> Tomb Raider 2013 pre-dates Denuvo. Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider were both protected
> by Denuvo. And yet we haven’t heard about any miraculous sales spike that caused the second two games to massively
> outsell the first.
This is hardly "proof" though. It seems entirely plausible that a lot more people might have been more excited by the combination of "next gen"+nostalgia for the 2013 reboot than there would be people excited for subsequent, more incremental iterations.
Don't get me wrong, I think most DRM is snake oil and have certainly railed against some implementations of it (eg music CD "DRM" which hampered legitimate purchasers while MP3s abounded) in my time.
But without some view into an alternate universe it's surely difficult to say categorically, or even probably, what effect DRM has on sales.
Of course, any publisher claiming that reducing piracy would "usher in a golden age of low prices and profitability" is probably lying as much as the many DRM snake oil sellers. Price is almost entirely determined by what people will pay.
The best path to cloud gaming is to have it alongside local gaming. Buy a game and you can play it locally or in the cloud, whatever suits you at a particular moment.
Then people will use cloud when it is actually better (and if latency and bandwidth is under control it will be a better experience for a lot of games, eg vastly reduced load times).
I guess PS Now is sorta doing this now, though it arrived at that situation from the opposite direction and doesnâ(TM)t sound like switching back and forth between cloud/local is as streamlined as youâ(TM)d want.
There is definitely a case for good enough. My 2013 Macbook Pro died, I looked into getting a new one and various issues (lack of ports and native support for the Apple monitor I have) turned me off the current Macbook Pro range.
I pulled out an unused 2015 Macbook Air from the office drawer and it has been perfectly adequate (other than the lack of retina display when not connected to a monitor).
That is mostly fine for me, not sure it's so good for Apple.
Farewell and commiserations to the people close to him.
I only remember him as a name and words on a screen but back when Slashdot felt like somewhere to belong rather than just a site to read
It is relevant to the OPs assertion that it was âoejust a great pit stopâ that was 4 seconds faster than anyone was expecting. Quite the opposite, it was exactly the pit stop that everyone (and the software) should have been expecting.
You arenâ(TM)t going to pass anyone who is on track by going through the pits, even under VSC. Vettel was already ahead of Hamilton on track but still had a pit stop to do.
The advantage here was that Hamilton was driving slow enough under VSC that Vettel could complete his pit sequence without Hamilton overtaking him.
The typical stop time (ie the time in a pit stop that could theoretically be done faster) is about 2 to 3 seconds. There isnâ(TM)t 4 seconds to make up by doing a âoegreat pit stopâ.
It clearly is a glitch in the sense the software didnâ(TM)t do what it was supposed to do.
The software was supposed to predict the worst case scenario (eg Hamilton being stuck at virtual safety car speeds and competitors doing optimal pit stops) and tell them the track position they needed to be safe, giving them the information needed so they could push hard till they got into that window.
The software told them they were in that safe window when they werenâ(TM)t, so is either doing the calculations wrong or was fed incorrect parameters.
Firstly Opal cards typically let you tap off with a negative balance. In fact itâ(TM)s been a relatively well known exploit for getting a cheaper fare to the airport. There are plenty of articles out there on the loophole, but none as far as I can see on it being closed. Iâ(TM)m pretty sure my balance has gone negative recently, but I suppose it is possible they have put different restrictions in at the the airport.
Secondly, anyone paranoid about privacy would discard their Opal card (they are free) when it ran out of credit and get a new one so that trips arenâ(TM)t connected over time and one use of a debit card to top up wouldnâ(TM)t connect their whole history.
In an electric car world most charging will be done at home, most cars will start out at full capacity every day. The requirements for opportunistic refueling drop significantly compared to petrol cars because cars donâ(TM)t have to refuel on average trips because the tank just happens to be low. Regardless, complaining that there isnâ(TM)t currently capacity for a future requirements is hardly a cutting criticism.
I think a never ending supply of incremental upgrades in a bunch of different areas is the exact opposite of an existential crisis for the tech industry. It is what keeps people buying new things.
