But also going on a skid training course made me realise how much of a difference there is when emergency braking from 30 and emergency breaking for 20, it's quite dramatic when you actually try it (though no doubt when we were doing that they had the weight on the tires reduced using the rig attached to the car so that it took way longer to stop than a modern car). Putting pedestrians closer to and making them less visible to drivers does not make things safer. Just because a car is going slower does not automatically mean it is "safer". Sure it means it will cause less damage if it hits something, but if the car is more likely to actually hit something because of an inattentive driver or insane road designs, then how the hell is that "safer"?
PS the lanes, walkways and roads here in the UK are generally thinner and more lined with cars than those in the US.. I don't know the different accident rates but it would be interesting to compare them. I suspect there would be more here.
Except that anyone using a secure USB stick as the only copy of important data deserves to loose it if they loose the password.
Dear gods man, twice in the same sentence? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!! Run, before the most foul ranks from the deepest depths of nether spelling nazi hell are unleashed and rain their fiery vengeance upon you!
Surely the webserver just counts as a single user? Lame.. oh well, SQLite is enough for my little fledgeling web apps so far. We do have SQL Server here but only for our stupid accounts package.. the accounts package that needed DEP turned off to install an update the other day.. it really is quite worrying just how crap the software that looks after our finances is.
Yep, I hate when games restrict your environment. Operation Flashpoint possibly still ranks as my favourite game experience ever. I started playing Just Cause 2 yesterday and it's amazing too, you can go anywhere, and while you can't do all the same things you can do in say GTA: San Andreas, you have some even cooler stuff like a grappling hook and an infinite amount of paragliders, which you can use together as a very unique mode of transport.. there are a lot of realistic elements to the game, but it is combined well with unrealistic elements like that to make it more fun.
It's not simply having the other OS there, it's that this other OS allows you to develop homebrew apps. Now the "Other OS" functionality is limited by the built in OS's hypervisor, but one guy recently claimed that he is close to a full crack on the system - he has full access to all system memory and is looking for the decryption keys that come with the system (probably similar to how DVD region encoding was cracked), ie he is getting around the hypervisor. If he releases this crack then it will enable things like playing pirated games, which could also be modified to include cheats like wallhacks. It probably would also be possible to run cheats alongside legitimate game discs.
The hackers currently only have limited access to the underlying hardware, but one guy in January claimed he was close to sorting out a full crack to everything. I assume this is Sony's attempt to try to reduce the amount of people who will be able to implement the crack. Maybe it will be possible by burning to a blu-ray and running it that way though.
I did have some blood tests run a few years back, was wondering if I had diabetes, not sure if they checked for hypoglycaemia or whether that would come under similar warning signs for diabetes.
Part of the reason I don't eat sugary or starchy things (apart from right after I work out) is that it has a very obvious effect on my mood (well, obvious now that I'm aware of it! I used to think I was just a moody bastard). I get a high from the easy carbs, and then I go into a state in which anything can get on my nerves, or I feel really sleepy for an hour or so (and then am back to normal). I think the effect is exaggerated now that I've been on low GI food for so long, so that's even more reason to avoid that type of food. The other reason is that I don't even really find cake very appealing any longer. Ice cream I still do enjoy from time to time though (had an ice cream milkshake when I went to see Kickass at the weekend), but certainly not every day:)
Well, it is a bit of a dick move on Sony's part, but I guess I just appreciate not having cheaters on PS3 games much more than I do being able to mess around with the Cell.. someone was getting close to creating a full crack for the hypervisor and this is their way of trying to slow him down.
You still would be able to install Linux and play PS2 games if you bought one of the original PS3s. I think simply wiping the HDD should reset it back to the factory OSS and you wouldn't ever need to run a system update if those are the only 2 things you're doing. And even if a game did update your system (not sure if any PS3 games do this, but PSP ones certainly do) then you'd be fine with any game made up to this date. Yes, I'm perhaps defending Sony too much here, but I think the PS line is a great line of products and it's harsh to criticise the PS guys for what guys in the music branch of Sony did. Same as I actually think Exchange Server and Visual Studio are okay products despite hating MS management in general.
That depends, how crappy is your TV? Mine has VGA and HDMI inputs..
