Actually, PS3s will have 1.8TFlops, because that is calculated as a theoretical max (i.e. Total processing power of each individual component is added together) and becuase since graphics are an example of parallelizable problems GPUs produce a lot of FLOPS. See FLOPS and Game Consoles for more info.
Lol, wow teaches me to try to type comments while carrying on conversations with IM, talking on the telephone, and playing tetris. God that game never gets old...
You are correct, but by contamination, I ment some substance that would cause the non-conductive, pure water to become conductive. For example, if salt was added (Don't you hate sweaty hands?) NaCl would seperate in the water and Na2+ would become slightly attracted to the negative end of H2O, and Cl2- would become sligtly attracted to the positive end of H2O. These ions would then conduct a charge making the water conductive. Anyways, you are right and I should have used a better choice of words.
No, you can't use water because it will become conductive when almost any substance is added to it, such as the metal flakes coming off of computer parts, other microscopic contaminents, and even carbon dioxide which will cause the pH to change. On the other hand, mineral oil is a non-conductive liquid, there are several although mineral oil is definatly the cheapest. Also, water is corrosive whereas mineral oil is not. A while back there was an article about using 3M Novec 1230 (AKA Sapphire) for submerged cooling (the poster mentioned it but forgot to take into account the low energy needed for Novec 1230 to vaporize) read the comments for more info on why water will not work. FYI somewhere in there you can find a link to pics of a guy who tried using water and fried his UPS.
30 Million consoles? No way, thats around 1 X-Box 360 for every 10 people in the United States, including the homeless. If I remember correctly (somebody can google if they want) X-Box reached it's 20 million mark globally in January 2005. You are correct that mass production can lower costs significantly, but unless they build millions and millions of X-Box 360s this year and just keep them in a warehouse until they run out, mass production will not lower costs as much as you believe. It's not just about how many you make, but also about the rate at which you make them. Also, FYI don't believe that X-Box 360 will sell as fast as the original X-Box, at least where I live most people were severly disappointed with the X-Box and don't plan to buy an X-Box 360, this is also the feeling I get from talking to friends in other parts of the country.
Also, I doubt that MS will release a PC, they have no expierence in the area and will piss of several of thier supporters (i.e. Dell, Compaq, E Machines, other major PC companies). In addition, I believe I read somewhere that the processor used in the X-Box 360 will be heavily customized so that it will work very inefficently as a CPU for a desktop computer. This technology isn't that advanced really, AMD is just skipping triple core CPUs, as they have announced a quad core for 2007.
From what I understand , the custom PPC processor is dramatically different than a desktop CPU, so much so that it would not be a great desktop replacement. I mean come on not even Microsoft is dumb enough to put out a product that could compete with distributors of Windows (i.e. Dell, EMachines, Compaq, all other bad desktop/laptop computer companies). Not only would it piss of these distributors, unless they made X-Box with a Windows OS, it would facilitate the adoption of Linux by the "average" user. Additionally, if they did make Windows for X-Box it would take some time unless they want to fall prey to new lawsuits similar to the old ones where their OS and software departments shared secrets, and everybody knows the Linux community can develop faster than corporations so it would most likely hurt them anyways.
Why pay the money for SATA right now? Sure the potential speed is higher now, but what I remember from my research into them in Feb. is that in general the speed of the SATA HDD itself is equal to or slower than that of the IDE HDDs. Some SATA HDDs are actually IDE HDDs with an interface board built on top of them so they can work with SATA. Also, I would wait untill SATA2 came out so that I could take advantage of the HDDs that will be produced within the next few years and are faster than IDEs.
I almost bought a MOBO last year that didn't have any, so they do exist, but I needed them for my old Laserjet 6P, and also for my STAMP microcontrollers. Overall, I think there are more people that need them than you realize, especially those that use older hardware.
"Gentoo users usually have smaller, leaner and more optimized systems than others, but given that harddrive space hasn't been at a premium for at least three years now, is having smaller binaries really that important? In terms of speed, most Linux applications make no use of MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, or SSE3, which means that compiling for 386 usually creates a program that's only the tiniest ammount slower than its 686 equivalent. The few programs that do make use of these instruction extensions (such as MPlayer) are usually made available in both 686 and 386 mode, and often in Athlon build too, so that everyone has the best build for thier system.This means in terms of an overall increase in performance, Gentoo is unlikely to bring more than 15% which is hardly a new lease of life.
"However, any benifits that Gentoo may bring are dashed by the time it takes to compile software...
"...Beyond that [Portage], Gentoo is little more than a solution looking for a problem: 100% of all desktop machines sold today have CPU cycles to waste, which means that getting even an extra 20% out of your applications will make little difference."