Donâ(TM)t have a reason to buy the Xbox X or PS4 Pro? MS/Sony donâ(TM)t care, they just want there to be enough people that do have a reason.
Apple donâ(TM)t expect you to buy every new iPhone. They are happy for you to cough up a butt load of cash every 2, 3 or 4 versions (while telling yourself you are good because you have skipped a few)
Is how they arrived at the list of categories that it caters for. You'd think it would make sense to support terms that people commonly search for (which might explain "bras", but "Floppy disks"?)
Neuromancer will always be a standout piece of speculative fiction and iâ(TM)ll always love it.
His newer works are probably âoebetterâ and more nuanced. The wilder dystopias traded for something far more familiar (but still dysfunctional in their own ways).
Pattern Recognition is great and a roughly contemporary story.
The Peripheral a good mix of both (though perhaps an increasingly uncomfortable one given what has happened in the world since it was written).
Not sure I particularly want any of them turned into movies though.
I think that is generally true but I also think there are some historical exceptions to Google's handling of that, either that or a knock on effect from when Google couldn't use gmail.com in some countries for trademark reasons and had to issue googlemail.com addresses in those countries and then later tried to merge them.
I think autocomplete might compound the problem. People get it wrong once and their browser helpfully offers the wrong email in future forms. They send a group email with a wrong address, people reply-all and then everyone's email client thinks it's a known address and helpfully offers it as an autocomplete option in future.
I have a first name last name @ gmail account and I get it quite a bit. Sometimes included on some family emails, sometimes emails from lawyers. Some guys Xbox account (who are you Cationicllama88?). Once someone's uber/lyft account, which I presumably could have used.
Mostly I just ignore them if it is just some random site someone has signed up to. If it's personal/business then I normally reply pointing out the mistake and then delete the email, those people are generally appreciative of the effort. The ride sharing company was a pleasant surprise, I expected them to be a faceless void but got a real person who sorted it out quickly.
Canada is one of about 50 countries that have gone this route (Britain, Germany, Australia and New Zealand are among the countries that have done so). Nav Canada even sells their system (Australia runs on it) - we could potentially just buy a solution.
Perhaps not a bad idea then, though maybe America would be better off outsourcing the running of their elections and their health care system first.
One of the (external) interfaces I work with involves sending ASCII encoded EBCDIC encoded data as post data to a UTF8 web server.
(Ie where I need to send the digit "1", we send the hex bytes 46 31, ASCII encoded chars for F9, the EBCDIC character code for the "1" character)
This stuff does live on and on and typically gets wrapped inside something else....
They certainly used to:
used to
I think the formula may have opened up a little since then and other manufacturers are involved.
The McLaren Applied Technologies part of the company make a fair few parts used in different racing series.
I think a lot of McLaren's technical and design capabilities would be a good fit for Apple. Whether the racing and even supercar parts are is another question.
In the same sense that a plane autopilot is an autopilot? Ie it keeps you on the course and speed you set it at but doesn't do much else.
It's perhaps odd that people interpret "autopilot" as meaning "self driving", it's probably called autopilot precisely because it isn't self driving.
Tesla's Autopilot isn't auto-pilot either.
It's collision avoidance, radar cruise control and lane-keep-assist.
That seems broadly analogous to what Autopilot in a airplane does (though I'm not sure airplanes actively avoid collsions, autopilot typically just manages air speed and heading).
These aren't two radically different pieces of hardware like the PS3 and PS4, it mostly looks like a bump in graphics capabilities.
It seems fairly plausible that games will run well on the PS4 in HD and on the new machine at 4K.
I have a PS 4 and am not particularly worried about this. Maybe if the VR is better with this on or if I decide to get a 4KTV at some point it might be worth the upgrade.
Otherwise I expect to be happy with my PS4 and expect a lot of people will still continue to buy the cheaper PS4 because they only have an HD TV which will keep the PS4 as the most common PS4 platform (and therefore the one game makers consider the primary target) for quite a while.
