How could the dreamcast to have been dead by the time that the network adaptor came out, IT CAME with a MODEM!!! You could goto the store on 9-9-99 and buy a dreamcast, go home and surf the internet on the same day!
The problem with the ethernet adaptor was that the games had to be reprogrammed to use it! Nobody wanted to buy a new version of their games to use the broadband adaptor. That and sega made it impossiable to find.
If they finish morrowind and Shenmue 2 is really good, then I might get an X-Box. But as of right now all the cool games are ps2/GC. RE4 on GC, now I have to get a GC, well that and Zelda.
What if the original bob was in a coma, and dies before he wakes up.
So you transfer his 'mind' out of his body before he dies, but when he is in the coma. He 'wakes' in the computer land. Is that bob? Some copy of bob? The 'real' bob is dead so this is the only working version of him left.
So basically you're saying that the PocketPC will become some sort of handheld TV with internet on it? Not a bad idea, but digital TV is a really long way off. 10 years off. I think that if the PocketPC could play really awesome games then they would have something, but a TV? If you could play board games on the wireless internet no matter where you were. How about Magic (the card game) on it? That way you could play vs. people on the internet or right next to you.
In a case like this, it's all about the specifics of the Beta testing. Was there a contract, what were the conditions of the beta test, are they clients? Isn't he saying that they are using feedback from their clients to determine how their product is going to work?
IF you consider Bob's physical body to be part of him then no the 'computer' Bob is not the same as the old Bob. One thing that I think people forget about this whole computer transferrence idea is that our bodies rule our personalities. You'd never be hungry, you'd never be sick, etc.... That will have profound impact on a personality. Think about how much time you spend just dealing with food, preparing, eating, bathroom, etc.
We'll just have to build a simulated hunger/eating system.
Linux port? what does that have to do with the success or failure of either box. That will not be the leverage that Sony needs to kill the X-Box.
How many really awesome games come out for the PC every year? 2? 3? Let's face a simple fact, the PC has crappy games compared to most consoles. The thing that makes PC games good is that the really good ones have almost infinite replay value (Quake FPS, Sim games, Civ, SC, Diablo, Sports) and the ones that don't usually have some underground group that does a conversion for it. PC games are released with more bugs then they should be. You may be able to blame this on crappy hardware, but the quality games ( Quake, all blizzard games) have a tenth of the bugs of 99% of the PC games on the shelves today. PC game developers need to spend more time in the QA department, and become perfectionists rather then letting crap get on the shelves.
Unfortunatly metriod is only a hit in the US ( maybe europe). The Japs don't like metriod very much. Maybe the new Metriod FPS will be more like half life,and less like quake, but I want an old school version of metriod, not a FPS.
The reason that you have to boot off a CD is so that you can still play games normally.
The boot process is very touchy and it makes sence to not disturb it, if it altered the boot processing by having the HD in there, it might cause problems for some games.
They are not selling you a computer. They are selling you a 'limited' development kit. The whole point of this product is to get people to develop hobbist games for it (and not the XBOX). If you're not into throwing your time away making video games, then this is not for you.
It might be interisting to see if you could use this to build your home entertainment intregration device, but why would this be any better then just a normal PC? PCs can do more and cost less! This is just another toy to play with unless you are really looking for a way to break into the console games industry, for which this could be great. Assuming that you want to spend the time to learn the tools.
They've had this since the PS2 was invented, doesn't anyone remember the PS2 TOOL? It was a dev station that ran linux. Probably had more RAM and whatnot, but it was for debugging. I saw one at the GDC last year, they were neat but again, they are just for developing games.
This will run web browsers like crap and generally be slow compared to a NORMAL PC, but if you actually learn how to use the CPU and do some assembly work, it might be worth it. (maybe)
One reason that you don't see any dos/win95 advocates is that you can still run a lot of the apps that ran on DOS on win2k or XP. Not all of them and sometimes the one that won't run is the one that you really like, but a large number of them still work. I can still play Master of Magic on 2k, even if the sound doesn't work.
