It's pretty close to being correct actually. Of those active accounts, many are in China and Taiwan which don't sell boxed copies, but play hours. It was assessed that only around 4-5 million accounts total out of 13 million or so when WoW peaked around Wrath of the Lich King were in areas where business model included selling boxed copy of expansion + monthly.
Not really sure if that's the only thing. Games like Warframe, Hawken and MechWarrior online are PC based F2P and they have very good looking graphics. And they certainly do not have those kinds of budgets behind them.
None of these consume significant amount of the most important resource in gaming - GPU. On most systems, GPU will idle at around 1% on desktop use. On mine, openhardwaremonitor actually shows 0% GPU usage - because it's so low, it gets rounded down. On 2D desktop without aero, it may no even initialize GPU for anything other than 2D acceleration.
Xbox reserves 8% of GPU just for kinect, and another 2% for voice recognition. That's 10% overhead that does not exist on PC. Overhead that hits GPU, the thing that is the main constraint on gaming! It sounds insane to design your gaming centric platform to actually have more overhead for non-gaming related stuff than a general use PC.
Actually, developers appear to have largely stopped focusing on consoles lately and are now spreading their focus pretty evenly between platforms. Most AAA games now get simultaneous releases on PC unlike before when we had to wait months or even years for console games to be ported, many of the older console games that dev said would never be ported got ported, and so on.
Questionable. Nowadays consoles are no longer dedicated gaming machines - they run heavy operating systems that do a lot of stuff on the background, just like PC operating systems do.
There is no point. CPU part isn't memory bandwidth-constrained. PS4 does GDDR5 as a way of unlocking more memory bandwidth for GPU which sits on the same memory bus as CPU.
DDR3 hooked to a decent GPU is going to be memory bus constrained in some scenarios. This will likely become a problem for XB1. It's fine for CPUs for a long time to come however - I did some testing and I ran DDR3 at 1ghz and 2.1ghz. No visible difference when paired with my massively overclocked i5 2500k which would absolutely crush this gen's console CPUs.
PC GPUs have had GDDR5 at higher speeds than PS4 for a long time now, sitting on dedicated memory bus hooked to GPU. Hell, my trusty GTX560Ti has it, and that one is several years old.
As Snowden already hinted, it's highly likely that NSA and large US companies actually exist in symbiotic relationship in reality, in spite of all the angry public outbursts. NSA likely shares the intelligence data on things like business secrets with US companies, especially when competition is involved.
As noted, the phone is in beta and does have a mechanism for adding a keyboard. As far as I know the backpanel with keyboard is just not developed yet.
I'm afraid that pilot training is largely irrelevant here provided necessary basics to operate the aircraft sufficiently are met. Both stealth and SPECTRA are fully automated and require minimal pilot input. This isn't about pilot skill but system capability.
We pillaged everything. From high tech, to low tech to agriculture, everything was bought up for pennies. Biggest winners of the post-collapse privatization programme was the West and its investors by far. We were buying their entire country up and it was hilariously cheap as Russia was absolutely desperate for money back then. Hell, unofficially several people retired from high positions in the government apparatus on US and its allies claimed that US had a roadmap for the entire process in place for a while, as they predicted the collapse of USSR quite a while before it actually occurred.
Problem was that we overreached in the feeling of complete immunity to any kind of opposition to the process, and started to grab their most sacred - oil industry. And that's where Russians slammed the brakes hard. The deal was almost done too - Khodorovsky was finalizing the sale of Yukos which controlled a large slice of Russian hydrocarbon sector to investor group headed by members of Rockefeller family when he got nailed. That's why we defended him to the last. He was our man. Hell, we don't even deny he was a criminal. The official defence line is that "we object to selective application of justice". In other words, we know he's a criminal, but since he's OUR criminal, we object that he was nabbed and his criminal friends who weren't OUR criminals weren't.
Incidentally trying this particular excuse in any Western justice system will get you something ranging from laughter to jail for contempt of the court.
And frankly, considering your other replies in this thread, you appear pro US to the point of looking overbearing and somewhat simple-minded, as you appear to not understand that we're talking about one of the biggest achievements of US and its allies this century - a complete collapse and pillaging of its main geopolitical rival of almost half a century without firing a shot. You should be proud of it, as the people who talked about how it was done where. It was a great achievement in terms of realpolitk.
