Yes, they'll continue to get better and better- and the hardcore gamers will continue to pay over $200 for a graphics card to get the best of the best.
However, I think for many of us- we're going to see continually less and less gain for each extra $1 spent.
You can get a 1gig DDR3 video card from Newegg or TigerDirect for $15 after rebate these days.
Sure, that's not high-tech anymore- but it will run most games fairly well that non-hardcore gamers are likely to encounter.
If I were into first person shooters maybe I would need a $100 card.
If I'm playing the newest release of Worms, civilization, Football manager or FIFA the $15 card will work for me.
There will still be some hard-core graphics intensive games that will require whatever the cutting edge in graphics is at that point.
However, as old as PS3 may be- the fact is, that, for most of us non-hard-core gamers PS3 quality graphics is more than enough (and will be still in another 5 years time) for the vast majority of games we'd want to play.
We're beginning to hit a point of diminishing returns on graphics anyway- you're always going to be limited by what the eye can process, and the ability of the artists.... sure when 3D goes mainstream and is built into our monitors all of a sudden graphics cards will need to be more powerfull.
I personally can't think of one game I have played in the last 5 years where going beyond PS3 quality graphics would have improved the game for me.
Now, I'm not hard-core, and don't play the shoot-em up first person genre which tend to be the most gpu intensive- but people like me make up an increasingly significant portion of the game-market.
Look at how successfull simple things like Angry Birds can be.
If you're technical, stay technical. Get more technical.
I do well at programming- partially because I was brought up programming. My parents taught me to read before I started school- and my dad taught me the basics to program as soon as I could read.
Despite that- I'm not really technical.
I've always done decent at almost everything I've tried- just never been "great" at any one thing. This is frustrating because it gives me no natural path to pursue.
No one thing keeps my interest for too long.
Creativity is more natural to me than technical skills. I do well at programming because I've done it forever and was taught to do it right. I really don't see myself as a technical person though.
Thanks, good advice, and I am continually reviewing options and looking for viable alternatives- and will continue to do so. When kids are all in school- wife is back in college (and then to work) - it will make a transition easier.
I learned programming as a kid- wrote my first simple games on a Spectrum when I was only 5 years old.
Fast forward to University- I was a biology major who had no idea what he wanted to do in life but had took bunches of computer science classes to boost my GPA. Strangely enough- decided beginning of senior year there are no jobs in biology- and I could still graduate as a computer business major without spending any longer in college.
Took a "temporary" job programming straight out of university whilst I figured out what I want to do in life.
10 years later- I'm still programming for a living- I HATE programming. I find it mundane, boring, repetative- plus with every successive year it becomes less about programming and more about fiddling incessantly with environment settings.
I end up changing jobs every 18 months just to get a little bit of freshness. I used to think it was the jobs I hated- now I realise it's the actual programming.
I'd be willing to take a risk- change careers and take a pay-cut if it were just me; however, I have 3 kids and a wife who depend on my pay- and it's already a huge stretch making ends meet and we live very frugally as it is.
I wish there were some career I could segway into without taking a major paycut. I've been hoping for management- but despite constantly getting great reviews and the customers lauding me- I never get promoted (probably doesn't help that I never stay anywhere long- but after a year I start getting very derpressed with my job and just can't take waiting).
Hopefully my wife will finish college one day and get a real job so I can change careers- until then...
Yes... programming is extremely depressing if it isn't something you enjoy.
I concur- the eeePCs were very well made for the price.
The screens do not take having a heavy Cuisinart electric griddler dropped on them from a height of 6ft... but other than that they're OK... and the computer part still works even if the screen doesn't.
I grew up with bee hives in my back yard never once got stung.
It's actually very hard to get a honey bee to kill you- and they don't come after your food like wasps.
Americans tend to mix yellow jackets (wasps) and bees up all the time.
Honey bees can sting- but generally don't as it kills them. They'll sting you if you mess with their hive or if they think you're trying to kill them- but they're really quite sweet little bugs.
5) Allow in orange light so the bees can see. What? Seriously? The bees prefer a dark hive, no light. They communicate by scent and touch. Tinted glass allows us to see the bees, not allowing the bees to see each other. The glass isn't a problem though, bees do fine in a glass hive as long as they are not in direct sunlight and they can still find their way out of the hive by walking towards the brightest source of light they can see.
Actually, if you go to Philips Website and read the "interview with the beekeeper"- the Orange light is so that it appears dark to the bees but humans can see. Bees can't see orange/red wavelengths of light.
