I think they did a movie about that "The Core" or something like that... I just remember it had an underground train with lots of nukes and huge diamonds, also it seemed to ignore pretty much everything I think I know about physics... lol
yeah out of like 3 laptops I have here, none of them have any sort of boot from USB option.... Damn it... lol. All of them are pre Core2Duo era so I guess I shouldn't be surprised? They can barely run Windows 7 but Linux runs nicely on them...
Then Wifi becomes the issue.... damned Broadcom BCM4311... I can get the wl driver working fine under 32 bit, but you need 64 bit for Chrome and Netflix (one of them wants to watch Netflix.... god damn it just buy a TV...) lol I think I can do it, it runs ok at SD res over ethernet so Wifi if I can get it working shouldn't be an issue? lol
How do I get snared into this crap... (I am not a Linux guru by any stretch of the imagination.)
Anyway back to random forums and trying to solve this... (Slitaz seems the fastest distro for me that might work.)
My post gives me an idea... Maybe some one knows if something like this already exists... Could a boot CD be made that has a list of Linux repo's that have all the different distro's (or even self updates said list) where it could just install what ever the latest distro is for all the most popular flavors?
I ask because I am currently working on a couple of laptops, and I just had to burn like 6 disks (3 CD's and 3 DVD's) I mean they will be good for a long time. But it seems to me like 1 disk with what I am talking about would be nice and less waste in dumps in the long run, with no need to update the disk as it's just a generic installer?
Every once in a while I run into an old laptop that will not boot from USB, so I am forced to burn a CD or DVD of Linux to get it into "working good enough to use" territory.
My car can play MP3 CD's so maybe 1 or 2 times a year I will fill up a CD with random music from my collection and listen to those when the mood strikes me.
I used to back up my movies for my kids and grand kids to DVD-R or +R so I could keep the originals in working order... but with the advent of streaming from Netflix and Hulu and Amazon and Youtube, I don't even bother with that anymore.
I probably have like 20-30 blank CD's left and probably about the same number of blank DVD's. Should last me a few years before I make the decision to retire optical media or keep it around for the really obscure time I want to burn a disk.
It's good to hear that someone somewhere doesn't have to deal with the banks doing the whole "Yes lets just do a charge back!" I have actually had a bank on the phone with the customer where the rep decided to coach the customer into doing a charge back... Really nasty because most of the time the bank is calling back a few months later... with a completely different attitude... so nice, at this point the only way they can get money back is if the company feels pity for them and just issues a refund out of the kindness of their hearts... LOL
I really feel no pity or love for any of the banks, customers are forced into using them here in the US with very few even decent alternatives. I have heard that credit unions are pretty good, but usually you have to be in some group to join one. (Military, Government, Teachers or something)
Odd... when ever I dealt with customer charge backs, via arbitration... We 100% had to return money if we lost the charge back,,, Furthermore if a company has too many charge backs they can have the merchant account black listed... Meaning they can no longer charge cards with those merchant accounts.
Another ironic thing is, when a customer starts a charge back case, they are almost never informed by the card issuing company (Visa, Master Card, ect.) that they will have to pay money to do this, and if they do not "win" the case they will have to pay that fee AND the original charge.
The card issuing company's are very nice to do this for customers but don't be confused, they win either way it goes.
Thankfully it sounds like you run a legit business and don't have to know all the ins and outs... I don't work for that company anymore thank God, because it's very stressful working with companies that are not so honest.
Maybe, but more importantly in my opinion what they plan to do with this, if they handle it correctly it's a great investment ARM CPU's are in a LOT of devices and if they can keep innovating they will be in many more and upgrades. If they just sit on it trying to collect money, Intel will eventually figure out how to make it's portable CPU's even better and eventually take the market. (Not that Intel's SoC's are bad now)
Either way the next few years should prove interesting and we can use hindsight to see what they had in mind.
All electronic communication can be tracked, encryption is probably the one form of control or privacy you have and even that is questionable as to how effective it can be. Best way to not get caught doing something? Just don't do it...
