This is how I always explain streamed games to people who can't immediately see the horrible problems with it:
Imagine if the old Ubisoft always-on DRM were an inherent, unremoveable aspect of the game system rather than just something tacked on to a few individual games after the fact, such that Ubisoft couldn't even begrudgingly neuter it in a patch. Well, a streamed game is even worse than that would be.
The game doesn't even run locally. All you get is streaming video/audio and all the lag you'd expect (including controller lag), which is a recipe for disaster in North America. And any interruption in the connection that lasts more than a few tenths of a second is going to be behave like the equivalent of a "freeze" or "hang" that you'd NEVER tolerate in a properly local-hosted game. Not even the most twitchy DRM existing today has that problem.
Some people consider IPS monitors unsuitable for games requiring fast reflexes (i.e. FPSes) due to their double-digit response times. Internet latency is often worse and certainly more unpredictable than LCD monitor response time, and with streamed games it applies to audio and keyboard/controller/etc input too.
Then there are the bandwidth requirements.
Let's say you're lucky enough to have a 100mb/s connection. Why would you want to use it to transfer your game's video instead of, uh, a DVI cable, which is capable of 4 Gb/s? The people who developed DVI apparently understood that that 1920 x 1200 pixels w/ 24 bits/pixels @ 60Hz results in bandwidth well over 3 Gb/s. The people who developed streamed games seem very, very confused (at best).
Those of us who know anything about bandwidth and compression and (especially) latency can see the enormous technical obstacles facing a service like this, and startups like Onlive never did anything to explain how they intended to solve them. Instead, they did everything they could to lock out independent reviewers with NDAs and closed demonstrations. A friend of mine described it as the gaming equivalent of the perpetual motion scam, and IMO that's spot on (except that a streamed game service would still have the draconian DRM issues even if it worked perfectly).
Streamed games appear designed from the ground up to benefit the game publishers and fuck the customers, exactly what you'd expect from any DRM system.
P.S. Remember when Microsoft intended 24-hour XBox One check-ins, and gamers rejected that? How the fuck are mandatory check ins going to fly when measured in milliseconds?
So this has happened twice, and during those times worse behavior occurs on demand (i.e. they cuss people out when they approach the chargers) and yet there's no cellphone video of the perps?
So is there another term that researchers working in the field of AI use to avoid confusion, now that "AI" has become a marketing buzzword for any system using a sensor and/or algorithm (and often not even that) to make decisions?
Both libraries and DVD-era Netflix had clear legal protections to carry out their business models, without some IP owner able to unilaterally remove content from their platforms.
Stream-era Netflix is in a much worse position, and libraries should be hesitant to dive in when it might put them on the publishers' leash.
I swear, I've never seen such a longrunning and ineffective damage control campaign for a losing candidate. Is this a sign they really are going to run her again in 2020?
Does anyone seriously believe he wants to see mainstream journalists do a rigorous and robust analysis of (say) the "wage gap," instead of simply parroting the establishment narrative like they always do?
Jack can say what he wants about the "meaningless" follower count; it still means more than the arbitrary (and partisan) "verified" blue checkmark.
More generally, I can see why Jack, who's made so many partisan and unpopular moves (and no doubt has plans to make plenty more), would downplay the idea of popularity in this way.
People have a low opinion of them because of the way so many of them have repeatedly been shown to behave when they're held accountable.
"One of the bulwarks against that, and one of the institutions that is most under stress right now, is a free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected media," the prime minister said.
Interesting how he left out "honest," yet threw in "respected" like it's some obligation on the public.
It didn't merit an answer. "Automated System" is just an obvious attempt to dodge responsibility for the censorship (i.e. suppression of the hashtag), like when Youtube claims "the algorithm did it." It'll mean the same thing (i.e. nothing) when they switch to saying "the AI did it."
Their other excuse of "potential Russian links" is the same sad cover story the media desperately used in a (failed) attempt to stop people from paying attention to the content of the leak.
