I typed "van Eck LCD" into Google. From what little I read, monitors using LCDs radiate less than monitors using CRTs as I'd expected. Then again, everything radiates so if you're that worried about security your chances of building a quiet box are minimal. I suppose it's mechanically easier to shield an LCD and it won't overheat as much as a CRT (air vents leak radiation).
I just finished re-reading "Voyage" and "Titan" by Stephen Baxter. Spooky. Chinese space program (including the objective of landing on the moon) and the death of the US manned space program figure in Titan, while the goals of the US space program are a big part of Voyage. If you haven't read any of Stephen Baxter's fiction, try Voyage first.
Publishers are much more likely to look at the absolute installed base rather than the spindle ratio. An unsold Xbox on the shelf is useless to MS and to game developers. and maximally expensive for MS, whereas an Xbox sold, even for hacking, has the potential to make money on game sales and has already offset some of MS' costs. How naive is it to think Xbox hackers won't buy the odd game anyway, or indeed that there will ever be enough of them to make a significant difference?
Forget the thought experiment!
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Whoops. Suppose MS prevent Xbox hacking by smearing chocolate sauce over the chips. Someone who doesn't know this speculates that chocolate smeared over the chips would have prevented hacking, and then someone else says it could be wiped off. It looks like the latter person is trying to circumvent protection on the real thing rather than as part of a thought experiment.
I don't want anyone to get in trouble with DMCA or anything like that, so please be careful.
Thanks to all who have replied to my point, adding qualifications. I would guess MS have made commitments to their subcontractors so the latter can tool up their production lines, so to some extent there is a pile of Xboxen, and then it does follow that it does more harm to MS to not buy an Xbox than it does to buy an Xbox and hack it.
So, we're all in a good mood, can I propose a thought experiment? It's all very well to say that someone will eventually hack the Xbox, and how cool that would be, and I understand how some folks don't want to say (or more likely can't say) how it would be done. So, what would a stereotyped slashdotter with a time machine and some contrived reason for working for MS at gunpoint suggest the Xbox team should have done to -prevent- hacking?
Re:The true potential for the XBOX
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The XBOX represents the only true way you can DIRECTLY damage microsoft through buying things.. Every unit they sell is sold at a loss.. Buy one.. Hack the hardware.. make it do stuff its not supposed to do.. And don't buy any software for it:)
Your logic is flawed. Which is of more use to Microsoft, a big pile of unsold Xboxen, or the cash equivalent? They lose -more- money if they have to scrap them.
As for hacking, hasn't the message got through yet?
Where has the moderator -been- for the past year and a half to moderate the idea of a Linux port to Xbox as -interesting- ??? I'd moderate running Mame games as funny, but the poster spoils the joke with the free development kit idea, as if no-one has ever explained the razor razorblades model on Slashdot. Also, no-one has -ever- pointed out that MS -might- just have thought for more than a minute about making a Linux port less than straightforward precisely to keep the razorblade sales up? Now if someone has a -realistic- idea on how to port Linux, that would be interesting.
Re:The only worry is about pirate games...
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Still as SOON as one come out in the UK i will buy one to sit beside my DC
http://www.projectk.com/ are advertising US import ones in the UK (see back pages of Edge magazine)
Rod of Light by Barrington Bayley
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... is another of his SF books - I haven't read it for years and years, I can't remember much about it, so if you want to know more try Google. I do know I kept it because it's good and very weird, and now I can read it all over again. Yay!
Ella the Cat's sister Sam died today. Take a look at her website http://www.shevek.f9.co.uk if you're a cat person.
The TriMedia 32-bit embedded processor cores have served as the computational heart for a series of media processor products. Originally designed in.35-micron technology in 1996,
As regards embedded processors rather than PCs, things like MIPS per Watt and MIPS per $ are important. If we compare apples with apples, VLIW doesn't look too bad. If
you're allowed to have a chip with a huge noisy fan and a nuclear power station behind it, it's apples and oranges.
Of course you can bolt strips and girders and plates together with whatever nearest size (eg metric) nuts and bolts you can obtain in quantity at low cost, saving the harder-to-find BSW Meccano nuts and bolts for securing threaded parts, including the bushes of gears, pulleys, couplings.
I mistrust those little fans you get on graphics cards and used to get on CPUs, because I've had a few die on me (or people I work with), which can also take out the chip. The Titanium 200 shown on THG just has a heatsink like ny trusty Creative TNT, no fan, less to go wrong. I suppose whoever buys the state of the art to keep up with the Joneses doesn't care if the board blows up after a year, but I do.
You've accidentally made another point. Why be ashamed to say you agree with RMS? Is there some sort of RMS-abstraction we must be ashamed of, even if the concrete RMS agrees with us? It's so easy to demonise a person or a culture isn't it?
The black box shown on their site looks like a PC to me. I wouldn't like to try balancing it on a TV, especially not a dinky European TV. Now before someone points out that the picture is the development platform, this begs the question of what the target STB will be like. Consumer electronics has to be living room and family friendly, not some big black technophile status symbol. Reminds me of the Xbox - try lugging that around to your friends house on a pushbike.
I still read newsgroups:) and while there's not much about Siggraph 2001 on c.g.r.renderman
at the moment, there's some stuff about the GS cube - if the RenderMan users bother about this FF demo at all, I suspect they won't be impressed. Vermifax's/. post (#44) Score 5 Interesting makes the point well, plus it has the Tom Duff quote.
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The game industry doesn't give a shit about third place
Sony PlayStation2 - "the third place" ring any bells?