Excerpts of a review of Gentoo in Linux Format, January 2005, page 52.
Now will all of you that think Gentoo is "notorious for its speed" please shut up?
I'm no physicist, but isn't this similar to this paper written 5 years ago??? And didn't Scientific American write about a similar expirament withen the last 6 months? I may be mistaken, so I'll try to dig through my pile of magazines later tonight.
He says this because in America, the PSP sold 602,000 units in the first week, whereas DS sold only 500,000 units. This of cousre can be seen in a diffrent light if you consider that Nintendo sold 90% of its launch batch, and Sony only sold 60% of the PSP launch batch. Overall, I don't like either system; I might buy revolution just for Zelda games I can't play (I don't have GC). In general I believe that PC games are much better than any console games.
so how much would a replacement remote cost? I'm thinking it would be quite a bit, and since you can't buy them in stores (at least not now) you would have to wait for one to be sent to you. The real question, I think, is will talking into my remote not only make me appear crazier than people already think I am, but also impair my ability to drink soda/booze and eat?
Titanium prices most likely will fall over the next two years as a result of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, which delivered tons of titanium to the shores of India. It would make sense that Inida would start mining as quickly as possible to generate funds for reconstruction.
Oh and by the way, titanium is mostly found in dunes and beaches, so yes mining the ore is about as cheap as sand.
I may be worng, but I believe the patent had to do with computer control of motors as haptic technology. In the rumble pack the motors are on or off, whereas in the Playstation and X-box the motors can be controlled providing various sensations.
Yeah, but remeber, Microsoft got hit also( From Immersion's web site) so its not just the dualshock controllers. As this article mentions, Microsft ended up licensing the technology (and became a shareholder, although this isn't mentioned).
Maybe it differs from place to place, but I have one in my hand right now and it says 1 in 3 wins a free song ( not to mention the chance of buy-one-get-one-free offers inside ), also, tilting them, coupled with my normal eccentricity, I may have people calling cops and/or shrinks,
I filled my iPod with the free songs from the tops of Pepsi bottle. The price : free, of course there was the slight inconvience and cost of 30,000 Pepsis and the multiple caffine ODs...
It depends on what you mean by human here, I believe "humanity" to come about at the time of civilization (first settlements known were in Southern Mesopotamia, in the Ubaid Period, 6000-5000 BC). However, as a species homo sapians have been around longer, but lacked the capability to live at more than a subsistance level. Even then, non-human animals were able to live by themselves without human intervention. Furthermore, until I see 12 gauge shotguns growing in the trees, or they are able to be produced without the technology and knowledge humanity has gained since the beggining of civilization, guns are not a part of nature.
No offense, but your viewpoint is missing a key piece because you chose to ignore it, i.e. human have been on Earth for approxamatly 10,000 years, Animals in general have been around a lot longer, so you need to consider that animals clearly can take care of themselves, and in fact saying that we shouldn't let them overpopulate is akin to saying we should stop all forest fires, because both allow the old (growth or aged animals) to continue on while there is less room for the new (young growth and animal youths). What we are forgetting in our modern world is that Humans are not needed to take care of animals and plants , also we forget that some of our technological advances (i.e. medicine), while often are considered good, actually contribute to a stagnation in the evolutionary process. Basically, humans should not mess with nature, let it be itself.
Don't say at least, ecause some sniper rifles are capable of much better performance, although they are very costly. For example, the Barrett M82A1 has an MOA of 1.5-2.0 or about 4.5"-6" drift at 300 yards. Additionally, the drift depends on the angle at which the rifle is fired, even if it is aimed directly at your phone. If you're shot at from above or below there will be an additional downwards component of the bullet's velocity working with the force of gravity causing the bullet to fall faster, whereas if you are up high and shot from below there will be an upwards component of the bullet's velocity working with gravity to decrease the drift of the bullet.
just a remiander (in the absence of air resistance, and bullets are designed for minimal air resistance)
Dy = 0.5(-32 ft/s/s)(Dt)^2 + v*sin(a)(Dt) Dt = (Dx)/(v*cos(a))
so: Dy = 0.5(-32 ft/s/s)((Dx)/(v*cos(a)) + (Dx)tan(a)
where:
a=angle v=inital velocity Dt= change in time Dx= change in horizontal position Dy= change in vertical position
therefore, if a is between 0 and 90 degrees there will be less drift than if a is between -90 and 0 degrees.
