Why not toss in a free OS with your HDD. It adds another bullet on the box, and gives it more of a geek factor, which will make it more attractive to people like ourselves, and console hackers. The upside for Sony, it costs very little to nothing for them to add it on! It's one of those rare win-win situations.
EDITORS, n.
One who edits, especially as an occupation.
The point here is that they should at least attempt to correct the mistakes that someone submits. The simplest task should be to correct simple spelling errors. Such as; changing willcom to will come. I know they get a lot of submissions, but for they few that get selected, they should check that the spelling is correct. It isn't that hard to run a paragraph through spellchecker.
I'm sure I'll get modded down to Hades for this little rant. Maybe I should've posted as an AC, but I'll stick to my guns here.
I wish that you didn't have to buy a proprietary HDD from Sony, because you know that the markup on a "Sony Brand HDD" is going to be way over that of normal store bought computer HDD, even though the Sony HDD is just a regular hard drive that's not even made by Sony. I'm also wondering what capacity limit it will recognize. The PS2 will only recognize up to 127 Gigs (even though the PS2 drive is only 40G). If we're lucky they'll let you use a 3rd party drive via USB. The ideal would be to let us use 3rd party drives and let us download the version of linux they're offering.
PS: I also hope they allow you to do more with the HDD this time around. The only thing my PS2 drive was good for was 'FFXI' (which I barely played) and to watch live highlights from my ESPN NFL 2K5 games. And take a hint from the XBOX, let us rip our own music to the HDD so we can make our own in game playlists.
People - women and men both - don't like what's good for them. It just doesn't seem to be the way things work
I'd bet that we are more attractive to people who are more mature, people who've gone through the mistakes in relationships and see that the smart money is on the more sensible, intelligent, cooperative and stable nerd. Plus nerd isn't instantly a bad thing now. Sure cool will always be cool, and they'll probably always get the pick of the litter, but eventually the pick of the litter will see that cool tends to be shallow and after they learn that lesson and are ready to move on to something more substantial, a nerd will always be waiting in the wings.
Of course nerds make better lovers. It took us so long to get the first lover, that we have to go all out cause we don't know if a second will ever come along.:) --(sorry, stupid smiley)
I don't think there should be blind questioning either. But if the patriot act, an act that none of us can know the entire content of, that takes away such important constitutional rights, can't be questioned, than what can? Ideally, a person should have an alternative when disagreeing with a proposal, but at times, a person knows that something is wrong even if they don't know exactly the right answer. Truth is, sometimes doing a nothing that is right, is better than doing a something that is wrong. Maybe I don't have the answer to what should be done, but someone else may. But once that wrong action is taken, it's hard to go backwards, which makes it hard to erase the wrong action and replace it with the correct one, which may have taken a little more time to bring to fruition.
Sorry about that, I got a little worked up by the article and saw straight past the joke. I have a sense of humor, I promise, and next time I might even use it (but that remains to be seen).
I believe you may be correct. Then that leads me to the thought of: Why do our leaders, who are intelligent, well versed in the constitution, and people who believe we need freedom (or at least they say they do), want to take away so many rights? I know that fighting terrorism is hard. But every law you enact to catch a few terrorist affects far more Americans. Some may say "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about". But if there's no accountability, then there's no true need to prove guilt, so my response is "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and holy Sith, are our powers that be, becoming more absolute.
What bothers me, is that if you have a view that disagrees with the current powers, you are viewed as anti-american. I love my country, but I don't agree with everything they say, democrat or republican, and I don't think anyone should. Our country was built upon questioning authority. But it seems you must have blind faith or else you're viewed a dissenter and a traitor. After 9/11 I realized things had to change, but I don't think the patriot act was the correct way to go about it. It almost makes me fear my own country, because I don't know when I or anyone I know, innocent or guilty, could fall victim to this secret law system.
How can our representatives not see that they are bastardizing our constitutional rights so bad that our forefathers are turning in their graves so hard that they're tunneling out of their coffins. How do the reps not see that we don't really want these rules. George Bush and the reps scream freedom from the tops of their lungs while at the same time strip more and more freedoms away from their own people. Why is it so bad to get judge approval for document retrieval? Yes, it may take a little more work and time, but we need checks and balances, not law enforcers becoming judge and jury on a whim. Along with secret subpeonas, and the rest of the patriot act, they're taking our whole legal system underground and out of our hands. I can't believe how quickly they're trying to take away the fundamentals that make us US Americans, but I'm even more surprised at the rate they're succeeding at it.
Yep, this is exactly what we need floating around the streets, the ability to turn organs into fluids. Giving the victim no chance of survival nor the ability to donate organs. Wonderful.
It's hardly the handicapped person walking, then. Perhaps carried is a better word. Even motiled maybe a better word.
Walking, it ain't.
Semantics. Clearly they wouldn't be walking in the classic sense of the word, but they'd be repeating the same action, bipedal movement. They just wouldn't be triggering the movement with their own legs, but via another source. I assure you that everyone doing it will refer to it as 'walking' as opposed to "being carried" or "motiled". People want to focus on what they can do, not what they can't, so they'll want to use the most positive term, which in this case would be, walking.
