The XBox 2 will almost certainly have a minimum of a 2GHz G5 which should be up to the task of emulating a P3 733, particularly since the developers will have the complete source code to the APIs, which can be compiled as native code and calls to them trapped by the emulator to the native implementations.
Don't forget. for a video game machine the graphics core is more important then the CPU core. ATI does the GPU for the next Xbox. Nvidia for the last one. Since Nvidia owns all the specs and code for the GPU ATI can't "Emulate" it without some pretty significant legal wrangling. It's pretty much given that the Xbox 2 wont' be backwards compatible.
By saying "story and strategy", I think you mean "RPGs and Strategy Games". It's not quite the same thing. I appreciate some story and some strategy, but am not a big fan of either genre
thats just one part of the library. Do they have any strategy games (Pucelle/ diseaga), how about odd ball games (Most titles on the GC), RPG's (FF series), Action/Adventure (Devil may cry), Puzzlers (Super puzzle fighter)...
they lack diversity int heir library. It's mostly a few genres they support and thus they mostly get a percentage of gamers who value those genres.
what happened to Dreamcast was that Sega had huge losses because of previous failed systems, they didn't have enough capital or games to back their project up. Microsoft has had success with Xbox and I assume that Xbox2 will be a backwards compatiable, and that will ensure previous Xbox users have a home in Xbox2. And as for if PS3 comes out and its deemed better than Xbox2, then guess what, in a year or two XBox3 will be out. Its a one up game.
HArdware has pretty bad lead times. The ATI card released now was planned and reserached 18 months ago. ATI and Nvidia have 3 teams of hardware engineers workig to release in parrallel. Team A for now, Team B for 6 months from now, Team C for a year from now. Consoles have larger lead times still. So if they release a year earlier or a year later or at the same time, the quality of the hardware won't change much, PS3 has been in plannign and R&D since a few months after PS2. For MS to be able to one up them they will have to spend a lot on R&D and buy a lot of diferent hardware. They will be in the same situation next time as with the Xbox (900 hardware sold at 400) if they release early while Sony is pretty much be int he same situation as they were with the PS2 (650 box sold at 400).
Just a note: Tech companies keep cash reserves. They may have a large amount of stock but they also have a large ass cash reserve. Apple has 6 bil. I'd figure MS has at least 3 times that in cash. It has to do with confidence. In order for investors to feel safe investing in "tech" they want to see you have enough cash reserve to fund your own R&D shoudl your sales go to shit.
Thus the cost of development AND the cost of production (as compared to a PS/2 with a hard drive and NIC) should be lower.
Thats not true. The R&D was cheaper but the Production cost was not because they included a pricey HD and a graphics core that they did not produce. The price of the Nvidia chips had a finite price plan that made them gradually cheaper but the decrease wasn't fast or steep. Of the 3 current ones, PS2 is cheaper to produce due to quantity and the age of the hardware and GC is cheaper still because Nintendo had a good deal on their chip production from ATI and the rest they produce in house.
Quality means a hell of a lot more. Deep impact vs Armegeddon:
Deep impact: Thoughtful almost plausible and mostly logically correct if scientifically flawed movies with good actors and a decent script.
Armegeddon: Schlok. And lots of it. Scientifically garbabge, Acting is not very good. Plot is silly.
One vastly out sell the other.
VHS vs BETA
VHS: looks like garbage but is long
Beta: Look great, but is short originally
VHS wins.
IT's not so much about "Quality" as it is about marketing / reputation / Availability / and receptiveness of the market. Only 2 of the 4 things can be controlled by a producer.
You can't observe a particle of an entangled pair more than once. After its been observed and their possible states collapse into one definite state, the entanglement stops.
If you could a) influence the state of one b) measure the state of the other
couldn't you just bring a whoel bag of particles and have a communicatiosn channel with a finite lifespan?
Video streaming. Pushed the comsumption of bandwidth up and thus the per capita price of bandwidth down. Principal economic force behind the expansion of the internet. at least for brining more web hosts into exsistence. Lead the charge in e-commerce. Security and fuctionality was pushed by the industry. They don't specifically create technologies. Only provide a huge market place for them and thus incentive to create such technologies. companies like IVista appear to specialize in Tele-Confrencing but actually make most fo their money supplying software to cam girl sites.
One of the few companies that actually does it's own coding for applicatiosn is IFriends. They write their own video chat streaming programs and servers. And credit companies on the net Generally made their money through Porn site.s CCbill. MyPaysystems. And hundreds of others.