The number is modest, considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts it determined were responsible for spreading misinformation in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The two come together as long as there are no expensive filtering systems after that pipe of the nastiest type of diesel burning ship engines, for example. Natural gas powered vehicles are in the minority still.
There's still a difference though, and it matters. In fact, (automotive) diesel engines are pretty much the poster child for the kind of agenda that maximizes mileage and minimizes C02 emissions, at the cost of greatly increased toxic emissions/particulates (i.e. actual "air pollution" analogous to tobacco), resulting in much worse impacts on human health.
But the alarmists just get a free pass on that, I suppose . . . anything else might interfere with their next great policy idea.
The tobacco analogy would make sense for toxic particulates like smog, etc. But from reading the preview it seems they're trying to smuggle in C02 and global warming, if not do an outright bait and switch.
The OnePlus 6T will largely offer the same specs as its predecessor -- the OnePlus 6, which was launched earlier this year. Some of the key changes include a smaller notch on the front display and a built-in fingerprint scanner that is embedded in it.
The 6 had a headphone jack, and the 6T doesn't. That's worth mentioning in TFS (if not the headline).
Obsession with skin color is a red flag, and probably means they're willing to sacrifice quality to satisfy it. It's very likely that nothing of value was lost here.
Slashdot Mirror
Contrary to popular Anglocentric belief, English isn't the world's most-spoken language by total number of native speakers
Correct, it simply has the most speakers, period.
It's the leftist bias in tech/media that's the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A liberal bias might actually be a good thing, as it would err on the side of free speech, and against totalitarianism.
n/t
So, did we learn anything new about how the primary was rigged for Hillary?
This is how I always explain streamed games to people who can't immediately see the horrible problems with it:
Imagine if the old Ubisoft always-on DRM were an inherent, unremoveable aspect of the game system rather than just something tacked on to a few individual games after the fact, such that Ubisoft couldn't even begrudgingly neuter it in a patch. Well, a streamed game is even worse than that would be.
The game doesn't even run locally. All you get is streaming video/audio and all the lag you'd expect (including controller lag), which is a recipe for disaster in North America. And any interruption in the connection that lasts more than a few tenths of a second is going to be behave like the equivalent of a "freeze" or "hang" that you'd NEVER tolerate in a properly local-hosted game. Not even the most twitchy DRM existing today has that problem.
Some people consider IPS monitors unsuitable for games requiring fast reflexes (i.e. FPSes) due to their double-digit response times. Internet latency is often worse and certainly more unpredictable than LCD monitor response time, and with streamed games it applies to audio and keyboard/controller/etc input too.
Then there are the bandwidth requirements.
Let's say you're lucky enough to have a 100mb/s connection. Why would you want to use it to transfer your game's video instead of, uh, a DVI cable, which is capable of 4 Gb/s? The people who developed DVI apparently understood that that 1920 x 1200 pixels w/ 24 bits/pixels @ 60Hz results in bandwidth well over 3 Gb/s. The people who developed streamed games seem very, very confused (at best).
Those of us who know anything about bandwidth and compression and (especially) latency can see the enormous technical obstacles facing a service like this, and startups like Onlive never did anything to explain how they intended to solve them. Instead, they did everything they could to lock out independent reviewers with NDAs and closed demonstrations. A friend of mine described it as the gaming equivalent of the perpetual motion scam, and IMO that's spot on (except that a streamed game service would still have the draconian DRM issues even if it worked perfectly).
Streamed games appear designed from the ground up to benefit the game publishers and fuck the customers, exactly what you'd expect from any DRM system.
P.S. Remember when Microsoft intended 24-hour XBox One check-ins, and gamers rejected that? How the fuck are mandatory check ins going to fly when measured in milliseconds?
So this has happened twice, and during those times worse behavior occurs on demand (i.e. they cuss people out when they approach the chargers) and yet there's no cellphone video of the perps?
So is there another term that researchers working in the field of AI use to avoid confusion, now that "AI" has become a marketing buzzword for any system using a sensor and/or algorithm (and often not even that) to make decisions?
