Brother Got A PS3...

[big isy]

So my brother down in London picked up a PS3 without telling me he ever planned to get one. I spoke to him a couple times and mentioned I wanted to get one but he remained pip about his own wants.
Last night at 1AM I get a text message from him. The ****er got a PS3 with Formula 1 and Motorstorm and to add insult to injury.....he got a free HDtv :(

[Sirharper]

LOL.

Now thats what I call added value.

[big isy]

He's got the two things I desperately I want. On a side note, he broke his index finger so he can't play it :lol:
Got his hand stuck in the door.

[Sirharper]

Did he steal them? LMAO!!!

[big isy]

I doubt they'd both fit under his shirt :lol:

Talk about karma though, he buys the PS3 to piss me off (although he did want one, I'm positive the deciding factor was getting my annoyed lol) and then gets a free tv. To balance the karma, he can't play it for a few weeks. :lol:

[DeaconBlade]

man can he ship the tv? i mean to US? lol

[DJSteel]

it's a PAL HDTV..

[Mikewarrior]

Give my condolences.:D

[DeaconBlade]

damn u PAL!

[snorkle256]

Hey, since he has one, do you think you could get him to use the Folding @ home client to fold for team # 44851 ? He can use whatever username he wants it would just help out Team Hack-a-Day a little. He can visit teamhackaday.com for our forums. At the very least, try to convice him to at least the F@H client to help humanity.

[Sirharper]

I don't get it.

[snorkle256]

It the last PS3 update the client that the Pande Group at Stanford built specifally for PS3 was released. Folding @ home is a client that runs protein folding simulations for the Pande Group so they can determine how mis-folds of proteins cause disease.

Users get to have a little fun too by earning points for each protein fold they simulate by folding for themselves and a team.

The PS3 does have a large ammount of power and is currently beating all the other clients (windows mac etc) at folding. The more PS3's folding the better.

All I am asking is that you at least ask somebody you know has a PS3 to just run it for a little while, (There is a big kickoff for ps3 folding this Sunday night?) It benifits humanity and is fun to try to fold competitivly against others.

[Sirharper]

Oh gottcha, it's like Seti@home then.

I was not aware you could task a PS3 to perform functions like that. Cell Processing here we come.

[snorkle256]

If I recall correctly, Sony opened up their code to them to allow this and then distributed it through the update. However as I hear you can put linux on the console you should be able to do something nice things as well.

[Mikewarrior]

That was good of Sony as it also helps with PR.

[big isy]

He's already running it. Loves Formula 1 and Motorstorm takes some getting used to for the non-console players (what he is). It gets difficult pretty quick.
I still haven't received any images of hm and his new toys so I'm getting a little suspicious.

[blazsox]

F1 and Motorstorm are definitely the games to get if you like racers (as I do).

Not loving Resistance all that much. Solid shooter, but when I see the Insomniac logo on the box, man I want Ratchet and Clank.

[blazsox]

Jesus Isy - I hate your country even more man. I didnt realize the free TV thing was a planned event by Sony. Man I could use one of those babies they handed out. I am having TV issues.

[big isy]

lol, I know, still not sorted I take it?

[blazsox]

Nope.