They are welcome to try - a couple of governments are already asking them why this happened. Meanwhile I'll feel less stupid for buying DLC as part of "Ultimate"/"Gold" edition of games, in stores, without giving my financial details to Sony.
I'm just curious why Sony claims NOW is a good time to do service on PSN. Clearly they should have done this before releasing it.
The improvements started ah "ooh, shiney", carried on at "tracking every kid digitally", went further with replacing a textbook with Wikipedia, and ended at "Angry Birds" and/or "what, no pen inputs?".
Sorry, but I consider this a poor idea, executed wrongly.
Went to see Avatar/SpaceSmurfs/Alien5:Blue in 3D w/ passive glasses, and before the movie started, I had gotten a headache. Then I sat up properly straightened my back and neck, and the headache dissipated. Seemed that holding my head at an angle caused issues with the viewing of the 3D content*.... or the 3D'ed ads were just really bad.
true - not that we didn't look, but we really didn't find anything big.
This setup was isolated to a single "lab", where students could use the PCs (286s/386s, no network, WP5+Autocad) pretty much as they wanted, and we'd go in and correct any problems (reinstall basically) if any were found.
The more official labs (pure 386s - yay), used for teaching, had a tighter setup, and somehow ran worse (students had installed additional stuff, messed up existing setups), but these were thankfully outside of my domain.
the school had bought/copied/copyright-infringed a single tool that we could use. Besides this, there was little we could ultimately do. Also see comment below.
When I did admin at a school, a kid promised to take down our security once we installed it - I decided to not bother (was before Win95). In the end we had no issues.
We were given an assignment to spend 45 minutes of (self-)learning about computer security. I looked at WinNT security, then managed to change the Local Admin account's password, and finally walked down to IT to ask them to reset it (never figured out the original passwork). Was given a lecture about how this was reason for expelling me, which I turned around to a lecture on having proper security, and then reminded them that I was one of their best students. Back in class we had to recount our 45 minutes for the rest of the class - teacher ended up with a completely blank look on his face after I told the class what I had learnt.
quite true - have a "Linksys by Cisco" home-router which fails catastrophically if asked to do basic routing things. At this point, when colleagues or customers asks, I blankly state that I cannot recommend using Cisco equipment due to poor quality. (The linksys is not the only Cisco item I own that is piss-poor and buggy as shite)
Ah, I love watching slashtards on their high horses.
Ok, lets see...
The GP is correct. The PS3 is a great media center out of the box, and with a media server on a network it's exceptional.
Its decent - it lacks a LOT of things, like proper DLNA/UPnP support (no remote control??), DLNA integration (choose your music, as long as it is NOT on the network), media support (what are subtitles in MP4 files?!?) etc. Google it, or compare it to just about anything else. Only my Philips radio does worse - every other kit I have has the PS3 licked in terms of being a media center.
It's also extremely quiet, as the parent would know if he'd ever, y'know, used one. In fact, this was the primary motivator for choosing the PS3 over the XBox360 (which sounded like a jet engine and destroyed a disc in the 2 weeks we had it).
Less noisy than a jet-engine is not the same as quiet. Seriously, I have 2 PS3s, 1 first gen 60gig and a most-recent gen. Even the newest one, in the hallway, is more noisy than ANY DVD/BD player I have seen. Even my old Philips surround-DVD-radio-otherthings player is no-where as noisy. So relative to XBoxes, F16s and tumbledryers - sure. Compared to other things - not in this world.
(here's a tip - that 5% referenced is people who have money to buy games consoles - i.e. their market).
You're saying only people in the US (the 5% that can get netflix etc) can afford PS3s? And you called ME an idiot??? No, Europeans and others also buy PS3s, but these features advertised by GP as being reasons to buy a PS3 doesn't apply to them.
I have the exact same plugins/extensions in FF4 as in FF3.6, simply because I only use those, and they are all showing as compatible with both version. Due to this, the slowdows experienced should(!) be related to FF4 and not to plugins/extensions.
