Yeah, it depends on what type of PS2 you have. For instance, if you have SCPH-300001, good luck with getting any DVD-R to work. I have found CompUSA brand to work. With SCPH-39001 though, a lot more options are there for you.
Um, in case people don't realize this - my PS2 already *does* support DVD-R discs. Granted, they have to be Verbatim Brand DVD-R discs, but it will read them just fine. I have a lot of home movies on them, and they work great. If you buy cheaper dvd-r discs though, they skip like nothing else, so maybe Sony is simply making the PS2 handle those better.
Yeah, I did spend a considerable amount of time trying to find the pref that would allow me to set the composition font to courier, but had no luck. I wasted plenty of my time on this issue thank you.
Yes, I did do that - but my problem had nothing to do with HTML formatting, it had to do with the choice font for Mozilla mail. I wanted Courier, but could not for the life of me find the place to set it to that. I simply couldn't find an option to choose which font I wanted to use when composing mail.
Sweet, I will try that then. I like to send code and other ASCI type artsy stuff to people, and having a font that doesn't work like courier makes that impossible, and with version 1.2, I spent hours trying to get around this, but had no luck finding the right options, so I gave up and went with messenger again.
I love Mozilla - it's my primary browser, gotta love pop-up-blocking! What I wish they would focus more energy on though is the mail client. I primarily use Netscape Messenger (netscape 4.79) for mail, and I know a lot of other people that do as well. The reason I can't/won't use Mozilla for mail yet is bugs. Basic bugs too - things I reported over 2 years ago, and they still aren't fixed yet. What kind of bugs am I talking about? For example, when you switch between IMAP mail servers, netscape messenger used to remember the last selected message from one mailbox to the other. Mozilla has never done this, but I keep getting updates that this bug is being worked on, or passed on to the next person. The other major bug I notice is that when I type in nicknames in the To and CC fields - 50% of the time, they get translated into the right email addresses, but other times they don't. My other major gripe about mozilla mail is the lack of an option to send just plain old plain text messages again. I don't want the headers of replies and forwards being turned into little graphics. I don't want symbols like;) being turned into little smiley faces. I want to type in courier just like I can in Pine, or netscape messenger. I think more options with mozilla mail would make a lot of people happy...
WARNING: I work for Global Tax Network, so I'm very bias when it comes to filing taxes electronicaly!!
Well, I have some experience with this issue... There are online web applications that collect your tax information floating around the 'net called Tax Organizers. They basically consist of many questions to determine your status, and they also collect your wages, etc so your taxes can be prepared for you. That said, I'm currently responsible for designing/maintaining/coding the online tax organizer at www.globaltaxnetwork.com. Feedback is always appreciated, and we get a lot of it. I've tried to do things like make it work in all browsers, but I find the older netscape browsers are still getting used, so that makes it very hard. I generally test with Mozilla and IE 5.0+ so I'm not getting everything, but I have to think about my target audience here - which is mostly people over seas or using default windows setups for internet access. We get a lot of feedback about our questions. We've probably reworded about half the questions 2x each to make it easy to understand for everyone. About inputing your tax info online... we tried to make it a pretty easy process, you are asked the basic questions in the interview and then based on your answers there, you get asked more detailed questions in the "modules" section. Once you're done, our tax accounts are alerted and can download your information for review and return completion all for very reasonable prices:) Global Tax Network specializes in Foreign Nationals and Expatriates, so I'm sure if you're curious, you can find a GTN office in your part of the country that can help you out with your situation. Other companies offer competing online organizers, but we've really tried to set ours apart from the rest with the amount of information we collect and how flexible we designed it. The IRS's method for collecting your tax info online is VERY picky, and people generally like an online tax organizer instead. For one thing, you are guaranteed to have an account review your information, and advise you if you have questions or have a problem with the information you submitted.
I still have a problem with this theory - you're equating software with music. It *is* possible for more than one person to listen to a CD at a time. For example, I could sit in one cube and play a CD at loud enough volume for the person in the next cube to hear the music as well. Am I violating copy rights in this case? Certainly not. So even if 2 people were listening to the same mp3 at the same time, I don't see how that's different.
Ok, when I read his question, I didn't read a single thing about *distributing* the music anywhere, just storing it on a server. It would be the exact same thing as everybody in the office bringing in their music and keeping it on a shelf full of cds for everyone to listen to when they want. I'd love to be the one being accused of piracy in the case - because I'd want to be the one to fight this in court and win. Just because it is on a server doesn't mean it's any more pirating than if you had the CD on a shelf for people to check out.