Your PS3 basically already is a media center. The built in media browser isn't great for music that's already on the HDD I'll admit, but it works really well for external drives, and the built in browser is fine fine for TV and movies already on the HDD.
It's fine for crunching numbers yes, but if this guy is "saving up for a console" he doesn't sound like the type of person that is looking to be crunching numbers.
Because unless you are going to be programming your own apps to make use of the cell processor, or have apps that have been specifically tailored to it, the PC will be cheaper and faster. The PS3 barely has enough RAM to handle a few tabs in a modern web browser. It would make an okay server, but if you're also wanting to play games on it, then you're going to have to shut down your server from time to time.
You don't sound like you've actually tried it yourself. To give you some idea, I'm happy using Linux on my little 1.6Ghz Atom based netbook, but I found YDL on the PS3 godawfully slow. Now apparently there have been some improvements in speed since then on some implementations, but I'm just relaying my experience and what I think is good advice. He is free to ignore this device if he is already aware of the downsides to Linux on PS3, or if he would just rather find them out for himself. But if one of his main reasons for getting a PS3 is to run Linux as a desktop replacement, I think he's making a big mistake.
Actually, no. Bacon tastes good partially because of the very strong smoked flavors, and partially due to association with eating maple syrup, a nearly pure carb.
Except that unsmoked bacon is still tasty, and I've never had bacon with syrup, but I still love it.
Most meat is pretty low calorie unless it's a very fatty cut.
Likewise I eat wholemeal bread instead of white bread or pancakes and I still love bacon (and wholemeal bread - in fact I used to prefer brown breads ever since my late teens, and that was purely a personal preference rather than anything to do with how healthy I thought foods were, which is something I didn't really pay attention to until the last couple of years). Last week I eating packs of weird crispy dried bacon that I found at Marks and Spencer, it's delicious by itself. Why can't it be tasty purely because of the protein and fat?
I was eating low carb for a couple of months and then low GI for the last 3-4 months now. I still love my food. Pretty much all my favourite foods apart from pizza, Pad Thai Noodles and donuts are low carb foods - ie peanut butter, thai curries, indian curries. The only time I like to eat foods with a higher GI is right after being at the gym, when my body is actually really needing a quick injection of energy.
They didn't try all the foods individually, otherwise they might find that bacon is not included. I too thought that they must mean "high fat + high sugar", or maybe just high sugar (but high fat + high sugar is the worst combination for packing on the pounds). If you try eating a load of bacon you'll get full after not too many calories, protein is very filling. I've been eating plenty of protein + fat and low GI carbs for months now and I'm not obese. Yes, I have been exercising also but if I'd been eating cake and ice cream this whole time I'd still be fat.
I definitely didn't buy my PS3 just to install Linux, I didn't consider it part of what I "paid for". I wanted a blu-ray player and games machine. I was disappointed about them removing PS2 emulation for sure, but I'm not fussed about lack of being able to install Linux (and apparently PS1Xgame discs still work, though I haven't tried it yet despite having a collection of PSX games lying around somewhere). If they hadn't crippled the "Other OS" implementation then I might have left the Linux partition on there, but I can't be sure.
Like I said "it's rather pointless unless you're writing multicore research programs". If you are doing something exotic with it then fair enough, but you're going to have to write apps specifically make use of the funky features of the Cell, it's not going to just magically make your Linux experience better. Who cares if you have 8 cores or whatever other magical pieces of hardware, when you can't actually make use of them?
Well, I am using rdesktop. I just meant that that's the only time when I'm not doing work directly in Ubuntu (despite still using my ubuntu machine as the remote desktop client).
"Can't you drive faster?" "I told you, if we took the other way, we'd already be there." "Do you know where you're going?" "We should stop for directions" "Can't you put something else on the radio?" "Can't you get us there any sooner?" "Why do you always ignore me?" "Go faster" "Do you have to drive so fast?" "Do you have to follow him so close?" "I'm bored."
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I was taught the same.
But also going on a skid training course made me realise how much of a difference there is when emergency braking from 30 and emergency breaking for 20, it's quite dramatic when you actually try it (though no doubt when we were doing that they had the weight on the tires reduced using the rig attached to the car so that it took way longer to stop than a modern car). Putting pedestrians closer to and making them less visible to drivers does not make things safer. Just because a car is going slower does not automatically mean it is "safer". Sure it means it will cause less damage if it hits something, but if the car is more likely to actually hit something because of an inattentive driver or insane road designs, then how the hell is that "safer"?
