Obvious/r/pcmasterrace kicks the shit out of under-powered consoles @ 120+ Hz, 4K gaming, and certain genres (such as RTS's) not even available on consoles!) but for _some_ people they like to play on the couch. Go figure.
Unfortunately, my Xbox 360 with my acoustic-to-electronic drum kit conversion is the only way to play Rock Band 1, 2, and 3.:-/
There is no reason why a person can't like **both** PCs and Console games.
Except it is not. i.e. Ran into this very issue over the Winter break:
While visiting my parents in Canada I couldn't stream Netflix which is bullshit. I live in the US, and NetFlix can tell I have an US account but apparently since "I'm on vacation" I'm not allowed.
Same. Haven't watch Faux News or other bullshit propaganda since 2000. Online news = far faster and less bullshit hurry-up-and-wait "reporting."
> other than Isle of man and F1 there is no real sports to watch.
I still want to know why the fuck isn't there a sports channel dedicated to motorcycles? Because watching sissy Nascar sucks.
> In the spring it's a small white ball, in the fall it's a dumb oblong brown ball. If you cant DIE from your sport, it's not a sport.
You HAD to go there, didn't you?
Look, just because you and I think Golf is boring as fuck doesn't mean it isn't a sport. Pro Golf takes skill that most people simply don't have. This artificial division of X is or isn't a sport is just that -- artificial. Proof look at all the people that watched Google's DeepMind vs Go !
The problem is that the stuff we _do_ want to watch gets pre-empted or grouped with all the other crap we _don't_ want to watch.
> Yes, it's pretty arrogant to think that we're the only life in the universe. But it's even more arrogant to think that a species so incredibly advanced as to have developed a way to travel across the almost unimaginably vast distances of interstellar space would give a flying fuck about a primitive species that only recent developed simple chemical rockets.
Actually you're the ignorant one to think that humans are boring.
For one, Free Will doesn't exist on most planets, so we are _extremely interesting_ to most species as they study the evolution and development of Consciousness.
i.e. Considering our advancement in a mere 200,000 years compared to most other species that have take 2,000,000 (million) years to reach the same level, yeah, the progression and outcome of The Earth Experiment is highly regarded as being important.
Sorry that you don't feel your life is special by you. Carry on with your boring life.
-- First Contact is tentatively scheduled for ~2024. Are you ready for a new perspective?
The problem with (official) "First Contact" is that will cause MORE problems then it will solve.:-/ Everything from Mathematics, Money, Religion, Science will need to be re-evaluated. Most people are not ready to have their false belief system blown apart.
Proof will be given in ~2024 when we can end these stupid discussion once and for all and focus on the more important issues like why is most of life bipedal humanoid in the galaxy? Why were humans genetically engineered? Why is Earth one of the only few places with Free Will ?
-- If animals can live millions of years on Earth without money, why can't stupid humans?
Your fallacy is you keep forgetting that copyright is for a LIMITED time.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Originally it was 17 years. Now the duration is a retarded author's lifetime + 70 years.
Holding popular culture "hostage" for the sake of greed is immature.
>> Q. How many friends can I loan my DVD / BluRay to before it becomes piracy? > All of them. It only becomes piracy if they make a copy of it.
False.
1. If copyright is still ACTIVE then the answer is: All. 2. If copyright has EXPIRED then the answer is: None. 3. You're forgetting that in some places in the world, such as Canada, Germany, etc. you can loan your _original_ to a friend, and they CAN _legally_ make a copy, and return the original partially due to a) a levy tax on blank media, and b) due to a legal loophole:
With physical media like tapes or CDs the "owner" is the person in possession of the original copy. This definition made it legit, at least in Canada, to borrow original materiel, copy it, and then return.
> Copying something without permission that a rights holder was supposed to have exclusive rights for a limited time to control copies is what is illegal. Exclusive means that nobody else is doing it, after all. If you disagree with this premise, then you advocate abolition of copyright.
I'm OK with reasonable copyright when it is for a limited time, like ~10..- ~15 years. I'm NOT ok with retarded copyright of an author's lifetime + 75 years.
