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Comment Re:Older computers get emulated now (Score 1) 543

ps3 = Rs 23000 + Rs 3000 for each game xbox360 = Rs 23000 + Rs 2000 for each game ps2 = sux wii = sux even more pc = Rs 0 (i already have one) + Rs 1000 for each game consoles are expensive, not absolutely. my pc cost me Rs 37000. But 23k for just games?? i simply can't justify it.

playstation 2 sucks????? being old and sucking are different things my friend. The playstation 2 was and is one of the best consoles of all time. i still play mine at least once a week. hell for the rpg's alone its worth hanging on to. you're the kind of person that sold his snes and sega aren't you.... also you should be able to pick up a used xbox 360 for about the price of a copy of windows 7....

Comment anyone else "that guy" (Score 1) 543

i've become the guy that inherits the "old" electronics of my family... i haven't bought a computer in the traditional sense since like 2003, when i build myself a nice desktop with my hs graduation money.... most recently my sister gave me an her old sony vaio vgn-s260 when she bought a new macbook pro.... its 2004 vintage, one of the early "thin and light" laptops, and has a display that i still think looks better than most brand new laptops. it has a Pentium m that was friendly to pinmod overclocking, so she now hums along at 2.26 GHz, i've managed to wedge 2 gigs of ram in and upgraded the wireless card to from g to n... oh, and the trackpad was broken when i got it so i picked up a "new" palmrest for it off ebay for $10... and i of course switched it from an install of xp that was so jacked up it hardly booted to linux.... i used it for web, email, and word processing on the go. i love this computer.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Dedicated Halo 2 Fans Keep Multiplayer Alive 239

On April 15th, Microsoft terminated Xbox Live support for the original Xbox console, marking the end of online multiplayer for many older games. However, a group of Halo 2 players have refused to give up online play by leaving their consoles on and connected since then. Overheating consoles and dropped connections have taken their toll, but at present, 13 players are still going strong.
Businesses

Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award 286

ISoldat53 writes "The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America. From the article: 'After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010.'"

Comment Re:Doesn't apply to music and film (Score 1) 224

laser disks failed because they were too expensive and impractical, also one must consider VHS, NOT laserdisk was the defacto standard back then. Laser disk was targeted at a niche market who bought into it knowing full well it was going to cost more... so comparing their price to dvd's/bd discs is irrelevant, cool strawman though.... and no one expects people to do their jobs for free, however consumers might be tired of the excesses of Hollywood. go to a damn wal mart and look how far the price of durable goods has been driven down by globalization.... now try to reconcile these genuinely cheap genuinely useful goods with a dvd that costs $25 dollars (the physical disk itself and packaging come in well under a dollar) because they paid tom cruise $50 million dollars to stand there and be short. it cant be done. see hulu and netflix for examples of old media doing new media right and dont try to justify a broken system.

Comment what about my percived losses???? (Score 1) 300

I'm a bartender part time- I'm to work tonight and it has been snowing heavily the past two days, and as result I highly doubt I'll make as much money as i usually do on Tuesday night due to the poor road conditions.... who do I speak to about remuneration, mother nature? i wish i were a multinational corporation that dialogs with governments on the intellectual level of a toddler throwing a temper tantrum ....