I also note that I every-so-often get messages in FF4 about Java-scripts becoming unresponsive. Some of these are given with an URL that starts with CHROME://, which I assume means it is internal to FF, while the rest seems to largely come from Google-owned domains. The messages also occur in FF3.6, but a lot less frequent.
Finally, I notice that some sites require that I restart the browser in 32-bit mode due to something called silverlight - seems to be a plugin for watching video, but I have the latest Flash 10.2 installed.
Rural Mississippi (well, somewhere outside Jackson), at a burger-joint - I have NO idea what language the girl at the counter was using, but English it wasn't! And the fella at the local Subway offered me chips, and then pointed at a rack of crisps... Not sure what he was smoking. A few days later in New York (Manhattan), I guarantee that the guy at the hostel was Russian, and the bag-store I visited just off Times Square was Chinese.
But yeah - I grew up with British-English, and can handle myself fairly well in both the Midlands and greater London area. People in the US have had a few issues with my English as well.
That RAM thing could explain why leaving it unused for 1 day, FF4 would make my MBA be useless and FF having to be killed explicitly since it had stopped responding. Now, to understand the CPU consumption... (I checked - it aint due to plugins, since these are shared with FF3 and there the problem is much less pronounced)
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They are welcome to try - a couple of governments are already asking them why this happened.
Meanwhile I'll feel less stupid for buying DLC as part of "Ultimate"/"Gold" edition of games, in stores, without giving my financial details to Sony.
I'm just curious why Sony claims NOW is a good time to do service on PSN. Clearly they should have done this before releasing it.
Even if Sony offered a pay service[...].
They should make one ... call it Playstation Plus or something ....
precisely - I'm currently pleased that I have never provided them with my Credit Card details, and that my PS3 isn't doing auto-update.
The improvements started ah "ooh, shiney", carried on at "tracking every kid digitally", went further with replacing a textbook with Wikipedia, and ended at "Angry Birds" and/or "what, no pen inputs?".
Sorry, but I consider this a poor idea, executed wrongly.
no longer practicing kick-boxing, but still ingesting caffeine and I sometimes ride a bike in Brussels .. 2 out of 3 aint bad :)
Also in several non-South American countries
I can appreciate that Roman Bureaucracy can be slow, but this is silly
Went to see Avatar/SpaceSmurfs/Alien5:Blue in 3D w/ passive glasses, and before the movie started, I had gotten a headache. Then I sat up properly straightened my back and neck, and the headache dissipated. .... or the 3D'ed ads were just really bad.
Seemed that holding my head at an angle caused issues with the viewing of the 3D content*
*:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarized_3D_glasses#Linearly_polarized_glasses
You just say that to get people to look... :)
true - not that we didn't look, but we really didn't find anything big.
This setup was isolated to a single "lab", where students could use the PCs (286s/386s, no network, WP5+Autocad) pretty much as they wanted, and we'd go in and correct any problems (reinstall basically) if any were found.
The more official labs (pure 386s - yay), used for teaching, had a tighter setup, and somehow ran worse (students had installed additional stuff, messed up existing setups), but these were thankfully outside of my domain.
the school had bought/copied/copyright-infringed a single tool that we could use. Besides this, there was little we could ultimately do.
Also see comment below.
When I did admin at a school, a kid promised to take down our security once we installed it - I decided to not bother (was before Win95). In the end we had no issues.
I mean, where will you put the handcuffs?
usually on someone in upper middle-management or a junior member of the exec team, whoever is expendable.
Fox's news reporting is "right".
Very much so, yes (for political meanings of "right".)
could this be interpreted as other bittorrent users on their network ?
2 in 30 seconds - not userfriendly for one-handed players :)
We were given an assignment to spend 45 minutes of (self-)learning about computer security.
I looked at WinNT security, then managed to change the Local Admin account's password, and finally walked down to IT to ask them to reset it (never figured out the original passwork). Was given a lecture about how this was reason for expelling me, which I turned around to a lecture on having proper security, and then reminded them that I was one of their best students.
Back in class we had to recount our 45 minutes for the rest of the class - teacher ended up with a completely blank look on his face after I told the class what I had learnt.
quite true - have a "Linksys by Cisco" home-router which fails catastrophically if asked to do basic routing things.
