This is entirely server related, nothing to do with gamers.
In server land, the more cores you jam on a CPU, the fewer blades you need on the rack. The fewer blades on the rack, the greater the TPS on that rack, the more efficient the server farm.
WoW won't use all the cores, but Yahoo!, Ebay and Google definitely will.
HardOCP didn't really do any sort of statistical analysis. They gave min/avg/max on a few cards. Anandtech and Toms Hardware have a sample population and a methodology that blows the doors of HardOCP statistically.
HardOCP is just regurgitating age-old arguments that have been around since the dawn of benchmarks. I helped code 3DMark in 1996, we went through the same arguments then. Nothing has changed. Synthetic benchmarks serve a purpose: because playing the game and reporting how the card reacts on a random system to a random tester is far too subjective to be a real, usable scientific metric.
The challenge for benchmark developers is to continually struggle to defeat and driver-based optimizations, which is why all of the major 3D benchmarking sites actually go out of their way to talk about driver versions and their impact on the scores. This rigorous attention to detail is what makes a statistically valid analysis, not some angry fanbois who think they discovered a new hotbutton issue.
This is why we are still using countless seperate devices for our various everyday communication/information needs that can't communicate with each other,
clearly you have zero experience in the industry.
do you know how difficult it is to drive a standard across an industry with literally thousands of players, when each one thinks they have the best solution?
the problem is TOO MUCH innovation, not too little. technology improves faster than standards can keep pace, which is why there is a Cambrian (or Babel-like) explosion of somewhat connected devices.
just look at the HD DVD standard war, and that is just two, maybe three players.
plus, the perfect device doesn't just fall out of someone's ass and save the world. it requires an enormous amount of innovation and pure engineering labor, with constant twists in turns in planning and scheduling to bring a device to market. even if everyone agreed on the perfect comm standard, implementation variations would still bug devices for ages.
even with the intense pace of innovation today, IMHO we're a good 20~30 years off from seamless, ubiquitous connectivity. maybe even more: just look at how long it has taken to climb out of the x86/DOS box, and that was the easy part.
While I disagree with some points you make (evolution and God can be mutually exclusive depending on which book and dialect of said book you believe, humans out of Africa dilemma), you call out one of my pet peeves: The Discovery Channel.
Jebus that channel pisses me off. I think they do more to work against evolutionary theory than they do working to properly inform people. I don't know how many times I've seen some dumbass artists-representation of prehistoric worlds that make me want to wretch due to inaccuracy or sensational guesswork presented as fact. Hell, they rarely even get evolutionary theory correct, many times i've heard them focus on random mutation, when that is a tiny tiny part of the theory (in simulation, the less mutation, the better, as long as its above zero).
do you have double amputee and single amputee divisions?
what if one team can afford better prosthetics?
then it becomes more of a formula one competition, doesn't it? or will it become more like tour de france?
or, what if one runner has more shin on a leg, so the prosthetic is less efficient than the other runner? are there divisions for types of prosthetics?
you're kidding right? read about a period of human scientific study between 1936 and 1945, in Germany. then think about what role the public should play.
recouping costs? if your guild can't float repair costs from a raid, you need a new guild. the collective gold contributions from a mature (meaning 'grown up') guild is enormous.
Noble words that are supposed to silence the rabble rousers who dare speak the truth. The parent was for the most part correct, and you responded not with logic, but with trumped up anecdote.
You have disgraced your ancestors. By your logic, the black slaves that built america were cowards? Because they didn't live free?
But I don't need to use extremes to make my point. Look at how far society has bent already, and you can see how easy it is to subjugate the masses. Many people would rather become slaves at the point of a gun. Many people fantasize about rebelling against the rogue government come to take away their rights, but it will not be a soldier at your door with a gun, it will be a PATRIOT act. No, the fantasy you dream of will never come to pass, the complacent society will let the water gently go from warm to boil without blinking an eye. And you dare revolt? Perhaps you are armed to the teeth like the 2nd amendment claims to allow, but unless you have nukes, you have no chance against the might of the US government.
But go ahead and pretend all you want if it makes you feel better.
if you could make something require 500% more power but convert 200% more energy to heat (ignore photonic emissions), you'd have yourself a nobel prize.
has this guy built? i mean, just staying in the same house forever will save far more energy than building X number of new ones, regardless of how energy efficient they are. seems a bit self-inconsistent to me, dare I say hypocritical.
SuperBible implies... the Super Devil?
