technology isnt at a standstill. human eye, hearing and perception is. no point in 5400p resolution on a 50 inch tv screen. hence, no point in buying hardware that can render and display such images.
wrong. not in contract circles. with every price raise, you will be entering a new level of project dealings anyway. you will not still be working with those who award $5/hr projects.
go to elance.com. upload your portfolio. do $5-10/hr bids and rack up enough reputation until you have 5-6 very good feedback in there. then start bidding for $15. you will be able to get enough projects to keep going. the majority of projects awarded will be by clueless people to $5/hr bids, but, there will be a minority who knows what to do and who to choose. these are generally people who regularly award projects. eventually you will be working regularly with one of them. after a period of time you will be able to do $30/hr. but, at that point, you will probably be working with at most 2 or 3 same clients regularly.
please read again and read the first 5 sentences attentively. there's your answer. if you want refinement - yes, game looks great. but its not photo realistic. they are following wow example with cartoonish graphics to avoid aging - nomatter how photo realistic graphics becomes in future, the cartoonish look never becomes obsolete.
The 6950 is vastly inferior to the 6970, especially at higher resolutions where VRAM makes a big difference. Yes, the 6990 is just 2 6970 GPUs. That's why the I said the 6970 was the flagship.
im leaving out the fact that you dont know both 6970 and 6950 come in 1 and 2 gb versions, but you also dont know shit about the benchmarks that 6950 comes up ahead of 6970 when both are overclocked. in some occasions, it comes ahead of 6970 even without either being overclocked.
You didn't even try to explain away the crap where you said a 6950 was a last gen part,
yes. im going to do pages of explaining to a moron who doesnt know that until amd told card manufacturers to start CUTTING the 6950 silicons, 6950s were possible to unlock to full 6970s with bios update, SHADERS and bios, much to chagrin of amd. the 'moron' part is incorporated see. and the reason is, you are STILL talking smack on something without knowing shit about it. STILL
where you have 3 1680x1080 monitors.
has the possibility of 8 typo instead of 5 ever occurred to you or you are so foaming at the mouth because you have seen something that shatters your dreams about the dominance of the company you are IDENTIFYING yourself with ?
the latter probably.
this has been my last response to you. and i will repeat the disturbing, uncomfortable truth for you :
yes, i am running star wars the old republic beta test, a SECOND time testing it this weekend, with my 5040x1080 3 monitor eyefinity setup, with a SINGLE asus directcu ii 6950 2 gb card which runs TOTALLY SILENT at 54 db even under load, and with a phenom ii 965 be NOT overclocked, and NOT even spinning its fan to an audible degree. no sorry - i lied. i was not running it with 5040x eyefinity as of now - i was trying out running it under 1920x1200 with a single monitor under windows xp - i will just now reboot into my windows 7 install and start playing it with eyefinity again. ah ? the 8 in 1080 ? i left it there again to poke your eye out and foam you at the mouth so you can learn to think with your brain, instead of your butt. in fact, im considering typing 1080 instead of 1050 every time i mention my resolution in future so that i can weed out intel fanbots.
He says, mobile devices will become so powerful that, we will be able to plug them into monitors or tvs and play games. therefore removing the need for pcs and consoles for games.
dont talk about things you dont know. idiot. 6990 is just 2 6970s in crossfire in ONE card, and 6970 is just 6950 with 25 more shaders. 6950 even has more clock speed than 6970.
and, im in beta, and yes, i have played swtor accross 3 monitors, one 28 inch and two 22 inch, with a SINGLE 6950 card, and i got 40 fps out of it at the minimum. my reports are in swtor test forum as of this moment.
'phenom 965 is a dog' -> i dont even know whatever the fuck that does mean, but i dont think you are saying something good. ill assume you as an intel troll and mark it so i will be able to evade you in future.
We have come to a point where most of the computing elements are way more powerful than what the human eye demands in graphics even to the extent of photorealism. See, i ran the hell out of star wars the old republic with my 6950 radeon gpu and amd phenom ii 965 cpu in its beta - and in 5040x1080 3 monitor eyefinity resolution. it played overly smooth in 40 fps minimum. Granted, swtor is not a photorealistic 3d rendered game, however, it is very taxing when you factor in the fact that it is a mmo with endless differently textured toons (clothing, armor, face differences) converging on small spaces like coruscant. So, my phenom ii 965 cpu, which is not even a top tier offering in current cpu generation, not only ran the game perfectly, but also stayed so idle that i didnt even hear the cpu fan increase speed at all -> i use a 12 cm fan, and its already VERY silent too. if you go into games like crysis 2 et al, you will find that these games run on consoles very well, and on pc they run even faster.
so, we can easily say that cpus are already over a point where we could consider them a limiting factor for good looking games. the only remaining factor becomes, gpu.