With every government on the planet wanting to know everything everyone is doing, odds are multiple agencies are profiling and cataloging your very thoughts..... not mind reading but writing patterns words chosen. Browsing habits times dates everything cross referenced they can probably tell things about us that we don't know about ourselves at a conscious level.
I just upgraded to an i5 and GTX 980 from a Core 2 Duo and for my situation it was totally worth it. I can now play emulated GameCube and PS2 games with no cheats and higher resolutions and graphics options turned on. (I could play them before on ye olde C2D but I had to turn everything down and sometimes they ended up looking worse than the original.)
Most new games are so boring.
I do like The Witcher 3 though....
On the main topic, that demo looks pretty cool. I don't think it looks like a movie at all but for real time game play it looks great.
The only way "game streaming" will ever work in my opinion is where files are sent to the machine on a predicted as needed basis. Your local machine will still run the game per usual but the 50GB's of assets will not all be downloaded at one time. Blizzard games are doing this now and it really seems to work well.
Now as for the customer getting the short end of the stick, it's not all bad. If your going to be playing an online game your at the mercy of the publisher anyway. At least with Blizzard's version of streaming you don't have to wait nearly as long to play once you buy it or the patch comes out. So that part is a plus.
I am not sure this is just a DRM scheme, I think it's more of a money grab on the publishers part because anytime you can cut out the middle man you stand to make more money. In this case the middle man would be your local game stores.
So part DRM part money grab part customer service, it's a lot of trade offs and you have to decide what ones your willing to make.
For me Blizzard and Valve have done it right and I buy games from them. Once they decide to turn all evil empire on me I will complain a LOT and everyone will know about it. Until then they are OK in my book for now. On a side note, out of all the game consoles I own I refuse to do any sort of digital purchases anymore. They are so locked in it's just giving customers a middle finger.
If I was trying to figure out a way around the problem, I would maybe resort to the way gas stations do it now.
Instead of a large tank in the ground holding gas you could have a large battery on site and charge the battery 24/7 or even buy the electricity cheaper at off peak times?
Then have onsite conversion to what ever you needed.
At least that is what my ignorant of all the facts solution would be.
Must suck balls to have limits so low... I have a Netflix account with 4 HD connections (4 TV's) and I average 450-500+ GB's a month is usage. Already past 153GB's for this month. (Loving this Gargoyle firmware on my router.)
Although I did read a story on here that Comcast was trying to merge with my current ISP Time Warner/Brighthouse. if that happens I may need to switch to Verizon's FiOS and uuugghhh I would rather cut off my testicles. Customer service is well shit... one time I had to cut about 200 feet of phone line they refused to bury in my yard, after calling them for 3-4 months straight I called them on my cell phone and told them to turn off my land line and swore they would never get another penny from me.
Some developers are still making 360 and PS3 games, those are also PPC based systems.
So lots of tools and talent will be available for the only PPC platform going into the future.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Yes going X86 has an advantage for easier PS4 and PC ports (Xbox One has "issues" so it requires a lot more effort that it looks like when your just considering the CPU arch alone.)
Another thing to consider, if I can get the port for my PC why would I need to buy a PS4 or an Xbox One? Last gen was bad enough with most of the great games released on the PC it felt pretty redundant to own a PS3. Now with easier ports... I am not sure I should even bother with the PS4 at all. I am already going to own a PC anyway, why not just spend the extra 400 bucks making it a gaming PC and enhance my PC experience at the same time.
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It should have at least one full sized USB port of some sort.
I think they did a movie about that "The Core" or something like that... I just remember it had an underground train with lots of nukes and huge diamonds, also it seemed to ignore pretty much everything I think I know about physics... lol
Fake Edit: ahh here it is lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hey those pizza's are part of a nutritious... LOL I couldn't keep a straight face... rotflmao is it even food?
So like a Transformer hooker bot? Helicopter into sex bot, if she was a triple changer maybe she could mow my lawn too....
yeah out of like 3 laptops I have here, none of them have any sort of boot from USB option.... Damn it... lol. All of them are pre Core2Duo era so I guess I shouldn't be surprised? They can barely run Windows 7 but Linux runs nicely on them...
