How many cars of coal do you have to have for your engine to haul 19 boxcars loaded to 85% weight capacity from Pittsburg to Detroit?
The "engineer argument" was old when I finished my CNE testing back in 1993, and it's even more played out now.
Last I checked, the router is not OWNED by the individual user on the end, it's rented as part of the contract agreement. This might have changed as I haven't looked at the newest revision of the contract they're having people agree to for new service, but if they retain ownership via that then the "end user" has NO room for complaint.
I have Verizon FIOS. Tech came out to make sure everything worked and told me that despite the fact that I am a network engineer and it is a Business Class account that he was required as part of his job to install their crappy router and verify connectivity with it. I allowed him to do it and 20 minutes after he was out the door I had my router in place and everything secured to my specifications.
Funny enough, I haven't been contacted by Verizon about the fact that my router is insecure or has default passwords. They haven't changed the password(s) on my router or reconfigured anything other than when I called them 2 weeks ago to make them give me more speed for less money (Packages changed, double the bandwidth I had for $15/mo LESS).
Please contact Verizon, ask them to cancel your service and GTFO the internets plz.
Yeah, I haven't played with a DSi myself, but my understanding was that it was "locked down" as a music player.. wasn't sure if it was format limited or some goofball interface to obfuscate the data on the device so that it had to be played their way (see: iPod)
You just blew my mind. I've had a Nintendo DS for several years without this ability... in fact, I don't even thing there's a way to store data of that size on my DS. What on earth are you talking about?
Using one of the 3rd party cards you can store data on a MicroSD/MicroSDHC and play it back. However this is a device that's normally used for "other" things than playing music... and may/may not be legal where you are. wink,wink nudge,nudge
Yeah, I bought mine last year (not sure on the date, but it seems like not too long after BlazBlue came out) after hunting through various GameStop shops and the like. I want the BC for what's left of my PS2 games (Had the PS2 itself stolen at a convention) and I wanted to be able to run Linux on it so I could use it as a brute force machine (big number crunching handed off to it from one of my other systems when necessary. Distributed Compile is loads of fun).
Now I can't get access to DLC for games I've bought and games I have on reserve (Rock Band: Greenday) and I have to worry that games I have coming in I'll have to return and demand full refunds for given that I will reject the EULA for the coerced upgrade...
Yeah, it seems that using the cmdline format (at least for WinXP, no hits yet for Vista/Win7) will let you "bypass" the artificial limiter that MS put in with SP2 for XP...
Not horribly shocking, but given that they did give the option to be able to install "another OS" on the older PS3's you'd think there would be some kind of support for something other than FAT32...
Except that, once again, most people are using Windows as a PC OS. Unless they're buying a small external HD (and in the case of newer PS3's, something too small to do a full backup) they will be unable to format it FAT32.
Yes FAT32 is old. Yes it's simple. Yes it doesn't have the potential issues of royalty or patent licensing. It's still a stupid choice to rely on that alone in an instance like this.
The first time I connected my RAID0 enclosure to the system I'm pretty sure it was FAT32. I know the WD External is NTFS, I'll have to double check mine (currently sitting at the office) and try again.
Kinda odd, IMO, that they haven't updated the system firmware to read NTFS given that Windows refuses to let you format anything larger than 40gb as FAT32 anymore and most "users" wouldn't be able to figure out what linux is let alone how mkfs.vfat works...;)
80gb "mostly hardware" BC PS3 unit. Not an emulation setup or anything.
