But then again, the 2000 tons of CO2 is all relative. Over how big of a time period would these 2000 tons be produced? During 2006? 2006-2026? 2006-2027+?
Question: How much less CO2 would be released into the air if/. went down for a year?
Microsoft gets most of its money from sales of Office and Windows. The majority (almost all) of its Office & Windows sales come from OEM contracts. If Microsoft made it so their new OS's could be run on older hardware, they wouldn't sell nearly as much (oddly enough, it's funny how irrational people are....)
By then, the 360 should have dropped its price, and the PS3 will be out somewhere long enough to get a reputation. Then the markets will decide which is better for consumers....
That was the great thing about Civ2, you could win a game in less than a week, sometimes in a day, if you didn't have much to do on a saturday.... Don't get me wrong, I like Civ3, but Civ2 will always be king. There was just something wrong for the original, when battleships lost to warriors.... Anywho, they better not drop the ball like they did with Call to Power....
3.2L engine vs 3.5L engine?
There's more to a car than just how it looks. The quality of the parts is often an indicator. A Town & Country is usually more comfortable vehicle than a Dodge Caravan.
Has anyone bothered to think how much heat this unit's going to generate? It doesn't look like it's going to have that many fans in it, judging by the case, which also means it could possibly be cooler. But I'm kind of concerned about having however many parts for the Cell, along with having a HDD in the unit. Add the video card to it, and it sounds like it could be a skillet or something....
NVIDIA graphics - RSX @550mhz. Up to 1080 progressive scan
256mb RAM
Detachable 2.5 hdd slot
6xUSB
Mem stick and SD!
HDMI x2 output
Gigabit Ethernet
Built in WiFi b/g
Bluetooth up to 7 controllers
Movies, video, photos, internet access
Is it just me, or is Sony just not seeing that it's nice to have a decent amount of RAM? Sure, it's better than the 32MB that the PS2 has, but honestly, why couldn't they double it to 512MB? I personally would prefer 1GB, if it's going to have high-def games....
Um, Japan has the second largest economy in the world, so I think it's kind of important. Breakdown goes something like US, Japan, rest of world. Granted, China's going to be reaching up there too soon (if it doesn't collapse, which I'm predicting it will sometime within the next 20 years, which is also when Japan will crash, coincidentally,) but if you can't get a good share in the number 2 economy of the world, you aren't going to be doing so hot. I don't care how many rednecks with their "Buy American!" attitudes there are, if you can't get support from Japan, and now also Korea, then you're going to be in trouble.
The problem with combining all of the economies of the EU together is that it ignores the fact that you have to localize all of the software. Translations have to be made perfectly into British English, French, Spanish (With Spanish dialect, not Latin American), Italian, German, etc. And it also ignores the fact that Western Europe is much more wealthy than the newer members of the EU.
Consoles are always about increasing performance, just like how the SNES did to the NES. I don't really see anything that's revolutionary for the new XBox. If they came up with some new idea that's never been implemented before, rather than saying "Hey, look, we have a 256bit system, take that 128bit systems!" or something along those lines, then I suppose it could be redefining consoles. But as it is right now, the XBox and PS2 are both entertainment electronics as well, and so was the original Playstation. You can plug them into your TV or receiver, then play cd's and movies on them. It's like saying "We've included a new type of storage media in this Dell! Look at us, we're redefining computing because we have a flash hard drive!" If the XBox was fanless, it would be closer to redefining consoles, but here's how a new console could truly redefine the group:
Find a new way to interact with the player
As we have it now, we have keyboards, mice, joysticks, gamepads, dance pads, and light guns. Perhaps if there was some new way to have a gamer interact with the console (and don't say speech), then it would truly be revolutionary and redefining
Honestly, is it honestly a surprise? The only reason I ever use IE is when I'm at work, since we have web applications we need to use, and I'm guessing they're built for IE, not the Gecko engine.
Anywho, hopefully this will provide webmasters with enough incentive to create proper standard HTML pages instead of designing them for IE only.
Wow, I wish I lived where you live. My local news stations all report the exact same stories, usually in the same order. About half of the stories are also just lifted off of the national news. And the "international news" consists of national news + stories related to casualties in Iraq/Israel (I guess we forgot about the rest of the world), or whenever someone from the Whitehouse visits someone else.
...Imagine for a moment if your cell phone WAS your computer and spoke wirelessly to the keyboard and screen at your office and at home.
Oh yeah, that'll fly over real well. Offices are already loud enough with people trying to talk over everyone else on the phone to talk to people, and not everyone is on the phone at the exact same time. Now imagine everyone trying to talk on their phone while talking to their computer (which would be how to communicate with the computer, instead of keyboard, mouse, etc), and having the computer single out YOUR voice from everyone around you, and singling out when you're talking to IT instead of someone on the phone or right next to you. Sorry, but computers will never be smart enough to do that.
When will the holographic disks come out? I hear those were supposed to put HD-DVD and BluRay to shame. And when will we realize that HDTV is obsolete, and that 3-d projectors are the wave of the future?
Slashdot Mirror
As long as it's Halo, they won't really care too much.
Am I the only person to see that you can crank the clock up to past year 2050 without it blowing up?
I'd rather 42.00
The more significant figures, the better
Sixth Day, anyone?
But then again, the 2000 tons of CO2 is all relative. Over how big of a time period would these 2000 tons be produced? During 2006? 2006-2026? 2006-2027+?
/. went down for a year?
Question: How much less CO2 would be released into the air if
Guarenteed question. Answer: According to many studies that we've funded; yes.
