I've been doing IT work for only 9 years now. I don't know about anyone else, but I've seen a MAC address conflict on a small network (100 network devices), and the cards were from different manufacturers (IBM and Kingston, from what I remember). When I told a coleague about the conflicts he didn't believe me until he saw it himself, so I don't see product key clashes as impossible or even improbable.
I wonder if any of them (nintendo, sony, MS) has given any thought to how compatible the various processors are, if one of them could figure out good emulation/translation we could have some cross platform gaming (ie. xbox games on Wii or PS3). Just a thought since they all descend from the Power architecture.
We have to keep in mind that everything at one point in time was considered superstition, magic, etc. Take a simple radio transmitter and reciever back 400 yrs and you would have likely tortured you or burned you at the stake as a witch. Just because we cannot measure something or see a physical affect does not mean, that with a single new advance in sensors or other technology, we won't be able to account for it.
The earth as a flat disk was widely accepted across Europe, until we saw the invention of the telescope and/or explored an unknown ocean with it's many "sea monsters", there was simply no frame of reference or evidence of earths spherical nature(the earth looks pretty flat when I stand on it and look out across the horizon).
Remember, science would not have made the advances we have today if we did not have curiosity and a need to explore further to understand new concepts. And as we progress we see more of our universe, as well as how much more we have to explore and understand.
I don't think we will ever have all the answers, but we will continue progressing as long as we keep an open mind.
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I've been doing IT work for only 9 years now. I don't know about anyone else, but I've seen a MAC address conflict on a small network (100 network devices), and the cards were from different manufacturers (IBM and Kingston, from what I remember). When I told a coleague about the conflicts he didn't believe me until he saw it himself, so I don't see product key clashes as impossible or even improbable.
I wonder if any of them (nintendo, sony, MS) has given any thought to how compatible the various processors are, if one of them could figure out good emulation/translation we could have some cross platform gaming (ie. xbox games on Wii or PS3). Just a thought since they all descend from the Power architecture.
We have to keep in mind that everything at one point in time was considered superstition, magic, etc. Take a simple radio transmitter and reciever back 400 yrs and you would have likely tortured you or burned you at the stake as a witch. Just because we cannot measure something or see a physical affect does not mean, that with a single new advance in sensors or other technology, we won't be able to account for it.
The earth as a flat disk was widely accepted across Europe, until we saw the invention of the telescope and/or explored an unknown ocean with it's many "sea monsters", there was simply no frame of reference or evidence of earths spherical nature(the earth looks pretty flat when I stand on it and look out across the horizon).
Remember, science would not have made the advances we have today if we did not have curiosity and a need to explore further to understand new concepts. And as we progress we see more of our universe, as well as how much more we have to explore and understand.
I don't think we will ever have all the answers, but we will continue progressing as long as we keep an open mind.
Mike.