Because my initial post was a hunch based on real life engineering experience. I hadn't gone to find actual evidence because I was just calling the guy for pulling a load of crap out of his ass.
It's worth pointing out that the drive you linked to uses more power on DVD activities than on BD-ROM activities... BluRay drives actually use less power than DVD.
Except even that's not right, because Sony is reserving another core (or two? I can't remember) for use by their libraries, etc.
That just means that when the game gets backgrounded (like when you push the system button on the PSP) the game will have to give up two cores while the menu is active. Unfortunatly, people like you keep mis-reporting this functionality after hearing about it third hand.
If you dig down through the four layers of links to the original source, you will see that they came up with the 380 watt number by multiplying the amperage number with the wattage number on the power supply label. That gives you the peak draw that the power supply is capable of, and probably not even close to average consumption.
I have a 600 watt power supply in my PC, but even when I'm gaming it drinks in only 250 or so watts of power. The only time it gets even close to the 600 watt mark is for a fraction of a second after power up. I'll bet the PS3 only comes close to 380 watts for about the same amount of time right after powerup.
Care to provide any background evidence to suggest that as a possibility? Or are you just trolling for the free karma that gets handed out around here when somebody says something negative about BluRay?
Unlimited with the caveat that if they noticed you streaming continuously without doing it from their pay-per-play vCast network they would terminate your contract in a second.
Let's forget for a moment that OpenGL is just graphics, while directx handles audio, user input, etc...
The trend may be reversing itself shortly. DirectX 10 will be Vista only. The majority of PC gamers, however, will not have Vista for years. That means most game developers will continue to write for DirectX 9, or write games that support both 9 & 10 in the case where they want their game to run on Xbox. If DirectX 9 support from Microsoft is discontinued, the majority of game developers will find another API to use rather than abandon the XP platform (and as a result, the majority of their customers).
What's the matter, when you're going to call somebody a name you have to switch to anonymous mode? All that link does is confirm some of what I said, and add the American Heritage dictionary to your list. Don't be such a wuss.
The sole application of this device is to prevent duplication of digital media recorded by set-top boxes and digital media players. Any other application you can dream up would work equally well with software based encryption.
This drive is designed for easy implementation of DRM.
If you used it for the personal purposes you suggest, you would simply be forced to reveal the password by court order.
Regardless, simple passwords are easily brute-forced, so this is really just a check box to help them differentiate themselves in the cut-throat business of commodity drives.
The problem with that argument (and please don't think that I'm implying that this reflects on your abilities in any way) is that many companies don't see those as qualities of one of the 'best' employees. Even if you wanted this job, and even if you were the best engineer in the world, I bet they wouldn't hire you.
I know what you mean. I graduated in 2000, and I have a lot of friends who graduated in 2001. Talent wise, the only difference between them and myself is that the stock market crashed before they graduated, but because I got in the door my phone is always ringing with opportunities, yet I can't get them to give some of these other guys the time of day. It seems even more moronic when the company I work for is having a hard time finding 'experienced' talent because there is 'nobody available' but they won't bring these people in even on an employee recommendation. I want to succeed, I want the company I work for to succeed, and I want my friends to succeed, and it kills me that I can't convince anybody that has an MBA to see the intersection of those goals.
The worst part about this trend is that, invariably, once you are in that job you were a perfect match for, your tasks change, and you make yourself un-qualified for the job you were originally hired for.
The best engineers are going to fall into one of a few categories. Either they are going to want to do something cutting edge, they're going to want a lot of money, or they are going to want public recognition. If the job is sourceforge, it seems to me that only one of those three is a viable option. There are lots of jobs out there right now and lots of new technology. Everybody can't have the best of the best. It's just not possible.
I would recommend trying for some new talent. Get somebody fresh out of school... Take in some co-ops and pick the best to stay on full time. If you have a tired technology, you're more likely to get the best engineers at the beginning of their career than later on. This is especially true in the current market where companies have this crazy idea that they should hire somebody who's past experience is an exact match to their current task. The young talent is getting left behind...
