Did it? AFAIK they use the same laser diodes so it should have similar problems but I get my news only from the zonked news dept. (I'm not really in the market for a player so I just read what's posted on/.) and it definitely sounds like Blu-Ray has more problems.
Is this just a wave of attack-/vertisments payed by MS/Toshiba? Is it just Sony that has problems with the diodes? Is it some other problem and they just say it's the diodes for some reason? Is it the necessary number of diodes for the PS3 which probably surpasses the production runs of dedicated players this early in the lifecycle? Anybody got some facts?
The carefully-crafted facade that these men and women put up inevitably cracks, and we get to see the real person
So, in your opinion, if I had video of everything you've done the last 4 years 24/7 I couldn't find any 10sec chunk in all that time, that shown out of context doesn't provide a misleading impression of your personality?
I'm not talking about your specific examples, I'm just saying that imho this could lead to an even greater emphasize on soundbites and 100% choreographed appearances because there's even greater danger that the slightest slip will lead to your demise.
If American politics has one major problem it's that you can no longer explain anything to the people if it takes more than a 10 sec soundbite. Oh, and lobbyists, soundbites and lobbyists...Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
That one, at least, is hard to challenge credibly. As H. L. Mencken once remarked, "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." I don't see why Stallman is different to anyone else in this regard.
Because the very rules RMS set up prevent him from doing so?
Look at all the kernel devs bitching about the GPLv3. Solution? They don't use it. What can RMS do about it? Nothing. Case closed.
Axes. These pseudo-Latin plurals are really getting on my nerves (at least "axii" isn't quite as bad as "virii" where people, invent not one but two "i")
Oh, and if your point was that OSX or Linux wouldn't auto-execute anything instead of "wouldn't auto-execute as root", most people would click OK on a dialog that reads "Clicking the OK button below will format your harddisk. Are you sure?"
If the user is bright enough not to click OK he's also bright enough to install an anti-virus tool.
If someone could craft an auto-executing file for other OSs, on OS X it would ask me for a password at least and name the process in question; Linux would do the same thing, or just fail silently.
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ~
Considering that you can generally reinstall the OS in an hour or two, for most of us this would be just as devastating as a format c: (the exception being if you share your PC with like your omg daughter who just had to click on that link becuse the picture of the pony was sooo cute, or with your l33t hax0r err son who thought he was getting the latest warez); likewise trojans etc. installed as your user will do just as much damage as if installed as root.
Actually I think a fast and not-memory-hungry Firefox would be a great idea.
Actually they could move the eat-memory-like-crazy feature into an extension, that way if I ever feel the need to get rid of 1GB of RAM I can just d/l the extension. =/
You have to pay for the transfer (even if you don't pay per GB your ISP nevertheless will get their money back somehow)
You have to pay for disk space and a backup medium
You take the risk of the online store going belly up and "your" movie collection becoming suddenly useless
DRM makes sure you can only watch the movies on your PC, postage stamp size, without pausing, no more than 3 times a month, only the week before a full moon.
I won't "buy" (acquire limited usage rights as granted by the copyright holder subject to change without notice) a movie online unless they either get a *lot* cheaper than the DVD or they rethink the whole DRM PoS
Here is an more accurate estimation of Serenity's profits from mid-February, taking into account that Universal didn't get all of that money. Nevertheless it definitely made a profit.
If your $13M for rentals are accurate and DVD sales followed a similar trajectory it could be a good deal more by now but still far from the massive profitability studios expect before they green-light a sequel.
I think that ultimately the memory limitations of the SPU's (both in terms of capacity and of bandwidth) are going to be severly limiting for the PS3.
While the theoretical EIB peak bandwidth of over 200GB/s is, well, theoretical, I've yet to meet someone who shares your opinion that the SPUs will be bandwidth limited (Also I think IBM managed to get almost 200GB/s on a real world application, but I'm not sure). As for capacity, the 256KB seems adequate for the kind of data you'd use a SPU for.
This combined with the limitations of the single main POWER unit (which can easily be swamped just trying to manage the SPU's, let alone doing actual game logic) means that cell is going to have a lot of trouble doing just about anything but scoring high LINPACK numbers.
I don't see how a 3.2GHz PPU could be "swamped" just by scheduling jobs for 7 SPUs. Unless you have some real world information I think that's FUD.
I harbor a suspiscion that the PS3 is going to end up looking like the dog again this generation. Not that it isn't more powerful than the Wii, because it certainly is, but having to render at 1080p is going to make its shortcoming much more painfully obvious compared to the Xbox360, and the Wii gets a huge advantage by being merely 480p, which can cover up a whole multitude of sins.
Seeing how there are games up and running on the PS3 and the general agreement is that their graphics are about equal to the 360's I don't see how that could happen.
