Having worked in biochem, it's not the hardware vendors causing the lag, it's the FDA-mandated cGMP validation and certification process that takes for.fucking.ever and has to be repeated for every tiny little change. Yes, it helps ensure quality and consistency, but it is painfully slow and discourages change, however desirable.
Like an idiot, I figured I'd eventually be stuck with Win10 on my gaming box after MS sunsets Win7 support, so I tried it out on my year-old, fair-to-middling quality home-built rig. All of my performance-hit fears were soon realized, including network lag, bandwidth usage, really crappy GPU support (on a GTX 980 Ti ferchrissakes!), and crashes/reboots due to interminable windows updates. Silly me. It was like trying to play the original Everquest on a Zenith 286.
Reinstalling Win7 cleanly, sans all the annoying Win10 "free upgrade" updates, is OK for now. When Win7 support sunsets, it's Steam on Linux for me.
Unfortunately, the leaders of the western world will be in full ostrich denial of the patently obvious right up to the moment of their beheading. Judeo-Christian civilization will become a historical footnote in Islam's march to final victory.
Eureka! Rock Star Engineer with a conscience accepts the phone unlocking project, code goes through QA cycle but when applied the phone data mysteriously goes, "poof!". Dot Gov can't prove intentional sabotage/obstruction, problem solved.
After WTO, NAFTA, et al, I'd say its safe to assume that TPP is designed and built to expedite the globalist race to the bottom, to the detriment of everyone but the oligarchs and their bootlickers.
No, you're wrong. The NSA is a DoD office and *in theory* bound by posse comitatus and cannot be used for domestic purposes. The head of the NSA is always a commissioned general officer.
The point is PC folks don't want to run an OS that has been castrated to run kiddie games. Play whatever you like, but Microsoft shouldn't be cutting Windows' leg off to give Xbox a chance in the race.
This. No serious PC gamer gives 2 hot shits about gimp console-specced games anyway, and by porting Windows games off to Mac and Linux they are saving us from Windows 10.
I run a windows boot for gaming only. Tried the *free win 10 upgrade* and after 20 minutes of unidentified net traffic and hideous I lag was reinstalling win 7.
Solution? Since Steam now has Mac ports for pretty much everything I play, the next gaming rig will be an incredibly over-priced Mac Pro.
I feel for the poor sods who are stuck with win 10 as a work platform or are too uninterested/uninformed to make a better choice for home use.
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You're obviously not a gamer, or not a very good one.
I'm sure it was tested...badly. Looks like an epic fail of cGMP validation.
Having worked in biochem, it's not the hardware vendors causing the lag, it's the FDA-mandated cGMP validation and certification process that takes for.fucking.ever and has to be repeated for every tiny little change. Yes, it helps ensure quality and consistency, but it is painfully slow and discourages change, however desirable.
Like an idiot, I figured I'd eventually be stuck with Win10 on my gaming box after MS sunsets Win7 support, so I tried it out on my year-old, fair-to-middling quality home-built rig. All of my performance-hit fears were soon realized, including network lag, bandwidth usage, really crappy GPU support (on a GTX 980 Ti ferchrissakes!), and crashes/reboots due to interminable windows updates. Silly me. It was like trying to play the original Everquest on a Zenith 286.
Reinstalling Win7 cleanly, sans all the annoying Win10 "free upgrade" updates, is OK for now. When Win7 support sunsets, it's Steam on Linux for me.
The youngsters in my department have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for me, mostly because I'm their fucking boss. Heh.
If it doesn't get summarily dismissed (highly likely) and becomes as entertaining as Caldera v. IBM, I wonder if pj will resurrect Groklaw.
If he'd been working for Goldman Sachs, he'd have gotten a bonus instead of an indictment.
Unfortunately, the leaders of the western world will be in full ostrich denial of the patently obvious right up to the moment of their beheading. Judeo-Christian civilization will become a historical footnote in Islam's march to final victory.
Clever proof of concept, but aimed at what market?
True, Steam offers a broad selection of genres and titles, but I really can't see surviving past the loading screen in an intense FPS or MMO.
Cute anime panda games, maybe.
I mean, really, Company of Heroes 2 on a damn telephone?
Eureka! Rock Star Engineer with a conscience accepts the phone unlocking project, code goes through QA cycle but when applied the phone data mysteriously goes, "poof!". Dot Gov can't prove intentional sabotage/obstruction, problem solved.
You don't go to Gitmo for "Oops!"
After WTO, NAFTA, et al, I'd say its safe to assume that TPP is designed and built to expedite the globalist race to the bottom, to the detriment of everyone but the oligarchs and their bootlickers.
No, you're wrong. The NSA is a DoD office and *in theory* bound by posse comitatus and cannot be used for domestic purposes. The head of the NSA is always a commissioned general officer.
$1.35M isn't even a rounding error to Verizon.
Same shit, different day.
Maybe someday the south will just say, "OK, bring it on you fat little faggot!" and smack the shit out of them.
Problem solved.
The point is PC folks don't want to run an OS that has been castrated to run kiddie games. Play whatever you like, but Microsoft shouldn't be cutting Windows' leg off to give Xbox a chance in the race.
This. No serious PC gamer gives 2 hot shits about gimp console-specced games anyway, and by porting Windows games off to Mac and Linux they are saving us from Windows 10.
Not a bad idea....thanks!
I run a windows boot for gaming only. Tried the *free win 10 upgrade* and after 20 minutes of unidentified net traffic and hideous I lag was reinstalling win 7.
Solution? Since Steam now has Mac ports for pretty much everything I play, the next gaming rig will be an incredibly over-priced Mac Pro.
I feel for the poor sods who are stuck with win 10 as a work platform or are too uninterested/uninformed to make a better choice for home use.
Brought to you by the Department of Available Redundancy Department...sheesh.
+1 Informative if I had mod points.
It's hard for me to oppose the abuses of the H1B system when the pool of available young talent available to me is dumber than owl poop.
I thought it was a feature...
Mohammed Atta et al weren't using encrypted communications, just AOL and flip phones. Yet the TLA's totally screwed the pooch on 9/11.
A .125 batter can't keep blaming the bat forever.
All your bases are belong to us!
By then real life will suck so much for the commoners that VR/AR will be the state-sanctioned escape and control mode.
You, dear AC, win the internets today.