Just about anything's going to win against the Xbone. I'm not putting up a dime for it and if casual and bros want to buy it they can, but it won't be a machine for gamers. Given the option of buying an NES or an Xbone I'd buy an NES, and since there is a lovely new release of one I can. The Wii U may or may not be able to handel the PS4. If the PS4 does the same thing with Used Games and Lending that MS has done then Wii U wins. Really the 3DS was in hot water and Nintendo now has it on the route to success. They can pull off the same hat trick or survive the same way they did with the Game Cube.
Nintendo and Sony having commercials at launch highlighting the problem of friends sharing games under the model. I will not give Microsoft One Dime of my gaming budget. I will not allow my children to on a console they can't lend games to their friends. I will not eat Green Eggs and SPAM.
You have to talk with the people in the video to get information to confirm its validity. There is probably ways to Doctoring a video to look like an event, but the easiest way is to get actors and look-a-likes to pull it off.
I've never bought an online pass and never will. I won't even tough BioShock Infinite because of the Season Pass on the shelves at GameStop. I'll wait until the games drops in price and all relevant dlc comes bundled. I will not by and Online Pass, Season Pass, or any other such money grab nonsense. They can take their project 10 dolla, and eat it. However, I suspect this is just getting rid of one demon and replacing it with another.
Incorrect. That decimal place is based on the size of bitcoins. There is literally only so many segments they can be chopped into. Saying you can chop a bitcoin smaller than it's smallest piece is like saying you have a 32 bit integer with the value of 4294967296 or a Double smaller that 2^-1074. It literally can't happen.
I believe the Wisdom of the Crowd only works when the crowd is ignorant of what it's doing. The moment the crowd is aware of what it's doing it starts giving bad answers.
It's automated because they're using the same system that they use for earthquakes notifications. They're just lucky it only posted to twitter, and not a full Text Bombing Emergency Alert. They have a far better EBS then the US, but it still has bugs. Most of the US EBS are just pre-recorded messages with general instructions that later lead to your more personalized message, and instructions.
Except fiber happens to be the preferred medium for the High Traffic parts of that Highway. Reducing congestion in the higher trafficked areas improves the performance of the network as a whole which improves your in-laws network performance as well. Try not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm sure the phone company loves not being able to turn on any of that lovely fiber they over provisioned in the 90s because of these advances.
From my experience this isn't just a DRM screw up, but it did help to make it far worse. I'm crazy and refuse to play on Windows so I got it to work though Wine last night. I couldn't get into the NA servers so I opted to log into the other available server. I must have got things working at just the wrong time because every game that had been made was suspiciously all at 15 min. or more. It then refused to allow me to create and claim some land. I'd log out then back in after 30 min and still no new games had been made. This morning I was able to get into the NA servers and start up a game. However, the interface was different. Rather than an interface that allowed me to choose the tutorial or not it was a forced tutorial before you'd be allowed to go and do your own thing. At this point I suspect that some servers were running the wrong version of their software, and that is the source of the save game corruption. I don't really understand why the Tutorial wasn't an Offline option. Starcraft 2 got that part right by making it after I log in once I can play the campaign offline. Some single player offline content would have saved them some stress on their servers. They could also monopolize on the Pre Order scene a bit. If they insist on an Always Online model with the servers holding the load then they're going to need to do a tiered release over a week. Otherwise you're going to have everyone logging in on the same day. One one builds a system to have 100% of their users logged in EVER. It's like the phone company. If everyone picks up their phones at the same time 80% would get a busy tone or no dial tone. Having a single launch day ensures that everyone is going to login during the same window of time. This always online model needs a lot more work, or it needs to be scrapped.
I'd love it more if I could just go to google or bing and put in the API name I'm using and have it pull up a good readable documentation, but the search engines can't parse their Docs well enough to figure out it's the authority on the API so what chance does a person have of understanding it. OTOH I can type an API for Java like StringBuilder and it usually comes up with the Official documentation first. As bad as java can be javadocs do cover most of what needs to be documented without being too hard to read. It would be nice if things like C,C++ and all the other languages had a standardized way of documenting, but they don't. Developers choose not to document properly even when they have good example to follow, and that leave only the crowd of the web as the best alternative to looking up the programmers in the basement until they come out with readable docs.
It's not exactly "old news". It's using the "old news" you're thinking about from 2011 to do something else. So it's an old dog doing a slightly new trick.
You're probably spot on. The 3DS did poorly up until they had a price cut. Nintendos been trying to increase their prices, and they need to realize that they have an expected price point. I consider 250 to be the expected Nintendo price point for consoles. 300 if you're going for gimmiks included.
Not to be picky, but the url to "An artile signed by 18 academics" is http://www.jstor.org/action/cookieAbsent "cookieAbsent" doesn't exactly look like it was ever supposed to work. Does someone have a link to the actual signed article?
