So, I got my PS3 Slim from Costco and it came with a remote along with a game. I come home, set it all up with my projector to watch a blu-ray disk and try to use the remote, and guess what, the remote is bluetooth. And it needs pairing. Tried to be a good consumer and checked both manuals of PS3 Slim as well as the remote. Not surprisingly, they both referred to each other. Both by Sony! PS3 said check the device instruction manual and remote's manual asked me to follow the on screen instructions after a couple of steps. Perfect!!
Anyway, its not tough to follow the menu and get to settings -> Accessory Settings -> Manage Bluetooth Devices. Move to the next step and it just keeps scanning. I left it there for 10 minutes and no luck. Then thought I may have better luck searching on the internet. On one forum some one suggested this: "take the batteries out of the remote, press a couple of buttons (he did specify which two) and you should be good to go in 3 seconds".. wait... what??? Take the batteries out? of the remote?? Okay, this is it for me. How in the planet would a remote work in any way, without a battery? Out of stubbornness, I can't follow that ridiculous suggestion. so, I did not try that. If you are willing to try it, more power to you.
But here is what worked for me:
The PS3 Slim came with 2.85 version that won't register remotes. As soon as I connected that to my home wireless network, it recommended to upgrade to 3.15. I did that, which took about 10-12 minutes. Now, 3.15 has totally improved menu items along with boat load of other additions. Now check the menu items:
Settings -> Accessory Settings -> Register BD Remote Control (yes, an exclusive menu item for remotes).
Follow the onscreen instructions and this time it really won't take more than 15 seconds total.
Enjoy your PS3/remote and enjoy the holidays!
and stay safe.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Random thought - Paper or plastic?
With all the buzz around these days about being able to recycle and save some trees and saving the environment, if I ask you the question "paper or plastic?", what would be your response? Most of whom I have already asked this question, responded Paper.
While most people tend to use paper and recycle to save some trees, why wouldn't you say do not use paper at all and save all the trees? Common wisdom is that plastic is not good for the environment. Well, that is true if you just throw it away after use and let it interfere with the nature's pristine water cycle. But if you do recycle it, plastic is the best of all. You can recycle paper may be 3 times, 4 tops. You can recycle plastic hundreds of times. There is no theoretical limit, I believe! If you are going to throw it away (as opposed to recycle), then yes, by all means go for paper. That won't contaminate or interfere with the environment as much as stray plastic does. But if you do recycle, just go for plastic! Save all the trees, not just some of them!
And given the general idea that recycling is the way to go, plastic it is! So, next time you are in a grocery store, and are asked paper or plastic, you know what to say... unless you need that paper for your "cleaning" purposes! :)
While most people tend to use paper and recycle to save some trees, why wouldn't you say do not use paper at all and save all the trees? Common wisdom is that plastic is not good for the environment. Well, that is true if you just throw it away after use and let it interfere with the nature's pristine water cycle. But if you do recycle it, plastic is the best of all. You can recycle paper may be 3 times, 4 tops. You can recycle plastic hundreds of times. There is no theoretical limit, I believe! If you are going to throw it away (as opposed to recycle), then yes, by all means go for paper. That won't contaminate or interfere with the environment as much as stray plastic does. But if you do recycle, just go for plastic! Save all the trees, not just some of them!
And given the general idea that recycling is the way to go, plastic it is! So, next time you are in a grocery store, and are asked paper or plastic, you know what to say... unless you need that paper for your "cleaning" purposes! :)
Friday, November 27, 2009
The god theory...
Let me ask you one thing first. What was the longest time you have spent alone, not getting bored, not feeling to meet someone, not trying to have some FUN? Tough isn’t it? Being alone is not all that great. Let us all agree on that one. With me so far? Good.
Now, we will move on to talk about a thing that a lot of us humans claim to be alone. And has been alone since our great great great grand parents and continue to be so to with us, to our next generation and so on and so forth. Yes! I’m talking about this thing a lot of humans call ‘god’. (I will capitalize the letter g when I recognize it).
I have a question for all of you that say it is one and only ONE. Why is it alone? Doesn’t it have a family? its parents? Its siblings? Its uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews? None? If they are there, aren’t they all gods too, automatically, by genetic inheritance? (I guess when the forefathers wrote down rules for Hinduism, they understand this aspect of it. Hurray!! Atleast some one got it! Right or not)
Yes, I’m saying “It” and not “He” or “She” because I don’t want to offend any particular set of humans that think the god thing is a male or a female or an unidentified/unclassified alien. Well, I agree, I’m taking a much worse path by offending them all well, that’s just me.
Honestly, for a particular sect of people on one part of the planet, its Allah, or Mohammed, or one of their relatives, and for another sect, its Jesus, or his father, or Mary (yeah, there’s got to be something about her, pun intended!!!). For yet other sect, its Shiva or Vishnu or Ganesh or Venkateswara (and that’s just a sampling from the gentlemen group, then there is ladies group as well as animal group).
But then we all say, there is only one. WHY? Yet, we all think our ONE is the great ONE compared to any others’ ONE. Hmmmmm.. .instead of us fighting among us humans, why don’t we all just ask our own respective ONEs’ to go fight among themselves and just come back with a winner. Woohoo, we got a winner, and now we also have only ONE. This time, a real numero uno. Until the winner comes back to report to us, we’ll just wait and hold any fights among us humans. Can we agree on that one? Please?
