Check that your serial port isn't open 24/7 because of some app gone mad.. check with superutility, I think. Serial drains the battery, but not THAT fast... you might have a bad unit.
I recommend "Ask slashdot (http://ask.slashdot.org)", which is sort of a newbie forum for stupid questions that can be solved with google. So, like, post all your issues, such as:
"How do I mod my xbox" "Should I overclock my CPU" "How do I make everything more faster" and, "This question is just begging to have all replies start with IANAL"
Again, as we have seen in billions upon billions of times, every single blasted time anyone posts anything about xboxen, this arguement comes up. So let's try this, again.
Find me a list of parts and prices, that includes the case, motherboard, miniscule amount of memory, hard drive, graphics card, fans, powersupply, dvdrom, ethernet, hardware MPEG2/AC3 decoding, and tv out.
A geforce3 will cost you roughly $90 minimum, add in the rest of the parts, and this calculation never works. So could you stop spreading crap about PCs that smoke the xbox? Otherwise, just prove it, and don't try to leave out the graphics card, that's the thing that powers consoles.
Odds of making love on the lawn of the White House
130 million cats and dogs, versus Socks and whatever Bush's dog is called, we'll suppose rotation over a few terms. Numbers are actually probably better for people, insects, and *cough* interns *cough* and they have to mate in pairs, so it's a little better.
So say, one in 32 million, using the dogs and cats numbers, which are valid, as they have probably made love most recently.
Odds of making love to Britney Spears
1 in 4 or better
If we use all seperate statistics, and assume zero coincidences, your chances of doing that are one in 21,666,840,000,000 (that's one in 21 trillion).
Stockpile lotto tickets buddy, or get in line for Spears.
On Linux Neverwinter is lacking the toolkit, a pretty vital piece of the game in a lot of peoples opinion.
Ironically, for many radeon users, on the PC, we are lacking the toolkit too. It still crashes ridiculously often when doing varius things, and it's basically impossible to use unless you're using a Geforce card.
Yes, I understand that many people may not have issues with later radeons, but as a user on an earlier card, I'm mostly pissed off.
Although your point does make sense, have you seen Maya? The thing IS an intergrated package that does everything. 3d Studio Max is kind of like what you speak of, where plugins make it best of breed, but Maya is bundled with just plain everything, and it IS basically quality all over the place. Version 5.0 finally includes mental ray that everyone was using anyway.
So, compromise is not an issue if you happen to have $2000 to blow.
That's an interesting proposal, but if you've used the VMware sound modules, you'd probably know that they aren't perfect. They tend to crackle, and things like that. Too many levels of abstraction, the quality won't be as good as simply recording from speaker out.
However, one could conceivably write a wave mapper driver that records to disk.. kind of like a digital out? (Windows side. Not sure about how drivers work on Mac OS )The issue is that pesky signed driver thing, but for now, Microsoft doesn't mandate it, nor Apple.
Actually, the performance gain is because 3D applications tend to use floating point matrix transformations, which are helped along greatly by the vector units on the processors. It's not really 32 vs 64, so as much as the advantage of having hardware better suited to lots and lots of matrix transformations.
Are you utterly crazed? Unix APIs are totally unfit for use in a Palm architecture type system. The Tungten T class handheld that you use as an example is totally off base.
It's a HIGH END machine, in fact, Palm's flagship handheld. In fact, it is the only machine in Palm's repritore even capable of running a POSIX compliant kernel.
The majority of existing handhelds are 16mhz Dragonball 68k processors that can't possibly run your kernel correctly because they lack a MMU. Perhaps the Tungsten T is not a dainty machine, but look at the Palm V, the mainstream system. 20mhz, no MMU.
UNIX is great for some things, but get them the hell away from my handheld.
Although the processor itself is indeed faster, the GBA, and most other consoles in general are tricked out with co-processing chips that negate the increased speed. The GBA's graphics co-processor brings it's main CPU (nearly) to shame. So don't support the megahertz myth here, graphics processing makes a TON of difference.
The SCO lawsuit has nothing to do with this at all. If anything, SCO will get money out of IBM, they aren't threatening to illegalize the kernel source or anything. You're blowing this waaaay out of proportion. The source is in the clear.
Wait, isn't there a problem with plasma screens burning in if the same image is displayed too long? Menus are.. Mostly static you know. Are you sure it wasn't LCD or something?
Actually, no. The dreamcast did not run on WindowsCE, as the majority of games didn't use the platform, instead, using Sega's libraries. The Dreamcast was WindowsCE compatable, meaning the libraries were availiable, but again, most games did not use CE stuff. That's why the Naomi ports are annoying.
You're missing the point. Connectix, when selling virtual PC, bundles it with an operating system. There are two versions, one cheap one, which is bundled with PC-DOS, and one that's bundled with windows 2000. So FreeDOS doesn't matter, because you'll have to buy it with an OS anyway.
No, it is really rather silent. There is one fan in the entire box. You'll probably have to compare though, I haven't heard the PS2. The xbox is far quieter than my computer, and the sound of the dvd rom drive servo is probably louder than the fan.
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Check that your serial port isn't open 24/7 because of some app gone mad.. check with superutility, I think. Serial drains the battery, but not THAT fast... you might have a bad unit.
By the time you're at 40 instances, and three tabs a piece, you should really be done .
I recommend "Ask slashdot (http://ask.slashdot.org)", which is sort of a newbie forum for stupid questions that can be solved with google. So, like, post all your issues, such as:
"How do I mod my xbox"
"Should I overclock my CPU"
"How do I make everything more faster"
and,
"This question is just begging to have all replies start with IANAL"
Join the club!
