There are people camping in tents in front of my local electronics store. They hope to be the first to own the new PS/3. They've been there since yesterday at noon, and they aren't released until tomorrow!

I guess if you've got nothing else to do with 2 days of your time, you might as well sit out in the cold (it is right at freezing point here in the middle of the afternoon) and camp on concrete.

They're waiting in line to pay $600 for the new gaming console. Which is more powerful then most PCs. It is going to be an interesting future which we will live in.

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guess they are desperate to buy a PS/3 so they have something to do while queueing for the shops to open...

To bad PS3 can't run Rosetta

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They're waiting in line to pay $600 for the new gaming console. Which is more powerful then most PCs. It is going to be an interesting future which we will live in.

As long as the console isn't more powerful than the people buying it, it seems reasonably harmless.

As a Minnesotan myself, I fear that such behavior is an indication to the contrary. :)

I suppose this can't be called openly coercive behavior on behalf of the machines... yet.

Well... I heard that many waiting in the line are probably planning to sell 'em on EBay for more then twice the retail price, because they are only shipping limited quantities. I guess netting close to $1,000 profit for enduring two days of Winter camping is good "work" for some.

I care so little about whether that is actually true, I've not gone to EBay to look. I've never understood the race to be first at such things in life. ...would much rather be first in Dr. Baker's game. Let's jump in to THAT "feet first", and see what happens!

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Well... I heard that many waiting in the line are probably planning to sell 'em on EBay for more then twice the retail price, because they are only shipping limited quantities. I guess netting close to $1,000 profit for enduring two days of Winter camping is good "work" for some.

hadn't thought of that angle.

have a laugh and a joke camping with a few mates in line, , get a grand profit each, don't tell the taxman/benefits, got your spends in for Xmas/[insert your festival here]

makes sense now

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If Sony knew these PS-3s were going to be so popular, then why the limited quantities? The malls are dangerous places to be right now. Fights, customers escorted by mall security and one shooting so far. Is this really smart? If malls become like general admission rock concerts, then something's gotta give.

I'm glad I bought those Kevlar coveralls.

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People standing in long lines with $600 in their pockets or carrying around a $600 console seems to have been quite the attraction to thieves:
Dangers of buying a PS3 on the first day.

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It's not the money. It's the people trying to get a PS-3. Customers fighting over the product. Some of those 1000 people trying to get one of those 80 PS-3s are causing the problem. Mall security is having to escort the lucky few to get one back to their vehicles to keep any one from trying to take it away. Get some trying to cut line and use the imagination.

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People standing in long lines with $600 in their pockets or carrying around a $600 console seems to have been quite the attraction to thieves:
Dangers of buying a PS3 on the first day.

On the same site: Inflated prices, perhaps?

Anyone here willing to "hack for a cure"? JUST KIDDING !!!

"I think criminals will use Trojans to steal processor time for PlayStations when they are not in use, and use that power to attach cryptography systems and deduce the prime numbers used to generate keys."

Gartner bloke warns of PS3 invasion: All your processing power will be belong to hackers

They're waiting in line to pay $600 for the new gaming console. Which is more powerful then most PCs. It is going to be an interesting future which we will live in.

As long as the console isn't more powerful than the people buying it, it seems reasonably harmless.

Anyone here willing to "hack for a cure"? JUST KIDDING !!!

why not, if you have a hacking cough ;-)

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"Sony Computer Entertainment says that when Cure(at)PLAYSTATION 3 is launched, PS3 owners can register their machines with Stanford, download specially designed software and leave their machines online to process data when they're not playing.

Sony said data processing time can be up to 20 times faster with a global network of PS3s, which are fitted with advanced Cell processors that can perform billions of calculations per second.

The program will kick off after the PS3 becomes available globally. PS3s already are on sale in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States; the European launch was delayed until March because of production problems."

Sony: Consoles can aid medical research

Anyone here willing to "hack for a cure"? JUST KIDDING !!!

why not, if you have a hacking cough ;-)

R~~

This now has its own thread in Number Crunching

"Sony Computer Entertainment says that when Cure(at)PLAYSTATION 3 is launched, PS3 owners can register their machines with Stanford, download specially designed software and leave their machines online to process data when they're not playing.

Sony said data processing time can be up to 20 times faster with a global network of PS3s, which are fitted with advanced Cell processors that can perform billions of calculations per second.

The program will kick off after the PS3 becomes available globally. PS3s already are on sale in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States; the European launch was delayed until March because of production problems."

Sony: Consoles can aid medical research

Guess I should get a tent first then. :)

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To bad PS3 can't run Rosetta

it is too bad that ps3 can't run it yet but when "Cure(at)PLAYSTATION 3" comes out it will speed up the network over 20 times things that would have taken 3 weeks will take less then a day. it will be a big step and Cure(at)is a big part of me buying my PS3 and not the WII I wish it was out right now B/C my PS3 is just sitting and home doing nothing. Stupid Lazy PS3......


i was just about to post it but i was thinking any know if you can run rosetta on the new Linux "yellow Dog" for the PS3?

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Just some pure speculation here, but if there is any truth, it may really be worth the effort to port Boinc/Rosetta over to PS3.

As you all likely are aware, the PS3 currently uses the Cell Broadband Engine, which is clocking at around 3.2 GHz.

IBM is now talking about the next gen CBE, and it'll be pushing 6 GHz!

So, it seems that IF the PS3 will eventually make use of the second gen CBE, the 20-fold improvement may increase to nearly 40-fold.

Just a thought as to where to possibly direct the limited resources for code porting.

To bad PS3 can't run Rosetta

it is too bad that ps3 can't run it yet but when "Cure(at)PLAYSTATION 3" comes out it will speed up the network over 20 times things that would have taken 3 weeks will take less then a day. it will be a big step and Cure(at)is a big part of me buying my PS3 and not the WII I wish it was out right now B/C my PS3 is just sitting and home doing nothing. Stupid Lazy PS3......


i was just about to post it but i was thinking any know if you can run rosetta on the new Linux "yellow Dog" for the PS3?

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