I can even WRITE programs for it. For free. Without being sanctioned by Sony.
Now, that's a little unfair. If you install Linux on your PS3 you can write your own programs for it. There are a couple of restrictions, but they're pretty lenient:
- All graphical output is unaccelerated monochrome. - All source code must include #rootkit.h - All output is watermarked with a picture of Sony's MD fucking you in the ass.
I think we can all agree that Sony are really starting to get it.
The bottom line is: Reports of the PS3 being hard to develop for are untrue (this proves it) Reports of the Blu-Ray being slower than the 360's DVD drive are also untrue (this also proves it). There are plenty of rabid xbox fanboys here trying to find fault with this news, and all they can come up with, it's been in development for an extra year, so will be better, or the Xbox360 will get these enhancements in the update soon (unfounded rumour).
I think the real bottom line is: Reports of the PS3 being so powerful that it would be light years ahead of anything else available are untrue. Reports of the PS3 graphics surpassing any system available for any amount of money are untrue. Instead we have reports that a game which has had a lot of work done to it on the PS3 can nearly match the PC version. As long as it isn't a really high end PC and you don't turn on all the AA effects, or run it in a higher res than an HDTV can support, or use any of the many graphics enhancing mods available.
You seemed to have missed all that when summing up and I find that fascinating. Imagine you travelled back in time a year or so. And found a big group of excited PS3 fanboys and started raving about how some PS3 games would look almost as good as year old PC games. And slightly better than the year old 360 version.
Ogg/Vorbis always sounded compressed and tinny, like FM radio. It's hard to believe there have been no quality improvements in the last 7 years. AAC has always provided the fullest, spacious sound.
And AAC sounds even better when encrypted with Apple's DRM technology!
Seriously, about the Vorbis comment. Are you deliberately trolling or have just sucked so much Apple-cock that your eardrums popped?
I do realise that AAC is not an Apple invention. I just don't see what else could have caused you to post such an obviously wrong comment, other than a love for Apple and the accompanying compulsory hatred for all open formats.
Can someone tell me how can I check if its doing the same on my Macbook?
There's really no need. Macs are secure by default even when running Windows.
In the unlikely event that a rogue piece of software does manage to send out some of your personal info, an electronic version of Steve Jobs will shoot down the wire after it and destroy the packets before they reach their destination. Probably using one of those frisbees out of Tron.
When rotund Wilbur stepped up to the plate, he set a bad tone by telling the rather humble but proud crowd of Japanese developers that "You need this engine". I heard one guy whisper to his friend, "Where does this guy think games started? Huh? *WE* __NEED__ them? Pfft." (in Japanese, so that's paraphrasing, of course)
Are you sure that the Japanese invented video games? Maybe they just perfected them?
They've certainly perfected revisionist history.
The thing about dealing with a foreign country is to go in and appreciate their background, their culture, and their style of work.
Just like the Japanese did when they went into China.
Ok so basically nobody is going to be able to make horrendously ugly "realistic" graphics that end up looking like a 12 year old made them in bryce and poser right?
Nintendo really should release a version of the Wii with 160x120 monochrome graphics to cater to the "Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay!" fanboy contingent.
With such shitty graphics, the gameplay would automatically be awesome wouldn't it? There must be a direct correlation.
And the development costs would be so low that all the major software houses would flock to the Wii and pump out thousands of quality games. With almost no investment in art assets required they would have to put all the money into fun!
It's just simple economics when you think about it.
Three times my little slice of commercial software development has made it onto Slashdot. (http://www.bingocardcreator.com -- It makes bingo cards for elementary schoolteachers.) Three times folks have said its trivial (true as it goes -- it took me a man-week to write.) Three times folks have said its disgusting to charge $24.95 for it (good thing I don't sell to Slashdot readers.) Three times folks have said OSS is going to put me out of business. Three times folks have actually offered to donate labor to put me out of business....
Are you sure they weren't just taking the piss?
I can't really imagine anyone donating their time to cater for whatever percentage of elementary school teachers would pay $25 to print bingo cards. Maybe if you branched out into printing bingo cards for people that aren't elementary school teachers? I don't know, it just sounds like a larger potential market. And is bingo really a major subject in US schools? Did it replace evolution on the curriculum or something?
On the other hand I can easily imagine someone wanting to wind you up.
I just found that when I load http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_7264.p df in Preview.app on Mac OS X, it appears simply to be a scanned copy of a print-out (not only from the distortion but also it is obvious pixelated as you zoom in), but I am able to select, copy, and paste the text. When this PDF was made, was some sort of OCR process performed that includes the results or did Apple quietly introduce this functionality into their viewer?
