So let me get this straigt: instead they should create a new format that no one will use because theyre used to using flash right? For the sake of innovation? Look at the web, its full of flash. Making a open source flash player is pretty damn shameful isn't it.
Uh no, incase you haven't noticed, batteries are cheap products (well, relativly) why don't razor blades last that long? It's not like it'd be ultra expesensive for the companies to make good ones, but then everyone would have a razor and wouldn't need one for another year. Even if the company charges a premium, they could never charge you what you spend on razors for a year upfront for the lasts-one-year-razor, and even more so with batteries. Go take an economics class or something if you still don't comprehend. It wouldn't be the first time battery companies has fought better battery tech, google a bit and you can find some examples.
The difference is the people that made the lights provided the trutium. A battery company couldn't make a profit selling a battery that lasted for lets say years, and I'm sure they'd fight very hard to stop manufacturers from preincluding them in their hardware.
I wonder if Gnome realizes theyre copying MacOS interface features. I wonder if MacOS realizes they are copying Xerox PARC interface features. I wdoner why people really could put that much emphasis on 'my' and claim someone is copying someone else for not using said word.
You don't. AssBurners syndrome is a fake disease that social outcasts claim to have so they can tell everyone their different (theyre all self diagnosed of course)
And the Cell has 8 cores doesn't it? (1 main + 7 vector) something like that. Cell is a completly new architecture. Sure its PPC like the 360 at its core, but its still a whole new arch. Have you ever programmed before? DirectX is *easy* to program for, super easy (Althout i Use linux/OSX so I never use dx) Hand tuning code for three cores? You obviously don't know what hell PS* development is. the PS1 PS2 and PSP have all required so much assembly coding, their devtools are shit (and theyre are using the same (modified obviously) toolset for the PS3. Oh and what do you mean when the real x360 dev hardware arrives? Developers got their devkits A LONG time ago (PowerMac G5's) what about PS3? The nvidia graphics chip isn't even finished yet, so devs have to guess when theyre coding (or do it all on Cell, which the demos were)
Don't post a bunch of fanboy crap when you obviously have no clue what your talking about.
Haha, you really think the PS3 is going to be that good? If Cell is so cool, why isn't IBM making supercomputers with it? Oh yeah - they've got a thing called a reputation. Cell is *not* all its hyped up to be. SPU's aren't either. You really think Sony could afford to pocket the difference and sell something wayyyy more powerfull than any computer out there now for 500$? You really are gulible.
So wait, instead of reaching out to the market of three consoles, theyre going to put all their eggs in one basket because the one basket has a few extra ribbons?
It's Sony's way of telling us that not only can hardcore games shell out 500$ for a PS3, but regular joes that need a CD player can give them money too! Hurray!
Yeah, you can't play movies or play music. Who the fuck wrote this article, its crap. They should've realized by the products name that it's obviously for games (video games invented the word play actually.) Hell, perfect example: Windows. What kind of an idiot wouldn't guess its an OS by the stunningly clear name? Companies *always* give products relative names. duh. Oh, wait, the article is about the PS3 being a convergence device? You mean no one said it wasn't going to play games? Well then I guess the parent poster is just a moron.
ahahaha YEAH RIGHT. Both game development and movie making are getting more difficult and more expensive. People are still going to want to uy quality games and watch quality movies, and I hate to break it to you but hippies aren't going to be making them and distributing them over thar intarweb, its going to be the big corperations, and your still going to watch your movies in the theatre and pay 10$ a ticket plus popcorn and pop, your always going to be playing your games on a 300$ (or more from what ive read) console/even more expensive computer, and its still going to cost 60$ a game, if not more. Hate to break it to ya hippie.
xbox is powerpc, a well known arcitechture, the PS3 is cell, and heavily vectorized, an unknown architecture. Sony consoles (PS1 PS2 PSP) have always been the most difficult to develop for.
Oh and Cell is a bunch of fluff. I bet you believed Sony when they said the PS2 would have movie quality graphics.
Multiple cores are great for computers, but having 8 cores is overkill for a game. It would be hard to think of a use for all of them. Like, you could have a thread for audio, a thread for graphics, for ai, etc, but making things multithreaded for the sake of multithreading often slows things down (and thats why a lot of microkernel OS's are slower) Think about it, you have to coordinate the actions between all the threads, make sure everything stays in sync etc. It's just not an easy, and most of the time not benificial thing to do. Oh and take what Sony says with a grain of salt. They're very good at exaggerating things, remember their "movie quality graphics" on the ps2? Heh. Or their polygon-filing numbers, which mean shit in real life
I want to see a beowolf cluster of xbox 360's, and I want an SSH account on it to compile stuff.
I'm Canadian. If I remember correctly EB was selling it for 49.99$. Either way, the remote is still more expensive then a standalone dvd player. To hell with convergence.
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You obviously don't know how a battery works. Rechargable batteries only last an x amount of charges.
Uh no one claimed to be innovating...
So let me get this straigt: instead they should create a new format that no one will use because theyre used to using flash right? For the sake of innovation? Look at the web, its full of flash. Making a open source flash player is pretty damn shameful isn't it.
Java isn't faster than C... maybe faster development time... What language do you think the Java VM's are coded in?
