I think its bricked, when its as useful as a brick (or even less, cause you prob cant make a proper house with a bunch of bricked PS3). Doesn't require to stop flashing LEDs and stuff.
If it can be fixed with a re-flash, then it's not bricked, just broke. Your microwave isn't bricked because the power went out.
Given that it is supposed to hit in 2036, isn't it too early to be able make accurate predictions ? I mean, I am sure these predicted probabilities will keep changing as it gets closer ( assuming its headed in our direction right now ). I mean, who knows if the path of the asteroid may deviate a little bit due to gravitational pull of different planets/stars etc
Although that may have been the original slang definition of the word, it has changed over time to mean anything that has failed. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bricked)
In a similar example, goodbye was originally a statement meaning 'god be with you'. Now it is simply a parting.
A gaming console that can't play games or a DVD player that can't read DVDs is a failure and can be declared as 'bricked'.
There's more nuance to it than that. You use 'bricked' when you're talking about Sony or Apple and 'broke" when talking about Microsoft or Nintendo.
AS much as I dislike Sony, Im not going to deny myself a fantastic piece of hardware for it. Im the one who loses, not really Sony. Now i probably wont buy a Sony TV, or pretty much anything else Sony, but the PS3 is a unique experience, with games that cant be had anywhere else.
Interesting that inmates have access to computers and TV. I'm glad we pay for that for them while normal citizens are having a hard time finding a job...
You'd rather the inmates reach their breaking points and tear each other up?
Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. Is it possible that this was deliberate? After all, they deliberately rooted thousands of PCs (inclusing mine) a few years ago, so you KNOW they're evil even by corporate standards, and they're charging $150 to fix a problem that their "update" caused.
They won't brick MY PS3, because there's no way in hell I'll buy another product from the company that rooted my computer with a trojan in a music CD. Why do people keep buying stuff from this company? I won't -- once bitten, twice shy. Buy from Sony and you're asking to get screwed, with sand as lube.
Despite my being a Nintendo fanboy and somebody who despises Sony, I can't follow you with the pitchfork on this one. This sort of scam requires exreme levels of short-sighted-stupidity and greed, that Microsoft hasn't even reached. There's no way any guy wearing a tie there is going to see that as profitable even after the legal settlements.
I'm not sure that correlation is causation, but either way, saying that the Iphone is only leaving behind in the dust even newer and (currently) smaller platforms doesn't really say much. how about the market of a billion or two phones that have been out there selling for years?
The iPhone has a strong lead on either of those platforms regardless of if you include other phones or not. You're just changing the rounding point. Frankly, the G1 isn't that much younger than Apple's App store anyway.
In any event, this line of reasoning isn't really having anything to do with the comment I was responding to. Heh.
For some reason on Slashdot, there's this misconception that the mobile market consists of Apple and Google. So Apple are number 1, because they sell more than Google! For a tech site, I find it worrying that there's so little coverage on the real picture of mobile phones.
I'm not sure what's so worrying about it. We're talking about SDK's here, the RAZR's hardly relevant to that.
Same to you.
Well, you gotta admit, I proved the point. Look at the replies I've gotten.
hey there mister nasty... i didn't say i'd rather not... i just have a different definition of "win win"...:: insert nasty name here::
That's true.
win verb, won, winâ...ning, noun
1. to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
2. to succeed by striving or effort: He applied for a scholarship and won.
3. to use the power of hope that new technologies magically materialize after incentives to spend ridiculous amounts of money to R&D that product have been eradicated in order to save the general public from paying a fair licensing fee.
And how do any of those compare to say Motorola's RAZR?
The Pre and the G1 don't even have a hope in catching up to the RAZR. The iPhone has an outside chance, mainly because the RAZR's still out and about today.
Although yes, I suppose it's true that it's sad that Google and Palm can't even manage to outdo the Iphone.
I wouldn't say there's anything insulting about that. Apple's a huge name and the iPhone's a surprisingly good phone. WHat's sad about it is that niether Google nor Palm is trying very hard. I think I've seen one Pre commercial since it launched. I've seen like a million iPhone commercials.
I don't share your optimism, but I hope you're right. Truth is, I don't think very many people are even aware of the Pre. Niether the Pre or any of the Android phones are being marketed very well.
The Pre has been out for all of about 4 months, and it's responsible for 4% of the world and 9% of North America mobile traffic.
