Nowhere near as dodgy as Microsoft buisness practices.
The Rootkit issue was blown out of all proportion, some media channels reporting it was spyware or a virus!! By posting something like you did, all you have confirmed, is that you have been suckered in by the Sony bashing sites, that have something to gain by knocking back Sony.
The not caring reaction is merely the sound of a few XBox360 fanboys who have been lead to believe their console is worthy of a "Next-Gen" tag, and are fearfull that the PS3 will make it look like last years news...
Cable wars?? What are you smoking? Component is a analog format, with D-A and A-D sat at each end. HDMI is a pure digital signal path, there is no comparison...
Having used both Firefox and Opera, I would say Opera is far more customisable. Some stuff cannot be customised by GUI, but can be customised by editing the INI file direct.
Not knowing what all those extensions do, but the ones I do recognise, opera does them already, without the need for Extensions (Greasemonkey is just Opera's UserJS).
Can Firefox do this?
http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/dndbuttons.html
and drag some buttons onto your toolbars, Like InIE or InFireFox
Artists are losing out to online sales, due to less royalties
End Users are losing out, as they get a lower quality product, with more restrictions than a CD.
The only people making, are the fat cat record companies, who have less distrubition and packaging costs, no supply chain, and a rubbing their hands in glee, when they see the money rolling in from clueless consumers.
I am waiting for the backlash, when cosnumers actually realise the implications of buying DRM music (which in the UK, costs MORE than a CD), instead of DRM free CD's
And this is WHY Linux is forever doomed for backend servers.
Linux will never make it to a desktop, when you have idiots like this guy, making comments like this.
I would laugh my socks off, if Google decided to pull the Google Earth binary, just to shut the "not open source" crowd up..
The Blu-ray format has more DRM and other copy-protection than HD-DVD does.
Do you have any decent evidence to back this up? Or is it that the HD-DVD are running scared, now there is no mass market vehicle to sell their players, and have to get fanboys to post cr@p like this on forums to try and persuade already confused consumers???
1/ They are dev kits, (with newer dev kits being shipped soon)
2/ It's the Inquirer, who have confirmed allegance to be Xbox fanboys and slag anything Sony..
There are some comparisons between the Cell, a Cray X1E MSP 2005, AMD64 Opertron and IA64 with regards to processing grunt, and power consumption. The Cell looks to be very powerful with low power requirements. (See table 1 in the link below)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/projects/cell/CF0 6.pdf
To see a PS3 processsor outperforming a Cray from last year in some of those criteria is quite impressive. Even more impresssive, is that these results are unbaised and have been nowehere near Sony's marketting department..
VB6 or previous, your asking for trouble, Try pushing for VB.NET, as at least it's a.NET language.
Personally, I would push that little bit harder, for C#, as it got all the advantages of VB, and none of the disadvantages...
I know it's easy to blame the internet for everything these days, but bear with me.
Ever wondered why older "pre-internet" software was less buggy? Ever wondered why Playstation, PS2, Gamecube games are pretty much bug free?
The answer is, there is/was no easy way to deliver patches, so QA was much more important, as it would cost real $$ to fix thingd after a product ships.
These days, it's "ship it, fix it in the service pack", even worse, cutting back on testing, safe in the knowledge any issues can be easilly addressed.
You can bet the next generation PS3 games will be more buggy than PS2 games, as the console is gaurenteed to have a HDD, and hence games can be patchable..
Perhaps it's me..
In the UK, PS1 launched at £399 12 years ago
The PS2 at £299 6 years ago.
With the rate of inflation, and the serious hardware in the PS3, is £340 for the basic and £410 for the top end version REALLY that expensive?? Not for a launch price. If you can't afford it, don't be a 1st wave adopter, wait until Summer 2006, when the price will drop to a more reasonable price..
Where do you start? Non standard UI? every day for the last 8 years I have been annoyed by locking my workstattion by pressing F5 and expecting it to refresh the current view...
Honestly, I know how to use it, but it's so badly designed it's just a chore to use it.
The only people here defending Notes it seems, are Notes Developers, who jobs rely on it being diffucult to do anything in it.
Is Notes 6.5 email a poorly designed application? Whilst I appreciate what you are saying, I was referring to the BASE client, without even getting started on 3rd party notes applications.
Being a end user of Lotus Notes, I am forever wishing it would die it's overdue death. It's horrendous. Running Notes Client 6.5, and I hate it with a vengance. Unfortunatly my IT department forced it onto me:-(
Surely you can't belive this to be the case.
PS3 in both the basic and full guises is a abolute bargain. The full version console is cheaper than current HD-DVD players!!
Even the basic version is full of goodies that lack in the full XBox360 system, let alone the basic Xbox core system.
PS3 is aimed at 20 - 30 somethings with disposible incomes, £499/$599 is a very reasonable pricepoint for what it is, i.e. full entertainment centre, and not just a console.
Unfortunatly, this is so true, Americans rarely see what is going on in the rest of the world, and assume that whatever the US media feeds them is the absolute truth...
Not outside the US. In Europe and Japan it's sales are very poor.
From this side of the Altlantic, it looks like Nick Baker has joined another doomed project..
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Nowhere near as dodgy as Microsoft buisness practices. The Rootkit issue was blown out of all proportion, some media channels reporting it was spyware or a virus!! By posting something like you did, all you have confirmed, is that you have been suckered in by the Sony bashing sites, that have something to gain by knocking back Sony.
