They've already done that several times, and nothing has stopped us from playing the new games on the oldest popular firmware, due to a little program called Devhook that simulates the new firmwares. Sony can't stop us.
Wonder why it took them so long to ship them. I wrote an article about this back in July. And yeah, I'd wager that everything is nicely DRMed and that you'll have to update your PSP to the latest system software to view the movies.
You do realize that the PSP has an almost fully-functional unofficial SDK that covers most of the PSP's functions, right? It's possible for a group of diligent hackers to do just about anything, if they want to do it badly enough.
Y'know what? I know from experience that pirated copies of XP SP2 Corporate can fool the Genuine Advantage tool. So... Yeah. That's not going to stop much.
You're fooling yourself. Set a CD ripper to 320kbps, pop in a CD, copy it. It's that simple. Setup is a one-time thing. Ripping takes five, ten minutes tops.
As a cynical American, I wonder what sort of riders are tacked onto this bill. In an administration where national ID card legislation is tacked onto a military spending bill, I wouldn't be surprised if we're signing ourselves into slavery here...
I'm fine with considering "not believing in X" is equivalent to "asserting X doesn't exist", as long as we agree that this isn't anywhere near the same thing as those who "assert X does exist".
Agreed.
It is an utterly meaningless semantic difference. If you don't believe in something, you don't believe it exists. That's what it means to not believe in something. The "in" makes them absolutely the same thing. If you don't believe in something, you are by definition asserting that they don't exist. I mean, seriously - are you trying to tell me that someone who says "I don't believe in God" is not actually saying they don't believe God exists?
I really have a hard time with people who argue that belief in the nonpresence of something is not the same thing as disbelief in the presence of something. It's exactly the same meaning, worded differently. In the first you believe that something is not there. In the second you don't believe that something is there. In both cases, the end result is the assumption of nonpresence.
I've been beta testing Vista for a while now. After installing Vista, I swear to God - the OS cached every single EXE file on my computer in a folder in the root of Vista's installation drive. Each EXE file is given its own subfolder in this folder, with the same name as the file followed by a unique hash. Each subfolder contains the EXE file and several accompanying files, at least two of which are XML documents.
When all was said and done, this folder took up nearly 5GB on disk. I can't even open this drive in Explorer. I let it sit for about 20 minutes once and my PC slowed to a crawl
Whatever this godawful "feature" is, I hope it is removed for the final version.
Are you serious? They spent almost twice as much on "general expenses" as they spent on actual development? If that doesn't prove that the system is vaporware, nothing will.
"Lantos... is the only Holocaust survivor serving in the House." Enough said. The man was part of an underground anti-Nazi resistance group while in hiding in Nazi Germany. I think he knows what he's talking about.
As much fun as it is to watch a two-hour-long movie on a 480x272 screen on a battery that might die if you have to rewind too often, it's extremely aggravating to be pigeonholed into a single media viewing system. As for their complaints about copying DVDs to the memory stick: if they're DVDs I own, Sony hasn't lost any money from me. Yes, movie piracy is a problem, but many people can't be bothered to download a 700MB movie, compress it to PSP size with PSP codecs, then watch it in grainy, blurry pictures.
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They've already done that several times, and nothing has stopped us from playing the new games on the oldest popular firmware, due to a little program called Devhook that simulates the new firmwares. Sony can't stop us.
No. It works on all but the latest two firmwares, and no games require those firmwares yet.
Wonder why it took them so long to ship them. I wrote an article about this back in July. And yeah, I'd wager that everything is nicely DRMed and that you'll have to update your PSP to the latest system software to view the movies.
Although to be honest, your kids probably wouldn't mind getting an xbox as well :)
You do realize that the PSP has an almost fully-functional unofficial SDK that covers most of the PSP's functions, right? It's possible for a group of diligent hackers to do just about anything, if they want to do it badly enough.
Y'know what? I know from experience that pirated copies of XP SP2 Corporate can fool the Genuine Advantage tool. So... Yeah. That's not going to stop much.
You're fooling yourself. Set a CD ripper to 320kbps, pop in a CD, copy it. It's that simple. Setup is a one-time thing. Ripping takes five, ten minutes tops.
As a cynical American, I wonder what sort of riders are tacked onto this bill. In an administration where national ID card legislation is tacked onto a military spending bill, I wouldn't be surprised if we're signing ourselves into slavery here...
I'm fine with considering "not believing in X" is equivalent to "asserting X doesn't exist", as long as we agree that this isn't anywhere near the same thing as those who "assert X does exist".
Agreed.
It is an utterly meaningless semantic difference. If you don't believe in something, you don't believe it exists. That's what it means to not believe in something. The "in" makes them absolutely the same thing. If you don't believe in something, you are by definition asserting that they don't exist. I mean, seriously - are you trying to tell me that someone who says "I don't believe in God" is not actually saying they don't believe God exists?
I really have a hard time with people who argue that belief in the nonpresence of something is not the same thing as disbelief in the presence of something. It's exactly the same meaning, worded differently. In the first you believe that something is not there. In the second you don't believe that something is there. In both cases, the end result is the assumption of nonpresence.
Interestingly enough, I run all three off the same machine...
True, big disks are relatively cheap nowadays, but I only partitioned 7GB for Vista and the disk is almost full.
It's worse than that. I simply typed "D:" into the Run box, and it never showed up. I wasn't even in the file browser part of Explorer.
Ahh, forgive me. It was 2.12 GB, not 5, and there are 17,704 files and 7,544 folders in it.
If you really don't buy it, I can send you a listing of this directory, complete with file sizes.
I've been beta testing Vista for a while now. After installing Vista, I swear to God - the OS cached every single EXE file on my computer in a folder in the root of Vista's installation drive. Each EXE file is given its own subfolder in this folder, with the same name as the file followed by a unique hash. Each subfolder contains the EXE file and several accompanying files, at least two of which are XML documents.
When all was said and done, this folder took up nearly 5GB on disk. I can't even open this drive in Explorer. I let it sit for about 20 minutes once and my PC slowed to a crawl
Whatever this godawful "feature" is, I hope it is removed for the final version.
Are you serious? They spent almost twice as much on "general expenses" as they spent on actual development? If that doesn't prove that the system is vaporware, nothing will.
Preach it, brother. If I had mod points, you'd be getting a +1, Insightful on all your posts in this thread right now.
Or maybe you're already logged in.
Which of course means that everything must explode.
Orwellian? Yes. Dinner-table soapbox? Yes. Dangerously unstable? Yes. Absolutely correct? Also yes.
"Lantos ... is the only Holocaust survivor serving in the House." Enough said. The man was part of an underground anti-Nazi resistance group while in hiding in Nazi Germany. I think he knows what he's talking about.
As much fun as it is to watch a two-hour-long movie on a 480x272 screen on a battery that might die if you have to rewind too often, it's extremely aggravating to be pigeonholed into a single media viewing system. As for their complaints about copying DVDs to the memory stick: if they're DVDs I own, Sony hasn't lost any money from me. Yes, movie piracy is a problem, but many people can't be bothered to download a 700MB movie, compress it to PSP size with PSP codecs, then watch it in grainy, blurry pictures.
Ah yes, the infamous "extra content" price gouging. Gotta love it.