Graphics look the same between PS3 and PS4. What is another order of magnitude of cores going to do?
It's not just graphics, although the PS4 definitely looks better than PS3 when connected to an expensive TV. The extra processing power also enables games to provide better quality of life. The PS3 classic Dark Souls routinely went below 20 FPS, while PS4's Dark Souls Remastered is three times smoother at 60 FPS. The PS4 version of Valkyria Chronicles loads three times faster than the PS3 version.
Oh wait, no, SOMEBODY DID do it: Steam. If you install Steam for Windows, Mac or Linux I think you can run any Steam game exactly the same on any of the three.
Nobody has created a Steam word processor or a Steam photo editor... but I can't see any compelling reason not to.
Steam apps are not cross-platform unless the developer builds support for that platform into their app. Most Steam games run only on Windows.
To take advantage of 4k content, you will also have to upgrade your EYES, because human visual perception is incapable of perceiving more than 4000x4000 pixels!
The human eye's resolution depends on how far away you expect the screen to be. A VR display, which takes up your entire visual field, could easily use 8K or 10K resolution for an appreciable increase in quality.
Millarworld does not own the rights to Old Man Logan, and Mark Millar is not involved with the current Old Man Logan comics. Millar wrote the original miniseries for Marvel, but only his original properties now belong to Netflix.
The parts of the brain that most of us would like to be technologically enhanced - memory, facial recognition, mental math - are very poorly understood. Even if we had a device allowing us to fire neurons on command, we have no idea how to write a program that helps with these problems.
Musk is smart to focus on medical applications, where even an implant that functions poorly is much better than the alternative. It's a lot easier to make a pacemaker than to perform a heart transplant, and the same holds true for the brain.
The PC exclusive Ashes of the Singularity is a standard in graphics benchmarks, including the one from the article. Even clearly console-oriented games like Dark Souls 3 are significantly better in graphical quality, framerate and load times with expensive hardware like this.
That's why Microsoft is sweetening the deal by adding its own first-party titles like Halo 5, just like Netflix became increasingly reliant on its own new content.
A gun has legitimate and illegitimate purposes, but assault rifles are still banned. If the only reasonable purpose for a crack is piracy, "it's just a tool" isn't a valid defense.
The Albermarle County Circuit Court is not exactly a hotbed of left-wing activity. This judge isn't striking a righteous blow against Cuccinelli, he's doing his job.
He told me that the Sodom and Gomorrah story is about hospitality law and not homosexuality.
This is supported by Ezekiel chapter 16:
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me.
The men of Sodom were certainly sodomites, but that's not why their city burned.
If I had to start with assembly I would have left the programming field entirely after that first high school course. Fortunately, they started me on something more approachable (C++, although Python would have been even better) where you can have a working program within an hour of sitting down at the keyboard for the first time.
Yes, if you pulled everybody out of Iraq and Afghanistan tomorrow you could fund this health care bill.
But that would cause far more people to die than health reform would save.
but college students are some of the most strongly connected people around. They are more likely to be friends with their neighbors (who all share their age and occupation), Facebook adoption rates in their social circle are very high, and they have a very strong overlap between work, living arrangements and social life.
This isn't generally worrisome for the rest of us, who aren't Facebook friends with everyone on our street or office building.
I remember EditPad's "Text encoding mismatch" error message, although it's a paragraph of obtuse text relating to something no normal user ever checks.
Why? Because instead of saying "OK" at the bottom, the button said "Bummer."
I thought the most valuable part of motion capture data was the actor's face, as it's the most difficult to simulate in CG. This is a neat system, especially for the price, but it doesn't provide the best feature of the original.
A side-scroller probably wouldn't improve your peripheral vision at all, because your eyes are generally focused on the right side of the screen rather than the center.
A first-person shooter or racing game, on the other hand, requires you to look at the center of the screen fairly often but also to be alert to quick developments on the edge of the screen. Of course, you'd have to be very close to the monitor to actually exercise the edge of your vision in this way.
Deep within Microsoft's help site, there is a process that lets you consolidate all your downloaded stuff, licenses, etc. onto a single Xbox so that anyone can use them. But you can only run this once a year. Do it wisely!
We didn't buy Bioshock and give it all these Game of the Year awards because we liked the mechanics. The game is impressive because of its atmosphere, its unfolding mystery, and the sprawling world it invites you to discover while fending off hordes of bad guys. The actual enemy killing part is the least interesting portion of the game, but it's the only part of the game that would translate to a cell phone.
He's not a 25-year-old Wal-Mart veteran, he's a 25-year Wal-Mart veteran - i.e. he's been at the place for 25 years. Just the kind of guy you want to open a new store.
Instead of throwing a $100 graphics card into your old computer to play four-year-old games like Half-Life 2, you could spend $100 on a PS2 or Xbox to play four-year-old games like Half-Life 2. Technological depreciation is only a problem if you're on the bleeding edge.
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Graphics look the same between PS3 and PS4. What is another order of magnitude of cores going to do?
