What drives me crazy even worse than eye pain and unrealism is the fact that anything moving remotely fast looks like playing a 3D game on a 10 year old system. If I had to guess at what's going on, it's alternating frames during the 3D effects and only at like 30 FPS to begin with so the 3D effects are effectively at 15 FPS which looks AWFUL! Anything zipping across the screen in 3D looks like choppy crap and my gamer eyes can't take that.
You're right and I completely agree. Just because it's in the middle of $50 and $600 doesn't mean it's midrange. I just bought a GTS450 for $140-ish not too long ago and it can run Oblivion at near maximum settings at 1280x1024 so that's what I'd call midrange. And I don't think I've ever in my life seen a monitor that can run at 1920x1080 natively. Just for comparison, my 32" 720P TV runs at 1366 x 768. THAT is definitely not midrange! If it can run a modern game at a more normal resoltion maxed out, it's more of a top of the line card for sure.
You can really blame China for this, not Microsoft. If you sell no-OS computers in China, they're getting an illegal copy of Windows put on them 100% guaranteed. If you sell them preloaded, you force pre-assembled computer purchases in China to have legit copies.
Furthermore, how can someone prove they removed Windows 7 from a computer they bought? I don't think Microsoft quite has a remote killswitch or re-check of the license daily on the internet or something. They can't remote disable the copy of Windows that your computer came with if you claim you removed windows and put on Linux but you're lying and it's still running windows. I'm not sure if there's a license re-check for every windows update so they might be able to remotely kill that but other than that, they can't trust random customers who claim they removed it.
I have a different theory. Every time a calculation doesn't add up or observations don't match the numbers, astronomers blame dark matter. It's the new trend apparently. That's like me balancing my checkbook and when it doesn't add up, I make up some theory about dark money and then call it balanced and write a book about it and talk about it on the Discovery Channel. They should really get back to things we can actually test instead of things we can guess about. You would think with them being so close to the "most likely solution = alien UFO or manmade object" dilemma, they would stop giving any time and effort to whoever can make up the craziest sounding theories in astronomy. Dark matter is a miscalculation, that's my theory.
They would have to make a law that states "All executable code must be 100% flawlessly perfect and represented as such" and modify the EULA to say that first. Somehow I don't see that happening.
If you think about it, smart people know how Wikipedia really works (or fails to work) and how it's a totally unreleiable source for information alone. Feel free to go see the quoted source in any article and then you've got something but wikipedia articles by themselves with no external sources that can be checked are the same reliability as a random forum post. So really, the biggest wikipedia hoax was wikipedia convincing everyone from Rush Limbaugh to prosecutors in court cases and thousands of others that it was a bulletproof source for information. They make it look sooo clean and nice and professional and don't have any visible warning about the inaccuracy in most cases. If they'd just put on the top of every article in 36 point font: "WARNING: some random person wrote all this and it might be completely made up" then it would be okay but until then, it looks like the hoax continues.
This will help AMD because, to cover the costs, Intel has to raise their prices slightly. That means AMD can compete more in the cost vs performance battle so hurray for AMD, except you have to also realize that the customers get screwed. The only time AMD should do better is when they make better processors. THAT benefits us. When they do better without as much motivation to advance their processor performance, then things go downhill for the customers because they get a slower chip in the long run.
It's not like Java couldn't do something about it. I suggest they issue a "patch" for the user. First of all, out of my 250 or so customers for my repair business, 0% of those asked knew what Java is. So what they should do is instead of promoting Open Office while it's installing, have a little scrolling banner that explains what Java is. They used to have some obscure "Java is on your phone and DVR" type banner that raised more questions than answers so they'd have to do better than that.
Then, when it's done installing, open a mandatory mini-powerpoint type screen where they explain that Java lets apps run off a website and the app can do anything so they need to be careful then show screenshots of what the allow/deny java app window looks like. A full screen slideshow with a 10 second delay before the Next button is enabled would force like 90% of people to learn Java basics and prevent a lot of problems. There are still those people who are just too stupid/impatient/unteachable but this would help everyone but them. I think we all know, those lost cause people shouldn't be using a computer anyway.
Haven't you seen the important historical documenation...Ghost in the Shell? lol. People will start faking all forms of IDs, no matter how advanced, and then hack each others cyborg eyes to cover their own faces while they get away. This is another one of those lovely annoy legit people, the bad people will circumvent it systems. I wonder if the RIAA or MPAA invented it?
