5th November 2004, 12:42 AM
One annoying thing is that Sony has no official update site or software to hook up to something like that. What I mean is they are updating their various system drivers often enough, but with no special software to connect to some Sony update site online, you have to depend on ordering disks from Sony to get those drivers updated. On the other hand, MS, as part of it's totally unified online service, goes ahead and updates all the software right there. Now Sony's lesse fair policy for net gaming has worked just fine for them (but not Nintendo, maybe because Sony actually tries enticing compaines to give it a shot), but I still think they need a small update utility so a PS2 owner doesn't need to depend on snail mail or something just to get system updates.
DC loud? Come to think of it, it is pretty noisy, but considering I have my PC in my bedroom and a fan constantly on in there as well, well I just never notice system noise when playing games, unless the system starts making some frightening noise anyway... Namely, my GCN makes disturbing clicking sounds when I play Eternal Darkness...
Oddly enough, with all this white noise my brain just tunes out, I still have much better hearing than most people in my family. Maybe it's because I keep my various speaker volumes at one steady setting and never turn it up in that "bit by bit" way that slowly damages one's ears... As it is, if I'm around my mom and she's watching TV, ACROSS THE HOUSE, I can hear it painfully loud DROWNING OUT the TV I'm actually WATCHING.
DC loud? Come to think of it, it is pretty noisy, but considering I have my PC in my bedroom and a fan constantly on in there as well, well I just never notice system noise when playing games, unless the system starts making some frightening noise anyway... Namely, my GCN makes disturbing clicking sounds when I play Eternal Darkness...
Oddly enough, with all this white noise my brain just tunes out, I still have much better hearing than most people in my family. Maybe it's because I keep my various speaker volumes at one steady setting and never turn it up in that "bit by bit" way that slowly damages one's ears... As it is, if I'm around my mom and she's watching TV, ACROSS THE HOUSE, I can hear it painfully loud DROWNING OUT the TV I'm actually WATCHING.
"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)