I haven't posted here in a while - but this thread caught my eye and pissed me off!
Everybody is making these broad generalizations about cost, value, and quality. I thought it might be worth posting what my experience has been.
Keep in mind this is *my* experience and may be useful to people similar to me!
I bought a PS3 within a couple weeks of release (got lucky and found one in Best Buy) - I live in NYC and I have the money to afford it. I have only bought one game since then, "Resistance: Fall of Man", and I agree that so far the game list is weak.
However, I own approximately a dozen Blu-ray movies and watching these has been worth the cost of the system. Beautiful picture and sound - makes having a 1080P TV worthwhile. Since the 1.80 firmware it also has surpassed my upscaling DVD player as the best way for me to watch standard DVDs as well.
Beyond this - the media server functionality works well and I am trying out various 3rd party products to increase the video codec support. I also went out an bought a couple SA-CDs since they have thrown in that capability as well.
I am not a "sony fan-boy" but the quality of audio and video that the PS3 brings into my apartment is unlike anything I have had before. I don't regret buying it at all - I can't wait until the games get better over time (remember PS2 launch... similar launch title weakness)
I was in Manhattan on 9/11/2001 and I know that there were lines at the pay phones everywhere. My cell phone and landline were down most of the day, but I assume the people on the pay phone were getting through to their loved ones?
It has been shown over and over again that most sites can not survive on purely advertising revenue alone. It just doesn't work.
So I would assume that Gamespot has been losing money and they decide that they need a way to remedy this. They create a very fair model that does not take away all features from non-pay users and is basically just asking the high end users to pay a nominal amount (compared to the costs of games and magazines).
Of course people here think it is outrageous but they aren't telling you to pay. If you don't use gamespot much, like me, don't pay... and you still will get something useful from them. If you use it a lot you can still decide to not pay but I would be interested to see your comments when the slashdot story reads:
"Gamespot closes down due to lack of subscription revenues"
And from reading the posts thus far, the people on IRC are trying to do a lot of what some people on Everquest are doing. Finding a place where they fit in, finding a comfortable social situation.
However, I have then pushed that forward and have met a good percentage of my friends from IRC in real life and consider several of them good friends... It seems that this is the outcome which would actually show the community being helpful to the social outcast...
Does this happen much among Everquest players?
uh... a few seconds ruins a film?
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Attack of the Clones
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The article says a few seconds in a scene with a lot of extras...
Get a grip... nobody will notice unless you freeze frame the future dvd and then who really cares...
If you want to make an opinion of the film before seeing it (which is kind of dumb) then at least do something like watch the trailers... which in my opinion are quite good!
I just thought I would put in my 2 cents on this...
I bought a gamecube at launch cause I am a longtime nintendo supporter and wanted to try it out. I bought Rogue Leader, Tony Hawk 3, and Super Smash Brother Melee. Rogue Leader is a great game, but the PS2 version of tony hawk 3 gets better reviews across the board and the gamecube port has some serious issues (slowdown on certain levels)....
Super Smash Brothers is good as well but not something I would play a lot by myself... so when I sat back and looked at the situation I realized there were a good dozen games I want to play on PS2 but just not that much out for gamecube yet. I realize this was the problem with PS2 at launch as well but in my impatience I have switched over to PS2. I may buy a gamecube later down the line but not just yet.
In other words, I don't really think for a lot of us the features and graphical abilities are the most important thing... its purely who has the best games at the moment.
uh... I don't see how somebody could subvert the costs.
I would assume:
1.) you put down a credit card when you borrow the camera so if you break it you pay for it.
2.) that you have to pay a flat rate for printing some minimum number of pictures, so even if you downloaded them yourself you would still be paying...
Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, for people who like the idea of a digital camera but would never buy one... or only need one for a specific event...
As many of you realize this was mentioned before on slashdot. I found the old story (which was not so easy cause searching under slashdot's "older stuff" doesn't return any results for MIT???)
I have the latter and its pretty cool... You can totally customize multiple remote control layouts. I personally like 4 quadrants of the screen: volume up, volume down, channel up, channel down. BIG buttons you can hit with your finger or stylus without really looking:)
Josh
link for the amazon.com/red cross fund
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I just wanted to say that I think it is amazing how many people are donating to this and I really believe it should be a link on the front page of slashdot.
This is one thing that irritates me about slashdot... everybody is posting "oh my god I found this horrible thing on line 126144 of the TOS"...
Whatever, I pay $10/month and get NNTP access to some 90,000 groups and have never had a single problem... period.
So yeah, somebody in their legal department put some shitty things into their terms of service... but if it never actually means anything to me as a user then I can let it slide...
The upgrade regularly and I have never had problems accessing them or finding a group. And now they have a special server just for multimedia and binaries...
Just a thought for any of you who want a solution other than an uphill battle with your ISP...
