Doubtfull since im sure IBM did most of the hardware work themselves. Its 3 companies, if anything happens it will need majority aproval...i would assume, in that case IBM, MS, and Toshiba all have "good" buisness relationships at the moment, and having MS on board would only benefit IBM and Toshiba with adoption time. More companies who license the tech=more money and no matter how big Sony's grudge may grow it wont out vote the other 2
the whole point of the cell in a cell phone would be not needing a gpu or large cpu to run graphic intensive games. with cell we should be able to get at LEAST ps2 level graphics in a small cell phone.
Before everyone starts having digital orgasms over this chip we should take a sit back and watch approach. This all sounds amazing on paper as did PS2 and look how that turned out in terms of hardware power.
We have no idea if developers will be able to easily adapt and get any real performance out of this thing above and beyond what they get from CPU's now. Almost nobody uses the vector units in PS2, who says they will start now? In terms of just gaming I wanna see some games and examples of this thing running in real time before i start taking my wallet out of my pocket, Sony burned me last time with underpowered bug ridden hardware, ill be damned if i let them do it again.
Dont forget Sony CANT block MS from using Cell in Xbox 2, all IBM has to do is change the layout and sell it to MS and you now have 2 consoles with Cell chipsets in them. We already know Xbox is using a Power based CPU, we just dont know why...and Cell is Power based.
::ahem:: im sorry, but EA deserves this one, they just made a good baseball game, and now its all over for them in terms of a licensed game. This isnt as important as Football but its still pretty big. Go Sega/Take 2
Im on your side with this one, I've recently had many sony products break on me with zero abuse, the main offender is PS2.
I've had 4 PS2's since launch, all of which had some sort of common fault with them from scratching disks, making funny noises, or getting the dreaded DDE. I've babied these things from day 1 and they all managed to die on me, im glad i had a ESA from EB cause if I didnt i woulda been screwed.
On the other hand my launch Xbox and Gamecube both still work perfectly and so does my Dreamcast, take best of all I've dropped said Dreamcast down a flight of stairs...go Sega.
"To me, it simply seems to impossible to think that the universe and all that's in it, including us, is the result of some random roll of the cosmic dice."
And to me it seems impossible to beleive it was all created by one being. I think its far more likely we are just a lucky role of the dice, just like polars bears were lucky to get all that warm fur...or was that just evolution?
By the time Longhorn is out im sure all low end graphics cards and integrated solutions will support pixel shader 2.0. And chances are those who upgrade will have better then crap hardware.
I've been using Mozilla for about a year now, I've used FireFox and I dont really see a reason to change, Mozilla has the plugins i use and they work without any problems and its just as fast if you ask me. I dont use the email client...but i dont install it either so bloat isnt really a problem.
Yea there is a big difference, you would expect the game which is simple by comparison to work, even more so when its been in development for so long, an OS on the other hand is incredibly complex...it wasnt even the OS that crashed.
If i remember correctly...and I do, the Half Life 2 demo at E3 kept crashing and look how that turned out. Of course since this is Microsoft everyone will blow the situation out of proportion.
I got a feeling Rimbo is really Bush just trying to improve his image with the/. crowd, maybe someone shoudl clue him in that he cant be elected again.
Im another who stopped watching TechTV after it merged with G4, i used to watch that channel all the time, in fact it was pretty much the only thing i watched on TV. Almost right after the merger you could tell it was going downhill and everything was changing. I havent watched in a couple months now and i really dont care to. G4 needs to fire EVERYONE who is in uppermanagment and hire some gamers who know what they are talking about for the jobs.
I was happy when i finally got Comcast Digital Cable cause it meant i'd get to watch my fav shows again, a year later its all gone and im back to sticking with dvd's and the computer for my entertainment.
I tried the link in Mozilla and as expected nothing happened. I then tried it in IE. It took about 30 seconds to open the popup and im not sure it would have opened at all if i didnt start clicking around the page to unfreeze IE. It seemed IE was in some kind of loop the title bar was flashing as if it was gaining and losing focus rapidly. Its obvious something fishy was going on.
