I know for certain that there are 72MHz ARM chips out there that sleep well below 40mA (I think in the 1mA range). I wonder what keeps this one so hungry while asleep. The NXP 24xx chips have been around for a while, though. They're extremely capable (USB host capabilities and such) but might lag a little behind the most recent speedy embedded ARM chips in terms of efficiency.
They previously didn't have to pay Level3 because Comcast and Level3 worked out a peering agreement that assumed general parity of inbound versus outbound traffic, and neither one had to pay. Now that Level3 is serving up Netflix content, the traffic Level3 is sending into Comcast's network is much greater than the amount coming out of Comcast onto Level3. They need a new peering agreement, and this one is going to have to address the imbalance in traffic.
Very very well explained VGPowerlord. I wish I had mod points. Instead, I'm giving you my first comment in some number of years. Use it wisely. Or not.
Anyway, your description of Akamai's distributed nature brought it further together for me.
Comcast's mistake has been in letting this seem like they're targeting Netflix traffic specifically. If it's a content-agnostic peering agreement they're after (and I hope it is), then it makes total sense. When it seems like they want to make a special fee specifically for Netflix traffic is when it seems anticompetitive.
Capture heat from the electric motor and/or transmission and pump it through a radiator in the ventilation system. The pump would take more electricity, but a gas car's air conditioning compressor has a similar trade-off. And gas cars have to warm up, too. If the downside to an electric car is that there's not enough waste heat, though, I think that's a pretty good problem to have.
If you don't think there's anything good on TV, why don't you turn of your damn TV already?
He can't. Isn't it obvious? Anyone who has an idiot box in their house is doomed to be ruled by it. Only by summoning the will to throw out a piece of consumer electronics can you be truly free of its chilling, mind-addling glow. No, wait. You're right. Anyone with the wherewithal that he claims should be able to refrain from turning the thing on, or, heaven forbid, turning it off when there's something on that he deems of too little value to justify his viewing.
That's what I really love about the type of person who brags about throwing out their TV because it was "ruling their life". By admitting that, they admit to having too little willpower to just leave the thing off. They had to physically remove it from the premises in order to not watch it.
Dell sells some pretty good LCDs. The UltraSharp 2407WFP is 1920x1200 and has DVI, VGA, S-video, composite, and component inputs (only one of each). It seems to be $674 on their site right now.
Stuffing 2 or 3 villians in with no time to develop the characters, especially the Venom character is the dumbest idea ever. Didn't they watch the Batman movies after the first one?
Yeah, you mean like Batman Begins? The most recent one? The one that not only chronicled Batman's origin, but also included villains Ra's Al Ghul, Scarecrow, and, to a lesser extent, mob boss Carmine Falcone, and ended up being the best Batman movie yet?
More villains does not mean worse movie. Sloppy/cheesy Burton and especially Schumacher mean worse movie.
WinFS exists and is still in development. It's just not set to debut as part of Vista. Whether that means it will debut significantly after that I don't know, though. I think there's an alpha or beta version of WinFS available to developers now.
There's a hype difference, too. Halo 2 had launch parties out the wazoo, all kinds of media hype. Nintendogs just kind of arrived. I imagine a lot of people didn't know much about it until they saw it in the weekly Target ad or something. The only places I'd read about it are gamer-centric sites and Slashdot. Or maybe there was a decent media campaign and I'm just largely disconnected from mainstream media... which could easily be the case.
T-Mobile hotspots aren't free. You have to subscribe to some service T-Mobile offers. The news is that they're making their hotspots in MS, LA, and AL free.
At least that's what I'm getting out of the story.
Athlon 34 3500+ and a GeForce 7800 are NOT budget.
A 3000+ at Newegg is $146 as opposed to the $219 for the 3500+
A Chaintech GeForce 6600 card is $98 as opposed to the $383 7800
That's $358 less right there. Brings their $1032 down to $674.
And that'll play WoW without any difficulty at 1600x1200, I'd imagine.
And you can drop in the higher-end components--or even a dual core Athlon--later on down the road. Or SLI your video card in a couple months for a decent boost, too.
