There are many responses from people here that allege disgust and outrage at the sight of breastfeeding.
My advice is this: go to rotten.com and toughen up your pathetically frail minds a little bit. How can you be that sheltered? It's like a character from a comedy movie or something.
I get pretty much none with just the customised hosts file and Flashblock. The majority of adverts I (used to) encounter are from a relatively small amount of companies and their servers.
If i received a console game that dropped below 25-30fps when running on the correct hardware i would return it as defective.
GTA4 on PS3/360 does this. A ton of major games released later on in the PS2's life ran at 30FPS maximum, often dropping below that. MGS3, True Crime: SoLA, Project Snowblind, GTA:SA, there's a list a mile long. If you bought every game for every console, I'd estimate you'd be taking about half of them back.
It might be good. Part of the reason Vista was such a horrible release was the expectation of excellence created by developing it for so long. Vista SP1 is decent. Improving on that codebase seems a reasonable move.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that stuff. When people say "Hardware" I just end up thinking about the core components and nothing else. But you're right, that's a pretty important element and one of the reasons I recommend people build their own PCs if they're able.
Unlikely, if they're focused on results and not marketing. From what I've seen, adding more GPUs results in rapidly diminishing returns in the majority of cases - have a look at some benchmarks of Nvidia's tri-SLI for example.
Since GTA4 is an absolute whore for CPU performance, that's probably the limiting factor. If you're up for it, a C2D E8400 should improve performance a lot. Unfortunately you'd have to get a new motherboard.
The DRM isn't the problem, I think. It's just that they rushed it out for the Christmas shopping period knowing people would buy it. There isn't a demo so you can't even try it first to see if you're in the apparent majority that has severe problems with the game.
Actually, I don't think Rockstar 'get' the PC platform anymore. They actively prevented people from changing the game files so mods are impossible without hacks. They put mechanisms in place to prevent trainers from working so you can't have fun with silly cheats. The game requires you to get a Games For Windows Live account, and a Rockstar Social Club account. The atrociously poor performance, poor performance scaling and awful configuration options are just the icing on the cake.
I have to agree there. I prefer Windows over Linux, but that is definitely one area where Linux is ahead in an obvious way. It's a really silly complaint.
On the hardware side, I love Macs. Except for the prices I've paid for them, I prefer all my Mac hardware to Windows
Are you talking about older Apple PCs, or the newer ones? I thought all of them just used standard-issue PC hardware now. Intel CPU, Asus motherboard, Nvidia/AMD graphics, etc. Just EFI instead of BIOS.
But nVidia and ATI haven't realized that we passed the point of diminishing returns years ago. Mobility and battery life are what matter.
In the context of a card designed for desktop PCs, specifically for people who play games on gigantic monitors? You can't be serious.
And I know there are hardcore PC gamers out there, but there are only a handful of companies even bothering to push the high-end graphics, so you buy a $500 video card and there are exactly ZERO games that take full advantage of it.
Most modern games can use the full capabilities of this card. It's designed for people who want to play the latest games at extremely high resolutions with maximum quality settings. That takes an unholy amount of processing power. It's really the only use for a card like this. Most people won't buy it.
And as a bonus, you get SIGNIFICANTLY increased power consumption, and the video card addicts are just wasting resources so they can all whack-off to Shader 30.0 soft shadows on eyelashes.
Nobody who buys a dual-GPU card gives a singular shit about their power consumption, I assure you. They probably have hugely overclocked quad cores that require a Mr. Fusion to use on top of the absurd card.
I can see where you're coming from, the card is slightly silly. But the reasons you stated don't really apply; it's a niche part absolutely not representative of the overall state of video cards. They just market these things that way because it gives them a "Leading edge" image which goes over well with their typical market. I doubt it even helps 3D rendering, as far as I know that's a CPU-oriented field.
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There are many responses from people here that allege disgust and outrage at the sight of breastfeeding.
My advice is this: go to rotten.com and toughen up your pathetically frail minds a little bit. How can you be that sheltered? It's like a character from a comedy movie or something.
I kept on waiting for a punchline that never came...
It's their maturity that's the problem? Ha ha ha.
Trident: maim three web developers in a single strike!
I get pretty much none with just the customised hosts file and Flashblock. The majority of adverts I (used to) encounter are from a relatively small amount of companies and their servers.
