i wish people would stop trying to come up with some "resolution" and "granularity" comparisons between film and digital cameras. The system MTF of digital cameras is dramatically simpler than that of film based cameras, making your resolution comparison redundant (and no-one assesses image quality by extinction resolution anyway). And that's before you even start to consider all of the problems inherent in integral tripack colour films. If you want to find a reason to use film, you need look no further than exposure latitude.
hopefully just crazy enough to force BT completely out of business so i don't have to suffer at the hands of their customer disservice dept any longer.
joking aside, the difficulty of making LARGER sensors has been something of a brake on the professional adoption of digital photography. Mind you, I didn't see anything in Fovea's release that indicated size as a problem. Sounds really fascinating tech - can't wait to see the real world performance.
I used to work for a company in Soho, London that had three sites within a 400metre radius - their three individual LANs were linked together with two point to point laser systems, bandwidth was something like 100Mbps. Cost was NOT 50 000, but more like 10 000 per transceiver pair. The system was extremely reliable and quickly deployed this was about SIX YEARS ago - why is this news?
George Bush has never done ANYTHING fairly and squarely. He's a politician (and worse, a right wing politician) who's father was president, who's brother is a state governor and who's friends are billionaire crooks and enviro-rapists.
you forgot the key issue of NEPOTISM. Why isn't it illegal, exactly? Seems strange that America (or at least SOME Americans) went to all the trouble of breaking free from the tyrannical British crown just so they might set up their own ruling families. Kennedys', Bushes, all the same really and it CANNOT be right. At least the British monarchy has absolutely no political power whatsoever - you Americans aren't so lucky...
nearly - Cowboy Neal would be in the lead right up until the Microsoft ballot-stuffers warmed up. Next stop, President William H Gates III! YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT.
I think he's talking about the "cultural" heart of the net, rather than "node 0". Personally, i think that it's either here at Slashdot, over at Google or an amalgam of DVD e-shops.
define popular. You might want to take a look at how games software sells. Last time I looked, GameBoy was massively outselling PSX, which was outselling Dreamcast which was ouselling N64 which was outselling ANYTHING on the PC.
wipEout fusion is out for the PS2 and it's fucking fantastic! you can stick your workstation-class, 8 zillion dollar uber-card where the sun don't shine for all the difference that it makes to FUN.
I'm hurt. No troll, I work in Soho (yes, I'm British) for a TV post-production company. We work in the episodic, gfx and high-end corporate market. Our company had a single Amiga/Toaster up until 1994 (among many other systems). These days we have 12 Avids (2 Symphony), 1 Editbox, 1 "Floctane", 1 DS, 1 linear Digibeta 3 machine suite, 2 DPS Realitys' and 2 FCP/Digital Voodoo machines. I happen to know Aardman's set-up quite well, and they use a heck of a lot of DPS Perceptions over there. never saw an Amiga though. We DO have ONE client (an animator) who uses Toaster on WinNT, but it seems a troublesome set up.
yes, they are. the above bozo is a typical America-centric fool who probably thinks Tombraider, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, wipEout etc etc etc all came from the 'states. So sad how little the fantastic UK games software industry gets recognised for it's acheivements. Truth to tell, America's main contribution to the current console market is EA Sports and, really, words alone cannot express my contempt for THEM...
I agree with you 100%, but I'd go even further. My preferred controller for GT and wipEout is the Namco neGcon. And try G-Police or Colony Wars with Sony's dual stick controller (not the Dual Shock). Fabulous. the X-Box controller is SHITE for driving games, I've tried both PGR and "speed freak" and it didn't work for me at all. Add it's inherent ugliness (and I'd extend that to the whole X-Box unit) into the mix and it's an embarrasment. Still, I want MS to fail anyway, the fact that their gear is ugly and hopeless too just gives me more ammunition.
well, if it's running applications designed for the PC - and the X-Box can't - it MUST be. Imagine that this Mac also has SDRAM, ATA-100, PCI slots (where are they on the X-Box?) USB, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, GeForce 3 (running on an AGP4X bus (rather than X-Box's shared memory) ATX mobo AND PSU, 104 key keyboard, VGA output etc etc Those specs describe a Powermac that could have been purchased during the last 6 months adequately enough..
"it uses virtually the same hardware as a PC" CORRECTION it uses virtually the same hardware as SOME PCs. And I'll say it again, a Mac (especially one running Virtual PC) is more of a PC than an X-Box.
Surround sound has about as much to do with hi-fi sound as the NASCAR does with getting you to work in the morning. 5.1 is a marketing gimmick designed to seel crap to you that you don't need, and is merely the third pathetic attempt by the electronics industry to flog this useless surround concept. My father had a "Quad" system in the 70's, and it was pointless then too. There was once a hi-fi surround system called "ambisonics" or "UHJ" which could reproduce the most beautiful sound, I think the Soundfield microphone that was the heart of Ambisonics is still coveted today.
