You fail to realize how big a bargaining chip that is. Intel would lose the ability to ship ANY of thier current non-itanium chips. Losing the X86_64 license would bankrupt intel in short order.
The queue system isnt that bad. The gear system is basically what makes or breaks an MMO.
Points grinding systems are garbage and always have been. Gated RNG bosses(and LOTS of them) as per Vanilla WoW and 3/4 of TBC are the BEST way to go. In fact there was no need for the burning crusade when it was released at all. They could have easily spent another year with minor updates to Vanilla. The biggest complaint I heard from most active guilds at the time was they were excited for the new content but they didn't really see the need.
It can get bothersome for the few hardcore players who are geared out the wazoo and need that one last piece of gear to complete thier epicness but it made the whole game feel more epic. Due to the RNG of it all etc seeing someone even in thier full Tier 1 set after tier 2.5 was released was pretty awesome. The old content got played and replayed and overgeared players could help newer players learn the content and essentially learn to raid at the same time. There is no learning curve now. Its gone. They've tried to replace it with bolted on and very frankly BAD systems that just don't work.
The raids are EPIC. They are what the designers spend a shitload of time on. The devs got pissed because at the end of Vanilla most people still hadn't even SEEN nefarian and they spent quite a lot of time designing BWL, not to mention AQ40 and harder content. The thing was I didn't see a lot of people complaining about that. All I saw was "Well my guild finally managed to down Ragnaros this week! On to Razorgore!!!!"
The move to 25 man raiding was also bad because it put too much emphasis on every single person in the raid performing at 100%. With 40 guys it was a bit easier to have someone not perform 100%, but at least play to the mechanics to make sure the raid didn't wipe. In fact many of the fights were doable with far less people than the maximum 40, which was entertaining in its own right.
Plus there are always those guys that are awesome and hilarious to have around that just aren't that good at playing. We carried at least two of these guys all the way through AQ40 purely for the entertainment value.
They've lost sight of it.
You may have someone in your L4D group thats bad but you like him IRL or something so he stays in because the other 3 of you can carry him. Same thing applies for MMOs.
My definition of masterpiece takes time into account. It took over 20 years for someone to release a comparable sci-fi movie title. No the original star trek movies were not comparable. Three, arguably four, of them weren't even as good as the original series, which was fantastic.
You don't understand how the force is supposed to work in lore. He has a size disadvantage in close combat, yes.
His strength in the force is what allows him to overcome this problem and lay a beat down. Size STILL matters not.
Without the force Yoda would not likely even be capable of such acrobatics.
People that keep saying that scene was bad need to get their heads checked. I don't know about the theater you were in but in my theater we were almost ALL on our feet cheering the little green dude on. Quite possibly one of the best moments in movie history.
This plinkett fellow sounds like the sort of too-crazy basement dwelling fan that would have a problem with this. Sort of like the single grumpy fat guy that wouldn't get up and cheer with us.
Yoda going all Rambo was to me the purest symbol of the Force being all powerful and your physical size and stature having nearly nothing to do with your actual strength when the cards are down.
Yoda was supposed to be extremely strong in the force. Being able to call on it to lay the smack down on some evil douchebag when it was absolutely necessary is just a part of that.
Yoda preferred non-violent methods when at all possible but some situations demand violence. I think this is one of the very few things they handled well in that movie.
Yikes. For the yoda fight scene alone I dub my personal list as follows:
V = IV > VI > III > II > Holiday special > I
If you include the Phantom Edit it becomes:
V = IV > VI > III > II > I = Holiday special
III was only so high because the special effects were very well done and I like eye candy. As a stand alone movie it was decent. Love story totally ruined II, slightly redeemed when Yoda went all Rambo.
I think Episode I skipped off the tracks so far because ROTJ had been the most commercially successful of the 3 at the time. Jar Jar was the response to the perceived popularity of the ewoks.
Don't know where you are, but the same is true of any car outside of its domestic market.
