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It's worth noting that the PS4 camera is probably a little more powerful than Kinect 1. It has 2 cameras that can sense objects in a 3D space. Doesn't need either the controller lightbar or Move controllers to work. It's just a question of whether developers can be bothered to create Kinect style software for it. EDIT: One of the reasons I finally choose PS4 over XB1 was the camera - I can (and have) choose not to buy it

Well you could argue that the new PS4 Eye is exactly that - a motion sensor bar not tied to Move, it is the Kinect on PS4. Personally I don't see what the fuss is about. Everyone I've ever met who has owned PSEye/Move/Wii/Kinnect has used is barely a dozen times and then collects dust.

Kinda true, but not quite. Bear in mind we're talking PS2 days here - so predates Kinect by some. Sure it was very low res, poor quality and almost nobody other than Sony ever developed for it. But I do remember playing one or two party games on my sisters one. I remember something about cleaning windows? You'd wave your arms to wipe the soap suds off the screen. The Eye never needed the move controllers for motion sensing - they were just a lot more arcurate with them. Sure Kinect is the better tech if you like that sort of thing. Personally I'd rather sit on the couch with the DualShock controller.

First two Arkham Games - Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn. I'm sure I've assassinated atleast one female in atleast one of the Assassins Creed games (even if it was an accident/random passer-by - scrap that, it was on purpose. Those bloody annoying begger women.)

The Sixaxis controller first introduced in 2006 have giroscopic motion sensors built in - just like the iPhone. Motion sensing technology is so last decade

That's a disingenuous figure though. What we're really talking about is 500 known complaints out of whatever Amazon's allocation of the 1 million sold was. Not 40%.

From a consumer point of view, at least in the UK, the contract is with the retailer, so yeah they would "get the flack". Given the small number of HDMI ports effected, or at least reported so far, the blame is with the manufacturer - Foxconn? - not Sony. Given it's a weekend, it'd be more interesting tomorrow to see what Sony do about it and if there are further negative reports. I find it sad that people would cancel a pre-order on the basis of couple of hundred Amazon comments (who must have sold tens of thousands) and barely a handful of youtube videos. If there was a major problem I'd have expected the Internet would be more a flame than it us right now. I'm sure Microsoft are hoping Friday will go equally as smoothly.

That's crazy. Unless I'm somehow missing the darker corners of the Internet where all the complaints are, the problems don't appear to be that bad. For a million sales the US playstation forum is relatively quiet all things considered. I'll wait for the mass media to start screaming about the 1000s of upset customers before I start questioning my pre-order. The main two problems appear to be a potentially dodgy HDMI port that is easily fixable with a pin if you examine it before hand and the PSN being down. A very small number have either fan/heating issues or faulty blu-ray, but they appear to be much rarer than the rare HDMI issue. There also seems to be a number of system freezes. Not sure if these are related to PSN being down or an initial firmware/hard drive issue. If the later it seems resolvable with a new firmware download. Since I'm replacing the HDD day one that problem should be nipped in the bud.

I'm planning on downloading the latest firmware before 29th and installing direct to a new SSHD by USB day one.

This was predictable given launch sales volumes and the GTA:V online debacle just over a month ago. I've been keeping an eye on news sites and PS forums and personally I think it's been very quiet all things considered. So far we seem to have a fairly low key HDMI issue effecting a very small number of users and some predictable PSN issues. I hope next weeks XB1 launch goes jest as smoothly for Microsofts customers.

Check their post code on Sam Knows (SamKnows - Broadband Availability Checker) It'll tell you if FTTC or 21CN are available and from which suppliers. If not see which suppliers have LLU (local loop unbundled) on that exchange and choose between them for the best speeds.

Where your domains in the same forest, or do you create a new forest and a trust between them? So you moved files to the new domain, users logged onto the old domain and could access their files across the trust? Then copy the users to the new domain, and the folder access rights should update automatically?

Bump! Posted this a bit late last yesterday so thought I'd bump it this morning. Anyone got any advice/experience of switching domains?

Not a fan of the Uncharted series so slightly disappointed Naughty Dog are working on a sequal instead of new IP, was hoping to see something more like The Last Of Us (orginal story and great gameplay). Still there's the new Last of Us DLC coming in the new year AC4, 1080p - bring it on!!! My TV awaits...

Just read through the last few posts and the thought that came to my head is the difference between debt and deficit. Debt itself isn't bad, and like others have pointed out sometimes required. But what about deficit. How meny banks would give you a mortgage if your personal finances showed a massive deficit? In fact any deficit? Can't afford to pay the loan - you get refused credit. Doesn't seem to apply to government spending. Also, I thought Gordon Brown had closed the deficit by the time the Banking Crises hit? Labour gets lot of flack for "destroying the economy" when it seems to me the Banks have a lot more to answer? Getting more debt to pay for things like HS2 isn't an issue, it's the ability to repay that debt. Just how much money is there in the world? How much debt do we have to be in before the world says - sorry, we can't give you any more? What happens then? My problem is that I'd sooner fund improvements to the NHS, welfare state, education, law enforcement, etc. I suppose that means a tmcd35 governement would be one of massive tax hikes?

