Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!mpls-transit-01.news.qwest.net!199.218.7.141.MISMATCH!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.sfu.ca!not-for-mail From: archang@sfu.ca (Andrew Ryan Chang) Newsgroups: alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube,alt.games.video.sony-playstation2,japan.videogames.playstation,microsoft.public.xbox,rec.games.video.nintendo,rec.games.video.sega,rec.games.video.sony,uk.games.video.playstation,uk.games.video.xbox Subject: Re: Sony cuts down PS3 capability Followup-To: rec.games.video.sony Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <11d5fpubtihtf3c@corp.supernews.com> <11d5rpik65t85c1@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fraser.host.sfu.ca X-Trace: morgoth.sfu.ca 1121128546 7179 192.168.100.25 (12 Jul 2005 00:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@morgoth.sfu.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:35:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test70 (17 January 1999) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.videogames.playstation:344 Doug Jacobs wrote: >And, again, I ask what is the point of including gigabit ethernet on this >thing when the majority of households with networks are either using >802.11b (~10mbps if you're lucky), 802.11g (~50-100mbps) or plain old >100mbps ethernet. The point was to win the features and hype war, which was why a bunch of essentially useless features were included in the E3 announcement. followups to rgv.sony -- Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. -- Tyler Durden, FIGHT CLUB (1999)