The majority of the "FLOPS" in the "computing power" numbers for the PS3 and Xbox 360 are GPU shader operations, not general-purpose CPU floating point operations.
The CPUs of each system are both approximately 0.2 TFLOPS.
It's not wrong to pay for things. What's wrong is Nintendo's moronic pricing ($20 for a repackaged NES game on GBA? For that price, they should be 4-in-1 packs).
I'd like to believe that Nintendo will price this functionality reasonably, but I've stopped expecting anything "reasonable" from Nintendo, when it comes to the re-selling of their old games.
Not quite. Bigger than box office sales, but not bigger when you add DVD sales in.
But that's hardly something to be ashamed of being smaller than. The real point is that video gaming IS a massive industry, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with movies and music. It's no red-headed stepchild.
Video games are growing up into interactive entertainment - slowly at times, and sometimes takes a step backwards, but the future will only see more entertainment that involves interaction, not less.
People have of course pointed out that none of this works with the 1.5 PSP firmware (which is what the US PSPs use).
Well, Team Xecuter has some good progress news for you:
"Our current work involves busting the firmware - the firmware dumper is already working and there has good progress been made in booting games and also homebrew on different firmware versions (v1.5 etc). We are giving support and advice to other underground teams as well as receiving help ourelves - its an excellent "group" effort without anyone actually knowing about who or what is involved. Apologies if the odd spoiler we throw your way freaks one or two minds Razz"
SIRIUS doesn't just have Stern. Can you say "sports"? Exclusive NFL, exclusive NASCAR soon (ditching XM in favor of SIRIUS, no less), exclusive March Madness... versus XM's exclusive baseball.
SIRIUS has been winning a lot of battles on fronts other than Howard Stern.
Both companies are seeing their subscription numbers soar. XM's lead seems to have little more to do with anything except a head start. Both are seeing growth at similar rapid paces.
Except you're dead wrong. Both the PS1 and PS2 were sold at a loss at times in their product cycle. And the PSP is being sold at a loss.
Sony has simply done a better job of "hiding it" than Microsoft (that, and they didn't stay at a loss for the entire product cycle, though it remains to be seen with the PSP).
>> (I'm sorry, I forgot a proper English term... those companies that finance recordings and then market and sell CDs)
"Thieves."
(actually, the term you're probably looking for is "record labels", although "record companies" or "music companies" are used often enough that nobody's going to look at you funny for saying it that way).
>> How is that any more significant than just putting up a web page, offering MP3 downloads, and waiting for the bandwidth bill to bite you in the ass?
To the provider? Not much.
To the user? It means I don't have to constantly check 20 different websites for new downloads that I have to manually download and import into my music player. I have all of that done for me, while I sleep, and I grab my iPod in the morning and go.
Podcasting is not about listening to podcasts from random people.
Podcasting is about listening to "free" (as in beer) radio content without being restrained by the 50-200 mile limit of AM & FM radio.
I live in Fresno, CA. I listen to a metal radio show from an FM radio station in Cleveland. I listen to an electronic/downtempo/ambient show from an FM radio station in Sydney, Australia. I listen to a 5-minute tech mini-show on American Public Media that, even if I knew where it was broadcast on my radio spectrum, how likely would I be to regularly "hit" the 5 minute show if I'm not going to listen to the rest of what the station plays? I listen to Leo Laporte's radio show from Los Angeles (which, despite the fact that I'm half a thumbnail away from LA on a world map, I can not receive the broadcast through normal radio means).
I have a SIRIUS radio in my car, but the breadth of content that I can get from podcasts completely dwarfs SIRIUS's offerings. Which isn't a slag on SIRIUS - it just can't hope to compete with the range of niche content that the Internet allows.
Podcasting didn't invent Internet radio, but it is in the process of perfecting it. I am listening to content that was not available to me through convenient means before. Shows that are broadcast beyond my tiny slice of the world are now being put online, letting me choose from stuff totally unavailable to me before. Other shows that existed online but were usually available at scheduled times in a stream are now more often being offered in podcasts for listening to on my time, not theirs. Since I can't get streaming radio in my car, some of these streaming stations put together weekly podcast versions of their content.
It's amazing how many people simply aren't getting it when it comes to podcasting.
