Hmmm...my TV is almost 20 years old, does that mean I could not hook an XBox 360 to it without some sort of special adaptor, but I would be able to use a PS3 directly?
It provides an entry for people who are not PS1 or PS2 owners. I never owned a PS1, but have several PS1 games for my PS2. There are just a lot of fun games from the past that probably will never get remade, too.
It's probably inevitable that these games will have budgets on par with the biggest hollywood blockbusters, if not bigger.
Also, with the current cost of movie theatres, you could almost buy a game for the cost of two people going to a prime-time showing (tickets, drink, popcorn). Add that every time I've gone to a theatre recently I've regretted it (these movies just plain suck), and there's likely to be a good market opened up for these games. While I'm looking forward to Star Wars III, there will have to be another Star Wars or LoTR equivalent movie in the future to motivate me back to a theatre.
Are you sure? The screenshots have visible polygon edges, which would have been smoothed in a good pre-rendered image. Or is it they pre-rendered screenshots specifically to look like what they PS3 will output?
All of Nintendo's consoles will network into one huge super-AI brain. It will give each gamer the computational power of millions of consoles but with a sentient opponent that can learn from all the gamers to perfect its tactics. Gamers can expect no two games to play the same, and the AI is programmed to learn each player's patterns to ensure the right amount of difficulty.
It is predicted the AI will learn so much that it will then be used to command the world's economies with perfection by 2025, meaning it will take less than a century to achieve Issac Asimov's vision.
There must be a way for companies to exaggerate teraflops. Even one of Sun's web pages from several years back claimed 1 teraflop for the Elite 3Dm6 video card, which while a good card wasn't something that blew people away.
IMO, the proliferation of fashionable programming languages is thoroughly distracting from getting work done. It's important to have a useful set of languages to work with, but one scripting language, one systems language, and one applications language should be enough for most people. For me, that's Bourne shell, C, and Java. Perl and C++ have an established base, too, but most of the other languages add very little to the programmer's ability to solve problems. They basically exist "because they can." They might demonstrate a handful of nifty ideas, but, outside of academic interest, reinventing whole applications platforms seems to be so much work for so little realized gain.
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Number one in the low number of exploits. How many J2ME worms are out there? How many Java applet hijacks are reported each year? Close to zero, if not zero.
Also, there are plenty of benchmarks showing Java is as fast or faster than C and C++ on large datasets and long-running applications, when the environment initialization isn't a hit on performance.
Java isn't perfect, but it is so complete that it would be easier to use than most alternatives. While Python is certainly gaining traction, Lisp quickly becomes non-portable once the project is large enough (contrary to popular belief).
The FSF website says you are wrong. But I don't care. GPL compatibility is all hype and marketing from the FSF camp--it's like any sleezy branding campaign.
Software isn't so trivial. There's support staff expertise to build, there's a customer base to build, etc. It isn't like customers like seeing one company vaporize to have another one spring up and say "hey, over here, folks!"
"Free software gives the power to the software engineer."
Not really. We still live in a society where people have to make money. This means working for a company doing their software development or consulting, which usually doesn't mesh with the software engineer's own ideals.
The idealism behind the FSF is good, but it has its limits.
Opteron has enough RAS now to be useful in a lot of production applications, IMO. It isn't fully redundant hot-upgrades like the midrange Sun Fire servers, but it isn't bad for web servers, basic databases, etc.
you know better than any of us that Microsoft is a difficult company to deal with
Yes they do. Think about it: Sun forced Microsoft to settle for $2 billion regarding Java. Sun is backing OO.org without anyone having sued them. Sun is open sourcing UNIX(TM) this summer.
Sun's lawyers and executives have balls. Even the female ones.
If anything will make Sun succeed it is this ability to deal with the Microsofts and IBMs and survive.
The News Hour is pretty darn unbiased. They bring on the guests and let them sling mud at eachother for a few minutes while moderating that each person gets a chance to speak. Even with one-on-one interviews, the interviewer generally asks straight questions just to extract the story. If the moderator or interviewer makes a mistake, they apologize.
Also, watching Fox is probably the last thing a person should do to expand their mind. Add Inside Edition to Celebrity Justice--that's an even better picture of Fox News' style.
The PS3 could ship in the same timeframe as the new XBox. Just because Microsoft made a paper release this week means very little strategically in the long term.
BTW, who pays Game Girl Advance's bills? It'd be interesting to know.
Is there a correlation between certain demographic groups and a fear of technology? The elderly? The poorly educated? Do these correleations match correleations in party affilation?
This could easily be a result of Republican-leaning election officials favoring certain machines simply because Diebold's CEO is Republican. Fanboyism and all that.
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I'm wondering if the size is because the PS3 case is one big-ass heat sink for the system board.
Hmmm...my TV is almost 20 years old, does that mean I could not hook an XBox 360 to it without some sort of special adaptor, but I would be able to use a PS3 directly?
Mom'll be on board once she sees the controllers...
It provides an entry for people who are not PS1 or PS2 owners. I never owned a PS1, but have several PS1 games for my PS2. There are just a lot of fun games from the past that probably will never get remade, too.
