Theres already a vesa standard for this. There are vesa mounts on the back of most tv's and many tiny client tv boxes, such as dish's joey boxes, will mount on the back of a tv. Since they use rf remotes IR is not an issue
"GlassBox is the engine that drives the entire game -- the buildings, the economics, trading, and also the overall simulation that can track data for up to 100,000 individual Sims inside each city. There is a massive amount of computing that goes into all of this, and GlassBox works by attributing portions of the computing to EA servers (the cloud) and some on the player's local computer."
So they manage to come up with this new fantabulous engine to model every single person, except now they can only have 100k in each city because of it, all for something that most people who play simcity really dont give a crap about. Did anyone really follow any sims in simcity4? I doubt it, no one cares, because its not the sims, its about the city and not a single person.
Let alone that it 'attributes portions of computing to the EA servers', if thats true then why is it limited at all
That was their initial claim, but they stopped really pushing that angle once the drm backlash started. Though even a developer statement back in december briefly mentioned it again.
From early reviews, since the cities are so small, and the sim resident count 1/100th of what it used to be in titles meant to run on hardware with 1/10th the speed, that whole online processing seems like complete BS. Otherwise why restrict the city size so much, why not let us build an NYC with millions of inhabitants instead of limiting us to a large suburb with at most 100k residents
Ummmmm, no, your completely wrong. It gets the transponder stream from the satellite and saves that. There is no streaming from an IP headend anywhere involved unless you are watching actual IPVOD movies that you have purchased. There is a 2TB hdd in the box, it is saved there
But comcast doesnt anymore. They let you use it for about a year and then it disappeared. In a recent call to them I also asked what had happened to the meter. After putting me on hold for a long time to ask around they finally came back and just said, its no longer available
The problem is android (froyo) used to work just fine when changing the UA string, there was nothing hindering android from using the normal hulu website. Now today they started blocking it. So really its just artificial blocks since its already been shown that it can work on flash enabled devices. Id assume that means an android app is on the way but its hard to justify paying a subscription fee for a pretty interface when we already know the device works just fine with the normal website and the only reason it doesnt it because they choose to not let it
Where did you hear 2.2 in july? Just wondering, got my evo last week and thoroughly enjoying it and eagerly awaiting 2.2 as I have heard on both the droid and nexus it provides a huge speedboost, not that the evo really needs it.
Ive never had any isssues with them and had them for four years.
As far as pricing sprint is by far cheaper than att. I know just comparing my current plan with the one my SO was on before she switched to a sprint data plan. Just for 450min+texting att was already 30$ more expensive, then tag on the extra 15$ or so in fees that att pulls out of its ass while sprint only pulls out 5. It starts to add up pretty quick in a comparison.
It might be possible but check with your provider that they dont offer other ports as well. I know on mine, usenetserver, they offer 3 ssl ports in case the first one is blocked, one of them is a generic 8080 so just about anything can reach it.
I doubt this, when the vast majority of EE/CmpE software is either windows or linux based there is just about no reason for an engineering student to use a mac. I wasnt in school too long ago, but even then the stereotype fit this. Every engineering major was running windows or linux, and the liberal arts students had the macs. It was also like this in the labs, with liberal arts using the rows of macs, while the engineering students were on the windows pc's or sun workstations. So while it may be true for mathematics or certain sections that have their software on mac, I would not say its true for the majority of geeky majors.
Even with transport streams syncing still has to be done with the a/v. If the TW box is poorly coded and either does not have a good lipsync algorithm or is coded so poorly that its too slow to keep up with lipsync, then its still a box issue. If you dont notice the lipsync while watching it live, its not a stream failure.
Not saying that tivo is any better at this, just pointing out that just because its a TS doesnt mean its instantly in sync.
Yes I have, and yes alot of people use ifs to remove code including me, but judging from recent things like hot coffee it sure looks like alot of development houses are retarded enough to not #if out code that would get them in trouble, let alone #if'ing out save options that they would almost certainly use in the future.
