No different than feudalism. Most of the lords' resources and time were being spent on undoing other lords or defending their rights. And people got shafted during the process.
Patents are no different than intellectual feudalism. Claim a piece of land, and you can just suck blood off of anyone who enters on it to do anything on it by extorting money.
patent holders are the lords, and lawyers are their enforcers. all hail new intellectual feudal overlords.
you missed quite easy to understand and useful technical information that would help not only your wallet, but the visual experience you get from your monitor/tv/flat panel.
no card i got in the last 10 years, was shit, and i had had NO driver issues. not even while people were having issues with their nvidia card in windows 7.
and while the rigs of people with nvidia 8800s were screaming under load in age of conan back when it launched, my ati 3870 was playing the game in full detail comfortably for me.
let me put it plainly - i spent less than the morons who bought 8800s, and i got more out of what i bought. thats beyond a 'win' situation.
In mid 90s 'gameplay hours' came as a 'value' from the marketing types to tout games over other games. 'our game gives you 30 hours playtime !! its better'.
and natural result of this has been increasingly lengthening games with time consuming, but less fun stuff in order to pump up 'gameplay hours'.
this result would have eventually happened.
compare the crap produced in our time by corporate behemoths that seek to tie people in front of a computer for longer hours, and tout game time to the fun games which gave you right thing at the right dosage at the right time, from the period 1990-1995. these were the games. actually, these ARE the games, since most of today's franchises are their descendants (directly too) or running on their gameplay concepts still, with little changed.
yes. i completely prefer Star Control 2 over mass effect 2. i would prefer it to mass effect 3, 4, or 324234 for that matter. the story was so captivating that numerous times i thought to myself, 'too bad, i played the game. if only i could forget it entirely and play it again' and then rescinded the thought, with the frightening prospect of losing the data of that spectacular epic story saved in my mind feeling as a great loss.
so. we came to this point at last. the question is, will the game studios wise up and sell people actual FUN entertainment, or will they keep doing the crap that marketing types shit around.
Think first, moron. The problem is that the Crysis team designed a piss-poor world with water behind walls and many other less than optimal decisions.
think first, idiot. a team that has designed a game that has become the de facto 'real life' benchmark for gaming for 2-3 years (crysis), flops SO stupidly and foolishly in such a thing - and perchance, SOMEHOW, it ends up being a mistake that favors a particular graphics card manufacturer's price-performance underperforming cards at the cost of its competitor. and to boot, stuff is invisible to users' eyes. on top of that, that manufacturer is known to have engaged in frauding in benchmarks like this.
anyone who took statistics and probability courses would be able to tell you that the statistical chances of this being a GRAND coincidence, is zero.
Probably shortcuts and hacks to make the world work on a console
dont use the word 'probable' anywhere. you have no understanding of probability.
That was my impression too. It seems like the same developers who made the BC made Cat.
precisely it feels that way. BC was also devoid of content, and was a mindless grind. it was as if it was a filler for Wrath to be completed. It was known that wrath was in development, but, if im not mistaken age of conan or some other mmo was coming up, so BC was hastily put out.
if so, it means cata is another utility/revamp/filler like BC, until they complete the new, real expansion that matches with Wrath's cycle.
if so, and if it comes out with an epic, epic storyline, grand epic settings like wrath, i may buy and play it.
they dont at all make up for anything. first, cards do not have 'less computing power'. the world's fastest gpu is an ati for the last 200 days or so as of this moment. nvidia hasnt still caught up.
ati is giving people what they need - medium power, low energy consumption, efficient chips, and you can put as many as you want. the machine i am on has 2 x 5670 cards as of this moment. they are cheap middle-middle segment cards, despite being decent. however, when crossfired, they perform like a 5770 card, which is mid segment. and that card is able to play all new games comfortably.
what happened was that, i had bought a sapphire 5670 a year or so ago because it had silent arctic cooler on it and was performing very well despite its cheap ($80) price. and now a year later, when i feel that i need more power, i just bought another $80 sapphire 5670, and just crossfired them instead of shelling out $160 or so on an 5770.
