the frikkin' thing uses all standard PC parts... feels more like Xbox rip off more than anything.
more games than ANY console?! man, they put out a video like that AND make insane statements like that. wish i could get some of that CRACK the marketting department is smokin'.
i'll be glad if this thing survives... then we don't have to laugh at Xbox about being last!:-)
if you're shelling out for "legal imports" of games, then you should shell out for a "legal imported" console to go with those games.
there is NOTHING stopping you from using a Japanese PS2 in North America. Power, nope (it's all converted to DC at any Hertz and 120 to 100 is no much of a difference.) TV signals, it's all NTSC... accessories, all the same...
so, there is nothing stopping you from having the imported PS2 console... if you can get the games "imported"... then you can get the console too.
i live here and i did that for my DVD player... to play all my "legally imported" region 1 DVDs.
steve Pavlina has some GREAT articles on personal productivity. very simple and straightforward. i've tried a lot of stuff but this one works for me SOO well...
one thing about this article that bugs me a LOT is that how it basically shows google is not an encyclopedia... which it is not designed to be!
you want to find info on apples that go in pies, use an encyclopedia. you want to find a hack for your apple, use google. google is VERY good at finding reliable HUMAN generated content. which is the VERY cool thing about the web... notice how blogs and google work so well with each other?! they basically are imitating each other!
if google is the ONLY tool you have to use the internet with, you really need to buy some books. there is a minimum requirement of intelligence here...
yup, ever since i got my hearing back because of the fan less cube, i've cared less and less for higher end machines. thought about upgrading but fans drive me nuts.
my friend was at WWDC and played with the G5... when that baby is going, you can HEAR the sucking sound. independently controlled my ass!
anyways, i'll enjoy the music i buy from the iTunes store without the background hiss:-)
ok... i am a video compression expert so it's my JOB to find artifacts and deal with them. in the lab, we have some seriously high end equipment, if the input signal sucks, the equipment shows it. if it's good, it shows it.
until recently, we have been feeding our alternate encoder with DVD source as a test for reliability. we had some PS2s sitting around and used that. on the set, you can see DVDs that were sourced from DV camera and it looked like shit with all the interlacing and the block noise in the shadows, etc.
THEN, we got a VERY nice Sony DVP-NS915 progressive output DVD player... the output with the SAME DVDs...
UNBELIEVEABLE.
there was such a world of difference! we even turned off the progressive mode and it was STILL beautiful! this thing kicked the crap out of the PS2 in output quality. no block noise, interlace noise gone, and a LOT cleaner image.
now i know, all DVD players are not equal. you definitely get what you pay for!
for a question like this, get a NICE DVD player and you'll be very happy. get a crappy one, well... you'll be asking this again and again.
also, blue-ray rocks! but you MUST have high end stuff end to end or you're just wasting money.
good point. i should have mentioned that the service is not available yet, but will be very soon.
the thing about with lots of bandwidth is that you still need to find something to fill it... bit torrent seems to be the way to do it. i'm thinking of upgrading to fibre just for that.
oooh whee. as if this really make a frikkin' difference. how many more copies can they sell on the Xbox that they haven't sold to people that have a PS2?!
what percentage of the market has ONLY the Xbox console?! and SOO crazy for it that they could not even stand renting a PS2 to play a game?!
how about: GIGABITS per sec... to reach the potential of your gigabit ethernet equipment, in japan, you can get gigabit ethernet TO THE HOME for only ~40,000yen (~$337) per month!
now that is SWEET!
on bit torrent, i've been downloading stuff at like 160KBps and uploading at like 100KBps... and the best thing is: they keep giving us MORE bandwidth!!! i love it!
the funniest thing when talking to north americans about "broadband" in the home is that they're still using "kbps"... while here, we're talking "Mbps" and greater...
fyi, comparisons for ALL the fibre providers in tokyo, monthly leases here
ok, i don't know WHO the marketting wizards at Eidos are but they REALLY REALLY SUCK ASS.
They can make up for the delayed game WITHOUT resorting to BS marketting tricks like this. Re-name the game to fit with the upcoming Tomb Raider Movie, The Cradle of Life and release it WITH the movie... save cash on marketting the game as the movie will have FAR FAR better marketting (i.e. real boobies) than we can currently generate on any system... everyone will be so tied up with either: [1] Tomb Raider movie [2] Tomb Raider movie, original soundtrack [3] Tomb Raider game [4] Angelina Jolie's chest. [5] all of the above. this will just be a HUGE take for Eidos... everyone will be forgiven...
they totally missed out on the first Tomb Raider movie... although it sucked ass, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2 and 2 2gether... at least this time, they're within the same month...
