I think it's great that a persons entire personal philosophy on any given argument can be summed up using a randoom misquote from some undetermined interview way back when.
Not that I'm implying 'dubyah' ain't a drooling spastic or anything...
Yes, but when I die I won't die a tedious wankstain like you so I can live with that.
Guns do kill people, tell yourself it's not true all you like but you'll always know you're just making excuses for why you own a gun. I bet you think it's 'ideal for home defense' don't you?
The problem with most Americans is they're not dead yet...
Yes, you are over-sensitive.
Some things are funny regardless of subject matter, that post was one of them, it was well written, well observed, witty humour. Claiming it is not funny because it references such a tragic subject which almost certainly doesn't even affect you or have any bearing on your life is simply being closed minded.
I bet you're a Bible-Belt inbreeding by-product aren't you?
History is re-written by the losers, at least by the Americans when they lose.
Anyone know where the "inbred with bad dentistry" stereotype came from? The worst sets of teeth I ever saw in a 'developed' country were in America.
The same country that has the highest rate of inbreeding-related congenital deformities in the first world.
But of course statistical information, like history, is re-written by the losers...:)
If it makes you feel any better, the last game I was involved with for the N64 only had to have 'religious symbols' and 'alcohol references' removed.
All the violence, gore and innuendo survived and even a cigar (smoking references BAD!) got into the game 'cos it was related to the license.
The expansion pack uses a far lower latency type of RAM and rather than adding to the N64s VRAM actually replaces it.
Nintendo realised what a dog Rambus memory was.
Note: This is pure speculation on the part of programmers trying to work out why access times plummet and performance jumps when using an expansion pack.
Double precision SSE2 will never be used for quality video compression or raytracing or anything of that sort as it doesn't produce the requred accuracy.
How many software companies working in these fields will support a feature that makes their product faster than the competition when running on a P4 but has to sacrifice quality to do so?
I don't normally like to confuse people with facts they clearly are not capable of understanding but here goes.
Those P4s have a 400MHz FSB connected to twin RDRAM channels giving it a memory bandwidth of 3.2 Gb/s, compared to the athlon with a 200MHz FSB and its DDR RAM with a 2.1 Gb/s bandwidth.
The DDR RAM only slaughters the single channel RDRAM systems and the P3s with low FSBs.
Against the P4 it's more even (taking into account the latency problems of RDRAM).
Run any software that uses lots of CPU power eg DVD players, direct X games and you'll see what he's talking about as these speed critical apps have been optimised for 3D Now instructions and in most cases do run rings around the same program on a P3.
I would have thought that Eli Wallach would be MS-DOS (stupid but gets the job done) whereas Lee Van Cleef would have to be Windows NT (Devious, backstabbing son of a whore).
The only hoax is the internet one started a few years back about people being employed specifically to right the overturned penguins.
The 'penguins tipped over by bored harrier pilots' story is an established fact among RAF staff who did duty in the Falklands.
Note that on the sites where this story is debunked as an urban myth, the only quote that says so outright is from an RAF PR person. Not the type of person who could admit that their pilots have been killing penguins.
Incidentally many penguins have been found dead, stuck on their backs. The cause is almost certainly low flying RAF humorists.
It used to be that a consoles success was gauged by its first day sales...
Then by how many people were mugged for their new consoles on the way home on the first day of sales...
Now the mark of a consoles success is relative to its grey import value on Ebay?
Truly the internet has brought about a paradigm shift in console gaming....
Memory bandwidth limitations make it virtually impossible to use both vector units for the 3D engine so developers are struggling to find a way of using the second one to the fullest without crippling another process.
The PS2 IS a bitch to write for simply because Sony designed it as simply a more up to date Playstation.
The Gamecube is a dream to develop for as Nintendo went round the most prolific developers and asked them what was wrong with the N64 when they were deciding on the feature set, resulting in a VERY well balanced machine.
N64 used Rambus, look what Nintendo learned from that: The N64s memory expansion which 'added extra video memory' actually REPLACED the original video RAM with a much lower latency type resulting in substantial performance increases in a few games that were oddly programmed.
Also the Gamecube uses a 16MB integrated SRAM main memory.
They REALLY don't want to suffer Rambus-like latencies again!
The Genesis wasn't 'king' for long, even in America. In Europe it got badly stomped by the SNES.
The N64 still has titles being developed for it because it is a well-liked machine that is easy to develop for. Most companies are dropping Dreamcast support already though.
Sega sales just don't stay high for very long.
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I think it's great that a persons entire personal philosophy on any given argument can be summed up using a randoom misquote from some undetermined interview way back when. Not that I'm implying 'dubyah' ain't a drooling spastic or anything...
"Someday, you're going to die. Get over it."
Yes, but when I die I won't die a tedious wankstain like you so I can live with that.
Guns do kill people, tell yourself it's not true all you like but you'll always know you're just making excuses for why you own a gun. I bet you think it's 'ideal for home defense' don't you?
The problem with most Americans is they're not dead yet...