It's not just graphics, although the PS4 definitely looks better than PS3 when connected to an expensive TV. The extra processing power also enables games to provide better quality of life. The PS3 classic Dark Souls routinely went below 20 FPS, while PS4's Dark Souls Remastered is three times smoother at 60 FPS. The PS4 version of Valkyria Chronicles loads three times faster than the PS3 version.
Oh wait, no, SOMEBODY DID do it: Steam. If you install Steam for Windows, Mac or Linux I think you can run any Steam game exactly the same on any of the three.
Nobody has created a Steam word processor or a Steam photo editor... but I can't see any compelling reason not to.
Steam apps are not cross-platform unless the developer builds support for that platform into their app. Most Steam games run only on Windows.
To take advantage of 4k content, you will also have to upgrade your EYES, because human visual perception is incapable of perceiving more than 4000x4000 pixels!
The human eye's resolution depends on how far away you expect the screen to be. A VR display, which takes up your entire visual field, could easily use 8K or 10K resolution for an appreciable increase in quality.
Millarworld does not own the rights to Old Man Logan, and Mark Millar is not involved with the current Old Man Logan comics. Millar wrote the original miniseries for Marvel, but only his original properties now belong to Netflix.
The parts of the brain that most of us would like to be technologically enhanced - memory, facial recognition, mental math - are very poorly understood. Even if we had a device allowing us to fire neurons on command, we have no idea how to write a program that helps with these problems.
Musk is smart to focus on medical applications, where even an implant that functions poorly is much better than the alternative. It's a lot easier to make a pacemaker than to perform a heart transplant, and the same holds true for the brain.
The PC exclusive Ashes of the Singularity is a standard in graphics benchmarks, including the one from the article. Even clearly console-oriented games like Dark Souls 3 are significantly better in graphical quality, framerate and load times with expensive hardware like this.
That's why Microsoft is sweetening the deal by adding its own first-party titles like Halo 5, just like Netflix became increasingly reliant on its own new content.
Serious question, how are people working in retail or supermarkets or places like that manage to live there?
They don't. Generally, anyone working a blue-collar job in San Francisco is commuting from far out of town.
Studies reveal that humans are also able to survive without a functioning X-Gene.
Same thing - prevented me from finishing the survey.
A gun has legitimate and illegitimate purposes, but assault rifles are still banned. If the only reasonable purpose for a crack is piracy, "it's just a tool" isn't a valid defense.
The Albermarle County Circuit Court is not exactly a hotbed of left-wing activity. This judge isn't striking a righteous blow against Cuccinelli, he's doing his job.
Except for this edition which has both versions on the same disc.
He told me that the Sodom and Gomorrah story is about hospitality law and not homosexuality.
This is supported by Ezekiel chapter 16:
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me.
The men of Sodom were certainly sodomites, but that's not why their city burned.
If I had to start with assembly I would have left the programming field entirely after that first high school course. Fortunately, they started me on something more approachable (C++, although Python would have been even better) where you can have a working program within an hour of sitting down at the keyboard for the first time.
Yes, if you pulled everybody out of Iraq and Afghanistan tomorrow you could fund this health care bill. But that would cause far more people to die than health reform would save.
but college students are some of the most strongly connected people around. They are more likely to be friends with their neighbors (who all share their age and occupation), Facebook adoption rates in their social circle are very high, and they have a very strong overlap between work, living arrangements and social life.
This isn't generally worrisome for the rest of us, who aren't Facebook friends with everyone on our street or office building.
I remember EditPad's "Text encoding mismatch" error message, although it's a paragraph of obtuse text relating to something no normal user ever checks. Why? Because instead of saying "OK" at the bottom, the button said "Bummer."
I thought the most valuable part of motion capture data was the actor's face, as it's the most difficult to simulate in CG. This is a neat system, especially for the price, but it doesn't provide the best feature of the original.
A side-scroller probably wouldn't improve your peripheral vision at all, because your eyes are generally focused on the right side of the screen rather than the center. A first-person shooter or racing game, on the other hand, requires you to look at the center of the screen fairly often but also to be alert to quick developments on the edge of the screen. Of course, you'd have to be very close to the monitor to actually exercise the edge of your vision in this way.
Deep within Microsoft's help site, there is a process that lets you consolidate all your downloaded stuff, licenses, etc. onto a single Xbox so that anyone can use them. But you can only run this once a year. Do it wisely!
"Democrats and Republicans are both evil in their own ways."
Yeah, but Democrats are evil only when they're in power. Republicans are pretty much evil all the time.
So the best way to reduce evil is to vote Republican?
We didn't buy Bioshock and give it all these Game of the Year awards because we liked the mechanics. The game is impressive because of its atmosphere, its unfolding mystery, and the sprawling world it invites you to discover while fending off hordes of bad guys. The actual enemy killing part is the least interesting portion of the game, but it's the only part of the game that would translate to a cell phone.
He's not a 25-year-old Wal-Mart veteran, he's a 25-year Wal-Mart veteran - i.e. he's been at the place for 25 years. Just the kind of guy you want to open a new store.
Instead of throwing a $100 graphics card into your old computer to play four-year-old games like Half-Life 2, you could spend $100 on a PS2 or Xbox to play four-year-old games like Half-Life 2. Technological depreciation is only a problem if you're on the bleeding edge.