I'm surprised they didn't have Valve hold it off to produce more content and a port to Xbox 360. What is M$ going to launch that console with? Halo 2.1??
Remember the advantage Xbox has is that it IS a PC... which means/meant that PC game developers could develop for it with just a small hop instead of a giant leap. The PS2 is an intense graphics-based embedded system - completely 100% optimized for 1 thing - games.
The next generation is using dual-core (multi-core) PowerPC chips - THIS IS NOT A PC! Microsoft made a huge decision to go against the PC/x86 architecture for Xbox 2, which means they will not have this advantage in the next round. IMHO, M$ and Sorny are on a level playing field as far as complexity goes - it will boil down to who can provide better tools.
Why don't MS just stick with a HDD as standard in the next gen Xbox, it's not like they're that expensive is it??
Because HDDs are PC commodity items - and therefore driven by the PC market. Can you walk into Fry's right now and buy an 8GB hard drive? 3 years from now when MS will be expecting to be making huge profit from Xenon, will you be able to walk into Fry's and buy an 80GB hard drive??
My guess is that they will use your home network for these types of tasks (and stream the video/audio/etc). Just think of it - for you to save your maps or whatever, you have to buy a PC running WINDOWS! OMFG what a great idea Bill, we'll screw over our customers by forcing them to have a home network - and then we'll make the map-building software on the PC incompatible with Wine, so we'll simultaneously be fighting Linux too!
Really what Microsoft should do is make the Xbox work with thumbdrives standard, that way i can bring a gig of data from my xbox to a friend's as easily as i would on a memory card...plus it would hold enough for me to store downloaded levels etc...
And it would allow you to copy your friends' MP3 and TV Shows (speculation?). Hello DMCA?? Are you out there?!?
Dont get me wrong, I think its a great idea, but the big players in the industry have billions riding on this, you can bet they will try to stop it.
You have a good point about testing on multiple platforms. What I find interesting is M$'s deviation from x86 and the PC market. When Xbox first came out, I really thought it would do well if only for the fact that it was PC-based hw. I figured all the PC game developers would immediately port their games to the PC to try to hit that additional market. This seems to happen more often in reverse order - Halo coming to PC.
But then again - can you imagine playing HL2 or Doom3 on a 733MHz Xbox? OMFG, I get 14 fps in Doom3 and I have a 2GHz Athlon+ATI9600!
Has anyone heard anything more lately about backwards compatibility?
It seems like a very difficult problem to me to run an x86 emulator on multiple PowerPCs to run Halo 2 in real-time. But if anyone has the resources, its Microsoft.
As a EE, I find this all fascinating... but then again, I'm a Playstation fan so I'm just hoping for M$ to fail - Bwuhahhaha!
If I were doing the design, I'd use the same wireless system for data from the controller as for the headset. Both have similar requirements - a few hundred kbps of bandwidth and (most importantly) low latency. This way you have seperate batts.
Personally I would like to see standards used in consoles - i.e. a few USB ports for general purpose devices - USB controller, USB headset, USB memory stick, and USB keyboard for quickly typing
PWN3D B107C|-|!
Flame-defense: I know this will never happen because standard devices won't generate Micro$oft and $ony pr0f1t. Maybe Nintendo has the balls?
to get a copy of Mouse Ether. I use a 1280x1024 and a 1024x768 screen at work, it would be nice to see first-hand how much better this makes working with dual-screens of difference sizes and resolutions.
Wonder if MS will have this in Longhorn - maybe there are some Linux guys out there that can beat them to it?
I don't know how many other corporate people out there use Lotus Notes - but I find it cumbersome, slow, and often counter-intuitive. It would be great to have Mozilla Lightning as a nice front-end to Lotus. Of course a lot of work would have to go into stabilizing the GUI, as well as interfacing it to Lotus Domino - but since when have OS-ers not been up for a challenge?
Overall, I think Lightning will probably make a great free version of Microsoft Outlook. I may even be able to convince some of my worm-inviting, virus-infecting, Outlook-using friends to make the switch.
This sourceforge project seems completely new/empty/abandoned.
Here is the 'Disctree PHP Code Documentation:' OpenCD DiscTree
But even this doesn't exactly spell it out for your average computer user. Maybe you can download the CD and hack the browser? Any other ideas? I'd be into making my own version of this...
It doesn't matter.
What's really annoying is that these companies are not being smart engineers and are not learning from other industries. If voting machines were ATMs, no bank would install one that lost $260,000 in a single day.
I'm hoping this made the front page, and maybe the ~10% swing votes that are currently towards Bush will see it (and use their collective 2 brain cells to comprehend it).
Don't want to open a can'o'worms, but Kerry could use Nader's 2% about now.
Many multiplayer games aren't backwards compatible after a patch is applied.
One word of advice, for whatever games you will host, make sure someone has a hard-copy of all the patches/updates. You don't want your night dependent on a broadband connection to retrieve them; it will always fail once your buddy Moore shows up.
I've got one of these in my lab. http://www.chipcon.com/index.cfm?kat_id=2&subkat_i d=12&dok_id=115
They are ready for production volumes, and they just released free MAC software (under license).
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I could swear we've seen something like this a few months ago!
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SegaCD *cough*
so let the debate begin again over which OS is really more secure.
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Ha... Don't you mean "let the debate continue?"
by releasing a new picture of the Xbox 360. Bill Gates was heard to remark, 'Quick, buy out Toshiba before they ruin everything!'
I'm surprised they didn't have Valve hold it off to produce more content and a port to Xbox 360. What is M$ going to launch that console with? Halo 2.1??
