The only reason you'd have this update is if you voluntarily installed it via their software update. And the only thing not installing it stops you from doing is running Sony's services which don't belong to you at all.
You can use your device all you like, and play the games you have and listen to music and watch videos and the like, all without updating your firmware. You won't be able to connect to Sony's PSN (which you don't own) or Sony's store (which you don't own) but that fits your argument.
I'm with you. I buy a proprietary gaming device, I expect it to be a gaming device and I expect it to be well protected. The difficulty in hacking the PS3 is the major reason I use one for online gaming. I don't play PC games online because the rampant cheating is not fun. I have all the respect in the world for people who want to play with a device and hack it to death, but I don't want that device being recognized as legitimate by the network.
Not to mention, we already know Amazon does this with Kindles and Google does it with Android, why would we be shocked if a game company did it with their game console?
You must be new here. People complain that Sony is proprietary (even though any old USB device works with my PS3 and I can even plug in standard logitech keyboards to type or Epson printers to print my photos), but don't complain about the 360's locked down ports or Nintendo's lack of anything standard.
They whine because they're anti-Sony, not because they have a good reason. We call it hating.
Geohot didn't get sued for hacking the system. He got sued for publishing the hack.
I'm a big believer in rooting my phones, but I understand how game systems work... the hardware is a loss leader for the company, and unless you want future game systems to cost as much as high powered PCs, you should be against rooting them too.
The frustrating package difference for me is from $42/mo to $77/mo for almost no speed increase but an extra 65GB/mo. Interestingly, the over-use charges for the $42/mo service is capped at $30 (making it $72/mo if you download hundreds of gigs a month).
I have no problem with this so long as its clearly marked as it is now. What I do have a problem with is that some of these limits are insanely low for today's usage. Downloading Qore each month on the Playstation 3 takes a gig or two. Downloading game demos takes another 1.5GB each on average. And that's not including my PC usage, video streaming, or actual online play.
Give me one shred of evidence showing the first cause of where the design of cells came from? Oh wait, you don't like that term, "design", I forgot. Where did they come from? The fact is you don't have a clue. No one does.
Its worse than that. Evolution proponents believe a bunch of things that make belief in a deity sound much more plausible. Things like genetic memories and intelligent adaptation. I have no problem with "certain species adapt to their surroundings"... I'm still waiting to see the evidence of "chemical sludge became intelligent life."
They have proved that bird DNA contains genes that create dinosaur characteristics. The only way this can happen is through the evolutionary process.
That's almost akin to saying that Trees evolved from Diamonds because they both contain carbon.
Its quite possible (and likely) that very few possibilities exist for life in the universe, that DNA is a necessary feature of it, and that the genes involved are pervasive to all life because they're necessary, not because they're derived from each other.
That is to say, all computers can compare values because it is necessary for computation, not because they're based off each other (even though they are). A functional computer developed completely independently by some child in [remote part of world] would be able to compare values.
If you're going to argue something, at least take a formal logic course first.
Why is it always evolution? Seriously. Why do you care whether people understand biological evolution?
Of all the things I could wish were taught better in class, the top of my list would be math, communication, history and physics. Evolution's niche of biology affects me almost oh lets see, never. Physics, math, communication and history on the other hand all actually have major effects on society at large.
PS Communication includes reading, writing, logic, spelling and grammar. Math includes financial basics like loans and compound interest as well as other basics.
These are where we are failing our children, IMHO, not evolution of all things.
its effect on me is irrelevant. One of the things that annoys me most about amateur reporting on cosmological data is the lack of understanding of time.
One of the most interesting things you can explain to someone who doesn't understand cosmological scale is that the further away a light source is, the further back in time you're looking. Ignoring this fact and playing make-believe with your data because its convenient eventually causes errors in assumptions on a larger scale.
I said large organization on purpose. Its in my argument. Your point is moot because at a small office, the hassle of changing software is the same whether using Office or OpenOffice. My point was directed only to large organizations who actually find the long-term stability of a platform to be an issue.