That was actually mostly my point. The original post was positing the fact that the PSP went with faster and more expensive parts as innovation sure to overshadow all of Nintendo's portable offerings. I was claiming that just pushing new technology doesn't keep a company afloat and that speed obtained from increased production costs--and reduced battery life--is not innovation. Nintendo consistenly impresses me with their products. I just bought Pac Pix today for my DS, and while it feels a bit like an extended tech demo, it's a game style that I would never experience on another game platform. That Nintendo is able to put these things out and still make strong profits impresses me. I don't think they are in any risk of pulling a Sega.
Compare the PSP to the DS and you get an excellent idea of which company is driving new technology.
You also get an excellent idea of which device sells for $100 more than the other and still sells at a substantial loss.
Also, you seem to count processing power and innovation as the same thing. While I'm not sure which device will provide more fun in the long run (I have one of each), the DS is by far the more ambitious and innovative in its design.
Nintendo's claim for several years is that innovation is not technology alone.
And if you want a company that was "driving new technology" look at the Game Gear, 32X, Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast. And hey, I'll throw in the Virtual Boy, too, so you can yell at Nintendo some more.
You are either a masterful troll or have odd ideas of "innovation."
Battlefield 2, apparently. And Company of Heroes (I think that was the name). And several MMOGs.
I guess it's time I cobble together a PC that can run even current games well. My XP 1800+ and GeForce3 Ti200 just don't cut it any more, and my Mac mini barely handles World of Warcraft well.
They're Socket 939, which is what the latest Athlon64 CPUs are as well. According to Arstechnica, you can drop one into any socket 939 motherboard after a BIOS update.
Which makes me less wary of cobbling together a new PC soon, as I can just get an Athlon64 and wait for the dual core prices to drop (current price range is $530 - $1000).
I heard a radio story about this. The Zippo people were uneasy because a large portion of their business is from tourists buying (empty!) lighters as souvenirs. The regulation would not allow even those in carry-on luggage, and lighters were already banned from regular luggage for fire concerns. I think Zippo was trying to get it changed so that at least empty lighters could be carried.
My impression of you: "I want a game that actively punishes me for not yet being good enough! Nonintuitive control and illogical design would only sweeten the deal. And learning curve? I want to run right up against a cliff. I am hard core. I've transcended conventional gaming. I want to effectively play five games at once with but one controller."
Seriously, though, there's a game for PSP called Mercury, I think, where you're guiding an amount of mercury through a level, monkeyball style, but the blob can split up (and often has to) and you have to accomplish certain things (switches, etc.) with separate portions of the mercury. That sounds like something you might be interested in. Reviews have stated that it's a very interesting concept and works pretty well, but the learning curve is apparently very steep and later levels can be extremely tedious. I've actually considered getting it if I can find it anywhere.
Somebody's using the wrong definition of "procedural." I took it to mean that the direction of the gameplay is figured on the fly based on some relatively small starting condition/string/etc.; I don't think "procedural" refers to the gameplay perspective widening as play progesses. Unless there's something about Katamari Damacy that no one told me, the definition of "procedural" used here doesn't apply to it.
And yet you've bought into the MS BS and gotten an XBox anyway. Seems like they know what works.
His point was that Nintendo's public assertions concerning their purpose is more to his liking, and that he bases his purchases on the games offered. It seems that he likes games in which he can "kill people with a big noisy gun." Ignoring my opinion that a nice PC can compete on that front, XBox definitely leads the current consoles in the killing-with-a-noisy-gun genre. It's the only console with Halo, Halo 2, and Doom 3, with Half-Life 2 on the horizon, and the cross-platform games tend to play and/or look best on the XBox (e.g. the Splinter Cell games. And yeah, the PC versions can look even better, but this is about consoles).
I think I'll probably end up with a 360 and a Revolution in the next round (accidental pun!). I like dedicated gaming systems, but I'm interested to see how well Microsoft handles their convergence efforts. PS3 is a toss-up for me, based on game selection and price, but I'll probably wait regardless.
In the Slashdot discussion about the aforementioned Showdown, someone noted that the homepage of the contest made the mistake of listing all of the competitors, and, even worse, displays them in order of current standings. I wonder if the person who submitted this story to Slashdot was aware of the site's status as a competitor.
