I fully believe their claim is totally realistic. With a dedicated circuit to process A* or Dijkstra's algorithm (or solve generic network traversal problems) you could very easily beat a general-purpose processor by 200x. While computer CPU's are very good at doing a lot of different things, they generall y suck at doing specific things extremely fast. A dedicated DSP chip for example can easily outperform a general-purpose processor doing a DSP subroutine by 200x. If they can make these things cheap enough where they can start getting integrated into video cards or whatnot without affecting the price too much, I think they may have a chance.
You are right about price. Price is the most important factor for me when buying non-essential gizmos like video game machines. I don't need the most advanced graphics and sound. In fact I don't even really give a shit at all about the graphics or sound because I play the games on a 20" korean import TV set. What I want is a few hours of fun a week for a cheap price. Period. Nintendo is the only company that seems to understand this. For me (and probably lots of other people) it's not about the graphics, it's not about the media drive, it's not about the memory sticks, it's not about the controller, it's not about playing movies, it's just about me having fun and not going broke. Plus Nintendo has some great franchises and makes great games.
Yeah. Murderers and rapists have probably sat next to you on the bus, at the movies, at church, at school, and you never even know it. It's not "have sat" that is a big deal, but "is sitting".
It's not just production, but also marketing and distribution that the music publishers pay for. I'm sure if you started copying Playboy and trying to sell it on the street for $1 they would definately have something to say about that...
I have a gmail account, but I use my Yahoo email account exclusively. Yahoo has the best web mail interface I have ever used. It's better even than some desktop email apps that I've seen. And their spam filtering is excellent.
Re:And this is indeed a serious problem with EBay.
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How to Win on Ebay: Snipe
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Every buyer with any brains at all figures out sniping is the way to go
No. Any buyer with brains will determine an accurate value for an item, set his max bid appropriately, and let the proxy do his work him, and never re-bid higher than his maximum. If you get into the "I have to win this item no matter what" game, you will end up spending more money and overpaying and doing exactly what eBay wants you to do. It's a sucker's game.
Sniping only works if everyone else is sniping. If I set my max bid to $20 and that is the most I feel the item is worth, it doesn't matter how many snipers there are. If they want to snipe higher than $20 then I wasn't going to win the item anyway. And all the sniping in the world isn't going to get them the item if they snipe lower than $20. There is a huge difference between trying to "win" the item, and simply "buying" the item. Really smart buyers do not get emotionally attached to the auction, and let the proxy do all the work.
1. You can afford $600 2. You have an HD tv 3. You are in the market for a game console 4. There is a catalog of available movies for BR 5. You are in the market for a HD video player
I think a very small segment of the population fits these criteria. Personally I would only buy a PS3 to use as a video player if I knew for a fact that BR would be the winner. BR could bomb and you would have to go buy a standalone HD-DVD video player anyway.
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I've already pre-ordered my copy of DNF for the Indrema and Phantom consoles. This is going to be one awesome Christmas!!
I fully believe their claim is totally realistic. With a dedicated circuit to process A* or Dijkstra's algorithm (or solve generic network traversal problems) you could very easily beat a general-purpose processor by 200x. While computer CPU's are very good at doing a lot of different things, they generall y suck at doing specific things extremely fast. A dedicated DSP chip for example can easily outperform a general-purpose processor doing a DSP subroutine by 200x. If they can make these things cheap enough where they can start getting integrated into video cards or whatnot without affecting the price too much, I think they may have a chance.
in the summary. nice.
MS copy? Inconceivable..
You are right about price. Price is the most important factor for me when buying non-essential gizmos like video game machines. I don't need the most advanced graphics and sound. In fact I don't even really give a shit at all about the graphics or sound because I play the games on a 20" korean import TV set. What I want is a few hours of fun a week for a cheap price. Period. Nintendo is the only company that seems to understand this. For me (and probably lots of other people) it's not about the graphics, it's not about the media drive, it's not about the memory sticks, it's not about the controller, it's not about playing movies, it's just about me having fun and not going broke. Plus Nintendo has some great franchises and makes great games.
Do people even care about music videos anymore? This would have been great 10 years ago, though...
August 11 is the new April 1.
Get with the times...
Now, it is beyond any doubt possible to send stuff to the moon
Can you prove this?
Yeah. Murderers and rapists have probably sat next to you on the bus, at the movies, at church, at school, and you never even know it. It's not "have sat" that is a big deal, but "is sitting".
Like you need any game system itself?
By blasting a lottery ball down the tube. Duh!
Pfft.. nobody would do something so dastardly..
It's not just production, but also marketing and distribution that the music publishers pay for. I'm sure if you started copying Playboy and trying to sell it on the street for $1 they would definately have something to say about that...
makes me hate it
Apparently it runs as a kernel-mode driver, and does not hook any API's or run any processes or threads...
in-opt?
Instapr0n(tm)
So what you're saying is that you like Robocopy?
I have a gmail account, but I use my Yahoo email account exclusively. Yahoo has the best web mail interface I have ever used. It's better even than some desktop email apps that I've seen. And their spam filtering is excellent.
Every buyer with any brains at all figures out sniping is the way to go
No. Any buyer with brains will determine an accurate value for an item, set his max bid appropriately, and let the proxy do his work him, and never re-bid higher than his maximum. If you get into the "I have to win this item no matter what" game, you will end up spending more money and overpaying and doing exactly what eBay wants you to do. It's a sucker's game.
Sniping only works if everyone else is sniping. If I set my max bid to $20 and that is the most I feel the item is worth, it doesn't matter how many snipers there are. If they want to snipe higher than $20 then I wasn't going to win the item anyway. And all the sniping in the world isn't going to get them the item if they snipe lower than $20. There is a huge difference between trying to "win" the item, and simply "buying" the item. Really smart buyers do not get emotionally attached to the auction, and let the proxy do all the work.
Stack Overflow.
Infinite recursion detected.
Abort.
I actually enjoy reading posts like his. I learn something that I wouldn't normally learn.
This makes sense if:
1. You can afford $600
2. You have an HD tv
3. You are in the market for a game console
4. There is a catalog of available movies for BR
5. You are in the market for a HD video player
I think a very small segment of the population fits these criteria. Personally I would only buy a PS3 to use as a video player if I knew for a fact that BR would be the winner. BR could bomb and you would have to go buy a standalone HD-DVD video player anyway.
That's exactly what the robot wants you to think.
The Sony FUD machine does.