From TFA: It can also move on its own accord, enabling it to help elderly or handicapped people walk, developers said.
I take this to mean that it doesn't need to receive electric-signals to move. I'd guess that it has a joystick or breathing tube type movement control or something like that, maybe even tracking head or eye movement. My guess is that its secondary movement is one that would be used by a para or quadraplegic's wheelchair. But it's clear that the electric-signal movement is not its only control structure.
Probably because nowadays, more than ever, work life and home life tend to overlap, and so do your business and personal contacts. It's simply easier (maybe not smarter) to just maintain one main email account and since you have to use the work email for work contacts, it's simpler to use that account as your crossover account. Also, most people have nothing to hide from their employers, and others simply take the warning that their email will be read as an idle threat.
but not nearly as dumb as I'm starting to sound with these Star Wars posts.
I have to agree, but I try not to think about the fact that I'm taking a fake universe this serious. Luckily I'm here at/. , a place where they wont remind me (since most of them are doing the same).
Well during the time of Anakin, there were many Jedi and a fairly peaceful galaxy. During the time of Luke there were only 2 Jedi and a massive oppression. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Luke was a chance that needed to be taken if they were to have any real hope of overthrowing the empire.
(ps: I never saw the correlation between the Godfather and the Jedi massacre, but now that you mention it, I totally see it. Pretty cool.)
Well they prognosticate in the article that to have a government spread throughout a galaxy they'd have to have faster than light speed travel. I don't know where that leaves the Death Star in terms of speed, but if you believe them, then it has the possibility of having light speed travel or even faster. So with suspension of disbelief, you have to think that they aren't held by our current galactic contraints.
They begin the article with the admittance that this is a galaxy far different from our own, with faster than light travel, etc, then they keep comparing it to our own galaxy. Just because in our universe we may not play nicely with another civilization, doesn't mean that they can't cohabitate peacefully. We are talking about a galaxy that is built on the force, which creates it's own balance amongst its inhabitants. So while there are races that are war hungry, you'd have to believe that most people fall in the middle which means living with each other without constant war. So I don't think this article holds much water.
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Maybe that's why Photoshop CS suddenly became "incompatible" when Service Pack 2 dropped for XP.
If they keep going, MS will end up as a jack of all trades
don't you mean jackin' all trades?
Just curious, but what do you see as the downside for either side: Sony or the Consumers
Why not toss in a free OS with your HDD. It adds another bullet on the box, and gives it more of a geek factor, which will make it more attractive to people like ourselves, and console hackers. The upside for Sony, it costs very little to nothing for them to add it on! It's one of those rare win-win situations.
The operative word here is:
EDITORS,
n.
One who edits, especially as an occupation.
The point here is that they should at least attempt to correct the mistakes that someone submits. The simplest task should be to correct simple spelling errors. Such as; changing willcom to will come. I know they get a lot of submissions, but for they few that get selected, they should check that the spelling is correct. It isn't that hard to run a paragraph through spellchecker.
I'm sure I'll get modded down to Hades for this little rant. Maybe I should've posted as an AC, but I'll stick to my guns here.
I wish that you didn't have to buy a proprietary HDD from Sony, because you know that the markup on a "Sony Brand HDD" is going to be way over that of normal store bought computer HDD, even though the Sony HDD is just a regular hard drive that's not even made by Sony. I'm also wondering what capacity limit it will recognize. The PS2 will only recognize up to 127 Gigs (even though the PS2 drive is only 40G). If we're lucky they'll let you use a 3rd party drive via USB. The ideal would be to let us use 3rd party drives and let us download the version of linux they're offering.
PS: I also hope they allow you to do more with the HDD this time around. The only thing my PS2 drive was good for was 'FFXI' (which I barely played) and to watch live highlights from my ESPN NFL 2K5 games. And take a hint from the XBOX, let us rip our own music to the HDD so we can make our own in game playlists.
People - women and men both - don't like what's good for them. It just doesn't seem to be the way things work
I'd bet that we are more attractive to people who are more mature, people who've gone through the mistakes in relationships and see that the smart money is on the more sensible, intelligent, cooperative and stable nerd. Plus nerd isn't instantly a bad thing now. Sure cool will always be cool, and they'll probably always get the pick of the litter, but eventually the pick of the litter will see that cool tends to be shallow and after they learn that lesson and are ready to move on to something more substantial, a nerd will always be waiting in the wings.
Of course nerds make better lovers. It took us so long to get the first lover, that we have to go all out cause we don't know if a second will ever come along. :) --(sorry, stupid smiley)
I don't think there should be blind questioning either. But if the patriot act, an act that none of us can know the entire content of, that takes away such important constitutional rights, can't be questioned, than what can? Ideally, a person should have an alternative when disagreeing with a proposal, but at times, a person knows that something is wrong even if they don't know exactly the right answer. Truth is, sometimes doing a nothing that is right, is better than doing a something that is wrong. Maybe I don't have the answer to what should be done, but someone else may. But once that wrong action is taken, it's hard to go backwards, which makes it hard to erase the wrong action and replace it with the correct one, which may have taken a little more time to bring to fruition.
