Yes it really has. I have run the same Java application on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X. If there is a good JVM you have a very good shot at your java application working. Yes you have to have a JVM but that is sort of a given.
Yes I have to admit that I find this article seems to have an FCC is evil and blocking progress slant. The device failed testing and could cause interference. So they need to improve the device.
The key thing is that most people don't have tvs that can handle 1080p.Throw in that there are dang few BlueRay DVDs it just isn't that useful. The real killer is DVDs look so good on an HD TV that most people don't see a huge need to upgrade. It is a very clear case of good enough. It is no shock that a subset of people don't have a clue about the axillary functions of a gaming console. I would be shocked if anybody didn't know they could play games on the PS3
An iPhone costs a lot more then a DS. It will not have the Nintendo library to draw from and I don't think they will have a development team that can matches Nintendo's anytime soon. I think they are going to hurt Pop Cap not Nintendo... I just don't think a $400+ cell phone with a minimal game library is going to beat the DS anytime soon. But it will still be a better cell phone than the DS.
Oil and gas recovery use it but yea there is no shortage of CO2 since it is a natural by product of liquifying oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases that do have large scale industrial uses.
Actually most hydrogen is made from natural gas. It is cheaper to split CH4 than H20. What I want to know is how does this reduce CO2 emissions by just 80%? Burning H2 should produce NO Co2 except what was already in the air and what little you might get from burning any free CO or hydrocarbons that are naturally in the atmosphere. Heck I don't know if LH2 is lighter and cheaper than batteries. While cool I don't expect to see LH2 cars any time soon.
"The problem here is marketing. 100+ years ago, there was no such thing as "marketing". " Well I would say that you would have to look even farther back? When did they invent the safety razor? You know the sell the razor cheap and make the money on the blades? Not any different than ink jet printers. Marketing and spin is everywhere. My favorite that gets me in hot water on slashdot has to be the game publishers. They freedom of speech so we can sell violent games to children without any laws preventing us argument. The idea that Rockstar is any different from HP or Sony is just funny.
Far more people die in car accidents than in that bridge collapse so should we not worry about bridges? I understand what you are saying but what makes you think that if we ignored them that it wouldn't get worse? I think a lot of the actions of our governments is in the category of "look like you are doing something". You mentioned WWII when the UK stood alone "with some lend lease aid". BTW I feel that was some of the best money my government ever spent. Just supposed that Chamberlain had sent in troops when instead of trying for "peace in our time"? Would history talk about the waste of money and lives that action took? Imagine if a few thousand men and a few thousands pounds had been wasted in a brush war with Germany just to stop them form annexing a mostly German speaking area of so little country? Just think of what good England could have done with that money if they had taken the road of peace instead of war? Wait , they did and Europe burned, and millions died. Hey I don't have all the answers but I just don't think that it is as simple as you are making it out to be. At what point should we take them seriously? How many deaths are worth how much effort? Like I said I do not like loosing civil liberties at all but then I don't think we need too to fight these idiots.
I am not sure that will happen in a big way on the desktop market. Take a look at the ARM. There are versions with an FPU and SSE like extensions that are more than fast enough for the average user. They have not caught on with desktop users. The new AMD X2s that sip power at 65 watts are great cpus for the average person. If I was going to buy 500 machines for people to run Office or Open office on I would jump at them. Yet most "enthusiasts" sites ignore them because the core2duo is faster. Outside the server market power just doesn't pop into many peoples specs when it comes to a computer. My wifes next machine is probably going to be one of the power efficient AMDs. I do think that max power use has peaked in cpus for at least for a while. But I fear the need for speed will drive it right back up.
