Who in their right mind spends that much for a video card? Seriously, I want to know. Unless you are a trust fund PC master race worshiper, why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?
Some people seem to have completely lost sight of the whole point of playing games: it is to have fun...
Well, for some of us. Spending 700.00 on something like that isn't an issue. I know plenty of people that spend that kind of money on a 1 time sporting event, concert, etc. and that's only a one time use. While the 1080Ti won't be top-dog for long, it's not going to be useless in 1 calendar year. I just upgraded from a 970GTX to a 1070GTX for my HTC VR rig, but had been using my 970 for years now and it was just fine.
And you thought keeping the attention of an ADHD human was tough. Wait till you try to keep the attention of a computer intelligence that thinks in billionths and trillionths of seconds and faster.
You'll get 1ms in to a new show and it'll be canceled over low ratings.
It's not even a new idea this century..... This idea goes back to at least the 1970s in anime I saw that merged man and machine together... Hell, the 6 million dollar man merged the two together..
Depending on your living room it's not overly hard to clear out the needed space. I move two small tables and flip up the ottoman (takes 2m) and I'm set. My room-scale light houses are mounted high up on the walls and just look like satellite speakers. I have a 4.0m x 3.1m space just like that. It's really not all that hard to do for me and is actually less annoying and time consuming than dragging out my PlaySeat simseat, pedals and wheel.
The game quality needs to come up, but that's partly due to pixel density in the headset.. They all still have the screen door effect to some extent, but I rather like my HTC Vive and am looking forward to getting the upgraded headstrap and the tracker.
Eh, to be fair. There are many applications that have an offline mode that will store-and-forward your comments, replies, posts, etc. once signal is reacquired.
So now Google's excuse for doing evil is "Others do evil too"?
Any pretense of having an ethical standing is long gone at Google. They don't even bother to hide it anymore.
You're an idiot. You're sending a search request to a provider, how the f* do you think they're going to give you results if it doesn't know what you're looking for? Also, if you think for one second that your data in transit to something like that isn't already affected by a MITM or copying or indexing, etc. then you're naive and just complaining to complain.
"There are many applications that have an offline mode that will store-and-forward your comments, replies, posts, etc. once signal is reacquired."
No there aren't. Most "Apps" are pointless shells around a HTTP REST API. Basically a glorified browser.
The only App I've known to do this was G+ which will hang onto your posts until the connection comes back. But even then, they're only doing it because Google is/was desperate for posts to G+, and it wasn't very reliable anyway...
Yes, there are. Just because you don't know of them or use them doesn't mean they don't exist. Off the top of my head, the Facebook mobile app will absolutely store you comments until you're online and then post for them.
When I search google its because I want it now. If I know I don't have a connection I won't bother searching.
There's plenty of people, like me, that take a commuter train to/from work or just around the metro area and those have dead zones they pass through, times of high load, etc. and I'll still like to have a search come back from me. What if I have it trying to search and it dies then? It would be nice for it to queue and return one that short blip is over, instead of me getting the error screen and having to go back and then search again.
I'm surprised it took Google this long to admit doing something like this.
Eh, to be fair. There are many applications that have an offline mode that will store-and-forward your comments, replies, posts, etc. once signal is reacquired. Most text/pic messaging does this already.
As a native Texan, I'm loving the humor involved with this... I can't WAIT to break this out the next time my home state threatens to take their ball and leave and gets laughed at for it.
If you steal food, they no longer have the food. If you "steal" content, they still have the content. It took a lot of work to twist the English language around copying be "theft." It may still be a crime, and it may have some disproportionately stiff penalties, but it is not stealing.
This is my only reply to you, because you lack the simple understanding of how economics works with something like content. You are still stealing from someone by not paying for the content, because you took part in the content w/o compensating the creator(s) and the theft is their revenue, from the money charged, that represents time/materials on their part.
If you download media, nothing happens. Distributing is the crime. No one has ever gotten in trouble for downloading, it's that when you're torrenting you're uploading at the same time, which is the crime.
So no, they're not comparable.
Actually, that is incorrect. They are both considered crimes. People actually don't always go to jail for stealing food, so you're also wrong there. Some have had things happen for simply downloading.
I cut cable a long time ago. I pay 40 for Internet, and I pirate, so for 40 bucks a month I can watch whatever I want, and the good stuff I can hoard and watch forever.
That's great and all, but you can't talk about the benefits of pirating like it's a true cost savings. Many people could say things like, yeah I only spend 20.00 on groceries, and I steal, so for 20.00 a month I'm eating steak and lobster every night with high dollar wine.
It's still stealing, even if you don't agree with the costs.
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Now you won't have to fast forward through Monsters Ball to see Halle Berry's berries. ;)
Could have just watched Swordfish.. It's odd seeing Wolverine staring Storm's boobies.
Straight to the moon!
How many times are we going to go through the whole cellphone radiation thing?
Who in their right mind spends that much for a video card? Seriously, I want to know. Unless you are a trust fund PC master race worshiper, why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?
Some people seem to have completely lost sight of the whole point of playing games: it is to have fun...
