I think the US should change from "we only care about economics and hate to pay for others" into something more responsible.
Nothing like a blanket generalization about an entire nation of people...A great deal of us are responsible here, do care about the environment, and try to recycle as much as possible.
A great deal of us are also sick of hearing from other nationals about how much the US and Americans suck, and can pretty much do no right anywhere...
I'm sure you don't like generalizations and ignorant comments about your nation...
Pot meet kettle...
If I had any mod points today, I would have just hit you with some flamebait and left it at that...
Hopefully, this story will reduce the amount of people randomly bashing Sony (and how their PS3 will "obviously" fail) for no reason. Right now I'm just happy for Sony and the rate of sales they've had. Aren't you?
Kutaragi-san, don't you have better places to be right now than the slashdot forums?! You should be working on production issues, better developer tools, and lack of strong launch titles...
I could see getting moderated overrated, but how the hell does this get modded troll? Obviously by someone who hasn't been on slashdot long enough to see the story about the old people in Korea who are the only ones still using email...
I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on some of these issues, but I will agree with you 100% on upgrades under Windows. They're ill advised under the best of circumstances. A clean install is always the way to go with Windows.
The smoothness of the installation and support are directly connected with how well your hardware vendor supports your OS.
The point is that hardware support is a lot more robust in an XP environment. That's why XP in general does NOT suck as much as Linux to install and tweak.
Installing and tweeking Windows sucks just as hard as Linux.
You must be using a version of XP that I'm not familiar with. Even if you are building a system from scratch running XP, it is generally as easy as installing XP from the CD, and putting a CD with drivers into the CDROM drive that came with the motherboard.
After that, if updates are turned on, XP grabs patches and service packs, and getting Nvidia or ATI drivers updated is straightforward.
XP will install on almost any configuration of hardware; knock M$, but the hardware support is excellent.
In my own experience, Ubuntu installed very easy and is a great distro. It's when something doesn't go right that Linux ends up being a real bitch for those not in the know.
As someone who does a lot of PC gaming, I find myself between a rock and a hard place on Vista. I have no interest in upgrading based on the feature set other than DirectX10, and have installed Ubuntu on a second machine. I have found Linux to be more than adequate for most applications, but severely lacking as a gaming platform. Even though I have a technical background, I also don't want to spend a lot of time tweaking to get games to work on an OS.
I plan on sticking with XP for gaming for as long as humanly possible, but am disgusted by the future of the MS platform on so many levels including this EULA and the OS level DRM.
I guess there's no easy answer here (other than to hope for a cracked/stripped version of Vista and violate copyright law), but I felt like venting.
Why is everyone so up in arms about upgrading? Its only $450
You're joking, right? Some of us don't have that kind of cash to throw around on an unproven DRM laden OS that has been gutted of almost every cool feature that was originally supposed to go into it.
Vista is much better than XP, by far.
Care to elaborate on this point? Other than the eye candy, and DirectX 10 (more eye candy), what reason is there to get excited about Vista? XP at this point is a very stable, relatively secure OS with a solid feature set. Again, I'd ask, what exactly does Vista bring to the table that makes upgrading worthwhile?
It's a pretty sad day when this type of "news" makes the front page of/. How is this story worthy of the front page, even for Mac fans?! I have to believe the editors can do better than this...
I don't understand why people get mad at "$600 gaming systems" when it's just a factor of what the unit is. Sony would love to sell the machine for $50, but the fact is, they can't. They're already selling you a machine that cost them more than $600 to make!...gaming machines are actually one of the few items out there where you are actually getting more than you pay for. It's hardly a sign of corporate arrogance or greed (well... you can get to the greed part when you look at the profits of the games, but not the machine itself).
People get mad at it for a few reasons. First of all, a $600 pricepoint has never been close to a success in the home console market (I feel the ghost of my old 3DO circling as I write this). I was personally dumb enough to pay that much once in the case of 3DO. It ain't happening again. Consoles are for playing videogames. There was no need for Sony to build in Blue Ray technology in their latest system. From a gamer's perspective, it makes no sense. I also don't see what going with a completely new processor design ala the Cell is getting them other than low production yields at high cost, and a programming nightmare. Sony did not need to build a system that is going to cost $600 to be successful in this round of the console wars.
The second reason is the fact that $600 buys you a lot of gaming hardware on a PC system. I personally love console gaming, but I've got a gaming PC rig that can handle anything the PS3 can judging from screenshots and impressions, and it does a whole lot of other things better.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but M$ has done most things right with the Xbox360. Sony should have taken a page from their playbook on this one.
I also seriously doubt that Sony would like to sell machines for $50. They'd love to find a way to make them for $50 and sell them for whatever the market would bear.