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Yeah, but following your logic then, neither is oil. We get Energy by burning oil. We get energy by seperating electrons from hydrogen. It's all the same if you look at the big picture. The only difference is, is that we will run out of oil. And We *can* mine for hydrogen in time I think, from what I've read, there are large deposits of hydrogen all over the world, it's just that nobody has cared about them before. As far as producing hydrogen goes, you are correct - we need energy to producce hydrogen. I believe that if enough research is done, we could easily generate enough power from Solar, Wind, and Hydro sources. A great example of the best idea I have seen a in lonnngg time, is that power plant that was featured in Popular Science a few issues back. It consisted of a massive, massive green house with a chimney that had generators in it. As the hot air rose, it turned the generators, thus producing electricity. A brilliant idea if you ask me, my only concern with that would be the heat produced. But, I suppose if that was taken into account, the air could be stored, or pumped through cold water to cool it down before releasing it.
Yeah, I bet they will do as you describe - but I can only hope you're wrong. I would love to have a console that plays every PSX game ever made, from generation 1 up to whatever. I have so many PS1 games, it would be a shame if they ditched that backwards compatibility. Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, and 3, not to mention Crash Team Racing are some of my favorite games of all time.
You are correct - it was a hoax. The next console is still going to be called the PS3, unless Sony has some *other* reason to call it something else. It has nothing to do with Nintendo, etc.
I have the same problem as you - I have a Sony Playstation 2, and I have been converting a lot of home movies to DVD recently, and getting seriously pissed off in the process. The stupid PS2 only seems to like Verbatim DVD-R discs, and nothing else. I mean, you can use other brands, but your movies will skip horribly in parts, and sometimes the machine won't see the disc at all. What's even more frustrating is that I bought a 10 pack of Memorex DVD-R discs once for like $45 (which is waaay to much if you ask me) and they worked great. I went through them quickly, and bought another pack, exact same brand, from the exact same store - and my PS2 won't read a single one. So, my frustration level is growing rapidly as I try to find discs that work that I can find cheap. Verbatim has been the only brand of DVD-R that work for me in both my PS2 and my Sony set-top DVD player. Somebody needs to seriously start producing good quality discs for a reasonable price....
I was against driver optimizations like that at first - but now I realize that I don't think it's so bad. Why isn't it a good thing that video card drivers are optimized so that popular games like that run faster? I mean, I'm a Quake/Unreal Tournament fan, and if ATI or Nvidia want to optimize their games so that they run super-fast on their cards, that's cool with me as long as it ads to my game playing experience.
Yeah, but if everybody has cars like this, that will totally throw off my $300 just-purchased-state-of-the-art radar detector, now won't it? I'll be pissed if I have to quit speeding every 5 minutes on the interstate just because I think a radar trap is set up, only to find out it's some jerk with a car like this!
Yeah, it's kind of funny - I thought it said the same thing. It's like that rapper 50 Cent, and his quote out of time magazine when he was asked about people knowing him as the guy who's been shot 9 times:
"It's cool if people laugh. I mean, it's not funny when you're actually getting shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny."
I think it all depends on the crime committed.... stealing 8 million credit cards is a lot more serious than defacing a website for an hour, don't you think?
So, how do you explain Sony putting out linux for the PS2, and them not losing cash left and right? Yes, it has been reported that Sony does make money on the PS2 for each one sold, but still, their main profits are from games - and everyone already knows that. Why would it be different with the Xbox?
I do understand how the legal system works - if it wasn't for the DMCA, modchips would be legal, based on the argument I listed above, it's that simple. Look at Australia - they are legal there, just do a search on goole for the ruling this last July. Microsoft obviously can't stop them there. They are legal based on the region coding argument, Australia courts found mochips to be legal because they allow people to purchase games and movies from other countries and use them.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but with the PS2 - the actual disc is modified, or corrupted in places, so the PS2 knows to load it. You can't just copy this disc and expect it to work without a modchip. I know the Xbox has a different way of doing it with the bios, etc. But, nobody is saying they have to opensource the digital sig, right? I'm sure if they did license the linux distro for the xbox, it would be like Sony's - mostly closed source in places, but allow it to boot up, and you could only get copies from the distributor, you couldn't make your own.
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Yeah, it depends on what type of PS2 you have. For instance, if you have SCPH-300001, good luck with getting any DVD-R to work. I have found CompUSA brand to work. With SCPH-39001 though, a lot more options are there for you.