You are completely ignorant about the history of copyright. Copyright was initiated by printers/publishers to prevent other publishers from profiting off their work but you can see still the _spirit_ of the law was for sharing of knowledge. What was that Law called again? Oh gee, look, a law for the Encouragement of Learning.
In England the printers, known as stationers, formed a collective organisation, known as the Stationers' Company. In the 16th century the Stationers' Company was given the power to require all lawfully printed books to be entered into its register. Only members of the Stationers' Company could enter books into the register. This meant that the Stationers' Company achieved a dominant position over publishing in 17th century England (no equivalent arrangement formed in Scotland and Ireland). The monopoly came to an end in 1694, when the English Parliament did not renew the Stationers Company's power.[6]
In 1707 the parliaments of England and Scotland were united as a result of the Anglo-Scottish Union. The new parliament was able to change the laws in both countries and an important early piece of legislation was the Copyright Act of 1709, also known as the Statute of Anne, after Queen Anne. The act came into force in 1710 and was the first copyright statute. Its full title was "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned"
The enforcement of the Statute of Anne in April of 1710 marked a historic moment in the development of copyright law. As the world's first copyright statute it granted publishers of a book legal protection of 14 years with the commencement of the statute.
1. One can't legally buy a copy. Piracy is the *only* option to watch it. 2. Artificial Scarcity. If a DVD/BluRay is not available in my region, piracy is simply more convenient 3. They can't afford it. 4. If a borrow a movie from a library, watch it, and then return it this has the exact same effect as if I had borrowed a movie from the library, made a copy, returned the original, and watch my copy later, except the former is legal, yet the latter is "magically" illegal 5. Piracy is the delusion that "copying numbers is illegal". How stupid is Civilization when it has declared Illegal Numbers !?!?/sarcasm Those pesky Mathematicians! They are the cause of the downfall of society!
To everyone who plays the bullshit piracy-is-illegal card here are some questions for you:
Q. If your friend buys a DVD and loans it to you, is it piracy if you watch it? You never paid for the content. Q. How many friends can I loan my DVD / BluRay to before it becomes piracy? Q. Why is it OK if I personally loan it to friends, but I can't share my copy with strangers? Q. How "long" do I have to know a person before I can legally share my copy? Q. Are libraries engaging in piracy?
Do I personally pirate? No, as I like having my own personal library so I don't mind buying BluRays / DVDs. If I can't buy it, I'll just wait until it is available. But my reasons for why I _don't_ pirate may not work for someone who _does_.
> copyright is a good thing at all, then one has a ethical obligation to respect it,
1. When Copyright was only ~20 years, sure, I have no problem following that but when the law has become corrupt that something that _would_ become "public domain" will NEVER reach that status, then there is higher obligation:
Civil Disobedience is the only way to change to corrupt laws.
2. Rosa Parks would like to have some of what you are smoking. Laws are NOT absolutes. That is why they _change over time_.
Personally, abolish copyright, because it is no longer server its original purpose:
One major purpose of Copyright Law is to "promote the progress of the sciences and useful arts", in other words knowledge.
So no, we're not ethically bound to follow bullshit artificial laws.
Since we haven't evolved to live on a planet without money yet, the only effective way to stop any propaganda is to find out WHO financially supports them and cut off their money supply.
All the Petabytes of Information the NSA has and they have to target American Citizens instead ??
> Which has two drawbacks: an unfair accuracy advantage for player 1 compared to players 2, 3, and 4 on the same machine
Someone call the Wahbulance. How's that 30 Hz slideshow with 4 players on the same console working out?
> and the fact that movement is still digital. W, A, S, and D aren't pressure-sensitive.
And in *practice* that means jack shit as
1. good players _predict_ their enemy's intended attack direction BEFORE they commit. 2. AIM is FAR more important then STRAFING as any mouse player will you. Being a gamepad crybaby doesn't change the fact that mouse DPI precision kicks the shit out of any gamepad's. 3. Not to mention you'll be gaming at 30 FPS for shooters while us PC guys are running at 120+ Hz. 4. How's that Joystick + Throttle working out for your space games?