Are there any scanning devices to scan your car to see if you have one of these hidden somewhere?
I'm sure you can do a thorough search from time to time- but if I want to know if I have one- is there a device I can buy to scan my car that isn't expensive?
I suspect all the bad guys who are really trying to hide will just run GPS blockers on their cars.
As a "foreigner" who emigrated to this country and likes to make a lot of jokes that could be taken out of context- I am almost positive that I must have been spied on- if not more than for a short period of time to realise how boring I am.
Sortition also eliminates election bribes- gives a better cross-section representation of our society- allows for a more diverse viewpoint than a "this idea or that idea" 2 party system.
I'm scared to death of letting my kids drink here- frequently stories on the news of parents getting arrested for letting their kids drink a beer- or take a sip of their drink in a restaurant.
Maybe it depends on what part of the country you are in- but it is certainly frowned upon a lot more here than back home.
I'm English and I grew up as a kid with a glass of wine with Sunday dinner and a shandy on a hot summer afternoon.
I would toast in New Years with some sherry- and drink Champagne on the major celebrations.
This isn't too unusual in England- if less common than in France or other continental countries.
Compare it to America though where a parent can (and would be) thrown in jail if they so much as let their kid take a sip of beer.
There is a little bit of binge drinking in the college years in America- but nothing like we see in the British isles. The binge drinking is more than just kids rebelling- it is a cultural aspect.
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Yes, they'll continue to get better and better- and the hardcore gamers will continue to pay over $200 for a graphics card to get the best of the best.
However, I think for many of us- we're going to see continually less and less gain for each extra $1 spent.
You can get a 1gig DDR3 video card from Newegg or TigerDirect for $15 after rebate these days.
Sure, that's not high-tech anymore- but it will run most games fairly well that non-hardcore gamers are likely to encounter.
If I were into first person shooters maybe I would need a $100 card.
If I'm playing the newest release of Worms, civilization, Football manager or FIFA the $15 card will work for me.
There will still be some hard-core graphics intensive games that will require whatever the cutting edge in graphics is at that point.
However, as old as PS3 may be- the fact is, that, for most of us non-hard-core gamers PS3 quality graphics is more than enough (and will be still in another 5 years time) for the vast majority of games we'd want to play.
We're beginning to hit a point of diminishing returns on graphics anyway- you're always going to be limited by what the eye can process, and the ability of the artists.... sure when 3D goes mainstream and is built into our monitors all of a sudden graphics cards will need to be more powerfull.
I personally can't think of one game I have played in the last 5 years where going beyond PS3 quality graphics would have improved the game for me.
Now, I'm not hard-core, and don't play the shoot-em up first person genre which tend to be the most gpu intensive- but people like me make up an increasingly significant portion of the game-market.
Look at how successfull simple things like Angry Birds can be.
If you're technical, stay technical. Get more technical.
I do well at programming- partially because I was brought up programming. My parents taught me to read before I started school- and my dad taught me the basics to program as soon as I could read.
Despite that- I'm not really technical.
I've always done decent at almost everything I've tried- just never been "great" at any one thing. This is frustrating because it gives me no natural path to pursue.
No one thing keeps my interest for too long.
Creativity is more natural to me than technical skills. I do well at programming because I've done it forever and was taught to do it right. I really don't see myself as a technical person though.
Thanks, good advice, and I am continually reviewing options and looking for viable alternatives- and will continue to do so. When kids are all in school- wife is back in college (and then to work) - it will make a transition easier.
That's fine to get the interest back in programming.
- but you'll still be sick of programming for work... and you do have to keep working.
I'm in a similar boat to the Original poster.
I learned programming as a kid- wrote my first simple games on a Spectrum when I was only 5 years old.
Fast forward to University- I was a biology major who had no idea what he wanted to do in life but had took bunches of computer science classes to boost my GPA. Strangely enough- decided beginning of senior year there are no jobs in biology- and I could still graduate as a computer business major without spending any longer in college.
Took a "temporary" job programming straight out of university whilst I figured out what I want to do in life.
10 years later- I'm still programming for a living- I HATE programming. I find it mundane, boring, repetative- plus with every successive year it becomes less about programming and more about fiddling incessantly with environment settings.
I end up changing jobs every 18 months just to get a little bit of freshness. I used to think it was the jobs I hated- now I realise it's the actual programming.
