Comment Re:The 'old' PS3 is $299, too (Score 2, Interesting) 427
At least the removal of the easy Linux functionality will spur developers to look for more "complete" paths to develop for PS3 systems.
Comment Re:It would be really nice... (Score 1) 427
Microsoft payed for console Netflix exclusivity.
Sony responded by including it in every product except the PS3.
Comment Re:Nice idea, but... (Score 1) 304
Right. So we land on Phobos, build a base, and start doing research, but where do we get all the oil drums full of green explosive ooze?
Comment Re:back in my day (Score 1) 785
You sort of missed my point. If I'm in the car at the curb, waiting for my kid, then using jamming means I am unreachable by phone - meaning I have to find a parking spot, go inside, get the office to track down my kid, etc., which disrupts the work of several office workers as well as the class (when the student is pulled out). It would be much less disruptive if we could just use our phones - I text my kid, who quietly ducks out of the room (having told the teacher before class that she'd be leaving).
And where in the U.S. can a child leave class without having to get the office workers involved? Everywhere I've heard of, you need at least two forms filled out before you can leave with your child.
Comment Re:I might be too old... (Score 1) 785
Lots of people have forgotten how boring your average primary school is. The kids didn't really care who was taunting or beating whom, they just liked the distraction (and the resulting lack of instruction).
Comment Re:This sound a little like (Score 1) 397
Silly Coward, Quake and its sequels require floating point units.
Comment Re:how is this a good thing? (Score 2, Insightful) 121
Alright, if I have just exactly the right format I can stream to my 360 or PS3 from any standard server.
However, all of my files are in various different formats, many of which (like Matroska) are completely alien to EVERYTHING proprietary. XBMC plays 99% of my media just fine, right out of the box from an xbmsd server on my Linux desktop. I still haven't been able to configure transcoding properly, and out of ~250gb of video, only 3 or 4 files will play on the PS3.
Commercial media centers, especially the 360 and PS3, are a fucking joke. It's downright embarassing that a homebrew effort on a 8 year old console beats them in every regard on an SDTV.
Comment Re:what could we do in 64,000 man hours ? (Score 4, Funny) 50
Well, considering the average Halo player, you could probably get a LOT of coloring done.
Comment Re:Space-tastic! (Score 1) 548
the enemy's gate is left, right?
No. The enemy's gate is down.
4, Informative. Only here, folks.
Submission + - PS3 hits petaflop performance of Stanford computer
Stony Stevenson writes: PS3 owners who have linked the third-generation videogame console to the University's distributed computing project have driven the medial research system to a peak of one petaflop, Sony said Friday.
Since March 15, nearly 600,000 PS3 owners have joined Stanford's Folding@home program, which studies proteins to understand their role in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases. The PS3's computing power in conjunction with about 200,000 other computers on the network have pushed the system to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
"Thanks to PS3, we are now essentially able to fast-forward several aspects of our research by a decade, which will greatly help us make more discoveries and advancements in our studies of several different diseases," said Vijay Pande, associate professor at Stanford and Folding@home project.
Since March 15, nearly 600,000 PS3 owners have joined Stanford's Folding@home program, which studies proteins to understand their role in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases. The PS3's computing power in conjunction with about 200,000 other computers on the network have pushed the system to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
"Thanks to PS3, we are now essentially able to fast-forward several aspects of our research by a decade, which will greatly help us make more discoveries and advancements in our studies of several different diseases," said Vijay Pande, associate professor at Stanford and Folding@home project.
Submission + - Novell releases OpenSource ATI Driver (opensuse.org)
metalzelot writes: Last week AMD released the specifications for ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. Now Novell follows up with an alpha Open Source driver.
Drivers for different distributions can be downloaded here.
Next steps are adding support for more hardware, RandR 1.2 support, video overlay support and 2D acceleration.
Drivers for different distributions can be downloaded here.
Next steps are adding support for more hardware, RandR 1.2 support, video overlay support and 2D acceleration.
