Anyone else see a trend here?
I have an ATI card, blah blah blah its so much better.
I have a NVIDIA card, blah blah blah its so much better.
Can't they just agree both are pretty much the same and both are good products? That the benchmarks are so close that it really doesn't matter whos on top? Just find what card is cheaper and buy it.
And for the record, BOTH cheated on benchmarks. So unfairly saying one is better "cuz the other cheats in benchmarks" is retarded logic.
The story is "Answer," from Angels and Spaceships, by Fredric Brown (Dutton, 1954). Here is the original text:
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe--ninety-six billion planets--into the supercircuit that would connect them all into the one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a moment's silence, he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.*
You have something called an IP address.
Basically its like phone number that you use on the internet. Your using it right now on slashdot.
When you search for something on kazaa, you send out a message, "Call me at this number if you have this song." it bounces around and anything with that song calls you.
Your IP address is assigned by your Internet service providor. Your ISP logs the time you are on and what IP number you have.
Police can get you if they want to. But police usually have better things to do then taking down 14 year olds sharing Bang Bus episodes.
RIAA: "It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer....When you break the law, you risk legal penalties. There is a simple way to avoid that risk: DON'T STEAL MUSIC either by offering it to others to copy or downloading it on a 'file-sharing' system like this. When you offer music on these systems, you are not anonymous and you can easily be identified."
Me: "Man the desperate things you try... How does it feel to be obsolete? Artists don't need you anymore. Consumers don't need you anymore. I hear your industry fading. Better brush up on your customer service skills, your gonna need them in your new job at Mcdonalds. If they hire form scum sucking executive types. ah... I hear the clock... tick tick tick tick"
Now call me when they are able to make em 1/10th the size and put wireless cameras on em as well.
Imagine to be a fly on the wall of a woman's locker room. Oh yeah, soon I can be! woohoo! go technology!
I think this male fantasy is driving micro technology and 3d technology as well.
sign me up for the beta!
I played in a scrimmage against the top RTCW team tonight.
It felt like I WAS on dialup.
Trust me, I played against top Euro teams that had the same ping as someone that uses dialup. Even though they are better then us, we beat them easily because of the ping. For online FPS ping and packetloss is EVERYTHING.
I went to the site and I noticed they are dicussing the maps that have equal sides.
The mode that they are looking to use is the very unpopular capture the flag mode. 97 percent of all the servers don't run that mode.
Right now using a tool called "All Seeing Eye" I can see every RTCW server in the world. Right now, 3am est, there are 1000 players playing RTCW. Only 50 or so are on a capture the flag mode/map.
anti-cheat monitoring software is built into Return to Castle Wolfenstein already. That is why RTCW was a good place to start for this venture. The people who play with hacked games have to play on hacked servers. ie. servers that don't have a CD-key check.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein is the best team game out there. The depth of the multiplayer game is beyond comparison. You would be amazed at the stratagy that goes into it. (picture example of a strat) RTCW is not a deathmatch.
The problem is that the people who set this service up don't really know what RTCW is all about. RTCW is a TEAM GAME. The Medics support the Lieutenants. The Engineers follow to complete the objective. The Soldiers are a special class for special situations. They all complment each other.
You can't measure performance by kill/death ratio in RTCW. The guy that goes 2-14 can be just as valueable as the guy that goes 10-7. Sometimes, not shooting the other guy and sneaking by him is a benefit in getting to the objective.
Cheating in RTCW is a non-factor. Evenbalance's Punkbuster can stop every cheat out there. It is updated frequently and can actually take a snapshot of your screen and send it to the game server admins. It also checks your games video setting to be sure you don't have an unfair advantage.
The only way this could work is if they changed it to a clan on clan system.
Clan A puts in $100.
Clan B puts in $100.
Winner get $190, service get 10.
I have been on the end of a screaming captain in a game that had no money involved. The things that came out of his mouth could offend german shizer movie star. I don't know if my family would be safe if money were on the line and I did something wrong.
Many clans have folded under pressure of competitve gaming with no money involved. Cyber Amateur League (CAL) had a league for the elite. CAL-Invitational. After its second season it had to merge with the lower division because the top teams quit.
Remember, 3dmark03 is a Direct X 9.0 benchmarking tool.
The only cards that will score high(+2000) are ATI 9700, ATI 9500, or a GeForce FX.
The 4th test will only be run by those cards mentioned above and will boost your score no matter what processor you have.
RTCW, UT2k3, and every game out there don't use direct x 9.0 because they were out before direct x 9 was released. Developers didn't include direct x 9 because it was still in development itself. Only games in development now will use Direct X 9.
Who could forget the Neo Geo?
The I don't know what turned people off more. The 500 dollar price tag on the system or the 200 dollar price tag on the games.