and my case is still silent, and despite i am running a new 990fx chipset motherboard with a 4 core phenom, 4 20 cm fans, a fan controller, a sound card, i am still pulling only 150 watts of power under full load. and it is STILL silent.
this is the level of energy efficiency, silence and ease of use ati cards provide.
ati is selling people discrete gpus that you can use as building blocks. with those discrete gpus, you can match exactly the wattage, processing power, and silence level you desire with your budget. and nothing will stay underutilized. it is a modular approach.
it is of course possible to get new monster 6870x2s and crossfire them to leave best nvidia offering behind. however i wonder who would need such processing power which will leave some 50 fps extra over 100 fps already present. and an 6870x2 would still cope up well 2 years later, just like how 4870x2, an 2 year old card, still ranks above mid-upper segment as of now. basically people who bought those cards 2 years ago, do not need to buy new cards as of this moment.
thats modular approach. every concept in i.t. world uses it, and graphics card should not have been an exception.
tell that to the great performing cheap ati cards i bought since last 8 years while morons had been shelling out cash to this son of a whore company which doesnt refrain from deceiving and frauding them off their money.
but maybe you like getting frauded. thats your preference and i respect it.
if a graphics card company and a gaming company conspire together to deceive benchmarks and rip me out of my cash by deceiving me, i feel entitled to many, many things.
if you do not feel the same when someone attempts to deceive and fraud you, you are a moron of the first order and i have a bridge to sell you.
Yeah. READ the article before talking like you did above and make yourself stand out as a moron.
the problem here is, nvidia used some programming gimmicks to make their cards perform better by creating extra load in polygons that are rendered UNDER WATER UNDER LAND, and therefore INVISIBLE.
no benefit to gamers here. no benefit to anyone. NOONE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT IS BEING RENDERED.
however, this will create extra unnecessary load in a way that some nvidia chips can handle better, and show competitors bad.
let me summarize - nvidia is incompetent, unable to beat ati in REAL game of rendering 3d, and is trying underhand tactics like a son of whore and DECEIVING GAMERS AND COSTING THEM CASH in the process.
this is basically an assault against my wallet. your wallet. gamers' wallets.
Wrath of the lich king was a rich expansion - its content was fresh, epic, grand, taken from world's own mythology (titans to dragons nords to nagas). And it was huge - even a single zone like dragonblight had more content than 5-6 original vanilla zones confined.
Then they revisited original azeroth. a lot of people made a lot of applause for that in online forums, but these were mostly people who were in nostalgia because they were people who played original vanilla wow. when in a chat-channel (city-wide) discussion, i queried whether it was more the people they played with, and the stuff they did and its nostalgia rather than really content in original azeroth were they missing, some admitted that it was more nostalgia than content.
and it is true. imagine stepping down from titans, giants, dragons and nords, that kind of epic, historically plausible myths and sagas down to 'original azeroth revisited'. most of what is in there are stuff that was made up by warcraft's own lore. good or bad, they are inevitably less interesting than titans or dragons.
i said to myself, this will be a boring step down. and unsubscribed when the expansion launch was near. didnt return since and i dont think returning unless they produce epic setting and stories like northrend again. i noticed a lot of people talked and acted similarly while i was unsubscribing back then.
block as many things as you can. i wonder how many legitimate sites were caught in those blockings. why not block it altogether and only allow microsoft or orher corporate sites ? - wait - there could still be xss attacks.
ps : the typo r in the word 'other' is intentional. i bet a lot of you grammar nazis went berserk in the duration of one and a half sentence in between that word and this disclaimer.
message : grammar nazism is bad for your health. content over form. yadda yadda. grow up.
It seems so. first, their acts have become something to be afraid of from the respect of private interests, with all these leakages.
