PS2 hardware is complex and not so well documented. It does take some time to get a grip on how it was meant to be used, and lots more research to use it better than it was meant to be used.
You ask me why XBox is so good, I ask you why is XBox not that much better than a console that was released 3 years earlier.
PS2 hardware still has many possibilites. For example some games (Tekken 4) are now coming out with full-scene anti-aliasing, although FSAA doesn't figure as a basic feature of the console.
Backward compatibility ? That would be the worst mistake for XBox. The reason why PS2 is backward compatible with PSX is that PS2 is so much better that developers believed in people's interest on buying new hardware.
But for XBox ? I doubt even a 4GHz Pentium and a GeForce 8 would make enough of a difference.
Using dedicated architectures is what made PSX and PS2 so good. I'm sure PS2 would be a turtle running MS's applications, but when it comes to raw number crunching, it's so much more efficent.
You people are missing Japanese products
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Forget this stuff. Check out the Vaio PCV-W101. It has TV tuner, DVD, 1280x768 LCD, 2 PCMCIA ports, i.Link, USB and what else.
Japan is filled with those products.
I dunno where you get all this anger against Sony.
Sure it went after Bleem & VGS.. but it had its own reasons (invest hundres of millions of dollars to render PSX famous and someone comes over to ride their horse).
As far as I know, Sony never bothered any *non-commercial* emulators. They knew PSEmu full well but they never even sent an email of warning.
Surely Bleem alerted a bunch of American lawyers, and you might have got in touch with them as an indirect result. But you are not writing from a jail, are you ?
In case, if you haven't noticed, Sony is possibly ready to give up on the super-closed-console approach in order to slowdown Microsoft. Even if they try to keep it somewhat close, they know it won't hold for long.
This is a great chance for Linux, and a great chance for the present and future hacker community to have a fresh new cool system to use in place of the same old PC.
You are not wishing that Sony would ship it's hardware expansion with Windows XP & IE, are you ?
This was a joke !
"Grammer 210" !
Slashdot's crazy idea that majority of people must be right. Mainstreaim is conceptually wrong because mainstream is ignorant. Moderation flow on Slashdot is mainstram already, therefore it's bullshit.
My father was playing with holograms with a home made HeNe laser about 20 years ago I think.
At the time I didn't understand much of the process but I remember he had to borrow a street level place in a low traffic area and had to place the working plane on a stack of strange things such as buckets of sand and tires' inner tubes.
Doesn't sound too professional but might still work.
They are one of the main problemes that USA encountered while trying to build a laser defense system long ago.
Russians were making specular missiles. They are not 100% reflective, but that surely helps reflect great part of the energy.
When I was a kid my father had a watch more advanced than the one my grandfather had.
My father's watch would recharge itself by normal daily arm motions while my grandfather still winds his watch every morning.
Recycling energy sounds good, but one could probably just move less and eat less 8)
I'm curious to know how much energy the brain consumes and if it varies sensibly depending on the action performed.
Congratulations for your first post.
And it wasn't even intentional !
I mean you actually read the post, went on to install your Linux and came back to give us the feedback.
Everyone routinely gets to hit the wrong key. Closing a window is an action that definitely takes some thinking, and being able to see what you are doing on screen without having to double check on your keyboard is probably faster. Especially considering the ever changing layout of modern keyboards (really painful for who uses Borland-style cut & paste key combinations).
Also, normally GUI buttons allow to be clicked without performing the action until the mouse button is released. Something that gives that extra bit of reassuring feedback.
Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci = Leonardo of Sir Piedo da Vinci.
Meaning Sir Piero da Vinci was his father.
You explained the origin of last names but doesn't mean that's not a last name.
Infact there are three names in the full naming convention of Leonardo, and the last name is Vinci (most likely the name of a city).
Microsoft said "XML Good" and the VB disciples followed.
It's one of those things your boss tell you to implement cause it's the thing to do, but nobody really has idea of what it's all about. Personally I think it's a big load of BS.
This is not a file format, it's just a syntax, how is it going to help any exchange ? Maybe will be easier to reverse engineer Word format.. at the expense of some serious data bloat.
Dump the hype and get busy doing some real coding !
I think the main issue is that those robots drive like tanks. That way the design is much easier and it's also easier to get out of hot spots or to face the enemy without having to look like trying to parallel park.
Now, regarding the article, if they think that their AI will do a better job....good luck !
More than some, actually more than half 8)
Still Internet isn't developed well enough. Infact there are way too many idiots out there that couldn't manage to get enough salt in their heads. From those I'll spare the old-fashioned people that have their own personal legacy reasons.
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x86 means tons of hardware, all hardware that requires drivers, and who is going to write the drivers ?
Drivers is a big big word.. it's the real issue with x86 boxes, it's the reason why even MS's NT coudn't take Win9x place.
In case of OS X, Apple has working drivers for its limited hardware support on its platform. If OS X attempted to work on x86 machines it would take an incredible amount of drivers coding work.. something that not even MS could do (infact HW manufactureres write their own drivers).
With those now popoular headsets the phone isn't next to the hear anymore. Too bad that one looks like a complete idiot shouting behind people's back (man, do I hate that). Plus most people still hold the cellphone by the crotch area. Dunno if you want to have a cancer there instead !
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PS2 hardware is complex and not so well documented. It does take some time to get a grip on how it was meant to be used, and lots more research to use it better than it was meant to be used.
You ask me why XBox is so good, I ask you why is XBox not that much better than a console that was released 3 years earlier.
PS2 hardware still has many possibilites. For example some games (Tekken 4) are now coming out with full-scene anti-aliasing, although FSAA doesn't figure as a basic feature of the console.
Backward compatibility ?
That would be the worst mistake for XBox.
