"The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) currently holds about $500 billion worth of overseas assets, of which some $360 billion are held in foreign securities. The majority of the latter are US treasury bills. Banks in Saudi Arabia also have considerable holdings of US treasuries, and private Saudi business families hold large portfolio investments in the US. With the decline of the dollar relative to other major currencies since 2002, these assets have lost international purchasing power. But most of that decline happened before the international economic crisis of 2008-2009â"the US recession and the recent downgrade have hardly affected the value of the dollar."
I don't know. But maybe Saudi Arabia oil and money got something to do with it?
Now if this was Iran, oh the horrors! Or Iraq a few years ago, but not a few decennias ago, then it would be just fine;D
I don't even know why I should hate HP. Except their printer dominance maybe?
Ebay is shit and I can't pick whatever language I want on all the web sites and it got no Swedish version (so if I visit.com,.de or.fr why can't I have them all served in English? Really?)
Also all the theft done by Paypal over the years. Though I'm unlikely to have that happen to myself.
Overall it seems that poorer, less developed nations will be largely impacted negatively, while some countries (like Canada and Russia) will actually experience benefits. Where does that leave the rest of the 1st world countries?"
With all the religion and what not I guess that (less developed) mean the US is fucked.
With most people in the 1st world countries under debt (=poor (no, not really, only if the debt is larger than the value of their property)) they to are fucked.
I guess the rich can always get away from it somehow. Likely not all consequences. Worst case scenario their wealth is also destroyed and hence they do become fucked:D
The developed poor people got nothing to say in this case since they are poor and well, who cares about what the poor wants?
I assume Steambox is something done by Steam/Valve, maybe part of their games on Linux project. And if so one obvious reason to go Intel (or AMD64) is that that is what all the games are coded for. They aren't coded for PPC (or ARM and ARM would be much much slower ATM.)
It could mean more specialized and hence better at a single task which if you used it for would be an advantage.
But it doesn't have to.
In the case of cell I think the cell processors was rather more simple in design as in less specialization but many in numbers as in more complex to share the work load on.
Of course, more standard architecture means less optimisation and performance
For code? For code it rather means easier to optimize for. For hardware maybe, maybe not.
One advantage going of the shelves and with what's available is likely development (and production cost?) of the hardware.
Intel and IBM do good CPUs. You could try to make your own but it's likely not worth the effort. Also there's good tools made for those previously known CPUs.
Which, judging by the sort of games featured on the Wii, is probably better for Nintendo which isn't exactly known for spectacular photo-realistic cutting-edge graphics (or is it? I'm too young to know of anything before the N64...).
I shouldn't answer that since my knowledge is very lacking but the comparisions I've seen was with Sega and I wonder if the SNES wasn't better for 2D? Maybe, maybe not. I think it had more advanced sound and it also had cartridges which had their own chips which could do things the console couldn't (like zoom and rotate sprites and planar to pixel or whatever graphics.)
Not my area really =P, Wikipedia can likely answer.
Tried google for it a little now but all I could find was: http://whowouldwinafight.com/sega-genesis-vs-super-nintendo/ claiming the SNES had better graphics but people didn't noticed and some lion king comparision claiming SNES had the same to far, far better sound (in that game.)
Then there was the Mega-CD and Mega 32X.
If I remember correctly it was Sega which had one Japanese and one US part of the company developing different consoles? In the Saturn era or something such. Likely a big mistake. Same with Nintendo where they decided to not build a CD console with Sony / throwed them out of their CD project / throwed the CD project out / something such and Sony went on and made their own console...
I may be wrong. Or partly right. Mostly trying to help =P
Neither would give photo-realistic graphics, especially not using 3D =P
The problem with the PS3 was it was too reliant on optimisations with the Cell processor and took a lot of effort to get something half-decent.
So not more performance:)
If you do optimize more then it goes by the definition that it become better. If you have to put more effort into optimization however then it will be worse to as good as it can be depending on how much work you put into it. Now with the PS3 there's a chance the raw capacity of the system / processor was higher. And maybe it was choosen because of that. But the more complex layout didn't made it pay off that well, at least not early.
Also, don't all modern consoles use some variation of the POWER architecture? Surely IBM must be the winner in the console industry...
I wonder why they use PPC? More registers (compared to x86, but AMD64 fixed that)? More/better instructions for vectors/graphics/?
Those benefits previously and now to remain backwards compatible and be able to use the same tools?
Anyway I don't see the advantage. It's just a way of saying the game will run like shit at release and better with time. YAY!!:D
Of course you'd wish to get as close as 100% possible performance with the least amount of work.
To throw more hardware at a problem is an expensive solution. To throw more development time onto it may be an even more expensive solution (we're talking pretty decent scales of development time vs number of consoles with their hardware but in the possibly fast but complex hardware case you get BOTH issues.)
Look at Gameboy, Gameboy Advanced, DS/DSi and 3DS and what they are doing there.
Minor upgrades to keep it interesting (but still likely as good as they could make it in the first generation) and improvements towards perfection in the areas seen as lacking.
