Well I'm repeating myself, but what's that "install UPlay correctly"? The army of programmers at Ubisoft aren't capable of having only one way of installing UPlay, the "it just works" way?
What do you mean "did not install it correctly"? Isn't it Ubisoft's responsability to make sure there is no wrong way of installing it? If there is a right way and a wrong way to install UPlay, it means that their QA failed completely. IF they had any QA.
Do not touch UPlay and Origin. They're Steam clones done on the lowest budget possible and basically do not work. Personally I prefer GoG style distribution, but Steam is at least functional most of the time. And for whoever said you should buy Ubisoft games on console, there are comments on the related Eurogamer article mentioning UPlay problems on the PS4. Sounds like you need that piece of shit even on a console now, which basically rules out ever touching their games.
Allwinner is making gazillions of cheap tablets. For this particular one, I guess they slapped the HP logo on one of their existing models. I strongly doubt anyone at HP worked on that tablet:) As for the complainers about an old Android version, I do work on Android ports. Even though Android doesn't change much externally, the internal differences are big enough that no one's going to pay for porting a newer Android version for a cheap device (or even an expensive one, I'm looking at you Samsung); they'll go for whatever version their SoC vendor provided.
I was planning on buying one eventually, but I don't care about active 3D so LG was the only manufacturer. Since I can't touch a LG product any more, that means I'll stick with 2D TVs. Or can you buy a dumb 3D TV anywhere? I really don't need the smart features to slow me down. I have a multipurpose external player for that.
I'll buy a device from whoever stays in bussiness in the next 5-10 years. Kickstart anyone now? No way. Sadly I think this is *still* not the time for working VR.
... that Apple has no idea how to do online services:) While my phone/tablet/laptop are all Apple, because both the hardware and the OS are much better than the competition, I never tried to activate iCloud/iMessage and other stuff like that simply because I knew there would be trouble. My contacts are synced with a google account:)
Here are some pricing examples for Romania, a backwards country somewhere in Eastern Europe.
I pay about $25/month for 40 mbits on a so-called "bussiness" connection - at this price of course "bussiness" means no SLA, but it does mean unmetered traffic and the freedom to run any service i want on that wire. I also pay about $30/month for 200 mbits on fiber, plus IPTV plus a voice line (not sure of the conditions on voice, I don't really use it). This is a home connection, but it's also unmetered. I think I can't do SMTP through it, but no other restrictions.
This is what happens when you have a little real competition. Everyone has access to at least two out of cable and DSL. Which are no longer cable and DSL, but fiber.
You're going to give me the age old argument that the US is much larger and more spread out, but we have residential suburbs as well, and they get... guess... ethernet and/or fiber:)
Same speed for an external hard drive. 30% CPU consumption for USB, 2% for Firewire. I also know my usb 3 dock very well - it sometimes decides to connect at usb 2.0 speeds for no particular reason. And don't get me started on the microusb connector that breaks if you sneeze in its general direction. So I hope that TB takes its sweet time to die out so I can get some use out of it.
You've got to give him points for attributing it to the wife and not to Vlad the Impaler himself:) But i don't mind the Bathory chick being mixed with Vlad - leads to more tourism.
... i should change them weekly as well? To whoever was talking about the Adobe password hack. I don't think anyone cared about that password. It was forced on them by Adobe for one marketing reason or another. Or because of the idiotic cloud suite thingy. Now the passwords that really are important to me... those are hard to crack, don't worry.
50 years ago it would have been real and interesting science. These days all these studies only sound like scare mongering. You know, like anti virus vendors.
Let's assume he's talking about resolution instead of screen size, because he's probably the kind that has his secretary print out his emails and has no idea what a pixel is.
This is the CEO of Dreamworks, known for a lot of CGI movies. After getting a retina macbook, i recently tried the 4K version of one of those Blender movies - Sintel to be exact. I didn't see any significant difference. I guess Dreamworks has the render farms to do a few more hairs than the Blender foundation, but still, for his products more resolution is a bit worthless.
... the more I like other programming languages. I'm sorry but all this "everything can be solved with a few more templates" mindset plus the feature creep remind me of only one thing: cancer.
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Well I'm repeating myself, but what's that "install UPlay correctly"? The army of programmers at Ubisoft aren't capable of having only one way of installing UPlay, the "it just works" way?
Ask the CD Projekt Red people how much not having copy protection has hurt them :)
What do you mean "did not install it correctly"? Isn't it Ubisoft's responsability to make sure there is no wrong way of installing it? If there is a right way and a wrong way to install UPlay, it means that their QA failed completely. IF they had any QA.