I am moving to NYC in a month and when I was looking on the Time Warner cable site it didn't seem to list the Food Network anywhere. Does anybody somehow get the food network in the NYC metro area?
You sell the "classic" immortality rings for $25... however, from your site:
Immortality Neodymium Rings
$45.00 Shipping included
These rings are 21,000 gauss, exactly 21 times stronger than the classic Immortality Rings. But Foot Braces are still more powerful.
I was just curious what exactly is the difference between normal immortality, Neodymium immortality, and the ultra-powerful Foot Brace immortality?
You can still, as always, install slackware onto a machine by just downloading the "a" disk sets. A quick scan of the current tree seems to show that this would take up around 50 megs....
Not too shabby... then you can add other disk sets at will. Of course the novice user might not understand how to do this, but it sure breaks a blanket generalization like "linux is too big"
So on that page and on the requirements page it says that Framemaker 6.0 will run on "UNIX"...
For software that is open source this usually would mean just a few changes to config files to get it to compile on any of a number of flavors of UNIX. Now I am guessing that their release is just a binary distribution for Solaris or whatever, but how far away could they really be from just putting a Linux version out there as well?
I know that here at CMU there are at least two classes which give out a computer for the semester...
One of these is a Multimedia Information Processing class where every student is given a laptop which they use during class and for their projects. The class is taught in a room with power and ethernet at every seat and it is therefore not a logistical nightmare. The laptops are returned at the end of the semester and given to the next class...
Other classes have started to utilize our wireless network by giving out Jornada's for the semester... again, its something that is easy (preconfigured wireless settings usually) and is returned at the end of the semester...
It seems to me that these more "need-based" programs make a lot more sense than just giving EVERYBODY a laptop.
I think the average home overclocker, besides enjoying the challenge, is trying to get the most speed for his/her money.
If you can buy a celeron 366 for almost nothing and put together a nice cooling system you may be able to achieve the speed of a significantly more expensive CPU...
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I haven't posted here in a while - but this thread caught my eye and pissed me off!
Everybody is making these broad generalizations about cost, value, and quality. I thought it might be worth posting what my experience has been.
Keep in mind this is *my* experience and may be useful to people similar to me!
I bought a PS3 within a couple weeks of release (got lucky and found one in Best Buy) - I live in NYC and I have the money to afford it. I have only bought one game since then, "Resistance: Fall of Man", and I agree that so far the game list is weak.
However, I own approximately a dozen Blu-ray movies and watching these has been worth the cost of the system. Beautiful picture and sound - makes having a 1080P TV worthwhile. Since the 1.80 firmware it also has surpassed my upscaling DVD player as the best way for me to watch standard DVDs as well.
Beyond this - the media server functionality works well and I am trying out various 3rd party products to increase the video codec support. I also went out an bought a couple SA-CDs since they have thrown in that capability as well.
I am not a "sony fan-boy" but the quality of audio and video that the PS3 brings into my apartment is unlike anything I have had before. I don't regret buying it at all - I can't wait until the games get better over time (remember PS2 launch... similar launch title weakness)
I was in Manhattan on 9/11/2001 and I know that there were lines at the pay phones everywhere. My cell phone and landline were down most of the day, but I assume the people on the pay phone were getting through to their loved ones?
In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines.
Gateway is planning to include WordPerfect 10 and Quattro Pro 10 on its 300s desktops in North America.
This is the first time its been with the Space Shuttle as opposed to just a rocket launch.
It has been shown over and over again that most sites can not survive on purely advertising revenue alone. It just doesn't work.
So I would assume that Gamespot has been losing money and they decide that they need a way to remedy this. They create a very fair model that does not take away all features from non-pay users and is basically just asking the high end users to pay a nominal amount (compared to the costs of games and magazines).
Of course people here think it is outrageous but they aren't telling you to pay. If you don't use gamespot much, like me, don't pay... and you still will get something useful from them. If you use it a lot you can still decide to not pay but I would be interested to see your comments when the slashdot story reads:
"Gamespot closes down due to lack of subscription revenues"
I mean... I spend a lot of time on IRC...
And from reading the posts thus far, the people on IRC are trying to do a lot of what some people on Everquest are doing. Finding a place where they fit in, finding a comfortable social situation.
However, I have then pushed that forward and have met a good percentage of my friends from IRC in real life and consider several of them good friends... It seems that this is the outcome which would actually show the community being helpful to the social outcast...
Does this happen much among Everquest players?
The article says a few seconds in a scene with a lot of extras...
Get a grip... nobody will notice unless you freeze frame the future dvd and then who really cares...
If you want to make an opinion of the film before seeing it (which is kind of dumb) then at least do something like watch the trailers... which in my opinion are quite good!
I just thought I would put in my 2 cents on this...
