You might actually be right, but I think the plan is to sell lots of memory sticks, not PSPs per se.
I'll bet Sony's profit on an MS is more than it is on the UMD games. I wonder what the ratio of profit on a single MS sale to profit (to Sony) on a game is. And, for that matter, I'll bet that the COGS on the PSP is more than $249. The money is in getting MS accepted. (Hell, I've spent more on memory sticks than I have on games...)
To make things a bit easier, I've found that you only need to create the MS1 stick once. That is, once you have the special EBOOT.PBP on the first memory stick, you don't need to recreate it every time you change the EBOOT.PBP on MS2. Obviously, the file on MS1 will report the wrong name, but whatever is on MS2 still boots. Tested with the PCEngine, GB emulator and the SNES emulator.
It must depend on the company. Or perhaps it is an East Coast/West Coast thing. I work for a large East Coast tech company, and I can't think of anyone with so much as a visible tattoo. On the otherhand, my job has entailed spending a lot of time in Silicon Valley - especially at Apple Computer. It's definitely not an issue there I assure you: Sam
Mind you, I managed to keep my Prince Albert secret, until that fateful day when I was using the bulk eraser on the backup tapes...
Apple kicked Be off their chosen hardware platform [...] by completely locking them out of the next-gen Macs.
Yeah, that was Be's story, but it was a complete lie: at the very same time Gassée was whining about Apple, linux hackers were easily able to support that hardware. The information they claimed was being witheld by Apple was in plain view in the PPC Linux sources.
Gassée is and was full of it. He switched to Intel and that was the smart thing to do as commodity PCs offered the kind of potential volume he needed to be a OS vendor. Apple did not kill Be, simple economics killed Be: insufficient sales.
Sun needed to convert its cash reserves into company stock, because that can be depressed below actual value you are correct about the fungibility of stock, or rather a business unit; but if you are correct about Sun's motives, they are going to have one hell of a shareholder lawsuit on their hands.
I'm not sure Apple has, in recent times at least, been anti-MS. Apple users perhaps. Recall that one of Job's first actions after returning to Apple was to secure a $150m investment in Apple by Microsoft; a commitment to continue to develop IE and Office for Apple and a patent cross licensing agreeement.
Jobs certainly knew then that the survival of the Macintosh depended at least in part in Microsoft continuing to make its key applications available on the Mac platform. That's perhaps only slightly less true today and probably the reason Jobs has done this today.
(Yes, I know that there is an Open Office port to OS X and iWork is compatible to some extent, but, sadly, that doesn't yet amount to the confidence a lot of purchasers are looking for.)
As a mac user who bought a single-processor G5 a month before Apple dropped it from their line, and a 2nd Gen. iPod two months before they released the 3rd Gen, this for me is the last straw.
Aww. That must have sucked. I presume both those devices just upped and died the moment they were outdated by superior technology ? That's why I never buy any technology that is in danger of being improved: you should see my mousetrap !
Once my current G5 has outlived it's useful life, I'm unlikely to buy Apple again.
I'm sorry I don't understand: I thought Apple had bilked you by 'dropping [it] from their line.' You say it still has a useful life ?
Intel is actually going to give Apple the biggest performance boost they've had for several years.
-Could be true.
Altivec is absolutely the superior SIMD architecture. No doubt about it. On the G4 it was severly hampered by the cost of main memory access - for in-cache operations it is significantly faster than Intel. The G5 on the otherhand saw Altivec really reach its potential: the G5 has a much faster memory bus.
In my view, the leap to G5 was a pretty significant performance boost. But, Intel may deliver a similar boost, however it won't be because of the SIMD architecture.
For American audiences substitute 'Ford' for 'Fiat'.
Indeed, Apple's user base may be unpissable. It's developers - or at least it's commerical developers - are less unpissable. Anyone with an investment in hardware for PPC is not going to have an easy transition. Though, I expect it will come out as a wash: Apple will lose some and gain others; maybe Adobe will come back to the fold ?
Certaintly if this story isn't true, it has to go down as the greatest troll in history.
I dunno, those Elbonian's got me pretty bad recently. Had to get my tighty-whiteys surgically removed.
On the other hand, as a Mac zealot, I'd like to say that Apple will never shift to Intel. It would be business suicide. Unless, that is, Steve announces a shift to Intel today. In which case, it will be the most brilliant business decision made since he invented the MP3 player.
You are quite right, and the parent wrong. Apple went to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that practically everything continued to work. It worked so well that it was years before Apple eliminated all 68K code from the operating system. Depending on the circumstances, some code ran faster on PPC from the outset since it took advantage of native OS calls. In any case, the faster PPC processors meant that 68K code soon ran faster under emulation than it did natively on earlier machines.