Second, their endless leaking sensitive data will make data so trivial that, there wont be any reason to hide most of what we deem sensitive today. This would remove some issues we are meeting in regard to security - like SSN numbers or similar crap being taken as proof of identity (what a stupid thought) and this leading to fraud and so on. If, it was accepted that there was no way to identify an individual for sure on the internet, then most of the crap governments and corporations pushing on us would be totally null and void, setting us free.
all i need is a key to encrypt my communication with. if i can do it with an openssl command on some local computer, none should need to pay anything to 3rd parties to use ssl certs on their servers.
no - i dont need anyone to 'verify' any domain. i dont buy from any sites i dont know and trust, and therefore third party intermediaries cashing in by selling me trust is totally unnecessary. not that it works at all though - even a megacorporation can swindle you through numerous means.
What can be more constructive than pursuing hired whores that are out to spy on the citizens for the profit of a few private parties or a repressive regime.
And how about the many extensions/plugins people use ? a lot of extensions didnt even make the transition from 4.x to 5.x yet. and you not only went berserk about releasing half baked crap one after another WHILE changing major version numbers, but now want to hide the version number from the users. so much for 'usability' -> more confusion.
some psychos overclocked the chip to 7.1 ghz as opposed to its core clock of 3.4 ghz.
intel shows its intelness. they knew people were overclocking left and right, and in the spirit of a corporation which has paid pc makers not to use their competitor, they are trying to siphon off money from customers.
so, they will soft-lock a cpu, while selling me HARDWARE, then sell me SOFTWARE to unlock their HARDWARE.
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No different than feudalism. Most of the lords' resources and time were being spent on undoing other lords or defending their rights. And people got shafted during the process.
Patents are no different than intellectual feudalism. Claim a piece of land, and you can just suck blood off of anyone who enters on it to do anything on it by extorting money.
patent holders are the lords, and lawyers are their enforcers. all hail new intellectual feudal overlords.
It seems like he did .
you missed quite easy to understand and useful technical information that would help not only your wallet, but the visual experience you get from your monitor/tv/flat panel.
enjoy. you deserve spending more money, for less.
no card i got in the last 10 years, was shit, and i had had NO driver issues. not even while people were having issues with their nvidia card in windows 7.
and while the rigs of people with nvidia 8800s were screaming under load in age of conan back when it launched, my ati 3870 was playing the game in full detail comfortably for me.
let me put it plainly - i spent less than the morons who bought 8800s, and i got more out of what i bought. thats beyond a 'win' situation.
my thoughts are still my own ?
In mid 90s 'gameplay hours' came as a 'value' from the marketing types to tout games over other games. 'our game gives you 30 hours playtime !! its better'.
and natural result of this has been increasingly lengthening games with time consuming, but less fun stuff in order to pump up 'gameplay hours'.
this result would have eventually happened.
compare the crap produced in our time by corporate behemoths that seek to tie people in front of a computer for longer hours, and tout game time to the fun games which gave you right thing at the right dosage at the right time, from the period 1990-1995. these were the games. actually, these ARE the games, since most of today's franchises are their descendants (directly too) or running on their gameplay concepts still, with little changed.
yes. i completely prefer Star Control 2 over mass effect 2. i would prefer it to mass effect 3, 4, or 324234 for that matter. the story was so captivating that numerous times i thought to myself, 'too bad, i played the game. if only i could forget it entirely and play it again' and then rescinded the thought, with the frightening prospect of losing the data of that spectacular epic story saved in my mind feeling as a great loss.
so. we came to this point at last. the question is, will the game studios wise up and sell people actual FUN entertainment, or will they keep doing the crap that marketing types shit around.
Think first, moron. The problem is that the Crysis team designed a piss-poor world with water behind walls and many other less than optimal decisions.
think first, idiot. a team that has designed a game that has become the de facto 'real life' benchmark for gaming for 2-3 years (crysis), flops SO stupidly and foolishly in such a thing - and perchance, SOMEHOW, it ends up being a mistake that favors a particular graphics card manufacturer's price-performance underperforming cards at the cost of its competitor. and to boot, stuff is invisible to users' eyes. on top of that, that manufacturer is known to have engaged in frauding in benchmarks like this.
anyone who took statistics and probability courses would be able to tell you that the statistical chances of this being a GRAND coincidence, is zero.
