Then its only a matter of time. The fat PS3 was manufactured with second-rate solder, so eventually the heating and cooling of your hardware will cause the connections on the mainboard to fail, and you'll be presented with the 'Yellow Light of Death'. I fix these things as a hobby, and let me tell you, old, fat PS3s die often. It takes me about 2 hours to strip one, "reflow" the solder, cool it and put it together, and I've got a few that I've had to fix multiple times. Sony didn't make the same mistake with the slim, and I haven't seen a single slim PS3 fail.
The whole reason this is important, and that no-one seems to be talking about here, is that we need another planet. There's no way we can sustain our current population on this planet into the future, and the population is growing. People will start to die en mass and life will become tragic and harsh for a much higher ratio of people (currently, thats just life in the worst places to live). We need to figure out how to create contained ecosystems and how to use the resources of other planets (and moons and asteroids and dwarf planets and eventually exoplanets). Some work is going to get done in LEO for sure, but advancing the knowledge of how to actually exist on another planet will always be valuable and important progress. Eventually, earth will just be a retirement planet, where its nature and remaining resources are protected and safe from development, and can be treated like the rare and delicate jewel that it is.
Its great to see them making advances in their software, but they'll never crack the casual market until they have some excellent or better land maps. Everyone I know who plays flight sims plans their routes around known land features and uses the flight as a way to enjoy the visuals. A relatively few people play to experience the 'real' flight physics over the 'real' appearance of flying past their house.
Did you try right clicking on the title in the steam interface and selecting 'View Game CD Key'? Because all my games requiring a key that I bought within steam (and its a lot) have the key stored there.
Its absolute garbage that a company cant produce a useful 75 dollar laptop. I may not be completely enlightened as to all of the technical hurdles, I'm sure that they can put a commodore 64 into something the side of a fingernail. Add on a flat pressure keyboard, a crappy LCD display with no backlight, and a 10 dollar 8GB SDcard for the slim, custom operating system and apps, and you start getting pretty close. It sounds like this company has blown a tonne of cash on trying to find a new iPod that even though its targetted at kids in suffering nations, everyone will want one because its 'such impressive technology'. FFS, a modified nintendo DS is nearly achieving all of the design goals of this project.
As cool as this project sounds, and as much as many folks will argue with you, please please do NOT install some Linux variant and hack together a working system, as you'll only end up costing the museum more money after your contract has expired and they decide down the road to make some changes. Linux may be free, but linux administrators sure enjoy charging a premium. Go with the easiest to configure and most dummy proof model you can, and then simplify it.
I think you can thank the antivirus companies for this one. Were microsoft to include enough tools and antivirus with their operating systems, suddenly all antivirus makers would be crying foul and shouting monopoly and the like, as their markets would suddenly dry up. It happened in the past when MS was pushing windows defender and trying to integrate it deep into their OS.
The important part of this article is not the reliability of the hardware, but is the response by Sony in supporting the (apparently rare) customer who has spent a sizeable chunk of change on hardware that has lasted less than two years under normal use. A two hundred dollar 'repair' charge from Sony on top of the high cost of the console just demonstrates how $ony views their 'valuable' customers.
One of the main things I look for in my entertainment systems is that they run quietly, and its promising to see a company develop a system capable of 1080p in a low sound output system. It is however disappointing to see that the system is just a reorganized PC, including multiple fans for cooling, which add the majority of decibels. As it takes on load (say, for running video in 1080p) and the fans kick it up to cope with the added heat, its going to increase in volume substantially, and as the system ages, it will start to make a fair bit of noise... not sounds I really want to be hearing as I'm engrossed in some sort of cinematic masterpiece.
Ideally, I'd like a system much like the PS3 to use for a entertainment hub, something the PS3 is actually quite good at doing and doing quietly as well. Its just too bad that its a Sony product.
Who's to say anyone has a 'right' to a domain? I snatch up www.coca-cola.com before they do, and i should rightfully be compensated for being smarter than their marketing department. If I speculate on future hot topics or names and buy up a bunch of domains, then my risk is that they'll be worth something someday and I'm putting out substantial investment on something which may never yield profit. Its called a 'free-market', and it should carry over to internet investments as well.
Having the ability to see the sun from all sides at once would be an interesting way to see where sunspots go when they're not facing us. Perhaps they are running away from the visible face of the sun.
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End of internal debate, I guess I"ll be going with an Android.
Phone. Android PHONE.
Then its only a matter of time. The fat PS3 was manufactured with second-rate solder, so eventually the heating and cooling of your hardware will cause the connections on the mainboard to fail, and you'll be presented with the 'Yellow Light of Death'. I fix these things as a hobby, and let me tell you, old, fat PS3s die often. It takes me about 2 hours to strip one, "reflow" the solder, cool it and put it together, and I've got a few that I've had to fix multiple times. Sony didn't make the same mistake with the slim, and I haven't seen a single slim PS3 fail.
