The only source I'm aware of is first hand experience. I played through the Xbox version of the game which looked and sounded incredible. However, my fiance's brother was playing through the Gamecube version and I noticed the sound didn't seem as high quality though the video still looked great.
You fail the history lesson as well. Do some research on old consoles. They were always making updates and upgrades to consoles. This is, by far, NOT the first time it's happened. Would you care to give some examples on these upgrades to the consoles? The only one I can think of it the PSX which was that PS2 based DVR system. The only other things are add ons like the SegaCD and 32x. These add ons never sell well though.
Gaming consoles are standard boxes where developers create for a single technology set which is the same across all units of a system. The manufactures might make changes to the look of the system, but the base system should be the same. The 360 had the issue of not including a hard drive with the "core" model. This caused developers to not support it even though it was a huge selling point of the original Xbox where data could be cached and streamed off the HDD. Several newer games appear like they might start requiring a HDD. The same is with the Xbox only using standard DVDs. The system is pushing HD content; however, games are limited to 9GB disks. The PS3 using BluRay allows for 25GB per disk. This allows more data for cutscenes and audio. The trade off between storage can be seen last gen. Look at the Xbox version of the Prince of Persia games compared to the Gamecube. The difference in music is easily identifiable and is caused by the Xbox using 9GB disks while the Gamecube used 1.5GB disks.
You fucks are really a bore. If someone upgrades a product you bitch about being an early adopter (The fucking machine is 2 years old, do you think this is the Atari 2600?) if they never upgrade it you scream "Where's the innovation?" They do upgrade, about every 4-5 years. Thats why you have the PS2 -> PS3, Xbox -> Xbox 360, Gamecube -> Wii. Microsoft is currently positioned to be in second place this generation even with all of the hardware problems they are having. Second place behind the Wii isn't bad since they will have the hardcore market while the Wii has the everyone market. However, if they continue to splinter their market they might just lose out to Sony. People might be complaining that the new PS3 doesn't have PS2 backwards compatibility, but that has no effect on the PS3 ability to play PS3 games. All of the systems have the same processor, same video system, and they all have hard drives of differing sizes. The difference in HDD space is minor because developers can count on it being there.
Zonbu as was mentioned in an earlier thread is doing just that. They are using the VIA C7 Eden which is clocked at 1.2GHz and uses 7 watts. It uses compact flash rather than an HDD; however, a review of it I read says it still uses 17 watts of power during normal usage. I also just recently built a VIA C7 Eden build mini-ITX computer that has 1GB RAM and it's running Windows 2000 with a desktop HDD doing my torrenting and seeding. It maxes at 30 watts but hovers around 26 under normal usage.
I am interested in seeing some numbers while using the new VIA processor that is rated at 1 watt at 1GHz. You should be able to get closer to the power usage of the Fit PC while killing it in performance.
This is a terrible idea unless you are going to purchase your house in full. It is extremely hard to obtain a mortgage with a good rate when you don't have credit. One of my co-workers had this happen to him about a year and a half ago. He needed to use his WOW account as a way to show a consistent monthly payment along with his cell phone bill and some past history with apartments.
It's easy to build good credit if you start early. Just get a credit card with a low limit of say $500. Use it once in a while and pay it off in full every month. You'll have to call your credit card company every so often and fight a little to keep your limit low. But having a good credit score will pay off in the long run.
And if you read the article you'd realize your argument makes now sense. He wouldn't sell to anyone that would be in K-12 unless there parent was there and said that they got good grades. Your reply makes you sound like one of the people who get pissed off when clerks refuse to sell little 13 year old Johnny the new grade theft auto game and you have to go to the store with him.
While I'm not sure how well the policy holds up when you put 16 and 17 year olds into the equation, but overall it brings parents into the store to learn about the entertainment their children will be consuming. And frankly anything that makes a parent get off their ass and do some parenting is a good think in my book.
