The PS2 when it came out was almost half what the PS3 costs, all things else being equal that should equate to more than double the PS3 sales right there, add in the fact that the PS2 was a cheap DVD player when people actually needed a DVD player, add in a whole bunch more sales. There was little to no competition for the PS2 when it was released, add in even more sales. Sony had not released a rootkit or 50 new memory formats for people to balk at.
My guess is the 2 biggest problems for Sony in Japan is #1 the Wii, #2 the high price.
The built in power supply would be a nice benefit, and use a quieter DVD drive and I'll get one. Built in HD-DVD would be nice, but not many people would want it, and the addon HD-DVD drive is already under a $100 at some places, very smart not including HD-DVD from the beginning.
What other features could they build into it with the added room of smaller components? No one really thinks its too big, so changing the case probably isn't a good idea at this point, although it would be nice.
8 discs released in 2007 of 2007 DVD releases. Last I checked There are about 240 (old and new titles) HD-DVDs online, and 260 or so bluray titles on blockbuster online, netflix was about the same as far as my friend with a netflix account could tell.
I bought a 199 HD player a few weeks ago and will be returning it, I only rent as buying any media is a total waste of money, and the HD rental market just isn't there yet. Blockbuster online has released a grand total of 7 HD-DVD movies in all of 2007, all of 2007! Their bluray selection is a little better at about 8 2007 movies! lol. Netflix is about the same.
At the store they have about 40 of each format, most of them are very old. Both formats are releasing hundreds of movies per month, but for some reason the rental places just aren't buying and renting them, which doesn't make any sense for online rentals as they have a combined stock and should have every movie ever made in every format, but they aren't even close.
If you want HD movies, just DL them over xbox live, or use cable on demand. My guess is in 2008 the HD rental market should pick up after everyone has their new HD player, over 30% of US households now have an HDTV believe it or not, but right now the rental market is just outright worthless.
The best performance per dollar has almost always been through overclocking, which they don't even cover. The e6600 can be overclocked from 2.6Ghz to near 4Ghz on air almost doubling its performance per dollar at every level, probably putting it at the number one position in every test.
"A lot of people make the mistake of believing that the finest detail that we can resolve is in some way limited to the sizes or quantities of features on the retina."
Of course it is, if its not limited by the cones or rods, its limited by the scanning rate, optical nerve rate, or the rate at which saccades happen, IT IS LIMITED, its just that we don't know the current limits technically, even if we don't know how to calcuate them through biological measurements, they are very easy to measure through subjective means.
There is a point where the resolution of a display can be increased beyond what the eye can resolve, it doesn't matter how the eye composes the image, all that matters is the end result.
"Stop trying to equate vision to a certain number of pixels. It's different for everyone, and it's only partially based on your hardware."
Its not hard to do a test to find out the acuity of your vision, make a display which exceeds this, and you're done. Of course its different for everyone, how in the hell could it not be?
Stop trying to make vision this magical sequence of events, for display purposes it doesn't matter how it comes to be, all that matters is what you see:o
On current displays yes its overkill, but on displays in 10 years or less it will be the standard, it takes a lot of pixels to cover your entire field of view. Some may argue we dont need this much resolution, but until we are approaching real life resolution and color depth, we will need more.
Display of the future approaching the human eyes capabilities.
60"-80" diameter hemisphere, it will probably be oval shaped, since our field of vision is. 2 GIGApixels (equal to about a 45000 x 45000 pixel image, 1000x the resolution of 1080 HD). 48 bit color (16 bits per channel). 12GB framebuffer size @60fps = 720GB/s bandwidth
not an issue, use BR and HD stickers on current DVD movies, you take it to the counter, tell them you want the BD or HD copy, and they get it from behind the counter, just like all video games, no extra shelf space needed or wasted. are you seriously telling me they have limited shelf space when they put 300 copies of the latest release all next to each other, lol.
Why on earth would they not just rent both? Its not like it costs them any money to rent another format. Dollars to donuts there is some behind the scenes payola or pressure going on here. I guess with all of their sales heading towards online rentals it probably doesn't matter, as they are still supporting it online.
"Studies have shown that keyboards often contain more bacteria than toilet seats."
Don't you get tired of hearing how things are cleaner than a toilet seat? As proven on Mythbusters, almost everything is dirtier than a toilet seat, the floor, the counter, your mouth, your hands, all contain more bacteria than a toilet seat. So people, stop with the toilet seat analogies, they are meaningless!