Remember the advantage Xbox has is that it IS a PC... which means/meant that PC game developers could develop for it with just a small hop instead of a giant leap. The PS2 is an intense graphics-based embedded system - completely 100% optimized for 1 thing - games.
The next generation is using dual-core (multi-core) PowerPC chips - THIS IS NOT A PC! Microsoft made a huge decision to go against the PC/x86 architecture for Xbox 2, which means they will not have this advantage in the next round. IMHO, M$ and Sorny are on a level playing field as far as complexity goes - it will boil down to who can provide better tools.
I'd like to see MTV bring back Beavis and Butthead as co-hosts. Huh huh huhhhh, wankfest
by the /. effect
Why don't MS just stick with a HDD as standard in the next gen Xbox, it's not like they're that expensive is it??
Because HDDs are PC commodity items - and therefore driven by the PC market. Can you walk into Fry's right now and buy an 8GB hard drive? 3 years from now when MS will be expecting to be making huge profit from Xenon, will you be able to walk into Fry's and buy an 80GB hard drive??
My guess is that they will use your home network for these types of tasks (and stream the video/audio/etc). Just think of it - for you to save your maps or whatever, you have to buy a PC running WINDOWS! OMFG what a great idea Bill, we'll screw over our customers by forcing them to have a home network - and then we'll make the map-building software on the PC incompatible with Wine, so we'll simultaneously be fighting Linux too!
Really what Microsoft should do is make the Xbox work with thumbdrives standard, that way i can bring a gig of data from my xbox to a friend's as easily as i would on a memory card...plus it would hold enough for me to store downloaded levels etc...
And it would allow you to copy your friends' MP3 and TV Shows (speculation?). Hello DMCA?? Are you out there?!?
Dont get me wrong, I think its a great idea, but the big players in the industry have billions riding on this, you can bet they will try to stop it.
You have a good point about testing on multiple platforms. What I find interesting is M$'s deviation from x86 and the PC market. When Xbox first came out, I really thought it would do well if only for the fact that it was PC-based hw. I figured all the PC game developers would immediately port their games to the PC to try to hit that additional market. This seems to happen more often in reverse order - Halo coming to PC.
But then again - can you imagine playing HL2 or Doom3 on a 733MHz Xbox? OMFG, I get 14 fps in Doom3 and I have a 2GHz Athlon+ATI9600!
Has anyone heard anything more lately about backwards compatibility?
It seems like a very difficult problem to me to run an x86 emulator on multiple PowerPCs to run Halo 2 in real-time. But if anyone has the resources, its Microsoft.
As a EE, I find this all fascinating... but then again, I'm a Playstation fan so I'm just hoping for M$ to fail - Bwuhahhaha!
If I were doing the design, I'd use the same wireless system for data from the controller as for the headset. Both have similar requirements - a few hundred kbps of bandwidth and (most importantly) low latency. This way you have seperate batts.
Personally I would like to see standards used in consoles - i.e. a few USB ports for general purpose devices - USB controller, USB headset, USB memory stick, and USB keyboard for quickly typing
PWN3D B107C|-|!
Flame-defense: I know this will never happen because standard devices won't generate Micro$oft and $ony pr0f1t. Maybe Nintendo has the balls?
Can't someone hack this site to say:
MPAA: Massive Pains in All of our Asses
to get a copy of Mouse Ether. I use a 1280x1024 and a 1024x768 screen at work, it would be nice to see first-hand how much better this makes working with dual-screens of difference sizes and resolutions.
Wonder if MS will have this in Longhorn - maybe there are some Linux guys out there that can beat them to it?
I don't know how many other corporate people out there use Lotus Notes - but I find it cumbersome, slow, and often counter-intuitive. It would be great to have Mozilla Lightning as a nice front-end to Lotus. Of course a lot of work would have to go into stabilizing the GUI, as well as interfacing it to Lotus Domino - but since when have OS-ers not been up for a challenge?
Overall, I think Lightning will probably make a great free version of Microsoft Outlook. I may even be able to convince some of my worm-inviting, virus-infecting, Outlook-using friends to make the switch.
This sourceforge project seems completely new/empty/abandoned.
Here is the 'Disctree PHP Code Documentation:' OpenCD DiscTree
But even this doesn't exactly spell it out for your average computer user. Maybe you can download the CD and hack the browser? Any other ideas? I'd be into making my own version of this...
STEAM: Still Time Enough After its on the Market
I would have preferred to have them say "Oh, the only way to fix it is by upgrading to 64-bit AMD, 3GB RAM, etc. etc." My stock would have gone up :-/
It doesn't matter.
What's really annoying is that these companies are not being smart engineers and are not learning from other industries. If voting machines were ATMs, no bank would install one that lost $260,000 in a single day.
I heard the business school is also helping to write documentation on how NOT to lose to Wisconsin and Michigan. Go Boilers!
Anyone have this in print?
I'm hoping this made the front page, and maybe the ~10% swing votes that are currently towards Bush will see it (and use their collective 2 brain cells to comprehend it).
Don't want to open a can'o'worms, but Kerry could use Nader's 2% about now.
Many multiplayer games aren't backwards compatible after a patch is applied. One word of advice, for whatever games you will host, make sure someone has a hard-copy of all the patches/updates. You don't want your night dependent on a broadband connection to retrieve them; it will always fail once your buddy Moore shows up.
I've got one of these in my lab. http://www.chipcon.com/index.cfm?kat_id=2&subkat_i d=12&dok_id=115
They are ready for production volumes, and they just released free MAC software (under license).
I could swear we've seen something like this a few months ago!