Since it's imprinintg properties it's more like duplicating. Imagine duplicating the celebrity of yoru choice to spend the night with. Knowing Quntum mechanics, You pick randomly a box of names and you won't know who it is until you wake up the next morning and when you find out they disappear is a flash of neutrinos.
Like the communicaiton devices in Enders game. Ansible. This could make space flight more reasonable. Instant communicatiosn back with home base. and robotics too. No lag or latency between communications.
It matters because there a a sweet spot in a lot of peoples budgets where a expense is not a major expense. For me anything below 50$ I grab at anytime without a thought. 50-100 requires some budgeting. 100-150 requires saving. 200+ requires multi-paycheck saving. I make a okay amount but I'm a saver so I will not spend more then 300$ a paycheck on games or gadgets. I ussually spend only 50-100 a paycheck on games.
Your going ot have to define economic freedom. The chart has some credibility issues placing a semi-protectionist / low tax republic (US) with low tarrif / high tax states (Canada) and some very very socialist and well regulated states (Denmark). It's using some measureing stick I am unfamiliar with. The US is hardly the bastion of free trade and commerce it portrays itself to be. It's acted very protectionist under Bush. Soft wood tarrifs, contraveneing NAFTA disobeying WTO, Hardly a free trade ideal.
Canada is also on the list, Canada is a fairly highly tax very large government foot print and a lto of regulation. Contrevening the ideas you put forth about Government inhibiting commerce and trade? Denmark? Switzerland. all socialist states with immense beuracracies. Hk lacks so much of it but it's like the philipines. I've visited there a few times. You basically can do what ever you please so long as the right officials get their money. Like the philipines. The Communists have stepped up the regulatory pressure but generally left thigns alone.
The libretarian view is just as short sighted and faulty as the communist one. Unregulated and un checked economic activity has cycles that are very counter productive. Gigantic booms and busts. Read some of the treaties Keynes wrote. They speak od such things. You need the Government to stop the economy from overheating to avoid inflation, one of the evils of the economy that robs people of their buying power. In other times, when the economy isn't doign so good you have to prop it up with spendign to avoid deflation. The killer of industry and commerce. You cannot let it go unchecked or else you will have economies like the philipines where some years all you need is a dream and a smile to make it rich. While in others the merest breath of a recession sends stock plumetting and leads to poverty.
Socialism generally works but does not lead to hyper productive workes liek Asia and America has. And communism isn't viable long term. Libretarianism arises out of some notion that the economy with self regulate and produce lots of wealth and plenty for everyone. It simpyl isn't supported. Un regulated economies (Generally the philipiens is unregulatable) rise and fall rapidly and are prone to manipulation and monopolies. How does a free market work when I am the only corporation. (PLDT) how does competition lead to anythign when I am all my own competition (monsanto) how does welath benifit me if it goes directly to the top and nwo where else (any third world country with a free economy).
Ogre battle. You play the general of a few squads of troops. You marched upon objectives and the only direct contorl you had was to set their formation and tactics and to supply them and occasionally magical intervention.
If you don't stick to the right character upgrade paths, you're screwed. Oh, and there's lots of boring levelling.
Lots of ways to develope. You can be an ubber caster. And ubber speed demon. and ubber archer. Ever try finishing the game with archers only. Man that a challenge. It's a hard hard game and you don't need to depend on just one build. Some builds make it easier btu if you don't mine 1h battle you can finish it without leveling with just archers. It's just hard. Now if you powerlevel and use all the exploits you can finishe off the end boss with 3 characters in one tunr.
Try soloing the game. With the exception of the first battle, never use anyone but your main character. I did it. All you need is a lto of patience. But I had a ubebr set up. less then 10 faith 99 brave. Blade grasp + two swords + walk +3 + battleskills + throw + leveled up / leveled downed= ungodly unhittable monster that does 1800 dmg consitantly and moves twice each turn, magic immune and high powered range(try throwing a duped chaos bladE).
you have to ustilize formations as well. Solo characters tend to get gang banged if seperated from the group. And You can mimic SF class syste too. Just don't make any character oober and make them one class and make them stay that way for the rest of the game. It gives you the option. SF was ok. Faint praise for sure from me. I found all the genesis versions rather bland. It never really did mroe then tactics ogre but lacked a lot of features of tactics ogre liek job advancement and what not. I think it was an okay game btu feel Sega fans highly over rate it. Even compare it to it's RPG peers liek FF6 FF4 Dragon Quest 4 +5. It doesn't compare that favorably.