Do you have any idea how big a HD movie will be? It will take forever to download and it will eat drive space like nobodies buisness. The larger format itself is a reason to not bother pirating it.
Of course this wont hold true forever, cheaper larger storage is always coming out and hopefully we see another large jump in broadband speed soon.
I gotta give it to valve, they made an amazing game. The physics are just incredible and add tons of new gameplay options to explore. I am kinda pissed that it needs to be activated online, which in reality means the retail disks dont ship with all the files needed to play...makes me wonder whats gonna happen in a few years when i feel nostalgic and i wanna play HL2, will i be able to?
Might i add im in love with the most beautiful girl ever born and her name is Jen, might i also add she loves me back! Why am i telling the nerds of the world this? Because right now all i can think about is her when i should be playing Half Life 2 (because she is sleeping)...she makes me so happy i dont even wanna game!
I work in a mall and there is one of these kiosks there...which i reported to Nintendo last week.
Now this isnt really a matter of piracy for me, i have no problem with people downloading games, pirating whatever they want so long as i dont get in trouble for it...the point was the guys selling these things are ripping people off. What is cost on one of these $5 at most? How high quality can they be...some guy downloads some roms, an emulator, puts then on a chip, solders it into a controller, little code here and there and its ready to be mass produced by 30 kids in some rat infested basement...yea here is some money to keep that operation afloat
How long will these things last? Are they as durable as a Nintendo product? Of course not, they will probably break after a month or so, and as we all know right after the Holiday seasons these kiosks will disapear and a shitload of people will have broken units with no way to get a repair or replacement...
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Doubtfull since im sure IBM did most of the hardware work themselves. Its 3 companies, if anything happens it will need majority aproval...i would assume, in that case IBM, MS, and Toshiba all have "good" buisness relationships at the moment, and having MS on board would only benefit IBM and Toshiba with adoption time. More companies who license the tech=more money and no matter how big Sony's grudge may grow it wont out vote the other 2
the whole point of the cell in a cell phone would be not needing a gpu or large cpu to run graphic intensive games. with cell we should be able to get at LEAST ps2 level graphics in a small cell phone.
Before everyone starts having digital orgasms over this chip we should take a sit back and watch approach. This all sounds amazing on paper as did PS2 and look how that turned out in terms of hardware power.
We have no idea if developers will be able to easily adapt and get any real performance out of this thing above and beyond what they get from CPU's now. Almost nobody uses the vector units in PS2, who says they will start now? In terms of just gaming I wanna see some games and examples of this thing running in real time before i start taking my wallet out of my pocket, Sony burned me last time with underpowered bug ridden hardware, ill be damned if i let them do it again.
Dont forget Sony CANT block MS from using Cell in Xbox 2, all IBM has to do is change the layout and sell it to MS and you now have 2 consoles with Cell chipsets in them. We already know Xbox is using a Power based CPU, we just dont know why...and Cell is Power based.
::ahem:: im sorry, but EA deserves this one, they just made a good baseball game, and now its all over for them in terms of a licensed game. This isnt as important as Football but its still pretty big. Go Sega/Take 2
Im on your side with this one, I've recently had many sony products break on me with zero abuse, the main offender is PS2.
I've had 4 PS2's since launch, all of which had some sort of common fault with them from scratching disks, making funny noises, or getting the dreaded DDE. I've babied these things from day 1 and they all managed to die on me, im glad i had a ESA from EB cause if I didnt i woulda been screwed.
On the other hand my launch Xbox and Gamecube both still work perfectly and so does my Dreamcast, take best of all I've dropped said Dreamcast down a flight of stairs...go Sega.
I dont even need to come up with a funny comment, those pictures are enough on their own...oh sexy Mr Gates, how those 80's teen age girls adored you!
