I don't know about everyone else, but I only use cruise control on the highway when I'm traveling 70+ mph. If I'm traveling at that speed on any particular highway then there had better not be any sharp curves!
Both curve radius and elevation are taken into account when determining speed limit. Here's a calculator. So this alone should make tracking a vehicle in front of you a bit easier.
I don't know if it's a sign of getting older but after playing GTA for about ten minutes I put the game down and decided not to play it or its sequels again.
Just something about courting prostitutes and being a druglord's monkey that wasn't appealing to me. Sure it was fun to drive around, but when I killed innocent sprites on the side of the road I felt bad.
Oh well, I think I'll go to kill some people in [insert your favorite first person shooter here] now.
Does NVidia's poor performace have anything to do with the recently revealed fact that it does NOT have 8 rendering pipelines as it advertised, but only 4?
"An Nvidia technical marketing manager confirmed to us that Geforce FX has 4 Pipelines and 2 Texture Memory Units that can results with 8 textures per clock but only in multitexturing.
However, Nvidia did say that there were some cases where its chip can turn out 8 pixels per clock. Here is a quote:
"GeForce FX 5800 and 5800 Ultra run at 8 pixels per clock for all of the following:
a) z-rendering
b) stencil operations
c) texture operations
d) shader operations"
and
"Only color+Z rendering is done at 4 pixels per clock"
We talked with many developers and they said me that all games these days use Color + Z rendering. So all this Nvidia talk about the possibility of rendering 8 pixels in special cases becomes irrelevant.
The bottom line is that when it comes to Color + Z rendering, the GeForce FX is only half as powerful as the older Radeon 9700."
Oh no! It's been two hours since this story posted and there are no comments! Did the sun explode and I not know about it? Are aliens landing and everyone's watching it on CNN? Did rapture occur and I not get taken!?! Did... Oh nevermind, it's Friday night.
Ok everyone do me a favor, after you've read the Tom's review PLEASE read the Anandtech review.
I started to feel sick to my stomach when I realized how sloppy and shallow Tom's review was done. Anand truly is "the wonderboy"; he reveals some highly critical issues and has some sweet rollovers comparing the antialiasing and anistropic filtering of each card. He reveals that at the same visual quality settings, the 9700 Pro tops the FX in almost all the benchmarks. "NVIDIA takes the crown! No question about it..." Oh paaleease Tom, research the product before you post! Kudos to Anandtech.
Who wants an Athlon XP 2200 or Pentium 4 2.8 when AMD and Intel plaster pre-releases all over and talk as if their next new thing is already out?
Not me... They are shooting themselves in the foot.
Why I can't use Linux as my desktop OS....
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No Photoshop, No Premiere, No After Effects, No Illustrator, No GoLive.
So basically if Adobe ported everything to Linux I'd be in... At least A|W Maya is available, only five more apps to go, c'mon Adobe!
[Let the GIMP flamers fly.]
I can't stand that the GeForce 4 is hardly an upgrade from the GeForce 3. According to the Inquirer, ATI is calling it the GeForce 3.5 (heh heh) because the chip really hasn't changed that much aside from the extra vector shader. Here's the article. And here are screenshots from an interesteing Powerpoint Presentation given by ATI. ATI accuses nVidia of "artificially keeping prices up by re-naming the same products."
I would've never known about the satire if it wasn't for those lawyers bringing it up. Now they have a cloud of negative publicity they'll want to get rid of... they're not the sharpest tools in the shed.
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I don't know about everyone else, but I only use cruise control on the highway when I'm traveling 70+ mph. If I'm traveling at that speed on any particular highway then there had better not be any sharp curves!
Both curve radius and elevation are taken into account when determining speed limit. Here's a calculator. So this alone should make tracking a vehicle in front of you a bit easier.
Just something about courting prostitutes and being a druglord's monkey that wasn't appealing to me. Sure it was fun to drive around, but when I killed innocent sprites on the side of the road I felt bad.
Oh well, I think I'll go to kill some people in [insert your favorite first person shooter here] now.
Read about it here. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7920
"An Nvidia technical marketing manager confirmed to us that Geforce FX has 4 Pipelines and 2 Texture Memory Units that can results with 8 textures per clock but only in multitexturing.
However, Nvidia did say that there were some cases where its chip can turn out 8 pixels per clock. Here is a quote:
"GeForce FX 5800 and 5800 Ultra run at 8 pixels per clock for all of the following: a) z-rendering b) stencil operations c) texture operations d) shader operations"
and
"Only color+Z rendering is done at 4 pixels per clock"
We talked with many developers and they said me that all games these days use Color + Z rendering. So all this Nvidia talk about the possibility of rendering 8 pixels in special cases becomes irrelevant.
The bottom line is that when it comes to Color + Z rendering, the GeForce FX is only half as powerful as the older Radeon 9700."
Oh no! It's been two hours since this story posted and there are no comments! Did the sun explode and I not know about it? Are aliens landing and everyone's watching it on CNN? Did rapture occur and I not get taken!?! Did... Oh nevermind, it's Friday night.
Ok everyone do me a favor, after you've read the Tom's review PLEASE read the Anandtech review.
I started to feel sick to my stomach when I realized how sloppy and shallow Tom's review was done. Anand truly is "the wonderboy"; he reveals some highly critical issues and has some sweet rollovers comparing the antialiasing and anistropic filtering of each card. He reveals that at the same visual quality settings, the 9700 Pro tops the FX in almost all the benchmarks. "NVIDIA takes the crown! No question about it..." Oh paaleease Tom, research the product before you post! Kudos to Anandtech.
Who wants an Athlon XP 2200 or Pentium 4 2.8 when AMD and Intel plaster pre-releases all over and talk as if their next new thing is already out? Not me... They are shooting themselves in the foot.
No Premiere,
No After Effects,
No Illustrator,
No GoLive.
So basically if Adobe ported everything to Linux I'd be in... At least A|W Maya is available, only five more apps to go, c'mon Adobe! [Let the GIMP flamers fly.]
I can't stand that the GeForce 4 is hardly an upgrade from the GeForce 3. According to the Inquirer, ATI is calling it the GeForce 3.5 (heh heh) because the chip really hasn't changed that much aside from the extra vector shader. Here's the article. And here are screenshots from an interesteing Powerpoint Presentation given by ATI. ATI accuses nVidia of "artificially keeping prices up by re-naming the same products."
I just contacted 6 news-stations there in the McKinney area, and 2 said they would check it out. We'll see what happens.
Someone should contact the local public news-station down there in McKinney. (And while you're talking to them, tell them what a Slashdot is.)
I would've never known about the satire if it wasn't for those lawyers bringing it up. Now they have a cloud of negative publicity they'll want to get rid of... they're not the sharpest tools in the shed.
We contact you just about every day. Does "All your base are belong to us" sound familiar. You are on your way to destruction, make your time. --Cats