*sigh* Eidos, just think...:-)
better yet, just copy what Spider-Man did last year...
now, how come everyone is just focusing on SPEC benchmarks?! which compiler, what options were set, etc.?!
i saw the keynote, they had photoshop/mathmatica/etc. going on there... photoshop has been out on PC for a while... REALLY enhanced with MMX/SSE/SSE2... and it probably was using the intel compiler... but the G5 version was only a few months old, barely optimized, and using whatever tools apple gave them (probably GCC 3.3)... and the G5s still kicked a lot of ass.
benchmarks are important but it's not my job. if i can get shit done faster in photoshop with BSD guts, i'm all for it.
working in a video/image compression lab, we always ran into that problem of not finding GOOD source that hasn't been messed around with or other artifacts.
our solution to getting Hi-Def material? Sony's HD-CAM a little pricey, but damn, even george used it for a movie.
umm... why is even SofMap even a major retailer here with all the others (loax, Tzone, tsukumo, bic camera, yodobashi, sakuraya, etc.)?! They have hotter chicks dishing out flyers? Not really, well, maybe some.:-)
SofMap STARTED in used equipment... the CEO learned this from selling used pianos here... it's the only reason why one should goto akihabara instead of shinjuku, shibuya or all the other shopping areas with hotter chicks.
i have ran into this problem before in 2000... some of these problems have been solved now. there are a few ways.
just buy a camera that can handle CDRWs... like the sony CD mavica: Sony Mavica CD 300 or any other of these series. the media is not the standard but carrying 10 of them won't be much of a problem. mailing will be simple too. since it's a smaller CD, whenever you run into civilization, you can back up onto something else (the internet, bigger CDR, DVD, etc.) without needing non-standard parts. (note: smaller camera would be better, but if you're travelling for that long, you will want zoom...)
if you want something else that can handle PC card (all memory types has PC card adapters) like a digital wallet from minds@work (who are out of business... XD ) but there are some out that are previously posted. here's one on ebay: here
that would have kicked ass when i was travelling. shoot until have no battery instead of wasting time dumping pictures...
another would be to get one of these: VAIO C1 note. a picture book. that way, when you have dead time on the train, plane, etc, you can blog on it. adding more details to your pictures, etc. definitely worth thinking about. C1s can be had pretty cheap since they've come out with a few versions already... you gotta hunt on Ebay for a good deal. there are lots here in japan.
email me if you want some more suggestions/tips. i'm not a pro, but i have been on the road with consumer digital camera without a padded wallet and know what it's like.
introduce ANOTHER disc format?! how about OPEN formats for starters?! i don't see any other systems using their format
i betcha that the mini-dvd format for GC is closed AND protected by matsushita... yah, it's a COINCIDENCE that the ONLY other maker of GC is them... the combo DVD player, Game Player Q system geez, i wonder why?!
do we see some parallels here?!
sony --> beta --> UMD
matsushita/panasonic --> vhs --> gc-dvd
it's natural in this area to make a new format...
side note: these pictures were sourced from watch impress japan the first few hours of Sony's E3 announcement. The rest of the story is here. The story's in japanese but slides are english. lots more specs there.
now, why am i not surprised psp insider already got scooped...
arcades still rock big time. why?! for games that use "new" type of interface (DDR, Gun Games, motion sensors, etc.), there is NO WAY the online version would be better if the game needs a new interface.
true, DOA/SF2 has been standardized to hell... ever since the mid-90s... but there's still a hell lot of interfaces for games beyond keyboard/mice/PS2 controller (which is the ONE TRUE controller!) we're JUST getting interesting.
plus, trash talk rules so much more when the other guy is begging for "seconds"... (evil laugh)
Slashdot Mirror
why does nVidia's BEST card STILL take up 2 slots in a machine while ATI AND 3DLabs can make a card with near performance using 1 slot?!
sad... sad. these guys are just mocking consumers that buy into their "marketting"... why do we even comment?!
the frikkin' thing uses all standard PC parts... feels more like Xbox rip off more than anything.
