Back in the early PS2 we would talk about what a next generation PS2 would look like. Those whiteboard diagrams looked almost identical to what Sony and IBM came up with.
The parallels between the PS2/EE/GS and PS3/Cell/RSX are almost identical:
Execution starts on the EE/PPU Heavy/parallel computation task is spawned off to the VUs/SPUs Light control code runs in parallel on the EE/PPU As graphical elements become read to be rasterized they are spawned off to the GS/RSX
In a well running PS2/PS3 engine all three major areas are running full speed in parallel. Split memory architecture lets each area of the machine run at full speed without interfering with the rest of the system.
Kutagari and IBM did a masterful job. It was an obvious choice to build off the model of the most sucessful console architecture in history and the one all console developers had intimate knowledge of, the 145 million selling PS2.
Months ago it was announced by Google that Android phones were selling at a rate of about 22 million a year already. And Android's marketshare has been doubling every quarter for the past year.
At the incredible rate Android is growing I have to imagine it is currently selling at a much higher rate than 22 million a year now.
When Novell sold out to Microsoft you had open source kooks falling all over each other to proclaim that they would go right on using Novell products and projects so they could brag about how 'open minded' they were to the rest of the world(who didn't give a shit one way or another).
You have to imagine the execs up in Redmond were just shaking their heads in disgust that they had disrupted the open source/Linux world with so little effort.
I don't think Microsoft is really actively wasting time with Ubuntu. They don't have to. Linux marketshare is going nowhere outside of statistical blips. They have Miguel de Icaza doing so much damage to desktop Linux adoption and application development with the Gnome/KDE split and the Mono fiasco that they surely must be entirely focused on Google and Apple(commercial companies run by grownups and staffed by competent people who put in 40+ hour a week work on the unglamorous work that goes into creating polished consumer ready software).
"If my buzz box is any indicator, the spammers are pretty much the only people actually using Buzz, and until Facebook can integrate, i wonder if that will change. "
Wow, way to make to make yourself look silly submitter:
"Google Buzz's Skyrocketing Usage While it's still very early into Buzz's life cycle, initial indications show that Google has a hit on its hands. Linking Buzz to Gmail's millions of users has clearly brought people into the company's new social domain.
Google has only released two numbers so far: there have been over 9 million posts and comments in about 56 hours, amounting to around 160,000 posts and comments per hour. That's even more impressive if you consider the fact that most users didn't get Buzz until Wednesday the 10th.
The other number: over 200 mobile check-ins per minute, nearly 300,000 mobile check-ins per day.
Those numbers are simply stellar."
Every major blogger is using Buzz now and some of them are saying they already have a larger Buzz following in just a few days than they had with other social media sites that they spent years building up.
Sony has an online service that is more like the open PC gaming online model than any other console manufacturer:
* Free online play for all non-MMORPG titles
* Dedicated servers
* Open to mods and other free content from developers
It's Microsoft with the absurd grip on their online service that is continually causing developers nightmares in dealing with. It took Epic a half a year to rewrite/work around Microsoft's online service's restrictions to get the latest Unreal Tournament out the door after it had no problems whatsoever with PCs and Sony's PS3.
And these problems Microsoft is causing for Cryptic Studios is just the latest in other MMORPG developers before them.
"There's already a "Do not call" mechanism that's ignored"
I haven't gotten a single call on my mail line since the day I put it on the Do Not Call List.
Recently I got another number and couldn't figure out why I was suddenly getting unsolicited calls. Then I remembered the DNC List and once again haven't gotten a single unwanted call.
Apple blocking Google Voice makes buying an iPhone not even a possiblity now that I have had Google Voice for a month or so.
I know many of these features have existed in other products, but that doesn't change the fact that Google Voice has been as big a lifestyle change as getting TiVo for the first time 7 or 8 years ago.