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This is hardly "proof" though. It seems entirely plausible that a lot more people might have been more excited by the combination of "next gen"+nostalgia for the 2013 reboot than there would be people excited for subsequent, more incremental iterations.
Don't get me wrong, I think most DRM is snake oil and have certainly railed against some implementations of it (eg music CD "DRM" which hampered legitimate purchasers while MP3s abounded) in my time. But without some view into an alternate universe it's surely difficult to say categorically, or even probably, what effect DRM has on sales.
Of course, any publisher claiming that reducing piracy would "usher in a golden age of low prices and profitability" is probably lying as much as the many DRM snake oil sellers. Price is almost entirely determined by what people will pay.
RH/Centos do offer software collections with more modern versions[ if they want it.
The best path to cloud gaming is to have it alongside local gaming. Buy a game and you can play it locally or in the cloud, whatever suits you at a particular moment. Then people will use cloud when it is actually better (and if latency and bandwidth is under control it will be a better experience for a lot of games, eg vastly reduced load times). I guess PS Now is sorta doing this now, though it arrived at that situation from the opposite direction and doesnâ(TM)t sound like switching back and forth between cloud/local is as streamlined as youâ(TM)d want.
It isnâ(TM)t mandatory you ignoramus.
There is definitely a case for good enough. My 2013 Macbook Pro died, I looked into getting a new one and various issues (lack of ports and native support for the Apple monitor I have) turned me off the current Macbook Pro range.
I pulled out an unused 2015 Macbook Air from the office drawer and it has been perfectly adequate (other than the lack of retina display when not connected to a monitor).
That is mostly fine for me, not sure it's so good for Apple.
Farewell and commiserations to the people close to him. I only remember him as a name and words on a screen but back when Slashdot felt like somewhere to belong rather than just a site to read
It is relevant to the OPs assertion that it was âoejust a great pit stopâ that was 4 seconds faster than anyone was expecting. Quite the opposite, it was exactly the pit stop that everyone (and the software) should have been expecting.
You arenâ(TM)t going to pass anyone who is on track by going through the pits, even under VSC. Vettel was already ahead of Hamilton on track but still had a pit stop to do.
The advantage here was that Hamilton was driving slow enough under VSC that Vettel could complete his pit sequence without Hamilton overtaking him.
The typical stop time (ie the time in a pit stop that could theoretically be done faster) is about 2 to 3 seconds. There isnâ(TM)t 4 seconds to make up by doing a âoegreat pit stopâ.
It clearly is a glitch in the sense the software didnâ(TM)t do what it was supposed to do.
The software was supposed to predict the worst case scenario (eg Hamilton being stuck at virtual safety car speeds and competitors doing optimal pit stops) and tell them the track position they needed to be safe, giving them the information needed so they could push hard till they got into that window.
The software told them they were in that safe window when they werenâ(TM)t, so is either doing the calculations wrong or was fed incorrect parameters.
Firstly Opal cards typically let you tap off with a negative balance. In fact itâ(TM)s been a relatively well known exploit for getting a cheaper fare to the airport. There are plenty of articles out there on the loophole, but none as far as I can see on it being closed. Iâ(TM)m pretty sure my balance has gone negative recently, but I suppose it is possible they have put different restrictions in at the the airport. Secondly, anyone paranoid about privacy would discard their Opal card (they are free) when it ran out of credit and get a new one so that trips arenâ(TM)t connected over time and one use of a debit card to top up wouldnâ(TM)t connect their whole history.
Can you explain your âoenatural saturation pointâ?
In an electric car world most charging will be done at home, most cars will start out at full capacity every day. The requirements for opportunistic refueling drop significantly compared to petrol cars because cars donâ(TM)t have to refuel on average trips because the tank just happens to be low. Regardless, complaining that there isnâ(TM)t currently capacity for a future requirements is hardly a cutting criticism.
