If you've got a game on your PC, why would you want to show it on a console?
Because the primary PC is connected to a comparatively small monitor, and a console is cheaper than a second PC for the living room. This is especially true if Microsoft chooses to also make the streaming app available for a (possibly used) Xbox 360.
Are you saying that one player in a two player game is going to be on the PC and the other on the XBox?
No, I'm saying that both people are going to be in the same room, looking at the Xbox's monitor.
If this is split screen gaming you're talking about
Not all shared-screen gaming is split-screen. Bomberman, Smash TV, and Street Fighter aren't split. Rampart is split, but only to the extent that each player fires from his own territory on one side of the river to his opponent's territory on the other.
WTF would you want to play that on a gaming PC without two controllers (e.g., a DualShock or XBox controller paired with the PC).
You're right that two players would need two controllers. I'll assume this streaming solution also forwards XInput to allow use of the Xbox's controllers with the PC game.
Honestly, I don't get why you would want to stream the game either direction locally unless one set of controls was better
Perhaps streaming is easier to do in some households than packing up the gaming PC and moving it into the TV room.
At this point, you'd want to either A. put your gaming PC in the living room or B. stream the game
My computer isn't even really considered a gaming computer yet even it has an HDMI jack on it so I can plug a 80" screen into it.
I'll take that as an A.;-)
Why would we crowd around the desk?
A few years ago, I collected eight comments from other users who were unwilling to put a gaming PC in the living room. The market may changed substantially in the past few years since comments like those were posted; if so, what has spurred this change?
why are computer numeric keypads and phone keypads reversed from each other?
DTMF keypads have 1 on top because 9 was next to 0 on rotary dial telephones, in turn because 0 was encoded as ten pulses. Computer numeric keypads are descended from mechanical adding machines, which have higher numbers up top.
Another "standard" that bothers me: In the transition to digital video, they had the chance to do away with the PAL/NTSC dual-standard nonsense... but they still chose to support both 50 and 60 FPS video?!?
Mostly for movies (which may be 24 or 25 fps per country) and upscaled SD programs embedded in a high-definition stream. Also for the same reason as DVD and BD region coding, namely to continue to enforce decades-old territorial exclusive licenses that specify the "PAL region" (mostly defined as Europe, Australia, and New Zealand).
I press Alt+SysRq+REISUB, waiting for disk activity to end after each key, maybe once every few months to reboot a wedged Linux PC. Some PC games use the Pause key for its labeled purpose. And someone else wrote a comment to this story suggesting making a PC game that uses Scroll Lock to keep thieves from stealing items in your tool belt (hotbar).
It could be magnetostriction along the power path between the wall and your SSD. It's the same source as the 60 Hz hum in a lot of non-motorized devices or the 15.7 kHz whine in a CRT SDTV.
To be fair though, putting power and sleep buttons on the keyboard was a monumentally stupid idea. It's far too easy to accidentally hit them.
If they're placed in proper positions on a keyboard, how are they any easier to hit than the corresponding keys on a laptop? In any case, I have my keyboard's sleep key bound to "Ask what to do" (shutdown, restart, log out, or lock and suspend).
I've long wanted a game where you are a wizard, and thieves steal your scrolls, unless you Scroll Lock.
That's fine until you get players using laptops. Imagine the following question in your game's support ticket system or in Arqade:
How do I lock my scrolls?
How do I keep thieves from stealing my scrolls? The game's manual says push the Scroll Lock key on the keyboard. But I'm playing on a Dell [model redacted] laptop whose keyboard doesn't have a Scroll Lock key.
generally if you have a "gaming computer" you're going to want to use it directly over any other device even if streaming were perfect.
True for single-player or online play, not so much if the game supports local multiplayer. At this point, you'd want to either A. put your gaming PC in the living room or B. stream the game from your gaming PC to the device connected to the TV. Otherwise, you're all stuck crowding around a desk.