granted, my 6950 is a last generation, top offering card. and even if cpu power had become way too much over the needs of games and graphics cards to become irrelevant after a certain tier, its not possible to play down the mandatory element, the graphics card yet.
but, there are already major strides in this area - amd has already succeeded in fusing cpu and gpu in the form of 'apu', and these apus do low power usage and provide good performance in entry-mid level laptop and netbook market. granted, they are not enough to provide top performance as we see it in pcs yet, but more apus will be coming. this means, we are moving towards a future in which the two indispensable elements of gaming, the cpu and gpu, will be both merged in one unit with top grade components. (next gen apus are to come with 7xxx cores)
so then, indeed lord british is right. you already merged, and optimized cpus and gpus in a form that it will be possible to game in a notebook. the only thing you need for this to become a reality in smartphones, is only more miniaturization and increased efficiency of this concept. and it is, as you know, a given in tech world. and im not even talking about the processors that are developing from the mobile computing vector.
there are already versions of 3d games that play on smartphones. in future, we will indeed be able to plug a device to tv or a monitor and just play.
Dress it up how you want to, you're still a criminal - legally, morally, and ethically, it's none of your business, you shouldn't have done it in the first place, and quit doing it in general.
its maybe none of his business, but its MY business AS A USER that some company that i give my credit card to is this irresponsible. Those who would hack it, would hack it, and just use the cards and deduce hard to notice amounts every month and fuck me over.
if it wasnt for people like the article submitter, THOSE COMPANIES WOULDNT LIFT THEIR ASSES for security. so YOU shut the fuck up. its MY wallet.
As can be concluded from earlier cases like this. Dont tell them anything, dont do anything, but let them have what's coming to them. However, you contacted them. When hacked, they may attempt to sue you. So, you may need to go to a notar or something to have it written that you warned these people, but they didnt take heed or something. You need to have solid documents to show blame may not be laid on you, in courts.
do they even need to 'warn' ? previous incidents and documents that are in the open shows that u.s. govt, police, secret service, departments etc can wantonly request data from these services and get it. many of these, we discussed here.
Yea Lars as in Lars 'the yellow nightingale of cash' Ulrich. You bitched and moaned so much about NOT having enough millions over the countless millions you had and spearheaded the first crusade of the content monopolists against the internet in the persona of napster - so much that, it has become normal to do what you did.
thank you. shove your extra millions you still not have been able to get, up your ass. and no, your half assed apology and admittance, does not cut it.
its sad to remember that i once listened to 'and justice for all', enthusiastically.
let me tell you something - i have not even watched 20 minutes of many things i downloaded. had to close down. after it repeated too many times over a duration of time, i quit even downloading. now im just not watching anything. if, i was content with just staring at something mildly amusing to busy myself as i was in earlier years, i would download better of the crap and stare at them and then maybe smile occasionally or say 'hmpphhhfff'. but im not content with that anymore.
dude. with time and reputation, you can compete with those 3rd world bids, and win with your $30/hr bid against phletora of $5/hr bids. because, anyone who had awarded projects in such places more than once will know what $5/hr will get them. anyone awarding serious projects, will pay properly. those who are content with buying what $5 gives, will keep buying those.
this is a basic rule of the market system currently in effect.
'If it sold, rinse and repeat it' -> the same principle corporations employ in everywhere else including game sector is employed the same in tv sector for a long time now. so, we get shows that are repetitions of each other, totally geared towards keeping high ratings than viewer satisfaction nomatter what the cost in the long run (hence shows like american idol), creative talent getting tired (writers) of having to produce content too frequent and starting mold-cast repetitions and...... you get the idea.
Thats also a reason why there is so much piracy. Shit is not even worth paying cents. There is so few content that actually is worth it, and they are being bundled with 100s of useless crap in order to bump up prices and sell everything over those few shows. A good example is sports broadcasts (only for popular sports though) -> bundle sports broadcasts with 100s of shitty channels and sell people. they will have to buy it for sports from those exaggerated prices. or, a few quality shows - all the same format. NO different than how music industry has been selling us albums containing sub-par 12 songs bundled with chart topper 2 songs for the last 2 decades.
Natural result of profit maximization of capitalist system - maximization eventually results in trying to achieve maximum possible profit with minimum effort in shortest amount of time, and you end up getting 'crap' as the product.