Actually, I was under the impression that changes in gravity could possibly be instantaneous, being an effect of matter on the fabric of the universe rather than a moving signal system.
We have no easy way of testing this of course, but lets say a star-sized object were to suddenly appear a light-year away (say, through a wormhole to be difficult). Would its gravity well not exist here for a full year? Would our orbit not be thrown off immediately due to the changes in gravitation?
Of course, we understand so little about how gravity works that its almost a useless question still, but I'd put my bets on instantaneous gravity shift.
Exactly -- if its 600 light-years away, even if it blew up in my lifetime, I wouldn't see it. My great great grandchildren wouldn't see it.
To those anonymous cowards who gave you a hard time: shut up. Not everyone realizes this, including the submitter who seems to expect to get to see it if it goes supernova in our lifetime.
What does this have to do with stability of the platform? The software is free and open. It would be cheaper to pay for programmers to help you maintain the source code yourself than to pay Microsoft for licensing of MS Office for any large organization. As such, LibreOffice is likely to do just fine, and OpenOffice may as well.
Both support the same formats. Its like worrying that Ford would go out of business when GM opened its doors. Who cares? You'll have a car either way.
What is more puzzling is what the existence of two camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type says about the whole state of open source development at this time. It clearly isn't the idealistic world it tries to present itself as.
Actually, this action shows off the abilities of open source very well. When a company takes a piece of software and changes it in ways you don't like, you can just do what you want with it anyway. You don't have to scream "omg, this new toolstrip crap sucks", you can just change it yourself, or more likely use the version changed by someone else of the same bent.
The very beauty of free or open source software is that changes can be made by anyone. This is about choice, and freedom not marketing. Marketers love top-down managed simple and stable brands but the populous is better served by openness and choice. Where would we be today if Windows' code base had always been open and Universities and government groups could actually compile and test changes to the source code they're allowed access to? We might have a much better and very different world-dominant operating system. Downside? Microsoft not being as rich.
Basically, what's the problem with the LibreOffice fork? There are hundreds of developers working on it, and that's their right... you can too if you want, or feel free to fork it again and call it mikejukoffice for fun.
I always think of Steve Jobs as the ultimate PR + Marketing guy. He sees a product, thinks of ways to perfect and sell it for the most profit, and then gets his drones working until he's happy with their results.
One of the few things I actually respect about Steve Jobs is that he's involved in product development at his company. Too few corporate leaders are as involved as personally in their product lines.
So long as the Matrix 4 denies the Matrix 3 happened, I'm good.
I'm with you on what my assumptions were for the third movie as well. It even made a lot of sense within the context of the other things said in the second and first movies.
I wouldn't even mind if it turns out at the end of 2, Neo was captured and Matrix 3 was the reality the Matrix had made for him and 4 is him really escaping and realizing this.
Exactly, I'm all pro-OSS but I get annoyed when people think binary blobs are the big evil of the world. NVidia's drivers work remarkably well, and have much better performance for me than any of the others. I purposely bought an NVidia card for my Linux box because their drivers don't suck.
Hopefully everyone else works this hard on stability at some point in the future.
I have a great Yellowpages app on my Android phone that lets me type in partial names and hit phone numbers based on locality to where I'm standing. Its excellent for finding phone numbers while travelling.
Sure, it doesn't list cell phone numbers, but I've always thought that rule was silly. Many people I know don't even have landlines any more. At any rate, no, Facebook isn't new and special in its privacy violating. Yawn.
Lake Huron is one of the largest bodies of fresh water on the planet. Its a very useful measuring tool for water levels actually, and denying that is just ignorance.
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The only reason you'd have this update is if you voluntarily installed it via their software update. And the only thing not installing it stops you from doing is running Sony's services which don't belong to you at all.
You can use your device all you like, and play the games you have and listen to music and watch videos and the like, all without updating your firmware. You won't be able to connect to Sony's PSN (which you don't own) or Sony's store (which you don't own) but that fits your argument.