I'd be willing to take a risk- change careers and take a pay-cut if it were just me; however, I have 3 kids and a wife who depend on my pay- and it's already a huge stretch making ends meet and we live very frugally as it is.
I wish there were some career I could segway into without taking a major paycut. I've been hoping for management- but despite constantly getting great reviews and the customers lauding me- I never get promoted (probably doesn't help that I never stay anywhere long- but after a year I start getting very derpressed with my job and just can't take waiting).
Hopefully my wife will finish college one day and get a real job so I can change careers- until then...
Yes... programming is extremely depressing if it isn't something you enjoy.
Job pays fairly well.
Wife and kids take it all. Would anyone like to buy a child?
I concur- the eeePCs were very well made for the price.
The screens do not take having a heavy Cuisinart electric griddler dropped on them from a height of 6ft... but other than that they're OK... and the computer part still works even if the screen doesn't.
It's actually very hard to get a honey bee to kill you
Ooops- I meant hard to get a honey bee to sting you.
I don't know why I wrote kill. Although that is a true statement too.
I grew up with bee hives in my back yard never once got stung.
It's actually very hard to get a honey bee to kill you- and they don't come after your food like wasps.
Americans tend to mix yellow jackets (wasps) and bees up all the time.
Honey bees can sting- but generally don't as it kills them. They'll sting you if you mess with their hive or if they think you're trying to kill them- but they're really quite sweet little bugs.
5) Allow in orange light so the bees can see.
What? Seriously? The bees prefer a dark hive, no light. They communicate by scent and touch. Tinted glass allows us to see the bees, not allowing the bees to see each other. The glass isn't a problem though, bees do fine in a glass hive as long as they are not in direct sunlight and they can still find their way out of the hive by walking towards the brightest source of light they can see.
Actually, if you go to Philips Website and read the "interview with the beekeeper"- the Orange light is so that it appears dark to the bees but humans can see. Bees can't see orange/red wavelengths of light.
Pah! My dad kept bees when I was a kid... not many- only 5 hives in our backyard at the peak.
I never once got stung even when helping him out.
I would say I'm lucky- but then... I can never match more than one number on a lottery ticket- and never the powerball.
This is absolutely terrible news and I'm angry at Asus for releasing this tablet.
Now, not only are most new laptops and netbooks more powerfull than my desktop- but now a tablet is too.
Screw you Asus!
Oh well, maybe I can afford to upgrade to a Raspberry Pi this christmas if I can catch it on a 50% off sale.
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Yes, butt i am shore my English is better then you're British. ... that should be fun for you! ;)
Are there any scanning devices to scan your car to see if you have one of these hidden somewhere?
I'm sure you can do a thorough search from time to time- but if I want to know if I have one- is there a device I can buy to scan my car that isn't expensive?
I suspect all the bad guys who are really trying to hide will just run GPS blockers on their cars.
As a "foreigner" who emigrated to this country and likes to make a lot of jokes that could be taken out of context- I am almost positive that I must have been spied on- if not more than for a short period of time to realise how boring I am.
Sortition also eliminates election bribes- gives a better cross-section representation of our society- allows for a more diverse viewpoint than a "this idea or that idea" 2 party system.
Would kill the lobbying industry.
Only one of the last 6 companies I worked for DIDN'T have a mainframe.
Not only does my current company still have a mainframe- we're doing a major software upgrade on it next year.
The mainframe never died.
As well as the scam sites- I want everyone to watch out for the cheap fakes coming from China.
The $24.99 Raspbelly Pi, is a cheap knock-off and not a genuine item.
I'm scared to death of letting my kids drink here- frequently stories on the news of parents getting arrested for letting their kids drink a beer- or take a sip of their drink in a restaurant.
Maybe it depends on what part of the country you are in- but it is certainly frowned upon a lot more here than back home.
I'm English and I grew up as a kid with a glass of wine with Sunday dinner and a shandy on a hot summer afternoon.
I would toast in New Years with some sherry- and drink Champagne on the major celebrations.
This isn't too unusual in England- if less common than in France or other continental countries.
Compare it to America though where a parent can (and would be) thrown in jail if they so much as let their kid take a sip of beer.
There is a little bit of binge drinking in the college years in America- but nothing like we see in the British isles. The binge drinking is more than just kids rebelling- it is a cultural aspect.
I use the RSS feed for my google home page.
Every time I use google there is the list of the 9 most recent Slashdot articles approved.
Don't know why Google only allows 9 not 10... I think the people from the "snooze timer institute" have been sleeping with some of the google execs.