Has anyone heard of the startup company 4th dimension or their console?
It's going to be a parallel system. The system itself is a 1" thick rectangle. Since everything on it is parallel, you can plug a system right on top of another system, doubling the performance, and you can do this ad-infinum (given you have enough plugs to power it) Put, the systems will not only communicate via this plug (internal), but via EVERY single external communication device the system has (which are quite numerous)BLUETOOTH, FIREWIRE, USB, 5.8GHZ, ETHERNET, audio/video cables, telephone lines, TV cables, etc... each system has it all, and when you hook up one system to another, it knows which cables you have connected, and it uses all of them automatically, plus all wireless connections, like a parasite almost.
Supposedly the basic box will have a screaming processor, Multilayer DVD drive, all of the above comm devices. He said something about 64 pixel pipes, but the cool thing about it is that EVERYTHING is parallel, so when you plug in a new console, you essentially have a dual processor unit, the unit's split up tasks such as user input, audio output, Multiplayer commands, etc. Since the DVD's are re-writable, there won't be a hard drive, but it will have flash memory, on board, 1 GB and expansion slots for more, if you don't want to buy more consoles or if the price goes down on flash or something. Every game runs on the same efficient engine, it will simulate an entire world with millions of people, both real and AI doing EVERYTHING any real person could do, and more, once they get superhuman. That's the 4th dimension. Being able to do everything media we have now can do, like play movies, and it will do everything we could ever want it to do. Supposedly the guy built holographic projectors based on this game that came out in 1990 called "Time Traveller". And since EVERYTHING is parallel, you can add as many projectors as you want for around $100. He said people would be able to shell out a lot of money for this, even as much as high-end computers cost nowadays, because, who would want to buy a computer, when you can buy a computer that can simulate a computer?? Who's going to want to type in WORD when you can sit there with your virtual secretary, dictate to her, have her type it and save it in word, and email or print it out?
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Has anyone heard of the startup company 4th dimension or their console? It's going to be a parallel system. The system itself is a 1" thick rectangle. Since everything on it is parallel, you can plug a system right on top of another system, doubling the performance, and you can do this ad-infinum (given you have enough plugs to power it) Put, the systems will not only communicate via this plug (internal), but via EVERY single external communication device the system has (which are quite numerous)BLUETOOTH, FIREWIRE, USB, 5.8GHZ, ETHERNET, audio/video cables, telephone lines, TV cables, etc... each system has it all, and when you hook up one system to another, it knows which cables you have connected, and it uses all of them automatically, plus all wireless connections, like a parasite almost. Supposedly the basic box will have a screaming processor, Multilayer DVD drive, all of the above comm devices. He said something about 64 pixel pipes, but the cool thing about it is that EVERYTHING is parallel, so when you plug in a new console, you essentially have a dual processor unit, the unit's split up tasks such as user input, audio output, Multiplayer commands, etc. Since the DVD's are re-writable, there won't be a hard drive, but it will have flash memory, on board, 1 GB and expansion slots for more, if you don't want to buy more consoles or if the price goes down on flash or something. Every game runs on the same efficient engine, it will simulate an entire world with millions of people, both real and AI doing EVERYTHING any real person could do, and more, once they get superhuman. That's the 4th dimension. Being able to do everything media we have now can do, like play movies, and it will do everything we could ever want it to do. Supposedly the guy built holographic projectors based on this game that came out in 1990 called "Time Traveller". And since EVERYTHING is parallel, you can add as many projectors as you want for around $100. He said people would be able to shell out a lot of money for this, even as much as high-end computers cost nowadays, because, who would want to buy a computer, when you can buy a computer that can simulate a computer?? Who's going to want to type in WORD when you can sit there with your virtual secretary, dictate to her, have her type it and save it in word, and email or print it out?