17th February 2006, 1:20 PM
It could also be purely cosmetic? It isn't unheard of...
At any rate, even USB 2.0 doesn't have the transfer rates needed to make using it as a RAM port a viable solution. The only possible way is if Nintendo actually has their own transfer method in those USB ports on top of standard USB 2.0, something with speeds comperable to standard RAM ports. There is an up and coming standard that will however allow RAM (and even processors and whatever else you could want) to use some new style ports.
Yes, I understand the DS needs a network to connect to, but you don't plug the dongle into your DS. You plug it into your PC. If the Revolution has wifi built right into it, why would I plug the dongle into the Revolution rather than the PC?
To EM: It isn't that lack of evidence means something can't be so. It is that lack of evidence means there is no reason to think it IS so. After all, if whatever it is was to have any effect on us, that would BE evidence.
And yes, imagination is a great thing. Just remember the difference between fantasy and reality.
At any rate, even USB 2.0 doesn't have the transfer rates needed to make using it as a RAM port a viable solution. The only possible way is if Nintendo actually has their own transfer method in those USB ports on top of standard USB 2.0, something with speeds comperable to standard RAM ports. There is an up and coming standard that will however allow RAM (and even processors and whatever else you could want) to use some new style ports.
Quote:okay you sound very confused and you're making me confused. The DS has built in wifi, as in, it can connect to a network wirelessly. However it must have a network to connect to. the dongle plugs in to your computer and shares the connection you have to the internet so that your DS can go online, that's basically the idea for why would need a dongle for the rev. or, alternatively, plug the USB directly in to your modem, that method would give a dedicated line for just the Rev. And the third option would be to connect the rev's USB directly to a wifi router which could sit next to the rev.
Yes, I understand the DS needs a network to connect to, but you don't plug the dongle into your DS. You plug it into your PC. If the Revolution has wifi built right into it, why would I plug the dongle into the Revolution rather than the PC?
To EM: It isn't that lack of evidence means something can't be so. It is that lack of evidence means there is no reason to think it IS so. After all, if whatever it is was to have any effect on us, that would BE evidence.
And yes, imagination is a great thing. Just remember the difference between fantasy and reality.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)