I typed "van Eck LCD" into Google. From what little I read, monitors using LCDs radiate less than monitors using CRTs as I'd expected. Then again, everything radiates so if you're that worried about security your chances of building a quiet box are minimal. I suppose it's mechanically easier to shield an LCD and it won't overheat as much as a CRT (air vents leak radiation).
I just finished re-reading "Voyage" and "Titan" by Stephen Baxter. Spooky. Chinese space program (including the objective of landing on the moon) and the death of the US manned space program figure in Titan, while the goals of the US space program are a big part of Voyage. If you haven't read any of Stephen Baxter's fiction, try Voyage first.
Does anyone have the figures for the computing power of the Penteron/Celium III
Have you tried entering "Penteron/Celium III" into Google? :-)
Pentium III 2.9 Gflops at 733MHz, PS2 EE 6.2 Gflops at 300 MHz, dunno about the GameCube.
Publishers are much more likely to look at the absolute installed base rather than the spindle ratio. An unsold Xbox on the shelf is useless to MS and to game developers. and maximally expensive for MS, whereas an Xbox sold, even for hacking, has the potential to make money on game sales and has already offset some of MS' costs. How naive is it to think Xbox hackers won't buy the odd game anyway, or indeed that there will ever be enough of them to make a significant difference?
Whoops. Suppose MS prevent Xbox hacking by smearing chocolate sauce over the chips. Someone who doesn't know this speculates that chocolate smeared over the chips would have prevented hacking, and then someone else says it could be wiped off. It looks like the latter person is trying to circumvent protection on the real thing rather than as part of a thought experiment.
I don't want anyone to get in trouble with DMCA or anything like that, so please be careful.
Thanks to all who have replied to my point, adding qualifications. I would guess MS have made commitments to their subcontractors so the latter can tool up their production lines, so to some extent there is a pile of Xboxen, and then it does follow that it does more harm to MS to not buy an Xbox than it does to buy an Xbox and hack it.
So, we're all in a good mood, can I propose a thought experiment? It's all very well to say that someone will eventually hack the Xbox, and how cool that would be, and I understand how some folks don't want to say (or more likely can't say) how it would be done. So, what would a stereotyped slashdotter with a time machine and some contrived reason for working for MS at gunpoint suggest the Xbox team should have done to -prevent- hacking?
The XBOX represents the only true way you can DIRECTLY damage microsoft through buying things.. Every unit they sell is sold at a loss.. Buy one.. Hack the hardware.. make it do stuff its not supposed to do.. And don't buy any software for it :)
Your logic is flawed. Which is of more use to Microsoft, a big pile of unsold Xboxen, or the cash equivalent? They lose -more- money if they have to scrap them.
As for hacking, hasn't the message got through yet?
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Where has the moderator -been- for the past year and a half to moderate the idea of a Linux port to Xbox as -interesting- ??? I'd moderate running Mame games as funny, but the poster spoils the joke with the free development kit idea, as if no-one has ever explained the razor razorblades model on Slashdot. Also, no-one has -ever- pointed out that MS -might- just have thought for more than a minute about making a Linux port less than straightforward precisely to keep the razorblade sales up? Now if someone has a -realistic- idea on how to port Linux, that would be interesting.
Still as SOON as one come out in the UK i will buy one to sit beside my DC
http://www.projectk.com/ are advertising US import ones in the UK (see back pages of Edge magazine)
Ella the Cat's sister Sam died today. Take a look at her website http://www.shevek.f9.co.uk if you're a cat person.
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The TriMedia 32-bit embedded processor cores have served as the computational heart for a series of media processor products. Originally designed in .35-micron technology in 1996,
As regards embedded processors rather than PCs, things like MIPS per Watt and MIPS per $ are important. If we compare apples with apples, VLIW doesn't look too bad. If you're allowed to have a chip with a huge noisy fan and a nuclear power station behind it, it's apples and oranges.
Of course you can bolt strips and girders and plates together with whatever nearest size (eg metric) nuts and bolts you can obtain in quantity at low cost, saving the harder-to-find BSW Meccano nuts and bolts for securing threaded parts, including the bushes of gears, pulleys, couplings.
To this day, Meccano has nonstandard bolts.)
11/32 inch BSW (British Standard Whitworth)
http://www.boltscience.com/pages/screw4.htm
Of course Meccano web pages are under construction!
I mistrust those little fans you get on graphics cards and used to get on CPUs, because I've had a few die on me (or people I work with), which can also take out the chip. The Titanium 200 shown on THG just has a heatsink like ny trusty Creative TNT, no fan, less to go wrong. I suppose whoever buys the state of the art to keep up with the Joneses doesn't care if the board blows up after a year, but I do.
You've accidentally made another point. Why be ashamed to say you agree with RMS? Is there some sort of RMS-abstraction we must be ashamed of, even if the concrete RMS agrees with us? It's so easy to demonise a person or a culture isn't it?
Philips
My point exactly. -Most-, not -all- reference platforms are like this. :-)
The black box shown on their site looks like a PC to me. I wouldn't like to try balancing it on a TV, especially not a dinky European TV. Now before someone points out that the picture is the development platform, this begs the question of what the target STB will be like. Consumer electronics has to be living room and family friendly, not some big black technophile status symbol. Reminds me of the Xbox - try lugging that around to your friends house on a pushbike.
"being the slaves of the evil industry that they are" they make CD recorders?
So, if you don't use the CD to full capacity, insert some padding to move your data to the outside of the disk.
I still read newsgroups :) and while there's not much about Siggraph 2001 on c.g.r.renderman
at the moment, there's some stuff about the GS cube - if the RenderMan users bother about this FF demo at all, I suspect they won't be impressed. Vermifax's /. post (#44) Score 5 Interesting makes the point well, plus it has the Tom Duff quote.
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