Here in Ontario, there will be campers. 29 available at the local Walmart, EB-games will have "some" for walk-ins. Other stores have either just enough to cover pre-orders, or one or two.
I will probably be camping out at walmart, and hoping they hand out vouchers early enough that I can go get some sleep for a few hours before the store opens.
The real deal on this is not compared to a XBOX360 or a Wii, its when compared to a blu-ray player.
The PS3 is $400 less than a blu-ray player, and its also a next-gen game player. I can see a lot of people who want to get a blu-ray player going for the PS3 instead, and then you have $400 to spend on games or movies.
I'm pretty sure that it described a number of ways of doing 3d-graphics, and I'm pretty sure it included software methods that match what their patent for a graphics terminal claims as a wonderful new idea.
While reacting in-game to the role-playing of others is fine, I would suspect a large number of the women would be more upset with paying for access to the game being shut out of getting some powerfull items.
I know that if I was paying a subscription for a game and found myself restricted from getting powerups just because I'm a guy with a beard who reads slashdot, I would get angry.
There's not much point in playing a game where a class of goodies, powerups etc. are unavailable because you picked the wrong class.
I wonder how many guys would be upset if a female trader went around selling goodies only to women?:)
I can see this being more of a problem on a "locked down" public terminal. Our local library allows you to use a restricted browser (no new windows, no downloads of software, no access to drive) so users (other than slashdot readers;) ) would expect it to be reasonably secure.
Adding googlebar suddenly gives a search capability that wasnt there before, without some probably significant effort, while people may be watching.
IE's habit "deleting" cache but keeping it all in hidden files is just as big a part of the problem,
but that's no surprise.
You can have all the idiots, drunks and junkheaps flying over your house then. I've seen enough idiots hit things/drive junkers that I wouldn't trust anyone to fly around town.
And what happens when winter comes? I dont want someone putting their car through my house because they couldn't see
its not too many, its no "good enough" problem
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I read the article, which is about how people who will keep looking for something beyond the "good enough it works for me" stage are less happy with life in general not just linux.
One lesson to be learned for linux desktop is that lots of people are happy with the "good enough" but linux isnt quite there yet, IMHO.
I tried to switch my home system to mandrake 9.0 a while agin, and the "good enough" wasnt quite there yet. Yes, openoffice works, but cut/paste between that and the web browser didnt work.
Reading files from my digital camera with usb took too much fiddling. The biggest PITA was that every single "top" cd burining software could not deal with the simple task of appending to a multi-session cd without lots of playing with switches etc.
I read the manuals, checked the web, worked with parameters etc, and did get it working eventually.
I still wound up giving it up, because getting it to do what I wanted was too hard - too much fiddling, where windows would just work.
Its not the better/more features that is keeping linux off my desktop - I use it at work, and put cygwin on my pc because I cant live without ls and bash. I am comfortable with command-lines, but that doesnt mean I dont want the software to get the job done quick and easy like windows.
Some people might want to buy a dvd player that lets you assemble and configure your own interfaces, but life is so much simpler if you can just open the box plug it in and watch the movie.
Over 90% of blocked activity at my firewall is probes from kazaa, gnutella etc looking for the last computer with that IP, who was filesharing.
Last thing I want is to get hassled for running software I dont have installed because I got some other guy's IP.
(the other 10% was mostly nimda and code red - yay microsuck)
I've been trying to remember exactly where I've seen this before, I think it was on the TV show "What will they think of next" back inthe 70's or 80's.
There were two U.S. inventors (father and son) who had a prototype that did this. The show had a brief clip of one of them blindfolding himself, and driving straight toward the other person. The car came to a complete stop about 2 feet away.
Does anyone else remember anything about this?
I've heard of at least one university in canada that stopped doing this for high-school kids, after a bubble of nitrogen encapsulated itself in the icecream. Something about the quick trip to the hospital and emergency surgery to deal with frozen intestinal tracts made them reconsider the practice.
Enjoy your icecream:)
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Here in Ontario, there will be campers.
29 available at the local Walmart, EB-games will have "some" for walk-ins.
Other stores have either just enough to cover pre-orders, or one or two.
I will probably be camping out at walmart, and hoping they hand out vouchers early enough that I can go get some sleep for a few hours before the store opens.
The real deal on this is not compared to a XBOX360 or a Wii, its when compared to a blu-ray player. The PS3 is $400 less than a blu-ray player, and its also a next-gen game player. I can see a lot of people who want to get a blu-ray player going for the PS3 instead, and then you have $400 to spend on games or movies.
I'm pretty sure that it described a number of ways of doing 3d-graphics, and I'm pretty sure it included software methods that match what their patent for a graphics terminal claims as a wonderful new idea.
I know that if I was paying a subscription for a game and found myself restricted from getting powerups just because I'm a guy with a beard who reads slashdot, I would get angry.
There's not much point in playing a game where a class of goodies, powerups etc. are unavailable because you picked the wrong class.
I wonder how many guys would be upset if a female trader went around selling goodies only to women? :)
I can see this being more of a problem on a "locked down" public terminal. Our local library allows you to use a restricted browser (no new windows, no downloads of software, no access to drive) so users (other than slashdot readers ;) ) would expect it to be reasonably secure.
Adding googlebar suddenly gives a search capability that wasnt there before, without some probably significant effort, while people may be watching.
IE's habit "deleting" cache but keeping it all in hidden files is just as big a part of the problem,
but that's no surprise.
You can have all the idiots, drunks and junkheaps flying over your house then. I've seen enough idiots hit things/drive junkers that I wouldn't trust anyone to fly around town. And what happens when winter comes? I dont want someone putting their car through my house because they couldn't see
I read the article, which is about how people who will keep looking for something beyond the "good enough it works for me" stage are less happy with life in general not just linux. One lesson to be learned for linux desktop is that lots of people are happy with the "good enough" but linux isnt quite there yet, IMHO. I tried to switch my home system to mandrake 9.0 a while agin, and the "good enough" wasnt quite there yet. Yes, openoffice works, but cut/paste between that and the web browser didnt work. Reading files from my digital camera with usb took too much fiddling. The biggest PITA was that every single "top" cd burining software could not deal with the simple task of appending to a multi-session cd without lots of playing with switches etc. I read the manuals, checked the web, worked with parameters etc, and did get it working eventually. I still wound up giving it up, because getting it to do what I wanted was too hard - too much fiddling, where windows would just work. Its not the better/more features that is keeping linux off my desktop - I use it at work, and put cygwin on my pc because I cant live without ls and bash. I am comfortable with command-lines, but that doesnt mean I dont want the software to get the job done quick and easy like windows. Some people might want to buy a dvd player that lets you assemble and configure your own interfaces, but life is so much simpler if you can just open the box plug it in and watch the movie.
Over 90% of blocked activity at my firewall is probes from kazaa, gnutella etc looking for the last computer with that IP, who was filesharing. Last thing I want is to get hassled for running software I dont have installed because I got some other guy's IP. (the other 10% was mostly nimda and code red - yay microsuck)
I've been trying to remember exactly where I've seen this before, I think it was on the TV show "What will they think of next" back inthe 70's or 80's. There were two U.S. inventors (father and son) who had a prototype that did this. The show had a brief clip of one of them blindfolding himself, and driving straight toward the other person. The car came to a complete stop about 2 feet away. Does anyone else remember anything about this?
I've heard of at least one university in canada that stopped doing this for high-school kids, after a bubble of nitrogen encapsulated itself in the icecream. Something about the quick trip to the hospital and emergency surgery to deal with frozen intestinal tracts made them reconsider the practice. Enjoy your icecream :)