The problem is, it works in reverse when you're talking about Via. Via 1GHz CPUs perform at about the equivalent of 600MHz P-IIIs. On top of that, dual CPUs are only good for multitasking or multithreaded applications (not many), so most of the time, you'll only be getting 600MHz performance... hardly midrange.
MAME logo information... the logo's been around since at least 1999 (can't remember if it's been around even longer)... maybe Chemical and Exodus3D can do something directly. Additionally, there have been a large number of magazine articles about MAME since it first came out in 1997, so there is plenty of printed evidence, should it have to come to that.
My Honors dorm (at another highly ranked engineering school) had:
6 GameCubes
2 XBoxes
1 PS2
1 PSone
1 N64
1 SNES
1 NES
and GameCubes were by far the predominant social game system.
"Wide and _big_ screen" + "_no hinge_" = SCRATCHED
low battery life + runs hot != "perfect internals"
I'm not saying the PSP isn't going to do well, but your reasons seem to be marketing hype.
It turns out that SFGate has a 98,133 vote total for Nader in Pennsylvania whereas no other source has Nader listed at all, accounting for the ~100k difference. There was a ballot access court battle in that state, but I'm not sure how some sources have numbers and others don't.
The thing is, the controller IS the repackaged N64, accounting for its size. And yes, it uses a Flash card (custom) as its medium. There really isn't a reason to give them a N64 cartridge backwards compatible slot since the Chinese market shouldn't have had direct access to them in the first place and the new games are all Chinese-language localized whereas the old ones would be in Japanese, English, etc. The nice thing about this new service is that it keeps track of which games you have purchased, so when your Flash card becomes full, you don't have to worry about deleting your games to free space because you can just download them again without repaying.
Yep, it has to be newer than that. I've seen it in the Metroid Prime 2: Echos demo disc and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. It's even featured on the Nintendo DS boot screen now:-/
Umm no. You are comparing PS2's maximum fill rates with the GameCube's average expected fill rates. Nintendo's published numbers were for what they expected a game could do (even though near-launch titles blew that number away), while Sony's were for maximum throughput that can't be obtained in practice if you actually want to texture your polygons, etc.
Correction: 6 AAs. But yes, the battery life on that was ridiculous. It also wasn't portable, so a wall power supply wasn't out of the question. Two banana plugs + a universal power supply did the trick if you didn't/couldn't buy an official adapter.
Actually, I researched this last night trying to figure out why Sony didn't pull the Rumble Pak as prior art, or why Nintendo has not been sued by Immersion. What I found only left me more confused.
Patent 6,200,253 is Nintendo's Rumble Pak patent, which came out over a year before the Immersion patent. The thing is, it specifically talks about being a detachable device. The GameCube controller's rumble is built in, so it would seem to fall under the Immersion patent. However, maybe they have some sort of private agreement not to sue since Immersion would likely lose their patent.
Patent 6,743,104 is Nintendo's patent for rumble in Game Boy cartridges. This patent references both their Rumble Pak patent as well as the Immersion patent.
It's also interesting to note that something like a dozen Immersion patents specifically reference the Nintendo Rumble Pak, Sony Dual Shock, and sometimes the Sega Jump Pack. Clearly Immersion was well aware of force feedback devices and who was actually using them. I'm not sure what took them so long to try to make a claim on it.
All that said, by the manner in which the Immersion patent in question reads, they pretty much patented every possible alternate configuration of a force feedback/rumble device (different housing, different actuators, different shaped eccentric mass, etc). In being so general however, you'd think that vibrators would be prior art as the first sentence of the patent reads "A man-machine interface which provides tactile feedback to various sensing body parts is disclosed."
Not really. The court decided that he was elected. While that means that he was effectively appointed, from the legal standpoint it wouldn't be appointment, it would be election.
Except it wasn't really like that at all... the theory was precipitated hydrocarbons, which would collect on everything like dew. Even though one of his books was titled Worlds in Collision, he wasn't talking about a physical collision, it was just close fly-bys. While many of his theories may seem unbelievable, other ones like his theory of interplanetary lightning were proven (lightning between Jupiter and Io) relatively recently even though most scientists had originally said such phenomena was impossible.
Yeah, and my GameCube rolled down the interstate and still worked. There are dozens of examples of Nintendo survivor stories ranging from a GB in Desert Storm, to games left out in the snow all winter, to a GBA dropped in the toilet, to the guys that hooked their GC to the back of a truck and dragged it down the road.
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The problem is, it works in reverse when you're talking about Via. Via 1GHz CPUs perform at about the equivalent of 600MHz P-IIIs. On top of that, dual CPUs are only good for multitasking or multithreaded applications (not many), so most of the time, you'll only be getting 600MHz performance... hardly midrange.
Umm except they didn't buy rights to another release, they MADE that release themselves.
