"..perhaps the company has noticed the enthusiasm around Nvidia’s Shield TV set-top box.."
I have approximately zero friends and coworkers with one of these or any interest it getting one. People I know who want to game do it on a PC, PS4, XBO or Switch. Or a combination of them. Yes its anecdotal, but I have yet to see any first hand "enthusiasm" for this product. Given how cheap the XBox One and PS4 got over the holidays last year who in their right mind would buy a Shield for gaming. Does not compute...
Methinks it is to hid the garbage quality of a lot of the content you are producing as of late. Don't get me wrong they still make some good content, but the thumbs up/down "rating" system is crap. Some of the things I've been recommended are laughable.
This quote made me laugh: CEO Hastings, chimed in to add "The critics are pretty disconnected from the mass appeal."
Critics seem to like most of the Marvel movies and those have massive mass appeal, hmmm. I haven't seen Bright and maybe its an alright check your brain at the door movie, but Netflix seems rather butt-hurt about this.
If you are using one of these "old" processors you haven't bought a new one and supported their good friends at Intel recently. Come on, get with the program, consumer. Also pick up a Pro or Enterprise version of Windows while you buying your new Intel processor, chum.;)
Could you have malware that is preventing the updates from being installed? Pretty sure I've heard of this happening in older versions of Windows. I would do a clean install.
It came out yesterday, so you can install at your leisure before 17:00 EST today!:) I just installed it, so far I can still login and check my email. And/.
A decision like this isn't coming down to what employee X feels is right or wrong: "Yeah, just do what you feel like doing Bob, whatever." This is huge decision which was most likely made by management at Intel. Or by Raja Koduri..;)
Yeah the NHL's blackout policy is ridiculous. Yes, they are a gate revenue driven league, I get that, but for them to blackout games in Edmonton while I'm here in Calgary on a weeknight is silly. Of course I'm going to take a day off work to go to Edmonton to watch a game on a weeknight, then drive or fly back to make it to work the next day. Nope, not going to happen so why black it out down here? I found that once Rogers started blacking out more local games I've lost interest in local teams.
As poor as the blackout situation is here in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the territories have it by far the worst. The NHL considers the Flames, Oilers and Jets local teams to these areas. The amount of games people in these areas get to watch from these teams is ridiculously low. 22 Jets, 36 Flames and 37 Oilers games. Why bother to support these teams when they won't let you watch them?
Same here, it is running right now on my PC.:) I do get occasional grief/ribbing from my younger co-workers because I still use it but it works fine, so why not use it, IMHO.
Perhaps they are hoping for rage click/comments from the 1/100000/. readers who are actually surprised that something like this is possible and that a benevolent corporate monolith such as Apple would withhold such a feature from their iPhone 7?
I picked up a launch Xbox One where the Kinect came bundled with the system and while the Kinect hardware was really good Microsoft blew it on the software/gaming side of things. Early games for the system only used it for in game voice commands, which I never used. The voice commands are nice for turning the system on and off, launching a game or app, but that's about it.
The wasted potential part was where were the big first party games/demos that used it? Augmented reality games, something maybe like Sony's Playroom. I was really shocked Microsoft had nothing clever like this to demo the Kinect hardware. They seemed apathetic towards it a launch and that continued on during its lifespan. In the latest Xbox software update they added support for 3rd party webcams, so the demise of the Kinect isn't all that surprising.
The only time I've seen games disappear from online stores is due to licensing issues, with music or some other IP license expired. Is this case could potentially be car licensing as well.
So, we can commend them on their efforts to do most of it in software? Sure. We can even be impressed, even though it sounds like they're going through and making special optimizations per game because a generic emulator won't do the job. It's still not as good as the real thing. All the claims of better? I doubt it. I used to be a really big fan of emulation. And at first, it seems quite amazing. Over time, though, it's very clear that emulation has many weaknesses and even doing per game optimizing and checks is never going to be enough.
*shrug* Then again, I don't have an XBox 360 or One.
