Fine, just as long as you don't think people should STFU and deal with duplicate articles on/. Ending those would be such a simple fix I can't bring myself to cut Taco and staff any slack for not taking care of those by now. I will say the problem is massively reduced these days.
Companies and whole markets have been caught unprepared for shifts in their business before and it can happen again. If too many energy companies are slow to get new energy sources online, the rising costs and demand could make California's brownouts looks like nothing. If there is an actual shortage of energy, production will suffer, to say nothing of millions of people who won't be able to afford to heat their houses or fuel their cars.
There is already a rising awareness that living 100 miles away from a job and commuting from the suburbs will become far more costly in a few years or decades. If what happened in the USA this year to energy prices had continued for several years in a row, there would have been large migrations away from the suburbs in such a short timespan that housing markets would be overly inflated. When dense urban housing caught up, prices would decrease, and many people would have paid more than their house was worth.
shouldn't the fleas have been jumping off the dog then? Maybe you could have killed them from exaustion if you took the dog out to the park while the tone generator ran for an hour.
Episode 3 was shot at 1K, not 4K. Yep, 1920x1080, the same as HDTV. There are 4K cameras available, such as from Dalsa, but they haven't been adopted by Hollywood in part because there aren't 4K projectors in theaters. The only reason digital projection looks pretty good these days is the lack of jitter, which blurs away the extra detail in standard 35mm projection.
Not to mention there's no explanation of where to connect the fans to the the power supply without shocking oneself, and that opening it up will void the warrantee on the entire system.
No it shouldn't because it has a hard drive, and heat shortens the lifespan of that component. Just because consumers have TV stands with small enclosures under the TV with doors doesn't mean the 360 or PS3 should run there for hours with the doors closed. The ambient in there could reach 100 or 110+ degrees Farenheit. At the very least consumers need to have their expectations adjusted to know they have to leave the doors open. Not opening the doors with a 360 running could also cause the early death of TiVo hard drives too.
Not to mention it would consume a lot more power than is needed. Has the photographer been using Taiyo Yuden media? Or just whatever Maxell or Verbatim was on sale at Office Depot the week he was running low? Maybe he just needs better-quality media, and make sure the friend is burning no faster than at 4X.
Hang on though. Suppose the 360 came in a large receiver-sized box with large heatsinks. Then suppose a consumer thenn placed it in a small cabinet such as those built into a stand for a 32 inch TV. With the doors shut, the ambient could still reach 110+ farenheit causing crashes or if nothing else, after a few years, the early failure of the hard drive. How would you suggest MS deal with consumer behavior in this case? Because both the 360 and PS3 are going to generate more heat, and both may have hard drives. Seems to me the time has come for the consumer to be re-educated as to their expections for such devices.
Like the Revolution, true, you just won't be getting the best possible graphics and physics. Yeah it's true that it's possible to squeeze more performace from the same amount of Joules by moving to smaller lithographic processes or eventually quantum computing. Meanwhile today if you want better performance, that involves using more energy and producing more heat. The 360 will probably have moved to 65nm production by next Christmas so go ahead and wait. Me, I'll probably be gaming on it this spring.
If you give it better ventilation the fans won't spin as fast and therefore more quietly. This winter when you open your entertainment center doors to take out the controller for your 360, please leave the doors open and pull the 360 out a few inches for better ventilation. When you're done gaming slide the 360 back then put the controller on top and close the doors.
This coming summer, save energy by setting the thermostat to 78, put an large but quiet fan by your TV, put the 360 in front of it, and then sit on your sofa being cooled by the fan and the 360 will be quiet too.
Although MS gave the 360 a small form factor for more versatile placement, you could still give it extra room to let it breath. If your big-screen TV recommended placing it a few inches from the wall for ventilation would you ignore that too? Even some PS1s and PS2s had overheating problems. I've witnessed PS1s that would skip during video playback from heat but play smoothly after placing books under two edges so the middle was more exposed. You simply can't expect anymore to cram 5 to 10 times as much computing power into the same size space and not have heat issues if care isn't taken to it's placement.
