And even if it does have a scaler, there's no guarantee it will support the signal anyways.
That's probably the one thing I do not like about my Samsung TV. Some games will work at 1024x768, other games running the same resolution and refresh rate will give me a no signal. Sometimes this is fixed by turning the TV on and off, other times, I have to quit the program and try again.
Never a problem running at 1920x1080, though. Too bad my main machine runs a rather old GeForce 7950GT.
"Considering the price of LCD/Plasma/Flatscreens have never really come down that much from their original price when they first hit the market"
What? 1080P 32" LCD screens when they first came out were nearly $4-5,000. I got mine for $800, regular retail, from Best Buy of all places, five years ago.
They sure as hell have come down from their original price, at least LCD.
Induction is near-field magnetic resonance. This is how induction lights work, magnetic resonance exciting mercury-composite amalgam, which then emits UV, which excites the phosphors lining the tube, which converts the UV radiation into visible-range radiation.
Wireless power further out than a few inches is highly wasteful and potential power output drops quite rapidly with distance.
It's a horrible idea. The amount of power wasted just emitting it out into the air, especially at distance.
Apple is plain retarded for thinking this is worth patenting, especially without some sort of highly-directional output. There's a reason we keep inductive emitters very close to the charging device (or in my favorite case, gas-filled tube of induction lamps.)
Nintendo has been around for over a hundred years. Don't think so lightly of them, else you make yourself look even more like the fool you're currently presenting.
You don't understand the hardware before you post, apparently.
In the case of Wii/U, that 5 degree rotation might only go a couple of inches or might spin you around in a circle 5 full times.
How far are you from that sensor bar and console will be the ultimate determining factor as to how far that little movement goes.
I can do almost 6 full rotations moving my mouse an inch and a half. I use only my fingers to move the mouse, and the speed and precision I have would blow your mind.
Actually, given the prior volcanic history, I wouldn't be totally surprised to find some sort of hydrocarbon deposit under the surface. I wouldn't necessarily say coal, but perhaps some form of natural gas.
Actually coal, or any carbon source, wouldn't be a usable energy source, since there's very little free oxygen on Mars.
Discovering free oxygen would be a very big deal, but extremely unlikely. The only reason there is free oxygen on Earth is because early life started some sort of photosynthesis and starting giving off oxygen as a waste product that had the side effect of poisoning all their bacterial competitors. That event is known as the "Oxygen Catastrophe".
Hi, my name is iron oxide, I'm all over mars (in fact I give the planet its characteristic red color) and make a great accelerator for thermite and other high-energy thermal reactions.
Free oxygen is everywhere. You just gotta get it from me, first.
Oh, and to note, even the PS3 units with full PS2 hardware inside couldn't handle it, either. It literally took an HD remake to get things even close to 100% fluid.
Even a lowly McD's franchise, or GNC franchise, makes LOADS of cash.
I've managed several franchises. Never a problem with cash or paydays or reserve emergency money for new equipment, assuming the management and staff are competent.
Why are you getting texts if you don't have a text plan? Clearly they're trying to illegally force you into paying for something you never signed up for.
Mass may have its privileges, but I live pretty much on the ocean with all that salt.
I also have the advantage of zero electronics to blow out. Also, a good plastidipping of critical frame parts and mounts and reverse side of body panels helps.
Alaska? Rolled through Juneau and Anchorage on a west coast road trip back starting in California in 2007. Not a problem. Road salt doesn't get past the plastidip.
We don't allow subtitles in the GIF. The GIFs are usually from shit everyone has seen, with maybe a couple of obscure ones we use for repeat captcha solving failures (usually by bots.) Allowing text kinda gives the bots something to latch onto to try to solve. Example, the Dempsey Roll I mentioned above. We had text. A bot solved it but failed because it also included the exclamation points (which the answer held none.) After that, we knew to use images only without text.
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And even if it does have a scaler, there's no guarantee it will support the signal anyways.
That's probably the one thing I do not like about my Samsung TV. Some games will work at 1024x768, other games running the same resolution and refresh rate will give me a no signal. Sometimes this is fixed by turning the TV on and off, other times, I have to quit the program and try again.
Never a problem running at 1920x1080, though. Too bad my main machine runs a rather old GeForce 7950GT.
"Considering the price of LCD/Plasma/Flatscreens have never really come down that much from their original price when they first hit the market"
What? 1080P 32" LCD screens when they first came out were nearly $4-5,000. I got mine for $800, regular retail, from Best Buy of all places, five years ago.
They sure as hell have come down from their original price, at least LCD.
"anyone who regularly uses Maya/3DSMax/Lux/Firefly/3Delight/Carrara "
Would know it's CPU-bound with rudimentary GPU acceleration.
Try Indigo. Or OpenRT. Right now, OpenRT is doing 256x256 Quake 4 @ ~16FPS raytracing on a quad core CPU - CPU ONLY.
Raytracing is beyond easy to parallelize. And GPUs just so happen to rock at those sorts of calculations and instruction ordering.
"No game uses raytracing."
