I'm sorry your eyeballs were tainted and you were forced to click and read and post.
Also, what's with the "internet entitlement complex"? A website showing an article you aren't interested in causes very little real inconvenience to anyone.
Full compatibility with the PS2 would add about $100 to the retail price.
I'm not sure. A custom ASIC to do the work of a PS2 would probably cost less than 10 bucks (an out-of-my-ass guess). The PS3 already has an an optical drive, chassis, power supply, controllers and controller interface, memory for saving games, TV output hardware, marketing and branding presence, regulatory permits, format licensing, network infrastructure, and complete supply chain.
Insightful. So far, every hysterical post or story about anyone deliberately bricking ANYTHING has turned out to be horseshit. Wake me up when we can be honestly, impartially angry with someone (that's what we all want, isn't it?)
I do think the OtherOS issue is important but overblown. Like a lot of other things that really matter, not enough people care.
On the other hand, removing PS2 compatibility from the hardware is a big deal. That's taking about $100 USD away from the value of the console in my (narrow) opinion.
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I want you to go back and read what you just said.
An intel i7-975 with an NVidia gtx 480
That's, like, 5 PS3s.
Are you suggesting that companies should stop improving their products to help maintain exact functional parity with everyone else?
Your mistake is thinking that Acid3 is a specification. Go read the details of the tests. A couple of them are only debatably standard-correct.
Acid3 has done its good deed: demonstrating how hilariously backward older versions of IE are.
That did not happen with IE8.
If you think books are much about their endings, you are missing out on a lot.
Spoiler alert.
To add a critical detail, the plot was resolved in the middle of the last book. The tower was saved when the Beams were saved. The rest is icing.
Two words: Creative Labs
Looking forward to much broader DD-WRT support for Broadcom hardware in the near future
I'm sorry your eyeballs were tainted and you were forced to click and read and post.
Also, what's with the "internet entitlement complex"? A website showing an article you aren't interested in causes very little real inconvenience to anyone.
For those of us who only have one of those, what's the difference?
All men are brothers. It's a terrible tragedy that German soldiers fought and died for the wrong side. The world is worse off without them.
Hearsay is, you have to pay more money for a lot of features you'd expect to be included.
Not troll. Somebody fix this.
Note: Some Netgear routers hijack DNS (such as the WNR2000). You won't find this in the manual or the spec sheet.
The hijack is benign; client devices are forced to use the DNS server configured in the router.
Yes.
Nothing dumb about running a 2-thread application on a 4-thread processor, just some lost capacity.
But thanks for the confirmation of my second point.
Consider a used Windows XP tablet. They do a lot of stuff for the money.
Go read aggregated local news anywhere in the US. Make sure you pay attention to actions by school boards.
The world has no lack of abject morons, sanctimonious hypocrites, lawsuit-happy soccer moms, and pointy-haired bosses. And it's nothing new.
Full compatibility with the PS2 would add about $100 to the retail price.
I'm not sure. A custom ASIC to do the work of a PS2 would probably cost less than 10 bucks (an out-of-my-ass guess). The PS3 already has an an optical drive, chassis, power supply, controllers and controller interface, memory for saving games, TV output hardware, marketing and branding presence, regulatory permits, format licensing, network infrastructure, and complete supply chain.
The silicon is not the main cost factor in a PS2.
Lanteran, meet PC.
I think you just want an iPad.
I kid, I kid.
Insightful. So far, every hysterical post or story about anyone deliberately bricking ANYTHING has turned out to be horseshit. Wake me up when we can be honestly, impartially angry with someone (that's what we all want, isn't it?)
History disagrees. I'm sure there's a Dilbert strip in this somewhere.
I do think the OtherOS issue is important but overblown. Like a lot of other things that really matter, not enough people care.
On the other hand, removing PS2 compatibility from the hardware is a big deal. That's taking about $100 USD away from the value of the console in my (narrow) opinion.