I played 250 hrs as one character in Morrowind without ever finishing the main plot. You can complete the main quest if you like, but it doesn't "end" the game in any meaningful way.
Motorstorm is a nice break from adventuring and shooting (Resistance: FoM) when I just feel like tearing up some dirt. Resistance I've logged about 400 online battles in and am working my way through the single player game on hard mode right now.
More games? I don't have time:-) lol I'm happy with what Sony's brought me so far, and I'm happy with what's coming down the pipes.
When I as a good netizen went to look at getting my own IPv6 block for work, I realized it was way too much hassle, despite enough blocks obviously being available. Convincing our upstream provider(s) to give us blocks would require them bothering to go through that same hassle.
IPv6 works beautifully in an Intranet and LAN environment with autoconfiguration. IPv6 registries and routing are a problem however because nobody's* doing it.
I just want to know who all these overpaid people are that think they're going to play more games a year than this. At $70 each with no price drop yet, I own Oblivion, Resistance and Motorstorm and that's it for my budget till closer to Christmas. Then it'll be a toss-up for Ratchet or Lair or something.
There aren't hundreds or thousands of good games for the PS3, but there are quite a few and considering it hasn't been out a year yet, that's pretty impressive. Does anyone remember what the original games for the PS2 were like? Now compare with God of War 2 and think about that a minute.
Newton 2.0 happened already, the MessagePad 2000 and 2100 were pretty impressive devices too. You should use one sometime.
And yes, I think the iPhone is a lot like a MessagePad, but also completely different. I'd love to see internal MessagePad compatibility in terms of programming and data storage, just because it was so advanced and sexy to program, but oh well.
Sony has exclusives, already, and they rock, and there are plenty coming out by Christmas too. Try reading the news or something.
Ratchet will rock, Lair is going to be incredible, Warhawk is promising, I'm still playing Resistance online regularly, Motorstorm is pretty good...... oh I'm sorry, I didn't Sony-bash. Cause the PS3 supports non-Sony peripherals and standards like USB and Bluetooth without lock-outs. Neat huh?
Speaking of walking udders, isn't it natural that another genetic engineering firm managed to make silk from a mutant animal's udder, instead of milk? That would so definitely happen in the wild (yeah, right).
There are more new PS2 games coming out this fiscal year for Sony than PS3 games in fact. The PS2 is not a dead platform like the Xbox and people predicting Sony's demise would be wise to notice PS2 and PS2 game sales.
I have an original PS2 and a PS3 next to it right now. Trust me, the PS2 is noticeably smaller in every dimension.
That aside, people have had all their other electronic devices get smaller, not bigger, from micro stereo systems to thinner TVs to smaller notebooks and cell phones.
It took a minute to look up, but here are your comparison sizes:
The PS2 was 301 mm (W) x 182 mm (D) x 78 mm (H) The PS3 is 325mm (W) x 274mm (D) x 98mm (H)
You overlook a big issue in Japan -- the PS3 is huge. Did I mention its pretty big? Or heavy? Or huge?
The Japanese have less space to work with in their living spaces and tend toward small slim and lightweight devices. The PS3 is none of the above. The DS which is selling well is portable and small. The Wii is also small.
I'm not sure where you live exactly but every new TV I've seen in years (in Canada) has had component input except the very cheap variety (since its a great cost-savings measure to remove it). Mine has two component and one HDMI input, most of my friends complain about only having one component input.
Sure, older TVs won't have component of course, its a relatively new connection for TVs that really only took off with HDTV but it still existed on older high quality TVs to bump the picture quality up over S-Video or Composite.
Go to your local Future Shop, Best Buy or Audiotronics store and look on the backs of the TVs.
We've debated this in the office many times. The problem with a 3 drive live scenario is the activity levels on the spare drive. In a hot-spare scenario, the spare drive has a much lower probability of failure after an initial burn-in period. It leaves the risk of a catastrophic two-drive failure during rebuild, yes, but I think it depends on the application.
The extras I value-add to a small machine for file serving, in order:
An extra hard drive for software RAID-1
A UPS with voltage regulation -- clean power is amazing at keeping systems running
A third hard drive for a fast unattended rebuild
SCSI drives
SCSI RAID controller
The first two are somewhat reversible, depending on needs of course. Please note the lack of "enterprise-ready" here, this is for mom-and-pop file servers and home use.
The whole idea that there is a philosophy behind the GPL and that is the spirit, not the words that are written down to satisfy the lawyers is just lost on the guy.
The fact that the GPL really is a license written to satisfy lawyers is lost on the rest of you. Write manifestos to explain your belief systems (RMS has done so several times), but licenses are still just licenses. Whether there's a belief system they arise from ("Everything is mine, mine mine!" or "We should all share") isn't very relevant once you're staring down the violator in court. The words on paper are.
When I was at OLS a couple years ago there was a good presentation on how much power management sucked in its actual implementation by hardware vendors and why it was such a problem to implement ACPI properly in Linux. If you go on the site above you should be able to find the PDFs of the presentation.
If that holds, the format war is done. HDDVD has won.