I do have an Xbox One and from my experience the 360 emulation works pretty well now. When the first emulated games came out there were some that did perform worse than the originals, but it seems like they've got the emulation nailed down now as they release updates for games tweak them for better performance. The Gears of War games ran pretty terribly at first, but a few updates later they now run very well. I used to stick with the native 360 versions for playing those games online but now I play the emulated versions on the Xbox One.
It sounds like emulation will be even better on the Xbox One X (AKA Project Scorpio). I guess we'll see once it comes out in a few weeks how things run, but it seems like the Xbox emulation team is putting in some work on getting it right.
I remember the pre-account days as well, was the wild west here back then.;) When they implemented accounts I stubbornly held off creating one for quite some time, hence my higher 6 digit UID. Doh!
Go to Settings -> Update & security -> Advanced options and turn on Pause Updates.
This will give Microsoft some time to fix those "oopsies" they missed in the first few month after release before they force me to update. Its only giving me a little over a month buffer this time, as opposed to a few months with the Creators Update, but it may save me some grief on my work PC.
My copy of Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier arrived yesterday from Amazon, haven't started it yet. Heard good things about it so I picked it up.
From the publisher's website:
"Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart."
Not that slow, J.J. Abrams signed on to direct Episode IX today. I think that is much more relevant to Slashdot's readers than the sales guy commission 101 post.
Sure it will take longer to count votes with people instead of software, but I'm fine with that. I'd rather it take hours for paper ballots to be counted than have the possibly of government officials or hackers corrupting the voting system. Politicians will bend over backwards to stay in power, giving them an easy way to manipulate votes in their favor makes me uneasy.
So far here in Alberta all federal and provincial elections I've participated in have used paper-based voting systems and been counted by hand (AFAIK), hopefully it stays this way.
Maybe they'll allow Steam on Xbox... (says with a straight face)
Why would anyone with a closed environment with a storefront allow a competitor in? Would Valve let anyone open a competing store in Steam? Blizzard in Battle.net? EA in Origin? Sony in the PlayStation store? Nope.
Slashdot Mirror
"Have you seen what Mr. Zuckerberg looks like when he takes his face off?"
He will most likely look like either Nicolas Cage or John Travolta.
"..perhaps the company has noticed the enthusiasm around Nvidia’s Shield TV set-top box.."
I have approximately zero friends and coworkers with one of these or any interest it getting one. People I know who want to game do it on a PC, PS4, XBO or Switch. Or a combination of them. Yes its anecdotal, but I have yet to see any first hand "enthusiasm" for this product. Given how cheap the XBox One and PS4 got over the holidays last year who in their right mind would buy a Shield for gaming. Does not compute...
I'm one of the one percent! Kneel before me Nougat deplorables!
Off to the glue factory.
Methinks it is to hid the garbage quality of a lot of the content you are producing as of late. Don't get me wrong they still make some good content, but the thumbs up/down "rating" system is crap. Some of the things I've been recommended are laughable.
This quote made me laugh: CEO Hastings, chimed in to add "The critics are pretty disconnected from the mass appeal."
Critics seem to like most of the Marvel movies and those have massive mass appeal, hmmm. I haven't seen Bright and maybe its an alright check your brain at the door movie, but Netflix seems rather butt-hurt about this.
Because they also want to watch it.
If you are using one of these "old" processors you haven't bought a new one and supported their good friends at Intel recently. Come on, get with the program, consumer. Also pick up a Pro or Enterprise version of Windows while you buying your new Intel processor, chum. ;)
Could you have malware that is preventing the updates from being installed? Pretty sure I've heard of this happening in older versions of Windows. I would do a clean install.
It came out yesterday, so you can install at your leisure before 17:00 EST today! :) I just installed it, so far I can still login and check my email. And /.
A decision like this isn't coming down to what employee X feels is right or wrong: "Yeah, just do what you feel like doing Bob, whatever." This is huge decision which was most likely made by management at Intel. Or by Raja Koduri.. ;)
Yeah the NHL's blackout policy is ridiculous. Yes, they are a gate revenue driven league, I get that, but for them to blackout games in Edmonton while I'm here in Calgary on a weeknight is silly. Of course I'm going to take a day off work to go to Edmonton to watch a game on a weeknight, then drive or fly back to make it to work the next day. Nope, not going to happen so why black it out down here? I found that once Rogers started blacking out more local games I've lost interest in local teams.