Where is your source? I lived in the philipines for a while. The government precence is limited. Most people don't even have any official Id and rarely interact with the government. The corrupt use the government. They have few regulations and taxes are difficult to collect. Many do not pay taxes. They are as close to a unhindered free economy as there exsists in this world.
How often do you find a valid key generator to a new game on the net. dimes to dollar you won't find one within the first 6 months of the games release. The tool used to generate them are often just approximations of the algorithm done by tracing back form a few valid keys. If it was implemented correctly it'd take a while before anyone firgures out the algorithm. Quake 3 "cd-key already in use" wasn't a key generator problem I heard it was an actual bug. and they removed the protection scheme in the sub sequent patches. Also if theres a central validating server, like battle.net it makes cd-keys work better. You and 3 of your buddies can install it but you all have to play different servers.
starcraft? The only copy protection on it is a serial key and the requirement to have the cd in the drive(saferom I think). It's not intrusive. Just blind write the cd and mount er up. no cracks needed. Adn you'll never need the cd again.
Thats fine, but the Wright Brothers are the 'Fathers of Fight'? Aren't they?
They invented a powered glider that bears little to no resemblance structurally to modern airplanes or even airplanes of the first world war. They were merely first and even this is arguable. Dozens of other people were working on anogous systems and many of them contributed to the creation of the airplane. Same with Pong. If not Richard Baer then someone else would have. It's completely anologous. His machine was a one off analog device that bares no resemblance to future generations just like the wright brothers. It's success may have inspired other people to try but it's highly highly likly that Video games woudl have been invented eventually by someone else if he hadn't.
In general Humanity have had periods or prosperity and recession nothign new. And durig our now regulated 7 years cycles we have achived a lot. Leting atll restrictiosn go and watching the ecnomy react will not prove libetarians right. It'll just show that greedy people get greedier and w'ell becoem like the philipines. Rampant corruption, huge monopolies and a destitute people.
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The XBox 2 will almost certainly have a minimum of a 2GHz G5 which should be up to the task of emulating a P3 733, particularly since the developers will have the complete source code to the APIs, which can be compiled as native code and calls to them trapped by the emulator to the native implementations.
Don't forget. for a video game machine the graphics core is more important then the CPU core. ATI does the GPU for the next Xbox. Nvidia for the last one. Since Nvidia owns all the specs and code for the GPU ATI can't "Emulate" it without some pretty significant legal wrangling. It's pretty much given that the Xbox 2 wont' be backwards compatible.
By saying "story and strategy", I think you mean "RPGs and Strategy Games". It's not quite the same thing. I appreciate some story and some strategy, but am not a big fan of either genre
thats just one part of the library. Do they have any strategy games (Pucelle/ diseaga), how about odd ball games (Most titles on the GC), RPG's (FF series), Action/Adventure (Devil may cry), Puzzlers (Super puzzle fighter)...
they lack diversity int heir library. It's mostly a few genres they support and thus they mostly get a percentage of gamers who value those genres.
what happened to Dreamcast was that Sega had huge losses because of previous failed systems, they didn't have enough capital or games to back their project up. Microsoft has had success with Xbox and I assume that Xbox2 will be a backwards compatiable, and that will ensure previous Xbox users have a home in Xbox2. And as for if PS3 comes out and its deemed better than Xbox2, then guess what, in a year or two XBox3 will be out. Its a one up game.
HArdware has pretty bad lead times. The ATI card released now was planned and reserached 18 months ago. ATI and Nvidia have 3 teams of hardware engineers workig to release in parrallel. Team A for now, Team B for 6 months from now, Team C for a year from now. Consoles have larger lead times still. So if they release a year earlier or a year later or at the same time, the quality of the hardware won't change much, PS3 has been in plannign and R&D since a few months after PS2. For MS to be able to one up them they will have to spend a lot on R&D and buy a lot of diferent hardware. They will be in the same situation next time as with the Xbox (900 hardware sold at 400) if they release early while Sony is pretty much be int he same situation as they were with the PS2 (650 box sold at 400).
Just a note: Tech companies keep cash reserves. They may have a large amount of stock but they also have a large ass cash reserve. Apple has 6 bil. I'd figure MS has at least 3 times that in cash. It has to do with confidence. In order for investors to feel safe investing in "tech" they want to see you have enough cash reserve to fund your own R&D shoudl your sales go to shit.
Thus the cost of development AND the cost of production (as compared to a PS/2 with a hard drive and NIC) should be lower.
