Because a) all the games they sell are brand-new, and b) the first tenate of retail is to keep inventory full. Just because you or I don't like sports games doesn't mean everyone agrees.
If true, it is interesting to see AMD moving to pin grid array-style cpu connection. Intel has used this for a little while now with thier socket 775 Pentium 4 chips. While there was concern over broken pins resulting in unusable motherboards, it now seems to be a relatively robust mechanism. I wonder what advantages AMD saw that lead them to this design. I also wonder if their Socket M, 940 pin solution for next years Athlons will use the same socket design.
I guess you don't "get" it because you have the extra money lieing around to blow on these huge screens and nice sound systems. For that matter, are people in planes, trains and automobiles supposed to rollout huge projector screens to watch a movie?
Movies are movies. You shouldn't require a cinematic experience to watch them. They are not one-in-the-same.
There's one important thing you fail to consider. Not all computer tasks are limited by your hard disk. Sure plenty are: bootup, unzipping, file copy. But there are just as many that aren't. Image rendering, video encoding, 3d games, math programs. Those are all limited by your CPU frequency and/or memory speed and latency. Once your application is started up and loaded into memory, say goodbye to your hard disk bottlenecks.
Tell the NHRA that the two top-fuel dragsters that are 0.001 seconds apart are the same speed. Tell the baseball team that loses the World Series by 1 run that they're equally as good. Look, you may not understand that some people benchmark as a form of recreational competition, but it's reality whether you like it or not.
That's true, but I don't think it would be any worse than having 10 billion xboxes with crappy games in the hands of gamers. In fact, it's probably better to sell fewer consoles if your launch titles are subpar. The more I think about it, the better this scheme sounds.
Another possible reason they are doing this is that they want to get the machines only in the hands of the hardcore gamers and Xbox fans. Doing so will generate a lot of positive buzz. Along with the beanie baby type marketing mentioned, it could result in a huge second push of sales. That seems a bit far-fetched and conspiracy like, but you never know when it comes to MS marketing.
What most people don't realize is that the only way to improve your performance at the top end of the performance spectrum is through a combination of small tweaks such as this. Sure spending twice the money for 103% of the performance sounds dumb, but when you combine that with small tweaks to your processor, graphics card and a 10,000rpm hard drive they add up.
These products are not for people who want to achieve a useable level of performance and as such are not marketed at those crowds. They are for people who have already fast equipment but want more. I won't say this is a good or bad thing as it is simply a hobby for most of these people. Just like import tuners: they may drive funny-looking cars, but it's their choice of hobby.
The events decribed for DAoC sound exactly like what WoW has been doing for the past couple weeks. I've really enjoyed their holiday celebrations in-game. For "Hallow's End", there is a quest to go trick-or-treating for a sick orphan that takes you around the world; you can go bobbing for apples at nearly every inn; you can "trick-or-treat" innkeepers for candy, wands to turn party members into monster, or be tricked and turned into something funny like a toad or a black cat. There are no shortage of jack-o-latterns and ghosts around the cities. And lastly, there is a wickerman festival that both Horde and Alliance celebrate where a major faction leader shows up in front of a giant wickerman, says a short speach about why they celebrate, then lights the thing on fire which dispenses buffs for everyone in attendance.
Overall it's nothing huge that disrupts the way the game is played, but it does enough to give you something to do and remind you that it's Halloween.
This thing is at least three months old. I don't know if they changed something since then, but I'm not willing to fire up IE to install the control to find out.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a *snore*
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So are you suggesting that we benchmark failure rates? I was always taught that benchmarks are meant to show average case performance in a well-defined environment. I don't think it's feasible to benchmark in a manner you seem to be suggesting. Should we benchmark the time it takes me to remember how to perform a column delete as well? It is important to remember that other factors can influence your performance, but speed as a benchmark should be as cut and dry as possible.
Well that would be the right solution, but as I understand it the physical properties of the liquid crystals will always display this property. I don't know if you've ever seen a chart of color vs. reponse time, but you will notice a sort square root function going on. You will always have some colors that switch faster than others. So really a 3ms panel would generally be better than a 10ms panel because it's curve starts lower. It's some tricky stuff that goes on so it's not always black and white.
You're missing the point. The 3ms is best case scanario. Not all pixel transitions will occur at this speed. Even on a "3ms" panel, you will more than likely have some color/brightness changes that take longer than 10ms. It's akin to saying my Porsche is really fast on roadways, but very slow traveling on a muddy path.
While you are 100% correct on this point, it is worth noting that monitor manufacturers are getting a lot better at specifiying the method of measurement they use to give their spec, as is pointed out in a reply to your post above. This still won't help in determining accurately how the monitor will behave in all conditions nor will it tell you if you are likely to notice streaking or ghosting since this is (obviously) subjective.
How about "Protection Fault". You'll run around the game thinking you were just browsing through Windows 98.
Major Protection Fault
General Protection Fault
Oh no!
