In 20+ years of gaming, i have never seen such a failure as the PS3

I am 37 now, and I have probably devoted hundreds of thousands of hours of gametime in my life. I have come home from work every day since the SNES days and gamed 5-6 hours each night (almost always ordering pizza, and my size 42 pants thank me for that8) ), with 15 hours a day on each weekend day. I am 37 now, and have owned every sega, nintendo and sony console other than the PS3. I even owned a commodore 64 and a few ataris. I can say that I have been there through the thick and thin for each company. and I have NEVER seen a console fail and flop like the PS3- it is doomed. Listen to someone who has been around the video gaming block, kids- I know what I am talking about. accameron

your absurdly wrong and im younger than you so this is sad at 24

Ps3 is not a failure in any kind of way good sir

you are just blind and naive

if you put any thoought or research into your statement

you would know that Ps3 is the future more than anything else

Sony is simply setting up Playstation as the center of living room technology and gameing

with the cell processor

because the cell is going to make Sony the top gameing company for a long time

why?

because the "cell" processor is the start of a brand ne technology coming soon that uses atoms and photons of a "cell"

to store data on and Sony knows that is the future of all entertainment technology

cells of matter make up a body information called mass just like how the cell processor make a body of information for gameing

so the future is Playstation

http://www.dailytech.com/Storing+Data+in+a+Photon/article5792.htm

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/060204/Atom-photon_link_demoed_060204.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070119094254.htm

Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.

While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique.

The image, a "UR" for the University of Rochester, was made using a single pulse of light and the team can fit as many as a hundred of these pulses at once into a tiny, four-inch cell. Squeezing that much information into so small a space and retrieving it intact opens the door to optical buffering-storing information as light.

"It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we're storing an entire image," says John Howell, associate professor of physics and leader of the team that created the device, which is revealed in today's online issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. "It's analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera-this is like a 6-megapixel camera."



"You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information," says Ryan Camacho, Howell's graduate student and lead author on the article. "We're showing it's possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels."

Optical buffering is a particularly hot field right now because engineers are trying to speed up computer processing and network speeds using light, but their systems bog down when they have to convert light signals to electronic signals to store information, even for a short while.

Howell's group used a completely new approach that preserves all the properties of the pulse. The buffered pulse is essentially a perfect original; there is almost no distortion, no additional diffraction, and the phase and amplitude of the original signal are all preserved. Howell is even working to demonstrate that quantum entanglement remains unscathed.

To produce the UR image, Howell simply shone a beam of light through a stencil with the U and R etched out. Anyone who has made shadow puppets knows how this works, but Howell turned down the light so much that a single photon was all that passed through the stencil.

Quantum mechanics dictates some strange things at that scale, so that bit of light could be thought of as both a particle and a wave. As a wave, it passed through all parts of the stencil at once, carrying the "shadow" of the UR with it. The pulse of light then entered a four-inch cell of cesium gas at a warm 100 degrees Celsius, where it was slowed and compressed, allowing many pulses to fit inside the small tube at the same time.

"The parallel amount of information John has sent all at once in an image is enormous in comparison to what anyone else has done before," says Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and president of the IEEE Lasers and Optical Society. "To do that and be able to maintain the integrity of the signal-it's a wonderful achievement."

Howell has so far been able to delay light pulses 100 nanoseconds and compress them to 1 percent of their original length. He is now working toward delaying dozens of pulses for as long as several milliseconds, and as many as 10,000 pulses for up to a nanosecond.

"Now I want to see if we can delay something almost permanently, even at the single photon level," says Howell. "If we can do that, we're looking at storing incredible amounts of information in just a few photons

[QUOTE="accameron"]I am 37 now, and I have probably devoted hundreds of thousands of hours of gametime in my life. I have come home from work every day since the SNES days and gamed 5-6 hours each night (almost always ordering pizza, and my size 42 pants thank me for that8) ), with 15 hours a day on each weekend day. I am 37 now, and have owned every sega, nintendo and sony console other than the PS3. I even owned a commodore 64 and a few ataris. I can say that I have been there through the thick and thin for each company. and I have NEVER seen a console fail and flop like the PS3- it is doomed. Listen to someone who has been around the video gaming block, kids- I know what I am talking about. CiocioE1E

your absurdly wrong and im younger than you so this is sad at 24

Ps3 is not a failure in any kind of way good sir

you are just blind and naive

if you put any thoought or research into your statement

you would know that Ps3 is the future more than anything else

Sony is simply setting up Playstation as the center of living room technology and gameing

with the cell processor

because the cell is going to make Sony the top gameing company for a long time

why?