Thats not true. The R&D was cheaper but the Production cost was not because they included a pricey HD and a graphics core that they did not produce. The price of the Nvidia chips had a finite price plan that made them gradually cheaper but the decrease wasn't fast or steep. Of the 3 current ones, PS2 is cheaper to produce due to quantity and the age of the hardware and GC is cheaper still because Nintendo had a good deal on their chip production from ATI and the rest they produce in house.
Quality means a hell of a lot more.
Deep impact vs Armegeddon:
Deep impact:
Thoughtful almost plausible and mostly logically correct if scientifically flawed movies with good actors and a decent script.
Armegeddon:
Schlok. And lots of it. Scientifically garbabge, Acting is not very good. Plot is silly.
One vastly out sell the other.
VHS vs BETA
VHS: looks like garbage but is long
Beta: Look great, but is short originally
VHS wins.
IT's not so much about "Quality" as it is about marketing / reputation / Availability / and receptiveness of the market. Only 2 of the 4 things can be controlled by a producer.
You can't observe a particle of an entangled pair more than once. After its been observed and their possible states collapse into one definite state, the entanglement stops.
If you could
a) influence the state of one
b) measure the state of the other
couldn't you just bring a whoel bag of particles and have a communicatiosn channel with a finite lifespan?
But what cost? Only government would want new technology this fast, maybe your NSA, that around codebreaking.
And nobody will require more then 640k. And the world will need only 10 computers.
Hard to predict what off-beat academic research (lasers) will turn into useful consumer products (cd-players).
Video streaming. Pushed the comsumption of bandwidth up and thus the per capita price of bandwidth down. Principal economic force behind the expansion of the internet. at least for brining more web hosts into exsistence. Lead the charge in e-commerce. Security and fuctionality was pushed by the industry. They don't specifically create technologies. Only provide a huge market place for them and thus incentive to create such technologies. companies like IVista appear to specialize in Tele-Confrencing but actually make most fo their money supplying software to cam girl sites.
One of the few companies that actually does it's own coding for applicatiosn is IFriends. They write their own video chat streaming programs and servers. And credit companies on the net Generally made their money through Porn site.s CCbill. MyPaysystems. And hundreds of others.
Since it's imprinintg properties it's more like duplicating. Imagine duplicating the celebrity of yoru choice to spend the night with. Knowing Quntum mechanics, You pick randomly a box of names and you won't know who it is until you wake up the next morning and when you find out they disappear is a flash of neutrinos.
Like the communicaiton devices in Enders game. Ansible. This could make space flight more reasonable. Instant communicatiosn back with home base. and robotics too. No lag or latency between communications.
Hey, I have a 5.1 sound system. It was cheap at $80. It rivals my stereo systems for bass. Why not have surround sound?
Lunar 2 was better on the Sega CD anyway. The animation was more charming.
It's the muddy sega colors right? They made it every so charming.
It matters because there a a sweet spot in a lot of peoples budgets where a expense is not a major expense. For me anything below 50$ I grab at anytime without a thought. 50-100 requires some budgeting. 100-150 requires saving. 200+ requires multi-paycheck saving. I make a okay amount but I'm a saver so I will not spend more then 300$ a paycheck on games or gadgets. I ussually spend only 50-100 a paycheck on games.
Your going ot have to define economic freedom. The chart has some credibility issues placing a semi-protectionist / low tax republic (US) with low tarrif / high tax states (Canada) and some very very socialist and well regulated states (Denmark). It's using some measureing stick I am unfamiliar with. The US is hardly the bastion of free trade and commerce it portrays itself to be. It's acted very protectionist under Bush. Soft wood tarrifs, contraveneing NAFTA disobeying WTO, Hardly a free trade ideal.
Canada is also on the list, Canada is a fairly highly tax very large government foot print and a lto of regulation. Contrevening the ideas you put forth about Government inhibiting commerce and trade? Denmark? Switzerland. all socialist states with immense beuracracies. Hk lacks so much of it but it's like the philipines. I've visited there a few times. You basically can do what ever you please so long as the right officials get their money. Like the philipines. The Communists have stepped up the regulatory pressure but generally left thigns alone.
The libretarian view is just as short sighted and faulty as the communist one. Unregulated and un checked economic activity has cycles that are very counter productive. Gigantic booms and busts. Read some of the treaties Keynes wrote. They speak od such things. You need the Government to stop the economy from overheating to avoid inflation, one of the evils of the economy that robs people of their buying power. In other times, when the economy isn't doign so good you have to prop it up with spendign to avoid deflation. The killer of industry and commerce. You cannot let it go unchecked or else you will have economies like the philipines where some years all you need is a dream and a smile to make it rich. While in others the merest breath of a recession sends stock plumetting and leads to poverty.
