Well, they are using 3 64 bit IBM processors. They will not be using the same CPUs Apple has dubbed the "G5." IBM makes a LOT of different semiconductors.
Moreover, the new xbox will not have 3 CPUs. It'll probably have 1 (perhaps 2), and the other 64 bit semiconductors will be used for other purposes.
Nevertheless, I agree, a 700mhz p3 shouldn't be too hard to emulate with a good a IBM CPU. VPC could probably pull off a 700mhz P3 on a modern dual1.8 or dual2ghz g5. Considering that the xbox will not have to run MacOS and a butt load of system services, they should have plenty of room to play.
True. But, it helps to get a new console off the ground. People don't have to wait months to have a decent selection of games to choose from. Moreover, there are a lot of people who "think" they will play all of their old crappie games:)
Moreover, some games never get old. I know I'd play GoldenEye on my Game Cube if I could. I used to kick ass at that game >:)
Something weird happened with the port of that game. It was being done years ago, and then the project was canned.
Since then Sierra games have been nonexistent on the Mac. Why? Who knows. Sierra is probably reluctant to hand their games over to third party developers.
I agree. Download the indi music yourself. These guys made up a giant BS excuse in order to get free music:/
Apple is a fairly big supporter of indi music. The've been reaching out to a number of smaller labels lately; unlike with record stores, you can preview underground and indi music; AND, you can even submit demos to Apple if you think you're good enough.
Apple only has about half a million songs right now.... nevertheless, seeing as how the ENTIRE NinjaTune catalog is on the iTMS, I doubt we need to worry about smaller labels being supported. I don't need to give my free music these a**holes. I can download Amon Tobin myself >:|
These buttheads should be giving collected bottle caps away to charity. Shess.
Lately we've been using PDF texts at my university. Real text books have become a total rip off.
In order to make a buck, publishers and bookstores have been dealing with tons of "revised" versions of text books. One year a class will use a new text book, however at the end of the year you'll find that you can't sell your book back to the bookstore.
Why? Well the publisher decided to release an updated version, with a fixed typo, and a new cover. The book will be, more or less, -exactly- the same. Nevertheless, the campus bookstore will pick up the new book because forcing people to buy a new version pulls in more money then buying and selling used text books >:(
Moreover, a lot of publishers have also been ripping-off students with CD-ROMs. Lots of new books get marked up because they come with a CD-ROM. Yet, It's not uncommon for the CD-ROM to simply be a cheep-ass compilation of PDF, HTML, or MS word documents that were represented as text in the actual book. "Save for Web...", burn to CD >:|
AND, it can get WORSE! Sometimes publishers combine both of the above rip-off tactics. They'll rerelease a new version of a book, and the new version will be EXACTLY the same as the old one. Yet, this time someone will hit "Save to Web.." in InDesign or Quark, save a digital duplicate of the book to a CD-ROM, repackage the book, and raise the price to reflect the new "digital" content! Soulless Mother F***ers!!!
Now, combine that bullshit, with the fact that professors have to PAY to use the faculty copy machine, and you'll understand why we use PDF documents now.
With mod ships, 20 if your comparing them to a dual 2ghz g5.
But you get 100bt ethernet, no ability to add secondary interconnects, 700mhz 32 bit Pentiums, a whopping 64megs of (slower) ram, no serial ATA, etc etc. That's a fairly poop-a-liciouse cluster node:P
If anything, the ethernet alone would severely cripple this cluster. With a G5 cluster node you get 2 Gigabit ethernet cards standard.
Moreover, the room for these xbox nodes would have to be huuuuuge, G5's will fit in 1u racks. Try explaining to a department chair that you need the whole floor of a campus building to build a cluster made from xboxs and illegal mod chips. I doubt you'll get much funding.
700mhz 32 bit P3 Xboxes... or 2ghz dual processor 64 bit G5s with faster ram faster network cards.
You'd need a LOT of Xboxes, to say the least.
