and clocking in a couple dozen frames per second more in just about every game engine (except those suspicious ID Software engines) than Intel processors I'll keep loving them.
...that the bastards do it in a sick-ass way. "Hey... you're only wasting points... not money!" Hey I have 1600 points! What's 200 points gonna do to me...[.....]... hey I have 30 points left... I better get more...
Well keep in mind you need two of those for the suggested setup, and they're like 500 bucks each, plus the SLI compatible motherboard, power supply needed to power those two beasts, etc, and you've got yourself around 1,500 just to get the gaming parts for this monster PC. That is a lot of money for gaming equipment. I honestly don't know what could possibly drive a person to buy these cards, except wasting money, when you can just step back a generation and pick one up for 200 bucks which will do just as fine with the games out right now. Give them a couple of months and your monster $500 card will be down to the ~$200 range. What will your extra 300 give you? an extra 20 fps with FSAA on (which at high enough resolutions I can barely tell the difference anyway) for a couple of months longer than everyone else?
Oh yeah, and the "Oh but I've got to get ready for the new awesome wave of games coming out!" excuse doesn't cut it. By the time those new and awesome games come out a new card will be out and your money splurging inner self will go out and buy another card, and that'll be a couple hundred dollars down the toilet.
BTW, I'm still on my Radeon 9700, which I picked up when they dropped below 200, and it still does fine on everything I want to play. Granted I have 2GB of RAM, and a 3500+ Athlon 64, but then again those also have alternate uses, and aren't limited to a "gaming" investment.
...use that kind of money for something more useful... like say... a down payment on a new car. And a last-generation videocard which is nearly as good but at 1/100th of the price.
I agree, let Chuck Norris run loose, he'll know what to do. But then again, if you had Chuck Norris on your hands, your data centers and IT Deps would be in pristine conditions.
I love my Toyota Corolla to death, the Japanese are so far ahead American automotive companies it's not even funny. So yeah, I embrace my Japanese technology.
I agree, currently for my own personal use I have a self-built desktop and a Dell laptop, and if I had more money (I'm a college student) I'd add a Mac to that list. That'd be that, no need for any fancy webservers and shit. If I need Linux I'll get an extra hard drive or an extra partition on my desktop.
There are maybe 4 more computers hooked up at my home but they're not mine.
I mean god damn, there's a new lawsuit coming up every couple of seconds against the poor company. That's gotta be really damn frustrating. It also bores me to death whenever I read the 50th story about a Take Two lawsuit.
This is one of those things that can really make you angry at how stupid people can be, this doesn't sound like anything OTHER THAN FREELOADING.
And what makes this shitty proposition even more ironic and their gigantic nuts even more impressive is that these assholes are complaining about how hard it is to deploy an awesome 4-12Mbit "high speed" infrastructure while half of the world has relatively cheap 100mbit connections at home. Why don't they try offering better services instead of bitching and trying to freeload?
My favorite google query always starts out with the word wikipedia
wikipedia [INSERT_RANDOM_THING_HERE]
other than that, it's called "being a college student". Then there's movie info, music info, game/movie/hardware reviews comparisons and discussions, etc.
As the internet grows even more monolithic, I don't see how it's possible not to think search engines have a great future.
Agreed, if you wanted to see it, you already saw it, and probably have it burned/saved to every format imaginable. Those who don't are just the losers.
People buy google shares to make them happy, and make them rich, that's the only reason. They lose money on all sorts of crappy stock decisions, but their Google stock is always going up, bringing a smile to their faces and pockets. But, when Google stock goes down, it makes that same Business man angry... it makes him cry... and cry he does, all the way to the "Sell shares" button, lowering stock price even more.
These kind of people need to realize that only worrying about short-term cash flow and forgetting about the rest can only lead to dissappointment, and a big fat crash once the market goes as far as it'll go. Google might be sacrificing money by spending big bucks right now, lowering profits and making dumbasses all over wallstreet cry themselves to sleep, but they'll guarantee themselves a spot in the long-term. That is, unless Ballmer discoveres siege weapons, and builds a chair catapult, then they're fucked.
...used to bang? I mean that shit was WWF style! "OMG!!! THE GODLY DEVELOPER OF DOOM WAS BEATEN BY A GIRL AT DEATHMATCH... OMG NOW THEY'RE GOING OUT AND LIVING TOGETHER AND HAVING SEX!!
Oh I just read the wikipedia article and they split up, too bad, they made a nice idiot couple. Stevie Case for the uninitiated
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and clocking in a couple dozen frames per second more in just about every game engine (except those suspicious ID Software engines) than Intel processors I'll keep loving them.
Or be at a distance longer than the radius of the killer robot's circular walking area of death. Otherwise your ass gets fucking clothesline'd
There are microsoft jokes or linux is awesome comments. I'm a fucking psychic.
