Let's see, I've been bitten in the ass by their rootkits on audio CDs, DRM on some of their PC games, I just finished busting EA's balls over Spore's DRM, and now this happens.
Sorry, when you sell software as a SERVICE, you need to be held to a SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT.
If I would sue, I would only sue to have that pretty much codified into law, damn the money.
Problem is I scrolled through the thing resetting my time and date - the PS3 fat can't roll over to Feb 29th 2010, I've tried it - so the bug might be on the other end.
If so, maybe the new slim models have the same bug?
Dunno about Blu-ray movies, but I know my Netflix disc won't work. None of the $2,000 in games I bought work (every single one has trophies/achievements.)
Also, try to play that game, it wipes your trophies. Hopefully those will come back once the servers fix themselves.
This is what they get for making varying hardware in the first place. They should have introduced ONE MODEL, with backwards compatibility all the way through. Leave in EVERY ADVERTISED FEATURE EVER, and ship a solid unit. Don't make different hardware revisions just to save money - they cut corners somewhere along the way and it is starting to come back to bite them in the ass.
There really needs to just be a massive uprising against Sony in court - they've rootkitted our PCs, they've given us crap invasive DRM, they've advertised one feature (BC) and stripped it from 100% hardware to part hardware part software in the next revision, then to full software in the next, and then pulled it totally the next hardware refresh, and now with the PS3 slim advertising campaign they're saying right on the kiosk wall in Best Buy "It does everything" when in fact it does NOTHING close to what the original did. IT IS PURE AND SIMPLE FALSE AND MISLEADING ADVERTISING, and they need the shit sued out of them so they'll NOT DO IT AGAIN. Screw the money - we can sue for a full injunction, and force specifically SCEA to stop operating in the USA until they get the consumers what they originally were advertised on TV, in magazines, - a PS3 with BC and the ability to install another OS. Damn hard drive size, since we can upgrade that ourselves. Give us the hardware and quit trying to dictate everything in our damned lives.
"Jesus fuck. Suing over temporarily not being able to play a game?"
It's more than that - I can't use my Netflix disc - there is NOTHING to do with trophies on that. Every single game I have has some sort of trophy involved, so I'm essentially stuck with $2,000 worth of games I CAN'T PLAY, not what i wanted, especially since I'm on playthrough #22 of Heavy Rain.
The only thing that works, is internet browsing, and playstation 1 games - EVERYTHING ELSE is busted (except my linux install, that works no problemo, and thanks to hypervisor cracking, much much better!)
So I'm stuck with essentially an overpowered PSX with a web browser. For those that paid near $700 at launch (and still have it functional, with BC) they're stuck with a PSX/2 and web browser.
Haven't tried blu-ray movies, don't own any - have yet to find one I like that outputs at 1080p. All the ones I've tried are 720p, from four different rental places.
Got news for you - Doom had one of the most flexible engines for its time. Couple that with external WAD support and you had HUNDREDS of Doom clones. Aliens TC is one that comes to mind.
Vista constantly ate itself. NTLDR would just disappear from the system (even booting with a LiveCD and looking for it turned up nothing) at random. It was a total POS for me, and I was using nothing but big-company hardware. I tried different hard drives and even an additional SATA controller in case my onboard controller was fubar'd, kept getting Vista eating itself. I formatted, installed XP, hacked the video.INF to make it work, and that was that, no issues.
Same technique you'd use for filleting any fish rapidly. Ten seconds in boiling water, pin head to cutting board, cut behind the gills down to the spine, slit down the belly (if not pre-cleaned) cut both sides of the tail, slide the front third of the knife under the loosened skin (heat rendering fat makes this happen) and off it comes. Put knife to tail, slice fillets to the cut to the gill.
Less than 40 seconds overall for even big carp. Learned that cleaning trout and catfish in Louisiana before I ever had a job.
Sure, but since you said Macbook, we're upping the ante and going with my $779 DV7
Dual-core 2.5GHz AMD Turion II AMD880 plus ATi Radeon HD4200 4GB DDR3 HDMI/VGA out 17" LED backlit screen Webcam Remote Control Dual Hard Drive Bays Blu-Ray E-SATA 4USB 2.0 ports Wireless n Memory Card Reader Full Keyboard with 10-key pad Expansion port
You have to pay extra to get half of those features that come standard on my laptop.
