I also have the FireTV Stick, but I find it to be janky and unreliable when streaming anything. Picture randomly freezes or audio cuts out. The same apps (Netflix, Hulu, and SlingTV) work fine with Roku. A reboot is often the only thing that will fix the problem and that's only temporary. If Fox Sports Go was available on any of my other devices I would be done with the FireTV.
You have the audacity to suggest that a slashdotter use a feature that's built into Windows exactly as it's intended to resolve a problem?
That's not anywhere near complicated or elitist enough for the average/. user.
We use Linux almost exclusively in our household and even my first thought was, "why don't they just request remote assistance using messenger?"
BTW...I've used Remote Assistance to help people several times on my laptop (the only machine I have with a Windows partition), and I've never had open any ports on my router.
The jump from, say, Doom to Quake was entirely driven by uptake of hardware 3d acceleration. If you decide to "not see" those as innovation, well, that's your choice.
Wrong. Quake was software rendered. Quake II encouraged hardware rendering but was still software rendered for many people (Unreal did the same). It wasn't until the time of Quake 3 that hardware 3d acceleration really took off.
Sort of Wrong. Quake was software rendered, but much of what made people want to go out and buy that Voodoo card was GLQuake, which was a hardware accelerated version that id released for download, and Quake II also supported hardware acceleration to the point that it was almost required to play seriously. In addition, Unreal also became a differed game with acceleration. Q3 was just the first version that required a video card with 3d acceleration to play.
If physical medium will disappear for video games, what makes you think the same won't happen for video?
Your assumption is likely correct that the availability of games on physical discs will decline over the next ten years, but the same will be true for video. Blu-ray is likely to be the end of the line for DVDs, and that line will end well short of ten years from now.
In addition, if providing digital download content is more profitable for the manufacturer, Sony will certainly jump on the bandwagon.
Coupled with the fact that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are already selling games via download, means the assumption that MS will be the only one who'll jump on the download bandwagon is specious at best.
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Just email the two or three people who use it and tell them to stop using it.
I also have the FireTV Stick, but I find it to be janky and unreliable when streaming anything. Picture randomly freezes or audio cuts out. The same apps (Netflix, Hulu, and SlingTV) work fine with Roku. A reboot is often the only thing that will fix the problem and that's only temporary. If Fox Sports Go was available on any of my other devices I would be done with the FireTV.
Done.
Google claims it to be UK English, but I still believe you just made it up.
I have a condition that causes me to have high hematocrit levels in my blood. To treat it I give blood every 5 weeks.
the 9th circuit is to the left of most courts, so there's a good chance that this will be overturned.
Too stupid for Linux? Too poor for Apple? Microsoft has just your solution!
I'm going to frame this and hang it on the wall above my desk!
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The jump from, say, Doom to Quake was entirely driven by uptake of hardware 3d acceleration. If you decide to "not see" those as innovation, well, that's your choice.
Wrong. Quake was software rendered. Quake II encouraged hardware rendering but was still software rendered for many people (Unreal did the same). It wasn't until the time of Quake 3 that hardware 3d acceleration really took off.
Sort of Wrong. Quake was software rendered, but much of what made people want to go out and buy that Voodoo card was GLQuake, which was a hardware accelerated version that id released for download, and Quake II also supported hardware acceleration to the point that it was almost required to play seriously. In addition, Unreal also became a differed game with acceleration. Q3 was just the first version that required a video card with 3d acceleration to play.
I kept expecting the guy during the announcement to say, "Bababooey!!"
Why do people even use photobucket? Almost every other image hosting site out there is not bandwidth limited.
Even funnier, it's moderated 'Informative'.
the ports on the side certainly look like an exact match to me.
Maybe.
But any Mac user know it's the ports in the rear that get the most use.
Bwahahahahaha!!!!!
I wish I had mod points. Both these posts are hilarious!
If physical medium will disappear for video games, what makes you think the same won't happen for video? Your assumption is likely correct that the availability of games on physical discs will decline over the next ten years, but the same will be true for video. Blu-ray is likely to be the end of the line for DVDs, and that line will end well short of ten years from now. In addition, if providing digital download content is more profitable for the manufacturer, Sony will certainly jump on the bandwagon. Coupled with the fact that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are already selling games via download, means the assumption that MS will be the only one who'll jump on the download bandwagon is specious at best.