I feel sorry for the poor saps who get stuck putting mod chips in those stupid things. ( pictures the giant pile of xboxes destroyed by soldering mistakes)
Draft up a partnership agreement and a business plan (and buy books before you do either of these things).
Moreover, if you can swing it, try to get a good designer to help you with some preliminary corporate identity work. You could probably get by without paying the designer. See if you can find someone who's unemployed, has knowledge of business, and is willing to be part of a partnership. (just don't hire some 14 year old self taught kid)
After you've done this, start shopping around for business loan. When a bank sees that you have a structure, a well developed plan for making a profit, a plan to market your product/service, and a plan to present yourself... they will give you a loan.
You might also want to explore LLCs and LLPs. You might not want want your personal assets to be endangered should your business get sued or go broke.
(Ohh, and I'm and unemployed interface designer and retail strategist [stupid economy].... so hit me up if anyone is starting something in CA! I can make you some nice shinny buttons and icons:) )
"Wow, that what i was gonna do before i left college for the army. I was going to do interdisciplinary Psychology + computer science concentrating on user interfaces and do research."
Nice:) I did sociology and graphic design:). However, there are a bunch of combos one can pursue.
"As for america's army, i don't see it as propaganda because a lot of the stuff is real and its not politically motivated. I think its the best attempt to remind people that the army is an option."
True. America's Army is basically an advertisement for our Army (hence the free download:) ). It reminds us that the Army exists, and it presents the Army in a fairly positive light. However, by definition, advertisements for political or military principles are labeled "propaganda." Sometimes these advertisements can be used for good (ie: The US in WW2), and sometimes they can be used for things that aren't so good (ie: Germany in WW2).
Right now the war is a fairly controversial topic. Half the nation is for it, and half the nation is against it. We got Saddam, but we didn't find any WMDs and Kay resigned.
Therefore some people are in support of the military ads, some are not, and a load of other folks are place in between. I'd consider myself in the latter category
All in all, if I had a computer store, I probably wouldn't demo AA for free. You guys in the Army do a lot of shit that I would never do, but it's a heated issue over hear in civilian land. The line between defense and aggression has been skewed for a lot of people. I'd rather leave Army recruitment to the recruitment center.
At the very least, If I were to demo AA, I'd also like to have a demo of UN Ambassador. However, I'm sure that game would suck ass and only appeal to geeks who like Star Wars Stratego and Risk.:)
I've been playing for about 15 some odd years. I have both an acoustic set and some Roland V drums. The V drums sound very very real if you have them connected to a good PA or nice a recording set up. If you don't have good equipment, and you don't sound check this shit out of them before you play, they sound kind'a fake.
With V drums you can virtually alter drum woods, alter cymbal metals, alter instrument sizes, switch drum heads (pin strip, coated, etc), place tape or foam on your heads, use brushes, grab and mute cymbal crashes, add a custom levels to the snare gate, tight or loosen head, change room acoustics, stick stuff in the bass drum, etc etc.
If you know what your doing you can make them sound real and imperfect just like an acoustic set. However, you -need- a good PA, and you need to sound check the shit out of them before you play (quick set up, long sound check).
"Artists get paid out of the profits from the sale of their material. The record companies don't really spend any money to pay them."
It depends on your contract. They vary a lot.
When I used to work for a label, good artists were given around $250,000 to 1 million. After that, they -owed- the label one, or a number, of albums; a number of concerts and shows, etc.
If they didn't fulfill this contract, the label would automatically stake claim on any albums or performances done independently or with another label.
This contract arrangement can been good because it assures the artist will not have a future career unless they fulfill your needs. It's kind of like selling your soul to the devil >:) If you think they are a -really- good artist you can give them an ass load of money and force them to give you the rights their next 5 albums. If they spend the money, and sign with a different label, you go to court, show the contract, and get the album(s) they produced with the other labels funds:)
A lot of dumb folks get screwed over this way. They get a contract for multiple albums, but don't get enough money to produce multiple albums. Once they are broke, they find another label, and the old label gets an album paid for by the new label.
all in all... read the fine print. Pay a paralegal $100bucks, and have the contract read before you sign.