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technology isnt at a standstill. human eye, hearing and perception is. no point in 5400p resolution on a 50 inch tv screen. hence, no point in buying hardware that can render and display such images.
and very hard to raise it afterward
wrong. not in contract circles. with every price raise, you will be entering a new level of project dealings anyway. you will not still be working with those who award $5/hr projects.
go to elance.com. upload your portfolio. do $5-10/hr bids and rack up enough reputation until you have 5-6 very good feedback in there. then start bidding for $15. you will be able to get enough projects to keep going. the majority of projects awarded will be by clueless people to $5/hr bids, but, there will be a minority who knows what to do and who to choose. these are generally people who regularly award projects. eventually you will be working regularly with one of them. after a period of time you will be able to do $30/hr. but, at that point, you will probably be working with at most 2 or 3 same clients regularly.
immersion. makes a lot difference. im not playing on 32 inch lcd 3d stereoscopic tv, and instead preferring 3 monitor eyefinity setup. go figure.
please read again and read the first 5 sentences attentively. there's your answer. if you want refinement - yes, game looks great. but its not photo realistic. they are following wow example with cartoonish graphics to avoid aging - nomatter how photo realistic graphics becomes in future, the cartoonish look never becomes obsolete.
The 6950 is vastly inferior to the 6970, especially at higher resolutions where VRAM makes a big difference. Yes, the 6990 is just 2 6970 GPUs. That's why the I said the 6970 was the flagship.
im leaving out the fact that you dont know both 6970 and 6950 come in 1 and 2 gb versions, but you also dont know shit about the benchmarks that 6950 comes up ahead of 6970 when both are overclocked. in some occasions, it comes ahead of 6970 even without either being overclocked.
You didn't even try to explain away the crap where you said a 6950 was a last gen part,
yes. im going to do pages of explaining to a moron who doesnt know that until amd told card manufacturers to start CUTTING the 6950 silicons, 6950s were possible to unlock to full 6970s with bios update, SHADERS and bios, much to chagrin of amd. the 'moron' part is incorporated see. and the reason is, you are STILL talking smack on something without knowing shit about it. STILL
where you have 3 1680x1080 monitors.
has the possibility of 8 typo instead of 5 ever occurred to you or you are so foaming at the mouth because you have seen something that shatters your dreams about the dominance of the company you are IDENTIFYING yourself with ?
the latter probably.
this has been my last response to you. and i will repeat the disturbing, uncomfortable truth for you :
yes, i am running star wars the old republic beta test, a SECOND time testing it this weekend, with my 5040x1080 3 monitor eyefinity setup, with a SINGLE asus directcu ii 6950 2 gb card which runs TOTALLY SILENT at 54 db even under load, and with a phenom ii 965 be NOT overclocked, and NOT even spinning its fan to an audible degree. no sorry - i lied. i was not running it with 5040x eyefinity as of now - i was trying out running it under 1920x1200 with a single monitor under windows xp - i will just now reboot into my windows 7 install and start playing it with eyefinity again. ah ? the 8 in 1080 ? i left it there again to poke your eye out and foam you at the mouth so you can learn to think with your brain, instead of your butt. in fact, im considering typing 1080 instead of 1050 every time i mention my resolution in future so that i can weed out intel fanbots.
audieu. 1080.
He says, mobile devices will become so powerful that, we will be able to plug them into monitors or tvs and play games. therefore removing the need for pcs and consoles for games.
dont talk about things you dont know. idiot. 6990 is just 2 6970s in crossfire in ONE card, and 6970 is just 6950 with 25 more shaders. 6950 even has more clock speed than 6970.
and, im in beta, and yes, i have played swtor accross 3 monitors, one 28 inch and two 22 inch, with a SINGLE 6950 card, and i got 40 fps out of it at the minimum. my reports are in swtor test forum as of this moment.
'phenom 965 is a dog' -> i dont even know whatever the fuck that does mean, but i dont think you are saying something good. ill assume you as an intel troll and mark it so i will be able to evade you in future.
We have come to a point where most of the computing elements are way more powerful than what the human eye demands in graphics even to the extent of photorealism. See, i ran the hell out of star wars the old republic with my 6950 radeon gpu and amd phenom ii 965 cpu in its beta - and in 5040x1080 3 monitor eyefinity resolution. it played overly smooth in 40 fps minimum. Granted, swtor is not a photorealistic 3d rendered game, however, it is very taxing when you factor in the fact that it is a mmo with endless differently textured toons (clothing, armor, face differences) converging on small spaces like coruscant. So, my phenom ii 965 cpu, which is not even a top tier offering in current cpu generation, not only ran the game perfectly, but also stayed so idle that i didnt even hear the cpu fan increase speed at all -> i use a 12 cm fan, and its already VERY silent too. if you go into games like crysis 2 et al, you will find that these games run on consoles very well, and on pc they run even faster.
so, we can easily say that cpus are already over a point where we could consider them a limiting factor for good looking games. the only remaining factor becomes, gpu.
granted, my 6950 is a last generation, top offering card. and even if cpu power had become way too much over the needs of games and graphics cards to become irrelevant after a certain tier, its not possible to play down the mandatory element, the graphics card yet.