Erm, you could be more specific what you're talking about, but I'll try:
Next time, consider actually reading the content of the post you're replying to.
Whether or not Olbermann's telling the truth wasn't important for my original post and therefore I saw no need to do "research". The grandparent flamed me because apparently he's not actually interested in the contest of posts he replies to, but just looks for red flags like "Olbermann" and "truth". I never could withstand the lure of a nice troll and therefore actually wrote a serious reply to his point ("YOU SAID YOU DON'T KNOW WHETHER OLBY IS THE GREATEST THING EVARRR!!!!!1 YOU SUCK.") pointing out that, in case I hadn't been clear enough in my original post, the style of a pundit is important, too.
Now it seems you read neither of those three posts and because I'm really bored right now I wrote this friendly, suave and thoroughly condescending reply. But unless the next reply (by you or anyone else) actually contains a valid argument instead of building strawmen like you and the great-grandparent, I will seriously consider flaming back.
They may be able to cover up for it a bit by having ditched the Cell in favor of an Nvidia graphics chip, so what they have will probably look alright, but I'm not convinced they'll be able to deliver immersive environments capable of competeing with later gen 360 titles due to performance starved physics processing.
Physics of all things? You can wonder about Cell's aptitude for a lot of stuff, let's say AI*, but it should do quite well for physics engines because you have a small number of random data (i.e. user input) leading to a huge number of deterministic follow-up calculations (i.e. you giving a push to a crate somewhere at the bottom means the paths of a whole pile of crates which are now tumbling down have to be calculated) that should be just the kind of data you can optimize for a SPU.
*note how the developer of Assassin's Creed said the 360's crowd AI would be "even better" than that on the PS3. I have seen the video of the rt demonstration on the 360 and their hyper-realistic crowd AI means that if you start punching random people others will still walk right by you so you can punch them too, *but* now they'll look at you angrily while doing so. Great! I'm really waiting for this game but I no longer believe the touted AI or crowd simulation will be anything but the brainless PoS we see in most games. =/
The SAT has many questions where there are a number of equivalent answers. You have to get into the SAT mindset and get a feel for the kind of stuff they like to hear.
With every standardised test you should have at least done one or two test runs imho, they just all have their own little quirks when it comes to logical thinking.
So you're judging this guy without even checking into the validity of his arguments?
No, I just don't want to make a blanket statement about his truthfulness and I haven't seen enough of his show to make any qualified comparisons.
That's why I limited myself to his style which in all videos I *have* seen was completely over-the-top wrapping himself in the flag of patriotism and eternal justice to smite the evil forces of neo-conservatism. Oh, his self-rightous, never doubtful rage is more "cultured" than O'Reilly's trailer trash style but that's just show and target audience.
Style is important; I could have replied by calling you a motherfucking liar for misrepresenting my point, an asshole who delights in meaningless bullshit replies because superior reasoning led him and only him to the whole, pure truth about the universe. Then I'd compare you to Hitler.
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Did it? AFAIK they use the same laser diodes so it should have similar problems but I get my news only from the zonked news dept. (I'm not really in the market for a player so I just read what's posted on /.) and it definitely sounds like Blu-Ray has more problems.
Is this just a wave of attack-/vertisments payed by MS/Toshiba? Is it just Sony that has problems with the diodes? Is it some other problem and they just say it's the diodes for some reason? Is it the necessary number of diodes for the PS3 which probably surpasses the production runs of dedicated players this early in the lifecycle? Anybody got some facts?
So, in your opinion, if I had video of everything you've done the last 4 years 24/7 I couldn't find any 10sec chunk in all that time, that shown out of context doesn't provide a misleading impression of your personality?
I'm not talking about your specific examples, I'm just saying that imho this could lead to an even greater emphasize on soundbites and 100% choreographed appearances because there's even greater danger that the slightest slip will lead to your demise.
If American politics has one major problem it's that you can no longer explain anything to the people if it takes more than a 10 sec soundbite. Oh, and lobbyists, soundbites and lobbyists...Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
That's the second useful reply by an AC this week; I thought the not-enough-suckiness filter in /code was meant to catch those.
Thanks for the correction =)
lol, I'll remember that for future use =D
Because the very rules RMS set up prevent him from doing so?
Look at all the kernel devs bitching about the GPLv3. Solution? They don't use it. What can RMS do about it? Nothing. Case closed.
Between the weak and the strong one it is the freedom which oppresses and the law that liberates (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Axes. These pseudo-Latin plurals are really getting on my nerves (at least "axii" isn't quite as bad as "virii" where people, invent not one but two "i")
IOW, don't stereotype us, join us in stereotyping others instead =)
It's easier to go through a lot of sites if you can use a bulldozer instead of a toothbrush (figuratively)
If the user is bright enough not to click OK he's also bright enough to install an anti-virus tool.
