ShadowChild's Blog

School, Track, Web Development

Administrator — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:12:30 +0000

Well today was packed full of exciting things. Well here is how my day went… The previous day I went to bed knowing that the next day was going to down pore the whole day. I woke up at about a quarter to 6 to get ready for school. I did my normal routine:
-Brush Teeth
-Take Shower
-Get Dressed
-Eat
-Watch TV
-Leave For School
But during this whole 2 hour long proccess i never took the time to glance outside. But when the time came to gather my papers and books together to leave for school, I finally stared out into the rainy hell I was about to walk into. Knowing that I only lived close to 2 1/2 blocks away from school I did not take the time to ask my mom for a ride. So put my jacket up and walked to school. By the time I got to school, I was drenched from head to toe from the rainy hell. This was the first thing that tipped off my day. Now I was off to my 1st period class when i noticed I had forgot my school lanyard. So I rushed back to my locker to get it, when the bell rang….. In a sudden rush I ran back to my class to find my teacher redirecting me to the office. So I turned around and walked back to the office. There I was awakened by a tall massive figure, that is known as the principal. Now I was waiting for the long lecture that I was about to endure on “Why not to be late”. But after that I returned to my first period class to wait out the day…. 2nd period 3rd period 4th period 5th period 6th period 7th period 8th period 9th period… SCHOOLS OUT! Finally school was done with for today…. But only for about half of the school, I guess you could say I was one of the lucky ones that got to stay in school anothe 2 hours…. About 2:45 I was making my way down to the Field House for indoor track. After a bout 2 1/2 hours of running, I was finally able to leave. I was now walking back the same way I came thru that rainy hell back to my house, were my mom was awaiting my return for dinner. So about 30-40 minutes after dinner I decided to start this blog, and update the rest of my sites. During this blog post I got the idea to help my good friend intelliot with phpBB Star. So as I worked on building back up phpBB Star I logged onto AIM and MSN to talk to a few friends about other sites. Well this is were I am today. Well I guess you can say my day was pretty fun, if it wasnt for getting drenched and running down hall ways all day. Well this is were I leave you. Im off to bed now.. Good Night

The gaming revolution

Administrator — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:52:27 +0000

Well the release of the Xbox 360 platform has started alot of controversy. The Xbox 360’s:

2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievments * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players’ Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enahnced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Microtransactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Strem media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *

360 HW:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

Might not be enough to stand up to the PS3’s:
CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage
Detachable 2.5″ HDD slot x 1

I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

But not to be so stoked on those 2 release’s, the Nintendo Revolution is soon to be released!

What will the the gaming console of the year? We wont know until all 3 gaming consoles are released.

phpBB Star

Administrator — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:38:49 +0000

Well just recently i was given admin access to the famouse phpBB Star. It is a great site that the widely known intelliot has created. It was very big a while back but then it got hacked, and it went down for just over 4 months. But now phpBB Star has returned. The forum and site itself will be going under construction, but this will not interfere with the site’s main purpose. So come stop by at phpBB Star

Its here!

Administrator — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:09:54 +0000

Well after some time of looking over many blog’s, I decided to start my own. So now you guys can all experiance a little bit of my life. I will be updating this blog daily in order to bring you guys the latest. Well thats about it for now. I will keep you posted!