Nice, maybe you need to spend your $$$ on some ritalin, or get a new hobby if your attention span for gaming is that weak.
I paid the price for Half-life, Quake3, NWN and so on, and still play them all the time, with great fever.
Fact: The one and only reason a company charges full price is cause they CAN, cause people will pay it. after a year the price goes down, or the original game is included in expansion packs that sell for much less. Like in AO and UO, all their expansions let you start a new account if you don't have one already, and usually sell around 20 bones. So where is the expense recovery there? Taking a back seat to the need for more subscribers, cause the game companies know that is where the real $$$ is to be had.
The "development costs" excuse is just that, an excuse. And people buy it, literally.
NVida has always stood silent in the race to win benchmarks. Fact: Every video card manufacturer tweeks drivers specificly for benchmarks. ATI scammed people into a 50% performance increase years ago with a new set of drivers. This of course was completely false.
Fact: NVidia is probably the last company to join in this race. when they denouced the use of Futuremarks programs after 3DMark2k3 showed undeserved favorability towards ATI's driver set they were ostracized for not being a big player. It seems to me that they finally said "fuck it, the public wants bullshit drivers that inflate thier benchmarks, then we will give it to them!"
Good for NVidia. They always have been, and for the forseeable future always will be the no compromise 3d gaming solution.
The funniest part of this all is this, in unreal2k3 I personally have seen a 160/80 flyby/botmatch score jump up to 220/103 on a 5800FX based AMD1700+ system. So the drivers are not complete bullshit. Unlike ATI who was chastised in the past for having lower game scores after the fact.
This excuse went out the door several years ago. Apple's hardware isn't
ANY more expensive than comparable WIntel hardware. People just don't understand
that macs tend to outperform PC stuff hands down. But really, when you go
to Dell or any other big manufacturer advertising a whole system for "under
$500", you end up paying well over $1000 by the time the machine is remotely
usable. When you go to apple and buy an iMac for $1100 (or one of the older
ones for as low as $700-800), you're getting a system that's WAY more powerful
than that PC one, with a better OS.
LOL, Slashdot's Mac fanbois are simply the best. Saying something as brutally
ignorant as "People just don't understand that macs tend to outperform PC
stuff" does _not_ automaticly make you the elitist you are so desperatly
trying to be.
Next time bring along some benchmarks or numbers PLEASE. anything.
An
older benchmark, I see no ass whipping here, and this is from a mac site,
so you know the numbers have been skewed in apples favor.
Sorry to be off topic, but trying to rush this guy off to OSX as a alternitive
to Linux really just strikes a bad chord with me. Your not his desktop savior,
your just a fanboy trying to score browny points for being as "difrent" as
apples comercials want you to be. Mac "stuff" is nowhere near supirior,
and from hands on experience its not even that good. If I had to pick anything
as a speed demon I would advocate PA-RISC, but I live in the real world,
and in the real world you will get alot more done, with a lot less headache,
and for a lot cheaper with a Single or Dual TBird / P4 then you ever will
with a Mac.
Im surprised many places function as well as they do, to answer the question "What would you like to see improve about tech support?" I would like to see less dependence on Contracting agencies, more direct hire and less middle-men between the person inside the company or department who needs a tech and the person getting in contact with the potential.
Anymore if you dont already know someone on the inside of a company your chances of getting hired are slim-to-none. This is especially true when it comes to tech support, anywhere from call center work to desktop support guys. This is not good for the company's or the techs cause it can create such a lack of compatibility between skill-sets and needs.
If more company's were willing to go out of thier way and direct hire instead of relying on a contracting agency, whos primary concern is usually the margin they will earn from getting thier tech hired and is going to feed said company anything they want to hear to make that happen.
Misrepresentation is the bane of contracting agencies, and the standard practice in most cases.
Uh.. has anyone actually BEEN to an arcade lately. Here in Phoenix (and I know they are elsewhere) we have a great arcade called gameworks. They actually have "ladies night" where women get to play for free. The last time I was there was just a regular afternoon and the the women to men ratio was very much in the womens favor. And these weren't nast pimply faced teens either, there were women my age, and rather atractive ones at that.
So yes, When I was younger no women ever in the arcades, this has changed now. I am especially thankful to I think Namco for bringing out some "club music dance beat game". Its a good thing to watch the chicks do while waiting on hydro thunder to clear out....
Yep, thats pretty much my system.
diff: I got a set of Paliminos 1.2GHz Tbirds and twin 10k IBM SCSI 36gig drives on an adaptec 29160, stuffed inside a Lian Li. ALl black, even my plextor drives.
I use a GF3 in my rig, and the only game I own that I boot out to play is CS, but I havent done that in about a month.
I am happy with the ability to run everything I need. All compiled from scratch, all my IM needs, surfing with fresh home builds of Mozilla, openGL for Rune, Quake1/2/3 and RTCW courtesy of NVidia, ABI Word, Evolution, I never leave or reboot except to swap kernels.