because the "cell" processor is the start of a brand ne technology coming soon that uses atoms and photons of a "cell"

to store data on and Sony knows that is the future of all entertainment technology

cells of matter make up a body information called mass just like how the cell processor make a body of information for gameing

so the future is Playstation

http://www.dailytech.com/Storing+Data+in+a+Photon/article5792.htm

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/060204/Atom-photon_link_demoed_060204.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070119094254.htm

Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.

While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique.

The image, a "UR" for the University of Rochester, was made using a single pulse of light and the team can fit as many as a hundred of these pulses at once into a tiny, four-inch cell. Squeezing that much information into so small a space and retrieving it intact opens the door to optical buffering-storing information as light.

"It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we're storing an entire image," says John Howell, associate professor of physics and leader of the team that created the device, which is revealed in today's online issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. "It's analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera-this is like a 6-megapixel camera."



"You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information," says Ryan Camacho, Howell's graduate student and lead author on the article. "We're showing it's possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels."

Optical buffering is a particularly hot field right now because engineers are trying to speed up computer processing and network speeds using light, but their systems bog down when they have to convert light signals to electronic signals to store information, even for a short while.

Howell's group used a completely new approach that preserves all the properties of the pulse. The buffered pulse is essentially a perfect original; there is almost no distortion, no additional diffraction, and the phase and amplitude of the original signal are all preserved. Howell is even working to demonstrate that quantum entanglement remains unscathed.

To produce the UR image, Howell simply shone a beam of light through a stencil with the U and R etched out. Anyone who has made shadow puppets knows how this works, but Howell turned down the light so much that a single photon was all that passed through the stencil.

Quantum mechanics dictates some strange things at that scale, so that bit of light could be thought of as both a particle and a wave. As a wave, it passed through all parts of the stencil at once, carrying the "shadow" of the UR with it. The pulse of light then entered a four-inch cell of cesium gas at a warm 100 degrees Celsius, where it was slowed and compressed, allowing many pulses to fit inside the small tube at the same time.

"The parallel amount of information John has sent all at once in an image is enormous in comparison to what anyone else has done before," says Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and president of the IEEE Lasers and Optical Society. "To do that and be able to maintain the integrity of the signal-it's a wonderful achievement."

Howell has so far been able to delay light pulses 100 nanoseconds and compress them to 1 percent of their original length. He is now working toward delaying dozens of pulses for as long as several milliseconds, and as many as 10,000 pulses for up to a nanosecond.

"Now I want to see if we can delay something almost permanently, even at the single photon level," says Howell. "If we can do that, we're looking at storing incredible amounts of information in just a few photons

LOL. Whatever dude. It has failed. Face it. The N64 was 100 times the system that the PS3 is.

[QUOTE="CiocioE1E"]

[QUOTE="accameron"]I am 37 now, and I have probably devoted hundreds of thousands of hours of gametime in my life. I have come home from work every day since the SNES days and gamed 5-6 hours each night (almost always ordering pizza, and my size 42 pants thank me for that8) ), with 15 hours a day on each weekend day. I am 37 now, and have owned every sega, nintendo and sony console other than the PS3. I even owned a commodore 64 and a few ataris. I can say that I have been there through the thick and thin for each company. and I have NEVER seen a console fail and flop like the PS3- it is doomed. Listen to someone who has been around the video gaming block, kids- I know what I am talking about. accameron

your absurdly wrong and im younger than you so this is sad at 24

Ps3 is not a failure in any kind of way good sir

you are just blind and naive

if you put any thoought or research into your statement

you would know that Ps3 is the future more than anything else

Sony is simply setting up Playstation as the center of living room technology and gameing

with the cell processor

because the cell is going to make Sony the top gameing company for a long time

why?

because the "cell" processor is the start of a brand ne technology coming soon that uses atoms and photons of a "cell"

to store data on and Sony knows that is the future of all entertainment technology

cells of matter make up a body information called mass just like how the cell processor make a body of information for gameing

so the future is Playstation

http://www.dailytech.com/Storing+Data+in+a+Photon/article5792.htm

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/060204/Atom-photon_link_demoed_060204.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070119094254.htm

Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.

