The automatic update system in Windows is far from perfect, and doesn't allow users the granularity of saying "yes, update my browser but no, leave the rest of my system alone."
Also, telling it you want to be notified of available updates (similar to Firefox's behaviour) is nowhere near as convenient as the way Firefox handles simply installing its own update and then restarting with your windows and tabs reopened to where you were last.
I tell you what: you go ahead and buy $4000 of those Dual core kits, and we'll compare your output from a well-written algorithm versus the Cell system designed by this team.
Some interesting code examples for using the Cell have been demonstrated and it has immense processing power that most people don't recognize immediately. Check out this Dr Dobb's Journal article for an example.
The non-disclosure of identity has nothing to do with secret trials. We have laws in Canada that prevent the publishing of minors' names when they're tried but their trials are still very public and the media simply do not refer to the accused by name.
Your reaction simply indicates you have no understanding of hyperbole or phrase-turning in general.
He said that fanboys of other systems (who don't want the PS3 to do well because they dislike it for fanciful reasons) appear to be terrified of Home doing well and lash out against it in order to stymie any positive feedback it receives.
For similar fanboy behaviour, feel free to go look up the scores of Resistance 2 on several websites which permit user-submitted reviews and note that many many people gave it a rating of 'zero' weeks before the game had been released.
No I haven't, although I hardly see my not reading Bukowski as a major loss in my life. I'm sure you haven't read some of the works I consider to be excellent either -- to be fair, I prefer the French authors to the Americans.
Your reading obviously hasn't helped you with your ability to distinguish reality from assumption however, a problem many people on both sides of this arguments' fence suffer from.
That is to say, what does anything I've said have to do with institutionalized spirituality? Also, assuming that has any bearing on my previous comments at all, what does that have to do with my choice in reading? And who says the people you think would try to influence me are even capable, considering my intellect and savvy?
You feel free to live on in your little world of assumptions though, ignorant of actual facts, living exactly the unintellectual life you believe we spiritual people lead -- unable to recognize and separate what you assume from what you've assimilated from what you actually know.
SAS is a very cool protocol. One of the coolest features is how they learned from SCSI and even made it forward compatible to SCSI.
That is to say, you can plug a bunch of SATA drives into an SAS controller card if you like, to save money or have higher capacities with a high-end SCSI controller.
I agree with your perception of Home, except that I have no idea what pressure you're talking about. Sony's not pressuring anyone, if anything, the public has been pressuring Sony for Home, not the other way around.
If someone's willing to brute-force a password to change your data, they're willing to copy your DVD's ISO, edit it, and burn a new copy to replace it with.
I'm waiting for a high-quality console RPG the likes of Neverwinter Nights (the first one) with a multi-character party system (for switching or multi player).
The chainsaw people in RE4 did a good job of giving me panic attacks. The game even tells you they're coming -- but since its nearly impossible to kill them without being well-prepared early in the game, knowing they're coming, or even from which direction doesn't help you avoid death the first few times.
Aside from ports, the first-party "check this out!" games are what I compare between the two. Drake's Fortune, Ratchet & Clank? Looks awesome with true 720p output and true 1080i output too.
What about the 360? Well Halo 3 looks nice, at 640p upscaled. What's that say?
Go back to the arcade and get a decent score on the Echochrome game. Enjoy your tip of the day.
Unlockables aren't "giveaways" they're unlockables, like the hidden paths in Super Mario.
Also, I don't understand how you missed people doing what he described, every day I've logged into Home since joining the private Beta, people have been doing what was described, hanging out and dance partying and such.
Why? Who knows, its kinda neat. I've met a few new interesting people in Home myself.
Also, the downloads work in the background if you're willing to putter about somewhere else, and you can jump straight to other areas of home with the 'start' menu. Did you notice that the downloads only happen if the area's bee updated? Or consider that lots of updating will happen during a public beta's early phase?
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The automatic update system in Windows is far from perfect, and doesn't allow users the granularity of saying "yes, update my browser but no, leave the rest of my system alone."
Also, telling it you want to be notified of available updates (similar to Firefox's behaviour) is nowhere near as convenient as the way Firefox handles simply installing its own update and then restarting with your windows and tabs reopened to where you were last.
Its also used in older English when writing numbers such as "three score and four".
I tell you what: you go ahead and buy $4000 of those Dual core kits, and we'll compare your output from a well-written algorithm versus the Cell system designed by this team.
Some interesting code examples for using the Cell have been demonstrated and it has immense processing power that most people don't recognize immediately. Check out this Dr Dobb's Journal article for an example.
Feel free not to believe it, but actually doing your research might be smarter.