For example I won't buy a Volvo or a VW here in Canada because the repair costs are absolutely fucking insane. The same is true of pretty much every foreign car maker outside of a select few models(not companies, models) that sell like hotcakes for some unknown(to me) reason. Even those models only the regular maintenance parts are affordable. Wait till an exhaust header cracks or a fuel pump goes.
Dual Link DVI was invented at the advent of 3D monitors I believe... I'm beginning to wonder if thats not the trick here. From what I understand after reading a few quick articles the way this 3d works ends up transmitting more than twice as much data to the display.
The T220/221 I have no clue as to why there would be bandwidth restrictions... Though sometimes companies will simply install a common solution on new lines of products even where its not required simply to reduce cost on all product lines. The cost of dual link DVI should be something close to double the cost of single-DVI and the cost of the processors tossed into most monitors for post processing these days would be more than the cost of the DVI controller upgrade... so the cost of installing dual link would be negligible if they have a 3d monitor built on the same chassis.
Not on hand. I'll try to remember to grab one later. My space isn't nearly as clean as yours though, haha.
Also, you CAN do that with keeping fonts at a normal size but the thing is across the room so I still set it to large. Additionally due to the fact that the TV is over 4x the size of a 24" monitor the pixels are over 4x the size and smaller fonts look a tiny bit digitized, even though the resolution is huge. It went away a bit when I upgraded from 1080p so I could drop it down from the 200% size I was using but now its set to 125%.
2.75 MP on DVI on wikipedia is VERY patently wrong though. You can drive 2560x1440 on many new monitors over straight DVI and that alone is 3.6 MP.
I mean, the theoretical transport capacity of a DVI cable with just a sender/receiver processing upgrade is stupidly high. I'd much rather see them go to DVI-2.0 or some such if necessary. Would be ridiculously easy to make backwards compatible in both directions so that the DVI-2.0 only works if both ends have it.
They(being media companies) don't want that though because DVI is inherently an unencrypted tech and the whole drive behind HDMI and DisplayPort is actually HDCP and similar technologies. It has and had nothing at all to do with the actual technology. HDMI is literally DVI made small with an extra channel to handle DRM negotiations.
Both of those are 3D tvs, this one is 2d only, that probably makes some sort of difference. I'm looking for the one I have right now but it was hard enough to find in the first place. They still only sell them in Japan afaik.
Its hooked up right now on DVI-> HDMI with one of those simple converters and I've got a logitech surround sound system hooked up to the fibre out on the sound card. Tried straight HDMI but that didn't want to work well for some reason.
Gah, brain keeps reading this 4k x 4k as 4k.... as in 3840x2160. Since I have a TV upstairs being driven through a single link DVI port for that that... idk what wikipedia is on about.
Beyond that I have a 19" Phillips CRT that has a native resolution of 2560x1920(5mp) and VGA cables do that with crisper picture than I can get from even some of the best LCD's today, so the A to D converter is the problem. I've heard of much larger resolution screens as well, and I believe I saw one in a hopsital once but I never did get to verify that:(
From what I understand of LCD a A to D converter shouldn't even be necessary, they should be able to make analogue LCD displays. In fact they have made them for hospitals 30+ years ago. As I mentioned, no new connector tech has been/needed/ for quite some time. I think the only reason its been pushed is it gives the display manufacturers more ability to do some post-processing on it after its transmitted.
SVGA/XVGA could handle that just fine. Different transmit method but who fucking cares? It had the same quality, better in some cases. If it takes a swapping backwards a few years in connector tech to go forwards then something is seriously wrong.
There is no real need for new monitor connectors, and hasn't been for a long long time.
Dual-Link DVI will do almost double that resolution currently and they're not really pushing it at the moment.
That ones fairly easily dealt with after the fact. In fact many modern refueling trucks come equipped with air-tight locking mechanisms on the refueling lines. Diesel generators are inherently pretty fucking tough so if a gallon or two of water gets into a sealed tank while they're getting the refueling line hooked up, who cares? A few gallons won't make it out of the fuel tank all at once anyways and with the compression ratio on diesel turbines and engines it'll probably just cause some sputtering and vanish into steam.
