The idea of making cars with fuel cells has been around since most of us were little kiddies barely able to walk, and has anybody stopped to think why we have yet to see any great advances in the technology, like actually seeing them in a buyers market. Maybe the reason is, along with others, is that the money lost on oil would ruin current economies in many locations. Oil companies are large, rich, and often hurdle those standards that would make them monopolies, so rich in fact they might even be able to push some weight away from the idea of fuel cells. Just a thought but it makes sence and we have all seen instances where rich companies throw their weight around, can we say tobacoo products.
While it is true that big things should happen first, I find that all college students that download illegal software should be watched also, after all, most if not all contribute to the millions of illegal copies made every week. But then one has to ask what is stealing. I have paided for so many over priced games in my life time, do I not deserve something. The last time a checked, the buget of game making is falling all the time thanks to gready CEO's that want to shove crap out the door, and it costs almost nothing to press cds, so where is my 50 dollors going? I prefer it stays in my pocket.
I would gladly upgrade my RAM but everytime I try to, my motherboard refuses to recognize it. I have a TYAN board, and I have yet to figure out why. For the time being, I can handle it, since I am looking at upgrading the whole thing this next spring anyways.
Maybe you should read this. http://www.daniele.ch/school/30vs60/30vs60_1.html
While granted, I agree with you 100%, my question was whether in the end, in this time, today, without the possibility of consistent motion blur, was the extra FPS that vital?
As I hope most people are aware of, the human eye can only process so many frames per second on a TV or computer screen, so one has to ask at what point do FPS not matter. The last time I checked, when you go to a movie theater and watch a movie, it runs much slower then most computer games. I am still sitting on a P3 800 with a 64MB Radeon and 128MB of RAM and I can play any game I want at beyond playable frame rates at decent resolutions in the 1600*1200 range. We can even discuss Quake 3 for a sec. At 1600*1200 and with all graphics turned up, I still got between 20 and 30 FPS. Guess what, not only was it playable, it was fast and just as nice looking. I am not saying that faster frame rates do not look a bit better here and there, but is it worth $300 or more to sqeeze out those extra frames. If you have the money, then by all means, but for those of you that fear you do not have the biggest and the best, do not worry about it because you will always be able to play any game you want at decent playable frames. As a slight responce to another post, if games came out that brought the biggest graphics cards to their knees, those companies would not make any money since the large user base does not consist of people who can afford to upgrade their systems every couple months. So to those rich people out there have fun buying 10 copies of games so that those big graphic games make money while the rest of us have fun with playable frame rates at a lower price.
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The idea of making cars with fuel cells has been around since most of us were little kiddies barely able to walk, and has anybody stopped to think why we have yet to see any great advances in the technology, like actually seeing them in a buyers market. Maybe the reason is, along with others, is that the money lost on oil would ruin current economies in many locations. Oil companies are large, rich, and often hurdle those standards that would make them monopolies, so rich in fact they might even be able to push some weight away from the idea of fuel cells. Just a thought but it makes sence and we have all seen instances where rich companies throw their weight around, can we say tobacoo products.
Why do they let people like you type such crap like that. Find somewhere else to vent your anger.
While it is true that big things should happen first, I find that all college students that download illegal software should be watched also, after all, most if not all contribute to the millions of illegal copies made every week. But then one has to ask what is stealing. I have paided for so many over priced games in my life time, do I not deserve something. The last time a checked, the buget of game making is falling all the time thanks to gready CEO's that want to shove crap out the door, and it costs almost nothing to press cds, so where is my 50 dollors going? I prefer it stays in my pocket.
I would gladly upgrade my RAM but everytime I try to, my motherboard refuses to recognize it. I have a TYAN board, and I have yet to figure out why. For the time being, I can handle it, since I am looking at upgrading the whole thing this next spring anyways.
Maybe you should read this. http://www.daniele.ch/school/30vs60/30vs60_1.html While granted, I agree with you 100%, my question was whether in the end, in this time, today, without the possibility of consistent motion blur, was the extra FPS that vital?
As I hope most people are aware of, the human eye can only process so many frames per second on a TV or computer screen, so one has to ask at what point do FPS not matter. The last time I checked, when you go to a movie theater and watch a movie, it runs much slower then most computer games. I am still sitting on a P3 800 with a 64MB Radeon and 128MB of RAM and I can play any game I want at beyond playable frame rates at decent resolutions in the 1600*1200 range. We can even discuss Quake 3 for a sec. At 1600*1200 and with all graphics turned up, I still got between 20 and 30 FPS. Guess what, not only was it playable, it was fast and just as nice looking. I am not saying that faster frame rates do not look a bit better here and there, but is it worth $300 or more to sqeeze out those extra frames. If you have the money, then by all means, but for those of you that fear you do not have the biggest and the best, do not worry about it because you will always be able to play any game you want at decent playable frames. As a slight responce to another post, if games came out that brought the biggest graphics cards to their knees, those companies would not make any money since the large user base does not consist of people who can afford to upgrade their systems every couple months. So to those rich people out there have fun buying 10 copies of games so that those big graphic games make money while the rest of us have fun with playable frame rates at a lower price.