I don't care about the 360 vs PS3 ranting here, but I'm going to challenge the slack-jawed parroting without thought here. You should really be buying a console for the game as well as the media, but I digress.
Why should Microsoft make an add-on HDDVD add on at all? Xbox 360 doesn't have HDMI and you can't play HDDVD games on 360, so why not get a stand alone player?
You want a crippled, subsitized media player branded as a Mircosoft product? There is nothing wrong with that, but at least admit it. A lot of people buy clothing because of brand name on it.
I can get a PS3 with HDMI and games that actually use the higher denisity media for the same prices as an 'upgraded' 360 a year or more after PS3 launch. The last time I heard a timetable announcement for the HDDVD addon was over a year off anyway.
As a game developer, everytime I see the next 'let's bash PS3 before we see it' story I can't help but wonder how many of the people writing these stories will turn a 180 once they see the console firsthand. One thing I don't understand is all the bitching about the two systems. The only difference is HDMI. You can use usb to add the memstick, ethernet to hook up to a wireless access point, and you can upgrade the 2.5 sata drive off the shelf at this point. Comparing the PS Network with Live before it's even launched is brilliant as well. You can't even store media on an xbox -- you have to handle the core case. Also once you get HDDVD with the 360 you'll be paying a lot more for the 360 and still not have HDMI, which is likely to be a year or more off I might add. Now consider what's missing. How many people even know what HDMI is, and on top of that have a device that can use it? The 360 doesn't even have HDMI, so how do you think that HDDVD will work? I hope the media can get this message at some point. You might want to stop and think instead of guessing in fourms and horriblely uninformed blogs. I have to tell you it's funny to me how little people know and then the meme is carried by others.
On top of this PS3 may have an 'arcade' service that allows you to develop on Linux with OpenGL, and other easy to use APIs. That was mentioned during a Japanese interview during E3, but I'm considering it as a rumor for now.
If you think the PS3 is the doom of Sony it will only be due to the fact that they sold the console too cheaply for having too many features.
I'm not even leaking super secret information here -- this is all in public anouncements no one seems to read.
All our comments about Sony are wrong, so I guess you don't follow them closer than Microsoft. Good thing you did say 'prediction', however you shouldn't 'pull things out of your ass'. If you just read the various press releases you might know more about what will be on the floor than making things up.
I 'predict' you'll make a great wall street tech analyst as long as keep this up. Nothing personal -- out of the hundred comments like yours by fate I replied to yours. =)
The problem for Nintendo comes when everyone comes up with gimmick games that you don't want to play for more than five minutes. Games like the one described sound very shallow and focus on gameplay that's not engaging. I guess kids that like playing Feel the Magic will like it, but isn't this a step backwards with an aging market?
You must run gentoo then. I can hotswap just fine in Ubuntu and Debian. Windows on the other hand starts causing failures in the kernel if you run at 100% cpu resources for a few hours straight. =)
How do you explian Linux's stability? It's not even limited to one CPU architecture! I'll go ahead and tell you. Linux makes the hard choices for what can and can't go into the kernel. Distrobutions *always choose what works best instead of what's right for marketing. Don't believe me? Firefox / Mozilla... EGCS / GCC... libc5 / glibc... the list goes on and on. If you can make the hard choices in software then you can stay stable, and keep backwards compatibility too. I can still run libc5 applications for example. Imagine if Vista regulated all the old WIN32 to a 'compatibility layer' instead of half-assing around every time they rehash Windows NT.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The rootkit ended up being a positive thing with the music deptartment losing even more clout. What does that have to do with all the duped stories, and sometimes racist comments about OTHER deptpartments at sony. It's just annoying seeing how once bluray is out all these people including you will go out and buy a PS3 while claiming to boycott it -- all over very poor reasoning.
I've been on this site a long time, and I've never even seen a string of such muck raking submissions even over Microsoft in the midst of the antitrust trial. If all slashdot can do is bitch about music companies, and copy stories off theinquirer.net it's not very appealing.