I'm with you. I buy a proprietary gaming device, I expect it to be a gaming device and I expect it to be well protected. The difficulty in hacking the PS3 is the major reason I use one for online gaming. I don't play PC games online because the rampant cheating is not fun. I have all the respect in the world for people who want to play with a device and hack it to death, but I don't want that device being recognized as legitimate by the network.
That wasn't the point at all actually. The point was that one is internally consistent with their goals and the other is not.
Not to mention, we already know Amazon does this with Kindles and Google does it with Android, why would we be shocked if a game company did it with their game console?
You must be new here. People complain that Sony is proprietary (even though any old USB device works with my PS3 and I can even plug in standard logitech keyboards to type or Epson printers to print my photos), but don't complain about the 360's locked down ports or Nintendo's lack of anything standard.
They whine because they're anti-Sony, not because they have a good reason. We call it hating.
Geohot didn't get sued for hacking the system. He got sued for publishing the hack.
I'm a big believer in rooting my phones, but I understand how game systems work ... the hardware is a loss leader for the company, and unless you want future game systems to cost as much as high powered PCs, you should be against rooting them too.
Why? Was Nintendo wrong to use proprietary cartridge formats for their game platforms up to the N64?
I see no problem with this. In all likelihood one of the slots will be Memory Stick and the other will be Memory Stick with a funny shape.
Cogeco's website has now clearly marked the bandwidth limits for each broadband speed here in my part of Canada.
Sadly, here's the list (from their site):
$25 - 3Mbps - 10GB/mo
$32 - 7Mbps - 30GB/mo
$42 - 14Mbps - 60GB/mo
$77 - 16Mbps - 125GB/mo
$60 - 30Mbps - 125GB/mo (limited availability)
$100 - 50Mbps - 150GB/mo (limited availability)
The frustrating package difference for me is from $42/mo to $77/mo for almost no speed increase but an extra 65GB/mo. Interestingly, the over-use charges for the $42/mo service is capped at $30 (making it $72/mo if you download hundreds of gigs a month).
I have no problem with this so long as its clearly marked as it is now. What I do have a problem with is that some of these limits are insanely low for today's usage. Downloading Qore each month on the Playstation 3 takes a gig or two. Downloading game demos takes another 1.5GB each on average. And that's not including my PC usage, video streaming, or actual online play.
Its worse than that. Evolution proponents believe a bunch of things that make belief in a deity sound much more plausible. Things like genetic memories and intelligent adaptation. I have no problem with "certain species adapt to their surroundings" ... I'm still waiting to see the evidence of "chemical sludge became intelligent life."
That's almost akin to saying that Trees evolved from Diamonds because they both contain carbon.
Its quite possible (and likely) that very few possibilities exist for life in the universe, that DNA is a necessary feature of it, and that the genes involved are pervasive to all life because they're necessary, not because they're derived from each other.
That is to say, all computers can compare values because it is necessary for computation, not because they're based off each other (even though they are). A functional computer developed completely independently by some child in [remote part of world] would be able to compare values.
If you're going to argue something, at least take a formal logic course first.
Why is it always evolution? Seriously. Why do you care whether people understand biological evolution?
Of all the things I could wish were taught better in class, the top of my list would be math, communication, history and physics. Evolution's niche of biology affects me almost oh lets see, never. Physics, math, communication and history on the other hand all actually have major effects on society at large.
PS Communication includes reading, writing, logic, spelling and grammar. Math includes financial basics like loans and compound interest as well as other basics.
These are where we are failing our children, IMHO, not evolution of all things.
its effect on me is irrelevant. One of the things that annoys me most about amateur reporting on cosmological data is the lack of understanding of time.
One of the most interesting things you can explain to someone who doesn't understand cosmological scale is that the further away a light source is, the further back in time you're looking. Ignoring this fact and playing make-believe with your data because its convenient eventually causes errors in assumptions on a larger scale.