Patriotic being accepted to mean "blind obedience and support of government" seems like a pretty big problem too.
effective, efficient, speedy and cheap, in that order.
Hah! You got the order backwards.
If i received a console game that dropped below 25-30fps when running on the correct hardware i would return it as defective.
GTA4 on PS3/360 does this. A ton of major games released later on in the PS2's life ran at 30FPS maximum, often dropping below that. MGS3, True Crime: SoLA, Project Snowblind, GTA:SA, there's a list a mile long. If you bought every game for every console, I'd estimate you'd be taking about half of them back.
Yeah! That stupid game won't run well at merely double the resolution of 1080p on mainstream hardware. God forbid.
No it didn't. It doesn't even scale well with more GPUs.
Get the Sorian AI, and Core Maximiser if you have a dual core machine. You won't regret it.
It might be good. Part of the reason Vista was such a horrible release was the expectation of excellence created by developing it for so long. Vista SP1 is decent. Improving on that codebase seems a reasonable move.
Your ex was an octopus?
...how are they in the sack?
We would, but unfortunately the bitch whore tricks module won't be implemented until kernel 3.1.00.00.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that stuff. When people say "Hardware" I just end up thinking about the core components and nothing else. But you're right, that's a pretty important element and one of the reasons I recommend people build their own PCs if they're able.
Unlikely, if they're focused on results and not marketing. From what I've seen, adding more GPUs results in rapidly diminishing returns in the majority of cases - have a look at some benchmarks of Nvidia's tri-SLI for example.
Since GTA4 is an absolute whore for CPU performance, that's probably the limiting factor. If you're up for it, a C2D E8400 should improve performance a lot. Unfortunately you'd have to get a new motherboard.
It's actually a pretty fast card. About the same as an 8800GTX, which will run any game you care for at quite reasonable settings and resolutions.
The DRM isn't the problem, I think. It's just that they rushed it out for the Christmas shopping period knowing people would buy it. There isn't a demo so you can't even try it first to see if you're in the apparent majority that has severe problems with the game.
Actually, I don't think Rockstar 'get' the PC platform anymore. They actively prevented people from changing the game files so mods are impossible without hacks. They put mechanisms in place to prevent trainers from working so you can't have fun with silly cheats. The game requires you to get a Games For Windows Live account, and a Rockstar Social Club account. The atrociously poor performance, poor performance scaling and awful configuration options are just the icing on the cake.
I have to agree there. I prefer Windows over Linux, but that is definitely one area where Linux is ahead in an obvious way. It's a really silly complaint.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Funnily enough, you really can. There's an RSS feed button on the user page.
On the hardware side, I love Macs. Except for the prices I've paid for them, I prefer all my Mac hardware to Windows
Are you talking about older Apple PCs, or the newer ones? I thought all of them just used standard-issue PC hardware now. Intel CPU, Asus motherboard, Nvidia/AMD graphics, etc. Just EFI instead of BIOS.
Jesus! Don't throw soap around here, you could hurt someone. The key is gradual exposure.
Haha, I didn't know that. Man, six dollars and the hardware is so much worse than the others. Sony and MS must be taking heavy losses.
But nVidia and ATI haven't realized that we passed the point of diminishing returns years ago. Mobility and battery life are what matter.
In the context of a card designed for desktop PCs, specifically for people who play games on gigantic monitors? You can't be serious.
And I know there are hardcore PC gamers out there, but there are only a handful of companies even bothering to push the high-end graphics, so you buy a $500 video card and there are exactly ZERO games that take full advantage of it.
Most modern games can use the full capabilities of this card. It's designed for people who want to play the latest games at extremely high resolutions with maximum quality settings. That takes an unholy amount of processing power. It's really the only use for a card like this. Most people won't buy it.
And as a bonus, you get SIGNIFICANTLY increased power consumption, and the video card addicts are just wasting resources so they can all whack-off to Shader 30.0 soft shadows on eyelashes.
Nobody who buys a dual-GPU card gives a singular shit about their power consumption, I assure you. They probably have hugely overclocked quad cores that require a Mr. Fusion to use on top of the absurd card.
I can see where you're coming from, the card is slightly silly. But the reasons you stated don't really apply; it's a niche part absolutely not representative of the overall state of video cards. They just market these things that way because it gives them a "Leading edge" image which goes over well with their typical market. I doubt it even helps 3D rendering, as far as I know that's a CPU-oriented field.