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General Gaming / RE:Xenon specs leaked again and confirmed.
« on: June 28, 2004, 03:17:04 PM »
Microsoft won't have a bottomless bank account? Are you insane?
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:HDTV on Gamecube?
« on: June 28, 2004, 05:49:11 AM »
I personally prefer DLP, but if you like CRTs, they are just as good.
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General Chat / RE: Jeff Foxworthy more like Jeff Suck
« on: June 28, 2004, 05:33:46 AM »
"Men have names like Alex, while women have names like Sarah!
Okay, this is pretty damn lame.
Did you ever notice that, while men have penises, women have vaginas?!"
Guess I fell alseep and missed that part.
Okay, this is pretty damn lame.
Did you ever notice that, while men have penises, women have vaginas?!"
Guess I fell alseep and missed that part.
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General Gaming / RE:Nintendo Stock Vs. Sony Stock
« on: June 28, 2004, 05:32:03 AM »
The majority of Sony's products lose money. The only real thing that has kept them profitable has been the playstation brand.
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NWR Feedback / RE:Bigger avatars, nifty... but...
« on: June 27, 2004, 12:27:54 PM »
That scrolling thing is irritating.
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General Chat / RE: G-mail
« on: June 25, 2004, 01:22:52 PM »
Look, you couldn't DoS the servers enough to do anything. You think that searching for that stuff will do anything? Heh, it might just blacklist your name in the future if you got into something very deep.
There is a sad truth to computers that many people don't realize. Businesses may say, well we will reach 1 Petaflop in x years, but that is a commercially known computer. What is a fact is that the government has a great deal of knowledge hiring companies who shut their mouth and build extremely expensive supercomputers, ranging fro 1-3 billion dollars. As a reference, most don't cost more than 300 million (I'm talking about number 1 on the list of most powerful).
In fact, not too long ago, the government released some information to Intel Corp about effective ways to do 3 cores on 1 die, no not the other way around. There is a lot of stuff that gets put in the black budget, and spying is definately 1 of them.
If I had to estimate the total power of computers just in the US owned by the government for spying purposes, it would be in the neighborhood of 100 tflops total. That is probably about 6 or 7 grid massively smp supercomputers, all designed with 64bit-512bit cores, designed for breaking codes and scanning messages.
Granted it can't process everything, but it can read a whole lot.
Back from conspiracy theories to Gmail now.
There is a sad truth to computers that many people don't realize. Businesses may say, well we will reach 1 Petaflop in x years, but that is a commercially known computer. What is a fact is that the government has a great deal of knowledge hiring companies who shut their mouth and build extremely expensive supercomputers, ranging fro 1-3 billion dollars. As a reference, most don't cost more than 300 million (I'm talking about number 1 on the list of most powerful).
In fact, not too long ago, the government released some information to Intel Corp about effective ways to do 3 cores on 1 die, no not the other way around. There is a lot of stuff that gets put in the black budget, and spying is definately 1 of them.
If I had to estimate the total power of computers just in the US owned by the government for spying purposes, it would be in the neighborhood of 100 tflops total. That is probably about 6 or 7 grid massively smp supercomputers, all designed with 64bit-512bit cores, designed for breaking codes and scanning messages.
Granted it can't process everything, but it can read a whole lot.
Back from conspiracy theories to Gmail now.
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General Chat / RE: Media Bias: Sony PSP vs. Nintendo DS?
« on: June 25, 2004, 01:15:26 PM »
My neighbor JUST got his. Kind of ironic.
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General Gaming / RE:Xenon specs leaked again and confirmed.
« on: June 25, 2004, 01:12:42 PM »
Your using RIMMs *cringes*
DDR ram is not as expensive as your RDRAM, just because people are actually supplying it, but there are a lot of variables in how much the ram will cost.
G5 is PowerPC based, or technically its Power based, and PowerPC is Power based, but oh well, same difference. Will this core be similar to G5? Yes, probablly so, except it probably won't have the altivac. I doubt they are just adding up the cores to 3.5ghz, and I doubt that is the actual number, probably just what they are wanting to get to. Honestly though, if they were just 1.16ghz, that would be a very slow computer, in fact, 3 cores at that speed would be just about useless. 3.5ghz, is their goal, though I doubt they will achieve it.