Nokia held a lot of cash to, still do I suppose but even the last dividend which was half of the one before that is almost 10% of the company value, so just two years ago they paid out 20% of the current company value in dividends..
Regardless of Troll and Funny moderation together (and with some change of expression) you two would be quite correct.
The obvious advantage of that was of course that Nintendos home consoles sold fewer and fewer units with each generation and this way I assume it become a profitable business for them whereas if they had spent more money into creating it and sold something more advanced who knows.
But I too think a HDMI output for say 2D-games could had been nice (but then maybe the developers would try to put all titles in HD just to make it sound good with inferior results.)
If it was more powerful maybe it would had been seen as more relevant today but I guess this work to. At least it will play your old library to so:)
Too tag it fuckapple doesn't make much sense though.
It's the US patent system.
I don't know whatever it was unique enough or not but the players regardless of who it is just play by the rules.
I read that article just recently where Microsoft complained about the Motorola patent on WiFi and how they wanted 2.5% of all sales there. But just a short while ago Microsoft had argued the patent system had served the US (Microsoft I assume) well.
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The WiiU use GDDR3, somewhat commodity but not DDR3 at least.
Maybe they didn't wore any glasses?
Tried safety googles?
Still no solution? Then I have no idea.
UV light maybe?
My WiFi is protected by Chuck Norris.
What about the U.S. solution?
Put it into ammunition and shoot it out in some other country?
I would get moderated down if I explained the A.
A former prime minister of Sweden said that those who are in debt aren't free.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/15/saudi-cenbank-idUSCENBANKSA20111215
http://www.majalla.com/eng/2011/09/article55226132
"the Saudi stakes in the US economy could hardly be higher: more than half of Saudi overseas assets are held in the US, the Saudi riyal is pegged to the dollar, and the US is responsible for 22 percent of global oil consumption, making US demand the single most important driver of oil prices."
"The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) currently holds about $500 billion worth of overseas assets, of which some $360 billion are held in foreign securities. The majority of the latter are US treasury bills. Banks in Saudi Arabia also have considerable holdings of US treasuries, and private Saudi business families hold large portfolio investments in the US. With the decline of the dollar relative to other major currencies since 2002, these assets have lost international purchasing power. But most of that decline happened before the international economic crisis of 2008-2009â"the US recession and the recent downgrade have hardly affected the value of the dollar."
I don't know. But maybe Saudi Arabia oil and money got something to do with it?
Now if this was Iran, oh the horrors! Or Iraq a few years ago, but not a few decennias ago, then it would be just fine ;D
Obvious alternative if you liked Gnome 2 is Mate.
That way you'll end up having with a bunch of homosexual niggers and everything is just A-OK.
Maybe some knitting corner to. Or well, have the women baby sit the coders children. That will bring some diversity.
Quick! Sell your Nokia stocks! :D
I don't even know why I should hate HP. Except their printer dominance maybe?
Ebay is shit and I can't pick whatever language I want on all the web sites and it got no Swedish version (so if I visit .com, .de or .fr why can't I have them all served in English? Really?)
Also all the theft done by Paypal over the years. Though I'm unlikely to have that happen to myself.
Overall it seems that poorer, less developed nations will be largely impacted negatively, while some countries (like Canada and Russia) will actually experience benefits. Where does that leave the rest of the 1st world countries?"
With all the religion and what not I guess that (less developed) mean the US is fucked.
With most people in the 1st world countries under debt (=poor (no, not really, only if the debt is larger than the value of their property)) they to are fucked.
I guess the rich can always get away from it somehow. Likely not all consequences. Worst case scenario their wealth is also destroyed and hence they do become fucked :D
The developed poor people got nothing to say in this case since they are poor and well, who cares about what the poor wants?
In the case of a RIAA (or local equivalent) band, there's a good chance that the actual artist is not the official artist of record.
What?
I assume Steambox is something done by Steam/Valve, maybe part of their games on Linux project. And if so one obvious reason to go Intel (or AMD64) is that that is what all the games are coded for. They aren't coded for PPC (or ARM and ARM would be much much slower ATM.)
Complex doesn't have to mean faster.
It could mean more specialized and hence better at a single task which if you used it for would be an advantage.
But it doesn't have to.
In the case of cell I think the cell processors was rather more simple in design as in less specialization but many in numbers as in more complex to share the work load on.
Of course, more standard architecture means less optimisation and performance
For code? For code it rather means easier to optimize for. For hardware maybe, maybe not.
One advantage going of the shelves and with what's available is likely development (and production cost?) of the hardware.
Intel and IBM do good CPUs. You could try to make your own but it's likely not worth the effort. Also there's good tools made for those previously known CPUs.
Which, judging by the sort of games featured on the Wii, is probably better for Nintendo which isn't exactly known for spectacular photo-realistic cutting-edge graphics (or is it? I'm too young to know of anything before the N64...).