While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique.

The image, a "UR" for the University of Rochester, was made using a single pulse of light and the team can fit as many as a hundred of these pulses at once into a tiny, four-inch cell. Squeezing that much information into so small a space and retrieving it intact opens the door to optical buffering-storing information as light.

"It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we're storing an entire image," says John Howell, associate professor of physics and leader of the team that created the device, which is revealed in today's online issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. "It's analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera-this is like a 6-megapixel camera."



"You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information," says Ryan Camacho, Howell's graduate student and lead author on the article. "We're showing it's possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels."

Optical buffering is a particularly hot field right now because engineers are trying to speed up computer processing and network speeds using light, but their systems bog down when they have to convert light signals to electronic signals to store information, even for a short while.

Howell's group used a completely new approach that preserves all the properties of the pulse. The buffered pulse is essentially a perfect original; there is almost no distortion, no additional diffraction, and the phase and amplitude of the original signal are all preserved. Howell is even working to demonstrate that quantum entanglement remains unscathed.

To produce the UR image, Howell simply shone a beam of light through a stencil with the U and R etched out. Anyone who has made shadow puppets knows how this works, but Howell turned down the light so much that a single photon was all that passed through the stencil.

Quantum mechanics dictates some strange things at that scale, so that bit of light could be thought of as both a particle and a wave. As a wave, it passed through all parts of the stencil at once, carrying the "shadow" of the UR with it. The pulse of light then entered a four-inch cell of cesium gas at a warm 100 degrees Celsius, where it was slowed and compressed, allowing many pulses to fit inside the small tube at the same time.

"The parallel amount of information John has sent all at once in an image is enormous in comparison to what anyone else has done before," says Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and president of the IEEE Lasers and Optical Society. "To do that and be able to maintain the integrity of the signal-it's a wonderful achievement."

Howell has so far been able to delay light pulses 100 nanoseconds and compress them to 1 percent of their original length. He is now working toward delaying dozens of pulses for as long as several milliseconds, and as many as 10,000 pulses for up to a nanosecond.

"Now I want to see if we can delay something almost permanently, even at the single photon level," says Howell. "If we can do that, we're looking at storing incredible amounts of information in just a few photons

LOL. Whatever dude. It has failed. Face it. The N64 was 100 times the system that the PS3 is.

Maybe you didn't read my post on the previous page. Oh well. Whatever has turned you into a 37 year old fanboy who is on SW non-stop making threads hoping for PS3 to die must be reason enough, right? :roll:

Is the TC of this thread serious. I hope this is a joke.
shadowfox55

If you know the TC, you'll know that this is not a joke.

Does the TC even own a PS3?
shadowfox55

Are you kidding???? HECK no! LOLOLOL

[QUOTE="shadowfox55"]Does the TC even own a PS3?
accameron

Are you kidding???? HECK no! LOLOLOL

Played one? I mean, a decent game for more than 5 minutes?

[QUOTE="ChrisMun"]

[QUOTE="accameron"]I am 37 now, and I have probably devoted hundreds of thousands of hours of gametime in my life. I have come home from work every day since the SNES days and gamed 5-6 hours each night (almost always ordering pizza, and my size 42 pants thank me for that8) ), with 15 hours a day on each weekend day. I am 37 now, and have owned every sega, nintendo and sony console other than the PS3. I even owned a commodore 64 and a few ataris. I can say that I have been there through the thick and thin for each company. and I have NEVER seen a console fail and flop like the PS3- it is doomed. Listen to someone who has been around the video gaming block, kids- I know what I am talking about. accameron

37? :lol:

Yes, I went to college and work in customer service at a major computer manufacturer. I am in middle management, but I mostly work in the customer support center. And yes, I wear size 42 pants and I have a beard. And I am 37.

Why do you keep reiterating your pant size? Are you that proud of it or do you want us to fear you or something?

[QUOTE="shadowfox55"]Does the TC even own a PS3?
accameron

Are you kidding???? HECK no! LOLOLOL

You should be mature enough not to judge a console when you don't own it.

I'm partially disturbed by the lack of Apple Pippin mentions in this thread.

I mention I'm only "partially" disturbed because it kinda proves the TC wrong: The Apple Pippin was such a humongous, tremendous flop, that no matter how poorly the PS3 has done or will ever do, it can go down in history knowing this: It surpassed the Pippin's floppage within minutes of it's launch.

