> I agree. Rambus is so overrated. I will never by Rambus. Save my money and wait for DDR-SDRAM. Answer me this, will you be purchasing a PlayStation 2? If you do, Sony is using RDRAM in the PS2.
According to here, the hard drive will be 8GB, matching that of the X-Box. IMHO, Sony is doing this for two reasons, to counter the onslaught of the X-Box as well as to strangle the Dreamcast out of exsistence. The only thing the Dreamcast had going for it was its modem, but with the PS2 now having a modem, apparently, you can expect Dreamcast sales to lag off. As for the X-Box, even with its launch well over a year after that of the PS2, Sony could still feel the heat from the fire. Sony basically doesn't want Microsoft to do to them what they are doing to Sega, having more features and thus strangling off sales.
Not necessarily so in the console market. Look at the PlayStation 2, the Emotion Engine runs at 300MHz. I know its been specially designed and such, but its still 300MHz. The Dreamcast is 200MHz! And with developers working with one set of hardware (soandso CPU and the NV25 from NVIDIA), they will be able to write for that hardware, they don't have to worry about compatibilty with other hardware. And also, the X-Box isn't competing in the PC market, its in the console market. Console and a totally different world from PC's.
.. and where are they going to put Windows? I mean, Win'98 is 200mb or so, they can shave much of that off but it's still bigger than most cheap ROMs isn't it? Would they put something as fragile as a hard drive in a console? According to Microsoft, it will run slimmed down Windows kernel with a few libraries for developers. And to quote a Microsoft exec "It's the size of a fly burp".
It was only a matter of time before MS jumped into this business, so its nothing real spectacular to me. It should be fun to see Sony, Nintendo and Sega duke it out with Microsoft. If MS positions it correctly and prices it right, it may end up being a viable contender in the console market. I'm still holding out on getting too excited about this thing until I see it in action personally. And I'm still holding out for the PlayStation 2. Oh how I wish I lived in Japan. And on a side note, I'm keeping a running article here about news and developments of the X-Box. Check it out if you have a minute.
I definately enjoyed to E*Trade monkey ad, as well as the Mt Dew cheetah. But I also loved the Mt Dew Bohemiam Rhapsody as well. Not as many good ad's this year as there have been in years past, but it surely had its highlights. And the game was somewhat decent as well.
On the contrary, AMD is getting such good yields from Athlon's that they are able to pump them into the market better than Intel is at the current time. And with one of their fabs (Fab30) doing strictly.18 Athlon's, thats helping the process as well. And besides, the only people I know who dont want an Athlon are Intel fanatics.
How can a chip you cannot buy anywhere be considered the fastest chip available? In fact, has anyone tried to purchase a 733 PIII from their local computer dealer? I've asked around town and no one has them. Not a one. But, all the same dealers I spoke with had 750 Athlon's in stock. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if AMD announces an 800MHz sometime in January. Mark my words.
Why must such tragic things such as this be blamed on video games? It seems even more common now, with the Columbine situation, than in the past. I'm assuming the media and governments need some place to put the blame, rather than themselves, and video games seemed to meet the criteria. I've yet to come across a game that will get me so worked up and enraged, that I will decide to go on a shooting spree in public. Also, one question in regards to the article, since when was DOOM published by 3D Realms? I thought GT Interactive did the old id publishing... w3rd.
Sure. LL users have dwindled over the years, but its still a good place to go and chat with people locally. Which is probably why LL is still around even after all these years. And sure, you can chat with people on IRC and AOL, but most of the time their not local. You cant chat about the recent storm, or I-15 with someone in, say, Florida. LL will still be a place for people to go and chat with people locally, which will (hopefully) keep it around for a long, long time.
Strangly enough, even with all the Internet has to offer, I still find myself calling a local BBS here in Utah by the name of Lower Lights. The beautiful thing about LL is that it still has a community to it. We gather at local coffee shop on the weekends, throw picnics at various parks during the summer, and have a good time online with each other. With the popularity of the Internet growing, members of LL have dies down quite a bit. Just to give an example, LL used to have 64 dialup lines and 32 telnet lines. The roles have now switched to where there are 32 dialup lines and 64 telnet connections. Most of us "old skoolers" prefer less users, it makes it a more personal experience. Much how it used to be back in the day. You can get online and have a wonderful conversation in chat with anyone online, or you can go post your most current poem or something similar in the forum. Even after all these years, its still a great place to get away from it all.
Opera. Wagner, Puccini, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, various others. Mostly Mozart, though. Marriage of Figaro is my most used CD during heavy coding sessions. Tannhauser, La Boheme and La Traviata also top my list of most listened to CD's. Turn your stereo up to the max and pop one of these CD's in. You're set for a good 10-12 hours of great coding music. IMO, of course.
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> I agree. Rambus is so overrated. I will never by Rambus. Save my money and wait for DDR-SDRAM.
