When you are seeing a game at 25fps, you are likely to be seeing it at 6fps for a fraction of a second, then 50fps for a fraction of a second, etc. The reason you need 60fps average in a game is so you get 25fps or so in the worst case. Record a game being played at 100fps, then create movies of it at 50fps and 25fps constant frame rates, and you will see what I mean - there won't be much difference in visual quality.
Not true at all launch good ol' half-life and go into the console and type in max_fps 25, and tell me you don't see any diffrence.... you would be lying and there is no way my 3.0 ghz ati x600 can't run the game strait with any framerate droping below 25 MAX fps.
Guess what? I still don't see very many sites getting around Firefox's pop-up blocker, significantly exploiting it's weaknesses, or finding new security holes by the dozen. And yet... I continue to see it with IE. And don't be saying; "Firefox isn't popular, it'll happen eventually". My ass. It's been advertised into the ground.
Have you not seen the.swf (Flash Ads) that now cause pop-ups? Which is a direct result of firefox I'm willing to bet, and google's toolbar. It has gotten so bad now I just use a whitelist now with flash files since most of the flash files out there are worthless.
Rly?... cuz my m8 got 0wned by this hacker on AIM. Posted about it on his myspace account if u wanna read it. u think i should tell him 2 go 2 IRC? r ther no hackers there? I'll tell him i heard its saf3r, k? cuz I heard they can get ur IP number on AIM & not on IRC, that true 2?
OMGZ I just pwned some guy yesterday mebe it was u?, haha what a n00b he told me his IP was 127.0.0.1 and I used some 1337 program to pwn his comp and now I have full permission to do it, I think I'll start deleteing his files. LOLZ!
Why would anyone buy an HD-DVD player that has to be connected to an XBOX360 instead of being directly connected to the TV?
My personell guess is that some of the newer games will require the HD-DVD player, and the new versions of X-B0X 360 will come shipped with this.... only time will tell though.
military spending is such a waste. I can't remember the last time i used something developed by the military.
um.... what about the Internet? since that came from the ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency) which was created by Department of Defense (DoD) spending.
GASP! SHOCK! You didn't stick around after you were fired? That's really surprising.
Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous, and this Slashdot poster, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
So its ok for sony to sneak in root kits?
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So when will Sony be going to jail for their root kit issue? Funny how there not facing criminal charges when what they did was so worse. Add in the fact they still have not taken responsibility for what they did.
Competition between standards we believe is a very good thing
Sure you can say that when the most used application uses your format and doesn't support the other format, which can be extremlly bad for the user and forcing the user to buy Office products.
Now I have to give M$ credit though there Office Suite is probably the best out there I have yet to see one that even comes close to how well their program works, and how well one migrates into the other program, with ease.
"We realize if research isn't being done in university laboratories," he said, "then the pipeline of ideas and computer science graduates coming into our companies eventually is going to dry up."
I hate to say it but I somewhat disagree, now that web hosting has gotten so cheap most can be done in there home/dorm, most just need the drive and the idea of what they want to do.
Now that widgets can be made for Google does that mean we will see a Hotmail Widget? Right now I use Google's desktop and its a PITA to check my hotmail account vs. having it displayed in Google's system, with this being now open source will this be possible?
My mother has 4 computers in her house (granted 2 of them *was* mine at one time). Two desktops are hers, 1 laptop is hers, and 1 is my brother. So just because someone has 4 computers do not prove anything and btw my mother can't even install flash, she can check her e-mail and use Office that's about it.
So let me get this straight: MS is using the Mac processors in their console? I wonder how sweetly it would run Mac OS X...
PowerPC != MAC PROCESSOR!
It is a IBM chip more information can be read
here
From the article "The result of these various requirements was the PowerPC (Performance Computing) specification. Everyone seems to have won:
* IBM got the single-chip CPU they were looking for
* Apple got to use one of the most powerful RISC CPUs on the market, and massive press buzz due to IBM's name
* Motorola got an up-to-date RISC chip, and help with design methodology from IBM"
How would an improved Nvidia 7800 leave ATI at the top??? Unless I'm mistaken (and I'm not) more RAM is better for a GPU, making the 7800 with 512MB insane. The only way this works out is if the GTX is the lower end 7800, but even then it's impressive to have 512.
AFAIK RAM was not was better for a GPU, but only for textures for example you will see a upgrade in performance. In doom3 the better GPU only got you so far but for example on the highest setting modes it needed the 512 MB room to load all the textures in, the GPU doesn't need it, last time I was reading about it.
Until ATI fully supports Linux drivers... I'll pass, I know Linux isn't a gaming machine but seriously the drivers are horrible, on a machine with a X600.
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Nothing is for certain.... Take the big power outage of 2003, which lasted for several days, why would the Internet be any different?
When you are seeing a game at 25fps, you are likely to be seeing it at 6fps for a fraction of a second, then 50fps for a fraction of a second, etc. The reason you need 60fps average in a game is so you get 25fps or so in the worst case. Record a game being played at 100fps, then create movies of it at 50fps and 25fps constant frame rates, and you will see what I mean - there won't be much difference in visual quality.
