If you are refering to landing without power from the main engine, then you can flip the blades up to get spin from falling, and then flip them back down to stop your fall right before you hit. I'm not sure how many times this has been done, but I have heard about it.
Their "low end system" played at 22 fps average. Not 32, not even 30. Time and time again, those gaming sites stress that 30 is the minimum to enjoy a first person shooter. If you play at 22 fps in a multiplayer environment, you will be fragged before your first frame finishes rendering. In a single person environment you will have to draw the monsters into situations that won't bog the framerate down. Their 'miniumum system' performance is a joke.
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Here's another thought: MULTIPLE COMPUTERS OVER ONE LINK! All the computers in one office usually connect to one switch, which then has to pipe ALL the data to the next office or the server closet. This is where my particular workplace could really benifit by reducing the number of cables and opening the throughput.
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maybe so, but you don't work with all your data on the hard drive. Working with data on another computer can really speed up with faster ethernet, especially databases that stay partially in RAM.
Call it as you will. I live in Arkansas if you wish to verify my system. It's not a super system, but it DOES meet the box requirements. Is there an online OpenGL benchmark I can post to?
Your comment about differing companies is moot. Quake3Arena is done by the same people as Doom3.
You're right. I was mixing up Quake3 and Unreal Tournament 2.
Because of this, I loaded the most recent demo of Quake3Arena onto a machine with minimum box requirements. I ran demo001 with the timedemo option. It's a Pentium 233 with an ATI Rage Fury Pro, and I got 12.5 FPS with the default setup. I got 14.1 FPS with the "Fast" setup. At 320x240 with all the options turned off, I got 14.2!!! FPS. I'm just trying to show you what you get with "Minimum System Requirements"
Oh yeah? Try playing Quake3 on a minimally configured machine and see what the gameplay is like. 320x200 with software rendering can be get good framerates, but you can't see a blooming thing!
As @180,000 vax systems worldwide can attest to, those old systems ARE being used. This article isn't news so much as it is a space filler. It's trivia. There's no mass dumping of the VAX systems.
Probably, their service agreements just hit a price increase, and someone's throwing a fit and had an article written.
Not everyone can afford to have ideals. More often than not, the employer's attitude is: "There are more suckers where you came from, and they'll have their own cell phone." Thus, you would be out of a nice paying IT job, and working at McDonalds, where you have your moral standards of not having to pay for a cell phone.
The bottom line is that you do what you have to do to keep a job that you want. When the job isn't worth the pay/benifits, then you'll quit, and the next guy will have it.
Speaking unofficially as an employee at a major US factory, I can assure you that these United States make a significant portion of the world's baby wipes.
Quite possibly. But then that would mean that M$ is distributing software that enables DRM disabling. I can't wait for the courts to come up with a reasonable difference between this and DeCSS.
So, the case "will be" dismissed. I hope the court follows up on this promise better than Novell and SCO followed up on their transfer of copyrights.:)
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If you are refering to landing without power from the main engine, then you can flip the blades up to get spin from falling, and then flip them back down to stop your fall right before you hit. I'm not sure how many times this has been done, but I have heard about it.
The downside is that kids can no longer tell the difference between their candy bags and your new UBER-1337 computers.
You want a good review, go to a review driven site. It's a pity that Anandtech doesn't do requests like Slashdot does, though.
And looking at those FRAPS graphs, I would have to conclude that there is plenty of frame rate jumping.
Their "low end system" played at 22 fps average. Not 32, not even 30. Time and time again, those gaming sites stress that 30 is the minimum to enjoy a first person shooter. If you play at 22 fps in a multiplayer environment, you will be fragged before your first frame finishes rendering. In a single person environment you will have to draw the monsters into situations that won't bog the framerate down. Their 'miniumum system' performance is a joke.
Here's another thought: MULTIPLE COMPUTERS OVER ONE LINK! All the computers in one office usually connect to one switch, which then has to pipe ALL the data to the next office or the server closet. This is where my particular workplace could really benifit by reducing the number of cables and opening the throughput.
maybe so, but you don't work with all your data on the hard drive. Working with data on another computer can really speed up with faster ethernet, especially databases that stay partially in RAM.
That's not an article. It's an advertisement for a book.
I actually enjoyed getting the lowest framerates in exhistance on a legal machine. It's perversely funny.
BTW I benchmarked the GL performance here.
Your comment about differing companies is moot. Quake3Arena is done by the same people as Doom3.
Because of this, I loaded the most recent demo of Quake3Arena onto a machine with minimum box requirements. I ran demo001 with the timedemo option. It's a Pentium 233 with an ATI Rage Fury Pro, and I got 12.5 FPS with the default setup. I got 14.1 FPS with the "Fast" setup. At 320x240 with all the options turned off, I got 14.2!!! FPS. I'm just trying to show you what you get with "Minimum System Requirements"
It's a Compaq Presario 4824 if anyone cares.
Oh yeah? Try playing Quake3 on a minimally configured machine and see what the gameplay is like. 320x200 with software rendering can be get good framerates, but you can't see a blooming thing!
As @180,000 vax systems worldwide can attest to, those old systems ARE being used. This article isn't news so much as it is a space filler. It's trivia. There's no mass dumping of the VAX systems. Probably, their service agreements just hit a price increase, and someone's throwing a fit and had an article written.
Oh nice. A rightious jab on morals from an anonymous coward. Hee hee that's funny.
Not everyone can afford to have ideals. More often than not, the employer's attitude is: "There are more suckers where you came from, and they'll have their own cell phone." Thus, you would be out of a nice paying IT job, and working at McDonalds, where you have your moral standards of not having to pay for a cell phone. The bottom line is that you do what you have to do to keep a job that you want. When the job isn't worth the pay/benifits, then you'll quit, and the next guy will have it.
I couldn't drag the mountains around.
Download your personalized patch here.
Does the weather information come under the freedom of information act? Can that act be used to thwart this scheme?
Speaking unofficially as an employee at a major US factory, I can assure you that these United States make a significant portion of the world's baby wipes.
Good job. Now you have every stupid kid calling the cops with a roomful of suspects, and no lights to ID the perp.
Quite possibly. But then that would mean that M$ is distributing software that enables DRM disabling. I can't wait for the courts to come up with a reasonable difference between this and DeCSS.
On your mark! Get set! Make!
For the pictures, stupid!
McDonalds doesn't want things that are mature, robust, and secure. Just look at their average employee.
So, the case "will be" dismissed. I hope the court follows up on this promise better than Novell and SCO followed up on their transfer of copyrights. :)