I don't understand what the problem is. If they really really need IE6 why can't they use something like IETester to run the IE6's rendering engine on a Windows 7 machine. I run that on my Windows 7 machine to test my websites for that browser and it works just fine.
Is there any chance that fans could download the development tools and contribute their own content to the game? That would be cool. I was able to download a few tools from their site. I'm going to start to look into this.
Passing the acid2 test would ensure that Firefox is compliant with all of today's meaningful web standards. Why doesn't the development team buckle down and say this is priority for future versions of Firefox?
The article writes, "The new Cell didn't deliver the 1,000X gain that Sony wanted--but it did deliver 50X." At least 50x is better than the improvement of the PS2 over the PS1.
1. Run CCleaner. Both to find useless files AND to weed out unneeded registry entries.
2. Run Microsoft's Antispyware program.
Additionally you can run MS's antispyware program to look for unwanted apps that start at runtime.
As others have mentioned shutting down extra services you don't need may be a good idea. But in my experience those services don't effect a computer nearly as much as runaway Hard drive consumption by IE and unchecked spyware.
Anyone else remember that late 90's flick with Fred Savage about his videogame master of a brother. At the end of the movie there is a "speedrunning" contest between like 4 others playing Super Mario Bros. 3.
I think the movie is a great overlooked example because the kid brother was able to win due to the secret shortcuts he found.
Well I haven't done extensive research into this matter myself. But where i live in Chaska, MN. We've had wireless internet across the town for nearly a year now. Monthly costs to citizens who have elected to use the service is $15/month for a variable 256kb/s connection.
If this was such a money loser, I don't see how the service could last as long as it has.
For us, originally, town-wide wireless was a necessity. Internet access is now a major factor in people's decision on where to live. And when the larger internet companies would not lay high broadband cables out to us, we took it upon our selves to fix the problem.
The solution is a local-government run Internet provider. And although I had early issues with stability, I have been more than happy with the quality of service over this year.
How well would MythTV work though. Doesn't the recorder of HDTV require an INPUT of a HD signal. Looking at the specs of the PS3, all I see are outputs.
Personally, I hope the model that was displayed at E3 is the "Server" edition of the PS3. I remember reading a rumor awhile back that Sony planned on releasing two versions of the PS3, "client" and "Server".
The Client was supposed to be the bare bones game console. And the Server was supposed to be this uber media hub. I cringe at the thought of paying $500 for a gaming system. And I don't think Sony has done a good enough job to convice people that their next system can be more than just a gaming and movie watching system.
I hope Sony does a better job at describing the non-gaming functions of their system.
In the Xbox360 fact sheets that have been circulating the internet, the claim is made that this next Xbox will have a maximum theoretical processing power of 1 TFLOP. That statistic might sound familar since it's the marke that Sony executives claimed they were trying to reach with the PS3. Is the Xbox360 as powerful as Sony's envisioned PS3? We'll know by tomorrow.
This is an interesting question. How much do I spend on games a year. I bet the majority of my money is spent on renting games rather than buying them.
Some games aren't worth keeping after you beat them. Some games look good but don't have enough variety to keep you interested. There are a ton of games out there I'd rather not own.
Renting games is a good way to keep the costs down. Now if only Gamefly would build another distribution center near me, I'd be all set.
I'd like to agree with your post, but the nitpicker in me won't let me.
I don't think Sony is playing a waiting game at all. For the most part, their strategy has been set since they started planning the Cell processor in 2000 - 2001. Sony's competetors have known for some time when they could expect the next Sony console to be out and have planned to compete. Sony has little to no options left on the table if they should discover their design cannot technically dominate the next round in the console wars.
MS wants to be first of the next gen consoles. They have seen how much success Sony has had over Nintendo which is partly due to being first. It may very well be a winning strategy, as long as they get buy-in from the majority of gamers.
Lastly, I somewhat disagree that this tactic of coming out early is beneficial to gamers. Yes, its great for the improvement of games, as they will have more resources and fewer limitations. But for gamers, they will have to invest in and choose which console has the best potential for greatness. Which is fine if you have the dough and the time to continue being a gamer. If you don't if could finally be the time to stop gaming.
SATA I currently has a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 150MBytes/s. SATA II, which is hitting the market, has a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 300 MBytes/s. And SATA III, which is about 3 years away, will have a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 600 MBytes/s.
So 1.5 GBytes/s it is not. You may have confused bits with bytes.