True. However, I think he's more concerned about America's Army being a giant piece of propaganda.
I have nothing against with the Army, violent video games, etc. However, shameless propaganda is fairly tasteless.
Ohh and I'm a user interface designer. I get to use photoshop all day, I get to wear whatever I want to work, I get to drink beer at lunch, and I have lots of free time to snowboard and surf. I'm not complaining anytime soon:)
How can a large music company like Yamaha come up with cool new music software, and not even provide Mac users with a demo. Or at the very least, how 'bout some audio samples that aren't in a codec that OS X's Windows Media 9 player can't even read:(
I know we're a small percentage of the population... but not in the music industry. Windows and linux studio machines are like big foot to me. I see evidence that they exists, and every once and a while I catch a glimpse of what appears to be one. But, for the most part, all of the people I've worked with, and all the friends I've played with have all used some sort of Mac. From the lowly Classic with Cakewalk, to the "damn that's" expensive G5 with ProTools.
I guess I'll stick with Fred and Veronica in simple text. Shit, Radiohead did it on OK Computer.
Steve Jobs recently gave an interesting interview about the music industry.
He noted that for every 10 high potential artist a major label promotes, only 1 makes it. Typically, it costs a large label around 1 million to promote, pay, and produce a single artist (I once worked for a label, I can confirm this).
So this means, it cost about 10 million dollars to find one needle in a haystack. Those artist who do "make it" have to, essentially, pay for the giant losses made by the 9 other artists who didn't make it.
According to Jobs, the record industry is a fairly shitty business.
Well since they are polyester I imagine that they are only for walking around.
These gloves should be made with gortex and should be marketed to people that work in the harsh cold and snow.
Unless you actually need all 5 fingers, gloves are really kind'a dumb. Mittens (and yes, people make cool mittens now), are much much warmer then gloves since your fingers are lumped together. Anyone that's lived in cold weather, or is an avid snow rider will tell you that.
These why spend money on expensive Nintendo Power Gloves when you could pick up a pair of trendy mittens for fraction of the price?
I'm not underestimating OS X's security and the intelligence of it's user base. I'm a usability designer, I assume everything is flawed and most people are dumb;)
However, by default, OS X has number of small design differences (may of which are shared with other *nix OS's) which result in better security.
No doubt, a nasty trojan can still screw with someone's home directory. Yet the likely hood of a worm spreading or someone's entire systems being damaged is lower for OS X users.
It OS X security or it users perfect? No. But, I have a hell of a lot more security problems with my Windows systems then I do with my linux and OS X systems:/
Yes, but by default OS X users are given a user account, separate from root. And, even if they have an admin account (not to be confused with root), they have to type in an administrator password to confirm installations that affect areas outside of the user's home directory.
You can send an OS X user a malicious Apple Script file with an MPEG icon on it, and they'll probably double click it thinking they are going to view free prOn. But as soon as the "administrator password" box comes up, odds are they are going to hit "cancel" and not grant access to their root directory:/
Moreover user accounts in OS X are quite flexible. Unlike Windows users, OS X users rarely require the need to login to, and remain working within, the root level.
Every Windows office I've ever administered has had numerous problems with user accounts, users working in root 24/7, etc
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Well, they are using 3 64 bit IBM processors. They will not be using the same CPUs Apple has dubbed the "G5." IBM makes a LOT of different semiconductors.
Moreover, the new xbox will not have 3 CPUs. It'll probably have 1 (perhaps 2), and the other 64 bit semiconductors will be used for other purposes.
Nevertheless, I agree, a 700mhz p3 shouldn't be too hard to emulate with a good a IBM CPU. VPC could probably pull off a 700mhz P3 on a modern dual1.8 or dual2ghz g5. Considering that the xbox will not have to run MacOS and a butt load of system services, they should have plenty of room to play.
