If you can borrow 007 Agent under Fire, MechAssault or Splinter Cell (the first one) and a memorycard from someone, you can with two additional small soldering blobs hack your Xbox at no cost at all.
No. Microsoft pays a fixed amount of money per chip to nVidia, Intel etc. They might have been able to cut something on the DVD-drives and harddrives, but manufacturing 8Gb-drives isn't cheap if you need to sustain a whole factory line just for one customer.
The reason MS is in bed with ATI for the next system is because nVidia didn't agree to suggested price cuts by Microsoft.
You're also wrong on the GPU. It's a Geforce 3 with an extra Vertex Shader, like the Geforce 4.
~$100 is the best guess as to the current loss per box, before this cut, I've heard. Microsoft obviously won't say, so you'll have to hunt down a few analystis who will. The only link I can offer is old - but Microsoft doesn't gain as much from increased factory optimisations as Sony and Nintendo do (for one thing - the Xbox hasn't had its layout optimised for over a year).
Minter might take advantage of the Cube's seriously weird texturing possibilities (unmatched on Xbox, and possibly very hard to accomplish on the PS2). The cube can combine textures with different operators, and do 8 per pass, which is more than the Xbox and PS2.
No fanboyism, just technical details. One description of what can be done can be found in the readme for Dolphin, the PC Gamecube emulator.
My site gets a LOT of hits from spiders - Google indexes it very often, MSN too. I have no idea why, I don't have that many visitors, although enough to make it worth my time.
I just checked, and the MSNBot is at 1.74%..:) I guess Microsoft loves me.. [yeah right - I'm one of the Xboxhackers.. ]
Several people running non-mainstream websites (like my own) have reported IE falling below 60-65% since 6 months ago. My site is not targetted at anyone particular (like a Linux-site would be) - but neither is it especially mainstream.
Statistics for February:
1 62.21% MSIE (all versions) 2 14.00% Mozilla (All Gecko-based browsers) 3 9.46% Opera (all versions)
Why are you, in your sig, linking to a thread where I proved my point regarding both moslem registration, and the fact that you haven't separated from the church all that much.. ? You look like an idiot there.
Suits me fine though:)
Regarding the parent to your post, he seems to think we're talking about invading forces. He needs to read up on the Quran, and see what has happened to France in that area.
Agreed. I downloaded something with an INSTALL and.sh-files and it said something about installing lots of nice thingies to be able to compile...... I do that kind of stuff on my Linux machine, not on my Windows machine. Where's the nice little.zip with a setup.exe?:)
I ran a huge BBS on an Atari ST a "few" years ago. I had a stunning 520Mb of memory (that's storage memory - SCSI even) for all the files anyone EVER could put there, or something.
My current desktop computer has 1Gb of RAM. If you had asked me what on earth I would need that much RAM for back then.. well.... I don't think I would've answered that I would need it for stuff like Freenet (using ~140Mb right now) or Opera (preview 3 is an extreme memoryhog, using 253Mb right now) etc.
So, I'm quite sure I'll need Terabytes of memory for Freenet v10 and the virtual reality edition of Opera in a few years time.
Your post is the first I've heard about current going _to_ the negative pole. Electrons are negative, so of course they attract to the positive pole.. umm..
You confused me. I'm 30 - is that young in this context, or were Swedish schools _really_ quick at changing?
The source was my Sony 715S - in the corner.. ?:) It plays DVD+R, not DVD-R. I bought it in 1998, I guess it was availabel worldwide in 1997. That qualifies it as quite old..
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If you can borrow 007 Agent under Fire, MechAssault or Splinter Cell (the first one) and a memorycard from someone, you can with two additional small soldering blobs hack your Xbox at no cost at all.
http://www.xbox-scene.com
Got news for you...all console makers sell their product below cost, and have for many years
Congratulations, you've fallen for a myth. The only consoles before the Xbox to have been sold at a loss are the Sega Saturn and the Sega Dreamcast.
Please don't post myths - learn how to use Google.
No. Microsoft pays a fixed amount of money per chip to nVidia, Intel etc. They might have been able to cut something on the DVD-drives and harddrives, but manufacturing 8Gb-drives isn't cheap if you need to sustain a whole factory line just for one customer.
The reason MS is in bed with ATI for the next system is because nVidia didn't agree to suggested price cuts by Microsoft.
You're also wrong on the GPU. It's a Geforce 3 with an extra Vertex Shader, like the Geforce 4.