It could very well be the HD picked today to start giving out, but it's kinda odd in that a friend of mine was playing Star Ocean under his profile on the system 2 hours before. Didn't have issues saving, didn't crash or anything. When we came back after grabbing a bite to eat is when the "fit hit the shan". Went to start up Star Ocean on my profile (already had a game saved at the first save point so everything had already been installed) and it refused to install Trophy Data. Tried a couple of times, rebooted the system, hard powered the system... same results across the board. Thought it might be an issue with the Disc. No scratches, smudges or anything. Popped in Bayonetta (A game I had already beaten) and it starts, but when it attempted to load the first cutscene (before the actual game starts) it hung with a "Loading..." message on the screen. No action at all. Thinking it might be a laser issue (I remember older PS2's having issues with their drive/laser assembly having to be replaced or retuned) I popped in a copy of Boondock Saints (DVD) and watched it. 0 problems with that. Considered it might be an issue with the frequency for BluRay disks so I popped in Dogma (BluRay edition) and watched it. Sat through most of the Deleted Scenes. Watched the outtakes. 0 problems. This pointed me back to the HD as a possible issue given that both Star Ocean and Bayonetta have installs to HD (Bayonetta does after the patch enabled it). I attempted to perform a backup from the system menu. Told initially it needed 17gb over what I had available on my (empty) 8gb thumbdrive I dumped all install data for games, all demos downloaded from PSN and anything else I didn't "have to keep". After stripping it as far as I could it still claimed to need another 750mb over an 8gb stick. I have an external 1tb RAID0 SATA -> USB enclosure, but it refuses to use/see it as storage. Friend has an external WD HD (1tb), it refused to see that as well. Figured that I could re-beat Bayonetta in a few days and neither one of us were that far into Star Ocean (although I am quite pissed about losing my data for DJ Hero:( ) so format the drive in an attempt to see if it returns a hard error that would indicate I need to replace the drive or if it would remap any bad sectors and allow me to resume my gaming.
Initial Estimate to format the 80gb drive: 4 hours, 45 minutes. I took a nap for a couple of hours, woke up and decided to check out what was happening online and ran into this... Much h8. So much h8 it might compress into some i9.
It was refusing to install the Star Ocean Trophy set. I could get it to start Bayonetta, but when it attempted to load the first cutscene it just hung forever. Tried doing a number of things, nothing worked... And it wouldn't let me back up my data as the largest thumbdrive I own is 8gb and after removing ALL game data, installed demos and everything else I could strip, it claimed it still needed another 750mb of space (original claim was over 17gb). And of course it refuses to recognize either of my external USB HDDs as a target for backing up or reading data from...
So I started thinking "HD Failing" (it is an original PS3 after all). Figured I'd have it format the drive then reinstall and repatch my games. Nearly a 5 hour time estimate. Take a nap, wake up, see this.... "oh god damnit."
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Sadly the PS[X,2,3] never let you access the DULLARD cheat code given the lack of lettered buttons...
Welcome to the Arms Race, Android and Nook. Enjoy your stay.
Now I have to get one of these, mod it, install the teathering package that I have on my G1 and I'm set... Read books AND provide random WiFi Hotspot...
Who's going to make the Android App that will allow me to use this thing to track my D&D 3.5/4.x character?;)
Seriously, in the US it's expected that you're going to hide your pr0n. If you're not into "just the normal in-out, in-out" then you're REALLY going to want to hide it.
And what about the children? Won't someone think of the children looking at your pr0n?:p
Exactly my thoughts. And according to a fudzilla article linked above, this basically what happened. The actual "product" is an engineering build and not something they want a PR guy waving around so they gave him a mock-up of it.
Personally, I don't give a damn what their hype machine has to say about anything. When they get silicon in production and I can "reasonably" expect to get it physically in-hand, then I'll start paying attention... Served me well for "waiting" on Duke Nukem Forever.:p
You're close to the point. We're jaded now. "Back in the day" RC Pro Am was a decent racing game. The weapons added a new twist and the "leveling up" as you went on was a nice feature.
But we're past that now. "Been there, done that, burned the shirt". We want something 'new' and 'innovative'. We want something we haven't seen. We enjoy the old games because they are the old games. Some of it is Rose Colored Glasses, part of it is we are still entertained by that. We don't want more of the same thing though with shinier graphics (well, personally I'd LOVE a current generation Carmageddon), we want the new.
Does it still have buggy sound support for the sound hardware on the eeePC? I was rather annoyed by it for the last beta release and I can't really see them having fixed it in such a short time which is sad as it otherwise ran quite well...
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How many cars of coal do you have to have for your engine to haul 19 boxcars loaded to 85% weight capacity from Pittsburg to Detroit?
The "engineer argument" was old when I finished my CNE testing back in 1993, and it's even more played out now.
Last I checked, the router is not OWNED by the individual user on the end, it's rented as part of the contract agreement. This might have changed as I haven't looked at the newest revision of the contract they're having people agree to for new service, but if they retain ownership via that then the "end user" has NO room for complaint.