:-)
more games than ANY console?! man, they put out a video like that AND make insane statements like that. wish i could get some of that CRACK the marketting department is smokin'.
i'll be glad if this thing survives... then we don't have to laugh at Xbox about being last!
if you're shelling out for "legal imports" of games, then you should shell out for a "legal imported" console to go with those games.
there is NOTHING stopping you from using a Japanese PS2 in North America. Power, nope (it's all converted to DC at any Hertz and 120 to 100 is no much of a difference.) TV signals, it's all NTSC... accessories, all the same...
so, there is nothing stopping you from having the imported PS2 console... if you can get the games "imported"... then you can get the console too.
i live here and i did that for my DVD player... to play all my "legally imported" region 1 DVDs.
steve Pavlina has some GREAT articles on personal productivity. very simple and straightforward. i've tried a lot of stuff but this one works for me SOO well...
Get More Done
try it. you will definitely get results!
if i only knew in university...
andrew - who is posting this from SIGGRAPH 2003
one thing about this article that bugs me a LOT is that how it basically shows google is not an encyclopedia... which it is not designed to be!
you want to find info on apples that go in pies, use an encyclopedia. you want to find a hack for your apple, use google. google is VERY good at finding reliable HUMAN generated content. which is the VERY cool thing about the web... notice how blogs and google work so well with each other?! they basically are imitating each other!
if google is the ONLY tool you have to use the internet with, you really need to buy some books. there is a minimum requirement of intelligence here...
one word: hearing
:-)
yup, ever since i got my hearing back because of the fan less cube, i've cared less and less for higher end machines. thought about upgrading but fans drive me nuts.
my friend was at WWDC and played with the G5... when that baby is going, you can HEAR the sucking sound. independently controlled my ass!
anyways, i'll enjoy the music i buy from the iTunes store without the background hiss
ok... i am a video compression expert so it's my JOB to find artifacts and deal with them. in the lab, we have some seriously high end equipment, if the input signal sucks, the equipment shows it. if it's good, it shows it.
until recently, we have been feeding our alternate encoder with DVD source as a test for reliability. we had some PS2s sitting around and used that. on the set, you can see DVDs that were sourced from DV camera and it looked like shit with all the interlacing and the block noise in the shadows, etc.
THEN, we got a VERY nice Sony DVP-NS915 progressive output DVD player... the output with the SAME DVDs...
UNBELIEVEABLE.
there was such a world of difference! we even turned off the progressive mode and it was STILL beautiful! this thing kicked the crap out of the PS2 in output quality. no block noise, interlace noise gone, and a LOT cleaner image.
now i know, all DVD players are not equal. you definitely get what you pay for!
for a question like this, get a NICE DVD player and you'll be very happy. get a crappy one, well... you'll be asking this again and again.
also, blue-ray rocks! but you MUST have high end stuff end to end or you're just wasting money.
good point. i should have mentioned that the service is not available yet, but will be very soon.
the thing about with lots of bandwidth is that you still need to find something to fill it... bit torrent seems to be the way to do it. i'm thinking of upgrading to fibre just for that.
oooh whee. as if this really make a frikkin' difference. how many more copies can they sell on the Xbox that they haven't sold to people that have a PS2?!
what percentage of the market has ONLY the Xbox console?! and SOO crazy for it that they could not even stand renting a PS2 to play a game?!
if there are such people. i feel sorry for them.
we're still talking Megabits per sec?!
:-)
how about: GIGABITS per sec... to reach the potential of your gigabit ethernet equipment, in japan, you can get gigabit ethernet TO THE HOME for only ~40,000yen (~$337) per month!
now that is SWEET!
on bit torrent, i've been downloading stuff at like 160KBps and uploading at like 100KBps... and the best thing is: they keep giving us MORE bandwidth!!! i love it!
the funniest thing when talking to north americans about "broadband" in the home is that they're still using "kbps"... while here, we're talking "Mbps" and greater...
fyi, comparisons for ALL the fibre providers in tokyo, monthly leases here
size does matter
ok, i don't know WHO the marketting wizards at Eidos are but they REALLY REALLY SUCK ASS.
:-)
They can make up for the delayed game WITHOUT resorting to BS marketting tricks like this. Re-name the game to fit with the upcoming Tomb Raider Movie, The Cradle of Life and release it WITH the movie... save cash on marketting the game as the movie will have FAR FAR better marketting (i.e. real boobies) than we can currently generate on any system... everyone will be so tied up with either: [1] Tomb Raider movie [2] Tomb Raider movie, original soundtrack [3] Tomb Raider game [4] Angelina Jolie's chest. [5] all of the above. this will just be a HUGE take for Eidos... everyone will be forgiven...
they totally missed out on the first Tomb Raider movie... although it sucked ass, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2 and 2 2gether... at least this time, they're within the same month...
