Yes, but the 4MB VRAM of the PS2 have made life much more difficult than it should have been. Even a small growth in that area and/or texture compression could have drastically improved performance because during most of the later life cycle of PS2 developers were constantly juggling bandwidth between textures and polygons. This let to both, washed out (because low-res) textures and -to a lesser degree- blocky models. Were it easier to store textures where they are needed the PS2 probably could give GC and Xbox a run for their money.
Moral of the story. Most times you can save money by reducing caches on game consoles. But it's very important to make sure you don't cut in the wrong places and below the needed minimum.
Booting Emacs 22.... Mantra of the Day: All Hail RMS! For He leteth us squisheth the bugs Loading linux.el....done Executing "wine explorer.exe"....done Downloading current Malware....Sober...Ok...Sony Rootkit...Ok Have a lot of GNU/Fun
Beat Fehr, head of one of two Swiss internet firms accredited to sell ".eu" addresses, now fears that cybersquatters may snap up Swiss names. Companies such as Nestle and Swatch may lose their.eu web names to foreigners.
Sounds like BS.
Only people resident within the EU or undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community can apply.
I thought the same applied to trademarks. i.e. Swiss companies won't have a problem because they have subsidiaries in EU countries anyway.
I never liked it and never used it but if it uses something like a dcc connection there would be almost no overhead.
Re:If 3.5 is a major release...
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KDE 3.5 Released
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Actually it's not a rewrite (and it would take more than a year as KDE passed the 4 million lines of code mark recently iirc).
It's a port of KDE3 to Qt4 which breaks binary compatibility (therefore it gets a new major number). That also means that there will be major changes in the user interface etc. that would be too intrusive for 3.5 (major rearrangements of toolbars, menus, a new iconset, probably a new widget style etc) and also major changes in the backends (new libs, changed old libs, changes to dcop, plasma to replace kdesktop, kicker and superkaramba, etc.). In the end they'll probably rewrite much of the api parts but most of the programs will just change incrementally.
Just blaming Chinese capacitors doesn't work in this case.
Joystiq or Spong had a comparison of the power supply for the Xbox360 (huge) and the 360 devbox sent to reviewers so they can play pre-release builts and games from other regions (huger, yes, that's possible, somehow). I assume they made the bigger power supply first and it worked fine. Then someone at MS decided size was an issue, they made a new smaller power supply but to do so they had to make it borderline overheating. Now people use that power supply in situations not quite as ideal as a hard floor in an air conditioned laboratory and *gasp* it overheats.
...an accidental combination of keystrokes -- experimenting around Ctrl-Alt-E to try and get a euro symbol -- crashed the system and dumped us at a $-prompt command line, with no obvious route back to our unsaved work.
Obviously, this is not what a Linux user would call a "system crash". I suppose it's just as well that Windows users would be asked to review Linux distros for the desktop, though. A Linux user might regard this as a minor problem, forgetting that to most people, this is indeed a show-stopper.
A Linux user might regard this as Windows user stupidity.
I bet you 10 OpenSuSE licenses that (based on the impression I got from the rest of the article) they pressed Ctrl-Alt-E got some unexpected letter and then pressed Backspace to remove it but forgot to let go of Ctrl-Alt. OMG!!! L1nuX c2ash0RZ!!!1oneoneone =P
As a true visionary I'm gonna try to acquire a patent on a "method and/or apparatus for doing stuff to achieve something or not". Don't think there are gonna be any problems with it. And if there are I'll just have to buy a Congressman or two.
It depends on a lot of factors but from what I've seen of Mpeg4 (non-h264) codecs there is a point (somewhere above 2MBit) when MPEG2 gets better than 4 even at the same bitrate. It's mostly the quantizer matrix and the quantizers used (and therefore could be no longer true if you use the current XviD. It's been a while since I've extensivly tested the codec) afaik. I don't know how flexible the AVC specification is in this regard but it could be that --provided that you've got the bitrate to burn (which you definitly have if it's a dual layer, even if it's single layer)-- Mpeg2 simply looks better.
