If I were Sony, I'd put off fixing this exploit for a while and watch PS3 sales go up. Only when sales slow down will I release the fix. I've read that the PS3 logs the ID's of every bit of software it runs, even offline. So if you've used the backup manager, chances are Sony can detect it when you go online. People are working on hacks to change the ID though.
They released firmware update 3.42 before you even posted (a few posters posted before you about it), so Sony's not taking that route.
Really? That's... sick. I'm sorry, but that just seems really ridiculous. I heard that the the PS3's software emulation was bad, but at least it sounded like it had *some* games working purely on software emulation. The damn thing certainly has the processing power to do so!
Nope, the PS3s with software emulation still had the PS2 video hardware present. The 40GB PS3 dropped even that, as did any subsequent models (newer 80GB model, all Slim models).
I keep reading paranoid shit like this, like, "is Sony going to brick your PS3/PSP over x, y, or z?"
Two Words. Sony Rootkit.
That was not paranoia, but cold hard fact. Granted, it has been awhile, but since no executives went to Federal Pound Me In The Ass prison over it I doubt they learned their lesson. As supported by the facts, the corporate culture over at Sony has always been one that does not respect the consumer's rights or property in any way, shape, or form.
To wonder if Sony would deliberately modify your property to suit their business concerns isn't exactly paranoia.
Anything Sony would do deliberately aside, I do agree that if the cause of the bricked unit is software that you uploaded (not Sony detecting it and bricking it), it would not be Sony's fault.
Sony is also a large corporation with many divisions, which sometimes work at cross-purposes.
Sony Music Entertainment is the division behind the rootkit disaster.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan/Europe/America is the division that produces the PS3.
You would have been better off referencing the removal of the Other OS feature, as that was by the same division.
To be more specific, they use the "inform the system is shutting down, but is still cancelable (sometimes)" (WM_QUERYENDSESSION) signal, then the "user interaction has been shut down" (WM_ENDSESSION) signal.
These are in addition to the normal WM_QUIT/WM_CLOSE signals.
Note that the system can still terminate processes if they fail to respond to these signals.
So, in effect, they are patenting the ability to NOT use something. I typically just flip the switch to 'off', or leave it running and turn off my monitor. What's next, patenting user logon?
On ATX PCs (i.e. anything made since the late 90s), hitting the power button just initiates the shutdown procedure anyway.
Although, I understand you can change this behavior to make it suspend instead...
Returning to common carrier rules would not prohibit prioritization of traffic based off types,
..and has nothing to do with the Net Neutrality Movement, which wants legislation that all traffic from any source to any destination should be treated the same by law.
Dont you remember the big stink about Comcast throttling? Thats the only in-practice issue that the net neutrality folks are up-in-arms about. Other than that, all they've got are boogiemen theories about what might happen.
Comcast wasn't throttling that traffic, they were actively inserting fake packets into a customer's data stream.
Throttling it would be slowing it down. Comcast was intentionally disrupting a protocol and trying to prevent it completely while at the same time claiming they were doing no such thing.
Since that is the start of computing? We're talking about MS Office, which is a Mac app from the 1980's.
Here, let me reestablish the context of what I said, since you seem to have lost it:
Mac ports have been second class citizens for no less than 15 years. In computing terms, 15 years is not "recently."
and that 15 years was measuring from when Windows 95 came out. Why? I'll answer that shortly.
As far as the original point about the Mac versions of Office being second-class citizens, that was only true for the later parts of the 1990's. From 1985-1992, the Mac versions were the only versions, and during the 21st century, the Mac versions have been as good or better than the Windows versions. They're just different, in keeping with the fact that users buy MS Office on the Mac, not CTO's, and on the Mac, there is competition in office software.
See? You even agree that Mac versions of Office started being second-class citizens around 15 years ago. However, I contend that it wasn't just during the later parts of the 90s, but also the 2000s.
You see, shortly after Windows 95 came out, Office started incorporating new applications that only appear in the Windows versions of Office. The most well known of this being Outlook.
Now, I'm not an Outlook fan, but even I've got to admit that a corporate email and appointment scheduler is a useful edition to the Office lineup.