The other possible explanation is that they just used a really fucking awful font. No, even worse than Comic Sans.
I just compile and install new kernel on my Debian box, it's cool. I see huge increase of performance in memory consuming application. Have someone feelings like me?
You are one pathetic fucking troll. Five posts so far and not a single one has been modded down. You've only had one reply and that was some old freak that just wanted an excuse to drone on about the dot com days. I doubt he even read your post.
Your attempts to sound like a non-native English speaker could really use some work too. I think you must be trying harder, yes?
Honestly, I despair of the younger generation. Go away and study some of the great trolls and then come back when you actually have something to contribute.
An infinitely large mass (typified as a black hole) has a much larger gravitational field than a mass which is one iota less than infinitely large.
1. A black hole doesn't have necessarily have infinitely large mass. It's mass is the same as whatever formed the black hole in the first place. I suspect you know that, but a lot of people will read that sentence as, "black holes have infinite mass".
2. It won't have a "much" larger gravitational field, it will have an infinitely larger gravitational field. Because as you just said, one object is infinite and the other is one iota less than infinite, so not infinite at all.
But I'm just criticising your wording. I'm not good enough at either maths or physics to prove that you can change the size of the objects, or the demon, or any of the other conditions as much as you want and it still won't help you to violate the laws of thermodynamics. Someone else can do that.
An alternative view, such as this from Justin Walker (a Darwin developer) on the darwin-kernel mailing list [apple.com], holds that it's not worthwhile for the OS kernel to do much disk scheduling, since "the OS does not have a good idea of the actual disk geometry and other performance characteristics, and so we [kernel developers] leave that level of scheduling up to the controllers in the disk drive itself. I think, for example, that recent IBM drives have some variant of OS/2 running in the controller. Since the OS knows nothing about heads, tracks, cylinders for modern commodity disks, it's futile to try to schedule I/O for them." (written Mar 2003)
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Shitting. Me.
Hard drives running OS2 on their controllers? Why would anyone do that? What do you even gain from having a whole OS take the place of embedded firmware?
On 2.6.19-ck1, I ran into a number of show-stopping problems with I/O resulting in several severe hangs (which I never bothered to debug) which I have linked to I/O. I've been hearing reports from other users of the -ck patchset that they are experiencing similar problems with 2.6.20-rc5/6.
What? You mean that users applying the experimental, performance oriented CK patchset to their release candidate kernels are experiencing instability?
Fuck! This is worse than Windows 98! There's only one solution - release a 2.7 kernel, add a binary driver interface and convert everything to C++ under the GPL v3!
I don't know of any product that has such a label except iAudio / Cowon (portable music player)... Do you?
Lexmark printers, flash memory sticks and a number of other examples I've seen which I can't remember right now. It's not common but not as rare as you think either.
No, really, you're very insightful. Obviously anyone with something positive to say about a trivial little project like reimplementing the Windows kernel in a completely blind fashion must be the author!
It's really amazing how you can tell that from such a short comment. I had a go at doing the same thing with yours, but I didn't get very much. I could only tell that nobody has ever laughed at any of your jokes and that you will never experience the physical act of love with a person of either sex.
XP 64bit was basically that (although they'd shoved things like media player in there).
Windows 2003 Server already has Media Player. I shit you not.
Hey, seems perfectly rational to me. I mean the first thing I always do when I'm shipping a Linux server out to a customer is whack Mplayer and Xine on there with all the required codecs. Obviously I have to configure them to use AALib as the video output and the system bleeper for audio due to the lack of dedicated hardware, but they'll thank me one day!
Oooh! N-Tier! "lack of I/O bottlenecks". "less demanding". Good propaganda attempts, but you and I both know you're not saying anything of substance.
I'd be prepared to bet a large sum of money that you were a rabid AMD fanboy until you saw the Core2 get a higher FPS score in a Quake4 benchmark on HardOCP.
I think it's the sheer quantity of quotation marks in your comment that convinced me. It's like people that use multiple exclamation marks - nobody that uses that much punctuation to try and prove their point is firing on all four cylinders.
I don't really care whether Intel or AMD have the better chip, as I don't hold shares in either of them. I'm just hoping to irritate you because you write like a fourteen year old arguing in the playground.
And because anyone who names themselves after Right Said Fred has got some serious fucking issues.
It's faster than my nVidia 5700 which is two years old.
