No, it isn't. You have no clue how businesses are founded in that part of the world. If you look around the region you'll find about 10 names that are used in company names. You know most of them. Sony, Honda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Matshushita (pardon me if I spelled any of this wrong:/)
Honda lawn mowers have no relation to honda cars, nor do the motorcycles. Suzuki boat engines are in no way related to the car manufacture. Matshushita makes electric motors for various things and cdroms and heavy industry equipment (I think some of the others do as well).
What happens is one guy starts a company, then a family memeber (generally) at the company wants to start his own business, so the existing one helps them get started, but then they go off on their own. Your son doesn't inherit the business you started, but your business helps him start his own that share a common portion of the name and probably some friendly trade agreements and things that you'd expect from family, but otherwise they are two entirely different companies.
Do you ever bother reading the popups that happen before the updates? No? Let me help you out... you have to agree to accept the features before they get installed.
You can notify who ever the fuck you want and you'll get laughed at for being an idiot. A lawyer might be nice enough to say 'uhm, you agreed to the contract dumbass' but pretty much everyone is going to laugh at you.
But go ahead... keep talking like you're Billy Badass... we're sure Sony is scared of you.
What? Works fine for me, too good actually, I regularly find myself deleting crap that I really didn't want, I'm just too lazy to go figure out where to turn it back off...
You can't think of any older consoles that lost features with software updates BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET SOFTWARE UPDATES.
You don't have to accept the upgrade to the firmware.
The upgrade isn't just 'bugfixes' its new features as well. You are getting a different set of features, as has happened in every firmware patch they've done.
If sony's firmware patches were like those for your car, you'd never upgrade as any firmware bugs are going to be worked around in the games anyway (so they can deal with non-updated consoles safely).
This comparison is more like buying a car with a CD Changer and the then hearing that if you want to get HD radio for free they can do it with a simple firmware upgrade, but doing so disables the CD changer. There is no requirement to upgrade.
You can upgrade and get different features (some new, some removed) or you can not upgrade and have exactly what you purchased.
The only one changing the rules is you, by installing the update.
Yes, and once those 20 people have their pre-3.21 PS3s... Sony will never notice the difference.
Its not really high value if the number of people that want it are statically irrelevant. Its only high value if its rare, and by the time its rare, the nerds will have moved on.
Yea, just like the other company recently that I can't remember that blocked 4chan is hurting... Verizon was it?
Its cute that you think 4chan is anything more than a bunch of fuckups, but no one is 'scared' of them.
Let them attack a big company... go ahead, watch the result, and while you're sitting there thinking theres some magic invincibility potion thats going to protect them, I'll watch them end up just like everyone else that pulls this shit.
They'll just get more and more arrogant until they piss off someone who decides that they've had enough.
And a matter of time before its patched... if you want to continue using the hack you're not going to be able to update your firmware as they'll certainly fix it each time around...
Whats the end result ? Same as now, if you want to use Linux just don't upgrade. Its not rocket science really, its just common sense.
It will certainly make hacking at it more difficult so they accomplish what they want, less hassle with hackers and less work maintaining the OtherOS option.
The only boneheads are the idiots who think taking the OtherOS option out is going to affect more than a handful of people.
Still if you bought something that advertised $FEATURE its not at all unreasonable to expect to be able to use it for that, and its a little unfair for the vendor to come along after and say "well no you can't do that anymore.
Except that is not anything like whats happening.
You can continue to use your PS3 just like it is until it breaks.
If you want the updated firmware and features however... you're going to have to take what they give you.
Its really not rocket science and the argument here is retarded...
"SONY IS EVIL BECAUSE IF I TAKE THIS FREE SOFTWARE UPDATE MY PS3 IS GOING TO WORK DIFFERENTLY!"
No shit sherlock, thats what updates do. Sometimes they add features you want, some times they add features you don't care about and bugs you don't want, sometimes they remove features.
Either way, out of all of this, if you simply say 'I don't want the update' all you do is 'not get so me free stuff that wasn't part of the original purchase anyway'.
