Supercomputer????

[JoLLyRoGer]

O.k. I just received this e-mail from a friend of mine at work. I just couldn't justify keeping this one to myself.

This is rich.. LMAO!

Ok gents,
> So, before I blow off at the mouth and start spouting untrue
> statements, I wanted to get your opinions and your factual thoughts (if
> their are such beasts) on this. I was listening to KFMA this morning
> during John and Franks "Tales of the G'd up," they reported on a VERY
> strange occurrence. Sony announced this week that 4000 of their
> Playstation2 consoles have been shipped to Iraq. US intelligence services
> are rumoring that Sadam Hussain is using the revolutionary gaming machine
> to control missile guidance systems. According to US sources, if linked
> together, the Playstation2 could offer enough computing resources and
> power to be considered a supercomputer. Reports also indicated that
> Congress had to rewrite or specifically "tailor" some importing laws in
> order for the console game to be imported to the US. Some sources fear
> that Hussain may be plotting a missile attack using this supercomputer
> technology. They also speculate that the Playstation2 if utilized
> properly could infact launch and control nuclear weapons or unmanned
> aerial assault vehicles.
>
> Now you tell me, compare a Playstation2 to a run of the mill
> gaming machine, and tell me, exactly how it could be more powerful that a
> PC? I don't know much about the "techie" specs on the Sony, however, in
> lieu of this report, I will find out! It sounds like a hoax to me, what
> about you guys? He*l, lets take a new Pentium4 system or an AMD 1.2 Ghz
> system, throw in 256MB of Cas2 PC133 RAM, or PC 800 Rambus for the
> pentium, Geforce2 Ultra 64MB DDR video card, the rest SCSI or new ATA
> technology, and you've got one HE*L of a machine. How does the
> Playstation2 out do this???? Either the computer Genius's of the world
> have decided to take a vacation without any means of modern contact, or
> their letting a 3 year old report the news............
>
> NoX

 

[thelanx]

Import laws prevent computers to be imported to Iraq, so the ps2 the the best they have got. There were some articles about that. It's probably just some kids in Iraq who want a ps2 just like we do.

 

[Zucchini]

iraq has been sent back by decades, anything is a supercomputer to them now

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

So you're telling me that there is a shread of truth to this??

 

[Stallion]

PS2, Cray...same thing.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Hey I've looked at some of those Cray's before on a their website, during one of my spells of infinate boredom................Bad @sss!!!

 

[StageLeft]

This is the best advertising sony could have hoped for; they're probabaly loving it. Its a pile of horse-sh*t. Saddamn isn't planning a bloody attack with his PS2s. Damn, whoever keeps writing these articles needs to be taken out back - and I'm glad somebody here mentinoed that PCs can't be imported to Iraq easily (I didn't know that), because yes a high-end PC can outpower a PS2.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Hey, there Skoorb. No need to get hostile, this is just a he said/she said cut and paste copy of an e-mail that a friend of mine sent be about something he heard on the radio. I honestly thought this was just a really bad joke. The only reason I posted it was for others to have a good laugh. Whew, lighten up..
Everyone knows it's all a pile of sh!t anyway. But it sure is fun to joke about.

 

[Zucchini]

Then again even mac's can be considered supercomputers hehehe

 

[StageLeft]

jollyroger NO!! You mis-interpreted my post. I wasn't getting mad at you, merely the sort of places that would come out with news like this. I appreciate the post

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Oh hey NP, my bad then. True though, it is amazing some of the things the media comes up with in their infinate ignorance and stupidity. I really get a kick out of it all. Sorry if I misinterpreted your message.

 

[StageLeft]

Thats fine, I was writing it and thinking it could be mis-interpreted and hoping it wasn't ;P

 

[TheDennis]

Actually I heard reports of the PS2 being able to launch missiles. But this is way back when they first released in Japan. They did a big recall on them and everything. I would say though that if that was true they would've fixed the problem and it wouldn't be able to do that now.

 

[TheDennis]

I found a link to the story on another website.


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