One of the big differences between several games for PC and their ports to Sony and Microsoft set-top boxes is lack of support in the latter for the backtick/tilde key. To put it memorably, you can't get a console on a console.
How many popular web apps can you name that completely separate the back end and the front end and provide documentation for users to talk directly to the back end and substitute their own UI or amalgamate the data with that from other services?
I can't count every web site that has an API, but examples include Amazon, eBay, and Twitter.
I use JS on my site - to drive navigation. Show me another way to do this efficiently and dynamically
Use some sort of server-side code?
Using "some sort of server-side code" would require re-sending the entire web page if one small part of it has changed. This is slow and expensive on cellular or satellite connections. It also requires a hosting plan that allows use of "some sort of server-side code", unlike ad-supported shared hosting providers that have historically supported only static HTML files.
Then let me reiterate the question I linked above: How should I, as a server administrator or as the developer of an application that will be installed on servers by third parties, go about determining at any moment in time what "the top several" OpenID Connect identity providers are?
This when one user instructs another on how to use the site: "...and look in the right column." "What right column?"
Also, how do you avoid loading the HTML that goes into the hidden columns so that mobile viewers don't have to pay data overages for things they'll never see?
Isn't the POINT of the internet browser and HTML concept a sort of 'Swiss Army Knife' of applications, meaning that it's the website's job to deliver content to the browser so that we don't need a separate "program" for every single stupid thing we're trying to do online?
In theory, that's the point. In practice, the web browser included with Windows (Internet Explorer), OS X (Safari), and iOS (Safari) has tended to lack support for key web standards. For example, the latest version of Internet Explorer for the oldest supported version of Windows didn't support most HTML5 features until April 2014, when support for Windows XP was ended, and it won't support WebGL until April 2017, when Microsoft plans to end support for Windows Vista. Safari for iOS didn't support photo and video uploads through the browser prior to iOS 6 nor WebGL prior to iOS 8. A lot of browsers still lack support for, say, plugged-in USB joysticks. For anything that the user's browser doesn't support and which cannot be polyfilled efficiently if at all, the user will need to install a native app.
Please don't start a sentence in the subject and finish it in the comment. It makes it harder to quote your post for context.
I can think of three kinds of interstitials, each with a different set of who pays and who earns. For ad interstitials, the advertiser pays, and the ad network and the "publisher" (site on which ads are placed) earn. For stickiness interstitials, such as follow us via e-mail or Twitter or download our app, the same happens except much later when the user visits again later and views more ads. For subscription interstitials, the user has to pay to make the box disappear.
tab close an if the "do you really want to do this"
I've seen this with "1 weird trick" clickbait ads that lead to a 20-minute video infomercial with no progress meter. Click the back button or close box, and they will replace the video with a transcript and put up an "are you sure" to let the viewer choose to finish the ad in case the viewer prefers text to video.
The legal name of the company is Apple Inc. It has the authority to update system software on iPhone and iPad brand devices. When people refer to "iPhone", they refer to the division of Apple responsible for iOS updates.
Just like there is no company called "Android".
A company called Google Inc. acquired a company called Android Inc. But there is no one entity with authority to update system software on devices. This is delegated to device manufacturers (for Wi-Fi-only tablets) or to carriers (for phones and tablets supporting cellular data service).
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If you've got a game on your PC, why would you want to show it on a console?
Because the primary PC is connected to a comparatively small monitor, and a console is cheaper than a second PC for the living room. This is especially true if Microsoft chooses to also make the streaming app available for a (possibly used) Xbox 360.
Are you saying that one player in a two player game is going to be on the PC and the other on the XBox?
No, I'm saying that both people are going to be in the same room, looking at the Xbox's monitor.
If this is split screen gaming you're talking about
Not all shared-screen gaming is split-screen. Bomberman, Smash TV, and Street Fighter aren't split. Rampart is split, but only to the extent that each player fires from his own territory on one side of the river to his opponent's territory on the other.
