The long cycles are useful for letting developers get the most out of a particular console. For an extreme example, look at all the crazy stuff people have somehow made the venerable C64 do. There's still some really impressive stuff going on in the demo scene.
For console owners, it also lets you know for sure that your console will play any game released for that platform. Buying a $300 console every 6-7 years, instead of a new $300 console every two years. And really, are the graphics on the 360/PS3 generation that bad? I know my 360 struggles a bit with GTA V in certain spots, but that was released 8 years later, and can be made to run quite well by doing a dual install to the hard drive+a reasonably fast USB stick. Not too shabby for a console generation that was on the verge of being replaced at that point.
Who cares about triple A games anymore? I've got my old-school PC games, and C64, NES, SNES, Genesis, Amiga, Neo Geo emulators (and many others) ready to go with the quality games of yesteryear, before DLC, achievements and mandatory always-online DRM infested the gaming world and made it an exercise in frustration.
Don't get me wrong, I have over 600 games in my Steam library, but things were just so much more straightforward back then.
The records have to be absolutely 100% completely free of dust or any other particles, otherwise the laser will read them as if they were the actual groove, leading to a lot of unwanted noise. A normal pickup pushes aside most of the dust.
It's a neat idea, but it's much worse than a decent pickup on a normal turntable.
Sony and AT studio monitors (as in speakers, not headphones)? Bitch, please.
In the studio monitor world, it's all about JBL, Dynaudio, Neumann, Yamaha, Adam Audio, Eve Audio, ATC, PMC, Focal, Opal and a bunch of other brands that Sony and AT can't even come close to touching on sound quality.
Part of the reason why a 100W tube guitar amp can play louder than a 100W solid state guitar amp is that the power rating is the maximum clean power the amp can provide. But of course tube amps are regularly overloaded on purpose and the distortion sounds great, so you're getting a lot more power out of it. If you try to do that with a solid state amp, it sounds like shit. So you need to overprovision a solid state amp to get the same results as a tube amp, even though the output rating is the same, for clean power.
Our previous CEO? Hell yes, he was no good. Promoted way too far up for his skill level, and although he wasn't an outright PR disaster, it was very cringe-worthy.
Our current CEO seems a lot more level-headed, I'd definitely keep her.
Yeah, of course a lot of the very latest and greatest games are Windows-only. On the other hand, games like CS:GO and TF2 are on Linux and play great, so some of the big ones are represented.
I guess it depends on whether you see yourself as a Gamer or a gamer.
But that could be such a good thing. We're actually moving towards post-scarcity economies, but we're to stupid to realize it, and the top 1% are too greedy to accept it.
No one starves to death in Scandinavia, unless they deliberately starve themselves. And even then, they'll probably be put in a psychiatric ward and force-fed or drip-fed.
Did you sign a contract for this video-producing job of yours, or did you just rely on the good graces of Youtube to keep feeding advertising dollars your way?
Did Youtube provide you with any sort of promise that you could continue to earn money by creating and uploading video?
So basically, you just latched on to a convenient source of revenue, which just happened to be freely available. That does not entitle you to keep earning money. I'm sorry, but you don't really have much of a say on this, you're operating under the good graces of Youtube. Sure, if enough content creators band together and make a fuss, Youtube will probably rethink some of their policies. But really, there are millions of other people who are just waiting for their chance, and they don't mind adhering a little more strictly to the rules than you currently do.
It really isn't a stable reliable way to make a living.
+1 for AvE, EEVblog, LGR, bigclivedotcom, Techmoan, Fully Charged and all the countless others who upload high-quality and extremely informative videos, without having to resort to vulgarity or shock value to get their points across.
I wish the world could be rid of game streamers, who upload hours and hours of mind-numbingly boring gameplay with their ugly mugs superimposed in the corners. If everyone of those sad fuckers got ruined because of demonetization, I couldn't be happier.
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So now, the phone will go for almost a full day on a charge? Amazing!
The long cycles are useful for letting developers get the most out of a particular console. For an extreme example, look at all the crazy stuff people have somehow made the venerable C64 do. There's still some really impressive stuff going on in the demo scene.
For console owners, it also lets you know for sure that your console will play any game released for that platform. Buying a $300 console every 6-7 years, instead of a new $300 console every two years. And really, are the graphics on the 360/PS3 generation that bad? I know my 360 struggles a bit with GTA V in certain spots, but that was released 8 years later, and can be made to run quite well by doing a dual install to the hard drive+a reasonably fast USB stick. Not too shabby for a console generation that was on the verge of being replaced at that point.
