In retrospective it wasn't the botched hardware design that was the real fiasco for the Xbox 360 since Xbox owners showed that they will put up with defective hardware and continue to fork out hundreds of bucks over and over again for replacement consoles.
And what does that tell you? If you were a third party developer what would that tell you?
A year from now it looks like there will be easily more than a hundred different Sony, third party game, and third party non-game company spaces in Home.
And nobody using any of them.
Actually, a few will be using them. Everyone else with be waiting in the virtual line.
Xbox Fanboys: "Teh 360 is just a powerful as teh PS3"
Hilarious losers.
No one ever says the 360 is just as powerful as the PS3. It's not. What I find interesting is that you'd never know the difference unless you read the specs. The PS3 is a engineering gem and a marketing disaster.
When the PS3 first came out, I derided them for pushing BluRay, which IIRC was the main reason the console came out so late (?). What I've come to realize is that BluRay is the PS3's saving grace. If they had gone with DVDs like the 360 did, there would be little reason to own one.
I own all three consoles, and I find the PS3 to be a capable multimedia machine. I use it to play movies and we've rented some off the PlayStation network. But I only own one game for it, compared to my 4 Wii and 9 360 titles.
No. You can't define "improvement as a concrete metric." That forces schools to fudge numbers and pass students who would otherwise fail. That is a horrible idea. Horrible.
Mark Russinovich, (of sysinternals fame), did a series of videos with David Solomon, and this is one of the topics they covered. So this information comes from them and that video. I suggest everyone check it out some time, those guys probably know more about Windows than most people.
1) No paging file == no crash dumps. Windows writes crash dumps to the paging file on the boot volume. So if you want a full memory dump, you'll need to match your paging file size to your physical memory size.
2) Modified private virtual memory is the only memory that gets written to the paging file. Not code. Code can be read from the same place it got it from in the first place. And only memory that isn't referenced for some amount of time gets paged. So my understanding of that is even though you disable your paging file, CODE can still be "paged out".
3) So, it's slightly more efficient to have a SMALL paging file than none at all. Some memory allocated by software may be used once then never touched again. The paging file gives Windows a place to put it, so the paging file essentially becomes write-only. Then those pages are freed up for the memory manager to use.
4) If you're going to use a paging file, the correct size to use is the sum of the private bytes of user-space programs plus the kernel private bytes. This is known as the "commit charge" which you can see in the lower left hand size of the built-in task manager. That is the "potential page file usage", not the amount of actual paged-out memory.
Personally, I've been running without a paging file for years without issues. Unless I need to do a crash dump analysis.
No, you are right. You probably don't have a faulty unit. I own all three 7th gen consoles so I know the differences (in noise levels) between them. The 360 is very, very loud compared to the other two. It is the DVD drive that is loud, not the console itself. Even if the 360 upconverted DVDs better than the PS3, I would still use the PS3 because of how quietly it runs.
Additionally, it seems that some discs cause the drive to run more loudly than others. I'm sure there's a reason for that.
Windows is just as hard to install for the non-technical user. It asks all kinds of questions most people aren't going to know the answer to. If you want Linux to work "out-of-the-box", then it needs to be in the box to begin with.
OEMs hold the key to this. If we really want Linux on the desktop, then the OEMs need to install it. Period.
The OS that ships with the EEE is the first Linux install that I've seen that actually works out of the box. A lot of that has to do with the fact that the hardware is the same on every box, but still, the default UI they have is simple enough. I think it was designed for children and elderly.
You mean it's illegal to burst into your house and steal your possessions and rape your family? Oh, well, then we'll just fix that tomorrow in the next session...
I wish people would stop making stupid comments like this. No one is doing that. And it doesn't help. Moderates (or others) who might be swayed see comments like that and dismiss your whole post, which was mostly reasonable until you said that. We need serious discussions about what to do about this. This is serious stuff.
Walmart didn't implement RFID themselves anyways. They force their suppliers to. We did a job for a company that was forced (by Walmart) to implement RFID tagging or they would lose their right to sell their products at Walmart. It cost that company (roughly) $250,000 to make the change, then an additional $5,000/mo for the RFID labels. Then their "no read" rate went through the roof to about %8 failure.
So I'm not surprised that it's not helping Walmart save money. Frankly I don't see how it could. Actually, it could only make it worse since they're not as reliable as barcode scanners.
BTW - this is why you'll NEVER see that magic RFID purchasing method in a retail store. Companies would be risking giving ~5% to 8% of their merchandise away for free because the RFID reader didn't pick it up.
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In retrospective it wasn't the botched hardware design that was the real fiasco for the Xbox 360 since Xbox owners showed that they will put up with defective hardware and continue to fork out hundreds of bucks over and over again for replacement consoles.