I have Verizon FIOS. Tech came out to make sure everything worked and told me that despite the fact that I am a network engineer and it is a Business Class account that he was required as part of his job to install their crappy router and verify connectivity with it. I allowed him to do it and 20 minutes after he was out the door I had my router in place and everything secured to my specifications.
Funny enough, I haven't been contacted by Verizon about the fact that my router is insecure or has default passwords. They haven't changed the password(s) on my router or reconfigured anything other than when I called them 2 weeks ago to make them give me more speed for less money (Packages changed, double the bandwidth I had for $15/mo LESS).
Please contact Verizon, ask them to cancel your service and GTFO the internets plz.
Same here... Just Deactivation.
Although I did find it interesting that when you look at deactivation the order of the reasons changes. Only "Other" remains in the same place....
I play about 10 to 12 hours a day during the week, sometimes more on the weekends. "Hardcore gamers" my ass.
Granted I also work overnight so I have an advantage on playing. ;)
And AGAIN you've missed the details.
DS is NOT a DSi.
MP3 is NOT AAC.
Yeah, I haven't played with a DSi myself, but my understanding was that it was "locked down" as a music player.. wasn't sure if it was format limited or some goofball interface to obfuscate the data on the device so that it had to be played their way (see: iPod)
You just blew my mind. I've had a Nintendo DS for several years without this ability ... in fact, I don't even thing there's a way to store data of that size on my DS. What on earth are you talking about?
Using one of the 3rd party cards you can store data on a MicroSD/MicroSDHC and play it back. However this is a device that's normally used for "other" things than playing music... and may/may not be legal where you are. wink,wink nudge,nudge
Yeah, I bought mine last year (not sure on the date, but it seems like not too long after BlazBlue came out) after hunting through various GameStop shops and the like. I want the BC for what's left of my PS2 games (Had the PS2 itself stolen at a convention) and I wanted to be able to run Linux on it so I could use it as a brute force machine (big number crunching handed off to it from one of my other systems when necessary. Distributed Compile is loads of fun).
Now I can't get access to DLC for games I've bought and games I have on reserve (Rock Band: Greenday) and I have to worry that games I have coming in I'll have to return and demand full refunds for given that I will reject the EULA for the coerced upgrade...
(1) How do people join?
(2) If I bought the unit used for the ability to play PS2 games and OtherOS, do I qualify? It was bought within the time specified....
Next item to be removed: Software BC for all those "Non Original Launch" Fat PS3's out there.....
Funny thing is, my FIOS acct is a Business Account. Only way I could get static IP's from Verizon.
I guess they'll have to start paying the big money....
Had GS installed, but hadn't seen this script.
Thanks EffBee for letting me know about the script that keeps all your spam harvesting shit-ware out of sight.
Yeah, it seems that using the cmdline format (at least for WinXP, no hits yet for Vista/Win7) will let you "bypass" the artificial limiter that MS put in with SP2 for XP...
Not horribly shocking, but given that they did give the option to be able to install "another OS" on the older PS3's you'd think there would be some kind of support for something other than FAT32...
Except that, once again, most people are using Windows as a PC OS. Unless they're buying a small external HD (and in the case of newer PS3's, something too small to do a full backup) they will be unable to format it FAT32.
Yes FAT32 is old. Yes it's simple. Yes it doesn't have the potential issues of royalty or patent licensing. It's still a stupid choice to rely on that alone in an instance like this.
The first time I connected my RAID0 enclosure to the system I'm pretty sure it was FAT32. I know the WD External is NTFS, I'll have to double check mine (currently sitting at the office) and try again.
Kinda odd, IMO, that they haven't updated the system firmware to read NTFS given that Windows refuses to let you format anything larger than 40gb as FAT32 anymore and most "users" wouldn't be able to figure out what linux is let alone how mkfs.vfat works... ;)
Except I would want a PS2 from the 4th through 8th revisions of the hardware along with an Ethernet adapter for the unit.
That's what I gave up when I moved to the PS3 (Specifically a 4th gen with Ethernet adapter). Anything else is not "fair replacement".
80gb "mostly hardware" BC PS3 unit. Not an emulation setup or anything.
