...with the specialized hardware for managing such an internet.
If 'concerned' companies like Cisco were really worried about important data getting through they'd be asking questions about why broadband in the U.S. is so crap on a cost/benefit ratio compared to other modern industrialized nations; and, if they were really concerned about health monitoring and public safety, they certainly wouldn't leave it up to the free market to safeguard those concerns - they'd want a separate protocol for those types of devices/systems.
Anyone who grew up with the early internet (by which I mean the very early 90's, not the DARPA days) and greeted each new increase in bandwidth with elation will recoil with horror at the thought of being throttled by some greedy middle man who YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING to get access to the endpoint you're now being screwed over.
I'm not one for espousing socialist policies, but I'd rather see all the fiber in the U.S. in the hands of the government than net neutrality be legislated out of existence and it be in the hands of Comcast. I know that's like comparing two handfuls of crap, but it would appear that some crap is worse than others.
It is a big deal, but people who espouse one console over the other tend to do it for subjective reasons. A perfect example is your referring to the XBox One as the XBone, you're exhibiting a subjective prejudice that really makes no sense. People who act like this are the same people who constantly argue over whether OSX is better than Windows or if Linux is better than both or Windows is... Et cetera, ad nauseum.
I have no problem with people choosing a PS4 over an XBox One, hell I have a 360 and a PS3. I had the PS3 first and got the 360 for Rock Band and the kids (there were reasons why Rock Band on 360 was a better choice at the time.)
I chose an XBox One at this time because I liked the way the 360 was moving towards being an all in one entertainment device. The XBox One has been great for that. I'll probably have a PS4 eventually, but who knows.
If I'm worried about "more powerful" I'll use my PC, it's vastly more powerful than either of them. Ignoring that unless you're an expert you'd never be able to tell what console you were using from watching gameplay footage without doing a direct comparison and freeze-framing and only then it would be some of the time. Who cares? Seriously.
Hell, I hope Nintendo pulls a rabbit out of the hat and comes up with something mind blowing, never count them out.
Really? XInput can't use HID devices? Whoopsie Micro$oft... HID can be complex though... I wrote a C++ class a long time ago for abstracting a lot of it away, I live in fear that I won't be able to find it again someday.
You can't use XInput with Windows Store apps? I thought I remembered and XInput update allowing this (but this was a while ago maybe that has changed...)
The only Micro$oft products in our house are the XBox One, the 360, and a triple boot dev box with OSX, Windows 7, and OpenSUSE. Android and iOS devices are used for everything else.
That's like saying Kinect was cancelled on XBox 360 the day it was released because it was optional. Excellent logic.
See, if developers know that only a small percentage of the user-base has a Kinect, then they won't spend a lot of time coming up with creative ways to use the hardware.
See, if developers know that more than 4 million XBox Ones are out there with a Kinect (as of now), they they will spend a lot of time coming up with creative ways to use the hardware...
Presumably the Kinect exports motion maps (probably skeletal) that are generated in the device itself via DSP. The spatial analysis on those motion maps is likely done on the GPU.
Same here. I thought a Google Chrome extension was injecting ads, because I'd disable the extension and hit refresh and the ads would disappear, then re-enable and hit refresh and there they were again. Turned out I could leave the extension alone and intermittently get ads (lol...)
I use mine every time I watch Netflix, the family uses it to Skype, and for some family games, I also no longer need a headset to chat to other players online.
The kids have their own 360 with Kinect that they use all the time, and the wife uses for workouts. This will likely translate over to the XBox One as well.
No matter how Microsoft may try to spin it, cancelling Kinect isn't just a matter of giving game developers freedom, it's a tacit admission that game developers have no significant projects in play that are expected to meaningfully tap Kinect to deliver a great game experience
First, Kinect isn't cancelled.
Second, it isn't a tacit admission that game developers have no games coming out that meaningfully use the Kinect because game developers that need Kinect for their game simply keep using it (because it isn't cancelled...)