"As for the value of games, well since only direct ports are out at the moment you're purely guessing. The "true", those with proper development time and tailored to the system, PS3 titles are scheduled to start arriving at the end of this month, and then it's almost a steady flow of a few games a month from their on." No when I say that there are no PS3 titles that I feel are worth the buy a PS3 it is a fact. You are guess that the titles coming soon will be good. As you said it is a gamble but I see it as a gamble with no upside. If these wonderful games do show up then I will buy a PS3. There is no shortage of them and the price isn't going to go up. Right now there isn't any blue-ray dvds that I must have and I don't have a tv that can do 1080p anyway. So the PS3 as a DVD player is a none issue. I have a PS2 so the PS3 as a PS2 has no value for me. So I contend that the smart bet is to wait and see what games come out for it. Too many technically great consoles have died because of lack of software and cost.
"If not, I'd seriously kick your ass if I were your boss and would find out." 1. It is the company server and bandwidth. You should expect that it is not private. 2. Bosses don't "seriously kick your ass". They may reprimand or terminate.
"I don't accept the premise that future CPU designs will always require hundreds of Watts of power." You don't have to. But you can not have the fastest CPU. No matter how efficient they make the chip you will save power running it slower. There will always be a market that will trade off everything for speed. So yes you will always have to trade off power efficiency for speed. But and this is the big one. CPUs are getting faster per watt. An AMD x2 isn't a slow cpu. You can get them that only use 65 Watts of power and they are cheap. They will be fast enough for just about anyone.
Get a Core2Duo or one of the new low power AMDs. The just find a modern video card that is roughly the speed of a last generation card. If you want super high performance and super low power... Not going to happen. They will always have the option to pump up the speed buy pumping up that watts. Top of the like will have high power draw. You have low power options that are pretty dang fast. The trade off is just up to you.
But then why not wait? Why buy a PS3 now? Over time it will only get cheaper and have more games available. There are no games for the PS3 that justify the purchase price for me. I think that is the key. People don't hate the PS3 because of the lack of games. They really dislike the PS3 because of lack of value. They where expecting to be shocked by some great games only to find that that they are currently just not that much better than what they are used too. Yes they are better but not so much better that for the average console buy to be worth the cost. So until the price comes way down I don't think the PS3 is going to be the mega hit that Sony expected.
Kind of sucks if you in Hi. They are six hours earlier than the east cost. So if the polls in Florida close at 6 then the polls in HI would close at noon. Why not just forbid the publishing of exit polls or poll results until the election is over? Just make the act of polling illegal for that one day a year. Of course that could cause problems because if you where going to doctor the election it would be less likely that you would be caught. I think the three days of polling is a good plan. But not over a three day weekend. To many people would decide to go on a trip then instead of voting. But then I think that the primaries should be sorted by electoral votes. The smallest states go first.
Well when I took scuba they told us to always breath. Holding your breath and rising even a few feet would be enough pressure differential to rupture a lung. How good that data is I don't know and I am not going to find out.
"I find it kinda funny that the GPU in my PC was $500, which is what I payed for an entire PS3" You might be shocked to find how many people will never buy a $500 GPU. The market for uber gaming pc kit is a lot different than consoles.
A snap generator isn't a nuclear weapon or usually a reactor. Above ground testing did release Strontium 90 which is in all of our bones and that got pushed up high into the atmosphere where it precipitated out. Iodine 121 "I think" is probably the worst fall out product it is short lived which means that it is very hot. Being Iodine you body sucks it up and stores it in your thyroid. That is why after Chernobyl they where giving people all over Europe large doses of Iodine. The goal was to saturate everyones thyroid so it couldn't take up the bad Iodine. Strontium is bad because it "look" like calcium so your body stores it in your bones. Ones there is stays there practically forever. Again we have already dumped lots of fall out in to the atmosphere. Not a great idea but then lead in gas and paint where also pretty dumb.
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Yes it really has. I have run the same Java application on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X. If there is a good JVM you have a very good shot at your java application working.
Yes you have to have a JVM but that is sort of a given.
Yes I have to admit that I find this article seems to have an FCC is evil and blocking progress slant. The device failed testing and could cause interference. So they need to improve the device.
The key thing is that most people don't have tvs that can handle 1080p.Throw in that there are dang few BlueRay DVDs it just isn't that useful.