> How much does a gaming PC with "their favorite case" cost,
Oh noes! A player can *choose* how MUCH or how LITTLE they want to invest into their rig. How horrible!
> Wii pioneered emulation without having to break the law by downloading ROMs from shady Internet sources
1. Most emulators are ILLEGAL due to requiring the ROMS of the machine. 2. Almost everyone playing emulated games doesn't give a shit about following the Law. People have been trading ROMs _way_ before emulation.
> How is DX9, DX10, DX11, DX12 not an "artificial upgrade cycle"?
You're conflating 2 issues:
* As hardware becomes faster it exposes more _functionality_. Due to Microsoft's retarded _design_ of DirectX they intentional "break" the API to expose the new functionality. In contradistinction, in OpenGL new functionality is exposed first as an vendor extension, and once the vendors are happy with HOW to implement it, it becomes part of the standard. * Funny how Micrsoft does the same shit with Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbone.
Funny how you *IGNORE* the advantages of PC. Let's go play Starcraft2 ? Oh wait, you can't do that on a shitty console.
Console's have their limited place for gaming. 4 Player Castle Crashers is awesome. But PC's are simply superior in just about every way./oblg. This is how to game on consoles.:-) http://i.imgur.com/r7sejYS.jpg
> I just don't get it. That's because you don't manage multiple domains.Uploading files is D-O-G slow. I get ~130 Mb/s down, ~12 Mb/s up (bits) which is 16 MB/s down and 1 MB/s up (bytes) and it STILL takes ages to upload anything. Other sites upload wicked fast.
> Yahoo mail is fine Maybe for you. But it blows for multiple reasons:
0. Ad spamfest 1. For the rest of us searching still sucks compared to Gmail. (Their Javascript rewrite was horrible for months: slow, crappy UI, etc.) 2. Their offline mail archive blows. Where the fuck is the ability to download ALL my mail FOLDERS + contents offline?? This may have changed recently -- I changed checked in years. For years they only offered folders via "mobile only" bullshit. 3. Gmail's UNDO is _awesome_. 4. You've never had to deal with all the spammers trying to hijack your account 5. You've never had to deal with technical support. Good luck even getting in touch with a live human to report an issue. 6. You've never had their mail system fail over without any explanation.
> why do people seem to dislike them so? In addition to all the stuff mentioned above another reason is because of all the other bloated shit they throw on their "portal" page. I don't want nor need their crap./Oblg. Yahoo vs Google Homepage * http://i.imgur.com/kOjcHU5.gif
Back in the day they used to be good for custom domain + web hosting. Today they are overpriced.
Netflix is NOT the cause of this -- it is the greedy asshole content providers. Have a NetFlix (streaming) subscription but travel to Canada or over seas and want to watch Netflix? Tough shit -- you are forced to use a proxy / VPN workaround due to retarded licensing contracts. The content providers don't have a fucking clue that some people want to watch anything anywhere and that we're willing to pay for it. They want to nickel and dime every region independently to maximize profits.
The actual reason Netflix's catalog is so sparse -- where the fuck is Seinfeld? Big Bang Theory? -- is because licensing costs go up about 10% every few years. Sadly, Netflix just doesn't the capital nor critical mass that the cable industry has.:-/
People think "cutting the cord" is a solution. That doesn't effect the content providers AT ALL. The cable companies are big enough that a few lost customers aren't going to make a difference. The cable industry is so OVER saturated that the terminology is "churn". Cable box penetration has remained consistent for the past ~10 years.
It is a similar reason Netflix basically ignores its deaf subscribers and screws up the subtitles. The solution would be crowd source the whole dam thing but you can thank the lawyers for fucking that over.
> No mods is supposed to means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers but yet cheaters still abound
FTFY.
Likewise, the console industry and dumb fanbois remains completely clueless about why PC's kick the ass out of consoles for good reasons:
* Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy with multi-level DPI precision such as the classic Logitech G500sweighted 10 button mouse.
* Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as/. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.
* No bullshit proprietary USB -- standard Joysticks, Gamepads, and Throttles such as the excellent CH Throttle Pro work awesome in Space and Flight sims.
