and getting paid a salary out of my funds to fill out more paperwork about it.
How do you know how the money you sent to Haiti was spent in Haiti?
You'll get websites saying you need to download this codec to watch this video, and people will do it. With a standard codec, if a site does that, users can be educated that they shouldn't download ANY codec.
Even if delvers better sound and video? Significantly improved compression?
Closed captioning, secfond channel audio or other benefits?
Tell me why the geek thinks the web should be permenently bound to whatever codec he - and perhaps he alone - thinks is "technologically superior" or "politically correct."
Why there should be no competition, no room for experiment.
Re:cost of acquisition is everything, huh?
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So is a phone call to tech support, where you get told the stereotypical useless answer by a script-reader making slightly more than minimum wage. Posting a message on a forum, where you can get advice from a few dozen fellow users is more "bang for the buck", so to speak.
Joe buys his Win 7 PC from a store.
It comes with a warranty and maybe a service contract.
The damn thing works or it goes back.
The borked install, the incompatible hardware, the fucked-up driver, the bent or broken connector is not his problem.
The forum is useful only if you know which forum to use, how to use it, and how to find it. That is why Joe chooses the toll free number or the links provided by the manufactuer.
Things included with Windows generally come installed in Ubuntu. Installation is two mouse clicks and typing one word, where Windows installations usually require serial numbers, a drive to the store, and other costs you conveniently ignore
The Windows program is an instant download from Microsoft, CNET, Steam, Gog.com, and hundreds of other sources. Retail boxed, it arrives at your door neatly packed from Amazon.com in three to five business days.
Convenience and utility have other meanings.
The fundamental problem with a Linux repository is that its contents are invisible to anyone who not a Linux user. The Windows "catalog" - complete with tutorials, reviews, videos, and add-ons is out there for everyone to see.
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Unix wouldn't run on the original IBM PC, nor with any other cheap processor they might have instead of the Intel one.
It would be trivially easy to port CP/M apps to their new 16-bit machine.
Microsoft was a language company. The development tools were there. The MS-DOS PC had solid vendor support before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
Of course one day I actually needed to print something in a fucking hurry and he couldn't be contacted so I solved the problem with a screwdriver and the motherboard manual.
This is justice for anyone who was actually affected by the removal. And feedback for Sony for future decisions.
We are nine days out from the firmware upgrade.
How many systems do you suppose have been routinely upgraded without a thought given to the OtherOS?
The PS3's installed base last August was about 24 million units.
If the geek wants to impress Sony he has to deliver some really big numbers - a quarter million or so, I should think. 1% of the base. If he can't move 50,000 to demand a refund, the game is not even worth playing.
What about all the machine bought with Windows that gets wiped and Ubuntu installed. Microsoft still counts them.
Forget about them.
It will help clear your head.
The numbers don't add up to pocket change - and deep down the geek knows it.
Nothing says "old school" like IRC chat - but CNET alone still logs 140,000 downloads of mIRC a week. For AVG and Avira the numbers rocket up to more than two million downloads a week each. Most popular Windows downloads
Instead of reducing the amount of computation we do in IE to make it faster, let's just look for more processing power instead!P>
Tell me why the processing power available to the user should not be accessible from the browser.
I'd also wonder: What percent of those linux boxes were bought with MS Windows installed, and are thus also counted a satisfied customers by Microsoft?
These numbers are ultimately derived from retail costumers who bought OEM Win 7 systems. OEM Vista close-outs with the free ugrade to Win 7 - or the Win 7 upgrade retail boxed.
32 bit SE on the netbook.
64 bit Home Premium and above for everything else. It's no good trying to pretend otherwise.
On the upside the total number of machines that have at least one linux distro on them must be rather higher than typical market share stats suggest.
Why?
Net Applications, builds its stats from hits to the immensely popular - mainstream - brand-name - sites of its very big corporate and governmental clients.
It isn't easy to make a convincing argument that the average Linux user isn't pointing a browser in their direction.
Shopping Amazon. Poking about the videos on YouTube.
If the Moz Foundation doesn't find the stats meaningful, why does Moz remain a subscriber?
In most democratic countries, there are very healthy and active reform and fringe parties that regularly get a significant percentage of the popular vote. Where are these parties in the USA?
In the U.S., coalitions are built internally within the two major parties.
Party discipline doesn't exist in a form that would be recognizable elsewhere. The major parties bend to change but do not break.
Third parties in the U.S. tend to bond around a charismatic leader - and to issues that live and die with him.