I hate to break it to you but the format war will be won by whomever has the movies people want to watch. If the one format protects their intellectual property and the other doesn't, which do you think will be supported by the movie publishers exactly?
Therefore some of these compressors are supplemented by a dictionary containing "useful" English words arranged so that the ones used most frequently get assigned a lower "size" of encoded string in the text pre-processor before the actual compression kicks in.
It seems that all the advances have been made on finding the optimum arrangement for this dictionary based on the text they have to process... the 100MB enwik8 file. A different file will need a different dictionary.
That's not at all true in a multi-pass codec of course. An optimal dictionary can of course be computed by the algorithm itself either before or after compression (for example by re-optimizing its dictionary). Its slower, sure, but if optimal algorithms are your thing and speed isn't an issue, try data-analysis passes.
Well except for an HDMI cable, the PS3 comes fully-loaded. You get Ethernet and wireless and can download game demos and movie previews as soon as its plugged in and set up. I recommend getting a good quality HDMI cable from Blue Jeans Cable or something and I'm glad they don't include one (raising the price, and only helping people who have HDMI capable TVs, and possibly not being high quality).
Since the PS3 is at its cheapest more expensive than a 360, the "concession" comparison doesn't really apply. I believe strongly that when high-end games made to max out the PS3s capabilities are on the market, users will see it as worth the price difference, but at the present time it needs to be comparably priced to its nearest competitor, the 360.
Had Sony launched the PS3 at the same price as a 360, and still been doing a price drop at this point, I'd agree with your concerns.
Lets try another angel: you're a publicly traded company that can't afford to hemorrhage cash incessantly like one of your competitors does so you had to release your console at a higher price than you would have liked. You knew then and know now that its too expensive, but that's a stupid thing to admit in public if you want to sell them. Since there are people obviously willing to spend that much (early adopters and all that), sell them at the higher price until you can afford the price cut then cut prices to where you'd like them to be.
I see no problem with Sony denying price cuts until they happen -- it would negatively affect sales of already-shipped units and their retailers would be quite upset at them.
Don't forget that some people have discussed making software OpenGL acceleration using the SPUs. The PS3 running Linux currently basically never uses those extra processor parts which lay idle and bored. Porting Mesa's acceleration over to SPUs may or may not be a lot of fun to some people, but I'm sure its possible and given fast enough bit blitting in framebuffer mode, it would probably be quite acceptably fast too.
Honestly, go try Resistance: Fall of Man online. If you like racing, try Motorstorm (yes, both PS3 titles). Resistance has great fast matchmaking and rankings as well as fun variants on FPS modes with some really fun maps with up to 40 players, and Motorstorm has gritty dirty (and sometimes very frustrating) racing in mud and/or sand and grit.
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You obviously have no clue what this conference is about. Get a history lesson.
lol no it doesn't actually :-)
:-) lol I'm happy with what Sony's brought me so far, and I'm happy with what's coming down the pipes.
I played 250 hrs as one character in Morrowind without ever finishing the main plot. You can complete the main quest if you like, but it doesn't "end" the game in any meaningful way.
Motorstorm is a nice break from adventuring and shooting (Resistance: FoM) when I just feel like tearing up some dirt. Resistance I've logged about 400 online battles in and am working my way through the single player game on hard mode right now.
More games? I don't have time
More interestingly, does anyone have a good review/comparison site of IPv6 routers that are up to the task?
When I as a good netizen went to look at getting my own IPv6 block for work, I realized it was way too much hassle, despite enough blocks obviously being available. Convincing our upstream provider(s) to give us blocks would require them bothering to go through that same hassle.
IPv6 works beautifully in an Intranet and LAN environment with autoconfiguration. IPv6 registries and routing are a problem however because nobody's* doing it.
*almost
I just want to know who all these overpaid people are that think they're going to play more games a year than this. At $70 each with no price drop yet, I own Oblivion, Resistance and Motorstorm and that's it for my budget till closer to Christmas. Then it'll be a toss-up for Ratchet or Lair or something.
There aren't hundreds or thousands of good games for the PS3, but there are quite a few and considering it hasn't been out a year yet, that's pretty impressive. Does anyone remember what the original games for the PS2 were like? Now compare with God of War 2 and think about that a minute.
Newton 2.0 happened already, the MessagePad 2000 and 2100 were pretty impressive devices too. You should use one sometime.
And yes, I think the iPhone is a lot like a MessagePad, but also completely different. I'd love to see internal MessagePad compatibility in terms of programming and data storage, just because it was so advanced and sexy to program, but oh well.
Sony has exclusives, already, and they rock, and there are plenty coming out by Christmas too. Try reading the news or something.
... ... oh I'm sorry, I didn't Sony-bash. Cause the PS3 supports non-Sony peripherals and standards like USB and Bluetooth without lock-outs. Neat huh?
Ratchet will rock, Lair is going to be incredible, Warhawk is promising, I'm still playing Resistance online regularly, Motorstorm is pretty good
Speaking of walking udders, isn't it natural that another genetic engineering firm managed to make silk from a mutant animal's udder, instead of milk? That would so definitely happen in the wild (yeah, right).