At least this one isn't one of the many that are [site-name].contagiousmedia.org
What kind of GeForce 4 do you have? The MX line of GF4s were deceptively branded and did not have the shader technologies introduced in the GeForce 3 line. The GeForce 4 MX series were pretty much comparable to the later GeForce 2 cards. I think the GeForce 4 models with shaders were 4200, 4400, and 4600, or something like that. The MX ones had numbers like MX440 (note '440' and not '4400').
I need to pick up this game. I'll just get the XBox version to save the compatibility hassle and facilitate easier co-op play. Once it drops to $29 from the current $39; I've waited too long to feel like a sensible consumer if I pay the full new release price, even if that new price was more palatable than most new games.
A running troll in threads about the DS and PSP was for someone to ask what the abbreviations meant, claiming that submitters assumed too much domain-specific knowledge on the part of the reader. The submitter in this case was beating them to the punch.
And I'm assuming that PSP in this case refers to MPEG-4 files already formatted for transfer to the memory stick on one's PSP so you don't have to run it through PSPVideo9 or the like before transferring it.
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I know for certain that there are 72MHz ARM chips out there that sleep well below 40mA (I think in the 1mA range). I wonder what keeps this one so hungry while asleep. The NXP 24xx chips have been around for a while, though. They're extremely capable (USB host capabilities and such) but might lag a little behind the most recent speedy embedded ARM chips in terms of efficiency.
They previously didn't have to pay Level3 because Comcast and Level3 worked out a peering agreement that assumed general parity of inbound versus outbound traffic, and neither one had to pay. Now that Level3 is serving up Netflix content, the traffic Level3 is sending into Comcast's network is much greater than the amount coming out of Comcast onto Level3. They need a new peering agreement, and this one is going to have to address the imbalance in traffic.
Very very well explained VGPowerlord. I wish I had mod points. Instead, I'm giving you my first comment in some number of years. Use it wisely. Or not. Anyway, your description of Akamai's distributed nature brought it further together for me. Comcast's mistake has been in letting this seem like they're targeting Netflix traffic specifically. If it's a content-agnostic peering agreement they're after (and I hope it is), then it makes total sense. When it seems like they want to make a special fee specifically for Netflix traffic is when it seems anticompetitive.
Capture heat from the electric motor and/or transmission and pump it through a radiator in the ventilation system. The pump would take more electricity, but a gas car's air conditioning compressor has a similar trade-off. And gas cars have to warm up, too. If the downside to an electric car is that there's not enough waste heat, though, I think that's a pretty good problem to have.
He can't. Isn't it obvious? Anyone who has an idiot box in their house is doomed to be ruled by it. Only by summoning the will to throw out a piece of consumer electronics can you be truly free of its chilling, mind-addling glow. No, wait. You're right. Anyone with the wherewithal that he claims should be able to refrain from turning the thing on, or, heaven forbid, turning it off when there's something on that he deems of too little value to justify his viewing.
That's what I really love about the type of person who brags about throwing out their TV because it was "ruling their life". By admitting that, they admit to having too little willpower to just leave the thing off. They had to physically remove it from the premises in order to not watch it.
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More villains does not mean worse movie. Sloppy/cheesy Burton and especially Schumacher mean worse movie.
WinFS exists and is still in development. It's just not set to debut as part of Vista. Whether that means it will debut significantly after that I don't know, though. I think there's an alpha or beta version of WinFS available to developers now.
There's a hype difference, too. Halo 2 had launch parties out the wazoo, all kinds of media hype. Nintendogs just kind of arrived. I imagine a lot of people didn't know much about it until they saw it in the weekly Target ad or something. The only places I'd read about it are gamer-centric sites and Slashdot. Or maybe there was a decent media campaign and I'm just largely disconnected from mainstream media... which could easily be the case.
At least that's what I'm getting out of the story.
A 3000+ at Newegg is $146 as opposed to the $219 for the 3500+
A Chaintech GeForce 6600 card is $98 as opposed to the $383 7800
That's $358 less right there. Brings their $1032 down to $674.
And that'll play WoW without any difficulty at 1600x1200, I'd imagine.
And you can drop in the higher-end components--or even a dual core Athlon--later on down the road. Or SLI your video card in a couple months for a decent boost, too.