I assure you there are many RPGs, sports games, and even action and racing games where reading the instruction booklet is a requirement for getting good at them. Kids do read those manuals, as they should for the console itself. Hell, the fools who don't deserve what they get when they hook up the console with a composite connector when their TV supports s-video or component.
I used to do those too, but then I got tired of hearing the same sounds over and over again. Has anyone found a program that will rotate a bunch of sound files for the same alert? Just like Webshots changes my wallpaper each day, I'd like to see the same for my sound files. Yeah I'm using Windows, but does this program exist for any OS?
If you put a 300W bulb in a closed entertainment cabinet it is going to start a fire or after several months probably weaken the plastic of nearby components. There are limits to increasing processing power while using the same amount of power and now the consequences are going to be clear with this generation of consoles that use more power than before. Users will have to learn and adapt if they want to enjoy their machines.
I'm still wondering how Sony plans to cool their machine. Maybe make the curved exterior directly part of the heatsink through heatpipes?
It will not overheat easier because the ducts are attached to the circuitboard. Without a cover the ducted air could immediately leave the case instead of being forced out the holes on the right side of the system. What surprises me is that the DVD drive is full-size instead of half-height or laptop sized. Consequently, even though the graphics chip and memory have a large heatsink over them, the drive limits the height of the the fins to PC-card ranges. I would have thought it would be necessary to use a half-height drive with a taller heatsink underneath.
In about a year heat issues are expected to decrease as the main core chip moves to a 65 nanometer manufacturing process instead of 90 nm, resulting in higher efficiency and less heat.
And when the PS2, PS3, or xbox360 crashes, the idiot/ignorant user will return it and have the same problem, or just jump to calling Sony or Microsoft whereupon they'll be told the unit is overheating and so they should STOP DOING SHIT THAT CAUSES IT TO OVERHEAT. Hell, it's in the instruction manuals for the consoles that there needs to ventilation. I have no sympathy for idiots who don't read the instructions for expensive hardware then screw it up.
Anyway, the 360 and PS3 consume so much power in such a small unit that there simply is no bloody way to avoid heat issues resulting from poor ventilation. The kiddies have no choice now but to pay attention to ventilation, because they will have lots of crashes otherwise.
How different was the gameplay of Zelda on the N64 compared to the GC? On the Revolution it'll have a sword-like controller which will be new and different, but the plot will still be the same right? Nintendo doesn't have the guts to let Ganon die and introduce a new enemy into that universe. Why is it so fun to beat Ganon if he'll just come back again in the future, or in the past?
Except that broadband has different price points for faster surfing speeds, which dial-up didn't used to have. So casual users can now pay $20 per month for 384kbps down/128kbps up. While hard-core users pay $40 or 50 for 1.5+Mbps down.
So there actually isn't a flat fee for internet access, nor does there need to be for MMO's.
As for cable and satellite, there's been more pressure recently for buying stations a la carte instead of as a package.
So should everyone have a single choice of paying fifty to sixty dollars a month for cell phone service? After all, that's what cell users pay for unlimited minutes, just like hard-core gamers pay fifteen a month for unlimited gaming, although it deters casual gamers from subscribing.
Furthermore, there are what, 4 cellular providers in the USA? How many quality MMO's of substantial popularity are there? Between 4 and 10. And if many of them offered competitive pricing plans, there could be more than a dozen. Lots of competition is good for consumers, who would then be more willing to divide their time playing and supporting multiple MMOs, including the less popular ones.
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Fine, just as long as you don't think people should STFU and deal with duplicate articles on /. Ending those would be such a simple fix I can't bring myself to cut Taco and staff any slack for not taking care of those by now. I will say the problem is massively reduced these days.