Bluray is actaully a good move. Only 3 regions, so I can watch japanese and american discs on the same device. I can't really say much about PS3 that hasn't been said, but I actually like the idea of brining the best parts of PC gaming like free peer to peer play, match making, and being able to store and play media on the device -- instead of paying for match making and having to stream data off a Windows PC. SCE actually supports Linux, and it's the only real Linux development environment for games. I'll never understand the Windows hating Xbox fanboys. I have nothing against xbox 360, but I just don't find it worth my money still.
The bluray format only has 3 regions, and it's a step in the right direction for DRM. I personally perfer being able to play asian and american discs on the same device. Read that again a Japanese and US PS3 should be able to play each others _movies_ not just games.
Yeah, but a lot of this was done by the vendor with preinstalled windows. I used to fix and sell laptops, and trust me -- this is a real problem with a lot of models.
Ubuntu works out of box on every laptop I've tried newer than PIIs with xorg and alsa. If you're using a PII (which often had horrible graphics chips) you'll have to touch xorg.conf. I've had some PII systems that had audio hardware that wasn't PnP or able to be autoprobed.
What do you want the OS to do in that case? Try and guess your irqs and fuck something up?
Why would you have a landscape layout for something you take notes on? You can only see like 1/3 of the top of a web page or document at a time with the current layout. Also using XP's interface with extra wide top heavy toolbars is a horrible idea for such a device. I don't see what all the fuss is about, since we've had devices like this since the 90s. I think after a day of using such a device you'll see why they never became popular: you need a different UI for the software to be usable.
I think a better compromise is an SFF using eSATA drives. I have an iDEQ 200N ( AMD Althon XP) and iDEQ 330P ( AMD64 x2 ), and I can use eSATA to 'share' the i386 operating system. I can even carry it with me, and use it whereever. This is an option for Linux, but it's not possible with some OS like Windows that don't like you to swap motherboards, etc.
I run an internal AMD64 build of ubuntu on the 330P, and load the i386 as a chroot. I also have a windows and OS X development enviroments under the Linux i386 image. It's a portable solution for my development needs, and my eSATA case can also do USB 2.0 for lower end machines without eSATA.
Aside from the funny statements about waiting for a die shrink to 'improve yeilds' lets just do some basic common sense figuring:
The reason they 'cut' one SPE is for increased yeilds. You see going to 6 physical layouts instead of the 8 current SPEs would actually yeild less. Why? Any of the 8 SPEs can be 'bad' so you have 7/8 random placement over the die. If you move to 6 physical you have to have 6/6 set pattern. The difference in die space is from 8 to 6 isn't importat due to the small space savings. The property of accounting for random errors over the die will increase yeilds much more. Do the math of your random outcomes of a bad SPE over the 8x SPE area versus needing a fully functional 6x SPE area on the die.
You would have lower yields and less SPEs per die with your idea of reducing the physical number of SPEs. Perhaps you you meant to tie this into die shrinkage, which we all know decreases yeilds from the ramp up of the manufacturing process.
There is a time limit to market here. They don't stop selling current AMD64s waiting for a die shrink a year later do they? Do you know how many times the PS2 had die shrinks over it's lifetime and maintained compatibility? ( Check out all the model numbers for a hint. ) An initial release on a larger die doesn't mean jack to consumers, until Sony can get all the componets on one chip ala the slim PS2 and sell a tiny case version.
I use a PSP when flying from SNA to ATL and back. I can browse the web at the terminal, watch a movie, and play music. Oh yeah I can play talkman and practice my japanese and play games like dynasty warriors.
This is very nice for flights. You might not want to get out your laptop just to check the weather, or have to swap full size dvds out. I'm going to be watching Serenity this flight out, since I have the 1GB MS I can watch just movies if I want. I might watch Amelie... yeah not many US UMD movies appeal to me, but I already have the DVDs anyway. =)
Well iTunes doesn't sell japanese artists in the US, but put their names in the search results box. That's prety fucking annoying. I don't think iTunes is the answer for 'region locked' media -- digital or otherwise. If that media is locked by publisher, then you're screwed. I just don't see anything like 'steam for X', where some content creator X can sell his media to you. Maybe you can take that as a business idea. Let me know how it goes.