They aren't taking anything away from you that you purchased unless you willingly make a change to your system.
Stop crying that the world won't give you everything for free, fucking pussies.
When Apache 'powered the web' to start with, it did it on Solaris, which at the time pretty much powered the Internet just like Cisco.
A lots changed since then, but that doesn't change the way it was back then.
The only thing Linux geeks have made popular is Linux too themselves. In case you haven't noticed there are a lot of people here who really could give a flying fuck about Linux, even though this sit is primarily for Linux fanboys.
Not really, because when it breaks in the next release, or its already broken and they turned it off because it wouldn't work anyway... then you effectively have the exact same thing.
My guess would be that they simply didn't bother fixing whatever broke this time and decided to just stop supporting those 8 people who installed Linux on their PS3.
That leaves ZFS, which Sun took special measures to keep out of Linux.
Really... Sun took special measures... to keep it out of Linux... but to let it into every other OS everywhere...
No, the retarded bullshit built into GPL prevent Linux from doing a lot of things. The only thing that prevents ZFS from being mainlined into Linux itself is Linux.
Way to try and shift blame but no one believes that fanboy crap.
OpenSolaris was dead years ago, its a pile of buggy crap.
I used to love Solaris... about 8-10 years ago, then I was out of the admin world for a while, decided to play with OpenSolaris and realized that the only hardware you'd want to run it on is Sun hardware... which is going to have a license for the proper version and not the OSS crap.
I really wish people would realize that OSS is not the end all be all solution to everything.
No, people USED to go there just for the name. 10 years ago. Before everyone who went there found out that it wasn't what they wanted.
There are lots of one word domain names that would have been awesome had they not been ruined, but now they have.
Let me go over the short list on the top of my head of ruined names that no one gives a shit about anymore, including the owners of them: ask.com search.com news.com buy.com toys.com
Most of those are still someone useable, but their actual value is trivial because they've been tainted by years of bad branding, bad service, major business failures and all the other things that happened when a bunch of idiots snapped up names trying to ride the wave.
The end result is that domains like these get sold over and over, for less money each time until someone with an actual business buys them rather than some startup without a chance in hell of lasting.
I'd wager he's have a hard time selling it for more than 50-100k USD.
If he gets lucky someone like the owners of the trojan brand or another condom maker or possibly another adult toy manufacture will take it, but I wouldn't bet on it.
The day of overpriced domain names is over. The good names are known, the ones that could have been good but were fucked up by douchebags squatting on them are long gone as they've already been ruined, people know to go elsewhere.
When you can go to Google, search for 'free porn' and get back www.pornhub.com as the first link, sex.com doesn't have a chance nor does it have any value, people looking for things it might have know its worthless to them and go elsewhere.
It'd take years to rebuild the brand with that domain.
Its value is nil, which is exactly why his business has failed. He ruined the name.
People that email you don't get added to your contact list unless you reply to them, never have. I know this because I just logged into an account I setup specifically to get spam from all sorts of random companies when I buy something and the only people in the contact list are the ones I've replied to.
I got the notice about Google Buzz on day one, had already heard about it from employees anyway. Next time I logged into my gmail account it asked me if I wanted to try it out. I said no. It hasn't done anything with me since. Anyone who has 'leaked' information didn't fucking say no. They opted in and were too stupid to read the message they clicked yes to. But you're right, it was Googles fault when clearly a minority of people had this 'problem', so few in fact that its actually lower than I expected for something as trivial as idiots not reading the message.
The only thing Google did wrong was tried to be nice to everyone.
What an awesome friend, I'd be so excited to have a friend who was ashamed of me. I'm sure I'd listen to his advice since it clearly has less to do with my well being and more to do with his stigma against drugs.
Its likely that your friends realize how selfish and transparent you are and don't really give a shit what you think of their habits. Many people are comfortable with their place in lives, even if you aren't.