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Duke: This turn of events came after Vatican scientists announced today, that the devil is not the greatest threat to salvation. Due to last weeks discovery of the Super Devil. Religion reporter Dallas Houston has the story.
Dallas: Thanks Duke, well let me try and get you a clear picture of what we're dealing with here. Here's a photo of the devil, and here's the super devil. Now as you can see, there are some significant differences. The super devil is at least six inches taller, uh, he has a flying motorcycle, and a jar of marmalade that we believe forces you to commit adultery.
One of the funny things about self-image is that you don't see it head-on, the id doesn't allow it. Your response is a dead giveaway that you did care, and still do. See, you cared so little, that you went out of your way to tell the world you really don't care. Actions are more powerful than words you see.
"what is bad about gold farming? well, it allows some rich asshole to buy his way into a game he should have worked hard at. it destroys the concept of a meritocracy, and replaces it with aristocracy. hwever, there is no financial replacement for real skill. and so any such bad player behind a high level avatar will rapidly become apparent: a joke"
That's completely wrong.
What can lots of gold buy you in WoW?
1) an epic mount 2) two professions, which yeild 3~4 epic gadgets
That's it. Nothing else. Nada.
You can't buy the badass items, you have to play the game to earn your tier 4/5/6 gear. No way around that.
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This is entirely server related, nothing to do with gamers.
In server land, the more cores you jam on a CPU, the fewer blades you need on the rack. The fewer blades on the rack, the greater the TPS on that rack, the more efficient the server farm.
WoW won't use all the cores, but Yahoo!, Ebay and Google definitely will.
any sort of statistical analysis.
HardOCP didn't really do any sort of statistical analysis. They gave min/avg/max on a few cards. Anandtech and Toms Hardware have a sample population and a methodology that blows the doors of HardOCP statistically.
HardOCP is just regurgitating age-old arguments that have been around since the dawn of benchmarks. I helped code 3DMark in 1996, we went through the same arguments then. Nothing has changed. Synthetic benchmarks serve a purpose: because playing the game and reporting how the card reacts on a random system to a random tester is far too subjective to be a real, usable scientific metric.
The challenge for benchmark developers is to continually struggle to defeat and driver-based optimizations, which is why all of the major 3D benchmarking sites actually go out of their way to talk about driver versions and their impact on the scores. This rigorous attention to detail is what makes a statistically valid analysis, not some angry fanbois who think they discovered a new hotbutton issue.
Locksmith 3.0 FTW!
So after wiki'ing to figure out how this compares to the Coleman 1,000,000 candle power jobber, i discover i can't just play unit games:
candlepower is lumins / sr
I have to focus my few remaining neurons on my job, so could someone else please explain how the two measurements compare?
Thank-yee.
Those are just excuses to NOT be dedicated and driven and make your dreams and goals reality.
Either you are Steve Jobs, or a complete moron.
This is why we are still using countless seperate devices for our various everyday communication/information needs that can't communicate with each other,
clearly you have zero experience in the industry.
do you know how difficult it is to drive a standard across an industry with literally thousands of players, when each one thinks they have the best solution?
the problem is TOO MUCH innovation, not too little. technology improves faster than standards can keep pace, which is why there is a Cambrian (or Babel-like) explosion of somewhat connected devices.
just look at the HD DVD standard war, and that is just two, maybe three players.
plus, the perfect device doesn't just fall out of someone's ass and save the world. it requires an enormous amount of innovation and pure engineering labor, with constant twists in turns in planning and scheduling to bring a device to market. even if everyone agreed on the perfect comm standard, implementation variations would still bug devices for ages.
even with the intense pace of innovation today, IMHO we're a good 20~30 years off from seamless, ubiquitous connectivity. maybe even more: just look at how long it has taken to climb out of the x86/DOS box, and that was the easy part.
While I disagree with some points you make (evolution and God can be mutually exclusive depending on which book and dialect of said book you believe, humans out of Africa dilemma), you call out one of my pet peeves: The Discovery Channel.
Jebus that channel pisses me off. I think they do more to work against evolutionary theory than they do working to properly inform people. I don't know how many times I've seen some dumbass artists-representation of prehistoric worlds that make me want to wretch due to inaccuracy or sensational guesswork presented as fact. Hell, they rarely even get evolutionary theory correct, many times i've heard them focus on random mutation, when that is a tiny tiny part of the theory (in simulation, the less mutation, the better, as long as its above zero).