At this point, when colleagues or customers asks, I blankly state that I cannot recommend using Cisco equipment due to poor quality.
(The linksys is not the only Cisco item I own that is piss-poor and buggy as shite)
Ah, I love watching slashtards on their high horses.
Ok, lets see...
The GP is correct. The PS3 is a great media center out of the box, and with a media server on a network it's exceptional.
Its decent - it lacks a LOT of things, like proper DLNA/UPnP support (no remote control??), DLNA integration (choose your music, as long as it is NOT on the network), media support (what are subtitles in MP4 files?!?) etc. Google it, or compare it to just about anything else.
Only my Philips radio does worse - every other kit I have has the PS3 licked in terms of being a media center.
It's also extremely quiet, as the parent would know if he'd ever, y'know, used one. In fact, this was the primary motivator for choosing the PS3 over the XBox360 (which sounded like a jet engine and destroyed a disc in the 2 weeks we had it).
Less noisy than a jet-engine is not the same as quiet. Seriously, I have 2 PS3s, 1 first gen 60gig and a most-recent gen. Even the newest one, in the hallway, is more noisy than ANY DVD/BD player I have seen. Even my old Philips surround-DVD-radio-otherthings player is no-where as noisy.
So relative to XBoxes, F16s and tumbledryers - sure. Compared to other things - not in this world.
(here's a tip - that 5% referenced is people who have money to buy games consoles - i.e. their market).
You're saying only people in the US (the 5% that can get netflix etc) can afford PS3s? And you called ME an idiot??? No, Europeans and others also buy PS3s, but these features advertised by GP as being reasons to buy a PS3 doesn't apply to them.
On the other hand, the five year old PS3 remains feature competitive with high end DVD and Blu-Ray players.
Unless noise and heat are features, no, not really
It supports 1080p Netflix streams with 5.1 theater surround sound.
If you are one of the world's 5% that can access this, yes.
It supports Hulu Plus in HD.
If you are one of the world's 5% that can access this, yes.
It supports Sony's new Music Unlimited service. 6 million tracks. $4-$10/mo.
If you are one of the world's 5% that can access this, yes.
--- and it plays games.
Unless you want to use the hardware in any way not sanctioned by Sony.
*sigh*
I have the exact same plugins/extensions in FF4 as in FF3.6, simply because I only use those, and they are all showing as compatible with both version.
Due to this, the slowdows experienced should(!) be related to FF4 and not to plugins/extensions.
I also note that I every-so-often get messages in FF4 about Java-scripts becoming unresponsive. Some of these are given with an URL that starts with CHROME://, which I assume means it is internal to FF, while the rest seems to largely come from Google-owned domains. The messages also occur in FF3.6, but a lot less frequent.
Finally, I notice that some sites require that I restart the browser in 32-bit mode due to something called silverlight - seems to be a plugin for watching video, but I have the latest Flash 10.2 installed.
Cheap, but : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467h2_the-italian-man-who-went-to-malta_fun
Geez, I've been on the FF4 beta for like 5 months now almost.
I've tried to use FF4 beta for like 5 months now almost - instable piece of CPU-abusing, RAM-consuming shite.
Yeah - off topic, but FF4s performance issues really annoys me.
Rural Mississippi (well, somewhere outside Jackson), at a burger-joint - I have NO idea what language the girl at the counter was using, but English it wasn't!
And the fella at the local Subway offered me chips, and then pointed at a rack of crisps... Not sure what he was smoking.
A few days later in New York (Manhattan), I guarantee that the guy at the hostel was Russian, and the bag-store I visited just off Times Square was Chinese.
But yeah - I grew up with British-English, and can handle myself fairly well in both the Midlands and greater London area. People in the US have had a few issues with my English as well.
Nc
That RAM thing could explain why leaving it unused for 1 day, FF4 would make my MBA be useless and FF having to be killed explicitly since it had stopped responding. Now, to understand the CPU consumption...
(I checked - it aint due to plugins, since these are shared with FF3 and there the problem is much less pronounced)