Gaming RAM is Supposed to be the higher end with a higher frequency and a lower timing latency but end up generating a lot more heat. Most people, and gamers, don't know or care what 9-9-9-24 DDR3 1333 2x2GB with no heat spreaders for 20$ vs 9-9-9-27 DDR3 1866 with heatspreaders for 30$ vs 9-9-9-24 DDR3 1866 with heat spreader and a fan for 60$. All they're looking for is it considered gaming ram and will it work with my system. You're POS econ model gets the cheep stuff, and as a result any game doing a memory intensive task gets bottle necked. It is only possible to design a game to work properly when you have a static target. The very nature of the Gaming PC caters to people who have money to blow. The only reason to go for the high end stuff is to buy some time so your system can actually work for a few years before the next forced upgrade. Any PC or Server build should always build the most economic model for the task it should be doing. But for gaming that's not possible. You've ether regulated yourself into the gutter of PC gaming or your spending money hand over fist.
The problem with the PC is that it is a moving target. I can never have all the hardware necessary to play the latest games properly on it. For 400 bucks I can tell you that you're probably not able to play Diablo III correctly, and you'd be plagued with an annoying slight stutter. Its because the dame game was made for high end hard drives and the only solution is a Solid State Drive because it's constantly streaming data off the dame thing to avoid load screens. A typical Gaming Hard drive is 250GB and at 400 bucks that's half the cost of your little "gaming" PC. According to Steam NVidia is the highest install base for Graphics cards and their highest install NVidia is the GTX 560 ti. Again that's half the cost of your 400 buck POS. Then there is RAM and Gaming RAM isn't that Cheap 20$ crap you play with. For decent Gaming RAM you're looking at spending a bit more. Then there is the God Dame Processor. According to Steam most people are running an Intel with 2 or 4 cores. That's another 200 bucks. Then there is the motherboard, monitor, and the MF constant upgrading because PCs arn't married to a single spec so developers are constantly changing the god dame target spec I need to play. 400 gets you a PC that can play games over 5 years old and No Monitor, and the latest games on the LOWEST graphical settings. You can't buy the parts to make a PC for as cheap as you can with a Console and get the relyable gameplay you do with them.
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Just about anything's going to win against the Xbone. I'm not putting up a dime for it and if casual and bros want to buy it they can, but it won't be a machine for gamers. Given the option of buying an NES or an Xbone I'd buy an NES, and since there is a lovely new release of one I can. The Wii U may or may not be able to handel the PS4. If the PS4 does the same thing with Used Games and Lending that MS has done then Wii U wins. Really the 3DS was in hot water and Nintendo now has it on the route to success. They can pull off the same hat trick or survive the same way they did with the Game Cube.
Nintendo and Sony having commercials at launch highlighting the problem of friends sharing games under the model. I will not give Microsoft One Dime of my gaming budget. I will not allow my children to on a console they can't lend games to their friends. I will not eat Green Eggs and SPAM.
You have to talk with the people in the video to get information to confirm its validity. There is probably ways to Doctoring a video to look like an event, but the easiest way is to get actors and look-a-likes to pull it off.
I've never bought an online pass and never will. I won't even tough BioShock Infinite because of the Season Pass on the shelves at GameStop. I'll wait until the games drops in price and all relevant dlc comes bundled. I will not by and Online Pass, Season Pass, or any other such money grab nonsense. They can take their project 10 dolla, and eat it. However, I suspect this is just getting rid of one demon and replacing it with another.
Global thermonuclear war sound fun.
Incorrect. That decimal place is based on the size of bitcoins. There is literally only so many segments they can be chopped into. Saying you can chop a bitcoin smaller than it's smallest piece is like saying you have a 32 bit integer with the value of 4294967296 or a Double smaller that 2^-1074. It literally can't happen.
A gamma ray burst in our galaxy would probably kill us.
but doesn't it correlate to any possible event yet, or are we just guessing about were it came from?
I believe the Wisdom of the Crowd only works when the crowd is ignorant of what it's doing. The moment the crowd is aware of what it's doing it starts giving bad answers.
It's automated because they're using the same system that they use for earthquakes notifications. They're just lucky it only posted to twitter, and not a full Text Bombing Emergency Alert. They have a far better EBS then the US, but it still has bugs. Most of the US EBS are just pre-recorded messages with general instructions that later lead to your more personalized message, and instructions.
Except fiber happens to be the preferred medium for the High Traffic parts of that Highway. Reducing congestion in the higher trafficked areas improves the performance of the network as a whole which improves your in-laws network performance as well. Try not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm sure the phone company loves not being able to turn on any of that lovely fiber they over provisioned in the 90s because of these advances.
So they're getting the Hydrogen off of the sugar, but what happens to the Carbon left over in this equation?
It's Irrational so you can't predict it.
That only works if you remove the DRM. I'm pretty sure Always On P2P wont work well with DRM.