* Allows the user to pick their favorite case such as the excellent Corsair Graphite 780T
* Online Digital Game stores (Steam, Gog, Origin, etc.) with user ratings give gamers a wide access of games -- consoles are so crappy that they can't even run some of the genres such as RTS's!
* RTS's such as excellent Starcraft 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 & 3
* RPG's such as the free Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Ultima, etc.
* Space games such as Master of Orion, Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen
* Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs
* Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits
* Allows gamers to upgrade to a real GPU such as the GTX 980Ti at their convenience instead of throwing the entire box out
* Aren't overpriced like consoles
* Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC
* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.
* You decide what software to run not some arrogant third party dictating what is "legal"
* TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!
* Superior 4K resolution @ 60 Hz, not 720p and 1080p wannabe resolutions
* True 120+ Hz framerate not some crappy 30 Hz stutterfest.
* TONS of Mods for your favorite games: Skyrim, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead (SourceMod), etc. not to mention photo realistic graphic ENB shaders such as Skyrim ENB that are a slideshow on consoles.
* Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle
* Allows water-cooling for super Over-Clocking of CPU and GPU if desired
* Wide range of choice in Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD based on what your needs are
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That's true, I should of clarified *modern RTS's* such as the excellent: Age of Empires 2, Rise of Nations, and Star Craft 2
Obviously you can play PC games on the couch + TV; _that_ wasn't the point.
Let me know how I can play **Uncharted** on my PC + TV.
Some games are console exclusives. I think it is stupid too, but we don't have any control over 1st party titles.
Obvious /r/pcmasterrace kicks the shit out of under-powered consoles @ 120+ Hz, 4K gaming, and certain genres (such as RTS's) not even available on consoles!) but for _some_ people they like to play on the couch. Go figure.
Unfortunately, my Xbox 360 with my acoustic-to-electronic drum kit conversion is the only way to play Rock Band 1, 2, and 3. :-/
There is no reason why a person can't like **both** PCs and Console games.
True; I can't believe I'm "defending" him, but his acting has gotten way better over the years.
* Aviator
* Blood Diamond
* Django Unchained
* The Great Gatsby
* Inception
* What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Except it is not. i.e. Ran into this very issue over the Winter break:
While visiting my parents in Canada I couldn't stream Netflix which is bullshit. I live in the US, and NetFlix can tell I have an US account but apparently since "I'm on vacation" I'm not allowed.
Shenanigans indeed.
Well said !
Sad but true: Keeping an open mind and being a true skeptic of Question Everything magically gets you labeled as a Conspiracy Theorist. WTF?
When intelligent thought is belittled, there is ,b>no one to blame but ourselves.
> I havent watched the news in 5 years
Same. Haven't watch Faux News or other bullshit propaganda since 2000. Online news = far faster and less bullshit hurry-up-and-wait "reporting."
> other than Isle of man and F1 there is no real sports to watch.
I still want to know why the fuck isn't there a sports channel dedicated to motorcycles? Because watching sissy Nascar sucks.
> In the spring it's a small white ball, in the fall it's a dumb oblong brown ball. If you cant DIE from your sport, it's not a sport.
You HAD to go there, didn't you?
Look, just because you and I think Golf is boring as fuck doesn't mean it isn't a sport. Pro Golf takes skill that most people simply don't have. This artificial division of X is or isn't a sport is just that -- artificial. Proof look at all the people that watched Google's DeepMind vs Go !
The problem is that the stuff we _do_ want to watch gets pre-empted or grouped with all the other crap we _don't_ want to watch.
> Yes, it's pretty arrogant to think that we're the only life in the universe. But it's even more arrogant to think that a species so incredibly advanced as to have developed a way to travel across the almost unimaginably vast distances of interstellar space would give a flying fuck about a primitive species that only recent developed simple chemical rockets.
Actually you're the ignorant one to think that humans are boring.
For one, Free Will doesn't exist on most planets, so we are _extremely interesting_ to most species as they study the evolution and development of Consciousness.
i.e. Considering our advancement in a mere 200,000 years compared to most other species that have take 2,000,000 (million) years to reach the same level, yeah, the progression and outcome of The Earth Experiment is highly regarded as being important.
