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What's Known About the PS3
1up has an expansive piece up exploring everything they know about the PlayStation 3. They cover rumours, prices, technology, and the limited information currently out there on upcoming games. From the article: "While the hard facts are still tough to nail down, the general consensus is that the PlayStation 3 is the most powerful of the three next-generation systems, although probably not by as much of a margin as Sony would like us to think. The arguments for the technical strengths of the PS3 go into CPU floating-point capabilities and the difficulties surrounding programming for parallel architectures, but the long and short of it is that whether or not the advantages of the PS3 are apparent will depend on developers' ability to utilize the PlayStation 3's unique architecture."
It won't cost $1,000,000 and thanks to Sony not having Microsoft's "Rush To The Market" attitude you don't have to worry about it melting to your carpet!
Firefox 2.0 - Spell Rightly.
...is the PS3. Yes, this will have TWICE the delays with its new marketing and rumor engine. Capable of thousands of speculations a second!
(it's a joke kids, someday that PS3 will come out).
In the near future we may see more emphasis being placed on strict functional languages, such as Haskell, for such massively multithreaded and parallel development at the commodity level. Many of the issues associated with concurrent development with traditional imperative or imperative OO languages can be avoided via stateless computation.
Even a language like Erlang may begin to gain widespread popularity among game developers, as they begin to see the benefits that it brings when writing multithreaded applications.
With more industry support behind such technology, we may witness a computing revolution. It has been decades in the making, but its time is quickly coming upon us.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Other things known about the PS3:
* It is not a strapless evening gown.
* Ducks may not try to mate with it.
* It is not a flotation device.
* Is not a good substitute for snow chains.
* It will not remove tough grease stains.
* It will not get you an automatic first post on Slashdot.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I can't imagine true physics in a Mario game. Wait, maybe I can.
Mario tries to jump over a fence, but his foot catches. Small splinters of wood are torn from the wood as he comes tumbling over the fence. He tries to brace himself for the fall, but breaks his arm. Game over.
Or, he tries to buttstomp some shroom and ends up with an impacted vertebrae and shattered pelvis.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
OKAY. We GET it. You have Microsoft stock. You can stop mentioning it in practically every thread you post in.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Just because the turtles bounce like they should doesn't mean Mario can't have super-human abilities.
If forums teach us anything, it is that logic and critical thinking should be required courses in the public schools.
Spore is innovative, yeah. But it isn't made by a smaller developing company with little to no backing, it's made by Will Wright and co.
Also known as Maxis.
Which had their name on all the SimCities, and two little games by the name of The Sims.
And all the expansion packs.
They are not exactly short on capital, is what I'm saying here.
"Just because the turtles bounce like they should"
Hate to burst your bubble, but in real life, turtles don't bounce very well.
(But they are nature's suction cup!)