Then Wifi becomes the issue.... damned Broadcom BCM4311... I can get the wl driver working fine under 32 bit, but you need 64 bit for Chrome and Netflix (one of them wants to watch Netflix.... god damn it just buy a TV...) lol I think I can do it, it runs ok at SD res over ethernet so Wifi if I can get it working shouldn't be an issue? lol
How do I get snared into this crap... (I am not a Linux guru by any stretch of the imagination.)
Anyway back to random forums and trying to solve this... (Slitaz seems the fastest distro for me that might work.)
Crushed are my dreams of some sort of magical all in one disk that doesn't ever need to be updated... lol
Meh, live and learn. Thank you for the information though.
My post gives me an idea... Maybe some one knows if something like this already exists... Could a boot CD be made that has a list of Linux repo's that have all the different distro's (or even self updates said list) where it could just install what ever the latest distro is for all the most popular flavors?
I ask because I am currently working on a couple of laptops, and I just had to burn like 6 disks (3 CD's and 3 DVD's) I mean they will be good for a long time. But it seems to me like 1 disk with what I am talking about would be nice and less waste in dumps in the long run, with no need to update the disk as it's just a generic installer?
Every once in a while I run into an old laptop that will not boot from USB, so I am forced to burn a CD or DVD of Linux to get it into "working good enough to use" territory.
My car can play MP3 CD's so maybe 1 or 2 times a year I will fill up a CD with random music from my collection and listen to those when the mood strikes me.
I used to back up my movies for my kids and grand kids to DVD-R or +R so I could keep the originals in working order... but with the advent of streaming from Netflix and Hulu and Amazon and Youtube, I don't even bother with that anymore.
I probably have like 20-30 blank CD's left and probably about the same number of blank DVD's. Should last me a few years before I make the decision to retire optical media or keep it around for the really obscure time I want to burn a disk.
It's good to hear that someone somewhere doesn't have to deal with the banks doing the whole "Yes lets just do a charge back!" I have actually had a bank on the phone with the customer where the rep decided to coach the customer into doing a charge back... Really nasty because most of the time the bank is calling back a few months later... with a completely different attitude... so nice, at this point the only way they can get money back is if the company feels pity for them and just issues a refund out of the kindness of their hearts... LOL
I really feel no pity or love for any of the banks, customers are forced into using them here in the US with very few even decent alternatives. I have heard that credit unions are pretty good, but usually you have to be in some group to join one. (Military, Government, Teachers or something)
Odd... when ever I dealt with customer charge backs, via arbitration... We 100% had to return money if we lost the charge back,,, Furthermore if a company has too many charge backs they can have the merchant account black listed... Meaning they can no longer charge cards with those merchant accounts.
Another ironic thing is, when a customer starts a charge back case, they are almost never informed by the card issuing company (Visa, Master Card, ect.) that they will have to pay money to do this, and if they do not "win" the case they will have to pay that fee AND the original charge.
The card issuing company's are very nice to do this for customers but don't be confused, they win either way it goes.
Thankfully it sounds like you run a legit business and don't have to know all the ins and outs... I don't work for that company anymore thank God, because it's very stressful working with companies that are not so honest.
They do plan on doubling the workforce so they have something in mind for sure.
Thank you for that article, the plans to double the workforce is a good thing in my opinion. That should enable them to get fresh designs out faster.
Maybe, but more importantly in my opinion what they plan to do with this, if they handle it correctly it's a great investment ARM CPU's are in a LOT of devices and if they can keep innovating they will be in many more and upgrades. If they just sit on it trying to collect money, Intel will eventually figure out how to make it's portable CPU's even better and eventually take the market. (Not that Intel's SoC's are bad now)
Either way the next few years should prove interesting and we can use hindsight to see what they had in mind.
Smell, baby. We want to smell it.
That would kick up Brazilian fart porn a notch... lol
All electronic communication can be tracked, encryption is probably the one form of control or privacy you have and even that is questionable as to how effective it can be. Best way to not get caught doing something? Just don't do it...
With every government on the planet wanting to know everything everyone is doing, odds are multiple agencies are profiling and cataloging your very thoughts..... not mind reading but writing patterns words chosen. Browsing habits times dates everything cross referenced they can probably tell things about us that we don't know about ourselves at a conscious level.
