I don't think it sucked per say, just they ran out time to make it work, it would have also ment there was nothing familar in the ps3, witch would slowed the first wave of games even more than their "revolutionary" design already had. Your also forgetting the whole setup is memory starved, putting extra pressure on the cell to have high throughput, leaving little room on the cells to do graphics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Video_processing_card it can be done, just not in any way we're used to. Ground up development is slow.

It says 360 right in the link address and the title of the chart "bo 360 System Performance - Draft" granted it appears to be and old link, from before the 360 was actually released. Maybe that is the source of your confusion? It was the first hit on Google anyhow. And Google couldn't be wrong could it? /scarcasm

Um, arn't the 360's 3 core cell's? I'm sure they'd be capable if you managed to scrape Micosoft out them. http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360-System-Specifications/p1

AFAK The original design of the ps3 didn't even have a GPU, the cell is more than capable. Those 10,000$ IBM cell blades, they are designed for high level graphics processing, to be sold to the likes of Pixar and such. (Note: I do not know if Pixar is using them, its an example.) I'm not sure why Sony ended up going with Nvidia GPU's. Possibly because they were already late to the game, the game dev's were pretty pissed off about having almost nothing they could port easily, and Nvidia was the compromise. I had Linux in mine, with a bit of hacking you could get the frame buffer to run out of the GPU's memory, witch made the memory crunch suck less. Had Other OS remained I'm sure some one could have built a 3D driver on top of a couple of the cells. I read rumours that a plan was being hatched before Sony pissed on the fire and raised a stink.

The article points to a few methods the amino acids could be produced in nature, (including underwater vents) and the experiment seems to back that up. So given that amino acids are not that hard to produce, the question of life isn't what caused the amino acids to form (because similar conditions exist on other planets in our own solar system and beyond.) The question is what caused the amino acids to begin to form the complex chains that actually are life.

That's kind of the definition of ethics isn't it? that you stand by them even when it gets hard or your not forced to.

wish I had mod points ^^^ should have been in TFA in the first place! +!

Sure you can, schools to that sort of thing all the time, mostly with newpapers. That is the point of fair use.

blow me

Must be a typo, there are no women on the internet

Where have I heard that before?? Oh ya "it only drops calls if you hold it wrong..."

Why do people keep feeding the astroturfer??

I don't see your point, in one instance the victims cooperated and no one was hurt. In the other, the police were there to handle it, and again no one was hurt. Or were you trying to back me up?

Its simple really, the same situation as the idiot who left a bill on the driver seat. You have a choice, you can be aware of the dangers in the world, and try to mitigate them. Or you can be a brazen fool, and reap the rewards that entails. In this scenario, an insured car, in a lawful state is not something worth dying over. The "victim" was at fault in that he could have chosen to hand over the keys and call the police. A pain in the ass, but he'd still be alive, and he'd probably get a new car out of it.

Wasn't that already apparent? Look up north where the content providers are already also the ISP's. no good can come of it