Both libraries and DVD-era Netflix had clear legal protections to carry out their business models, without some IP owner able to unilaterally remove content from their platforms.
Stream-era Netflix is in a much worse position, and libraries should be hesitant to dive in when it might put them on the publishers' leash.
It should be the case that they get express permission from a site owner before archiving a site.
Or make it far easier than it currently is for a site to be deleted from the Archive.
Plenty of sleazy journos who want to stealth-edit their articles agree with you.
I swear, I've never seen such a longrunning and ineffective damage control campaign for a losing candidate. Is this a sign they really are going to run her again in 2020?
Yeah, random piracy is definitely the most important and relevant crowdfunding story right now, especially involving Patreon and Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I did. I also noticed that /. somehow forgot the censorship and YRO icons, as they often do on certain stories.
It's Justin Trudeau.
Does anyone seriously believe he wants to see mainstream journalists do a rigorous and robust analysis of (say) the "wage gap," instead of simply parroting the establishment narrative like they always do?
Jack can say what he wants about the "meaningless" follower count; it still means more than the arbitrary (and partisan) "verified" blue checkmark.
More generally, I can see why Jack, who's made so many partisan and unpopular moves (and no doubt has plans to make plenty more), would downplay the idea of popularity in this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
People have a low opinion of them because of the way so many of them have repeatedly been shown to behave when they're held accountable.
"One of the bulwarks against that, and one of the institutions that is most under stress right now, is a free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected media," the prime minister said.
Interesting how he left out "honest," yet threw in "respected" like it's some obligation on the public.
"Windows as a service" sounded like a good idea in 2015,
No it didn't.
Leave your value judgement out of the headline.
Posting the same reply I gave you last time you linked the same article, which you didn't answer.
It didn't merit an answer. "Automated System" is just an obvious attempt to dodge responsibility for the censorship (i.e. suppression of the hashtag), like when Youtube claims "the algorithm did it." It'll mean the same thing (i.e. nothing) when they switch to saying "the AI did it."
Their other excuse of "potential Russian links" is the same sad cover story the media desperately used in a (failed) attempt to stop people from paying attention to the content of the leak.
The number is modest, considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts it determined were responsible for spreading misinformation in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
You mean how Twitter admitted under oath to suppressing #DNCLeak during the election campaign?
That was simply suppression of news that made Democrats look horrible, not misinformation.
The two come together as long as there are no expensive filtering systems after that pipe of the nastiest type of diesel burning ship engines, for example. Natural gas powered vehicles are in the minority still.
There's still a difference though, and it matters. In fact, (automotive) diesel engines are pretty much the poster child for the kind of agenda that maximizes mileage and minimizes C02 emissions, at the cost of greatly increased toxic emissions/particulates (i.e. actual "air pollution" analogous to tobacco), resulting in much worse impacts on human health.
But the alarmists just get a free pass on that, I suppose . . . anything else might interfere with their next great policy idea.
The tobacco analogy would make sense for toxic particulates like smog, etc. But from reading the preview it seems they're trying to smuggle in C02 and global warming, if not do an outright bait and switch.
The 6 had a headphone jack, and the 6T doesn't. That's worth mentioning in TFS (if not the headline).
Why was this modded redundant?
Hell if I know. The missing feature was given proper attention (ableit with an attempted postive spin) when it was announced.
The OnePlus 6T will largely offer the same specs as its predecessor -- the OnePlus 6, which was launched earlier this year. Some of the key changes include a smaller notch on the front display and a built-in fingerprint scanner that is embedded in it.
The 6 had a headphone jack, and the 6T doesn't. That's worth mentioning in TFS (if not the headline).
Obsession with skin color is a red flag, and probably means they're willing to sacrifice quality to satisfy it. It's very likely that nothing of value was lost here.
Democrats do spread the "Punch a Nazi" meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Many of them are also tepid in their condemnation (or outright supportive) of Antifa terrorism and harrassment.
Leftist professors openly call for violence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You look silly pretending there aren't Democrats who support this kind of thing.