.... you would be lying and there is no way my 3.0 ghz ati x600 can't run the game strait with any framerate droping below 25 MAX fps.
Not true at all launch good ol' half-life and go into the console and type in max_fps 25, and tell me you don't see any diffrence
Guess what? I still don't see very many sites getting around Firefox's pop-up blocker, significantly exploiting it's weaknesses, or finding new security holes by the dozen. And yet... I continue to see it with IE. And don't be saying; "Firefox isn't popular, it'll happen eventually". My ass. It's been advertised into the ground.
.swf (Flash Ads) that now cause pop-ups? Which is a direct result of firefox I'm willing to bet, and google's toolbar. It has gotten so bad now I just use a whitelist now with flash files since most of the flash files out there are worthless.
Have you not seen the
Rly? ... cuz my m8 got 0wned by this hacker on AIM. Posted about it on his myspace account if u wanna read it. u think i should tell him 2 go 2 IRC? r ther no hackers there? I'll tell him i heard its saf3r, k? cuz I heard they can get ur IP number on AIM & not on IRC, that true 2?
OMGZ I just pwned some guy yesterday mebe it was u?, haha what a n00b he told me his IP was 127.0.0.1 and I used some 1337 program to pwn his comp and now I have full permission to do it, I think I'll start deleteing his files. LOLZ!
Did anyone else think of Tattooine as soon as they saw three stars......be honest
But where is my damn Firefly series =(
Why would anyone buy an HD-DVD player that has to be connected to an XBOX360 instead of being directly connected to the TV?
My personell guess is that some of the newer games will require the HD-DVD player, and the new versions of X-B0X 360 will come shipped with this.... only time will tell though.
harmless Santa Claus file.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
The only question is, will everyone be willing to relearn how to type?
no
military spending is such a waste. I can't remember the last time i used something developed by the military.
um.... what about the Internet? since that came from the ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency) which was created by Department of Defense (DoD) spending.
Remember when this series was a great puzzle-platformer, with occasional combat? Now it's God of War???
It is a simple fact that there going to give the console players what they want, more and more idiotic hack and slash games.
A mirror of the story can be found here.
A mirror of the video can be found here.
Well I know what he wants for x-mas... a new server that was slashdoted before it even went live...
psst wrong article that was previous one here
GASP! SHOCK! You didn't stick around after you were fired? That's really surprising.
Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous, and this Slashdot poster, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
So when will Sony be going to jail for their root kit issue? Funny how there not facing criminal charges when what they did was so worse. Add in the fact they still have not taken responsibility for what they did.
Competition between standards we believe is a very good thing
Sure you can say that when the most used application uses your format and doesn't support the other format, which can be extremlly bad for the user and forcing the user to buy Office products.
Now I have to give M$ credit though there Office Suite is probably the best out there I have yet to see one that even comes close to how well their program works, and how well one migrates into the other program, with ease.
"We realize if research isn't being done in university laboratories," he said, "then the pipeline of ideas and computer science graduates coming into our companies eventually is going to dry up."
I hate to say it but I somewhat disagree, now that web hosting has gotten so cheap most can be done in there home/dorm, most just need the drive and the idea of what they want to do.
Sure they found errors in Wikipedia and Britannica, but which one has information about Final Fantasy VII! Game, set, match!
Now that widgets can be made for Google does that mean we will see a Hotmail Widget? Right now I use Google's desktop and its a PITA to check my hotmail account vs. having it displayed in Google's system, with this being now open source will this be possible?
A tech novice with 4 computers?
My mother has 4 computers in her house (granted 2 of them *was* mine at one time). Two desktops are hers, 1 laptop is hers, and 1 is my brother. So just because someone has 4 computers do not prove anything and btw my mother can't even install flash, she can check her e-mail and use Office that's about it.
So let me get this straight: MS is using the Mac processors in their console? I wonder how sweetly it would run Mac OS X...
PowerPC != MAC PROCESSOR!
It is a IBM chip more information can be read here
From the article "The result of these various requirements was the PowerPC (Performance Computing) specification. Everyone seems to have won:
* IBM got the single-chip CPU they were looking for
* Apple got to use one of the most powerful RISC CPUs on the market, and massive press buzz due to IBM's name
* Motorola got an up-to-date RISC chip, and help with design methodology from IBM"
How would an improved Nvidia 7800 leave ATI at the top??? Unless I'm mistaken (and I'm not) more RAM is better for a GPU, making the 7800 with 512MB insane. The only way this works out is if the GTX is the lower end 7800, but even then it's impressive to have 512.
AFAIK RAM was not was better for a GPU, but only for textures for example you will see a upgrade in performance. In doom3 the better GPU only got you so far but for example on the highest setting modes it needed the 512 MB room to load all the textures in, the GPU doesn't need it, last time I was reading about it.
Until ATI fully supports Linux drivers... I'll pass, I know Linux isn't a gaming machine but seriously the drivers are horrible, on a machine with a X600.
You'd be surprised how easy this whole procedure is if you can solder a few wires.
Last time I tried to solder, my PSX blew up =(