Do you even know what this means? Do people here jsut spout specs not knowing anything and expecting that to get the weight of authority to their words?
Easy way to defeat The Party is to have a double live performance of the giver and taker opening (sic) for tubgirl. That vidscrene will probably implode and anyone monitoring it will be blinded for life (self inflicted) or wish they were.
Here is an statement from the article before her little expose: "Sounds like a serial killer taunting the cops to catch him.". That was in relation to Pamela saying SCO has no idea who she is.
You don't mind if I liken you to a child molester or rapist in a newspaper article not accusing you of those acts do you?
It's spelled "Hare Krishna"(there are some accent marks I cant get/. to display) and that translates roughly to "praise the lord" (invoking names of god) it is a part of a common religious verse. It isn't a good name for the religion IMO the proper name is "The International Society for Krishna Consciousness". I know quite a few, but that might be because I was raised in a community of them. I don't remember much fanaticism (there was a big interfaith/acceptance thing back then). The branch of Hinduism they represent is called Vishnavism.
"Jehova's Witnesses?" Less, but I have never met/seen one who was a total asshat. Usually they are decent people to hold a conversation with and are quite polite.
"The PS2 didn't become the best-selling console of the generation because people thought it would eventually play Toy Story 2, whatever that means."
No, it became the best selling console of it's generation because of: 1. it was released before DVD players were cheap so a loto f people bought them to play DVDs and as a bonus could play games. 2. They break often. The drives are so horribly designed (like many other low to mid range Sony electronics) they die on people, stop reading one or another media type, ect.
PC tech falls in price becuse it advances and changes. Don't get me wrong, I'd like you to be right but I am quite skeptical for a number of reasons. For the Xbox you have to pay attention to the fact they are not grabbing the cheapest parts off the market as prices and production change. MS has to pay Intel to make a custom chip design, not something mainstream, so costs won't go down as much (Intel has to keep a production line set up for this design when they would much rather be making something else I'm sure). Same for the Nvidia GPU that was the source of so much news over pricing and contracts (AFAIK MS is still getting reamed onthe deal). The HDD may not the the best price point per GB of storage, but they want to maintain uniformity so they will pay more for that if production costs have platued compared to larger drives. Any custom part that does not gain from tech advances (plastic injection stuff or basic electronics) your only possible place for cost savings is to buy in larger quantity. Moving assembly to a country that uses slave labor or China may be able to beat out the assembly costs compared to the Mexican and Hungarian plants MS is (or was) using.
The way prices change in the PC market has little to no impact on the prices for the components that go into the Xbox.
Lets hope Nintendo keeps up the trend of reporting real world performance specs. At least thats why they appear to have done for the Gamecube. If I remember correctly RSIII actually was able to do more then the rate Nintendo quoted at a lot better quality.
"Talk to any game developer - three cores is more work, but at least they're symmetrical "
I thought the three cores in the 360 processor did "in order execution". From what I am reading supposedly this mean no SMT. Is there any place to get good info about what exactly the implications of the design MS has chones mean?
This was with a pressed comercial disk and my PSX had not yet neded to be on it's side to play properly yet. I think my PSX was a 3rd generation. I bought it new when FF7 came out (yah that was the killer app for me).
I thought the Xbox360 cores did "in-order execution". If this is the truth from what I read about in order execution that means no SMT. Or am I not understanding something?
IF I am reading the specs right, the single Xbox 360 procesor has 3 cores on it and they execute "in order". This mean no SMT for starters.
I found this on the web, best I could for insight into how these cores will work:
"Traditional approaches to processor design have focused on higher clock speeds, instruction-level parallelism (ILP), and caches. Techniques to achieve higher clock speeds involve pipelining the microarchitecture to finer granularities, also called super-pipelining. Higher clock frequencies can greatly improve performance by increasing the number of instructions that can be executed each second. Because there will be far more instructions in-flight in a super-pipelined microarchitecture, handling of events that disrupt the pipeline, e.g., cache misses, interrupts and branch mispredictions, can be costly.
ILP refers to techniques to increase the number of instructions executed each clock cycle. For example, a super-scalar processor has multiple parallel execution units that can process instructions simultaneously. With super-scalar execution, several instructions can be executed each clock cycle. However, with simple in-order execution, it is not enough to simply have multiple execution units. The challenge is to find enough instructions to execute. One technique is out-of-order execution where a large window of instructions is simultaneously evaluated and sent to execution units, based on instruction dependencies rather than program order."
