US Air Force to purchase 300 Playstation 3s
According to the document, the PS3 features the only Cell processor on the market to meet the standards required by the testing, and does so at reasonable cost. The Air Force Research Laboratory will be using the machines to conduct the tests, in what appears to be a growing trend these days. Or, you know, it's all a big scam so that they can get their Metal Gear Solid 4 fix.
[Via PS3 Fanboy]
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I guess 360 RRODs too quickly in heat of the Iraqi and Afgani desert.
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Oooh they won't like that. Not one bit.
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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.
It's ASCII art for a facepalm.
My other question would be if the 360 did too. I remember there being hoo-hah from both sides about which made each company more money but I honestly didn't care to listen.
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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.
My understanding is that, though Sony have made advances in reducing cost via the cheaper laser and smaller chipset etc., these cost cutting measures have not yet been factored into the new PS3s currently being manufactured so no, they still don't sell them at a profit.
I could be wrong though. Won't be the first time you read something on the internet that's erroneous.
:)
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An American company getting money thrown at it by the US military. Who'd have thunk it huh?
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http://www.randolph.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/051107-f-2907c-176.jpg
Oh, and wasn't there a period when the PS2 launched when the US Military was concerned about "rogue states" buying them up to use for guidance and navigation processing or simulations? It seems the USAF have learned a thing or two from Saddam.
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This is hardly the 1st use of the PS3 outside the world of videogames...so your statement is Krap.
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Yeah, because everyone knows that military technology is years behind what's available commercially.
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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*
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switch it to a Link's RPG trainer
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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.
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.
I can hardly wait for what we will see the PS3 produce in a year or 2.
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