Microsoft gets most of its money from sales of Office and Windows. The majority (almost all) of its Office & Windows sales come from OEM contracts. If Microsoft made it so their new OS's could be run on older hardware, they wouldn't sell nearly as much (oddly enough, it's funny how irrational people are....)
By then, the 360 should have dropped its price, and the PS3 will be out somewhere long enough to get a reputation. Then the markets will decide which is better for consumers....
That was the great thing about Civ2, you could win a game in less than a week, sometimes in a day, if you didn't have much to do on a saturday.... Don't get me wrong, I like Civ3, but Civ2 will always be king. There was just something wrong for the original, when battleships lost to warriors.... Anywho, they better not drop the ball like they did with Call to Power....
Of course, cloning would be the next logical step. Get a bunch of Bruce Lee's, Jet Lee's, and Arnies, and you'd have a kickass army. Take that, Mars!
3.2L engine vs 3.5L engine? There's more to a car than just how it looks. The quality of the parts is often an indicator. A Town & Country is usually more comfortable vehicle than a Dodge Caravan.
Has anyone bothered to think how much heat this unit's going to generate? It doesn't look like it's going to have that many fans in it, judging by the case, which also means it could possibly be cooler. But I'm kind of concerned about having however many parts for the Cell, along with having a HDD in the unit. Add the video card to it, and it sounds like it could be a skillet or something....
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2005/05 /17/playstation_3_unveiled.html
Backwards compatibility
Blu Ray
Cell Processor
NVIDIA graphics - RSX @550mhz. Up to 1080 progressive scan
256mb RAM
Detachable 2.5 hdd slot
6xUSB
Mem stick and SD!
HDMI x2 output
Gigabit Ethernet
Built in WiFi b/g
Bluetooth up to 7 controllers
Movies, video, photos, internet access
Is it just me, or is Sony just not seeing that it's nice to have a decent amount of RAM? Sure, it's better than the 32MB that the PS2 has, but honestly, why couldn't they double it to 512MB? I personally would prefer 1GB, if it's going to have high-def games....
Um, Japan has the second largest economy in the world, so I think it's kind of important. Breakdown goes something like US, Japan, rest of world. Granted, China's going to be reaching up there too soon (if it doesn't collapse, which I'm predicting it will sometime within the next 20 years, which is also when Japan will crash, coincidentally,) but if you can't get a good share in the number 2 economy of the world, you aren't going to be doing so hot. I don't care how many rednecks with their "Buy American!" attitudes there are, if you can't get support from Japan, and now also Korea, then you're going to be in trouble.
The problem with combining all of the economies of the EU together is that it ignores the fact that you have to localize all of the software. Translations have to be made perfectly into British English, French, Spanish (With Spanish dialect, not Latin American), Italian, German, etc. And it also ignores the fact that Western Europe is much more wealthy than the newer members of the EU.
Consoles are always about increasing performance, just like how the SNES did to the NES. I don't really see anything that's revolutionary for the new XBox. If they came up with some new idea that's never been implemented before, rather than saying "Hey, look, we have a 256bit system, take that 128bit systems!" or something along those lines, then I suppose it could be redefining consoles. But as it is right now, the XBox and PS2 are both entertainment electronics as well, and so was the original Playstation. You can plug them into your TV or receiver, then play cd's and movies on them. It's like saying "We've included a new type of storage media in this Dell! Look at us, we're redefining computing because we have a flash hard drive!" If the XBox was fanless, it would be closer to redefining consoles, but here's how a new console could truly redefine the group:
Find a new way to interact with the player
As we have it now, we have keyboards, mice, joysticks, gamepads, dance pads, and light guns. Perhaps if there was some new way to have a gamer interact with the console (and don't say speech), then it would truly be revolutionary and redefining
So you mean to tell me they've finally polished off ACPI support, and we now have support for all states, including returning from the sleep states?
An actual program dedicated for DVD's, instead of a random multi-media player that happens to play DVD's....
Hurray for Germany! 27% use Firefox! Yeah, that's right, I RTFA
Honestly, is it honestly a surprise? The only reason I ever use IE is when I'm at work, since we have web applications we need to use, and I'm guessing they're built for IE, not the Gecko engine.
Anywho, hopefully this will provide webmasters with enough incentive to create proper standard HTML pages instead of designing them for IE only.
Milkdrop is lame, since it uses DirectX. If it used OpenGL and was ported to XMMS, then it might stand a chance. But no, Milkdrop is lame.
They obviously didn't get the facts. Hmm, let's direct Microsoft over to them. Then they can have the fair and balanced view!
Wow, I wish I lived where you live. My local news stations all report the exact same stories, usually in the same order. About half of the stories are also just lifted off of the national news. And the "international news" consists of national news + stories related to casualties in Iraq/Israel (I guess we forgot about the rest of the world), or whenever someone from the Whitehouse visits someone else.
Oh yeah, that'll fly over real well. Offices are already loud enough with people trying to talk over everyone else on the phone to talk to people, and not everyone is on the phone at the exact same time. Now imagine everyone trying to talk on their phone while talking to their computer (which would be how to communicate with the computer, instead of keyboard, mouse, etc), and having the computer single out YOUR voice from everyone around you, and singling out when you're talking to IT instead of someone on the phone or right next to you. Sorry, but computers will never be smart enough to do that.
When will the holographic disks come out? I hear those were supposed to put HD-DVD and BluRay to shame. And when will we realize that HDTV is obsolete, and that 3-d projectors are the wave of the future?
Floppy disks have memory? Who'da thunk?