General consensus for the softmod ITFA in TechARP's own forum is that it doesn't actually improve pro app performance (GL, 3ds, etc..) for newer (later than 6800/NV45) GPUs.
It's kinda sad that this made the front page on slashdot.
If Metallica sat down and made a good album I'd buy it, but they haven't since In Justice.
The funny thing (just to me I guess) about their stance on piracy was that my first exposure to their music was through a bootleg tape. KOME (don't touch that radio dial there's KOME on it) and KRQR weren't playing speed metal in 1984. There was no internet, a pirate BBS, or whatever. It was just tapes that got recopied until you could barely hear the band that wasn't being played on the radio.
When their first album came out, I bought it because was great. The last I bought was the Black Album. I've never downloaded any of their stuff because I owned everything worth downloading before there was an MP3 to download.
I've always been under the impression that a major reason for superconductor research was to raise the operating temperature to a point where parity (or better) was reached between maintaining a magnetic bottle and the energy gained by a contained hydrogen fusion reaction. I'm guessing that the lack of posts stating "Mr Fusion to be trial-ed this fall" means that liquid nitrogen is too energy-expensive to make this a reality.
ARP did the article "DX11 to support hardware accelleration of raytracing" (and it was an April Fools prank). However Intel is "serious" about hardware that does it... or at least serious about owning and promoting patents for the hardware.
8 years ago there were many reasons to use a soundcard, even a cheap one, over onboard audio. Today the cpu hit and the audio quality from an integrated audio chip is acceptable. The reason people are willing to buy an expensive computer with integrated audio is because there are so many other much more interesting and useful things to throw your money at. If the cost of a computer with all the things I want on it exceeds my budget, the first thing I'd cut is the soundcard.
Naw, this thing would obviously use a Seebeck/Thermoelectric dohicky to help recharge the battery. Hell it could use all that brownian motion to datafy some kind of randomosity program.
"Complelte realism won't really be popular on the mainstream. DO you really want to deal with the sound, smoke and kick of a real gun for more then 5 minutes? I mean your quake game would suck."
Most modern military small arms are quite tame (for the person firing them). While i would think it prudent to limit game noise to level that were of minimal damage to the human eardrum, I fear that most gamers choose already to crank the volume to "uncomfortable levels". Realistic smoke would be less than what would occur on the other side of the VR interface, so that's not an issue. Weapon recoil on most military assault rifles is pretty light. Meanwhile, forcing the idiot who insists on taking a Barret Light 50 every round, to deal with its mass and recoil (and trigger flinch) would be amusement enough to allow it to ignore any armor you could wear and tear off body parts for artistic effect.
MBR bios protection seems to be pretty common on "homebuilt" and "mom and pop" machines. But my laptop (acer) doesn't seem to have it. I don't see an option to enable it on our toshiba (though it runs vista so NBD). I don't do PC support anymore, do the vast number of Dells running XP have MBR protection in bios?
My bank uses a biometric scanner to access the safety deposit boxes. You put your whole hand on it in a vulcan greeting sort of way. It seems to measure distance between finger pads. Still requires a passcode as well. Most importantly it's in a monitored location, so if my severed hand or a capacitive replica were placed on it some attention might occur. One can hope.
Monitoring agents of the government and subsuming their authority to the accused's peers (the jury) as reviewers of that information, is not a bad thing. As long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of the accused. I can see (as any patriotic American could) that the 5th amendment would demand all responses by the accused be edited out.
"speced for that performance." doesn't cover all my bases.
There used to be a saying, "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." It was because the people who designed IBM systems were perceived as being the best or at least better than the employer could afford to hire personally. Nobody has that aegis anymore, so we're on our own.
If a vendor was offering mainstream chips overclocked to guaranteed and available (in retail) frequencies I might listen to the pitch. If they offered a financial bond should a higher than retail frequency, liquid cooled ubermachine blow blue smoke I'd weigh the pros and cons. But I wouldn't assume they knew anything more about the hardware than I do.
