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Sideways:
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--- Quote from: Addius ---As for the world series, how can you call it the world series when only people from not even a fifth of the world competes? wth?
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a) MLB is an international league, b) Teams are composed of the best players from around the world, c) if i hear one more smart-arse prattling about this i'll be very cross
-sam
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Players are recruited from around the world to play on AMERICAN TEAMS... thus representing different facets of AMERICA, not the globe.
Soccer is the only truly international sport.
Baseball's "World Series" is a joke.
It REALLY should be some sort of cup, or maybe even just "American Series" or something.
So get as cross as you want, you know as well as anyone that calling it a "World Series" is ridiculous.
Back on topic; I would've loved to see Sony and Mac work together, maybe using Sony's new Cell Processor. That would've been a less evil seeming marriage.
Mnementh:
--- Quote from: Sideways ---Back on topic; I would've loved to see Sony and Mac work together, maybe using Sony's new Cell Processor. That would've been a less evil seeming marriage.
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To quote an engineer friend who knows these things better than I do...
--- Quote ---On a different note, I keep seeing people say "Apple's dumb - look at the game consoles moving towards PPC it must be getting better!" Then they point to Cell and such as things they think Apple should be using. Cell is not a general purpose processor - it doesn't even have OOE right now! It does some things very well, but running a modern OS competitively would take some work. Also, consoles are stable targets that don't need scalable processors - computers are expected to get consistently faster. They don't guarantee success either - MIPS processors powered both the Playstation and Nintendo 64, and now they're dead - killed by Intel, in fact. Intel's R&D budget dwarfs what IBM was spending on 970 developement - this was pretty inevitable, IMO. </rant>
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Addius:
I agree with Mnementh's friend, the Cell architecture is not fit for general-purpose use. Heck, from what I've been able to understand programing anything worthwhile running on it involves running atleast 5 threads simultainiously, a feat I'd not try myself.
On another note, I also fully agree with Sideways concerning the "world series"
mosfet:
And the Cell is based off Power, so theoretically it could have the same issues with production and speed scaling, right?
as for World Series... Yomiuri Giants!!! For the Glory!!!
Sideways:
I'm not the MOST computer-savvy person out there, but I don't understand why the Cell chips wouldn't function well in a standard PC environment.
After all, a single chip contains multiple processing cores, or cells, which can perform different tasks, or run the same task in tandem... allowing the processor to properly split itself between graphics processing, physics processing, etc (in gaming systems). So then why would it not be able to run standard OS processes?
Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz.
So why isn't it practical for this to be in a PC?
Please edumacate me.
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