If you're afraid of people knowing who you associate with then you have a serious problem that has nothing to do with the rest of the world and entirely todo with your own self loathing. Get help, sooner rather than later, you'll have far more friends who like you more when you let them live and stop pushing your agenda on them. If you didn't sound like a D.A.R.E. commercial, meaning ignorant and flat out laying, they might listen better. I'd wager to guess when you start telling them, in Mr Makey's voice that drugs are bad their eyes glass over just laugh inside at your ignorance.
... no, moron, everyone here is logical. Everyone (barring yourself) here is pretty much aware of the fact that a 9 year old doesn't belong unsupervised on the Internet, ANYWHERE any more than they should be taken into a stripclub and given lap dances.
Its that most say 'wtf is a 9 year old girl doing with free run of a gmail account?'
I'd feel no different about MS, though most of slashdot's crowd would attack them for it, could be any web site, doesn't fucking matter who did it, the parents are fucking morons who need to have their children taken away.
The parents are idiots, and I'd wager you are too for ignoring the actual problem and trying to blame it on someone else.
I wasn't brainwashed into thinking Google was 'cool'. My parents brainwashed me into thinking, without having someone else tell me how to think. Sadly, yours failed apparently.
Anyone who makes this statement is a fucking moron. I stress the fucking part.
Facebook is for voyeurs. You don't post shit to facebook unless you want people to see it. Every single facebook user wants the attention and likes to be looked at.
If you think at any point anything you do on Facebook, or the Internet as a whole is private, you don't need to be using the Internet. You are too stupid to qualify to use it. Turn off your computer until you realize that sharing information on a public website on a public network means ITS NOT FUCKING PRIVATE AND NEVER WILL BE.
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Use an iPhone for a month, then try to use a Nexus One for a month, you'll hardly end up calling it a win.
A blog is an online diary of a single attention whoring person.
Slashdot is a news aggregator and discussion system.
You could call it a 'forum' if you wanted, but its not a blog.
Yes, because pirates spend 10K or so on an SDK PS3 to rip games ...
Are you fucking retarded?
They do call themselves something other than 'Sony'.
Please find the registered company named 'Sony'.
I doubt you will, there probably isn't one.
Theres a Sony Entertainment.
Theres a Sony Electronics.
Theres a lot of 'Sony XXXX' as is customary in that part of the world.
The common thing they share is that they were all started by the men of the same bloodline.
Their culture is different than yours, perhaps knowing a little more about it would prove useful in your future ramblings about it.
No, it isn't. You have no clue how businesses are founded in that part of the world. If you look around the region you'll find about 10 names that are used in company names. You know most of them. Sony, Honda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Matshushita (pardon me if I spelled any of this wrong :/)
Honda lawn mowers have no relation to honda cars, nor do the motorcycles. Suzuki boat engines are in no way related to the car manufacture. Matshushita makes electric motors for various things and cdroms and heavy industry equipment (I think some of the others do as well).
What happens is one guy starts a company, then a family memeber (generally) at the company wants to start his own business, so the existing one helps them get started, but then they go off on their own. Your son doesn't inherit the business you started, but your business helps him start his own that share a common portion of the name and probably some friendly trade agreements and things that you'd expect from family, but otherwise they are two entirely different companies.
Do you ever bother reading the popups that happen before the updates? No? Let me help you out ... you have to agree to accept the features before they get installed.
You can notify who ever the fuck you want and you'll get laughed at for being an idiot. A lawyer might be nice enough to say 'uhm, you agreed to the contract dumbass' but pretty much everyone is going to laugh at you.
But go ahead ... keep talking like you're Billy Badass ... we're sure Sony is scared of you.
So basically you want to be able to pick and choose what happens with a bios update ... and thats been something thats been an option since when?
What? Works fine for me, too good actually, I regularly find myself deleting crap that I really didn't want, I'm just too lazy to go figure out where to turn it back off ...
You can't think of any older consoles that lost features with software updates BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET SOFTWARE UPDATES.
They didn't get new features either, dumbass.
You don't have to accept the upgrade to the firmware.
The upgrade isn't just 'bugfixes' its new features as well. You are getting a different set of features, as has happened in every firmware patch they've done.