* The voice mail transcripts are my favorite thing. Perfectly accurate so far. Love being able to read voice mails right from my computer
* Free SMS in a GMail like interface
* Everyone now has my Google Number and all my phones are unified behind that single number and I am now completely free to pick up and switch to a new cellphone as the flood of Android phones come out over the next year
The gaming media and forums have been filled with desperate Xbox fans begging for a Metal Gear Solid game for two years now. Creating fake rumors, endless and inane speculation claiming proof.
Yeah, 'who cares'.
This was devastating news to Xbox fans who thought they would be getting a real Metal Gear game. Instead it's just a Devil May Cry action game with Raiden.
2. It's not a real Metal Gear game, just an action game with Raiden
3. It's multiplatform - PS3,PC, and Xbox 360
Even worse, just an hour after the Microsoft press conference an interview with Kojima quoted him essentially disowning the game.
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Sony really got Skill Points/Trophies/Achievements right with the PS3.
The Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum breakdown lets you look at another gamer's profile and almost immediately get a sense of just what type of gamer they are.
With Trophies you get:
* Obviously what games they play
* What games they like the most and put the most time into
* What type of gamer they are - lots of just Bronze Trophies and they like to buy games and not complete them, lots of Silver and Gold Trophies and they are a serious gamer who completes games and gets lots of the side quests and hard parts of games done, Platinums and you know you've looking at a hardcore gamer
And like Skill Points, Sony has talked about your Trophy level unlocking things inside of Home in the future.
Picking up Android development was as easy as it could be.
Just downloaded Eclipse and installed the Android plugin. Everything is just standard Java that everyone already is familiar with. Standard OpenGL for the graphics stuff.
Tons of well documented example code and documentation.
The best part has been the people from Google so far. They are the most helpful and bright employees I've ever encountered or dealt with doing development support.
The only thing that has been an occasional pain has been there were some major changes from the pre-1.0 Android SDK that lost of old code was written for. Sometimes when looking for an example of a certain API feature you will get tripped up looking at old code. This is getting less and less of a problem as time moves forward, but there are still Android dev books that come from ancient versions of the Android APIs.
The PS3 is 200 dollar more expensive than the 360, not 100.
Even with the 200 dollar extra cost, the PS3 just sold virtually identically number of units worldwide as the 360 in 2008, and is selling at significantly faster rate in life to date sales.
The obviously huge number of people who own duplicate 360 consoles puts an amazing perspective on the worldwide sales numbers for the first Xbox compared to the Xbox 360.
The Xbox was on the market from Nov 2001 until June 2005 when it went out of production. It sold about 25 million consoles worldwide. About 3.5 years.
The Xbox has been on the market from Nov 2005 until the present. Just over 3 years.
Even going with a modest estimate of the number of people who own multiple 360 consoles, the sales rate of the Xbox and Xbox 360 are almost identical. Even the relative sales rates from the three major regions are virtually identical to last gen. The 360 is pretty much dead in Japan just like the first Xbox. European sales are mostly from the UK just like the first Xbox. And bulk of 360 sales comes from the US just like the first Xbox.
The text alignment and kerning problems are something I really can't understand. Every time I do my yearly 'let's give Linux a try again' it is depressing to see the same horrible font choices, text that is never properly aligned in text boxes, and kerning problems.
It's like trying to put out a newspaper or magazine that doesn't have any real professional page layout people working on it. It is so jarring to read that it really doesn't matter what the actual content is.
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Back in the early PS2 we would talk about what a next generation PS2 would look like. Those whiteboard diagrams looked almost identical to what Sony and IBM came up with.
The parallels between the PS2/EE/GS and PS3/Cell/RSX are almost identical:
Execution starts on the EE/PPU
Heavy/parallel computation task is spawned off to the VUs/SPUs
Light control code runs in parallel on the EE/PPU
As graphical elements become read to be rasterized they are spawned off to the GS/RSX
In a well running PS2/PS3 engine all three major areas are running full speed in parallel. Split memory architecture lets each area of the machine run at full speed without interfering with the rest of the system.
