So in other worlds he is off in a fairy land and will simply let Greece sink into massive unrecoverable debt. In the real world when you are broke and in desperate need of support you don't get to dictate the terms of that support. perhaps this could lead to finally kicking Greece out of the EU.
Nothing to do with a dying os or industry, a PC from 5 years ago can happily run any modern OS. Right up until about 2008 people needed to upgrade every 2 or 3 years to be able to run everything. That cycle is now more like 5-7 years if not more. Very few are migrating away, they simple don't need to upgrade, this isn't just a windows thing either, the same is happening to Linux and OS.X
it has undergone significant rewrites, if you think just ignoring version checking, compat checks etc would achieve those sort of performance increases you are kidding yourself. their is only so much that can be done by ditching cruft. BUT ditching cruft allows a lot more flexibility in what you can rewrite including the structure as you no longer need to maintain support, this seems to have been what has taken place here.
Most of the improvements in win 10 are actually in the kernel and security as well as DX 12. just that the general user community focus on the UI, not MS.
NO, they stated it is free if you upgrade in the first year. After that time if you want to upgrade you pay normal upgrade price. There is no expiry or only good for a year.
PC gaming is currently over 20 Billion and is still growing (though slowly), Mobile gaming is around 20-25 billion as well, how the fuck do you turn a 50% market share into a drop in the bucket? Regardless they are two separate markets. You can't compare mobile games to desktop games, of course those games would never do as well on a desktop, how would COD, Halo, Far Cry do on a mobile device?
high performance gaming where all these expensive gaming cards are made for does not happen on portal devices, it happens on desktops. You can't just say look a variant of OpenGL runs here here and here and claim it is now dominating, the truth is it hasn't made any significant inroads in the desktop gaming area. On the desktop it isn't even a close race, MS completely and utterly dominate the space. As long as they have a strangehold on the desktop then DX will not be obsolete or even close to it, it is even looking like it will be jumping ahead again with performance which will probably increase its market share even more.
did we just jump into an alternate reality where suddenly MS no longer has 90%+ of the desktop gaming market? OpenGL supporters have been saying DX is obsolete for over a decade and if anything they have lost market share during that time.
Interestingly I think firefox is almost at the same state as IE (just a few less years of cruft) with a desperate need of a good purging to get rid of the bloat and cruft, maybe if Spartan is successful Mozilla will realize the sorry state of firefox and we will see a similar improvement from when we went netscape->firefox. IE 11 is a decent browser, but has its performance hamstrung by its backwards compatibility though I do find it acceptable to use on a machine (still swap browsers if it is my own machine but I no longer feel the need to change friends or family away from it).
most of these apps were written when there was no standard, there was 3 or 4 standards, if you wanted to stick purely to standards were destined to be highly restricted in what you do. This isn't the case anymore but the reasons back then for doing this stuff were far less obvious than they are today.
You don't drive your Ferrari around at max speed all the time, Gamers DO drive their video cards at Max speed at regular intervals. Regardless they paid for the performance and received less than they paid for, Ferrari would be ridiculed/sued/have massive backlash if they published figures for their car and the real numbers were more than 10% lower.
I am yet to see a decent review that ranks essentials last, basically they are nearly always sponsored by the AV community and essentials loses out on heuristics for unknown virus's and malware, but realistically when it comes to that they are all miserable failures, just some of the commercial ones will try and convince you of how important that feature is.
Tom's hardware has the latest Jan update for graphics comparisons. The R7 260x is best bang for buck but the 750ti is not quite as good value but as you don't like ATI it may be a better choice. All really comes down to why you are upgrading and what you play though. http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
yes, without a doubt, though the damage is probably already done as it is hard to recover such a PR mess. Personally the issue for me is purely the camera, we have enough invasions of privacy without inviting new ones into our lives. I don't want to be in a restaurant, shop or even in public with people wearing google glass as I object to being recorded by others where it isn't strictly necessary, especially people that don't seem to have any social etiquette with regards to the rights of others.