It happened about 5 years ago with the smartphone, and the outcome isn't as you predict. You can use a free SDK to develop with, put anything you like on unlocked smartphones, there are already thousands of applications for smartphones. Carriers just push their POS proprietary devices more rather than the open phone, which is why its take so long for the smartphone to make headway, and admittedly their stability and battery life has been poor on some models.
Very good point, take all of his assets, ban him from computers for the rest of his life, and take 80% of all future income earned above $30k/year or so. Criminals like this should be required to work for 10-20 years in a social services department for free, a compound of sorts, room and board included, you are free to come and go, you earn no money. For crimes that are money driven and involve no physical human pain, the punishment should be financial, this makes total sense in a capitalist society.
Spam is just insane, 90 billion per day are sent, 90 billion! This is great as it sends a message to spammers that finally it will not be tollerated. The charges and sentences are pretty pathetic considering the amount of spam these guys sent, probably well into the trillions. Unfortunately this will do little to curb spam as we have little power enforcing spamming across the borders of the USA.
It's astounding how many people (gamers no doubt) don't have 1GB memory, dual cores, and a sound card of all things, the standard hardware of average users must be insanely low.
According to googles recent disk report, their recommendation is to mirror disks 3 times, this is coming from a company which uses millions of drives, all the RAID formats, and hundreds of controllers. Listen to them.
RAID can be flakey, is hard to manage, and if something small goes wrong you are screwed. Copying hte data many times is much easier, works on any system, and is much easier to recover from, setup, sometimes cheaper, and more easily expandable.
Buy 3 different drives (if you buy the same they often fail close together or for the same reason).
Mirror all data to one drive.
The 3rd drive is for important files and incremental backups, the reason you need this is you simply can't mirror data blindly because if files are corrupt windows simply copies the corrupt file and you won't know something is wrong until it is too late.
The most open way to do incremental backups I have found is to use a batch file and backup files into a zip file which have changed since the date of your last incremental backup. Do incrementals every week/month or so, and mirrors every night.
The cat plays in the toilet which is disgusting, causing you to close both the seat and lid! Both men and women must both open and close, no more yelling, or at least equal opportunity yelling:)
i feel sorry for the reviewer, what a moron, comparing coolers using different fans is pretty much useless. you can make almost any of the heatsinks listed either a super quite poor performer, or a jet engine sounding super cooling machine, all by changing the fan. whats more, not including dB measurements in a review of HSFs today is laughable, whats the point.
the real measurement of a heatsink by most enthusiasts standards today lies in a perfect balance of cooling+silence, do yourself a favor and read some reviews at silentpcreview.com, they actually know what they are talking about, and have some great recommendations.
what SHOULD ms and sony do now? ms: cut the core system to $199 and add an HD, get ride of the mid system, reduce the elite price to $349. sony: hm, tough call here, come out with a new ps3 without blueray for about $299?
what WILL ms and sony probably do? ms: cut prices Q4 2007 by a little, making almost no difference in sales. sony: cut prices Q4 2007 by a little as blueray becomes cheaper to make, making almost no difference in sales.
I guess you missed the Google disk report stating that expensive fiber drives have the same reliability as SATA and IDE drives. The only benefit of a fiber drive in reality is they tend to have a higher RPM which translates to more IOPS, and even that can be had with the SATA Raptor. There is little reason to use fiber other than wasting your IT departments money and falsely inflating someones ego.
"but does it bring anything else to the table to justify the markup in price?"
Probably not, at least nothing that a lot of people are going to use. The biggest difference is video and audio quality, which is a huge bonus for me personally. The reason for such a huge markup is because it is a new technology, which is the case with everything, when DVDs came out they were much more than VHS, you have to remember how old DVDs are. In another 5-10 years HD discs will be the same price as DVDs, and then a new format will come out.
Using HDNET, or any cable channel, is a poor source of HD material compared to a disc. Video and audio will be much better from either HDDVD or Bluray. Discs typically carry 30-60 Mbit/s of information, while ATSC (over the air HD) is 19.2 Mbit/s and cable is probably less than that. Probably around 15-20 Mbit/s for cable. BTW standard DVD is around 11 Mbit/s. To add to that providers commonly crop, resize, stretch, and modify the original HD signal further for formatting to their liking, degrading the quality even further.
So Bluray and HDDVD discs have around double to triple the information compared to a broadcast HD signal.
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The PS2 when it came out was almost half what the PS3 costs, all things else being equal that should equate to more than double the PS3 sales right there, add in the fact that the PS2 was a cheap DVD player when people actually needed a DVD player, add in a whole bunch more sales. There was little to no competition for the PS2 when it was released, add in even more sales. Sony had not released a rootkit or 50 new memory formats for people to balk at.