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Actually, PS3s will have 1.8TFlops, because that is calculated as a theoretical max (i.e. Total processing power of each individual component is added together) and becuase since graphics are an example of parallelizable problems GPUs produce a lot of FLOPS. See FLOPS and Game Consoles for more info.
Lol, wow teaches me to try to type comments while carrying on conversations with IM, talking on the telephone, and playing tetris. God that game never gets old...
You are correct, but by contamination, I ment some substance that would cause the non-conductive, pure water to become conductive. For example, if salt was added (Don't you hate sweaty hands?) NaCl would seperate in the water and Na2+ would become slightly attracted to the negative end of H2O, and Cl2- would become sligtly attracted to the positive end of H2O. These ions would then conduct a charge making the water conductive. Anyways, you are right and I should have used a better choice of words.
No, you can't use water because it will become conductive when almost any substance is added to it, such as the metal flakes coming off of computer parts, other microscopic contaminents, and even carbon dioxide which will cause the pH to change. On the other hand, mineral oil is a non-conductive liquid, there are several although mineral oil is definatly the cheapest. Also, water is corrosive whereas mineral oil is not. A while back there was an article about using 3M Novec 1230 (AKA Sapphire) for submerged cooling (the poster mentioned it but forgot to take into account the low energy needed for Novec 1230 to vaporize) read the comments for more info on why water will not work. FYI somewhere in there you can find a link to pics of a guy who tried using water and fried his UPS.
30 Million consoles? No way, thats around 1 X-Box 360 for every 10 people in the United States, including the homeless. If I remember correctly (somebody can google if they want) X-Box reached it's 20 million mark globally in January 2005. You are correct that mass production can lower costs significantly, but unless they build millions and millions of X-Box 360s this year and just keep them in a warehouse until they run out, mass production will not lower costs as much as you believe. It's not just about how many you make, but also about the rate at which you make them. Also, FYI don't believe that X-Box 360 will sell as fast as the original X-Box, at least where I live most people were severly disappointed with the X-Box and don't plan to buy an X-Box 360, this is also the feeling I get from talking to friends in other parts of the country.
Also, I doubt that MS will release a PC, they have no expierence in the area and will piss of several of thier supporters (i.e. Dell, Compaq, E Machines, other major PC companies). In addition, I believe I read somewhere that the processor used in the X-Box 360 will be heavily customized so that it will work very inefficently as a CPU for a desktop computer. This technology isn't that advanced really, AMD is just skipping triple core CPUs, as they have announced a quad core for 2007.
From what I understand , the custom PPC processor is dramatically different than a desktop CPU, so much so that it would not be a great desktop replacement. I mean come on not even Microsoft is dumb enough to put out a product that could compete with distributors of Windows (i.e. Dell, EMachines, Compaq, all other bad desktop/laptop computer companies). Not only would it piss of these distributors, unless they made X-Box with a Windows OS, it would facilitate the adoption of Linux by the "average" user. Additionally, if they did make Windows for X-Box it would take some time unless they want to fall prey to new lawsuits similar to the old ones where their OS and software departments shared secrets, and everybody knows the Linux community can develop faster than corporations so it would most likely hurt them anyways.
Why pay the money for SATA right now? Sure the potential speed is higher now, but what I remember from my research into them in Feb. is that in general the speed of the SATA HDD itself is equal to or slower than that of the IDE HDDs. Some SATA HDDs are actually IDE HDDs with an interface board built on top of them so they can work with SATA. Also, I would wait untill SATA2 came out so that I could take advantage of the HDDs that will be produced within the next few years and are faster than IDEs.
I almost bought a MOBO last year that didn't have any, so they do exist, but I needed them for my old Laserjet 6P, and also for my STAMP microcontrollers. Overall, I think there are more people that need them than you realize, especially those that use older hardware.
"Gentoo users usually have smaller, leaner and more optimized systems than others, but given that harddrive space hasn't been at a premium for at least three years now, is having smaller binaries really that important? In terms of speed, most Linux applications make no use of MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, or SSE3, which means that compiling for 386 usually creates a program that's only the tiniest ammount slower than its 686 equivalent. The few programs that do make use of these instruction extensions (such as MPlayer) are usually made available in both 686 and 386 mode, and often in Athlon build too, so that everyone has the best build for thier system.This means in terms of an overall increase in performance, Gentoo is unlikely to bring more than 15% which is hardly a new lease of life.
"However, any benifits that Gentoo may bring are dashed by the time it takes to compile software...
"...Beyond that [Portage], Gentoo is little more than a solution looking for a problem: 100% of all desktop machines sold today have CPU cycles to waste, which means that getting even an extra 20% out of your applications will make little difference."
Excerpts of a review of Gentoo in Linux Format, January 2005, page 52.