I shouldn't answer that since my knowledge is very lacking but the comparisions I've seen was with Sega and I wonder if the SNES wasn't better for 2D? Maybe, maybe not. I think it had more advanced sound and it also had cartridges which had their own chips which could do things the console couldn't (like zoom and rotate sprites and planar to pixel or whatever graphics.)
Not my area really =P, Wikipedia can likely answer.
Tried google for it a little now but all I could find was:
http://whowouldwinafight.com/sega-genesis-vs-super-nintendo/
claiming the SNES had better graphics but people didn't noticed and some lion king comparision claiming SNES had the same to far, far better sound (in that game.)
Then there was the Mega-CD and Mega 32X.
If I remember correctly it was Sega which had one Japanese and one US part of the company developing different consoles? In the Saturn era or something such. Likely a big mistake. Same with Nintendo where they decided to not build a CD console with Sony / throwed them out of their CD project / throwed the CD project out / something such and Sony went on and made their own console...
I may be wrong. Or partly right. Mostly trying to help =P
Neither would give photo-realistic graphics, especially not using 3D =P
The problem with the PS3 was it was too reliant on optimisations with the Cell processor and took a lot of effort to get something half-decent.
So not more performance :)
If you do optimize more then it goes by the definition that it become better. If you have to put more effort into optimization however then it will be worse to as good as it can be depending on how much work you put into it. Now with the PS3 there's a chance the raw capacity of the system / processor was higher. And maybe it was choosen because of that. But the more complex layout didn't made it pay off that well, at least not early.
Also, don't all modern consoles use some variation of the POWER architecture? Surely IBM must be the winner in the console industry...
I wonder why they use PPC? More registers (compared to x86, but AMD64 fixed that)? More/better instructions for vectors/graphics/?
Those benefits previously and now to remain backwards compatible and be able to use the same tools?
:D
Yeah, when I read tap out this was about what I thought about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaMs-7DFRx4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ra20RTBQ4 (even says it's 68030 specific with 68040-68060 coming soon :D)
Anyway I don't see the advantage. It's just a way of saying the game will run like shit at release and better with time. YAY!! :D
Of course you'd wish to get as close as 100% possible performance with the least amount of work.
To throw more hardware at a problem is an expensive solution. To throw more development time onto it may be an even more expensive solution (we're talking pretty decent scales of development time vs number of consoles with their hardware but in the possibly fast but complex hardware case you get BOTH issues.)
Technically, the PS2 was also pretty exotic, but people eventually figured it out, and it won out over the simpler Xbox design.
Source?
By games released later? Or what? When is this supposed to have happened?
For all I know performance was more like PS2 < Gamecube <<<Xbox.
TFA says (2GB in total of) K4W4G16446B-HC12 1066 MHz gDDR3.
Look at Gameboy, Gameboy Advanced, DS/DSi and 3DS and what they are doing there.
Minor upgrades to keep it interesting (but still likely as good as they could make it in the first generation) and improvements towards perfection in the areas seen as lacking.
Bought movies and music suck anyway if you can't have the same content on all devices.
Why would you buy movies on your WiiU if your tablet is an iPad and your phone runs Android and your laptop Windows 8?
No need to have that functionality. Others can give it.
Being able to watch YouTube is fine though.
So is it slow video ram or fast system ram?
I assume the former in that case? Has it been shown whatever they was the same (kind) RAM chips or different ones?
Hopefully it's 1 GB video ram and 1 GB system ram which would be totally ok.
2 GB of ram for everything of which the GPU reserves 1 GB of ram seem quite a bit worse.
Because it looks like cartoons make it a kid game.
Just play the kiddie games. Fuck the shovelware.
Mimic?
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NTDOY+Interactive#symbol=ntdoy;range=my;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;
It's not like the market has extrapolated the success of the DS and Wii forward or haven't discounted (some of) the future already.
Nokia held a lot of cash to, still do I suppose but even the last dividend which was half of the one before that is almost 10% of the company value, so just two years ago they paid out 20% of the current company value in dividends..
Regardless of Troll and Funny moderation together (and with some change of expression) you two would be quite correct.
The obvious advantage of that was of course that Nintendos home consoles sold fewer and fewer units with each generation and this way I assume it become a profitable business for them whereas if they had spent more money into creating it and sold something more advanced who knows.
But I too think a HDMI output for say 2D-games could had been nice (but then maybe the developers would try to put all titles in HD just to make it sound good with inferior results.)
If it was more powerful maybe it would had been seen as more relevant today but I guess this work to. At least it will play your old library to so :)
Too tag it fuckapple doesn't make much sense though.
It's the US patent system.
I don't know whatever it was unique enough or not but the players regardless of who it is just play by the rules.
I read that article just recently where Microsoft complained about the Motorola patent on WiFi and how they wanted 2.5% of all sales there. But just a short while ago Microsoft had argued the patent system had served the US (Microsoft I assume) well.
Ohnoz!
People forced to move away from IE 6?
The horrors!
MUST - NOT - STOP - USING - IE - 6