Battle of the Game Consoles, article + questions + discussion *crosses fingers* Options

[illriginal]

Any land line broadband is run via fiber. Verizon is the just the first company to use the word to market their service. Think about it. They advertised Dial-up then Cable and finally Fiber, yet cable and fiber are both ran using fiber and both are broadband technologies. It's simply a gimmick developed by the companies that sell the product. Like using "HD" or the letter "i" in front of a product name to make it appear awesome.

Uh... no. Fiber Optics isn't used in cable nor dsl lines (phone lines). Verizon is NOT the first company to use fiber optics. In fact there's a few companies who exist and have been implementing fiber optics for nearly a decade now. And I have to disagree, with cable or even dsl line using fiber optics. If your home was wired via fiber optics, there would be no modem involved. Someone can't just order fiber optic broadband. Their development would have to have a contract with who ever is providing the services and equipment.

I do know that companies do in fact have a systematic way of marketing, producing, and releasing their products. They say that corporations have close ties with governments on the private side (private funding). So that they could develop products for them that tend to be a decade ahead of the populace's technologies.

For example, like the wireless/bluetooth ear piece. I remember long ago when I was visiting my family in Big Bear, California, and my cousin (who's in the F.B.I.) had a wireless earpiece for his PDA. This of course was almost 2 years before the bluetooth ear pieces even existed in the market.

[Uronacid]

Uh... no. Fiber Optics isn't used in cable nor dsl lines (phone lines). Verizon is NOT the first company to use fiber optics. In fact there's a few companies who exist and have been implementing fiber optics for nearly a decade now. And I have to disagree, with cable or even dsl line using fiber optics. If your home was wired via fiber optics, there would be no modem involved. Someone can't just order fiber optic broadband. Their development would have to have a contract with who ever is providing the services and equipment.

I do know that companies do in fact have a systematic way of marketing, producing, and releasing their products. They say that corporations have close ties with governments on the private side (private funding). So that they could develop products for them that tend to be a decade ahead of the populace's technologies.

For example, like the wireless/bluetooth ear piece. I remember long ago when I was visiting my family in Big Bear, California, and my cousin (who's in the F.B.I.) had a wireless earpiece for his PDA. This of course was almost 2 years before the bluetooth ear pieces even existed in the market.

Fiber Optic cable on the other had has been out for an extremely long time.

1978: AT&T, British Post Office and STL commit to developing a single mode transatlantic fiber cable, using the new 1.3-micrometer window, to be operational by 1988. By the end of the year, Bell Labs abandons development of new coaxial cables for submarine systems.

Late 1978: NTT Ibaraki lab makes single-mode fiber with record 0.2 decibel per kilometer loss at 1.55 micrometers.

January 1980: AT&T asks Federal Communications Commission to approve Northeast Corridor system from Boston to Washington, designed to carry three different wavelengths through graded-index fiber at 45 Mbit/s.

Winter 1980: Graded-index fiber system carries video signals for 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, at 850 nanometers.

February 1980: STL and British Post Office lay 9.5 km submarine cable in Loch Fyne, Scotland, including single-mode and graded-idex fibers

1980: Bell Labs publicly commits to single-mode 1.3-micrometer technology for the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, TAT-8.

September 1980: With fiber optics hot on the stock market, M/A Com buys Valtec for $224 million in stock.

July 27, 1981: ITT signs consent agreement to pay Corning and license Corning communication fiber patents.

1981: Commercial second-generation systems emerge, operating at 1.3 micrometers through graded-index fibers.

1981: British Telecom transmits 140 million bits per second through 49 kilometers of single-mode fiber at 1.3 micrometers, starts shifting to single-mode.

Late 1981: Canada begins trial of fiber optics to homes in Elie, Manitoba.

1982: British Telecom performs field trial of single-mode fiber, changes plans abandoning graded-index in favor of single-mode.

December 1982: MCI leases right of way to install single-mode fiber from New York to Washington. The system will operate at 400 million bits per second at 1.3 micrometers. This starts the shift to single-mode fiber in America.

Late 1983: Stew Miller retires as head of Bell Labs fiber development group.

January 1, 1984: AT&T undergoes first divestiture, splitting off its seven regional operating companies, but keeping long-distance transmission and equipment manufacture.

1984: British Telecom lays first submarine fiber to carry regular traffic, to the Isle of Wight.

1985: Single-mode fiber spreads across America to carry long-distance telephone signals at 400 million bits per second and up.

Summer 1986: All 1500 homes connected to Biarritz fiber to the home system.

October 30, 1986: First fiber-optic cable across the English Channel begins service.

1986: AT&T sends 1.7 billion bits per second through single-mode fibers originally installed to carry 400 million bits per second.

1987: Dave Payne at University of Southampton develops erbium-doped fiber amplifier operating at 1.55 micrometers.

1988: Linn Mollenauer of Bell Labs demonstrates soliton transmission through 4000 kilometers of single-mode fiber.

December 1988: TAT-8 begins service, first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, using 1.3-micrometer lasers and single-mode fiber.

February 1991: Masataka Nakazawa of NTT reports sending soliton signals through a million kilometers of fiber.