There is no reason for that to be true. Locking out old drivers doesn't provide security, nor would allowing them have to lessen security. The only reason Microsoft is requiring signed drivers is for DRM.
Witness the Zune. I am prepared to predict that the Zune doesn't really steal the market from the iPod, much in the same way the xBox didn't from the Playstation. But the Zune will be profitable. That is my prediction.
Do you expect that argument to have any credibility in the context you put it in? DO you realize how vastly unprofitable the Xbox was? And that's what you're holding up to say that the Zune has a chance in hell?
Have a look at this graph. It shows console sales over time where t0 is the release date for each console. Now go rethink your argument.
Unless you enjoy it when people conclude you're a raving lunatic more interested in protecting his own emotional interests than evaluating the study objectively.
I don't know about enjoying it, but in my experience most people are more interested in protecting their emotional interests than evaluating anything objectively. This is doubly true on Slashdot (check the games and politics sections for evidence). It is hard not to conclude that this is the case with this poster, since he was quick to refer the peer reviewers as "on drugs" even after admitting to not having read more than the abstract. If you have some reason that he would view the path from A to B as "pretty obvious," well, all I can say is that you are considerably less cynical than I.
$4-$6, quality albums instead of filler that was written in their pop-music factory and performed by the artist with the best fashion sense, and a complete absence of DRM. As an added bonus, they could stop using my money to get laws passed that hurt consumers.
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Because my initial post was a hunch based on real life engineering experience. I hadn't gone to find actual evidence because I was just calling the guy for pulling a load of crap out of his ass.
It's worth pointing out that the drive you linked to uses more power on DVD activities than on BD-ROM activities... BluRay drives actually use less power than DVD.
Sure.
A BluRay Rewritable drive uses at most 30 watts. That's peak, and probably only used for a few seconds when spinning a CD-ROM up to 52x.
Except even that's not right, because Sony is reserving another core (or two? I can't remember) for use by their libraries, etc.
That just means that when the game gets backgrounded (like when you push the system button on the PSP) the game will have to give up two cores while the menu is active. Unfortunatly, people like you keep mis-reporting this functionality after hearing about it third hand.
Here's the link to the original source before it went through a 4-blog telephone game:
http://www.jp.playstation.com/support/qa-591.html
If you dig down through the four layers of links to the original source, you will see that they came up with the 380 watt number by multiplying the amperage number with the wattage number on the power supply label. That gives you the peak draw that the power supply is capable of, and probably not even close to average consumption.
I have a 600 watt power supply in my PC, but even when I'm gaming it drinks in only 250 or so watts of power. The only time it gets even close to the 600 watt mark is for a fraction of a second after power up. I'll bet the PS3 only comes close to 380 watts for about the same amount of time right after powerup.
Care to provide any background evidence to suggest that as a possibility? Or are you just trolling for the free karma that gets handed out around here when somebody says something negative about BluRay?
Unlimited with the caveat that if they noticed you streaming continuously without doing it from their pay-per-play vCast network they would terminate your contract in a second.
Let's forget for a moment that OpenGL is just graphics, while directx handles audio, user input, etc...
The trend may be reversing itself shortly. DirectX 10 will be Vista only. The majority of PC gamers, however, will not have Vista for years. That means most game developers will continue to write for DirectX 9, or write games that support both 9 & 10 in the case where they want their game to run on Xbox. If DirectX 9 support from Microsoft is discontinued, the majority of game developers will find another API to use rather than abandon the XP platform (and as a result, the majority of their customers).
Well then, by your logic, I agree. I think that "stupider" is a distinctively cromulent word.
What's the matter, when you're going to call somebody a name you have to switch to anonymous mode? All that link does is confirm some of what I said, and add the American Heritage dictionary to your list. Don't be such a wuss.