To sum up, IBM has sort of reapplied the RISC approach of throwing control logic overboard in exchange for a wider execution core and a larger storage area that's situated closer to the execution core. The difference is that instead of the compiler taking up the slack (as in RISC), a combination of the compiler, the programmer, some very smart scheduling software, and a general-purpose CPU do the kind of scheduling and resource allocation work that the control logic used to do.
With IBM and Sony gathering on Feb 9th to spread out the hype technical details about the PS3 and E3 in mid-May It won't be too long before we have an accurate picture of how the next year will be shaping up.
Sony has a lot of karma to make up for their consistant overstating the real-world capabilities of thier consoles, but they aren't the only one with something to proove.
Will MS's offering be strong enough to win dominiance over the adult gaming market? Will Nintendo's Revelotion expand the gaming market to non-gamers?
Ah, that's good. So at least the iMac Mini can use a High - end TV as a monitor. I still would have liked to see some kind of TV in, so that you could manipulate it to be a tv (or HDTV) recorder.
I can't get past the feeling that the current design doesn't meet its potential. It seems like they made some sacrifices to keep the price down. I suppose though that if there is a demand for more technology its possible that Apple will get there.
When I look at the iMac Mini and read about it's size as specifications I can't help but feel frustrated that they did not include s-video out/in. The Mini would be able to target the emerging set-top box market as it would be compatiable with most TVs.
Being able to copy content to the box (pictures, movies, applications) and run them from on a nice TV is fun. Even better if you realize that FreeBSD can give you pretty good TiVO like software with a few downloads.
I have had all kinds of issues with my Playstation 2. Most of them caused by moving and or dropping the console on the floor. I've been able to fix them all thanks to the information one can find on the internet.
The last time I messed up my PS2 was when my cat ran into it and it fell about a foot and a half to the floor. When I picked it up the disk drive was stuck in a semi-in, semi-out position. I took the whole think apart, which required me to seperate the disk drive from the motherboard. When I put everything back together again it worked better that it had in a year.
So even though I agree that early adopters accept a certain amount of fishiness when it comes to consoles, it can also be a useful learning experience for those who like to deal with hardware issues.
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I don't understand what the problem is. If they really really need IE6 why can't they use something like IETester to run the IE6's rendering engine on a Windows 7 machine. I run that on my Windows 7 machine to test my websites for that browser and it works just fine.
Is there any chance that fans could download the development tools and contribute their own content to the game? That would be cool. I was able to download a few tools from their site. I'm going to start to look into this.
Passing the acid2 test would ensure that Firefox is compliant with all of today's meaningful web standards. Why doesn't the development team buckle down and say this is priority for future versions of Firefox?
Fair point. Even though the page's context does not come up the picture's direct reference does.r .cn/demo/1742/o_Tiananmen.jpg
http://gallery.web.mblogger.cn/images/web.mblogge
Just to doublecheck you point I clicked next a few times and found this:1 0&hl=zh-CN&lr=&cr=countryCN&start=80&sa=N
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen&svnum=
Checkout the sixth picture.
The article writes, "The new Cell didn't deliver the 1,000X gain that Sony wanted--but it did deliver 50X." At least 50x is better than the improvement of the PS2 over the PS1.
Thanks I was waiting for someone to get that out of the way.
At work these two steps usually do the trick.
1. Run CCleaner. Both to find useless files AND to weed out unneeded registry entries.
2. Run Microsoft's Antispyware program.
Additionally you can run MS's antispyware program to look for unwanted apps that start at runtime.
As others have mentioned shutting down extra services you don't need may be a good idea. But in my experience those services don't effect a computer nearly as much as runaway Hard drive consumption by IE and unchecked spyware.
Anyone else remember that late 90's flick with Fred Savage about his videogame master of a brother. At the end of the movie there is a "speedrunning" contest between like 4 others playing Super Mario Bros. 3.
I think the movie is a great overlooked example because the kid brother was able to win due to the secret shortcuts he found.
Well I haven't done extensive research into this matter myself. But where i live in Chaska, MN. We've had wireless internet across the town for nearly a year now. Monthly costs to citizens who have elected to use the service is $15/month for a variable 256kb/s connection.
If this was such a money loser, I don't see how the service could last as long as it has.
For us, originally, town-wide wireless was a necessity. Internet access is now a major factor in people's decision on where to live. And when the larger internet companies would not lay high broadband cables out to us, we took it upon our selves to fix the problem.
The solution is a local-government run Internet provider. And although I had early issues with stability, I have been more than happy with the quality of service over this year.
How well would MythTV work though. Doesn't the recorder of HDTV require an INPUT of a HD signal. Looking at the specs of the PS3, all I see are outputs.
