The Vita does not suck... Too badly (though its anemic selection of games seems to indicate that lots of developers share this sentiment). Streaming to the Vita from the PS4 works reasonably well. The problem is that there is no L2 or R2 button on the Vita, and they're emulated by swiping the back touchpad on one side or the other, depending on what button you want. It's clunky and doesn't really work. But video quality is good, and latency is workable.
That being said... In college, I learned how to survive on little sleep. I kept doing this all through my 20s and 30s. Now I've gotten to the point where it's physically draining, but going wthout sleep is mostly a matter of willpower and caffeine. I start hallucinating after about 24 hours without sleep, but this can be solved by taking small 5-10 minute naps from time to time. I found out the hard way that eventually you burn out from going without sleep for long periods of time, but it doesnt' require special genes.
These days, I just do a better job of setting expectations and agreeing to longer project schedules so I can get the job done without killing myself.
I also need 7-8 hours of sleep a night. I've tried getting by on less, and I can do it for a few days, but I eventually need to repay that sleep debt. Caffeine does nothing for me, so fighting tiredness that way is a non-starter.
It's not just Brother, just about every printer manufacturer will send you packing materials and / or a shipping label, all for free. Brother laserjet cartridges get a few points by frequently having the return label already in the box with the new one, so you just put the old one in the box, slap the label on it, and drop it in the mail.
It's not just a pipe dream, the Xbox One already works with most cable boxes and just recently got support for an OTA tuner. DVR capability is said to be coming this year. Plex works reasonably well with the Xbone and the PS4 (I haven't tried either one, but some friends have), but it wants a subscription (natch). The consoles also have video apps, web browsers, and the whole ball of wax. Microsoft is really pushing hard to make the Xbone the center of your entertainment 'experience'.
How on earth do you figure this is a "blow" in the console war? Are you suggest that Microsoft was somehow behind this? Or is everything that gets reported on and is related to Playstation\Xbox now some sort of insidious plot to discredit one or the other console?
In reality it sounds like pure incompetence at Sony (and the same in the story you link about Microsoft) and I think when many people are affected by this sort of thing it's fair enough that it's covered on tech sites. It doesn't have to be part of some 'console war' that you parenthesize with apparent disdain while at the same time perpetuating the idea.
Or, it could have been that I was making a terrible joke.
Many of the games that come out now have really amazing visuals/graphics/etc, but they all lack something the old classics had. What that something is, I'm not sure. I miss Sierra games with things like Police Quest, Kings Quest, The Island of Dr. Brain. Then you had other games like Hugo: House of horrors and Hugo 2: Who done it? Dune and Dune 2. Their graphics where horrid, but those games were a blast to play. I don't know why, but those older games just seem to have more character and spirit then the games that come out now. Don't get me wrong, there are good games that come out every year, but it seems like a majority of the games coming out now are just the same things rehashed over and over with better graphics and slight variations in the story line. It's almost like the gaming industry has homogenized somewhat. Want to make a FPS, just remake Halo or CoD. Want to make an open world game, just remake GTA,. What to make an RPG, remake Final Fantasy, Kings Quest or Elder Scrolls. Again, don't misunderstand, there are games that come out that do not follow this form such as Dear Esther or Portals and are awesome. I am simply talking the gaming industry as a whole, it way different then what it used to be. The indie game scene, however, seems to be pumping out some pretty awesome stuff these days.
A lot of modern games (especially the so-called 'AAA' games) are missing a soul. They're paint-by-numbers rehashes of what's worked before (shameless plug).
Why would you want to read part of a lengthy discussion, maybe even participate, and then come back to the discussion a few minutes or hours later and easily be able to check new comments or even replies to your comments? That's crazy talk.
No, no. When you get to a busy discussion, clicking "Load more comments" and praying that it loaded the comment you replied to, or your own comments. That feels right. Slashdot should feel like work, since we're all browsing it from work anyway.
Meta moderation - you'll get there one day if you're a good little "dotter" and keep your karma up =).
I guess you haven't Meta Moderated in a while. That's not really how it works any more, it seems, and hasn't for some time. Instead of deciding whether a moderation is fair or unfair, you decide on whether a comment is good or bad.
"Top notch" might be overstating it a bit, there are still a few instances where they seem to be lacking. For instance, Windows users who have SLI and multiple monitors have been able to enable SLI and use both of their monitors at the same time since about 2008. But under Linux, no dice.
So if I had two monitors (which I do), and two Nvidia GPUs in SLI mode (which I do), and I wanted to run some 3D app that took advantage of SLI, I would have to: reconfigure X to disable my second monitor and enable SLI, restart X, play the game/use the app I wanted, when I was done I would have to reconfigure X again to enable my second monitor and disable SLI, restart X again, and reopen all my apps. Hardly ideal.