Nobody is forcing you to read/. If it's a product you don't like, why come here and do nothing but complain? Even the title of this editorial plainly states what it will be about, so if that does not interest you breeze over to the next article. If you find the majority of stories are uninteresting, there are plenty of other ways to get your news. Trolling about it here to the people who like what they see isn't going to improve your experience.
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Because a) all the games they sell are brand-new, and b) the first tenate of retail is to keep inventory full. Just because you or I don't like sports games doesn't mean everyone agrees.
Doh, yep thank you. Too early to be thinking about acronymns.
Excellent. The government eat wendys subliminal advertising scheme is working perfectly. World buy pepsi domination is at hand.
Graphics controller on chip. Intel has shown such a chip at IDF this past fall.
If true, it is interesting to see AMD moving to pin grid array-style cpu connection. Intel has used this for a little while now with thier socket 775 Pentium 4 chips. While there was concern over broken pins resulting in unusable motherboards, it now seems to be a relatively robust mechanism. I wonder what advantages AMD saw that lead them to this design. I also wonder if their Socket M, 940 pin solution for next years Athlons will use the same socket design.
Movies are movies. You shouldn't require a cinematic experience to watch them. They are not one-in-the-same.
There's one important thing you fail to consider. Not all computer tasks are limited by your hard disk. Sure plenty are: bootup, unzipping, file copy. But there are just as many that aren't. Image rendering, video encoding, 3d games, math programs. Those are all limited by your CPU frequency and/or memory speed and latency. Once your application is started up and loaded into memory, say goodbye to your hard disk bottlenecks.
Tell the NHRA that the two top-fuel dragsters that are 0.001 seconds apart are the same speed. Tell the baseball team that loses the World Series by 1 run that they're equally as good. Look, you may not understand that some people benchmark as a form of recreational competition, but it's reality whether you like it or not.
That's true, but I don't think it would be any worse than having 10 billion xboxes with crappy games in the hands of gamers. In fact, it's probably better to sell fewer consoles if your launch titles are subpar. The more I think about it, the better this scheme sounds.
Another possible reason they are doing this is that they want to get the machines only in the hands of the hardcore gamers and Xbox fans. Doing so will generate a lot of positive buzz. Along with the beanie baby type marketing mentioned, it could result in a huge second push of sales. That seems a bit far-fetched and conspiracy like, but you never know when it comes to MS marketing.
These products are not for people who want to achieve a useable level of performance and as such are not marketed at those crowds. They are for people who have already fast equipment but want more. I won't say this is a good or bad thing as it is simply a hobby for most of these people. Just like import tuners: they may drive funny-looking cars, but it's their choice of hobby.
Video killed the radio star, etc.
Overall it's nothing huge that disrupts the way the game is played, but it does enough to give you something to do and remind you that it's Halloween.
Oh well, now I'll never know if I pass or fail.
Sure you will. Unfortunately, you failed.
It's a joke. Though, maybe I'm on to something.
This thing is at least three months old. I don't know if they changed something since then, but I'm not willing to fire up IE to install the control to find out.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a *snore*
So are you suggesting that we benchmark failure rates? I was always taught that benchmarks are meant to show average case performance in a well-defined environment. I don't think it's feasible to benchmark in a manner you seem to be suggesting. Should we benchmark the time it takes me to remember how to perform a column delete as well? It is important to remember that other factors can influence your performance, but speed as a benchmark should be as cut and dry as possible.
Well that would be the right solution, but as I understand it the physical properties of the liquid crystals will always display this property. I don't know if you've ever seen a chart of color vs. reponse time, but you will notice a sort square root function going on. You will always have some colors that switch faster than others. So really a 3ms panel would generally be better than a 10ms panel because it's curve starts lower. It's some tricky stuff that goes on so it's not always black and white.
You're missing the point. The 3ms is best case scanario. Not all pixel transitions will occur at this speed. Even on a "3ms" panel, you will more than likely have some color/brightness changes that take longer than 10ms. It's akin to saying my Porsche is really fast on roadways, but very slow traveling on a muddy path.
While you are 100% correct on this point, it is worth noting that monitor manufacturers are getting a lot better at specifiying the method of measurement they use to give their spec, as is pointed out in a reply to your post above. This still won't help in determining accurately how the monitor will behave in all conditions nor will it tell you if you are likely to notice streaking or ghosting since this is (obviously) subjective.
Am I missing something? The link seems to go to a review article.
How about "Protection Fault". You'll run around the game thinking you were just browsing through Windows 98. Major Protection Fault General Protection Fault Oh no!
Nobody is forcing you to read /. If it's a product you don't like, why come here and do nothing but complain? Even the title of this editorial plainly states what it will be about, so if that does not interest you breeze over to the next article. If you find the majority of stories are uninteresting, there are plenty of other ways to get your news. Trolling about it here to the people who like what they see isn't going to improve your experience.