Sorry that you don't feel your life is special by you. Carry on with your boring life.
--
First Contact is tentatively scheduled for ~2024. Are you ready for a new perspective?
/sarcasm "Curses. Technology foiled by human ingenuity. Again. News at 10."
Well spoken.
Sadly preaching to the choir. :-/
The people that _should_ be paying attention are too busy watching <insert fad of the month> ... to even notice or care how the country is going down.
Stephen Hawking should stick to hard science because he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. Namely:
* "He doesn't know what other people DO know."
Gee, if only we had credible, witnesses,
The problem with (official) "First Contact" is that will cause MORE problems then it will solve. :-/ Everything from Mathematics, Money, Religion, Science will need to be re-evaluated. Most people are not ready to have their false belief system blown apart.
Proof will be given in ~2024 when we can end these stupid discussion once and for all and focus on the more important issues like why is most of life bipedal humanoid in the galaxy? Why were humans genetically engineered? Why is Earth one of the only few places with Free Will ?
--
If animals can live millions of years on Earth without money, why can't stupid humans?
Your fallacy is you keep forgetting that copyright is for a LIMITED time.
Originally it was 17 years. Now the duration is a retarded author's lifetime + 70 years.
Holding popular culture "hostage" for the sake of greed is immature.
The fundamental problem is copyright kills creativity, yet copyright is ignored in the fashion industry.
>> Q. How many friends can I loan my DVD / BluRay to before it becomes piracy?
> All of them. It only becomes piracy if they make a copy of it.
False.
1. If copyright is still ACTIVE then the answer is: All.
2. If copyright has EXPIRED then the answer is: None.
3. You're forgetting that in some places in the world, such as Canada, Germany, etc. you can loan your _original_ to a friend, and they CAN _legally_ make a copy, and return the original partially due to a) a levy tax on blank media, and b) due to a legal loophole:
Thankfully coercion for the criminal tax is ignored sometimes.
> It ain't fucking rocket science, dude.
No, shit Sherlock. However, Copyright Law is NOT black and white, when the law keeps changing:
* MPAA says making a backup copy is illegal. That is, you can NO longer legally archive your original DVD's which is retarded.
* When even lending your CD to a friend is illegal (WTF!?), the whole system has become corrupt.
You are under no obligation to follow bad laws.
> Copying something without permission that a rights holder was supposed to have exclusive rights for a limited time to control copies is what is illegal. Exclusive means that nobody else is doing it, after all. If you disagree with this premise, then you advocate abolition of copyright.
FTFY
Again you keep parroting the Fallacy of Duality.
I'm OK with reasonable copyright when it is for a limited time, like ~10 ..- ~15 years.
I'm NOT ok with retarded copyright of an author's lifetime + 75 years.
You are completely ignorant about the history of copyright. Copyright was initiated by printers/publishers to prevent other publishers from profiting off their work but you can see still the _spirit_ of the law was for sharing of knowledge. What was that Law called again? Oh gee, look, a law for the Encouragement of Learning.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oh please. False Dichotomy much?
. /Oblg. DVD vs Piracy
People pirate for a variety of reasons. Such as:
1. One can't legally buy a copy. Piracy is the *only* option to watch it. /sarcasm Those pesky Mathematicians! They are the cause of the downfall of society!
2. Artificial Scarcity. If a DVD/BluRay is not available in my region, piracy is simply more convenient
3. They can't afford it.
4. If a borrow a movie from a library, watch it, and then return it this has the exact same effect as if I had borrowed a movie from the library, made a copy, returned the original, and watch my copy later, except the former is legal, yet the latter is "magically" illegal
5. Piracy is the delusion that "copying numbers is illegal". How stupid is Civilization when it has declared Illegal Numbers !?!?
To everyone who plays the bullshit piracy-is-illegal card here are some questions for you:
Q. If your friend buys a DVD and loans it to you, is it piracy if you watch it? You never paid for the content.
Q. How many friends can I loan my DVD / BluRay to before it becomes piracy?
Q. Why is it OK if I personally loan it to friends, but I can't share my copy with strangers?
Q. How "long" do I have to know a person before I can legally share my copy?
Q. Are libraries engaging in piracy?
Do I personally pirate? No, as I like having my own personal library so I don't mind buying BluRays / DVDs. If I can't buy it, I'll just wait until it is available. But my reasons for why I _don't_ pirate may not work for someone who _does_.