"You've obviously never actually filleted a fish or used a fillet knife."
You've obviosuly never worked in an oriental restaurant. They use one knife for EVERYTHING.
Watch Iron Chef (the originals) - many of the professionals there have one large santoku for practically everything. That's a stiff knife, pal. One guy came in with a HUGE 18" blade, and did DECORATIVE CARVING in tiny vegetables.
If you don't know how to use your tool, you don't need to be wielding it.
Just speaking as someone whose first job at age 15 was as an apprenticed oriental chef.
"Who goes to the freaking OR for a simple broken arm?!?!"
*sighs* Boy Scouts should be a requirement for every child growing up. See, you learn about things like simple fractures, compound fractures, and how to assess severity of the break.
Then people would have half a clue about why many breaks require a trip to the OR.
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To reflect light, they'll likely be some sort of metal-embedded plastic film.
Plastic functions fine - the rest of the car, I can't testify to. >.>
Let's see, I've been bitten in the ass by their rootkits on audio CDs, DRM on some of their PC games, I just finished busting EA's balls over Spore's DRM, and now this happens.
Sorry, when you sell software as a SERVICE, you need to be held to a SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT.
If I would sue, I would only sue to have that pretty much codified into law, damn the money.
Problem is I scrolled through the thing resetting my time and date - the PS3 fat can't roll over to Feb 29th 2010, I've tried it - so the bug might be on the other end.
If so, maybe the new slim models have the same bug?
Fuck that, if they want to sell software as a service then it needs a service level agreement, 99.999999% uptime.
That needs to be written into law. NO IF ANDS OR BUTS. Write it that plain and simple, applied to all software sold by license.
My PSX games, actual PSX discs, work just fine.
Dunno about Blu-ray movies, but I know my Netflix disc won't work. None of the $2,000 in games I bought work (every single one has trophies/achievements.)
Also, try to play that game, it wipes your trophies. Hopefully those will come back once the servers fix themselves.
This is what they get for making varying hardware in the first place. They should have introduced ONE MODEL, with backwards compatibility all the way through. Leave in EVERY ADVERTISED FEATURE EVER, and ship a solid unit. Don't make different hardware revisions just to save money - they cut corners somewhere along the way and it is starting to come back to bite them in the ass.
There really needs to just be a massive uprising against Sony in court - they've rootkitted our PCs, they've given us crap invasive DRM, they've advertised one feature (BC) and stripped it from 100% hardware to part hardware part software in the next revision, then to full software in the next, and then pulled it totally the next hardware refresh, and now with the PS3 slim advertising campaign they're saying right on the kiosk wall in Best Buy "It does everything" when in fact it does NOTHING close to what the original did. IT IS PURE AND SIMPLE FALSE AND MISLEADING ADVERTISING, and they need the shit sued out of them so they'll NOT DO IT AGAIN. Screw the money - we can sue for a full injunction, and force specifically SCEA to stop operating in the USA until they get the consumers what they originally were advertised on TV, in magazines, - a PS3 with BC and the ability to install another OS. Damn hard drive size, since we can upgrade that ourselves. Give us the hardware and quit trying to dictate everything in our damned lives.
"Jesus fuck. Suing over temporarily not being able to play a game?"
It's more than that - I can't use my Netflix disc - there is NOTHING to do with trophies on that. Every single game I have has some sort of trophy involved, so I'm essentially stuck with $2,000 worth of games I CAN'T PLAY, not what i wanted, especially since I'm on playthrough #22 of Heavy Rain.
The only thing that works, is internet browsing, and playstation 1 games - EVERYTHING ELSE is busted (except my linux install, that works no problemo, and thanks to hypervisor cracking, much much better!)
So I'm stuck with essentially an overpowered PSX with a web browser. For those that paid near $700 at launch (and still have it functional, with BC) they're stuck with a PSX/2 and web browser.
