I'm pretty sure the main reason they went through the hassle of doing that is because once Windows makes the jump to 64 bits signed drivers will be required.
At that expensive of a price do they really think the PS3 will become as popular as the PS2 is now? While I understand that most of the early adopters will pay just about anything they'd better be able to drop the price pretty quickly after that.
That said this will probably mean there won't be PS3 shortages this Christmas like there was last year with the Xbox 360.
It's one thing to copy protect your CDs to make it difficult to rip but it's another thing to install a rootkit that is by definition difficult to remove. Who'se going to clean up this mess when a Microsoft patch or SP comes around and breaks any computer with this installed?
Seeing as how Slurpees have been around now for 40 years, you'd think that they'd have found some sort of technological improvement that could be applied to them.
Maybe this is yet another one of those "looks awful but ends up being pretty good in practice" type things Nintendo has been known to create. Remember Wind Waker's graphics anyone?
Not likely since their temp servers are with Dreamhost, and they seem to weather/.'ings pretty well. In any case their main servers ARE back up and running.
It seems to be more of a bandwidth issue for the time being. Hopefully Zipa can get some more connections up and SA will be back online.
Come to think of it what happened to this placeholder forums/website we were promised?
You can get the patch right here if you'd rather not use that horrible Blizzard updater (no idea how long I'll keep that mirror up though). Then go on and copy your character over to the test realm.
The major problem I see with this is the privacy implications. Sure, each individual site you visit nowadays has some information about you in their logs, but Google's proxy would store information on every site you visit. Sure, their privacy policy might be good now, but who's to say it won't change without notice at any point in time, or perhaps the government could get a subpoena for them.
Seeing as how the PlayStation 3 will most likely be backwards compatible with the earlier two and that it should be fairly late in the development stage, couldn't this have a fairly wide reaching effect on the PS3?
It seems somewhat crazy to think that the PSP could completely take over Nintendo's handheld market. From what it seems, the PSP is creating a new market of older people wanting a handheld console. Gameboys haven't really been too popular outside of the realm of children.
For WoW it really seems to depend what server you play on. My main character is on a fairly high population server and yeah, it seems like I'm having issues more often than not. Yet one of my other characters is on a fairly low population server, and I hardly ever seem to have issues on that (barring login/authentication issues).
And this is exactly one of the big reasons many dislike the discontinuation of the Mozilla Suite. Until Firefox, Thunderbird, and the rest start integrating better (act more like a single app with optional components), there really isn't any other apps out there that make up a nice "Internet Suite."
Although using an old operating system is fine for just some box sitting there not connected to any sort of network, once you plug it into a network you have a disaster waiting to happen. Many of these old operating systems are sitting there unpatched just waiting to become a sysadmin's worst nightmare. Although, if it was possible to keep these old OS'es patched, I don't see anything wrong with using them.
Though the article is/.'ed, I have to wonder, why does CherryOS even bother? Everyone already knows that their project was a ripoff of PearPC and they've already lost the trust of everyone.
Wasn't this a worry when they first came out with DVDs, that you lost your ability to "archive" them? I'm sure that given some time, people will be able to easily defeat the broadcast flag with relative ease. Although the legality of doing so is questionable at best...
Although the lighthouses really aren't needed, do they really cost so much for upkeep to where it's not cost effective to keep the system running as a backup? I would imagine that it would be very nice to still have lighthouses should a ship suddenly find its GPS no longer working.
While it sure does sound like a pretty good deal for those individuals who might have gotten a pirated copy of XP without knowing any better, I really don't know if I can accept Microsoft's promise that they wont sue you after you admit to having a pirated copy.
Generally for situations where you really need to make sure the data stays safe, I'd just stick with hardware. If you can spend that much on some harddrives, I don't see why you can't spend the money on hardware.
Though from what I hear, software RAID on Linux works decently.
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I'm pretty sure the main reason they went through the hassle of doing that is because once Windows makes the jump to 64 bits signed drivers will be required.
At that expensive of a price do they really think the PS3 will become as popular as the PS2 is now? While I understand that most of the early adopters will pay just about anything they'd better be able to drop the price pretty quickly after that.