Kutagari and IBM did a masterful job. It was an obvious choice to build off the model of the most sucessful console architecture in history and the one all console developers had intimate knowledge of, the 145 million selling PS2.
Months ago it was announced by Google that Android phones were selling at a rate of about 22 million a year already. And Android's marketshare has been doubling every quarter for the past year.
At the incredible rate Android is growing I have to imagine it is currently selling at a much higher rate than 22 million a year now.
When Novell sold out to Microsoft you had open source kooks falling all over each other to proclaim that they would go right on using Novell products and projects so they could brag about how 'open minded' they were to the rest of the world(who didn't give a shit one way or another).
You have to imagine the execs up in Redmond were just shaking their heads in disgust that they had disrupted the open source/Linux world with so little effort.
I don't think Microsoft is really actively wasting time with Ubuntu. They don't have to. Linux marketshare is going nowhere outside of statistical blips. They have Miguel de Icaza doing so much damage to desktop Linux adoption and application development with the Gnome/KDE split and the Mono fiasco that they surely must be entirely focused on Google and Apple(commercial companies run by grownups and staffed by competent people who put in 40+ hour a week work on the unglamorous work that goes into creating polished consumer ready software).
"If my buzz box is any indicator, the spammers are pretty much the only people actually using Buzz, and until Facebook can integrate, i wonder if that will change. "
Wow, way to make to make yourself look silly submitter:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz-column/
"Google Buzz's Skyrocketing Usage
While it's still very early into Buzz's life cycle, initial indications show that Google has a hit on its hands. Linking Buzz to Gmail's millions of users has clearly brought people into the company's new social domain.
Google has only released two numbers so far: there have been over 9 million posts and comments in about 56 hours, amounting to around 160,000 posts and comments per hour. That's even more impressive if you consider the fact that most users didn't get Buzz until Wednesday the 10th.
The other number: over 200 mobile check-ins per minute, nearly 300,000 mobile check-ins per day.
Those numbers are simply stellar."
Every major blogger is using Buzz now and some of them are saying they already have a larger Buzz following in just a few days than they had with other social media sites that they spent years building up.
Notice a pattern about her Android articles?
http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/nancy_gohring
One guess, which type of phone does Nancy own? i...
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/12/apple-iphone-takes-third-place-in-q3-global-smartphone-sales.html
Nokia is the king.
RIM behind them.
And finally Apple in third place. So, no, Apple and iPhone isn't the king of anything in the cellphone market.
Multi-touch works just fine on Android.
And you get multi-tasking, native Google Voice, Google Navigation, and so on.
Just take a quick look at this thread:
http://n4g.com/gaming/NewsCom-395946.aspx?CT=1
Basically a former Microsoft employee is behind these lies about the PS3's reliability.
A quick google:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sony/ps1/2008/04/the-rarest-and-most-valuable-playstation-ps1-games.html
That wasn't hard.
What delusional fantasy world are you living in?
Sony has an online service that is more like the open PC gaming online model than any other console manufacturer:
* Free online play for all non-MMORPG titles
* Dedicated servers
* Open to mods and other free content from developers
It's Microsoft with the absurd grip on their online service that is continually causing developers nightmares in dealing with. It took Epic a half a year to rewrite/work around Microsoft's online service's restrictions to get the latest Unreal Tournament out the door after it had no problems whatsoever with PCs and Sony's PS3.
And these problems Microsoft is causing for Cryptic Studios is just the latest in other MMORPG developers before them.
"There's already a "Do not call" mechanism that's ignored"
I haven't gotten a single call on my mail line since the day I put it on the Do Not Call List.
Recently I got another number and couldn't figure out why I was suddenly getting unsolicited calls. Then I remembered the DNC List and once again haven't gotten a single unwanted call.
Apple blocking Google Voice makes buying an iPhone not even a possiblity now that I have had Google Voice for a month or so.
I know many of these features have existed in other products, but that doesn't change the fact that Google Voice has been as big a lifestyle change as getting TiVo for the first time 7 or 8 years ago.