Ram type, My bet is on DDR2-800, possibly some XDR (yellowstone, ya the same thing on PS3) form. They may go with GDDR3 1600, but thats still up in the air, but I am doubting they will.
FSB on these processors I would expect to be 1ghz, with a total theoretical bandwith of 8gb/s. DDR-2 in dual channel can pump 12.8gb/s (again theoretical).
GDDR3 can pump 25.6gb/s in dual channel, 51.2gb/s in 256bit arrays. That is up to what is promised by XDR, and is currently planned on being used in this generation of video cards. However, this is going to be expensive, and a 256bit setup will require atleast a 6layer PCB, so this is going to make for an expensive motherboard if this is what they choose.
There are a lot of options available to the makers, but I would expect this system to rival a high end system today, just because of the what is known of the gpu, and when it arrives a mid range system.
DDR ram is not as expensive as your RDRAM, just because people are actually supplying it, but there are a lot of variables in how much the ram will cost.
G5 is PowerPC based, or technically its Power based, and PowerPC is Power based, but oh well, same difference. Will this core be similar to G5? Yes, probablly so, except it probably won't have the altivac. I doubt they are just adding up the cores to 3.5ghz, and I doubt that is the actual number, probably just what they are wanting to get to. Honestly though, if they were just 1.16ghz, that would be a very slow computer, in fact, 3 cores at that speed would be just about useless. 3.5ghz, is their goal, though I doubt they will achieve it.
Ram type, My bet is on DDR2-800, possibly some XDR (yellowstone, ya the same thing on PS3) form. They may go with GDDR3 1600, but thats still up in the air, but I am doubting they will.
FSB on these processors I would expect to be 1ghz, with a total theoretical bandwith of 8gb/s. DDR-2 in dual channel can pump 12.8gb/s (again theoretical).
GDDR3 can pump 25.6gb/s in dual channel, 51.2gb/s in 256bit arrays. That is up to what is promised by XDR, and is currently planned on being used in this generation of video cards. However, this is going to be expensive, and a 256bit setup will require atleast a 6layer PCB, so this is going to make for an expensive motherboard if this is what they choose.
There are a lot of options available to the makers, but I would expect this system to rival a high end system today, just because of the what is known of the gpu, and when it arrives a mid range system.
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General Gaming / RE:Xenon specs leaked again and confirmed.
« on: June 24, 2004, 10:26:53 AM »
The thing that makes me mad about what microsoft is doing is the shared memory, and now shared cache. There are very few ways to do something that stupid, espeically sharing cache, because it just never has worked and is very, very hard to pull off.
The reason cache is fast is because it is so close to the CPU, and well guess what if the L2 cache is going to have to support another lane to the gpu, it would probably be slower than tha video card memory, that is of course is they do decide to go with something that can meet the GPU this time.
sfad, if these are the specs then I am very dissipointed. Gee, a stripped down r420 core, and 3x 3.5ghz powerpc970 cores. Sorry, I am just incredibly underwhelmed. That is pretty much guarenteed to be asynchronous cores, just going to be a complete pain in the ass to work on. Oh well, Microsoft is playing with a loaded shotgun and seems intent on shooting their foot.
The reason cache is fast is because it is so close to the CPU, and well guess what if the L2 cache is going to have to support another lane to the gpu, it would probably be slower than tha video card memory, that is of course is they do decide to go with something that can meet the GPU this time.
sfad, if these are the specs then I am very dissipointed. Gee, a stripped down r420 core, and 3x 3.5ghz powerpc970 cores. Sorry, I am just incredibly underwhelmed. That is pretty much guarenteed to be asynchronous cores, just going to be a complete pain in the ass to work on. Oh well, Microsoft is playing with a loaded shotgun and seems intent on shooting their foot.