On the second go-around you could even set up a self-sealed electronic gate inside the tank that you have to push a button to release. Presto, no more than 1 litre of water to X hundred or thousand gallons of diesel. If you leave the truck hooked up you can even refill the existing connected truck from another truck and never break the seal till the facilities tanks are full.
What we're talking about here is at most $1000/tank solution.
No, the biggest overclocker in the day was a 333 MHZ Celeron. It OC'd to 966 stable on air with a good heat sink, and maybe a table fan if you were running it hard:) The mhz possible out of that chip wasn't seen again till the Pentium 3/Thunderbird lines came out.
I didn't say I'm a genius, I said I tested at genius levels. There is a difference. I don't actually equate IQ score to actual genius. I know a gentleman who does car bodywork that I would call a genius any day of the week. The things that man can do with a welding torch, fibre glass, and a paint sprayer are amazing, and though I tested at genius levels I can't even begin to understand how he gets those things to bend to his will they way they do.
He also would probably register around 100-110 on an IQ scale simply because he has zero interest in most anything outside of body work and his family.
You are assuming inheritance as the proximal cause. I'm not tracing Einstein's lineage. He may have inherited some of his brains, but the more likely explanation in someone of his calibres case is a mutation that caused an over expression of certain genes related to intelligence. Honestly if they can find some of his genetic material somewhere I'd like to see them sequence his DNA. I'm sorry I didn't clarify that for you, I have a tendency to skip over things I feel are obvious. This is a problem of mine as it leads to misunderstandings over text-based communication's quite often and for a long time did in conversations as well. Its something I'm working on.
Regardless, you're arguing semantics and bullshit, accusing me of "hand-waving" when I provide the published papers backing up what I said. The guy I was responding to originally was being purposefully antagonistic there, and elsewhere. I just don't like leaving those posts unanswered because they can lead to misconceptions. I may have been fairly snide in my response because of my perception of his intentions.
Either you are playing devil's advocate, or you have some sort of direct stake, real or imagined, in the subject I was referring to.
What I refer to is the commonly accepted theory, and as someone else mentioned, without cloning genetically identical babies, at least 50 sets for something that can be as potentially controversial as this, and observing an IQ point spread of much more significance than a better education alone can account for.
Though it is anecdotal, but not the only anecdotal example I could lay hand to, my body work man could easily be in the 130s or potentially even higher but his father was a welder and... well you see where I'm going with that. He isn't inclined towards academics so he would never have been extremely high but I'm almost certain education could account for an upwards of 30 point spread on occasion.
They've been making the correlations for years, and now they have some real evidence.
The only reason this subject is complicated is for the reason I stated, along with some other religious crap along the lines of "All of gods children are created equal!". We aren't, we never were, we never will be.
I am smarter than most, I actually test at genius levels(Last time was in high school, it came back at 172), but there are people out there that make me look like a fucking chimpanzee. There is a DEFINITE genetic link, and there are mutations that cause a deeper expression of genius. Albert Einstein for instance. Even the shit he was humble enough to think he might have gotten wrong is turning out to be correct.
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You fail to realize how big a bargaining chip that is. Intel would lose the ability to ship ANY of thier current non-itanium chips. Losing the X86_64 license would bankrupt intel in short order.
The queue system isnt that bad. The gear system is basically what makes or breaks an MMO.
Points grinding systems are garbage and always have been. Gated RNG bosses(and LOTS of them) as per Vanilla WoW and 3/4 of TBC are the BEST way to go. In fact there was no need for the burning crusade when it was released at all. They could have easily spent another year with minor updates to Vanilla. The biggest complaint I heard from most active guilds at the time was they were excited for the new content but they didn't really see the need.
