For the really really cheap machines, you're right. But if you try to price a machine built with premium parts, you're going to pay quite a bit more then you would if you built it yourself.
Celly 566 and 512MB of Ram!
Not quite 3 days, but its actually been about 32 hours so far (default USE tags). Emerge kde stated it had 52 packages to install.
What fun is a large disk storage medium if you can't stream content. The PSP is supposed to have 32 megabytes of RAM. So lets say that you're writing a game and you're not streaming content from the disk. Ok, we need more data, lets go ahead and spin up the disk, read out 32 megabytes, and then spin it back down.
The largest advantage a cartridge has is low power consumption and access times. If you're spinning down a disk, you're going to have to spin it back up to get more data. Maybe you're supposed to make entire levels fit in RAM? Perfect, except now you're limitting yourself to a few dozen megabytes per level, completely negating the whole point of a big storage medium. I've got it, we can include 15 minutes of FMV! Oops! We have to stream that too.
Ha, only on Slashdot would I get +5 Informative for a google search.
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I did a quick google, and it looks like max radiated power on the 802.11 spectrum is about 300-400mw? If that's the case then you can expect the DS to have a rather underwhelming range.
To run for president you need money. Want to be on the ballot? You've got to collect thousands of signatures in each state to get on. Did you get on the ballot? Good, now you've got to convince a majority of the people in each state that you'd be a better president then the other guys. So lets say for a moment that you found a gaggle of rich philanthropists to buy your airtime on major television and radio networks along with print advertisements and a public speaking tour. Think you might have a chance? Nope, cause you can get millions of votes and not a single one that counts (electoral).
No one has a chance. Average Joe can't run for president, nor can hyper-intelligent Prof. Joe.
I'm actually really disappointed that console makers aren't embracing the HD idea. A decent drive has a 9-12ms seek time compared to the 150-250ms seek times you see on a DVDrom. As is, far too many games ship with painfully long load times. Now I'll concede that the harddrive isn't a cure-all for that problem (look at Fable) but clever caching techniques could go a long way. Why not have a 20GB harddrive and allocate about half of it for use as system cache? Most people leave a single game in their system for weeks at a time, and if games could copy portions of themselves onto the drive when they wouldn't otherwise be doing work, you could really improve a game's overall feel.
No permanant storage and insufficiant RAM? Who designs these things?
I DO have a problem with paying 50-70 dollars for a memory card. $300 - Console $30 additional controller $30 Component video output cable (or Svideo, whatever floats your boat) $60 memory card? Include tax and you're paying almost $450 dollars and you don't even have a game to get you started! If cheap computer companies can sell $500 computers with 2Ghz chips, 256 megabytes of RAM, a CDRW, and a 60 GB harddrive, sony should be able to provide decently priced hardware as well.
I've got more then 250GB of free HD space. I was actually surprised by the number of people with tiny amounts of "total HD space." 10-30 gigs? How do you even put up with that?
I've been absolutly astounded by the amount of help I can find with my problems. I accidentally unmerged something really important today, but it took me less then 2 minutes to find a thread where someone had done the exact same thing. As for the confusion, the biggest issue is that some things are just done completely differently. Mounted drives are connected to folders, not having extensions, using tons of plaintext config files... hell, compiling my own programs is weird too. I install programs with no idea where the files are even being put!
Besides all that though, it's been a pretty good learning experiance. I've got an FTP, Identd, SSH, and HTML server already running and I add things as I see the need.
You know, I've been a linux user exactly two weeks. The first linux install I ever did was gentoo, step by step out of the handbook. I'm not sure I even know how, but I now have a working gentoo server. Gentoo isn't impossible to install, but it sure is confusing!
39.6 Mbps is about 5 megabytes per second. You could do that with any low end harddrive, a 100mbit ethernet cable or an 8x DVD burner. I think the issue is that a standalone device capable of handling that much data would be too expensive. DVDs didn't catch on until the players fell under $200.
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For the really really cheap machines, you're right. But if you try to price a machine built with premium parts, you're going to pay quite a bit more then you would if you built it yourself.
Celly 566 and 512MB of Ram! Not quite 3 days, but its actually been about 32 hours so far (default USE tags). Emerge kde stated it had 52 packages to install.
Sounds like you need to use Gentoo. As soon as KDE finishes compiling (We're on day three) I'm sure it'll be great!
Nope, gamecube games are the same $49.99 that everyone else charges. In fact, it seems like I run into more 39.99 games on the gamecube then the PS2.