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General Chat / RE: G-mail
« on: June 24, 2004, 06:26:44 AM »
Look, if you think google is going to sell you to the government, the government is way ahead of that. They have been scanning chat rooms, e-mail accounts for nearly 15 years, why do you think 1337 5p33|< was invented?
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General Gaming / RE:Xenon specs leaked again and confirmed.
« on: June 24, 2004, 06:08:19 AM »
Access to the L2 cache? Wow, cache coherency is going to go down the drain, stupid idea.
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Nintendo Gaming / RE: OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread
« on: June 20, 2004, 04:46:37 PM »
My friend picked up a great shirt from Kohl's. It says "Life, still a poor substitute for video games"
I will try to dig up a picture of it.
I will try to dig up a picture of it.
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General Gaming / RE: PC Games on XBox
« on: June 20, 2004, 04:34:19 PM »
Being a PC gamer since Doom Deathmatch, I take being able to upgrade/better graphics with PC. Multiplayer co-op? If you know what you are doing you can make any online pc game co-op, it's just harder when the devs don't just make it an option.
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General Chat / RE:Drops of water...
« on: June 20, 2004, 04:19:05 PM »
I wouldn't say it is impossible to avoid society, as it can easily be done if you want. There have been many cases of Japanese men being found on remote islands well into the 1970s who have not seen anyone for nearly 30 years. They were in the belief that the war was still going on, and that they must remain there to maintane their duty.
However, I think there is a point where men who do go into avoidence of society are no longer truely human. Many of you are familiar with the idea of consiousness and subconsiousness, and to me that is what seperates humanity from animals. We are able to act on both of these two powers in our mind, not only the will to survive, but to rational that survival, even if it is only an attempt to disguise the truth (we are alive to reproduce). However, when someone spends an extended time away from others, they tend to show the first signs of a devolution of their consious thought. People tend to just stop thinking about what they are doing and do it.
This is actually very familiar to anyone who has read or scene stuff about war. What is called the 1000 mile stare is where people usually lose their consiousness, where they have simply overloaded their mind to the point where the subconsious is the only part left functioning in the person. These people often become detached, don't talk, and suffer from horrible nightmares. The nightmares are usually the last lingering affects of their consious thought trying to rationalize what they had subconsiouly done.
What I am trying to get at is if we consider ourselves as waterdrops going down a wall, we will inevitably form into bigger parts as mouse said, but there are people who who just don't interact, they are just no longer normal people. These would be what I called the soap scum, because they are often imobile in attachment, they no longer care, they no longer interact, they are just there. Also these people tend to be dangerous, not only to themselves, but to others. I would not nessisarily call them interacting because they kill other people, as they often do not see people as people. They see only a competitor, be it for life, or any other primal instinct they may have. They often feed off the idea that they are surviving, and use this as an extension to destroy others, or in this case water drops. However, when someone has entered into this primal state, they are often capable of causing it in others, as when someone becomes very, very subdued and knows what they are doing, they are in many cultures considered wise. Take for example in apocolypse now, where the crazy green beret guy, who had literally killed hundreds of people for often no reason, had caused many other people to fall under the same primal state.
However, those who followed him, however unconsious they looked, were consious to stay within his graces, which showed that they were in some way, still consious beings. Eventually, many people who enter this state will progress into the same state as their "leader", and will often kill as meaninglessly, for their own being.
You can argue that they could be killing to strike fear into others, but in many cases, that killing does not produce the same long term effects that the water drops combining would do. In this case the fear is usually temporary, and will not effect someone eternally.
However, I think there is a point where men who do go into avoidence of society are no longer truely human. Many of you are familiar with the idea of consiousness and subconsiousness, and to me that is what seperates humanity from animals. We are able to act on both of these two powers in our mind, not only the will to survive, but to rational that survival, even if it is only an attempt to disguise the truth (we are alive to reproduce). However, when someone spends an extended time away from others, they tend to show the first signs of a devolution of their consious thought. People tend to just stop thinking about what they are doing and do it.