It's probably inevitable that these games will have budgets on par with the biggest hollywood blockbusters, if not bigger.
Also, with the current cost of movie theatres, you could almost buy a game for the cost of two people going to a prime-time showing (tickets, drink, popcorn). Add that every time I've gone to a theatre recently I've regretted it (these movies just plain suck), and there's likely to be a good market opened up for these games. While I'm looking forward to Star Wars III, there will have to be another Star Wars or LoTR equivalent movie in the future to motivate me back to a theatre.
Are you sure? The screenshots have visible polygon edges, which would have been smoothed in a good pre-rendered image. Or is it they pre-rendered screenshots specifically to look like what they PS3 will output?
what else is left for Nintendo
All of Nintendo's consoles will network into one huge super-AI brain. It will give each gamer the computational power of millions of consoles but with a sentient opponent that can learn from all the gamers to perfect its tactics. Gamers can expect no two games to play the same, and the AI is programmed to learn each player's patterns to ensure the right amount of difficulty.
It is predicted the AI will learn so much that it will then be used to command the world's economies with perfection by 2025, meaning it will take less than a century to achieve Issac Asimov's vision.
It's hard to tell from the pictures, but are those _three_ Ethernet ports on the back?
The PS3 will have 512MB, but it's split between the main processors and the graphics processor, it seems.
2.18 teraflops in a box with no air vents at all?
There must be a way for companies to exaggerate teraflops. Even one of Sun's web pages from several years back claimed 1 teraflop for the Elite 3Dm6 video card, which while a good card wasn't something that blew people away.
A person doesn't get $100,000,000 in pocket change without knowing how to navigate the SEC.
Martha Stewart was the exception and not the rule.
Who will win?
"Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP/etc"
IMO, the proliferation of fashionable programming languages is thoroughly distracting from getting work done. It's important to have a useful set of languages to work with, but one scripting language, one systems language, and one applications language should be enough for most people. For me, that's Bourne shell, C, and Java. Perl and C++ have an established base, too, but most of the other languages add very little to the programmer's ability to solve problems. They basically exist "because they can." They might demonstrate a handful of nifty ideas, but, outside of academic interest, reinventing whole applications platforms seems to be so much work for so little realized gain.
Number one in the low number of exploits. How many J2ME worms are out there? How many Java applet hijacks are reported each year? Close to zero, if not zero.
Also, there are plenty of benchmarks showing Java is as fast or faster than C and C++ on large datasets and long-running applications, when the environment initialization isn't a hit on performance.
Java isn't perfect, but it is so complete that it would be easier to use than most alternatives. While Python is certainly gaining traction, Lisp quickly becomes non-portable once the project is large enough (contrary to popular belief).
The FSF website says you are wrong. But I don't care. GPL compatibility is all hype and marketing from the FSF camp--it's like any sleezy branding campaign.
mfh, then why is Sun endorsing the new Apache Harmony project?
If Sun was truly evil, their lawyers would have formed an army of darkness by now and rolled over the world looking silly. They haven't.
Software isn't so trivial. There's support staff expertise to build, there's a customer base to build, etc. It isn't like customers like seeing one company vaporize to have another one spring up and say "hey, over here, folks!"
"Free software gives the power to the software engineer."
Not really. We still live in a society where people have to make money. This means working for a company doing their software development or consulting, which usually doesn't mesh with the software engineer's own ideals.
The idealism behind the FSF is good, but it has its limits.
Apple is really smart. In 1997, I bet they had Mac OS X in their back pocket the whole time.
Opteron has enough RAS now to be useful in a lot of production applications, IMO. It isn't fully redundant hot-upgrades like the midrange Sun Fire servers, but it isn't bad for web servers, basic databases, etc.
you know better than any of us that Microsoft is a difficult company to deal with
Yes they do. Think about it: Sun forced Microsoft to settle for $2 billion regarding Java. Sun is backing OO.org without anyone having sued them. Sun is open sourcing UNIX(TM) this summer.
Sun's lawyers and executives have balls. Even the female ones.
If anything will make Sun succeed it is this ability to deal with the Microsofts and IBMs and survive.
Going back to a Windows keyboard always pisses me off when using Emacs or vi. My hands just aren't made to do that!
The News Hour is pretty darn unbiased. They bring on the guests and let them sling mud at eachother for a few minutes while moderating that each person gets a chance to speak. Even with one-on-one interviews, the interviewer generally asks straight questions just to extract the story. If the moderator or interviewer makes a mistake, they apologize.
Also, watching Fox is probably the last thing a person should do to expand their mind. Add Inside Edition to Celebrity Justice--that's an even better picture of Fox News' style.
I'll buy an XBox 360 on the contingency that Microsoft stops selling Office. Deal?
The PS3 could ship in the same timeframe as the new XBox. Just because Microsoft made a paper release this week means very little strategically in the long term.
BTW, who pays Game Girl Advance's bills? It'd be interesting to know.
Is there a correlation between certain demographic groups and a fear of technology? The elderly? The poorly educated? Do these correleations match correleations in party affilation?
This could easily be a result of Republican-leaning election officials favoring certain machines simply because Diebold's CEO is Republican. Fanboyism and all that.