My guess is the 2 biggest problems for Sony in Japan is #1 the Wii, #2 the high price.
The built in power supply would be a nice benefit, and use a quieter DVD drive and I'll get one. Built in HD-DVD would be nice, but not many people would want it, and the addon HD-DVD drive is already under a $100 at some places, very smart not including HD-DVD from the beginning.
What other features could they build into it with the added room of smaller components? No one really thinks its too big, so changing the case probably isn't a good idea at this point, although it would be nice.
8 discs released in 2007 of 2007 DVD releases. Last I checked There are about 240 (old and new titles) HD-DVDs online, and 260 or so bluray titles on blockbuster online, netflix was about the same as far as my friend with a netflix account could tell.
I bought a 199 HD player a few weeks ago and will be returning it, I only rent as buying any media is a total waste of money, and the HD rental market just isn't there yet. Blockbuster online has released a grand total of 7 HD-DVD movies in all of 2007, all of 2007! Their bluray selection is a little better at about 8 2007 movies! lol. Netflix is about the same.
At the store they have about 40 of each format, most of them are very old. Both formats are releasing hundreds of movies per month, but for some reason the rental places just aren't buying and renting them, which doesn't make any sense for online rentals as they have a combined stock and should have every movie ever made in every format, but they aren't even close.
If you want HD movies, just DL them over xbox live, or use cable on demand. My guess is in 2008 the HD rental market should pick up after everyone has their new HD player, over 30% of US households now have an HDTV believe it or not, but right now the rental market is just outright worthless.
The best performance per dollar has almost always been through overclocking, which they don't even cover. The e6600 can be overclocked from 2.6Ghz to near 4Ghz on air almost doubling its performance per dollar at every level, probably putting it at the number one position in every test.
Just wait another 5 years and Google will be the new evil empire, they are almost already there with all of the privacy concerns.
"A lot of people make the mistake of believing that the finest detail that we can resolve is in some way limited to the sizes or quantities of features on the retina."
:o
Of course it is, if its not limited by the cones or rods, its limited by the scanning rate, optical nerve rate, or the rate at which saccades happen, IT IS LIMITED, its just that we don't know the current limits technically, even if we don't know how to calcuate them through biological measurements, they are very easy to measure through subjective means.
There is a point where the resolution of a display can be increased beyond what the eye can resolve, it doesn't matter how the eye composes the image, all that matters is the end result.
"Stop trying to equate vision to a certain number of pixels. It's different for everyone, and it's only partially based on your hardware."
Its not hard to do a test to find out the acuity of your vision, make a display which exceeds this, and you're done. Of course its different for everyone, how in the hell could it not be?
Stop trying to make vision this magical sequence of events, for display purposes it doesn't matter how it comes to be, all that matters is what you see
On current displays yes its overkill, but on displays in 10 years or less it will be the standard, it takes a lot of pixels to cover your entire field of view. Some may argue we dont need this much resolution, but until we are approaching real life resolution and color depth, we will need more.
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Display of the future approaching the human eyes capabilities.
60"-80" diameter hemisphere, it will probably be oval shaped, since our field of vision is.
2 GIGApixels (equal to about a 45000 x 45000 pixel image, 1000x the resolution of 1080 HD).
48 bit color (16 bits per channel).
12GB framebuffer size
@60fps = 720GB/s bandwidth
its only a matter of time...
based on information at
http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolu
Of course, a million pounds is really heavy, and a mobile phone is really light, who wants to carry around 500 tons? And a million pounds of what?
not an issue, use BR and HD stickers on current DVD movies, you take it to the counter, tell them you want the BD or HD copy, and they get it from behind the counter, just like all video games, no extra shelf space needed or wasted. are you seriously telling me they have limited shelf space when they put 300 copies of the latest release all next to each other, lol.
solution:
1) get rid of the electoral system, and use a popular vote
2) no more redistricting is needed
3) americans move on to more important issues
Why on earth would they not just rent both? Its not like it costs them any money to rent another format. Dollars to donuts there is some behind the scenes payola or pressure going on here. I guess with all of their sales heading towards online rentals it probably doesn't matter, as they are still supporting it online.
"Studies have shown that keyboards often contain more bacteria than toilet seats."
Don't you get tired of hearing how things are cleaner than a toilet seat? As proven on Mythbusters, almost everything is dirtier than a toilet seat, the floor, the counter, your mouth, your hands, all contain more bacteria than a toilet seat. So people, stop with the toilet seat analogies, they are meaningless!