Socialism generally works but does not lead to hyper productive workes liek Asia and America has. And communism isn't viable long term. Libretarianism arises out of some notion that the economy with self regulate and produce lots of wealth and plenty for everyone. It simpyl isn't supported. Un regulated economies (Generally the philipiens is unregulatable) rise and fall rapidly and are prone to manipulation and monopolies. How does a free market work when I am the only corporation. (PLDT) how does competition lead to anythign when I am all my own competition (monsanto) how does welath benifit me if it goes directly to the top and nwo where else (any third world country with a free economy).
ID part of RAID (Inexpensive Disks)
It stopped meanign "inexpensive" right after the designers priced out the components costs. RAID means
Redundant array of independant Disks.
Ogre battle. You play the general of a few squads of troops. You marched upon objectives and the only direct contorl you had was to set their formation and tactics and to supply them and occasionally magical intervention.
If you don't stick to the right character upgrade paths, you're screwed. Oh, and there's lots of boring levelling.
Lots of ways to develope. You can be an ubber caster. And ubber speed demon. and ubber archer. Ever try finishing the game with archers only. Man that a challenge. It's a hard hard game and you don't need to depend on just one build. Some builds make it easier btu if you don't mine 1h battle you can finish it without leveling with just archers. It's just hard. Now if you powerlevel and use all the exploits you can finishe off the end boss with 3 characters in one tunr.
Try soloing the game. With the exception of the first battle, never use anyone but your main character. I did it. All you need is a lto of patience. But I had a ubebr set up. less then 10 faith 99 brave. Blade grasp + two swords + walk +3 + battleskills + throw + leveled up / leveled downed= ungodly unhittable monster that does 1800 dmg consitantly and moves twice each turn, magic immune and high powered range(try throwing a duped chaos bladE).
you have to ustilize formations as well. Solo characters tend to get gang banged if seperated from the group. And You can mimic SF class syste too. Just don't make any character oober and make them one class and make them stay that way for the rest of the game. It gives you the option. SF was ok. Faint praise for sure from me. I found all the genesis versions rather bland. It never really did mroe then tactics ogre but lacked a lot of features of tactics ogre liek job advancement and what not. I think it was an okay game btu feel Sega fans highly over rate it. Even compare it to it's RPG peers liek FF6 FF4 Dragon Quest 4 +5. It doesn't compare that favorably.
Where is your source? I lived in the philipines for a while. The government precence is limited. Most people don't even have any official Id and rarely interact with the government. The corrupt use the government. They have few regulations and taxes are difficult to collect. Many do not pay taxes. They are as close to a unhindered free economy as there exsists in this world.
How often do you find a valid key generator to a new game on the net. dimes to dollar you won't find one within the first 6 months of the games release. The tool used to generate them are often just approximations of the algorithm done by tracing back form a few valid keys. If it was implemented correctly it'd take a while before anyone firgures out the algorithm. Quake 3 "cd-key already in use" wasn't a key generator problem I heard it was an actual bug. and they removed the protection scheme in the sub sequent patches. Also if theres a central validating server, like battle.net it makes cd-keys work better. You and 3 of your buddies can install it but you all have to play different servers.
starcraft? The only copy protection on it is a serial key and the requirement to have the cd in the drive(saferom I think). It's not intrusive. Just blind write the cd and mount er up. no cracks needed. Adn you'll never need the cd again.
Thats fine, but the Wright Brothers are the 'Fathers of Fight'? Aren't they?
They invented a powered glider that bears little to no resemblance structurally to modern airplanes or even airplanes of the first world war. They were merely first and even this is arguable. Dozens of other people were working on anogous systems and many of them contributed to the creation of the airplane. Same with Pong. If not Richard Baer then someone else would have. It's completely anologous. His machine was a one off analog device that bares no resemblance to future generations just like the wright brothers. It's success may have inspired other people to try but it's highly highly likly that Video games woudl have been invented eventually by someone else if he hadn't.
In general Humanity have had periods or prosperity and recession nothign new. And durig our now regulated 7 years cycles we have achived a lot. Leting atll restrictiosn go and watching the ecnomy react will not prove libetarians right. It'll just show that greedy people get greedier and w'ell becoem like the philipines. Rampant corruption, huge monopolies and a destitute people.