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Forum: Console Forum 23-May-2013, 15:45
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Posted By bkilian
For the game important conversations, absolutely....

For the game important conversations, absolutely. But are you really suggesting that you want to go back to every damn random person telling you about how they used to be an adventurer like you,...
Forum: Console Forum 23-May-2013, 15:30
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Yep. We tried to get them to remove optical out...

Yep. We tried to get them to remove optical out too (it increases the latency across the whole audio pipeline) but too many people still use it.
Forum: Console Technology 23-May-2013, 15:24
Replies: 3,385
Views: 391,524
Posted By bkilian
Well, one of my friends works in the dev tools...

Well, one of my friends works in the dev tools area. They have a dial drawn on a whiteboard somewhere with their status. It just recently went from "Shitty" to "Partly Shitty"
Forum: Console Forum 23-May-2013, 07:53
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Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Yep, those world of Warcraft players really got...

Yep, those world of Warcraft players really got shafted...

My point is that 5 years from now, the idea of a game that doesn't require an Internet connection will be as quaint as a game that can...
Forum: Console Technology 23-May-2013, 07:05
Replies: 3,385
Views: 391,524
Posted By bkilian
It is a glass bottle lined with lead foil that...

It is a glass bottle lined with lead foil that has a lid containing a rod and chain. Was used to store electricity. Also called a Leyden Jar.
;)
Forum: Console Forum 23-May-2013, 07:00
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Yep, also SD streaming is OK, but HD is...

Yep, also SD streaming is OK, but HD is infeasible (2007), streaming video over the Internet is a terrible idea, not enough bandwidth (2005), Cloud backup is too expensive to be available for...
Forum: Console Forum 23-May-2013, 06:14
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Yeah, I could pull up just as many hate and...

Yeah, I could pull up just as many hate and downtime stories about Amazon AWS, April 2011 (over 70 sites down for more than 36 hours), October 2012 (reddit, Pinterest), Christmas Eve 2012 (Netflix)....
Forum: Console Forum 23-May-2013, 05:20
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Cloud computing is about infrastructure....

Cloud computing is about infrastructure. Microsoft has the advantage that they can build on and extend the azure infrastructure for this. They have already spent billions building out azure. They can...
Forum: Console Forum 22-May-2013, 23:37
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Absolutely, assuming Sony or the game developer...

Absolutely, assuming Sony or the game developer is willing to pony up hundreds of thousands of servers distributed across the world so that the latency for any particular user is minimized. Gaikai...
Forum: Console Technology 22-May-2013, 22:29
Replies: 3,385
Views: 391,524
Posted By bkilian
No, there is no piecewise linear approximation...

No, there is no piecewise linear approximation for the gamma curve this time.
Probably can't say too much. As far as I can tell, MS has not announced anything about any audio hardware.
I imagine it...
Forum: Console Forum 22-May-2013, 06:01
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
Sony also mentioned game installs. I have no...

Sony also mentioned game installs. I have no doubt they, too, will have a system similar to this.
Forum: Console Forum 22-May-2013, 05:21
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
Explain? I'm not sure what you're referring to.

Explain? I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Forum: Console Forum 22-May-2013, 04:56
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
As far as I can tell, they're not blocking used...

As far as I can tell, they're not blocking used games. It looks like there will be a mechanism to deactivate your license. I suspect GameStop will have a system that, given a shiny disc, it will...
Forum: Console Forum 22-May-2013, 04:32
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
Nope, it was pretty much exactly what I was...

Nope, it was pretty much exactly what I was working on and expecting.
Forum: Console Forum 22-May-2013, 03:54
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Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Dude, it doesn't matter what I say, you've...

Dude, it doesn't matter what I say, you've already made your mind up. One of my favorite games this generation was 99 nights. It had hundreds of enemies on screen, with kind of crappy ai. Move the ai...
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 23:42
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
768 ops/clock * (1 mul + 1 add) * 800 MHz = 1.2...

768 ops/clock * (1 mul + 1 add) * 800 MHz = 1.2 TFLOPS.
Like I said, I'm of the opinion there was no clock bump.
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 23:37
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Ok, just as an example. Imagine a multiplayer FPS...

Ok, just as an example. Imagine a multiplayer FPS today with an AI sniper laying in wait for a number of folks all around the map. Today, each instance has to host it's own AI for the sniper, and it...
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 22:41
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
The NDA is _not_ lifted, and I can still not talk...

The NDA is _not_ lifted, and I can still not talk about non-public things.
And it's 102.4 + 68.2 + 30 == 200.6, which is clearly "more than 200 GB/s"
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 22:30
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
Wow, one out of three, and the one that had...

Wow, one out of three, and the one that had already been rumored for ages (expanded XBox Live)

And you can get 200 with a simple upclock. GPU -> ~1GHz == >132GB/s eSRam bandwidth
+ 68 GB/s DDR3...
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 22:23
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Believe what you like, Brad. Unfortunately for...

Believe what you like, Brad. Unfortunately for your worldview, I've actually seen it working.
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 22:19
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
We have no memory spec changes confirmed, the...

We have no memory spec changes confirmed, the change could be completely from GPU upclock, or some internal PR accounting. Most of what you said was bull hockey.
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 22:02
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
It is not an IBM chip.

It is not an IBM chip.
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 22:00
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
Yes, it actually can. Gaikai manage a usable...

Yes, it actually can. Gaikai manage a usable latency system _including_ cloud compute and cloud rendering and video encoding. So why, somehow, can you not manage it when you leave out two of those...
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 21:27
Replies: 1,003
Views: 39,830
Posted By bkilian
maybe they doubled the ESRAM to 64 MB? That would...

maybe they doubled the ESRAM to 64 MB? That would take care of the "missing transistors" and the memory bandwidth.
Forum: Console Forum 21-May-2013, 21:16
Replies: 3,751
Views: 254,285
Posted By bkilian
Don't worry about it... GAF won't even let me...

Don't worry about it... GAF won't even let me join...
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