Most people on Slashdot these days are uncritical and accepting enough to believe that without querying it, just because some random person wrote it in a not obviously troll like manner.
I think you're full of shit. Prove otherwise.
And as for the i740 being quite a decent chip for its time, that's just fucking hilarious. Again, most people on Slashdot probably don't remember that far back.
But will they include DVI? Better yet, dual DVI for those who run either dual monitors or really large monitors which require dual link?
No, in fact they aren't even going to include DSUB outputs. They are going to use modulated RF outputs like you got on the ATARI ST and AMIGA. They will be capable of displaying NTSC resolutions at anything up to 60Hz refresh rate.
Pay $29 for Boot Camp or pay $129 to upgrad to Leopard? Then pay between $199 and $399 for Windows Vista! How dare Apple!!
Oh wait, by most accounts, Tiger is still as good or better than Vista.
Yes, but Microsoft are a commercial enterprise. We expect them to do stuff like that.
Apple, on the other hand, are a bunch of enlightened superhumans who sit around on raffia mats weaving starlight into incredible software which they then give away free for the good of humanity. Should they accidentally make any money it's donated to orphans.
That's the impression I get from Apple users anyway.
If all you want from QuickTime is full screen, go here. I'm not sure where you're getting $10 from, because QuickTime Pro is $30, and that gets you a lot more than just the ability to play movies full screen.
Wait, I thought Macs were easy to use? And you're telling me I have to make a script in a language I don't understand just to play a fucking movie in full screen without paying another $30 on top of the cost of the OS?
I'll stick with Linux & Windows, thank you very much. Come back and let me know when OSX is desktop ready and I might take another look.
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I can even WRITE programs for it. For free. Without being sanctioned by Sony.
Now, that's a little unfair. If you install Linux on your PS3 you can write your own programs for it. There are a couple of restrictions, but they're pretty lenient:
- All graphical output is unaccelerated monochrome.
- All source code must include #rootkit.h
- All output is watermarked with a picture of Sony's MD fucking you in the ass.
I think we can all agree that Sony are really starting to get it.
The bottom line is: Reports of the PS3 being hard to develop for are untrue (this proves it) Reports of the Blu-Ray being slower than the 360's DVD drive are also untrue (this also proves it). There are plenty of rabid xbox fanboys here trying to find fault with this news, and all they can come up with, it's been in development for an extra year, so will be better, or the Xbox360 will get these enhancements in the update soon (unfounded rumour).
I think the real bottom line is: Reports of the PS3 being so powerful that it would be light years ahead of anything else available are untrue. Reports of the PS3 graphics surpassing any system available for any amount of money are untrue. Instead we have reports that a game which has had a lot of work done to it on the PS3 can nearly match the PC version. As long as it isn't a really high end PC and you don't turn on all the AA effects, or run it in a higher res than an HDTV can support, or use any of the many graphics enhancing mods available.
You seemed to have missed all that when summing up and I find that fascinating. Imagine you travelled back in time a year or so. And found a big group of excited PS3 fanboys and started raving about how some PS3 games would look almost as good as year old PC games. And slightly better than the year old 360 version.
Do you think you would escape with your life?
Ogg/Vorbis always sounded compressed and tinny, like FM radio. It's hard to believe there have been no quality improvements in the last 7 years. AAC has always provided the fullest, spacious sound.
And AAC sounds even better when encrypted with Apple's DRM technology!
Seriously, about the Vorbis comment. Are you deliberately trolling or have just sucked so much Apple-cock that your eardrums popped?
I do realise that AAC is not an Apple invention. I just don't see what else could have caused you to post such an obviously wrong comment, other than a love for Apple and the accompanying compulsory hatred for all open formats.
Can someone tell me how can I check if its doing the same on my Macbook?
There's really no need. Macs are secure by default even when running Windows.
In the unlikely event that a rogue piece of software does manage to send out some of your personal info, an electronic version of Steve Jobs will shoot down the wire after it and destroy the packets before they reach their destination. Probably using one of those frisbees out of Tron.
When rotund Wilbur stepped up to the plate, he set a bad tone by telling the rather humble but proud crowd of Japanese developers that "You need this engine". I heard one guy whisper to his friend, "Where does this guy think games started? Huh? *WE* __NEED__ them? Pfft." (in Japanese, so that's paraphrasing, of course)
Are you sure that the Japanese invented video games? Maybe they just perfected them?
They've certainly perfected revisionist history.
The thing about dealing with a foreign country is to go in and appreciate their background, their culture, and their style of work.