Dear God - how much slimmer do you want it/can they make it? 0.17% failure? I'm happy taking my chances with those odds

Okay, I'm thinking big. I want to scrape our existing domain and start completely from scratch - well almost. AD and GPO's have become something of a mess over the years and I've never liked the choice of domain name. Also can't be 100% sure what services rely on an old admin password. Need to clean this up and get it working properly/securly. However, we run Hyper-V servers that are joined to the exiting domain, looks like I've got a chicken and egg situation. What I'm thinking is making the Hyper-V servers DC's for the existing domain then getting rid of the existing DC's. The Hyper-V servers and the main storage server will remain on the existing domain. I can then create a complete new forest as virtual machines running on the hyper-v servers. This will then let me create new virtual domain controllers with new clean GPO's and security groups. So, the question comes down to user migration. Do I... a) Create new users accounts on the new domain, copy user files from the file server into a new virtual file server on the new domain b) Create a forest trust, migrate users to the new domain, copy user files from the file server into a new virtual file server on the new domain c) Create a forest trust, migrate users to the new domain, leave files on the old domain providing access through the forest trust d) Create new user accoints on the new domain, create a forest trust, leave files on the old domain providing access through the forest trust e) Something else I haven't thought off

I saw that the other day. Part of me wants to shrug it off as normal manufacturing defects - a small percentage of any tech will be faulty. Part of me wants to shrug it off and say bad shipment, yanks are getting them 2 weeks before us. Part of me is looking online at extended warranty deals!

Answers @Sdrawkcab's question - if we don't pay the debt (or at least the interest on it) could have serious implications to insurance policies and pension funds... Surely the important bit is the 255.9bn Euro difference that we owe them? Although that said, in deficit terms we probably need to take interest rate differences into account? As in they may be paying less in interest repayments on 578bn than we pay them on the same 578bn (or vise-versa). Damn, this is confusing stuff!

Isn't most/alot of the debt held in private hands? Mostly with banks and such like? I thought when the government needed borrow money they issued Bonds? Although it wouldn't surprise anyone if alot of those Governement Bonds were bought by the Chinese.

@pcstru - reduction of deficit is very much a good thing. In an ideal world we wouldn't have a deficit and might actually, heaven forbid, start paying off some of the debt. The problem is the other side of the coin. Things like the NHS are not free, the money has to come from somewhere. What we don't borrow we have to make up for in taxes. What we can't make up for in taxes gets sold off to the highest bidder (Royal Mail). All I know is there is a word that would describe my personal finances if they mirrored the states - bankrupt.

Having read around and looked at the different parties, I'd say my believes are most closely aligned with the Liberal Democrates. It's not an exact fit, but close enough. I tend to agree with Labour policies more than Tory policies. Looked at some of the fringe parties but none have grab my attention as being vote worthy. Oh I agree, totally. Note, I didn't say anything about experience - just righteousness and ideology. When you actually look at politicians wages, and then look at their qualifications, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that most are really doing it for the money. Not when a career in Law, Banking or Accounting could easily net them more... I agree the current system does stink. But it's something that's never going to change while the majority are brainwashed into thinking there are only two parties worth voting for and voting for anyone else is a waste. The rise of parties like UKIP and the Greens suggest to me that the nation is getting disallusioned of two party politics. Sure, it's not something that's going to change quickly, like at the next election, but I think if more people took an interested and used their vote for what they actually believed in rather than "got to be one of the main two" we'd see the kind of change you are after. Either that - or we are just a Tory nation and those of us who complain really are in the minority? Back on topic - That was a twat move by DC. Seriously, 4 course meal, gold chairs and a lecture on austerity. Beggers believe. I'd like to say Labour wouldn't have made such a bone head move (oh, they'd have had the 4 course meal and gold chairs mind), but that's just because their answer is stuff austerity and throw it all on the credit card - eek.

I refuse to buy into this kind of anti-political cynicism, maybe that makes me naive - I don't know. Although at times you can't put a fag paper between the main two parties, there are real differences and they are noticable. To a certain degree they are all Eton educated toffs, in it for themselves - but I do believe most are doing what they do out of some sense of righteousness and ideology. The bedroom tax is a quick and simple example. The problem from the voting booth is one of numbers and scale. Your one voter out of tens of thousands in a constiuency so it's easy to become disillusioned in your vote counting, especially if your preference isn't in line with the local majority. The first past the post system means the party with the most votes doesn't necersarrily win power. Andthe job and decisions of central governement are often not the ones that effect you locally, yet we take even less interest in local politics.

Resogun and Contrast are the free PS4 games for PS+ subscribers next month, with GRID 2 for PS3 (Suppose that makes up for the lack of #DriveClub - NOT!)

Here's an interesting size comparison http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/000027f45/bc7c_orh616w616/Next-gen-console-size-comparison.jpg