However, on amiga there is no other way to use the programs that were written for the amiga. Many don't have ports to other platforms. People don't want to sacrifice their work enviroment for the sake of 'progress'. (that's also the reason you see so many mac users/advocates)
I mean if all anyone wanted out of a computer was fast and cheap then we'd all be running linux on athlons.
Java already runs in a 64 bit enviroment. Sparc III is 64 bit. The solaris jvm is 64-bit if you install the 64 version. (There are 2 versions, one normal 32 and a extended 64 version.)
There is a port of DIVX to the DC, it is not optimized and is unable to play movies @ full speed. Maybe if someone is willing to profile and convert it to ASM it will be fast enough to play movies.
With all these propertiary consoles it's tough to spend a lot of time programming them since so much has to be thrown away when going from one console to the other. At least C is kinda portable.
India? You say that good films are made in India? Well, maybe you've seen the unpopular, off beat, only seen by a million indians movies, but every movie that I've seen from India was like ten disney movies in one. All musicals, all love stories / action with the same girl singing all the songs ( over all the movies ).
I'll agree that many good movies are NOT made in the USA, but not India, AFAIK they are 10x worse then hollywood.
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hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and if i can expand on an idea from an earlier posting, instead of farting into the battery why not piss into it instead? or refill from any of the countless other sources of hydrogen?
--end quote
Actually, hydrogen that you can buy in a canister today, doesn't just come from the air. It's not like you can just suck hydrogen out of the air easily. You can, but you have to seperate out the other gasses (N2 , O2 CO2 etc.. ) Most hydrogen comes from electrolysis, taking water (H2O) and using electricity to break the chemical bonds, creating hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. Guess what, this electricity comes from (gasp!) burning something, nuke plants , wind or solar power.
Since most of our power come from burning stuff, most hydrogen is created by creating the polutants that you say that we should avoid.
I think that 'green' people should focus on not using power in the first place. As anyone who's ever been on a diet knows, the way to lose weight is to not eat the food in the first place. In the same way, just don't use as much power, then we won't have to generate as much power and less polution as a result.
I think that he's just tring to get people to realize how stupid it is to limit yourself to email that only Outlook can read.
I use outlook every day and I recieve email that I cannot read. Why? Because outlook blocks exe files from me. Now you say that I shouldn't be getting them, well my co-workers send them to me! They don't know that I can't read them because they all use Netscape Mail. I have to switch to outlook because we are switching to MS Outlook servers and so soon they will have to as well. However in the real world things are not that simple.
I think that we need to press MS to make their software more compatable with badly written mail messages. Not get mad at someone who writes bad messages. If you don't wish to recieve badly written messages, then don't use the email system.
The whole point of the X-Headers he's using is to let people extend the functionality of email. It's the implementors fault if they assume the only X-Headers written will be by complaint programs! That's just silly.
Basically, every intel chip since the pentuim has had more then one 'execution' unit. The original pentuim had 2, but the second one was crippled.
The Pentium 2 was the first full superscalar intel chip. Now they throw all the 486 away though, as they take the instructions and turn them into many micro instructions, then have another internal execution engine that executes the new instructions, then reassembles them at the end. Why? because the x86 instruction set is too complex to build a processor that can handle all instructions in HW alone. So they turn the large instruction into many small ones. Then they have a core that is very superscalar and can execute the micro instructions very fast.
Well it depends on how you look at the definiation of 128 processing.....
If you mean that the mac can handle a number that is 128 bits in length. Then no, they can only handle 64 bits. Most of the time they only use 32 bits of data though.
However, if you want to know the maximum amount of DATA that a G4 processor can handle at a time, then yeah, 128 bits is correct. Because the G4 has the 'amazing' altivec unit that can process 128bits of data at one time. The lengths of the data can vary (8,16 or 32 bits), to fill the 128bits of processing.
Man, they are getting some cheap NT servers. No wonder that box can replace them all.;)
But seriously, can any network administrator who has had to administrate a large number of boxes of ANY OS say that they love doing it and would not like to only be able to administer one box?