I said large organization on purpose. Its in my argument. Your point is moot because at a small office, the hassle of changing software is the same whether using Office or OpenOffice. My point was directed only to large organizations who actually find the long-term stability of a platform to be an issue.
Actually, I was under the impression that changes in gravity could possibly be instantaneous, being an effect of matter on the fabric of the universe rather than a moving signal system.
We have no easy way of testing this of course, but lets say a star-sized object were to suddenly appear a light-year away (say, through a wormhole to be difficult). Would its gravity well not exist here for a full year? Would our orbit not be thrown off immediately due to the changes in gravitation?
Of course, we understand so little about how gravity works that its almost a useless question still, but I'd put my bets on instantaneous gravity shift.
Tell that to the person who witnesses a rifle bullet hitting a tree, shot from a mile away.
I can tell you for certain the trigger was not pulled at the instant the person witnessed the bullet hit the tree.
The same is true on a cosmic scale.
Exactly -- if its 600 light-years away, even if it blew up in my lifetime, I wouldn't see it. My great great grandchildren wouldn't see it.
To those anonymous cowards who gave you a hard time: shut up. Not everyone realizes this, including the submitter who seems to expect to get to see it if it goes supernova in our lifetime.
What does this have to do with stability of the platform? The software is free and open. It would be cheaper to pay for programmers to help you maintain the source code yourself than to pay Microsoft for licensing of MS Office for any large organization. As such, LibreOffice is likely to do just fine, and OpenOffice may as well.
Both support the same formats. Its like worrying that Ford would go out of business when GM opened its doors. Who cares? You'll have a car either way.
Actually, this action shows off the abilities of open source very well. When a company takes a piece of software and changes it in ways you don't like, you can just do what you want with it anyway. You don't have to scream "omg, this new toolstrip crap sucks", you can just change it yourself, or more likely use the version changed by someone else of the same bent.
The very beauty of free or open source software is that changes can be made by anyone. This is about choice, and freedom not marketing. Marketers love top-down managed simple and stable brands but the populous is better served by openness and choice. Where would we be today if Windows' code base had always been open and Universities and government groups could actually compile and test changes to the source code they're allowed access to? We might have a much better and very different world-dominant operating system. Downside? Microsoft not being as rich.
Basically, what's the problem with the LibreOffice fork? There are hundreds of developers working on it, and that's their right ... you can too if you want, or feel free to fork it again and call it mikejukoffice for fun.
Very slightly more ... considering the supposed bonding of a neutron.
I always think of Steve Jobs as the ultimate PR + Marketing guy. He sees a product, thinks of ways to perfect and sell it for the most profit, and then gets his drones working until he's happy with their results.
One of the few things I actually respect about Steve Jobs is that he's involved in product development at his company. Too few corporate leaders are as involved as personally in their product lines.
Its too bad Nickel is more valuable than Copper by weight, as they're losing money on the actual materials value through the process of fusion.
So long as the Matrix 4 denies the Matrix 3 happened, I'm good.
I'm with you on what my assumptions were for the third movie as well. It even made a lot of sense within the context of the other things said in the second and first movies.
I wouldn't even mind if it turns out at the end of 2, Neo was captured and Matrix 3 was the reality the Matrix had made for him and 4 is him really escaping and realizing this.
Exactly, I'm all pro-OSS but I get annoyed when people think binary blobs are the big evil of the world. NVidia's drivers work remarkably well, and have much better performance for me than any of the others. I purposely bought an NVidia card for my Linux box because their drivers don't suck.
Hopefully everyone else works this hard on stability at some point in the future.
I have a great Yellowpages app on my Android phone that lets me type in partial names and hit phone numbers based on locality to where I'm standing. Its excellent for finding phone numbers while travelling.
Sure, it doesn't list cell phone numbers, but I've always thought that rule was silly. Many people I know don't even have landlines any more. At any rate, no, Facebook isn't new and special in its privacy violating. Yawn.
Lake Huron is one of the largest bodies of fresh water on the planet. Its a very useful measuring tool for water levels actually, and denying that is just ignorance.