Nokia is as far from a patent troll as you can get. Unfortunately, many just assume that because they sue everyone and their mother they're trolling. They sue everyone and their mother because they invented many crucial parts of the thing everyone and their mother owns.
Besides, since when is Nokia a "good ol hard workin [American] corporation"?
Ok, point taken, but it's not really a generational improvement. We're talking about a different segment (the consumer market for PCIe drives is minimal, even compared to SSDs in general) where cost is not as much of an issue and higher speeds than those achieved by consumer drives are commonplace.
There's also the fact that you can scale speed more or less linearly relative to money spent by adding more channels to the controller - that's what makes it not so impressive.
Of course, if tomorrow somebody announced a consumer SSD with such throughput (assuming no interface limitations), priced around 130% of current Samsung 840 Pro prices, my jaw would drop.
Dolphin plays most games acceptably, with few notable exceptions (that can be traced to a small number of issues that can be solved, but the project is focusing on Android instead). This goes for GameCube and Wii. PCSX2 is similar when it comes to compatibility, but major titles are in a better state (bugs, if any, are cosmetic, like reversed controls for movement in two rooms in FFX - yeah, it's weird, but minimal). The N64 emulation scene is a mess - more emulators than I can count, plus more plugins for everything from graphics to audio. The most accurate video plugin runs on Glide (yes, as in 3dfx) and doesn't emulate the hardware as much as it emulates the GPU microcode for each game it supports (fortunately, there are only a few different versions of the microcode, most based off the standard one, with only a couple of games using truly custom microcode). This makes it impossible to run games not explicitly supported.
Yeah, the hard part isn't the processor, the majority (if not all) consoles have very well documented processors, so as far as accuracy goes, the processor was never really a problem. GPUs and the way everything connects, on the other hand...
19.4 Gb/s. Sure it's fast, but it's not absurdly fast. It's less than four or less times the maximum you get out of high-end consumer drives now, and those are bottlenecked by SATA 6Gb/s.
Database servers runnig 24/7? How many people need to worry about one of those?
Besides, if one SSD can replace 20 hard drives (where speed, not capacity is required), it might still be cheaper to use SSDs even if they have to be retired a bit earlier than HDDs were.
Gee, you're a pedant. Am I going to have to start opening Windows calculator every time I want to point something out? Honestly, it doesn't sound like a joke, more like you're making fun of people who got less than they hoped for when purchasing a product. It doesn't matter if it's a graphics card or a car, false advertising is false advertising (assuming this is all more than a few misbehaving cards, of course).
Say you buy 1kg of *insert favorite nourishment here*. Wouldn't you get pissed if you found out it was actually only 0,8kg? Same principle.
Please don't misunderstand me, everybody says something that sounds stupid occasionally. That doesn't mean the person is stupid and pointing something out is not generally meant as an insult.
It's surely common in any industry, but the performance difference in this case (assuming no weird stuff is going on) is more than what is considered reasonable by the collective.
The problem is probably the lack of a specific lower threshold to which the cards are held (would also help explain the aggressive pricing).
As far as I remember, those were plainly slower than the ones they were to replace, let alone Intel's products, even running at significantly higher clocks. They performed to spec, but the spec wasn't what AMD had originally hoped for.
Oh gosh I hope this doesn't result in some poor sap attempting to drive his car and while thinking they should achieve a pure 40mpg they only hit a measly 20mpg and their lives are runied forever. The consequences will never be the same.
See how stupid you sound? Please redeem yourself by thinking carefully about the situation (potentially mislabeled product) and ideally apologizing for an utterly useless comment.
Fact: The safety of all is more valuable than your freedom to be stupid.
That's why there are laws prohibiting such diverse stupid activities as:
Starting a fire (sure, there are exceptions, but you can't just start a fire in the middle of a street without causing a fuss) Firing weapons in inappropriate locations Driving with worn-out tyres. etc.
What's the common factor? Your disregard for safety puts others at unnecessary, completely preventable risk that has no associated benefits for society.
If you want to drive however you want, do so in a closed track, not a public road. I'll welcome the day non-self-driving cars are banned on most public roads. We'll all be better off for it in many ways.