Amen. Remember kiddies, PC once meant "Personal Computer"; IBM released a Personal Computer called the IBM PC based on an Intel 8086; IBM's PC/AT became the jumping off point for cloners when Compaq started up their clone-a-thon; PC should mean these days something that is compatible with that ancient PC/AT system - but it REALLY means Windows to most. X-Box is neither Windows nor PC/AT and is therefore not a PC. It is vaguely Direct X and x86 based, but is really a proprietary design exploiting customised mass market PC components (you could also describe a Mac in such terms, especially as a Mac is MUCH more PC compatible than an X-Box).
vastly superior how? just because YOU don't understand the architectures of the GameCube and the PS2 doesn't mean that they're not extremely powerful. Have you seen MGS2, Pikmin or GT3 A-Spec? In what way could the graphics of GT3 be bettered by the X-Box?
it still costs them less money than it costs YOU though, doesn't it? And haven't MS got $30Bn in the bank? If the X-Box fails initially, don't be surprised if MS starts handing them out in the street just to piss Sony off. Just get a PS2 for the games, get the Linux kit if you really MUST hack it - but any money to MS is money ill spent - they need it less than you. Shit, Steve Ballmer spends more on coke in a week than you get paid pocket money in a decade.
must we suffer the X-Box Beowulf crap AGAIN? If you would employ your brain for a second, you'd realise that you could build a quicker PC for less money than an X-Box the wasn't all tied up in encryption AND which would be mountable in whatever way you'd like. A 32 machine cluster needs 32 GFX chips like it needs 32 cans of Coke pouring over the mainboards.
I struggled half way through it before giving up, this article is riddled with factual innacuracies, grammatical gaffs (excusable if it came from Germany) and outright marketingspeak shite. Read at you peril, or go and look at anandtech's excellent appraisals of the machines in question instead.
no, I'm a Mac-head and an ex-Amiga user (although I do spec and build PC workstations at work sometimes). I never even bought an AA Amiga, when I started reading about games incompatibilities from my A500, I tuned out. Anyway, Flashback played real nice on my brothers' 386, and Another World was pretty great on my Dad's Mac too.
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i wish people would stop trying to come up with some "resolution" and "granularity" comparisons between film and digital cameras. The system MTF of digital cameras is dramatically simpler than that of film based cameras, making your resolution comparison redundant (and no-one assesses image quality by extinction resolution anyway). And that's before you even start to consider all of the problems inherent in integral tripack colour films. If you want to find a reason to use film, you need look no further than exposure latitude.
hopefully just crazy enough to force BT completely out of business so i don't have to suffer at the hands of their customer disservice dept any longer.
try reading the article, numb-nuts. Sigma is introducing the first camera based on a Foveon X3 in around two weeks time.
joking aside, the difficulty of making LARGER sensors has been something of a brake on the professional adoption of digital photography. Mind you, I didn't see anything in Fovea's release that indicated size as a problem. Sounds really fascinating tech - can't wait to see the real world performance.
I used to work for a company in Soho, London that had three sites within a 400metre radius - their three individual LANs were linked together with two point to point laser systems, bandwidth was something like 100Mbps. Cost was NOT 50 000, but more like 10 000 per transceiver pair. The system was extremely reliable and quickly deployed this was about SIX YEARS ago - why is this news?
selectspec needs a SPELLING COURSE grammer? Cmd Taco??
George Bush has never done ANYTHING fairly and squarely. He's a politician (and worse, a right wing politician) who's father was president, who's brother is a state governor and who's friends are billionaire crooks and enviro-rapists.
you forgot the key issue of NEPOTISM. Why isn't it illegal, exactly? Seems strange that America (or at least SOME Americans) went to all the trouble of breaking free from the tyrannical British crown just so they might set up their own ruling families. Kennedys', Bushes, all the same really and it CANNOT be right. At least the British monarchy has absolutely no political power whatsoever - you Americans aren't so lucky...
nearly - Cowboy Neal would be in the lead right up until the Microsoft ballot-stuffers warmed up. Next stop, President William H Gates III! YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT.
I think he's talking about the "cultural" heart of the net, rather than "node 0". Personally, i think that it's either here at Slashdot, over at Google or an amalgam of DVD e-shops.
define popular. You might want to take a look at how games software sells. Last time I looked, GameBoy was massively outselling PSX, which was outselling Dreamcast which was ouselling N64 which was outselling ANYTHING on the PC.
correct! never discount the laziness factor. anyway, I was just about to order a GF3 and this GF4 pre-announce pissed me off. mods a fair one, though.
wipEout fusion is out for the PS2 and it's fucking fantastic! you can stick your workstation-class, 8 zillion dollar uber-card where the sun don't shine for all the difference that it makes to FUN.
