I really don't understand why people go on and on about the PS3's price.
It retails for $499 usd
Not $700, not $800, not whatever other made-up numbers people use (although yes, europe got screwed here as usual).
What do you get for that price?
$800 worth of hardware.
Hardware that no other console has. Hdmi, standard high capacity optical drive, user replaceable hard drive, in a package that has had essentially no manufacturing defects.
Yeah, its expensive, but it's a lot of machine for the money. If you don't want to pay for it, don't buy it, but stop acting like sony owes you a cheaper machine.
This license is drafted poorly. Legal writing doesn't require the use of passive voice, run on sentences, and long strings of conditionals.
See http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm for examples of legal writing that doesn't assault the reader.
How many guitar hero controllers do you think have been sold?
Oh, that's right, the Guitar hero II / guitar controller bundle has been selling near 1 million units per month.
Yup, add-ons are doomed to fail . . .
I had consistent sync / handshake problems with a 37w1.
Westinghouse blamed it on the Ps3, despite obvious evidence to the contrary (would sync fine 100% of the time on one port, but with image artifacts; would only sync 10% of the time on the other)
Thankfully best buy took the set back.
I tested the ps3 on every other brand I could find in store, worked fine.
Big shock, new technology is implemented shoddily by cut-rate companies.
Does zonk hire people to post this fud in every Sony article? How did this get modded up?
The ps3 won't convert 720p to 1080i. That's the only conversion issue, and it may be fixed with firmware update. In other words, if you're playing a 720p game on a 720p set, no problem, 1080i game on a 1080i set, no problem, etc etc.
As for '1080p tvs are still very expensive', 37" 1080p lcds can be had for under a grand now. If you're buying a ps3, that is not 'very expensive'.
God of war II comes out next February. There were PSX games being released well into, what, 2004 ? Expect the ps2 to be around for a while, unlike the xbox.
Oh, and zonk? You might want to learn what "pull out the stops" means.
We will surely see more clashes between copyright claims and 'really free' distros such as Debian.
Except that this seems to be a clash over potential trademark claims. I realize that not all slashdot editors are lawyers, but haven't yall learned by now to distinguish between different forms of IP?
Wow, I guess I'm just hallucinating the following error message then:
[ERROR] Failed to install 'Test::WWW::Mechanize' as prerequisite for 'Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst'
[ERROR] Unable to satisfy prerequisites for 'Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst' -- aborting install
[ERROR] Unable to create a new distribution object for 'Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst' -- cannot continue
...after doing perl -MCPAN -e 'install Task::Catalyst' as suggested by the Catalyst intro docs, and choosing what seemed to be sensible options for installing optional packages including testing (included in ruby / rails by default).
Funny you mention that - just today I (tried to) install Catalyst. 3 hours of banging on CPAN, circular dependencies, WWW::Mechanize failing tests . . .
. . . so I noticed that RoR had hit 1.0, decided to install & play with it instead. gem install rails --include-dependencies, 10 minutes, up and running. I like perl, dont get me wrong, but the catalyst folks need to work on the installation issues . . .
It "goes without saying" because running the program is outside the scope of the GPL. If you have a program on some computer-readable medium, you don't need anyone's permission to feed that program into an appropriate compiler/interpreter, any more than you need someone's permission to feed the program into a text editor.
If 'anyone' is the holder of a relevant patent, you may very well need permission to feed that program into an appropriate compiler/interpreter.
If the FSF can't even write the process definition in clear english, how do they expect to clarify the license? From http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-process.pdf :
Our cardinal principal is to make no change impeding any of the four basic
freedoms for software users that the free software movement enshrined in
GPL version 2: to run, study, copy, modify and redistribute software.
Wow, that sure looks like a list of FIVE 'freedoms'. Then later:
(It
goes without saying that people have the freedom to run a program under
the GPL.)
Oh, okay, so then 'run' isnt really one of the 'freedoms', but it 'goes without saying' that I can excercise it anyway. I don't know about you, but I'm not real excited by the prospect of a license written by people who assume that a fundamental permission 'goes without saying'.