The whole reason this is important, and that no-one seems to be talking about here, is that we need another planet. There's no way we can sustain our current population on this planet into the future, and the population is growing. People will start to die en mass and life will become tragic and harsh for a much higher ratio of people (currently, thats just life in the worst places to live). We need to figure out how to create contained ecosystems and how to use the resources of other planets (and moons and asteroids and dwarf planets and eventually exoplanets). Some work is going to get done in LEO for sure, but advancing the knowledge of how to actually exist on another planet will always be valuable and important progress. Eventually, earth will just be a retirement planet, where its nature and remaining resources are protected and safe from development, and can be treated like the rare and delicate jewel that it is.
What could possibly go wrong?
Its great to see them making advances in their software, but they'll never crack the casual market until they have some excellent or better land maps. Everyone I know who plays flight sims plans their routes around known land features and uses the flight as a way to enjoy the visuals. A relatively few people play to experience the 'real' flight physics over the 'real' appearance of flying past their house.
Did you try right clicking on the title in the steam interface and selecting 'View Game CD Key'? Because all my games requiring a key that I bought within steam (and its a lot) have the key stored there.
I would love to hear an example of a game that actually LOST money because of piracy. I don't think such a thing has ever happened.
Call me when the robot sex dolls are standing at the booth, vivaciously encouraging passers-by to come in and give them a try.
You appear to be right, which is very confusing because he's also been discussing Spirit being stuck and current events within the blog.
Actually, Opportunity is examining the damaged heat shield from re-entry, which it just arrived at the other day.
Its absolute garbage that a company cant produce a useful 75 dollar laptop. I may not be completely enlightened as to all of the technical hurdles, I'm sure that they can put a commodore 64 into something the side of a fingernail. Add on a flat pressure keyboard, a crappy LCD display with no backlight, and a 10 dollar 8GB SDcard for the slim, custom operating system and apps, and you start getting pretty close. It sounds like this company has blown a tonne of cash on trying to find a new iPod that even though its targetted at kids in suffering nations, everyone will want one because its 'such impressive technology'. FFS, a modified nintendo DS is nearly achieving all of the design goals of this project.
tl;dr : this made some people rich.
Thanks! +1 from my non-mod family :)
I guess EA found its own way to take care of the current pandemic, without having to wait in line for
As cool as this project sounds, and as much as many folks will argue with you, please please do NOT install some Linux variant and hack together a working system, as you'll only end up costing the museum more money after your contract has expired and they decide down the road to make some changes. Linux may be free, but linux administrators sure enjoy charging a premium. Go with the easiest to configure and most dummy proof model you can, and then simplify it.
I think you can thank the antivirus companies for this one. Were microsoft to include enough tools and antivirus with their operating systems, suddenly all antivirus makers would be crying foul and shouting monopoly and the like, as their markets would suddenly dry up. It happened in the past when MS was pushing windows defender and trying to integrate it deep into their OS.
VoIP on the DSi, including video chat. Problem solved.
The important part of this article is not the reliability of the hardware, but is the response by Sony in supporting the (apparently rare) customer who has spent a sizeable chunk of change on hardware that has lasted less than two years under normal use. A two hundred dollar 'repair' charge from Sony on top of the high cost of the console just demonstrates how $ony views their 'valuable' customers.
One of the main things I look for in my entertainment systems is that they run quietly, and its promising to see a company develop a system capable of 1080p in a low sound output system. It is however disappointing to see that the system is just a reorganized PC, including multiple fans for cooling, which add the majority of decibels. As it takes on load (say, for running video in 1080p) and the fans kick it up to cope with the added heat, its going to increase in volume substantially, and as the system ages, it will start to make a fair bit of noise... not sounds I really want to be hearing as I'm engrossed in some sort of cinematic masterpiece.
Ideally, I'd like a system much like the PS3 to use for a entertainment hub, something the PS3 is actually quite good at doing and doing quietly as well. Its just too bad that its a Sony product.
Are you telling me this works without an internet connection?!
Who's to say anyone has a 'right' to a domain? I snatch up www.coca-cola.com before they do, and i should rightfully be compensated for being smarter than their marketing department. If I speculate on future hot topics or names and buy up a bunch of domains, then my risk is that they'll be worth something someday and I'm putting out substantial investment on something which may never yield profit. Its called a 'free-market', and it should carry over to internet investments as well.
Does that mean there's a job opening for someone to punch a series of numbers into a computer every 108 minutes?
Why not just get in line over there, behind Silverlight, GoLive, and the rest of the systems that were going to 'kill flash'.
Thank goodness Darkfall has 'launched', and proves that a game doesn't have to follow the 'rules' to be 'successful'.
Which one aren't we going to look forward to?
Having the ability to see the sun from all sides at once would be an interesting way to see where sunspots go when they're not facing us. Perhaps they are running away from the visible face of the sun.