True. But, it helps to get a new console off the ground. People don't have to wait months to have a decent selection of games to choose from. Moreover, there are a lot of people who "think" they will play all of their old crappie games :)
Moreover, some games never get old. I know I'd play GoldenEye on my Game Cube if I could. I used to kick ass at that game >:)
Something weird happened with the port of that game. It was being done years ago, and then the project was canned.
Since then Sierra games have been nonexistent on the Mac. Why? Who knows. Sierra is probably reluctant to hand their games over to third party developers.
"Don't TELL me Slashdot is more intellectually stimulating than Must See T.V."
I can't recall the last time my TV allowed me to read, think, and interact with it.
I agree. Download the indi music yourself. These guys made up a giant BS excuse in order to get free music :/
Apple is a fairly big supporter of indi music. The've been reaching out to a number of smaller labels lately; unlike with record stores, you can preview underground and indi music; AND, you can even submit demos to Apple if you think you're good enough.
Apple only has about half a million songs right now.... nevertheless, seeing as how the ENTIRE NinjaTune catalog is on the iTMS, I doubt we need to worry about smaller labels being supported. I don't need to give my free music these a**holes. I can download Amon Tobin myself >:|
These buttheads should be giving collected bottle caps away to charity. Shess.
Lately we've been using PDF texts at my university. Real text books have become a total rip off.
:(
In order to make a buck, publishers and bookstores have been dealing with tons of "revised" versions of text books. One year a class will use a new text book, however at the end of the year you'll find that you can't sell your book back to the bookstore.
Why? Well the publisher decided to release an updated version, with a fixed typo, and a new cover. The book will be, more or less, -exactly- the same. Nevertheless, the campus bookstore will pick up the new book because forcing people to buy a new version pulls in more money then buying and selling used text books >:(
Moreover, a lot of publishers have also been ripping-off students with CD-ROMs. Lots of new books get marked up because they come with a CD-ROM. Yet, It's not uncommon for the CD-ROM to simply be a cheep-ass compilation of PDF, HTML, or MS word documents that were represented as text in the actual book. "Save for Web...", burn to CD >:|
AND, it can get WORSE! Sometimes publishers combine both of the above rip-off tactics. They'll rerelease a new version of a book, and the new version will be EXACTLY the same as the old one. Yet, this time someone will hit "Save to Web.." in InDesign or Quark, save a digital duplicate of the book to a CD-ROM, repackage the book, and raise the price to reflect the new "digital" content! Soulless Mother F***ers!!!
Now, combine that bullshit, with the fact that professors have to PAY to use the faculty copy machine, and you'll understand why we use PDF documents now.
It's sad
With mod ships, 20 if your comparing them to a dual 2ghz g5.
:P
But you get 100bt ethernet, no ability to add secondary interconnects, 700mhz 32 bit Pentiums, a whopping 64megs of (slower) ram, no serial ATA, etc etc. That's a fairly poop-a-liciouse cluster node
If anything, the ethernet alone would severely cripple this cluster. With a G5 cluster node you get 2 Gigabit ethernet cards standard.
Moreover, the room for these xbox nodes would have to be huuuuuge, G5's will fit in 1u racks. Try explaining to a department chair that you need the whole floor of a campus building to build a cluster made from xboxs and illegal mod chips. I doubt you'll get much funding.
700mhz 32 bit P3 Xboxes ... or 2ghz dual processor 64 bit G5s with faster ram faster network cards.
You'd need a LOT of Xboxes, to say the least.
I feel sorry for the poor saps who get stuck putting mod chips in those stupid things. ( pictures the giant pile of xboxes destroyed by soldering mistakes)
Wow. That'd be a horrible way to go.
Turd hits ground, and then... turd triggers mine. Ouch
Unless they grow in Sand in 120degree temperatures, they aren't going to be useful where we need them them most.
Draft up a partnership agreement and a business plan (and buy books before you do either of these things).