Good luck getting the HDD to fit. The PS3 uses 2.5" like you'll find in notebooks. Good luck buying something better than a 250GB drive and getting one anywhere near $100.
I don't believe a daily quest type system would work with FFXI. There isn't really anything (at least when I played) like an epic mount cost where money was taken out of the economy. The whole economy was completely player driven. The money being spent at the auction house was going to another player.
Many items used in crafting where drops from mobs. These drops were then put on the AH and sold to crafters who then used them to make other items which were often sold to other players on the AH.
The game had fees on auctions and taxes on bazaared items to have some deflation; however, giving the player more money directly would only cause inflation. Having a repeatable quest that gave a decent cash reward or mobs dropping more would just cause more money to be introduced without removing it. The big issue the game had with fish bots was that they could run 24x7 and sell directly to vendors. This meant new money kept being introduced without being removed.
The only real way to keep the economy level in the game would be price fixing by SE at the AH. This would be for them to create auctions selling items by bogus characters. This would keep items from raising in price so a seller would then sell at the going rate. By having the player run economy it wouldn't be uncommon to have items in the AH be sold out and players would start raising the price to make more money (supply and demand). It wasn't uncommon to find an item in demand in one city where you could easily buy it from another vendor. You could buy stock, send it to a mule in another and turn a healthy profit.
You are aware that the PS3 is able to run Linux right out of the box since at least the US launch day. This is ran from an option that Sony put in the PS3's interface and requires no hacking. You are also able to drop whatever SATA hard drive you want in your PS3 to increase storage on it, through you'll need to purchase a notebook hard drive if you want the drive to fit into the existing case.
Also the Folding@home client has been ported to the PS3 and Sony makes it available in a system update. The client is restrictive in what data packets are ran but it, but it will process the packet at about ten times the speed of a high end gaming rig. Depending on what you are analyzing a few PS3s might be a really fast a cheap solution as you could have five of them clustered for the $2,500 used to build the computer in the article.
"Not with my box of bunnies." Ah, I still remember when I was trying to solve the last puzzle in the game and consequently got Ben to shred bunny after bunny as the Flight of the Valkyries or whatever song that was played.
Have you looked into hooking up a digital receiver to your computer using firewire to capture HD and the digital channels without needing to use cable cards? You can use an Xbox 360 as an extender to a TV and it makes it a little easier to get into the DVR software. You will also be able to move the computer away from the TV and into a closet so you won't need to worry about noise.
Except that Vista Ultimate has an upgrade version available for $260 and most people don't need all of the features of Ultimate so they could get the $140 Home Premium Upgrade.
The other point I believe that was trying to be made was that with Windows you use the base OS for 5 years where Apple has been releasing OSX update almost yearly, though their release schedule has been slowing down lately. But if you were to buy a computer with OSX 10.0 and then you wanted to stay current you would have spend $130 * 4 = $520 where a XP machine would cost at most $260 for Vista Ultimate over the same time period. Apple would have charged their customers for the update that Microsoft released as XP SP2.
Yes every new mainstream x86 computer supported 64-bit. My point by listing the Pentium D and Core Duo is that there were dual core processors that are incapable of running a 64-bit OS. These are still recent machines and the users could want to upgrade their computers to Vista.
I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Apple was already doing a large shift from one CPU architecture to another. However, OSX moving to support 64-bit is a given. Now Apple has PowerPC, 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86 support. Why not just release the initial Intel based computers as 64-bit CPUs and then you only have two architectures to support rather than three.
Yes it's true that 32-bit software will run just fine on 64-bit hardware. But the whole point of the discuss is why aren't companies moving to and embracing 64-bit?
I have to disagree with XP x64 being a good test bed. XP x64 was only available through OEM channels and was a hybrid XP running with the Server 2003 kernel. Very few people ran it because it had little hardware support and many software compatibility issues.