I bought a gamecube at launch cause I am a longtime nintendo supporter and wanted to try it out. I bought Rogue Leader, Tony Hawk 3, and Super Smash Brother Melee. Rogue Leader is a great game, but the PS2 version of tony hawk 3 gets better reviews across the board and the gamecube port has some serious issues (slowdown on certain levels)....
Super Smash Brothers is good as well but not something I would play a lot by myself... so when I sat back and looked at the situation I realized there were a good dozen games I want to play on PS2 but just not that much out for gamecube yet. I realize this was the problem with PS2 at launch as well but in my impatience I have switched over to PS2. I may buy a gamecube later down the line but not just yet.
In other words, I don't really think for a lot of us the features and graphical abilities are the most important thing... its purely who has the best games at the moment.
uh... I don't see how somebody could subvert the costs.
I would assume:
1.) you put down a credit card when you borrow the camera so if you break it you pay for it.
2.) that you have to pay a flat rate for printing some minimum number of pictures, so even if you downloaded them yourself you would still be paying...
Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, for people who like the idea of a digital camera but would never buy one... or only need one for a specific event...
Anyway:
The other story
Check out some of the information/comments from that...
-- Josh
Suddenly a more acceptable reason to say:
I have a strange burning sensation in my crotch...
--
Josh
The solutions are their Palm hotsync module for Palm brand devices and their Springboard module for Handspring Visors.
I have the latter and its pretty cool... You can totally customize multiple remote control layouts. I personally like 4 quadrants of the screen: volume up, volume down, channel up, channel down. BIG buttons you can hit with your finger or stylus without really looking :)
Josh
To reiterate:
Donate money
- Josh
Blah...
This is one thing that irritates me about slashdot... everybody is posting "oh my god I found this horrible thing on line 126144 of the TOS"...
Whatever, I pay $10/month and get NNTP access to some 90,000 groups and have never had a single problem... period.
So yeah, somebody in their legal department put some shitty things into their terms of service... but if it never actually means anything to me as a user then I can let it slide...
Josh
However, a good alternative for newsgroup access I have used for a while is:
uncensored-news
The upgrade regularly and I have never had problems accessing them or finding a group. And now they have a special server just for multimedia and binaries...
Just a thought for any of you who want a solution other than an uphill battle with your ISP...
Josh
Hey,
Quick question...
I am moving to NYC in a month and when I was looking on the Time Warner cable site it didn't seem to list the Food Network anywhere. Does anybody somehow get the food network in the NYC metro area?
Josh
Immortality Neodymium Rings $45.00 Shipping included These rings are 21,000 gauss, exactly 21 times stronger than the classic Immortality Rings. But Foot Braces are still more powerful.
I was just curious what exactly is the difference between normal immortality, Neodymium immortality, and the ultra-powerful Foot Brace immortality?
Josh
You can still, as always, install slackware onto a machine by just downloading the "a" disk sets. A quick scan of the current tree seems to show that this would take up around 50 megs....
Not too shabby... then you can add other disk sets at will. Of course the novice user might not understand how to do this, but it sure breaks a blanket generalization like "linux is too big"
Josh
So on that page and on the requirements page it says that Framemaker 6.0 will run on "UNIX"...
For software that is open source this usually would mean just a few changes to config files to get it to compile on any of a number of flavors of UNIX. Now I am guessing that their release is just a binary distribution for Solaris or whatever, but how far away could they really be from just putting a Linux version out there as well?
Josh
How can we ever watch an election with confidence in the information the networks are giving us?
How can the networks ever predict early without worrying they are going to cause this situation again?
BLAH
Josh
I know that here at CMU there are at least two classes which give out a computer for the semester...
One of these is a Multimedia Information Processing class where every student is given a laptop which they use during class and for their projects. The class is taught in a room with power and ethernet at every seat and it is therefore not a logistical nightmare. The laptops are returned at the end of the semester and given to the next class...
Other classes have started to utilize our wireless network by giving out Jornada's for the semester... again, its something that is easy (preconfigured wireless settings usually) and is returned at the end of the semester...
It seems to me that these more "need-based" programs make a lot more sense than just giving EVERYBODY a laptop.
Josh
A short description of how the machine worked.
An Enigma simulation and some good links.
Some cool stuff!
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Josh
Am I the only one who hoped for an instant that an "Airboard" was going to be one of the crazy floating skateboards from BTTF 2?
*sigh*
Josh
"irc.ef.net will be permanently delinked because of DoS attacks"
irc.ef.net is just one EFnet server. It does not mean that all of EFnet is going down or is in serious trouble...
Servers come and servers go but EFnet has survived and will continue to Josh
I think the average home overclocker, besides enjoying the challenge, is trying to get the most speed for his/her money.
If you can buy a celeron 366 for almost nothing and put together a nice cooling system you may be able to achieve the speed of a significantly more expensive CPU...
Josh