Not saying the PS3 is an absolute, abject failure as a console - kinda disappointing and certainly underperforming, but not failing.

So the TC is just running at the mouth. Okay, so what the TC says shouldn't be taken seriously.
shadowfox55

Agreed.

gizmondo?! i mean your a fool for saying PS3 is a failure since console war has only begun and it's 9 years more to go. since ps3 is a 10 year product. pminooei

:| LOL.

I do not have a PS3 nor will i prob ever...unless my 360 breaks down to point i could care less. Anyways Sony ain't going anywhere. I happily own a psone and ps2. Sony forced Nintendo to change there whole way of gaming by making the Nintendo Wii. Why cause Nintendo has been flopping since 1996 when N64 got smacked by Playstation and in Japan Saturn at times. Sony pretty much put Sega out of the game, and yes Microsoft which i happily own both xboxes only own America and have so much money to i dunno advertise...."money wise" to people very well. My 360 so far has been good, but i know others have not.

And yes i'm a gamer, who plays PC games, Portables, DS and PSP and i even own all Nintendo systems including that crappy Virtual Boy that sits up in my Attic. The only game i even like anymore on Playstation is Castlevania SOTN which i bought a PSP for anyway and Twisted Metal 2 and Black, but i have no idea why people knock Sony. Nintendo was the king of greed in the late 80's and are the main reason for Sony kicked there a%%es anyway by telling them to shove it in 93 and since then Nintendo has been paying for it. I'm sorry i love the Wii, well i don't also, thank God for Mario Galaxy and Smash Bros. Other then that Its all Casual to me.Sony fanboys don't gloat either, fanboys are just annoying, but yes Sony is struggling now, but so has all the other main ones...my how people forget the Gamecube and N64, and the Dreamcast and the Saturn and the 32x and even Xbox and Red Rings. To each his own.

My biggest gaming failuer would be the Atari Jaguar. I own a Neo Geo and i love that dam thing. Neo Geo Aes is just awesome.

www.nexgenwars.com
Wii and 360 > PS3Jayesler12

nextgenwars has less credability then a hobo...a hobo could give better numbers

I'm 39 years old and while I don't consider the PS3 a failure it is certainly a dissapointment. I was prepared at first to stand out on launch day for one and then as it got closer and closer I just lost my motivation. Even now I haven't got one yet and I do have a PC gaming rig, 360 and a Wii. I'll get a PS3 soon enough because I love gaming and it will have some good games.

Much of the problems I think come down to Sony's development tools and the cell processor just not living up to the hype.

Biggest failure = no. One of the biggest dissapointments = yes.

Pizza is good.

[QUOTE="CiocioE1E"]

[QUOTE="accameron"]I am 37 now, and I have probably devoted hundreds of thousands of hours of gametime in my life. I have come home from work every day since the SNES days and gamed 5-6 hours each night (almost always ordering pizza, and my size 42 pants thank me for that8) ), with 15 hours a day on each weekend day. I am 37 now, and have owned every sega, nintendo and sony console other than the PS3. I even owned a commodore 64 and a few ataris. I can say that I have been there through the thick and thin for each company. and I have NEVER seen a console fail and flop like the PS3- it is doomed. Listen to someone who has been around the video gaming block, kids- I know what I am talking about. accameron

your absurdly wrong and im younger than you so this is sad at 24

Ps3 is not a failure in any kind of way good sir

you are just blind and naive

if you put any thoought or research into your statement

you would know that Ps3 is the future more than anything else

Sony is simply setting up Playstation as the center of living room technology and gameing

with the cell processor

because the cell is going to make Sony the top gameing company for a long time

why?

because the "cell" processor is the start of a brand ne technology coming soon that uses atoms and photons of a "cell"

to store data on and Sony knows that is the future of all entertainment technology

cells of matter make up a body information called mass just like how the cell processor make a body of information for gameing

so the future is Playstation

http://www.dailytech.com/Storing+Data+in+a+Photon/article5792.htm

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/060204/Atom-photon_link_demoed_060204.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070119094254.htm

Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.

While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique.

The image, a "UR" for the University of Rochester, was made using a single pulse of light and the team can fit as many as a hundred of these pulses at once into a tiny, four-inch cell. Squeezing that much information into so small a space and retrieving it intact opens the door to optical buffering-storing information as light.