Unless you live in Florida... *cough* 2000 elections *cough*
Again, as we have seen in billions upon billions of times, every single blasted time anyone posts anything about xboxen, this arguement comes up. So let's try this, again.
Find me a list of parts and prices, that includes the case, motherboard, miniscule amount of memory, hard drive, graphics card, fans, powersupply, dvdrom, ethernet, hardware MPEG2/AC3 decoding, and tv out.
A geforce3 will cost you roughly $90 minimum, add in the rest of the parts, and this calculation never works. So could you stop spreading crap about PCs that smoke the xbox? Otherwise, just prove it, and don't try to leave out the graphics card, that's the thing that powers consoles.
Odds of being sued by RIAA:
1 in 625,000
Odds of getting struck by lightning:
1 in 41,667
Odds of making love on the lawn of the White House
130 million cats and dogs, versus Socks and whatever Bush's dog is called, we'll suppose rotation over a few terms. Numbers are actually probably better for people, insects, and *cough* interns *cough* and they have to mate in pairs, so it's a little better.
So say, one in 32 million, using the dogs and cats numbers, which are valid, as they have probably made love most recently.
Odds of making love to Britney Spears
1 in 4 or better
If we use all seperate statistics, and assume zero coincidences, your chances of doing that are one in 21,666,840,000,000 (that's one in 21 trillion).
Stockpile lotto tickets buddy, or get in line for Spears.
Ironically, for many radeon users, on the PC, we are lacking the toolkit too. It still crashes ridiculously often when doing varius things, and it's basically impossible to use unless you're using a Geforce card.
Yes, I understand that many people may not have issues with later radeons, but as a user on an earlier card, I'm mostly pissed off.
Although your point does make sense, have you seen Maya? The thing IS an intergrated package that does everything. 3d Studio Max is kind of like what you speak of, where plugins make it best of breed, but Maya is bundled with just plain everything, and it IS basically quality all over the place. Version 5.0 finally includes mental ray that everyone was using anyway.
So, compromise is not an issue if you happen to have $2000 to blow.
That's an interesting proposal, but if you've used the VMware sound modules, you'd probably know that they aren't perfect. They tend to crackle, and things like that. Too many levels of abstraction, the quality won't be as good as simply recording from speaker out.
However, one could conceivably write a wave mapper driver that records to disk.. kind of like a digital out? (Windows side. Not sure about how drivers work on Mac OS )The issue is that pesky signed driver thing, but for now, Microsoft doesn't mandate it, nor Apple.
No, it's pinstriped... Everywhere.
It does qualify. If they were crazy enough to steal it, who knows how nuts they are?
Actually, the performance gain is because 3D applications tend to use floating point matrix transformations, which are helped along greatly by the vector units on the processors. It's not really 32 vs 64, so as much as the advantage of having hardware better suited to lots and lots of matrix transformations.
That's FUD. The latest P4s, or actually, most P4s, run hotter, or as hot as AMDs. So do some research before blindly bashing AMD.
If you're on windows, you need divx 5.05. You gotta update. If you're on linux, you probably need a new mplayer or xine.
I was steering a space craft, on the PC, and then, it was like Beep beep beep beep!
And then, like, half my re-entry window was gone.
I had to like, pick another landing site. And it wasn't as good.
Mac OS X for spacecraft.
That's true, considering emacs' disk footprint, creeping is not exactly one of it's strong traits. More like, waddled in, or flopped in.
*cough* applescript *cough*
Well, if you're an OS9 whore anyway..
X is another story all together.
Are you utterly crazed? Unix APIs are totally unfit for use in a Palm architecture type system. The Tungten T class handheld that you use as an example is totally off base.
It's a HIGH END machine, in fact, Palm's flagship handheld. In fact, it is the only machine in Palm's repritore even capable of running a POSIX compliant kernel.
The majority of existing handhelds are 16mhz Dragonball 68k processors that can't possibly run your kernel correctly because they lack a MMU. Perhaps the Tungsten T is not a dainty machine, but look at the Palm V, the mainstream system. 20mhz, no MMU.
UNIX is great for some things, but get them the hell away from my handheld.
Although the processor itself is indeed faster, the GBA, and most other consoles in general are tricked out with co-processing chips that negate the increased speed. The GBA's graphics co-processor brings it's main CPU (nearly) to shame. So don't support the megahertz myth here, graphics processing makes a TON of difference.
The SCO lawsuit has nothing to do with this at all. If anything, SCO will get money out of IBM, they aren't threatening to illegalize the kernel source or anything. You're blowing this waaaay out of proportion. The source is in the clear.
Wait, isn't there a problem with plasma screens burning in if the same image is displayed too long? Menus are.. Mostly static you know. Are you sure it wasn't LCD or something?
Actually, no. The dreamcast did not run on WindowsCE, as the majority of games didn't use the platform, instead, using Sega's libraries. The Dreamcast was WindowsCE compatable, meaning the libraries were availiable, but again, most games did not use CE stuff. That's why the Naomi ports are annoying.
218gb? Probably the new release of emacs 22.0...
*ducks*
You're missing the point. Connectix, when selling virtual PC, bundles it with an operating system. There are two versions, one cheap one, which is bundled with PC-DOS, and one that's bundled with windows 2000. So FreeDOS doesn't matter, because you'll have to buy it with an OS anyway.
No, it is really rather silent. There is one fan in the entire box. You'll probably have to compare though, I haven't heard the PS2. The xbox is far quieter than my computer, and the sound of the dvd rom drive servo is probably louder than the fan.