Comment Re:so, to summarize... (Score 1) 545
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Gamespot Previews World of Starcraft 116
ScaryFroMan writes "Gamespot has a preview up of Blizzard's new MMO, World of Starcraft. From the article: "To put it mildly, the human brain cannot possibly fathom and the English language cannot possibly express how amazingly incredible the next massively multiplayer game from Blizzard is going to be. First screens and details!""
Duke Nukem Forever Reviewed 80
Aranth writes "The staff at Ars Technica has gotten its hands on a demo of Duke Nukem Forever, and has written up a review. It seems the game is near ready for release! As the article explains, the reason it has taken so long to develop is because this is the first real Web 3.0 application- it has 'been rewritten as an Ajax application written using the Ruby on Rails framework' and runs in any web browser, although some seem to have difficulties." Sadly, the game looks to be deficient in the area of ponies. :(((( But, it's playable from my hiptop!! :))))
Comment My Analysis of PSP Media Battery Drain (Score 1) 137
Very back of the envelope, based on what we know about MiniDisc players. Everything very approximate.
Assuming UMD is no more efficient than MD, here goes:
MD is a mature technology ~ 150MB
For a modern netMD:
66kbps gives 50 hours on one AA battery ~ 2000 mAh
so
1.5 min / mAh
1 min = 9000KB uncompressed = 150KBps = 1200kbps
1200/66 = 18.18:1 compression
so throughput for netMD is 495KB / min (9000KB uncompressed/18.18)
which gives
742.5KB / mAh (495KB * 1.5 min/mAh)
on the equivalent of 2AA batteries that's ~ 4000mAh = 2.83 GB transferred on one charge.
Not shabby. Certainly enough to play games without the drive being the battery killer. Yeah, it's probably a best-case scenario, but at least it's a baseline grounded in something we know as fact. Anyway, we'll know the truth soon, so this is sorta irrelevant.
Assuming UMD is no more efficient than MD, here goes:
MD is a mature technology ~ 150MB
For a modern netMD:
66kbps gives 50 hours on one AA battery ~ 2000 mAh
so
1.5 min / mAh
1 min = 9000KB uncompressed = 150KBps = 1200kbps
1200/66 = 18.18:1 compression
so throughput for netMD is 495KB / min (9000KB uncompressed/18.18)
which gives
742.5KB / mAh (495KB * 1.5 min/mAh)
on the equivalent of 2AA batteries that's ~ 4000mAh = 2.83 GB transferred on one charge.
Not shabby. Certainly enough to play games without the drive being the battery killer. Yeah, it's probably a best-case scenario, but at least it's a baseline grounded in something we know as fact. Anyway, we'll know the truth soon, so this is sorta irrelevant.
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