... they will give you a loan.
:) )
Moreover, if you can swing it, try to get a good designer to help you with some preliminary corporate identity work. You could probably get by without paying the designer. See if you can find someone who's unemployed, has knowledge of business, and is willing to be part of a partnership. (just don't hire some 14 year old self taught kid)
After you've done this, start shopping around for business loan. When a bank sees that you have a structure, a well developed plan for making a profit, a plan to market your product/service, and a plan to present yourself
You might also want to explore LLCs and LLPs. You might not want want your personal assets to be endangered should your business get sued or go broke.
(Ohh, and I'm and unemployed interface designer and retail strategist [stupid economy].... so hit me up if anyone is starting something in CA! I can make you some nice shinny buttons and icons
"Wow, that what i was gonna do before i left college for the army. I was going to do interdisciplinary Psychology + computer science concentrating on user interfaces and do research."
:) :). However, there are a bunch of combos one can pursue.
:) ). It reminds us that the Army exists, and it presents the Army in a fairly positive light. However, by definition, advertisements for political or military principles are labeled "propaganda." Sometimes these advertisements can be used for good (ie: The US in WW2), and sometimes they can be used for things that aren't so good (ie: Germany in WW2).
:)
Nice
I did sociology and graphic design
"As for america's army, i don't see it as propaganda because a lot of the stuff is real and its not politically motivated. I think its the best attempt to remind people that the army is an option."
True.
America's Army is basically an advertisement for our Army (hence the free download
Right now the war is a fairly controversial topic. Half the nation is for it, and half the nation is against it. We got Saddam, but we didn't find any WMDs and Kay resigned.
Therefore some people are in support of the military ads, some are not, and a load of other folks are place in between. I'd consider myself in the latter category
All in all, if I had a computer store, I probably wouldn't demo AA for free. You guys in the Army do a lot of shit that I would never do, but it's a heated issue over hear in civilian land. The line between defense and aggression has been skewed for a lot of people. I'd rather leave Army recruitment to the recruitment center.
At the very least, If I were to demo AA, I'd also like to have a demo of UN Ambassador. However, I'm sure that game would suck ass and only appeal to geeks who like Star Wars Stratego and Risk.
Just my 2
I've been playing for about 15 some odd years. I have both an acoustic set and some Roland V drums. The V drums sound very very real if you have them connected to a good PA or nice a recording set up. If you don't have good equipment, and you don't sound check this shit out of them before you play, they sound kind'a fake.
With V drums you can virtually alter drum woods, alter cymbal metals, alter instrument sizes, switch drum heads (pin strip, coated, etc), place tape or foam on your heads, use brushes, grab and mute cymbal crashes, add a custom levels to the snare gate, tight or loosen head, change room acoustics, stick stuff in the bass drum, etc etc.
If you know what your doing you can make them sound real and imperfect just like an acoustic set. However, you -need- a good PA, and you need to sound check the shit out of them before you play (quick set up, long sound check).
"Artists get paid out of the profits from the sale of their material. The record companies don't really spend any money to pay them."
:)
It depends on your contract. They vary a lot.
When I used to work for a label, good artists were given around $250,000 to 1 million. After that, they -owed- the label one, or a number, of albums; a number of concerts and shows, etc.
If they didn't fulfill this contract, the label would automatically stake claim on any albums or performances done independently or with another label.
This contract arrangement can been good because it assures the artist will not have a future career unless they fulfill your needs. It's kind of like selling your soul to the devil >:) If you think they are a -really- good artist you can give them an ass load of money and force them to give you the rights their next 5 albums. If they spend the money, and sign with a different label, you go to court, show the contract, and get the album(s) they produced with the other labels funds
A lot of dumb folks get screwed over this way. They get a contract for multiple albums, but don't get enough money to produce multiple albums. Once they are broke, they find another label, and the old label gets an album paid for by the new label.
all in all... read the fine print. Pay a paralegal $100bucks, and have the contract read before you sign.
