Its really funny watching MS repeat the same EXACT UI mistakes with every version of Xbox. They release an overly complicated interface that nobody likes, change it a lot, it gets bloated, and then they end up re-doing the whole thing from the ground up to be faster. Every time.
What?! Whoever wrote this (timothy) doesn't understand technology.
Counting unique MAC addresses means nothing.
It is literally just the same as watching the airport cameras and counting the passengers as they move through security.
Do you really honestly think there are no cameras at airports? Are you that clueless?
Your ignorance is a bit unsettling. Put away the tin foil.
We're not anywhere near that yet. We won't be able to teleport matter for a very long time / or ever. Breaking an object into information and then re-creating it would obviously destroy it.
The two maintain the same state but you cannot WHATSOEVER control that state, so all you have and all you can trasmit is ENTIRELY RANDOM DATA. The only value in transmitting random data instantly is that you can use it for security purposes in computer authentication schemes. That is all. You will NEVER be able to transmit classical information FTL (through this method anyways).
Then you're massively out of touch with PC gaming. Almost every game out there uses DirectX and your DirectX performance is your gaming performance.
Now, some use openGL, but most definitely use DirectX.
Agreed. They're going to pull a Dx10 - Vista. Windows 8 was a COLOSSAL failure, so just like Vista, now they have to force the market to give them money.
So Windows 9 is going to have Dx12 baked in, and it'll be called "GraphicsNew" instead of "DirectX" so we can't say "Hey, why teh fuck won't you release Dx12 for Windows7?" like we did with XP and Dx9/10. "Oh, sorry, but GraphicsNew is too fancy for poor Windows7, its completely different from DirectX!"
I don't know. The whole thing is just bizarre. Maybe it is a marketing stunt?
The release was very, very oddly handled. They only mentioned it on April 1st, April Fool's Day, so it looked 100% like an April Fool's Joke.
Then, we don't really hear anything from Ubisoft, but some gaming press announces they heard some press release that its legit and its coming out in May. We don't know how much it'll cost.
What is that? What games these days aren't marketed to hell?
Then its leaked by accident... yeah maybe this is some weird viral marketing scheme?
Its not a new game really, its a standalone expansion pack for Far Cry 3. You don't need Far Cry 3 to play it, but it builds entirely on it and is pretty much the exact same game. So it makes sense that they could crank this out pretty fast and not have too many bugs.
Blood Dragon is just FarCry3 but in the future, with 80s chrome/neon everywhere. Which is fucking awesome.
No, its more like your GPS says 5 minutes, then an hour, then 5 minutes, then an hour, when you know both can't be right. Telling me 22 and taking 35 is pretty fair, especially if it revises its time to get closer to 35 as you go.
There's no reason why it shouldn't attempt to do a quick inventory of all the processes necessary, the size of all files involved, and compare that to the general rate of copy/delete/whatever. Its the same thing your gps does, its averages your speed and calculates time, based on the total distance.
Many current status bars (windows) just use the current file, and so if that one file is really big, it assumes they're all big, or if that one file is really small, it assumes they're all small, which gives it wildly off values. Other OS (OSX) do a full inventory of all files to be copied / installed first, so that the progress bar is far more accurate and doesn't spastically jump back and forth.
But you could go even further, do like the GPS does, and keep a database of users and their past progress and times. They could record user install times based on the hardware, MS could just collect your DxDiag file and the time taken to install, and then when you go to install it just finds the nearest hardware profile and guesses that you're going to take about as long. Boom.
You can try to profile it, but the actual time is determined by the local hardware after all: Processor speed, number of cores (which affects only some operations), network speed, free memory - there's no way to predict how much of the time will be spend on each task.
But all of the hardware information is available to the OS. They should be able to track generic profiles of different hardware specs and the times it took them to complete, and then they could pick a similar result to your hardware directx config or whatever, and tell you its going to take about that long. Not hard or complicated at all. Hm.
If I participate in a crime, I see someone else do it, and then the cops catch me, DUH the cops can get me to rat on my friends and testify against them. You think because I saw them committing a crime while I was committing a crime, that my testimony doesn't count as evidence in court?