See here.
I'd love to see a remake of Deus Ex to take advantage of modern hardware. It had a great plot, interesting characters, and believable missions.
There are more new PS2 games coming out this fiscal year for Sony than PS3 games in fact. The PS2 is not a dead platform like the Xbox and people predicting Sony's demise would be wise to notice PS2 and PS2 game sales.
I have an original PS2 and a PS3 next to it right now. Trust me, the PS2 is noticeably smaller in every dimension.
That aside, people have had all their other electronic devices get smaller, not bigger, from micro stereo systems to thinner TVs to smaller notebooks and cell phones.
It took a minute to look up, but here are your comparison sizes:
The PS2 was 301 mm (W) x 182 mm (D) x 78 mm (H)
The PS3 is 325mm (W) x 274mm (D) x 98mm (H)
Congrats, you've figured out the key to enjoying your new PC :-)
You overlook a big issue in Japan -- the PS3 is huge. Did I mention its pretty big? Or heavy? Or huge?
The Japanese have less space to work with in their living spaces and tend toward small slim and lightweight devices. The PS3 is none of the above. The DS which is selling well is portable and small. The Wii is also small.
I'm not sure where you live exactly but every new TV I've seen in years (in Canada) has had component input except the very cheap variety (since its a great cost-savings measure to remove it). Mine has two component and one HDMI input, most of my friends complain about only having one component input.
Sure, older TVs won't have component of course, its a relatively new connection for TVs that really only took off with HDTV but it still existed on older high quality TVs to bump the picture quality up over S-Video or Composite.
Go to your local Future Shop, Best Buy or Audiotronics store and look on the backs of the TVs.
We've debated this in the office many times. The problem with a 3 drive live scenario is the activity levels on the spare drive. In a hot-spare scenario, the spare drive has a much lower probability of failure after an initial burn-in period. It leaves the risk of a catastrophic two-drive failure during rebuild, yes, but I think it depends on the application.
The first two are somewhat reversible, depending on needs of course.
Please note the lack of "enterprise-ready" here, this is for mom-and-pop file servers and home use.
The fact that the GPL really is a license written to satisfy lawyers is lost on the rest of you. Write manifestos to explain your belief systems (RMS has done so several times), but licenses are still just licenses. Whether there's a belief system they arise from ("Everything is mine, mine mine!" or "We should all share") isn't very relevant once you're staring down the violator in court. The words on paper are.
When I was at OLS a couple years ago there was a good presentation on how much power management sucked in its actual implementation by hardware vendors and why it was such a problem to implement ACPI properly in Linux. If you go on the site above you should be able to find the PDFs of the presentation.
I hate to break it to you but the format war will be won by whomever has the movies people want to watch. If the one format protects their intellectual property and the other doesn't, which do you think will be supported by the movie publishers exactly?
That's not at all true in a multi-pass codec of course. An optimal dictionary can of course be computed by the algorithm itself either before or after compression (for example by re-optimizing its dictionary). Its slower, sure, but if optimal algorithms are your thing and speed isn't an issue, try data-analysis passes.
Well except for an HDMI cable, the PS3 comes fully-loaded. You get Ethernet and wireless and can download game demos and movie previews as soon as its plugged in and set up. I recommend getting a good quality HDMI cable from Blue Jeans Cable or something and I'm glad they don't include one (raising the price, and only helping people who have HDMI capable TVs, and possibly not being high quality).
Since the PS3 is at its cheapest more expensive than a 360, the "concession" comparison doesn't really apply. I believe strongly that when high-end games made to max out the PS3s capabilities are on the market, users will see it as worth the price difference, but at the present time it needs to be comparably priced to its nearest competitor, the 360.
Had Sony launched the PS3 at the same price as a 360, and still been doing a price drop at this point, I'd agree with your concerns.
Lets try another angel: you're a publicly traded company that can't afford to hemorrhage cash incessantly like one of your competitors does so you had to release your console at a higher price than you would have liked. You knew then and know now that its too expensive, but that's a stupid thing to admit in public if you want to sell them. Since there are people obviously willing to spend that much (early adopters and all that), sell them at the higher price until you can afford the price cut then cut prices to where you'd like them to be.
I see no problem with Sony denying price cuts until they happen -- it would negatively affect sales of already-shipped units and their retailers would be quite upset at them.
Don't forget that some people have discussed making software OpenGL acceleration using the SPUs. The PS3 running Linux currently basically never uses those extra processor parts which lay idle and bored. Porting Mesa's acceleration over to SPUs may or may not be a lot of fun to some people, but I'm sure its possible and given fast enough bit blitting in framebuffer mode, it would probably be quite acceptably fast too.
Honestly, go try Resistance: Fall of Man online. If you like racing, try Motorstorm (yes, both PS3 titles). Resistance has great fast matchmaking and rankings as well as fun variants on FPS modes with some really fun maps with up to 40 players, and Motorstorm has gritty dirty (and sometimes very frustrating) racing in mud and/or sand and grit.