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US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update 349

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 13, 2010 @06:45AM from the sounds-like-an-act-of-terrorism-to-me dept.

tlhIngan writes "The US Air Force, having purchased PS3s for supercomputing research, is now the latest victim of Sony's removal of the Install Other OS feature. It turns out that while their PS3s don't need the firmware update, it will be impossible to replace PS3s that fail. PS3s with the Other OS feature are no longer produced since the Slim was introduced, so replacements will have to come from the existing stock of used PS3s. However, as most gamers have probably updated their PS3s, that used stock is no longer suitable for the USAF's research. In addition, smaller educational clusters using PS3s will share the same fate — unable to replace machines that die in their clusters." In related news, Sony has been hit with two more lawsuits over this issue.

Comment Insiders Deal Page At Tivo.com gives $100 discount (Score 1) 227

by MegaDeth on Tuesday March 18, 2003 @12:55AM (#5534561) Attached to: Study Finds Tivo Less of a Threat to Advertisers

Tivo.com offers an adage.com insiders deal discount of $100 on their 80 hour Series2 Tivo. It's a steal at $250. The link to get the special offer is http://www.tivo.com/sales/adage.

The price they offer on the main website is $100 more then whats listed on the insiders deal page. I don't think this page is supposed to be available to the general public, so I think as soon as they notice a whole bunch of people buying 80 hour Tivo's for $250, instead of the $350 they should be going for, they are going to take the page down.

I ordered one of 'em via the website last week, which is supposed to arrive tomorrow, and I got a local circuit city to match the special website price, plus 10% of the difference, so I got my 2nd one for $240 ($290 with a $50 mail-in rebate). The Tivo.com website sends it with free shipping and you can avoid the sales tax, so that's the better deal. But you get instant gratification from Circuit City.

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