It happened about 5 years ago with the smartphone, and the outcome isn't as you predict. You can use a free SDK to develop with, put anything you like on unlocked smartphones, there are already thousands of applications for smartphones. Carriers just push their POS proprietary devices more rather than the open phone, which is why its take so long for the smartphone to make headway, and admittedly their stability and battery life has been poor on some models.
Very good point, take all of his assets, ban him from computers for the rest of his life, and take 80% of all future income earned above $30k/year or so. Criminals like this should be required to work for 10-20 years in a social services department for free, a compound of sorts, room and board included, you are free to come and go, you earn no money. For crimes that are money driven and involve no physical human pain, the punishment should be financial, this makes total sense in a capitalist society.
Spam is just insane, 90 billion per day are sent, 90 billion! This is great as it sends a message to spammers that finally it will not be tollerated. The charges and sentences are pretty pathetic considering the amount of spam these guys sent, probably well into the trillions. Unfortunately this will do little to curb spam as we have little power enforcing spamming across the borders of the USA.
It's astounding how many people (gamers no doubt) don't have 1GB memory, dual cores, and a sound card of all things, the standard hardware of average users must be insanely low.
According to googles recent disk report, their recommendation is to mirror disks 3 times, this is coming from a company which uses millions of drives, all the RAID formats, and hundreds of controllers. Listen to them.
RAID can be flakey, is hard to manage, and if something small goes wrong you are screwed. Copying hte data many times is much easier, works on any system, and is much easier to recover from, setup, sometimes cheaper, and more easily expandable.
Buy 3 different drives (if you buy the same they often fail close together or for the same reason).
Mirror all data to one drive.
The 3rd drive is for important files and incremental backups, the reason you need this is you simply can't mirror data blindly because if files are corrupt windows simply copies the corrupt file and you won't know something is wrong until it is too late.
The most open way to do incremental backups I have found is to use a batch file and backup files into a zip file which have changed since the date of your last incremental backup. Do incrementals every week/month or so, and mirrors every night.
The cat plays in the toilet which is disgusting, causing you to close both the seat and lid! Both men and women must both open and close, no more yelling, or at least equal opportunity yelling :)
i feel sorry for the reviewer, what a moron, comparing coolers using different fans is pretty much useless. you can make almost any of the heatsinks listed either a super quite poor performer, or a jet engine sounding super cooling machine, all by changing the fan. whats more, not including dB measurements in a review of HSFs today is laughable, whats the point.
the real measurement of a heatsink by most enthusiasts standards today lies in a perfect balance of cooling+silence, do yourself a favor and read some reviews at silentpcreview.com, they actually know what they are talking about, and have some great recommendations.
why? because its cheap.e s-at-their-six-month-birthday/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/18/the-console-sal
what SHOULD ms and sony do now?
ms: cut the core system to $199 and add an HD, get ride of the mid system, reduce the elite price to $349.
sony: hm, tough call here, come out with a new ps3 without blueray for about $299?
what WILL ms and sony probably do?
ms: cut prices Q4 2007 by a little, making almost no difference in sales.
sony: cut prices Q4 2007 by a little as blueray becomes cheaper to make, making almost no difference in sales.
I guess you missed the Google disk report stating that expensive fiber drives have the same reliability as SATA and IDE drives. The only benefit of a fiber drive in reality is they tend to have a higher RPM which translates to more IOPS, and even that can be had with the SATA Raptor. There is little reason to use fiber other than wasting your IT departments money and falsely inflating someones ego.
"I see it coming from places like China or India. "
LOL, they can barely keep up with stealing our stuff let alone make their own, and better...
"but does it bring anything else to the table to justify the markup in price?"
Probably not, at least nothing that a lot of people are going to use. The biggest difference is video and audio quality, which is a huge bonus for me personally. The reason for such a huge markup is because it is a new technology, which is the case with everything, when DVDs came out they were much more than VHS, you have to remember how old DVDs are. In another 5-10 years HD discs will be the same price as DVDs, and then a new format will come out.
Using HDNET, or any cable channel, is a poor source of HD material compared to a disc. Video and audio will be much better from either HDDVD or Bluray. Discs typically carry 30-60 Mbit/s of information, while ATSC (over the air HD) is 19.2 Mbit/s and cable is probably less than that. Probably around 15-20 Mbit/s for cable. BTW standard DVD is around 11 Mbit/s. To add to that providers commonly crop, resize, stretch, and modify the original HD signal further for formatting to their liking, degrading the quality even further.
So Bluray and HDDVD discs have around double to triple the information compared to a broadcast HD signal.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
http://www.filmbug.com/dictionary/hdtv.php