Stardust on the Amiga does. Be quiet child, real adults are talking.
Hello, Indigo.
Not SGI one, either.
Man, do you guys hear about something once then act/speak as if it will never improve?
Induction is near-field magnetic resonance. This is how induction lights work, magnetic resonance exciting mercury-composite amalgam, which then emits UV, which excites the phosphors lining the tube, which converts the UV radiation into visible-range radiation.
Wireless power further out than a few inches is highly wasteful and potential power output drops quite rapidly with distance.
It's a horrible idea. The amount of power wasted just emitting it out into the air, especially at distance.
Apple is plain retarded for thinking this is worth patenting, especially without some sort of highly-directional output. There's a reason we keep inductive emitters very close to the charging device (or in my favorite case, gas-filled tube of induction lamps.)
When the seller of the device and seller of the media happen to be one and the same, that's more than enough stopping me.
Nintendo has been around for over a hundred years. Don't think so lightly of them, else you make yourself look even more like the fool you're currently presenting.
"It is a competitive advantage issue, and is intentionally prevented by Microsoft."
FTFY, as I can use keyboard and mouse with my PS3. It's the game devs that have to support it.
You don't understand the hardware before you post, apparently.
In the case of Wii/U, that 5 degree rotation might only go a couple of inches or might spin you around in a circle 5 full times.
How far are you from that sensor bar and console will be the ultimate determining factor as to how far that little movement goes.
I can do almost 6 full rotations moving my mouse an inch and a half. I use only my fingers to move the mouse, and the speed and precision I have would blow your mind.
"The mouse is an exponentially better precision device than a controller."
And it works just fine on the PS3 with UT3.
Oh, I'm sorry, did I just blow your point away?
Ditto Unreal Championship on the DREAMCAST.
Actually, given the prior volcanic history, I wouldn't be totally surprised to find some sort of hydrocarbon deposit under the surface. I wouldn't necessarily say coal, but perhaps some form of natural gas.
Actually coal, or any carbon source, wouldn't be a usable energy source, since there's very little free oxygen on Mars.
Discovering free oxygen would be a very big deal, but extremely unlikely. The only reason there is free oxygen on Earth is because early life started some sort of photosynthesis and starting giving off oxygen as a waste product that had the side effect of poisoning all their bacterial competitors. That event is known as the "Oxygen Catastrophe".
Hi, my name is iron oxide, I'm all over mars (in fact I give the planet its characteristic red color) and make a great accelerator for thermite and other high-energy thermal reactions.
Free oxygen is everywhere. You just gotta get it from me, first.
Oh, and to note, even the PS3 units with full PS2 hardware inside couldn't handle it, either. It literally took an HD remake to get things even close to 100% fluid.
"How do you know this is the best performance you could get?"
Exact words from the game devs. Even future revisions of the PS2 after release of the game could not handle it and it was as optimized as possible.
It took the PS3 release to get framerates even close to solid.
No, we tapped out the PS2.
See Shadow of the Colossus.
Make the move to an in-store streaming cashless video system - assuming this DVD store is carrying porn.
Works just fine for us over here in SoCal.
Also, if you can find it, videos on flash drives are getting more popular as a selling item.
You must not know how franchising works.
Even a lowly McD's franchise, or GNC franchise, makes LOADS of cash.
I've managed several franchises. Never a problem with cash or paydays or reserve emergency money for new equipment, assuming the management and staff are competent.
" Where I live, it's quicker for me to make a pizza from scratch than to order one."
From scratch, you'll be waiting an hour at least for the dough to properly rise.
What wretched place do you live where it takes you more than a couple of hours to get pizza delivered?
Disclaimer: I used to work in pizza places (LC, Dominos.) I know what it takes to make a pizza.
Why are you getting texts if you don't have a text plan? Clearly they're trying to illegally force you into paying for something you never signed up for.
Considering it's an American forum I'm running, 99.9% of the visitors are directly in the USA.
The rest of the world doesn't give a shit. Neither do I.
Mass may have its privileges, but I live pretty much on the ocean with all that salt.
I also have the advantage of zero electronics to blow out. Also, a good plastidipping of critical frame parts and mounts and reverse side of body panels helps.
Alaska? Rolled through Juneau and Anchorage on a west coast road trip back starting in California in 2007. Not a problem. Road salt doesn't get past the plastidip.
We don't allow subtitles in the GIF. The GIFs are usually from shit everyone has seen, with maybe a couple of obscure ones we use for repeat captcha solving failures (usually by bots.) Allowing text kinda gives the bots something to latch onto to try to solve. Example, the Dempsey Roll I mentioned above. We had text. A bot solved it but failed because it also included the exclamation points (which the answer held none.) After that, we knew to use images only without text.
Actually the board is more oriented towards discussing everything in general. We just use a more complicated system to weed out idiots.
As such, we have no problems with shitposting, trolling, or spam. Smart people will be able to figure things out. Idiots and spammers simply give up.
My Duster is in almost perfect condition. Not a spot of rust anywhere except on the block. Even the AC works.
Will you be able to say the same for your truck after nearly 40 years?