I think a never ending supply of incremental upgrades in a bunch of different areas is the exact opposite of an existential crisis for the tech industry. It is what keeps people buying new things. Donâ(TM)t have a reason to buy the Xbox X or PS4 Pro? MS/Sony donâ(TM)t care, they just want there to be enough people that do have a reason. Apple donâ(TM)t expect you to buy every new iPhone. They are happy for you to cough up a butt load of cash every 2, 3 or 4 versions (while telling yourself you are good because you have skipped a few)
Is how they arrived at the list of categories that it caters for. You'd think it would make sense to support terms that people commonly search for (which might explain "bras", but "Floppy disks"?)
Neuromancer will always be a standout piece of speculative fiction and iâ(TM)ll always love it. His newer works are probably âoebetterâ and more nuanced. The wilder dystopias traded for something far more familiar (but still dysfunctional in their own ways). Pattern Recognition is great and a roughly contemporary story. The Peripheral a good mix of both (though perhaps an increasingly uncomfortable one given what has happened in the world since it was written). Not sure I particularly want any of them turned into movies though.
I had given up trying to set up accounts that worked properly for my kids on the PS4, the new method seems like it's much more sensible.
I think that is generally true but I also think there are some historical exceptions to Google's handling of that, either that or a knock on effect from when Google couldn't use gmail.com in some countries for trademark reasons and had to issue googlemail.com addresses in those countries and then later tried to merge them.
I think autocomplete might compound the problem. People get it wrong once and their browser helpfully offers the wrong email in future forms. They send a group email with a wrong address, people reply-all and then everyone's email client thinks it's a known address and helpfully offers it as an autocomplete option in future. I have a first name last name @ gmail account and I get it quite a bit. Sometimes included on some family emails, sometimes emails from lawyers. Some guys Xbox account (who are you Cationicllama88?). Once someone's uber/lyft account, which I presumably could have used. Mostly I just ignore them if it is just some random site someone has signed up to. If it's personal/business then I normally reply pointing out the mistake and then delete the email, those people are generally appreciative of the effort. The ride sharing company was a pleasant surprise, I expected them to be a faceless void but got a real person who sorted it out quickly.
Perhaps not a bad idea then, though maybe America would be better off outsourcing the running of their elections and their health care system first.
I think the point is "first" is a weird word to use when you are talking about "modern" as "modern" changes with time.
OpenSSL or mcrypt or whatever else you might point to were "modern" when they were "first" used, even if they aren't "modern" any more.
"Only" might be a better choice if you are talking about the current time.
One of the (external) interfaces I work with involves sending ASCII encoded EBCDIC encoded data as post data to a UTF8 web server. (Ie where I need to send the digit "1", we send the hex bytes 46 31, ASCII encoded chars for F9, the EBCDIC character code for the "1" character) This stuff does live on and on and typically gets wrapped inside something else....
They certainly used to: used to
I think the formula may have opened up a little since then and other manufacturers are involved.
The McLaren Applied Technologies part of the company make a fair few parts used in different racing series.
I think a lot of McLaren's technical and design capabilities would be a good fit for Apple. Whether the racing and even supercar parts are is another question.
In the same sense that a plane autopilot is an autopilot? Ie it keeps you on the course and speed you set it at but doesn't do much else. It's perhaps odd that people interpret "autopilot" as meaning "self driving", it's probably called autopilot precisely because it isn't self driving.
That seems broadly analogous to what Autopilot in a airplane does (though I'm not sure airplanes actively avoid collsions, autopilot typically just manages air speed and heading).
What do you expect "Autopilot" to do?
These aren't two radically different pieces of hardware like the PS3 and PS4, it mostly looks like a bump in graphics capabilities. It seems fairly plausible that games will run well on the PS4 in HD and on the new machine at 4K. I have a PS 4 and am not particularly worried about this. Maybe if the VR is better with this on or if I decide to get a 4KTV at some point it might be worth the upgrade. Otherwise I expect to be happy with my PS4 and expect a lot of people will still continue to buy the cheaper PS4 because they only have an HD TV which will keep the PS4 as the most common PS4 platform (and therefore the one game makers consider the primary target) for quite a while.