I play Dungeons and Dragons Online, the first game from Turbine to go free to play under the same system. I think it's been successful because you get a tiny bit of the in game store currency just by playing the game. That means you get used to buying items out of the paid store instead of outright boycotting it and being dead set against giving them any money. Also, they provided massive benefits permanently to players who bought their store currency from them once. It's only $6.50 minimum and I believe LOTRO is the same and then tada, you get massive benefits for life. So once you've got your credit card on file or got someone else to lend you their paypal account, they assume you'd do it again. Then of course there's the people who buy like $100/month in store currency because they're horribly rich and I hear that's what drives any game like this.
This is like the third slashdot reported instance of a Y2K style timing bug and the last was in 2010 when 9++ = kaboom lol. It's unbelievable that people still leave glitches like this in their software. Is time really that hard to calculate and program around? People still can't program their software mere months out from a year rollover to be able to handle it?
Call me crazy, and you probably will, but I think it would have been more effective if they'd have instead targetted the storage or final packaging stage machines for the enriched materials and tried to cause a detonation. I don't know if that's possible based on the equipment used but they at least could have caused a massive explosion that would splattered their precious refined radiactive materials all over their pretty little refinery, making it unsuitable for human presence and causing them to have to build at an entirely new location and start all over with a refined uranium count of zero. Now THAT is a financial hit that would matter, unlike just frying like 1/4 of the centrofuges and allowing them to still keep operating, just at a slower pace.
I have a feeling that they're banking on China getting mad that the US will have a significant mine. If they say "Oh, you want to make your own? Fine, BANHAMMER!" and stop all rare earth exports, that mine will turn into the sole source for the US and they can charge whatever they want. If they start getting materials and China doesn't do anything different, the US company still has to compete with China's current prices which aren't THAT high right now. It's all just theoretical that China could skyrocket the prices if they wanted to. So since they won't make much money otherwise, they definitely have to be speculating that China will try to retaliate and it will work in their favor.
So what actually happens if Microsoft won't certify a game? Will it literally not run on their console cuz they need some sort of final key or to be added to some index somewhere or what? Because if they simply won't let them use the Xbox name on the cover but someone can still make a functional game on a disc for an Xbox, SOMEONE WILL! So anyone know what this actually means?
You know what would be funny? If Nintendo now approves one for the even more family friendly Wii lol. And let me just throw this out there, Nintendo = Japanese.
Based on my gamplay with Oblivion and Morrowind, they could do it justice just by putting up a 15 trailer with a black and white screen that says: "Skyrim - Like an MMORPG without all the noobs, haters, and scammers" and people would get interested.
I live in icicles' natural habitat so I know from experience that jumping and wildly swinging your arms works great. For the higher up ones, turn them against themselves by grabbing a huge lower one and using it to swing at the higher up one. Airsoft guns with biodegradeable BBs work too but they dent siding lol.
I'm gonna go ahead and downgrade them from hacktivists to script-kiddie-tivists then if nobody objects. Just think about what kind of person downloads a program and mindlessly runs it and thinks they're a cool hacker who's taking down a website and you may agree.
Darn! Because I was going to put on my canadian resume "I publish for Google" and then link to them from my facebook. Well, if Google is about to get copyright pwned by Canada for linking to the entire internet, I guess I can at least say "I publish for the New York Times" and link to them lol.
well, if they discontinue support for XP at that time also (very likely) then it just might be. SOMETHING has to run on those P4's and celeron D's lol.
I think people like me seriously got way too good at doing anything video game related as far as old school ones go. I'm a Mario Kart and pod racing diety, can shoot anything with anything you put in my virtual hands, and will be optimized at any RTS game in minutes. People just got far too good at tradition video games so they had to make them more open ended and "complicated" while actually making the actions simpler.
That and the fact that most "gamers" now aren't gamers. Not many people originally were so they dumbed it down to bring in people who wouldn't have classified themselves as video game enthusiasts before. Now they outnumber hardcore gamers so it looks like tastes have changed while in reality it's the audience that changed.
Are you people serious? The only times I've ever seen microsoft security essentials is when it's caught in an infinite loop and taking up 99% of the CPU cycles and over 150 MB of ram. Google about it, you'll find hundreds of references to that problem. That program is a joke. It's like Live One Care reincarnated and it's bound to die just as quickly. I use Avast on every computer I have and have put it on over 200 customer computers and it's the most efficient and best at catching and removing the widest array of viruses. Sure Kaserpersky is more thorough and others may use a tiny bit less resources but Avast is the perfect balance. What other program can shut windows down and remove a virus with a pre-boot scan? Not many! So they went a little nuts with the marketing? They want to stay in business, don't they? It hasn't turned downright deceptive like AVG and McAfee.