At the time, the common usage of those words referred to something else - "useful arts" was essentially what we would consider science and engineering today, while "science" essentially meant human knowledge in any field, including music or visual art.
"Their answer is "Not much," because they know from their own work how robust wild ecologies are in defending against new genes, no matter how exotic"
"The second greatest cause of extinctions is coming from invasive species, where no solution is in sight. Kudzu takes over the American South, brown tree snakes take over Guam . .."
So why is kudzu a problem if wild ecologies are so good at defending against new genes?
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I really don't understand why people go on and on about the PS3's price.
It retails for $499 usd
Not $700, not $800, not whatever other made-up numbers people use (although yes, europe got screwed here as usual).
What do you get for that price?
$800 worth of hardware.
Hardware that no other console has. Hdmi, standard high capacity optical drive, user replaceable hard drive, in a package that has had essentially no manufacturing defects.
Yeah, its expensive, but it's a lot of machine for the money. If you don't want to pay for it, don't buy it, but stop acting like sony owes you a cheaper machine.
This license is drafted poorly. Legal writing doesn't require the use of passive voice, run on sentences, and long strings of conditionals. See http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm for examples of legal writing that doesn't assault the reader.
$500 piece of hardware.
And unlike the ps2, the ps3 is a better player than the other standalone units available at the time.
How many guitar hero controllers do you think have been sold? Oh, that's right, the Guitar hero II / guitar controller bundle has been selling near 1 million units per month. Yup, add-ons are doomed to fail . . .
I had consistent sync / handshake problems with a 37w1. Westinghouse blamed it on the Ps3, despite obvious evidence to the contrary (would sync fine 100% of the time on one port, but with image artifacts; would only sync 10% of the time on the other) Thankfully best buy took the set back. I tested the ps3 on every other brand I could find in store, worked fine.
Big shock, new technology is implemented shoddily by cut-rate companies.
Good luck finding a computer that quiet for less than $499 . . . much less one with a blu-ray drive.
Does zonk hire people to post this fud in every Sony article? How did this get modded up?
The ps3 won't convert 720p to 1080i. That's the only conversion issue, and it may be fixed with firmware update. In other words, if you're playing a 720p game on a 720p set, no problem, 1080i game on a 1080i set, no problem, etc etc.
As for '1080p tvs are still very expensive', 37" 1080p lcds can be had for under a grand now. If you're buying a ps3, that is not 'very expensive'.
God of war II comes out next February. There were PSX games being released well into, what, 2004 ? Expect the ps2 to be around for a while, unlike the xbox.
Oh, and zonk? You might want to learn what "pull out the stops" means.
We will surely see more clashes between copyright claims and 'really free' distros such as Debian.
Except that this seems to be a clash over potential trademark claims. I realize that not all slashdot editors are lawyers, but haven't yall learned by now to distinguish between different forms of IP?
. . . so I noticed that RoR had hit 1.0, decided to install & play with it instead. gem install rails --include-dependencies, 10 minutes, up and running. I like perl, dont get me wrong, but the catalyst folks need to work on the installation issues . . .
use Smart::Comments;
### Expected: "a bunch o stuff" Got: $stuff
. . . and have debugging statements that are easier to write, can be turned off in one place, and don't waste efficiency checking a bunch of conditionals.0 .1/lib/Smart/Comments.pm
see http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Smart-Comments-1.
At the time, the common usage of those words referred to something else - "useful arts" was essentially what we would consider science and engineering today, while "science" essentially meant human knowledge in any field, including music or visual art.
Or in anyone's lifetime. Turing ring any bells?
"Their answer is "Not much," because they know from their own work how robust wild ecologies are in defending against new genes, no matter how exotic"
"The second greatest cause of extinctions is coming from invasive species, where no solution is in sight. Kudzu takes over the American South, brown tree snakes take over Guam . . ."
So why is kudzu a problem if wild ecologies are so good at defending against new genes?
Hilarious. Notice the "Kuriyama"?
Somehow, I think your Japanese is much more laughable than his/her English.