It is a cultural thing as well. There has never been much love spared for the guy who comes in fourth or fifth and expects to play the "spoiler," and "tilt the balance" his way.
They have a personal vested interest in preserving it, and there's less of a chance of it being stolen (not on public display).
The last big-time gallery heist in the U.S. was in 1990.
On March 18, 1990, the Gardner Museum was robbed by two unknown white males dressed in police uniforms and identifying themselves a Boston police officers. The unknown subjects gained entrance into the museum by advising on-duty security personnel that they were responding to a call of a disturbance within the compound. Security, contrary to museum regulations, allowed the unknown subjects into the facility. Upon gaining entry, the two unknown subjects abducted the on duty security personnel, securing both guards with duct tape and handcuffs in separate remote areas of the museum's basement. The unknown subjects brandished no weapons, nor were any weapons seen during this heist. Other than a "panic" button located behind the guards' watch desk area, the museum alarm system was internally only. Since the panic button was not activated, no actual police notification was made during the robbery. The video surveillance film was seized by the unknown subjects prior to their departure.
The FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File. which is directly accessible to law enforcement agencies only.
The object must be uniquely identifiable and have historical or artistic significance. This includes fine arts, decorative arts, antiquities, Asian art, Islamic art, Native American art, ethnographic objects, archaeological material, textiles, books and manuscripts, clocks and watches, coins, stamps, musical instruments, and scientific instruments. The object must be valued at least $2,000; or less if associated with a major crime
The FBI art theft team has about a dozen full time agents.
I wonder whether the intentional removal of a major feature which was present at time of purchase, and which for many was the primary reason for said purchase, is in any way actionable.
It was never a major feature in the console video game market, or in the home entertainment market, generally.
Which is where the PS3 properly belongs.
"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck..." To the court, it is a duck.
Sony will be able to deliver a deliver a reliable head count of the users who routinely upgraded their firmware. Which is going to look like pretty much like the installed base of the PS3. That's the next boulder you have to climb.
The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings
So... the mayor set aside common sense, skipped the whole "why don't we call the newspaper and see what their source for this story is?" and called in the marines? AND the local law enforcement ALSO failed their reality check, made no attempt to talk sense into the mayor, and headed out on their alien snipe hunt?
You've made at least two assumptions here:
That the hoax - the snipe hunt - is part of Jordanian culture.
That in a violent and volitile region like the mideast the right decision for the mayor is NOT to call in the troops - and let them sort it out.
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I can do that without giving IBM millions of dollars.
Its called nurturing, education and providing the opportunity to succeed.
These kids are in the juenille justice system. There has been an arrest and a conviction. Whatever nuturing, education, or opportunities they had did not keep them out of the system. The only question which remains is to decide what is to be done with them now.
and that is, I think, is what cuts the geek to the bone. The bugle sounds. But no one answers the call.
So, the people who chose to keep the Other OS functionality, can no longer buy any new games - so if people needed that functionality, but also play games, then Sony will make them choose:
a) buy another new console so you have one for your other OS; and one for games.
The OtherOS will run - and run very, very well - on dirt-cheap commodity PC hardware. You will have full access to the video sub-system and at least four times the RAM even on the netbook, and, at rock-bottom, a 160-250 GB hard drive.
The FAT PS3 remains a solid platform for home entertainment - PS2 and PS3 gaming. DVD. Blu-Ray, Netflix and PSN.
b) stay with one console with Other OS, but stop playing games on the PS3
Like hell you will.
Bestsellers in PS3 Games
God of War 3. Batman: Arkham Asylum. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Red Dead Redemption. Heavy Rain....
c) remove the Other OS, update and only use it for playing. Revenue stream continues for Sony (on new games) - but at the cost of goodwill to the company.
The PS3's installed base is around 24-25 million units. Slashdot front-paged a story about a partial refund to a lone disgruntled geek in the U.K. - and sixteen days out from the firmware upgrade, there is not much else to talk about.
Unless you choose to play on the old man's lawn, he doesn't affect you. He's a jerk, but he's avoidable, much like Apple is.
Microsoft is more like the protection racket; either strong vigilante action (for which Linux is emblematic) or law enforcement are the only way to stand up to those guys.
The Windows platform is open to any program under any license and any development model you care to name. There are hundreds if not thousands of viable - independent - distribution channels.
If your M rated game can't be sold in Australia, your problem is in Australia, it is not in Redmond and it is not with Bill Gates.