but, there are already major strides in this area - amd has already succeeded in fusing cpu and gpu in the form of 'apu', and these apus do low power usage and provide good performance in entry-mid level laptop and netbook market. granted, they are not enough to provide top performance as we see it in pcs yet, but more apus will be coming. this means, we are moving towards a future in which the two indispensable elements of gaming, the cpu and gpu, will be both merged in one unit with top grade components. (next gen apus are to come with 7xxx cores)
so then, indeed lord british is right. you already merged, and optimized cpus and gpus in a form that it will be possible to game in a notebook. the only thing you need for this to become a reality in smartphones, is only more miniaturization and increased efficiency of this concept. and it is, as you know, a given in tech world. and im not even talking about the processors that are developing from the mobile computing vector.
there are already versions of 3d games that play on smartphones. in future, we will indeed be able to plug a device to tv or a monitor and just play.
that 'atlanta' guy again. ATLANTA, eh ? why the fuck, ATLANTA ?
dont you find it weird that governments are spying on their own citizens MORE than they spy on the enemy ? and even do it more effectively ?
Can you come up and say that wikileaks hasnt done anything useful now ?
Dress it up how you want to, you're still a criminal - legally, morally, and ethically, it's none of your business, you shouldn't have done it in the first place, and quit doing it in general.
its maybe none of his business, but its MY business AS A USER that some company that i give my credit card to is this irresponsible. Those who would hack it, would hack it, and just use the cards and deduce hard to notice amounts every month and fuck me over.
if it wasnt for people like the article submitter, THOSE COMPANIES WOULDNT LIFT THEIR ASSES for security. so YOU shut the fuck up. its MY wallet.
As can be concluded from earlier cases like this. Dont tell them anything, dont do anything, but let them have what's coming to them. However, you contacted them. When hacked, they may attempt to sue you. So, you may need to go to a notar or something to have it written that you warned these people, but they didnt take heed or something. You need to have solid documents to show blame may not be laid on you, in courts.
do they even need to 'warn' ? previous incidents and documents that are in the open shows that u.s. govt, police, secret service, departments etc can wantonly request data from these services and get it. many of these, we discussed here.
Yea Lars as in Lars 'the yellow nightingale of cash' Ulrich. You bitched and moaned so much about NOT having enough millions over the countless millions you had and spearheaded the first crusade of the content monopolists against the internet in the persona of napster - so much that, it has become normal to do what you did.
thank you. shove your extra millions you still not have been able to get, up your ass. and no, your half assed apology and admittance, does not cut it.
its sad to remember that i once listened to 'and justice for all', enthusiastically.
no sir. we need to go incrementally, so we can sell more tv sets. first, 2160p ones. then, 3240p ones 2 years later. then .... you get the idea.
3 of the 4 sponsors of the bill are republican. go figure.
so if its some brand we have dealings with, we can avoid the whores ( i apologize from all sex sector workers) like the plague in our dealings.
Charge people for 2160p 'high-high-definition' content streaming. there isnt 2160p yet you say ? dont worry. once this shit gets going .....
let me tell you something - i have not even watched 20 minutes of many things i downloaded. had to close down. after it repeated too many times over a duration of time, i quit even downloading. now im just not watching anything. if, i was content with just staring at something mildly amusing to busy myself as i was in earlier years, i would download better of the crap and stare at them and then maybe smile occasionally or say 'hmpphhhfff'. but im not content with that anymore.
dude. with time and reputation, you can compete with those 3rd world bids, and win with your $30/hr bid against phletora of $5/hr bids. because, anyone who had awarded projects in such places more than once will know what $5/hr will get them. anyone awarding serious projects, will pay properly. those who are content with buying what $5 gives, will keep buying those.
this is a basic rule of the market system currently in effect.
'If it sold, rinse and repeat it' -> the same principle corporations employ in everywhere else including game sector is employed the same in tv sector for a long time now. so, we get shows that are repetitions of each other, totally geared towards keeping high ratings than viewer satisfaction nomatter what the cost in the long run (hence shows like american idol), creative talent getting tired (writers) of having to produce content too frequent and starting mold-cast repetitions and ...... you get the idea.
Thats also a reason why there is so much piracy. Shit is not even worth paying cents. There is so few content that actually is worth it, and they are being bundled with 100s of useless crap in order to bump up prices and sell everything over those few shows. A good example is sports broadcasts (only for popular sports though) -> bundle sports broadcasts with 100s of shitty channels and sell people. they will have to buy it for sports from those exaggerated prices. or, a few quality shows - all the same format. NO different than how music industry has been selling us albums containing sub-par 12 songs bundled with chart topper 2 songs for the last 2 decades.
Natural result of profit maximization of capitalist system - maximization eventually results in trying to achieve maximum possible profit with minimum effort in shortest amount of time, and you end up getting 'crap' as the product.
very well said. ignorance is the key.
When non government organizations end up doing the tasks governments should be doing, but not doing, and end up getting prosecuted for it.