Well, for some of us. Spending 700.00 on something like that isn't an issue. I know plenty of people that spend that kind of money on a 1 time sporting event, concert, etc. and that's only a one time use. While the 1080Ti won't be top-dog for long, it's not going to be useless in 1 calendar year. I just upgraded from a 970GTX to a 1070GTX for my HTC VR rig, but had been using my 970 for years now and it was just fine.
MCP will have it de-res'd.
And you thought keeping the attention of an ADHD human was tough. Wait till you try to keep the attention of a computer intelligence that thinks in billionths and trillionths of seconds and faster.
You'll get 1ms in to a new show and it'll be canceled over low ratings.
It's not even a new idea this century..... This idea goes back to at least the 1970s in anime I saw that merged man and machine together... Hell, the 6 million dollar man merged the two together..
Depending on your living room it's not overly hard to clear out the needed space. I move two small tables and flip up the ottoman (takes 2m) and I'm set. My room-scale light houses are mounted high up on the walls and just look like satellite speakers. I have a 4.0m x 3.1m space just like that. It's really not all that hard to do for me and is actually less annoying and time consuming than dragging out my PlaySeat simseat, pedals and wheel.
The game quality needs to come up, but that's partly due to pixel density in the headset.. They all still have the screen door effect to some extent, but I rather like my HTC Vive and am looking forward to getting the upgraded headstrap and the tracker.
So now Google's excuse for doing evil is "Others do evil too"?
Any pretense of having an ethical standing is long gone at Google. They don't even bother to hide it anymore.
You're an idiot. You're sending a search request to a provider, how the f* do you think they're going to give you results if it doesn't know what you're looking for? Also, if you think for one second that your data in transit to something like that isn't already affected by a MITM or copying or indexing, etc. then you're naive and just complaining to complain.
"There are many applications that have an offline mode that will store-and-forward your comments, replies, posts, etc. once signal is reacquired."
No there aren't. Most "Apps" are pointless shells around a HTTP REST API. Basically a glorified browser.
The only App I've known to do this was G+ which will hang onto your posts until the connection comes back. But even then, they're only doing it because Google is/was desperate for posts to G+, and it wasn't very reliable anyway...
Yes, there are. Just because you don't know of them or use them doesn't mean they don't exist. Off the top of my head, the Facebook mobile app will absolutely store you comments until you're online and then post for them.
When I search google its because I want it now. If I know I don't have a connection I won't bother searching.
There's plenty of people, like me, that take a commuter train to/from work or just around the metro area and those have dead zones they pass through, times of high load, etc. and I'll still like to have a search come back from me. What if I have it trying to search and it dies then? It would be nice for it to queue and return one that short blip is over, instead of me getting the error screen and having to go back and then search again.
I'm surprised it took Google this long to admit doing something like this.
Eh, to be fair. There are many applications that have an offline mode that will store-and-forward your comments, replies, posts, etc. once signal is reacquired. Most text/pic messaging does this already.
Needs to turn Main Screen On and ask how I am doing.
If your platform is good, then you don't have to beg people to use it.
To the rest of us.. Years ago..
As a native Texan, I'm loving the humor involved with this... I can't WAIT to break this out the next time my home state threatens to take their ball and leave and gets laughed at for it.
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He's probably still being held by those pesky Feministas (bumps hands together)
Is that like what Scotty did in Relics? Poor Franklin... his pings got too many "request timed out" responses...
Franklin deserved better.
And yet the rules continue to adjust in their favor. Remember public domain, and how things used to go into it? Not anymore.
But I digress. You keep giving them money like a good little pleb.
Let me know when you spend most of your life creating content for free... Until then you're just an AC and have 0 value.
If you steal food, they no longer have the food. If you "steal" content, they still have the content. It took a lot of work to twist the English language around copying be "theft." It may still be a crime, and it may have some disproportionately stiff penalties, but it is not stealing.
This is my only reply to you, because you lack the simple understanding of how economics works with something like content. You are still stealing from someone by not paying for the content, because you took part in the content w/o compensating the creator(s) and the theft is their revenue, from the money charged, that represents time/materials on their part.
If you steal food, you go to jail.
If you download media, nothing happens. Distributing is the crime. No one has ever gotten in trouble for downloading, it's that when you're torrenting you're uploading at the same time, which is the crime.
So no, they're not comparable.
Actually, that is incorrect. They are both considered crimes. People actually don't always go to jail for stealing food, so you're also wrong there. Some have had things happen for simply downloading.
Man, you're just full of wrong.
I cut cable a long time ago. I pay 40 for Internet, and I pirate, so for 40 bucks a month I can watch whatever I want, and the good stuff I can hoard and watch forever.
That's great and all, but you can't talk about the benefits of pirating like it's a true cost savings. Many people could say things like, yeah I only spend 20.00 on groceries, and I steal, so for 20.00 a month I'm eating steak and lobster every night with high dollar wine.
It's still stealing, even if you don't agree with the costs.
I might fall from a tall building,
I might roll a brand new car.
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.
For some reason, I've got The Fall Guy stuck in my head now.
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I'll sign up anytime, any day! Get me out of Comcast and I'll be happy!
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Ah gee.. That's too bad...
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