Vista x64 is a much better test bed since average consumers can easily obtain it by purchasing Vista Ultimate, or getting a 64-bit DVD from Microsoft to use with their key they purchased in a store with Home Premium.
One thing I am wondering is what do you see as a killer feature that will benefit the average consumer with the move to 64-bit?
The big issue with pushing out 64-bit only with Vista is Intel not releasing 64-bit processors until more recently. AMD released the Athlon 64 long before Intel came out with their 64-bit Core2 Duos. The older Pentium-D and Core Duo multi core processors are still only 32-bit. This prevents people with the original Intel Mac books from running 64-bit Windows on it. It was also the reason that boot camp was needed to get Windows running easily on Macbooks. The Macbook doesn't have a standard BIOS, it has EFI. The 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Server 2003 where the only versions of Windows would support EFI pre-Vista. But the Macbook's processors where only 32-bit.
You also ran into the chicken and the egg issue with your parent's computer. Manufactures don't want to release updated 64-bit drivers for old obsolete hardware to get people to but new hardware; however, people don't want to have to buy all new hardware when they can simply install a 32-bit OS and everything will continue to work. By having 32 and 64-bit versions of Vista Microsoft allows people with older hardware to keep using what they always have while forcing manufactures to create 64-bit drivers if they want to receive WHQL approval. So in 5 years the majority of hardware available will have 64-bit drivers available.
As for only 32-bit versions of applications. Microsoft just killed off the ability to run 16-bit applications in Vista. Also how is it their fault that other software companies aren't releasing 64-bit versions or their software? With Vista being the first consumer level 64-bit Windows OS there is more incentive to release both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries. It will take time but it will happen.
Finally you might want to go rag on Apple a little more and not just Microsoft. They are in control of their hardware platform; however, they decided it was OK to stick with 32-bit processors with the initial move to Intel. There was already a huge shift due to the move from PowerPC to x86. Why not also move the OS and applications to 64-bit as well?
Final Fantasy XI had a crafting system where the character level was not tied to the crafting level. You could reach the maximum crafting level without ever leveling your character. There were artificial barriers due to the acquiring components of later items.
Crafted items can never sell to a vendor for more than the sum of their components. If this was the case people would just plan up shop next to a vendor and setup a macro to keep buying the components and then selling off the finished products to the vendor and then keep adding new gold to the economy. Overtime gold would become worthless and the economy would fail.
A properly designed crafting system should have every craft item be worth something in the game to other players. Make the finished product of the lower levels be components for the higher level items. A higher crafting level player could then spend time on creating hundreds of these lower level components or buy them off a low level crafter. Final Fantasy XI is like this; however, the crafting grinding is horrible and there are many worthless items used to level with. LotR:Online seems to have a slightly better system from what I saw in the brief time I played the open beta.
That's funny because what you want is exactly what Xfire does: http://www.xfire.com/. It includes a IM client and voice chat. You can also join a server your friend's are playing on through the buddy list. It also includes a built in bittorrent client for downloading demos and patches. The only thing it doesn't offer is achievements so you won't be able to show off your e-penis. It's free through and offers a great system to keep in contact with your friends and meet new people with it's friends of friends feature.
The images seems to become invalid every few months; however, Microsoft then releases a new version of the image. I'm not sure if this was what you saw though as I don't have a Mac so I can't try this under Parallels.
You could just download Microsoft's Virtual PC XP image for IE 6 testing and convert it to a VMWare image. Then you can make an copy of it and do a Windows Update to install IE 7 and you can test both versions.
I still have mine and it works well, but you are better off purchasing a DVD player so you can also play SVCDs and the laser will be of higher quality. I have a cheap $35 DVD player here that will play any disk you through at it. I have a DVD that wasn't mastered correctly and will refuse to play on any computer or game console, but the little tank will chug along and play the content without issue.
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The only source I'm aware of is first hand experience. I played through the Xbox version of the game which looked and sounded incredible. However, my fiance's brother was playing through the Gamecube version and I noticed the sound didn't seem as high quality though the video still looked great.