It looks like PS3 might have unregioned games, so at least the guys at SCE will be cancelling out the guys in records. As more products like PSP, etc rollout without region locks on games maybe other media like audio and movies will follow. Yeah right haha sucker! =)
From my tomboy note:...for older monitors and video cards
Add the following two lines in your config file(Section "Monitor"): HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5 [consult your monitor manual/specs for the correct frequencies; but those two should do for now] VertRefresh 50-70
I don't remember who it was that said that on the fourms at the time. Hell it could be a paraphrase and my notes mixed in since it's from my tomboy. This issue is likely your problem. I use both debian and ubuntu on all kinds of hardware. =)
GNOME has far more applications that are used everyday. Look at all the 'must haves' at least using Gtk+ as the widget set. Also have you used Gtk# applications? My god... I can use the same hexeditor ( bless ) at work on windows as on linux at home -- just copy the exe to windows.
Just remember to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 (PC) when it comes out. You can write mods for that, and it ensures the developers make money. See? It's a true win-win. =)
Well, the media only reports Windows problems since most people don't even know a server from a copying machine. The market share argument doesn't hold any water -- look at apache, squid, etc. These are servers and are more targetted than simple desktop clients. Why do you think people 'own' Windows desktops? To attack the servers where the real money is controlled! Do I have to trot out the well-known numbers of httpd market share as example?
Your argument to prop up Window's lack *social responsibility and inter-business policies is akin to saying 'all bridges are basically just as safe as the other'. Generalizations in reguards to comparisions show you didn't dig very deep. I think you can see why I'm underwhelmed by your reasoning. Also Firefox has a much quicker turn around on patching any issues they encounter, and you can't say that Microsoft is anywhere near on par.
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I don't care about the 360 vs PS3 ranting here, but I'm going to challenge the slack-jawed parroting without thought here. You should really be buying a console for the game as well as the media, but I digress.
Why should Microsoft make an add-on HDDVD add on at all? Xbox 360 doesn't have HDMI and you can't play HDDVD games on 360, so why not get a stand alone player?
You want a crippled, subsitized media player branded as a Mircosoft product? There is nothing wrong with that, but at least admit it. A lot of people buy clothing because of brand name on it.
I can get a PS3 with HDMI and games that actually use the higher denisity media for the same prices as an 'upgraded' 360 a year or more after PS3 launch. The last time I heard a timetable announcement for the HDDVD addon was over a year off anyway.
Explain that one to me.
As a game developer, everytime I see the next 'let's bash PS3 before we see it' story I can't help but wonder how many of the people writing these stories will turn a 180 once they see the console firsthand. One thing I don't understand is all the bitching about the two systems. The only difference is HDMI. You can use usb to add the memstick, ethernet to hook up to a wireless access point, and you can upgrade the 2.5 sata drive off the shelf at this point. Comparing the PS Network with Live before it's even launched is brilliant as well. You can't even store media on an xbox -- you have to handle the core case. Also once you get HDDVD with the 360 you'll be paying a lot more for the 360 and still not have HDMI, which is likely to be a year or more off I might add. Now consider what's missing. How many people even know what HDMI is, and on top of that have a device that can use it? The 360 doesn't even have HDMI, so how do you think that HDDVD will work? I hope the media can get this message at some point. You might want to stop and think instead of guessing in fourms and horriblely uninformed blogs. I have to tell you it's funny to me how little people know and then the meme is carried by others.
On top of this PS3 may have an 'arcade' service that allows you to develop on Linux with OpenGL, and other easy to use APIs. That was mentioned during a Japanese interview during E3, but I'm considering it as a rumor for now.
If you think the PS3 is the doom of Sony it will only be due to the fact that they sold the console too cheaply for having too many features.
I'm not even leaking super secret information here -- this is all in public anouncements no one seems to read.
I have several, so thanks for sharing!. What is your point?
I'd bet anyone with a 360 has one or more, since it's a pricey tech toy -- literally.
Marked me as flamebait, but I was right. Ha Ha! =)
All our comments about Sony are wrong, so I guess you don't follow them closer than Microsoft. Good thing you did say 'prediction', however you shouldn't 'pull things out of your ass'. If you just read the various press releases you might know more about what will be on the floor than making things up.
