"Actually, the reason they left out PS2 emulation was because of how error-ridden it was."
Wrong, the first PS3s were literally stuffed with a micro PS2 inside them. It was full hardware and I had zero issues with Persona 3 (I didnt even get FES until I had stepped on my old P3 disc.)
It was eating into their still-steady PS2 slim sales.
Buggy shit didn't happen until they went to half-hardware half-software emulation.
Cell is still a hellaciously-capable performance CPU architecture.
The 1st-gen PS3 Cell had almost 300 GFLOPs performance.
To put that in perspective, the i7-4770K is ~100 GFLOPs. The i7-6700K is ~113 GFLOPs.
So, no, you add a better GPU and more RAM (which is clocked at the processor's base speed,) and the Cell-based PS3 would still stomp the shit out of any PC system built today for the most part.
Are you terminally stupid? I just stated the industry-required minimum time for IP66, 67, and 68 - 30 fucking minutes MINIMUM. IP65 is less at 15 minutes.
I know how to follow standards - you apparently can't even be bothered to read and understand one.
"specifically because they *don't* design macbooks like thinkpads and imacs like HP pcs"
As a former Apple repair tech, WRONG!!!!!!
Apple's shit is that badly designed. That's why when I worked doing their laptop repairs, 2/3 of their fucking units FRESH OFF THE LINE had to go back for refurbishing.
That's because your phone has shit grounding. Same shit happened with Nokia phones near ANY radio. You could use this to your advantage, too. Those people with the light-up everything accessories were susceptible to a spark from a piezo-electric lighter within 30 feet. Drain that battery!
"Non digital cabling is more prone to error and interference"
No such fucking thing exists. It is a fucking conductor, period. It's all analog. Tiny chunks of signal or full continuous signal, it doesn't matter.
"if you think about it does it not kind of suck you only get TWO possible distinct channels"
Do you ever bother using the thing that exists between the ONLY TWO PHYSICAL AUDIO RECEPTORS on your head?
"What if you wanted to provide a headphone with a subwoofer specific channel or a true surround sound headset / speakers?"
Surround sound headsets are a shit gimmick and a poor replacement for properly-spaced speakers. If your headphones need a subwoofer, you have shit headphones, as most typical headphones (even lower-range IEMs) have a typical lower response range of ~15Hz, and have had them since the mid-90s (I miss my old Optimus Nova-55s.)
"Even IP68 rated phones can only survive brief dips"
Then it's not truly IP68. The first number in the Ingress Protection rating, 6, denotes the system is dust-tight. The second number in that rating, 8, denotes suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer. Normally, this will mean that the equipment is hermetically sealed. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that it produces no harmful effects. Note, brief dips do not fit the definition of 'continuous immersion' which is typically a time period of MINIMUM 30 minutes (which, incidentally, is all most manufacturers will give you, the cheap fuckers.)
I've got IP68 LED units that are meant to operate directly in saltwater. And they have watertight plug sockets.
I find it hilarious that I can bother to do this with my own retail units while more advanced manufacturers can't even do it properly.
Yup, he drove to his mailbox, put it in park, the parking mechanism failed (in fact his vehicle was one in a recall regarding this exact same fucking thing) and it rolled back and pinned his ass to the mailbox.
This would not have happened had he bothered to put the vehicle in the garage where it belonged and then gone to the mailbox afterwards.
I live close to the area. Going out for some rubbernecking is EASY.
You do know WebRTC leaves the fucking data channel wide open once you accept Video and Audio channels, never once asking for authorization? You do know WebRTC has a nasty habit of allowing IP addresses to be revealed?
"If it does what I want it to do, I really don't care about what's happening behind the curtain."
No wonder you're likely a single person. You can't be bothered to care or even show that you care. Absolutely unattractive to any sort of potential mate.
"Since you're familiar with that particular weapon, can you tell me how likely it is for someone who bought one only days prior to be familiar enough with it to be able to cycle the trigger that fast?"
If they've ever handled a weapon before, very - they all have the same basic functionality and method of operation - pull the trigger, gun shoots. The biggest hindrance is the pull force required on the trigger, which is usually less than a pistol or revolver, and even then, a MAD person will just squeeze as hard and fast as possible.
That wouldn't do anything, as you have no fucking clue where the true liability lies.
Protip: There's still this thing called 'Personal Responsibility.' Did the gun manufacturer pull the trigger? Did the gun manufacturer sell direct to the gun user?
NO. Someone else pulled the trigger. It was a gun RETAIL STORE that sold it (another protip: gun manufacturers BY LAW are not allowed to sell direct to the public, much like car manufacturers. They must sell through licensed dealers.)
That essentially and ETHICALLY absolves them of responsibility.
"When your goal is to massacre as many people as possible before the police show up, reload times are very important."
Tell that to the guys that just slaughtered a bunch of people on a subway in China. They racked up their kill score with knives in a country with strict gun laws.
"The AR-15 was developed to be used by members of the military"
Until ArmaLite fucked off and couldn't complete it, and then sold the design to Colt, who retooled it to create the M-16, and then made the AR-15 for CIVILIAN USE in the 1960s.