Just like the Japanese did when they went into China.
Ok so basically nobody is going to be able to make horrendously ugly "realistic" graphics that end up looking like a 12 year old made them in bryce and poser right?
Nintendo really should release a version of the Wii with 160x120 monochrome graphics to cater to the "Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay!" fanboy contingent.
With such shitty graphics, the gameplay would automatically be awesome wouldn't it? There must be a direct correlation.
And the development costs would be so low that all the major software houses would flock to the Wii and pump out thousands of quality games. With almost no investment in art assets required they would have to put all the money into fun!
It's just simple economics when you think about it.
Three times my little slice of commercial software development has made it onto Slashdot. (http://www.bingocardcreator.com -- It makes bingo cards for elementary schoolteachers.) ...
Three times folks have said its trivial (true as it goes -- it took me a man-week to write.)
Three times folks have said its disgusting to charge $24.95 for it (good thing I don't sell to Slashdot readers.)
Three times folks have said OSS is going to put me out of business.
Three times folks have actually offered to donate labor to put me out of business.
Are you sure they weren't just taking the piss?
I can't really imagine anyone donating their time to cater for whatever percentage of elementary school teachers would pay $25 to print bingo cards. Maybe if you branched out into printing bingo cards for people that aren't elementary school teachers? I don't know, it just sounds like a larger potential market. And is bingo really a major subject in US schools? Did it replace evolution on the curriculum or something?
On the other hand I can easily imagine someone wanting to wind you up.
There, I fixed the spelling for you.
You may call me immature, but at least I don't believe we're all infested with Thetans.
I did once feel the love of Jesus Christ enter me, but fortunately it had worn off by lunchtime and I soon made a full recovery.
I just found that when I load http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_7264.p df in Preview.app on Mac OS X, it appears simply to be a scanned copy of a print-out (not only from the distortion but also it is obvious pixelated as you zoom in), but I am able to select, copy, and paste the text. When this PDF was made, was some sort of OCR process performed that includes the results or did Apple quietly introduce this functionality into their viewer?
The other possible explanation is that they just used a really fucking awful font. No, even worse than Comic Sans.
I just compile and install new kernel on my Debian box, it's cool. I see huge increase of performance in memory consuming application. Have someone feelings like me?
You are one pathetic fucking troll. Five posts so far and not a single one has been modded down. You've only had one reply and that was some old freak that just wanted an excuse to drone on about the dot com days. I doubt he even read your post.
Your attempts to sound like a non-native English speaker could really use some work too. I think you must be trying harder, yes?
Honestly, I despair of the younger generation. Go away and study some of the great trolls and then come back when you actually have something to contribute.
An infinitely large mass (typified as a black hole) has a much larger gravitational field than a mass which is one iota less than infinitely large.
1. A black hole doesn't have necessarily have infinitely large mass. It's mass is the same as whatever formed the black hole in the first place. I suspect you know that, but a lot of people will read that sentence as, "black holes have infinite mass".
2. It won't have a "much" larger gravitational field, it will have an infinitely larger gravitational field. Because as you just said, one object is infinite and the other is one iota less than infinite, so not infinite at all.
But I'm just criticising your wording. I'm not good enough at either maths or physics to prove that you can change the size of the objects, or the demon, or any of the other conditions as much as you want and it still won't help you to violate the laws of thermodynamics. Someone else can do that.
An alternative view, such as this from Justin Walker (a Darwin developer) on the darwin-kernel mailing list [apple.com], holds that it's not worthwhile for the OS kernel to do much disk scheduling, since "the OS does not have a good idea of the actual disk geometry and other performance characteristics, and so we [kernel developers] leave that level of scheduling up to the controllers in the disk drive itself. I think, for example, that recent IBM drives have some variant of OS/2 running in the controller. Since the OS knows nothing about heads, tracks, cylinders for modern commodity disks, it's futile to try to schedule I/O for them." (written Mar 2003)
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Shitting. Me.
Hard drives running OS2 on their controllers? Why would anyone do that? What do you even gain from having a whole OS take the place of embedded firmware?
I think he's been smoking crack.
On 2.6.19-ck1, I ran into a number of show-stopping problems with I/O resulting in several severe hangs (which I never bothered to debug) which I have linked to I/O. I've been hearing reports from other users of the -ck patchset that they are experiencing similar problems with 2.6.20-rc5/6.
What? You mean that users applying the experimental, performance oriented CK patchset to their release candidate kernels are experiencing instability?
