Almost all of the cards that support it are less than 200 dollars, namely the 8x00, 9x00 and GTX series. Only four or five of them cost more than that, mainly multi-GPU cards.
Speaking of eyesight, I've got to bring up the Mantis Shrimp.
They've got two eyes mounted on stalks, each one capable of moving independently, possessing IR and UV hyperspectral vision, trinocular depth perception and the ability to differentiate between varying planes of polarisation.
Pretty impressive. They're more famous for their attack method though; extremely powerful punches using armoured claws. They've been known to break out of aquariums by shattering the glass, and in the wild they can kill armoured prey such as clams and crabs in a single hit. Quite the species.
I'm afraid if anyone is 'backwards' in this respect it would be most definitely be you guys. There are only three countries in the world that haven't adopted the standard, the other two being Burma and Liberia.
You move even more unnaturally than in most games, so I doubt that. You instantly accelerate when you press movement buttons, you jump like you're on the moon, etc.
I think it's about as intentional as the stuttering.
It hasn't stagnated at all. You're equating cycle rate with performance, that's incorrect.
Each processor architecture does a different amount of work each cycle. Counting only the number of cycles is like comparing the running speed of two men by the number of steps they take each minute - but one guy may be a midget and the other eight feet tall. Clock speeds remain similar but performance doesn't correlate.
For example, a 3Ghz P4 isn't even half as fast as one core from a 3Ghz Core i7. The number of instructions per clock have been continuously improving with each new architecture.
Phenom is faster than Athlon X2. Phenom II is faster than Phenom.
Core 2 is faster than Pentium 4. Core i7 is faster than Core 2.
So you can have what you want - improvement continues in both per-core performance and the number of cores.
While his example is wrong (Nvidia's competitor to the HD4870 is the GTX 260 c216), AMD do have better value for money on their side. The HD4870 is evenly matched but a good bit cheaper.
The situation is similar in the CPU domain. The Phenom IIs are slightly slower per-clock than the Core 2s they compete with, but are considerably cheaper.
12 years ago we had 350nm CPUs and now we have 45nm ones, with 34nm coming quite soon. It's a really long time in this field, so it seems more optimistic than ridiculous to me. Of course Intel have made mistakes like this in the past, like how they predicted they'd go up to plaid-speed with the Pentium 4 clocks.
I've read that one of the most common failures is caused by heat warping the motherboard, breaking the solder connecting the GPU. It's something that shouldn't happen even after years of continuous use.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the user either. This is a mass produced home entertainment device targeted at Joe Shmoe. Not designing it with a large tolerance for poor thermal conditions would be idiotic.
Regardless of everything above, people still love their Xbox 360s. Just 3.8 percent of respondents said they wouldn't buy another Xbox because of system failures, according to Game Informer. And 36.4 percent of people who had an Xbox 360 fail have purchased more than one Xbox.
Valve does this as well. It creates some pretty interesting data, like the maps of where people die the most. It's easy to see how it can help designers.
The fact that it's such a noteworthy image really cements just how comically sheltered people are.
You really shouldn't find goatse terribly shocking. (For a child it would probably be funny, because BUTTHOLE EWWW). You'd see things hundreds of times worse in a medical encyclopaedia, or even just living on a farm.
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Almost all of the cards that support it are less than 200 dollars, namely the 8x00, 9x00 and GTX series. Only four or five of them cost more than that, mainly multi-GPU cards.
Read more than the first line of the index. There are problems with practically every aspect of the hardware, including GPU failure.
Speaking of eyesight, I've got to bring up the Mantis Shrimp.
They've got two eyes mounted on stalks, each one capable of moving independently, possessing IR and UV hyperspectral vision, trinocular depth perception and the ability to differentiate between varying planes of polarisation.
Pretty impressive. They're more famous for their attack method though; extremely powerful punches using armoured claws. They've been known to break out of aquariums by shattering the glass, and in the wild they can kill armoured prey such as clams and crabs in a single hit. Quite the species.
I'm afraid if anyone is 'backwards' in this respect it would be most definitely be you guys. There are only three countries in the world that haven't adopted the standard, the other two being Burma and Liberia.
You move even more unnaturally than in most games, so I doubt that. You instantly accelerate when you press movement buttons, you jump like you're on the moon, etc.
I think it's about as intentional as the stuttering.
CPU speed has stagnated
It hasn't stagnated at all. You're equating cycle rate with performance, that's incorrect.
Each processor architecture does a different amount of work each cycle. Counting only the number of cycles is like comparing the running speed of two men by the number of steps they take each minute - but one guy may be a midget and the other eight feet tall. Clock speeds remain similar but performance doesn't correlate.
For example, a 3Ghz P4 isn't even half as fast as one core from a 3Ghz Core i7. The number of instructions per clock have been continuously improving with each new architecture.
Phenom is faster than Athlon X2. Phenom II is faster than Phenom.
Core 2 is faster than Pentium 4. Core i7 is faster than Core 2.
So you can have what you want - improvement continues in both per-core performance and the number of cores.
Being a hypocrite doesn't make you wrong.
Anecdotal evidence doesn't make you right.
Nonsense. LAME ain't an mp3 encoder!
...is big in the demoscene.
Check out this 4KB realtime demo called 'Receptor'. (Download / Video)
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 STD
Honesty in advertising?
Yeah. When I wrote that I hadn't considered the games, that explanation makes more sense.
Hah! You call that a resolution? This is a resolution.
Well they did say "energy exploration" was one of its uses...
Troll mod? No, this is mostly true.
While his example is wrong (Nvidia's competitor to the HD4870 is the GTX 260 c216), AMD do have better value for money on their side. The HD4870 is evenly matched but a good bit cheaper.
The situation is similar in the CPU domain. The Phenom IIs are slightly slower per-clock than the Core 2s they compete with, but are considerably cheaper.
It's Nvidia. Aren't they always saying things like this?
It'll come about because BUY NVIDIA GPUS THEY ARE THE FUTURE, CPU SUX
That Crysis joke is getting old. You can run it easily on a $100 GPU now.
Now Arma 2...
Sorry.
12 years ago we had 350nm CPUs and now we have 45nm ones, with 34nm coming quite soon. It's a really long time in this field, so it seems more optimistic than ridiculous to me. Of course Intel have made mistakes like this in the past, like how they predicted they'd go up to plaid-speed with the Pentium 4 clocks.
I modded your post 'funny' by accident. Posting to undo.
I've read that one of the most common failures is caused by heat warping the motherboard, breaking the solder connecting the GPU. It's something that shouldn't happen even after years of continuous use.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the user either. This is a mass produced home entertainment device targeted at Joe Shmoe. Not designing it with a large tolerance for poor thermal conditions would be idiotic.
Regardless of everything above, people still love their Xbox 360s. Just 3.8 percent of respondents said they wouldn't buy another Xbox because of system failures, according to Game Informer. And 36.4 percent of people who had an Xbox 360 fail have purchased more than one Xbox.
Impressively, only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.
You mean "appallingly" right? Talk about low standards.
Valve does this as well. It creates some pretty interesting data, like the maps of where people die the most. It's easy to see how it can help designers.
The fact that it's such a noteworthy image really cements just how comically sheltered people are.
You really shouldn't find goatse terribly shocking. (For a child it would probably be funny, because BUTTHOLE EWWW). You'd see things hundreds of times worse in a medical encyclopaedia, or even just living on a farm.
AMD also have 40nm GPUs now (the HD4770). There's quite a variety.