Chris’s Blog

Currently the PS3 Is rocking up the folding@home stats – completely outperforming all other operating systems combined. Just three days ago the performance output of the PS3 was less than half the PC (still in beta I assume). And just look at the difference in number of processors compared to the PC. I bet the folding at home team are having some fun. This must have been what they meant when they said “10 Times more powerful than….”

Running folding at home client now (Join kotaku group 55008). Console is making a weird sound though, like the old CRT monitors used to make. Hope it doesn’t explode. I like the background downloading, have upped a few vids to gametrailers.com but they are waiting to be compressed or something. Will update later tonight.

Update: Hissing stopped after closing the folding at home client. Weird. Oh, and there are currently 2 Australian users folding. FYI (I’m in Japan but a New Zealander)

Another funny thing, its been only about three or four hours and heres the stats for the first video I posted:

PS3 Background downloading.
Posted: 3/22/07 – DLs: 86,511

Alot of kotaku readers

PS3 Folding Client

Read more for vids of background downloading and some strange sound.

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Here is a pic from my mates place. Weather is finally getting better.

After writing to the news website, TVNZ.co.nz about the obvious misrepresentation of the Playstation 3 console, I assumed it would only be a little while until they fixed the error of their ways. More than three months later, the problem still exists. Every time there is a Playstation Three related article they use the following image – nothing like the actual Playstation three unit at all.

While I frequently visit tvnz.co.nz to keep up with the news, I’m becoming increasingly disappointed in the quality of their reporting. Along with vague headliners (“Technology helps doctors” Duh!, “Person burned in house fire” WOW that’s informative!, ), spelling mistakes and poorly written articles, tvnz.co.nz never fails to disappoint me in some way during my near daily visits.

Which leads me to believe that they either have newbs writing all their online articles, or they have no quality control, or any system of checking an article before its posted online.

I understand that some of these articles are taken from various sources (Reuters etc) but that just makes things even worse – not only are you not writing up the article yourselves, but you are failing to check the consistency/validity/quality of the referenced article.

TVNZ PS3 / Actual PS3

Managed to setup blogging via my cellphone. Didn’t use the built in wp-mail because it wouldn’t display the title or any pictures properly. This makes things alot easier as the only time I feel like blogging is when im outside. じゃ

Not only can you find high quality images of almost anything – they give out a new free image each week. Like this cat…