Are you completely sure those parts are actually missing? I would think the developers would have been testing the game long before any server system is setup and would have an implementation for local saves. I would think then they also would have left it in there for the inevitable day when the servers get shutdown, because they will, and they would hopefully not shaft their customers and just let them save locally. While it would be a bitch to track down and use the functions, theres no reason to think they arent in there.
What debug code that slows stuff down? I dont know about other people, but at least where I work debug code that may possibly be released to beta testers or customers only consist of a log, a simple print out to a file. If your doing enough of those to actually affect performance than either your logging way way to often or you really dont understand the problem to begin with and your logging isnt going to do you much good anyway.
Again, they aren't shortcuts that make things faster. They are bug that actually often make things slower.
There arent shortcuts that make things faster? If you cut out a part of an algorithm that isnt completely necessary for usability but sucks up alot of cycles that would not make things faster? As the parent said its quite possible they remove things that mean it isnt rendering everything properly but does make it faster since it isnt rendering everything properly.
Im sure as I have, that many people have experienced a beta product that was faster than the end result for this reason. Not everything that is in the final version is running in this beta. Whether it be part of an algorithm for rendering a page or a whole thread handling bookmark management or god knows what else.
We know that features you don't use don't actually affect performance, so that's irrelevant.
I did not mean features as in an entire mail client, I meant features as in things under the hood you never see that handle various things the browser uses, those type of threads, not entire email clients or instant messaging clients. So you cannot be entirely sure you will not be using a thread that I was talking about earlier in the end result of opera, just that it is not turned on at the moment.
No, many features aren't fully implemented and there are shortcuts that avoid blocks of required code. This is why not all pages are rendering properly. Once these get fixed it will seem to slow down in order to fill all the requirements.
Who knows what threads arent running currently and what features are turned off in the browser that normally would be.
This is what I assume as well. At this stage most of their logic is pretty sound and I dont think any of their engines are going to drastically change, however as they start adding more things running in the background things are going to start slowing down more. Generally you would think the major logic behind an app is done first then all the pretty things that slow it down and functionality that is bolted onto it is added later.
I remember this being the case with xp, tried out a beta on a 400mhz box with 128mb ram and it ran snappy and just fine. Final release comes around and it is definitely not the beta it once was.
please mod up, first post to actually introduce the relevant information and not just 'MAKE THE VOLUME LOWER'. Volume is already legislated, its the issue of compression and headroom
You see the same in the US, just no one uses them. The first thing the EU has going for it is Freesat which is free to use and originally owned by the gov/bcc. So if the us government wants to create a freely available sat system then by all means they should go for it and there would be at least a few boxes available right at launch from various manufacturers with more to follow. The US also has free terrestrial but not of as wide a variety as EU has, but once again boxes are available in the US for that as well.
If your looking for a US equivalent of a paid sat system with boxes you can get yourself look at Cband, yes its still around, and yes you can still get it and watch a whole host of programming you wont find anywhere else along with alot of feeds of national programming.
Most of those copies are not received through any analog holes. They are pure digital copies ripped from hacked, or in some markets even unhacked, dvr boxes. There is no need to do analog recordings to get a subpar digital copy to distribute all over the internet when its much quicker, easier, and higher quality to just take the original bistream. That is why this whole analog hole argument is BS, no real pirated copies are done by recording an analog output, its always a pure digital rip, of course just talking about things that are out on discs or broadcast, not theater copies of course.
The OS being subsidized is a BS argument. Do you feel that people who purchase an xbox or ps3 should be required to go out and purchase games and accessories just because the hardware was sold at a loss? What if the users solely wanted to use them as media players and never play games, or in the case of the original xbox, install a mod and use it as a media center? Can you honestly say that you would feel bad for microsoft that someone purchased the hardware and then used it in a way it was not intended but since the end user never purchased any games that MS never made their money back? Its the same situation just in reverse.
