I really can't see what you can't do on a 5'' phone that you can on 7''. Comics on a 10'' tablet was pretty good but you still too small to display whole pages. 12'' or 13'' probably could do it.
I'm actually waiting for a big color tablet with e-ink instead of a LCD, now that would be freaking perfect for books and comics.
More RAM and a better processor, which entails almost every single hardware update ever, for some reason paints a lackluster picture when Microsoft is behind it.
No, it seems lackluster because ram and processing power are far from the main problems the surface has. The main problem being probably price and lack of anything that makes it stand out on a market tha already have a lot of options. Nobody bought the first version of Surface RT and if all the new features are more RAM and processing power they probably won't buy the second that's the point of all comments that are bashing it.
It's one thing when the topic specifically discusses Microsoft's missteps
Reading comics. I could only find a 10' one and I wanted bigger. The weight is kind of bad but not worse than a big book and I mostly wanted to read on the bed so it wasn't a problem. The worst thing about it was handling, you have very little space to hold it without triggering something but that was just a metter of getting a handler or something.
Different needs for different people. I actually can't find a reason for a tablet smaller than 10' since a smartphone can already cover this kind of usage.
Oh sure, I was talking about the current state of gaming on linux. If the Steambox is ever released as a console it will already have a much bigger library than any other at release and it might finally make companies port games to linux.
The problem with your post now is that we have no news regarding the steambox.
I hate microsoft to the bone and when I read the title I thought they would be paying for video recorded or something, I was fairly disappointed to known that it was actually kind of reasonable, at least for people that think it's reasonable to buy crippled locked down hardware in the first place, hardware that have no advantage whatsoever over the PC.
The only thing that makes it looks kind of bad for MS is the fact that the same service is supposedly free on the playstation.
From my 110 games library 32 are compatible with linux and 15 of those are half-life. Also I do no special effort to purchase linux games. It's still too little for me to even consider suggesting linux for gaming for my friends as something viable.
Of course on the other hand having games on linux means that you might be able to do some really awesome stuff like assembling portable gaming device that plays steam games. Given the amount of awesome games that uses few resources these days like FTL it might actually be a really good idea.
Gotta tell you man, I'm not light about my gaming, I play all genres, during many hours. That's pratically all I do in my free time. I'm the ~1000 hours clocked into the Monster Hunter franchise, ~400 hours into the X universe, ~250 hours into the borderlands franchise kind of gamer and I really don't get all the bro's resistance to these gimmics, they aways look so awesome to me.
I'm also very carefull and wait to see if anyone will make good use of them but this one in particular seems to have much more potential than most gimmics.
Having said that this is a microsoft product and I won't play a xbox even if people paid me to do so. The only good thing out of it will probably be the youtube experimentation videos just like with kinectic.
Also, the Oculus rift will render it obsolete anyway.
Oh my god you're right, they are giving everyone a quite easy way to shut off all xboxes around the world. Oh god this will be glorious, I think I just learned to stop worrying and love the DRM.
The best analogy comes from 4chan:
"It's like a car that needs to be tuned in to a certain station all the time for the engines to work".
Since the it's the xbox we're talking about I feel the need to add: the station only broadcasts nazi propaganda.
In the videogame industry it seems that you have a way bigger chance to be conned by big companies than kickstarter pledges and indie developers. It would be nice to have some data on it. Granted, in both acts you take a risk but you seem to get what you ask for more regulary in kickstarters.
Or maybe it's just the price. I for one buy anything for 20 dollars or less even if this is the release price, even if I'm not sure I'll have time to play the game. I bought Torchlight 2 at release price since here in brazil it was the equivalent of 17 USD, also Borderlands 2 at 50% discount (~23 USD).
I might be really wrong but I believe he was really talking about drivers for the hardware that came out a decade earlier too. Maybe I'm reading too much into it huh?
AMD is the company that ignored linux for the most time, I prefer the lesser of two evils, I'll stick with nvidia for a while.
1. Find out the personal numbers of the biggest amount of politics you can
2. Spread these number through the biggest amount of robocallers you can
3. Peace
I might be way off since I don't really understand the subject but is it possible that this difference between a mostly genetic drift and a mostly natural selection races the difference between dominating and being dominated by the environment? This research might end up helping pinpoint when we started using our brains to modify the environment around us?
I even thought about running fallout 2 or magic carpet on it but it was way too slow. Maybe now that handhelds are getting more and more powerful dosbox might actually be a ok idea for some stuff, but I doubt the touch interface is going to make it a pleasant experience.
most serious gamers willing to plunk down $400 for a video card aren't going to skimp on upgrading the rest of the computer
Hell yeah I'll skimp, and you know why? Because it's fucking retarded not to that's why. Upgrading anything but the video card gives you close to no performance gain except for a few very specific cases (like wii emulators).
And don't get me wrong I have plenty of money, but what happened with voting with your wallet? You know you're fostering retarded business practices don't you? And what happened to avoid being on the fool end of a bargain? Why live in a captalist country if you don't know how to use it?
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They could be producing crazy-hot open-minded geeks.
I really can't see what you can't do on a 5'' phone that you can on 7''. Comics on a 10'' tablet was pretty good but you still too small to display whole pages. 12'' or 13'' probably could do it.
I'm actually waiting for a big color tablet with e-ink instead of a LCD, now that would be freaking perfect for books and comics.