You mean something like UPNP with DLNA certification? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA
You can do this with both the PS3 and a modded Xbox running Xbox Media Center right now.
Gaming consoles are standard boxes where developers create for a single technology set which is the same across all units of a system. The manufactures might make changes to the look of the system, but the base system should be the same. The 360 had the issue of not including a hard drive with the "core" model. This caused developers to not support it even though it was a huge selling point of the original Xbox where data could be cached and streamed off the HDD. Several newer games appear like they might start requiring a HDD. The same is with the Xbox only using standard DVDs. The system is pushing HD content; however, games are limited to 9GB disks. The PS3 using BluRay allows for 25GB per disk. This allows more data for cutscenes and audio. The trade off between storage can be seen last gen. Look at the Xbox version of the Prince of Persia games compared to the Gamecube. The difference in music is easily identifiable and is caused by the Xbox using 9GB disks while the Gamecube used 1.5GB disks. You fucks are really a bore. If someone upgrades a product you bitch about being an early adopter (The fucking machine is 2 years old, do you think this is the Atari 2600?) if they never upgrade it you scream "Where's the innovation?" They do upgrade, about every 4-5 years. Thats why you have the PS2 -> PS3, Xbox -> Xbox 360, Gamecube -> Wii. Microsoft is currently positioned to be in second place this generation even with all of the hardware problems they are having. Second place behind the Wii isn't bad since they will have the hardcore market while the Wii has the everyone market. However, if they continue to splinter their market they might just lose out to Sony. People might be complaining that the new PS3 doesn't have PS2 backwards compatibility, but that has no effect on the PS3 ability to play PS3 games. All of the systems have the same processor, same video system, and they all have hard drives of differing sizes. The difference in HDD space is minor because developers can count on it being there.
Zonbu as was mentioned in an earlier thread is doing just that. They are using the VIA C7 Eden which is clocked at 1.2GHz and uses 7 watts. It uses compact flash rather than an HDD; however, a review of it I read says it still uses 17 watts of power during normal usage. I also just recently built a VIA C7 Eden build mini-ITX computer that has 1GB RAM and it's running Windows 2000 with a desktop HDD doing my torrenting and seeding. It maxes at 30 watts but hovers around 26 under normal usage.
I am interested in seeing some numbers while using the new VIA processor that is rated at 1 watt at 1GHz. You should be able to get closer to the power usage of the Fit PC while killing it in performance.
This is a terrible idea unless you are going to purchase your house in full. It is extremely hard to obtain a mortgage with a good rate when you don't have credit. One of my co-workers had this happen to him about a year and a half ago. He needed to use his WOW account as a way to show a consistent monthly payment along with his cell phone bill and some past history with apartments.
It's easy to build good credit if you start early. Just get a credit card with a low limit of say $500. Use it once in a while and pay it off in full every month. You'll have to call your credit card company every so often and fight a little to keep your limit low. But having a good credit score will pay off in the long run.
And if you read the article you'd realize your argument makes now sense. He wouldn't sell to anyone that would be in K-12 unless there parent was there and said that they got good grades. Your reply makes you sound like one of the people who get pissed off when clerks refuse to sell little 13 year old Johnny the new grade theft auto game and you have to go to the store with him.
While I'm not sure how well the policy holds up when you put 16 and 17 year olds into the equation, but overall it brings parents into the store to learn about the entertainment their children will be consuming. And frankly anything that makes a parent get off their ass and do some parenting is a good think in my book.
It doesn't by default. But you can change that.
1. type this in the browser address bar "about:config"
2. look for "layout.spellcheckDefault"
3. change the value to "2
4. restart firefox
Good luck getting the HDD to fit. The PS3 uses 2.5" like you'll find in notebooks. Good luck buying something better than a 250GB drive and getting one anywhere near $100.