This is actually very familiar to anyone who has read or scene stuff about war. What is called the 1000 mile stare is where people usually lose their consiousness, where they have simply overloaded their mind to the point where the subconsious is the only part left functioning in the person. These people often become detached, don't talk, and suffer from horrible nightmares. The nightmares are usually the last lingering affects of their consious thought trying to rationalize what they had subconsiouly done.
What I am trying to get at is if we consider ourselves as waterdrops going down a wall, we will inevitably form into bigger parts as mouse said, but there are people who who just don't interact, they are just no longer normal people. These would be what I called the soap scum, because they are often imobile in attachment, they no longer care, they no longer interact, they are just there. Also these people tend to be dangerous, not only to themselves, but to others. I would not nessisarily call them interacting because they kill other people, as they often do not see people as people. They see only a competitor, be it for life, or any other primal instinct they may have. They often feed off the idea that they are surviving, and use this as an extension to destroy others, or in this case water drops. However, when someone has entered into this primal state, they are often capable of causing it in others, as when someone becomes very, very subdued and knows what they are doing, they are in many cultures considered wise. Take for example in apocolypse now, where the crazy green beret guy, who had literally killed hundreds of people for often no reason, had caused many other people to fall under the same primal state.
However, those who followed him, however unconsious they looked, were consious to stay within his graces, which showed that they were in some way, still consious beings. Eventually, many people who enter this state will progress into the same state as their "leader", and will often kill as meaninglessly, for their own being.
You can argue that they could be killing to strike fear into others, but in many cases, that killing does not produce the same long term effects that the water drops combining would do. In this case the fear is usually temporary, and will not effect someone eternally.
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General Chat / RE: Drops of water...
« on: June 20, 2004, 01:20:26 PM »
So where does that leave those who actively try to stay away from others? Soap scum?
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General Chat / RE:G-mail
« on: June 20, 2004, 01:18:09 PM »
When I signed up one of my private email addresses for passport it ended up just becoming a spam trap. Pissed me off quite badly, considering I was the one hosting the mail server.
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General Gaming / RE:SONY patented PS Power Glove?
« on: June 16, 2004, 12:36:03 PM »
Well a lot of baseball players suffer from arthritis, many more suffer from destruction of tendons and ligaments, so maybe that wasn't the best example?
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General Gaming / RE:Potential Dumb Move By MS
« on: June 16, 2004, 12:31:35 PM »
Missing the christmas season for a draught? No, bad idea. Aim for summer over the leftover season.
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General Chat / RE:More insanity from George Lucas
« on: June 15, 2004, 04:53:39 PM »
To me, it would be like me rewriting any great book. Say sea wolf, substitute my lack of caring with hump, wolf, and maud, and that's about what I think lucas has done to his movies. It's still esentially the same, but you would lose a lot of the subtle things that make it a great movie (not just a story.)
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General Gaming / RE:Smart move by Sega Sports
« on: June 15, 2004, 09:49:54 AM »
Great for you. Did it not come with 16:9 525p?
Seems a bit weird to drop the prices that much for a release. Sounds like sega sports is losing it's reputation as a strong contendor again.
Seems a bit weird to drop the prices that much for a release. Sounds like sega sports is losing it's reputation as a strong contendor again.
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Why does Konami hate GC?
« on: June 15, 2004, 09:48:23 AM »
Like say, Konami thinks that Xbox's target audience has hats made out of money?
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General Chat / RE:More insanity from George Lucas
« on: June 15, 2004, 09:47:01 AM »
South Park did justice to what Lucas has been doing, my opinion anyway.
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General Gaming / RE:SONY patented PS Power Glove?
« on: June 15, 2004, 09:29:12 AM »
Hmm, well lets see. Will sell in japan, will flop in america.
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Gameboy Evolution & 2 GameCube Next teams
« on: June 11, 2004, 06:17:45 PM »
The gameboy I call pure bull.
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread
« on: June 11, 2004, 09:38:39 AM »
Hmm, then why don't you wire up a gamecube with tunnelling? Same deal as with something like gamespy, or zone.com...
And I have 2 words for if your crt is too heavy 1) LCD, 2) cart
And I have 2 words for if your crt is too heavy 1) LCD, 2) cart
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