"It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we're storing an entire image," says John Howell, associate professor of physics and leader of the team that created the device, which is revealed in today's online issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. "It's analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera-this is like a 6-megapixel camera."



"You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information," says Ryan Camacho, Howell's graduate student and lead author on the article. "We're showing it's possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels."

Optical buffering is a particularly hot field right now because engineers are trying to speed up computer processing and network speeds using light, but their systems bog down when they have to convert light signals to electronic signals to store information, even for a short while.

Howell's group used a completely new approach that preserves all the properties of the pulse. The buffered pulse is essentially a perfect original; there is almost no distortion, no additional diffraction, and the phase and amplitude of the original signal are all preserved. Howell is even working to demonstrate that quantum entanglement remains unscathed.

To produce the UR image, Howell simply shone a beam of light through a stencil with the U and R etched out. Anyone who has made shadow puppets knows how this works, but Howell turned down the light so much that a single photon was all that passed through the stencil.

Quantum mechanics dictates some strange things at that scale, so that bit of light could be thought of as both a particle and a wave. As a wave, it passed through all parts of the stencil at once, carrying the "shadow" of the UR with it. The pulse of light then entered a four-inch cell of cesium gas at a warm 100 degrees Celsius, where it was slowed and compressed, allowing many pulses to fit inside the small tube at the same time.

"The parallel amount of information John has sent all at once in an image is enormous in comparison to what anyone else has done before," says Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and president of the IEEE Lasers and Optical Society. "To do that and be able to maintain the integrity of the signal-it's a wonderful achievement."

Howell has so far been able to delay light pulses 100 nanoseconds and compress them to 1 percent of their original length. He is now working toward delaying dozens of pulses for as long as several milliseconds, and as many as 10,000 pulses for up to a nanosecond.

"Now I want to see if we can delay something almost permanently, even at the single photon level," says Howell. "If we can do that, we're looking at storing incredible amounts of information in just a few photons

LOL. Whatever dude. It has failed. Face it. The N64 was 100 times the system that the PS3 is.

prove it. and lol your a sheep wow.

I'm sorry, but I've been around since the beginning of the industry and PS3 is not a failure yet. I'll give you3 actual failures.

1. The Atari 7800: After the industry crash that almost destroyed the industry, Atari almost pulled off a deal that would of put them back on top. Nintendo had launcehed the Famicom in Japan and was looking for an American company to distribute it in the US. They contacted Atari, who was reeling after the videogame console crash. Atari was still making money from arcades and PC's and had ulterior motive to get a hold of home rights to Donkey Kong to put on their new brainchild the 7800. The game was released on the Colecovision Adam and Atari got cold feet and pulled out of the deal. Nintendo found a differant company and we all know the history of the NES in the US. Atari released the 7800 and, does anyone else own one?

2. The VirtuaBoy

3. The Sega Saturn...

You must have severe amnesia.

To that one dude. Sony rid themselves of the cell and its future. JiveT

Just like how 360 is made of none Microsoft parts? Nice one Jive. You keep thinking of those witty comments that fail each time ;)

I am 37 now, and I have probably devoted hundreds of thousands of hours bashing the PS3. accameron

Yes, yes you have.

Achievement Unlocked.

Maybe you should tell your wife and kids how you feel about the PS3.

OH WAIT!

PS3 will go down as the biggest gaming failure in history. darkmario123

3 D O

why do you bash the ps3 all the time... do you really have nothing better to do

and if you are 37... thats kind of sad

HE is not 37... he isa fakeboy.... but although he's not 37.... I'm sure he is pathetic enough to do the things he said he did in this thread.Veterngamer

He is 37, and admits to being "not a winner", His only friends are on XBL.(fact)

Weak, dude. I've been gaming for about the same amount of time. And for you to call PS3 a failure is a joke. Did you hit your head? Car accident maybe?

PS3 is selling just as well as 360 did its first year WITHOUT competition. PS3 hasn't even brought its heavy hitters yet. And there's a great chance that PS3 will outsell 360 for 2007.

Failure? Yeah, dream on.

Listen to someone who has been around the video gaming block, kids- I know what I am talking about. Yeah, I can say that too. But it doesn't make it any more true. Weak Sauce, old man, weak sauce.