You're egocentric if you think your freedom is worth more than everyone else's.
Honestly, people like you disgust me. It's your choice to risk yourself, but it's not your choice to risk others. You don't have that right. If you think you do, I hope you get locked up and treated.
If there's a chip in the middle controlling it, it's definitely not USB. It may blatantly copy some USB elements (not that that's a bad thing), but it's not USB.
You seem to be one of *those* people who really need laws designed to protect stupid people.
Trading safety enforced by law for the freedom of choosing not to be safe? Are you fucking serious? Do you also not wear a seatbelt because that would go against your freedom not to wear one?
Guess what, no freedom is absolute. And considering many safety features in cars help prevent accidents involving people who had nothing to do with the accident, other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you're effectively saying "My freedom to be stupid is worth more than the safety of others!".
If you want to risk your life for your "freedom", do so, but don't endanger the rest of us with your imaginary freedom to be unsafe. I just hope nobody else ends up having to pay for your mistakes. It's about time you realize no freedom is absolute. You don't have the freedom to fire a loaded assault rifle in a crowded street, so why should you have the freedom to drive around in a way that endangers others?
There's a difference between bubble wrap and caring for safety. Clearly, safety is not high on your list of priorities. Again, fine, but don't make anyone else pay (literally or figuratively) for your freedom to be unsafe.
tl;dr - You are an idiot whose stupidity I hope to never have to finance.
New console generation just arrived. It'll take at least a year for that leap to happen, or more, depending on the support the 360 and PS3 get from developers from now on.
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"1 Gb/s over copper" is something that's existed for a looong time.
1 Gb/s over a single crap twisted pair copper on the other hand...
Nokia is as far from a patent troll as you can get. Unfortunately, many just assume that because they sue everyone and their mother they're trolling. They sue everyone and their mother because they invented many crucial parts of the thing everyone and their mother owns.
Besides, since when is Nokia a "good ol hard workin [American] corporation"?
Ok, point taken, but it's not really a generational improvement. We're talking about a different segment (the consumer market for PCIe drives is minimal, even compared to SSDs in general) where cost is not as much of an issue and higher speeds than those achieved by consumer drives are commonplace.
There's also the fact that you can scale speed more or less linearly relative to money spent by adding more channels to the controller - that's what makes it not so impressive.
Of course, if tomorrow somebody announced a consumer SSD with such throughput (assuming no interface limitations), priced around 130% of current Samsung 840 Pro prices, my jaw would drop.
Dolphin plays most games acceptably, with few notable exceptions (that can be traced to a small number of issues that can be solved, but the project is focusing on Android instead). This goes for GameCube and Wii.
PCSX2 is similar when it comes to compatibility, but major titles are in a better state (bugs, if any, are cosmetic, like reversed controls for movement in two rooms in FFX - yeah, it's weird, but minimal).
The N64 emulation scene is a mess - more emulators than I can count, plus more plugins for everything from graphics to audio. The most accurate video plugin runs on Glide (yes, as in 3dfx) and doesn't emulate the hardware as much as it emulates the GPU microcode for each game it supports (fortunately, there are only a few different versions of the microcode, most based off the standard one, with only a couple of games using truly custom microcode). This makes it impossible to run games not explicitly supported.
Yeah, the hard part isn't the processor, the majority (if not all) consoles have very well documented processors, so as far as accuracy goes, the processor was never really a problem.
GPUs and the way everything connects, on the other hand...
19.4 Gb/s. Sure it's fast, but it's not absurdly fast. It's less than four or less times the maximum you get out of high-end consumer drives now, and those are bottlenecked by SATA 6Gb/s.
Database servers runnig 24/7? How many people need to worry about one of those?
Besides, if one SSD can replace 20 hard drives (where speed, not capacity is required), it might still be cheaper to use SSDs even if they have to be retired a bit earlier than HDDs were.
Gee, you're a pedant. Am I going to have to start opening Windows calculator every time I want to point something out?
Honestly, it doesn't sound like a joke, more like you're making fun of people who got less than they hoped for when purchasing a product. It doesn't matter if it's a graphics card or a car, false advertising is false advertising (assuming this is all more than a few misbehaving cards, of course).