Now will all of you that think Gentoo is "notorious for its speed" please shut up?
I'm no physicist, but isn't this similar to this paper written 5 years ago??? And didn't Scientific American write about a similar expirament withen the last 6 months? I may be mistaken, so I'll try to dig through my pile of magazines later tonight.
He says this because in America, the PSP sold 602,000 units in the first week, whereas DS sold only 500,000 units. This of cousre can be seen in a diffrent light if you consider that Nintendo sold 90% of its launch batch, and Sony only sold 60% of the PSP launch batch. Overall, I don't like either system; I might buy revolution just for Zelda games I can't play (I don't have GC). In general I believe that PC games are much better than any console games.
so how much would a replacement remote cost? I'm thinking it would be quite a bit, and since you can't buy them in stores (at least not now) you would have to wait for one to be sent to you. The real question, I think, is will talking into my remote not only make me appear crazier than people already think I am, but also impair my ability to drink soda/booze and eat?
Titanium prices most likely will fall over the next two years as a result of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, which delivered tons of titanium to the shores of India. It would make sense that Inida would start mining as quickly as possible to generate funds for reconstruction.
Oh and by the way, titanium is mostly found in dunes and beaches, so yes mining the ore is about as cheap as sand.
I may be worng, but I believe the patent had to do with computer control of motors as haptic technology. In the rumble pack the motors are on or off, whereas in the Playstation and X-box the motors can be controlled providing various sensations.
Yeah, but remeber, Microsoft got hit also( From Immersion's web site) so its not just the dualshock controllers. As this article mentions, Microsft ended up licensing the technology (and became a shareholder, although this isn't mentioned).
Maybe it differs from place to place, but I have one in my hand right now and it says 1 in 3 wins a free song ( not to mention the chance of buy-one-get-one-free offers inside ), also, tilting them, coupled with my normal eccentricity, I may have people calling cops and/or shrinks,
So basically... 1) Only get games people pre-order 2) ????? 3) Profit! Sounds like a winning plan to me.
I filled my iPod with the free songs from the tops of Pepsi bottle. The price : free, of course there was the slight inconvience and cost of 30,000 Pepsis and the multiple caffine ODs...
It depends on what you mean by human here, I believe "humanity" to come about at the time of civilization (first settlements known were in Southern Mesopotamia, in the Ubaid Period, 6000-5000 BC). However, as a species homo sapians have been around longer, but lacked the capability to live at more than a subsistance level. Even then, non-human animals were able to live by themselves without human intervention. Furthermore, until I see 12 gauge shotguns growing in the trees, or they are able to be produced without the technology and knowledge humanity has gained since the beggining of civilization, guns are not a part of nature.
No offense, but your viewpoint is missing a key piece because you chose to ignore it, i.e. human have been on Earth for approxamatly 10,000 years, Animals in general have been around a lot longer, so you need to consider that animals clearly can take care of themselves, and in fact saying that we shouldn't let them overpopulate is akin to saying we should stop all forest fires, because both allow the old (growth or aged animals) to continue on while there is less room for the new (young growth and animal youths). What we are forgetting in our modern world is that Humans are not needed to take care of animals and plants , also we forget that some of our technological advances (i.e. medicine), while often are considered good, actually contribute to a stagnation in the evolutionary process. Basically, humans should not mess with nature, let it be itself.
Don't say at least, ecause some sniper rifles are capable of much better performance, although they are very costly. For example, the Barrett M82A1 has an MOA of 1.5-2.0 or about 4.5"-6" drift at 300 yards. Additionally, the drift depends on the angle at which the rifle is fired, even if it is aimed directly at your phone. If you're shot at from above or below there will be an additional downwards component of the bullet's velocity working with the force of gravity causing the bullet to fall faster, whereas if you are up high and shot from below there will be an upwards component of the bullet's velocity working with gravity to decrease the drift of the bullet.
just a remiander (in the absence of air resistance, and bullets are designed for minimal air resistance)
Dy = 0.5(-32 ft/s/s)(Dt)^2 + v*sin(a)(Dt)
Dt = (Dx)/(v*cos(a))
so:
Dy = 0.5(-32 ft/s/s)((Dx)/(v*cos(a)) + (Dx)tan(a)
where:
a=angle
v=inital velocity
Dt= change in time
Dx= change in horizontal position
Dy= change in vertical position
therefore, if a is between 0 and 90 degrees there will be less drift than if a is between -90 and 0 degrees.
You know you can get it from CVS without the GUI for free fight? Here's a script that does it all http://cvscedega.linux-gamers.net/WineCVS.sh