The reason why PS2 is backward compatible with PSX is that PS2 is so much better that developers believed in people's interest on buying new hardware.
But for XBox ? I doubt even a 4GHz Pentium and a GeForce 8 would make enough of a difference.
Using dedicated architectures is what made PSX and PS2 so good.
I'm sure PS2 would be a turtle running MS's applications, but when it comes to raw number crunching, it's so much more efficent.
Forget this stuff. Check out the Vaio PCV-W101. It has TV tuner, DVD, 1280x768 LCD, 2 PCMCIA ports, i.Link, USB and what else.
Japan is filled with those products.
I dunno where you get all this anger against Sony.
Sure it went after Bleem & VGS.. but it had its own reasons (invest hundres of millions of dollars to render PSX famous and someone comes over to ride their horse).
As far as I know, Sony never bothered any *non-commercial* emulators. They knew PSEmu full well but they never even sent an email of warning.
Surely Bleem alerted a bunch of American lawyers, and you might have got in touch with them as an indirect result. But you are not writing from a jail, are you ?
In case, if you haven't noticed, Sony is possibly ready to give up on the super-closed-console approach in order to slowdown Microsoft. Even if they try to keep it somewhat close, they know it won't hold for long.
This is a great chance for Linux, and a great chance for the present and future hacker community to have a fresh new cool system to use in place of the same old PC.
You are not wishing that Sony would ship it's hardware expansion with Windows XP & IE, are you ?
Otsukaresama
This was a joke !
"Grammer 210" !
Slashdot's crazy idea that majority of people must be right. Mainstreaim is conceptually wrong because mainstream is ignorant. Moderation flow on Slashdot is mainstram already, therefore it's bullshit.
Trolls have won.
My father was playing with holograms with a home made HeNe laser about 20 years ago I think.
At the time I didn't understand much of the process but I remember he had to borrow a street level place in a low traffic area and had to place the working plane on a stack of strange things such as buckets of sand and tires' inner tubes.
Doesn't sound too professional but might still work.
baubau
They are one of the main problemes that USA encountered while trying to build a laser defense system long ago.
Russians were making specular missiles. They are not 100% reflective, but that surely helps reflect great part of the energy.
When I was a kid my father had a watch more advanced than the one my grandfather had.
My father's watch would recharge itself by normal daily arm motions while my grandfather still winds his watch every morning.
Recycling energy sounds good, but one could probably just move less and eat less 8)
I'm curious to know how much energy the brain consumes and if it varies sensibly depending on the action performed.
Who's that babe in the picture ?
I really hope the pic comes with the utility !!
bau
Come out of the bar and fight like a nerd !
bau
Congratulations for your first post.
And it wasn't even intentional !
I mean you actually read the post, went on to install your Linux and came back to give us the feedback.
Well done !
Everyone routinely gets to hit the wrong key. Closing a window is an action that definitely takes some thinking, and being able to see what you are doing on screen without having to double check on your keyboard is probably faster. Especially considering the ever changing layout of modern keyboards (really painful for who uses Borland-style cut & paste key combinations).
Also, normally GUI buttons allow to be clicked without performing the action until the mouse button is released. Something that gives that extra bit of reassuring feedback.
Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci = Leonardo of Sir Piedo da Vinci.
Meaning Sir Piero da Vinci was his father.
You explained the origin of last names but doesn't mean that's not a last name.
Infact there are three names in the full naming convention of Leonardo, and the last name is Vinci (most likely the name of a city).
"da Vinci" is the last name. He's known as Leonardo because he signed as Leonardo, but I don't think "da Vinci" sounds funny.
bau
Microsoft said "XML Good" and the VB disciples followed.
It's one of those things your boss tell you to implement cause it's the thing to do, but nobody really has idea of what it's all about. Personally I think it's a big load of BS.
This is not a file format, it's just a syntax, how is it going to help any exchange ? Maybe will be easier to reverse engineer Word format.. at the expense of some serious data bloat.
Dump the hype and get busy doing some real coding !
IP spoofing, packet malformation that can cause OS crashes.
Without raw sockets most script kiddies can't compile and run many nice exploits.
They did build a shuttle, but fundings to use it didn't follow up.
I think that shuttle is now somewhere posing as an attraction.
I think the main issue is that those robots drive like tanks. That way the design is much easier and it's also easier to get out of hot spots or to face the enemy without having to look like trying to parallel park.
..good luck !
Now, regarding the article, if they think that their AI will do a better job..
Nice singing, but the article was about ESO not NASA.
Some of us didn't vote for Dooby Doo.
More than some, actually more than half 8)
Still Internet isn't developed well enough. Infact there are way too many idiots out there that couldn't manage to get enough salt in their heads. From those I'll spare the old-fashioned people that have their own personal legacy reasons.
x86 means tons of hardware, all hardware that requires drivers, and who is going to write the drivers ?
Drivers is a big big word.. it's the real issue with x86 boxes, it's the reason why even MS's NT coudn't take Win9x place.
In case of OS X, Apple has working drivers for its limited hardware support on its platform. If OS X attempted to work on x86 machines it would take an incredible amount of drivers coding work.. something that not even MS could do (infact HW manufactureres write their own drivers).
How could Italians live up to their hype of passionate lovers if they really ate so much garlic bread ? 8)
Forget that crap.. start cooking yourself !
Sounds like a science fiction movie with an alien torturing poor humans with an anal probe.
Back on planet Earth: were we talking about a submitter ?
..to set records straight 8)
With those now popoular headsets the phone isn't next to the hear anymore.
Too bad that one looks like a complete idiot shouting behind people's back (man, do I hate that). Plus most people still hold the cellphone by the crotch area.
Dunno if you want to have a cancer there instead !