I was ready to install last night. Officially, it was April 28, and not only was it not available for download - they didn't give the hour.
I'm done complaining now. I use OS X as my main OS, Windows 7 as my secondary, but I'm excited to see Unity. It's about time they start innovating past Windows/Mac instead of mostly cloning.
I just want big blocky square pixels. I don't want it blended or blurred. That's just never as clear or as nice looking as the pixel-perfect graphics being drawn at the lower resolution. But that won't get rid of the color noise. Still need digital.
My TV may not have the best analog to digital conversion circuit to drive the screen and maybe others filter the noise better. But I'd rather buy a new Wii than a new TV.
I have them. Got some great quality ones shipped for under $10 on Monoprice, and I've recommended them to everyone just to make the Wii tolerable on a flat screen. I'm just a little more a perfectionist than that. You still get dot crawl and muddy colors with component.
That's aside from the fact that my A/V receiver is HDMI-based and I would love to have everything hooked up to the same place.
If it plays all the old Wii games and outputs in 480p over HDMI, I'll still buy. Low-res graphics are tolerable to me, but a fuzzy picture and unsaturated colors are pretty obnoxious. I just want my 480p to be clearer and more vibrant.
This isn't what Google was fined for doing. Google recorded wireless packets for analysis, and unwittingly grabbed tons of data that was being transmitted unencrypted over those unprotected wireless networks.
Actually, I'm not sure that the file is in an area that's unprotected on the iphone itself. The app linked to is a Mac OS X app that analyzes your computer's backup of that same file.
I'm no gamer, but aren't most using monitors that refresh at 60Hz except for 3D monitors? Or has there been a shift to 120Hz screens and GPU's powerful enough for maintaining vsync at that rate?
With vsync off a game might report far more than 60fps, but the screen doesn't reflect that.
I'm inclined to agree with all the negative - anything above 30fps is sort of an "uncanny valley" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley) for motion. Your brain interpolates just fine with the lower framerate. Above that looks unnatural because the frame rate isn't HIGH enough.
I personally think that 120Hz TV's (yes, with interpolation - not native frame rate source) look pretty bad. However, I can imagine a much higher framerate not causing this same effect.
This is about roaming agreements between the carriers, not with their customers. The carriers charge an arm and leg for access to their network to outside carriers. Other carriers charge the same arm and leg amounts. If they're both big enough carriers, the charges equal out and your cell phone company can offer you "free" roaming. The little carriers have few towers to offer, so they simply have to pay obscene amounts to access the other cell networks. I believe that's where this FCC regulation is to kick in.
My guess is that AT&T will keep T-Mobile as a "competitor." That way they can have two parts of the market. Just like Tracfone and NET10. They're both owned by Tracfone - and have entirely different charge schemes.
Have you not ever created a Google account without creating a Gmail account? They've allowed this for YEARS. You can create a Google Account with any email address. Even Google Voice and Google Talk work without Gmail, despite all their integration features.
I thought they already had an experimental feature like that - each result has an X on it and you can click that X to keep it from ever showing up in your own search results again. Pretty harsh, yes - that will probably be aggregated against the +1's at some point.
I don't remember exactly how, but I'm pretty sure that Google knows my Twitter handle and who I'm friends with on Facebook. They collect a lot of data. Remember, at worst this is crowdsourced info like Wikipedia, except with only algorithms - not editors - to filter out the bad posts. People in your social circle are weighted higher. If you use gmail, then they have all your contacts and know if any of those are google accounts. I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out, but I can still see the possibility of paid clicks much like paid Twitter "get me 1,000 followers" services.
Don't forget that Google also knows your social circle if you've given them enough info. They'll certainly weight +1 by your friends and the people you follow on Twitter at a higher level than evil +1's. I was about to say that this is more a crowd-sourcing feature than a social feature, but this is really the thing that makes it more a social thing.
I wish it were that easy these days. You try maintaining an email server to send out marketing messages when you don't have SPF, Domainkeys, or SenderScore certification. Even sending out undeliverable email notices will get you put on an IP block list before you knew what happened. I could go on, but none of these things involve spammy keywords being in the message at all.
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I was ready to install last night. Officially, it was April 28, and not only was it not available for download - they didn't give the hour.
I'm done complaining now. I use OS X as my main OS, Windows 7 as my secondary, but I'm excited to see Unity. It's about time they start innovating past Windows/Mac instead of mostly cloning.
Nevermind - bad context.
to get around deep packet inspection?