PS the lanes, walkways and roads here in the UK are generally thinner and more lined with cars than those in the US.. I don't know the different accident rates but it would be interesting to compare them. I suspect there would be more here.
Except that anyone using a secure USB stick as the only copy of important data deserves to loose it if they loose the password.
Dear gods man, twice in the same sentence? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!! Run, before the most foul ranks from the deepest depths of nether spelling nazi hell are unleashed and rain their fiery vengeance upon you!
Surely the webserver just counts as a single user? Lame.. oh well, SQLite is enough for my little fledgeling web apps so far. We do have SQL Server here but only for our stupid accounts package.. the accounts package that needed DEP turned off to install an update the other day.. it really is quite worrying just how crap the software that looks after our finances is.
Good point, "Mighty Martian"!
Yep, I hate when games restrict your environment. Operation Flashpoint possibly still ranks as my favourite game experience ever. I started playing Just Cause 2 yesterday and it's amazing too, you can go anywhere, and while you can't do all the same things you can do in say GTA: San Andreas, you have some even cooler stuff like a grappling hook and an infinite amount of paragliders, which you can use together as a very unique mode of transport.. there are a lot of realistic elements to the game, but it is combined well with unrealistic elements like that to make it more fun.
It's not simply having the other OS there, it's that this other OS allows you to develop homebrew apps. Now the "Other OS" functionality is limited by the built in OS's hypervisor, but one guy recently claimed that he is close to a full crack on the system - he has full access to all system memory and is looking for the decryption keys that come with the system (probably similar to how DVD region encoding was cracked), ie he is getting around the hypervisor. If he releases this crack then it will enable things like playing pirated games, which could also be modified to include cheats like wallhacks. It probably would also be possible to run cheats alongside legitimate game discs.
Thanks for the info :) Well, I have no plans to start eating crappy food again, so hopefully that will be me set.
The hackers currently only have limited access to the underlying hardware, but one guy in January claimed he was close to sorting out a full crack to everything. I assume this is Sony's attempt to try to reduce the amount of people who will be able to implement the crack. Maybe it will be possible by burning to a blu-ray and running it that way though.
I did have some blood tests run a few years back, was wondering if I had diabetes, not sure if they checked for hypoglycaemia or whether that would come under similar warning signs for diabetes.
Hmm. I thought that when I replaced the HDD I had to install all the OS updates again.. it was a couple of years ago now though.
Part of the reason I don't eat sugary or starchy things (apart from right after I work out) is that it has a very obvious effect on my mood (well, obvious now that I'm aware of it! I used to think I was just a moody bastard). I get a high from the easy carbs, and then I go into a state in which anything can get on my nerves, or I feel really sleepy for an hour or so (and then am back to normal). I think the effect is exaggerated now that I've been on low GI food for so long, so that's even more reason to avoid that type of food. The other reason is that I don't even really find cake very appealing any longer. Ice cream I still do enjoy from time to time though (had an ice cream milkshake when I went to see Kickass at the weekend), but certainly not every day :)
bleh, fingers are on complete autopilot today.. I clearly meant OS rather than OSS :P
Well, it is a bit of a dick move on Sony's part, but I guess I just appreciate not having cheaters on PS3 games much more than I do being able to mess around with the Cell.. someone was getting close to creating a full crack for the hypervisor and this is their way of trying to slow him down.
You still would be able to install Linux and play PS2 games if you bought one of the original PS3s. I think simply wiping the HDD should reset it back to the factory OSS and you wouldn't ever need to run a system update if those are the only 2 things you're doing. And even if a game did update your system (not sure if any PS3 games do this, but PSP ones certainly do) then you'd be fine with any game made up to this date. Yes, I'm perhaps defending Sony too much here, but I think the PS line is a great line of products and it's harsh to criticise the PS guys for what guys in the music branch of Sony did. Same as I actually think Exchange Server and Visual Studio are okay products despite hating MS management in general.
That depends, how crappy is your TV? Mine has VGA and HDMI inputs..