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So you can get in your car and drive 15 miles in case of emergency? That is if your emergency doesnt include your car not working
Theres already a vesa standard for this. There are vesa mounts on the back of most tv's and many tiny client tv boxes, such as dish's joey boxes, will mount on the back of a tv. Since they use rf remotes IR is not an issue
Yup, here's the developers own words in december: http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/The-Benefits-of-Live-Service
"GlassBox is the engine that drives the entire game -- the buildings, the economics, trading, and also the overall simulation that can track data for up to 100,000 individual Sims inside each city. There is a massive amount of computing that goes into all of this, and GlassBox works by attributing portions of the computing to EA servers (the cloud) and some on the player's local computer."
So they manage to come up with this new fantabulous engine to model every single person, except now they can only have 100k in each city because of it, all for something that most people who play simcity really dont give a crap about. Did anyone really follow any sims in simcity4? I doubt it, no one cares, because its not the sims, its about the city and not a single person.
Let alone that it 'attributes portions of computing to the EA servers', if thats true then why is it limited at all
That was their initial claim, but they stopped really pushing that angle once the drm backlash started. Though even a developer statement back in december briefly mentioned it again. From early reviews, since the cities are so small, and the sim resident count 1/100th of what it used to be in titles meant to run on hardware with 1/10th the speed, that whole online processing seems like complete BS. Otherwise why restrict the city size so much, why not let us build an NYC with millions of inhabitants instead of limiting us to a large suburb with at most 100k residents
Ummmmm, no, your completely wrong. It gets the transponder stream from the satellite and saves that. There is no streaming from an IP headend anywhere involved unless you are watching actual IPVOD movies that you have purchased. There is a 2TB hdd in the box, it is saved there
Just checked again in both chrome and FF, it still does not show up for me, hasnt for 6mo-year. Maybe it depends on area
But comcast doesnt anymore. They let you use it for about a year and then it disappeared. In a recent call to them I also asked what had happened to the meter. After putting me on hold for a long time to ask around they finally came back and just said, its no longer available
The problem is android (froyo) used to work just fine when changing the UA string, there was nothing hindering android from using the normal hulu website. Now today they started blocking it. So really its just artificial blocks since its already been shown that it can work on flash enabled devices. Id assume that means an android app is on the way but its hard to justify paying a subscription fee for a pretty interface when we already know the device works just fine with the normal website and the only reason it doesnt it because they choose to not let it
Where did you hear 2.2 in july? Just wondering, got my evo last week and thoroughly enjoying it and eagerly awaiting 2.2 as I have heard on both the droid and nexus it provides a huge speedboost, not that the evo really needs it.
Ive never had any isssues with them and had them for four years. As far as pricing sprint is by far cheaper than att. I know just comparing my current plan with the one my SO was on before she switched to a sprint data plan. Just for 450min+texting att was already 30$ more expensive, then tag on the extra 15$ or so in fees that att pulls out of its ass while sprint only pulls out 5. It starts to add up pretty quick in a comparison.
It might be possible but check with your provider that they dont offer other ports as well. I know on mine, usenetserver, they offer 3 ssl ports in case the first one is blocked, one of them is a generic 8080 so just about anything can reach it.
I doubt this, when the vast majority of EE/CmpE software is either windows or linux based there is just about no reason for an engineering student to use a mac. I wasnt in school too long ago, but even then the stereotype fit this. Every engineering major was running windows or linux, and the liberal arts students had the macs. It was also like this in the labs, with liberal arts using the rows of macs, while the engineering students were on the windows pc's or sun workstations. So while it may be true for mathematics or certain sections that have their software on mac, I would not say its true for the majority of geeky majors.
Even with transport streams syncing still has to be done with the a/v. If the TW box is poorly coded and either does not have a good lipsync algorithm or is coded so poorly that its too slow to keep up with lipsync, then its still a box issue. If you dont notice the lipsync while watching it live, its not a stream failure. Not saying that tivo is any better at this, just pointing out that just because its a TS doesnt mean its instantly in sync.
Yes I have, and yes alot of people use ifs to remove code including me, but judging from recent things like hot coffee it sure looks like alot of development houses are retarded enough to not #if out code that would get them in trouble, let alone #if'ing out save options that they would almost certainly use in the future.
