Okay, we've already got people running around like Chicken Little and screaming "two different consoles!" and "can't upgrade the low end model!"
Before the whining gets completely out of control, can we stop and look at the differences for a moment?
Smaller hard drive - yeah, but at least unlike the 360, the low-end model still has one. Since this is going to be used for downloadable content and caching from the optical disc, I can't see how the extra 40GB is going to make much difference. And after all, isn't the 360 hard drive only 20GB? I wouldn't be surprised if you could (unofficially) upgrade it by simply dropping a bigger laptop SATA drive into the box.
No wiffy - oh no, it's the end of the world, now I'll have to buy a $40 WiFi receiver and plug it into the gigabit ethernet port! Seriously, how is a game even going to know the difference? What kind of game would have a problem with a lack of wireless networking anyhow? Shut up, get a hub and a 50' Ethernet cable if that's what it takes to hook it up to your cable modem in the other room. I don't care, I wired my house for Ethernet, so I already have gigE in the living room.
No memory stick slot - maybe Sony's shooting itself in the foot here (since they love to put their own proprietary interfaces on everything in an attempt to shill their stuff - hell, I have a memory stick slot on my freaking Sony TV set), but I can't see why there couldn't be a $20-$40 adapter that plugs into a USB port. It is USB 2.0, you know, so it's not like it'll take an hour to fill up a memory stick.
No HDMI - and how many gamers even have TVs with an HDMI input? This should only be an issue for people who want to play BluRay movies on an expensive TV set. And if they can afford a $2000-$5000 plasma HD set, maybe they can afford the extra $100 for a premium PS3?
With the exception of the card slot, I wouldn't need any of that stuff, and I don't have any problem with paying $100 less to not get those things. But it's still too expensive for me. I'll be playing Twilight Princess on my new Wii-volution, and still have $150 left over. And that's before you shell out $60 for FF13, which will probably be about 25% pre-rendered cutscenes, 70% mindless leveling up, and 5% boss battles.
Our discovery of this pyramid was orchestrated by the predators to lure us there so that when they revive the alien queen and she starts laying her eggs, there would be hosts for the face-huggers to implant their eggs.
I don't think we need to worry. The latest rumour is that a 1960's era blue British police box has mysteriously been sighted in the area, and also that two British tourists have been seen in the vicinity of said police box.
That being said, I welcome our new insectoid overlords.
So if I hook two of them together with a link cable (or wireless), did I just make Wii-Wii?
I admit that when I heard the name "Dreamcast", I thought it was lame. But this is just plain stupid. Maybe they're trying to one-up Microsoft's Batsu-Box?
I'm waiting for the scene at the end of the movie where the bad guys are about to get away, but the mousey-voiced communications cadet Uhura shows up at the other end of the hall and screams "DROP IT, PUNKS!"
Oh yeah, and the part where Admiral Lassard is giving a speech about double secret probation while being "serviced" from behind the podium.
When I started reading the headline and blurb, I thought "oh he probably used PGP or something". Then my jaw dropped when I read that he was using the Caesar cipher, which is so weak that it can't really even be considered encryption any more. I mean, people on the internet regularly use a variant of it (rot13) to hide movie spoilers.
Even HTTP passwords are better hidden, using base64 by default! Dumbass doesn't even begin to describe this.
This was a seeming impossibility, as the only means for preserving video images was kinescope recording, a process in which a special motion picture camera photographed a television monitor. When the recording was finished, the film had to be removed and sent away for developing. Under normal circumstances, this could take hours.
Actually, it wasn't the only way. In the late 1920s, back when cameras were still mechanical-scan, there were people in the UK who had hooked up vinyl disc recorders (search for "phonovision") to their primitive television sets and recorded a few programs. Not only did they record programs, but they actually used them for time-shift viewing!
The video recorder wasn't trivial. The problem was getting enough octaves of bandwidth for the video signal. And the bandwidth was directly related to the head-to-tape speed. Using transverse or helical scan (transverse scan is really just helical scan at a very sharp angle), you can increase the head speed enough for video. Later, color added another problem, and a technique called "color under" was used which shifted the chroma information to another band.