Fuck! This is worse than Windows 98! There's only one solution - release a 2.7 kernel, add a binary driver interface and convert everything to C++ under the GPL v3!
So far, I have written a prototype application that runs 5x faster on the PS3's Cell than on the highest end Woodcrest Xeon at 3.0 GHz.
Let me guess - it adds together two 64 bit numbers and then discards the result?
...someone is going to say that Linux wouldn't have this problem if only there were a standard binary driver interface in the kernel.
If so, please feel free to copy and paste my pre-prepared answer :
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, FUCK OFF!
And die.
I don't know of any product that has such a label except iAudio / Cowon (portable music player)... Do you?
Lexmark printers, flash memory sticks and a number of other examples I've seen which I can't remember right now. It's not common but not as rare as you think either.
Alex, is that you?
Anonymous Cocktard, is that you?
No, really, you're very insightful. Obviously anyone with something positive to say about a trivial little project like reimplementing the Windows kernel in a completely blind fashion must be the author!
It's really amazing how you can tell that from such a short comment. I had a go at doing the same thing with yours, but I didn't get very much. I could only tell that nobody has ever laughed at any of your jokes and that you will never experience the physical act of love with a person of either sex.
XP 64bit was basically that (although they'd shoved things like media player in there).
Windows 2003 Server already has Media Player. I shit you not.
Hey, seems perfectly rational to me. I mean the first thing I always do when I'm shipping a Linux server out to a customer is whack Mplayer and Xine on there with all the required codecs. Obviously I have to configure them to use AALib as the video output and the system bleeper for audio due to the lack of dedicated hardware, but they'll thank me one day!
Oooh! N-Tier! "lack of I/O bottlenecks". "less demanding". Good propaganda attempts, but you and I both know you're not saying anything of substance.
I'd be prepared to bet a large sum of money that you were a rabid AMD fanboy until you saw the Core2 get a higher FPS score in a Quake4 benchmark on HardOCP.
I think it's the sheer quantity of quotation marks in your comment that convinced me. It's like people that use multiple exclamation marks - nobody that uses that much punctuation to try and prove their point is firing on all four cylinders.
I don't really care whether Intel or AMD have the better chip, as I don't hold shares in either of them. I'm just hoping to irritate you because you write like a fourteen year old arguing in the playground.
And because anyone who names themselves after Right Said Fred has got some serious fucking issues.
It's faster than my nVidia 5700 which is two years old.
Most people on Slashdot these days are uncritical and accepting enough to believe that without querying it, just because some random person wrote it in a not obviously troll like manner.
I think you're full of shit. Prove otherwise.
And as for the i740 being quite a decent chip for its time, that's just fucking hilarious. Again, most people on Slashdot probably don't remember that far back.
But will they include DVI? Better yet, dual DVI for those who run either dual monitors or really large monitors which require dual link?
No, in fact they aren't even going to include DSUB outputs. They are going to use modulated RF outputs like you got on the ATARI ST and AMIGA. They will be capable of displaying NTSC resolutions at anything up to 60Hz refresh rate.
What the fuck do you think?
If Leopard's Boot Camp can run XP 64, I would probably buy a Mac, but otherwise a PC.
I think a lot of Apple users would do the same. Simply for the novelty value of running a real 64 bit OS on their Macs.
Pay $29 for Boot Camp or pay $129 to upgrad to Leopard? Then pay between $199 and $399 for Windows Vista!
How dare Apple!!
Oh wait, by most accounts, Tiger is still as good or better than Vista.
Yes, but Microsoft are a commercial enterprise. We expect them to do stuff like that.
Apple, on the other hand, are a bunch of enlightened superhumans who sit around on raffia mats weaving starlight into incredible software which they then give away free for the good of humanity. Should they accidentally make any money it's donated to orphans.
That's the impression I get from Apple users anyway.
If all you want from QuickTime is full screen, go here. I'm not sure where you're getting $10 from, because QuickTime Pro is $30, and that gets you a lot more than just the ability to play movies full screen.
Wait, I thought Macs were easy to use? And you're telling me I have to make a script in a language I don't understand just to play a fucking movie in full screen without paying another $30 on top of the cost of the OS?
I'll stick with Linux & Windows, thank you very much. Come back and let me know when OSX is desktop ready and I might take another look.
There are no backdoors because Sega didn't artificially limit what their customers could do with a Dreamcast.
That's not really true though is it? The Dreamcast was never intended to be able to boot from CDs and it required a hack to do so.