True. However, I think he's more concerned about America's Army being a giant piece of propaganda.
:)
I have nothing against with the Army, violent video games, etc. However, shameless propaganda is fairly tasteless.
Ohh and I'm a user interface designer. I get to use photoshop all day, I get to wear whatever I want to work, I get to drink beer at lunch, and I have lots of free time to snowboard and surf. I'm not complaining anytime soon
How can a large music company like Yamaha come up with cool new music software, and not even provide Mac users with a demo. Or at the very least, how 'bout some audio samples that aren't in a codec that OS X's Windows Media 9 player can't even read :(
:(
I know we're a small percentage of the population... but not in the music industry. Windows and linux studio machines are like big foot to me. I see evidence that they exists, and every once and a while I catch a glimpse of what appears to be one. But, for the most part, all of the people I've worked with, and all the friends I've played with have all used some sort of Mac. From the lowly Classic with Cakewalk, to the "damn that's" expensive G5 with ProTools.
I guess I'll stick with Fred and Veronica in simple text. Shit, Radiohead did it on OK Computer.
No Mongo... I mean Vocaloid for me
"Geez, I hope they don't make a computer that can drum."
;)
:) http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
I'm a drummer too... and unfortunately, I think we were the first to get replaced.
Heck now it's got'n so cheep that Apple will let you bust out MIDI or WAV looped percussion for $50bucks
Steve Jobs recently gave an interesting interview about the music industry.
He noted that for every 10 high potential artist a major label promotes, only 1 makes it. Typically, it costs a large label around 1 million to promote, pay, and produce a single artist (I once worked for a label, I can confirm this).
So this means, it cost about 10 million dollars to find one needle in a haystack. Those artist who do "make it" have to, essentially, pay for the giant losses made by the 9 other artists who didn't make it.
According to Jobs, the record industry is a fairly shitty business.
The wave of shitty music made in GarageBand begins :) :)
Nice sig
Well since they are polyester I imagine that they are only for walking around.
These gloves should be made with gortex and should be marketed to people that work in the harsh cold and snow.
Unless you actually need all 5 fingers, gloves are really kind'a dumb. Mittens (and yes, people make cool mittens now), are much much warmer then gloves since your fingers are lumped together. Anyone that's lived in cold weather, or is an avid snow rider will tell you that.
These why spend money on expensive Nintendo Power Gloves when you could pick up a pair of trendy mittens for fraction of the price?
As Dave Chappelle once said in his Apple Switch Ad...
Real Video: Broadband
Real Video: 56k
"I'm a chronic masturbator. I don't know what they make the keys out of, but, whatever it is, it's non stick"
I'd love to have a little cube of this on my desk. Anyone know where you might be able to buy some?
I'm not underestimating OS X's security and the intelligence of it's user base. I'm a usability designer, I assume everything is flawed and most people are dumb ;)
:/
However, by default, OS X has number of small design differences (may of which are shared with other *nix OS's) which result in better security.
No doubt, a nasty trojan can still screw with someone's home directory. Yet the likely hood of a worm spreading or someone's entire systems being damaged is lower for OS X users.
It OS X security or it users perfect? No. But, I have a hell of a lot more security problems with my Windows systems then I do with my linux and OS X systems
Yes, but by default OS X users are given a user account, separate from root. And, even if they have an admin account (not to be confused with root), they have to type in an administrator password to confirm installations that affect areas outside of the user's home directory.
:/
You can send an OS X user a malicious Apple Script file with an MPEG icon on it, and they'll probably double click it thinking they are going to view free prOn. But as soon as the "administrator password" box comes up, odds are they are going to hit "cancel" and not grant access to their root directory
Moreover user accounts in OS X are quite flexible. Unlike Windows users, OS X users rarely require the need to login to, and remain working within, the root level.
Every Windows office I've ever administered has had numerous problems with user accounts, users working in root 24/7, etc
Can we start putting phone booths back now?