Your PS3 basically already is a media center. The built in media browser isn't great for music that's already on the HDD I'll admit, but it works really well for external drives, and the built in browser is fine fine for TV and movies already on the HDD.
It's fine for crunching numbers yes, but if this guy is "saving up for a console" he doesn't sound like the type of person that is looking to be crunching numbers.
oops, obviously I meant advice there, not device
Because unless you are going to be programming your own apps to make use of the cell processor, or have apps that have been specifically tailored to it, the PC will be cheaper and faster. The PS3 barely has enough RAM to handle a few tabs in a modern web browser. It would make an okay server, but if you're also wanting to play games on it, then you're going to have to shut down your server from time to time.
You don't sound like you've actually tried it yourself. To give you some idea, I'm happy using Linux on my little 1.6Ghz Atom based netbook, but I found YDL on the PS3 godawfully slow. Now apparently there have been some improvements in speed since then on some implementations, but I'm just relaying my experience and what I think is good advice. He is free to ignore this device if he is already aware of the downsides to Linux on PS3, or if he would just rather find them out for himself. But if one of his main reasons for getting a PS3 is to run Linux as a desktop replacement, I think he's making a big mistake.
I'd never made that connection before, that's pretty cool! :)
Actually, no. Bacon tastes good partially because of the very strong smoked flavors, and partially due to association with eating maple syrup, a nearly pure carb.
Except that unsmoked bacon is still tasty, and I've never had bacon with syrup, but I still love it.
Most meat is pretty low calorie unless it's a very fatty cut.
Likewise I eat wholemeal bread instead of white bread or pancakes and I still love bacon (and wholemeal bread - in fact I used to prefer brown breads ever since my late teens, and that was purely a personal preference rather than anything to do with how healthy I thought foods were, which is something I didn't really pay attention to until the last couple of years). Last week I eating packs of weird crispy dried bacon that I found at Marks and Spencer, it's delicious by itself. Why can't it be tasty purely because of the protein and fat?
I was eating low carb for a couple of months and then low GI for the last 3-4 months now. I still love my food. Pretty much all my favourite foods apart from pizza, Pad Thai Noodles and donuts are low carb foods - ie peanut butter, thai curries, indian curries. The only time I like to eat foods with a higher GI is right after being at the gym, when my body is actually really needing a quick injection of energy.
They didn't try all the foods individually, otherwise they might find that bacon is not included. I too thought that they must mean "high fat + high sugar", or maybe just high sugar (but high fat + high sugar is the worst combination for packing on the pounds). If you try eating a load of bacon you'll get full after not too many calories, protein is very filling. I've been eating plenty of protein + fat and low GI carbs for months now and I'm not obese. Yes, I have been exercising also but if I'd been eating cake and ice cream this whole time I'd still be fat.
I definitely didn't buy my PS3 just to install Linux, I didn't consider it part of what I "paid for". I wanted a blu-ray player and games machine. I was disappointed about them removing PS2 emulation for sure, but I'm not fussed about lack of being able to install Linux (and apparently PS1Xgame discs still work, though I haven't tried it yet despite having a collection of PSX games lying around somewhere). If they hadn't crippled the "Other OS" implementation then I might have left the Linux partition on there, but I can't be sure.
Like I said "it's rather pointless unless you're writing multicore research programs". If you are doing something exotic with it then fair enough, but you're going to have to write apps specifically make use of the funky features of the Cell, it's not going to just magically make your Linux experience better. Who cares if you have 8 cores or whatever other magical pieces of hardware, when you can't actually make use of them?
Well, I am using rdesktop. I just meant that that's the only time when I'm not doing work directly in Ubuntu (despite still using my ubuntu machine as the remote desktop client).
Ooh, Super Mario Brothers! Well, if you like this, you may also like:
The Encyclopaedia of Plumbing
The Mushroom Index: food, fun, or poison?
Carnivorous plants of South America
The Princess Diaries
"Can't you drive faster?" "I told you, if we took the other way, we'd already be there." "Do you know where you're going?" "We should stop for directions" "Can't you put something else on the radio?" "Can't you get us there any sooner?" "Why do you always ignore me?" "Go faster" "Do you have to drive so fast?" "Do you have to follow him so close?" "I'm bored."
Sat navs these days.. they're never happy.
To be honest this philosophy would work well in any part of life.