The real killer is DVDs look so good on an HD TV that most people don't see a huge need to upgrade. It is a very clear case of good enough. It is no shock that a subset of people don't have a clue about the axillary functions of a gaming console. I would be shocked if anybody didn't know they could play games on the PS3
The games are not hacks. They come from Apple. I think you can buy them on iTunes. Don't really know since I don't use the games.
An iPhone costs a lot more then a DS. It will not have the Nintendo library to draw from and I don't think they will have a development team that can matches Nintendo's anytime soon.
I think they are going to hurt Pop Cap not Nintendo...
I just don't think a $400+ cell phone with a minimal game library is going to beat the DS anytime soon. But it will still be a better cell phone than the DS.
Oil and gas recovery use it but yea there is no shortage of CO2 since it is a natural by product of liquifying oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases that do have large scale industrial uses.
Most iPod owners don't know that you can play games on their iPod.
Most iPod owners don't know that you can load Linux on their iPod.
The the primary function of a device is the the most important function for the people that buy that device.
Yes it does. So is the the 80% reduction on CO2 emissions include the carbon emissions from the Natural gas?
Actually most hydrogen is made from natural gas. It is cheaper to split CH4 than H20. What I want to know is how does this reduce CO2 emissions by just 80%? Burning H2 should produce NO Co2 except what was already in the air and what little you might get from burning any free CO or hydrocarbons that are naturally in the atmosphere. Heck I don't know if LH2 is lighter and cheaper than batteries.
While cool I don't expect to see LH2 cars any time soon.
"The problem here is marketing. 100+ years ago, there was no such thing as "marketing". " Well I would say that you would have to look even farther back? When did they invent the safety razor? You know the sell the razor cheap and make the money on the blades? Not any different than ink jet printers.
Marketing and spin is everywhere. My favorite that gets me in hot water on slashdot has to be the game publishers. They freedom of speech so we can sell violent games to children without any laws preventing us argument. The idea that Rockstar is any different from HP or Sony is just funny.
And yet children do get abused. There has to be a good common ground in between those extremes.
Far more people die in car accidents than in that bridge collapse so should we not worry about bridges? I understand what you are saying but what makes you think that if we ignored them that it wouldn't get worse? I think a lot of the actions of our governments is in the category of "look like you are doing something". You mentioned WWII when the UK stood alone "with some lend lease aid". BTW I feel that was some of the best money my government ever spent.
Just supposed that Chamberlain had sent in troops when instead of trying for "peace in our time"? Would history talk about the waste of money and lives that action took? Imagine if a few thousand men and a few thousands pounds had been wasted in a brush war with Germany just to stop them form annexing a mostly German speaking area of so little country? Just think of what good England could have done with that money if they had taken the road of peace instead of war?
Wait , they did and Europe burned, and millions died.
Hey I don't have all the answers but I just don't think that it is as simple as you are making it out to be. At what point should we take them seriously? How many deaths are worth how much effort? Like I said I do not like loosing civil liberties at all but then I don't think we need too to fight these idiots.
I am not sure that will happen in a big way on the desktop market. Take a look at the ARM. There are versions with an FPU and SSE like extensions that are more than fast enough for the average user. They have not caught on with desktop users. The new AMD X2s that sip power at 65 watts are great cpus for the average person. If I was going to buy 500 machines for people to run Office or Open office on I would jump at them. Yet most "enthusiasts" sites ignore them because the core2duo is faster. Outside the server market power just doesn't pop into many peoples specs when it comes to a computer.
My wifes next machine is probably going to be one of the power efficient AMDs. I do think that max power use has peaked in cpus for at least for a while. But I fear the need for speed will drive it right back up.
"Whether this is still a GPL violation is a question for Eben Moglen and the other FSF lawyers,"
Yea... Nothing smells like freedom like lawyers.
Or in this case "fastest will never be cheapest".