Yes, you are over-sensitive. Some things are funny regardless of subject matter, that post was one of them, it was well written, well observed, witty humour. Claiming it is not funny because it references such a tragic subject which almost certainly doesn't even affect you or have any bearing on your life is simply being closed minded. I bet you're a Bible-Belt inbreeding by-product aren't you?
History is re-written by the losers, at least by the Americans when they lose.
:)
Anyone know where the "inbred with bad dentistry" stereotype came from? The worst sets of teeth I ever saw in a 'developed' country were in America.
The same country that has the highest rate of inbreeding-related congenital deformities in the first world.
But of course statistical information, like history, is re-written by the losers...
Wolfenstein 3D was a long time ago.
If it makes you feel any better, the last game I was involved with for the N64 only had to have 'religious symbols' and 'alcohol references' removed.
All the violence, gore and innuendo survived and even a cigar (smoking references BAD!) got into the game 'cos it was related to the license.
The expansion pack uses a far lower latency type of RAM and rather than adding to the N64s VRAM actually replaces it.
Nintendo realised what a dog Rambus memory was.
Note: This is pure speculation on the part of programmers trying to work out why access times plummet and performance jumps when using an expansion pack.
Double precision SSE2 will never be used for quality video compression or raytracing or anything of that sort as it doesn't produce the requred accuracy.
How many software companies working in these fields will support a feature that makes their product faster than the competition when running on a P4 but has to sacrifice quality to do so?
A common british slang term for cigarette is "fag".
I believe this is what he was getting at.
Direct X and virtually all graphics card drivers have heavy 3D Now optimisations.
Actually only the French and other degenerate has-beens do that.
He was talking about the memory speed not that of the FSB.
I don't normally like to confuse people with facts they clearly are not capable of understanding but here goes.
Those P4s have a 400MHz FSB connected to twin RDRAM channels giving it a memory bandwidth of 3.2 Gb/s, compared to the athlon with a 200MHz FSB and its DDR RAM with a 2.1 Gb/s bandwidth.
The DDR RAM only slaughters the single channel RDRAM systems and the P3s with low FSBs.
Against the P4 it's more even (taking into account the latency problems of RDRAM).
Run any software that uses lots of CPU power eg DVD players, direct X games and you'll see what he's talking about as these speed critical apps have been optimised for 3D Now instructions and in most cases do run rings around the same program on a P3.
I wanna bend you over and shove a PoopyMoose up your ass little boy.
I would have thought that Eli Wallach would be MS-DOS (stupid but gets the job done) whereas Lee Van Cleef would have to be Windows NT (Devious, backstabbing son of a whore).
You're a very gullible person then.
That page contains less proof that the alleged penguin toppling did not happen than the stories claiming that it did!
The only hoax is the internet one started a few years back about people being employed specifically to right the overturned penguins.
The 'penguins tipped over by bored harrier pilots' story is an established fact among RAF staff who did duty in the Falklands.
Note that on the sites where this story is debunked as an urban myth, the only quote that says so outright is from an RAF PR person. Not the type of person who could admit that their pilots have been killing penguins.
Incidentally many penguins have been found dead, stuck on their backs. The cause is almost certainly low flying RAF humorists.
Nothing to stop you doing the same 'little' boy.
Unnnggnnn! *crack* *pop* *crack*
(Getting back all nice and flexible for some good old fashioned ankle grabbing.)
Oops! Wrong series of MIPS!
Just a typo honest.
An embedded processor at heart essentially.
It used to be that a consoles success was gauged by its first day sales...
Then by how many people were mugged for their new consoles on the way home on the first day of sales...
Now the mark of a consoles success is relative to its grey import value on Ebay?
Truly the internet has brought about a paradigm shift in console gaming....
Memory bandwidth limitations make it virtually impossible to use both vector units for the 3D engine so developers are struggling to find a way of using the second one to the fullest without crippling another process.
Most just don't bother.
The PS2 IS a bitch to write for simply because Sony designed it as simply a more up to date Playstation.
The Gamecube is a dream to develop for as Nintendo went round the most prolific developers and asked them what was wrong with the N64 when they were deciding on the feature set, resulting in a VERY well balanced machine.
Anyone using a TV sytem other than NTSC will be able to laugh at your post smugly.
:D
You have the lowest quality television system in the world and you wonder why it's difficult to tell the difference between Betamax and VHS?
N64 used Rambus, look what Nintendo learned from that: The N64s memory expansion which 'added extra video memory' actually REPLACED the original video RAM with a much lower latency type resulting in substantial performance increases in a few games that were oddly programmed.
Also the Gamecube uses a 16MB integrated SRAM main memory.
They REALLY don't want to suffer Rambus-like latencies again!
The Genesis wasn't 'king' for long, even in America. In Europe it got badly stomped by the SNES.
The N64 still has titles being developed for it because it is a well-liked machine that is easy to develop for. Most companies are dropping Dreamcast support already though.
Sega sales just don't stay high for very long.