PhantomCruiser
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I don't know how much they have improved... But a few Army friends of mind used to call that the Military's Lousiest Rocket System.
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Izack
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Just a little more push and effort and a little less Minecraft and I may will be able to get into any speciality that I would want in the future
Eh?
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Allow me to attempt to explain it for you:
1. The game starts in a small group, usually forming a circle, and a target is chosen.
2. A declaration is stated about the target's mother. The more grandiose or ludicrous the statement, the better.
3. The remaining group members react depending upon the strength, vulgarity or ingenuity of the insult by either laughing, hooting, catcalls, or applause.
4. The target becomes the source of the new insult, and either reciprocates the activity or picks a new target.
5. If the (former) target cannot generate an insult of equal or greater amount of value within an informal amount of time (usually equating to something greater than Planck time), the former target loses that round.
Observe:
"Yo momma is so fat, I saw her walking down the street in a brown dress and people thought she was a UPS truck."
"Oh yeah? Your momma is so old, she's got three teeth: two in her pocket, and one in her mouth!"
It's an old game, and it used to be called 'capping' here, though I NEVER knew why.
jangofett287
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Never heard of the PS3 being able to do that, and doing it wouldn't make much sense to me. The CPU is already busy enough without handling some of the graphics as well. What would make more sense would be doing it the other way round, but AFAIK the PS3 doesn't do that either.
The Xbox, however, can't really do that (effectively). There's a bunch of other minute details, but some I can't really explain sufficently. Anyways... onto the gameplay report
One of those minute details is the Cell Broadband Engine. Comparing it to the XBox 360's processor (Which is actually just a hacked together modification of the Cell's core) is an interesting exercise, as the architecture is different to what has come before, but I will make an attempt. The PS3's CPU's core is clocked at 3.2GHz, as is each of the XBox 360's 3 cores. However, the PS3 also has access to 7 additional what I would call 'sub-cores' (one of those is reserved for the OS). This puts the theoretical max output of the PS3's CPU at 230.4 GFLOPS, the XBox 360 only managing 115.2 GFLOPS.
In the GPU's we find a similar story. the PS3's is clocked at 550MHz, while the XBox 360's is clocked at 500MHz. Again it is not so simple. Of course the PS3 can do full HD, and theoretically the XBox 360 can as well, However I'm yet to see any XBox 360 game make it above 720p, so that is defiantly something to consider.
You got that right. Microsoft's motto: cheap to make, expensive price tag, large profit margin.
The reason the XBox 360 isn't showing its age is because the enitre games market is being held back by it. Quick bit of console history. Last generation the power rankings went GameCube on top, Followed by PS2, with XBox lagging way behind. Popularity wise it was PS2, XBox, GameCube. In this generation, we find the power ranking to be PS3, XBox, Wii, and popularity is XBox, (huge gap) PS3, Wii. So everyone is making their games to run on the XBox, meaning they don't show the PS3 in its best light. The other main contributing factor is that this console generation is now 6 years old, which has held back gaming A LOT. It is important to note that since it has been soo long between generations people are now sifting to PC. This can only be good for the industry.
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New GPS guided missiles (Thus the G for guided), unitary 81.5 kg warheads with delay/airburst function instead of cluster bombs, new ADLER fire direction system, improved vehicle positioning system DAGR, 70 km combat range (125 km maximum in test firings). All together 2300 new parts. And a version with four intelligent submunitions to hunt tanks is underway.
I quite like it, it isn't what you want as infantrymen fighting near its target, but it can leave quite an impression on soft targets. And the new version is now precise enough to be used near your own men.
jedidia
shoemaker without legs
Looks like the germans didn't win by penalties for once, although they certainly tried
It should be noted that both the PS2 and the PS3 were designed for a 10-year lifespan (citation forthcoming), and as such still have a couple more years of software development in them before things slow down on them. However, my thought is that this is far to long for a system to be considered current tech, and as such, the console makers need to shorten this considerably.
If you look at PC hardware tech, most chipsets are on a 15 to 18-month lifecycle. So every PC manufacturer has to plan for its models to be refreshed in unison with these releases. Think of how much tech change you're talking about if you extrapolate that out to 10 years or even 5 or 6 years, as is the current state of the major consoles. I'm not talking about number of changes, but how much the chips and boards themselves have changed in that timeframe. Imagine how much better gaming would be today if console manufacturers refreshed their hardware even, say, every 3 years.
Regarding current consoles, having owned both an XBOX 360 and a PS3, my personal opinion is the PS3 is money better spent. Overall I think the 360 was just a slower, clunkier system based on playing the same games on both. I realize popular opinion disagrees with me, and that's fine. I just think Sony has made a better product.
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My kind of sniping:
If you look at PC hardware tech, most chipsets are on a 15 to 18-month lifecycle. So every PC manufacturer has to plan for its models to be refreshed in unison with these releases. Think of how much tech change you're talking about if you extrapolate that out to 10 years or even 5 or 6 years, as is the current state of the major consoles. I'm not talking about number of changes, but how much the chips and boards themselves have changed in that timeframe. Imagine how much better gaming would be today if console manufacturers refreshed their hardware even, say, every 3 years.
Regarding current consoles, having owned both an XBOX 360 and a PS3, my personal opinion is the PS3 is money better spent. Overall I think the 360 was just a slower, clunkier system based on playing the same games on both. I realize popular opinion disagrees with me, and that's fine. I just think Sony has made a better product.
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My kind of sniping:
TMac3000
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Man, you guys like that big expensive hardware
I like something a little more mobile myself
I like something a little more mobile myself
Codz
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I prefer this for sniping personally...
Eccentrus
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Eh?
Well, I won't be able to play any minecraft after I got into internship in the hospital, so I will enjoy my time for now :lol:
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I prefer this for sniping personally...
What are those vertical trails to the right of the mushroom? I saw them on the video of that as well.
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Rocket trails to observe shock wave propagation.
Mojave
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meaningless bullcrap story
I sat in the middle of the room--a book placed on my lap. I looked at the title, but saw nothing. I flipped through the pages of the book and realized that no-one had written anything in it. Wondering, I stood up, looked outside, then back at the book. I remember wondering about it for a long time; never realizing how easy a solution could be found.
I paced the floor, and thought to myself what this means. I saw something strange in the distance. What could it be? That is when I woke up. A pool of sweat lay on my pillow as I raised my body to sit up. Many restless nights had gone by. I had thought and thought about what this book means, and why no words were written in a contextual, informative, clever way.
Then it hit me.
I picked the book up and turned it over. "Journal" was the only word written on the cover of the book.
Derp
Well, I made it to help kill off my writer's block.
I sat in the middle of the room--a book placed on my lap. I looked at the title, but saw nothing. I flipped through the pages of the book and realized that no-one had written anything in it. Wondering, I stood up, looked outside, then back at the book. I remember wondering about it for a long time; never realizing how easy a solution could be found.
I paced the floor, and thought to myself what this means. I saw something strange in the distance. What could it be? That is when I woke up. A pool of sweat lay on my pillow as I raised my body to sit up. Many restless nights had gone by. I had thought and thought about what this book means, and why no words were written in a contextual, informative, clever way.
Then it hit me.
I picked the book up and turned it over. "Journal" was the only word written on the cover of the book.
Derp
Well, I made it to help kill off my writer's block.