That was actually mostly my point. The original post was positing the fact that the PSP went with faster and more expensive parts as innovation sure to overshadow all of Nintendo's portable offerings. I was claiming that just pushing new technology doesn't keep a company afloat and that speed obtained from increased production costs--and reduced battery life--is not innovation. Nintendo consistenly impresses me with their products. I just bought Pac Pix today for my DS, and while it feels a bit like an extended tech demo, it's a game style that I would never experience on another game platform. That Nintendo is able to put these things out and still make strong profits impresses me. I don't think they are in any risk of pulling a Sega.
You also get an excellent idea of which device sells for $100 more than the other and still sells at a substantial loss.
Also, you seem to count processing power and innovation as the same thing. While I'm not sure which device will provide more fun in the long run (I have one of each), the DS is by far the more ambitious and innovative in its design.
Nintendo's claim for several years is that innovation is not technology alone.
And if you want a company that was "driving new technology" look at the Game Gear, 32X, Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast. And hey, I'll throw in the Virtual Boy, too, so you can yell at Nintendo some more.
You are either a masterful troll or have odd ideas of "innovation."
As someone else pointed out, though, the MP3 adapter is actually an SD card adapter, so there's not a 32MB limit
I guess it's time I cobble together a PC that can run even current games well. My XP 1800+ and GeForce3 Ti200 just don't cut it any more, and my Mac mini barely handles World of Warcraft well.
Which makes me less wary of cobbling together a new PC soon, as I can just get an Athlon64 and wait for the dual core prices to drop (current price range is $530 - $1000).
I heard a radio story about this. The Zippo people were uneasy because a large portion of their business is from tourists buying (empty!) lighters as souvenirs. The regulation would not allow even those in carry-on luggage, and lighters were already banned from regular luggage for fire concerns. I think Zippo was trying to get it changed so that at least empty lighters could be carried.
Seriously, though, there's a game for PSP called Mercury, I think, where you're guiding an amount of mercury through a level, monkeyball style, but the blob can split up (and often has to) and you have to accomplish certain things (switches, etc.) with separate portions of the mercury. That sounds like something you might be interested in. Reviews have stated that it's a very interesting concept and works pretty well, but the learning curve is apparently very steep and later levels can be extremely tedious. I've actually considered getting it if I can find it anywhere.
Somebody's using the wrong definition of "procedural." I took it to mean that the direction of the gameplay is figured on the fly based on some relatively small starting condition/string/etc.; I don't think "procedural" refers to the gameplay perspective widening as play progesses. Unless there's something about Katamari Damacy that no one told me, the definition of "procedural" used here doesn't apply to it.
Agreed. While it's far from damning evidence, note that the submitter ("Jeremy") did not include a personal URL.
His point was that Nintendo's public assertions concerning their purpose is more to his liking, and that he bases his purchases on the games offered. It seems that he likes games in which he can "kill people with a big noisy gun." Ignoring my opinion that a nice PC can compete on that front, XBox definitely leads the current consoles in the killing-with-a-noisy-gun genre. It's the only console with Halo, Halo 2, and Doom 3, with Half-Life 2 on the horizon, and the cross-platform games tend to play and/or look best on the XBox (e.g. the Splinter Cell games. And yeah, the PC versions can look even better, but this is about consoles).
I think I'll probably end up with a 360 and a Revolution in the next round (accidental pun!). I like dedicated gaming systems, but I'm interested to see how well Microsoft handles their convergence efforts. PS3 is a toss-up for me, based on game selection and price, but I'll probably wait regardless.
At least this one isn't one of the many that are [site-name].contagiousmedia.org
I need to pick up this game. I'll just get the XBox version to save the compatibility hassle and facilitate easier co-op play. Once it drops to $29 from the current $39; I've waited too long to feel like a sensible consumer if I pay the full new release price, even if that new price was more palatable than most new games.
Wernstrom (to Farnsworth): "I'm giving you the worst grade imaginable: an A minus minus!" [gasps from the crowd]
And I'm assuming that PSP in this case refers to MPEG-4 files already formatted for transfer to the memory stick on one's PSP so you don't have to run it through PSPVideo9 or the like before transferring it.