For the same reason Germany did: because that was how bombing campaigns were then conducted. A higher tonnage of high explosive was dropped than incendiary. Moreover, other cities were hit with often far higher tonnages of explosives with similar ratios of HE to incendiary, with much less damage incurred. While the final outcome was particularly dreadful, the operation itself was no more intense or less discriminate than other typical operations. As I said, other cities were hit with much larger amounts of bombs with lesser effect: Berlin for instance a few days before the Feb 14th attack.
If perceiving a moral equivalency here is of some comfort to you, perhaps you'd like to give us your revision of the Frampol bombing ? Or Weilun, Warsaw, Guernica, Rotterdam or many others. You might like to know that the British have largely forgiven Germany: Coventry is twinned with Dresden.
Well, if we are to believe the revisionist history of Dresden, the RAF was instructed to flatten the militarily insignificant, but culturally significant city for revenge or some such. And, that the raid was deliberately targetted at civilians, and the war was nearly over, etc...
I won't argue that the killing of up to 40,000 people ranks as major tragedy on any measure. Nor that those who planned and executed it bear responsibility for that. However, the truth is that Dresden was absolutely militarily significant: it was the major communications and materiel staging post for the Eastern front. The unfortunate fact is that the railway yards were directly in the center of the city and were the primary target. They were surrounded by timber buildings and the city was built on a network of cellars and tunnels that encouraged the spread of fire. As far as I know there is no evidence that the planners believed that an attack on the railway yard would spread so easily to the rest of the city. And, finally, understand that the attack was requested by the soviet army in order to reduce pressure on Marshall Konev's assault on Berlin. So, yes the war in Europe was in its final stages however we only know that with the benefit of hindsight: this attack brought the end closer. Neither you nor I are in a position to argue that the world would have been better off with or without this attack. I don't doubt that the world would be better off without the war. And, I wouldn't argue with you if you said that the attack was unnecessary. I would vehemently argue that the planners did believe in the military necessity of the attack and planned an attack against military targets. The objective was NOT to raze the city to the ground: that was a bitterly tragic consequence.
Erm, the only people killed in the "millions" in Germany and the countries it invaded were Jews, Romanies, homosexuals etc. I have no qualms saying that Hitler was a spiteful miserable racist. He absolutely did his best to raise London and other British cities to the ground with indiscriminate warfare: the Blitz. He did a pretty good job in Conventry. And, for that matter, before the Second World War began in Guernica. His motive in attacking Britain in this way was designed specifically to attack civilian areas in order to create panic and render Britain ungovernable.
Can someone with points mod our trolling revisionist Aryan friend here into the darkness he so richly deserves.
Clearly Sony doesn't want people to do this. That seems to be the point of the later firmware releases: to block unencrypted binaries. But, I don't see what is illegal or worthy of suit in running homebrew software on the PSP. Unless, of course, that homebrew is compiled (and probably distributed) with libraries that are copyright Sony. As far as I know, that is not the case.
But, Goddamnit, I can't wait until we can run these emulators on the North American PSPs...oh the anticipation...
Hell, that's nothing. In the UK, over 40 years ago we had the Rover 2000 it was an absolute dog of a machine and had a tendency to take a leak all over the floor.
I'm against it being compulsory to carry them, and I'm against giving Police the power to demand to see them without due cause in extremis.
So long as no one can legally force me to produce it for simply going about my daily business I'm not too bothered.
I don't have a problem with having to produce it for other voluntary interactions with the state: applying for welface benefits for instance. How much difference is there between an ID card and say a UB40 ?
the UK has gone from world power to weak sister in less than a few hundred years
More like less than 70 years, and Roosevelt was largely responsible: Lend-lease, an explicit US policy of replacing British Colonialism with US "influence",Bretton Woods and a US battleship sent to South Africa to impound British Gold Reserves pretty much ended Britain as an Economic power.
This may just be an effort to ensure that US business gets the market for such chips.
Otherwise I'm really not sure that I see the point. No one here is arguing that you shouldn't need a passport to visit the US. British passports are already machine readable at US passport control. Why should we need an ID card AS WELL ?
my Nokia trinitron monitor's interface sucks. My Nokia cellphone's interface is fine, but nothing to be excited about. But then none of these devices run Linux. My Tivo has a pretty good interface for what it does, and that IS running on Linux, but I would caution anyone from concluding that since the TiVo is easy to use Linux is easy to use.
Linux is free and customizable: companies with good designers and UI engineers can put good interfaces on top of it.
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I believe SONY already offers this service. It's about $20,000 up front, followed by a few hundred for each disk you want made.
You might actually be right, but I think the plan is to sell lots of memory sticks, not PSPs per se.