MSRT and MSE have been able to detect and remove Alureon.A and its kin since October 23, 2009. Virus:Win32/Alureon.A
Both MSRT and Microsoft Security Essentials will detect and remove Alureon A and its kin.
Definition first published October 23. Revised March 10.
That doesn't mean full a repair/recovery of every corrupted file:
The top ten most commonly-targeted driver files are the following:
atapi.sys
iastor.sys
iastorv.sys
idechndr.sys
nvata.sys
nvatabus.sys
nvgts.sys
nvstor.sys
nvstor32.sys
sisraid.sys
Users are advised to boot into a recovery environment and manually replace the file with a clean copy.
Win32/Alureon may modify DNS settings on the host computer, thus the following steps may be required after the Win32/Alureon removal is complete:
If the computer has a network interface that does not receive a configuration using DHCP, reset the DNS configuration if necessary.
If a dial-up connection is sometimes used from the computer, reconfigure the dial-up settings in the rasphone.pbk file as necessary, as Win32/Alureon may set the fields "IpDnsAddress" and "IpDns2Address" in the rasphone.pbk file to the attacker's address. The Microsoft scanner code that automatically removes Win32/Alureon backs up the infected dial-up configuration file to:
%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk.bak
Win32/Alureon
I do send money to places like Haiti, already did before the earthquake, and do a lot more good with it without some random number of federal fuck-ups handling the money on the way there and getting paid a salary out of my funds to fill out more paperwork about it.
How do you know how the money you sent to Haiti was spent in Haiti?
If anything kills them, it's the MS connection.
Why would the tween-teen market give a damn about the geek's distate for anything Microsoft?
You'll get websites saying you need to download this codec to watch this video, and people will do it. With a standard codec, if a site does that, users can be educated that they shouldn't download ANY codec.
Even if delvers better sound and video? Significantly improved compression?
Closed captioning, secfond channel audio or other benefits?
Tell me why the geek thinks the web should be permenently bound to whatever codec he - and perhaps he alone - thinks is "technologically superior" or "politically correct."
Why there should be no competition, no room for experiment.
So is a phone call to tech support, where you get told the stereotypical useless answer by a script-reader making slightly more than minimum wage. Posting a message on a forum, where you can get advice from a few dozen fellow users is more "bang for the buck", so to speak.
Joe buys his Win 7 PC from a store.
It comes with a warranty and maybe a service contract.
The damn thing works or it goes back.
The borked install, the incompatible hardware, the fucked-up driver, the bent or broken connector is not his problem.
The forum is useful only if you know which forum to use, how to use it, and how to find it. That is why Joe chooses the toll free number or the links provided by the manufactuer.
Things included with Windows generally come installed in Ubuntu. Installation is two mouse clicks and typing one word, where Windows installations usually require serial numbers, a drive to the store, and other costs you conveniently ignore
The Windows program is an instant download from Microsoft, CNET, Steam, Gog.com, and hundreds of other sources. Retail boxed, it arrives at your door neatly packed from Amazon.com in three to five business days.
Convenience and utility have other meanings.
The fundamental problem with a Linux repository is that its contents are invisible to anyone who not a Linux user. The Windows "catalog" - complete with tutorials, reviews, videos, and add-ons is out there for everyone to see.
Unix wouldn't run on the original IBM PC, nor with any other cheap processor they might have instead of the Intel one.
It would be trivially easy to port CP/M apps to their new 16-bit machine.
Microsoft was a language company. The development tools were there. The MS-DOS PC had solid vendor support before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
Of course one day I actually needed to print something in a fucking hurry and he couldn't be contacted so I solved the problem with a screwdriver and the motherboard manual.
One word: Padlock.
Quality is not the reason why Theora lost to H.264, just like quality wasn't the reason why Vorbis lost to mp3.
Then tell me why Theora lost. Don't stand on the quick, weightless, mod-up to +4 "Insightful."
What does "survival mode" means in this case? Race in new features?
Find new money. Before Google pulls the plug.
This is justice for anyone who was actually affected by the removal. And feedback for Sony for future decisions.
We are nine days out from the firmware upgrade.
How many systems do you suppose have been routinely upgraded without a thought given to the OtherOS?
The PS3's installed base last August was about 24 million units.
If the geek wants to impress Sony he has to deliver some really big numbers - a quarter million or so, I should think. 1% of the base. If he can't move 50,000 to demand a refund, the game is not even worth playing.
Forget about them.
It will help clear your head.
The numbers don't add up to pocket change - and deep down the geek knows it.