Answer me this, will you be purchasing a PlayStation 2? If you do, Sony is using RDRAM in the PS2.
According to here, the hard drive will be 8GB, matching that of the X-Box. IMHO, Sony is doing this for two reasons, to counter the onslaught of the X-Box as well as to strangle the Dreamcast out of exsistence. The only thing the Dreamcast had going for it was its modem, but with the PS2 now having a modem, apparently, you can expect Dreamcast sales to lag off. As for the X-Box, even with its launch well over a year after that of the PS2, Sony could still feel the heat from the fire. Sony basically doesn't want Microsoft to do to them what they are doing to Sega, having more features and thus strangling off sales.
Not necessarily so in the console market. Look at the PlayStation 2, the Emotion Engine runs at 300MHz. I know its been specially designed and such, but its still 300MHz. The Dreamcast is 200MHz! And with developers working with one set of hardware (soandso CPU and the NV25 from NVIDIA), they will be able to write for that hardware, they don't have to worry about compatibilty with other hardware. And also, the X-Box isn't competing in the PC market, its in the console market. Console and a totally different world from PC's.
.. and where are they going to put Windows? I mean, Win'98 is 200mb or so, they can shave much of that off but it's still bigger than most cheap ROMs isn't it? Would they put something as fragile as a hard drive in a console?
According to Microsoft, it will run slimmed down Windows kernel with a few libraries for developers. And to quote a Microsoft exec "It's the size of a fly burp".
It was only a matter of time before MS jumped into this business, so its nothing real spectacular to me. It should be fun to see Sony, Nintendo and Sega duke it out with Microsoft. If MS positions it correctly and prices it right, it may end up being a viable contender in the console market. I'm still holding out on getting too excited about this thing until I see it in action personally. And I'm still holding out for the PlayStation 2. Oh how I wish I lived in Japan. And on a side note, I'm keeping a running article here about news and developments of the X-Box. Check it out if you have a minute.
I definately enjoyed to E*Trade monkey ad, as well as the Mt Dew cheetah. But I also loved the Mt Dew Bohemiam Rhapsody as well. Not as many good ad's this year as there have been in years past, but it surely had its highlights. And the game was somewhat decent as well.
Actually, SpeedStep was announced on the 18th, the day prior to the Transmeta announcement. (http://www.alereon.org/arch ive/january00/01182000.phtml)
On the contrary, AMD is getting such good yields from Athlon's that they are able to pump them into the market better than Intel is at the current time. And with one of their fabs (Fab30) doing strictly .18 Athlon's, thats helping the process as well. And besides, the only people I know who dont want an Athlon are Intel fanatics.
How can a chip you cannot buy anywhere be considered the fastest chip available? In fact, has anyone tried to purchase a 733 PIII from their local computer dealer? I've asked around town and no one has them. Not a one. But, all the same dealers I spoke with had 750 Athlon's in stock. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if AMD announces an 800MHz sometime in January. Mark my words.
Why must such tragic things such as this be blamed on video games? It seems even more common now, with the Columbine situation, than in the past. I'm assuming the media and governments need some place to put the blame, rather than themselves, and video games seemed to meet the criteria. I've yet to come across a game that will get me so worked up and enraged, that I will decide to go on a shooting spree in public. Also, one question in regards to the article, since when was DOOM published by 3D Realms? I thought GT Interactive did the old id publishing... w3rd.
Sure. LL users have dwindled over the years, but its still a good place to go and chat with people locally. Which is probably why LL is still around even after all these years. And sure, you can chat with people on IRC and AOL, but most of the time their not local. You cant chat about the recent storm, or I-15 with someone in, say, Florida. LL will still be a place for people to go and chat with people locally, which will (hopefully) keep it around for a long, long time.
Strangly enough, even with all the Internet has to offer, I still find myself calling a local BBS here in Utah by the name of Lower Lights. The beautiful thing about LL is that it still has a community to it. We gather at local coffee shop on the weekends, throw picnics at various parks during the summer, and have a good time online with each other. With the popularity of the Internet growing, members of LL have dies down quite a bit. Just to give an example, LL used to have 64 dialup lines and 32 telnet lines. The roles have now switched to where there are 32 dialup lines and 64 telnet connections. Most of us "old skoolers" prefer less users, it makes it a more personal experience. Much how it used to be back in the day. You can get online and have a wonderful conversation in chat with anyone online, or you can go post your most current poem or something similar in the forum. Even after all these years, its still a great place to get away from it all.
Opera. Wagner, Puccini, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, various others. Mostly Mozart, though. Marriage of Figaro is my most used CD during heavy coding sessions. Tannhauser, La Boheme and La Traviata also top my list of most listened to CD's. Turn your stereo up to the max and pop one of these CD's in. You're set for a good 10-12 hours of great coding music. IMO, of course.