Yes that much is obvious, but the "marketing" video clearly presents objects as solid, not transparent.
It doesn't seem obvious to you as you don't seem to understand the concept. you are looking at a screen, if they choose to place an object on that screen in your vision it can appear transparent or completely solid, depends completely on what they wish to do with it, either way it is completely irrelevant whether the environment is bright or dark as the object is on the screen.
Certainly looks a lot more interesting and viable than google glass. Once google pushed the wear it anywhere video camera recording what everyone is doing it became socially a dead product. Lets wait and see if MS can productize it without making the idiotic mistakes of google that led to the highly deserved coining of the word glasshole.
Oracle seem to be the one organization that doesn't appear to be getting better with security, if anything they have deteriorated over the last few years. wonder what it will take for them to take security seriously.
Software end of life usually comes in the form of old hardware dying and no one willing to invest money to write drivers for old software so yeah it does have an end of life, fixing new vulnerabilities is NOT inexpensive either. The human resources of having adequately trained and available devs, support engineers and testers alone runs into the millions.
probably because Zoe Quinn supposedly unfairly profited from the corruption. a good review or mention of your product from journalists can seriously help your sales. corrupt journalism is a blight on the industry, those willing to engage those journalists in corruption are just as bad and Zoe is supposed a prime example of that (won't pretend to know if it is true or not), her role became exacerbated by her lack of grace and social skills in dealing with this in a constantly escalating war of words from arsehats on both sides of the fence.
really? I would have said she personifies the exact opposite and displays a heap of ignorance in dealing people socially, her responses to some of the attacks on her are what helped escalate the situation. She doesn't seem to understand social media at all or how to handle it.
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So in other worlds he is off in a fairy land and will simply let Greece sink into massive unrecoverable debt. In the real world when you are broke and in desperate need of support you don't get to dictate the terms of that support. perhaps this could lead to finally kicking Greece out of the EU.
Nothing to do with a dying os or industry, a PC from 5 years ago can happily run any modern OS. Right up until about 2008 people needed to upgrade every 2 or 3 years to be able to run everything. That cycle is now more like 5-7 years if not more. Very few are migrating away, they simple don't need to upgrade, this isn't just a windows thing either, the same is happening to Linux and OS.X
it has undergone significant rewrites, if you think just ignoring version checking, compat checks etc would achieve those sort of performance increases you are kidding yourself. their is only so much that can be done by ditching cruft. BUT ditching cruft allows a lot more flexibility in what you can rewrite including the structure as you no longer need to maintain support, this seems to have been what has taken place here.
Most of the improvements in win 10 are actually in the kernel and security as well as DX 12. just that the general user community focus on the UI, not MS.
The thing is our knowledge of the universe is so infinitesimally small that really it would be far fairer to call it a guess than a Hypothesis.
NO, they stated it is free if you upgrade in the first year. After that time if you want to upgrade you pay normal upgrade price. There is no expiry or only good for a year.
PC gaming is currently over 20 Billion and is still growing (though slowly), Mobile gaming is around 20-25 billion as well, how the fuck do you turn a 50% market share into a drop in the bucket? Regardless they are two separate markets. You can't compare mobile games to desktop games, of course those games would never do as well on a desktop, how would COD, Halo, Far Cry do on a mobile device?
high performance gaming where all these expensive gaming cards are made for does not happen on portal devices, it happens on desktops. You can't just say look a variant of OpenGL runs here here and here and claim it is now dominating, the truth is it hasn't made any significant inroads in the desktop gaming area. On the desktop it isn't even a close race, MS completely and utterly dominate the space. As long as they have a strangehold on the desktop then DX will not be obsolete or even close to it, it is even looking like it will be jumping ahead again with performance which will probably increase its market share even more.
did we just jump into an alternate reality where suddenly MS no longer has 90%+ of the desktop gaming market? OpenGL supporters have been saying DX is obsolete for over a decade and if anything they have lost market share during that time.