I don't believe a daily quest type system would work with FFXI. There isn't really anything (at least when I played) like an epic mount cost where money was taken out of the economy. The whole economy was completely player driven. The money being spent at the auction house was going to another player.
Many items used in crafting where drops from mobs. These drops were then put on the AH and sold to crafters who then used them to make other items which were often sold to other players on the AH.
The game had fees on auctions and taxes on bazaared items to have some deflation; however, giving the player more money directly would only cause inflation. Having a repeatable quest that gave a decent cash reward or mobs dropping more would just cause more money to be introduced without removing it. The big issue the game had with fish bots was that they could run 24x7 and sell directly to vendors. This meant new money kept being introduced without being removed.
The only real way to keep the economy level in the game would be price fixing by SE at the AH. This would be for them to create auctions selling items by bogus characters. This would keep items from raising in price so a seller would then sell at the going rate. By having the player run economy it wouldn't be uncommon to have items in the AH be sold out and players would start raising the price to make more money (supply and demand). It wasn't uncommon to find an item in demand in one city where you could easily buy it from another vendor. You could buy stock, send it to a mule in another and turn a healthy profit.
You are aware that the PS3 is able to run Linux right out of the box since at least the US launch day. This is ran from an option that Sony put in the PS3's interface and requires no hacking. You are also able to drop whatever SATA hard drive you want in your PS3 to increase storage on it, through you'll need to purchase a notebook hard drive if you want the drive to fit into the existing case.
Also the Folding@home client has been ported to the PS3 and Sony makes it available in a system update. The client is restrictive in what data packets are ran but it, but it will process the packet at about ten times the speed of a high end gaming rig. Depending on what you are analyzing a few PS3s might be a really fast a cheap solution as you could have five of them clustered for the $2,500 used to build the computer in the article.
"Not with my box of bunnies." Ah, I still remember when I was trying to solve the last puzzle in the game and consequently got Ben to shred bunny after bunny as the Flight of the Valkyries or whatever song that was played.
Have you looked into hooking up a digital receiver to your computer using firewire to capture HD and the digital channels without needing to use cable cards? You can use an Xbox 360 as an extender to a TV and it makes it a little easier to get into the DVR software. You will also be able to move the computer away from the TV and into a closet so you won't need to worry about noise.
The movie is Half Baked and it was written by and starred Dave Chappelle before he got his Comdey Central show.
Except that Vista Ultimate has an upgrade version available for $260 and most people don't need all of the features of Ultimate so they could get the $140 Home Premium Upgrade.
The other point I believe that was trying to be made was that with Windows you use the base OS for 5 years where Apple has been releasing OSX update almost yearly, though their release schedule has been slowing down lately. But if you were to buy a computer with OSX 10.0 and then you wanted to stay current you would have spend $130 * 4 = $520 where a XP machine would cost at most $260 for Vista Ultimate over the same time period. Apple would have charged their customers for the update that Microsoft released as XP SP2.
Yes every new mainstream x86 computer supported 64-bit. My point by listing the Pentium D and Core Duo is that there were dual core processors that are incapable of running a 64-bit OS. These are still recent machines and the users could want to upgrade their computers to Vista.
I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Apple was already doing a large shift from one CPU architecture to another. However, OSX moving to support 64-bit is a given. Now Apple has PowerPC, 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86 support. Why not just release the initial Intel based computers as 64-bit CPUs and then you only have two architectures to support rather than three.
Yes it's true that 32-bit software will run just fine on 64-bit hardware. But the whole point of the discuss is why aren't companies moving to and embracing 64-bit?
I have to disagree with XP x64 being a good test bed. XP x64 was only available through OEM channels and was a hybrid XP running with the Server 2003 kernel. Very few people ran it because it had little hardware support and many software compatibility issues.
Vista x64 is a much better test bed since average consumers can easily obtain it by purchasing Vista Ultimate, or getting a 64-bit DVD from Microsoft to use with their key they purchased in a store with Home Premium.