Nothing says "old school" like IRC chat - but CNET alone still logs 140,000 downloads of mIRC a week. For AVG and Avira the numbers rocket up to more than two million downloads a week each. Most popular Windows downloads
I feel sad about it when hardware acceleration is needed for rendering, what, websites.
I want my Web back.
Time for your meds gramps. Can I fetch your walker?
Instead of reducing the amount of computation we do in IE to make it faster, let's just look for more processing power instead!P> Tell me why the processing power available to the user should not be accessible from the browser.
I'd also wonder: What percent of those linux boxes were bought with MS Windows installed, and are thus also counted a satisfied customers by Microsoft?
When looking at the larger picture, almost none.
Never enough to have any real impact. Windows 7 surpasses 10% market share
These numbers are ultimately derived from retail costumers who bought OEM Win 7 systems. OEM Vista close-outs with the free ugrade to Win 7 - or the Win 7 upgrade retail boxed.
32 bit SE on the netbook.
64 bit Home Premium and above for everything else. It's no good trying to pretend otherwise.
On the upside the total number of machines that have at least one linux distro on them must be rather higher than typical market share stats suggest.
Why?
Net Applications, builds its stats from hits to the immensely popular - mainstream - brand-name - sites of its very big corporate and governmental clients.
It isn't easy to make a convincing argument that the average Linux user isn't pointing a browser in their direction.
Shopping Amazon. Poking about the videos on YouTube.
If the Moz Foundation doesn't find the stats meaningful, why does Moz remain a subscriber?
In most democratic countries, there are very healthy and active reform and fringe parties that regularly get a significant percentage of the popular vote. Where are these parties in the USA?
In the U.S., coalitions are built internally within the two major parties.
Party discipline doesn't exist in a form that would be recognizable elsewhere. The major parties bend to change but do not break.
Third parties in the U.S. tend to bond around a charismatic leader - and to issues that live and die with him.
It is a cultural thing as well. There has never been much love spared for the guy who comes in fourth or fifth and expects to play the "spoiler," and "tilt the balance" his way.
They have a personal vested interest in preserving it, and there's less of a chance of it being stolen (not on public display).
The last big-time gallery heist in the U.S. was in 1990.
On March 18, 1990, the Gardner Museum was robbed by two unknown white males dressed in police uniforms and identifying themselves a Boston police officers. The unknown subjects gained entrance into the museum by advising on-duty security personnel that they were responding to a call of a disturbance within the compound. Security, contrary to museum regulations, allowed the unknown subjects into the facility.
Upon gaining entry, the two unknown subjects abducted the on duty security personnel, securing both guards with duct tape and handcuffs in separate remote areas of the museum's basement. The unknown subjects brandished no weapons, nor were any weapons seen during this heist. Other than a "panic" button located behind the guards' watch desk area, the museum alarm system was internally only. Since the panic button was not activated, no actual police notification was made during the robbery. The video surveillance film was seized by the unknown subjects prior to their departure.
No arrests and no recovery. The take around $300 million. Robbery of priceless works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 Palace Road, Boston, Massachusetts, March 18, 1990.
The FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File. which is directly accessible to law enforcement agencies only.
The object must be uniquely identifiable and have historical or artistic significance. This includes fine arts, decorative arts, antiquities, Asian art, Islamic art, Native American art, ethnographic objects, archaeological material, textiles, books and manuscripts, clocks and watches, coins, stamps, musical instruments, and scientific instruments.
The object must be valued at least $2,000; or less if associated with a major crime
The FBI art theft team has about a dozen full time agents.
I wonder whether the intentional removal of a major feature which was present at time of purchase, and which for many was the primary reason for said purchase, is in any way actionable.
It was never a major feature in the console video game market, or in the home entertainment market, generally.
Which is where the PS3 properly belongs.
"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck..." To the court, it is a duck.
Sony will be able to deliver a deliver a reliable head count of the users who routinely upgraded their firmware. Which is going to look like pretty much like the installed base of the PS3. That's the next boulder you have to climb.
The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings
I feel so much confidence in these numbers.
So... the mayor set aside common sense, skipped the whole "why don't we call the newspaper and see what their source for this story is?" and called in the marines? AND the local law enforcement ALSO failed their reality check, made no attempt to talk sense into the mayor, and headed out on their alien snipe hunt?
You've made at least two assumptions here:
That the hoax - the snipe hunt - is part of Jordanian culture.
That in a violent and volitile region like the mideast the right decision for the mayor is NOT to call in the troops - and let them sort it out.