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Once again, Sci-Fi begets reality. This time toys go to the battlefield.

http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/GiJoe/MOSC/AFAPacRatMachineGun85a.jpg

I believe there were three, and I had all of them as a kid. Seems like they were super flimsy and basically fell apart without even touching them.

Don't forget Jetfire. Go Autobots!

In the dawn of the PS3, the system specs were all powerful. The almighty Cell processor has 8 SPEs and would take advantage of other Cell processors on the network, such as those in your TV. It was kind of like Devastator, the processors combining to become even more powerful.

Then we find out that Sony is having trouble making Cell chips with 8 working SPEs. So the PS3 is promised to only have 7 working SPEs for each system.

Today we find out that the OS will always consume an SPE and has the right to abduct another when necessary. This reduces the potential number of SPEs that a developer can reliably count on for a game to use at all times is reduced to 5.

The true power of the PS3 keeps being reduced the closer to launch it becomes. Additional features have already been dropped. How many more will evaporate before the PS3 becomes a real device you can go to the store and buy?

"Cell will create a new extensible computing platform. A set-top box containing a Cell chip could, for example, combine to share processing power with a Cell-powered high-definition television to render the graphics of an animated movie."

"A game console might use a chip with 16 cores, while a less complicated device like a set-top box would have a processor with fewer"

"It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz."

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-948493.html

Don't you think someone should be asking these questions?

[Pokémon] is an abbreviation or if you will a mashup of Pocket Monsters.

As opposed to Monster In My Pocket?

but perhaps the gay men?

I mean, don't YOU wonder about Sgt. Slaughter?

There is not too much tech in cars!

This just brings us one step closer to Devestator!

Constructicons transform and merge!

Note also that there were funky TRON toys and a TRON video game.