18th November 2016, 8:03 PM
Another issue with the PS3 interface.
- On the Xbox 360, if you buy a game on the PC and then turn on your 360, it will automatically download it. On PS3, however, it does not do that; you need to manually go into the store's back-purchases list and tell it to download the game. It's a real pain.
On another note, and I don'[t know how much of this is wi-fi vs. wired, but yesterday I tried out the Crunchyroll (anime streaming service) apps for the X360 and PS3, and found that while they both mostly work, the PS3 one had some bad loading problems at times and crashed several times, while I didn't have any issues with the 360 one. I'd be willing to consider the video-loading problems to maybe be a wi-fi issue, but the crashing thing shouldn't be connected to that. (Also, while the Crunchyroll apps work, they aren't as good as the Youtube app because it doesn't support pausing a video and then continuing it later after quitting the program. That's a pretty nice thing to be able to do and the Youtube app does support it.)
As for the games though, some of the games are good; I definitely don't regret getting this system, it's got a lot of good stuff you can't play on other consoles. 3D Dot Game Heroes is quite fun, it's great to finally get to play it!
- On the Xbox 360, if you buy a game on the PC and then turn on your 360, it will automatically download it. On PS3, however, it does not do that; you need to manually go into the store's back-purchases list and tell it to download the game. It's a real pain.
On another note, and I don'[t know how much of this is wi-fi vs. wired, but yesterday I tried out the Crunchyroll (anime streaming service) apps for the X360 and PS3, and found that while they both mostly work, the PS3 one had some bad loading problems at times and crashed several times, while I didn't have any issues with the 360 one. I'd be willing to consider the video-loading problems to maybe be a wi-fi issue, but the crashing thing shouldn't be connected to that. (Also, while the Crunchyroll apps work, they aren't as good as the Youtube app because it doesn't support pausing a video and then continuing it later after quitting the program. That's a pretty nice thing to be able to do and the Youtube app does support it.)
As for the games though, some of the games are good; I definitely don't regret getting this system, it's got a lot of good stuff you can't play on other consoles. 3D Dot Game Heroes is quite fun, it's great to finally get to play it!
Quote: We've talked about the whole "gives you cancer" wifi fears before, but I really want to reiterate that simply saying "we don't have all the science in" (no matter how often and how many tests come back showing that no, once again, wifi doesn't appear to cause any illness) is not a good attitude. This is something I've seen a lot in a very certain wing of liberals (and, frankly, a very certain similarly minded set of conservatives around here in Oklahoma, where you can find a chiropractic clinic for every church). Certain liberal minded people will claim to be pro-science on issues of climate change and evolution, but go totally fringe when it comes to their thoughts on psychiatric medication or vaccines. The science completely disproves their fears on the later, but they dismiss that with arguments absolutely IDENTICAL to arguments people against climate change or evolution use to dismiss the scientific consensus on those topics. Fears on the dangers of cell phone radiation, to me, are no different than fears about vaccines. It's kinda beyond the scope of a thread on buying a PS3, but if you want my opinion, I don't think there's anything to worry about, nor do I think there's some major gap in knowledge that needs to be filled before reaching that conclusion.There is absolutely nothing similar between fears over wi-fi and those other things you mention because it's something with some actual science behind it, which is something definitely not the case for either of those other issues.
Quote: USB 1.0/1.1 was designed without file transfer in mind. My own keyboard dates from that time period and is a 1.1 device (I just recently cleaned the entire thing in and out, and it sure needed it). For keyboards and mice, the speed of 1.1 far exceeds anyone's use case (by the time you're typing fast enough for it to be an issue, you've probably already set your keyboard on fire). USB 2.0 came later when they realized just how important file transfer would be for the spec. USB 3.0 and 3.1 are great, but I've been rather disappointed to see how slowly a number of devices have been to adopt it. Are there even any web cams that use 3.0 yet? I mean, with 4KHD and 120 Htz, it sure would be useful at this point to handle all that data in a fast manner, perhaps without compression.Makes sense. I'm just glad the computer has USB ports at all, but yeah, they're slow.
Quote: If you're curious, flash drives are crazy fast compared to hard discs. In fact, on most PCs (including my own), the biggest modern bottleneck is the hard disk speed. I do ultimately intend to replace my 4TB drive with a flash drive (it'll be a much more convenient setup if I can just move over a partition than if I had to reinstall Windows completely just to set up a Windows partition on a much smaller flash drive). Right now, 4TB drives cost about as much as a cheap car. So, I'm waiting a few years for prices to become more reasonable. Hopefully I won't fill up this drive before then . Eh, who am I kidding? Games these days take up like 50GB each. I'll have it full by the end of next year.On SATA or USB 3.0, yeah, I can see how flash would be faster -- no need to spin a disc and such. Returning to the 360 though, apparently it is indeed slower over USB than the internal hard drive, because 2.0 is slower than SATA. But for a computer, maybe a flash drive would be nice sometime, for stuff that doesn't change all that often (the OS and the like) since you don't want to constantly be writing to a flash device if you can help it...
Quote: Oh, you were asking about why your model PS3 doesn't even let you "see" the flash once you've got the hard drive installed. I think I covered this above, but here's my take on it. I think it was simple lazy coding and a lazy workaround. As I said, the OS is partially installed on the system's hard drive. The OS also makes the assumption there is only one hard drive. Your model is likely set up so that, in order to prevent confusing the OS, "hides" the "flash" hard drive when another is physically installed. That way, the OS never tries to install updates to the wrong area. They may also have it set up so that this flash partition still has that OS data, so when the added hard drive is removed, it can still boot back to that flash partition in a pinch. Contrast that with how the OS handles devices plugged into either the memory card ports on my model or through a USB port. Those are never used to boot the system in any situation, not even an emergency like if the hard drive is removed, so there's never any chance the OS could get confused (they would also be "flagged" internally in very different ways). Lazy, yes, but I think that's what they likely decided on.It seems like there should have been a way around this problem, but I guess Sony didn't want to try. Too bad.