Are you completely sure those parts are actually missing? I would think the developers would have been testing the game long before any server system is setup and would have an implementation for local saves. I would think then they also would have left it in there for the inevitable day when the servers get shutdown, because they will, and they would hopefully not shaft their customers and just let them save locally. While it would be a bitch to track down and use the functions, theres no reason to think they arent in there.
I thought it was after cutting off a chickens head and letting it run around on a game board
What debug code that slows stuff down? I dont know about other people, but at least where I work debug code that may possibly be released to beta testers or customers only consist of a log, a simple print out to a file. If your doing enough of those to actually affect performance than either your logging way way to often or you really dont understand the problem to begin with and your logging isnt going to do you much good anyway.
Again, they aren't shortcuts that make things faster. They are bug that actually often make things slower.
There arent shortcuts that make things faster? If you cut out a part of an algorithm that isnt completely necessary for usability but sucks up alot of cycles that would not make things faster? As the parent said its quite possible they remove things that mean it isnt rendering everything properly but does make it faster since it isnt rendering everything properly. Im sure as I have, that many people have experienced a beta product that was faster than the end result for this reason. Not everything that is in the final version is running in this beta. Whether it be part of an algorithm for rendering a page or a whole thread handling bookmark management or god knows what else.
We know that features you don't use don't actually affect performance, so that's irrelevant.
I did not mean features as in an entire mail client, I meant features as in things under the hood you never see that handle various things the browser uses, those type of threads, not entire email clients or instant messaging clients. So you cannot be entirely sure you will not be using a thread that I was talking about earlier in the end result of opera, just that it is not turned on at the moment.
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No, many features aren't fully implemented and there are shortcuts that avoid blocks of required code. This is why not all pages are rendering properly. Once these get fixed it will seem to slow down in order to fill all the requirements.
Who knows what threads arent running currently and what features are turned off in the browser that normally would be.
This is what I assume as well. At this stage most of their logic is pretty sound and I dont think any of their engines are going to drastically change, however as they start adding more things running in the background things are going to start slowing down more. Generally you would think the major logic behind an app is done first then all the pretty things that slow it down and functionality that is bolted onto it is added later.
I remember this being the case with xp, tried out a beta on a 400mhz box with 128mb ram and it ran snappy and just fine. Final release comes around and it is definitely not the beta it once was.
please mod up, first post to actually introduce the relevant information and not just 'MAKE THE VOLUME LOWER'. Volume is already legislated, its the issue of compression and headroom
You see the same in the US, just no one uses them. The first thing the EU has going for it is Freesat which is free to use and originally owned by the gov/bcc. So if the us government wants to create a freely available sat system then by all means they should go for it and there would be at least a few boxes available right at launch from various manufacturers with more to follow. The US also has free terrestrial but not of as wide a variety as EU has, but once again boxes are available in the US for that as well. If your looking for a US equivalent of a paid sat system with boxes you can get yourself look at Cband, yes its still around, and yes you can still get it and watch a whole host of programming you wont find anywhere else along with alot of feeds of national programming.
As long as you can see the satellites and have room on the property that belongs to your apartment you can have a sat dish, its in the fcc OTARD laws
Most of those copies are not received through any analog holes. They are pure digital copies ripped from hacked, or in some markets even unhacked, dvr boxes. There is no need to do analog recordings to get a subpar digital copy to distribute all over the internet when its much quicker, easier, and higher quality to just take the original bistream. That is why this whole analog hole argument is BS, no real pirated copies are done by recording an analog output, its always a pure digital rip, of course just talking about things that are out on discs or broadcast, not theater copies of course.
The OS being subsidized is a BS argument. Do you feel that people who purchase an xbox or ps3 should be required to go out and purchase games and accessories just because the hardware was sold at a loss? What if the users solely wanted to use them as media players and never play games, or in the case of the original xbox, install a mod and use it as a media center? Can you honestly say that you would feel bad for microsoft that someone purchased the hardware and then used it in a way it was not intended but since the end user never purchased any games that MS never made their money back? Its the same situation just in reverse.