From my experience this isn't just a DRM screw up, but it did help to make it far worse. I'm crazy and refuse to play on Windows so I got it to work though Wine last night. I couldn't get into the NA servers so I opted to log into the other available server. I must have got things working at just the wrong time because every game that had been made was suspiciously all at 15 min. or more. It then refused to allow me to create and claim some land. I'd log out then back in after 30 min and still no new games had been made. This morning I was able to get into the NA servers and start up a game. However, the interface was different. Rather than an interface that allowed me to choose the tutorial or not it was a forced tutorial before you'd be allowed to go and do your own thing. At this point I suspect that some servers were running the wrong version of their software, and that is the source of the save game corruption. I don't really understand why the Tutorial wasn't an Offline option. Starcraft 2 got that part right by making it after I log in once I can play the campaign offline. Some single player offline content would have saved them some stress on their servers. They could also monopolize on the Pre Order scene a bit. If they insist on an Always Online model with the servers holding the load then they're going to need to do a tiered release over a week. Otherwise you're going to have everyone logging in on the same day. One one builds a system to have 100% of their users logged in EVER. It's like the phone company. If everyone picks up their phones at the same time 80% would get a busy tone or no dial tone. Having a single launch day ensures that everyone is going to login during the same window of time. This always online model needs a lot more work, or it needs to be scrapped.
I'd love it more if I could just go to google or bing and put in the API name I'm using and have it pull up a good readable documentation, but the search engines can't parse their Docs well enough to figure out it's the authority on the API so what chance does a person have of understanding it. OTOH I can type an API for Java like StringBuilder and it usually comes up with the Official documentation first. As bad as java can be javadocs do cover most of what needs to be documented without being too hard to read. It would be nice if things like C,C++ and all the other languages had a standardized way of documenting, but they don't. Developers choose not to document properly even when they have good example to follow, and that leave only the crowd of the web as the best alternative to looking up the programmers in the basement until they come out with readable docs.
It's not exactly "old news". It's using the "old news" you're thinking about from 2011 to do something else. So it's an old dog doing a slightly new trick.
Does anyone think that this will actually fly, or are they just trying to make a point about DRM.
You're probably spot on. The 3DS did poorly up until they had a price cut. Nintendos been trying to increase their prices, and they need to realize that they have an expected price point. I consider 250 to be the expected Nintendo price point for consoles. 300 if you're going for gimmiks included.
You mean it's not? They'll have to fix that.
Not to be picky, but the url to "An artile signed by 18 academics" is http://www.jstor.org/action/cookieAbsent "cookieAbsent" doesn't exactly look like it was ever supposed to work. Does someone have a link to the actual signed article?
Gaming RAM is Supposed to be the higher end with a higher frequency and a lower timing latency but end up generating a lot more heat. Most people, and gamers, don't know or care what 9-9-9-24 DDR3 1333 2x2GB with no heat spreaders for 20$ vs 9-9-9-27 DDR3 1866 with heatspreaders for 30$ vs 9-9-9-24 DDR3 1866 with heat spreader and a fan for 60$. All they're looking for is it considered gaming ram and will it work with my system. You're POS econ model gets the cheep stuff, and as a result any game doing a memory intensive task gets bottle necked. It is only possible to design a game to work properly when you have a static target. The very nature of the Gaming PC caters to people who have money to blow. The only reason to go for the high end stuff is to buy some time so your system can actually work for a few years before the next forced upgrade. Any PC or Server build should always build the most economic model for the task it should be doing. But for gaming that's not possible. You've ether regulated yourself into the gutter of PC gaming or your spending money hand over fist.
The problem with the PC is that it is a moving target. I can never have all the hardware necessary to play the latest games properly on it. For 400 bucks I can tell you that you're probably not able to play Diablo III correctly, and you'd be plagued with an annoying slight stutter. Its because the dame game was made for high end hard drives and the only solution is a Solid State Drive because it's constantly streaming data off the dame thing to avoid load screens. A typical Gaming Hard drive is 250GB and at 400 bucks that's half the cost of your little "gaming" PC. According to Steam NVidia is the highest install base for Graphics cards and their highest install NVidia is the GTX 560 ti. Again that's half the cost of your 400 buck POS. Then there is RAM and Gaming RAM isn't that Cheap 20$ crap you play with. For decent Gaming RAM you're looking at spending a bit more. Then there is the God Dame Processor. According to Steam most people are running an Intel with 2 or 4 cores. That's another 200 bucks. Then there is the motherboard, monitor, and the MF constant upgrading because PCs arn't married to a single spec so developers are constantly changing the god dame target spec I need to play. 400 gets you a PC that can play games over 5 years old and No Monitor, and the latest games on the LOWEST graphical settings. You can't buy the parts to make a PC for as cheap as you can with a Console and get the relyable gameplay you do with them.
Maybe the old duel core doesn't have PAE support and is stuck at a 3 gig limit.
Did someone up and rewrite it all to Java, because last I heard it's mostly in C++. Java's just used for optional things.