I can envision a supercomputer of Incredible Hulks hoisting pasivly cooled cpu/motherboards. Solar panels that cover hundreds of acres surround hundreds of prefabbed structures housing the McFarland licensed machines and their 6 month batteries in northern Greenland.
Midway would only be science fiction if it had the battleship Yamato in it. Alas, she was too far away to fire her WMG. So the movie falls into the docudrama catagory.
I strongly doubt we would have World of Warcraft, or indeed most video games we enjoy today if there had never been a D&D. And I also strongly doubt the commercial success of TSR would have reached national (let alone world wide) recognition without Gary Gygax. The idea of a persistent character that gains experience and becomes more powerful the longer you play it was contrary to the wargames that evolved into D&D. D&D rules spawned ideas for hundreds of other table top RPGs, perhaps because its rules were "broken" but also because the concept was revolutionary and gave would be game designers an industry to design in.
I never particularly cared for D&D or WOW, but I would not try to conceal its enormous influence of Gary or TSR.
I prefered MW3 to MW4 for interface. With MW3 You could control the mech with the joystick (movement, torso facing) and use the mouse to control the pilot's hud aiming anywhere inside the cockpit. With MW4 the crosshairs were fixed on the center of the monitor. With MW3 you could even see the PPC on your mech's arm track your target mech's head as you twisted the torso beyond the field of fire of your torso missles. It felt real, like you were piloting a vehicle with guns. MW4 dropped back into "video game land".
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During my stay on the mainland I learned two things.
1)Everything is illegal.
2)Only the criminals have rights.
It was like a vindication of every paranoid libertarian in the US.
General consensus for the softmod ITFA in TechARP's own forum is that it doesn't actually improve pro app performance (GL, 3ds, etc..) for newer (later than 6800/NV45) GPUs.
It's kinda sad that this made the front page on slashdot.
Exactly! If you're in the market for a lobotomy, Digg is a much cheaper alternative and mostly temporary. Mostly.
Probably, the clan is also known for great knockers.
If Metallica sat down and made a good album I'd buy it, but they haven't since In Justice.
The funny thing (just to me I guess) about their stance on piracy was that my first exposure to their music was through a bootleg tape. KOME (don't touch that radio dial there's KOME on it) and KRQR weren't playing speed metal in 1984. There was no internet, a pirate BBS, or whatever. It was just tapes that got recopied until you could barely hear the band that wasn't being played on the radio.
When their first album came out, I bought it because was great. The last I bought was the Black Album. I've never downloaded any of their stuff because I owned everything worth downloading before there was an MP3 to download.
I've always been under the impression that a major reason for superconductor research was to raise the operating temperature to a point where parity (or better) was reached between maintaining a magnetic bottle and the energy gained by a contained hydrogen fusion reaction. I'm guessing that the lack of posts stating "Mr Fusion to be trial-ed this fall" means that liquid nitrogen is too energy-expensive to make this a reality.
ARP did the article "DX11 to support hardware accelleration of raytracing" (and it was an April Fools prank). However Intel is "serious" about hardware that does it... or at least serious about owning and promoting patents for the hardware.
Isn't any ad for Apple also a spooge for Asus?
8 years ago there were many reasons to use a soundcard, even a cheap one, over onboard audio. Today the cpu hit and the audio quality from an integrated audio chip is acceptable. The reason people are willing to buy an expensive computer with integrated audio is because there are so many other much more interesting and useful things to throw your money at. If the cost of a computer with all the things I want on it exceeds my budget, the first thing I'd cut is the soundcard.
Naw, this thing would obviously use a Seebeck/Thermoelectric dohicky to help recharge the battery. Hell it could use all that brownian motion to datafy some kind of randomosity program.
Sorry I'm watching Lil'Bush right now.
Wait, I thought it was "a big ass table with pictures of other people's kids all over it".
