I believe that that build still exists, or at least significant chunks of it. The rational behind Apple doing it was less about selling an i686 version, and more about an in-house sanity check. If your software compiles reasonably easily on more than one platform (especially with different endianess), you're doing something right.
"I was one of those kids who knew Darth Vader was Luke's father before I had heard of Star Wars, because I saw the parodies before I saw the originals."
Well, then, I dare say you are not qualified to comment on the tattered memories angle, compared to many of us. Due to a third world childhood, Star Wars was the first moving picture I saw, at 10. It had quite an impact. Lucas is now my arch nemesis.
I don't understand the economics of this. Most TV watchers have access to dozens of channels, and that number goes up all the time. Futurama is a widely liked show, compared to much of the content available at any one time, yet it's still not cost effective to broadcast?
This seems to me to indicate that something is fundamentally wrong with the model, and it will continue to push quality off the airwaves in favour of crap.
I think you are largely correct about modern militaries moving towards unmanned vehicles, but wrong about GTA missiles.
It's a truism in war that defensive countermeasures will beat an attack. Flack, ECM, and interceptors sharply reduce the chances of losing a plane to a missile.
The dot product of two numbers, a and b, is equal to |a||b|cos theta. Dot products are used in working with vector calculations, and are central to 3D graphics, DSP processing, etc.
In the end, it's more arguably more meaningfull than 'number of polys a second', as all DP's are equal, and all polys are not. A chip that can do twice the number of DP's a second is going to do better in the real world.
Of course, this means little about the real world performance of a particular console, as that can depend on a whole whack of things. Also, as we all know, the numbers are streched by each manufactuer. My original comment to shamowfski was promoted by his dogmatic 'Consoles do not outshine PC's', and I think that, to the point that we can compare specs of the new consoles to PC's, the consoles are going to come out on top.
You sound pretty sure of that. The cell smokes any available CPU, at least at the type of calculations important to games. "The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards" It does 51 billion dot products per second, with 300 million transistors. I'm betting that's a lot more than what's going in your PC, nice as it may be. These platforms are qualatively different than what came before, with the ability to run many threads at once.
Even if the graphics are comparable, this parellization means better physics, AI, and sound than on a PC. Every generation, consoles have gotten better compared to microcomputers.
They probably found that half the people in the apartment building next door got a wireless router for xmas, and think they are surfing the internet they pay for.
"Salyut 3 was launched on June 25, 1974. It was another Almaz military space station, this one launched successfully. It tested a wide variety of reconnaissance sensors, returning a canister of film for analysis. On January 24, 1975 trials of the on-board 23mm Nudelmann aircraft cannon (other sources say it was a Nudelmann NR-30 30mm gun) were conducted with positive results at ranges from 3000 m to 500 m. Cosmonauts have confirmed that a target satellite was destroyed in the test. The next day, the station was ordered to deorbit."
3000 m is probably less than the cannons effective range on an aircraft.
That's too much for a game console, but the PS3 is going to be more. What are those 3 gigabit ethernet ports for? The two 1080p outputs? 6 usb ports + SD + compact flash, etc. With the right software, this thing will do some great tricks.
Think more. Sony says "$500". MS says "OK, $400", and then goes ahead and does it. Sony then sells at $350, making MS look desperate when it drops pices.
"Do Japanese consumers comfortably pay more for technology?"
Yes. Prices in Japan are generally higher for electronics, and the upgrade cycle is much shorter. You don't want to be seen with a 2 year old digital camera. And 40,000 yen is the cost of a night out in a big city.
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I believe that that build still exists, or at least significant chunks of it. The rational behind Apple doing it was less about selling an i686 version, and more about an in-house sanity check. If your software compiles reasonably easily on more than one platform (especially with different endianess), you're doing something right.
Well, then, I dare say you are not qualified to comment on the tattered memories angle, compared to many of us. Due to a third world childhood, Star Wars was the first moving picture I saw, at 10. It had quite an impact. Lucas is now my arch nemesis.
This seems to me to indicate that something is fundamentally wrong with the model, and it will continue to push quality off the airwaves in favour of crap.
Because the people who really need it, can pay for it. Much like why Cisco hardware is so overpriced.
What are you talking about? This technology will enable us to better export freedom to the developing world, and nothing could be better than that!
It's a truism in war that defensive countermeasures will beat an attack. Flack, ECM, and interceptors sharply reduce the chances of losing a plane to a missile.
Hold on, isn't da Vinci usually held up as the kind of person who would do well on these kind of tests? Ya know, renaissance man and all that.
Yeah, in 2312.
Two words; Fat Chicks.
In the end, it's more arguably more meaningfull than 'number of polys a second', as all DP's are equal, and all polys are not. A chip that can do twice the number of DP's a second is going to do better in the real world.
Of course, this means little about the real world performance of a particular console, as that can depend on a whole whack of things. Also, as we all know, the numbers are streched by each manufactuer. My original comment to shamowfski was promoted by his dogmatic 'Consoles do not outshine PC's', and I think that, to the point that we can compare specs of the new consoles to PC's, the consoles are going to come out on top.
I think enough people have seen and touched the cell to confirm that it exists. There was a IBM demo at E3, too.
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He's also using the cute rhetorical device, of talking about something else.
And God never delivered! I'm moving to Cuba.
Yes. I do know what that means. Thank you.
(And thought)
Maybe this is what he means!
You sound pretty sure of that. The cell smokes any available CPU, at least at the type of calculations important to games. "The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards" It does 51 billion dot products per second, with 300 million transistors. I'm betting that's a lot more than what's going in your PC, nice as it may be. These platforms are qualatively different than what came before, with the ability to run many threads at once.
Even if the graphics are comparable, this parellization means better physics, AI, and sound than on a PC. Every generation, consoles have gotten better compared to microcomputers.
They probably found that half the people in the apartment building next door got a wireless router for xmas, and think they are surfing the internet they pay for.
"Salyut 3 was launched on June 25, 1974. It was another Almaz military space station, this one launched successfully. It tested a wide variety of reconnaissance sensors, returning a canister of film for analysis. On January 24, 1975 trials of the on-board 23mm Nudelmann aircraft cannon (other sources say it was a Nudelmann NR-30 30mm gun) were conducted with positive results at ranges from 3000 m to 500 m. Cosmonauts have confirmed that a target satellite was destroyed in the test. The next day, the station was ordered to deorbit."
3000 m is probably less than the cannons effective range on an aircraft.
I'm gonna sell one of the kids.
Think more. Sony says "$500". MS says "OK, $400", and then goes ahead and does it. Sony then sells at $350, making MS look desperate when it drops pices.
Yes. Prices in Japan are generally higher for electronics, and the upgrade cycle is much shorter. You don't want to be seen with a 2 year old digital camera. And 40,000 yen is the cost of a night out in a big city.
It was said that the Unreal engine shots were in realtime. That's good enough for me.
I don't know exactly what he's talking about, but after seeing the screenshots/specs from the PS3 demo, if I was MS, I would give up now.