It can get bothersome for the few hardcore players who are geared out the wazoo and need that one last piece of gear to complete thier epicness but it made the whole game feel more epic. Due to the RNG of it all etc seeing someone even in thier full Tier 1 set after tier 2.5 was released was pretty awesome. The old content got played and replayed and overgeared players could help newer players learn the content and essentially learn to raid at the same time. There is no learning curve now. Its gone. They've tried to replace it with bolted on and very frankly BAD systems that just don't work.
The raids are EPIC. They are what the designers spend a shitload of time on. The devs got pissed because at the end of Vanilla most people still hadn't even SEEN nefarian and they spent quite a lot of time designing BWL, not to mention AQ40 and harder content. The thing was I didn't see a lot of people complaining about that. All I saw was "Well my guild finally managed to down Ragnaros this week! On to Razorgore!!!!"
The move to 25 man raiding was also bad because it put too much emphasis on every single person in the raid performing at 100%. With 40 guys it was a bit easier to have someone not perform 100%, but at least play to the mechanics to make sure the raid didn't wipe. In fact many of the fights were doable with far less people than the maximum 40, which was entertaining in its own right.
Plus there are always those guys that are awesome and hilarious to have around that just aren't that good at playing. We carried at least two of these guys all the way through AQ40 purely for the entertainment value.
They've lost sight of it.
You may have someone in your L4D group thats bad but you like him IRL or something so he stays in because the other 3 of you can carry him. Same thing applies for MMOs.
My definition of masterpiece takes time into account. It took over 20 years for someone to release a comparable sci-fi movie title. No the original star trek movies were not comparable. Three, arguably four, of them weren't even as good as the original series, which was fantastic.
You don't understand how the force is supposed to work in lore. He has a size disadvantage in close combat, yes.
His strength in the force is what allows him to overcome this problem and lay a beat down. Size STILL matters not.
Without the force Yoda would not likely even be capable of such acrobatics.
People that keep saying that scene was bad need to get their heads checked. I don't know about the theater you were in but in my theater we were almost ALL on our feet cheering the little green dude on. Quite possibly one of the best moments in movie history.
This plinkett fellow sounds like the sort of too-crazy basement dwelling fan that would have a problem with this. Sort of like the single grumpy fat guy that wouldn't get up and cheer with us.
I'd like to not do that as I'd like to continue pretending they don't exist.
They're worse than the damned holiday special >_
Yoda going all Rambo was to me the purest symbol of the Force being all powerful and your physical size and stature having nearly nothing to do with your actual strength when the cards are down.
Yoda was supposed to be extremely strong in the force. Being able to call on it to lay the smack down on some evil douchebag when it was absolutely necessary is just a part of that.
Yoda preferred non-violent methods when at all possible but some situations demand violence. I think this is one of the very few things they handled well in that movie.
Yikes. For the yoda fight scene alone I dub my personal list as follows:
V = IV > VI > III > II > Holiday special > I
If you include the Phantom Edit it becomes:
V = IV > VI > III > II > I = Holiday special
III was only so high because the special effects were very well done and I like eye candy. As a stand alone movie it was decent. Love story totally ruined II, slightly redeemed when Yoda went all Rambo.
I think Episode I skipped off the tracks so far because ROTJ had been the most commercially successful of the 3 at the time. Jar Jar was the response to the perceived popularity of the ewoks.
Episodes I through III.
IV through VI were masterpieces, but given recent events it had very little to do with George Lucas, whatever George likes to think.
In fact I most recently bought & installed windows 8 just to eke out a bit more gaming performance.
Its honestly a fantastic OS(for windows) once you get rid of the thing where they try to force you to use a tablet interface with a mouse & keyboard.
I also keep most of the PC's in my house on Windows because nothing except my router plays nice with linux for some reason.
Don't know where you are, but the same is true of any car outside of its domestic market.
For example I won't buy a Volvo or a VW here in Canada because the repair costs are absolutely fucking insane. The same is true of pretty much every foreign car maker outside of a select few models(not companies, models) that sell like hotcakes for some unknown(to me) reason. Even those models only the regular maintenance parts are affordable. Wait till an exhaust header cracks or a fuel pump goes.