Say you buy 1kg of *insert favorite nourishment here*. Wouldn't you get pissed if you found out it was actually only 0,8kg? Same principle.
Please don't misunderstand me, everybody says something that sounds stupid occasionally. That doesn't mean the person is stupid and pointing something out is not generally meant as an insult.
I know about that, but selling it and bundling it are two quite different things.
Nope. The 290/290X is a much larger chip - similar architecture, but bigger (and mildly improved).
It's surely common in any industry, but the performance difference in this case (assuming no weird stuff is going on) is more than what is considered reasonable by the collective.
The problem is probably the lack of a specific lower threshold to which the cards are held (would also help explain the aggressive pricing).
As far as I remember, those were plainly slower than the ones they were to replace, let alone Intel's products, even running at significantly higher clocks.
They performed to spec, but the spec wasn't what AMD had originally hoped for.
Oh gosh I hope this doesn't result in some poor sap attempting to drive his car and while thinking they should achieve a pure 40mpg they only hit a measly 20mpg and their lives are runied forever. The consequences will never be the same.
See how stupid you sound? Please redeem yourself by thinking carefully about the situation (potentially mislabeled product) and ideally apologizing for an utterly useless comment.
What kind of power supplies do you use that don't work with 100~250V?
"Gee, I wonder what that power cable running from a power outlet to that car's charging port is doing..."
How about you give him a proper upbringing instead of calling him "my idiot son"?
Fact: The safety of all is more valuable than your freedom to be stupid.
That's why there are laws prohibiting such diverse stupid activities as:
Starting a fire (sure, there are exceptions, but you can't just start a fire in the middle of a street without causing a fuss)
Firing weapons in inappropriate locations
Driving with worn-out tyres.
etc.
What's the common factor? Your disregard for safety puts others at unnecessary, completely preventable risk that has no associated benefits for society.
If you want to drive however you want, do so in a closed track, not a public road. I'll welcome the day non-self-driving cars are banned on most public roads. We'll all be better off for it in many ways.
You're egocentric if you think your freedom is worth more than everyone else's.
Honestly, people like you disgust me. It's your choice to risk yourself, but it's not your choice to risk others. You don't have that right. If you think you do, I hope you get locked up and treated.
Easily solved. This will take at the very least a year to show up and a year to be widely adopted. Plenty of time for our bureaucrats to fix that.
And it turns out it's not quite a mandate, at leats in practice. I'll believe it when iPhones come with microUSB adapters.
What if I want the goat?
If there's a chip in the middle controlling it, it's definitely not USB. It may blatantly copy some USB elements (not that that's a bad thing), but it's not USB.
Turns out it's just a strong suggestion, not a requirement...
Shouldn't take too long for it to become the standard once it arrives, the switch from mini to micro USB on phones was relatively quick.
This Charles guy had a fancy name for the result of such an experiment: Natural Selection.
You seem to be one of *those* people who really need laws designed to protect stupid people.
Trading safety enforced by law for the freedom of choosing not to be safe? Are you fucking serious? Do you also not wear a seatbelt because that would go against your freedom not to wear one?
Guess what, no freedom is absolute. And considering many safety features in cars help prevent accidents involving people who had nothing to do with the accident, other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you're effectively saying "My freedom to be stupid is worth more than the safety of others!".
If you want to risk your life for your "freedom", do so, but don't endanger the rest of us with your imaginary freedom to be unsafe. I just hope nobody else ends up having to pay for your mistakes. It's about time you realize no freedom is absolute. You don't have the freedom to fire a loaded assault rifle in a crowded street, so why should you have the freedom to drive around in a way that endangers others?
There's a difference between bubble wrap and caring for safety. Clearly, safety is not high on your list of priorities. Again, fine, but don't make anyone else pay (literally or figuratively) for your freedom to be unsafe.
tl;dr - You are an idiot whose stupidity I hope to never have to finance.
New console generation just arrived. It'll take at least a year for that leap to happen, or more, depending on the support the 360 and PS3 get from developers from now on.
Let's hope they get their right left foot replaced with a right foot in Windows 8.2.