It's really just what they should have done in the beginning, allowed developers to use the GPU the way they wish. I fully expect devs to allow users to pause their game, which re-enables Kinect support in order to allow me to perform whatever non-game actions I wish to initiate (like answering a Skype call.)
What's the big hairy deal?
Like the PS4? Buy one, enjoy. Like the XBox One? Buy one, enjoy.
One place had no heat at all until my software was up and running, it was winter, so I was in my car with a 200 foot cat5e ran to inside the building to a small switch, and then into their network.
You win - that is a cool visual:). I could see Gary Larson going to town on that.
"...playing the odds that the insured would not consult an attorney."
People who don't own their own businesses or aren't involved in the higher levels of a corporation don't realize that much of business behavior is defined by the expectation of the likelihood of being sued.
Of course they can't legally just retroactively f*** everyone over, but who is going to stop them when they're likely privately indemnified by SONY.
That's just one of the negatives of capitalism - most people try to get away with everything they can. A modified form of consequentialism.
Sadly this has been industry practice for both AMD and nVidia since at least the late 90's. Both AMD and nVidia would send developers over to literally optimize your code for you. It was, of course, a double edged sword as their guys were highly skilled at getting render pathing done for their hardware iterations but it was made very clear that they were mostly interested in maximizing performance for their devices.
Don't recall them actively screwing things up, but I'm sure that some pipeline changes would easily benefit one vendor to the detriment of the other.
Hey gang, I have ads disabled and yet I am still seeing a thin banner ad that closely resembles the footer banner ad that runs along the bottom if you re-enable ads.
I thought this was a chrome extension issue as many popular chrome extensions have had malware added to them recently, and when an extension I suspected as being the problem was disabled the ad disappeared, when re-enabled the ad re-appeared. I figured the problem was solved. This was on a dev box at work.
When I got home I checked out my home PC to see if the problem existed - and yes, it did. This time, however, disabling that same extension did not cause the ad to appear/disappear, the ad remained. So I disabled all extensions, and the ad remained. I scanned my machine with Malwarebytes Pro, ho hits. I then fired up Firefox (it has been a while) and updated it, then checked slashdot and replicated the same issue.
The ad looks exactly like a slashdot banner ad, seems to serve the same types of ads that a slashdot ad would, except that it is always just below the text of an article on the article's page - and ads are disabled.
While I have some libertarian (classic libertarian) tendencies, the people who espouse modern libertarianism seem to me to live in fear of everything.
They're afraid of people that don't look or act like them, they're afraid of the government, they're afraid of anything they themselves didn't discover or suggest, et cetera...
Especially relating to gun control. I'm not anti-gun, but I simply cannot understand why what APPEARS to be the majority of gun owners think that government limits on gun ownership in any way endangers their ability to reign in the government.
All the "it's the last bulwark against tyranny" crap. Really? If the government told gun owners you could only own a single shotgun or rifle and handguns were outlawed (not that I'm saying this should happen) - do the gun 'nuts' really think they still couldn't overthrow the government with one gun?
How many guns can they shoot at the same time during the uprising? LOL.
Anyhow, I've gone off on a rant, lol.
Sometimes I feel like the last reasonable American (which is both smug and clearly untrue) because I have the feeling that most moderate people are just rather quiet about their beliefs.
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...with the specialized hardware for managing such an internet.
If 'concerned' companies like Cisco were really worried about important data getting through they'd be asking questions about why broadband in the U.S. is so crap on a cost/benefit ratio compared to other modern industrialized nations; and, if they were really concerned about health monitoring and public safety, they certainly wouldn't leave it up to the free market to safeguard those concerns - they'd want a separate protocol for those types of devices/systems.
Anyone who grew up with the early internet (by which I mean the very early 90's, not the DARPA days) and greeted each new increase in bandwidth with elation will recoil with horror at the thought of being throttled by some greedy middle man who YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING to get access to the endpoint you're now being screwed over.