Interestingly I think firefox is almost at the same state as IE (just a few less years of cruft) with a desperate need of a good purging to get rid of the bloat and cruft, maybe if Spartan is successful Mozilla will realize the sorry state of firefox and we will see a similar improvement from when we went netscape->firefox. IE 11 is a decent browser, but has its performance hamstrung by its backwards compatibility though I do find it acceptable to use on a machine (still swap browsers if it is my own machine but I no longer feel the need to change friends or family away from it).
most of these apps were written when there was no standard, there was 3 or 4 standards, if you wanted to stick purely to standards were destined to be highly restricted in what you do. This isn't the case anymore but the reasons back then for doing this stuff were far less obvious than they are today.
You don't drive your Ferrari around at max speed all the time, Gamers DO drive their video cards at Max speed at regular intervals. Regardless they paid for the performance and received less than they paid for, Ferrari would be ridiculed/sued/have massive backlash if they published figures for their car and the real numbers were more than 10% lower.
I am yet to see a decent review that ranks essentials last, basically they are nearly always sponsored by the AV community and essentials loses out on heuristics for unknown virus's and malware, but realistically when it comes to that they are all miserable failures, just some of the commercial ones will try and convince you of how important that feature is.
It is common practice for most countries, the only thing new here is a western country letting china do it too.
Tom's hardware has the latest Jan update for graphics comparisons. The R7 260x is best bang for buck but the 750ti is not quite as good value but as you don't like ATI it may be a better choice. All really comes down to why you are upgrading and what you play though.
http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
yes, without a doubt, though the damage is probably already done as it is hard to recover such a PR mess. Personally the issue for me is purely the camera, we have enough invasions of privacy without inviting new ones into our lives. I don't want to be in a restaurant, shop or even in public with people wearing google glass as I object to being recorded by others where it isn't strictly necessary, especially people that don't seem to have any social etiquette with regards to the rights of others.
No, common sense is appointing someone with an unbiased view in either direction, not someone walking into the job with a preconceived position.
Yes that much is obvious, but the "marketing" video clearly presents objects as solid, not transparent.
It doesn't seem obvious to you as you don't seem to understand the concept. you are looking at a screen, if they choose to place an object on that screen in your vision it can appear transparent or completely solid, depends completely on what they wish to do with it, either way it is completely irrelevant whether the environment is bright or dark as the object is on the screen.
Certainly looks a lot more interesting and viable than google glass. Once google pushed the wear it anywhere video camera recording what everyone is doing it became socially a dead product. Lets wait and see if MS can productize it without making the idiotic mistakes of google that led to the highly deserved coining of the word glasshole.
Oracle seem to be the one organization that doesn't appear to be getting better with security, if anything they have deteriorated over the last few years. wonder what it will take for them to take security seriously.
If the numbers are accurate I am shocked. No way can I believe Google+ usage is that high.
Software end of life usually comes in the form of old hardware dying and no one willing to invest money to write drivers for old software so yeah it does have an end of life, fixing new vulnerabilities is NOT inexpensive either. The human resources of having adequately trained and available devs, support engineers and testers alone runs into the millions.
probably because Zoe Quinn supposedly unfairly profited from the corruption. a good review or mention of your product from journalists can seriously help your sales. corrupt journalism is a blight on the industry, those willing to engage those journalists in corruption are just as bad and Zoe is supposed a prime example of that (won't pretend to know if it is true or not), her role became exacerbated by her lack of grace and social skills in dealing with this in a constantly escalating war of words from arsehats on both sides of the fence.
Doesn't mean she deserves harassment. Condemnation maybe. Harassment no.
Very true, but the same can be said of her victims.
She personifies grace under pressure.
really? I would have said she personifies the exact opposite and displays a heap of ignorance in dealing people socially, her responses to some of the attacks on her are what helped escalate the situation. She doesn't seem to understand social media at all or how to handle it.