What fun is a large disk storage medium if you can't stream content. The PSP is supposed to have 32 megabytes of RAM. So lets say that you're writing a game and you're not streaming content from the disk. Ok, we need more data, lets go ahead and spin up the disk, read out 32 megabytes, and then spin it back down.
The largest advantage a cartridge has is low power consumption and access times. If you're spinning down a disk, you're going to have to spin it back up to get more data. Maybe you're supposed to make entire levels fit in RAM? Perfect, except now you're limitting yourself to a few dozen megabytes per level, completely negating the whole point of a big storage medium. I've got it, we can include 15 minutes of FMV! Oops! We have to stream that too.
Taking energy out of the wind? Someone's been reading too much of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
I for one, hail our new significant-digit cognizant overlords.
But you don't have to bury the wind turbines after you're done with them.
Ha, only on Slashdot would I get +5 Informative for a google search.
I did a quick google, and it looks like max radiated power on the 802.11 spectrum is about 300-400mw? If that's the case then you can expect the DS to have a rather underwhelming range.
To run for president you need money. Want to be on the ballot? You've got to collect thousands of signatures in each state to get on. Did you get on the ballot? Good, now you've got to convince a majority of the people in each state that you'd be a better president then the other guys. So lets say for a moment that you found a gaggle of rich philanthropists to buy your airtime on major television and radio networks along with print advertisements and a public speaking tour. Think you might have a chance? Nope, cause you can get millions of votes and not a single one that counts (electoral).
No one has a chance. Average Joe can't run for president, nor can hyper-intelligent Prof. Joe.
Holy Jesus...
Who downloads bitmap or png porn though?
Well, you can buy cell phones on ebay.
Ebay has "radioactive" as a google adword.
Thus, cell phones must be radioactive!
I'm actually really disappointed that console makers aren't embracing the HD idea. A decent drive has a 9-12ms seek time compared to the 150-250ms seek times you see on a DVDrom. As is, far too many games ship with painfully long load times. Now I'll concede that the harddrive isn't a cure-all for that problem (look at Fable) but clever caching techniques could go a long way. Why not have a 20GB harddrive and allocate about half of it for use as system cache? Most people leave a single game in their system for weeks at a time, and if games could copy portions of themselves onto the drive when they wouldn't otherwise be doing work, you could really improve a game's overall feel.
No permanant storage and insufficiant RAM? Who designs these things?
I DO have a problem with paying 50-70 dollars for a memory card.
$300 - Console
$30 additional controller
$30 Component video output cable (or Svideo, whatever floats your boat)
$60 memory card?
Include tax and you're paying almost $450 dollars and you don't even have a game to get you started! If cheap computer companies can sell $500 computers with 2Ghz chips, 256 megabytes of RAM, a CDRW, and a 60 GB harddrive, sony should be able to provide decently priced hardware as well.
The site is slashdotted, but is it anything like Keyhole?
I've got more then 250GB of free HD space. I was actually surprised by the number of people with tiny amounts of "total HD space." 10-30 gigs? How do you even put up with that?
As I recall, they made you PAY for your upgrade!
I've been absolutly astounded by the amount of help I can find with my problems. I accidentally unmerged something really important today, but it took me less then 2 minutes to find a thread where someone had done the exact same thing. As for the confusion, the biggest issue is that some things are just done completely differently. Mounted drives are connected to folders, not having extensions, using tons of plaintext config files... hell, compiling my own programs is weird too. I install programs with no idea where the files are even being put!
Besides all that though, it's been a pretty good learning experiance. I've got an FTP, Identd, SSH, and HTML server already running and I add things as I see the need.
You know, I've been a linux user exactly two weeks. The first linux install I ever did was gentoo, step by step out of the handbook. I'm not sure I even know how, but I now have a working gentoo server. Gentoo isn't impossible to install, but it sure is confusing!
It's sure a good thing that Joe-PVR user knows how to install gentoo!
39.6 Mbps is about 5 megabytes per second. You could do that with any low end harddrive, a 100mbit ethernet cable or an 8x DVD burner. I think the issue is that a standalone device capable of handling that much data would be too expensive. DVDs didn't catch on until the players fell under $200.
Yea, I'm with you. I won't belive it unless Netcraft confirms it!
The P4EE is based on the northwood core. It's faster per clock, and has reduced cache latency compared to the 4Ghz P4 1MB.