And what does that tell you? If you were a third party developer what would that tell you?
A year from now it looks like there will be easily more than a hundred different Sony, third party game, and third party non-game company spaces in Home.
And nobody using any of them.
Actually, a few will be using them. Everyone else with be waiting in the virtual line.
Xbox Fanboys: "Teh 360 is just a powerful as teh PS3"
Hilarious losers.
No one ever says the 360 is just as powerful as the PS3. It's not. What I find interesting is that you'd never know the difference unless you read the specs. The PS3 is a engineering gem and a marketing disaster.
When the PS3 first came out, I derided them for pushing BluRay, which IIRC was the main reason the console came out so late (?). What I've come to realize is that BluRay is the PS3's saving grace. If they had gone with DVDs like the 360 did, there would be little reason to own one.
I own all three consoles, and I find the PS3 to be a capable multimedia machine. I use it to play movies and we've rented some off the PlayStation network. But I only own one game for it, compared to my 4 Wii and 9 360 titles.
No. You can't define "improvement as a concrete metric." That forces schools to fudge numbers and pass students who would otherwise fail. That is a horrible idea. Horrible.
Mark Russinovich, (of sysinternals fame), did a series of videos with David Solomon, and this is one of the topics they covered. So this information comes from them and that video. I suggest everyone check it out some time, those guys probably know more about Windows than most people.
1) No paging file == no crash dumps. Windows writes crash dumps to the paging file on the boot volume. So if you want a full memory dump, you'll need to match your paging file size to your physical memory size.
2) Modified private virtual memory is the only memory that gets written to the paging file. Not code. Code can be read from the same place it got it from in the first place. And only memory that isn't referenced for some amount of time gets paged. So my understanding of that is even though you disable your paging file, CODE can still be "paged out".
3) So, it's slightly more efficient to have a SMALL paging file than none at all. Some memory allocated by software may be used once then never touched again. The paging file gives Windows a place to put it, so the paging file essentially becomes write-only. Then those pages are freed up for the memory manager to use.
4) If you're going to use a paging file, the correct size to use is the sum of the private bytes of user-space programs plus the kernel private bytes. This is known as the "commit charge" which you can see in the lower left hand size of the built-in task manager. That is the "potential page file usage", not the amount of actual paged-out memory.
Personally, I've been running without a paging file for years without issues. Unless I need to do a crash dump analysis.
No, you are right. You probably don't have a faulty unit. I own all three 7th gen consoles so I know the differences (in noise levels) between them. The 360 is very, very loud compared to the other two. It is the DVD drive that is loud, not the console itself. Even if the 360 upconverted DVDs better than the PS3, I would still use the PS3 because of how quietly it runs. Additionally, it seems that some discs cause the drive to run more loudly than others. I'm sure there's a reason for that.
Oh my God, it's hideous. Why do they have to make e-cars so damn ugly?
Windows is just as hard to install for the non-technical user. It asks all kinds of questions most people aren't going to know the answer to. If you want Linux to work "out-of-the-box", then it needs to be in the box to begin with.
OEMs hold the key to this. If we really want Linux on the desktop, then the OEMs need to install it. Period.
The OS that ships with the EEE is the first Linux install that I've seen that actually works out of the box. A lot of that has to do with the fact that the hardware is the same on every box, but still, the default UI they have is simple enough. I think it was designed for children and elderly.
What are the government's plans for all of that money? Is that online somewhere?
You mean it's illegal to burst into your house and steal your possessions and rape your family? Oh, well, then we'll just fix that tomorrow in the next session...
I wish people would stop making stupid comments like this. No one is doing that. And it doesn't help. Moderates (or others) who might be swayed see comments like that and dismiss your whole post, which was mostly reasonable until you said that. We need serious discussions about what to do about this. This is serious stuff.
Walmart didn't implement RFID themselves anyways. They force their suppliers to. We did a job for a company that was forced (by Walmart) to implement RFID tagging or they would lose their right to sell their products at Walmart. It cost that company (roughly) $250,000 to make the change, then an additional $5,000/mo for the RFID labels. Then their "no read" rate went through the roof to about %8 failure.
So I'm not surprised that it's not helping Walmart save money. Frankly I don't see how it could. Actually, it could only make it worse since they're not as reliable as barcode scanners.
BTW - this is why you'll NEVER see that magic RFID purchasing method in a retail store. Companies would be risking giving ~5% to 8% of their merchandise away for free because the RFID reader didn't pick it up.
Barcodes are going to be around for a long time.
These are all over the place in the automation industry. I just did a job last week where they were installed.