The not caring reaction is merely the sound of a few XBox360 fanboys who have been lead to believe their console is worthy of a "Next-Gen" tag, and are fearfull that the PS3 will make it look like last years news...
If it was built by Indians, i'm surpised it even made it off the launchpad...
Cable wars?? What are you smoking? Component is a analog format, with D-A and A-D sat at each end. HDMI is a pure digital signal path, there is no comparison...
I think demonstrates, that people that complain, Opera does not do this, or that, usually have not looked hard enough...
Having used both Firefox and Opera, I would say Opera is far more customisable. Some stuff cannot be customised by GUI, but can be customised by editing the INI file direct. Not knowing what all those extensions do, but the ones I do recognise, opera does them already, without the need for Extensions (Greasemonkey is just Opera's UserJS). Can Firefox do this? http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/dndbuttons.html
and drag some buttons onto your toolbars, Like InIE or InFireFox
It supports netscape plugin API, and Widgets, is that enough entensions for you?
Artists are losing out to online sales, due to less royalties End Users are losing out, as they get a lower quality product, with more restrictions than a CD. The only people making, are the fat cat record companies, who have less distrubition and packaging costs, no supply chain, and a rubbing their hands in glee, when they see the money rolling in from clueless consumers. I am waiting for the backlash, when cosnumers actually realise the implications of buying DRM music (which in the UK, costs MORE than a CD), instead of DRM free CD's
And this is WHY Linux is forever doomed for backend servers. Linux will never make it to a desktop, when you have idiots like this guy, making comments like this. I would laugh my socks off, if Google decided to pull the Google Earth binary, just to shut the "not open source" crowd up..
Not that open, as Adobe stopped Microsoft from using it... PDF is actually very CLOSED it seems..
LOL, PS3 not capable of decoding MPEG4 at HD resolutions, in realtime? Your having a laugh right? It's more than capable..
1/ They are dev kits, (with newer dev kits being shipped soon) 2/ It's the Inquirer, who have confirmed allegance to be Xbox fanboys and slag anything Sony..
There are some comparisons between the Cell, a Cray X1E MSP 2005, AMD64 Opertron and IA64 with regards to processing grunt, and power consumption. The Cell looks to be very powerful with low power requirements. (See table 1 in the link below) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/projects/cell/CF0 6.pdf
To see a PS3 processsor outperforming a Cray from last year in some of those criteria is quite impressive. Even more impresssive, is that these results are unbaised and have been nowehere near Sony's marketting department..
VB6 or previous, your asking for trouble, Try pushing for VB.NET, as at least it's a .NET language.
Personally, I would push that little bit harder, for C#, as it got all the advantages of VB, and none of the disadvantages...
I know it's easy to blame the internet for everything these days, but bear with me. Ever wondered why older "pre-internet" software was less buggy? Ever wondered why Playstation, PS2, Gamecube games are pretty much bug free? The answer is, there is/was no easy way to deliver patches, so QA was much more important, as it would cost real $$ to fix thingd after a product ships. These days, it's "ship it, fix it in the service pack", even worse, cutting back on testing, safe in the knowledge any issues can be easilly addressed. You can bet the next generation PS3 games will be more buggy than PS2 games, as the console is gaurenteed to have a HDD, and hence games can be patchable..
The royalty cheques will stop landing on the doorstep in November...
Perhaps it's me.. In the UK, PS1 launched at £399 12 years ago The PS2 at £299 6 years ago. With the rate of inflation, and the serious hardware in the PS3, is £340 for the basic and £410 for the top end version REALLY that expensive?? Not for a launch price. If you can't afford it, don't be a 1st wave adopter, wait until Summer 2006, when the price will drop to a more reasonable price..
Where do you start? Non standard UI? every day for the last 8 years I have been annoyed by locking my workstattion by pressing F5 and expecting it to refresh the current view... Honestly, I know how to use it, but it's so badly designed it's just a chore to use it. The only people here defending Notes it seems, are Notes Developers, who jobs rely on it being diffucult to do anything in it.
Is Notes 6.5 email a poorly designed application? Whilst I appreciate what you are saying, I was referring to the BASE client, without even getting started on 3rd party notes applications.
Being a end user of Lotus Notes, I am forever wishing it would die it's overdue death. It's horrendous. Running Notes Client 6.5, and I hate it with a vengance. Unfortunatly my IT department forced it onto me :-(
Surely you can't belive this to be the case. PS3 in both the basic and full guises is a abolute bargain. The full version console is cheaper than current HD-DVD players!! Even the basic version is full of goodies that lack in the full XBox360 system, let alone the basic Xbox core system. PS3 is aimed at 20 - 30 somethings with disposible incomes, £499/$599 is a very reasonable pricepoint for what it is, i.e. full entertainment centre, and not just a console.
I think Sony HAVE to announce the price of PS3, to stop the endless stream of rabid XBox fanboys shouting about it costing over $500...
Unfortunatly, this is so true, Americans rarely see what is going on in the rest of the world, and assume that whatever the US media feeds them is the absolute truth...
Not outside the US. In Europe and Japan it's sales are very poor. From this side of the Altlantic, it looks like Nick Baker has joined another doomed project..