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X-Box Limitations (Hemos Is Dumb) (Yes, I am)

Posted by Hemos on from the talking-with-the-man-in-the-know dept.

Fervent writes: "Daily Radar has an interesting article with Michael Abrash, one of the lead XBox technological designers. What's fascinating about this article is not what the XBox can do, but what it can't do. Abrash talks about programming limitations, HDTV, and goes against the NVidia ratio quote (the one where Gates said the GPU would be 3 times as fast as current NVidia hardware). Get your fill of the talk here." Update: 10/03 03:54 PM by CT : hemos was out of town all weekend. He missed this story when we posted it the first time HAHA! Update: 10/03 07:33 PM by H : /me hangs head in shame.

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  1. Deja v� by Troed · · Score: 5

    or what do you think?

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    it's in my head
  2. Misinformation by CaseyB · · Score: 5
    It's an interesting story, but the lead-in above is entirely misleading.

    Abrash has nothing but good things to say about the new hardware. Granted, he works for the company, but he has more than enough credibility outside of the Microsoft arena for me to listen when he speaks.

    He talks about the constraints that ALL hardware-level developers have to deal with, but he says nothing that indicates the X-Box hardware is especially limited.

    To wit: "the bottom line is that this is the most powerful chip I could imagine anyone getting into a console in 2001"

    "Ratios" in processing power are not mentioned anywhere in the article. Apparently some overenthusaistic PR guy (probably not Gates) said it was 3 generations ahead of current parts, and Abrash says that's a bit of an overstatement. It's merely 1.5 or 2 generations ahead. Wow, that really sucks. :)

  3. Re:Do you guys think stuff like this is biased? by Evangelion · · Score: 5


    Goddammit people - the flight sim in Excel was put there as an easter egg by the programmers, so thier names would show up *somewhere* in the goddamn product. This was not a Microsoft thing, this was not in the design document. It was a nifty little extra put in by the programmers so they could actually leave thier names in the prodcut. For fuck's sake, if you're going to attack MS, at least attack them for something they did.

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  4. Duplicate/really old stories WAS: Re:Deja v� by milkman1 · · Score: 5

    It seem like there is a redudant story post every day or two these days.
    Might I sugest that some kind of story warning system be implemented wherein the story would be showen to say 100 randomly selected readers, who loaded the main slashdot page at the right time, before it is actually posted. I would suggest a system where the main page is randomly replaced with just the prospective new story. Comment posting would be disabled. There would also be several options for moderating the story. I would suggest:
    Redudant
    Ancient
    OT (Not relevent to slashdot)
    Great story

    It would also have a box for explantion (forinstance to link to the older story)
    The results of the moderation would be fed to a real time display shown to the poster of the story. This would allow them to cancel or delay unneeded redudant/otherwise bad postings.