Heh, Ok im reading more on the speeds. Apparently there are millions of people out there Flame'n each other over the "specs of Xbox2". I was a little to hasty in my posts. But regardless the general concensus is that it will kick my beloved sony's ass. Still aint got no Final Fantasy though!
Xbox 2 specs from another discussion thread - dated 5/18/03 Intel NetBurst micro-architecture (Pentium 4 or revised name) on 0.07-micron process Clock Speed: 7 GHz to 8 GHz SSE2 Floating-Point Performance: 28 to 32 GFLOPS (or 64 GFLOPS with architecture improvements) External Bus Bandwidth: 5.33 GB/sec
System Memory: 1024MB (1GB)
System Memory Bandwidth: 32 GB/sec (or up to 64 GB/sec)
NVIDIA XGPU2 Clock Speed: 1 GHz 128 Gigatexels per Second 512 Billion Anti-Aliased Samples per Second
Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing (4x, 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x)
64-bit color (16-bit floating point value per channel, RGBA) 2D and 3D Texture Compression
Z, Stencil, Shadow, and Multisampling buffers
Vertex Compression Triangle Tessellation (including NURBS support) Programmable Pixel and Vertex Processors Full Hidden Surface Removal (boosting effective fillrate 8x = 1 Teratexel per Second) High-Speed Rendering Buffer (partial frame buffer): 4MB to 8MB
High-Speed Texture Cache: 8MB to 16MB
Textures and Full Frame Buffers are stored in System Memory (1024MB)
32 to 64 Hardware Light Sources
1.25 Billion Particles per Second
3 Billion Polygons per Second (peak)
1.25 Billion Polygons per Second (sustained)
800 Million Polygons per Second (with effects)
15 Trillion Operations per Second
1.14 TFLOPS (1140 GFLOPS)
Screen Resolutions: 640x480 (TV), 1280x720 (HDTV), 1920x1080 (HDTV), up to 2048x1536 (VGA)
NVIDIA MCPX2
800 MHz
1024 Total Voices (256 3D Voices)
3D Modeled Sound
Dolby Digital Encoder
Multiple DSP units
10/100/1000 Ethernet
USB 2.0, DVD, HDD Controller
40x DVD-ROM 160GB Hard Disk Drive or 30GB Solid State Drive
Begin the Drool Fest. PS3 has 1 advantage, it'll be out sooner.
(Quote)Cost of console = n + $100 where n equals the prices of the console this one renders obselete.(/Quote)
Heh why way PS1 $300 dollars when it came out?
I wouldn't be shocked to see MS's Next-Box prices running higher because it will may have more power than the PS3's 4 GHz Cells... Intel NetBurst micro-architecture (Pentium 4 or revised name) on 0.07-micron process Clock Speed: 7 GHz to 8 GHz
But it comes down to games IMHO, Sony can put out an amazing array of titles compared to X-Box. Even with X-Box being out for a while, there are clearly more PSX titles.
According to ZDnet.uk coverage of this news article ZDnet Article:
Microsoft is not the first company to pursue a patent over IM. In December 2002, AOL subsidiary ICQ won a patent that claimed rights as the inventor of IM. AOL has not flexed its muscle on the patent, and competitive IM services remain active.
So 2 questions, if AOL has the patent for IM how can MS patent a feature?
If push comes to shove, which patent will trump the other?
Im getting a lot of "Nonprofits" calling to "lower my debt" too!
I actually work for a 501 (c) 3, Not-For Profit Membership Association. These people are really tarnishing the good work nonprofits do. These so called Nonprofit 'Lower your debt'
telemarketers every day leave messages on my answering machine, and avoid the national do-not call list, because they are claiming the 501 (c) 3 non-profit exemption.
Watch out for this in the future, marketers using Non-profits. Telemarketers are being backed into a corner and are going to use that loop-hole in the law.
From their website...
(quote)
Our group is made up of many people, Jordanians, Palestinians, Indians, Americans, Russians and Israelis. Some of us are Jewish, some Christians, some Hindus and other of us are Muslim.
Believe it or not, we all love and respect each other.
(/quote)
Yesh, now we know that was too good to be true.
I had the opportunity to attend a few hearings on Capitol Hill this year regarding the impact of spectrum/frequency encroachment on military communications and training.
The basic argument, like the article makes for first responders, is that the military band for communications is being encroached upon by civilian use. Having fewer frequencies directly impacts the military's ability to conduct training operations and exercises.
The Navy (Department of Defense) has a page which educates visitors and range spectrum users on how to defend against civilian encroachment of DoD frequency spectrum.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum Training Chart shows military uses of certain frequencies and the competing civilian use.
