why playstation 2 is big invention
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the most powerful games machines ever created
Emotion Engine is three times more powerful than an Intel Pentium III chip
Could those innocuous looking little boxes labelled "PlayStation" and "PlayStation 2" actually bring about a nuclear war? They conceivably could, according this this World Net Daily article. According to the article, the FBI and U.S. Customs are concerned about the possibility of Iraq, everyone's favourite dictatorship, using the game systems in military applications.
Two government agencies are investigating the purchases because the PlayStations can be bundled together into a sort of crude super-computer and used for a variety of military applications, say intelligence sources.
"Most Americans don't realize that each PlayStation unit contains a 32-bit CPU -- every bit as powerful as the processor found in most desktop and laptop computers," said one military intelligence officer who declined to be identified. "Beyond that, the graphics capabilities of a PlayStation are staggering -- five times more powerful than that of a typical graphics workstation, and roughly 15 times more powerful than the graphics cards found in most PCs."
What could Iraq do with such a primitive super-computer constructed with Sony PlayStation 2s?
"Applications for this system are potentially frightening," said an intelligence source. "One expert I spoke with estimated that an integrated bundle of 12-15 PlayStations could provide enough computer power to control an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV -- a pilotless aircraft."
Of particular concern seems to be the possibility of the machines being used as guidance systems and nuclear yield simulators, hardware that Iraq currently doesn't have. But is it really possible that a Playstation could guide a nuclear missile? -
stupid.
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This is old news already.
There's a possibility that it can be done with the early series of the PS2. However, they've changed the hardware in the later models such that this can't be done already.
Beside, if they want to put a supercomputer together, the XBox360 and PS3 will be better choices nowadays.
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They probably stop building after they see DOA or winning eleven...
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still..ps2 rox
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Wah, then they will have to get a very long controller to connect it to the ps2 which is strapped on the missiles.
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actually google..even tho its 3 times more powerful then a P3 and 15 times more than a 400MHz Celeron,it still fall behind the PowerPC-3 9.6GHz processors of the 360 console
and BTW its 128-bit and not 32 bits