I agree, gameing consoles are a much more enjoyable gaming experience IMHO then computer games. The only problem with consoles is that you cannot get certain games on them. Civ style games for example (b4 you say anything, where's the ps2 port of SMAC?) or to a lesser degree, FPSes. When the PS2 and XBOX get their heads out of their asses and join the DC online, then you'll be able to play lots of games online.
What will make linux a viable game creation platform are things like SDL, WorldForge and other open source projects that are also games. If people continue to develop open source gaming engines and the tools needed to create content for them, then maybe in a few years we will see more games popping up on linux first. If there are better tools on linux, then the games will come. Right now the best tools available for creating games all run on WINDOWS. Everything from 3dstudiomax to directX. Yes, directX is a good tool because it supports so many features.
SDL is a good tool, but there needs to be a larger pool of people using and developing it before it will spawn great games on a regular basis.
Well, roadrunner is also not cracking down on it (yet). I lived in the Albany area when RR first started up a few years ago and man it was blazing fast for awhile. Back then we had to use their crazy client to login to the network. They got rid of that, but ever so slowly the bandwithgot smaller and smaller. Never could tell if it was because more people were using it all the time or if they were limiting us.
I've got Aldelphia in LA now, and their scheme for limiting bandwith... it's the best so far! They just simply stop traffic for random amounts of time, at random times. After the @Home bust, they assimilated some (unknown) number of those guys and ever since, my cable modem service has really sucked. I don't know why.
Yeah, if they really want to stop bandwidth hogs, why did they not just make the Cable modem also be a bandwidth limiter!!!!!
"No that would be too simple a solution! Besides it would cost the company millions!"
It's not like you can plug your computer into the cable system directly, you have to have a modem.
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How could the dreamcast to have been dead by the time that the network adaptor came out, IT CAME with a MODEM!!! You could goto the store on 9-9-99 and buy a dreamcast, go home and surf the internet on the same day!
The problem with the ethernet adaptor was that the games had to be reprogrammed to use it! Nobody wanted to buy a new version of their games to use the broadband adaptor. That and sega made it impossiable to find.
If they finish morrowind and Shenmue 2 is really good, then I might get an X-Box. But as of right now all the cool games are ps2/GC. RE4 on GC, now I have to get a GC, well that and Zelda.
What if the original bob was in a coma, and dies before he wakes up.
So you transfer his 'mind' out of his body before he dies, but when he is in the coma. He 'wakes' in the computer land. Is that bob? Some copy of bob? The 'real' bob is dead so this is the only working version of him left.
I don't even know where to begin with this idea.
So basically you're saying that the PocketPC will become some sort of handheld TV with internet on it? Not a bad idea, but digital TV is a really long way off. 10 years off. I think that if the PocketPC could play really awesome games then they would have something, but a TV? If you could play board games on the wireless internet no matter where you were. How about Magic (the card game) on it? That way you could play vs. people on the internet or right next to you.
In a case like this, it's all about the specifics of the Beta testing. Was there a contract, what were the conditions of the beta test, are they clients? Isn't he saying that they are using feedback from their clients to determine how their product is going to work?
/. in a similar situation?
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IF you consider Bob's physical body to be part of him then no the 'computer' Bob is not the same as the old Bob. One thing that I think people forget about this whole computer transferrence idea is that our bodies rule our personalities. You'd never be hungry, you'd never be sick, etc.... That will have profound impact on a personality. Think about how much time you spend just dealing with food, preparing, eating, bathroom, etc.
We'll just have to build a simulated hunger/eating system.
Are you slashdot? I think not, you are just a part of the collective.
The original poster is right, slashdot is not the water cooler to discuss legal matters around. Next topic please.
Linux port? what does that have to do with the success or failure of either box. That will not be the leverage that Sony needs to kill the X-Box.
