There are plenty of No-mem NiM batteries that take rapid charging without killing the battery or reducing the power capacity. Granted this results in a lower overall storage capacity (only 2000 mAh compared to an Energizer's 2650 mAh) but a far more reliable battery. I have a few made by Lenmar, and they've been rock solid in my 10-minute charger for well over 5 years, now.
I don't know about you but I get all my mashups from Club Bootie, and they've certainly not had any litigation being put against them for IP violations.
Nope, we're just using fake gift cards that work for iTunes. No need to worry about DRM when it's much easier fucking over their authentication server.
The actual 80GB PS3 weighs 2kg more because there's actua PS2 hardware inside. It was not software emulation, otherwise every console would have had it installed. It was a purely hardware cost.
Just FYI I've taken my 80GB apart and physically compared it with my friend's 60GB model. There is more hardware in the 80GB model, plus you can see the old Emotion Engine processor sitting right above the main SPU array.
Actually, no. One of my jobs was a Laptop Repair instructor - my job was to teach new hires, which ranged from 18 years-old asian high school graduates to 50+ years-old black women that couldn't program a VCR, how to diagnose and repair laptop hardware issues, and how to determine if it is even a hardware issue at all.
With the right knowledge about how to turn a technical term into a layman's term, you can teach anybody anything without confusion. I turned the training period around from their 6 weeks down to two weeks and still maintained equivalent repair records. There's still very likely that 50+ year old black woman working there, too, still can't program a VCR but can easily tell you if you fried some hardware or if your software is the issue.
And yes, she knows Linux is a kernel, not an OS.
How'd I explain it to her? The kernel is the seed from which all computer operations grow.
Didn't take her long to piece the rest together with that one sentence in her head.
Something LIKE that, yes. I didn't know about that article. I did comparisons of Fallout 3 across my friend's 360, my PS3, and my laptop. My laptop renders far more than either system, and it's by far less powerful than either system.
Going all heuristics is nonsense. If they went that route we'd have millions of people going "What the fuck? This scanner just detected my saved outlook file as a virus!" and all because of some algorithm that THINKS what you just did might be viral code.
256MB of RAM is just fine, considering it's XDR RAM that blows away just about anything you have in your desktop or laptop RIGHT NOW. Hell it almost beats out GDDR4. 256MB of XDR is like having 2GB of PC2-5300, if only Sony would open the damned platform up.
Guess you don't own Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the Wii.
I don't care much for DragonBall but this game ROCKS. There is no fighting game with anywhere near as smooth gameplay. And this is true three-dimensional fighting. In the air, under water, on the ground, in space. The Wiimote actually uses the accelerometers and positional sensors so you actually have to mimic some moves in order to use them, and it's a bit more intuitive than using a regular controller.
By comparison, I played MK vs DC, and it BLOWS. The novelty of new fatalities wears off quickly (Joker's fatality FTW,) and then there's not much else going for the game.
Except the problem you mention for the PS3 exists in the 360 as well.
The GPU blows. Fallout 3 on PS3 and 360 can't even render a fucking fence.
My LAPTOP can render the fucking fence. These systems are supposed to be more dedicated for gaming than my laptop, better for gaming than my laptop, yet my laptop beats them in both higher resolutions and more detail, with a more solid framerate. Assassin's Creed ran like glass in max everything on my laptop, on the PS3 it would get laggy, or run too fast and tearing would show on the screen.
And that, my friend, is what I call absolute BULLSHIT.
Neighbor has gone through every board revision for his 360. RROD still happens. He comes over to play my PS3 for GTA and Assassin's Creed. Now he wants one.
There is a good reason I won't touch Microsoft 'hardware' and that is because Microsoft is a software company. They can barely get an OS working, let alone get their hardware to work with their own OS (Lifecam installations are near impossible under Vistax64) so I sure wouldn't trust stand-alone hardware from them.
My neighbor is just anecdotal evidence but add in my medical pot distributor having the same issues and that's more than enough to convince me that I made the right choice staying away from them.