That said this will probably mean there won't be PS3 shortages this Christmas like there was last year with the Xbox 360.
Actually you can buy wildcard SSL certs but they cost a great deal more and one would think the verification process would more more stringent.
Honestly though why do many servers need to allow access from Chinese computers? Just block them at the firewall and be done with it.
It's one thing to copy protect your CDs to make it difficult to rip but it's another thing to install a rootkit that is by definition difficult to remove. Who'se going to clean up this mess when a Microsoft patch or SP comes around and breaks any computer with this installed?
Seeing as how Slurpees have been around now for 40 years, you'd think that they'd have found some sort of technological improvement that could be applied to them.
Maybe this is yet another one of those "looks awful but ends up being pretty good in practice" type things Nintendo has been known to create. Remember Wind Waker's graphics anyone?
Not likely since their temp servers are with Dreamhost, and they seem to weather /.'ings pretty well. In any case their main servers ARE back up and running.
It seems to be more of a bandwidth issue for the time being. Hopefully Zipa can get some more connections up and SA will be back online. Come to think of it what happened to this placeholder forums/website we were promised?
atleast a decent Apache install can keep on chugging along even when faced with a slashdotting.
Not quite. Their member companies produce most of the TV shows as well.
You can get the patch right here if you'd rather not use that horrible Blizzard updater (no idea how long I'll keep that mirror up though). Then go on and copy your character over to the test realm.
The major problem I see with this is the privacy implications. Sure, each individual site you visit nowadays has some information about you in their logs, but Google's proxy would store information on every site you visit. Sure, their privacy policy might be good now, but who's to say it won't change without notice at any point in time, or perhaps the government could get a subpoena for them.
Get it here... No idea how long it'll be up though.
Seeing as how the PlayStation 3 will most likely be backwards compatible with the earlier two and that it should be fairly late in the development stage, couldn't this have a fairly wide reaching effect on the PS3?
It seems somewhat crazy to think that the PSP could completely take over Nintendo's handheld market. From what it seems, the PSP is creating a new market of older people wanting a handheld console. Gameboys haven't really been too popular outside of the realm of children.
For WoW it really seems to depend what server you play on. My main character is on a fairly high population server and yeah, it seems like I'm having issues more often than not. Yet one of my other characters is on a fairly low population server, and I hardly ever seem to have issues on that (barring login/authentication issues).
And this is exactly one of the big reasons many dislike the discontinuation of the Mozilla Suite. Until Firefox, Thunderbird, and the rest start integrating better (act more like a single app with optional components), there really isn't any other apps out there that make up a nice "Internet Suite."
Although using an old operating system is fine for just some box sitting there not connected to any sort of network, once you plug it into a network you have a disaster waiting to happen. Many of these old operating systems are sitting there unpatched just waiting to become a sysadmin's worst nightmare. Although, if it was possible to keep these old OS'es patched, I don't see anything wrong with using them.
Though the article is /.'ed, I have to wonder, why does CherryOS even bother? Everyone already knows that their project was a ripoff of PearPC and they've already lost the trust of everyone.
Wasn't this a worry when they first came out with DVDs, that you lost your ability to "archive" them? I'm sure that given some time, people will be able to easily defeat the broadcast flag with relative ease. Although the legality of doing so is questionable at best...
Although the lighthouses really aren't needed, do they really cost so much for upkeep to where it's not cost effective to keep the system running as a backup? I would imagine that it would be very nice to still have lighthouses should a ship suddenly find its GPS no longer working.
I don't know how they can accept PayPal and still make a profit. Doesn't PayPal charge a per transaction fee on top of the percentage fee?
While it sure does sound like a pretty good deal for those individuals who might have gotten a pirated copy of XP without knowing any better, I really don't know if I can accept Microsoft's promise that they wont sue you after you admit to having a pirated copy.
Generally for situations where you really need to make sure the data stays safe, I'd just stick with hardware. If you can spend that much on some harddrives, I don't see why you can't spend the money on hardware.
Though from what I hear, software RAID on Linux works decently.