As poor as the blackout situation is here in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the territories have it by far the worst. The NHL considers the Flames, Oilers and Jets local teams to these areas. The amount of games people in these areas get to watch from these teams is ridiculously low. 22 Jets, 36 Flames and 37 Oilers games. Why bother to support these teams when they won't let you watch them?
https://nhllive.rogers.com/en/support-game-availability-sknwtnt
Same here, it is running right now on my PC. :) I do get occasional grief/ribbing from my younger co-workers because I still use it but it works fine, so why not use it, IMHO.
Perhaps they are hoping for rage click/comments from the 1/100000 /. readers who are actually surprised that something like this is possible and that a benevolent corporate monolith such as Apple would withhold such a feature from their iPhone 7?
I picked up a launch Xbox One where the Kinect came bundled with the system and while the Kinect hardware was really good Microsoft blew it on the software/gaming side of things. Early games for the system only used it for in game voice commands, which I never used. The voice commands are nice for turning the system on and off, launching a game or app, but that's about it.
The wasted potential part was where were the big first party games/demos that used it? Augmented reality games, something maybe like Sony's Playroom. I was really shocked Microsoft had nothing clever like this to demo the Kinect hardware. They seemed apathetic towards it a launch and that continued on during its lifespan. In the latest Xbox software update they added support for 3rd party webcams, so the demise of the Kinect isn't all that surprising.
The only time I've seen games disappear from online stores is due to licensing issues, with music or some other IP license expired. Is this case could potentially be car licensing as well.
I do have an Xbox One and from my experience the 360 emulation works pretty well now. When the first emulated games came out there were some that did perform worse than the originals, but it seems like they've got the emulation nailed down now as they release updates for games tweak them for better performance. The Gears of War games ran pretty terribly at first, but a few updates later they now run very well. I used to stick with the native 360 versions for playing those games online but now I play the emulated versions on the Xbox One.
It sounds like emulation will be even better on the Xbox One X (AKA Project Scorpio). I guess we'll see once it comes out in a few weeks how things run, but it seems like the Xbox emulation team is putting in some work on getting it right.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-project-scorpio-back-compat-five-ways-your-existing-games-will-be-better
I remember the pre-account days as well, was the wild west here back then. ;) When they implemented accounts I stubbornly held off creating one for quite some time, hence my higher 6 digit UID. Doh!
Go to Settings -> Update & security -> Advanced options and turn on Pause Updates.
This will give Microsoft some time to fix those "oopsies" they missed in the first few month after release before they force me to update. Its only giving me a little over a month buffer this time, as opposed to a few months with the Creators Update, but it may save me some grief on my work PC.
One... two... three... four... five?
My copy of Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier arrived yesterday from Amazon, haven't started it yet. Heard good things about it so I picked it up.
From the publisher's website:
"Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart."
Not that slow, J.J. Abrams signed on to direct Episode IX today. I think that is much more relevant to Slashdot's readers than the sales guy commission 101 post.
I guess MS decided to go with a retro look today, green to represent the commissions part of the story? #slownewsday
As long as you are near the front of the train things aren't so bad. ;)
For those who don't know the reference, its from Snowpiercer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sure it will take longer to count votes with people instead of software, but I'm fine with that. I'd rather it take hours for paper ballots to be counted than have the possibly of government officials or hackers corrupting the voting system. Politicians will bend over backwards to stay in power, giving them an easy way to manipulate votes in their favor makes me uneasy.
So far here in Alberta all federal and provincial elections I've participated in have used paper-based voting systems and been counted by hand (AFAIK), hopefully it stays this way.
Maybe they'll allow Steam on Xbox... (says with a straight face)
Why would anyone with a closed environment with a storefront allow a competitor in? Would Valve let anyone open a competing store in Steam? Blizzard in Battle.net? EA in Origin? Sony in the PlayStation store? Nope.