And which part of the GPU not being fully exposed to Linux is relevant to supercomputing exactly?
Its like the Huns and the Babylonian empire never slaughtered anyone if you're an atheist.
... the mountain of failing to understand that the masses are perfectly happy in their bliss?
3 billion people on earth can be wrong, but expending effort proving it just to make them upset seems a little sadistic.
Realism doesn't mean what you think it means.
The non-disclosure of identity has nothing to do with secret trials. We have laws in Canada that prevent the publishing of minors' names when they're tried but their trials are still very public and the media simply do not refer to the accused by name.
That's what you took from that story?
Wow.
Your reaction simply indicates you have no understanding of hyperbole or phrase-turning in general.
He said that fanboys of other systems (who don't want the PS3 to do well because they dislike it for fanciful reasons) appear to be terrified of Home doing well and lash out against it in order to stymie any positive feedback it receives.
For similar fanboy behaviour, feel free to go look up the scores of Resistance 2 on several websites which permit user-submitted reviews and note that many many people gave it a rating of 'zero' weeks before the game had been released.
No I haven't, although I hardly see my not reading Bukowski as a major loss in my life. I'm sure you haven't read some of the works I consider to be excellent either -- to be fair, I prefer the French authors to the Americans.
Your reading obviously hasn't helped you with your ability to distinguish reality from assumption however, a problem many people on both sides of this arguments' fence suffer from.
That is to say, what does anything I've said have to do with institutionalized spirituality? Also, assuming that has any bearing on my previous comments at all, what does that have to do with my choice in reading? And who says the people you think would try to influence me are even capable, considering my intellect and savvy?
You feel free to live on in your little world of assumptions though, ignorant of actual facts, living exactly the unintellectual life you believe we spiritual people lead -- unable to recognize and separate what you assume from what you've assimilated from what you actually know.
SAS is a very cool protocol. One of the coolest features is how they learned from SCSI and even made it forward compatible to SCSI.
That is to say, you can plug a bunch of SATA drives into an SAS controller card if you like, to save money or have higher capacities with a high-end SCSI controller.
I agree with your perception of Home, except that I have no idea what pressure you're talking about. Sony's not pressuring anyone, if anything, the public has been pressuring Sony for Home, not the other way around.
I use kopete instead of pidgin for the features, and I'm a Gnome user.
I also use Amarok, for its features.
I use Gnome as a desktop environment but I'm quite open to using Qt/KDE apps where they are superior -- I feel no need to be a desktop bigot :)
If someone's willing to brute-force a password to change your data, they're willing to copy your DVD's ISO, edit it, and burn a new copy to replace it with.
I'm waiting for a high-quality console RPG the likes of Neverwinter Nights (the first one) with a multi-character party system (for switching or multi player).
The chainsaw people in RE4 did a good job of giving me panic attacks. The game even tells you they're coming -- but since its nearly impossible to kill them without being well-prepared early in the game, knowing they're coming, or even from which direction doesn't help you avoid death the first few times.
Its even easier to do this with Linux, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
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Its even easier to do this with Linux, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Aside from ports, the first-party "check this out!" games are what I compare between the two. Drake's Fortune, Ratchet & Clank? Looks awesome with true 720p output and true 1080i output too.
What about the 360? Well Halo 3 looks nice, at 640p upscaled. What's that say?
Go back to the arcade and get a decent score on the Echochrome game. Enjoy your tip of the day.
Unlockables aren't "giveaways" they're unlockables, like the hidden paths in Super Mario.
Also, I don't understand how you missed people doing what he described, every day I've logged into Home since joining the private Beta, people have been doing what was described, hanging out and dance partying and such.
Why? Who knows, its kinda neat. I've met a few new interesting people in Home myself.
Also, the downloads work in the background if you're willing to putter about somewhere else, and you can jump straight to other areas of home with the 'start' menu. Did you notice that the downloads only happen if the area's bee updated? Or consider that lots of updating will happen during a public beta's early phase?
I highly doubt they will do anything of the sort, on the basis that Home simply isn't viable for people with low bandwidth limits.
Now, I can't see Sony replicating their "clubhouse" work in Home elsewhere, so it will probably be the only way to do things like that, but we'll see.
IMHO, Home doesn't appear to be designed around launching games as its primary function at all.
Actually, he's right -- the lashing against Home has been going on a while, mostly from people who don't want to like it or have never used it.
The parent was more correct than you -- and while they had the expected open beta network issues, the system was quite usable once fixed.
Since I've been in the closed beta since summer, I can assure you it will probably not be empty anytime soon.
Once data recovery was necessary, the incompetence was already obvious -- on the part of those making or storing the recording.