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Sir you seem to forget Killzone was a horrible horrible game and while TooHuman has some major flaws its not horrible, terrible or worthy of all the flames it gets.
The Cell and RSX do not share memory. They each have 256 mb of ram to use and can never dip into the others pool. On the other hand the 360 has unified memory which is shared by both gpu and cpu so they can divert as much or as little of the 512mb to either as its needed.

Oh and the RSX is based on the 7600 series so question I will my friend. There are plenty of technical documents that prove both your comments wrong.
My girlfriend started playing it on Xbox Live Arcade which got me into it too, then I graduated to Puzzle Quest which I own on XBLA and PSP and I just cant stop playing it.
You can get that already, they have been selling a "brain" for $100 you can buy for about 2 years. You just swap the XM brain for the Sirius one..of course you can no longer get XM but who really cares?
I have no hate for the Wii. I own one and quite a few retail games and about 20 VC games. Honestly sales matter little to me as long as I have games to play but if a company is going to throw out sales stats that are misleading im going to put in my 2 cents...even more so when I know what's really going on.

I work retail, I see the attach rates and total sales (updated daily) of all the consoles for not only game sales but also accessories so when Nintendo claims they are dominating sales the honesty alarm blares.
"Presumably that chart includes (assumptions) for 360 and PS3 first party games as well so it's a level playing field there as far as a comparison goes"

Wrong because they arent using this chart for gamer cred they are trying to convince 3rd parties that their games will sell on the Wii which isnt exactly true. First party titles sell incredibly well on the Wii but 3rd party titles rarely do. If you remove everything 1st party you would find the 360 sitting at number 1 followed by the Wii and then the PS3. The margin between 1st and 2nd is also quite large.
Arbitron is not a good indicator of ratings. They take a random sampling of a small number of people who may or may not even own XM or Sirius and then multiply it by scale. It is in no way scientific. Sirius nor XM give them subscriber information. They get peoples names and addresses for this poll based on past Terrestrial Radio data of people who already filled out a survey.

Sirius who knows exactly who listens to what has stated on average there are 6 million listeners on average at any given moment when Stern is live and thats not including people listening over the internet (worldwide). It also doesnt include people in Canada.
I dont know what that guy "Artie Lange" is talking about. They paid Stern what he was worth. They went from under 600k customers to over 8 million in record time and its pretty much all Sterns doing.

I've had Sirius since Stern signed his contract and since then I've also found a ton more shows I like on there. The music is incredibly varied and there are ZERO commercials on those stations.

Even my non geek Girlfriend now has a Sirius installed in her car its just that much better then regular radio. The NAB can rot for all I care. Even if XM and Sirius died tomorrow I would NEVER listen to regular radio again...NEVER.
I've been using Vista since day 1. I started off a bit weary and with alot of crashes...every single one of which was caused by pathetic drivers from nvidia.

To this day I still use Vista despite being able to boot into XP. I never run into any problems with programs I use. I havent had a crash in about a year thanks to nvidia fixing most (not all) of the bugs in their drivers.

True Vista is not the greatest OS ever made but its not anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. It became cool to hate on MS and in turn even cooler to hate on Vista. I know quite a few people who run it and not a single one of them has ever complained and asked me to come over and fix something they broke.

Will I buy Windows 7? Not sure yet, this time I'll take a little wait and see time instead of buying on day 1. I will however sit down with it and try it for an extended period of time before i write it off like everyone does with Vista.
This guy must never do any video encoding...because if he did he would never say CPU's dont make things faster and he would most certainly want faster CPU's then we have now. Unless of course nVidia is going to be releasing an in house encoder for us to use that runs on the GPU and does everything at light speed...but i highly doubt that so nVidia needs to think before they ramble.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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