Could this tech be added to dildo's possibly for flavor or other functions? LOL
Sorry my mind went into the gutter as soon as they mentioned "salty flavor" lol
I just upgraded to an i5 and GTX 980 from a Core 2 Duo and for my situation it was totally worth it. I can now play emulated GameCube and PS2 games with no cheats and higher resolutions and graphics options turned on. (I could play them before on ye olde C2D but I had to turn everything down and sometimes they ended up looking worse than the original.)
Most new games are so boring.
I do like The Witcher 3 though....
On the main topic, that demo looks pretty cool. I don't think it looks like a movie at all but for real time game play it looks great.
The only way "game streaming" will ever work in my opinion is where files are sent to the machine on a predicted as needed basis. Your local machine will still run the game per usual but the 50GB's of assets will not all be downloaded at one time. Blizzard games are doing this now and it really seems to work well.
Now as for the customer getting the short end of the stick, it's not all bad. If your going to be playing an online game your at the mercy of the publisher anyway. At least with Blizzard's version of streaming you don't have to wait nearly as long to play once you buy it or the patch comes out. So that part is a plus.
I am not sure this is just a DRM scheme, I think it's more of a money grab on the publishers part because anytime you can cut out the middle man you stand to make more money. In this case the middle man would be your local game stores.
So part DRM part money grab part customer service, it's a lot of trade offs and you have to decide what ones your willing to make.
For me Blizzard and Valve have done it right and I buy games from them. Once they decide to turn all evil empire on me I will complain a LOT and everyone will know about it. Until then they are OK in my book for now. On a side note, out of all the game consoles I own I refuse to do any sort of digital purchases anymore. They are so locked in it's just giving customers a middle finger.
Is this something you can shove down a fiber optic line?
Seems like that would be awesome for telecom stuff if it would work.
If I was trying to figure out a way around the problem, I would maybe resort to the way gas stations do it now.
Instead of a large tank in the ground holding gas you could have a large battery on site and charge the battery 24/7 or even buy the electricity cheaper at off peak times?
Then have onsite conversion to what ever you needed.
At least that is what my ignorant of all the facts solution would be.
Well sort of both actually,
The people who made the phone need to make the updates, the carrier needs to push the update out on it's network for the phones.
In super rare cases you can download the update yourself and install it, but most of the time if your carrier doesn't push out the update your stuck.
Cynogen mod and other things like it are more likely to do updates for your device depending on what it is.
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
Sorry I know it's not a joke but.... I know have this image stuck in my head of Bin Laden licking the door handles at various rest rooms... lol
Must suck balls to have limits so low... I have a Netflix account with 4 HD connections (4 TV's) and I average 450-500+ GB's a month is usage. Already past 153GB's for this month. (Loving this Gargoyle firmware on my router.)
Although I did read a story on here that Comcast was trying to merge with my current ISP Time Warner/Brighthouse. if that happens I may need to switch to Verizon's FiOS and uuugghhh I would rather cut off my testicles. Customer service is well shit... one time I had to cut about 200 feet of phone line they refused to bury in my yard, after calling them for 3-4 months straight I called them on my cell phone and told them to turn off my land line and swore they would never get another penny from me.
The game does run at 1080P in single player, the issue is that the game does not run at true 1080P in multi player.
I don't really see the issue myself, as much as I dislike Sony they probably should win this one.
Besides the whole issue will probably disappear in a couple of patches.... (everything is in beta these days.)
Some developers are still making 360 and PS3 games, those are also PPC based systems.
So lots of tools and talent will be available for the only PPC platform going into the future.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Yes going X86 has an advantage for easier PS4 and PC ports (Xbox One has "issues" so it requires a lot more effort that it looks like when your just considering the CPU arch alone.)
Another thing to consider, if I can get the port for my PC why would I need to buy a PS4 or an Xbox One? Last gen was bad enough with most of the great games released on the PC it felt pretty redundant to own a PS3. Now with easier ports... I am not sure I should even bother with the PS4 at all. I am already going to own a PC anyway, why not just spend the extra 400 bucks making it a gaming PC and enhance my PC experience at the same time.