If there is no extra money, and a long term cash commitment attached, then this is nothing but hot air. It is easy to SAY that we are going back into space, but it is only words untill they put the money where their words are.
"he XPS Gen 5's TV tuners show steady pictures, even when the system is otherwise occupied (when it's also running a virus scan, for example), a benefit that can be directly attributed to the dual-core processor."
Give me a break. I had a P3 that did this just fine with a standard ATI tuner card. AND I could surf the internet at the same time. Wow!
10 second burst? No way to predict? No way to defend against it?
At last! A natural disater that even Hollywood con't make into a bad action movie! Yay!
I could see it now, 1 hour of plot, followed by a burst of light out of nowhere and everyone dies. Perfect. Great movie right there.
Except that at some level it does become trivial. There are basic interface components that we all take for granted that are patented and that could be enforced. If cars had been invented by the curretnt IT industry, can anyone else see a patent for 'method to start a vehical'? Or 'placemant of breaking devices on the axel of vehical'?
And where would the car industry be now if Ford was the only one alowed to make cars with starters or breaks?
If they don't get a handle on these types of patents then at some point there is going to have to be a real house cleaning.
Depending on how much worse it gets, any serious buisness will move outside of North America where the patent system is friendlier to inovation and competition.
Every time I see any sort of list of the things IT companies have pattented, I have to shake my head in wonder. Is it just me, or is half this stuff common sense, not a breakthrough in tecnology. If they can give a pattent for 'enhanced program information search', I am surprised that Google hasn't simply gone through the dictionary and patented a search for every item that has an electrical signal. These things should be features, not patents.
Since LotR,it seems like every time some one doesn't like the writer/producer/director/pet monkey assigned to a film Peter Jackson's name comes up as person/monkey they should have used instead. Get over it. tLotR are some of my favorite films of all time, but there are other directors out there.
You might also want to look up "Critical Flicker Frequency"
I am fairly sure this is either the same thing or a related thing. It describes the effect that allows for movies and other moving images based on rapidly shifting images.
SOunds a little like Santa Clause
One too many people start believing and the next thing you know some fat guy in a bad suit is breaking into your house once a year
I wouldn't think so. It sounds like this is a combination of a scripting language or its like, and then hardware that is made to make the best use of that language.
Apparently the Unreal 3 Engine stuff is going to be shipping with this in early 2006, and I would be surprised if 1% of the gaming community has this in their box by then, so it must be capable of being software rendered.
So, no the collisions will be the same, but the people with the hardware will get a huge boost in frame rate.
I could see this panning out the same way that graphics and sound cards did. Initially the PPU will get put on board with your new Graphics card. With the PCI-E standard out there now, it won't put any real stress the available bandwidth.
Once they get more advanced and the developers are pushing the limits of what can be done with it (and you know they will) a separate card will become more realistic.
On the other hand, I would personally appreciate it if they were able to do a basic PCI version of the PPU by itself, if only because I have recently upgraded my Video Card and like hell am I going to blow that type of money again in the near future, regardless of what they bring out. And people in my situation may be the biggest problem in terms of getting this accepted.
I would be far more excited if they had any information on how this great new chip was going to be distributed.
Are they working with ATI or NVIDIA to integrate this new chip onto existing graphics cards? Might be the only way they will make use of the full bandwidth on the PCI-E slots;)
Or are they working on getting a new type of card out onto the market? And if so, have they talked to the motherboard manufacturers on the type of requirements that it might need?
Nice announcement. And I hope that it pans out, but I would appreciate a little less "Look at our big announcement on how we will change everything" and a little more real information on how they plan to do it.
Really, it is kind of silly that game reviews have tried to emulate the whole movie review system. Not only is game play a much more individual experience than movies because it depends on the player, not merely the game itself. Depending on skills or strengths, a good game fro one person is a waste of time for someone else.
Personally, I think the Penny Arcade guys have it right. No rankings or stars or whatever. Just what they enjoyed, why the liked it, and what other things they have liked in the past. Really, it is the context this provides that is almost as important as anything they say about the game itself.
Hardware wise the Cube COULD compete. But Nintendo has consistantly made things harder than they had to be on third party developers, so the best titles have ended up on the other systems.