Dual Link DVI was invented at the advent of 3D monitors I believe... I'm beginning to wonder if thats not the trick here. From what I understand after reading a few quick articles the way this 3d works ends up transmitting more than twice as much data to the display.
The T220/221 I have no clue as to why there would be bandwidth restrictions... Though sometimes companies will simply install a common solution on new lines of products even where its not required simply to reduce cost on all product lines. The cost of dual link DVI should be something close to double the cost of single-DVI and the cost of the processors tossed into most monitors for post processing these days would be more than the cost of the DVI controller upgrade... so the cost of installing dual link would be negligible if they have a 3d monitor built on the same chassis.
Not on hand. I'll try to remember to grab one later. My space isn't nearly as clean as yours though, haha.
Also, you CAN do that with keeping fonts at a normal size but the thing is across the room so I still set it to large. Additionally due to the fact that the TV is over 4x the size of a 24" monitor the pixels are over 4x the size and smaller fonts look a tiny bit digitized, even though the resolution is huge. It went away a bit when I upgraded from 1080p so I could drop it down from the 200% size I was using but now its set to 125%.
2.75 MP on DVI on wikipedia is VERY patently wrong though. You can drive 2560x1440 on many new monitors over straight DVI and that alone is 3.6 MP.
I mean, the theoretical transport capacity of a DVI cable with just a sender/receiver processing upgrade is stupidly high. I'd much rather see them go to DVI-2.0 or some such if necessary. Would be ridiculously easy to make backwards compatible in both directions so that the DVI-2.0 only works if both ends have it.
They(being media companies) don't want that though because DVI is inherently an unencrypted tech and the whole drive behind HDMI and DisplayPort is actually HDCP and similar technologies. It has and had nothing at all to do with the actual technology. HDMI is literally DVI made small with an extra channel to handle DRM negotiations.
Both of those are 3D tvs, this one is 2d only, that probably makes some sort of difference. I'm looking for the one I have right now but it was hard enough to find in the first place. They still only sell them in Japan afaik.
Its hooked up right now on DVI-> HDMI with one of those simple converters and I've got a logitech surround sound system hooked up to the fibre out on the sound card. Tried straight HDMI but that didn't want to work well for some reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bDiJIcysBs
The 55" one thats on display there. Oddly enough it comes with an English display option for the menus.
What parts did you want? The only other relevant bit I can think of is that there are a pair of Asus HD7970s driving it.
They get some tearing now and then on some games with the crossfire but they're quite nice.
3 monitors is great for some games too but for the most part I hate the bezels.
Yes. Its connected to my gaming computer at the moment. Anything I throw at it through the xbox etc is of course topping out at 1920x1080.
Dragon Age Origins looks fantastic in that resolution with the HD res mod :)
bluetooth + screen + call drains the battery faster than it can charge as well.
Gah, brain keeps reading this 4k x 4k as 4k.... as in 3840x2160. Since I have a TV upstairs being driven through a single link DVI port for that that... idk what wikipedia is on about.
Beyond that I have a 19" Phillips CRT that has a native resolution of 2560x1920(5mp) and VGA cables do that with crisper picture than I can get from even some of the best LCD's today, so the A to D converter is the problem. I've heard of much larger resolution screens as well, and I believe I saw one in a hopsital once but I never did get to verify that :(
From what I understand of LCD a A to D converter shouldn't even be necessary, they should be able to make analogue LCD displays. In fact they have made them for hospitals 30+ years ago. As I mentioned, no new connector tech has been /needed/ for quite some time. I think the only reason its been pushed is it gives the display manufacturers more ability to do some post-processing on it after its transmitted.
It won't. DVI can handle that just fine.
SVGA/XVGA could handle that just fine. Different transmit method but who fucking cares? It had the same quality, better in some cases. If it takes a swapping backwards a few years in connector tech to go forwards then something is seriously wrong.