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ~
Considering that you can generally reinstall the OS in an hour or two, for most of us this would be just as devastating as a format c: (the exception being if you share your PC with like your omg daughter who just had to click on that link becuse the picture of the pony was sooo cute, or with your l33t hax0r err son who thought he was getting the latest warez); likewise trojans etc. installed as your user will do just as much damage as if installed as root.
Argh, fscking drop-down menus. Sry, wrong moderation =/
Death Yoga?
Couldn't /. celebrate the birthday by finally replacing the old (as in 10 years old) logo with the new (as in 5 years old) one?
Actually they could move the eat-memory-like-crazy feature into an extension, that way if I ever feel the need to get rid of 1GB of RAM I can just d/l the extension. =/
I won't "buy" (acquire limited usage rights as granted by the copyright holder subject to change without notice) a movie online unless they either get a *lot* cheaper than the DVD or they rethink the whole DRM PoS
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If your $13M for rentals are accurate and DVD sales followed a similar trajectory it could be a good deal more by now but still far from the massive profitability studios expect before they green-light a sequel.
While the theoretical EIB peak bandwidth of over 200GB/s is, well, theoretical, I've yet to meet someone who shares your opinion that the SPUs will be bandwidth limited (Also I think IBM managed to get almost 200GB/s on a real world application, but I'm not sure). As for capacity, the 256KB seems adequate for the kind of data you'd use a SPU for.
This combined with the limitations of the single main POWER unit (which can easily be swamped just trying to manage the SPU's, let alone doing actual game logic) means that cell is going to have a lot of trouble doing just about anything but scoring high LINPACK numbers.
I don't see how a 3.2GHz PPU could be "swamped" just by scheduling jobs for 7 SPUs. Unless you have some real world information I think that's FUD.
I harbor a suspiscion that the PS3 is going to end up looking like the dog again this generation. Not that it isn't more powerful than the Wii, because it certainly is, but having to render at 1080p is going to make its shortcoming much more painfully obvious compared to the Xbox360, and the Wii gets a huge advantage by being merely 480p, which can cover up a whole multitude of sins.
Seeing how there are games up and running on the PS3 and the general agreement is that their graphics are about equal to the 360's I don't see how that could happen.
Next time, consider actually reading the content of the post you're replying to.
Whether or not Olbermann's telling the truth wasn't important for my original post and therefore I saw no need to do "research". The grandparent flamed me because apparently he's not actually interested in the contest of posts he replies to, but just looks for red flags like "Olbermann" and "truth". I never could withstand the lure of a nice troll and therefore actually wrote a serious reply to his point ("YOU SAID YOU DON'T KNOW WHETHER OLBY IS THE GREATEST THING EVARRR!!!!!1 YOU SUCK.") pointing out that, in case I hadn't been clear enough in my original post, the style of a pundit is important, too.
Now it seems you read neither of those three posts and because I'm really bored right now I wrote this friendly, suave and thoroughly condescending reply. But unless the next reply (by you or anyone else) actually contains a valid argument instead of building strawmen like you and the great-grandparent, I will seriously consider flaming back.
Physics of all things? You can wonder about Cell's aptitude for a lot of stuff, let's say AI*, but it should do quite well for physics engines because you have a small number of random data (i.e. user input) leading to a huge number of deterministic follow-up calculations (i.e. you giving a push to a crate somewhere at the bottom means the paths of a whole pile of crates which are now tumbling down have to be calculated) that should be just the kind of data you can optimize for a SPU.
*note how the developer of Assassin's Creed said the 360's crowd AI would be "even better" than that on the PS3. I have seen the video of the rt demonstration on the 360 and their hyper-realistic crowd AI means that if you start punching random people others will still walk right by you so you can punch them too, *but* now they'll look at you angrily while doing so. Great! I'm really waiting for this game but I no longer believe the touted AI or crowd simulation will be anything but the brainless PoS we see in most games. =/
With every standardised test you should have at least done one or two test runs imho, they just all have their own little quirks when it comes to logical thinking.
No, I just don't want to make a blanket statement about his truthfulness and I haven't seen enough of his show to make any qualified comparisons.
That's why I limited myself to his style which in all videos I *have* seen was completely over-the-top wrapping himself in the flag of patriotism and eternal justice to smite the evil forces of neo-conservatism. Oh, his self-rightous, never doubtful rage is more "cultured" than O'Reilly's trailer trash style but that's just show and target audience.
Style is important; I could have replied by calling you a motherfucking liar for misrepresenting my point, an asshole who delights in meaningless bullshit replies because superior reasoning led him and only him to the whole, pure truth about the universe. Then I'd compare you to Hitler.
(although it could've been the other way round =)