> copyright is a good thing at all, then one has a ethical obligation to respect it,
1. When Copyright was only ~20 years, sure, I have no problem following that but when the law has become corrupt that something that _would_ become "public domain" will NEVER reach that status, then there is higher obligation:
Civil Disobedience is the only way to change to corrupt laws.
2. Rosa Parks would like to have some of what you are smoking. Laws are NOT absolutes. That is why they _change over time_.
Personally, abolish copyright, because it is no longer server its original purpose:
So no, we're not ethically bound to follow bullshit artificial laws.
Considering First Contact will happen by ~2024, the whole mission seems like a moot point.
> What contract?
Correct, the server operators have no contract with Blizzard.
> Between what parties?
Correct. The only contract is between the clients and Blizzard. *That* TOS prohibits Clients from Accessing non-Blizzard servers.
> And how is breaking a contract illegal?
ALL Law is based on Contract Law.
/Oblg. "Airport Logic"
9 oz = dangerous
Three 3 oz = perfectly safe
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Total Stupid Agents
"He who has the gold, makes the rules."
WHO is funding ISIS ?
Since we haven't evolved to live on a planet without money yet, the only effective way to stop any propaganda is to find out WHO financially supports them and cut off their money supply.
All the Petabytes of Information the NSA has and they have to target American Citizens instead ??
Exactly. I thought casino's paid out ~97%, Casino's still make money, player feel like they are getting something.
Which machine pays out 50 cents on the dollar?
> Which has two drawbacks: an unfair accuracy advantage for player 1 compared to players 2, 3, and 4 on the same machine
Someone call the Wahbulance. How's that 30 Hz slideshow with 4 players on the same console working out?
> and the fact that movement is still digital. W, A, S, and D aren't pressure-sensitive.
And in *practice* that means jack shit as
1. good players _predict_ their enemy's intended attack direction BEFORE they commit.
2. AIM is FAR more important then STRAFING as any mouse player will you. Being a gamepad crybaby doesn't change the fact that mouse DPI precision kicks the shit out of any gamepad's.
3. Not to mention you'll be gaming at 30 FPS for shooters while us PC guys are running at 120+ Hz.
4. How's that Joystick + Throttle working out for your space games?
> How much does a gaming PC with "their favorite case" cost,
Oh noes! A player can *choose* how MUCH or how LITTLE they want to invest into their rig. How horrible!
> Wii pioneered emulation without having to break the law by downloading ROMs from shady Internet sources
1. Most emulators are ILLEGAL due to requiring the ROMS of the machine.
2. Almost everyone playing emulated games doesn't give a shit about following the Law. People have been trading ROMs _way_ before emulation.
> How is DX9, DX10, DX11, DX12 not an "artificial upgrade cycle"?
You're conflating 2 issues:
* As hardware becomes faster it exposes more _functionality_. Due to Microsoft's retarded _design_ of DirectX they intentional "break" the API to expose the new functionality. In contradistinction, in OpenGL new functionality is exposed first as an vendor extension, and once the vendors are happy with HOW to implement it, it becomes part of the standard.
* Funny how Micrsoft does the same shit with Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbone.
Funny how you *IGNORE* the advantages of PC. Let's go play Starcraft2 ? Oh wait, you can't do that on a shitty console.
Console's have their limited place for gaming. 4 Player Castle Crashers is awesome. But PC's are simply superior in just about every way. /oblg. This is how to game on consoles. :-)
http://i.imgur.com/r7sejYS.jpg
> I just don't get it.
That's because you don't manage multiple domains. Uploading files is D-O-G slow. I get ~130 Mb/s down, ~12 Mb/s up (bits) which is 16 MB/s down and 1 MB/s up (bytes) and it STILL takes ages to upload anything. Other sites upload wicked fast.