I'm not saying the processor is not a vast improvement in POWER (sic) but some peopel think there is $1500 of processors in there they will be getting for $300 and thats just not the case.
Yah, the pre emptive loading in the PSX Soul Reaver game was so good you could run down a hallway and fall off the map because the next section/room decided it want loaded yet(mainly a problem getting to the first boss fight).
It requires some actual reading and thinking, but if you look, you will see a previous/. article about ethics in journalism involving the editors in question. They posted a document that is considered in the journalist community the guide to ethical behavior as a journal. I cant see how there is any ambiguity to confusion. It's clearly a violation of the documented ethics of journalism.
I think dangerous creatures is much more enjoyable film with the same cast. I think that's because unlike A Fish Called Wanda, Dangerous Creatures had characters who were more three dimensional. Also it helped that the "villain" appeared only at the end, earlier on it was just an ominous entity spoken of.
ayah, Perfect Dark,Golden Eye, Conker's BF, Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Skies of Arcadia, BX XX (crap tho), and others I cant be bothered to look up are so totally pandering to kiddies. No adults could ever enjoy any Nintendo games since the SNES and Nintendo never had a game published that might not be for the tykes.
Maybe if you tried some of the games offered on those platforms, you might learn how wrong you are. I note you did not list the GBA there, does this mean you have one of those, because frankly it has a much more kid friendly/orientated product line.
Looking at the RFC for IPV6 I see no indication that MS created it.
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It means that the single processor chip has three processing cores. This is akin to current POWER PC chips like in the P Series hardwareline that each physical processor has two cores. The system reports that it has 2 processors from a physical hardware standpoint, but when running any software that counts the number of processors they see twice as many. For example a two processor machine shows up as having four cpus when running topas or nmon.
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"It does 51 billion dot products per second"
Do you even know what this means? Do people here jsut spout specs not knowing anything and expecting that to get the weight of authority to their words?
Easy way to defeat The Party is to have a double live performance of the giver and taker opening (sic) for tubgirl. That vidscrene will probably implode and anyone monitoring it will be blinded for life (self inflicted) or wish they were.
O'Gara is more then "controversial".
Here is an statement from the article before her little expose: "Sounds like a serial killer taunting the cops to catch him.". That was in relation to Pamela saying SCO has no idea who she is.
You don't mind if I liken you to a child molester or rapist in a newspaper article not accusing you of those acts do you?
"How many Hari Krishners do you know?"
/. to display) and that translates roughly to "praise the lord" (invoking names of god) it is a part of a common religious verse. It isn't a good name for the religion IMO the proper name is "The International Society for Krishna Consciousness". I know quite a few, but that might be because I was raised in a community of them. I don't remember much fanaticism (there was a big interfaith/acceptance thing back then). The branch of Hinduism they represent is called Vishnavism.
It's spelled "Hare Krishna"(there are some accent marks I cant get
"Jehova's Witnesses?"
Less, but I have never met/seen one who was a total asshat. Usually they are decent people to hold a conversation with and are quite polite.
The PS3 still needs an I/O processor, why not use the same one.
1.8 of that is the GPU
Only company you can trust specs and performance data from is Nintendo.
Sounds like they just played a clip of FF:Advent Childern, a pre-rendered CGI cartoon.
"The PS2 didn't become the best-selling console of the generation because people thought it would eventually play Toy Story 2, whatever that means."
No, it became the best selling console of it's generation because of:
1. it was released before DVD players were cheap so a loto f people bought them to play DVDs and as a bonus could play games.
2. They break often. The drives are so horribly designed (like many other low to mid range Sony electronics) they die on people, stop reading one or another media type, ect.
Sorry about that. I emant to have it better formatted (it looked that way to me).
PC tech falls in price becuse it advances and changes. Don't get me wrong, I'd like you to be right but I am quite skeptical for a number of reasons.
For the Xbox you have to pay attention to the fact they are not grabbing the cheapest parts off the market as prices and production change. MS has to pay Intel to make a custom chip design, not something mainstream, so costs won't go down as much (Intel has to keep a production line set up for this design when they would much rather be making something else I'm sure). Same for the Nvidia GPU that was the source of so much news over pricing and contracts (AFAIK MS is still getting reamed onthe deal). The HDD may not the the best price point per GB of storage, but they want to maintain uniformity so they will pay more for that if production costs have platued compared to larger drives. Any custom part that does not gain from tech advances (plastic injection stuff or basic electronics) your only possible place for cost savings is to buy in larger quantity. Moving assembly to a country that uses slave labor or China may be able to beat out the assembly costs compared to the Mexican and Hungarian plants MS is (or was) using.