Probably shortcuts and hacks to make the world work on a console
dont use the word 'probable' anywhere. you have no understanding of probability.
That was my impression too. It seems like the same developers who made the BC made Cat.
precisely it feels that way. BC was also devoid of content, and was a mindless grind. it was as if it was a filler for Wrath to be completed. It was known that wrath was in development, but, if im not mistaken age of conan or some other mmo was coming up, so BC was hastily put out.
if so, it means cata is another utility/revamp/filler like BC, until they complete the new, real expansion that matches with Wrath's cycle.
if so, and if it comes out with an epic, epic storyline, grand epic settings like wrath, i may buy and play it.
A few months ago they were frantically denying existence of such a comet. what happened so that they turned around.
they dont at all make up for anything. first, cards do not have 'less computing power'. the world's fastest gpu is an ati for the last 200 days or so as of this moment. nvidia hasnt still caught up.
ati is giving people what they need - medium power, low energy consumption, efficient chips, and you can put as many as you want. the machine i am on has 2 x 5670 cards as of this moment. they are cheap middle-middle segment cards, despite being decent. however, when crossfired, they perform like a 5770 card, which is mid segment. and that card is able to play all new games comfortably.
what happened was that, i had bought a sapphire 5670 a year or so ago because it had silent arctic cooler on it and was performing very well despite its cheap ($80) price. and now a year later, when i feel that i need more power, i just bought another $80 sapphire 5670, and just crossfired them instead of shelling out $160 or so on an 5770.
and my case is still silent, and despite i am running a new 990fx chipset motherboard with a 4 core phenom, 4 20 cm fans, a fan controller, a sound card, i am still pulling only 150 watts of power under full load. and it is STILL silent.
this is the level of energy efficiency, silence and ease of use ati cards provide.
ati is selling people discrete gpus that you can use as building blocks. with those discrete gpus, you can match exactly the wattage, processing power, and silence level you desire with your budget. and nothing will stay underutilized. it is a modular approach.
it is of course possible to get new monster 6870x2s and crossfire them to leave best nvidia offering behind. however i wonder who would need such processing power which will leave some 50 fps extra over 100 fps already present. and an 6870x2 would still cope up well 2 years later, just like how 4870x2, an 2 year old card, still ranks above mid-upper segment as of now. basically people who bought those cards 2 years ago, do not need to buy new cards as of this moment.
thats modular approach. every concept in i.t. world uses it, and graphics card should not have been an exception.
the issue here is that, the process is done in water that is UNDER LAND and will not be seen by any son of god on this planet in any way.
basically its a hidden object that favors some nvidia chips, and makes the competitor cards get choked.
its fraud.
tell that to the great performing cheap ati cards i bought since last 8 years while morons had been shelling out cash to this son of a whore company which doesnt refrain from deceiving and frauding them off their money.
but maybe you like getting frauded. thats your preference and i respect it.
if a graphics card company and a gaming company conspire together to deceive benchmarks and rip me out of my cash by deceiving me, i feel entitled to many, many things.
if you do not feel the same when someone attempts to deceive and fraud you, you are a moron of the first order and i have a bridge to sell you.
Yeah. READ the article before talking like you did above and make yourself stand out as a moron.
the problem here is, nvidia used some programming gimmicks to make their cards perform better by creating extra load in polygons that are rendered UNDER WATER UNDER LAND, and therefore INVISIBLE.
no benefit to gamers here. no benefit to anyone. NOONE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT IS BEING RENDERED.
however, this will create extra unnecessary load in a way that some nvidia chips can handle better, and show competitors bad.
let me summarize - nvidia is incompetent, unable to beat ati in REAL game of rendering 3d, and is trying underhand tactics like a son of whore and DECEIVING GAMERS AND COSTING THEM CASH in the process.
this is basically an assault against my wallet. your wallet. gamers' wallets.
and come back when you learned what does "INVISIBLE UNDERWATER POLYGONS" means.
