It has already gone through internal testing by the Paid To Test guys. This wide beta test is to try it on a wide range of setups, and a basic stress test of the whole thing.
I ran the test on my system with 2 different cards. Machine is a dual amd 2000, 1 gig ram.
Score 1: 1577 Card - Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Score 2: 4998 Card - 9700 All in Wonder
I know the 9700 is a better card, but is it that much better? Running games on the different video cards has a SLIGHT difference in games, 9700 runs better of course but not leaps and bounds by any means. We are talking a handful of FPS. However when I run the futuremark test the fps is a MASSIVE difference.
I would think the benchmark test should emulate real games more than using an engine that favors my ati card. Benchmarking isn't be about consumerism, or waving around the size of my e-penis in a juvenile "my card is better than yours" fashion, its a tool for tuning my system to make sure it is running at it's highest potential for all the games I play.
All the people slamming on video game addicts might find it interesting to read up on addiction.
Addiction is present in many people as a predisposition, and many, many things can fill the addictive role. Drugs, alcohol, food, exercise, and yes even games. Can a video game addiction be compared to drugs and alcohol? Well as far as brain chemistry goes, they are all providing the same addictive stimulation. Repetitive action resulting in a reoccuring reward is what the seeds of an addiction are rooted, and a video game does just as good a job as the others. Of course, by removing the taboos that are in place for drug and alcohol addiction, it makes it even easier for someone to justify playing video games to an unhealthy level.
On the topic of the article I think the writer wimped out by not giving Everquest, the granddaddy of addictive online games, a spin instead of Anarchy Online. The formula for Anarchy Online is flawed, and just doesn't suck in players like EQ does.
I know this theory always crops up, but look at logistics. Leaked material of ANY kind, be it movies, music, or software, equal lost sales. Sure it sounds like a viable thing to do to people not in the industry, a staged disaster to try to get laws pushed through to prevent piracy, but no one connected to leaked material ever wants to see it happen. Why? Money. They made their product to make money, and I don't think they are going to be altruistic to their industry and lose lots of money intentionally. Losing money would be the exact opposite of what they want to achieve. Sure it makes for a great conspiracy theory, but it's just not a practical idea.
Forget trolling IRC for pirate info, just start come to Slashdot for all the news on the latest pirated releases! Doom III, Harry Potter, keep em coming Slashdot!
I took my time spent unemployed learning how to take what I knew how to do and translate it to the gaming industry skillset (which I knew quite a bit about, since it was the field I wanted to work in for years), and in the end artistic talent is artistic talent I just had to reapply it to the valid areas. The gaming industry is hardly shutting people out, it just takes a large amount of dedication and at least one good contact. When i was presented with a great opportunity, I dropped everything i grabbed on with both hands.
Well, I am not stupid enough to put one on my car to find out, so I can't eloborate much. I am passing on info I have heard on automotive message boards talking about this piece of junk. Yes reduction of airflow is what happens most often, the fan (there is only one) is a major obstruction in the intake, but there have been a few incidents that I have heard of of where the plastic fan has broken. Shoving bits of plastic into an intake manifold, well you can figure out the outcome of that. It's a scam a lot of people are making money off of on ebay.
I am working with game technology many people at slashdot would kill to get their hands on, and making more than I ever could at a net company...I would not call that clueless.
I was simply relating my experience of over-specializing my skills to the point of extinction, and how my story fit into what the article was about.
Is it possible...just possible that you can get a wider skill set in 21 years experience than you can in 7?
These have been all over ebay for months now, going for $50 to $250. They sell for around $20 at any Marine store. They are for boats, and were never meant to be used in an automobile. There have been many reported cases of people putting these on their car and the fans shattering due to them not being able to move as fast as the incoming airflow in WOT situations, and getting sucked into intake manifold and doing major damage.
I joined the internet rise in 1995 straigh out of college, and my entire skill set was based on the following years of experience. I worked through a lot of successful start-up companies, building up enough seed money to start one of my own. Enter the dot com failure due to the choking number of net companies. Not only did I lose my company, I lost all my money, and gained some hefty debt trying to keep things afloat.
At that point not only was my skill set the same as the other 50,000 people out there applying to every small position that cropped up for half the pay it used to be, I had a failed company on my resume. An emergency change of my skillset from web to video games is all that kept me from going back to salaries I was making in 1997-8.
You know, I have heard other stories similiar to this recently...sometimes there is a specific name of the game, but they always seem to be "identified only by their first/last name", and its always around the 80 hour mark. Did the Sydney Morning Herald report a growing urban myth, or is there anything to substantiate this?
Yeah it's been done before by a few different bands, nothing new, Bon Jovi is just the first to be publicizing it...I guess they are trying to see their name in print without the word "sucks" right after.