February 1993: Nakazawa sends soliton signals 180 million kilometers, claiming "soliton transmission over unlimited distances."

February 1993: Linn Mollenauer of Bell Labs sends 10 billion bits through 20,000 kilometers of fibers using a simpler soliton system.

February 1996: Fujitsu, NTT Labs, and Bell Labs all report sending one trillion bits per second through single optical fibers in separate experiments using different techniques.

Time Warner (a cable company) uses fiber land lines that hook up to a big box in your front yard or at the edge of your neighborhood and from there they run coax. Fiber to your house is total overkill as you will never reach your bandwidth limit on a coax cable.

[illriginal]

Interesting. Luckily I have Fiber directly to my house which then hits the ONT and from the ONT it converts to RJ45 all around the house. In fact one of the packages I can order gives me 50Megs down and 25Megs up.

[Uronacid]

Interesting. Luckily I have Fiber directly to my house which then hits the ONT and from the ONT it converts to RJ45 all around the house. In fact one of the packages I can order gives me 50Megs down and 25Megs up.

I saw your post above containing your U/D speeds. Your internet is trailblazingly fast. O-o What do you do with it all. xD

[illriginal]

I saw your post above containing your U/D speeds. Your internet is trailblazingly fast. O-o What do you do with it all. xD

Seriously? Download music and music videos consistently and play my PS3

At first I had the 3down / 1.5 up. Then I was like screw this... my online gaming experience is horrible. Bumped up the bandwidth and never again had an issue with online game play.

[Uronacid]

Seriously? Download music and music videos consistently and play my PS3

At first I had the 3down / 1.5 up. Then I was like screw this... my online gaming experience is horrible. Bumped up the bandwidth and never again had an issue with online game play.

Haha, nice. I rented Killzone yesterday. I completed the first level. The graphics are amazing, but to be honest I'm royally dissapointed with the clunky controls. It really wants to be a PC game.

[illriginal]

Hm... Never really been a fan of Killzone myself.

[Uronacid]

Hm... Never really been a fan of Killzone myself.

Yeah, I felt like I was using the nub in the middle of my laptop keyboard when I was aiming at the enemies. Every time I tried to get my cross hair on them it would move a little to slow or way to fast. >,<

[*BOSS*]

Turn down the sensitivity. Slightly helps.

[Uronacid]

Turn down the sensitivity. Slightly helps.

Slightly, It only makes the game a bit more bearable. The game still yearns for a mouse. :(

[*BOSS*]

Sad thing is, multiplayer has turned into a noobfest with random nades, shotguns that 1 shot 1 kill from over 40 feet.

[Jghelfi]

^ That does tend to get annoying..

well its just good to rape a few noobs once in a while..

[illriginal]

I'm sort of upset with the latest SOCOM. They added these stupid sensing controls and took away the "frog man" controller layout. And their maps are boring at the moment =\

[heyo-captain-jac...]

f*ck SOCOM, VALVe just broke the Source Engine.

[illriginal]

Valve?... source engine? I'm confused

What do you mean by breaking the source engine?


The only thing I heard about Valve, regarding their "source" is the rumor about Valve porting their software/games to Linux...

Here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti...linux&num=1

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Valve, the game developer company behind games running the Source engine, such as Half Life: Source, Episode 1, Episode 2, the upcoming Episode 3, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike: Source, Garry's Mod, Dystopia, Left 4 Dead, and Day of Defeat: Source, has made an update that DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.

It wouldn't be so horrible if this was the first time they did this, but nearly every update they make breaks everything.

Also: Valve needs to port to Linux. It would sell pretty well.

[mipadi]

The only thing I heard about Valve, regarding their "source" is the rumor about Valve porting their software/games to Linux...

Here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti...linux&num=1

That article's almost a year old.

[illriginal]

oh shit.... that sucks >,<

That's one thing I dislike about these new game consoles and especially these new games. You have to have internet connectivity in order to play the games, just in case there's any updates and also to make sure they're legitimate -.-

Effin pisses me off.

That article's almost a year old.

That's the only thing I know about them, that has ever caught my attention.

[SuckDickNSaveLiv...]

Just bought a PS3. Killzone 2 was garbage. But I was playing it on a projector and couldn't see shit. I'm going to get something and hook it up to my monitor at work and then I'll make my final judgment.

[Uronacid]

I've just gotten back into Halo 3, if anyone wants to play just give me a holla'. My gamer tag is "PillsDrugsBooze". Make sure you send me a text message or something letting me know where you're from. I'm really diggin' these new maps. :)

[illriginal]

Just bought a PS3. Killzone 2 was garbage. But I was playing it on a projector and couldn't see shit. I'm going to get something and hook it up to my monitor at work and then I'll make my final judgment.

eww... on a projector? Throw that PS3 onto a HDTV, preferably 50"+.

[*BOSS*]

cause KC got like 2gs just floating around somewhere

[Uronacid]

cause KC got like 2gs just floating around somewhere

We all have 2gs floating around. Just reach out and grab it.

[*BOSS*]

i dont

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I've always got 2Gs floating around. You people must be losers.