This gets brought up all the time, and I'm not sure I understand it. Why would you pay for a thing that will still expose you to ads? Like any number of websites on the internet? What about radios? Magazines? Newspapers? Or good ol' cable television? A lot of people are willing to put up with the ads on Hulu because it provides what they want: the ability to watch a lot of current shows on their own schedule. Heck, the free version provides limited access in exchange for you watching ads, which seems like a fair trade to me.
Sure, you could use a DVR to get roughly the same thing (watching things on your own schedule), but you still have to wait until they air, make sure the DVR recorded it, that it's not full, and if you want to catch up on something, you have to wait until the repeats are aired again. Or you could go to Hulu and dive through that show's archive. At your convenience. From almost any place in the US with a broadband connection to the Internet. All nice and legal. Even with commercials that's hugely convenient.
Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video are great options, too, since they don't show commercials. But they don't have complete overlap with each other, and aren't quite as current, and I might miss out on some first-run stuff like Game of Thrones until those boneheads get their licensing / DVD releases straightened out, but I can wait. Paying for all three is still cheaper and more convenient than all but the most basic traditional cable subscription in my neck of the woods, and I have access to enough stuff that I can find something to watch, when the urge strikes me, for the foreseeable future.
services like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon could do a better job of making sure you DO watch the advertisements..
Hulu started making their "hey, we can't show you a commercial, please turn off your ad-blocker" message longer than the commercial would have been in its place, so I acquiesced... I'm weak.
Through all the ownership changes, etc. over the 14 years I've read/., this is the first time I've had a real panic over the fate of the site.
If this is the first time you've had panic over the fate of the site, you haven't been paying attention. At the very least, the departure of the site's founder should have been a giant red flag. But, sadly, this is another milestone in the slow, steady decline of Slashdot.
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The Vita does not suck... Too badly (though its anemic selection of games seems to indicate that lots of developers share this sentiment). Streaming to the Vita from the PS4 works reasonably well. The problem is that there is no L2 or R2 button on the Vita, and they're emulated by swiping the back touchpad on one side or the other, depending on what button you want. It's clunky and doesn't really work. But video quality is good, and latency is workable.
I guess I should've taken that $2k offer my 3 digit UID when I chance. It's been a fun 18 years or so, but the future of /. doesn't seem to bright.
Wait, what? Is that for real, $2k? LOL. I didn't come across /. for a couple years after it got really going, hence never had an offer to sell my UID.
As for the future, I'm going to try and be optimistic.
I haven't had any offers for this UID either. I probably keep too low a profile.
I prefer 7-8 hours a night.
That being said... In college, I learned how to survive on little sleep. I kept doing this all through my 20s and 30s. Now I've gotten to the point where it's physically draining, but going wthout sleep is mostly a matter of willpower and caffeine. I start hallucinating after about 24 hours without sleep, but this can be solved by taking small 5-10 minute naps from time to time. I found out the hard way that eventually you burn out from going without sleep for long periods of time, but it doesnt' require special genes.
These days, I just do a better job of setting expectations and agreeing to longer project schedules so I can get the job done without killing myself.
I also need 7-8 hours of sleep a night. I've tried getting by on less, and I can do it for a few days, but I eventually need to repay that sleep debt. Caffeine does nothing for me, so fighting tiredness that way is a non-starter.
Damn, that's a nice program. Kudos to Brother.
It's not just Brother, just about every printer manufacturer will send you packing materials and / or a shipping label, all for free. Brother laserjet cartridges get a few points by frequently having the return label already in the box with the new one, so you just put the old one in the box, slap the label on it, and drop it in the mail.
Trapped inside the box, yes (well, probably, but that's been unrevealed thus far), but you can add 16TB of external storage via external USB drives.
It's not just a pipe dream, the Xbox One already works with most cable boxes and just recently got support for an OTA tuner. DVR capability is said to be coming this year. Plex works reasonably well with the Xbone and the PS4 (I haven't tried either one, but some friends have), but it wants a subscription (natch). The consoles also have video apps, web browsers, and the whole ball of wax. Microsoft is really pushing hard to make the Xbone the center of your entertainment 'experience'.
If they are trying to increase their presence on HTPCs in the living room it makes no sense.
Sure it does. They want you to buy an Xbox One instead.
How on earth do you figure this is a "blow" in the console war? Are you suggest that Microsoft was somehow behind this? Or is everything that gets reported on and is related to Playstation\Xbox now some sort of insidious plot to discredit one or the other console?
In reality it sounds like pure incompetence at Sony (and the same in the story you link about Microsoft) and I think when many people are affected by this sort of thing it's fair enough that it's covered on tech sites. It doesn't have to be part of some 'console war' that you parenthesize with apparent disdain while at the same time perpetuating the idea.
Or, it could have been that I was making a terrible joke.
Looks like Sony's playing catchup with Microsoft. Honestly, this is one of the lamest blows in the so-called 'console war' to date.