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What drives me crazy even worse than eye pain and unrealism is the fact that anything moving remotely fast looks like playing a 3D game on a 10 year old system. If I had to guess at what's going on, it's alternating frames during the 3D effects and only at like 30 FPS to begin with so the 3D effects are effectively at 15 FPS which looks AWFUL! Anything zipping across the screen in 3D looks like choppy crap and my gamer eyes can't take that.
You're right and I completely agree. Just because it's in the middle of $50 and $600 doesn't mean it's midrange. I just bought a GTS450 for $140-ish not too long ago and it can run Oblivion at near maximum settings at 1280x1024 so that's what I'd call midrange. And I don't think I've ever in my life seen a monitor that can run at 1920x1080 natively. Just for comparison, my 32" 720P TV runs at 1366 x 768. THAT is definitely not midrange! If it can run a modern game at a more normal resoltion maxed out, it's more of a top of the line card for sure.
You can really blame China for this, not Microsoft. If you sell no-OS computers in China, they're getting an illegal copy of Windows put on them 100% guaranteed. If you sell them preloaded, you force pre-assembled computer purchases in China to have legit copies.
Furthermore, how can someone prove they removed Windows 7 from a computer they bought? I don't think Microsoft quite has a remote killswitch or re-check of the license daily on the internet or something. They can't remote disable the copy of Windows that your computer came with if you claim you removed windows and put on Linux but you're lying and it's still running windows. I'm not sure if there's a license re-check for every windows update so they might be able to remotely kill that but other than that, they can't trust random customers who claim they removed it.
I have a different theory. Every time a calculation doesn't add up or observations don't match the numbers, astronomers blame dark matter. It's the new trend apparently. That's like me balancing my checkbook and when it doesn't add up, I make up some theory about dark money and then call it balanced and write a book about it and talk about it on the Discovery Channel. They should really get back to things we can actually test instead of things we can guess about. You would think with them being so close to the "most likely solution = alien UFO or manmade object" dilemma, they would stop giving any time and effort to whoever can make up the craziest sounding theories in astronomy. Dark matter is a miscalculation, that's my theory.
They would have to make a law that states "All executable code must be 100% flawlessly perfect and represented as such" and modify the EULA to say that first. Somehow I don't see that happening.
If you think about it, smart people know how Wikipedia really works (or fails to work) and how it's a totally unreleiable source for information alone. Feel free to go see the quoted source in any article and then you've got something but wikipedia articles by themselves with no external sources that can be checked are the same reliability as a random forum post.
So really, the biggest wikipedia hoax was wikipedia convincing everyone from Rush Limbaugh to prosecutors in court cases and thousands of others that it was a bulletproof source for information. They make it look sooo clean and nice and professional and don't have any visible warning about the inaccuracy in most cases. If they'd just put on the top of every article in 36 point font: "WARNING: some random person wrote all this and it might be completely made up" then it would be okay but until then, it looks like the hoax continues.
I'm on XP and with Adobe Reader X 10.0.0, had the same black line overlay problem at all zoom levels. Dunno why.
This will help AMD because, to cover the costs, Intel has to raise their prices slightly. That means AMD can compete more in the cost vs performance battle so hurray for AMD, except you have to also realize that the customers get screwed. The only time AMD should do better is when they make better processors. THAT benefits us. When they do better without as much motivation to advance their processor performance, then things go downhill for the customers because they get a slower chip in the long run.
It's not like Java couldn't do something about it. I suggest they issue a "patch" for the user. First of all, out of my 250 or so customers for my repair business, 0% of those asked knew what Java is. So what they should do is instead of promoting Open Office while it's installing, have a little scrolling banner that explains what Java is. They used to have some obscure "Java is on your phone and DVR" type banner that raised more questions than answers so they'd have to do better than that.
Then, when it's done installing, open a mandatory mini-powerpoint type screen where they explain that Java lets apps run off a website and the app can do anything so they need to be careful then show screenshots of what the allow/deny java app window looks like. A full screen slideshow with a 10 second delay before the Next button is enabled would force like 90% of people to learn Java basics and prevent a lot of problems. There are still those people who are just too stupid/impatient/unteachable but this would help everyone but them. I think we all know, those lost cause people shouldn't be using a computer anyway.
Haven't you seen the important historical documenation...Ghost in the Shell? lol. People will start faking all forms of IDs, no matter how advanced, and then hack each others cyborg eyes to cover their own faces while they get away. This is another one of those lovely annoy legit people, the bad people will circumvent it systems. I wonder if the RIAA or MPAA invented it?