Yeah, read foots as inches on my post. There is no way to edit right?
More RAM and a better processor, which entails almost every single hardware update ever, for some reason paints a lackluster picture when Microsoft is behind it.
No, it seems lackluster because ram and processing power are far from the main problems the surface has. The main problem being probably price and lack of anything that makes it stand out on a market tha already have a lot of options. Nobody bought the first version of Surface RT and if all the new features are more RAM and processing power they probably won't buy the second that's the point of all comments that are bashing it.
It's one thing when the topic specifically discusses Microsoft's missteps
Yes and this seem to be yet another mistep.
Reading comics. I could only find a 10' one and I wanted bigger. The weight is kind of bad but not worse than a big book and I mostly wanted to read on the bed so it wasn't a problem. The worst thing about it was handling, you have very little space to hold it without triggering something but that was just a metter of getting a handler or something.
Different needs for different people. I actually can't find a reason for a tablet smaller than 10' since a smartphone can already cover this kind of usage.
forget my other comment, I read yours wrong but it seems I can't delete or edit the other one
that's not what a zero-sum game is
Oh sure, I was talking about the current state of gaming on linux. If the Steambox is ever released as a console it will already have a much bigger library than any other at release and it might finally make companies port games to linux. The problem with your post now is that we have no news regarding the steambox.
I hate microsoft to the bone and when I read the title I thought they would be paying for video recorded or something, I was fairly disappointed to known that it was actually kind of reasonable, at least for people that think it's reasonable to buy crippled locked down hardware in the first place, hardware that have no advantage whatsoever over the PC. The only thing that makes it looks kind of bad for MS is the fact that the same service is supposedly free on the playstation.
From my 110 games library 32 are compatible with linux and 15 of those are half-life. Also I do no special effort to purchase linux games. It's still too little for me to even consider suggesting linux for gaming for my friends as something viable. Of course on the other hand having games on linux means that you might be able to do some really awesome stuff like assembling portable gaming device that plays steam games. Given the amount of awesome games that uses few resources these days like FTL it might actually be a really good idea.
I don't need a geology degree
Strangely I feel like trusting the judgement of someone who has. Stupid right?
Gotta tell you man, I'm not light about my gaming, I play all genres, during many hours. That's pratically all I do in my free time. I'm the ~1000 hours clocked into the Monster Hunter franchise, ~400 hours into the X universe, ~250 hours into the borderlands franchise kind of gamer and I really don't get all the bro's resistance to these gimmics, they aways look so awesome to me.
I'm also very carefull and wait to see if anyone will make good use of them but this one in particular seems to have much more potential than most gimmics.
Having said that this is a microsoft product and I won't play a xbox even if people paid me to do so. The only good thing out of it will probably be the youtube experimentation videos just like with kinectic.
Also, the Oculus rift will render it obsolete anyway.
Earth in Star Treck is a utopia so there is no marketing
DDoS attacks
Oh my god you're right, they are giving everyone a quite easy way to shut off all xboxes around the world. Oh god this will be glorious, I think I just learned to stop worrying and love the DRM.
The best analogy comes from 4chan: "It's like a car that needs to be tuned in to a certain station all the time for the engines to work".
Since the it's the xbox we're talking about I feel the need to add: the station only broadcasts nazi propaganda.
and if it's a jj abrams movie there will be a devil particle that is just plain plastic except alien and explained on a over complicated way.
In the videogame industry it seems that you have a way bigger chance to be conned by big companies than kickstarter pledges and indie developers. It would be nice to have some data on it. Granted, in both acts you take a risk but you seem to get what you ask for more regulary in kickstarters.
Or maybe it's just the price. I for one buy anything for 20 dollars or less even if this is the release price, even if I'm not sure I'll have time to play the game. I bought Torchlight 2 at release price since here in brazil it was the equivalent of 17 USD, also Borderlands 2 at 50% discount (~23 USD).
I might be really wrong but I believe he was really talking about drivers for the hardware that came out a decade earlier too. Maybe I'm reading too much into it huh?
AMD is the company that ignored linux for the most time, I prefer the lesser of two evils, I'll stick with nvidia for a while.
This sounds like a bad thing, thanks god it doesn't fucking exists outside TFA and TFS. Now what does exist is bad a good programmers, just as always.
1. Find out the personal numbers of the biggest amount of politics you can
2. Spread these number through the biggest amount of robocallers you can
3. Peace
I might be way off since I don't really understand the subject but is it possible that this difference between a mostly genetic drift and a mostly natural selection races the difference between dominating and being dominated by the environment? This research might end up helping pinpoint when we started using our brains to modify the environment around us?
I even thought about running fallout 2 or magic carpet on it but it was way too slow. Maybe now that handhelds are getting more and more powerful dosbox might actually be a ok idea for some stuff, but I doubt the touch interface is going to make it a pleasant experience.
True, pathfinding intensive games probably need a better processor.
most serious gamers willing to plunk down $400 for a video card aren't going to skimp on upgrading the rest of the computer
Hell yeah I'll skimp, and you know why? Because it's fucking retarded not to that's why. Upgrading anything but the video card gives you close to no performance gain except for a few very specific cases (like wii emulators). And don't get me wrong I have plenty of money, but what happened with voting with your wallet? You know you're fostering retarded business practices don't you? And what happened to avoid being on the fool end of a bargain? Why live in a captalist country if you don't know how to use it?