Uh no, incase you haven't noticed, batteries are cheap products (well, relativly) why don't razor blades last that long? It's not like it'd be ultra expesensive for the companies to make good ones, but then everyone would have a razor and wouldn't need one for another year. Even if the company charges a premium, they could never charge you what you spend on razors for a year upfront for the lasts-one-year-razor, and even more so with batteries. Go take an economics class or something if you still don't comprehend. It wouldn't be the first time battery companies has fought better battery tech, google a bit and you can find some examples.
What do you mean Sony has to increase production of PSPs to meet demand? They should just take spare ones off of north american shelves!
Just kidding. Maybe its some n00b with too many tabs in Firefox?
The difference is the people that made the lights provided the trutium. A battery company couldn't make a profit selling a battery that lasted for lets say years, and I'm sure they'd fight very hard to stop manufacturers from preincluding them in their hardware.
I wonder if Gnome realizes theyre copying MacOS interface features. I wonder if MacOS realizes they are copying Xerox PARC interface features. I wdoner why people really could put that much emphasis on 'my' and claim someone is copying someone else for not using said word.
You mean assburgers are gay?
You don't. AssBurners syndrome is a fake disease that social outcasts claim to have so they can tell everyone their different (theyre all self diagnosed of course)
Is your post within the "chuck of the web's content" that I need IE7 to understand? (Your spelling/grammar doesn't render so well under Gecko/Firefox)
And the Cell has 8 cores doesn't it? (1 main + 7 vector) something like that. Cell is a completly new architecture. Sure its PPC like the 360 at its core, but its still a whole new arch. Have you ever programmed before? DirectX is *easy* to program for, super easy (Althout i Use linux/OSX so I never use dx) Hand tuning code for three cores? You obviously don't know what hell PS* development is. the PS1 PS2 and PSP have all required so much assembly coding, their devtools are shit (and theyre are using the same (modified obviously) toolset for the PS3. Oh and what do you mean when the real x360 dev hardware arrives? Developers got their devkits A LONG time ago (PowerMac G5's) what about PS3? The nvidia graphics chip isn't even finished yet, so devs have to guess when theyre coding (or do it all on Cell, which the demos were)
Don't post a bunch of fanboy crap when you obviously have no clue what your talking about.
Haha, you really think the PS3 is going to be that good? If Cell is so cool, why isn't IBM making supercomputers with it? Oh yeah - they've got a thing called a reputation. Cell is *not* all its hyped up to be. SPU's aren't either. You really think Sony could afford to pocket the difference and sell something wayyyy more powerfull than any computer out there now for 500$? You really are gulible.
Cell is harder to develop for fool, you have no idea what your talking about.
So wait, instead of reaching out to the market of three consoles, theyre going to put all their eggs in one basket because the one basket has a few extra ribbons?
Wow, I wasn't sure at first, but now that Anonymous Coward has denied the story I guess theres nothing to do but move along.
It's Sony's way of telling us that not only can hardcore games shell out 500$ for a PS3, but regular joes that need a CD player can give them money too! Hurray!
Yeah, you can't play movies or play music. Who the fuck wrote this article, its crap. They should've realized by the products name that it's obviously for games (video games invented the word play actually.) Hell, perfect example: Windows. What kind of an idiot wouldn't guess its an OS by the stunningly clear name? Companies *always* give products relative names. duh. Oh, wait, the article is about the PS3 being a convergence device? You mean no one said it wasn't going to play games? Well then I guess the parent poster is just a moron.
Wouldn't this technology be great for fixing up all those ID3 tags?"
.99$ a pop. I'm surprised google hasn't done something like this, though.
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ahahaha YEAH RIGHT.
Both game development and movie making are getting more difficult and more expensive. People are still going to want to uy quality games and watch quality movies, and I hate to break it to you but hippies aren't going to be making them and distributing them over thar intarweb, its going to be the big corperations, and your still going to watch your movies in the theatre and pay 10$ a ticket plus popcorn and pop, your always going to be playing your games on a 300$ (or more from what ive read) console/even more expensive computer, and its still going to cost 60$ a game, if not more. Hate to break it to ya hippie.
Stand on the weight scale and try and measure your body mass, while all the scientists scream
I run a 4096 node NES beowulf cluster. Works great!
xbox is powerpc, a well known arcitechture, the PS3 is cell, and heavily vectorized, an unknown architecture. Sony consoles (PS1 PS2 PSP) have always been the most difficult to develop for.
Oh and Cell is a bunch of fluff. I bet you believed Sony when they said the PS2 would have movie quality graphics.
I wish I could see the future that clearly.
Multiple cores are great for computers, but having 8 cores is overkill for a game. It would be hard to think of a use for all of them. Like, you could have a thread for audio, a thread for graphics, for ai, etc, but making things multithreaded for the sake of multithreading often slows things down (and thats why a lot of microkernel OS's are slower) Think about it, you have to coordinate the actions between all the threads, make sure everything stays in sync etc. It's just not an easy, and most of the time not benificial thing to do. Oh and take what Sony says with a grain of salt. They're very good at exaggerating things, remember their "movie quality graphics" on the ps2? Heh. Or their polygon-filing numbers, which mean shit in real life
I want to see a beowolf cluster of xbox 360's, and I want an SSH account on it to compile stuff.
I'm Canadian. If I remember correctly EB was selling it for 49.99$. Either way, the remote is still more expensive then a standalone dvd player. To hell with convergence.