I play Dungeons and Dragons Online, the first game from Turbine to go free to play under the same system. I think it's been successful because you get a tiny bit of the in game store currency just by playing the game. That means you get used to buying items out of the paid store instead of outright boycotting it and being dead set against giving them any money. Also, they provided massive benefits permanently to players who bought their store currency from them once. It's only $6.50 minimum and I believe LOTRO is the same and then tada, you get massive benefits for life. So once you've got your credit card on file or got someone else to lend you their paypal account, they assume you'd do it again. Then of course there's the people who buy like $100/month in store currency because they're horribly rich and I hear that's what drives any game like this.
This is like the third slashdot reported instance of a Y2K style timing bug and the last was in 2010 when 9++ = kaboom lol. It's unbelievable that people still leave glitches like this in their software. Is time really that hard to calculate and program around? People still can't program their software mere months out from a year rollover to be able to handle it?
Call me crazy, and you probably will, but I think it would have been more effective if they'd have instead targetted the storage or final packaging stage machines for the enriched materials and tried to cause a detonation. I don't know if that's possible based on the equipment used but they at least could have caused a massive explosion that would splattered their precious refined radiactive materials all over their pretty little refinery, making it unsuitable for human presence and causing them to have to build at an entirely new location and start all over with a refined uranium count of zero. Now THAT is a financial hit that would matter, unlike just frying like 1/4 of the centrofuges and allowing them to still keep operating, just at a slower pace.
I have a feeling that they're banking on China getting mad that the US will have a significant mine. If they say "Oh, you want to make your own? Fine, BANHAMMER!" and stop all rare earth exports, that mine will turn into the sole source for the US and they can charge whatever they want. If they start getting materials and China doesn't do anything different, the US company still has to compete with China's current prices which aren't THAT high right now. It's all just theoretical that China could skyrocket the prices if they wanted to. So since they won't make much money otherwise, they definitely have to be speculating that China will try to retaliate and it will work in their favor.
So what actually happens if Microsoft won't certify a game? Will it literally not run on their console cuz they need some sort of final key or to be added to some index somewhere or what? Because if they simply won't let them use the Xbox name on the cover but someone can still make a functional game on a disc for an Xbox, SOMEONE WILL! So anyone know what this actually means?
You know what would be funny? If Nintendo now approves one for the even more family friendly Wii lol. And let me just throw this out there, Nintendo = Japanese.
Based on my gamplay with Oblivion and Morrowind, they could do it justice just by putting up a 15 trailer with a black and white screen that says: "Skyrim - Like an MMORPG without all the noobs, haters, and scammers" and people would get interested.
I live in icicles' natural habitat so I know from experience that jumping and wildly swinging your arms works great. For the higher up ones, turn them against themselves by grabbing a huge lower one and using it to swing at the higher up one. Airsoft guns with biodegradeable BBs work too but they dent siding lol.
At 1.5 mil amps and that many joules, you might as well just skip the middle man and fire the electricity itself at them lol.
I'm gonna go ahead and downgrade them from hacktivists to script-kiddie-tivists then if nobody objects. Just think about what kind of person downloads a program and mindlessly runs it and thinks they're a cool hacker who's taking down a website and you may agree.
This could end Google in Canada
Darn! Because I was going to put on my canadian resume "I publish for Google" and then link to them from my facebook. Well, if Google is about to get copyright pwned by Canada for linking to the entire internet, I guess I can at least say "I publish for the New York Times" and link to them lol.
well, if they discontinue support for XP at that time also (very likely) then it just might be. SOMETHING has to run on those P4's and celeron D's lol.
I think people like me seriously got way too good at doing anything video game related as far as old school ones go. I'm a Mario Kart and pod racing diety, can shoot anything with anything you put in my virtual hands, and will be optimized at any RTS game in minutes. People just got far too good at tradition video games so they had to make them more open ended and "complicated" while actually making the actions simpler.
That and the fact that most "gamers" now aren't gamers. Not many people originally were so they dumbed it down to bring in people who wouldn't have classified themselves as video game enthusiasts before. Now they outnumber hardcore gamers so it looks like tastes have changed while in reality it's the audience that changed.
Are you people serious? The only times I've ever seen microsoft security essentials is when it's caught in an infinite loop and taking up 99% of the CPU cycles and over 150 MB of ram. Google about it, you'll find hundreds of references to that problem. That program is a joke. It's like Live One Care reincarnated and it's bound to die just as quickly.
I use Avast on every computer I have and have put it on over 200 customer computers and it's the most efficient and best at catching and removing the widest array of viruses. Sure Kaserpersky is more thorough and others may use a tiny bit less resources but Avast is the perfect balance. What other program can shut windows down and remove a virus with a pre-boot scan? Not many! So they went a little nuts with the marketing? They want to stay in business, don't they? It hasn't turned downright deceptive like AVG and McAfee.
Is it a suit over Clippy? Because that would be hiliarous if that little jerk got his revenge on MS on this scale lol.