I'm hurt. No troll, I work in Soho (yes, I'm British) for a TV post-production company. We work in the episodic, gfx and high-end corporate market. Our company had a single Amiga/Toaster up until 1994 (among many other systems). These days we have 12 Avids (2 Symphony), 1 Editbox, 1 "Floctane", 1 DS, 1 linear Digibeta 3 machine suite, 2 DPS Realitys' and 2 FCP/Digital Voodoo machines. I happen to know Aardman's set-up quite well, and they use a heck of a lot of DPS Perceptions over there. never saw an Amiga though. We DO have ONE client (an animator) who uses Toaster on WinNT, but it seems a troublesome set up.
yes, they are. the above bozo is a typical America-centric fool who probably thinks Tombraider, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, wipEout etc etc etc all came from the 'states. So sad how little the fantastic UK games software industry gets recognised for it's acheivements. Truth to tell, America's main contribution to the current console market is EA Sports and, really, words alone cannot express my contempt for THEM...
I agree with you 100%, but I'd go even further. My preferred controller for GT and wipEout is the Namco neGcon. And try G-Police or Colony Wars with Sony's dual stick controller (not the Dual Shock). Fabulous. the X-Box controller is SHITE for driving games, I've tried both PGR and "speed freak" and it didn't work for me at all. Add it's inherent ugliness (and I'd extend that to the whole X-Box unit) into the mix and it's an embarrasment. Still, I want MS to fail anyway, the fact that their gear is ugly and hopeless too just gives me more ammunition.
well, if it's running applications designed for the PC - and the X-Box can't - it MUST be. Imagine that this Mac also has SDRAM, ATA-100, PCI slots (where are they on the X-Box?) USB, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, GeForce 3 (running on an AGP4X bus (rather than X-Box's shared memory) ATX mobo AND PSU, 104 key keyboard, VGA output etc etc Those specs describe a Powermac that could have been purchased during the last 6 months adequately enough..
"it uses virtually the same hardware as a PC" CORRECTION it uses virtually the same hardware as SOME PCs. And I'll say it again, a Mac (especially one running Virtual PC) is more of a PC than an X-Box.
Surround sound has about as much to do with hi-fi sound as the NASCAR does with getting you to work in the morning. 5.1 is a marketing gimmick designed to seel crap to you that you don't need, and is merely the third pathetic attempt by the electronics industry to flog this useless surround concept. My father had a "Quad" system in the 70's, and it was pointless then too. There was once a hi-fi surround system called "ambisonics" or "UHJ" which could reproduce the most beautiful sound, I think the Soundfield microphone that was the heart of Ambisonics is still coveted today.
Amen. Remember kiddies, PC once meant "Personal Computer"; IBM released a Personal Computer called the IBM PC based on an Intel 8086; IBM's PC/AT became the jumping off point for cloners when Compaq started up their clone-a-thon; PC should mean these days something that is compatible with that ancient PC/AT system - but it REALLY means Windows to most. X-Box is neither Windows nor PC/AT and is therefore not a PC. It is vaguely Direct X and x86 based, but is really a proprietary design exploiting customised mass market PC components (you could also describe a Mac in such terms, especially as a Mac is MUCH more PC compatible than an X-Box).
vastly superior how? just because YOU don't understand the architectures of the GameCube and the PS2 doesn't mean that they're not extremely powerful. Have you seen MGS2, Pikmin or GT3 A-Spec? In what way could the graphics of GT3 be bettered by the X-Box?
it still costs them less money than it costs YOU though, doesn't it? And haven't MS got $30Bn in the bank? If the X-Box fails initially, don't be surprised if MS starts handing them out in the street just to piss Sony off. Just get a PS2 for the games, get the Linux kit if you really MUST hack it - but any money to MS is money ill spent - they need it less than you. Shit, Steve Ballmer spends more on coke in a week than you get paid pocket money in a decade.
must we suffer the X-Box Beowulf crap AGAIN? If you would employ your brain for a second, you'd realise that you could build a quicker PC for less money than an X-Box the wasn't all tied up in encryption AND which would be mountable in whatever way you'd like. A 32 machine cluster needs 32 GFX chips like it needs 32 cans of Coke pouring over the mainboards.
I struggled half way through it before giving up, this article is riddled with factual innacuracies, grammatical gaffs (excusable if it came from Germany) and outright marketingspeak shite. Read at you peril, or go and look at anandtech's excellent appraisals of the machines in question instead.
no, I'm a Mac-head and an ex-Amiga user (although I do spec and build PC workstations at work sometimes). I never even bought an AA Amiga, when I started reading about games incompatibilities from my A500, I tuned out. Anyway, Flashback played real nice on my brothers' 386, and Another World was pretty great on my Dad's Mac too.