It's a cost-cutting measure. And since the signal through TOSLINK cannot be encrypted, they also consider it a security hole.
Who cares about triple A games anymore? I've got my old-school PC games, and C64, NES, SNES, Genesis, Amiga, Neo Geo emulators (and many others) ready to go with the quality games of yesteryear, before DLC, achievements and mandatory always-online DRM infested the gaming world and made it an exercise in frustration.
Don't get me wrong, I have over 600 games in my Steam library, but things were just so much more straightforward back then.
And what do you do if you want to charge the phone and listen to music at the same time?
No, it's pretty much crap.
The records have to be absolutely 100% completely free of dust or any other particles, otherwise the laser will read them as if they were the actual groove, leading to a lot of unwanted noise. A normal pickup pushes aside most of the dust.
It's a neat idea, but it's much worse than a decent pickup on a normal turntable.
I though it was because they had moved everything to HTML5?
Please explain to the bonobo chimpanzees and hyenas (among many others) that their homosexual behavior is unnatural.
No, Freddie legally changed his name around when they started Queen.
Sony and AT studio monitors (as in speakers, not headphones)? Bitch, please.
In the studio monitor world, it's all about JBL, Dynaudio, Neumann, Yamaha, Adam Audio, Eve Audio, ATC, PMC, Focal, Opal and a bunch of other brands that Sony and AT can't even come close to touching on sound quality.
Part of the reason why a 100W tube guitar amp can play louder than a 100W solid state guitar amp is that the power rating is the maximum clean power the amp can provide. But of course tube amps are regularly overloaded on purpose and the distortion sounds great, so you're getting a lot more power out of it. If you try to do that with a solid state amp, it sounds like shit. So you need to overprovision a solid state amp to get the same results as a tube amp, even though the output rating is the same, for clean power.
Which matters for things like radio transmitters, where you need big power in the MHz range.
For audio amplifiers, transistors are king.
Our previous CEO? Hell yes, he was no good. Promoted way too far up for his skill level, and although he wasn't an outright PR disaster, it was very cringe-worthy.
Our current CEO seems a lot more level-headed, I'd definitely keep her.
Did your streaming videos featuring your hideous mug get demonetized?
Yeah, of course a lot of the very latest and greatest games are Windows-only. On the other hand, games like CS:GO and TF2 are on Linux and play great, so some of the big ones are represented.
I guess it depends on whether you see yourself as a Gamer or a gamer.
But that could be such a good thing. We're actually moving towards post-scarcity economies, but we're to stupid to realize it, and the top 1% are too greedy to accept it.
No one starves to death in Scandinavia, unless they deliberately starve themselves. And even then, they'll probably be put in a psychiatric ward and force-fed or drip-fed.
Don't forget your fedora, Guy Fawkes mask and 8-bit tie on your way out.
He's not really that vulgar, in my opinion. But he does speak his mind on crap designs. Maybe my professional life has hardened me ;-)
It's really no different than a large nationwide TV channel deciding to not run certain TV shows or show certain movies because of their content.
Did you sign a contract for this video-producing job of yours, or did you just rely on the good graces of Youtube to keep feeding advertising dollars your way?
Did Youtube provide you with any sort of promise that you could continue to earn money by creating and uploading video?
So basically, you just latched on to a convenient source of revenue, which just happened to be freely available. That does not entitle you to keep earning money. I'm sorry, but you don't really have much of a say on this, you're operating under the good graces of Youtube. Sure, if enough content creators band together and make a fuss, Youtube will probably rethink some of their policies. But really, there are millions of other people who are just waiting for their chance, and they don't mind adhering a little more strictly to the rules than you currently do.
It really isn't a stable reliable way to make a living.
+1 for AvE, EEVblog, LGR, bigclivedotcom, Techmoan, Fully Charged and all the countless others who upload high-quality and extremely informative videos, without having to resort to vulgarity or shock value to get their points across.
I wish the world could be rid of game streamers, who upload hours and hours of mind-numbingly boring gameplay with their ugly mugs superimposed in the corners. If everyone of those sad fuckers got ruined because of demonetization, I couldn't be happier.
Nice twist of words there, broheim. Suddenly "attack" becomes "is critical of".
No, shit-for-brains, the demonetized videos are no merely "critical", they are outright smear pieces and attacks on named persons.
Good riddance, I say. What a reprehensible person.