Sorry about that, I got a little worked up by the article and saw straight past the joke. I have a sense of humor, I promise, and next time I might even use it (but that remains to be seen).
I believe you may be correct. Then that leads me to the thought of: Why do our leaders, who are intelligent, well versed in the constitution, and people who believe we need freedom (or at least they say they do), want to take away so many rights? I know that fighting terrorism is hard. But every law you enact to catch a few terrorist affects far more Americans. Some may say "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about". But if there's no accountability, then there's no true need to prove guilt, so my response is "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and holy Sith, are our powers that be, becoming more absolute.
What bothers me, is that if you have a view that disagrees with the current powers, you are viewed as anti-american. I love my country, but I don't agree with everything they say, democrat or republican, and I don't think anyone should. Our country was built upon questioning authority. But it seems you must have blind faith or else you're viewed a dissenter and a traitor. After 9/11 I realized things had to change, but I don't think the patriot act was the correct way to go about it. It almost makes me fear my own country, because I don't know when I or anyone I know, innocent or guilty, could fall victim to this secret law system.
Tell that to the people in Camp X-Ray.
How can our representatives not see that they are bastardizing our constitutional rights so bad that our forefathers are turning in their graves so hard that they're tunneling out of their coffins. How do the reps not see that we don't really want these rules. George Bush and the reps scream freedom from the tops of their lungs while at the same time strip more and more freedoms away from their own people. Why is it so bad to get judge approval for document retrieval? Yes, it may take a little more work and time, but we need checks and balances, not law enforcers becoming judge and jury on a whim. Along with secret subpeonas, and the rest of the patriot act, they're taking our whole legal system underground and out of our hands. I can't believe how quickly they're trying to take away the fundamentals that make us US Americans, but I'm even more surprised at the rate they're succeeding at it.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather make a friend than kill an enemy.
Unfortunately, not every enemy feels the same way.
Yep, this is exactly what we need floating around the streets, the ability to turn organs into fluids. Giving the victim no chance of survival nor the ability to donate organs. Wonderful.
It's hardly the handicapped person walking, then. Perhaps carried is a better word. Even motiled maybe a better word.
Walking, it ain't.
Semantics. Clearly they wouldn't be walking in the classic sense of the word, but they'd be repeating the same action, bipedal movement. They just wouldn't be triggering the movement with their own legs, but via another source. I assure you that everyone doing it will refer to it as 'walking' as opposed to "being carried" or "motiled". People want to focus on what they can do, not what they can't, so they'll want to use the most positive term, which in this case would be, walking.
From TFA: It can also move on its own accord, enabling it to help elderly or handicapped people walk, developers said.
I take this to mean that it doesn't need to receive electric-signals to move. I'd guess that it has a joystick or breathing tube type movement control or something like that, maybe even tracking head or eye movement. My guess is that its secondary movement is one that would be used by a para or quadraplegic's wheelchair. But it's clear that the electric-signal movement is not its only control structure.
Interesting. An advertisment, disguised as an Apple article, disguised as a Linux topic. Interesting.
Probably because nowadays, more than ever, work life and home life tend to overlap, and so do your business and personal contacts. It's simply easier (maybe not smarter) to just maintain one main email account and since you have to use the work email for work contacts, it's simpler to use that account as your crossover account. Also, most people have nothing to hide from their employers, and others simply take the warning that their email will be read as an idle threat.
but not nearly as dumb as I'm starting to sound with these Star Wars posts.
/. , a place where they wont remind me (since most of them are doing the same).
I have to agree, but I try not to think about the fact that I'm taking a fake universe this serious. Luckily I'm here at
Well during the time of Anakin, there were many Jedi and a fairly peaceful galaxy. During the time of Luke there were only 2 Jedi and a massive oppression. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Luke was a chance that needed to be taken if they were to have any real hope of overthrowing the empire.
(ps: I never saw the correlation between the Godfather and the Jedi massacre, but now that you mention it, I totally see it. Pretty cool.)
Nabinos!
(Ok. I just made that up)
Well they prognosticate in the article that to have a government spread throughout a galaxy they'd have to have faster than light speed travel. I don't know where that leaves the Death Star in terms of speed, but if you believe them, then it has the possibility of having light speed travel or even faster. So with suspension of disbelief, you have to think that they aren't held by our current galactic contraints.
They begin the article with the admittance that this is a galaxy far different from our own, with faster than light travel, etc, then they keep comparing it to our own galaxy. Just because in our universe we may not play nicely with another civilization, doesn't mean that they can't cohabitate peacefully. We are talking about a galaxy that is built on the force, which creates it's own balance amongst its inhabitants. So while there are races that are war hungry, you'd have to believe that most people fall in the middle which means living with each other without constant war. So I don't think this article holds much water.