You don't?
So it has come to this, a six! digit uid is considered a low uid now?
Finally!
Many of the games that come out now have really amazing visuals/graphics/etc, but they all lack something the old classics had. What that something is, I'm not sure. I miss Sierra games with things like Police Quest, Kings Quest, The Island of Dr. Brain. Then you had other games like Hugo: House of horrors and Hugo 2: Who done it? Dune and Dune 2. Their graphics where horrid, but those games were a blast to play. I don't know why, but those older games just seem to have more character and spirit then the games that come out now. Don't get me wrong, there are good games that come out every year, but it seems like a majority of the games coming out now are just the same things rehashed over and over with better graphics and slight variations in the story line. It's almost like the gaming industry has homogenized somewhat. Want to make a FPS, just remake Halo or CoD. Want to make an open world game, just remake GTA,. What to make an RPG, remake Final Fantasy, Kings Quest or Elder Scrolls. Again, don't misunderstand, there are games that come out that do not follow this form such as Dear Esther or Portals and are awesome. I am simply talking the gaming industry as a whole, it way different then what it used to be. The indie game scene, however, seems to be pumping out some pretty awesome stuff these days.
A lot of modern games (especially the so-called 'AAA' games) are missing a soul. They're paint-by-numbers rehashes of what's worked before (shameless plug).
Scroll all the way to the top? Why not just use your keyboard's "Home" key?
Why would you want to read part of a lengthy discussion, maybe even participate, and then come back to the discussion a few minutes or hours later and easily be able to check new comments or even replies to your comments? That's crazy talk.
No, no. When you get to a busy discussion, clicking "Load more comments" and praying that it loaded the comment you replied to, or your own comments. That feels right. Slashdot should feel like work, since we're all browsing it from work anyway.
More than you would think, and that's frightening.
I've been using ALT + F4 to close Metro Apps. Seems to be working well so far.
LTE = Incoming Samsung Lawsuit.
Wow, I totally had that initialism wrong.
Meta moderation - you'll get there one day if you're a good little "dotter" and keep your karma up =) .
I guess you haven't Meta Moderated in a while. That's not really how it works any more, it seems, and hasn't for some time. Instead of deciding whether a moderation is fair or unfair, you decide on whether a comment is good or bad.
"Top notch" might be overstating it a bit, there are still a few instances where they seem to be lacking. For instance, Windows users who have SLI and multiple monitors have been able to enable SLI and use both of their monitors at the same time since about 2008. But under Linux, no dice.
So if I had two monitors (which I do), and two Nvidia GPUs in SLI mode (which I do), and I wanted to run some 3D app that took advantage of SLI, I would have to: reconfigure X to disable my second monitor and enable SLI, restart X, play the game/use the app I wanted, when I was done I would have to reconfigure X again to enable my second monitor and disable SLI, restart X again, and reopen all my apps. Hardly ideal.
You pay the same as netflix, but get ads anyway?
This gets brought up all the time, and I'm not sure I understand it. Why would you pay for a thing that will still expose you to ads? Like any number of websites on the internet? What about radios? Magazines? Newspapers? Or good ol' cable television? A lot of people are willing to put up with the ads on Hulu because it provides what they want: the ability to watch a lot of current shows on their own schedule. Heck, the free version provides limited access in exchange for you watching ads, which seems like a fair trade to me.
Sure, you could use a DVR to get roughly the same thing (watching things on your own schedule), but you still have to wait until they air, make sure the DVR recorded it, that it's not full, and if you want to catch up on something, you have to wait until the repeats are aired again. Or you could go to Hulu and dive through that show's archive. At your convenience. From almost any place in the US with a broadband connection to the Internet. All nice and legal. Even with commercials that's hugely convenient.
Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video are great options, too, since they don't show commercials. But they don't have complete overlap with each other, and aren't quite as current, and I might miss out on some first-run stuff like Game of Thrones until those boneheads get their licensing / DVD releases straightened out, but I can wait. Paying for all three is still cheaper and more convenient than all but the most basic traditional cable subscription in my neck of the woods, and I have access to enough stuff that I can find something to watch, when the urge strikes me, for the foreseeable future.
services like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon could do a better job of making sure you DO watch the advertisements..
Hulu started making their "hey, we can't show you a commercial, please turn off your ad-blocker" message longer than the commercial would have been in its place, so I acquiesced... I'm weak.
Through all the ownership changes, etc. over the 14 years I've read /., this is the first time I've had a real panic over the fate of the site.
If this is the first time you've had panic over the fate of the site, you haven't been paying attention. At the very least, the departure of the site's founder should have been a giant red flag. But, sadly, this is another milestone in the slow, steady decline of Slashdot.
I Honestly don't understand what NP refers to.
Nintendo Power.
Just to be slightly more pedantic, one thing would stop you: the SNES version of Turtles in Time was a 2 player game.