How many really awesome games come out for the PC every year? 2? 3? Let's face a simple fact, the PC has crappy games compared to most consoles. The thing that makes PC games good is that the really good ones have almost infinite replay value (Quake FPS, Sim games, Civ, SC, Diablo, Sports) and the ones that don't usually have some underground group that does a conversion for it. PC games are released with more bugs then they should be. You may be able to blame this on crappy hardware, but the quality games ( Quake, all blizzard games) have a tenth of the bugs of 99% of the PC games on the shelves today. PC game developers need to spend more time in the QA department, and become perfectionists rather then letting crap get on the shelves.
Unfortunatly metriod is only a hit in the US ( maybe europe). The Japs don't like metriod very much. Maybe the new Metriod FPS will be more like half life,and less like quake, but I want an old school version of metriod, not a FPS.
The reason that you have to boot off a CD is so that you can still play games normally.
The boot process is very touchy and it makes sence to not disturb it, if it altered the boot processing by having the HD in there, it might cause problems for some games.
They are not selling you a computer. They are selling you a 'limited' development kit. The whole point of this product is to get people to develop hobbist games for it (and not the XBOX). If you're not into throwing your time away making video games, then this is not for you.
It might be interisting to see if you could use this to build your home entertainment intregration device, but why would this be any better then just a normal PC? PCs can do more and cost less! This is just another toy to play with unless you are really looking for a way to break into the console games industry, for which this could be great. Assuming that you want to spend the time to learn the tools.
They've had this since the PS2 was invented, doesn't anyone remember the PS2 TOOL? It was a dev station that ran linux. Probably had more RAM and whatnot, but it was for debugging. I saw one at the GDC last year, they were neat but again, they are just for developing games.
This will run web browsers like crap and generally be slow compared to a NORMAL PC, but if you actually learn how to use the CPU and do some assembly work, it might be worth it. (maybe)
One reason that you don't see any dos/win95 advocates is that you can still run a lot of the apps that ran on DOS on win2k or XP. Not all of them and sometimes the one that won't run is the one that you really like, but a large number of them still work. I can still play Master of Magic on 2k, even if the sound doesn't work.
However, on amiga there is no other way to use the programs that were written for the amiga. Many don't have ports to other platforms. People don't want to sacrifice their work enviroment for the sake of 'progress'. (that's also the reason you see so many mac users/advocates)
I mean if all anyone wanted out of a computer was fast and cheap then we'd all be running linux on athlons.
Java already runs in a 64 bit enviroment. Sparc III is 64 bit. The solaris jvm is 64-bit if you install the 64 version. (There are 2 versions, one normal 32 and a extended 64 version.)
There is a port of DIVX to the DC, it is not optimized and is unable to play movies @ full speed. Maybe if someone is willing to profile and convert it to ASM it will be fast enough to play movies.
With all these propertiary consoles it's tough to spend a lot of time programming them since so much has to be thrown away when going from one console to the other. At least C is kinda portable.
What this means is that they will throw 10x as many people on the same wire. duh...
Whatever became of the data over power line system that was so cool like a year ago? Did they figure out that it was too expensive?
India? You say that good films are made in India? Well, maybe you've seen the unpopular, off beat, only seen by a million indians movies, but every movie that I've seen from India was like ten disney movies in one. All musicals, all love stories / action with the same girl singing all the songs ( over all the movies ).
I'll agree that many good movies are NOT made in the USA, but not India, AFAIK they are 10x worse then hollywood.
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hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and if i can expand on an idea from an earlier posting, instead of farting into the battery why not piss into it instead? or refill from any of the countless other sources of hydrogen?
--end quote
Actually, hydrogen that you can buy in a canister today, doesn't just come from the air. It's not like you can just suck hydrogen out of the air easily. You can, but you have to seperate out the other gasses (N2 , O2 CO2 etc.. ) Most hydrogen comes from electrolysis, taking water (H2O) and using electricity to break the chemical bonds, creating hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. Guess what, this electricity comes from (gasp!) burning something, nuke plants , wind or solar power.
Since most of our power come from burning stuff, most hydrogen is created by creating the polutants that you say that we should avoid.
I think that 'green' people should focus on not using power in the first place. As anyone who's ever been on a diet knows, the way to lose weight is to not eat the food in the first place. In the same way, just don't use as much power, then we won't have to generate as much power and less polution as a result.
