US Air Force to purchase 300 Playstation 3s

We have Skynet here at work. It's an old Dell with like a 2GHZ Xeon.... I'm not too worried.

Yep, and now the government can utilize all that duct tape they never used on the windows and connect all the ps3's together.

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what?

"what?"

...Chicken Butt.

Seriously...what?

"Chicken Butt."

Yeah, I don't see it. In IE it looks like complete gibberish and in Firefox it looks likes gibberish with a penis head on top.

I see it perfectly under firefox.

It's ASCII art for a facepalm.

To add what someone else said:

IBM announced a while ago that Cells are now being made with a 45nm architecture. They began manufacturing them with 90nm architecture. So in the course of roughly two years IBM managed to reduce the size of the Cell by half. A bit outside the realms of Moore's Law, but still within a reasonable timeframe. But yea, they're cheaper to produce, and more reliable now that they use less power, and therefore generate less heat.

Ah right, thanks!

Wasn't there the news a while ago that they were breakeven? I think going forward they might actually be turning a profit on these things, or at least close to. Impressive if you look at what's inside that box and how recently it launched. But then, Sony is a hardware company, and it shows. (MS being a software company, which also shows.)

I believe there was a story that said Sony was breaking even on the PS3s now. Not bad for barely a year into a console's life, especially one with so much new hardware.

Yeah, it's break even time now for the PS3. But considering how much they were bleeding per unit at launch, that's a big win for them.

Both consoles are still made in China even if MS is an American company.

The CELL was a combined effort between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. The work on the CELL began in 2001. So all three companies "own" the CELL chip.

Sorry, Marry, but Toshiba and Sony more or less just invested in it. The actual chipmaker, IBM, is the company that designed the Cell.

If they actually learned a thing or two from Saddam, they would know that using game consoles for the military purposes is stupid. Nothing will ever come of this, just as nothing came of Saddam's PS2 plan.

Come correct son.

Airintake,

This is hardly the 1st use of the PS3 outside the world of videogames...so your statement is Krap.

The only thing thats crap around here is your constant trolling. You're annoying factor has quadrupled in the last 2 weeks, easily.

Thank you for the information, but everybody already knew the image was not accurate; there is no way a single helicopter of any configuration could possibly lift a PlayStation 3 by itself.

That's where my tax dollars are being wasted! On a useless console!

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(See how much trolling is stupid?)

In all seriousness...this is what my tax dollars are being spent on? *face palm*

I get the feeling you're making a good point, but can you say it in English?

Grant,

It was the SAME way for the PS1 and the PS2. If you make system hardware that does not easily give away it's secrets then you will have software that will continue to improve throughout it's lifecycle. I am not saying Sony does it on purpose...but I seriously doubt that they are to concerned about the ease of development in the Playstations 1st year or 2. It has worked for them 2x's in a row and so far in 2008...it seems that it will work for them again.

i would agree with you wholeheartedly, because traditionally this has been the case with every console. Full system utilization is never achieved until the last year before it's life cycle ends. Notice that i said "for another year or 2", which would work out to be at very least two years before a normal life cycle, or 7 if Sony's claim that PS3 has a 10 year life span is used.
The fact of the matter is that the 360 pretty much utilizes all of it's resources and i would bet the wii does too. Also, Sony has notoriously harder development software for whatever reason, which obviously slows down the process of full utilization.

Yes Grant,

I can hardly wait for what we will see the PS3 produce in a year or 2.

Well, it is the US government. No single entity can piddle away money like them.