The way prices change in the PC market has little to no impact on the prices for the components that go into the Xbox.
Most likely (as another poster stated) TRON a real time OS popular in Japan, used in many other Toyota cars.
I was asked "Can it go up hills?" The person was serious. Other have asked me if I have to plug it in at night.
Lets hope Nintendo keeps up the trend of reporting real world performance specs. At least thats why they appear to have done for the Gamecube. If I remember correctly RSIII actually was able to do more then the rate Nintendo quoted at a lot better quality.
I was under the impression the 8 VPUs were the "cell" part of the processor.
"It will also support CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R formats."
What no DVD-RAM?
"Talk to any game developer - three cores is more work, but at least they're symmetrical "
I thought the three cores in the 360 processor did "in order execution". From what I am reading supposedly this mean no SMT.
Is there any place to get good info about what exactly the implications of the design MS has chones mean?
This was with a pressed comercial disk and my PSX had not yet neded to be on it's side to play properly yet. I think my PSX was a 3rd generation. I bought it new when FF7 came out (yah that was the killer app for me).
I thought the Xbox360 cores did "in-order execution". If this is the truth from what I read about in order execution that means no SMT. Or am I not understanding something?
IF I am reading the specs right, the single Xbox 360 procesor has 3 cores on it and they execute "in order". This mean no SMT for starters.
I found this on the web, best I could for insight into how these cores will work:
"Traditional approaches to processor design have focused on higher clock speeds, instruction-level parallelism (ILP), and caches. Techniques to achieve higher clock speeds involve pipelining the microarchitecture to finer granularities, also called super-pipelining. Higher clock frequencies can greatly improve performance by increasing the number of instructions that can be executed each second. Because there will be far more instructions in-flight in a super-pipelined microarchitecture, handling of events that disrupt the pipeline, e.g., cache misses, interrupts and branch mispredictions, can be costly.
ILP refers to techniques to increase the number of instructions executed each clock cycle. For example, a super-scalar processor has multiple parallel execution units that can process instructions simultaneously. With super-scalar execution, several instructions can be executed each clock cycle. However, with simple in-order execution, it is not enough to simply have multiple execution units. The challenge is to find enough instructions to execute. One technique is out-of-order execution where a large window of instructions is simultaneously evaluated and sent to execution units, based on instruction dependencies rather than program order."
I'm not saying the processor is not a vast improvement in POWER (sic) but some peopel think there is $1500 of processors in there they will be getting for $300 and thats just not the case.
Yah, the pre emptive loading in the PSX Soul Reaver game was so good you could run down a hallway and fall off the map because the next section/room decided it want loaded yet(mainly a problem getting to the first boss fight).
It requires some actual reading and thinking, but if you look, you will see a previous /. article about ethics in journalism involving the editors in question. They posted a document that is considered in the journalist community the guide to ethical behavior as a journal. I cant see how there is any ambiguity to confusion. It's clearly a violation of the documented ethics of journalism.
I think dangerous creatures is much more enjoyable film with the same cast. I think that's because unlike A Fish Called Wanda, Dangerous Creatures had characters who were more three dimensional. Also it helped that the "villain" appeared only at the end, earlier on it was just an ominous entity spoken of.
ayah, Perfect Dark,Golden Eye, Conker's BF, Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Skies of Arcadia, BX XX (crap tho), and others I cant be bothered to look up are so totally pandering to kiddies. No adults could ever enjoy any Nintendo games since the SNES and Nintendo never had a game published that might not be for the tykes.
Maybe if you tried some of the games offered on those platforms, you might learn how wrong you are. I note you did not list the GBA there, does this mean you have one of those, because frankly it has a much more kid friendly/orientated product line.
Looking at the RFC for IPV6 I see no indication that MS created it.
It means that the single processor chip has three processing cores.
This is akin to current POWER PC chips like in the P Series hardwareline that each physical processor has two cores. The system reports that it has 2 processors from a physical hardware standpoint, but when running any software that counts the number of processors they see twice as many. For example a two processor machine shows up as having four cpus when running topas or nmon.