Well, other than some info on the sales of the DS, that artical said nothing at all. I mean, the info on the Revolution was 'We are trying to decide how much info to tell you at some future date'
Between this and that Metroid advertising story a while back, it seems Nintendo is managing to release a bunch of news that consists of saying 'we have information that you would enjoy hearing' and nothing else.
Heh, the real reason most call centers fro US companies are located in Canada is the dialect. With a minor exception in Newfoundland, us Canadians speak a dialect that is clearly understandable to any english speaker. This isn't the same in many places in the US, such as Texas (to be mildly steriotypical). It is easier and less expensive to put one call center in Canada than regional ones all over the US.
For example, Dell is in the process of opening a huge new call center in Edmonton, Alberta that will service all of North America
Any game they bundled to start with would be something as safely generic as the Spiderman movie is. I don't know anyone who activly doesn't like that movie.
I can understand them wanting to combat the view of the PSP as a strictly gaming machine and that is fine.
However, the 250 is US$. In Canada it will likley sell for 299.99 instead. Add tax to that, and then tack on another 60-70 for a game and you are talking a serious chunk of change in the range of $400.
I can see Sony wanting to promote the other features of the PSP, but by NOT promoting the major faetures they are making it a real expensive proposition.
Yeah, but that assumes that the ISPs care enough to go to anything like that amout of trouble. Might be a nice solution for a smaller network, but the types of big buisnesses that typicaly run large scale ICP services are more likely to completely block certain ports or programs before they did that kind of thing. After all, there is not enough competition, and they all know their competitors will do the same thing, so it is not like they are risking customers.
I can't believe how many people ahve mentioned that Bill Gates should step up and buy the whole lot. Not that I think this would be a bad thing, but It is great how many people think they know how he should spend his cash.
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If there is no extra money, and a long term cash commitment attached, then this is nothing but hot air. It is easy to SAY that we are going back into space, but it is only words untill they put the money where their words are.
If this works the way they say it does, then all I can say is that someone has just won a nobel prize.
The guy in the PC Mag artical is on crack.
"he XPS Gen 5's TV tuners show steady pictures, even when the system is otherwise occupied (when it's also running a virus scan, for example), a benefit that can be directly attributed to the dual-core processor."
Give me a break. I had a P3 that did this just fine with a standard ATI tuner card. AND I could surf the internet at the same time. Wow!
10 second burst? No way to predict? No way to defend against it? At last! A natural disater that even Hollywood con't make into a bad action movie! Yay! I could see it now, 1 hour of plot, followed by a burst of light out of nowhere and everyone dies. Perfect. Great movie right there.
Except that at some level it does become trivial. There are basic interface components that we all take for granted that are patented and that could be enforced. If cars had been invented by the curretnt IT industry, can anyone else see a patent for 'method to start a vehical'? Or 'placemant of breaking devices on the axel of vehical'? And where would the car industry be now if Ford was the only one alowed to make cars with starters or breaks?
If they don't get a handle on these types of patents then at some point there is going to have to be a real house cleaning. Depending on how much worse it gets, any serious buisness will move outside of North America where the patent system is friendlier to inovation and competition.
Every time I see any sort of list of the things IT companies have pattented, I have to shake my head in wonder. Is it just me, or is half this stuff common sense, not a breakthrough in tecnology. If they can give a pattent for 'enhanced program information search', I am surprised that Google hasn't simply gone through the dictionary and patented a search for every item that has an electrical signal. These things should be features, not patents.
Since LotR,it seems like every time some one doesn't like the writer/producer/director/pet monkey assigned to a film Peter Jackson's name comes up as person/monkey they should have used instead. Get over it. tLotR are some of my favorite films of all time, but there are other directors out there.
You might also want to look up "Critical Flicker Frequency" I am fairly sure this is either the same thing or a related thing. It describes the effect that allows for movies and other moving images based on rapidly shifting images.
SOunds a little like Santa Clause One too many people start believing and the next thing you know some fat guy in a bad suit is breaking into your house once a year
Oh, great idea. Use an openly edited format to distribute and review information on international tecnology standards.