"Complelte realism won't really be popular on the mainstream. DO you really want to deal with the sound, smoke and kick of a real gun for more then 5 minutes? I mean your quake game would suck."
Most modern military small arms are quite tame (for the person firing them). While i would think it prudent to limit game noise to level that were of minimal damage to the human eardrum, I fear that most gamers choose already to crank the volume to "uncomfortable levels". Realistic smoke would be less than what would occur on the other side of the VR interface, so that's not an issue. Weapon recoil on most military assault rifles is pretty light. Meanwhile, forcing the idiot who insists on taking a Barret Light 50 every round, to deal with its mass and recoil (and trigger flinch) would be amusement enough to allow it to ignore any armor you could wear and tear off body parts for artistic effect.
MBR bios protection seems to be pretty common on "homebuilt" and "mom and pop" machines. But my laptop (acer) doesn't seem to have it. I don't see an option to enable it on our toshiba (though it runs vista so NBD). I don't do PC support anymore, do the vast number of Dells running XP have MBR protection in bios?
I guess, but having pieces detonate when you take them just adds so much more punch to the game.
My bank uses a biometric scanner to access the safety deposit boxes. You put your whole hand on it in a vulcan greeting sort of way. It seems to measure distance between finger pads. Still requires a passcode as well. Most importantly it's in a monitored location, so if my severed hand or a capacitive replica were placed on it some attention might occur. One can hope.
Monitoring agents of the government and subsuming their authority to the accused's peers (the jury) as reviewers of that information, is not a bad thing. As long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of the accused. I can see (as any patriotic American could) that the 5th amendment would demand all responses by the accused be edited out.
"speced for that performance." doesn't cover all my bases.
There used to be a saying, "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." It was because the people who designed IBM systems were perceived as being the best or at least better than the employer could afford to hire personally. Nobody has that aegis anymore, so we're on our own.
If a vendor was offering mainstream chips overclocked to guaranteed and available (in retail) frequencies I might listen to the pitch. If they offered a financial bond should a higher than retail frequency, liquid cooled ubermachine blow blue smoke I'd weigh the pros and cons.
But I wouldn't assume they knew anything more about the hardware than I do.
I can envision a supercomputer of Incredible Hulks hoisting pasivly cooled cpu/motherboards. Solar panels that cover hundreds of acres surround hundreds of prefabbed structures housing the McFarland licensed machines and their 6 month batteries in northern Greenland.
I made the joke because Yamato was never committed to combat at midway. And because the WMG is my favorite scifi weapon.
Midway would only be science fiction if it had the battleship Yamato in it. Alas, she was too far away to fire her WMG. So the movie falls into the docudrama catagory.
Ditto that. Though my dream "no stress job" is snow board instructor somewhere in or around Eagle Lake. Hmmm sounds like a craigslisting.
I think they're called iPods. Seems like everyone has one, though it's mostly music and crappy resolution videos.
Well Zeus was into rape. Being A god doesn't mean you're Lawful Good.
I strongly doubt we would have World of Warcraft, or indeed most video games we enjoy today if there had never been a D&D. And I also strongly doubt the commercial success of TSR would have reached national (let alone world wide) recognition without Gary Gygax. The idea of a persistent character that gains experience and becomes more powerful the longer you play it was contrary to the wargames that evolved into D&D. D&D rules spawned ideas for hundreds of other table top RPGs, perhaps because its rules were "broken" but also because the concept was revolutionary and gave would be game designers an industry to design in.
I never particularly cared for D&D or WOW, but I would not try to conceal its enormous influence of Gary or TSR.
I prefered MW3 to MW4 for interface. With MW3 You could control the mech with the joystick (movement, torso facing) and use the mouse to control the pilot's hud aiming anywhere inside the cockpit. With MW4 the crosshairs were fixed on the center of the monitor. With MW3 you could even see the PPC on your mech's arm track your target mech's head as you twisted the torso beyond the field of fire of your torso missles. It felt real, like you were piloting a vehicle with guns. MW4 dropped back into "video game land".