I started in website design in late 95. At that time compliance was neccesary due to the differences in ie, netscape, and intergo (most people probably don't remember that browser, but it was actually one of the first available browsers, and faster than the ie/ns). Throughout my career up until last year I always pushed for compliance. In 2000/2001 I actually had clients and project managers LAUGH at my *quaint* cross-platform cross-browser testing and compliance, and more than one client refuse to allow me to do that as to save themselves money.
Thank God I made the switch to video game development, the iq of clients and even my bosses were dropping at a rapid rate. Compliance to web standards is dead.
Even if they finally get a protection scheme that works, all people will do is plug the cd player into the audio in jack on their soundcard, and record the audio to mp3. The only people they are going to stop are grandmothers trying to rip that sinatra tune off the cd they purchased that don't have the expertise to figure out how to rip an mp3 besides clicking a button.
Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, had Ender and later Miro subvocalizing to Jane, the sentient entity that "lived" in the network of ansibles. It might continue past that, I have only read up to Xenocide.
I absolutely hate it. And that has nothing to do with its features. The sole reason is this:
When I download the program after it first released, The download page asked for a username and password. So I used the login with an account I had with Real from a year before that had been cancelled. I was very surprised to check my bank account a few days later to find they had started charging me $9.95 a month, for service I never requested or signed up for. I just logged in to download the player, only to find out they had kept my CC info on file for a year and decided I had somehow agreed to start paying them again.
However here is the real kicker. After I uninstalled this thieving pos from my system I go to the Real site and login to account info. This is what I get on the cancel page.
"To cancel your RealOne membership from the United States and Canada, please phone 1-888-768-3248."
And guess what I get when I call the number. About 20 minutes of button pushing that finally gets to the voice message "Please login to our website at www.real.com and select your account information page to cancel your account." And what else? No option to talk to anyone except the automated system. And then? No response to emails sent to support.
All I can say is tay far far away from this piece of software.
Fry's OWNS Egghead.com
So how is it wrong for Fry's to see the data that they own?
I see it as a positive action that they are even saying anything at all and giving an opt-out, instead of just using the data that became theirs when they purchased Egghead.
It would be like complaining about my supervisor showing my personal information to his superior, because he didn't say "NO" to his boss.
Slashdot Mirror
It has already gone through internal testing by the Paid To Test guys. This wide beta test is to try it on a wide range of setups, and a basic stress test of the whole thing.
the only simpsons quote ever FROM A NEWTON and it gets modded offtopic. *sigh*
EAT UP MARTHA
I ran the test on my system with 2 different cards. Machine is a dual amd 2000, 1 gig ram.
Score 1: 1577
Card - Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Score 2: 4998
Card - 9700 All in Wonder
I know the 9700 is a better card, but is it that much better? Running games on the different video cards has a SLIGHT difference in games, 9700 runs better of course but not leaps and bounds by any means. We are talking a handful of FPS. However when I run the futuremark test the fps is a MASSIVE difference.
I would think the benchmark test should emulate real games more than using an engine that favors my ati card. Benchmarking isn't be about consumerism, or waving around the size of my e-penis in a juvenile "my card is better than yours" fashion, its a tool for tuning my system to make sure it is running at it's highest potential for all the games I play.
Here is a link to the official site, rather than the click-thru store link given in the article.
http://www.reebokcyberrider.com/
And that's the market the original game designers targeted. Addicts keep the money coming in! Maybe Verant's ceo came from Philip Morris...
All the people slamming on video game addicts might find it interesting to read up on addiction.
Addiction is present in many people as a predisposition, and many, many things can fill the addictive role. Drugs, alcohol, food, exercise, and yes even games. Can a video game addiction be compared to drugs and alcohol? Well as far as brain chemistry goes, they are all providing the same addictive stimulation. Repetitive action resulting in a reoccuring reward is what the seeds of an addiction are rooted, and a video game does just as good a job as the others. Of course, by removing the taboos that are in place for drug and alcohol addiction, it makes it even easier for someone to justify playing video games to an unhealthy level.
On the topic of the article I think the writer wimped out by not giving Everquest, the granddaddy of addictive online games, a spin instead of Anarchy Online. The formula for Anarchy Online is flawed, and just doesn't suck in players like EQ does.
actually they just copied my idea and posted it up there as a reply another thread. I win! :p
I know this theory always crops up, but look at logistics. Leaked material of ANY kind, be it movies, music, or software, equal lost sales. Sure it sounds like a viable thing to do to people not in the industry, a staged disaster to try to get laws pushed through to prevent piracy, but no one connected to leaked material ever wants to see it happen. Why? Money. They made their product to make money, and I don't think they are going to be altruistic to their industry and lose lots of money intentionally. Losing money would be the exact opposite of what they want to achieve. Sure it makes for a great conspiracy theory, but it's just not a practical idea.
Forget trolling IRC for pirate info, just start come to Slashdot for all the news on the latest pirated releases! Doom III, Harry Potter, keep em coming Slashdot!