Personally, I hope the model that was displayed at E3 is the "Server" edition of the PS3. I remember reading a rumor awhile back that Sony planned on releasing two versions of the PS3, "client" and "Server".
The Client was supposed to be the bare bones game console. And the Server was supposed to be this uber media hub. I cringe at the thought of paying $500 for a gaming system. And I don't think Sony has done a good enough job to convice people that their next system can be more than just a gaming and movie watching system.
I hope Sony does a better job at describing the non-gaming functions of their system.
So perhaps this implementation will lead to lag?
In the Xbox360 fact sheets that have been circulating the internet, the claim is made that this next Xbox will have a maximum theoretical processing power of 1 TFLOP. That statistic might sound familar since it's the marke that Sony executives claimed they were trying to reach with the PS3. Is the Xbox360 as powerful as Sony's envisioned PS3? We'll know by tomorrow.
This is an interesting question. How much do I spend on games a year. I bet the majority of my money is spent on renting games rather than buying them.
Some games aren't worth keeping after you beat them. Some games look good but don't have enough variety to keep you interested. There are a ton of games out there I'd rather not own.
Renting games is a good way to keep the costs down. Now if only Gamefly would build another distribution center near me, I'd be all set.
that's exactly what I was thinking too. I wonder if the interviewing process for those jobs were simular too.
Their site said that the trailer was on theforce.net so I hunted down the link. Here it is:
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http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/comingsoon/rev
I'd like to agree with your post, but the nitpicker in me won't let me.
I don't think Sony is playing a waiting game at all. For the most part, their strategy has been set since they started planning the Cell processor in 2000 - 2001. Sony's competetors have known for some time when they could expect the next Sony console to be out and have planned to compete. Sony has little to no options left on the table if they should discover their design cannot technically dominate the next round in the console wars.
MS wants to be first of the next gen consoles. They have seen how much success Sony has had over Nintendo which is partly due to being first. It may very well be a winning strategy, as long as they get buy-in from the majority of gamers.
Lastly, I somewhat disagree that this tactic of coming out early is beneficial to gamers. Yes, its great for the improvement of games, as they will have more resources and fewer limitations. But for gamers, they will have to invest in and choose which console has the best potential for greatness. Which is fine if you have the dough and the time to continue being a gamer. If you don't if could finally be the time to stop gaming.
SATA I currently has a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 150MBytes/s. SATA II, which is hitting the market, has a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 300 MBytes/s. And SATA III, which is about 3 years away, will have a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 600 MBytes/s.
So 1.5 GBytes/s it is not. You may have confused bits with bytes.
For more information look here.
sorry if someone else has posted this already.
With IBM and Sony gathering on Feb 9th to spread out the hype technical details about the PS3 and E3 in mid-May It won't be too long before we have an accurate picture of how the next year will be shaping up.
Sony has a lot of karma to make up for their consistant overstating the real-world capabilities of thier consoles, but they aren't the only one with something to proove.
Will MS's offering be strong enough to win dominiance over the adult gaming market? Will Nintendo's Revelotion expand the gaming market to non-gamers?
In two months we'll have a good idea
Ah, that's good. So at least the iMac Mini can use a High - end TV as a monitor. I still would have liked to see some kind of TV in, so that you could manipulate it to be a tv (or HDTV) recorder.
I can't get past the feeling that the current design doesn't meet its potential. It seems like they made some sacrifices to keep the price down. I suppose though that if there is a demand for more technology its possible that Apple will get there.
When I look at the iMac Mini and read about it's size as specifications I can't help but feel frustrated that they did not include s-video out/in. The Mini would be able to target the emerging set-top box market as it would be compatiable with most TVs.
Being able to copy content to the box (pictures, movies, applications) and run them from on a nice TV is fun. Even better if you realize that FreeBSD can give you pretty good TiVO like software with a few downloads.
If only they had an ATI all-in-wonder option.
seeds that sprout into treehouses? Sounds like Stephenson's Seed Technology from The Diamond Age.
I have had all kinds of issues with my Playstation 2. Most of them caused by moving and or dropping the console on the floor. I've been able to fix them all thanks to the information one can find on the internet.
The last time I messed up my PS2 was when my cat ran into it and it fell about a foot and a half to the floor. When I picked it up the disk drive was stuck in a semi-in, semi-out position. I took the whole think apart, which required me to seperate the disk drive from the motherboard. When I put everything back together again it worked better that it had in a year.
So even though I agree that early adopters accept a certain amount of fishiness when it comes to consoles, it can also be a useful learning experience for those who like to deal with hardware issues.