Doesn't an Android HDMI TV dongle or CD-sized media player like the Minix Neo already have access to literally thousands of games simply by having Google Play installed? You get practically the whole range of games available for a dedicated console minus the graphics quality, which shouldn't be an issue for most people who aren't die-hard console gamers.
Interesting opinion.
I haven't played games for a while and as such haven't really been updated in the graphics apartment but I've watched some indie games and I've watched comparisons for the same game in different direct X versions.
I kinda get what you're saying, from a game play perspective.
That's far from new and the screenshot isn't even the full 1920x1080 but at least have quite some detail. If I where to play Civilization even if it's the same game the more details would likely be preferable and offer a little more to the game. I kinda feel the same for all other games which has some in newer versions but where you can get the older ones to. With a limited amount of time do you really want to play them when you've got fresher stuff around?
So, maybe they was poor examples, some of them aren't super heavy in the graphics department. But most of them actually require somewhat I'd consider pretty decent (which may be five years old and a geforce 8800 or something such but still..)
All that detail TO ME make the environment (well, it's very dark environments in many of those titles) more interesting and draw me into the game than something from the NES era. (Yeah, how relevant.)
I don't really know what my point is. Somewhere it was that it's good to be able to play new stuff, new stuff can still have classic game play, new stuff can look better, better hardware can play older titles (but in this case there was also a software layer which will mess with that.)
Anyway, bunch of Android games will likely not be made for a controller, some will likely
But the good part of Steam isn't the DRM of course.
The good part for me as a consumer is:
1) All my purchases in one place with no messy physical copies (I just wish they WORKED like physical copies though and not just be licenses with restrictions.)
2) One place to look at merchandise at and buy from (not necessarily beneficial, if one could buy form many places but still add it to the same common storage that would be better.)
3) Easy connection with other people.
The actual DRM of course isn't of my benefit for me (except secondary effects like lower prices because of less piracy or whatever but the large titles like say Bioshock Infinite still seem to be available the pirate way so.
Bundle it with all their own titles (Half-life, HL2, CS, TF2, Portal 1 & 2) would be a start for people who haven't played it, maybe not that exciting for people who play games though.
More engines run on Linux, SDL 2 is released, "if you build it they will come" and so on.
One disadvantage people may see with PCs is the lack of common configuration. One advantage though is that if you develop a game for Steam/PC it will likely / hopefully also run on future setups so they can upgrade the steam box and people can upgrade their PCs and the titles can still be sold.
On the consoles sometimes popular titles are ported to a newer one, some has been backwards compatible and if cracked people develop emulators but it's not as convenient.
I just with the PC market wasn't split between Steam, Desura, Origin, Bnet..
I would like to have my game and people in the same client please. Stupid DRM. If all games was allowed in into Steam and at very good prices for indie games / cheap games maybe the rest wouldn't had existed.
Then again I totally appreciate if the store doesn't show a whole bunch of shovel ware. So I guess it's ok with categorised software like AAA titles, other commercial, greenlit indieware, other indieware or something such.
Kinda wish the shovel ware wasn't released at all because it's just a waste of peoples time but that won't happen of course. Weird it ends up in some game bundles, good thing with the humble bundle one in that they are likely quite restrictive about what crap they let in and I guess that's part of why they are popular.
(I just wish I could get the old bundles somehow.)
Btrfs got a reason to exist for the same reason, and isn't that quite good to? I don't know whatever it's as stable / safe to use yet but if not now then some day.
As far as what _I_ personally would care for what I would do would be to use the SSD as cache (possibly also as storage for the OS and the application I use the most at the moment) which would give much of the advantage of both for just about twice the price of either.
Also there are multiple memory techniques used in the SSDs so reliability will likely differ a huge bit.
Also a 256 GB SSD would cost me more than a 3 TB HDD. Get 3 TB of storage space and you need 12 of those, costing what? 16 times more? Guess it's not fair to ask what will break down first, one of 12 SSDs or a HDD because it's also 1/12 as much which break down.. But I thought I was into something there =P, get 16 HDDs and RAID them all and they will likely offer more reliable data than the 12 SSDs =P
Locked down (in functionality) netbook with data (? some?) stored online.
YAY! THAT SOUND SO FREAKING AWESOME!
