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same thing as what has happened with the 360 - only MS used different models of consoles to stop it instead of these terrible updates. sooner or later Sony will realize what Microsoft did - piracy is good for system sales. look at it this way - piracy isn't bad for Sony, or Microsoft, or any of them. piracy is bad for developers. Microsoft banned six hundred THOUSAND consoles in one fell swoop, and within a month their sales of new and used systems AND games skyrocketed. people aren't going to stop pirating because of a loss of functionality like no online play - they're just going to either keep playing or get a new console.

yeah, they released a mandatory patch that closes the security hole. at this point, though, it doesn't matter. the ps3 was "unhackable" for so long because it was a perfect sphere of protection - no one could get into the hypervisor to run unsigned code, no matter what. now that there's a hole that has been exploited, they'll be able to continue to research from inside the veil as opposed to battering against the outside of it more.

i never got that. a car is, like $15,000, and stealing one will land you in jail. a CD is $10 or so, and stealing one will get you a slap on the wrist (if that!) and a scolding by your parents. what a stupid analogy.

there are two big arguments going on here: the first is that people who mod consoles inevitably pirate games and steal from The Man. the second is that 75% of people don't buy music, they download it. the first is the only one that matters for this conversation. you really don't understand why someone would want to use the PS3 as a linux box? simple. it's called the Cell processor, and it's the seven-core monstrosity that makes the PS3 so excellent at rendering high-poly graphics. it's also a beast when it comes to encoding and transmuxing video and doing other high-powered embarrassingly parallel tasks. for what it's worth, there's quite a few theories that you'd be able to enable legitimate PS2 game playback on the console through loading the emotion engine (what the CECHC and CECHE PS3 models used for software emulation of the PS2). i own a CECHE PS3, but i'd love to be able to upgrade and not lose that functionality. as for the argument that when you buy an iphone or a ps3, you're buying only the manufacturer's functionality and nothing else, that's pretty stupid. you're buying the hardware and software, yes, but you're also buying the right to do whatever the hell you want with it. it's YOURS. some corporate shmoe shouldn't be able to limit what you can do with YOUR hardware.

actually, thin crust, this only happened like two weeks ago. and i posted it the day it came out. so it's not really old news. sony seized all of PSJailbreak's assets, but there's so many open source version floating around (for the blackberry, TI84 calculator, USB dev boards, and android, and supposedly a PSP kit is in the works) that it doesn't matter. also, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work anymore in 3.42. as the psp has shown, there's a ton of custom firmware options that will be come available pretty quickly. there are a lot of people - myself included - that never updated past 3.2x, because they wanted to keep the Other OS option available. the PSJ hack allows me to get back online through that OS without being forced to update to use my console. i think you're missing the point, though. yeah, this enables piracy, and that's not necessarily good. but what IS good is that now you'll be able to use the ps3 for tons of cool stuff that, since the removal of the Other OS option, you haven't been able to touch.

wait a bit and you'll get a project =)

i wasn't clear. i said there was no light involved, and that's not right. it's that there's different kinds of light involved.

well, david, i think that's your answer. i know in your email you mentioned being interested in Reaper - why don't you get the free trial and check it out a bit?

he's posting because he basically finished the website over the weekend =) so now we're waiting on minor edits to Stevo's track, and an ok from Theophany.

good to know. i'll remove the link to the post and add it individually now.

mice respond to different surfaces differently, not to mention that there are different kinds of optical mice for different surfaces. i used a sheet of resume (thick) paper for a year for one of my mice. it sounds like it's just responding in extremes to movement as opposed to having a natural wiggle. so it's just a matter of finding the right material for your mousepad. does jill have any spare fabric sitting around? if not, you can get cheapo stuff from most craft stores for under a dollar. wrap that around your desk side and tape it down, and that might be all you need. of course, you could just do what i did and pick up a logi MX Revolution for like 15$ at a garage sale. best mouse i've ever used, bar none. edit: after re-reading your post, i'm a little curious. you mentioned that you've had other optical mice before...are you sure you've always had optical mice, and not laser mice? optical is a camera watching where you move, specifically, there's no light involved, and it's ok to look directly into the lens (some laser mice have visible lasers, most do not).

i've found that i have issues on certain tabletops. did you try doing this on, say, a sheet of paper, or a mousepad? also, does it wiggle when it's just sitting there, or does it only wiggle when it's being moved?

alright, i purged the crap out of this thread, and kept the few things that had been added in the last few weeks. i forgot past that, so i deleted a lot of relatively recent things that were added to this. so, start posting what you want! particularly abadoss, since i annihilated like fifty entries on the want list from you.

the 8400GSM is even worse than the standard 8400GS, and that's kind of the bare minimum unless you've got a monster processor and a decent amount of ram...which you likely don't have. buy a computer from me, and then you'll be fine.

w7 64-bit doesn't really need more ram - it recommends those because 64-bit applications are often heavy on RAM usage (since that's the whole point of 64-bit windows). except for the architecture difference, there isn't a lot that's changed.

i've been missing every birthday lately. happy you're-older day!

i can't believe that i forgot completely about my involvement with this project. care to change the first post to my current (and accurate) username?

slightly incorrect. 32-bit operating systems can only utilize 2^32 bytes of ram - in other words, 4gb of ram. your system reserves a small amount for usage below the OS level, leaving you with around 3.8 or 3.9 gigabytes of ram. your video card also eats into that - so, if you've got a card with 512mb of vram, you're looking at 3.4-3.5gb of usable ram on your system. 64-bit can use 2^64 bytes of ram, which is closer to 127.5gb. like, mega-server stuff. also, in 32-bit, no one program can use more than 2gb of ram without using a (software) 3gb switch (which are notoriously glitchy to begin with). 64-bit doesn't have this limitation. you'd think that everyone would just use 64-bit, but there's a lot of software incompatibility, particularly with drivers (the Yugo of the software world) and games. there's also the fact that a few processors (out of hundreds) can't function with x64-based systems. it's rare that you have that issue, though. 64-bit software has come miles in the last year or two, though. just check your most-used programs and make sure that they're compatible with 64-bit windows, or that there's a driver for your hardware. i'd suggest 64-bit if you can - it's going to be better in the long run.

it's really too bad that every one of his soundtracks sounds very similar to everything else he's written.

got .wav files from obtuse and dafydd, and am just waiting on stevo, caleb, and a response from theophany.

at least half of these people don't visit the boards...like, at all, anymore.

i'm not. no worries. i mean, this is the OCAD thread, isn't it? isn't this the point of the thread?

which is the hilarious thing, because it was such a stupid comment. i mean, do you really think someone would paint a nice picture for us by hand and then shit on one big section right in the middle?