Uh, no offense, but the PS3 comes with wireless support out of the box as well as a controller and it uses the hard drive for saves. You don't need to buy anything else but games (or a second controller if you have friends).:-)
I've had a 60GB PS3 since March and it hasn't done anything stupid yet. The fan speeds up sometimes, slows down others, but is otherwise rock-solid. I did manage to have it get upset with me during a Blu-Ray movie I rented from Blockbuster but then kicked myself after ejecting the disc and realizing it was covered in smudges I should have cleaned off in the first place.
I have no moderator points -- so agreed. I'm also a parent, although only of one. My wife works primarily weekends and I work the traditional 9-5 mon-fri work week. We manage that way to have at least one of us home with our daughter most days instead of day care or babysitting and choose to do so actively.
To be fair, I know its hard to work out good work arrangements these days, as well as good fair prices for rent or home purchases in conjunction with raising a child, but its a lot more to do with priorities.
I've heard many stories from wealthy business people about being raised in poverty by parents who spent time with them teaching them to read and enjoy the library and learn everything they could and stay out of trouble and they're now very successful.
To those who think having children is a bad thing I ask you -- do you think the people who, in your opinion shouldn't be having children are listening? Or just the ones who'd actually make good parents? Someone's going to have children and they're going to be the future of your country and planet. If you want to help, have your own and raise them right.
they can have their microcode updated, but only with a dedicated bridged-bus eeprom burner ($15,000 or so).
The fact that the hardware isn't changed is irrelevant -- microcode doesn't "live" in hardware traces so to speak, its a special form of software executed by the CPU at a very (extremely) low level.
Yes, modchips could be used for some legitimate, non-piracy purpose, like homebrew. But so far, I haven't seen it in real life.
For the record, I use my unmodded PS2 with a hard disk installed to run homebrew and backups of my own games (without having to take the discs out anymore). MyPS2 is pretty cool, there's a program that lets you listen to Internet radio with your PS2 while browsing photos over samba. It'll view movies over Samba shares or off the hard drive or USB stick as well. There's also a couple emulators like the one I have that lets you play old SNES ROMs -- I got to show my daughter what Super Mario 3 looked like.
they can have their microcode updated, but only with a dedicated bridged-bus eeprom burner ($15,000 or so).
Incorrect. Microcode on Intel processors can be updated live by software. This has been possible for ages. For information on how this can be done in Linux for example, see here.
Ironically as I understand it, the original shows were all filmed on good quality film in a widescreen aspect ratio for their eventual DVD/Laserdisc/HD/whatever release. The assumption was that by then, the special effects could be re-done at a higher quality with new technology to match the quality of the film. That of course never came to fruition, but it was a nice hope.
Update your status on Facebook uses something like this (and is a pain), as do form validation scripts and poorly designed websites. Of course, if you think every website users want to visit was well designed, you're sadly mistaken.
Actually the poster is correct -- there are issues, and it has nothing to do with Safari, it has to do with the UI assumptions made by Javascript programmers.
For example, if you have a FORM that submits when the mouse "leaves" the drop down box, please explain how that event will be triggered since there/is no cursor/. Sure, Safari can fake it for the sake of making automatic form submission work, but its still an issue.
This has nothing to do with rendering, it has to do with interaction.
Ironically (and off-topic), this is one of the reasons Sony is suffering with the PS3 -- it uses standard memory cards if you want to transfer your games off-system (so you don't need to buy expensive Sony-branded flash memory). Almost every PS2 sold was sold with at least one memory card adding about $40 to the purchase price.
Personally its the ignorant racial epithets that get tossed around in games without a mute function (yes, I'm looking at you, Motorstorm!)
People who go voice chat just because they have already alienated all possibility at real life friends with their moronic banter are the bane of online gaming. I mute online voice-chat whenever possible, period.
I'm getting sick of arguments on Slashdot that rely on people not being able to read. Please read what I said, and figure out where I said the PS3 was a better deal than the Xbox. I didn't, so your counter-argument is to the wind since I never disagreed (or agreed), its not even relevant to my point. Please quit replying if you can't actually compose a relevant argument. Thank-you, and goodnight.
The five car garage analogy is excellent; is the house not worth the higher asking price since it includes the garage? Nobody's making you buy it, but since that feature is valuable to a subset of the population, the price is higher.
I've never claimed the PS3 is for everybody or that Wii users are idiots (as some people have), simply that calling the PS3 overpriced or that it needs a price drop is stupid. What it needs are more excellent games, and personally its already doing very well on that front. If you don't like the games it offers and don't want to use it as a media center or BD/DVD player, then don't buy one.