Ugh, public education, ladies and gentlemen.
The fruit of the poisoned tree rule only applies to cops, to prevent cops from abusing their authority. Citizens have absolutely NO such restriction. I can break into your house, find a video of you stealing something, and then mail it to the cops anonymously. The cops receive it anonymously, they haven't broken any laws, so it works just fine as evidence and you're arrested.
Its actually a pretty big loophole that a lawyer could knowingly take some evidence obtained illegally and mail it to the cops anonymously, thus "laundering" the evidence, but its not a common situation.
I am indeed using windows 7 and am fine with it. And 8 is fine on a tablet. I just feel like the review did have several good criticisms of Windows 8 as a desktop OS, it really is quite frustrating to use as a complete workstation replacement versus what we've been used to. It interrupts productivity in the office. Again, as a home tablet OS, its fine. Have you tried it with Dual Montiors? Blagh. Definitely not for workstations.
"Well, there you go! We all knew this OS was an absolutely terrible OS for desktops, but hey guys it works for tablets sorta so its not that bad"
I'm lost.
"We all knew there were usability issues on the desktop" sounds like conceding "This is a shitty operating system", or at least "This is a tablet only OS".
Because Windows is so ubiquitous, Linux has had to copy Windows UI design for awhile now to make it accessible. Anything that isn't Windows style is unintuitive since we've learned that, even if it would originally be more intuitive.
While Im not an advocate of Windows 8, miss information makes me mad too. In the article it said "Some functions, such as ‘start an application’ or ‘restart the computer’ are available only from the tablet interface". I took this to mean the Metro tiles, which if that's what he meant, he is completely wrong. The command prompt is still there. The standard desktop is still there. "Old style" shortcuts still exist. Of course, he complained about that too.
WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
The old desktop IS still there. HOWEVER, many of the things which used to be on the desktop ARE NO LONGER.
MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO METRO AND CAN NO LONGER BE ACCESSED OUTSIDE METRO, INCLUDING SYSTEM FUCKING PROPERTIES AND RESTART THE COMPUTER.
The review is absolutely correct, and you're completely misinformed. Just because you have a command prompt doesn't mean that everything else from your desktop still works or is still there.
I have to switch from metro to desktop to use half my apps, but I have to switch from desktop to metro to use system properties? Worst design ever.
You don't seem to understand his complaints. Its not that shorcuts work. Its that metro shortcuts kick you to the desktop, and the desktop kicks you to metro. Why can't you just use one? Why can't everything be done in both? Its a clusterfuck.
You're not looking at the center of the person, if you were doing that, the head wouldn't make sense. You'd stare at their chest. The point is not to look at a being's physical form necessarily, but rather to look them in the eyes, that is, to look at where they're looking from. You see them seeing you, they see you seeing them. Do you look a blind person in the eyes when you're talking to them? They won't look you in the eyes back, likely. Its about perspective, not about form.
The bug doesn't infect you just because you played with somebody who had the bug. They have to be hosting the game, I'm almost positive. Then for you to share it with somebody else, you'd have to host the game, etc. If you don't know you have the bug, then I could see this happening.
Still, they don't even mention if the bug is "saved". I don't think it is, there's lots of local server variables you can modify on the PC by editing RAM address values (like with Cheat Engine) and you can modify all kinds of things like making the game temporarily harder and increasing the drop rate. These values are not saved to the character. That said, badass *could* be something that is saved, but the article isn't clear. Has anybody tested? I think we're jumping the gun here, assuming the worst.
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32 bit instructions should run natively on 64 bit, so the real issue here was PowerPC emulation not bits.
MS is the absolute worst at UI / UX design. They don't understand their customers at all.
Its really funny watching MS repeat the same EXACT UI mistakes with every version of Xbox. They release an overly complicated interface that nobody likes, change it a lot, it gets bloated, and then they end up re-doing the whole thing from the ground up to be faster. Every time.
Yeah its going to cost a bloody fortune and thus not sell very well at all. MS really really doesn't understand their customers.