I'm not one for espousing socialist policies, but I'd rather see all the fiber in the U.S. in the hands of the government than net neutrality be legislated out of existence and it be in the hands of Comcast. I know that's like comparing two handfuls of crap, but it would appear that some crap is worse than others.
It is a big deal, but people who espouse one console over the other tend to do it for subjective reasons. A perfect example is your referring to the XBox One as the XBone, you're exhibiting a subjective prejudice that really makes no sense. People who act like this are the same people who constantly argue over whether OSX is better than Windows or if Linux is better than both or Windows is... Et cetera, ad nauseum.
I have no problem with people choosing a PS4 over an XBox One, hell I have a 360 and a PS3. I had the PS3 first and got the 360 for Rock Band and the kids (there were reasons why Rock Band on 360 was a better choice at the time.)
I chose an XBox One at this time because I liked the way the 360 was moving towards being an all in one entertainment device. The XBox One has been great for that. I'll probably have a PS4 eventually, but who knows.
If I'm worried about "more powerful" I'll use my PC, it's vastly more powerful than either of them. Ignoring that unless you're an expert you'd never be able to tell what console you were using from watching gameplay footage without doing a direct comparison and freeze-framing and only then it would be some of the time. Who cares? Seriously.
Hell, I hope Nintendo pulls a rabbit out of the hat and comes up with something mind blowing, never count them out.
Aaah, okay, suddenly the definition of not being dead has evolved into
market is loaded with games taking advantage of Kinect in amazing and creative ways
- lol.
I guess that makes the PS4 camera dead on arrival, eh? Wonder why they keep selling like hot cakes... People must like dead hot cakes.
Really? XInput can't use HID devices? Whoopsie Micro$oft... HID can be complex though... I wrote a C++ class a long time ago for abstracting a lot of it away, I live in fear that I won't be able to find it again someday.
You can't use XInput with Windows Store apps? I thought I remembered and XInput update allowing this (but this was a while ago maybe that has changed...)
Does anyone actually use the Windows Store? ;)
Last word...
since it's been unbundled my MS, it's pretty much dead
Wow, if it isn't bundled I guess it must be dead. Like the Kinect for the 360, like the PS4 Camera, et cetera
You sound like you live in your own universe...
The only Micro$oft products in our house are the XBox One, the 360, and a triple boot dev box with OSX, Windows 7, and OpenSUSE. Android and iOS devices are used for everything else.
That's like saying Kinect was cancelled on XBox 360 the day it was released because it was optional. Excellent logic.
See, if developers know that only a small percentage of the user-base has a Kinect, then they won't spend a lot of time coming up with creative ways to use the hardware.
See, if developers know that more than 4 million XBox Ones are out there with a Kinect (as of now), they they will spend a lot of time coming up with creative ways to use the hardware...
Yes, that's a valid comparison, the Wii hardware ecosystem versus the Kinect hardware ecosystem. :)
Presumably the Kinect exports motion maps (probably skeletal) that are generated in the device itself via DSP. The spatial analysis on those motion maps is likely done on the GPU.
Microsoft not been responsible for horrible controller support on PC games
How is Micro$oft responsible for that? Game developers are responsible for controller support, not Micro$oft. Try writing some game input code.
Same here. I thought a Google Chrome extension was injecting ads, because I'd disable the extension and hit refresh and the ads would disappear, then re-enable and hit refresh and there they were again. Turned out I could leave the extension alone and intermittently get ads (lol...)
Really?
I use mine every time I watch Netflix, the family uses it to Skype, and for some family games, I also no longer need a headset to chat to other players online.
The kids have their own 360 with Kinect that they use all the time, and the wife uses for workouts. This will likely translate over to the XBox One as well.
You sound like an idiot.
No matter how Microsoft may try to spin it, cancelling Kinect isn't just a matter of giving game developers freedom, it's a tacit admission that game developers have no significant projects in play that are expected to meaningfully tap Kinect to deliver a great game experience
First, Kinect isn't cancelled.