You can quote statistics any way you want, but guess what? China just had a mass stabbing. Take the guns away, people will still find ways to hurt other people. And none of those dead people were armed to defend themselves. Meanwhile, those knife-wielding guys didn't seem to let "No Guns Allowed" laws stop their killing spree.
Fact is, humans will kill humans. Quit being a fucking tool by banning tools, and start working on the societal aspects that allow such shit to rear its ugly head.
"No, it's actually called being knowledgeable about the subject at hand."
Then you've got zero knowledge, so let a former cable tech chime in.
Nothing you say makes much sense excepting PPV channels.
No 10 channel DVR? Mine handles 50 simultaneously. Ever hear of SnapStream? Hell, you can buy 64-channel simultaneous DVRs from Alibaba for $3,000 and they work as long as you have ONE SINGLE CABLE CARD.
Increased power consumption? The set top boxes of today are WAY MORE EFFICIENT than the old Scientific Atlanta analog boxes, on the order of one or two degrees of magnitude.
" People aren't going to want to stare at a single still image for two seconds."
Yet people spend far longer than that doing EXACTLY THAT on Imgur.
"inside your giant, power hungry set-top-box."
As a baseline, an average TV set top box consumes less than 12-kilowatt hours (KwH) of energy per month. Based on the average American household energy consumption of 903 KwH per month, a TV set top box is responsible for just 1.3 percent of a typical household’s energy use. Compare that to 46 percent for heating and cooling. Power hungry my ass.
Well, you keep talking nonsense. Meanwhile, those of us that have been inside these boxes, repaired them, and even rebuilt them from the board-up, will continue to mock your ignorance.
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"Actually, the reason they left out PS2 emulation was because of how error-ridden it was."
Wrong, the first PS3s were literally stuffed with a micro PS2 inside them. It was full hardware and I had zero issues with Persona 3 (I didnt even get FES until I had stepped on my old P3 disc.)
It was eating into their still-steady PS2 slim sales.
Buggy shit didn't happen until they went to half-hardware half-software emulation.
Cell is still a hellaciously-capable performance CPU architecture.
The 1st-gen PS3 Cell had almost 300 GFLOPs performance.
To put that in perspective, the i7-4770K is ~100 GFLOPs. The i7-6700K is ~113 GFLOPs.
So, no, you add a better GPU and more RAM (which is clocked at the processor's base speed,) and the Cell-based PS3 would still stomp the shit out of any PC system built today for the most part.
Are you terminally stupid? I just stated the industry-required minimum time for IP66, 67, and 68 - 30 fucking minutes MINIMUM. IP65 is less at 15 minutes.
I know how to follow standards - you apparently can't even be bothered to read and understand one.
"specifically because they *don't* design macbooks like thinkpads and imacs like HP pcs"
As a former Apple repair tech, WRONG!!!!!!
Apple's shit is that badly designed. That's why when I worked doing their laptop repairs, 2/3 of their fucking units FRESH OFF THE LINE had to go back for refurbishing.
That's because your phone has shit grounding. Same shit happened with Nokia phones near ANY radio. You could use this to your advantage, too. Those people with the light-up everything accessories were susceptible to a spark from a piezo-electric lighter within 30 feet. Drain that battery!
"Non digital cabling is more prone to error and interference"
No such fucking thing exists. It is a fucking conductor, period. It's all analog. Tiny chunks of signal or full continuous signal, it doesn't matter.
"if you think about it does it not kind of suck you only get TWO possible distinct channels"
Do you ever bother using the thing that exists between the ONLY TWO PHYSICAL AUDIO RECEPTORS on your head?
"What if you wanted to provide a headphone with a subwoofer specific channel or a true surround sound headset / speakers?"
Surround sound headsets are a shit gimmick and a poor replacement for properly-spaced speakers. If your headphones need a subwoofer, you have shit headphones, as most typical headphones (even lower-range IEMs) have a typical lower response range of ~15Hz, and have had them since the mid-90s (I miss my old Optimus Nova-55s.)
" but if you had battery powered headphones"
I can't wait for that lithium battery to explode against my fucking head.
Almost every typical connector in existence has a water-sealed version. They're maybe a couple of cents more expensive, depending.
"Even IP68 rated phones can only survive brief dips"
Then it's not truly IP68. The first number in the Ingress Protection rating, 6, denotes the system is dust-tight. The second number in that rating, 8, denotes suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer. Normally, this will mean that the equipment is hermetically sealed. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that it produces no harmful effects. Note, brief dips do not fit the definition of 'continuous immersion' which is typically a time period of MINIMUM 30 minutes (which, incidentally, is all most manufacturers will give you, the cheap fuckers.)
I've got IP68 LED units that are meant to operate directly in saltwater. And they have watertight plug sockets.
I find it hilarious that I can bother to do this with my own retail units while more advanced manufacturers can't even do it properly.