That channel needs a serious scientific overhaul.
this gets dicey.
do you have double amputee and single amputee divisions?
what if one team can afford better prosthetics?
then it becomes more of a formula one competition, doesn't it? or will it become more like tour de france?
or, what if one runner has more shin on a leg, so the prosthetic is less efficient than the other runner? are there divisions for types of prosthetics?
yikes.
you're kidding right? read about a period of human scientific study between 1936 and 1945, in Germany. then think about what role the public should play.
recouping costs? if your guild can't float repair costs from a raid, you need a new guild. the collective gold contributions from a mature (meaning 'grown up') guild is enormous.
...it will land with a "kerPLUNK!" into a half full goblet of mead at the foot of Zeus.
Noble words that are supposed to silence the rabble rousers who dare speak the truth. The parent was for the most part correct, and you responded not with logic, but with trumped up anecdote.
You have disgraced your ancestors. By your logic, the black slaves that built america were cowards? Because they didn't live free?
But I don't need to use extremes to make my point. Look at how far society has bent already, and you can see how easy it is to subjugate the masses. Many people would rather become slaves at the point of a gun. Many people fantasize about rebelling against the rogue government come to take away their rights, but it will not be a soldier at your door with a gun, it will be a PATRIOT act. No, the fantasy you dream of will never come to pass, the complacent society will let the water gently go from warm to boil without blinking an eye. And you dare revolt? Perhaps you are armed to the teeth like the 2nd amendment claims to allow, but unless you have nukes, you have no chance against the might of the US government.
But go ahead and pretend all you want if it makes you feel better.
power = heat
if you could make something require 500% more power but convert 200% more energy to heat (ignore photonic emissions), you'd have yourself a nobel prize.
i'm just sayin.
Well, no wonder "Mr Joe Schmoe WWF Nascar" would get his panties in a bunch if he saw a protoboard with some LED's and play-doh!!!
That's pretty much the typical Hollywood depiction of a bomb!!!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to paint a squirt gun black and walk into a kindergarten,
If you were trying to make an analogy, let me correct it for you. A similar comparison would be:
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to paint a banana black and walk into a kindergarten..."
has this guy built? i mean, just staying in the same house forever will save far more energy than building X number of new ones, regardless of how energy efficient they are. seems a bit self-inconsistent to me, dare I say hypocritical.
Duke: This turn of events came after Vatican scientists announced today, that the devil is not the greatest threat to salvation. Due to last weeks discovery of the Super Devil. Religion reporter Dallas Houston has the story.
Dallas: Thanks Duke, well let me try and get you a clear picture of what we're dealing with here. Here's a photo of the devil, and here's the super devil. Now as you can see, there are some significant differences. The super devil is at least six inches taller, uh, he has a flying motorcycle, and a jar of marmalade that we believe forces you to commit adultery.
The entire game is a grind. You cannot do anything meaningful in WoW in less than one 3 hour sitting.
Variety in leveling? Puh-leaz.
Here's your variety:
99% of the quests = kill X number of monsters or collect X number of items
0.5% of the quests = drop some bombs
0.5% of the quests = talk to someone
"This is a bit of a Pandora's box and once we open it, it will be just the tip of the iceberg."
Did anyone else think:
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards! Checkmate." - Zapp Brannigan
One of the funny things about self-image is that you don't see it head-on, the id doesn't allow it. Your response is a dead giveaway that you did care, and still do. See, you cared so little, that you went out of your way to tell the world you really don't care. Actions are more powerful than words you see.
Vicious thing, that subconscious ego...
The fucker sure did milk his patented "null X" concept for all it was worth. :-)
Screw Exchange.
Then Sunbird is doomed to a small niche.
Apparently you've missed the last 10 "revolutions".
Of course sticks-and-stones still applies.
I'm just pointing out a gaping hole in your earlier strategy.
And we are at (almost) that level, but I guess you aren't old enough to remember the "Star Wars Kid" days.
Too bad primal nether is BoP for all those fancy enchants, and BoE blue/purple aren't as good as tier'd BC gear.
"what is bad about gold farming? well, it allows some rich asshole to buy his way into a game he should have worked hard at. it destroys the concept of a meritocracy, and replaces it with aristocracy. hwever, there is no financial replacement for real skill. and so any such bad player behind a high level avatar will rapidly become apparent: a joke"
That's completely wrong.
What can lots of gold buy you in WoW?
1) an epic mount
2) two professions, which yeild 3~4 epic gadgets
That's it. Nothing else. Nada.
You can't buy the badass items, you have to play the game to earn your tier 4/5/6 gear. No way around that.