I 'predict' you'll make a great wall street tech analyst as long as keep this up. Nothing personal -- out of the hundred comments like yours by fate I replied to yours. =)
The problem for Nintendo comes when everyone comes up with gimmick games that you don't want to play for more than five minutes. Games like the one described sound very shallow and focus on gameplay that's not engaging. I guess kids that like playing Feel the Magic will like it, but isn't this a step backwards with an aging market?
You mean like how the 360 version came out year(s) after the PS2 version?
Next.
You must run gentoo then. I can hotswap just fine in Ubuntu and Debian. Windows on the other hand starts causing failures in the kernel if you run at 100% cpu resources for a few hours straight. =)
How do you explian Linux's stability? It's not even limited to one CPU architecture! I'll go ahead and tell you. Linux makes the hard choices for what can and can't go into the kernel. Distrobutions *always choose what works best instead of what's right for marketing. Don't believe me? Firefox / Mozilla... EGCS / GCC... libc5 / glibc... the list goes on and on. If you can make the hard choices in software then you can stay stable, and keep backwards compatibility too. I can still run libc5 applications for example. Imagine if Vista regulated all the old WIN32 to a 'compatibility layer' instead of half-assing around every time they rehash Windows NT.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The rootkit ended up being a positive thing with the music deptartment losing even more clout. What does that have to do with all the duped stories, and sometimes racist comments about OTHER deptpartments at sony. It's just annoying seeing how once bluray is out all these people including you will go out and buy a PS3 while claiming to boycott it -- all over very poor reasoning.
I've been on this site a long time, and I've never even seen a string of such muck raking submissions even over Microsoft in the midst of the antitrust trial. If all slashdot can do is bitch about music companies, and copy stories off theinquirer.net it's not very appealing.
Bluray is actaully a good move. Only 3 regions, so I can watch japanese and american discs on the same device. I can't really say much about PS3 that hasn't been said, but I actually like the idea of brining the best parts of PC gaming like free peer to peer play, match making, and being able to store and play media on the device -- instead of paying for match making and having to stream data off a Windows PC. SCE actually supports Linux, and it's the only real Linux development environment for games. I'll never understand the Windows hating Xbox fanboys. I have nothing against xbox 360, but I just don't find it worth my money still.
You guys really drink the hateorad.
OH SNAP
The bluray format only has 3 regions, and it's a step in the right direction for DRM. I personally perfer being able to play asian and american discs on the same device. Read that again a Japanese and US PS3 should be able to play each others _movies_ not just games.
Yeah, but a lot of this was done by the vendor with preinstalled windows. I used to fix and sell laptops, and trust me -- this is a real problem with a lot of models.
Ubuntu works out of box on every laptop I've tried newer than PIIs with xorg and alsa. If you're using a PII (which often had horrible graphics chips) you'll have to touch xorg.conf. I've had some PII systems that had audio hardware that wasn't PnP or able to be autoprobed.
What do you want the OS to do in that case? Try and guess your irqs and fuck something up?
The problems here go for a lot of distros.
1. Video: Xorg can't tell what your hort / vert rates are on some older laptops, so if you set them by hand it will work.
2. Sound: You're likely running alsa instead of OSS, and for older hardware you'll have to hand tune the modprobe'd settings.
Hell if you use old enough hardware you have to set the all the parms by hand just like old dos! Next time be more specific. Old as in a 486 or a 586?
Why would you have a landscape layout for something you take notes on? You can only see like 1/3 of the top of a web page or document at a time with the current layout. Also using XP's interface with extra wide top heavy toolbars is a horrible idea for such a device. I don't see what all the fuss is about, since we've had devices like this since the 90s. I think after a day of using such a device you'll see why they never became popular: you need a different UI for the software to be usable.
I think a better compromise is an SFF using eSATA drives. I have an iDEQ 200N ( AMD Althon XP) and iDEQ 330P ( AMD64 x2 ), and I can use eSATA to 'share' the i386 operating system. I can even carry it with me, and use it whereever. This is an option for Linux, but it's not possible with some OS like Windows that don't like you to swap motherboards, etc.