"As for the value of games, well since only direct ports are out at the moment you're purely guessing. The "true", those with proper development time and tailored to the system, PS3 titles are scheduled to start arriving at the end of this month, and then it's almost a steady flow of a few games a month from their on."
No when I say that there are no PS3 titles that I feel are worth the buy a PS3 it is a fact. You are guess that the titles coming soon will be good. As you said it is a gamble but I see it as a gamble with no upside. If these wonderful games do show up then I will buy a PS3. There is no shortage of them and the price isn't going to go up.
Right now there isn't any blue-ray dvds that I must have and I don't have a tv that can do 1080p anyway. So the PS3 as a DVD player is a none issue. I have a PS2 so the PS3 as a PS2 has no value for me.
So I contend that the smart bet is to wait and see what games come out for it. Too many technically great consoles have died because of lack of software and cost.
"If not, I'd seriously kick your ass if I were your boss and would find out."
1. It is the company server and bandwidth. You should expect that it is not private.
2. Bosses don't "seriously kick your ass". They may reprimand or terminate.
"I don't accept the premise that future CPU designs will always require hundreds of Watts of power."
You don't have to. But you can not have the fastest CPU. No matter how efficient they make the chip you will save power running it slower. There will always be a market that will trade off everything for speed. So yes you will always have to trade off power efficiency for speed. But and this is the big one. CPUs are getting faster per watt. An AMD x2 isn't a slow cpu. You can get them that only use 65 Watts of power and they are cheap.
They will be fast enough for just about anyone.
Get a Core2Duo or one of the new low power AMDs. The just find a modern video card that is roughly the speed of a last generation card. ... Not going to happen. They will always have the option to pump up the speed buy pumping up that watts.
If you want super high performance and super low power
Top of the like will have high power draw.
You have low power options that are pretty dang fast. The trade off is just up to you.
But then why not wait? Why buy a PS3 now?
Over time it will only get cheaper and have more games available. There are no games for the PS3 that justify the purchase price for me. I think that is the key. People don't hate the PS3 because of the lack of games. They really dislike the PS3 because of lack of value. They where expecting to be shocked by some great games only to find that that they are currently just not that much better than what they are used too. Yes they are better but not so much better that for the average console buy to be worth the cost.
So until the price comes way down I don't think the PS3 is going to be the mega hit that Sony expected.
You are correct It has been a while since I dived.
Kind of sucks if you in Hi. They are six hours earlier than the east cost. So if the polls in Florida close at 6 then the polls in HI would close at noon.
Why not just forbid the publishing of exit polls or poll results until the election is over?
Just make the act of polling illegal for that one day a year. Of course that could cause problems because if you where going to doctor the election it would be less likely that you would be caught.
I think the three days of polling is a good plan. But not over a three day weekend. To many people would decide to go on a trip then instead of voting.
But then I think that the primaries should be sorted by electoral votes. The smallest states go first.
Well when I took scuba they told us to always breath. Holding your breath and rising even a few feet would be enough pressure differential to rupture a lung. How good that data is I don't know and I am not going to find out.
"I find it kinda funny that the GPU in my PC was $500, which is what I payed for an entire PS3"
You might be shocked to find how many people will never buy a $500 GPU. The market for uber gaming pc kit is a lot different than consoles.
A snap generator isn't a nuclear weapon or usually a reactor. Above ground testing did release Strontium 90 which is in all of our bones and that got pushed up high into the atmosphere where it precipitated out. Iodine 121 "I think" is probably the worst fall out product it is short lived which means that it is very hot. Being Iodine you body sucks it up and stores it in your thyroid. That is why after Chernobyl they where giving people all over Europe large doses of Iodine. The goal was to saturate everyones thyroid so it couldn't take up the bad Iodine. Strontium is bad because it "look" like calcium so your body stores it in your bones. Ones there is stays there practically forever.
Again we have already dumped lots of fall out in to the atmosphere. Not a great idea but then lead in gas and paint where also pretty dumb.