Do not touch UPlay and Origin. They're Steam clones done on the lowest budget possible and basically do not work. Personally I prefer GoG style distribution, but Steam is at least functional most of the time.
And for whoever said you should buy Ubisoft games on console, there are comments on the related Eurogamer article mentioning UPlay problems on the PS4. Sounds like you need that piece of shit even on a console now, which basically rules out ever touching their games.
Allwinner is making gazillions of cheap tablets. For this particular one, I guess they slapped the HP logo on one of their existing models. I strongly doubt anyone at HP worked on that tablet :)
As for the complainers about an old Android version, I do work on Android ports. Even though Android doesn't change much externally, the internal differences are big enough that no one's going to pay for porting a newer Android version for a cheap device (or even an expensive one, I'm looking at you Samsung); they'll go for whatever version their SoC vendor provided.
I was planning on buying one eventually, but I don't care about active 3D so LG was the only manufacturer. Since I can't touch a LG product any more, that means I'll stick with 2D TVs.
Or can you buy a dumb 3D TV anywhere? I really don't need the smart features to slow me down. I have a multipurpose external player for that.
I don't think that's considered fair use :) It's pretty much illegal. Even if they bought a legal DVD, they're not licensed for public performances.
I'll buy a device from whoever stays in bussiness in the next 5-10 years. Kickstart anyone now? No way.
Sadly I think this is *still* not the time for working VR.
... that Apple has no idea how to do online services :) :)
While my phone/tablet/laptop are all Apple, because both the hardware and the OS are much better than the competition, I never tried to activate iCloud/iMessage and other stuff like that simply because I knew there would be trouble.
My contacts are synced with a google account
The correct answer to this question is "A programmer should read a lot".
Subject says it all...
Here are some pricing examples for Romania, a backwards country somewhere in Eastern Europe.
I pay about $25/month for 40 mbits on a so-called "bussiness" connection - at this price of course "bussiness" means no SLA, but it does mean unmetered traffic and the freedom to run any service i want on that wire.
I also pay about $30/month for 200 mbits on fiber, plus IPTV plus a voice line (not sure of the conditions on voice, I don't really use it). This is a home connection, but it's also unmetered. I think I can't do SMTP through it, but no other restrictions.
This is what happens when you have a little real competition. Everyone has access to at least two out of cable and DSL. Which are no longer cable and DSL, but fiber.
You're going to give me the age old argument that the US is much larger and more spread out, but we have residential suburbs as well, and they get... guess... ethernet and/or fiber :)
Same speed for an external hard drive. 30% CPU consumption for USB, 2% for Firewire.
I also know my usb 3 dock very well - it sometimes decides to connect at usb 2.0 speeds for no particular reason.
And don't get me started on the microusb connector that breaks if you sneeze in its general direction.
So I hope that TB takes its sweet time to die out so I can get some use out of it.
"Microsoft gave us a 98% discount in exchange for this article."
You've got to give him points for attributing it to the wife and not to Vlad the Impaler himself :)
But i don't mind the Bathory chick being mixed with Vlad - leads to more tourism.
... i should change them weekly as well?
To whoever was talking about the Adobe password hack. I don't think anyone cared about that password. It was forced on them by Adobe for one marketing reason or another. Or because of the idiotic cloud suite thingy.
Now the passwords that really are important to me... those are hard to crack, don't worry.
Norman Spinrad's "Bug Jack Barron" :)
Although it wasn't blood i think, and the young donors died.
... than malice.
Or malice (location tracking) plus gross incompetence in implementation.
50 years ago it would have been real and interesting science. These days all these studies only sound like scare mongering. You know, like anti virus vendors.
Wish i had mod points right now...
Let's assume he's talking about resolution instead of screen size, because he's probably the kind that has his secretary print out his emails and has no idea what a pixel is.
This is the CEO of Dreamworks, known for a lot of CGI movies.
After getting a retina macbook, i recently tried the 4K version of one of those Blender movies - Sintel to be exact.
I didn't see any significant difference.
I guess Dreamworks has the render farms to do a few more hairs than the Blender foundation, but still, for his products more resolution is a bit worthless.
... the more I like other programming languages.
I'm sorry but all this "everything can be solved with a few more templates" mindset plus the feature creep remind me of only one thing: cancer.
EA is buying all the best developers and turning them into a steaming pile of shit.
See Bioware and Popcap.
Like the US politician that was demanding 2 billion for protection from an EMP attack?
and/or sensationalism... a 13000 image set a whole population does not make.
It's probably just better than the existing algorithms somewhat.