My son was in the car when this happened. He is okay. I would have shit myself.
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PS3 3.50 and/or 3.55 caused bluray issue with my FAT 80GB system
I did resolve the issue… but I lost 3 years of saved games… including my sons Little Big Planet game which he was almost at 100%… Anyhow, here is an snippet of the on going horseshit I am getting from the PSN helpless desk…
Customer By Email December 22, 2010 8:32:48 PM
Funny, the error message that I got was cryptic and didn’t specify that I didn’t have enough space on my USB stick.I read this:
http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/backuputility.html
So, please be kind and point out where the reference is to the 10GB requirement to back up data to a USB drive.
That is like going to the washroom, flushing the toilet and the water splashes up on your face. Only to turn around and see a sign on the back of the door telling you “Warning, water from the toilet may splash you in the face.”
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I sent this e-mail a few weeks back… Customer By Web Form 12/03/2010 10:06 AM …Discussion Thread
Response Via Email (Shaylisa P.) 12/22/2010 04:32 PM
Hello Greg,I apologize for any inconvenience you may have endured. my best guess would be that you do not have enough memory on your USB flashdrive. It is recommended to use a 10gb flashdrive, for the amount of data you are trying to backup.
I hope this information helps. If you have any additional questions or concerns please feel free to email me back.
Regards,
Shaylisa P.
Customer By Email 12/20/2010 05:59 AM
Late last night I did a system recovery and that seemed to resolve the issue… Now, before I did the system recover I attempted to use the backup utility to save to a USB device and that kept on failing. So, I lost all of my saved games and downloaded content. Some of the content I will be downloading again, but now I have lost progress in all mine and my sons games (PS2 and PS3 saved games). Can’t say for sure what caused the backup to fail if it was the update or another issue. But I had 70 GB of my
80GB machine used. The USB stick was FAT32.
Response Via Email (Marjorie B.) 12/20/2010 05:46 AM
Hello Greg,Thank you for your response in regards to the firmware updates for the PlayStation®3 system. We always recommend that you have the latest update in order to obtain the latest technology for your PS3™. You also need these in order to access the PlayStation(R)Network. However, I do value your input and appreciate you bringing your concerns regarding this to my attention. Please rest assured that I will convey your feedback to Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (“SCEA”) appropriate management.
Regards,
Marjorie B.
Auto-Response 12/19/2010 05:52 AM
Thank you for contacting Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC (SCEA).You have received this auto-acknowledgement to confirm that we received your message. We will respond to your message within 24 – 48 hours. We appreciate your patience
Customer By Web Form 12/19/2010 05:52 AM
I sent this e-mail a few weeks back…Customer By Web Form 12/03/2010 10:06 AM
I have two PS3 systems. I have one of the newer slim models and one of the 80 gb FAT models. With the holidays coming and new games coming into the household, I imagine some updates will be needed for some titles. Now, I have been reading about issues with 3.50 and older players destroying the blu-ray players. How safe is it to update the older system? From what I am reading, not very at all.Hello Greg,
We apologize for any confusion you are having regarding the system updates for your PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.
It is perfectly fine to do a system update for your PlayStation®3. This is a update for your system software, not hardware. You should not have a problem.
Regards,
Nicholas CMy son updated the system and immediately after the update, the blu-ray stopped working. As you can see, I e-mailed asking the question when my system was working fine. I run the update, restart the system and it doesn’t read blu-ray disks. Old ps2 are fine, but ps3 and blu-ray discs don’t work! As mentioned, xmas is around the corner and now because of this glitch on sony’s part, my son won’t be able to play the new titles that we bought him including the Move, not to mention the other games he plays all the time!
You know, I hate when these guys think they are talking to people that don’t know shit. I have a Slim system as well and when I put in the memory stick in that system for a backup, it told me that I needed X GB more space. Fine, that is a valid error message. It tells me what I need to do. On the FAT system, I got spewed crap from the second I attempted to use the same USB stick. It didn’t check for space requirements, it just crapped out.
Personally, doesn’t bother me about losing the saved games. That’s fine. But my son is still upset about the time that he put into (as well as my time helping him on the 2X player challenges) to achieve 100% on little big planet. I think the least Sony should do in this case is send my son a voucher for Little Big Planet 2 when it comes out.
Oh, and if you thought of going over to the playstation community to help you with your issue, you will just come across a bunch of ass clowns and fan boys that will tell you that there is nothing wrong with the update and your system is old and is bound to fail. Which to them I say, “Go fuck yourself! This is a common problem and the symptoms are repeatable. Playstation updated their firmware with an update for 3D compatibility and in the process fucked up older systems.”
Here is the thread I posted to.
Snake eats family dog as kids watch
And I thought I had issues with squirrels.
Snake eats family dog as kids watch – CNN.com
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.A 16-foot python swallows a family’s dog on Monday night in Kuranda, Australia.
The boy and girl, aged 5 and 7, watched as the scrub python devoured their silky terrier-Chihuahua crossbreed Monday at their home near Kuranda in Queensland state.
Stuart Douglas, owner of the Australian Venom Zoo in Kuranda, said scrub pythons typically eat wild animals such as wallabies, a smaller relative of the kangaroo, but sometimes turn to pets in urban areas.
“It actively stalked the dog for a number of days,” Douglas said.