Comment Re:Not the best idea (Score 1) 572

will you please explain to me why using your phone exactly the way it was marketed to you amounts to a DDOS attack? AT&T has been making money by the boatload by having the monopoly on the iphone, constantly advertise how totally awesome their network is, and is willing to aggressively sue if someone is bold enough to back-sass them about the quality of their network. Yet if you buy an iphone you find that not only does the network kind of suck despite the inordinately expensive plan you've been forced into in order to have unlimited data but also that AT&T, the company that promised you all these great things on their totally awesome network, will eventually begin to tell you that its your fault that your phone doesn't work well and that not only are you ruining it for yourself but your slowing it down for everyone else too....you need to use less data, but do keep paying for that unlimited (unlimited, of course, meaning 5GB/Mo) plan, otherwise we wont have money to hire more Wilson brothers to trick new marks..... Seriously though it seems like this guy is asking people to use Pandora, not to maliciously inject packets- also they are not trying to deny service to legitimate users- these ARE legitimate users locked into contracts on a network that does not preform anywhere near the way they were led to believe it would. They will use their phones legitimately- ostensibly to run apps that they also paid for simply to prove, at least in the way that I understand it, that AT&T network does not work as advertised, and that its not the fault of some über heavy iphone data users, but that it simply is insufficient to cover the existing customer base. AT&T is treating its best customers the worst, and if their network is unable to be scaled to handle the traffic in a profitable manner why not drop the iphone and other such smart devices and let some poor other wireless provider deal with the impossible task...
Apple

Submission + - Angry AT&T customers may disrupt service 1

g0dsp33d writes: Fake Steve Jobs, the alter-alias of Newsweek's Dan Lyons, is calling disgruntled AT&T users to protest comments from AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega that smart phone (specifically iPhone) usage is responsible for their network issues and his plan to end unlimited data plans. The post, dubbed "Operation Chokehold" wants AT&T customers to use as much data service as they can on Friday, December 19th at noon.

While Fake Steve Jobs is notable for its satire, many Twitter and Facebook users seem to be rallying to its cry. It is unclear if there will be enough support to cause a DDOS.

Submission + - MySQL 5.5.0 Released (mysql.com)

Zontar The Mindless writes: "Despite all the recent excitement over MySQL, some folks have actually continued to write code, do QA and testing, write documentation, and all that other boring, mind-the-store stuff that people working in software projects generally do. The result is MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2; the "m2" tag means that it's the second milestone from the development trunk, code-named "Betony". This release can be considered beta quality; if you run into any bugs, please report them here.

This release incorporates the changes addressing scalability and performance issues and exploits advances in hardware and CPU design made in MySQL 5.4 (which isn't being developed any further). There's some shiny new goodies in "m2" as well, including: support for a semi-synchronous replication interface; support for the SQL standard SIGNAL and RESIGNAL statements; several enhancements to XML functionality, including a new LOAD XML statement; many new improvements in user-defined partitioning, including better support for date-based partitioning and partition pruning; and version 1.0.5 of the InnoDB plugin.

More info about MySQL 5.5.0-m2 is available in the changelog.

Download and enjoy!"

Apple

Submission + - Judge orders permanent injunction against Psystar (appleinsider.com)

AdmiralXyz writes: It appears to be the end of the road for infamous Mac-clone maker Psystar, as a federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against the company, banning it from selling its OS X-based hardware products, following November's ruling that Psystar was guilty of copyright infringement under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Specifically, Judge William Alsup's ruling prevents Psystar from "copying, selling, offering to sell, distributing or creating derivative works of Mac OS X without authorization from Apple; circumventing any technological measure that effectively controls access Mac OS X; or doing anything to circumvent the rights held by Apple under the Copyright Act with respect to Mac OS X". The ruling does not include Psystar's Rebel EFI software, which (in theory) allows users to boot OS X onto any computer, but Alsup said that too would be unlikely to stand up in court if Apple decides to make a formal challenge.

Submission + - IIM to switch to FOSS after online tests disaster

geo_2677 writes: The reputed Indian Institute of Management recently switched to online format for its Comman Admission Test (CAT)which ran into hiccups and chaos from day one. Prometric which conducted the tests on behalf of IIM concluded that the problems were due to the Conflicker and that the Windows networks were compromised.
Now the IIM reasons that its is cheaper and more secure to switch to FOSS than invest in antivirus and proprietary solutions.
More details at the link on Economic Times http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Post-online-CAT-disaster-IIMs-plan-to-switch-to-Foss-/articleshow/5338309.cms
I quote from the article :" After an elaborate post-mortem of the recent disaster, many IIM officials are exploring the idea of using free and open source software (Foss), rather than going in for proprietary software, to prevent online common admission test disasters in future."

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