I don't have an Oxford American Dictionary, but my OED, Webster, WordNet, and Random House all disagree with that.
Jesus, could they be any stupider?
Enough said.
The sole application of this device is to prevent duplication of digital media recorded by set-top boxes and digital media players. Any other application you can dream up would work equally well with software based encryption.
This drive is designed for easy implementation of DRM.
If you used it for the personal purposes you suggest, you would simply be forced to reveal the password by court order.
Regardless, simple passwords are easily brute-forced, so this is really just a check box to help them differentiate themselves in the cut-throat business of commodity drives.
The problem with that argument (and please don't think that I'm implying that this reflects on your abilities in any way) is that many companies don't see those as qualities of one of the 'best' employees. Even if you wanted this job, and even if you were the best engineer in the world, I bet they wouldn't hire you.
I know what you mean. I graduated in 2000, and I have a lot of friends who graduated in 2001. Talent wise, the only difference between them and myself is that the stock market crashed before they graduated, but because I got in the door my phone is always ringing with opportunities, yet I can't get them to give some of these other guys the time of day. It seems even more moronic when the company I work for is having a hard time finding 'experienced' talent because there is 'nobody available' but they won't bring these people in even on an employee recommendation. I want to succeed, I want the company I work for to succeed, and I want my friends to succeed, and it kills me that I can't convince anybody that has an MBA to see the intersection of those goals.
The worst part about this trend is that, invariably, once you are in that job you were a perfect match for, your tasks change, and you make yourself un-qualified for the job you were originally hired for.
The best engineers are going to fall into one of a few categories. Either they are going to want to do something cutting edge, they're going to want a lot of money, or they are going to want public recognition. If the job is sourceforge, it seems to me that only one of those three is a viable option. There are lots of jobs out there right now and lots of new technology. Everybody can't have the best of the best. It's just not possible.
I would recommend trying for some new talent. Get somebody fresh out of school... Take in some co-ops and pick the best to stay on full time. If you have a tired technology, you're more likely to get the best engineers at the beginning of their career than later on. This is especially true in the current market where companies have this crazy idea that they should hire somebody who's past experience is an exact match to their current task. The young talent is getting left behind...
That's not exactly true. In the US (generally... Pricing is per-carrier) both people pay.
There is no reason for that to be true. Locking out old drivers doesn't provide security, nor would allowing them have to lessen security. The only reason Microsoft is requiring signed drivers is for DRM.
I think the higher ppi will simply increase the chances that the user will become blind as a result.
That's an enormous load of crap. Turning up the resolution doesn't mean you can't keep everything on the screen exactly the same size.
Witness the Zune. I am prepared to predict that the Zune doesn't really steal the market from the iPod, much in the same way the xBox didn't from the Playstation. But the Zune will be profitable. That is my prediction.
Do you expect that argument to have any credibility in the context you put it in? DO you realize how vastly unprofitable the Xbox was? And that's what you're holding up to say that the Zune has a chance in hell?
Have a look at this graph. It shows console sales over time where t0 is the release date for each console. Now go rethink your argument.
Unless you enjoy it when people conclude you're a raving lunatic more interested in protecting his own emotional interests than evaluating the study objectively.
I don't know about enjoying it, but in my experience most people are more interested in protecting their emotional interests than evaluating anything objectively. This is doubly true on Slashdot (check the games and politics sections for evidence). It is hard not to conclude that this is the case with this poster, since he was quick to refer the peer reviewers as "on drugs" even after admitting to not having read more than the abstract. If you have some reason that he would view the path from A to B as "pretty obvious," well, all I can say is that you are considerably less cynical than I.
$4-$6, quality albums instead of filler that was written in their pop-music factory and performed by the artist with the best fashion sense, and a complete absence of DRM. As an added bonus, they could stop using my money to get laws passed that hurt consumers.
The idea of getting a lot of crappy gas generators from Lowes to run in phase gives me a $1million headache.