Yup, he drove to his mailbox, put it in park, the parking mechanism failed (in fact his vehicle was one in a recall regarding this exact same fucking thing) and it rolled back and pinned his ass to the mailbox.
This would not have happened had he bothered to put the vehicle in the garage where it belonged and then gone to the mailbox afterwards.
I live close to the area. Going out for some rubbernecking is EASY.
...do we then call it an Edison?
You do know WebRTC leaves the fucking data channel wide open once you accept Video and Audio channels, never once asking for authorization? You do know WebRTC has a nasty habit of allowing IP addresses to be revealed?
You keep talking shit when you don't know shit.
Is it seriously that fucking difficult to park your vehicle in the garage or driveway where it belongs, and then walk to your mailbox?
"If it does what I want it to do, I really don't care about what's happening behind the curtain."
No wonder you're likely a single person. You can't be bothered to care or even show that you care. Absolutely unattractive to any sort of potential mate.
"cloud-provider based security breaches"
CloudFront has almost no security, so websites using their stuff for a CDN get their artwork ripped all the time.
... while they're using untested and not standardized (hell, not even Version 1) protocols? Example, Discord using WebRTC and claiming it's secure.
"Since you're familiar with that particular weapon, can you tell me how likely it is for someone who bought one only days prior to be familiar enough with it to be able to cycle the trigger that fast?"
If they've ever handled a weapon before, very - they all have the same basic functionality and method of operation - pull the trigger, gun shoots. The biggest hindrance is the pull force required on the trigger, which is usually less than a pistol or revolver, and even then, a MAD person will just squeeze as hard and fast as possible.
"Mass shootings are almost never stopped by an armed civilian."
Guess what a fucking police officer is at the end of the day?
"But compared to the USA, the number of gun deaths in those other countries are rounding errors compared to the USA."
That's because us fine Americans KNOW HOW TO AIM.
Our police forces, not so much. Our civilians? We can pop the testicles off a moving fruit fly from 150 yards.
That wouldn't do anything, as you have no fucking clue where the true liability lies.
Protip: There's still this thing called 'Personal Responsibility.' Did the gun manufacturer pull the trigger? Did the gun manufacturer sell direct to the gun user?
NO. Someone else pulled the trigger. It was a gun RETAIL STORE that sold it (another protip: gun manufacturers BY LAW are not allowed to sell direct to the public, much like car manufacturers. They must sell through licensed dealers.)
That essentially and ETHICALLY absolves them of responsibility.
"When your goal is to massacre as many people as possible before the police show up, reload times are very important."
Tell that to the guys that just slaughtered a bunch of people on a subway in China. They racked up their kill score with knives in a country with strict gun laws.
So much for that bullshit argument.
"Please explain to me why any civilian has a need for a 100-round magazine or why they should be sold."
ITW Ramset gun.
Wild Boar elimination.
Illegal Immigrants at the border.
Target shooting competitions.
Old school remote mining (percussion-based explosives detonation from bullet impact.)
Attempted homeland invasion.
Attempted military coup.
Religious nuts versus People with Common Sense.
Because I can fucking own one.
It's a goddamned spring-loaded storage box and useless without other tools to make it a weapon.
Because people with more brains than you can figure out other uses for such a thing. Quite handy for storing glue sticks.
Shall I continue?
"The AR-15 was developed to be used by members of the military"
Until ArmaLite fucked off and couldn't complete it, and then sold the design to Colt, who retooled it to create the M-16, and then made the AR-15 for CIVILIAN USE in the 1960s.
You can quote statistics any way you want, but guess what? China just had a mass stabbing. Take the guns away, people will still find ways to hurt other people. And none of those dead people were armed to defend themselves. Meanwhile, those knife-wielding guys didn't seem to let "No Guns Allowed" laws stop their killing spree.
Fact is, humans will kill humans. Quit being a fucking tool by banning tools, and start working on the societal aspects that allow such shit to rear its ugly head.
"No, it's actually called being knowledgeable about the subject at hand."
Then you've got zero knowledge, so let a former cable tech chime in.
Nothing you say makes much sense excepting PPV channels.
No 10 channel DVR? Mine handles 50 simultaneously. Ever hear of SnapStream? Hell, you can buy 64-channel simultaneous DVRs from Alibaba for $3,000 and they work as long as you have ONE SINGLE CABLE CARD.
Increased power consumption? The set top boxes of today are WAY MORE EFFICIENT than the old Scientific Atlanta analog boxes, on the order of one or two degrees of magnitude.
" People aren't going to want to stare at a single still image for two seconds."
Yet people spend far longer than that doing EXACTLY THAT on Imgur.
"inside your giant, power hungry set-top-box."
As a baseline, an average TV set top box consumes less than 12-kilowatt hours (KwH) of energy per month. Based on the average American household energy consumption of 903 KwH per month, a TV set top box is responsible for just 1.3 percent of a typical household’s energy use. Compare that to 46 percent for heating and cooling. Power hungry my ass.
Well, you keep talking nonsense. Meanwhile, those of us that have been inside these boxes, repaired them, and even rebuilt them from the board-up, will continue to mock your ignorance.