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Heh, Ok im reading more on the speeds. Apparently there are millions of people out there Flame'n each other over the "specs of Xbox2". I was a little to hasty in my posts. But regardless the general concensus is that it will kick my beloved sony's ass.
Still aint got no Final Fantasy though!
Xbox 2 specs from another discussion thread - dated 5/18/03
Intel NetBurst micro-architecture (Pentium 4 or revised name) on 0.07-micron process
Clock Speed: 7 GHz to 8 GHz
SSE2 Floating-Point Performance: 28 to 32 GFLOPS (or 64 GFLOPS with architecture improvements)
External Bus Bandwidth: 5.33 GB/sec
System Memory: 1024MB (1GB)
System Memory Bandwidth: 32 GB/sec (or up to 64 GB/sec)
NVIDIA XGPU2
Clock Speed: 1 GHz
128 Gigatexels per Second
512 Billion Anti-Aliased Samples per Second
Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing (4x, 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x) 64-bit color (16-bit floating point value per channel, RGBA)
2D and 3D Texture Compression Z, Stencil, Shadow, and Multisampling buffers Vertex Compression
Triangle Tessellation (including NURBS support)
Programmable Pixel and Vertex Processors
Full Hidden Surface Removal (boosting effective fillrate 8x = 1 Teratexel per Second)
High-Speed Rendering Buffer (partial frame buffer): 4MB to 8MB
High-Speed Texture Cache: 8MB to 16MB
Textures and Full Frame Buffers are stored in System Memory (1024MB)
32 to 64 Hardware Light Sources
1.25 Billion Particles per Second
3 Billion Polygons per Second (peak)
1.25 Billion Polygons per Second (sustained)
800 Million Polygons per Second (with effects)
15 Trillion Operations per Second 1.14 TFLOPS (1140 GFLOPS)
Screen Resolutions: 640x480 (TV), 1280x720
(HDTV), 1920x1080 (HDTV), up to 2048x1536 (VGA)
NVIDIA MCPX2 800 MHz
1024 Total Voices (256 3D Voices)
3D Modeled Sound
Dolby Digital Encoder
Multiple DSP units
10/100/1000 Ethernet
USB 2.0, DVD, HDD Controller
40x DVD-ROM 160GB Hard Disk Drive or 30GB Solid State Drive
Begin the Drool Fest. PS3 has 1 advantage, it'll be out sooner.
(Quote)Cost of console = n + $100 where n equals the prices of the console this one renders obselete.(/Quote)
... Intel NetBurst micro-architecture (Pentium 4 or revised name) on 0.07-micron process Clock Speed: 7 GHz to 8 GHz
Heh why way PS1 $300 dollars when it came out?
I wouldn't be shocked to see MS's Next-Box prices running higher because it will may have more power than the PS3's 4 GHz Cells
But it comes down to games IMHO, Sony can put out an amazing array of titles compared to X-Box. Even with X-Box being out for a while, there are clearly more PSX titles.
Microsoft is not the first company to pursue a patent over IM. In December 2002, AOL subsidiary ICQ won a patent that claimed rights as the inventor of IM. AOL has not flexed its muscle on the patent, and competitive IM services remain active.
So 2 questions, if AOL has the patent for IM how can MS patent a feature?
If push comes to shove, which patent will trump the other?
I actually work for a 501 (c) 3, Not-For Profit Membership Association. These people are really tarnishing the good work nonprofits do. These so called Nonprofit 'Lower your debt' telemarketers every day leave messages on my answering machine, and avoid the national do-not call list, because they are claiming the 501 (c) 3 non-profit exemption.
Watch out for this in the future, marketers using Non-profits. Telemarketers are being backed into a corner and are going to use that loop-hole in the law.
From their website... (quote) Our group is made up of many people, Jordanians, Palestinians, Indians, Americans, Russians and Israelis. Some of us are Jewish, some Christians, some Hindus and other of us are Muslim. Believe it or not, we all love and respect each other. (/quote) Yesh, now we know that was too good to be true.
Executive Secretary In Every Computer Yes, but can you get fired for sleeping with the virtual Executive Secretary?
Learned something new though, the discussion on this thread mod'd 1 or 2 has been more educational than the ones modded 4 or 5.
Is /. TV Guide available in a print version as well, I need new bathroom reading material.
The basic argument, like the article makes for first responders, is that the military band for communications is being encroached upon by civilian use. Having fewer frequencies directly impacts the military's ability to conduct training operations and exercises.
The Navy (Department of Defense) has a page which educates visitors and range spectrum users on how to defend against civilian encroachment of DoD frequency spectrum.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum Training Chart shows military uses of certain frequencies and the competing civilian use.