"go back to your neck-breaking ceiling-mounted CRT helmet crap that can barely achieve standard-VGA. Resolution matters and pumping out pixels is expensive."
You must still be a child, or lived in a cave, because we had 2048x1536x2 CRT jobs like 15 years ago. That's well higher than VGA resolution.
"So, with GbE, you MAY notice a bit of latency when the game first loads. But no more than if it were running off a local hard drive."
This is patently untrue, even as far back as GTAIV. When the world STREAMS FROM THE DISC, you need bandwidth GbE isn't giving you. 10GbE barely handles that sort of bandwidth requirement.
Son, I played with stereoscopic VR back when the headsets were so big they had to be mounted to hardware solid enough to handle 1970s-era guitar amplifiers.
Screendoor effect? DECREASE PIXEL SIZE or change lenses.
Motion Sickness? STILL HAPPENS AT HIGHER REFRESH RANGES! Until you've got your inner ears' weights matching up with what your eyes see, you will ALWAYS get motion sickness and disorientation.
No, but I was doing stereoscopic 3D at 800x600x60Hz on a 32MB TNT2 back when it was the heavy hitter GPU.
There's no REASON to force that resolution or framerate as a requirement. None. Remember the first Oculus? THAT WAS RUNNING HALF LIFE 2. It didn't NEED some heavy GPU back then.
"And how many applications require 2.5 Gigabyte/sec throughput from the disk subsystem?"
There are games in development that will require far more than that just to do world-streaming with all the physics goodies and such.
"And is there any truly appreciable difference across a 128 Megabyte/sec (GbE) or 1.2 Gigabyte/sec (10GbE), other than in moving large files from the get go?"
Instantaneous transfer of small/medium files is always nice.
"That one "chip" can be configured at purchase to be a 4, 6, 8, or 12-core Xeon."
That's disingenuous too, right the fuck back at you, when all of those same Xeons come with the same crippled amount of PCI-E lanes *AND* have an inherent architectural limitation that totally fucks the system over trying to do more than 2CPU/2GPU configurations.
Try again when you actually have to deal with the processor and architectural errata on a daily basis, instead of Macshilling, eh?
The fact that the Rift requires so much hardware is pretty much proof it is shit.
I've been doing stereoscopic 3D with a TNT2 for AGES, morons. The only difference you have is a motion tracker and actual screens built into the glasses.
"How can someone be so often incorrect and keep losing face by insisting, emphasizing, and drawing attention to it"
Yet my rather nice comment history shows way, way more informative remarks/moderations in record than the entirety of the Anon Cowards, so you can just shut your mouth and go fuck yourself for being wrong yet again.
Also, your grammar checker is a failure. It doesn't detect unnecessary ellipses. Tell your teacher to go the fuck back to school, too.
Not the penny. The amount of copper and zinc in a CURRENT penny is worth far more than its actual face value, which is why the US Mint is constantly thinking of retiring the penny.
Sure the large loss of life will be tragic, but perhaps this will wake the local people up to the threat of the Islamic State and give them reason to finally arm up and wipe those fuckers out.
That's right Muslims, when that damn breaks, IS will now be responsible for MILLIONS of your own religious brethren dying.
So when are you going to stand up and wipe out the extremists? Why are you needing to wait for millions of your own people to die before you come to that startling realization?
No, I told the guy exactly the road conditions and how to get to me (Pass two campgrounds, take the second right pathway with a sign leading to the Geode beds, stay to the right at all times and you literally run into me as my vehcle is blocking the trail in its entirety.) The driver claimed their truck couldn't make it. Meanwhile, the police squad car that popped out to aid in rescue was just as low as my Ford Taurus and had ZERO problems on that road (just like my Taurus had zero problems on the road.)
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Yes, because you can change that battery while it's 11,000 feet in the air.
Half billion? Try two orders of magnitude higher. 50 billion might be too much, but closer to the actual figure. More like 30 billion or so.
"go back to your neck-breaking ceiling-mounted CRT helmet crap that can barely achieve standard-VGA. Resolution matters and pumping out pixels is expensive."
You must still be a child, or lived in a cave, because we had 2048x1536x2 CRT jobs like 15 years ago. That's well higher than VGA resolution.
"So, with GbE, you MAY notice a bit of latency when the game first loads. But no more than if it were running off a local hard drive."
This is patently untrue, even as far back as GTAIV. When the world STREAMS FROM THE DISC, you need bandwidth GbE isn't giving you. 10GbE barely handles that sort of bandwidth requirement.
Son, I played with stereoscopic VR back when the headsets were so big they had to be mounted to hardware solid enough to handle 1970s-era guitar amplifiers.
Screendoor effect? DECREASE PIXEL SIZE or change lenses.
Motion Sickness? STILL HAPPENS AT HIGHER REFRESH RANGES! Until you've got your inner ears' weights matching up with what your eyes see, you will ALWAYS get motion sickness and disorientation.
No, but I was doing stereoscopic 3D at 800x600x60Hz on a 32MB TNT2 back when it was the heavy hitter GPU.
There's no REASON to force that resolution or framerate as a requirement. None. Remember the first Oculus? THAT WAS RUNNING HALF LIFE 2. It didn't NEED some heavy GPU back then.