WTF would you want to play that on a gaming PC without two controllers (e.g., a DualShock or XBox controller paired with the PC).
You're right that two players would need two controllers. I'll assume this streaming solution also forwards XInput to allow use of the Xbox's controllers with the PC game.
Honestly, I don't get why you would want to stream the game either direction locally unless one set of controls was better
Perhaps streaming is easier to do in some households than packing up the gaming PC and moving it into the TV room.
At this point, you'd want to either A. put your gaming PC in the living room or B. stream the game
My computer isn't even really considered a gaming computer yet even it has an HDMI jack on it so I can plug a 80" screen into it.
I'll take that as an A. ;-)
Why would we crowd around the desk?
A few years ago, I collected eight comments from other users who were unwilling to put a gaming PC in the living room. The market may changed substantially in the past few years since comments like those were posted; if so, what has spurred this change?
why are computer numeric keypads and phone keypads reversed from each other?
DTMF keypads have 1 on top because 9 was next to 0 on rotary dial telephones, in turn because 0 was encoded as ten pulses. Computer numeric keypads are descended from mechanical adding machines, which have higher numbers up top.
Another "standard" that bothers me: In the transition to digital video, they had the chance to do away with the PAL/NTSC dual-standard nonsense... but they still chose to support both 50 and 60 FPS video?!?
Mostly for movies (which may be 24 or 25 fps per country) and upscaled SD programs embedded in a high-definition stream. Also for the same reason as DVD and BD region coding, namely to continue to enforce decades-old territorial exclusive licenses that specify the "PAL region" (mostly defined as Europe, Australia, and New Zealand).
I press Alt+SysRq+REISUB, waiting for disk activity to end after each key, maybe once every few months to reboot a wedged Linux PC. Some PC games use the Pause key for its labeled purpose. And someone else wrote a comment to this story suggesting making a PC game that uses Scroll Lock to keep thieves from stealing items in your tool belt (hotbar).
It could be magnetostriction along the power path between the wall and your SSD. It's the same source as the 60 Hz hum in a lot of non-motorized devices or the 15.7 kHz whine in a CRT SDTV.
you can't tell your BiL he's an idiot.
Most insults can be reworded to be both more polite and more precise: "BiL could use some training in email best practices."
Only crap keyboards have a power button.
How else do you turn on a laptop? Or do better laptops have the power button on the screen half of the assembly?
To be fair though, putting power and sleep buttons on the keyboard was a monumentally stupid idea. It's far too easy to accidentally hit them.
If they're placed in proper positions on a keyboard, how are they any easier to hit than the corresponding keys on a laptop? In any case, I have my keyboard's sleep key bound to "Ask what to do" (shutdown, restart, log out, or lock and suspend).
I've long wanted a game where you are a wizard, and thieves steal your scrolls, unless you Scroll Lock.
That's fine until you get players using laptops. Imagine the following question in your game's support ticket system or in Arqade:
How do I lock my scrolls?
How do I keep thieves from stealing my scrolls? The game's manual says push the Scroll Lock key on the keyboard. But I'm playing on a Dell [model redacted] laptop whose keyboard doesn't have a Scroll Lock key.
[sparlock] [pc]
Good luck fitting any sort of numeric keypad on a compact laptop.
You can buy pot on Amazon nowadays. This is especially convenient now that there's no RadioShack.
Pisonme-pisonu - isn't that a animal from Doctor Doolittle ?
You might have thought about the coinjoined llamas that Nickelodeon's CatDog ripped off. But I instead thought about a mockup of a teledildonic device.
Have you tried the built-in keyboard with a USB mouse?
generally if you have a "gaming computer" you're going to want to use it directly over any other device even if streaming were perfect.
True for single-player or online play, not so much if the game supports local multiplayer. At this point, you'd want to either A. put your gaming PC in the living room or B. stream the game from your gaming PC to the device connected to the TV. Otherwise, you're all stuck crowding around a desk.