I run an internal AMD64 build of ubuntu on the 330P, and load the i386 as a chroot. I also have a windows and OS X development enviroments under the Linux i386 image. It's a portable solution for my development needs, and my eSATA case can also do USB 2.0 for lower end machines without eSATA.
Aside from the funny statements about waiting for a die shrink to 'improve yeilds' lets just do some basic common sense figuring:
The reason they 'cut' one SPE is for increased yeilds. You see going to 6 physical layouts instead of the 8 current SPEs would actually yeild less. Why? Any of the 8 SPEs can be 'bad' so you have 7/8 random placement over the die. If you move to 6 physical you have to have 6/6 set pattern. The difference in die space is from 8 to 6 isn't importat due to the small space savings. The property of accounting for random errors over the die will increase yeilds much more. Do the math of your random outcomes of a bad SPE over the 8x SPE area versus needing a fully functional 6x SPE area on the die.
You would have lower yields and less SPEs per die with your idea of reducing the physical number of SPEs. Perhaps you you meant to tie this into die shrinkage, which we all know decreases yeilds from the ramp up of the manufacturing process.
There is a time limit to market here. They don't stop selling current AMD64s waiting for a die shrink a year later do they? Do you know how many times the PS2 had die shrinks over it's lifetime and maintained compatibility? ( Check out all the model numbers for a hint. ) An initial release on a larger die doesn't mean jack to consumers, until Sony can get all the componets on one chip ala the slim PS2 and sell a tiny case version.
UTF-8 test for slashdot
I use a PSP when flying from SNA to ATL and back. I can browse the web at the terminal, watch a movie, and play music. Oh yeah I can play talkman and practice my japanese and play games like dynasty warriors.
This is very nice for flights. You might not want to get out your laptop just to check the weather, or have to swap full size dvds out. I'm going to be watching Serenity this flight out, since I have the 1GB MS I can watch just movies if I want. I might watch Amelie... yeah not many US UMD movies appeal to me, but I already have the DVDs anyway. =)
Well iTunes doesn't sell japanese artists in the US, but put their names in the search results box. That's prety fucking annoying. I don't think iTunes is the answer for 'region locked' media -- digital or otherwise. If that media is locked by publisher, then you're screwed. I just don't see anything like 'steam for X', where some content creator X can sell his media to you. Maybe you can take that as a business idea. Let me know how it goes.
It looks like PS3 might have unregioned games, so at least the guys at SCE will be cancelling out the guys in records. As more products like PSP, etc rollout without region locks on games maybe other media like audio and movies will follow. Yeah right haha sucker! =)
These are Star Trek references...
From my tomboy note: ...for older monitors and video cards
Add the following two lines in your config file(Section "Monitor"):
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5 [consult your monitor manual/specs for the
correct frequencies; but those two should do for now]
VertRefresh 50-70
I don't remember who it was that said that on the fourms at the time. Hell it could be a paraphrase and my notes mixed in since it's from my tomboy. This issue is likely your problem. I use both debian and ubuntu on all kinds of hardware. =)
GNOME has far more applications that are used everyday. Look at all the 'must haves' at least using Gtk+ as the widget set. Also have you used Gtk# applications? My god... I can use the same hexeditor ( bless ) at work on windows as on linux at home -- just copy the exe to windows.
Just remember to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 (PC) when it comes out. You can write mods for that, and it ensures the developers make money. See? It's a true win-win. =)
Well, the media only reports Windows problems since most people don't even know a server from a copying machine. The market share argument doesn't hold any water -- look at apache, squid, etc. These are servers and are more targetted than simple desktop clients. Why do you think people 'own' Windows desktops? To attack the servers where the real money is controlled! Do I have to trot out the well-known numbers of httpd market share as example?
;)
Your argument to prop up Window's lack *social responsibility and inter-business policies is akin to saying 'all bridges are basically just as safe as the other'. Generalizations in reguards to comparisions show you didn't dig very deep. I think you can see why I'm underwhelmed by your reasoning. Also Firefox has a much quicker turn around on patching any issues they encounter, and you can't say that Microsoft is anywhere near on par.
Please try again.