Not bad for that new of a phone that doesn't have it's app store out of beta yet.
The iPhone has a 3 year head start. I hardly think you can call the Pre failing when it's captured a very respectable market share when it's so new when the support infrastructure such as the app store isn't finished.
The Palm Pre's initial sales were something like 1/10th of the iPhone's and the analysts are saying it has sold below estimates. The G1's been out for quite a while and it's still only a quarter of Apple's marketshare.
It doesn't matter which way you slice it, they're being stomped on by Apple. Granted, I doubt that's on technical merit.
Gah please don't ever put say anything like "90 amp-minutes of energy" again! Amp minutes would be a unit of electrical charge. Sorry about the nitpick.
Well, you might need to explain what astroturfing is. Most people here think that astroturfing is when you are satisfied with a mass-market product.
Really? My impression here has been that most people use "astroturfing" to mean "generating a (usually false) controversy around a particular product, to create exposure to (and possibly name-brand recognition of) that product." Am I missing something?
Yep. You're missing how most people around here really use the term.;)
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We're doing five blades.
What would you and the guys who modded your post up say if this story was about the Linux kernel getting updated to support 128?
"Forward thinking!", right?
Funny thing is trying to explain it to a slashdot poster as you do....
I think you misunderstood where I was going with my post. I wasn't ragging on Flash or suggesting alternatives.
I think its bricked, when its as useful as a brick (or even less, cause you prob cant make a proper house with a bunch of bricked PS3). Doesn't require to stop flashing LEDs and stuff.
If it can be fixed with a re-flash, then it's not bricked, just broke. Your microwave isn't bricked because the power went out.
I think you'll find that's a bonus.
Lots and lots of fun little games out there are made with Flash. So... no.
Um... um... teach them to spell! Robotic Spelling Bees! Woohoo!
P.U.
Given that it is supposed to hit in 2036, isn't it too early to be able make accurate predictions ? I mean, I am sure these predicted probabilities will keep changing as it gets closer ( assuming its headed in our direction right now ). I mean, who knows if the path of the asteroid may deviate a little bit due to gravitational pull of different planets/stars etc
Maybe that's why the word 'prediction' was used.
What can you do with Flash that you can't do with html5?
Play existing Flash content.
Although that may have been the original slang definition of the word, it has changed over time to mean anything that has failed. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bricked)
In a similar example, goodbye was originally a statement meaning 'god be with you'. Now it is simply a parting.
A gaming console that can't play games or a DVD player that can't read DVDs is a failure and can be declared as 'bricked'.
There's more nuance to it than that. You use 'bricked' when you're talking about Sony or Apple and 'broke" when talking about Microsoft or Nintendo.
Really? please point out the fanboisms.
No prob, here it is:
AS much as I dislike Sony, Im not going to deny myself a fantastic piece of hardware for it. Im the one who loses, not really Sony. Now i probably wont buy a Sony TV, or pretty much anything else Sony, but the PS3 is a unique experience, with games that cant be had anywhere else.
:)
(Seriously, your post did come off as a fanboi.)
Interesting that inmates have access to computers and TV. I'm glad we pay for that for them while normal citizens are having a hard time finding a job...
You'd rather the inmates reach their breaking points and tear each other up?
When it doesn't do what it's supposed to do (or stops doing what it's supposed to do), yeah, that's bricked.
No. It's bricked when there is no hope at all at making it playable again. If it can execute code, it's not bricked.
Honestly dude, It's bad enough the sensationalist media cannot use the term correctly.
Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. Is it possible that this was deliberate? After all, they deliberately rooted thousands of PCs (inclusing mine) a few years ago, so you KNOW they're evil even by corporate standards, and they're charging $150 to fix a problem that their "update" caused.
They won't brick MY PS3, because there's no way in hell I'll buy another product from the company that rooted my computer with a trojan in a music CD. Why do people keep buying stuff from this company? I won't -- once bitten, twice shy. Buy from Sony and you're asking to get screwed, with sand as lube.
Despite my being a Nintendo fanboy and somebody who despises Sony, I can't follow you with the pitchfork on this one. This sort of scam requires exreme levels of short-sighted-stupidity and greed, that Microsoft hasn't even reached. There's no way any guy wearing a tie there is going to see that as profitable even after the legal settlements.
Brick happens.