Agreed. "Researchers have never fully understood why the algorithms or biological learning work." That's extremely misleading.
What?! Whoever wrote this (timothy) doesn't understand technology.
Counting unique MAC addresses means nothing.
It is literally just the same as watching the airport cameras and counting the passengers as they move through security.
Do you really honestly think there are no cameras at airports? Are you that clueless?
Your ignorance is a bit unsettling. Put away the tin foil.
Its literally no different than somebody watching the airport cameras and counting how many people go through security each hour. Who cares?
Soul? This is a joke right?
We're not anywhere near that yet. We won't be able to teleport matter for a very long time / or ever. Breaking an object into information and then re-creating it would obviously destroy it.
The two maintain the same state but you cannot WHATSOEVER control that state, so all you have and all you can trasmit is ENTIRELY RANDOM DATA. The only value in transmitting random data instantly is that you can use it for security purposes in computer authentication schemes. That is all. You will NEVER be able to transmit classical information FTL (through this method anyways).
There already exists a word for "no more complex than required", and that term is ELEGANT.
Its been around since the beginning of programming. Get with the program. This is a non-story.
Then you're massively out of touch with PC gaming. Almost every game out there uses DirectX and your DirectX performance is your gaming performance. Now, some use openGL, but most definitely use DirectX.
Agreed. They're going to pull a Dx10 - Vista. Windows 8 was a COLOSSAL failure, so just like Vista, now they have to force the market to give them money.
So Windows 9 is going to have Dx12 baked in, and it'll be called "GraphicsNew" instead of "DirectX" so we can't say "Hey, why teh fuck won't you release Dx12 for Windows7?" like we did with XP and Dx9/10. "Oh, sorry, but GraphicsNew is too fancy for poor Windows7, its completely different from DirectX!"
Yeah fucking right.
I don't know. The whole thing is just bizarre. Maybe it is a marketing stunt?
The release was very, very oddly handled. They only mentioned it on April 1st, April Fool's Day, so it looked 100% like an April Fool's Joke.
Then, we don't really hear anything from Ubisoft, but some gaming press announces they heard some press release that its legit and its coming out in May. We don't know how much it'll cost.
What is that? What games these days aren't marketed to hell?
Then its leaked by accident... yeah maybe this is some weird viral marketing scheme?
Its not a new game really, its a standalone expansion pack for Far Cry 3. You don't need Far Cry 3 to play it, but it builds entirely on it and is pretty much the exact same game. So it makes sense that they could crank this out pretty fast and not have too many bugs.
Blood Dragon is just FarCry3 but in the future, with 80s chrome/neon everywhere. Which is fucking awesome.
No, its more like your GPS says 5 minutes, then an hour, then 5 minutes, then an hour, when you know both can't be right. Telling me 22 and taking 35 is pretty fair, especially if it revises its time to get closer to 35 as you go.
There's no reason why it shouldn't attempt to do a quick inventory of all the processes necessary, the size of all files involved, and compare that to the general rate of copy/delete/whatever. Its the same thing your gps does, its averages your speed and calculates time, based on the total distance.
Many current status bars (windows) just use the current file, and so if that one file is really big, it assumes they're all big, or if that one file is really small, it assumes they're all small, which gives it wildly off values. Other OS (OSX) do a full inventory of all files to be copied / installed first, so that the progress bar is far more accurate and doesn't spastically jump back and forth.
But you could go even further, do like the GPS does, and keep a database of users and their past progress and times. They could record user install times based on the hardware, MS could just collect your DxDiag file and the time taken to install, and then when you go to install it just finds the nearest hardware profile and guesses that you're going to take about as long. Boom.
You can try to profile it, but the actual time is determined by the local hardware after all: Processor speed, number of cores (which affects only some operations), network speed, free memory - there's no way to predict how much of the time will be spend on each task.
But all of the hardware information is available to the OS. They should be able to track generic profiles of different hardware specs and the times it took them to complete, and then they could pick a similar result to your hardware directx config or whatever, and tell you its going to take about that long. Not hard or complicated at all. Hm.