*sigh* Eidos, just think...
better yet, just copy what Spider-Man did last year...
screw bikini, why don't they just sell what we ALL want?!
BOOBIES!
here's a preview:
avi via torrent
now, how come everyone is just focusing on SPEC benchmarks?! which compiler, what options were set, etc.?!
i saw the keynote, they had photoshop/mathmatica/etc. going on there... photoshop has been out on PC for a while... REALLY enhanced with MMX/SSE/SSE2... and it probably was using the intel compiler... but the G5 version was only a few months old, barely optimized, and using whatever tools apple gave them (probably GCC 3.3)... and the G5s still kicked a lot of ass.
benchmarks are important but it's not my job. if i can get shit done faster in photoshop with BSD guts, i'm all for it.
fuck the benches. welcome to the REAL world...
working in a video/image compression lab, we always ran into that problem of not finding GOOD source that hasn't been messed around with or other artifacts.
our solution to getting Hi-Def material? Sony's HD-CAM a little pricey, but damn, even george used it for a movie.
you just can't go wrong here.
umm... why is even SofMap even a major retailer here with all the others (loax, Tzone, tsukumo, bic camera, yodobashi, sakuraya, etc.)?! They have hotter chicks dishing out flyers? Not really, well, maybe some. :-)
SofMap STARTED in used equipment... the CEO learned this from selling used pianos here... it's the only reason why one should goto akihabara instead of shinjuku, shibuya or all the other shopping areas with hotter chicks.
this has been thought about a lot... and attempted... but palm just won't sell! XD
:)
Sony's Idei -Part 1
The NZ90 is a BEAST! Too fat...but i guess it's supposed to fill the gap it leaves in your wallet
NX80 looks cool... getting good for it's size.
i have ran into this problem before in 2000... some of these problems have been solved now. there are a few ways.
just buy a camera that can handle CDRWs... like the sony CD mavica:
Sony Mavica CD 300 or any other of these series. the media is not the standard but carrying 10 of them won't be much of a problem. mailing will be simple too. since it's a smaller CD, whenever you run into civilization, you can back up onto something else (the internet, bigger CDR, DVD, etc.) without needing non-standard parts.
(note: smaller camera would be better, but if you're travelling for that long, you will want zoom...)
if you want something else that can handle PC card (all memory types has PC card adapters) like a digital wallet from minds@work (who are out of business... XD ) but there are some out that are previously posted. here's one on ebay: here
that would have kicked ass when i was travelling. shoot until have no battery instead of wasting time dumping pictures...
another would be to get one of these: VAIO C1 note. a picture book. that way, when you have dead time on the train, plane, etc, you can blog on it. adding more details to your pictures, etc. definitely worth thinking about. C1s can be had pretty cheap since they've come out with a few versions already... you gotta hunt on Ebay for a good deal. there are lots here in japan.
email me if you want some more suggestions/tips. i'm not a pro, but i have been on the road with consumer digital camera without a padded wallet and know what it's like.
ok... this is getting ridiculous... why should anyone that found a way to compromise security for a game be prosecuted in real life?!
if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?!
talk about ironic...
computer security review people.. use them.
introduce ANOTHER disc format?! how about OPEN formats for starters?! i don't see any other systems using their format
i betcha that the mini-dvd format for GC is closed AND protected by matsushita... yah, it's a COINCIDENCE that the ONLY other maker of GC is them... the combo DVD player, Game Player Q system geez, i wonder why?!
do we see some parallels here?!
sony --> beta --> UMD
matsushita/panasonic --> vhs --> gc-dvd
it's natural in this area to make a new format...
side note: these pictures were sourced from watch impress japan the first few hours of Sony's E3 announcement. The rest of the story is here. The story's in japanese but slides are english. lots more specs there.
now, why am i not surprised psp insider already got scooped...
arcades still rock big time. why?! for games that use "new" type of interface (DDR, Gun Games, motion sensors, etc.), there is NO WAY the online version would be better if the game needs a new interface.
true, DOA/SF2 has been standardized to hell... ever since the mid-90s... but there's still a hell lot of interfaces for games beyond keyboard/mice/PS2 controller (which is the ONE TRUE controller!) we're JUST getting interesting.
plus, trash talk rules so much more when the other guy is begging for "seconds"... (evil laugh)
Divx :-)
The Origin!