...that the bastards do it in a sick-ass way. "Hey... you're only wasting points... not money!" Hey I have 1600 points! What's 200 points gonna do to me...[.....]... hey I have 30 points left... I better get more...
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Well keep in mind you need two of those for the suggested setup, and they're like 500 bucks each, plus the SLI compatible motherboard, power supply needed to power those two beasts, etc, and you've got yourself around 1,500 just to get the gaming parts for this monster PC. That is a lot of money for gaming equipment. I honestly don't know what could possibly drive a person to buy these cards, except wasting money, when you can just step back a generation and pick one up for 200 bucks which will do just as fine with the games out right now. Give them a couple of months and your monster $500 card will be down to the ~$200 range. What will your extra 300 give you? an extra 20 fps with FSAA on (which at high enough resolutions I can barely tell the difference anyway) for a couple of months longer than everyone else?
Oh yeah, and the "Oh but I've got to get ready for the new awesome wave of games coming out!" excuse doesn't cut it. By the time those new and awesome games come out a new card will be out and your money splurging inner self will go out and buy another card, and that'll be a couple hundred dollars down the toilet.
BTW, I'm still on my Radeon 9700, which I picked up when they dropped below 200, and it still does fine on everything I want to play. Granted I have 2GB of RAM, and a 3500+ Athlon 64, but then again those also have alternate uses, and aren't limited to a "gaming" investment.
...use that kind of money for something more useful... like say... a down payment on a new car. And a last-generation videocard which is nearly as good but at 1/100th of the price.
SHIT, so I guess windows will have to be closed when we install inertial dampeners on our spaceships.
I agree, let Chuck Norris run loose, he'll know what to do. But then again, if you had Chuck Norris on your hands, your data centers and IT Deps would be in pristine conditions.
This just means everyone will have to pirate the highest-end version
I love my Toyota Corolla to death, the Japanese are so far ahead American automotive companies it's not even funny. So yeah, I embrace my Japanese technology.
I'd say Chuck Norris is up to that task.
I agree, currently for my own personal use I have a self-built desktop and a Dell laptop, and if I had more money (I'm a college student) I'd add a Mac to that list. That'd be that, no need for any fancy webservers and shit. If I need Linux I'll get an extra hard drive or an extra partition on my desktop.
There are maybe 4 more computers hooked up at my home but they're not mine.
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I mean god damn, there's a new lawsuit coming up every couple of seconds against the poor company. That's gotta be really damn frustrating. It also bores me to death whenever I read the 50th story about a Take Two lawsuit.
Or a brand new ATI card with HDMI and HDCP!!!!!!!111 bada bing
That would be 180 search assistant
Or The Legend of Zelda: La Princesa del Crepúsculo
This is one of those things that can really make you angry at how stupid people can be, this doesn't sound like anything OTHER THAN FREELOADING. And what makes this shitty proposition even more ironic and their gigantic nuts even more impressive is that these assholes are complaining about how hard it is to deploy an awesome 4-12Mbit "high speed" infrastructure while half of the world has relatively cheap 100mbit connections at home. Why don't they try offering better services instead of bitching and trying to freeload?
so that's why porn is so awesome
My favorite google query always starts out with the word wikipedia
wikipedia [INSERT_RANDOM_THING_HERE]
other than that, it's called "being a college student". Then there's movie info, music info, game/movie/hardware reviews comparisons and discussions, etc.
As the internet grows even more monolithic, I don't see how it's possible not to think search engines have a great future.
Agreed, if you wanted to see it, you already saw it, and probably have it burned/saved to every format imaginable. Those who don't are just the losers.
People buy google shares to make them happy, and make them rich, that's the only reason. They lose money on all sorts of crappy stock decisions, but their Google stock is always going up, bringing a smile to their faces and pockets. But, when Google stock goes down, it makes that same Business man angry... it makes him cry... and cry he does, all the way to the "Sell shares" button, lowering stock price even more.
These kind of people need to realize that only worrying about short-term cash flow and forgetting about the rest can only lead to dissappointment, and a big fat crash once the market goes as far as it'll go. Google might be sacrificing money by spending big bucks right now, lowering profits and making dumbasses all over wallstreet cry themselves to sleep, but they'll guarantee themselves a spot in the long-term. That is, unless Ballmer discoveres siege weapons, and builds a chair catapult, then they're fucked.
So are you using a completely legal copy of Altair BASIC to do your taxes? ;)
...used to bang? I mean that shit was WWF style! "OMG!!! THE GODLY DEVELOPER OF DOOM WAS BEATEN BY A GIRL AT DEATHMATCH... OMG NOW THEY'RE GOING OUT AND LIVING TOGETHER AND HAVING SEX!!
Oh I just read the wikipedia article and they split up, too bad, they made a nice idiot couple. Stevie Case for the uninitiated