Laserdisc isn't really much different, except that it has enough bandwidth to not need color-under. And no, just because it has pits and non-pits, it is NOT digital, though the audio can be. The distance between the pit edges represents a wideband analog signal, with four sub-bands for audio and one for video.
After all, wouldn't everyone else not be affected since the NTP pool can re-route the traffic to the new server?
What the hell are you babbling about? There's no such thing as an "NTP pool" that can "re-route" anything. The D-Link just has a hardcoded list and keeps trying whichever ones it feels like until it gets a response.
And if he renames his server, he just breaks it for the people who are supposed to be using it. He could try creating an alias for his server and convincing his users to switch over a period of time, but the abuse would still keep coming during that time. And that still doesn't stop the DNS queries. Also note that in the Netgear case, IP numbers were hard-coded, so no "renaming" could be done, and it was nearly impossible to filter the traffic early enough to make a difference.
I had two 1.5Mbps DSL lines back at my parent's house(they work for ATT) and the connections were fine. But I couldn't connect too many computers to one connection and run anything more than one or two torrents without bottlenecking the connection.
With bittorrent, your upstream bandwidth is generally going to be more of a problem than your downstream bandwidth. You need to tell your BT client to cap its upload at no more than 85% of your upstream speed, otherwise the dropped ACKs will kill performance for everything else. You didn't say who your 4Mbit connection was with, but if it's a cable modem, you may either have a decent upstream or your ISP is doing some "bandwidth shaping" to limit your BT uploads to a reasonable rate.
I have 6 meg service from SBC, now AT&T, and I sure can fill up my downstream bandwidth. When I download binaries from usenet, I'm limited entirely by my download speed, both with Giganews, and (after a recent major performance upgrade) newsreader.com. While I'm usually downloading multiple streams, even a single stream can peak at 3-4 Mb/sec.
I'm just waiting to see what I can get after they light up the Project Lightspeed box down the street. I hear they'll be using VDSL2, which gives some really nice bidirectional bandwidth at less than 1000 wire feet. But I still don't want pay TV from them, or anybody else.
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Wake me up when it can run unsigned code.
And besides, without M.U.L.E., all bets are off.
It has a hard drive, network connection, and USB ports...
So does the $200 weekly beige-box special at Fry's, at less than half the price. And guess what, TurboTax doesn't run on the PS3.
Looks like I screwed up my math. I'd have $250 left over. So Wii + game (assuming $200/$50) for half the price of PS3? Even better.
Before the whining gets completely out of control, can we stop and look at the differences for a moment?
Smaller hard drive - yeah, but at least unlike the 360, the low-end model still has one. Since this is going to be used for downloadable content and caching from the optical disc, I can't see how the extra 40GB is going to make much difference. And after all, isn't the 360 hard drive only 20GB? I wouldn't be surprised if you could (unofficially) upgrade it by simply dropping a bigger laptop SATA drive into the box.
No wiffy - oh no, it's the end of the world, now I'll have to buy a $40 WiFi receiver and plug it into the gigabit ethernet port! Seriously, how is a game even going to know the difference? What kind of game would have a problem with a lack of wireless networking anyhow? Shut up, get a hub and a 50' Ethernet cable if that's what it takes to hook it up to your cable modem in the other room. I don't care, I wired my house for Ethernet, so I already have gigE in the living room.
No memory stick slot - maybe Sony's shooting itself in the foot here (since they love to put their own proprietary interfaces on everything in an attempt to shill their stuff - hell, I have a memory stick slot on my freaking Sony TV set), but I can't see why there couldn't be a $20-$40 adapter that plugs into a USB port. It is USB 2.0, you know, so it's not like it'll take an hour to fill up a memory stick.
No HDMI - and how many gamers even have TVs with an HDMI input? This should only be an issue for people who want to play BluRay movies on an expensive TV set. And if they can afford a $2000-$5000 plasma HD set, maybe they can afford the extra $100 for a premium PS3?