I'll bet Sony's profit on an MS is more than it is on the UMD games. I wonder what the ratio of profit on a single MS sale to profit (to Sony) on a game is. And, for that matter, I'll bet that the COGS on the PSP is more than $249. The money is in getting MS accepted. (Hell, I've spent more on memory sticks than I have on games...)
To make things a bit easier, I've found that you only need to create the MS1 stick once. That is, once you have the special EBOOT.PBP on the first memory stick, you don't need to recreate it every time you change the EBOOT.PBP on MS2. Obviously, the file on MS1 will report the wrong name, but whatever is on MS2 still boots. Tested with the PCEngine, GB emulator and the SNES emulator.
Yes indeedy:
http://www.mxemu.com/news.php?newsid=1116096993
However, it will only run homebrew.
It must depend on the company. Or perhaps it is an East Coast/West Coast thing. I work for a large East Coast tech company, and I can't think of anyone with so much as a visible tattoo. On the otherhand, my job has entailed spending a lot of time in Silicon Valley - especially at Apple Computer. It's definitely not an issue there I assure you: Sam
Mind you, I managed to keep my Prince Albert secret, until that fateful day when I was using the bulk eraser on the backup tapes...
Apple kicked Be off their chosen hardware platform [...] by completely locking them out of the next-gen Macs.
Yeah, that was Be's story, but it was a complete lie: at the very same time Gassée was whining about Apple, linux hackers were easily able to support that hardware. The information they claimed was being witheld by Apple was in plain view in the PPC Linux sources.
Gassée is and was full of it. He switched to Intel and that was the smart thing to do as commodity PCs offered the kind of potential volume he needed to be a OS vendor. Apple did not kill Be, simple economics killed Be: insufficient sales.
Sun needed to convert its cash reserves into company stock, because that can be depressed below actual value you are correct about the fungibility of stock, or rather a business unit; but if you are correct about Sun's motives, they are going to have one hell of a shareholder lawsuit on their hands.
I'm not sure Apple has, in recent times at least, been anti-MS. Apple users perhaps. Recall that one of Job's first actions after returning to Apple was to secure a $150m investment in Apple by Microsoft; a commitment to continue to develop IE and Office for Apple and a patent cross licensing agreeement.
Jobs certainly knew then that the survival of the Macintosh depended at least in part in Microsoft continuing to make its key applications available on the Mac platform. That's perhaps only slightly less true today and probably the reason Jobs has done this today.
(Yes, I know that there is an Open Office port to OS X and iWork is compatible to some extent, but, sadly, that doesn't yet amount to the confidence a lot of purchasers are looking for.)
Given that we're running on Mac OS X these days, the application that executes this will terminate almost immediately with an access violation.
As a mac user who bought a single-processor G5 a month before Apple dropped it from their line, and a 2nd Gen. iPod two months before they released the 3rd Gen, this for me is the last straw.
Aww. That must have sucked. I presume both those devices just upped and died the moment they were outdated by superior technology ? That's why I never buy any technology that is in danger of being improved: you should see my mousetrap !
Once my current G5 has outlived it's useful life, I'm unlikely to buy Apple again.
I'm sorry I don't understand: I thought Apple had bilked you by 'dropping [it] from their line.' You say it still has a useful life ?
Look, that was Apple propaganda
-Wrong
Intel is actually going to give Apple the biggest performance boost they've had for several years.
-Could be true.
Altivec is absolutely the superior SIMD architecture. No doubt about it. On the G4 it was severly hampered by the cost of main memory access - for in-cache operations it is significantly faster than Intel. The G5 on the otherhand saw Altivec really reach its potential: the G5 has a much faster memory bus.
In my view, the leap to G5 was a pretty significant performance boost. But, Intel may deliver a similar boost, however it won't be because of the SIMD architecture.
For American audiences substitute 'Ford' for 'Fiat'.
Indeed, Apple's user base may be unpissable. It's developers - or at least it's commerical developers - are less unpissable. Anyone with an investment in hardware for PPC is not going to have an easy transition. Though, I expect it will come out as a wash: Apple will lose some and gain others; maybe Adobe will come back to the fold ?
Certaintly if this story isn't true, it has to go down as the greatest troll in history.
I dunno, those Elbonian's got me pretty bad recently. Had to get my tighty-whiteys surgically removed.
On the other hand, as a Mac zealot, I'd like to say that Apple will never shift to Intel. It would be business suicide. Unless, that is, Steve announces a shift to Intel today. In which case, it will be the most brilliant business decision made since he invented the MP3 player.
You are quite right, and the parent wrong. Apple went to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that practically everything continued to work. It worked so well that it was years before Apple eliminated all 68K code from the operating system. Depending on the circumstances, some code ran faster on PPC from the outset since it took advantage of native OS calls. In any case, the faster PPC processors meant that 68K code soon ran faster under emulation than it did natively on earlier machines.
