I'm not certain I agree, idle cycles may not be as prominent as they once were, but procs don't slow to 0 when they're idle, they just ramp down a ways. My proce drops to (IIRC) 1.8Ghz at "idle" but I can assure you that my computer isn't using 4 1.8Ghz cores at idle.
30 years ago it could be a year or more before a movie came out on VHS, these days it seems the DVD is out before the movie is out of theaters. That makes a huge difference.
I'm fine with a 2.5 hour movie, as long as it has 2.5 hours of content. I recently watched Ikiru which fell just short of 2.5 hours and it was problematic not because it was too long, but because the middle portion lacked content, leading to about a half hour of boredom.
It looks like they're reversing it though so now it'll be the even-numbered ones that suck. I'm too lazy to check myself, if we add in the entire set of movies is the new one an even or odd movie?
The reaction of the media, and hence the public, is like an auto-immune reaction or allergy reaction. Some harmless pollen grains are
detected in the bronchia and the body responds as though it is being invaded by the Ebola virus. So even after we deny the ability of
terrorists to fly fully fueled planes into buildings, the media reaction for an attempted terrorist attack, no matter how successful, no
matter how far fetched, would ensure the terrorists get their oxygen: publicity.
What we really need to prevent terrorist attacks is large doses of anti-histamine. Just ignore the terrorists, their attempts, their successes, their failures. Only when develop the collective ability to deny them publicity we will win the war on terrorism.
Similar thing with the school shooting IMO, I expect that if we stopped having a media circus after each one and turning the shitbags into celebrities we'd see a marked decrease. Instead we just keep making bigger deals and probably inspiring more people to go out in a blaze of "glory".
Indeed. The extremely thin skin that people have developed over the past few decades is very frustrating, as is the reliance on a media ecosystem dedicated to sensationalizing to make money.
Ah, I remember the KS campaign, everyone was hyping it like crazy, saying it would be a major challenger to MS and Sony, I looked at it and said "This sounds like a failure waiting to happen." Hopefully it'll work out for you in the end.
On the one hand you have a point, on the other hand I expect that outside the kind of geeks that can easily set up and use an HTPC if they want the Ouya is, and will remain, unknown anyway. Meanwhile Steam's Big Picture Mode will likely inspire more companies to design split-screen into their PC games.
There's no indication that was because of the Ouya. More likely it's because they're trying to find ways to undercut each other without ruining their revenue streams.
Not really. A ton of the people I've seen talk about the Ouya are getting it for XBMC or to hack away it, playing games is an afterthought. People who want to play games already have computers, cell phones and other consoles.
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I'm not certain I agree, idle cycles may not be as prominent as they once were, but procs don't slow to 0 when they're idle, they just ramp down a ways. My proce drops to (IIRC) 1.8Ghz at "idle" but I can assure you that my computer isn't using 4 1.8Ghz cores at idle.
It's a checkbox on advertisements. It's not that they need it, it's that it can be advertised as an advantage.
Also: Photoshop.
The problem is that SOPA/PIPA, while more stringent than most of the world, are the way most of the world are moving, albeit slowly.
By modern aircraft standards it's pretty short. This isn't the 30's when you might put out three iterations of a design within a year.
Streaming and home theaters. No need to drive to a theater, pay tons of money and deal with *shudder* PEOPLE. Far superior and cheaper.
He's a Western hero, not a superhero.
30 years ago it could be a year or more before a movie came out on VHS, these days it seems the DVD is out before the movie is out of theaters. That makes a huge difference.
DVD sales and rentals have cratered in the last 10 years. Netflix has killed them.
$200 million on a movie that 30 years ago would have cost about 5, THAT'S were the problems with Hollywood are.
There's plenty of evidence that you can make awesome movies without $100+ million budgets. The Hollywood elite just needs to figure that out.
The superhero movies are mostly making money actually.
I'm fine with a 2.5 hour movie, as long as it has 2.5 hours of content. I recently watched Ikiru which fell just short of 2.5 hours and it was problematic not because it was too long, but because the middle portion lacked content, leading to about a half hour of boredom.
It looks like they're reversing it though so now it'll be the even-numbered ones that suck. I'm too lazy to check myself, if we add in the entire set of movies is the new one an even or odd movie?
I have no idea. I much prefer watching at home and I don't even have a great setup. It costs so much and you get so little extra.
The reaction of the media, and hence the public, is like an auto-immune reaction or allergy reaction. Some harmless pollen grains are detected in the bronchia and the body responds as though it is being invaded by the Ebola virus. So even after we deny the ability of terrorists to fly fully fueled planes into buildings, the media reaction for an attempted terrorist attack, no matter how successful, no matter how far fetched, would ensure the terrorists get their oxygen: publicity.
What we really need to prevent terrorist attacks is large doses of anti-histamine. Just ignore the terrorists, their attempts, their successes, their failures. Only when develop the collective ability to deny them publicity we will win the war on terrorism.
Similar thing with the school shooting IMO, I expect that if we stopped having a media circus after each one and turning the shitbags into celebrities we'd see a marked decrease. Instead we just keep making bigger deals and probably inspiring more people to go out in a blaze of "glory".
Indeed. The extremely thin skin that people have developed over the past few decades is very frustrating, as is the reliance on a media ecosystem dedicated to sensationalizing to make money.
Both parties are guilty, this isn't a left-right thing.
Improved multi-monitor support
Improved Task Manager
Improved thread scheduling
Lower resource usage
That's off the top of my head.
Did you check your spam folder?
You're missing probably the biggest group, people who bought it as a XBMC device.
Ah, I remember the KS campaign, everyone was hyping it like crazy, saying it would be a major challenger to MS and Sony, I looked at it and said "This sounds like a failure waiting to happen." Hopefully it'll work out for you in the end.
On the one hand you have a point, on the other hand I expect that outside the kind of geeks that can easily set up and use an HTPC if they want the Ouya is, and will remain, unknown anyway. Meanwhile Steam's Big Picture Mode will likely inspire more companies to design split-screen into their PC games.
There's no indication that was because of the Ouya. More likely it's because they're trying to find ways to undercut each other without ruining their revenue streams.
Which is basically what I expected and why I never put any stock in it.
Not really. A ton of the people I've seen talk about the Ouya are getting it for XBMC or to hack away it, playing games is an afterthought. People who want to play games already have computers, cell phones and other consoles.