No but MS could release a bug free and free-as-in-beer-as-well-as-in-speech OS, Apple could suddenly open up and license all of its DRM etc. to everyone interested for free, the US could be taken over by RMS and the FSF Geek Squad and Aliens could land on top of the White House and announce that they now use Linux and all of these stories would get less/. coverage (including dupes).
I don't say they should have let it die but a once-a-day post containing all Sony rootkit news would have been more than enough, if you go to slashdot.org and the top three stories are all about the Sony rootkit then that's too much imho.
All doubters, read the patent application. It's from early 2000 (actually you'll see that they filed for the same patent in Japan in 1999). If they had wanted to use it they could've used it in the PS2
I've been to Digg, and their stories are much more current than Slashdot's [...] And, despite Slashdot's flawed moderation system, scanning article comments at +4 is usually a pleasant experience, and I can't find that kind of functionality on Digg as an anonymous reader.
I think those points are two sides of the same coin. We don't come to/. for the news, we come here to talk about yesterday's news and an important part of every productive discussion is that all sides are familiar with the topic and have an informed (*cough* but we *are* talking about +4 here) opinion about it.
/. - Watercooler discussions for nerds. Stuff that mattered a few days ago.
Re:Since the submitter didn't bother to explain...
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IBM Releases Cell SDK
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Even though the GP linked to an article that greets you with Inside the Xbox 360, Part II: the Xenon CPU there are links to some informative articles about the Cell architecture further down.
Short story: The cool thing about the Cell are the SPEs that are the best thing since sliced bread if you have lots of matrix-vector operations to perform but more or less useless otherwise.
IBM is eager to run Linux on it because the Cell could make one hell of a supercomputing grid. (Although it loses lots of flops if you need double-precision but even then it's quite fast and in many calculations there are large parts where you can go single-precision without losing digits in the end result anyways)
From the list of Infected CDs:
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas
Someone at Sony had a lot of fun selecting the CDs for their DRM test-run
I just bought a new graphics card and the reason I didn't even consider ATI is that a friend of mine had one (just replaced it too =) and I've seen what ATI calls "driver support" for linux.
They do not still hold with the geocentic view of the universe; they also believed the earth was flat once.
They didn't (of course that depends on the definition of "they". I mean high ranking church officials and the RCC as institution). That were strawman attacks, especially popular in the Enlightenment.
OTOH, they support G4 and G5 now, they will probably use vastly different CPUs from Intel, so there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to make Athlon64 Power Macs this year and switch over to Intel the next. The support problem is no worse than using P4 and P-M at the same time and supply is much less of an issue if you can decide for a specific product generation and take what's available then.
So I assume that -like with Dell- vast piles of money were involved.
Send me $50 and I can get you the same results
1. *nutshell42 vanishes for a year
2. Almost there just a bit more funding, another $50 perhaps and we will solve all energy problems and make lots'n'lots of money, really.
3. Rinse. Repeat.
Slashdot Mirror
Moral of the story. Most times you can save money by reducing caches on game consoles. But it's very important to make sure you don't cut in the wrong places and below the needed minimum.
OTOH you could cook dinner on it while reading /.
Sounds like BS.
Only people resident within the EU or undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community can apply.
I thought the same applied to trademarks. i.e. Swiss companies won't have a problem because they have subsidiaries in EU countries anyway.
I never liked it and never used it but if it uses something like a dcc connection there would be almost no overhead.
It's a port of KDE3 to Qt4 which breaks binary compatibility (therefore it gets a new major number). That also means that there will be major changes in the user interface etc. that would be too intrusive for 3.5 (major rearrangements of toolbars, menus, a new iconset, probably a new widget style etc) and also major changes in the backends (new libs, changed old libs, changes to dcop, plasma to replace kdesktop, kicker and superkaramba, etc.). In the end they'll probably rewrite much of the api parts but most of the programs will just change incrementally.
a) I meant the debug box
b) Here is a picture of the two. And here the article the picture's from
Joystiq or Spong had a comparison of the power supply for the Xbox360 (huge) and the 360 devbox sent to reviewers so they can play pre-release builts and games from other regions (huger, yes, that's possible, somehow). I assume they made the bigger power supply first and it worked fine. Then someone at MS decided size was an issue, they made a new smaller power supply but to do so they had to make it borderline overheating. Now people use that power supply in situations not quite as ideal as a hard floor in an air conditioned laboratory and *gasp* it overheats.