* The voice mail transcripts are my favorite thing. Perfectly accurate so far. Love being able to read voice mails right from my computer
* Free SMS in a GMail like interface
* Everyone now has my Google Number and all my phones are unified behind that single number and I am now completely free to pick up and switch to a new cellphone as the flood of Android phones come out over the next year
http://www.khronos.org/
Did you bother to read the actual articles? The issue is the fact that a single vendor was handed a contract without competing bids.
So, no, they didn't 'look at the options'.
Let me guess...
You got that fake worldwide sales number from vgchartz.com?
OK
Over 50 million PSPs have been sold worldwide by Sony. But some guy on Slashdot says they don't know what they are doing...
Which one to believe?
"who cares"
The gaming media and forums have been filled with desperate Xbox fans begging for a Metal Gear Solid game for two years now. Creating fake rumors, endless and inane speculation claiming proof.
Yeah, 'who cares'.
This was devastating news to Xbox fans who thought they would be getting a real Metal Gear game. Instead it's just a Devil May Cry action game with Raiden.
1. Kojima isn't directing the game
2. It's not a real Metal Gear game, just an action game with Raiden
3. It's multiplatform - PS3,PC, and Xbox 360
Even worse, just an hour after the Microsoft press conference an interview with Kojima quoted him essentially disowning the game.
Sony really got Skill Points/Trophies/Achievements right with the PS3.
The Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum breakdown lets you look at another gamer's profile and almost immediately get a sense of just what type of gamer they are.
With Trophies you get:
* Obviously what games they play
* What games they like the most and put the most time into
* What type of gamer they are - lots of just Bronze Trophies and they like to buy games and not complete them, lots of Silver and Gold Trophies and they are a serious gamer who completes games and gets lots of the side quests and hard parts of games done, Platinums and you know you've looking at a hardcore gamer
And like Skill Points, Sony has talked about your Trophy level unlocking things inside of Home in the future.
Picking up Android development was as easy as it could be.
Just downloaded Eclipse and installed the Android plugin. Everything is just standard Java that everyone already is familiar with. Standard OpenGL for the graphics stuff.
Tons of well documented example code and documentation.
The best part has been the people from Google so far. They are the most helpful and bright employees I've ever encountered or dealt with doing development support.
The only thing that has been an occasional pain has been there were some major changes from the pre-1.0 Android SDK that lost of old code was written for. Sometimes when looking for an example of a certain API feature you will get tripped up looking at old code. This is getting less and less of a problem as time moves forward, but there are still Android dev books that come from ancient versions of the Android APIs.
The PS3 is 200 dollar more expensive than the 360, not 100.
Even with the 200 dollar extra cost, the PS3 just sold virtually identically number of units worldwide as the 360 in 2008, and is selling at significantly faster rate in life to date sales.
So much for your theory...
The obviously huge number of people who own duplicate 360 consoles puts an amazing perspective on the worldwide sales numbers for the first Xbox compared to the Xbox 360.
The Xbox was on the market from Nov 2001 until June 2005 when it went out of production. It sold about 25 million consoles worldwide. About 3.5 years.
The Xbox has been on the market from Nov 2005 until the present. Just over 3 years.
Even going with a modest estimate of the number of people who own multiple 360 consoles, the sales rate of the Xbox and Xbox 360 are almost identical. Even the relative sales rates from the three major regions are virtually identical to last gen. The 360 is pretty much dead in Japan just like the first Xbox. European sales are mostly from the UK just like the first Xbox. And bulk of 360 sales comes from the US just like the first Xbox.
The text alignment and kerning problems are something I really can't understand. Every time I do my yearly 'let's give Linux a try again' it is depressing to see the same horrible font choices, text that is never properly aligned in text boxes, and kerning problems.
It's like trying to put out a newspaper or magazine that doesn't have any real professional page layout people working on it. It is so jarring to read that it really doesn't matter what the actual content is.