(sarcasm btw)
The nipple is the only intuitive interface, everything else is learned.
I took my time spent unemployed learning how to take what I knew how to do and translate it to the gaming industry skillset (which I knew quite a bit about, since it was the field I wanted to work in for years), and in the end artistic talent is artistic talent I just had to reapply it to the valid areas. The gaming industry is hardly shutting people out, it just takes a large amount of dedication and at least one good contact. When i was presented with a great opportunity, I dropped everything i grabbed on with both hands.
Well, I am not stupid enough to put one on my car to find out, so I can't eloborate much. I am passing on info I have heard on automotive message boards talking about this piece of junk. Yes reduction of airflow is what happens most often, the fan (there is only one) is a major obstruction in the intake, but there have been a few incidents that I have heard of of where the plastic fan has broken. Shoving bits of plastic into an intake manifold, well you can figure out the outcome of that. It's a scam a lot of people are making money off of on ebay.
I am working with game technology many people at slashdot would kill to get their hands on, and making more than I ever could at a net company...I would not call that clueless.
I was simply relating my experience of over-specializing my skills to the point of extinction, and how my story fit into what the article was about.
Is it possible...just possible that you can get a wider skill set in 21 years experience than you can in 7?
Electric Turbo
These have been all over ebay for months now, going for $50 to $250. They sell for around $20 at any Marine store. They are for boats, and were never meant to be used in an automobile. There have been many reported cases of people putting these on their car and the fans shattering due to them not being able to move as fast as the incoming airflow in WOT situations, and getting sucked into intake manifold and doing major damage.
I joined the internet rise in 1995 straigh out of college, and my entire skill set was based on the following years of experience. I worked through a lot of successful start-up companies, building up enough seed money to start one of my own. Enter the dot com failure due to the choking number of net companies. Not only did I lose my company, I lost all my money, and gained some hefty debt trying to keep things afloat.
At that point not only was my skill set the same as the other 50,000 people out there applying to every small position that cropped up for half the pay it used to be, I had a failed company on my resume. An emergency change of my skillset from web to video games is all that kept me from going back to salaries I was making in 1997-8.
You know, I have heard other stories similiar to this recently...sometimes there is a specific name of the game, but they always seem to be "identified only by their first/last name", and its always around the 80 hour mark. Did the Sydney Morning Herald report a growing urban myth, or is there anything to substantiate this?
Yeah it's been done before by a few different bands, nothing new, Bon Jovi is just the first to be publicizing it...I guess they are trying to see their name in print without the word "sucks" right after.
I started in website design in late 95. At that time compliance was neccesary due to the differences in ie, netscape, and intergo (most people probably don't remember that browser, but it was actually one of the first available browsers, and faster than the ie/ns). Throughout my career up until last year I always pushed for compliance. In 2000/2001 I actually had clients and project managers LAUGH at my *quaint* cross-platform cross-browser testing and compliance, and more than one client refuse to allow me to do that as to save themselves money.
Thank God I made the switch to video game development, the iq of clients and even my bosses were dropping at a rapid rate. Compliance to web standards is dead.
Red Bull
i guess reading the article before posting COULD help...sometimes...
Even if they finally get a protection scheme that works, all people will do is plug the cd player into the audio in jack on their soundcard, and record the audio to mp3. The only people they are going to stop are grandmothers trying to rip that sinatra tune off the cd they purchased that don't have the expertise to figure out how to rip an mp3 besides clicking a button.
Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, had Ender and later Miro subvocalizing to Jane, the sentient entity that "lived" in the network of ansibles. It might continue past that, I have only read up to Xenocide.
I absolutely hate it. And that has nothing to do with its features. The sole reason is this:
When I download the program after it first released, The download page asked for a username and password. So I used the login with an account I had with Real from a year before that had been cancelled. I was very surprised to check my bank account a few days later to find they had started charging me $9.95 a month, for service I never requested or signed up for. I just logged in to download the player, only to find out they had kept my CC info on file for a year and decided I had somehow agreed to start paying them again.
However here is the real kicker. After I uninstalled this thieving pos from my system I go to the Real site and login to account info. This is what I get on the cancel page.
"To cancel your RealOne membership from the United States and Canada, please phone 1-888-768-3248."
And guess what I get when I call the number. About 20 minutes of button pushing that finally gets to the voice message "Please login to our website at www.real.com and select your account information page to cancel your account." And what else? No option to talk to anyone except the automated system. And then? No response to emails sent to support.
All I can say is tay far far away from this piece of software.
Fry's OWNS Egghead.com
So how is it wrong for Fry's to see the data that they own?
I see it as a positive action that they are even saying anything at all and giving an opt-out, instead of just using the data that became theirs when they purchased Egghead.
It would be like complaining about my supervisor showing my personal information to his superior, because he didn't say "NO" to his boss.