Companies and whole markets have been caught unprepared for shifts in their business before and it can happen again. If too many energy companies are slow to get new energy sources online, the rising costs and demand could make California's brownouts looks like nothing. If there is an actual shortage of energy, production will suffer, to say nothing of millions of people who won't be able to afford to heat their houses or fuel their cars.
There is already a rising awareness that living 100 miles away from a job and commuting from the suburbs will become far more costly in a few years or decades. If what happened in the USA this year to energy prices had continued for several years in a row, there would have been large migrations away from the suburbs in such a short timespan that housing markets would be overly inflated. When dense urban housing caught up, prices would decrease, and many people would have paid more than their house was worth.
It matters wiseguy because pumping oil out of the ground is close to 0% carbon neutral.
I admit nothing!
shouldn't the fleas have been jumping off the dog then? Maybe you could have killed them from exaustion if you took the dog out to the park while the tone generator ran for an hour.
I'm not trying to prove anything. I was hoping for a spring launch so I could play the new systems sooner.
Episode 3 was shot at 1K, not 4K. Yep, 1920x1080, the same as HDTV. There are 4K cameras available, such as from Dalsa, but they haven't been adopted by Hollywood in part because there aren't 4K projectors in theaters. The only reason digital projection looks pretty good these days is the lack of jitter, which blurs away the extra detail in standard 35mm projection.
Okay, but including the F in HSF is what threw me off and got me thinking about fans.
Not to mention there's no explanation of where to connect the fans to the the power supply without shocking oneself, and that opening it up will void the warrantee on the entire system.
No it shouldn't because it has a hard drive, and heat shortens the lifespan of that component. Just because consumers have TV stands with small enclosures under the TV with doors doesn't mean the 360 or PS3 should run there for hours with the doors closed. The ambient in there could reach 100 or 110+ degrees Farenheit. At the very least consumers need to have their expectations adjusted to know they have to leave the doors open. Not opening the doors with a 360 running could also cause the early death of TiVo hard drives too.
eat some asparagus and go pee. if you smell nothing out of the ordinary, either your nose isn't up to snuff or your body chemistry is abnormal.
Not to mention it would consume a lot more power than is needed. Has the photographer been using Taiyo Yuden media? Or just whatever Maxell or Verbatim was on sale at Office Depot the week he was running low? Maybe he just needs better-quality media, and make sure the friend is burning no faster than at 4X.
Hang on though. Suppose the 360 came in a large receiver-sized box with large heatsinks. Then suppose a consumer thenn placed it in a small cabinet such as those built into a stand for a 32 inch TV. With the doors shut, the ambient could still reach 110+ farenheit causing crashes or if nothing else, after a few years, the early failure of the hard drive. How would you suggest MS deal with consumer behavior in this case? Because both the 360 and PS3 are going to generate more heat, and both may have hard drives. Seems to me the time has come for the consumer to be re-educated as to their expections for such devices.
Meh, I'll understand if MS didn't want to lose even more money using a copper heatsink instead of aluminum.
Like the Revolution, true, you just won't be getting the best possible graphics and physics. Yeah it's true that it's possible to squeeze more performace from the same amount of Joules by moving to smaller lithographic processes or eventually quantum computing. Meanwhile today if you want better performance, that involves using more energy and producing more heat. The 360 will probably have moved to 65nm production by next Christmas so go ahead and wait. Me, I'll probably be gaming on it this spring.
If you give it better ventilation the fans won't spin as fast and therefore more quietly. This winter when you open your entertainment center doors to take out the controller for your 360, please leave the doors open and pull the 360 out a few inches for better ventilation. When you're done gaming slide the 360 back then put the controller on top and close the doors.
This coming summer, save energy by setting the thermostat to 78, put an large but quiet fan by your TV, put the 360 in front of it, and then sit on your sofa being cooled by the fan and the 360 will be quiet too.