Wrath of the lich king was a rich expansion - its content was fresh, epic, grand, taken from world's own mythology (titans to dragons nords to nagas). And it was huge - even a single zone like dragonblight had more content than 5-6 original vanilla zones confined.
Then they revisited original azeroth. a lot of people made a lot of applause for that in online forums, but these were mostly people who were in nostalgia because they were people who played original vanilla wow. when in a chat-channel (city-wide) discussion, i queried whether it was more the people they played with, and the stuff they did and its nostalgia rather than really content in original azeroth were they missing, some admitted that it was more nostalgia than content.
and it is true. imagine stepping down from titans, giants, dragons and nords, that kind of epic, historically plausible myths and sagas down to 'original azeroth revisited'. most of what is in there are stuff that was made up by warcraft's own lore. good or bad, they are inevitably less interesting than titans or dragons.
i said to myself, this will be a boring step down. and unsubscribed when the expansion launch was near. didnt return since and i dont think returning unless they produce epic setting and stories like northrend again. i noticed a lot of people talked and acted similarly while i was unsubscribing back then.
block as many things as you can. i wonder how many legitimate sites were caught in those blockings. why not block it altogether and only allow microsoft or orher corporate sites ? - wait - there could still be xss attacks.
ps : the typo r in the word 'other' is intentional. i bet a lot of you grammar nazis went berserk in the duration of one and a half sentence in between that word and this disclaimer.
message : grammar nazism is bad for your health. content over form. yadda yadda. grow up.
And i approve of this message.
hehehehe
It seems so. first, their acts have become something to be afraid of from the respect of private interests, with all these leakages.
Second, their endless leaking sensitive data will make data so trivial that, there wont be any reason to hide most of what we deem sensitive today. This would remove some issues we are meeting in regard to security - like SSN numbers or similar crap being taken as proof of identity (what a stupid thought) and this leading to fraud and so on. If, it was accepted that there was no way to identify an individual for sure on the internet, then most of the crap governments and corporations pushing on us would be totally null and void, setting us free.
all i need is a key to encrypt my communication with. if i can do it with an openssl command on some local computer, none should need to pay anything to 3rd parties to use ssl certs on their servers.
no - i dont need anyone to 'verify' any domain. i dont buy from any sites i dont know and trust, and therefore third party intermediaries cashing in by selling me trust is totally unnecessary. not that it works at all though - even a megacorporation can swindle you through numerous means.
Windows Phone is now the only platform that does so with equal opportunity for all partners - of microsoft
-> until microsoft tries to screw its partners over, that is.
What can be more constructive than pursuing hired whores that are out to spy on the citizens for the profit of a few private parties or a repressive regime.
are you missing that the 'best feature' firefox brought so far, is the idea of extensions ?
And how about the many extensions/plugins people use ? a lot of extensions didnt even make the transition from 4.x to 5.x yet. and you not only went berserk about releasing half baked crap one after another WHILE changing major version numbers, but now want to hide the version number from the users. so much for 'usability' -> more confusion.
Even, its a feature. look what people did with phenom ii 955 black edition :
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=4qi&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=phenom+955+overclocked+to+7.1+ghz&oq=phenom+955+overclocked+to+7.1+ghz&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=3190l6170l0l6316l15l15l0l10l0l1l406l1003l1.2.1.0.1l5l0
some psychos overclocked the chip to 7.1 ghz as opposed to its core clock of 3.4 ghz.
intel shows its intelness. they knew people were overclocking left and right, and in the spirit of a corporation which has paid pc makers not to use their competitor, they are trying to siphon off money from customers.
so, they will soft-lock a cpu, while selling me HARDWARE, then sell me SOFTWARE to unlock their HARDWARE.
whores.