Because if you hold your hand up you'll notice that it isn't symmetrical.
I've yet to find a symmetrical glove that's comfortable. Two different ones, one optimized for your right hand and one for the left, seem preferable.
Obviously, this is not what a Linux user would call a "system crash". I suppose it's just as well that Windows users would be asked to review Linux distros for the desktop, though. A Linux user might regard this as a minor problem, forgetting that to most people, this is indeed a show-stopper.
A Linux user might regard this as Windows user stupidity.
I bet you 10 OpenSuSE licenses that (based on the impression I got from the rest of the article) they pressed Ctrl-Alt-E got some unexpected letter and then pressed Backspace to remove it but forgot to let go of Ctrl-Alt. OMG!!! L1nuX c2ash0RZ!!!1oneoneone =P
well I'm just guessing but I'd put it at 1/1000th Library of Congress/s^2 which comes in at just under 15 Hitler's Brain to the furlong
And how can I get so much money for a pro-MS study?
As a true visionary I'm gonna try to acquire a patent on a "method and/or apparatus for doing stuff to achieve something or not". Don't think there are gonna be any problems with it. And if there are I'll just have to buy a Congressman or two.
It depends on a lot of factors but from what I've seen of Mpeg4 (non-h264) codecs there is a point (somewhere above 2MBit) when MPEG2 gets better than 4 even at the same bitrate. It's mostly the quantizer matrix and the quantizers used (and therefore could be no longer true if you use the current XviD. It's been a while since I've extensivly tested the codec) afaik. I don't know how flexible the AVC specification is in this regard but it could be that --provided that you've got the bitrate to burn (which you definitly have if it's a dual layer, even if it's single layer)-- Mpeg2 simply looks better.
I don't say they should have let it die but a once-a-day post containing all Sony rootkit news would have been more than enough, if you go to slashdot.org and the top three stories are all about the Sony rootkit then that's too much imho.
All doubters, read the patent application. It's from early 2000 (actually you'll see that they filed for the same patent in Japan in 1999). If they had wanted to use it they could've used it in the PS2
I think those points are two sides of the same coin. We don't come to /. for the news, we come here to talk about yesterday's news and an important part of every productive discussion is that all sides are familiar with the topic and have an informed (*cough* but we *are* talking about +4 here) opinion about it.
Short story: The cool thing about the Cell are the SPEs that are the best thing since sliced bread if you have lots of matrix-vector operations to perform but more or less useless otherwise.
IBM is eager to run Linux on it because the Cell could make one hell of a supercomputing grid. (Although it loses lots of flops if you need double-precision but even then it's quite fast and in many calculations there are large parts where you can go single-precision without losing digits in the end result anyways)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas
Someone at Sony had a lot of fun selecting the CDs for their DRM test-run
I just bought a new graphics card and the reason I didn't even consider ATI is that a friend of mine had one (just replaced it too =) and I've seen what ATI calls "driver support" for linux.
They didn't (of course that depends on the definition of "they". I mean high ranking church officials and the RCC as institution). That were strawman attacks, especially popular in the Enlightenment.
So I assume that -like with Dell- vast piles of money were involved.
Send me $50 and I can get you the same results
1. *nutshell42 vanishes for a year
2. Almost there just a bit more funding, another $50 perhaps and we will solve all energy problems and make lots'n'lots of money, really. 3. Rinse. Repeat.
Most off teh "nooz" on /. dont use US spelings ether
But it's always nice to see a fellow enlightenment user =)