Although MS gave the 360 a small form factor for more versatile placement, you could still give it extra room to let it breath. If your big-screen TV recommended placing it a few inches from the wall for ventilation would you ignore that too? Even some PS1s and PS2s had overheating problems. I've witnessed PS1s that would skip during video playback from heat but play smoothly after placing books under two edges so the middle was more exposed. You simply can't expect anymore to cram 5 to 10 times as much computing power into the same size space and not have heat issues if care isn't taken to it's placement.
I assure you there are many RPGs, sports games, and even action and racing games where reading the instruction booklet is a requirement for getting good at them. Kids do read those manuals, as they should for the console itself. Hell, the fools who don't deserve what they get when they hook up the console with a composite connector when their TV supports s-video or component.
I used to do those too, but then I got tired of hearing the same sounds over and over again. Has anyone found a program that will rotate a bunch of sound files for the same alert? Just like Webshots changes my wallpaper each day, I'd like to see the same for my sound files. Yeah I'm using Windows, but does this program exist for any OS?
If you put a 300W bulb in a closed entertainment cabinet it is going to start a fire or after several months probably weaken the plastic of nearby components. There are limits to increasing processing power while using the same amount of power and now the consequences are going to be clear with this generation of consoles that use more power than before. Users will have to learn and adapt if they want to enjoy their machines.
I'm still wondering how Sony plans to cool their machine. Maybe make the curved exterior directly part of the heatsink through heatpipes?
It will not overheat easier because the ducts are attached to the circuitboard. Without a cover the ducted air could immediately leave the case instead of being forced out the holes on the right side of the system. What surprises me is that the DVD drive is full-size instead of half-height or laptop sized. Consequently, even though the graphics chip and memory have a large heatsink over them, the drive limits the height of the the fins to PC-card ranges. I would have thought it would be necessary to use a half-height drive with a taller heatsink underneath.
In about a year heat issues are expected to decrease as the main core chip moves to a 65 nanometer manufacturing process instead of 90 nm, resulting in higher efficiency and less heat.
And when the PS2, PS3, or xbox360 crashes, the idiot/ignorant user will return it and have the same problem, or just jump to calling Sony or Microsoft whereupon they'll be told the unit is overheating and so they should STOP DOING SHIT THAT CAUSES IT TO OVERHEAT. Hell, it's in the instruction manuals for the consoles that there needs to ventilation. I have no sympathy for idiots who don't read the instructions for expensive hardware then screw it up.
Anyway, the 360 and PS3 consume so much power in such a small unit that there simply is no bloody way to avoid heat issues resulting from poor ventilation. The kiddies have no choice now but to pay attention to ventilation, because they will have lots of crashes otherwise.
How different was the gameplay of Zelda on the N64 compared to the GC? On the Revolution it'll have a sword-like controller which will be new and different, but the plot will still be the same right? Nintendo doesn't have the guts to let Ganon die and introduce a new enemy into that universe. Why is it so fun to beat Ganon if he'll just come back again in the future, or in the past?
Except that broadband has different price points for faster surfing speeds, which dial-up didn't used to have. So casual users can now pay $20 per month for 384kbps down/128kbps up. While hard-core users pay $40 or 50 for 1.5+Mbps down.
So there actually isn't a flat fee for internet access, nor does there need to be for MMO's.
As for cable and satellite, there's been more pressure recently for buying stations a la carte instead of as a package.
So should everyone have a single choice of paying fifty to sixty dollars a month for cell phone service? After all, that's what cell users pay for unlimited minutes, just like hard-core gamers pay fifteen a month for unlimited gaming, although it deters casual gamers from subscribing.
Furthermore, there are what, 4 cellular providers in the USA? How many quality MMO's of substantial popularity are there? Between 4 and 10. And if many of them offered competitive pricing plans, there could be more than a dozen. Lots of competition is good for consumers, who would then be more willing to divide their time playing and supporting multiple MMOs, including the less popular ones.