“The family that owned the dog had actually seen it in the dog’s bed, which was a sign it was out to get it,” he added.
“They should have called me then, but (the snake) got away and three or four days later, I was called and went around and removed it” after the dog had been killed, Douglas said.
By the time Douglas arrived, all that could be seen of the dog was its hind legs and tail.
The zoo manager, Todd Rose, said pythons squeeze their prey to death before swallowing it whole. The 5-year-old dog would have been suffocated within minutes. Video Watch snake handler show off dog-eating python »
“The lady who was there threw some plastic chairs at the snake, but you’ve got to remember that this is about 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of aggressive muscle,” Rose said.
advertisementRemoving the half-swallowed dog could have harmed or even killed the python, Rose said, because dogs have sharp teeth and claws that could do the snake internal damage if it were wrenched out.
The snake was still digesting the dog at the zoo Wednesday. It will soon be moved to the bush, Douglas said.
Let’s All Hate Toronto
Toronto sucks ass! The Leafs suck, the Blue Jays suck, the Raptors suck. They all suck. Did I mention the Leafs suck. Yeah, they suck!
‘Let’s All Hate Toronto’ – CNN.com
The dislike of Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, in the rest of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about it.“People in Toronto are soulless, one-eyed corporate zombies,” Joey Keithley, of the Vancouver punk band D.O.A., says in the film, “Let’s All Hate Toronto.”
The 73-minute film, which premieres at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary festival next week, follows a character called Mister Toronto, who embarks on a cross-Canada trip brandishing a sign that reads “Toronto Appreciation Day” and steels himself for the onslaught.
His tour leads from Newfoundland on the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific city of Vancouver, where feelings against Toronto — usually acknowledged as the country’s financial center and the cultural capital of English Canada — run deepest of all.
“There is something different (about hating Toronto). People are more passionate about it,” filmmaker and co-director Albert Nerenberg said in an interview.
“People have a grudging respect for New York outside of the city, and have a grudging respect for London. But people outside of Toronto don’t have that for Toronto, they really don’t.”
Nerenberg, who is from Montreal, got the idea for the film from a 1956 publication with the same name as the movie.
He said collective dislike of a city is not unique to Canada, and said he might like to make similar films on other countries’ love-hate relationships with major cities.
House shopping sucks ass
I don’t know if I can think of a more frustrating thing to do. We have been house shopping for over a month now, and we haven’t found something that we like yet. And the prices in the Saint John area have gone retarded since we left in 2000. I looked at a place last weekend that was 200,000 and the place had shag carpet throughout. What the fuck?! Here is the crazy thing, it will probably sell for the asking price. And here is something else that sucks too, I am going from a buyers market, to a sellers market. Fuck! If I had only sold last year.
What we are looking for in a home is
- Spacious, but not open concept. Open concept is a builders way of going cheap and not putting up enough walls.
- I want to be close to shopping (grocery store).
- In the right area with a decent school.
- I don’t want a fixer upper.
- I would like a half decent sized yard.
Anyhow, I am back at it this weekend. Still looking for the right house.
Office Stress
Sometimes beating the shit out of the printer and copy machine is the only option.
Woman drinks so much water she dies
I can recall hearing about bladder buster night at various taverns. The first one to leave or go to the bathroom and the night of cheap drinks was over. I have heard of people doing some disgusting things like pissing in the beer bottles and crap like that, but I have never heard of someone dying. This is truly sad. She did the contest so she could win a Wii for her 3 kids.
Woman drinks so much water she dies
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.
“She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad,” said Laura Rios, one of Strange’s co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. “She was crying, and that was the last that anyone had heard from her.”
It was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed.
A preliminary investigation found evidence “consistent with a water intoxication death,” said assistant Coroner Ed Smith.
John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station’s owner, said station personnel were stunned when they heard of Strange’s death.
“We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred,” he said.
Initially, contestants were handed 8-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes.
“They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy,” said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. “They told us if you don’t feel like you can do this, don’t put your health at risk.”
Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. “My bladder couldn’t handle it anymore,” he added.
After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink.
“I was talking to her and she was a nice lady,” Ybarra said. “She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids.”
Getting sick of the Mac commercials
I don’t know about you, but those ridiculous Mac vs PC commercials are really getting on my case. Do people really buy Macs? Why? Why on earth would you pay $1000 more for less? These are the things that keep me up at night.
Prince getting a divorce
In honour of Prince, here is a clip from the Chappelle show of Prince playing basketball against Charlie Murphy (a.k.a Eddie Murphy’s Brother)
In other celebrity and gay news:
- Lance Bass is gay
- Army dismisses Arabic language specialist for being gay – Ah, wouldn’t they need his services right about now?
- Chistie Brinkley’s husband fucks around with an 18 year old – Ouch! That’s gotta suck! You know you have lost your Super Model charm when…
- Landis fails drug test at Tour de France – Shocking!
6+2=9, Lotto Corp. says
Sucks to be her!
6+2=9, Lotto Corp. says
Doris Yaremko may not be able to count how many lottery tickets she’s bought in her lifetime, but she knows one thing for sure: that six and two add up to eight.But a lottery ticket the Beresford, N.B., woman bought in February says six and two make nine, and that means she’s out nearly $9,000.