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Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming
Vigile writes: Microsoft has big plans to try and merge the experiences of the Xbox One and Windows for gaming but the push back from the community and from major developers and personalities is mounting. Earlier this week PC Perspective posted a story that detailed the controversy around DX12 performance analysis without an exclusive full screen mode, changes to multi-GPU configurations and even compatibility issues with variable refresh that crop up from games from the Windows Store. Microsoft's only official response so far as been that it is listening to feedback and plans to address it with upcoming changes. Now today, Epic's Tim Sweeney has posted an editorial at The Guardian with an even more dramatic tone, saying that UWP (Unified Windows Platform) "can, should, must and will, die..." Clearly the stakes are being placed in the ground and even damage control from Phil Spencer on Twitter isn't likely to hold back angry PC users.
>> even damage control from Phil Spencer
Who?
>> damage control...on Twitter
Yeah, time to rethink your PR strategy then because no one reads/forwards/retweets apologizes on Twitter. In fact, the only live people left over there seem to be reporters looking for the next drunk/racist/sexist celebrity/politician/athlete tweet, so craft accordingly...
Who fucking cares about 99% of PC users. Gamers care about this shit, and gamers are nerds, and this is news for nerds.
Oh fuck off! I don't think it's extreme at all to plunk $2,500 on the Megazapaplus 512GPU 512gb Uber Duber video card. Sure, I had to cut a hole in my case to fit it, and have to keep the whole unit in a chest freezer, but, I mean, that's totally normal, right?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Sure, but for 12 whole seconds it was state of the art.
Nothing can beat the bandwidth of a truck full of blu rays.
Since it's /. I get to geek out and say nuh'uh
BDXL = 128GB = 120mm Dia x 1.2 mm = 9MB/mm^2
2.5" HDD = 4TB = 100mmx70x19 = 27MB/mm^2
3.5" HDD = 10TB = 146mmx102x25 = 30MB/mm^2
microSDXC = 200GB = 15mmx11x1 - 1212MB/mm^2
Flash wins by three orders of magnitude :)
26' uHaul truck (since we're geeks not CDL drivers) holds 7400lbs or 3357KG .25g so you can carry 13,428,000 (by volume is 2x higher but...max weight)
uSDXC weights
2,685,600,000GB or 2.7EB
Let's say we're going 100km/hr and going NYC to SF for 4700km or 47 hours or 169,200 seconds
So that's about 16000GB/s
The approximate bandwidth of a 26' uHaul is 127tbps.
Those cards are $100 each so it'd only cost $1.3 billion (plus gas, tolls, and rental)
Let me know next time you want to move 2.7EB from NYC to SF - I'm down.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.