Hell, I only had one issue with my Wii, and that was caused by Super Smash Bros. That only took a week to get fixed, and I have had no issue since.
Also, all of my consoles are in a cabinet, behind the heat-emitting 32" LCD. PS3, Wii, and PS2. I bet a 360 wouldn't survive back there, but my other consoles have done just fine.
One of my pals here in SoCal is getting closer and closer to destroying the hypervisor restrictions. He's managed to get a few commands directly to GPU and memory, and once he figures out how to get all commands to it (although from what I'm told there is a performance hit of about 40%, for reasons I'm not technically competent enough to understand,) then it's going to be a much more fun system to play with. Hell, if I could run games and whatnot through the PS3 with Linux I'd unhook my PC from the TV and just let the PS3 handle it instead. There is serious power potential in the PS3. Sony should have unlocked it and dropped the price another 50 bucks. I'm willing to bet that would have a LOT of new customers coming to it.
All politicians in today's political theater are greedy capitalist morons that have fucked our lives, our economy, and our welfare for their own profit, with MAYBE an exception for the Governator, simply because he acts like a man and tells other politicians and people to quit their bitching, man up, and do some real work instead of trying to shift the blame towards whatever minority is in current disfavor.
Every last one of them should be strung up, again with an exception for Arnold.
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There are plenty of No-mem NiM batteries that take rapid charging without killing the battery or reducing the power capacity. Granted this results in a lower overall storage capacity (only 2000 mAh compared to an Energizer's 2650 mAh) but a far more reliable battery. I have a few made by Lenmar, and they've been rock solid in my 10-minute charger for well over 5 years, now.
I don't know about you but I get all my mashups from Club Bootie, and they've certainly not had any litigation being put against them for IP violations.
No, we do what we originally did - we take up arms and we set and example to the rest by blowing their fucking heads off.
You can't buy back what was never sold. We are enslaved, the only way out is uprising.
Nope, we're just using fake gift cards that work for iTunes. No need to worry about DRM when it's much easier fucking over their authentication server.
Only reason for that is "Marketing." Marketing almost always leaves educated things set aside and unmentioned in order to get it 'sold.'
The actual 80GB PS3 weighs 2kg more because there's actua PS2 hardware inside. It was not software emulation, otherwise every console would have had it installed. It was a purely hardware cost.
Just FYI I've taken my 80GB apart and physically compared it with my friend's 60GB model. There is more hardware in the 80GB model, plus you can see the old Emotion Engine processor sitting right above the main SPU array.
Actually, no. One of my jobs was a Laptop Repair instructor - my job was to teach new hires, which ranged from 18 years-old asian high school graduates to 50+ years-old black women that couldn't program a VCR, how to diagnose and repair laptop hardware issues, and how to determine if it is even a hardware issue at all.
With the right knowledge about how to turn a technical term into a layman's term, you can teach anybody anything without confusion. I turned the training period around from their 6 weeks down to two weeks and still maintained equivalent repair records. There's still very likely that 50+ year old black woman working there, too, still can't program a VCR but can easily tell you if you fried some hardware or if your software is the issue.
And yes, she knows Linux is a kernel, not an OS.
How'd I explain it to her? The kernel is the seed from which all computer operations grow.
Didn't take her long to piece the rest together with that one sentence in her head.
Something LIKE that, yes. I didn't know about that article. I did comparisons of Fallout 3 across my friend's 360, my PS3, and my laptop. My laptop renders far more than either system, and it's by far less powerful than either system.
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Make their lines so busy they don't have a choice but to answer us.
"Maybe a virus that got out of control in their labs."
More likely than you think. Way more likely than you think. These guys likely write viruses in order to sell anti-virus software.
My OS certainly doesn't get Malware.
MinuetOS FTW. You can't fucking TOUCH me.
Going all heuristics is nonsense. If they went that route we'd have millions of people going "What the fuck? This scanner just detected my saved outlook file as a virus!" and all because of some algorithm that THINKS what you just did might be viral code.