There is no real need for new monitor connectors, and hasn't been for a long long time.
Dual-Link DVI will do almost double that resolution currently and they're not really pushing it at the moment.
Slashdot husbands of even semi-suspicious wives around the world have to hide now thanks to this one AC.
Well done sir.
(Posting to hopefully clear my own name)
That ones fairly easily dealt with after the fact. In fact many modern refueling trucks come equipped with air-tight locking mechanisms on the refueling lines. Diesel generators are inherently pretty fucking tough so if a gallon or two of water gets into a sealed tank while they're getting the refueling line hooked up, who cares? A few gallons won't make it out of the fuel tank all at once anyways and with the compression ratio on diesel turbines and engines it'll probably just cause some sputtering and vanish into steam.
On the second go-around you could even set up a self-sealed electronic gate inside the tank that you have to push a button to release. Presto, no more than 1 litre of water to X hundred or thousand gallons of diesel. If you leave the truck hooked up you can even refill the existing connected truck from another truck and never break the seal till the facilities tanks are full.
What we're talking about here is at most $1000/tank solution.
Uh, Linux hasn't been bad at sound for at least like 3 years now. I haven't even had any problems with high-end creative cards.
Even before that it was just some configuration was needed. Now its just plug and play.
No, the biggest overclocker in the day was a 333 MHZ Celeron. It OC'd to 966 stable on air with a good heat sink, and maybe a table fan if you were running it hard :) The mhz possible out of that chip wasn't seen again till the Pentium 3/Thunderbird lines came out.
I didn't say I'm a genius, I said I tested at genius levels. There is a difference. I don't actually equate IQ score to actual genius. I know a gentleman who does car bodywork that I would call a genius any day of the week. The things that man can do with a welding torch, fibre glass, and a paint sprayer are amazing, and though I tested at genius levels I can't even begin to understand how he gets those things to bend to his will they way they do.
He also would probably register around 100-110 on an IQ scale simply because he has zero interest in most anything outside of body work and his family.
You are assuming inheritance as the proximal cause. I'm not tracing Einstein's lineage. He may have inherited some of his brains, but the more likely explanation in someone of his calibres case is a mutation that caused an over expression of certain genes related to intelligence. Honestly if they can find some of his genetic material somewhere I'd like to see them sequence his DNA. I'm sorry I didn't clarify that for you, I have a tendency to skip over things I feel are obvious. This is a problem of mine as it leads to misunderstandings over text-based communication's quite often and for a long time did in conversations as well. Its something I'm working on.
Regardless, you're arguing semantics and bullshit, accusing me of "hand-waving" when I provide the published papers backing up what I said. The guy I was responding to originally was being purposefully antagonistic there, and elsewhere. I just don't like leaving those posts unanswered because they can lead to misconceptions. I may have been fairly snide in my response because of my perception of his intentions.
Either you are playing devil's advocate, or you have some sort of direct stake, real or imagined, in the subject I was referring to.
What I refer to is the commonly accepted theory, and as someone else mentioned, without cloning genetically identical babies, at least 50 sets for something that can be as potentially controversial as this, and observing an IQ point spread of much more significance than a better education alone can account for.
Though it is anecdotal, but not the only anecdotal example I could lay hand to, my body work man could easily be in the 130s or potentially even higher but his father was a welder and... well you see where I'm going with that. He isn't inclined towards academics so he would never have been extremely high but I'm almost certain education could account for an upwards of 30 point spread on occasion.
They've been making the correlations for years, and now they have some real evidence.
The only reason this subject is complicated is for the reason I stated, along with some other religious crap along the lines of "All of gods children are created equal!". We aren't, we never were, we never will be.
I am smarter than most, I actually test at genius levels(Last time was in high school, it came back at 172), but there are people out there that make me look like a fucking chimpanzee. There is a DEFINITE genetic link, and there are mutations that cause a deeper expression of genius. Albert Einstein for instance. Even the shit he was humble enough to think he might have gotten wrong is turning out to be correct.