Actually, the only reason I wouldn't drive a car with a digital speedometer is that then I'd know for sure how fast I was driving. I prefer to see the hand at 90 and say I'm probably doing 85.
I own a PS2 and a Gamecube, and I have to say I much prefer the greatest hits system that Sony has to Nintendo's. All Sony games are eligable for rerelease as a greatest hit at $20, wheras Nintendo's "Player's Choice" system is almost completly first person titles (mentioned in the article) and usually priced closer to $30. It's great to be able to pick up games that you missed early on for a discount. I recently bought GT3 and Jak and Dakster for $20 each. $20 is just such a perfect price that I'm pretty disapointed with N sticking to $30.
More computing power then most PCs? Not exactly. If it were built today, it'd be doing pretty good, but by the time it launchs Intel is going to be at 4-5Ghz. Also, there doesn't seem to be any way for Microsoft to do backward compatibility. I don't think there is any code in the entire world that would let a 2.0Ghz G5 chip emulate a P3 733.
Getting rid of Serial ports? Damnit, Texas Instruments better get their ass together and release a Ti-86 compatible USB cable. Other then that, good riddence to the serial ports. The next step is replacing floppies with USB flash keys.
I bought a Gamecube last December, and now own quite of few of the "must have" games. The problem that I see for 2004 is that the big first party games that everyone was anticipating are out now, and their sequals are too far off in the distance to see. For most of thise year, Nintendo is going to have to count on 3rd party developers to maintain the slow influx of quality games.
Now I'm going to go against my bettter judgement and link to an article on IGN titled "Most anticipated games of 2004." I don't care much for IGN, but the list does include some potentially good games.
532 lawsuits needs an awful lot of lawyer hours. I'm sure that the RIAA is well funded and capable of pressing all these cases, but is it really worth it? Lawyers don't work for free, and running 532 lawsuits at once is probably costing them something in the area of over a million dollars.
Norton's bloodhound module is usually pretty good at detecting unknown viruses. At the very least, I'd hope that it is capable of preventing the application from being run.
And since I know everyone is already readying their "Ah ha! Windows sucks!" posts, remember that running unknown code is NOT a good idea on ANY operating system. The virus doesn't exploit any massive windows bug. If everyone used Linux instead of Windows, then the virus writers would write viruses for linux instead!
I think that the absence of a 30-second skip button or automated skipping feature on the TIVO is a result of TIVO trying not to offend too many people at once. Many networks dislike how easy TIVO makes it to record shows. If TIVO made it equally as easy not to record commercials, then they could easily make some pretty nasty enemies with media companies.
He doesn't need to replace the motherboard fan, just jam a penny into it!
Seriously though, most manufacturers would void your warrenty if you peeled off your GPU and chipset fans.
Flash drives are only rated for a certain number of cycles. The cells wear out after a certain number of times they're written to. I'd hate to have a flash drive that expensive just die on me.
Happen to see the prices though? Less then 5 dollars. I bet Gabe Newell is still recovering from the coughing fit he surely had when he found his source on the Internet.
I for one welcome our new incomplete code-publishing overlords.
Yea, have a look at Gran Turismo 4, and then scrub the jaggies out of your eyes with a rough sponge. Yes, the game looks better then previous PS2 games. I own a PS2, and will be buying GT4, but it really isn't all that incredible. It's not just the 300Mhz RISC processor that slows down the PS2, but the lack of RAM as well. Sure there are great methods for swaping textures using the PS2s quick bus speeds, but why bother? Sure, some developers will always spend the time to dig through the spec sheets and program for the extra VUs, but at what cost?
Consider this: How much quicker and more complete could a game be released if the developers didn't have to spend countless hours coding ASM for sony's extra units. What if they had enough RAM for a full scene, and didn't need to do creative swaping? What if all the energy poured into making a game run decent on the PS2 could be put into the game itself. Sure, there are techniques to be used that make the PS2 a formidable system, but techniques take time, and time as they say, is money. I for one, hope Sony does a U-turn and sticks with a single chip or CPU+VPU setup next time.
Nasa also told Reagan that the ISS would take 10 years and 8 billion dollars. Here we are 20 years and 50 billion dollars later and we still hardly have a complete station.
(Warning, totally uneducated thought!) - Might have just been that the mathcoprocessor was the most likely part to come out defective and was disabled on defective parts. I'm pretty sure that the Celeron chips are just Pentium 4s whos caches didn't come out all functional.
I'm sure that Nvidia bins their chips for speed, but from what I've heard at various online forums is that some people belive that the 5950 bios slightly increases the memory and GPU voltage (usually helps with some overclocking). If you look closely, you'll see that at the same clockspeeds, the 5900 bios is faster. More then likely, the 5950 bios includes looser memory timings that allow for higher clocked memory.
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Lier! Everyone knows that nothing runs Halo just fine!
At least it doesn't run as bad as Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Actually, the only reason I wouldn't drive a car with a digital speedometer is that then I'd know for sure how fast I was driving. I prefer to see the hand at 90 and say I'm probably doing 85.