Seems to me that if you don't like MySpace, you can always just dump it, and tell everybody why.
MySpace is huge. It's not like if he just set up his own webserver it'd be a seamless transition for him.
Also, it's a shame that you morons will recommend buying a Mac even when it blatantly isn't fit for the job.
... even though most of those posts showed why it would be.
I'm not sure that correlation is causation, but either way, saying that the Iphone is only leaving behind in the dust even newer and (currently) smaller platforms doesn't really say much. how about the market of a billion or two phones that have been out there selling for years?
The iPhone has a strong lead on either of those platforms regardless of if you include other phones or not. You're just changing the rounding point. Frankly, the G1 isn't that much younger than Apple's App store anyway.
In any event, this line of reasoning isn't really having anything to do with the comment I was responding to. Heh.
For some reason on Slashdot, there's this misconception that the mobile market consists of Apple and Google. So Apple are number 1, because they sell more than Google! For a tech site, I find it worrying that there's so little coverage on the real picture of mobile phones.
I'm not sure what's so worrying about it. We're talking about SDK's here, the RAZR's hardly relevant to that.
Same to you.
Well, you gotta admit, I proved the point. Look at the replies I've gotten.
Cue the Simpson's Monorail song!
Mono... D'oh!
hey there mister nasty ... i didn't say i'd rather not ... i just have a different definition of "win win" ... :: insert nasty name here ::
That's true.
win verb, won, winâ...ning, noun
1. to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
2. to succeed by striving or effort: He applied for a scholarship and won.
3. to use the power of hope that new technologies magically materialize after incentives to spend ridiculous amounts of money to R&D that product have been eradicated in order to save the general public from paying a fair licensing fee.
And how do any of those compare to say Motorola's RAZR?
The Pre and the G1 don't even have a hope in catching up to the RAZR. The iPhone has an outside chance, mainly because the RAZR's still out and about today.
Although yes, I suppose it's true that it's sad that Google and Palm can't even manage to outdo the Iphone.
I wouldn't say there's anything insulting about that. Apple's a huge name and the iPhone's a surprisingly good phone. WHat's sad about it is that niether Google nor Palm is trying very hard. I think I've seen one Pre commercial since it launched. I've seen like a million iPhone commercials.
I don't share your optimism, but I hope you're right. Truth is, I don't think very many people are even aware of the Pre. Niether the Pre or any of the Android phones are being marketed very well.
The Pre has been out for all of about 4 months, and it's responsible for 4% of the world and 9% of North America mobile traffic.
Not bad for that new of a phone that doesn't have it's app store out of beta yet.
The iPhone has a 3 year head start. I hardly think you can call the Pre failing when it's captured a very respectable market share when it's so new when the support infrastructure such as the app store isn't finished.
The Palm Pre's initial sales were something like 1/10th of the iPhone's and the analysts are saying it has sold below estimates. The G1's been out for quite a while and it's still only a quarter of Apple's marketshare.
It doesn't matter which way you slice it, they're being stomped on by Apple. Granted, I doubt that's on technical merit.
Modded as troll? Come on. Apple is control freak, iPhone is a really locked up device and you can only get software from their store.
The Pre and the G1 are already doing it 'the best way', according to you, and they're being left in the dust.
So you're saying that having market dominance means never being called a control freak?
I'm saying calling Apple a control freak then saying the Pre and the G1 should keep going down their failing path is useless.
Modded as troll? Come on. Apple is control freak, iPhone is a really locked up device and you can only get software from their store.
The Pre and the G1 are already doing it 'the best way', according to you, and they're being left in the dust.
I don't know if I would have modded your post 'troll', but it definitely wasn't very useful for doing much other than getting argued with by fanboys.
Gah please don't ever put say anything like "90 amp-minutes of energy" again! Amp minutes would be a unit of electrical charge. Sorry about the nitpick.
How much is it? Minute?
how about cars in-general, they let you carry hundreds if not thousands of pounds of illegal things so they promote the activity to
Gas is limited, so illegal activity is curbed!
Well, you might need to explain what astroturfing is. Most people here think that astroturfing is when you are satisfied with a mass-market product.
Really? My impression here has been that most people use "astroturfing" to mean "generating a (usually false) controversy around a particular product, to create exposure to (and possibly name-brand recognition of) that product." Am I missing something?
Yep. You're missing how most people around here really use the term. ;)