Got any links? Once I'm done with current online Xbox games (probably after 360 release), I want to do this. Got some tips on where to get info, or is it all at xbox-scene.com?
>> I had an image of Castro standing there with a cigar in one hand, iPod in the other, telling everyone that music was the property of the people and so everyone should be able to download songs for free...
I was having the exact same image, except he falls down on stage afterwards...
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The CPUs of each system are both approximately 0.2 TFLOPS.
I'd like to believe that Nintendo will price this functionality reasonably, but I've stopped expecting anything "reasonable" from Nintendo, when it comes to the re-selling of their old games.
"Evolving"? You haven't played a FF game in a few years, have ya?
Not quite. Bigger than box office sales, but not bigger when you add DVD sales in.
But that's hardly something to be ashamed of being smaller than. The real point is that video gaming IS a massive industry, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with movies and music. It's no red-headed stepchild.
Video games are growing up into interactive entertainment - slowly at times, and sometimes takes a step backwards, but the future will only see more entertainment that involves interaction, not less.
Well, Team Xecuter has some good progress news for you:
"Our current work involves busting the firmware - the firmware dumper is already working and there has good progress been made in booting games and also homebrew on different firmware versions (v1.5 etc). We are giving support and advice to other underground teams as well as receiving help ourelves - its an excellent "group" effort without anyone actually knowing about who or what is involved. Apologies if the odd spoiler we throw your way freaks one or two minds Razz"
So, folks, it's coming, just sit tight.
But you and I both damn well know that that won't be the case.
Haha! That's a good one. Oh what a character.
Good thing too, or else I'd no longer have any use for this interweb thing.
SIRIUS has been winning a lot of battles on fronts other than Howard Stern.
Both companies are seeing their subscription numbers soar. XM's lead seems to have little more to do with anything except a head start. Both are seeing growth at similar rapid paces.
Sony has simply done a better job of "hiding it" than Microsoft (that, and they didn't stay at a loss for the entire product cycle, though it remains to be seen with the PSP).
"Thieves."
(actually, the term you're probably looking for is "record labels", although "record companies" or "music companies" are used often enough that nobody's going to look at you funny for saying it that way).
To the provider? Not much.
To the user? It means I don't have to constantly check 20 different websites for new downloads that I have to manually download and import into my music player. I have all of that done for me, while I sleep, and I grab my iPod in the morning and go.
It's not that hard to understand.
I download the show at anytime, instead of having to have my PC on and running for the entire show's duration?
*forehead slap* duh! ??
Podcasting is about listening to "free" (as in beer) radio content without being restrained by the 50-200 mile limit of AM & FM radio.
I live in Fresno, CA. I listen to a metal radio show from an FM radio station in Cleveland. I listen to an electronic/downtempo/ambient show from an FM radio station in Sydney, Australia. I listen to a 5-minute tech mini-show on American Public Media that, even if I knew where it was broadcast on my radio spectrum, how likely would I be to regularly "hit" the 5 minute show if I'm not going to listen to the rest of what the station plays? I listen to Leo Laporte's radio show from Los Angeles (which, despite the fact that I'm half a thumbnail away from LA on a world map, I can not receive the broadcast through normal radio means).
I have a SIRIUS radio in my car, but the breadth of content that I can get from podcasts completely dwarfs SIRIUS's offerings. Which isn't a slag on SIRIUS - it just can't hope to compete with the range of niche content that the Internet allows.
Podcasting didn't invent Internet radio, but it is in the process of perfecting it. I am listening to content that was not available to me through convenient means before. Shows that are broadcast beyond my tiny slice of the world are now being put online, letting me choose from stuff totally unavailable to me before. Other shows that existed online but were usually available at scheduled times in a stream are now more often being offered in podcasts for listening to on my time, not theirs. Since I can't get streaming radio in my car, some of these streaming stations put together weekly podcast versions of their content.
It's amazing how many people simply aren't getting it when it comes to podcasting.
Yet. Let them take their baby steps and feel things out.
I'm pretty sure they were..... Asian.
Yeah, I'm sure that's what he meant...
Certainly nothing along the lines of South Park Season 2, Episode 03, I'm sure...
I was having the exact same image, except he falls down on stage afterwards...