Very true. However, when someone submits a security patch to code via e-mail, it's no big deal. The person who did it gets a pat on the back for being a good boy and is off her merry way. However, when someone cracks a major website, doesn't do any damage, and then helps fix the error, he becomes a hero. Now, I'm not saying this is the proper reaction for the press, but it does show the fact that not all hackers are bad... At the same time, they did need to crack the database initially to discover the security hole. Sure, they could have done it on a smaller slaschode-based site, but everyone wants to be a hero, and these two are no exception. I'd give them plaudits and then forget about this issue.
It's actions such as this that should show the press and the general public that hackers aren't the out-to-get you script kiddie types they are stereotyped as...
It is not too infrequent that we see many articles labeling gamers as "fanboys" of 3dfx or nVidia... Let me tell you right away, that 90% of gamers are not "fanboys". Like it or not, most gamers will become fans of the company with the fastest across the board chip, which currently is nVidia with their GeForce2 Ultra (ATI took the title for a bit, but that is arugable due to ATI's humiliating performance with Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing). Us gamers are not the strange breed many label us as, we don't tend to flock to a brand due to any sort of allegiance to a name, but rather we will end up flocking to the company with the best, fastest chip.
Now, onto my main point. 3dfx has a very thin fanbase, and there is a clear reason behind it. 3dfx, time after time, again and again, has been making the same mistake of denying the future. We've heard the argument that the Voodoo3's lack of 32 bit color support (and the memory to handle that feature) is what started 3dfx on its downward spiral. Yet, 3dfx has AGAIN made this mistake with their resistance twoards using a hardware transform and lighting solution... Any game developer will tell you that Hardware T&L is the way of the future, and 3dfx is shooting themselves in the foot. And what about the FSAA card? 3dfx did have a point when the voodoo5 was released and creamed the GeForce 2 in antialiasing performance, but those days are over, and with new drivers, the GeForce 2 beats the voodoo5 in its home territory, FSAA.
So to conclude, us "nVidia fanboys" have reason behind what we believe in. As soon as 3dfx comes out with a better chip than nVidia, count me in on the 3dfx bandwagon.
-Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun
-The Darker Sector
-Website coming soon! Team Corrosive Quake 3 mods.
The problem I have here is that the difference between agp 4x and 2x is negligible in benchmarks, even at time nonexistent, so how ill 8x benefit us? The whole problem with AGP in the first place was variable sidebanding, one which AGP itself will never recover from. Maybe a new bus will fix this issue.
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Very true. However, when someone submits a security patch to code via e-mail, it's no big deal. The person who did it gets a pat on the back for being a good boy and is off her merry way. However, when someone cracks a major website, doesn't do any damage, and then helps fix the error, he becomes a hero. Now, I'm not saying this is the proper reaction for the press, but it does show the fact that not all hackers are bad... At the same time, they did need to crack the database initially to discover the security hole. Sure, they could have done it on a smaller slaschode-based site, but everyone wants to be a hero, and these two are no exception. I'd give them plaudits and then forget about this issue.
It's actions such as this that should show the press and the general public that hackers aren't the out-to-get you script kiddie types they are stereotyped as...
Now, onto my main point. 3dfx has a very thin fanbase, and there is a clear reason behind it. 3dfx, time after time, again and again, has been making the same mistake of denying the future. We've heard the argument that the Voodoo3's lack of 32 bit color support (and the memory to handle that feature) is what started 3dfx on its downward spiral. Yet, 3dfx has AGAIN made this mistake with their resistance twoards using a hardware transform and lighting solution... Any game developer will tell you that Hardware T&L is the way of the future, and 3dfx is shooting themselves in the foot. And what about the FSAA card? 3dfx did have a point when the voodoo5 was released and creamed the GeForce 2 in antialiasing performance, but those days are over, and with new drivers, the GeForce 2 beats the voodoo5 in its home territory, FSAA.
So to conclude, us "nVidia fanboys" have reason behind what we believe in. As soon as 3dfx comes out with a better chip than nVidia, count me in on the 3dfx bandwagon. -Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun
-The Darker Sector
-Website coming soon! Team Corrosive Quake 3 mods.
The problem I have here is that the difference between agp 4x and 2x is negligible in benchmarks, even at time nonexistent, so how ill 8x benefit us? The whole problem with AGP in the first place was variable sidebanding, one which AGP itself will never recover from. Maybe a new bus will fix this issue.