Um, in case people don't realize this - my PS2 already *does* support DVD-R discs. Granted, they have to be Verbatim Brand DVD-R discs, but it will read them just fine. I have a lot of home movies on them, and they work great. If you buy cheaper dvd-r discs though, they skip like nothing else, so maybe Sony is simply making the PS2 handle those better.
Hopefully it's not another "math bug", where 2 x 2 = 4.1267999999!
Actually, no. It's not. He said they oc'd the FSB to 200 mhz, and 200 x 4 = 800.
Yeah, I did spend a considerable amount of time trying to find the pref that would allow me to set the composition font to courier, but had no luck. I wasted plenty of my time on this issue thank you.
Yes, I did do that - but my problem had nothing to do with HTML formatting, it had to do with the choice font for Mozilla mail. I wanted Courier, but could not for the life of me find the place to set it to that. I simply couldn't find an option to choose which font I wanted to use when composing mail.
Sweet, I will try that then. I like to send code and other ASCI type artsy stuff to people, and having a font that doesn't work like courier makes that impossible, and with version 1.2, I spent hours trying to get around this, but had no luck finding the right options, so I gave up and went with messenger again.
I love Mozilla - it's my primary browser, gotta love pop-up-blocking! What I wish they would focus more energy on though is the mail client. I primarily use Netscape Messenger (netscape 4.79) for mail, and I know a lot of other people that do as well. The reason I can't/won't use Mozilla for mail yet is bugs. Basic bugs too - things I reported over 2 years ago, and they still aren't fixed yet. What kind of bugs am I talking about? For example, when you switch between IMAP mail servers, netscape messenger used to remember the last selected message from one mailbox to the other. Mozilla has never done this, but I keep getting updates that this bug is being worked on, or passed on to the next person. The other major bug I notice is that when I type in nicknames in the To and CC fields - 50% of the time, they get translated into the right email addresses, but other times they don't. My other major gripe about mozilla mail is the lack of an option to send just plain old plain text messages again. I don't want the headers of replies and forwards being turned into little graphics. I don't want symbols like ;) being turned into little smiley faces. I want to type in courier just like I can in Pine, or netscape messenger. I think more options with mozilla mail would make a lot of people happy...
You make a great point - and if I had mod points right now, you'd get them!!
WARNING: I work for Global Tax Network, so I'm very bias when it comes to filing taxes electronicaly!!
:) Global Tax Network specializes in Foreign Nationals and Expatriates, so I'm sure if you're curious, you can find a GTN office in your part of the country that can help you out with your situation. Other companies offer competing online organizers, but we've really tried to set ours apart from the rest with the amount of information we collect and how flexible we designed it. The IRS's method for collecting your tax info online is VERY picky, and people generally like an online tax organizer instead. For one thing, you are guaranteed to have an account review your information, and advise you if you have questions or have a problem with the information you submitted.
Well, I have some experience with this issue... There are online web applications that collect your tax information floating around the 'net called Tax Organizers. They basically consist of many questions to determine your status, and they also collect your wages, etc so your taxes can be prepared for you. That said, I'm currently responsible for designing/maintaining/coding the online tax organizer at www.globaltaxnetwork.com. Feedback is always appreciated, and we get a lot of it. I've tried to do things like make it work in all browsers, but I find the older netscape browsers are still getting used, so that makes it very hard. I generally test with Mozilla and IE 5.0+ so I'm not getting everything, but I have to think about my target audience here - which is mostly people over seas or using default windows setups for internet access. We get a lot of feedback about our questions. We've probably reworded about half the questions 2x each to make it easy to understand for everyone. About inputing your tax info online... we tried to make it a pretty easy process, you are asked the basic questions in the interview and then based on your answers there, you get asked more detailed questions in the "modules" section. Once you're done, our tax accounts are alerted and can download your information for review and return completion all for very reasonable prices
I still have a problem with this theory - you're equating software with music. It *is* possible for more than one person to listen to a CD at a time. For example, I could sit in one cube and play a CD at loud enough volume for the person in the next cube to hear the music as well. Am I violating copy rights in this case? Certainly not. So even if 2 people were listening to the same mp3 at the same time, I don't see how that's different.
Ok, when I read his question, I didn't read a single thing about *distributing* the music anywhere, just storing it on a server. It would be the exact same thing as everybody in the office bringing in their music and keeping it on a shelf full of cds for everyone to listen to when they want. I'd love to be the one being accused of piracy in the case - because I'd want to be the one to fight this in court and win. Just because it is on a server doesn't mean it's any more pirating than if you had the CD on a shelf for people to check out.
