I have compared the PS2 DVD output quality against $600-800 models and there's simply no discernable differences. Anyway I look at it, I saved money. Video is sharp, clean, no artifacts, very good contrasts, no blocking in smooth shaded areas.
Audio is just as good using stereo , DTS, Dolby and 5.1.
I'm also using an old wireless controller made for the original PS and that works fine, so no wire needed.
Games: Yeah, most games suck and that was expected. Still, SSX, Tekken Tag and Dead or Alive 2 rock. Remeber that most games coming out right now are direct ports, they're barely using the extra hardware capabilities the PS2 has.
Backwards-Compatibility: All of my old games work fine and most look better than ever with texture smoothing. FF7 sometimes crashes with high disc speed, but that's it.
Hype: A lot of people are nit-picking at Sony for hyping the PS2 a lot. I don't agree; all the hoopla about the PS2 came from resellers, not from Sony. Has anyone seen an ad for the system actually from Sony? I haven't.
An absolute must-see comedy series of six episodes is "Golden Boy", dubbed version is excellent (I've watched both), NOT FOR KIDS, contains very mature subject.
It's about a guy who, after getting all his credits drops out of school and embarks on a journey on his bike and works in various places, saving Japan and maybe even the world (or maybe not), meeting and lusting after the best drawn beautiful women I've ever seen in Anime.
Episode 2 "Temptation of the Maiden" has Naoko, the Mayor's daugther, which looks a lot like Tifa, of FF7 fame. Very cute.
Who would even dare to guarantee such a thing as a 99% uptime for NT? I wonder why the article never mentioned WHO guarantees it, that would be interesting...
I have absolutetly no doubt believing NT scores 99% uptime since that is a PISS-POOR stability figure. That would mean a down-time of one hour every 4 days and in a production environment, that sucks!
Linux scores much better, about 99.998% in my experience (about 45 minutes of downtime in about four years use).
... I just passed in front of our Help Desk board a minute ago; they had to reboot one of our Micros~1 servers again. Second time this week...
I was about to try to answer without flaming but I find myself unable to do that. Here are some glaring stupidities:
"... The concept of free software is a well-known and frequently practised strategy of the weak"
He then draws a parallel between AT&T's licensing of SystemV with Linux's openness. AT&T's strategy was a market-driven, commercial venture, Linux's openness isn't.
"When HP and Sun acknowledge Linux as a viable challenger, we will see its rapid deconstruction as these competitors first embrace and the extend its advantages. Linux is on the verge of being squashed be the strong and will probably not survive in its present form."
Here's the question of code forking again and I must admit that it's worried me before. Thankfully, the open licenses under which the Open Projects operated do not permit it, as Linus said in the MSNBC chat.
About the failure rate of Unix utilities: "... it should not be confused with defect density, a more reliable metric... Unix has more than 10 million lines of code, while Linux has only 1.5 million." His conclusion is that Linux's defect density (lines_of_code/failures) is much higher.
Wrong! The correct ratio is functionality/failures. If a product does what it should do in less lines of code, that's actually a benefit because that's the mark of better, cleaner code that's much easier to debug.
"Thus, Linux's reliability is suspect. In fact, we can expect Linux defect densities to get worse..."
The point is that I've run Linux at home for the last 7 years at home on four different computers and at work for the last 5 years on many, many different computers and in that time have had four unscheduled crashes. Yup, can count them on ONE hand. I have also used Windows for the last two months and since have had more than 20 crashes and have had to re-install 3 times.
Linux gives me more functionality than Windows, for a better price and keeps my personal data (the most important part of my computer) safe.
He later goes on to compare the number of full-time programmers at work on Linux and Microsoft, and the number of beta-testers pointing out that Microsoft has so much more.
Well that doesn't reflect very well on them, now, does it? Considering that they're challenged and therefore but on the same footing as the Open people.
"... Support diminishes still further when the hype wears off an open source application... Mozilla's mailing list declined by 58 percent... Apache..was developed by a cast of thousands is now supported by fewer than 20 core members. Already, Apache is losing the performance battle against Microsoft's IIS."
Mozilla's mailing list: Expected. That's called stabilization. Apache's development team: That's all that's needed, baby! Apache's performance: One wonders where he gets his numbers.
Page 2.
"... Unfortunately, these exceptionally talented programmers (Open source) are in limited supply and, as any open source program becomes widely distributed, this talent will become increasingly scarce."
Limited supply? As far as I known the human race hasn't become infertile, all of a sudden. Anybody can become an Open Source Programmer, in fact, zillions of kids now in school are getting in on the act. That's your supply.
And this is where I quit. The next bits made me angry enough that the only thing I could reply was "F**k off and die, you idiot!" I guess that qualifies as flaming. Oh well.
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I have compared the PS2 DVD output quality against $600-800 models and there's simply no discernable differences. Anyway I look at it, I saved money. Video is sharp, clean, no artifacts, very good contrasts, no blocking in smooth shaded areas.
Audio is just as good using stereo , DTS, Dolby and 5.1.
I'm also using an old wireless controller made for the original PS and that works fine, so no wire needed.
Games: Yeah, most games suck and that was expected. Still, SSX, Tekken Tag and Dead or Alive 2 rock. Remeber that most games coming out right now are direct ports, they're barely using the extra hardware capabilities the PS2 has.