Haven't tried blu-ray movies, don't own any - have yet to find one I like that outputs at 1080p. All the ones I've tried are 720p, from four different rental places.
Got news for you - Doom had one of the most flexible engines for its time. Couple that with external WAD support and you had HUNDREDS of Doom clones. Aliens TC is one that comes to mind.
That game HAS hundreds of clones.
Saturn vehicles. Body panels are solid plastic, and I know Saturn has been around since the 90s.
And if you wanted XP Professional you had to have Vista Business in order to get the Pro Downgrade.
Protip: Only faggots use numbers in place of letters.
You're not 1337, you're a goddamned tool.
"Don't you think a judge ought to know something about the field he is ruling in before he is allowed to make judgments there?"
Then big corporations would NEVER get what they wanted.
"And Vista wasn't bad at all."
Vista constantly ate itself. NTLDR would just disappear from the system (even booting with a LiveCD and looking for it turned up nothing) at random. It was a total POS for me, and I was using nothing but big-company hardware. I tried different hard drives and even an additional SATA controller in case my onboard controller was fubar'd, kept getting Vista eating itself. I formatted, installed XP, hacked the video .INF to make it work, and that was that, no issues.
"Except that once you've bought Vista, the downgrade to XP was free."
Not for anything lower than Professional, IIRC. If you had home/home premium/home basic you had to pay like a $50 downgrade fee.
AC isn't lying, I'll back it up. Even if you wrote your stuff on an old System32, you can run it on most any IBM machine today.
Most of my searches for reliable LED panel manufacturers end up with complete crap on Google.
Guess maybe certain topics are just spam-laden.
Insightful, Funny, and Informative mods need to be tossed upon you in droves.
Records include stored copies of Customer information.
Wasn't the data-retention law something like 7 years? I think it was Sarbanes-Oxley that stated that?
"Uh, tech economy's in the shitter, nobody's hiring unless you count Best Buy"
Maybe your specific area of the tech economy is in the shitter, but I'm sitting nice and happy in the specialized-application semiconductor sector.
"They don't exist."
If I weren't married I'd bone the shit out of a ten years younger Kim Komando.
Same technique you'd use for filleting any fish rapidly. Ten seconds in boiling water, pin head to cutting board, cut behind the gills down to the spine, slit down the belly (if not pre-cleaned) cut both sides of the tail, slide the front third of the knife under the loosened skin (heat rendering fat makes this happen) and off it comes. Put knife to tail, slice fillets to the cut to the gill.
Less than 40 seconds overall for even big carp. Learned that cleaning trout and catfish in Louisiana before I ever had a job.
Next question.
Can't share insight, I'm too busy telling kids to GTFO my lawn and forgetting where my Alzheimer's pills went.
Oh, and I forgot to mention - UPGRADABLE GRAPHICS CARD - MXM Type 3.
Fat chance getting that in a Mac!
Sure, but since you said Macbook, we're upping the ante and going with my $779 DV7
Dual-core 2.5GHz AMD Turion II
AMD880 plus ATi Radeon HD4200
4GB DDR3
HDMI/VGA out
17" LED backlit screen
Webcam
Remote Control
Dual Hard Drive Bays
Blu-Ray
E-SATA
4USB 2.0 ports
Wireless n
Memory Card Reader
Full Keyboard with 10-key pad
Expansion port
You have to pay extra to get half of those features that come standard on my laptop.
"You've obviously never actually filleted a fish or used a fillet knife."
You've obviosuly never worked in an oriental restaurant. They use one knife for EVERYTHING.
Watch Iron Chef (the originals) - many of the professionals there have one large santoku for practically everything. That's a stiff knife, pal. One guy came in with a HUGE 18" blade, and did DECORATIVE CARVING in tiny vegetables.
If you don't know how to use your tool, you don't need to be wielding it.
Just speaking as someone whose first job at age 15 was as an apprenticed oriental chef.
"Who goes to the freaking OR for a simple broken arm?!?!"
*sighs* Boy Scouts should be a requirement for every child growing up. See, you learn about things like simple fractures, compound fractures, and how to assess severity of the break.
Then people would have half a clue about why many breaks require a trip to the OR.