It could very well be the HD picked today to start giving out, but it's kinda odd in that a friend of mine was playing Star Ocean under his profile on the system 2 hours before. Didn't have issues saving, didn't crash or anything. When we came back after grabbing a bite to eat is when the "fit hit the shan". Went to start up Star Ocean on my profile (already had a game saved at the first save point so everything had already been installed) and it refused to install Trophy Data. Tried a couple of times, rebooted the system, hard powered the system... same results across the board. Thought it might be an issue with the Disc. No scratches, smudges or anything. Popped in Bayonetta (A game I had already beaten) and it starts, but when it attempted to load the first cutscene (before the actual game starts) it hung with a "Loading..." message on the screen. No action at all. Thinking it might be a laser issue (I remember older PS2's having issues with their drive/laser assembly having to be replaced or retuned) I popped in a copy of Boondock Saints (DVD) and watched it. 0 problems with that. Considered it might be an issue with the frequency for BluRay disks so I popped in Dogma (BluRay edition) and watched it. Sat through most of the Deleted Scenes. Watched the outtakes. 0 problems. This pointed me back to the HD as a possible issue given that both Star Ocean and Bayonetta have installs to HD (Bayonetta does after the patch enabled it). I attempted to perform a backup from the system menu. Told initially it needed 17gb over what I had available on my (empty) 8gb thumbdrive I dumped all install data for games, all demos downloaded from PSN and anything else I didn't "have to keep". After stripping it as far as I could it still claimed to need another 750mb over an 8gb stick. I have an external 1tb RAID0 SATA -> USB enclosure, but it refuses to use/see it as storage. Friend has an external WD HD (1tb), it refused to see that as well. Figured that I could re-beat Bayonetta in a few days and neither one of us were that far into Star Ocean (although I am quite pissed about losing my data for DJ Hero :( ) so format the drive in an attempt to see if it returns a hard error that would indicate I need to replace the drive or if it would remap any bad sectors and allow me to resume my gaming.
Initial Estimate to format the 80gb drive: 4 hours, 45 minutes. I took a nap for a couple of hours, woke up and decided to check out what was happening online and ran into this... Much h8. So much h8 it might compress into some i9.
It was refusing to install the Star Ocean Trophy set. I could get it to start Bayonetta, but when it attempted to load the first cutscene it just hung forever. Tried doing a number of things, nothing worked... And it wouldn't let me back up my data as the largest thumbdrive I own is 8gb and after removing ALL game data, installed demos and everything else I could strip, it claimed it still needed another 750mb of space (original claim was over 17gb). And of course it refuses to recognize either of my external USB HDDs as a target for backing up or reading data from...
So I started thinking "HD Failing" (it is an original PS3 after all). Figured I'd have it format the drive then reinstall and repatch my games. Nearly a 5 hour time estimate. Take a nap, wake up, see this.... "oh god damnit."
Sadly the PS[X,2,3] never let you access the DULLARD cheat code given the lack of lettered buttons...
Welcome to the Arms Race, Android and Nook. Enjoy your stay.
Now I have to get one of these, mod it, install the teathering package that I have on my G1 and I'm set... Read books AND provide random WiFi Hotspot...
Who's going to make the Android App that will allow me to use this thing to track my D&D 3.5/4.x character? ;)
Seriously, in the US it's expected that you're going to hide your pr0n. If you're not into "just the normal in-out, in-out" then you're REALLY going to want to hide it.
And what about the children? Won't someone think of the children looking at your pr0n? :p
Exactly my thoughts. And according to a fudzilla article linked above, this basically what happened. The actual "product" is an engineering build and not something they want a PR guy waving around so they gave him a mock-up of it.
Personally, I don't give a damn what their hype machine has to say about anything. When they get silicon in production and I can "reasonably" expect to get it physically in-hand, then I'll start paying attention... Served me well for "waiting" on Duke Nukem Forever. :p
You're close to the point. We're jaded now. "Back in the day" RC Pro Am was a decent racing game. The weapons added a new twist and the "leveling up" as you went on was a nice feature.
But we're past that now. "Been there, done that, burned the shirt". We want something 'new' and 'innovative'. We want something we haven't seen. We enjoy the old games because they are the old games. Some of it is Rose Colored Glasses, part of it is we are still entertained by that. We don't want more of the same thing though with shinier graphics (well, personally I'd LOVE a current generation Carmageddon), we want the new.
Does it still have buggy sound support for the sound hardware on the eeePC? I was rather annoyed by it for the last beta release and I can't really see them having fixed it in such a short time which is sad as it otherwise ran quite well...