So 'Sky Net' comes online care of Sony. Sadly I was hoping our nukes would be controlled with Kinect.

*videogames

Adding video to channels (Videogames) - requested by ant.

Is this why patch updates take so damned long?

But can it run Crysis?

Isn't there something in the PS3's EULA that they're violating?

>> ^jimnms:

Isn't there something in the PS3's EULA that they're violating?


The air force have ways of dealing with EULA's. Like the rest of us they don't actually read them, however rather than waste the paper, they've been dropping them over Afghanistan and Iraq as a means of damaging insurgents' morale. It take a sick mind to write one of those things.

Perfect for playing Grand Theft Congress.

Barely.
>> ^Fantomas:

But can it run Crysis?

Sony should promote this with a Kevin Butler commercial!

Why PS3's? Only thing I can think is that they may be cheaper for the hardware.

holy farting renderfarm, boo boo

And all those PS3's are PS2 backwards compatible, which makes them 10x more valuable.

they use ps3 because Sony sells them for under cost. So if you hate Sony (like me), then this is double win. Sony loses money on each console and we get a big supercomputer out of the deal.

A PS3 is a "toy"?

>> ^Crosswords:

Why PS3's? Only thing I can think is that they may be cheaper for the hardware.


Several reasons.

1. Desktop processors are designed to sort data it takes in, allowing developers to code easily and quickly without to much concern for the CPU, this however has a major downside. Upto 1/3 of the processor isn't used for work, but for just sorting the incoming commands. The Cell in the PS3 however has virtually no sorting, and instead relies on the developer to do that. This makes the cell more bang per buck than many processors at similar size, speed and cost.

2. The Cell is designed around parallelism, which is perfect for super computing tasks. Many organisations use PS3 based machines just like the airforce for everything from rendering to weather prediction.

>> ^jimnms:

Isn't there something in the PS3's EULA that they're violating?


I doubt they care too much about voiding the warrenty. Violating a EULA isn't illegal.