MAME logo information... the logo's been around since at least 1999 (can't remember if it's been around even longer)... maybe Chemical and Exodus3D can do something directly. Additionally, there have been a large number of magazine articles about MAME since it first came out in 1997, so there is plenty of printed evidence, should it have to come to that.
I prefer #AAAAAA myself.
Separatist Droid Army and not SEPARATIST DROID ARMY?
My Honors dorm (at another highly ranked engineering school) had: 6 GameCubes 2 XBoxes 1 PS2 1 PSone 1 N64 1 SNES 1 NES and GameCubes were by far the predominant social game system.
"Wide and _big_ screen" + "_no hinge_" = SCRATCHED low battery life + runs hot != "perfect internals" I'm not saying the PSP isn't going to do well, but your reasons seem to be marketing hype.
It turns out that SFGate has a 98,133 vote total for Nader in Pennsylvania whereas no other source has Nader listed at all, accounting for the ~100k difference. There was a ballot access court battle in that state, but I'm not sure how some sources have numbers and others don't.
For the giant, unprotected screen.
Somehow Nader suddenly got a bunch of votes or somebody's sources are funky...
Ralph Nader: 505,013
Michael Badnarik: 400,871
Updated 11/11 9:37AM
Source: SFGate
FWIW, the last count I was able to find listed:
Ralph Nader: 406,937
Michael Badnarik: 384,171
Updated 11/11/04 2:09 AM ET
Source: Washington Post
The PSP could really use this.
The thing is, the controller IS the repackaged N64, accounting for its size. And yes, it uses a Flash card (custom) as its medium. There really isn't a reason to give them a N64 cartridge backwards compatible slot since the Chinese market shouldn't have had direct access to them in the first place and the new games are all Chinese-language localized whereas the old ones would be in Japanese, English, etc. The nice thing about this new service is that it keeps track of which games you have purchased, so when your Flash card becomes full, you don't have to worry about deleting your games to free space because you can just download them again without repaying.
It only applies to Nintendo because only Nintendo has been sued (thus far).
Yep, it has to be newer than that. I've seen it in the Metroid Prime 2: Echos demo disc and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. It's even featured on the Nintendo DS boot screen now :-/
So is that why he's never there to teach my Networking class anymore?
Umm no. You are comparing PS2's maximum fill rates with the GameCube's average expected fill rates. Nintendo's published numbers were for what they expected a game could do (even though near-launch titles blew that number away), while Sony's were for maximum throughput that can't be obtained in practice if you actually want to texture your polygons, etc.
The website, it does nothing.
This is bug 116443. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116443
Correction: 6 AAs. But yes, the battery life on that was ridiculous. It also wasn't portable, so a wall power supply wasn't out of the question. Two banana plugs + a universal power supply did the trick if you didn't/couldn't buy an official adapter.
Actually, I researched this last night trying to figure out why Sony didn't pull the Rumble Pak as prior art, or why Nintendo has not been sued by Immersion. What I found only left me more confused.
Patent 6,200,253 is Nintendo's Rumble Pak patent, which came out over a year before the Immersion patent. The thing is, it specifically talks about being a detachable device. The GameCube controller's rumble is built in, so it would seem to fall under the Immersion patent. However, maybe they have some sort of private agreement not to sue since Immersion would likely lose their patent.
Patent 6,743,104 is Nintendo's patent for rumble in Game Boy cartridges. This patent references both their Rumble Pak patent as well as the Immersion patent.
It's also interesting to note that something like a dozen Immersion patents specifically reference the Nintendo Rumble Pak, Sony Dual Shock, and sometimes the Sega Jump Pack. Clearly Immersion was well aware of force feedback devices and who was actually using them. I'm not sure what took them so long to try to make a claim on it.
All that said, by the manner in which the Immersion patent in question reads, they pretty much patented every possible alternate configuration of a force feedback/rumble device (different housing, different actuators, different shaped eccentric mass, etc). In being so general however, you'd think that vibrators would be prior art as the first sentence of the patent reads "A man-machine interface which provides tactile feedback to various sensing body parts is disclosed."
Not really. The court decided that he was elected. While that means that he was effectively appointed, from the legal standpoint it wouldn't be appointment, it would be election.
Except it wasn't really like that at all... the theory was precipitated hydrocarbons, which would collect on everything like dew. Even though one of his books was titled Worlds in Collision, he wasn't talking about a physical collision, it was just close fly-bys. While many of his theories may seem unbelievable, other ones like his theory of interplanetary lightning were proven (lightning between Jupiter and Io) relatively recently even though most scientists had originally said such phenomena was impossible.
Yeah, and my GameCube rolled down the interstate and still worked. There are dozens of examples of Nintendo survivor stories ranging from a GB in Desert Storm, to games left out in the snow all winter, to a GBA dropped in the toilet, to the guys that hooked their GC to the back of a truck and dragged it down the road.
Umm, all that does is open Windows Update in IE. However, there is an ActiveX plug-in for Mozilla, but I don't know if it works with Windows Update.