People on the ground on the other hand got the brunt of it, and the fact that capitalist business arm that was allowed to pillage failed to moderate itself in the process triggered the rejection that we still feel today. For all bits and purposes we had a chance to actually bring Russia to Western fold, and we missed it because we engaged in an orgy of pillaging a country we could not stop seeing as an enemy. It was the greatest failure of the last century.
That would be because original specs were closer to requirements of superagility and other features that are now considered 5th gen features.
Problem is, F-35 is performing on the level of 3rd gen according to reports when under external combat load. We're talking it being barely push mach 1.5 and it actually damages it's engine when doing this. It can barely handle 4g turns and no more. And other similar problems. F-18 was a clear improvement to the existing platforms, where F-35 is looking like a distinct downgrade in many aspects right now just to get partial stealth.
It's follow-up, N9 sold millions without ANY marketing whatsoever - Elop specifically forbid any kind of marketing for it, suggesting that you are utterly incorrect in your rather strange assumption.
To be specific. The main part of the engineering and designer team that made Maemo on n900 moved on to make N9 and n950 (unpublished successor to the n900), and after Elop closed the development moved on to make the company called jolla.
Their OS is evolution of the line which started with the Maemo tablets, culminating in n900 and N9/n950. The phone is in beta phase through you can buy one. One of their specialities is the special separate back panel system, which apparently has a digital connection to the main phone, allowing you to replace the standard back cover for one with keyboard eventually when one is developed.
Overall, if you're looking for n900 successor today, jolla is about the only thing that comes to mind.
I'm talking about 1990s, when KGB was sitting in the basement grinding teeth helplessly watching us pillage their country. KGB only managed to take over after Yeltsin gave up power.
I'm not talking about assault rifles and other low tech weaponry that does not require significant infrastructure for support, but high tech systems, like helicopters, which are vital in mountainous country with no functional road infrastructure.
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It's pretty close to being correct actually. Of those active accounts, many are in China and Taiwan which don't sell boxed copies, but play hours. It was assessed that only around 4-5 million accounts total out of 13 million or so when WoW peaked around Wrath of the Lich King were in areas where business model included selling boxed copy of expansion + monthly.
Not really sure if that's the only thing. Games like Warframe, Hawken and MechWarrior online are PC based F2P and they have very good looking graphics. And they certainly do not have those kinds of budgets behind them.
None of these consume significant amount of the most important resource in gaming - GPU. On most systems, GPU will idle at around 1% on desktop use. On mine, openhardwaremonitor actually shows 0% GPU usage - because it's so low, it gets rounded down. On 2D desktop without aero, it may no even initialize GPU for anything other than 2D acceleration.
Xbox reserves 8% of GPU just for kinect, and another 2% for voice recognition. That's 10% overhead that does not exist on PC. Overhead that hits GPU, the thing that is the main constraint on gaming! It sounds insane to design your gaming centric platform to actually have more overhead for non-gaming related stuff than a general use PC.
Yet that is what they did. Crazy.
Meant to type out CPU and GPU obviously...
Shared between CPU and PC. Mine is dedicated to the GPU.
And when it comes to actual GPU rather than just its memory bus, it's just plain subpar.
Isn't that what "successor" means? I guess it was a bit ambiguous.
Most people do not buy PC for gaming. Those who do however typically do spend money on discreet GPU.
Are you the dumbass who thought that putting Cell into PS3 was a brilliant idea? You sure sound like him.
Actually, developers appear to have largely stopped focusing on consoles lately and are now spreading their focus pretty evenly between platforms. Most AAA games now get simultaneous releases on PC unlike before when we had to wait months or even years for console games to be ported, many of the older console games that dev said would never be ported got ported, and so on.
Questionable. Nowadays consoles are no longer dedicated gaming machines - they run heavy operating systems that do a lot of stuff on the background, just like PC operating systems do.
There is no point. CPU part isn't memory bandwidth-constrained. PS4 does GDDR5 as a way of unlocking more memory bandwidth for GPU which sits on the same memory bus as CPU.
DDR3 hooked to a decent GPU is going to be memory bus constrained in some scenarios. This will likely become a problem for XB1. It's fine for CPUs for a long time to come however - I did some testing and I ran DDR3 at 1ghz and 2.1ghz. No visible difference when paired with my massively overclocked i5 2500k which would absolutely crush this gen's console CPUs.
PC GPUs have had GDDR5 at higher speeds than PS4 for a long time now, sitting on dedicated memory bus hooked to GPU. Hell, my trusty GTX560Ti has it, and that one is several years old.