Not trying to make fun, but ive NEVER seen a fat man move like that and have that much energy...except Chris Farley
"To me, it simply seems to impossible to think that the universe and all that's in it, including us, is the result of some random roll of the cosmic dice." And to me it seems impossible to beleive it was all created by one being. I think its far more likely we are just a lucky role of the dice, just like polars bears were lucky to get all that warm fur...or was that just evolution?
By the time Longhorn is out im sure all low end graphics cards and integrated solutions will support pixel shader 2.0. And chances are those who upgrade will have better then crap hardware.
I've been using Mozilla for about a year now, I've used FireFox and I dont really see a reason to change, Mozilla has the plugins i use and they work without any problems and its just as fast if you ask me. I dont use the email client...but i dont install it either so bloat isnt really a problem.
When you make something better you give me a call and ill send you a check.
Yea there is a big difference, you would expect the game which is simple by comparison to work, even more so when its been in development for so long, an OS on the other hand is incredibly complex...it wasnt even the OS that crashed.
More like if your average user wasnt an idiot who installed everything and ran under admin we wouldnt need spyware tools in the first place.
If i remember correctly...and I do, the Half Life 2 demo at E3 kept crashing and look how that turned out. Of course since this is Microsoft everyone will blow the situation out of proportion.
I got a feeling Rimbo is really Bush just trying to improve his image with the /. crowd, maybe someone shoudl clue him in that he cant be elected again.
The Ngage sucks, dont try to justify buying one
Im another who stopped watching TechTV after it merged with G4, i used to watch that channel all the time, in fact it was pretty much the only thing i watched on TV. Almost right after the merger you could tell it was going downhill and everything was changing. I havent watched in a couple months now and i really dont care to. G4 needs to fire EVERYONE who is in uppermanagment and hire some gamers who know what they are talking about for the jobs.
I was happy when i finally got Comcast Digital Cable cause it meant i'd get to watch my fav shows again, a year later its all gone and im back to sticking with dvd's and the computer for my entertainment.
I tried the link in Mozilla and as expected nothing happened. I then tried it in IE.
It took about 30 seconds to open the popup and im not sure it would have opened at all if i didnt start clicking around the page to unfreeze IE. It seemed IE was in some kind of loop the title bar was flashing as if it was gaining and losing focus rapidly. Its obvious something fishy was going on.
...what?
This is what...the 5th time a company has come up with this stupid idea?
Do you have any idea how big a HD movie will be? It will take forever to download and it will eat drive space like nobodies buisness. The larger format itself is a reason to not bother pirating it.
Of course this wont hold true forever, cheaper larger storage is always coming out and hopefully we see another large jump in broadband speed soon.
I gotta give it to valve, they made an amazing game. The physics are just incredible and add tons of new gameplay options to explore. I am kinda pissed that it needs to be activated online, which in reality means the retail disks dont ship with all the files needed to play...makes me wonder whats gonna happen in a few years when i feel nostalgic and i wanna play HL2, will i be able to?
Might i add im in love with the most beautiful girl ever born and her name is Jen, might i also add she loves me back! Why am i telling the nerds of the world this? Because right now all i can think about is her when i should be playing Half Life 2 (because she is sleeping)...she makes me so happy i dont even wanna game!
I work in a mall and there is one of these kiosks there...which i reported to Nintendo last week. Now this isnt really a matter of piracy for me, i have no problem with people downloading games, pirating whatever they want so long as i dont get in trouble for it...the point was the guys selling these things are ripping people off. What is cost on one of these $5 at most? How high quality can they be...some guy downloads some roms, an emulator, puts then on a chip, solders it into a controller, little code here and there and its ready to be mass produced by 30 kids in some rat infested basement...yea here is some money to keep that operation afloat How long will these things last? Are they as durable as a Nintendo product? Of course not, they will probably break after a month or so, and as we all know right after the Holiday seasons these kiosks will disapear and a shitload of people will have broken units with no way to get a repair or replacement...
I love best buy...but i really hate it just as much...the only thing i really like is their large selection of often overpriced dvd's