Also I think the worst peripheral of all time need mentioning: The Nintendo Power Glove. The Wizard lied to me.
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Anyone else see a trend here? I have an ATI card, blah blah blah its so much better. I have a NVIDIA card, blah blah blah its so much better. Can't they just agree both are pretty much the same and both are good products? That the benchmarks are so close that it really doesn't matter whos on top? Just find what card is cheaper and buy it. And for the record, BOTH cheated on benchmarks. So unfairly saying one is better "cuz the other cheats in benchmarks" is retarded logic.
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe--ninety-six billion planets--into the supercircuit that would connect them all into the one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a moment's silence, he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.*
It could have been your tv mother.
set your phasers to eeeewwww! gross!
tick tick tick tick tick tick... Your days are numbered.
You have something called an IP address. Basically its like phone number that you use on the internet. Your using it right now on slashdot. When you search for something on kazaa, you send out a message, "Call me at this number if you have this song." it bounces around and anything with that song calls you. Your IP address is assigned by your Internet service providor. Your ISP logs the time you are on and what IP number you have. Police can get you if they want to. But police usually have better things to do then taking down 14 year olds sharing Bang Bus episodes.
Typing out stupid paragraphics of legal disclaimers mean nothing when a law enforcement agency is investigating.
Me: "Man the desperate things you try... How does it feel to be obsolete? Artists don't need you anymore. Consumers don't need you anymore. I hear your industry fading. Better brush up on your customer service skills, your gonna need them in your new job at Mcdonalds. If they hire form scum sucking executive types. ah... I hear the clock... tick tick tick tick"
Now call me when they are able to make em 1/10th the size and put wireless cameras on em as well. Imagine to be a fly on the wall of a woman's locker room. Oh yeah, soon I can be! woohoo! go technology! I think this male fantasy is driving micro technology and 3d technology as well. sign me up for the beta!
I played in a scrimmage against the top RTCW team tonight. It felt like I WAS on dialup. Trust me, I played against top Euro teams that had the same ping as someone that uses dialup. Even though they are better then us, we beat them easily because of the ping. For online FPS ping and packetloss is EVERYTHING.
I went to the site and I noticed they are dicussing the maps that have equal sides. The mode that they are looking to use is the very unpopular capture the flag mode. 97 percent of all the servers don't run that mode. Right now using a tool called "All Seeing Eye" I can see every RTCW server in the world. Right now, 3am est, there are 1000 players playing RTCW. Only 50 or so are on a capture the flag mode/map.
anti-cheat monitoring software is built into Return to Castle Wolfenstein already. That is why RTCW was a good place to start for this venture. The people who play with hacked games have to play on hacked servers. ie. servers that don't have a CD-key check.
In RTCW if you had dialup you would be dead before you saw the guy shooting you.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein is the best team game out there. The depth of the multiplayer game is beyond comparison. You would be amazed at the stratagy that goes into it. (picture example of a strat) RTCW is not a deathmatch.
The problem is that the people who set this service up don't really know what RTCW is all about. RTCW is a TEAM GAME. The Medics support the Lieutenants. The Engineers follow to complete the objective. The Soldiers are a special class for special situations. They all complment each other.
You can't measure performance by kill/death ratio in RTCW. The guy that goes 2-14 can be just as valueable as the guy that goes 10-7. Sometimes, not shooting the other guy and sneaking by him is a benefit in getting to the objective.
Cheating in RTCW is a non-factor. Evenbalance's Punkbuster can stop every cheat out there. It is updated frequently and can actually take a snapshot of your screen and send it to the game server admins. It also checks your games video setting to be sure you don't have an unfair advantage.
The only way this could work is if they changed it to a clan on clan system.
Clan A puts in $100.
Clan B puts in $100.
Winner get $190, service get 10.
I have been on the end of a screaming captain in a game that had no money involved. The things that came out of his mouth could offend german shizer movie star. I don't know if my family would be safe if money were on the line and I did something wrong.
Many clans have folded under pressure of competitve gaming with no money involved. Cyber Amateur League (CAL) had a league for the elite. CAL-Invitational. After its second season it had to merge with the lower division because the top teams quit.
Remember, 3dmark03 is a Direct X 9.0 benchmarking tool. The only cards that will score high(+2000) are ATI 9700, ATI 9500, or a GeForce FX. The 4th test will only be run by those cards mentioned above and will boost your score no matter what processor you have. RTCW, UT2k3, and every game out there don't use direct x 9.0 because they were out before direct x 9 was released. Developers didn't include direct x 9 because it was still in development itself. Only games in development now will use Direct X 9.
Who could forget the Neo Geo? The I don't know what turned people off more. The 500 dollar price tag on the system or the 200 dollar price tag on the games. Also I think the worst peripheral of all time need mentioning: The Nintendo Power Glove. The Wizard lied to me.