Enemy isn't math. Its brute force / overwhelming numbers. Dumb article name is dumb.
You're hilariously naive about law.
ONLY COPS ARE RESTRICTED IN THAT WAY.
If I participate in a crime, I see someone else do it, and then the cops catch me, DUH the cops can get me to rat on my friends and testify against them. You think because I saw them committing a crime while I was committing a crime, that my testimony doesn't count as evidence in court?
Ugh, public education, ladies and gentlemen.
The fruit of the poisoned tree rule only applies to cops, to prevent cops from abusing their authority. Citizens have absolutely NO such restriction. I can break into your house, find a video of you stealing something, and then mail it to the cops anonymously. The cops receive it anonymously, they haven't broken any laws, so it works just fine as evidence and you're arrested.
Its actually a pretty big loophole that a lawyer could knowingly take some evidence obtained illegally and mail it to the cops anonymously, thus "laundering" the evidence, but its not a common situation.
I am indeed using windows 7 and am fine with it. And 8 is fine on a tablet. I just feel like the review did have several good criticisms of Windows 8 as a desktop OS, it really is quite frustrating to use as a complete workstation replacement versus what we've been used to. It interrupts productivity in the office. Again, as a home tablet OS, its fine. Have you tried it with Dual Montiors? Blagh. Definitely not for workstations.
"Well, there you go! We all knew this OS was an absolutely terrible OS for desktops, but hey guys it works for tablets sorta so its not that bad"
I'm lost.
"We all knew there were usability issues on the desktop" sounds like conceding "This is a shitty operating system", or at least "This is a tablet only OS".
Click on the start button. Click Shut Down.
Because Windows is so ubiquitous, Linux has had to copy Windows UI design for awhile now to make it accessible. Anything that isn't Windows style is unintuitive since we've learned that, even if it would originally be more intuitive.
Have you seen Ubuntu lately?
While Im not an advocate of Windows 8, miss information makes me mad too. In the article it said "Some functions, such as ‘start an application’ or ‘restart the computer’ are available only from the tablet interface". I took this to mean the Metro tiles, which if that's what he meant, he is completely wrong. The command prompt is still there. The standard desktop is still there. "Old style" shortcuts still exist. Of course, he complained about that too.
WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
The old desktop IS still there. HOWEVER, many of the things which used to be on the desktop ARE NO LONGER.
MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO METRO AND CAN NO LONGER BE ACCESSED OUTSIDE METRO, INCLUDING SYSTEM FUCKING PROPERTIES AND RESTART THE COMPUTER.
The review is absolutely correct, and you're completely misinformed. Just because you have a command prompt doesn't mean that everything else from your desktop still works or is still there.
I have to switch from metro to desktop to use half my apps, but I have to switch from desktop to metro to use system properties? Worst design ever.
You don't seem to understand his complaints. Its not that shorcuts work. Its that metro shortcuts kick you to the desktop, and the desktop kicks you to metro. Why can't you just use one? Why can't everything be done in both? Its a clusterfuck.
You're not looking at the center of the person, if you were doing that, the head wouldn't make sense. You'd stare at their chest. The point is not to look at a being's physical form necessarily, but rather to look them in the eyes, that is, to look at where they're looking from. You see them seeing you, they see you seeing them. Do you look a blind person in the eyes when you're talking to them? They won't look you in the eyes back, likely. Its about perspective, not about form.
The bug doesn't infect you just because you played with somebody who had the bug. They have to be hosting the game, I'm almost positive. Then for you to share it with somebody else, you'd have to host the game, etc. If you don't know you have the bug, then I could see this happening.
Still, they don't even mention if the bug is "saved". I don't think it is, there's lots of local server variables you can modify on the PC by editing RAM address values (like with Cheat Engine) and you can modify all kinds of things like making the game temporarily harder and increasing the drop rate. These values are not saved to the character. That said, badass *could* be something that is saved, but the article isn't clear. Has anybody tested? I think we're jumping the gun here, assuming the worst.