You said: "The potential customer defines the value of the PS3 based on what they can do with it" in response to my comment, "the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware." Please elaborate one how exactly your point means the PS3 isn't therefore valuable. I agreed with your point implicitly -- and customers get to do nearly everything they'd expect to be able to do with the hardware in question. Only possible exceptions I can think of: 3D accelerated Linux using the video card (although software-based 3D acceleration using the cell isn't off-limits) and things that are possibly illegal in the USA (DVD ripping, etc.).
I never said I was neutral at all, so get your head out of wherever you've stuck it.
I never claimed the PS3 was worth $600 based on features it doesn't have, but on features it does in fact have, and if you don't want to buy one, then don't. I refused to pay more than $150 for an N64 when that came out and waited until it was that cheap before buying one for example.
That said, Linux is still free on the PS3, I know, I'm running it. Having an HDTV makes all the difference in the world, as does a good receiver with DD/dts support and at least a 5 point speaker system.
Do you think a set of speakers is worth $10,000? A lot of people do it would seem, so they'll keep selling just fine without you. They'll target a specific market and do just fine at it.
PS, since games cost $70 each already, do you really think Sony wants cheap people as primary users? No, didn't think so. Get a clue -- the price will come down some day, but for early adopters, the price was actually lower than it should have been (and almost everyone agreed on that on day 1, including on Slashdot).
Yes and no -- there are people not willing to pay anything over say $100 for a pink diamond. They're still worth a lot more. Why? Because/enough/ people are willing to pay that much.
a) "nothing but play mp3s" is a stupid comparison, since the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware b) your final point is exactly what I said -- not wanting to spend the money doesn't mean its not worth the money
That's funny, but just stupid. The PS3 is and always has been worth well more than its price in the store for a lot of reasons that nobody should have to justify anymore.
That said, people aren't always willing to pay what something is worth, so discounting it to encourage sales is still a good idea. However, discounting would be like $50-$75... not $350, which would put it in price competition with the PS2.
In case you forgot, the PS2 is selling for around $100 brand new, with a ton of games and more coming too. Sony rakes in good profits from PS2 sales, so they're quite happy to have cheap people buy the PS2 and people willing to fork out some cash to buy the PS3. Psychologically though, a small price cut will encourage sales because people will be getting a 'better deal'.
I'm not sure what your problem is, but E-mail *should* be bounced or delivered once its accepted. If you don't want to bounce messages, don't accept them. The whole spam era has screwed up what E-mail is supposed to be about -- Dan believes reliable E-mail is more important than an empty Inbox. I happen to agree.
If you think I spend more than an hour a year administering qmail, you'd be wrong. Once configured, it just works. That's what I like about it. Enjoy Exim though.
That's it? That's your whole rant on why qmail is flawed? Don't you agree? Try using arguments, not stating facts to stand on their own -- as I've said elsewhere, "not everyone's brain is wired the same, explain your thoughts or forget others understanding them."
Your post shows a severe lack of knowledge of upscaling technology. The best upscaling is impossible to achieve at the display end, after the image has been decoded and transmitted in a static form. The best upscaling for, say, a DVD should be done in the midst of decoding. You can use next frame data for example to infer more resolution than is actually encoded in any one frame, you can do a much better job of detecting (and fixing) macroblocking problems as well.
Now sure, you can get really good upscalers that work between the video source and the TV. Expect to pay over $1000 for such a device. No, the $50 one built into your TV isn't the same deal, and probably can't handle funny cadences or different YUV settings. The PS3 upscaler isn't incredible either, but the I don't think I'd ever pay extra for a TV because of upscaling.
See any number of home theatre websites and DVD player comparison sites to see what features scaling hardware/software needs to really impress.
I'd love to see your actual reasoning for the statement, "Qmail by default, as DJB intended it, is terribly, terribly wrong." Without patching, Qmail is an excellent MTA. With patching, Qmail has more features (or works better on different platforms). Qmail may not be the end-all and be-all of MTAs, but it has never let me down in 8 years of running it on multiple servers.
Please actually give evidence or links to real legitimate arguments instead of posting flame bait.
Use encryption. PGP, IPSec, IPv6 for that matter. Please, for (insert random name here)'s sake, just use the technology your PC already provides. Sure, it won't stop the FBI knocking down your door, but encrypting every connection you can is better than doing everything in the clear.
Encrypt your E-mails, use secure storage options, etc. There is a lot of security available out there, its just that people are too lazy to use it.