The easiest thing to do is to lockdown the user account that the students use. It is unacceptable from a security standpoint to allow them access to more than being able to run simple preinstalled apps like Firefox, MS Office, etc.
It sounds like you're not running on a domain based on the fact that it is a simple 'limited' account.
I'm not really in a position to go into the details of XP security in a quick reply, but it is possible to lockdown a user account very tightly in XP on a domain.
In a corporate environment, users typically can't even install things like print drivers without admin rights.
The one that used to actually make great TVs, decent quality, feature rich consumer electronics devices, revolutionized and revived console gaming with the PSX, after revolutionizing portable music with the walkman?!
Didn't think so!
Ever since Sony acquired large media properties, the old Sony has been slowly dismantled piece by piece, as one horrible business decision after another is foisted on the consumer by the influence of the media divisions. If Sony wasn't so concerned about defending their media units (dvds,cds,film,etc.), we wouldn't have had things like the root kit fiasco, crippled MP3 players, and $600 gaming systems. We also might have a company that focuses on what they did best, delivering consumer electronics to a willing market.
This is just the latest in a string of strong arm tactics from a company that has lost its roots and its way. Apparently, hitting them in the wallet is the only chance of getting them to change. Maybe if the PS3 flops, they will be forced to reexamine their structure and strategy.
I'm all for the calls of BOYCOTT! I wasn't going to buy an overpriced PS3 anyways, but I'm not going to be buying other Sony products either.
Lik-Sang was a great, quirky outfit. They'll be sorely missed!
I am a big fan of Firefox in terms of philosophy and features, but have been driven to Opera (which I actually prefer for most things) due to the ridiculous amounts of memory that Firefox consumes.
With multiple tabs open, I can routinely see Firefox over the course of a day or two of remaining open consume upwards of 900K, and it will continue to grow until it is shutdown and restarted.
This is a serious issue for many Windows Firefox users, and the developers seem either unwilling or unable to focus on fixing it. This should have been the number one priority for version 2 in my opinion. It results in a shoddy product that would be unacceptable in a commercial application.
Why is it that this elephant just sits in the room while FF developers pretend it's not there.
Restarting an application should not be the solution to any problem, let alone one this serious.
It's widespread and should have been addressed a long time ago!
Saying that, my new company recently decided that I must take lunch at 12pm rather than 1pm and that was enough for me to accept interviews at other companies.
I have not RTFA, but how does a GPS reciever transfer Google Maps map data to the PSP? That smells suspiciously like bullshit.
Maybe you should try RTFA since it tells you it's through the serial port. It's a nice piece of coding. Nice to call bullshit without even looking at the guy's work. Oh wait, this is slashdot...
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Nothing like a blanket generalization about an entire nation of people...A great deal of us are responsible here, do care about the environment, and try to recycle as much as possible.
A great deal of us are also sick of hearing from other nationals about how much the US and Americans suck, and can pretty much do no right anywhere...
I'm sure you don't like generalizations and ignorant comments about your nation...
Pot meet kettle...
If I had any mod points today, I would have just hit you with some flamebait and left it at that...
Kutaragi-san, don't you have better places to be right now than the slashdot forums?! You should be working on production issues, better developer tools, and lack of strong launch titles...
I don't know that it's a great idea for guys either, unless you consider anal rape a win win situation.
I don't know that it's a great idea for guys either, unless you consider anal rape a win win situation.
I don't know that it's a great idea for guys either, unless you consider anal rape a win win situation.
I don't know that it's a great idea for guys either, unless you consider anal rape a win win situation.
I could see getting moderated overrated, but how the hell does this get modded troll? Obviously by someone who hasn't been on slashdot long enough to see the story about the old people in Korea who are the only ones still using email...
In Korea, only old people bully on the internet...
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=444 1
I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on some of these issues, but I will agree with you 100% on upgrades under Windows. They're ill advised under the best of circumstances. A clean install is always the way to go with Windows.
The point is that hardware support is a lot more robust in an XP environment. That's why XP in general does NOT suck as much as Linux to install and tweak.
You must be using a version of XP that I'm not familiar with. Even if you are building a system from scratch running XP, it is generally as easy as installing XP from the CD, and putting a CD with drivers into the CDROM drive that came with the motherboard.
After that, if updates are turned on, XP grabs patches and service packs, and getting Nvidia or ATI drivers updated is straightforward.
XP will install on almost any configuration of hardware; knock M$, but the hardware support is excellent.
In my own experience, Ubuntu installed very easy and is a great distro. It's when something doesn't go right that Linux ends up being a real bitch for those not in the know.