> Yahoo mail is fine
Maybe for you. But it blows for multiple reasons:
0. Ad spamfest
1. For the rest of us searching still sucks compared to Gmail. (Their Javascript rewrite was horrible for months: slow, crappy UI, etc.)
2. Their offline mail archive blows. Where the fuck is the ability to download ALL my mail FOLDERS + contents offline?? This may have changed recently -- I changed checked in years. For years they only offered folders via "mobile only" bullshit.
3. Gmail's UNDO is _awesome_.
4. You've never had to deal with all the spammers trying to hijack your account
5. You've never had to deal with technical support. Good luck even getting in touch with a live human to report an issue.
6. You've never had their mail system fail over without any explanation.
It this poll of 579 people is any indication, Yahoo sucks far more then Gmail or Hotmail.
* https://yahoomailreview.wordpr...
> why do people seem to dislike them so? /Oblg. Yahoo vs Google Homepage
In addition to all the stuff mentioned above another reason is because of all the other bloated shit they throw on their "portal" page. I don't want nor need their crap.
* http://i.imgur.com/kOjcHU5.gif
Back in the day they used to be good for custom domain + web hosting. Today they are overpriced.
Here's another opinion:
* http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/...
I barely tolerate Yahoo "as is". I definitely move my web hosting off Yahoo if MS buys them.
Anyone got any good recommendations? (Require: Fast FTP, email aliases, just basic storage)
Netflix is NOT the cause of this -- it is the greedy asshole content providers. Have a NetFlix (streaming) subscription but travel to Canada or over seas and want to watch Netflix? Tough shit -- you are forced to use a proxy / VPN workaround due to retarded licensing contracts. The content providers don't have a fucking clue that some people want to watch anything anywhere and that we're willing to pay for it. They want to nickel and dime every region independently to maximize profits.
The actual reason Netflix's catalog is so sparse -- where the fuck is Seinfeld? Big Bang Theory? -- is because licensing costs go up about 10% every few years. Sadly, Netflix just doesn't the capital nor critical mass that the cable industry has. :-/
Here is a list of Movies not on Netflix
People think "cutting the cord" is a solution. That doesn't effect the content providers AT ALL. The cable companies are big enough that a few lost customers aren't going to make a difference. The cable industry is so OVER saturated that the terminology is "churn". Cable box penetration has remained consistent for the past ~10 years.
It is a similar reason Netflix basically ignores its deaf subscribers and screws up the subtitles. The solution would be crowd source the whole dam thing but you can thank the lawyers for fucking that over.
* http://theweek.com/articles/45...
> No mods is supposed to means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers but yet cheaters still abound
FTFY.
Likewise, the console industry and dumb fanbois remains completely clueless about why PC's kick the ass out of consoles for good reasons:
* Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy with multi-level DPI precision such as the classic Logitech G500s weighted 10 button mouse.
* Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as /. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.
* No bullshit proprietary USB -- standard Joysticks, Gamepads, and Throttles such as the excellent CH Throttle Pro work awesome in Space and Flight sims.
* Allows the user to pick their favorite case such as the excellent Corsair Graphite 780T
* Online Digital Game stores (Steam, Gog, Origin, etc.) with user ratings give gamers a wide access of games -- consoles are so crappy that they can't even run some of the genres such as RTS's!
* RTS's such as excellent Starcraft 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 & 3
* RPG's such as the free Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Ultima, etc.
* Space games such as Master of Orion, Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen
* Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs
* Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits
* Allows gamers to upgrade to a real GPU such as the GTX 980Ti at their convenience instead of throwing the entire box out
* Aren't overpriced like consoles
* Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC
* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.
* You decide what software to run not some arrogant third party dictating what is "legal"
* TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!
* Superior 4K resolution @ 60 Hz, not 720p and 1080p wannabe resolutions
* True 120+ Hz framerate not some crappy 30 Hz stutterfest.
* TONS of Mods for your favorite games: Skyrim, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead (SourceMod), etc. not to mention photo realistic graphic ENB shaders such as Skyrim ENB that are a slideshow on consoles.
* Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle
* Allows water-cooling for super Over-Clocking of CPU and GPU if desired
* Wide range of choice in Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD based on what your needs are