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Uh, no offense, but the PS3 comes with wireless support out of the box as well as a controller and it uses the hard drive for saves. You don't need to buy anything else but games (or a second controller if you have friends). :-)
I've had a 60GB PS3 since March and it hasn't done anything stupid yet. The fan speeds up sometimes, slows down others, but is otherwise rock-solid. I did manage to have it get upset with me during a Blu-Ray movie I rented from Blockbuster but then kicked myself after ejecting the disc and realizing it was covered in smudges I should have cleaned off in the first place.
I have no moderator points -- so agreed. I'm also a parent, although only of one. My wife works primarily weekends and I work the traditional 9-5 mon-fri work week. We manage that way to have at least one of us home with our daughter most days instead of day care or babysitting and choose to do so actively.
To be fair, I know its hard to work out good work arrangements these days, as well as good fair prices for rent or home purchases in conjunction with raising a child, but its a lot more to do with priorities.
I've heard many stories from wealthy business people about being raised in poverty by parents who spent time with them teaching them to read and enjoy the library and learn everything they could and stay out of trouble and they're now very successful.
To those who think having children is a bad thing I ask you -- do you think the people who, in your opinion shouldn't be having children are listening? Or just the ones who'd actually make good parents? Someone's going to have children and they're going to be the future of your country and planet. If you want to help, have your own and raise them right.
And all of a sudden, good management becomes important. :-)
And are electrons really particles? lol
Sorry, I had to, *runs*
The fact that the hardware isn't changed is irrelevant -- microcode doesn't "live" in hardware traces so to speak, its a special form of software executed by the CPU at a very (extremely) low level.
Yes, modchips could be used for some legitimate, non-piracy purpose, like homebrew. But so far, I haven't seen it in real life.
For the record, I use my unmodded PS2 with a hard disk installed to run homebrew and backups of my own games (without having to take the discs out anymore). MyPS2 is pretty cool, there's a program that lets you listen to Internet radio with your PS2 while browsing photos over samba. It'll view movies over Samba shares or off the hard drive or USB stick as well. There's also a couple emulators like the one I have that lets you play old SNES ROMs -- I got to show my daughter what Super Mario 3 looked like.
Incorrect. Microcode on Intel processors can be updated live by software. This has been possible for ages. For information on how this can be done in Linux for example, see here.
Ironically as I understand it, the original shows were all filmed on good quality film in a widescreen aspect ratio for their eventual DVD/Laserdisc/HD/whatever release. The assumption was that by then, the special effects could be re-done at a higher quality with new technology to match the quality of the film. That of course never came to fruition, but it was a nice hope.
Update your status on Facebook uses something like this (and is a pain), as do form validation scripts and poorly designed websites. Of course, if you think every website users want to visit was well designed, you're sadly mistaken.
Actually the poster is correct -- there are issues, and it has nothing to do with Safari, it has to do with the UI assumptions made by Javascript programmers.
/is no cursor/. Sure, Safari can fake it for the sake of making automatic form submission work, but its still an issue.
For example, if you have a FORM that submits when the mouse "leaves" the drop down box, please explain how that event will be triggered since there
This has nothing to do with rendering, it has to do with interaction.
Ironically (and off-topic), this is one of the reasons Sony is suffering with the PS3 -- it uses standard memory cards if you want to transfer your games off-system (so you don't need to buy expensive Sony-branded flash memory). Almost every PS2 sold was sold with at least one memory card adding about $40 to the purchase price.
Personally its the ignorant racial epithets that get tossed around in games without a mute function (yes, I'm looking at you, Motorstorm!)
People who go voice chat just because they have already alienated all possibility at real life friends with their moronic banter are the bane of online gaming. I mute online voice-chat whenever possible, period.
I'm getting sick of arguments on Slashdot that rely on people not being able to read. Please read what I said, and figure out where I said the PS3 was a better deal than the Xbox. I didn't, so your counter-argument is to the wind since I never disagreed (or agreed), its not even relevant to my point. Please quit replying if you can't actually compose a relevant argument. Thank-you, and goodnight.
The five car garage analogy is excellent; is the house not worth the higher asking price since it includes the garage? Nobody's making you buy it, but since that feature is valuable to a subset of the population, the price is higher.
I've never claimed the PS3 is for everybody or that Wii users are idiots (as some people have), simply that calling the PS3 overpriced or that it needs a price drop is stupid. What it needs are more excellent games, and personally its already doing very well on that front. If you don't like the games it offers and don't want to use it as a media center or BD/DVD player, then don't buy one.