Slang does nothing but serve to confuse.
"LINUX OS"
Doesn't exist. Linux is the Kernel. Windows doesn't run a Windows Kernel, it runs an NT Kernel.
Buy the 80GB model, which does allow you to play PS2 games, natively as they added the hardware.
Your $50 PC isn't pumping 2 TFLOPS.
256MB of RAM is just fine, considering it's XDR RAM that blows away just about anything you have in your desktop or laptop RIGHT NOW. Hell it almost beats out GDDR4. 256MB of XDR is like having 2GB of PC2-5300, if only Sony would open the damned platform up.
Guess you don't own Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the Wii.
I don't care much for DragonBall but this game ROCKS. There is no fighting game with anywhere near as smooth gameplay. And this is true three-dimensional fighting. In the air, under water, on the ground, in space. The Wiimote actually uses the accelerometers and positional sensors so you actually have to mimic some moves in order to use them, and it's a bit more intuitive than using a regular controller.
By comparison, I played MK vs DC, and it BLOWS. The novelty of new fatalities wears off quickly (Joker's fatality FTW,) and then there's not much else going for the game.
Except the problem you mention for the PS3 exists in the 360 as well.
The GPU blows. Fallout 3 on PS3 and 360 can't even render a fucking fence.
My LAPTOP can render the fucking fence. These systems are supposed to be more dedicated for gaming than my laptop, better for gaming than my laptop, yet my laptop beats them in both higher resolutions and more detail, with a more solid framerate. Assassin's Creed ran like glass in max everything on my laptop, on the PS3 it would get laggy, or run too fast and tearing would show on the screen.
And that, my friend, is what I call absolute BULLSHIT.
Nope.
Neighbor has gone through every board revision for his 360. RROD still happens. He comes over to play my PS3 for GTA and Assassin's Creed. Now he wants one.
There is a good reason I won't touch Microsoft 'hardware' and that is because Microsoft is a software company. They can barely get an OS working, let alone get their hardware to work with their own OS (Lifecam installations are near impossible under Vistax64) so I sure wouldn't trust stand-alone hardware from them.
My neighbor is just anecdotal evidence but add in my medical pot distributor having the same issues and that's more than enough to convince me that I made the right choice staying away from them.
Hell, I only had one issue with my Wii, and that was caused by Super Smash Bros. That only took a week to get fixed, and I have had no issue since.
Also, all of my consoles are in a cabinet, behind the heat-emitting 32" LCD. PS3, Wii, and PS2. I bet a 360 wouldn't survive back there, but my other consoles have done just fine.
One of my pals here in SoCal is getting closer and closer to destroying the hypervisor restrictions. He's managed to get a few commands directly to GPU and memory, and once he figures out how to get all commands to it (although from what I'm told there is a performance hit of about 40%, for reasons I'm not technically competent enough to understand,) then it's going to be a much more fun system to play with. Hell, if I could run games and whatnot through the PS3 with Linux I'd unhook my PC from the TV and just let the PS3 handle it instead. There is serious power potential in the PS3. Sony should have unlocked it and dropped the price another 50 bucks. I'm willing to bet that would have a LOT of new customers coming to it.
Hell, that's why it's almost pointless for noobs to ask for help when they try Linux.
The Founding Fathers who had lots of foresight and saw this coming but NEVER put in effective protections against the erosion of our rights.
All politicians in today's political theater are greedy capitalist morons that have fucked our lives, our economy, and our welfare for their own profit, with MAYBE an exception for the Governator, simply because he acts like a man and tells other politicians and people to quit their bitching, man up, and do some real work instead of trying to shift the blame towards whatever minority is in current disfavor.
Every last one of them should be strung up, again with an exception for Arnold.
Really we shouldn't have to discuss this any further - the political affiliation alone should tell us all we need to know.
Just speaking as the last surviving member of the Party of Common Sense that Benjamin Franklin created.