I'm not excited about the "next" generation of cards because they'll be able to maintain a solid framerate at higher resolutions (I haven't been for almost ten years), I'm excited because they'll contain more and faster programmable shader units. That's where the magic sauce happens, and the more shader power you have the more awesome stuff you can do. And as other people pointed out, they're incredibly useful for a wide range of applications outside of pure graphics processing.
70 years? After 48 hours without sleep I make tons of mistakes, stare blankly at whatever I'm trying to work on for minutes at a time, and start seeing imaginary things darting around in my peripheral vision. Nope, much like Windows 95, daily reboots are necessary for reliable operation.
What do you mean, how would it work? The problem is these damn kids these days. No imagination whatsoever. Inform is the answer! With text based games (and I mean *text language*, none of this fancy-pants nethack/zzt/libaa hoolaballoo!) the sky is the limit. We've had the capability to make rich game experiences far beyond what graphics cards will ever be able to pump out, for decades now I tells ya!
Anyone remember IF Quake? And they called it a joke! Ha! Now, granted I haven't seen IF Tetris or IF parcheesi yet, but given a sudden surge in interest... Yes, Gentlemen, this could work!
Honestly, this will never work. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm on a dialup connection, so I generally check my files mid-transfer for quality/content. I'm really not willing or unwise enough to download 200 megs of mating rhinoceri under the false pretense of it being those Invader Zim episodes I wanted. Even if I had a high speed connection and downloaded it regardless, I'd certainly remove it from my system afterwards anyhow, wouldn't I? Right? Right guys? So in short, even if they trick a user far enough into downloading a file, which is entirely possible, what makes them think that people won't notice far enough ahead of time to stop?
...details the interface differences between Microsoft Windows and the Aqua interface used in Mac OS X. Written on a layman's level, it actually makes for pretty interesting reading!
That's simple. Explorer.exe. Oh, on a layman's level? "Your internet won't break," basically.
Actually i believe they have it. As we all well know, the Earth was actually created in six days, and on the seventh God rested. So how does this add up, you ask?
a paltry 30 million years (which, IIRC, is less than one day on Carl Sagan's 1 year = the life of the universe calendar).
Simple: Where do you think us geeks inherited our "finish half a project and come back to it tomorrow" genes from? The MASTER, of course.
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I'm not excited about the "next" generation of cards because they'll be able to maintain a solid framerate at higher resolutions (I haven't been for almost ten years), I'm excited because they'll contain more and faster programmable shader units. That's where the magic sauce happens, and the more shader power you have the more awesome stuff you can do. And as other people pointed out, they're incredibly useful for a wide range of applications outside of pure graphics processing.
70 years? After 48 hours without sleep I make tons of mistakes, stare blankly at whatever I'm trying to work on for minutes at a time, and start seeing imaginary things darting around in my peripheral vision. Nope, much like Windows 95, daily reboots are necessary for reliable operation.
What do you mean, how would it work? The problem is these damn kids these days. No imagination whatsoever. Inform is the answer! With text based games (and I mean *text language*, none of this fancy-pants nethack/zzt/libaa hoolaballoo!) the sky is the limit. We've had the capability to make rich game experiences far beyond what graphics cards will ever be able to pump out, for decades now I tells ya! Anyone remember IF Quake? And they called it a joke! Ha! Now, granted I haven't seen IF Tetris or IF parcheesi yet, but given a sudden surge in interest... Yes, Gentlemen, this could work!
Honestly, this will never work. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm on a dialup connection, so I generally check my files mid-transfer for quality/content. I'm really not willing or unwise enough to download 200 megs of mating rhinoceri under the false pretense of it being those Invader Zim episodes I wanted. Even if I had a high speed connection and downloaded it regardless, I'd certainly remove it from my system afterwards anyhow, wouldn't I? Right? Right guys? So in short, even if they trick a user far enough into downloading a file, which is entirely possible, what makes them think that people won't notice far enough ahead of time to stop?
Egads man, when a printer used to spit out garbage, it used to be no big deal. NOW it could very well be the next Bubonic plague!