Yeah, but following your logic then, neither is oil. We get Energy by burning oil. We get energy by seperating electrons from hydrogen. It's all the same if you look at the big picture. The only difference is, is that we will run out of oil. And We *can* mine for hydrogen in time I think, from what I've read, there are large deposits of hydrogen all over the world, it's just that nobody has cared about them before. As far as producing hydrogen goes, you are correct - we need energy to producce hydrogen. I believe that if enough research is done, we could easily generate enough power from Solar, Wind, and Hydro sources. A great example of the best idea I have seen a in lonnngg time, is that power plant that was featured in Popular Science a few issues back. It consisted of a massive, massive green house with a chimney that had generators in it. As the hot air rose, it turned the generators, thus producing electricity. A brilliant idea if you ask me, my only concern with that would be the heat produced. But, I suppose if that was taken into account, the air could be stored, or pumped through cold water to cool it down before releasing it.
Yeah, I bet they will do as you describe - but I can only hope you're wrong. I would love to have a console that plays every PSX game ever made, from generation 1 up to whatever. I have so many PS1 games, it would be a shame if they ditched that backwards compatibility. Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, and 3, not to mention Crash Team Racing are some of my favorite games of all time.
You are correct - it was a hoax. The next console is still going to be called the PS3, unless Sony has some *other* reason to call it something else. It has nothing to do with Nintendo, etc.
I have the same problem as you - I have a Sony Playstation 2, and I have been converting a lot of home movies to DVD recently, and getting seriously pissed off in the process. The stupid PS2 only seems to like Verbatim DVD-R discs, and nothing else. I mean, you can use other brands, but your movies will skip horribly in parts, and sometimes the machine won't see the disc at all. What's even more frustrating is that I bought a 10 pack of Memorex DVD-R discs once for like $45 (which is waaay to much if you ask me) and they worked great. I went through them quickly, and bought another pack, exact same brand, from the exact same store - and my PS2 won't read a single one. So, my frustration level is growing rapidly as I try to find discs that work that I can find cheap. Verbatim has been the only brand of DVD-R that work for me in both my PS2 and my Sony set-top DVD player. Somebody needs to seriously start producing good quality discs for a reasonable price....
The price.
I was against driver optimizations like that at first - but now I realize that I don't think it's so bad. Why isn't it a good thing that video card drivers are optimized so that popular games like that run faster? I mean, I'm a Quake/Unreal Tournament fan, and if ATI or Nvidia want to optimize their games so that they run super-fast on their cards, that's cool with me as long as it ads to my game playing experience.
Yeah, but if everybody has cars like this, that will totally throw off my $300 just-purchased-state-of-the-art radar detector, now won't it? I'll be pissed if I have to quit speeding every 5 minutes on the interstate just because I think a radar trap is set up, only to find out it's some jerk with a car like this!
Yeah, it's kind of funny - I thought it said the same thing. It's like that rapper 50 Cent, and his quote out of time magazine when he was asked about people knowing him as the guy who's been shot 9 times:
"It's cool if people laugh. I mean, it's not funny when you're actually getting shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny."
I had no idea it was so fun getting shot!!
I think it all depends on the crime committed.... stealing 8 million credit cards is a lot more serious than defacing a website for an hour, don't you think?
So, how do you explain Sony putting out linux for the PS2, and them not losing cash left and right? Yes, it has been reported that Sony does make money on the PS2 for each one sold, but still, their main profits are from games - and everyone already knows that. Why would it be different with the Xbox?
I do understand how the legal system works - if it wasn't for the DMCA, modchips would be legal, based on the argument I listed above, it's that simple. Look at Australia - they are legal there, just do a search on goole for the ruling this last July. Microsoft obviously can't stop them there. They are legal based on the region coding argument, Australia courts found mochips to be legal because they allow people to purchase games and movies from other countries and use them.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/luey/mcm/accc2.html
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but with the PS2 - the actual disc is modified, or corrupted in places, so the PS2 knows to load it. You can't just copy this disc and expect it to work without a modchip. I know the Xbox has a different way of doing it with the bios, etc. But, nobody is saying they have to opensource the digital sig, right? I'm sure if they did license the linux distro for the xbox, it would be like Sony's - mostly closed source in places, but allow it to boot up, and you could only get copies from the distributor, you couldn't make your own.
Yes, but who says that just because you run linux on your Xbox, you won't go buy HALO or Madden 2003?