I wonder if you even understand that this is a threat of political assassination rather than a statement about someone being a nerd in today's world?
n950 was cancelled from full production to developer platform. As a result, it had several features stripped from it.
Nontheless, n950 was in fact designed as a successor to the n900. I know people who were on the engineering team.
As Snowden already hinted, it's highly likely that NSA and large US companies actually exist in symbiotic relationship in reality, in spite of all the angry public outbursts. NSA likely shares the intelligence data on things like business secrets with US companies, especially when competition is involved.
As noted, the phone is in beta and does have a mechanism for adding a keyboard. As far as I know the backpanel with keyboard is just not developed yet.
Air superiority is already ours in every recent conflict.
I'm afraid that pilot training is largely irrelevant here provided necessary basics to operate the aircraft sufficiently are met. Both stealth and SPECTRA are fully automated and require minimal pilot input. This isn't about pilot skill but system capability.
We pillaged everything. From high tech, to low tech to agriculture, everything was bought up for pennies. Biggest winners of the post-collapse privatization programme was the West and its investors by far. We were buying their entire country up and it was hilariously cheap as Russia was absolutely desperate for money back then. Hell, unofficially several people retired from high positions in the government apparatus on US and its allies claimed that US had a roadmap for the entire process in place for a while, as they predicted the collapse of USSR quite a while before it actually occurred.
Problem was that we overreached in the feeling of complete immunity to any kind of opposition to the process, and started to grab their most sacred - oil industry. And that's where Russians slammed the brakes hard. The deal was almost done too - Khodorovsky was finalizing the sale of Yukos which controlled a large slice of Russian hydrocarbon sector to investor group headed by members of Rockefeller family when he got nailed. That's why we defended him to the last. He was our man. Hell, we don't even deny he was a criminal. The official defence line is that "we object to selective application of justice". In other words, we know he's a criminal, but since he's OUR criminal, we object that he was nabbed and his criminal friends who weren't OUR criminals weren't.
Incidentally trying this particular excuse in any Western justice system will get you something ranging from laughter to jail for contempt of the court.
And frankly, considering your other replies in this thread, you appear pro US to the point of looking overbearing and somewhat simple-minded, as you appear to not understand that we're talking about one of the biggest achievements of US and its allies this century - a complete collapse and pillaging of its main geopolitical rival of almost half a century without firing a shot. You should be proud of it, as the people who talked about how it was done where. It was a great achievement in terms of realpolitk.
People on the ground on the other hand got the brunt of it, and the fact that capitalist business arm that was allowed to pillage failed to moderate itself in the process triggered the rejection that we still feel today. For all bits and purposes we had a chance to actually bring Russia to Western fold, and we missed it because we engaged in an orgy of pillaging a country we could not stop seeing as an enemy. It was the greatest failure of the last century.
That would be because original specs were closer to requirements of superagility and other features that are now considered 5th gen features.
Problem is, F-35 is performing on the level of 3rd gen according to reports when under external combat load. We're talking it being barely push mach 1.5 and it actually damages it's engine when doing this. It can barely handle 4g turns and no more. And other similar problems. F-18 was a clear improvement to the existing platforms, where F-35 is looking like a distinct downgrade in many aspects right now just to get partial stealth.
It's follow-up, N9 sold millions without ANY marketing whatsoever - Elop specifically forbid any kind of marketing for it, suggesting that you are utterly incorrect in your rather strange assumption.
To be specific. The main part of the engineering and designer team that made Maemo on n900 moved on to make N9 and n950 (unpublished successor to the n900), and after Elop closed the development moved on to make the company called jolla.
Their OS is evolution of the line which started with the Maemo tablets, culminating in n900 and N9/n950. The phone is in beta phase through you can buy one. One of their specialities is the special separate back panel system, which apparently has a digital connection to the main phone, allowing you to replace the standard back cover for one with keyboard eventually when one is developed.
Overall, if you're looking for n900 successor today, jolla is about the only thing that comes to mind.
I'm talking about 1990s, when KGB was sitting in the basement grinding teeth helplessly watching us pillage their country. KGB only managed to take over after Yeltsin gave up power.
I'm not talking about assault rifles and other low tech weaponry that does not require significant infrastructure for support, but high tech systems, like helicopters, which are vital in mountainous country with no functional road infrastructure.
F-18 was technologically fairly sound however. F-35 is not.
It does indeed. It says I respect the basic tenet of modern Western state - freedom of expression.