Since you asked further down, here's one:
You said: "The potential customer defines the value of the PS3 based on what they can do with it" in response to my comment, "the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware." Please elaborate one how exactly your point means the PS3 isn't therefore valuable. I agreed with your point implicitly -- and customers get to do nearly everything they'd expect to be able to do with the hardware in question. Only possible exceptions I can think of: 3D accelerated Linux using the video card (although software-based 3D acceleration using the cell isn't off-limits) and things that are possibly illegal in the USA (DVD ripping, etc.).
I never said I was neutral at all, so get your head out of wherever you've stuck it.
I never claimed the PS3 was worth $600 based on features it doesn't have, but on features it does in fact have, and if you don't want to buy one, then don't. I refused to pay more than $150 for an N64 when that came out and waited until it was that cheap before buying one for example.
That said, Linux is still free on the PS3, I know, I'm running it. Having an HDTV makes all the difference in the world, as does a good receiver with DD/dts support and at least a 5 point speaker system.
Do you think a set of speakers is worth $10,000? A lot of people do it would seem, so they'll keep selling just fine without you. They'll target a specific market and do just fine at it.
PS, since games cost $70 each already, do you really think Sony wants cheap people as primary users? No, didn't think so. Get a clue -- the price will come down some day, but for early adopters, the price was actually lower than it should have been (and almost everyone agreed on that on day 1, including on Slashdot).
Yes and no -- there are people not willing to pay anything over say $100 for a pink diamond. They're still worth a lot more. Why? Because /enough/ people are willing to pay that much.
a) "nothing but play mp3s" is a stupid comparison, since the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware
b) your final point is exactly what I said -- not wanting to spend the money doesn't mean its not worth the money
That's funny, but just stupid. The PS3 is and always has been worth well more than its price in the store for a lot of reasons that nobody should have to justify anymore.
... not $350, which would put it in price competition with the PS2.
That said, people aren't always willing to pay what something is worth, so discounting it to encourage sales is still a good idea. However, discounting would be like $50-$75
In case you forgot, the PS2 is selling for around $100 brand new, with a ton of games and more coming too. Sony rakes in good profits from PS2 sales, so they're quite happy to have cheap people buy the PS2 and people willing to fork out some cash to buy the PS3. Psychologically though, a small price cut will encourage sales because people will be getting a 'better deal'.
I'm not sure what your problem is, but E-mail *should* be bounced or delivered once its accepted. If you don't want to bounce messages, don't accept them. The whole spam era has screwed up what E-mail is supposed to be about -- Dan believes reliable E-mail is more important than an empty Inbox. I happen to agree.
If you think I spend more than an hour a year administering qmail, you'd be wrong. Once configured, it just works. That's what I like about it. Enjoy Exim though.
That's it? That's your whole rant on why qmail is flawed? Don't you agree? Try using arguments, not stating facts to stand on their own -- as I've said elsewhere, "not everyone's brain is wired the same, explain your thoughts or forget others understanding them."
Your post shows a severe lack of knowledge of upscaling technology. The best upscaling is impossible to achieve at the display end, after the image has been decoded and transmitted in a static form. The best upscaling for, say, a DVD should be done in the midst of decoding. You can use next frame data for example to infer more resolution than is actually encoded in any one frame, you can do a much better job of detecting (and fixing) macroblocking problems as well.
Now sure, you can get really good upscalers that work between the video source and the TV. Expect to pay over $1000 for such a device. No, the $50 one built into your TV isn't the same deal, and probably can't handle funny cadences or different YUV settings. The PS3 upscaler isn't incredible either, but the I don't think I'd ever pay extra for a TV because of upscaling.
See any number of home theatre websites and DVD player comparison sites to see what features scaling hardware/software needs to really impress.
I'd love to see your actual reasoning for the statement, "Qmail by default, as DJB intended it, is terribly, terribly wrong." Without patching, Qmail is an excellent MTA. With patching, Qmail has more features (or works better on different platforms). Qmail may not be the end-all and be-all of MTAs, but it has never let me down in 8 years of running it on multiple servers.
Please actually give evidence or links to real legitimate arguments instead of posting flame bait.
Use encryption. PGP, IPSec, IPv6 for that matter. Please, for (insert random name here)'s sake, just use the technology your PC already provides. Sure, it won't stop the FBI knocking down your door, but encrypting every connection you can is better than doing everything in the clear.
Encrypt your E-mails, use secure storage options, etc. There is a lot of security available out there, its just that people are too lazy to use it.