It's pure bullshit, all around.
"The GPU alone will set you back 800$ for an enjoyable experience. A Nvidia Geforce 970 GTX which is is the Minimum is 450$"
And the AMD R9 390, which stomps the 970, can be had for $300 at Best Buy (don't spend the extra on the 390X, not worth it.)
" You can reach the minimum with $800 just barely."
What? $800 built a nearly top-end AMD system. FX-9370, 16GB DDR4 and an 8GB R9 390.
What shitty place do you shop at?
" It's good enough for average game for average people though, it just won't compete with the people who buy $2000 gaming rigs"
It doesn't compete with my fiance's $800 system, an FX-9370 with 16GB DDR4 and an 8GB R9 390.
"Sure it looks a little messier, but who cares? Not Mac users, it seems to be the PC guys that are fussy about looks over performance."
My fucking face when every Apple product is advertised by form over function. Almost every PC is a PLAIN BOX.
One would think you reside in England with all that shilling.
"And how many applications require 2.5 Gigabyte/sec throughput from the disk subsystem?"
There are games in development that will require far more than that just to do world-streaming with all the physics goodies and such.
"And is there any truly appreciable difference across a 128 Megabyte/sec (GbE) or 1.2 Gigabyte/sec (10GbE), other than in moving large files from the get go?"
Instantaneous transfer of small/medium files is always nice.
"That's the modern way of doing things."
Yep, let's make MORE POINTS OF FAILURE by having ANOTHER MACHINE TO MAINTAIN.
You modernists are fucking morons.
"That one "chip" can be configured at purchase to be a 4, 6, 8, or 12-core Xeon."
That's disingenuous too, right the fuck back at you, when all of those same Xeons come with the same crippled amount of PCI-E lanes *AND* have an inherent architectural limitation that totally fucks the system over trying to do more than 2CPU/2GPU configurations.
Try again when you actually have to deal with the processor and architectural errata on a daily basis, instead of Macshilling, eh?
The fact that the Rift requires so much hardware is pretty much proof it is shit.
I've been doing stereoscopic 3D with a TNT2 for AGES, morons. The only difference you have is a motion tracker and actual screens built into the glasses.
"How can someone be so often incorrect and keep losing face by insisting, emphasizing, and drawing attention to it"
Yet my rather nice comment history shows way, way more informative remarks/moderations in record than the entirety of the Anon Cowards, so you can just shut your mouth and go fuck yourself for being wrong yet again.
Also, your grammar checker is a failure. It doesn't detect unnecessary ellipses. Tell your teacher to go the fuck back to school, too.
https://www.usmint.gov/about_t...
Try again when you know what you're talking about. You don't even have to go three pages in to see you're wrong.
"Our friend "Khyber" is, well... They're just a bit special. "
You're a fucking moron when I've got actual historical data and proof to back me up you dimwitted faggot.
https://www.usmint.gov/about_t...
Oh my fucking god, look at that, the penny COSTS MORE TO PRODUCE THAN ITS FACE VALUE - https://www.usmint.gov/about_t...
SOURCE: THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
And only 1% of that cost is the energy required to make it.
Go the fuck back to school.
http://www.infomine.com/invest... says otherwise, and they've got historical charts.
Just FYI, that 2.5g of metal costs $0.05 to manufacture. that's the actual Federal Reserve cost.
Try again when you've been alive long enough to watch this economy and know what it's doing, child.
"This only works for old coins."
Not the penny. The amount of copper and zinc in a CURRENT penny is worth far more than its actual face value, which is why the US Mint is constantly thinking of retiring the penny.
The same has been said for almost every encryption method since the beginning of time.
Almost every one has been broken.
One only needs to look at history to learn from it. Actual field experience is not required.
"I'm not so convinced. Bruce Schneier has frequently said: "Anybody can create a security system he himself cannot break""
Which goes against the convention any ACTUAL engineer knows by heart: Man can make it, man can break it, there are no exceptions.
"Sure, you need all that storage for a "gaming" rig."
I see you've never tried to run a SecondLife sim.
Sure the large loss of life will be tragic, but perhaps this will wake the local people up to the threat of the Islamic State and give them reason to finally arm up and wipe those fuckers out.
That's right Muslims, when that damn breaks, IS will now be responsible for MILLIONS of your own religious brethren dying.
So when are you going to stand up and wipe out the extremists? Why are you needing to wait for millions of your own people to die before you come to that startling realization?
"Maybe you just told them the wrong things."
No, I told the guy exactly the road conditions and how to get to me (Pass two campgrounds, take the second right pathway with a sign leading to the Geode beds, stay to the right at all times and you literally run into me as my vehcle is blocking the trail in its entirety.) The driver claimed their truck couldn't make it. Meanwhile, the police squad car that popped out to aid in rescue was just as low as my Ford Taurus and had ZERO problems on that road (just like my Taurus had zero problems on the road.)
Here's what the road looks like, THE ENTIRE WAY - http://www.desertusa.com/deser... and http://www.desertusa.com/deser...
I could handle that shit in a lowrider.
AAA couldn't handle something that simple
"Vimeo's play stutters like a bastard on most hardware."
Funny, it runs just fine on a 3.2GHz Hyper-threaded P4.
I think you need to retire that Tualatin.