Backwards-Compatibility: All of my old games work fine and most look better than ever with texture smoothing. FF7 sometimes crashes with high disc speed, but that's it.
Hype: A lot of people are nit-picking at Sony for hyping the PS2 a lot. I don't agree; all the hoopla about the PS2 came from resellers, not from Sony. Has anyone seen an ad for the system actually from Sony? I haven't.
I'm happy. So should you be.
My $0.0125:
An absolute must-see comedy series of six episodes is "Golden Boy", dubbed version is excellent (I've watched both), NOT FOR KIDS, contains very mature subject.
It's about a guy who, after getting all his credits drops out of school and embarks on a journey on his bike and works in various places, saving Japan and maybe even the world (or maybe not), meeting and lusting after the best drawn beautiful women I've ever seen in Anime.
Episode 2 "Temptation of the Maiden" has Naoko, the Mayor's daugther, which looks a lot like Tifa, of FF7 fame. Very cute.
There's also a weird toilet-bowl theme...
It is rib-breaking hilarious.
"Those who hunt elves" is pretty cool too.
DannyC.
> Stop it, Ford. You're turning into a penguin.
> Couldn't resist... anyone why can name the sector they were picked up in wins a lifetime supply of o2.
ZZ-9-Plural-Z-Alpha.
I want it in 2 Liter bottles.
...a 70's-style monolithic kernel like Linux...
:)
Go back to yer hole, Prof. Tanenbaum!
If I know all the answers to those, do I win anything?
Who would even dare to guarantee such a thing as a 99% uptime for NT? I wonder why the article never mentioned WHO guarantees it, that would be interesting...
I have absolutetly no doubt believing NT scores 99% uptime since that is a PISS-POOR stability figure. That would mean a down-time of one hour every 4 days and in a production environment, that sucks!
Linux scores much better, about 99.998% in my experience (about 45 minutes of downtime in about four years use).
... I just passed in front of our Help Desk board a minute ago; they had to reboot one of our Micros~1 servers again. Second time this week...
Haha.
can't wait until memory management is moved to hardware only. Maybe Linux MM would stop crashing.
Are you trying to spread FUD? I've been using Linux for 7 years now, never had it crash. What are you _doing_ wrong?
I'll take anything Daryll says at face value.
Thanks for the Monster Fusion support, man!
"... The concept of free software is a well-known and frequently practised strategy of the weak"
He then draws a parallel between AT&T's licensing of SystemV with Linux's openness. AT&T's strategy was a market-driven, commercial venture, Linux's openness isn't.
"When HP and Sun acknowledge Linux as a viable challenger, we will see its rapid deconstruction as these competitors first embrace and the extend its advantages. Linux is on the verge of being squashed be the strong and will probably not survive in its present form."
Here's the question of code forking again and I must admit that it's worried me before. Thankfully, the open licenses under which the Open Projects operated do not permit it, as Linus said in the MSNBC chat.
About the failure rate of Unix utilities: "... it should not be confused with defect density, a more reliable metric... Unix has more than 10 million lines of code, while Linux has only 1.5 million." His conclusion is that Linux's defect density (lines_of_code/failures) is much higher.
Wrong! The correct ratio is functionality/failures. If a product does what it should do in less lines of code, that's actually a benefit because that's the mark of better, cleaner code that's much easier to debug.
"Thus, Linux's reliability is suspect. In fact, we can expect Linux defect densities to get worse..."
The point is that I've run Linux at home for the last 7 years at home on four different computers and at work for the last 5 years on many, many different computers and in that time have had four unscheduled crashes. Yup, can count them on ONE hand. I have also used Windows for the last two months and since have had more than 20 crashes and have had to re-install 3 times.
Linux gives me more functionality than Windows, for a better price and keeps my personal data (the most important part of my computer) safe.
He later goes on to compare the number of full-time programmers at work on Linux and Microsoft, and the number of beta-testers pointing out that Microsoft has so much more.
Well that doesn't reflect very well on them, now, does it? Considering that they're challenged and therefore but on the same footing as the Open people.
"... Support diminishes still further when the hype wears off an open source application... Mozilla's mailing list declined by 58 percent... Apache..was developed by a cast of thousands is now supported by fewer than 20 core members. Already, Apache is losing the performance battle against Microsoft's IIS."
Mozilla's mailing list: Expected. That's called stabilization. Apache's development team: That's all that's needed, baby! Apache's performance: One wonders where he gets his numbers.
Page 2.
"... Unfortunately, these exceptionally talented programmers (Open source) are in limited supply and, as any open source program becomes widely distributed, this talent will become increasingly scarce."
Limited supply? As far as I known the human race hasn't become infertile, all of a sudden. Anybody can become an Open Source Programmer, in fact, zillions of kids now in school are getting in on the act. That's your supply.
And this is where I quit. The next bits made me angry enough that the only thing I could reply was "F**k off and die, you idiot!" I guess that qualifies as flaming. Oh well.
DannyC.
Who cares? They can only license the name "FireWire", not the standard, IEEE 1394.
Adaptec has already raised this question. Do a search of "FireWire" on their site.
Sony also has another name for it, but for the life of me, it eludes me at the moment.
Hoopla.
How can "the government" choose how much of a recording company gets their products pirated and thus know how much of the cut they should receive?
Once again our elected officials are voting themseleves bread & circuses.
F 'em!