~$100 is the best guess as to the current loss per box, before this cut, I've heard. Microsoft obviously won't say, so you'll have to hunt down a few analystis who will. The only link I can offer is old - but Microsoft doesn't gain as much from increased factory optimisations as Sony and Nintendo do (for one thing - the Xbox hasn't had its layout optimised for over a year).
http://www.xboxsolution.com/article154.html
Notice how on a regular basis we get 500 errors when trying to post?
Umm no, can't say it has ever happened actually.
Really.
Minter might take advantage of the Cube's seriously weird texturing possibilities (unmatched on Xbox, and possibly very hard to accomplish on the PS2). The cube can combine textures with different operators, and do 8 per pass, which is more than the Xbox and PS2.
No fanboyism, just technical details. One description of what can be done can be found in the readme for Dolphin, the PC Gamecube emulator.
Get a Gamecube - his latest psychedelic shooter Unity is soon to be released.
Info and images here.
My site gets a LOT of hits from spiders - Google indexes it very often, MSN too. I have no idea why, I don't have that many visitors, although enough to make it worth my time.
.. :) I guess Microsoft loves me .. [yeah right - I'm one of the Xboxhackers .. ]
I just checked, and the MSNBot is at 1.74%
Several people running non-mainstream websites (like my own) have reported IE falling below 60-65% since 6 months ago. My site is not targetted at anyone particular (like a Linux-site would be) - but neither is it especially mainstream.
Statistics for February:
1 62.21% MSIE (all versions)
2 14.00% Mozilla (All Gecko-based browsers)
3 9.46% Opera (all versions)
Parent is not off topic. If you think it is, you've missed out on a good movie.
"Ahhhh ta mig NUUUUU!"
(for future reference)
You hardly notice the GB Player once it sits under the cube .. I don't anyway.
...
Come to think of it, time to boot it up and finish Metroid Fusion before Zero Mission appears in Europe
(It's amazing that a game written for the small screen of the GBA actually _works_ when displayed on a 110" projector screen)
*gone*
Why are you, in your sig, linking to a thread where I proved my point regarding both moslem registration, and the fact that you haven't separated from the church all that much .. ? You look like an idiot there.
:)
Suits me fine though
Regarding the parent to your post, he seems to think we're talking about invading forces. He needs to read up on the Quran, and see what has happened to France in that area.
Clueless, as usual.
Read a history book.
Start with one about South Africa, and the apartheid regime.
They said the same thing.
The US will be a minor nuisance in ~50 years from now - since you're hated all over the world. Watch your economy break down first.
Bottom line, we can do it because we have the power and the might. We don't need to play well with others, others need to play well with us.
250M US citizens
vs
1B Moslems
1B "commies" in China
Good luck.
Well, the bible says otherwise.
I have a little book here that says the US belongs to the Indians.
Now move over.
You'll find those parents outside the US - and you know what? Our kids are alive and well - no school shootings and less drug problems.
Agreed. I downloaded something with an INSTALL and .sh-files and it said something about installing lots of nice thingies to be able to compile ... ... I do that kind of stuff on my Linux machine, not on my Windows machine. Where's the nice little .zip with a setup.exe? :)
I ran a huge BBS on an Atari ST a "few" years ago. I had a stunning 520Mb of memory (that's storage memory - SCSI even) for all the files anyone EVER could put there, or something.
.. well .. .. I don't think I would've answered that I would need it for stuff like Freenet (using ~140Mb right now) or Opera (preview 3 is an extreme memoryhog, using 253Mb right now) etc.
My current desktop computer has 1Gb of RAM. If you had asked me what on earth I would need that much RAM for back then
So, I'm quite sure I'll need Terabytes of memory for Freenet v10 and the virtual reality edition of Opera in a few years time.
Your post is the first I've heard about current going _to_ the negative pole. Electrons are negative, so of course they attract to the positive pole .. umm ..
You confused me. I'm 30 - is that young in this context, or were Swedish schools _really_ quick at changing?
Only countries that I remember should be allowed to exist.
George W Bush - is that you?
The source was my Sony 715S - in the corner .. ? :) It plays DVD+R, not DVD-R. I bought it in 1998, I guess it was availabel worldwide in 1997. That qualifies it as quite old ..
DVD+ has always had better compatability with older standalone players.
*looks at Sony 715S standing in the corner*
Oh yes.
Asides from you indicating (at least) a 50% increase in price
Have you ever heard about something called "inflation"?
Guess what $30 in 1980 is in today's dollars.
No, a LOT of Xboxes sold are for modding purposes.