I think that he's just tring to get people to realize how stupid it is to limit yourself to email that only Outlook can read.
I use outlook every day and I recieve email that I cannot read. Why? Because outlook blocks exe files from me. Now you say that I shouldn't be getting them, well my co-workers send them to me! They don't know that I can't read them because they all use Netscape Mail. I have to switch to outlook because we are switching to MS Outlook servers and so soon they will have to as well. However in the real world things are not that simple.
I think that we need to press MS to make their software more compatable with badly written mail messages. Not get mad at someone who writes bad messages. If you don't wish to recieve badly written messages, then don't use the email system.
The whole point of the X-Headers he's using is to let people extend the functionality of email. It's the implementors fault if they assume the only X-Headers written will be by complaint programs! That's just silly.
Are you afraid of Magic Lantern too? Next you are going to say that police should need search warrants to check your prostrate for drugs.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/900op en.html
Check out this page for a laugh... IBM says that their new servers will let you run 31 bit applications!
The Itanium does emulate the x86!!!!!!
Just not fast.
Yes its called Superscaler.
Basically, every intel chip since the pentuim has had more then one 'execution' unit. The original pentuim had 2, but the second one was crippled.
The Pentium 2 was the first full superscalar intel chip. Now they throw all the 486 away though, as they take the instructions and turn them into many micro instructions, then have another internal execution engine that executes the new instructions, then reassembles them at the end. Why? because the x86 instruction set is too complex to build a processor that can handle all instructions in HW alone. So they turn the large instruction into many small ones. Then they have a core that is very superscalar and can execute the micro instructions very fast.
Well it depends on how you look at the definiation of 128 processing.....
If you mean that the mac can handle a number that is 128 bits in length. Then no, they can only handle 64 bits. Most of the time they only use 32 bits of data though.
However, if you want to know the maximum amount of DATA that a G4 processor can handle at a time, then yeah, 128 bits is correct. Because the G4 has the 'amazing' altivec unit that can process 128bits of data at one time. The lengths of the data can vary (8,16 or 32 bits), to fill the 128bits of processing.
$400,000 / 500 = $800 per NT box
;)
Man, they are getting some cheap NT servers. No wonder that box can replace them all.
But seriously, can any network administrator who has had to administrate a large number of boxes of ANY OS say that they love doing it and would not like to only be able to administer one box?
I agree, gameing consoles are a much more enjoyable gaming experience IMHO then computer games. The only problem with consoles is that you cannot get certain games on them. Civ style games for example (b4 you say anything, where's the ps2 port of SMAC?) or to a lesser degree, FPSes. When the PS2 and XBOX get their heads out of their asses and join the DC online, then you'll be able to play lots of games online.
What will make linux a viable game creation platform are things like SDL, WorldForge and other open source projects that are also games. If people continue to develop open source gaming engines and the tools needed to create content for them, then maybe in a few years we will see more games popping up on linux first. If there are better tools on linux, then the games will come. Right now the best tools available for creating games all run on WINDOWS. Everything from 3dstudiomax to directX. Yes, directX is a good tool because it supports so many features.
SDL is a good tool, but there needs to be a larger pool of people using and developing it before it will spawn great games on a regular basis.
Well, roadrunner is also not cracking down on it (yet). I lived in the Albany area when RR first started up a few years ago and man it was blazing fast for awhile. Back then we had to use their crazy client to login to the network. They got rid of that, but ever so slowly the bandwithgot smaller and smaller. Never could tell if it was because more people were using it all the time or if they were limiting us.
I've got Aldelphia in LA now, and their scheme for limiting bandwith... it's the best so far! They just simply stop traffic for random amounts of time, at random times. After the @Home bust, they assimilated some (unknown) number of those guys and ever since, my cable modem service has really sucked. I don't know why.
Yeah, if they really want to stop bandwidth hogs, why did they not just make the Cable modem also be a bandwidth limiter!!!!!
"No that would be too simple a solution! Besides it would cost the company millions!"
It's not like you can plug your computer into the cable system directly, you have to have a modem.