Or pay a little more for a A10 laptop and keep your data yours and be able to play games and run more software on it. Or possibly an Intel machine if you care more about Linux than the game performance.
That's if you want a laptop in the first place. A stationary machine will of course kick it and be easier to maintain if it breaks down and possibly break down less and for some things on the move a tablet may work.
1) Store data online (or whatever. I don't know to what level this is true.)
2) Limited software which you can run on it.
3) Weak ass hardware (I assume) so that's another stop.
So what's good with it? Cheap-ass crap (?) laptop which have better battery life because it's cheap-ass crap and is cheaper because cheap-ass crap doesn't cost much.
Well. I guess there's some benefit in that.. But I gues it's not for me.
I'd rather pay more for more. Also fuck their surveillance.
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Under Plasma 3 we all look the same.
Yes you could. So this is so impressive ..
You know another way of getting your Windows games on the TV? ..
Mac? Really?
You think it's breathtaking that the new Steam box runs linux? Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
Just imagine running it even faster in FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer...
Oh wait .. ;D (Not serious.)
Doesn't an Android HDMI TV dongle or CD-sized media player like the Minix Neo already have access to literally thousands of games simply by having Google Play installed? You get practically the whole range of games available for a dedicated console minus the graphics quality, which shouldn't be an issue for most people who aren't die-hard console gamers.
Interesting opinion.
I haven't played games for a while and as such haven't really been updated in the graphics apartment but I've watched some indie games and I've watched comparisons for the same game in different direct X versions.
I kinda get what you're saying, from a game play perspective.
But then again this is Civ V:
http://cdn3.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/16870/ss_3eb44fdd0980ea7bc76821224f5d133a149a136d.1920x1080.jpg?t=1378340287
(I wonder if that link will work, if not click here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/16870/)
That's far from new and the screenshot isn't even the full 1920x1080 but at least have quite some detail. If I where to play Civilization even if it's the same game the more details would likely be preferable and offer a little more to the game. I kinda feel the same for all other games which has some in newer versions but where you can get the older ones to. With a limited amount of time do you really want to play them when you've got fresher stuff around?
Anyway, back to the indie titles:
(2 days left for Humble Indie Bundle 9: https://www.humblebundle.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyWJhOh7w00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m109lvkEPFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRWwLcckNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_VGRKPRAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9N4XTfE1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1UnoyKqeMs
So, maybe they was poor examples, some of them aren't super heavy in the graphics department. But most of them actually require somewhat I'd consider pretty decent (which may be five years old and a geforce 8800 or something such but still..)
All that detail TO ME make the environment (well, it's very dark environments in many of those titles) more interesting and draw me into the game than something from the NES era.
(Yeah, how relevant.)
I kinda don't want to play this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4Q9UnHqw8
But if I did wanted to play such a game I'd totally opt for the more beautiful one.
I find FEZ disturbingly ugly for no obvious reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDYTuf6M_w
Alastair John Jack (http://alastairjohnjack.com/) have made at least two interesting games: :)
Arvoesine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0z-CtSggu0
Totally classic game play, looks and music, but FREE! Super hardcore game
Angvik: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKGytUEQZIE
Very beautiful classic game play there to.
I don't really know what my point is. Somewhere it was that it's good to be able to play new stuff, new stuff can still have classic game play, new stuff can look better, better hardware can play older titles (but in this case there was also a software layer which will mess with that.)
Anyway, bunch of Android games will likely not be made for a controller, some will likely
"I have a billion dollars that would like to have a word with you."
And you would give them all up to have GTA V on Linux? ;D
I'd argue you'd get more interesting games if you bought 200 million indie game bundles instead ;)
But the good part of Steam isn't the DRM of course.
The good part for me as a consumer is:
1) All my purchases in one place with no messy physical copies (I just wish they WORKED like physical copies though and not just be licenses with restrictions.)
2) One place to look at merchandise at and buy from (not necessarily beneficial, if one could buy form many places but still add it to the same common storage that would be better.)
3) Easy connection with other people.
The actual DRM of course isn't of my benefit for me (except secondary effects like lower prices because of less piracy or whatever but the large titles like say Bioshock Infinite still seem to be available the pirate way so.
