29th March 2010, 4:58 PM
Annoy? Mark my words, there's a potential lawsuit in the works here. While people such as us are likely enough to find out about what this firmware does, many legitimate users are going to find out they lost the feature only after the firmware update is complete and they try to boot to linux (it's more useful than you'd think, considering you have a very powerful computer once the process is done, and I use it more often than I thought I would). With that in mind, and considering their previous promise NOT to remove this very feature from the "fat" models, I can imagine a lawsuit claiming damages could be upcoming.
And of course, I feel sorry for those labs that bought a large number of PS3 systems to use as a cheap supercomputer which decide to do an update to their various system's firmware only to cause their work to come to a grinding hault.
And of course, I feel sorry for those labs that bought a large number of PS3 systems to use as a cheap supercomputer which decide to do an update to their various system's firmware only to cause their work to come to a grinding hault.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)