One of the big differences between several games for PC and their ports to Sony and Microsoft set-top boxes is lack of support in the latter for the backtick/tilde key. To put it memorably, you can't get a console on a console.
How many popular web apps can you name that completely separate the back end and the front end and provide documentation for users to talk directly to the back end and substitute their own UI or amalgamate the data with that from other services?
I can't count every web site that has an API, but examples include Amazon, eBay, and Twitter.
I use JS on my site - to drive navigation. Show me another way to do this efficiently and dynamically
Use some sort of server-side code?
Using "some sort of server-side code" would require re-sending the entire web page if one small part of it has changed. This is slow and expensive on cellular or satellite connections. It also requires a hosting plan that allows use of "some sort of server-side code", unlike ad-supported shared hosting providers that have historically supported only static HTML files.
You'd have a service that would provide structured XML and then a web page or a native app that would process it and present it to the user.
As for "web page", AJAX apps do exactly this. As for "native app", good luck getting a Mac-only native app to run on your Windows PC.
Then let me reiterate the question I linked above: How should I, as a server administrator or as the developer of an application that will be installed on servers by third parties, go about determining at any moment in time what "the top several" OpenID Connect identity providers are?
As the window narrows, it gets rid of the columns
This when one user instructs another on how to use the site:
"...and look in the right column."
"What right column?"
Also, how do you avoid loading the HTML that goes into the hidden columns so that mobile viewers don't have to pay data overages for things they'll never see?
Isn't the POINT of the internet browser and HTML concept a sort of 'Swiss Army Knife' of applications, meaning that it's the website's job to deliver content to the browser so that we don't need a separate "program" for every single stupid thing we're trying to do online?
In theory, that's the point. In practice, the web browser included with Windows (Internet Explorer), OS X (Safari), and iOS (Safari) has tended to lack support for key web standards. For example, the latest version of Internet Explorer for the oldest supported version of Windows didn't support most HTML5 features until April 2014, when support for Windows XP was ended, and it won't support WebGL until April 2017, when Microsoft plans to end support for Windows Vista. Safari for iOS didn't support photo and video uploads through the browser prior to iOS 6 nor WebGL prior to iOS 8. A lot of browsers still lack support for, say, plugged-in USB joysticks. For anything that the user's browser doesn't support and which cannot be polyfilled efficiently if at all, the user will need to install a native app.
Please don't start a sentence in the subject and finish it in the comment. It makes it harder to quote your post for context.
I can think of three kinds of interstitials, each with a different set of who pays and who earns. For ad interstitials, the advertiser pays, and the ad network and the "publisher" (site on which ads are placed) earn. For stickiness interstitials, such as follow us via e-mail or Twitter or download our app, the same happens except much later when the user visits again later and views more ads. For subscription interstitials, the user has to pay to make the box disappear.
tab close an if the "do you really want to do this"
I've seen this with "1 weird trick" clickbait ads that lead to a 20-minute video infomercial with no progress meter. Click the back button or close box, and they will replace the video with a transcript and put up an "are you sure" to let the viewer choose to finish the ad in case the viewer prefers text to video.
1. There is no company called "iPhone".
The legal name of the company is Apple Inc. It has the authority to update system software on iPhone and iPad brand devices. When people refer to "iPhone", they refer to the division of Apple responsible for iOS updates.
Just like there is no company called "Android".
A company called Google Inc. acquired a company called Android Inc. But there is no one entity with authority to update system software on devices. This is delegated to device manufacturers (for Wi-Fi-only tablets) or to carriers (for phones and tablets supporting cellular data service).
Yesterday I just got my first ex-felon to mysteriously add me to his G+ circles via youtube
"Ex-felon" means he's not a felon anymore. He's done his time; he's rehabilitated. Why should society give him what amounts to a life sentence?