Bundle it with all their own titles (Half-life, HL2, CS, TF2, Portal 1 & 2) would be a start for people who haven't played it, maybe not that exciting for people who play games though.
More engines run on Linux, SDL 2 is released, "if you build it they will come" and so on.
One disadvantage people may see with PCs is the lack of common configuration. One advantage though is that if you develop a game for Steam/PC it will likely / hopefully also run on future setups so they can upgrade the steam box and people can upgrade their PCs and the titles can still be sold.
On the consoles sometimes popular titles are ported to a newer one, some has been backwards compatible and if cracked people develop emulators but it's not as convenient.
I just with the PC market wasn't split between Steam, Desura, Origin, Bnet ..
I would like to have my game and people in the same client please. Stupid DRM. If all games was allowed in into Steam and at very good prices for indie games / cheap games maybe the rest wouldn't had existed.
Then again I totally appreciate if the store doesn't show a whole bunch of shovel ware. So I guess it's ok with categorised software like AAA titles, other commercial, greenlit indieware, other indieware or something such.
Kinda wish the shovel ware wasn't released at all because it's just a waste of peoples time but that won't happen of course. Weird it ends up in some game bundles, good thing with the humble bundle one in that they are likely quite restrictive about what crap they let in and I guess that's part of why they are popular.
(I just wish I could get the old bundles somehow.)
Steam client is better than the desura one.
.. and that's why Hiroshima and Nagasaki was nuked? =P, all the military activity and factories?
Is BTRFS under GPL2 or 3 or CDDL or something else?
Both regular ZFS and this OpenZFS seem to be under CDDL so for him nothing changed.
Afaik btrfs is in the Linux kernel so I assume GPL2.
Don't cheer too soon.
It's just as open as before.
Btrfs got a reason to exist for the same reason, and isn't that quite good to? I don't know whatever it's as stable / safe to use yet but if not now then some day.
lol @ video starting with advertisement... That is if it starts at all.
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It of course always matter who's doing it.
Same goes for cyber warfare.
Nuke, napalm, depleted uranium, drones = ok.
Chemical = not ok.
Torture = Depends on who's doing it.
the ultra low end? is a market that Nokia could NEVER compete in, okay?
They have done pretty well in there before.
As far as what _I_ personally would care for what I would do would be to use the SSD as cache (possibly also as storage for the OS and the application I use the most at the moment) which would give much of the advantage of both for just about twice the price of either.
Also there are multiple memory techniques used in the SSDs so reliability will likely differ a huge bit.
Also a 256 GB SSD would cost me more than a 3 TB HDD. Get 3 TB of storage space and you need 12 of those, costing what? 16 times more?
Guess it's not fair to ask what will break down first, one of 12 SSDs or a HDD because it's also 1/12 as much which break down.. But I thought I was into something there =P, get 16 HDDs and RAID them all and they will likely offer more reliable data than the 12 SSDs =P
Didn't we used to call these netbooks?
Locked down (in functionality) netbook with data (? some?) stored online.
YAY! THAT SOUND SO FREAKING AWESOME!
Or pay a little more for a A10 laptop and keep your data yours and be able to play games and run more software on it. Or possibly an Intel machine if you care more about Linux than the game performance.
That's if you want a laptop in the first place. A stationary machine will of course kick it and be easier to maintain if it breaks down and possibly break down less and for some things on the move a tablet may work.
1) Store data online (or whatever. I don't know to what level this is true.)
2) Limited software which you can run on it.
3) Weak ass hardware (I assume) so that's another stop.
So what's good with it? Cheap-ass crap (?) laptop which have better battery life because it's cheap-ass crap and is cheaper because cheap-ass crap doesn't cost much.
Well. I guess there's some benefit in that.. But I gues it's not for me.
I'd rather pay more for more. Also fuck their surveillance.
Do the Vita TV stream uncompressed video and have very low (say less than 10 ms) latency?
obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1257/
Just more units for the imperial system.
It's not Windows 8 and do the license really cost $200?!
For Nokia to?
Nokia 808 isn't sold in Sweden any more so I don't really think prices for that one is worth anything.
Lumia 1020 still doesn't seem to have been released, price seem to start at 5990 SEK which is $904 but that of course include 25% VAT.
It's not the same.
(One could argue that) It's the reason Lumia 1020 exist though. (or its dad.)