If sony's firmware patches were like those for your car, you'd never upgrade as any firmware bugs are going to be worked around in the games anyway (so they can deal with non-updated consoles safely).
This comparison is more like buying a car with a CD Changer and the then hearing that if you want to get HD radio for free they can do it with a simple firmware upgrade, but doing so disables the CD changer. There is no requirement to upgrade.
You can upgrade and get different features (some new, some removed) or you can not upgrade and have exactly what you purchased.
The only one changing the rules is you, by installing the update.
Yes, and once those 20 people have their pre-3.21 PS3s ... Sony will never notice the difference.
Its not really high value if the number of people that want it are statically irrelevant. Its only high value if its rare, and by the time its rare, the nerds will have moved on.
Yea, just like the other company recently that I can't remember that blocked 4chan is hurting ... Verizon was it?
Its cute that you think 4chan is anything more than a bunch of fuckups, but no one is 'scared' of them.
Let them attack a big company ... go ahead, watch the result, and while you're sitting there thinking theres some magic invincibility potion thats going to protect them, I'll watch them end up just like everyone else that pulls this shit.
They'll just get more and more arrogant until they piss off someone who decides that they've had enough.
And a matter of time before its patched ... if you want to continue using the hack you're not going to be able to update your firmware as they'll certainly fix it each time around ...
Whats the end result ? Same as now, if you want to use Linux just don't upgrade. Its not rocket science really, its just common sense.
It will certainly make hacking at it more difficult so they accomplish what they want, less hassle with hackers and less work maintaining the OtherOS option.
The only boneheads are the idiots who think taking the OtherOS option out is going to affect more than a handful of people.
Except that is not anything like whats happening.
You can continue to use your PS3 just like it is until it breaks.
If you want the updated firmware and features however ... you're going to have to take what they give you.
Its really not rocket science and the argument here is retarded ...
"SONY IS EVIL BECAUSE IF I TAKE THIS FREE SOFTWARE UPDATE MY PS3 IS GOING TO WORK DIFFERENTLY!"
No shit sherlock, thats what updates do. Sometimes they add features you want, some times they add features you don't care about and bugs you don't want, sometimes they remove features.
Either way, out of all of this, if you simply say 'I don't want the update' all you do is 'not get so me free stuff that wasn't part of the original purchase anyway'.
They aren't taking anything away from you that you purchased unless you willingly make a change to your system.
Stop crying that the world won't give you everything for free, fucking pussies.
Apache was made popular on Solaris, not Linux.
When Apache 'powered the web' to start with, it did it on Solaris, which at the time pretty much powered the Internet just like Cisco.
A lots changed since then, but that doesn't change the way it was back then.
The only thing Linux geeks have made popular is Linux too themselves. In case you haven't noticed there are a lot of people here who really could give a flying fuck about Linux, even though this sit is primarily for Linux fanboys.
Not really, because when it breaks in the next release, or its already broken and they turned it off because it wouldn't work anyway ... then you effectively have the exact same thing.
My guess would be that they simply didn't bother fixing whatever broke this time and decided to just stop supporting those 8 people who installed Linux on their PS3.
You do own it, you are more than welcome to not take the software update or other free services that you don't own if you don't want to.
Way to try and warp it around to something its not.
Really ... Sun took special measures ... to keep it out of Linux ... but to let it into every other OS everywhere ...
No, the retarded bullshit built into GPL prevent Linux from doing a lot of things. The only thing that prevents ZFS from being mainlined into Linux itself is Linux.
Way to try and shift blame but no one believes that fanboy crap.
You realize that you just agreed with everything he said ... right?
Perhaps you should check your comprehension skills.
OpenSolaris was dead years ago, its a pile of buggy crap.
I used to love Solaris ... about 8-10 years ago, then I was out of the admin world for a while, decided to play with OpenSolaris and realized that the only hardware you'd want to run it on is Sun hardware ... which is going to have a license for the proper version and not the OSS crap.
I really wish people would realize that OSS is not the end all be all solution to everything.
No, people USED to go there just for the name. 10 years ago. Before everyone who went there found out that it wasn't what they wanted.