Office for Mac has Entourage, but it's... inferior to Outlook. To the point where Mac Office 2011 is finally getting a real version of Outlook, while Entourage goes away like a bad memory.
Even then, though, Windows Office has a number of additional programs that, as far as I know, won't appear in the Mac version. Those programs include things like OneNote, InfoPath, Communicator, and SharePoint WorkSpace (formerly Groove). These started appearing in the mid-2000s... and while some of them may not sound useful, some of them are. SharePoint Workspace/Groove, for instance, is a collaborative editor for Word documents.
Because to all those currently praying for some reason for the demise of ATI, they do. I can hook up my HD 5770 to my receiver and get sound and video in one. As of a few months ago no nVidia cards offered this.
My nVidia GT240 offers this feature. Note that this is the mid-range card from nVidia's previous generation, so I'm going to say you're wrong.
The nerd blogs were all in a pantybunch over the PSP Go not having UMDs or dual analog sticks. I thought that refresh was pretty cool, and I happily ditched all my old UMD games to get one. It's almost as neat as my iPhone.
The PSP Go was a terrible decision. As it stands, there are new games coming out now that the PSP Go can't play, simply because they won't be released on PSN.
You missed: Sega Saturn: First console with a 3D Graphics Processor. However, only just barely, as the PlayStation was released a month later in Japan. This happened in late 1994.
In North America, the Saturn's graphics processor was weaker and the system was $100 more expensive than the PlayStation console.
It was also released with no warning by Sega (they literally said at E3 "on sale today") to which Sony's president gave his famous "$299." speech. The PlayStation ended up launching 3 months after the Saturn, with a host of third-party games and a $100 cheaper price tag.
oddly enough, many win2k drivers don't work on XP, most XP drivers don't work on Vista, and many Vista drivers don't work on Windows 7.
XP to Vista was expected because of the introduction of a new driver framework, but can you name 5 of each for the other two (2K to XP and Vista to 7)?
Oh, and comparing things like Vista 32-bit to 7 64-bit doesn't count; of course 32-bit binary drivers won't work on a 64-bit system.
Google are saying that you can use the language part of Java, known as the "Java Language", to develop applications for Android. The issue here is that the same word, Java, is used for both Sun's language and Sun's platform, and you're interpreting the comment as meaning the latter.
It really depends on how it's interpreted.
At the current moment, there's no way to create an Android application without having Java.class files, because there is no native Android compiler... the one they have converts already-compiled Java.class files into a.dex. Which, unfortunately, trashes the distinction you made, as you're no longer dealing with just the Java platform, but compiled Java language files.
In addition to that the Android SDK requires you to download one or more platform SDKs, which each include a file named android.jar, which contains a bunch of Java class files across several namespaces, including java.lang (the "root" namespace for Java).
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They released firmware update 3.42 before you even posted (a few posters posted before you about it), so Sony's not taking that route.
Nope, the PS3s with software emulation still had the PS2 video hardware present. The 40GB PS3 dropped even that, as did any subsequent models (newer 80GB model, all Slim models).
Sony is also a large corporation with many divisions, which sometimes work at cross-purposes.
Sony Music Entertainment is the division behind the rootkit disaster.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan/Europe/America is the division that produces the PS3.
You would have been better off referencing the removal of the Other OS feature, as that was by the same division.
And yet, of that list, chances are 90% of them:
1. Use the IE core, or
2. Use the Firefox core, or
3. Use the WebKit core
There are a small handful of browsers that don't use the above, but they are few and far between.
If by stole you mean "used their contractual rights to get the game finished, since 3D Realms didn't," then yeah.
Didn't that happen in Adobe Creative Suite CS5?
Windows uses a different shutdown model.
To be more specific, they use the "inform the system is shutting down, but is still cancelable (sometimes)" (WM_QUERYENDSESSION) signal, then the "user interaction has been shut down" (WM_ENDSESSION) signal.
These are in addition to the normal WM_QUIT/WM_CLOSE signals.
Note that the system can still terminate processes if they fail to respond to these signals.
On ATX PCs (i.e. anything made since the late 90s), hitting the power button just initiates the shutdown procedure anyway.