Let me put out a theory of my own! I’m not sure if it is already put out by someone else. Anyway, read on…
Not all humans are strong. Whether it is mentally or physically or by any measure of your choosing. The weak ones look for some guidance when they can’t make up their mind. That’s when a leader emerged. Obviously, there are a lot of such leaders. One per pack of these two legged, so called “intelligent”, creatures. In a given part of the planet, they all got together. And one fine day, they figured we can’t fight among ourselves. It is bad for all of us. So, let us define a vague thing so that we all look up to that. Vague enough that no one knows what it is yet no one would question it. And we will put some rules in place on behalf of that “thing” and we’ll just follow those rules.
Trust me, it worked brilliantly. Absolutely fantastic. Not surprisingly, same thing happened on different parts of the planet. Everyone was living happily within their own set of rules. And then, the world became flat (you know what I mean!!).
Now, when these groups met each other, well.. uh-oh! My rules are better than your rules. My “thing” is better than your “thing”. So, the groups started cleansing. A euphemistic name is “ethnic cleansing”. Nothing but murdering those who believe something other than what you believe in.
So, instead of applying the same approach again and create a new “thing” and its rules so that we can all live in harmony again, we went backwards. Back to the days of packs fighting and killing each other just because they all thought their own leader is the best.
So, with that thought, do you think we are evolving? Some evolution, huh?!
Let me give you another hypothetical analogy. How about all vegans, vegetarians and non-vegetarians fight and kill each other because each of them thinks their way of eating is the best. Sounds ridiculous? Or, all the Windows lovers and Mac lovers and Linux lovers try to kill each other? (Unfortunately, there are some educated idiots that are probably not too far from this idea!!!) Sound ridiculous?
Exactly my point! Fighting under the name of “religion” (whatever crap that means), is just as ridiculous.
Think about it. Religion is just a rule book. Just like there is a book for MLB or NFL.
Peace!
Now, we will move on to talk about a thing that a lot of us humans claim to be alone. And has been alone since our great great great grand parents and continue to be so to with us, to our next generation and so on and so forth. Yes! I’m talking about this thing a lot of humans call ‘god’. (I will capitalize the letter g when I recognize it).
I have a question for all of you that say it is one and only ONE. Why is it alone? Doesn’t it have a family? its parents? Its siblings? Its uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews? None? If they are there, aren’t they all gods too, automatically, by genetic inheritance? (I guess when the forefathers wrote down rules for Hinduism, they understand this aspect of it. Hurray!! Atleast some one got it! Right or not)
Yes, I’m saying “It” and not “He” or “She” because I don’t want to offend any particular set of humans that think the god thing is a male or a female or an unidentified/unclassified alien. Well, I agree, I’m taking a much worse path by offending them all well, that’s just me.
Honestly, for a particular sect of people on one part of the planet, its Allah, or Mohammed, or one of their relatives, and for another sect, its Jesus, or his father, or Mary (yeah, there’s got to be something about her, pun intended!!!). For yet other sect, its Shiva or Vishnu or Ganesh or Venkateswara (and that’s just a sampling from the gentlemen group, then there is ladies group as well as animal group).
But then we all say, there is only one. WHY? Yet, we all think our ONE is the great ONE compared to any others’ ONE. Hmmmmm.. .instead of us fighting among us humans, why don’t we all just ask our own respective ONEs’ to go fight among themselves and just come back with a winner. Woohoo, we got a winner, and now we also have only ONE. This time, a real numero uno. Until the winner comes back to report to us, we’ll just wait and hold any fights among us humans. Can we agree on that one? Please?
Let me put out a theory of my own! I’m not sure if it is already put out by someone else. Anyway, read on…
Not all humans are strong. Whether it is mentally or physically or by any measure of your choosing. The weak ones look for some guidance when they can’t make up their mind. That’s when a leader emerged. Obviously, there are a lot of such leaders. One per pack of these two legged, so called “intelligent”, creatures. In a given part of the planet, they all got together. And one fine day, they figured we can’t fight among ourselves. It is bad for all of us. So, let us define a vague thing so that we all look up to that. Vague enough that no one knows what it is yet no one would question it. And we will put some rules in place on behalf of that “thing” and we’ll just follow those rules.
Trust me, it worked brilliantly. Absolutely fantastic. Not surprisingly, same thing happened on different parts of the planet. Everyone was living happily within their own set of rules. And then, the world became flat (you know what I mean!!).
Now, when these groups met each other, well.. uh-oh! My rules are better than your rules. My “thing” is better than your “thing”. So, the groups started cleansing. A euphemistic name is “ethnic cleansing”. Nothing but murdering those who believe something other than what you believe in.
So, instead of applying the same approach again and create a new “thing” and its rules so that we can all live in harmony again, we went backwards. Back to the days of packs fighting and killing each other just because they all thought their own leader is the best.
So, with that thought, do you think we are evolving? Some evolution, huh?!
Let me give you another hypothetical analogy. How about all vegans, vegetarians and non-vegetarians fight and kill each other because each of them thinks their way of eating is the best. Sounds ridiculous? Or, all the Windows lovers and Mac lovers and Linux lovers try to kill each other? (Unfortunately, there are some educated idiots that are probably not too far from this idea!!!) Sound ridiculous?
Exactly my point! Fighting under the name of “religion” (whatever crap that means), is just as ridiculous.
Think about it. Religion is just a rule book. Just like there is a book for MLB or NFL.
Peace!
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