A representative of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the company tasked with fabricating the chips being used in Microsoft's next Xbox console, has told the media that the development of the console is proceeding to plan.
Speaking at a press conference, senior vice president Kenneth Kin said that the firm's manufacturing plans for Xbox 2 chips is "proceeding according to plan," scotching recent murmuring about a possible further delay to Microsoft's schedule for the system.
TSMC has been tapped to develop the core chipsets for the Xbox 2 platform, including ATI's GPU chip, which the graphics company said was nearing the end of its development stage earlier this month.
It's believed that Microsoft is planning to launch the Xbox 2 in late 2005, which would give it a significant headstart over its rivals, as neither Sony nor Nintendo is expected to have a new home console ready until 2006.
Xbox 2 - which is reportedly codenamed Xenon in the development community - will feature multiple IBM Power5 processors, an SIS motherboard chipset and the aforementioned ATI graphics unit. Early development kits for the hardware have already been sent to selected developers, based on Apple PowerMac G5 units running a custom version of the Windows NT kernel.
This has got to be one of the most stupid copy protection mechinsizmes that i've ever heard of.
1. It's trival to remove/install software in windows 2. At least some people don't do cd copying on thier main computers and instead have a pc that is just for backing up stuff.
WinXP supports.zip compression natively; pkware will be dead by the next release of Windows unless they come up will a killer-app for people to spend money on.... it's gonna have to be pretty cool for me to ever spend the the 5 minutes downloading it agian.
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The QuickTime version seems to be corrupted about half way through ... for those of you with dialup
This has got to be one of the strangest things i've ever heard of. lol
I saw a car 'computer' on one of those car make over shows - it's called drivesoft. http://www.drivesoft.net/
The bad:
Very expensive
Runs windows embedded
The good:
Runs windows embedded.
It's pretty standard and modular.
You aren't locked into proprietary hardware (not 100% sure about this)
Their system dosents seem to have any BS proprietary hardware like omni-fi... this is what empeg should have been I think.
Reassurance on next-gen development progress
A representative of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the company tasked with fabricating the chips being used in Microsoft's next Xbox console, has told the media that the development of the console is proceeding to plan.
Speaking at a press conference, senior vice president Kenneth Kin said that the firm's manufacturing plans for Xbox 2 chips is "proceeding according to plan," scotching recent murmuring about a possible further delay to Microsoft's schedule for the system.
TSMC has been tapped to develop the core chipsets for the Xbox 2 platform, including ATI's GPU chip, which the graphics company said was nearing the end of its development stage earlier this month.
It's believed that Microsoft is planning to launch the Xbox 2 in late 2005, which would give it a significant headstart over its rivals, as neither Sony nor Nintendo is expected to have a new home console ready until 2006.
Xbox 2 - which is reportedly codenamed Xenon in the development community - will feature multiple IBM Power5 processors, an SIS motherboard chipset and the aforementioned ATI graphics unit. Early development kits for the hardware have already been sent to selected developers, based on Apple PowerMac G5 units running a custom version of the Windows NT kernel.
This has got to be one of the most stupid copy protection mechinsizmes that i've ever heard of.
1. It's trival to remove/install software in windows
2. At least some people don't do cd copying on thier main computers and instead have a pc that is just for backing up stuff.
since i use versions of WinNT most of the time i've installed NTFS and EFS on my drive ... it works well.
does anyone know if linux supports EFS?
isn't that fiddy cent thats the PIMP? wait maybe fiddy is 'da club'
I just talked to a Qwest operator and she told me that the service will be starting monday.
what kind of a moron buys a belkin router? for that matter what kind of a moron buys a belkin ANYTHING?
i just logged into hotmail uaing firebird 0.6 ... worked fine for me
you can get it at www.bookpool.com for $21.95 + shipping
maybe they should become loggers? see the world though loggers eyes and change things from the inside out.
just a thought. could be wrong.
-sean
will slashdot ever become mainstream?
Longhorn server hasent been scraped, it's been delyed. looks like the same schedule that they followed for XP and .NET
WinXP supports .zip compression natively; pkware will be dead by the next release of Windows unless they come up will a killer-app for people to spend money on.... it's gonna have to be pretty cool for me to ever spend the the 5 minutes downloading it agian.
NT4 golden you idot. PPC and Mips were only supported until sp3ish (maybe 4). alpha was droped after sp6. 64bit alpha will be back (maybe)