Note, mach-o already supports so-called FAT binaries.
the desperation of the British people in justifying their participation in a war for which there was no just cause
I think this comment says it all. Goodbye.
Then why did they use incendiary bombs?
For the same reason Germany did: because that was how bombing campaigns were then conducted. A higher tonnage of high explosive was dropped than incendiary. Moreover, other cities were hit with often far higher tonnages of explosives with similar ratios of HE to incendiary, with much less damage incurred. While the final outcome was particularly dreadful, the operation itself was no more intense or less discriminate than other typical operations. As I said, other cities were hit with much larger amounts of bombs with lesser effect: Berlin for instance a few days before the Feb 14th attack.
If perceiving a moral equivalency here is of some comfort to you, perhaps you'd like to give us your revision of the Frampol bombing ? Or Weilun, Warsaw, Guernica, Rotterdam or many others. You might like to know that the British have largely forgiven Germany: Coventry is twinned with Dresden.
Well, if we are to believe the revisionist history of Dresden, the RAF was instructed to flatten the militarily insignificant, but culturally significant city for revenge or some such. And, that the raid was deliberately targetted at civilians, and the war was nearly over, etc...
I won't argue that the killing of up to 40,000 people ranks as major tragedy on any measure. Nor that those who planned and executed it bear responsibility for that. However, the truth is that Dresden was absolutely militarily significant: it was the major communications and materiel staging post for the Eastern front. The unfortunate fact is that the railway yards were directly in the center of the city and were the primary target. They were surrounded by timber buildings and the city was built on a network of cellars and tunnels that encouraged the spread of fire. As far as I know there is no evidence that the planners believed that an attack on the railway yard would spread so easily to the rest of the city. And, finally, understand that the attack was requested by the soviet army in order to reduce pressure on Marshall Konev's assault on Berlin. So, yes the war in Europe was in its final stages however we only know that with the benefit of hindsight: this attack brought the end closer. Neither you nor I are in a position to argue that the world would have been better off with or without this attack. I don't doubt that the world would be better off without the war. And, I wouldn't argue with you if you said that the attack was unnecessary. I would vehemently argue that the planners did believe in the military necessity of the attack and planned an attack against military targets. The objective was NOT to raze the city to the ground: that was a bitterly tragic consequence.
Erm, the only people killed in the "millions" in Germany and the countries it invaded were Jews, Romanies, homosexuals etc. I have no qualms saying that Hitler was a spiteful miserable racist. He absolutely did his best to raise London and other British cities to the ground with indiscriminate warfare: the Blitz. He did a pretty good job in Conventry. And, for that matter, before the Second World War began in Guernica. His motive in attacking Britain in this way was designed specifically to attack civilian areas in order to create panic and render Britain ungovernable.
Can someone with points mod our trolling revisionist Aryan friend here into the darkness he so richly deserves.
Clearly Sony doesn't want people to do this. That seems to be the point of the later firmware releases: to block unencrypted binaries. But, I don't see what is illegal or worthy of suit in running homebrew software on the PSP. Unless, of course, that homebrew is compiled (and probably distributed) with libraries that are copyright Sony. As far as I know, that is not the case.
But, Goddamnit, I can't wait until we can run these emulators on the North American PSPs...oh the anticipation...
Hell, that's nothing. In the UK, over 40 years ago we had the Rover 2000 it was an absolute dog of a machine and had a tendency to take a leak all over the floor.
I'm against it being compulsory to carry them, and I'm against giving Police the power to demand to see them without due cause in extremis.
So long as no one can legally force me to produce it for simply going about my daily business I'm not too bothered.
I don't have a problem with having to produce it for other voluntary interactions with the state: applying for welface benefits for instance. How much difference is there between an ID card and say a UB40 ?
the UK has gone from world power to weak sister in less than a few hundred years
More like less than 70 years, and Roosevelt was largely responsible: Lend-lease, an explicit US policy of replacing British Colonialism with US "influence",Bretton Woods and a US battleship sent to South Africa to impound British Gold Reserves pretty much ended Britain as an Economic power.
This may just be an effort to ensure that US business gets the market for such chips.
Otherwise I'm really not sure that I see the point. No one here is arguing that you shouldn't need a passport to visit the US. British passports are already machine readable at US passport control. Why should we need an ID card AS WELL ?
The SC400 is an Am486 core with a bunch of on chip peripheral controllers.
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http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/chipsets/sc4
my Nokia trinitron monitor's interface sucks. My Nokia cellphone's interface is fine, but nothing to be excited about. But then none of these devices run Linux. My Tivo has a pretty good interface for what it does, and that IS running on Linux, but I would caution anyone from concluding that since the TiVo is easy to use Linux is easy to use.
Linux is free and customizable: companies with good designers and UI engineers can put good interfaces on top of it.