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It's against not only Air Force policy, but the international Law of Armed Conflict for us to bomb buildings within a certain distance to the above mentioned. They are considered "protected" under LOAC, like mosques and churches. Except when they are being used as strongpoints by the enemy- something they often do in modern combat, as a way to try and get the widest media coverage possible.
Have you heard of the countless bombings of terrorist structures, camps and strongholds with ZERO collateral damage? No, because all that is news worthy is when one bomb goes astray. The USAF has the technology to drop five, 9-ton bombs within 50 feet of each other. From altitudes close to 50,000, flying at almost, or just above, the sound barrier. Meaning not only would you not see the plane, you wouldn't even hear it until the enemy forces bearing down on yet another convoy of Iraqi soldiers trying to create a better country for their people is destroyed. Those schools and hospitals? You only hear about them because the occupants were used as literal human shields- something our enemy has no qualms about doing, despite it's own LOAC violations.
I'm not going to waste anymore time than what I have trying to convince you; I've tried with others similar in the past. The kind that protest cargo bases as baby killers, and the first ones to one from a fight and expect the men on the wall to protect them, even though they badmouth them whenever possible. Not that you're a coward or anything, but try and have a little respect for the men who volunteer to fight and die to bdefend your right to say they blow up schools for sport.
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I have nothing but contempt for war, and more than contempt for those who don't even see the people you're killing.
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And as a personal aside, I apologize for any unnecessary heat in my original reply. I tend to get passionate about certain things, and posted before proofreading.
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I'm not a a fan of the army, quite far from it, but I don't think for a minute these mini supercomputers are getting wasted cpu cycles.
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It makes me sad that Sony took out the BC that I was hoping they'd reinstall in the console because that's the only thing holding me back at this point from buying the shiny black console. Yes, I know it's my own fault for not buying a BC PS3 when they came out and could actually play PS2 games. Oh well.
Anyways, 336 PS3s should be great for filling up one and a quarter MAG games, no problem. with over 2200, you could make almost 9 full game sessions. I'm not sure what shocks me more, the fact you need that many PS3s to make 9 MAG game sessions, or that it ONLY makes 9 MAG game sessions.
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There's a really simple fix to get a PS3 and BC. Buy a PS3, then buy a PS2.
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I'm just pointing out that the BC issue has come and gone. If that's what's holding you back from your purchase you probably just don't care to own one in the first place. You wanna play PS2 games, play em on your PS2. I'm too busy with my PS3, 360, and my Wii to even think about firing up a PS2 game in near future personally.
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@bkchurch: Mostly I just want one because I have a copy of Disgaea I wanna play on a console instead of teenie weenie vision on a DS. And I only got 10 minutes into FF12 and I really should play the bloody thing, or give it away.
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I've traded a first gen iPhone 2G for my first gen 60Gb. BC, PS3 about 2 years ago (second hand) and now I have a 320GB HDD in their, it's chalk full of media (TV shows, movies etc.) and yes, I don't blame you, I still find the time once in a while to fire up Shadow of the Colossus, MGS3 and Tekken 5 etc. Look around for one, and you will find it, Good luck.
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There's a vocal minority that continues to bitch about it. It's by and large not a lot of people.
I'm not going to lie, I do use it. Every once in a while if there's a lull in new games I'll find the time to go back and replay an old favorite or finally play an Atlus game I never had the time to get around to. But it's really infrequent. And if I didn't have BC, I'd hook my PS2 up to do it.
Buy a PS3 to play PS3 games. If you want to replay a game so bad but you can't be hassled to plug a PS2 in and be restrained a chord than you either don't care about playing that game that much or you are lazy as hell.
Moreover I would certainly not suggest buying a 60gb PS3. People may tell you the PS3 has a low failure rate but first generation PS3s with the 90nm chipset have had more than their fair share of issues. Failing lasers and overheating are not rampant but they certainly aren't uncommon in the old models. Buying second hand is only going to exacerbate the chances of running into these issues.
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Great, then why are we discussing this? The people who demand BC in their PS3s have a BC PS3. The few people who care about BS don't own a BC PS3 missed the boat. Too bad for them. It's not coming back and the point stands that whining about the lack of BC as a reason for not owning a PS3 is dumb. There's plenty of good reasons to own a PS3. Not being able to play PS2 games is a stupid reason to not buy the system.
And I stand by the belief that if you can't take five minutes to hook a PS2 up if there's a PS2 game you want to play you are lazy as hell.
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For me it is difficult to thing of them as anything other than something you connect to your TV, turn on and play games on.
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the Cell is a very powerful PowerPC processor (PPC is good for crunshing number like matrix and stuff, actually better than games(which rely on vectoriel matrixes but not only)
it's not used a a computer per se, it's a cluster of machines more like a server, on a remote pc, you want to render or calculate something, it gets sent to the cluster, gets processed and then sent back.
(for example a pixar movie isn't obviously rendered on the 3D modeler's computer, but on dedicated servers)
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To use a simplified example, if the USAF was trying to break the encryption on a hard drive, the first PS3 would try all passwords starting with A, the second, B, and so on.
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will get you started on your own cluster.
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I ready it wrong, sorry.