There are lots of one word domain names that would have been awesome had they not been ruined, but now they have.
Let me go over the short list on the top of my head of ruined names that no one gives a shit about anymore, including the owners of them:
ask.com
search.com
news.com
buy.com
toys.com
Most of those are still someone useable, but their actual value is trivial because they've been tainted by years of bad branding, bad service, major business failures and all the other things that happened when a bunch of idiots snapped up names trying to ride the wave.
The end result is that domains like these get sold over and over, for less money each time until someone with an actual business buys them rather than some startup without a chance in hell of lasting.
I'd wager he's have a hard time selling it for more than 50-100k USD.
If he gets lucky someone like the owners of the trojan brand or another condom maker or possibly another adult toy manufacture will take it, but I wouldn't bet on it.
He wouldn't be having financial troubles.
The day of overpriced domain names is over. The good names are known, the ones that could have been good but were fucked up by douchebags squatting on them are long gone as they've already been ruined, people know to go elsewhere.
When you can go to Google, search for 'free porn' and get back www.pornhub.com as the first link, sex.com doesn't have a chance nor does it have any value, people looking for things it might have know its worthless to them and go elsewhere.
It'd take years to rebuild the brand with that domain.
Its value is nil, which is exactly why his business has failed. He ruined the name.
People that email you don't get added to your contact list unless you reply to them, never have. I know this because I just logged into an account I setup specifically to get spam from all sorts of random companies when I buy something and the only people in the contact list are the ones I've replied to.
I got the notice about Google Buzz on day one, had already heard about it from employees anyway. Next time I logged into my gmail account it asked me if I wanted to try it out. I said no. It hasn't done anything with me since. Anyone who has 'leaked' information didn't fucking say no. They opted in and were too stupid to read the message they clicked yes to. But you're right, it was Googles fault when clearly a minority of people had this 'problem', so few in fact that its actually lower than I expected for something as trivial as idiots not reading the message.
The only thing Google did wrong was tried to be nice to everyone.
What an awesome friend, I'd be so excited to have a friend who was ashamed of me. I'm sure I'd listen to his advice since it clearly has less to do with my well being and more to do with his stigma against drugs.
Its likely that your friends realize how selfish and transparent you are and don't really give a shit what you think of their habits. Many people are comfortable with their place in lives, even if you aren't.
If you're afraid of people knowing who you associate with then you have a serious problem that has nothing to do with the rest of the world and entirely todo with your own self loathing. Get help, sooner rather than later, you'll have far more friends who like you more when you let them live and stop pushing your agenda on them. If you didn't sound like a D.A.R.E. commercial, meaning ignorant and flat out laying, they might listen better. I'd wager to guess when you start telling them, in Mr Makey's voice that drugs are bad their eyes glass over just laugh inside at your ignorance.
... no, moron, everyone here is logical. Everyone (barring yourself) here is pretty much aware of the fact that a 9 year old doesn't belong unsupervised on the Internet, ANYWHERE any more than they should be taken into a stripclub and given lap dances.
Its that most say 'wtf is a 9 year old girl doing with free run of a gmail account?'
I'd feel no different about MS, though most of slashdot's crowd would attack them for it, could be any web site, doesn't fucking matter who did it, the parents are fucking morons who need to have their children taken away.
The parents are idiots, and I'd wager you are too for ignoring the actual problem and trying to blame it on someone else.
I wasn't brainwashed into thinking Google was 'cool'. My parents brainwashed me into thinking, without having someone else tell me how to think. Sadly, yours failed apparently.
Anyone who makes this statement is a fucking moron. I stress the fucking part.
Facebook is for voyeurs. You don't post shit to facebook unless you want people to see it. Every single facebook user wants the attention and likes to be looked at.
If you think at any point anything you do on Facebook, or the Internet as a whole is private, you don't need to be using the Internet. You are too stupid to qualify to use it. Turn off your computer until you realize that sharing information on a public website on a public network means ITS NOT FUCKING PRIVATE AND NEVER WILL BE.
Idiot.