Well, At least it would provide for some legendary flame wars...
The restriction of what is legally recognised as Journalism to commercial news entities is a scary thing.
I wouldn't think so. It sounds like this is a combination of a scripting language or its like, and then hardware that is made to make the best use of that language.
Apparently the Unreal 3 Engine stuff is going to be shipping with this in early 2006, and I would be surprised if 1% of the gaming community has this in their box by then, so it must be capable of being software rendered.
So, no the collisions will be the same, but the people with the hardware will get a huge boost in frame rate.
I could see this panning out the same way that graphics and sound cards did. Initially the PPU will get put on board with your new Graphics card. With the PCI-E standard out there now, it won't put any real stress the available bandwidth. Once they get more advanced and the developers are pushing the limits of what can be done with it (and you know they will) a separate card will become more realistic.
On the other hand, I would personally appreciate it if they were able to do a basic PCI version of the PPU by itself, if only because I have recently upgraded my Video Card and like hell am I going to blow that type of money again in the near future, regardless of what they bring out. And people in my situation may be the biggest problem in terms of getting this accepted.
I would be far more excited if they had any information on how this great new chip was going to be distributed. Are they working with ATI or NVIDIA to integrate this new chip onto existing graphics cards? Might be the only way they will make use of the full bandwidth on the PCI-E slots ;)
Or are they working on getting a new type of card out onto the market? And if so, have they talked to the motherboard manufacturers on the type of requirements that it might need?
Nice announcement. And I hope that it pans out, but I would appreciate a little less "Look at our big announcement on how we will change everything" and a little more real information on how they plan to do it.
Really, it is kind of silly that game reviews have tried to emulate the whole movie review system. Not only is game play a much more individual experience than movies because it depends on the player, not merely the game itself. Depending on skills or strengths, a good game fro one person is a waste of time for someone else. Personally, I think the Penny Arcade guys have it right. No rankings or stars or whatever. Just what they enjoyed, why the liked it, and what other things they have liked in the past. Really, it is the context this provides that is almost as important as anything they say about the game itself.
Hardware wise the Cube COULD compete. But Nintendo has consistantly made things harder than they had to be on third party developers, so the best titles have ended up on the other systems.
Well, other than some info on the sales of the DS, that artical said nothing at all. I mean, the info on the Revolution was 'We are trying to decide how much info to tell you at some future date' Between this and that Metroid advertising story a while back, it seems Nintendo is managing to release a bunch of news that consists of saying 'we have information that you would enjoy hearing' and nothing else.
Heh, the real reason most call centers fro US companies are located in Canada is the dialect. With a minor exception in Newfoundland, us Canadians speak a dialect that is clearly understandable to any english speaker. This isn't the same in many places in the US, such as Texas (to be mildly steriotypical). It is easier and less expensive to put one call center in Canada than regional ones all over the US. For example, Dell is in the process of opening a huge new call center in Edmonton, Alberta that will service all of North America
Any game they bundled to start with would be something as safely generic as the Spiderman movie is. I don't know anyone who activly doesn't like that movie.
What? A major publisher loose a year and a half of income simply to make a batter game? In the words of The Princess Bride 'Inconceivable!'
I can understand them wanting to combat the view of the PSP as a strictly gaming machine and that is fine. However, the 250 is US$. In Canada it will likley sell for 299.99 instead. Add tax to that, and then tack on another 60-70 for a game and you are talking a serious chunk of change in the range of $400. I can see Sony wanting to promote the other features of the PSP, but by NOT promoting the major faetures they are making it a real expensive proposition.
With all that bundled in, it would be nice if it came with an actual game. I am not buying the PSP to watch Spiderman.
Yeah, but that assumes that the ISPs care enough to go to anything like that amout of trouble. Might be a nice solution for a smaller network, but the types of big buisnesses that typicaly run large scale ICP services are more likely to completely block certain ports or programs before they did that kind of thing. After all, there is not enough competition, and they all know their competitors will do the same thing, so it is not like they are risking customers.
I can't believe how many people ahve mentioned that Bill Gates should step up and buy the whole lot. Not that I think this would be a bad thing, but It is great how many people think they know how he should spend his cash.