One thing I am wondering is what do you see as a killer feature that will benefit the average consumer with the move to 64-bit?
You might have missed the article from a few days ago but Microsoft already announced that the next version of Windows will be 64-bit only. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/145222 8
The big issue with pushing out 64-bit only with Vista is Intel not releasing 64-bit processors until more recently. AMD released the Athlon 64 long before Intel came out with their 64-bit Core2 Duos. The older Pentium-D and Core Duo multi core processors are still only 32-bit. This prevents people with the original Intel Mac books from running 64-bit Windows on it. It was also the reason that boot camp was needed to get Windows running easily on Macbooks. The Macbook doesn't have a standard BIOS, it has EFI. The 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Server 2003 where the only versions of Windows would support EFI pre-Vista. But the Macbook's processors where only 32-bit.
You also ran into the chicken and the egg issue with your parent's computer. Manufactures don't want to release updated 64-bit drivers for old obsolete hardware to get people to but new hardware; however, people don't want to have to buy all new hardware when they can simply install a 32-bit OS and everything will continue to work. By having 32 and 64-bit versions of Vista Microsoft allows people with older hardware to keep using what they always have while forcing manufactures to create 64-bit drivers if they want to receive WHQL approval. So in 5 years the majority of hardware available will have 64-bit drivers available.
As for only 32-bit versions of applications. Microsoft just killed off the ability to run 16-bit applications in Vista. Also how is it their fault that other software companies aren't releasing 64-bit versions or their software? With Vista being the first consumer level 64-bit Windows OS there is more incentive to release both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries. It will take time but it will happen.
Finally you might want to go rag on Apple a little more and not just Microsoft. They are in control of their hardware platform; however, they decided it was OK to stick with 32-bit processors with the initial move to Intel. There was already a huge shift due to the move from PowerPC to x86. Why not also move the OS and applications to 64-bit as well?
Final Fantasy XI had a crafting system where the character level was not tied to the crafting level. You could reach the maximum crafting level without ever leveling your character. There were artificial barriers due to the acquiring components of later items.
Crafted items can never sell to a vendor for more than the sum of their components. If this was the case people would just plan up shop next to a vendor and setup a macro to keep buying the components and then selling off the finished products to the vendor and then keep adding new gold to the economy. Overtime gold would become worthless and the economy would fail.
A properly designed crafting system should have every craft item be worth something in the game to other players. Make the finished product of the lower levels be components for the higher level items. A higher crafting level player could then spend time on creating hundreds of these lower level components or buy them off a low level crafter. Final Fantasy XI is like this; however, the crafting grinding is horrible and there are many worthless items used to level with. LotR:Online seems to have a slightly better system from what I saw in the brief time I played the open beta.
That's funny because what you want is exactly what Xfire does: http://www.xfire.com/. It includes a IM client and voice chat. You can also join a server your friend's are playing on through the buddy list. It also includes a built in bittorrent client for downloading demos and patches. The only thing it doesn't offer is achievements so you won't be able to show off your e-penis. It's free through and offers a great system to keep in contact with your friends and meet new people with it's friends of friends feature.
The images seems to become invalid every few months; however, Microsoft then releases a new version of the image. I'm not sure if this was what you saw though as I don't have a Mac so I can't try this under Parallels.
You could just download Microsoft's Virtual PC XP image for IE 6 testing and convert it to a VMWare image. Then you can make an copy of it and do a Windows Update to install IE 7 and you can test both versions.
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I still have mine and it works well, but you are better off purchasing a DVD player so you can also play SVCDs and the laser will be of higher quality. I have a cheap $35 DVD player here that will play any disk you through at it. I have a DVD that wasn't mastered correctly and will refuse to play on any computer or game console, but the little tank will chug along and play the content without issue.
You haven't actually tried playing it have you?