With the exception of the card slot, I wouldn't need any of that stuff, and I don't have any problem with paying $100 less to not get those things. But it's still too expensive for me. I'll be playing Twilight Princess on my new Wii-volution, and still have $150 left over. And that's before you shell out $60 for FF13, which will probably be about 25% pre-rendered cutscenes, 70% mindless leveling up, and 5% boss battles.
I deal with it by calling it the "Wii-volution".
I don't think we need to worry. The latest rumour is that a 1960's era blue British police box has mysteriously been sighted in the area, and also that two British tourists have been seen in the vicinity of said police box.
That being said, I welcome our new insectoid overlords.
That was the second thing I thought of when I saw the new name.
I admit that when I heard the name "Dreamcast", I thought it was lame. But this is just plain stupid. Maybe they're trying to one-up Microsoft's Batsu-Box?
And why do you think IOS has a reload command? Because that's what you gotta do when you run out of ammo.
But Romeo and Juilet doesn't require the audience to spend 2/3 or more of their time leveling up by battling random encounters.
Mail to the king, baby!
They also have to watch out for TCP/IP packets that arrive out of ordnance.
Oh yeah, and the part where Admiral Lassard is giving a speech about double secret probation while being "serviced" from behind the podium.
Sure, he was recording video, but he wasn't doing much of playing it back.
Hey, it makes at least as much sense as what Dvorak is blathering about this week!
Even HTTP passwords are better hidden, using base64 by default! Dumbass doesn't even begin to describe this.
Actually, it wasn't the only way. In the late 1920s, back when cameras were still mechanical-scan, there were people in the UK who had hooked up vinyl disc recorders (search for "phonovision") to their primitive television sets and recorded a few programs. Not only did they record programs, but they actually used them for time-shift viewing!
The video recorder wasn't trivial. The problem was getting enough octaves of bandwidth for the video signal. And the bandwidth was directly related to the head-to-tape speed. Using transverse or helical scan (transverse scan is really just helical scan at a very sharp angle), you can increase the head speed enough for video. Later, color added another problem, and a technique called "color under" was used which shifted the chroma information to another band.
Laserdisc isn't really much different, except that it has enough bandwidth to not need color-under. And no, just because it has pits and non-pits, it is NOT digital, though the audio can be. The distance between the pit edges represents a wideband analog signal, with four sub-bands for audio and one for video.
What the hell are you babbling about? There's no such thing as an "NTP pool" that can "re-route" anything. The D-Link just has a hardcoded list and keeps trying whichever ones it feels like until it gets a response.
And if he renames his server, he just breaks it for the people who are supposed to be using it. He could try creating an alias for his server and convincing his users to switch over a period of time, but the abuse would still keep coming during that time. And that still doesn't stop the DNS queries. Also note that in the Netgear case, IP numbers were hard-coded, so no "renaming" could be done, and it was nearly impossible to filter the traffic early enough to make a difference.
Can someone try this with Windows 2000, just for the hell of it?
When I try to boot it on my G4, it just says "illegal instruction". Maybe that's what they're talking about.
They banned him from the Lonely Hearts Club?
With bittorrent, your upstream bandwidth is generally going to be more of a problem than your downstream bandwidth. You need to tell your BT client to cap its upload at no more than 85% of your upstream speed, otherwise the dropped ACKs will kill performance for everything else. You didn't say who your 4Mbit connection was with, but if it's a cable modem, you may either have a decent upstream or your ISP is doing some "bandwidth shaping" to limit your BT uploads to a reasonable rate.
I'm just waiting to see what I can get after they light up the Project Lightspeed box down the street. I hear they'll be using VDSL2, which gives some really nice bidirectional bandwidth at less than 1000 wire feet. But I still don't want pay TV from them, or anybody else.
Sony was behind SACD as well.
And we might as well mention ATRAC here, too... Minidisc had minor success, but ATRAC was a failure everywhere else.