Although, I understand you can change this behavior to make it suspend instead...
Comcast wasn't throttling that traffic, they were actively inserting fake packets into a customer's data stream.
Throttling it would be slowing it down. Comcast was intentionally disrupting a protocol and trying to prevent it completely while at the same time claiming they were doing no such thing.
Here, let me reestablish the context of what I said, since you seem to have lost it:
and that 15 years was measuring from when Windows 95 came out. Why? I'll answer that shortly.
See? You even agree that Mac versions of Office started being second-class citizens around 15 years ago. However, I contend that it wasn't just during the later parts of the 90s, but also the 2000s.
You see, shortly after Windows 95 came out, Office started incorporating new applications that only appear in the Windows versions of Office. The most well known of this being Outlook.
Now, I'm not an Outlook fan, but even I've got to admit that a corporate email and appointment scheduler is a useful edition to the Office lineup.
Office for Mac has Entourage, but it's... inferior to Outlook. To the point where Mac Office 2011 is finally getting a real version of Outlook, while Entourage goes away like a bad memory.
Even then, though, Windows Office has a number of additional programs that, as far as I know, won't appear in the Mac version. Those programs include things like OneNote, InfoPath, Communicator, and SharePoint WorkSpace (formerly Groove). These started appearing in the mid-2000s... and while some of them may not sound useful, some of them are. SharePoint Workspace/Groove, for instance, is a collaborative editor for Word documents.
I know, I wasn't measuring from 1985. I was measuring from when Windows 95 came out.
No, because Office 2007 and 2010 on Windows use ClearType for font rendering. Even if you have it turned off at the OS level.
Mac ports have been second class citizens for no less than 15 years. In computing terms, 15 years is not "recently."
My nVidia GT240 offers this feature. Note that this is the mid-range card from nVidia's previous generation, so I'm going to say you're wrong.
I can think of other screwups in Intel's history.
The Pentium 1 had the F0 0F c7 c8 and FDIV (floating point division) bugs.
The Pentium 2 introduced those idiotic slot cartridges.
The Pentium 3 came out at the same time as the AMD Athlon, and was outperformed by the Athlon in every conceivable way.
Matrox is older.
Rail is a nice framework.
The major problem with Rails is that it's tied to Ruby. Historically, Ruby's interpreters have not exactly been speed demons.
No, seriously, when a JVM-based Ruby interpreter can outperform the C Ruby interpreter, the C version has speed problems.
There's an old adage that goes something like this:
"Any publicity is good publicity."
However, I'm pretty sure said adage is wrong.
I never said he paraphrased it correctly.
The PSP Go was a terrible decision. As it stands, there are new games coming out now that the PSP Go can't play, simply because they won't be released on PSN.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is just the most recent example.
You missed:
Sega Saturn: First console with a 3D Graphics Processor. However, only just barely, as the PlayStation was released a month later in Japan. This happened in late 1994.
In North America, the Saturn's graphics processor was weaker and the system was $100 more expensive than the PlayStation console.
It was also released with no warning by Sega (they literally said at E3 "on sale today") to which Sony's president gave his famous "$299." speech. The PlayStation ended up launching 3 months after the Saturn, with a host of third-party games and a $100 cheaper price tag.
XP to Vista was expected because of the introduction of a new driver framework, but can you name 5 of each for the other two (2K to XP and Vista to 7)?
Oh, and comparing things like Vista 32-bit to 7 64-bit doesn't count; of course 32-bit binary drivers won't work on a 64-bit system.
er... specify, not specific.
Sometimes I wish Firefox had a grammar checker as well.
Too bad the specifications probably specific .doc files specifically and the GP was just paraphrasing them.
It really depends on how it's interpreted.
At the current moment, there's no way to create an Android application without having Java .class files, because there is no native Android compiler... the one they have converts already-compiled Java .class files into a .dex. Which, unfortunately, trashes the distinction you made, as you're no longer dealing with just the Java platform, but compiled Java language files.
In addition to that the Android SDK requires you to download one or more platform SDKs, which each include a file named android.jar, which contains a bunch of Java class files across several namespaces, including java.lang (the "root" namespace for Java).