I own a PS2 and a Gamecube, and I have to say I much prefer the greatest hits system that Sony has to Nintendo's. All Sony games are eligable for rerelease as a greatest hit at $20, wheras Nintendo's "Player's Choice" system is almost completly first person titles (mentioned in the article) and usually priced closer to $30. It's great to be able to pick up games that you missed early on for a discount. I recently bought GT3 and Jak and Dakster for $20 each. $20 is just such a perfect price that I'm pretty disapointed with N sticking to $30.
Can you get an 8GB CF card for $50? If so, I'd like to order a few.
More computing power then most PCs? Not exactly. If it were built today, it'd be doing pretty good, but by the time it launchs Intel is going to be at 4-5Ghz.
Also, there doesn't seem to be any way for Microsoft to do backward compatibility. I don't think there is any code in the entire world that would let a 2.0Ghz G5 chip emulate a P3 733.
No, the USB data cable only supports the 83 and 89 onward. There is no support for the 86 even though it was built after the 83.
Getting rid of Serial ports? Damnit, Texas Instruments better get their ass together and release a Ti-86 compatible USB cable.
Other then that, good riddence to the serial ports. The next step is replacing floppies with USB flash keys.
If by grossly underpowered, you mean a 485Mhz IBM processor and a 162Mhz VPU? Nintendo's system is more powerful then they're given credit for.
"Ion Cannon Ready" - EVA
I bought a Gamecube last December, and now own quite of few of the "must have" games. The problem that I see for 2004 is that the big first party games that everyone was anticipating are out now, and their sequals are too far off in the distance to see. For most of thise year, Nintendo is going to have to count on 3rd party developers to maintain the slow influx of quality games.
Now I'm going to go against my bettter judgement and link to an article on IGN titled "Most anticipated games of 2004." I don't care much for IGN, but the list does include some potentially good games.
But I don't use a MAC, I use a PC!
532 lawsuits needs an awful lot of lawyer hours. I'm sure that the RIAA is well funded and capable of pressing all these cases, but is it really worth it? Lawyers don't work for free, and running 532 lawsuits at once is probably costing them something in the area of over a million dollars.
Norton's bloodhound module is usually pretty good at detecting unknown viruses. At the very least, I'd hope that it is capable of preventing the application from being run.
And since I know everyone is already readying their "Ah ha! Windows sucks!" posts, remember that running unknown code is NOT a good idea on ANY operating system. The virus doesn't exploit any massive windows bug. If everyone used Linux instead of Windows, then the virus writers would write viruses for linux instead!
Are you saying that people should no longer be able to record television using a PVR because now you can buy many shows on DVD?
I think that the absence of a 30-second skip button or automated skipping feature on the TIVO is a result of TIVO trying not to offend too many people at once. Many networks dislike how easy TIVO makes it to record shows. If TIVO made it equally as easy not to record commercials, then they could easily make some pretty nasty enemies with media companies.
He doesn't need to replace the motherboard fan, just jam a penny into it!
Seriously though, most manufacturers would void your warrenty if you peeled off your GPU and chipset fans.
Flash drives are only rated for a certain number of cycles. The cells wear out after a certain number of times they're written to. I'd hate to have a flash drive that expensive just die on me.
Happen to see the prices though? Less then 5 dollars. I bet Gabe Newell is still recovering from the coughing fit he surely had when he found his source on the Internet.
I for one welcome our new incomplete code-publishing overlords.
Yea, have a look at Gran Turismo 4, and then scrub the jaggies out of your eyes with a rough sponge. Yes, the game looks better then previous PS2 games. I own a PS2, and will be buying GT4, but it really isn't all that incredible. It's not just the 300Mhz RISC processor that slows down the PS2, but the lack of RAM as well. Sure there are great methods for swaping textures using the PS2s quick bus speeds, but why bother? Sure, some developers will always spend the time to dig through the spec sheets and program for the extra VUs, but at what cost?
Consider this: How much quicker and more complete could a game be released if the developers didn't have to spend countless hours coding ASM for sony's extra units. What if they had enough RAM for a full scene, and didn't need to do creative swaping? What if all the energy poured into making a game run decent on the PS2 could be put into the game itself. Sure, there are techniques to be used that make the PS2 a formidable system, but techniques take time, and time as they say, is money. I for one, hope Sony does a U-turn and sticks with a single chip or CPU+VPU setup next time.
I hope it works better then those laptop-robots.
Robots
Nasa also told Reagan that the ISS would take 10 years and 8 billion dollars. Here we are 20 years and 50 billion dollars later and we still hardly have a complete station.
(Warning, totally uneducated thought!) - Might have just been that the mathcoprocessor was the most likely part to come out defective and was disabled on defective parts. I'm pretty sure that the Celeron chips are just Pentium 4s whos caches didn't come out all functional.
I'm sure that Nvidia bins their chips for speed, but from what I've heard at various online forums is that some people belive that the 5950 bios slightly increases the memory and GPU voltage (usually helps with some overclocking). If you look closely, you'll see that at the same clockspeeds, the 5900 bios is faster. More then likely, the 5950 bios includes looser memory timings that allow for higher clocked memory.
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It's only dropped 9mm of mercury. They should have 720 of those. They'll be fine.