Second, it isn't a tacit admission that game developers have no games coming out that meaningfully use the Kinect because game developers that need Kinect for their game simply keep using it (because it isn't cancelled...)
It's really just what they should have done in the beginning, allowed developers to use the GPU the way they wish. I fully expect devs to allow users to pause their game, which re-enables Kinect support in order to allow me to perform whatever non-game actions I wish to initiate (like answering a Skype call.)
What's the big hairy deal?
Like the PS4? Buy one, enjoy.
Like the XBox One? Buy one, enjoy.
Christ, get over yourselves.
..in the U.S. Navy, in the engineering log room with a broken AC system, in 17,000 feet of water. Long live Turbo C++!
One place had no heat at all until my software was up and running, it was winter, so I was in my car with a 200 foot cat5e ran to inside the building to a small switch, and then into their network.
You win - that is a cool visual :). I could see Gary Larson going to town on that.
...that's quite a typo ;).
"...playing the odds that the insured would not consult an attorney."
People who don't own their own businesses or aren't involved in the higher levels of a corporation don't realize that much of business behavior is defined by the expectation of the likelihood of being sued.
Of course they can't legally just retroactively f*** everyone over, but who is going to stop them when they're likely privately indemnified by SONY.
That's just one of the negatives of capitalism - most people try to get away with everything they can. A modified form of consequentialism.
Sadly this has been industry practice for both AMD and nVidia since at least the late 90's. Both AMD and nVidia would send developers over to literally optimize your code for you. It was, of course, a double edged sword as their guys were highly skilled at getting render pathing done for their hardware iterations but it was made very clear that they were mostly interested in maximizing performance for their devices.
Don't recall them actively screwing things up, but I'm sure that some pipeline changes would easily benefit one vendor to the detriment of the other.
Hey gang, I have ads disabled and yet I am still seeing a thin banner ad that closely resembles the footer banner ad that runs along the bottom if you re-enable ads.
I thought this was a chrome extension issue as many popular chrome extensions have had malware added to them recently, and when an extension I suspected as being the problem was disabled the ad disappeared, when re-enabled the ad re-appeared. I figured the problem was solved. This was on a dev box at work.
When I got home I checked out my home PC to see if the problem existed - and yes, it did. This time, however, disabling that same extension did not cause the ad to appear/disappear, the ad remained. So I disabled all extensions, and the ad remained. I scanned my machine with Malwarebytes Pro, ho hits. I then fired up Firefox (it has been a while) and updated it, then checked slashdot and replicated the same issue.
The ad looks exactly like a slashdot banner ad, seems to serve the same types of ads that a slashdot ad would, except that it is always just below the text of an article on the article's page - and ads are disabled.
Anybody else experiencing this?
Cheers
I develop for Android and iOS too and I connect my bluetooth Apple wireless keyboard to tablets all the time.
While I have some libertarian (classic libertarian) tendencies, the people who espouse modern libertarianism seem to me to live in fear of everything.
They're afraid of people that don't look or act like them, they're afraid of the government, they're afraid of anything they themselves didn't discover or suggest, et cetera...
Especially relating to gun control. I'm not anti-gun, but I simply cannot understand why what APPEARS to be the majority of gun owners think that government limits on gun ownership in any way endangers their ability to reign in the government.
All the "it's the last bulwark against tyranny" crap. Really? If the government told gun owners you could only own a single shotgun or rifle and handguns were outlawed (not that I'm saying this should happen) - do the gun 'nuts' really think they still couldn't overthrow the government with one gun?
How many guns can they shoot at the same time during the uprising? LOL.
Anyhow, I've gone off on a rant, lol.
Sometimes I feel like the last reasonable American (which is both smug and clearly untrue) because I have the feeling that most moderate people are just rather quiet about their beliefs.
Anyhow, I'll shut up now.
Indeed.
Unknown design flaws often helped identify new areas of concern, e.g. the compressibility issue with early P-38s.