When one is free and one is paid? That certainly makes uptime LESS of a factor, though I suppose doesn't eliminate it.
I just want big blocky square pixels. I don't want it blended or blurred. That's just never as clear or as nice looking as the pixel-perfect graphics being drawn at the lower resolution. But that won't get rid of the color noise. Still need digital.
My TV may not have the best analog to digital conversion circuit to drive the screen and maybe others filter the noise better. But I'd rather buy a new Wii than a new TV.
I have them. Got some great quality ones shipped for under $10 on Monoprice, and I've recommended them to everyone just to make the Wii tolerable on a flat screen. I'm just a little more a perfectionist than that. You still get dot crawl and muddy colors with component.
That's aside from the fact that my A/V receiver is HDMI-based and I would love to have everything hooked up to the same place.
If it plays all the old Wii games and outputs in 480p over HDMI, I'll still buy. Low-res graphics are tolerable to me, but a fuzzy picture and unsaturated colors are pretty obnoxious. I just want my 480p to be clearer and more vibrant.
This isn't what Google was fined for doing. Google recorded wireless packets for analysis, and unwittingly grabbed tons of data that was being transmitted unencrypted over those unprotected wireless networks.
Well...Apple doesn't seem to be recording the actual transmitted packets of those wireless hotspots, so they're off to a better start already.
Actually, I'm not sure that the file is in an area that's unprotected on the iphone itself. The app linked to is a Mac OS X app that analyzes your computer's backup of that same file.
I'm no gamer, but aren't most using monitors that refresh at 60Hz except for 3D monitors? Or has there been a shift to 120Hz screens and GPU's powerful enough for maintaining vsync at that rate?
With vsync off a game might report far more than 60fps, but the screen doesn't reflect that.
I'm inclined to agree with all the negative - anything above 30fps is sort of an "uncanny valley" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley) for motion. Your brain interpolates just fine with the lower framerate. Above that looks unnatural because the frame rate isn't HIGH enough.
I personally think that 120Hz TV's (yes, with interpolation - not native frame rate source) look pretty bad. However, I can imagine a much higher framerate not causing this same effect.
If you wanted a good heat-generating reactor, you should have picked Pentium 4 or PowerPC G5.
This is about roaming agreements between the carriers, not with their customers. The carriers charge an arm and leg for access to their network to outside carriers. Other carriers charge the same arm and leg amounts. If they're both big enough carriers, the charges equal out and your cell phone company can offer you "free" roaming. The little carriers have few towers to offer, so they simply have to pay obscene amounts to access the other cell networks. I believe that's where this FCC regulation is to kick in.
My guess is that AT&T will keep T-Mobile as a "competitor." That way they can have two parts of the market. Just like Tracfone and NET10. They're both owned by Tracfone - and have entirely different charge schemes.
And this is exactly the reason the others aren't of consequence...
Have you not ever created a Google account without creating a Gmail account? They've allowed this for YEARS. You can create a Google Account with any email address. Even Google Voice and Google Talk work without Gmail, despite all their integration features.
I thought they already had an experimental feature like that - each result has an X on it and you can click that X to keep it from ever showing up in your own search results again. Pretty harsh, yes - that will probably be aggregated against the +1's at some point.
I don't remember exactly how, but I'm pretty sure that Google knows my Twitter handle and who I'm friends with on Facebook. They collect a lot of data. Remember, at worst this is crowdsourced info like Wikipedia, except with only algorithms - not editors - to filter out the bad posts. People in your social circle are weighted higher. If you use gmail, then they have all your contacts and know if any of those are google accounts. I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out, but I can still see the possibility of paid clicks much like paid Twitter "get me 1,000 followers" services.
You have to be logged in to +1 something.
Don't forget that Google also knows your social circle if you've given them enough info. They'll certainly weight +1 by your friends and the people you follow on Twitter at a higher level than evil +1's. I was about to say that this is more a crowd-sourcing feature than a social feature, but this is really the thing that makes it more a social thing.
Possibly, but I don't think China much cares what an American president has forbidden.
Even sending out undeliverable email notices
I meant to say "even if your server is configured to send out undeliverable email notices when emails are received for invalid addresses."
I wish it were that easy these days. You try maintaining an email server to send out marketing messages when you don't have SPF, Domainkeys, or SenderScore certification. Even sending out undeliverable email notices will get you put on an IP block list before you knew what happened. I could go on, but none of these things involve spammy keywords being in the message at all.