That has to be one of the most balanced pieces I've read so far. Thanks for succinctly stating what I've been thinking. I think the new controller brings us closer to a much more natural interface paradigm than ever before. Think about that first Christmas again. How did you look? Were you one of the total spazzes who would instinctively move the controller with your button presses, subconsciously thinking it might affect the action on-screen? Well, it finally will, and all those spastic, first-timers will have a fighting chance of kicking some butt on this console. Here's to a brave new world!
When I was in college, I helped my housemate build a PC. AMD 486dx4-100. Thought I'd save him a few bucks by getting the CPU separate and installing it myself. I put it all together, and plugged it in. No joy. "Hmmm, maybe I put the CPU in wrong?". I pulled the CPU from the ZIF socket, scratched my head, and rotated it 90 degrees. Plugged it in. The stench of burning IC and the whit glow of the traces indicated that this was officially the wrong thing to have done. Oy! Luckily, the vendor took the board and chip back and sent us a new one. D'oh!
Actually, none of the founders are named Park. I thought this at first as well, but the name is actually taken from the places called "Game Parks" which are basically arcades. Cool company to work with, too;-)
Well, 802.11x and "High-speed wireless" are different technologies with different goals. 802.11x targets users that aren't necessarily moving around that much, and is not that secure (image is of laptop at home, it's nice outside, so you wander out on the porch or backyard)
With "High-speed wireless" the idea is to use the existing cellular network and provide data access.
Oh, and the 144kbps? Don't count on it! They should say 144kbps aggregate bandwidth for the cell shared among all users on that cell. It's a typical marketing scam. Saw this at a trade show, and when I asked more detailed questions, the whole sales pitch fell apart.
Download Windows Media encoder. It puts the DVCam codec on your system and allows you to stream from a DV source through to WMP. I haven't tried Netmeeting after installing this, so I can't say if it solves that problem.
I got the Ensemble 4 Home theatre package for around $350 (a few years back), and it's on sale for $150 now, but for small spaces, this is a great bang for the buck. The sound quality is great, and the cubes (5 of 'em) fit just about anywhere.
>>Your average drive is probably no faster than 15MB/sec at best. This is true of both IDE and SCSI drive
Dude, first of all, I don't know many drives that are _really_ capable of sustaining 15MB/sec long enough to really call it a 15MB/sec drive. A Micropolis Stinger Ultra Wide SCSI @ 5400 RPM's gets around 7.8MB/sec on large files(adaptec SCSI bench). 33MB/sec on UDMA is the burst rate. How often is this achieved? Not often. My old Seagate 1220a EIDE drive (rated at 13.3 MB/sec burst) rarely got more than 900KB/sec under normal conditions.
>>80MB/sec. Who needs that much bandwidth when the drives are only capable of 15MB/sec?
Because with SCSI, the bus can handle _simultaneous_ I/O to and from the devices. This adds up when you have 2 hard drives, a cd-RW. cdrom and zip all on the same bus.
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Seriously, I mean, why does a video card need an IP address anyway? Because, oh, nevermind.
That has to be one of the most balanced pieces I've read so far. Thanks for succinctly stating what I've been thinking. I think the new controller brings us closer to a much more natural interface paradigm than ever before. Think about that first Christmas again. How did you look? Were you one of the total spazzes who would instinctively move the controller with your button presses, subconsciously thinking it might affect the action on-screen? Well, it finally will, and all those spastic, first-timers will have a fighting chance of kicking some butt on this console. Here's to a brave new world!
When I was in college, I helped my housemate build a PC. AMD 486dx4-100. Thought I'd save him a few bucks by getting the CPU separate and installing it myself. I put it all together, and plugged it in. No joy. "Hmmm, maybe I put the CPU in wrong?". I pulled the CPU from the ZIF socket, scratched my head, and rotated it 90 degrees. Plugged it in. The stench of burning IC and the whit glow of the traces indicated that this was officially the wrong thing to have done. Oy! Luckily, the vendor took the board and chip back and sent us a new one. D'oh!
Elite fighting force...
can't hit the broad side of a barn.
therac-25. sweeeet.
um, don't games like Quake require ping times 500ms? if so, CDMA is out for now. Come back in a few years. :(
Actually, none of the founders are named Park. I thought this at first as well, but the name is actually taken from the places called "Game Parks" which are basically arcades. Cool company to work with, too ;-)
Well, 802.11x and "High-speed wireless" are different technologies with different goals. 802.11x targets users that aren't necessarily moving around that much, and is not that secure (image is of laptop at home, it's nice outside, so you wander out on the porch or backyard)
With "High-speed wireless" the idea is to use the existing cellular network and provide data access.
Oh, and the 144kbps? Don't count on it! They should say 144kbps aggregate bandwidth for the cell shared among all users on that cell. It's a typical marketing scam. Saw this at a trade show, and when I asked more detailed questions, the whole sales pitch fell apart.
Download Windows Media encoder. It puts the DVCam codec on your system and allows you to stream from a DV source through to WMP. I haven't tried Netmeeting after installing this, so I can't say if it solves that problem.
I got the Ensemble 4 Home theatre package for around $350 (a few years back), and it's on sale for $150 now, but for small spaces, this is a great bang for the buck. The sound quality is great, and the cubes (5 of 'em) fit just about anywhere.
>>Your average drive is probably no faster than 15MB/sec at best. This is true of both IDE and SCSI drive
Dude, first of all, I don't know many drives that are _really_ capable of sustaining 15MB/sec long enough to really call it a 15MB/sec drive. A Micropolis Stinger Ultra Wide SCSI @ 5400 RPM's gets around 7.8MB/sec on large files(adaptec SCSI bench). 33MB/sec on UDMA is the burst rate. How often is this achieved? Not often. My old Seagate 1220a EIDE drive (rated at 13.3 MB/sec burst) rarely got more than 900KB/sec under normal conditions.
>>80MB/sec. Who needs that much bandwidth when the drives are only capable of 15MB/sec?
Because with SCSI, the bus can handle _simultaneous_ I/O to and from the devices. This adds up when you have 2 hard drives, a cd-RW. cdrom and zip all on the same bus.