As someone who does a lot of PC gaming, I find myself between a rock and a hard place on Vista. I have no interest in upgrading based on the feature set other than DirectX10, and have installed Ubuntu on a second machine. I have found Linux to be more than adequate for most applications, but severely lacking as a gaming platform. Even though I have a technical background, I also don't want to spend a lot of time tweaking to get games to work on an OS. I plan on sticking with XP for gaming for as long as humanly possible, but am disgusted by the future of the MS platform on so many levels including this EULA and the OS level DRM. I guess there's no easy answer here (other than to hope for a cracked/stripped version of Vista and violate copyright law), but I felt like venting.
You're joking, right? Some of us don't have that kind of cash to throw around on an unproven DRM laden OS that has been gutted of almost every cool feature that was originally supposed to go into it.
Vista is much better than XP, by far.
Care to elaborate on this point? Other than the eye candy, and DirectX 10 (more eye candy), what reason is there to get excited about Vista? XP at this point is a very stable, relatively secure OS with a solid feature set. Again, I'd ask, what exactly does Vista bring to the table that makes upgrading worthwhile?
Nice to see this modded offtopic, even though it directly addresses the topic...Guess it's nothing but Mac fanbois on the mod squad today...
Spoken like a true /. milquetoast.
It's a pretty sad day when this type of "news" makes the front page of /. How is this story worthy of the front page, even for Mac fans?! I have to believe the editors can do better than this...
Let off some steam, Bennett!
People get mad at it for a few reasons. First of all, a $600 pricepoint has never been close to a success in the home console market (I feel the ghost of my old 3DO circling as I write this). I was personally dumb enough to pay that much once in the case of 3DO. It ain't happening again. Consoles are for playing videogames. There was no need for Sony to build in Blue Ray technology in their latest system. From a gamer's perspective, it makes no sense. I also don't see what going with a completely new processor design ala the Cell is getting them other than low production yields at high cost, and a programming nightmare. Sony did not need to build a system that is going to cost $600 to be successful in this round of the console wars.
The second reason is the fact that $600 buys you a lot of gaming hardware on a PC system. I personally love console gaming, but I've got a gaming PC rig that can handle anything the PS3 can judging from screenshots and impressions, and it does a whole lot of other things better.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but M$ has done most things right with the Xbox360. Sony should have taken a page from their playbook on this one.
I also seriously doubt that Sony would like to sell machines for $50. They'd love to find a way to make them for $50 and sell them for whatever the market would bear.
The easiest thing to do is to lockdown the user account that the students use. It is unacceptable from a security standpoint to allow them access to more than being able to run simple preinstalled apps like Firefox, MS Office, etc. It sounds like you're not running on a domain based on the fact that it is a simple 'limited' account. I'm not really in a position to go into the details of XP security in a quick reply, but it is possible to lockdown a user account very tightly in XP on a domain. In a corporate environment, users typically can't even install things like print drivers without admin rights.
Didn't think so!
Ever since Sony acquired large media properties, the old Sony has been slowly dismantled piece by piece, as one horrible business decision after another is foisted on the consumer by the influence of the media divisions. If Sony wasn't so concerned about defending their media units (dvds,cds,film,etc.), we wouldn't have had things like the root kit fiasco, crippled MP3 players, and $600 gaming systems. We also might have a company that focuses on what they did best, delivering consumer electronics to a willing market.
This is just the latest in a string of strong arm tactics from a company that has lost its roots and its way. Apparently, hitting them in the wallet is the only chance of getting them to change. Maybe if the PS3 flops, they will be forced to reexamine their structure and strategy.
I'm all for the calls of BOYCOTT! I wasn't going to buy an overpriced PS3 anyways, but I'm not going to be buying other Sony products either.
Lik-Sang was a great, quirky outfit. They'll be sorely missed!
For the record, I actually meant 900 megs in the original post, not 900K...but I like the cut of your gib...
I am a big fan of Firefox in terms of philosophy and features, but have been driven to Opera (which I actually prefer for most things) due to the ridiculous amounts of memory that Firefox consumes. With multiple tabs open, I can routinely see Firefox over the course of a day or two of remaining open consume upwards of 900K, and it will continue to grow until it is shutdown and restarted. This is a serious issue for many Windows Firefox users, and the developers seem either unwilling or unable to focus on fixing it. This should have been the number one priority for version 2 in my opinion. It results in a shoddy product that would be unacceptable in a commercial application. Why is it that this elephant just sits in the room while FF developers pretend it's not there. Restarting an application should not be the solution to any problem, let alone one this serious. It's widespread and should have been addressed a long time ago!
Quite the primadonna, isn't we?!
Maybe you should try RTFA since it tells you it's through the serial port. It's a nice piece of coding. Nice to call bullshit without even looking at the guy's work. Oh wait, this is slashdot...