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Java homebrew devkit for the PS3 emerges, nobody cares {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2008 2:13PM Why do you assume that Java would be used for games? PS3 can be used for a lot of other things. Perhaps someone will make a media player and say add support for say lossless audio formats like FLAC or mkv container.
Java might not be a good choice for a specialized application such as as 3D game engine but it's plenty good for general purpose stuff. Not only that but native support for threads means it should be much easier to write code taking advantage of PS3's cell (as long as JVM is written well).
If some of these whiners actually wrote code for a living, they'd realize that squeezing 100% out of available hardware is rarely of concern to companies. Speed of development, reuse and modularity, ease of maintenance and flexibility for change have been at the forefront for over a decade. Gaming is an exception so while it gains speed necessary for 3D engine, it certainly suffers in other areas, as I'm sure older gamers have noticed - i.e. many usability aspects of modern games are lagging behind other contemporary software.
Java homebrew devkit for the PS3 emerges, nobody cares {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2008 1:34PM Ever heard of a game called Persona 3? Playing it right now on my 60G PS3, thank you very much. High definition graphics by itself do not make a good game. Why won't people stop assuming that everyone wants to do the same things with their consoles as them?
SanDisk CEO says Vista "not optimized" for SSDs {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 1:02PM Yes, it WAS funny the first time. Predictable, but funny.
Some analysts, PC makers express concern about netbooks {Engadget}
Jul 21st 2008 2:36PM As a new owner of an Acer AspireOne, I can chime in with my opinion after using it for a few days.
It runs web applications very smoothly. Both the Firefox 2 and Opera 9.5. It plays DivX fine as well, although it won't play mkv at all (cpu too slow or storage too slow or both, most likely).
Keyboard is just fine. But the touchpad is way too small and therefore errors are frequent.
Screen looks fine... except for one thing, and it's a, uhm, a big one. You can't really use this thing for longer than half an hour to an hour at most. Your eyes will hurt and you'll get a migraine.
That's the kicker. The thing is great for occasional emailing and web browsing. Unless you connect it to a normal size monitor and mouse. At that point it can be used as an Internet station all day long. As for traveling, it's probably great for most people, unless you plan on spending considerable time (i.e. most of the evening) watching videos and browsing - the screen will get you. Also, it's not any lighter than my old Toshiba R100 so carrying a full size (but light) laptop is still probably the best idea. Overall, while these netbooks have enough power for most (but not all) things, there's a physical limit on how small you can make the screen before it's too small to be usable. And there's nothing to be done about that, other than some future foldable pull-out screen. Until then I don't see netbooks ever becoming more than a niche product.
Eee PC 1000H gets a $100 price drop {Engadget}
Jul 19th 2008 6:24PM Don't you mean, "what the fsck"?
Acer Aspire One gets reviewed, lost in the shuffle {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 5:54PM Dell can shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Playing dirty by spoiling other manufacturer's launch party back in January to steal sales from Asus when they didn't even have anything to show (weren't even sure what will the laptop be like, let alone have a prototype!), being caught by surprise and playing a catchup by press releases rather than product launches... They're not getting any of my money, don't care how good their late-to-the-party laptop is. Besides, their pricing in Canada sucks anyway.
NPD: Wii usurps Xbox 360 as best selling US game console, pulling away {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 12:59PM The 1st comment is actually appropriate -and funny- here. I wish I could see who ranked this low, so I can rank THEM low.
Ask Engadget: Best LCD monitor under $400? {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 12:36PM I got the same monitor last year for $650, and I'm stunned it could be had for so little (discontinued? how? it's a modern 24" M-PVA! Besides there's no such thing as "discontinued" in Canada, they just disappear without ever going on sale). This monitor is excellent and worth it at $500, for $330 it's a no brainer.
Researcher claims to have discovered universal attack code for Intel chips: no one is safe {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 6:29PM Wow... with comments like these, no wonder you elected Bush twice.
SCEA CEO Jack Tretton dishes: DRM is in, backwards compatibility is out, and video UMD lives on {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 6:20PM Reading so many opinions like yours I keep thinking more and more that PSP and DS are really not targeting the same market. Just like the article yesterday mentioned about PS3 versus Wii, except that I kind of agree with the CEO and not with the Engadget (so much for the "oh no he didn't" - it should be reserved for REALLY out of line comments, not simple opinions). I only liked two games on DS (I own about a dozen) but I liked, played and finished between 5 and 10 PSP games. DS is cute, just like Wii, but it just doesn't have games that interest me. In the end the only reason I have DS is because I usually buy all consoles anyway (they don't come out all that often and it's the software that makes the bulk of the ownership price anyway). It doesn't mean anything that the games are original if they're crap.