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Nice, maybe you need to spend your $$$ on some ritalin, or get a new hobby if your attention span for gaming is that weak.
I paid the price for Half-life, Quake3, NWN and so on, and still play them all the time, with great fever.
Fact: The one and only reason a company charges full price is cause they CAN, cause people will pay it. after a year the price goes down, or the original game is included in expansion packs that sell for much less. Like in AO and UO, all their expansions let you start a new account if you don't have one already, and usually sell around 20 bones. So where is the expense recovery there? Taking a back seat to the need for more subscribers, cause the game companies know that is where the real $$$ is to be had.
The "development costs" excuse is just that, an excuse. And people buy it, literally.
NVida has always stood silent in the race to win benchmarks. Fact: Every video card manufacturer tweeks drivers specificly for benchmarks. ATI scammed people into a 50% performance increase years ago with a new set of drivers. This of course was completely false.
Fact: NVidia is probably the last company to join in this race. when they denouced the use of Futuremarks programs after 3DMark2k3 showed undeserved favorability towards ATI's driver set they were ostracized for not being a big player. It seems to me that they finally said "fuck it, the public wants bullshit drivers that inflate thier benchmarks, then we will give it to them!"
Good for NVidia. They always have been, and for the forseeable future always will be the no compromise 3d gaming solution.
The funniest part of this all is this, in unreal2k3 I personally have seen a 160/80 flyby/botmatch score jump up to 220/103 on a 5800FX based AMD1700+ system. So the drivers are not complete bullshit. Unlike ATI who was chastised in the past for having lower game scores after the fact.
This excuse went out the door several years ago. Apple's hardware isn't ANY more expensive than comparable WIntel hardware. People just don't understand that macs tend to outperform PC stuff hands down. But really, when you go to Dell or any other big manufacturer advertising a whole system for "under $500", you end up paying well over $1000 by the time the machine is remotely usable. When you go to apple and buy an iMac for $1100 (or one of the older ones for as low as $700-800), you're getting a system that's WAY more powerful than that PC one, with a better OS.
LOL, Slashdot's Mac fanbois are simply the best. Saying something as brutally ignorant as "People just don't understand that macs tend to outperform PC stuff" does _not_ automaticly make you the elitist you are so desperatly trying to be.
Next time bring along some benchmarks or numbers PLEASE. anything.
An older benchmark, I see no ass whipping here, and this is from a mac site, so you know the numbers have been skewed in apples favor.
Sorry to be off topic, but trying to rush this guy off to OSX as a alternitive to Linux really just strikes a bad chord with me. Your not his desktop savior, your just a fanboy trying to score browny points for being as "difrent" as apples comercials want you to be. Mac "stuff" is nowhere near supirior, and from hands on experience its not even that good. If I had to pick anything as a speed demon I would advocate PA-RISC, but I live in the real world, and in the real world you will get alot more done, with a lot less headache, and for a lot cheaper with a Single or Dual TBird / P4 then you ever will with a Mac.
Im surprised many places function as well as they do, to answer the question "What would you like to see improve about tech support?" I would like to see less dependence on Contracting agencies, more direct hire and less middle-men between the person inside the company or department who needs a tech and the person getting in contact with the potential. Anymore if you dont already know someone on the inside of a company your chances of getting hired are slim-to-none. This is especially true when it comes to tech support, anywhere from call center work to desktop support guys. This is not good for the company's or the techs cause it can create such a lack of compatibility between skill-sets and needs. If more company's were willing to go out of thier way and direct hire instead of relying on a contracting agency, whos primary concern is usually the margin they will earn from getting thier tech hired and is going to feed said company anything they want to hear to make that happen. Misrepresentation is the bane of contracting agencies, and the standard practice in most cases.
thats like, 4 of the 7 signs isn't it?
Uh.. has anyone actually BEEN to an arcade lately. Here in Phoenix (and I know they are elsewhere) we have a great arcade called gameworks. They actually have "ladies night" where women get to play for free. The last time I was there was just a regular afternoon and the the women to men ratio was very much in the womens favor. And these weren't nast pimply faced teens either, there were women my age, and rather atractive ones at that. So yes, When I was younger no women ever in the arcades, this has changed now. I am especially thankful to I think Namco for bringing out some "club music dance beat game". Its a good thing to watch the chicks do while waiting on hydro thunder to clear out....
Yep, thats pretty much my system.
diff: I got a set of Paliminos 1.2GHz Tbirds and twin 10k IBM SCSI 36gig drives on an adaptec 29160, stuffed inside a Lian Li. ALl black, even my plextor drives.
I use a GF3 in my rig, and the only game I own that I boot out to play is CS, but I havent done that in about a month.
I am happy with the ability to run everything I need. All compiled from scratch, all my IM needs, surfing with fresh home builds of Mozilla, openGL for Rune, Quake1/2/3 and RTCW courtesy of NVidia, ABI Word, Evolution, I never leave or reboot except to swap kernels.