Don't make them anything like flight recorders, which readily document and give up all details and information in a standardized way to any interested party.
If you can get this far into a game's development, please consider creating original content. It has never been easier to fund or publish a game. You can get paid instead of shut down.
The advantages are for Microsoft, to create a platform that is a walled garden and move away from Windows proper to this new floating platform that can work across devices, called Universal Windows Platform.
Tim Sweeney is saying "Microsoft has launched new PC Windows features exclusively in UWP and is effectively telling developers you can use these Windows features only if you submit to the control of our locked-down UWP ecosystem."
What features are these? Is he talking about newer DirectX features being exclusive to UWP or other important features that would put games on, say, Steam at a disadvantage? To create a UWP program you must distribute through the Windows Store, and this could make Vulkan (a competing/alternative graphics API) all the more important, but also could force developers to make tough choices about APIs and distribution together where previously the two were not linked.
Last gen they dominated, this gen they're in second place with still plenty of mind share and the potential to come back next generation. I can't believe MS would just throw away consoles because of a slow start caused by MS's desire to exploit the Xbox platform as soon as they gain traction. More of this type of meddling to drive consumers towards even more of MS's bullshit is exactly the opposite of what they need to do. These gamers were avoiding PC in the first place in order to have the convenience and guaranteed set experience of the appliance that is called a games console. Driving them to the PC and bringing PC problems to consoles is going to just make things worse than they are now.
They're just fine thanks, look at Batman Arkham Knight, which ran just fine on PS4 and had effects the PC version didn't. We're still getting modern games with good performance, such as Fallout 4, Dark Souls 3, even for Quantum Break you will be able to play it fine on a $300 or less Xbox One but need way more $ of parts to play it on PC. No, consoles are perfectly adequate for gaming and will still be for a few years.
I just do my gaming on console and use Linux for all of the other stuff. Moving from Windows was easy, first, piece by piece I replaced my software with stuff that ran on Linux. Then I switched OS. That was about 15 years ago and I've been very happy with my experience. I tried OS X for a while because I have an apple laptop, but they kept switching stuff around with each OS update so that didn't last very long.
Who's going to jail? Are the people arrested getting out of jail? What steps will they take to prevent this? What law will be amended so that it is absolutely clear this is not tolerated?
It's not in the default repos on Mint, I learned this was replaced by libav. I used it to crop some videos for use in OpenShot* by commandline and the parameters seem compatible with FFmpeg. Any reason for the fork? I'm currently reading this to suss it out, hopefully it's good in the long run, and at least I can do what I need to do in the meantime.
*(love it for editing home videos but lacking soundtrack support, added that by commandline too w/libav)
That's funny, whenever I try to use Windows I have a similar problem. My printer doesn't work, 7.1 surround sound card w/optical out doesn't work, TV tuner doesn't allow me to capture in as high a resolution and I get sync problems when recording with the Windows software, and on my laptop every time I want to shut down it takes half an hour for the patches to install before I can close the lid. Found this out because one day I went to use it and when I opened it up I was greeted by a message that Windows was going to shut down soon but still had 10 patches left to install. I don't want to just leave it open, I want to put it away so my kid can't get at it. It also just boots and runs more slowly in general, and all the apps I want to use are already on Linux.
Every once in a while I get tempted to try some game or emulator on Windows but it's just not worth the pain of hunting for drivers, finding decent apps that fill missing functionality in Windows (like proper image/video viewers, proper text file editor, proper sound recorder, etc etc), and then keeping all those apps up to date so I don't run into security issues is a pain because each has their own updater and of course doesn't update through Windows Update. Even installing some basic apps is a pain, I have to dodge the right check boxes and make sure there was nothing stealth installed or my home page wasn't changed or other *completely unrelated* crap doesn't happen.
This is how my Windows experience goes. Every few years I get a hankering to try it, get beaten back by glitches, and think "why did I even bother, it was just a stupid game and I have a console anyway."
I remember as a kid really wishing TVs were flat like movie screens and without the distortion from the curvature. Don't know why people want that back. Those TVs don't even have controls for adjusting pincushion and trapezoid and whatever else ypou need to compensate for the curve either.
Perfect for games. I've always wanted this ever since ASUS V3800 included LCD shutter glasses with the nVidia TNT2. I played Unreal, Need for Speed, Doom and many others in 3D, it blew my mind as a kid that suddenly all of the games I enjoyed could be enhanced in such a way at the click of the button. Any game that supported a 3D API could be played this way (if your monitor supported 120Hz refresh at that resolution, which limited me to 800x600). The 3DS is great too and showed how 3D could help create new puzzles, Mario 3D Land and Zelda showed that off quite well. I just hope they don't stop building inexpensive 3D displays.
These records have been compromised and the only way authorities have been made aware is by a public leak. Previously this information was surely compromised in secret and lives were at stake. Now that these lives have been made aware they may be safely extracted before they are taken advantage of. Just like a software exploit that may be passed around in the underground (or in the NSA) before Apple/MS/whoever can fix it, people are still vulnerable in the meantime.
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I jist don't get it. Obama says we can't get info like this as long as encrypted cell phones are around.
Don't make them anything like flight recorders, which readily document and give up all details and information in a standardized way to any interested party.
If you can get this far into a game's development, please consider creating original content. It has never been easier to fund or publish a game. You can get paid instead of shut down.
Is turn SteamOS libs into a portable runtime that also works on Windows, helping devs bring games to a format that works well on Linux
The advantages are for Microsoft, to create a platform that is a walled garden and move away from Windows proper to this new floating platform that can work across devices, called Universal Windows Platform.
Tim Sweeney is saying "Microsoft has launched new PC Windows features exclusively in UWP and is effectively telling developers you can use these Windows features only if you submit to the control of our locked-down UWP ecosystem."
What features are these? Is he talking about newer DirectX features being exclusive to UWP or other important features that would put games on, say, Steam at a disadvantage? To create a UWP program you must distribute through the Windows Store, and this could make Vulkan (a competing/alternative graphics API) all the more important, but also could force developers to make tough choices about APIs and distribution together where previously the two were not linked.
Last gen they dominated, this gen they're in second place with still plenty of mind share and the potential to come back next generation. I can't believe MS would just throw away consoles because of a slow start caused by MS's desire to exploit the Xbox platform as soon as they gain traction. More of this type of meddling to drive consumers towards even more of MS's bullshit is exactly the opposite of what they need to do. These gamers were avoiding PC in the first place in order to have the convenience and guaranteed set experience of the appliance that is called a games console. Driving them to the PC and bringing PC problems to consoles is going to just make things worse than they are now.
They're just fine thanks, look at Batman Arkham Knight, which ran just fine on PS4 and had effects the PC version didn't. We're still getting modern games with good performance, such as Fallout 4, Dark Souls 3, even for Quantum Break you will be able to play it fine on a $300 or less Xbox One but need way more $ of parts to play it on PC. No, consoles are perfectly adequate for gaming and will still be for a few years.
You get banned for that but dipping your testicles in a corspse's mouth is perfectly benign
If you're a developer hopefully you can afford more than one devkit...
I just do my gaming on console and use Linux for all of the other stuff. Moving from Windows was easy, first, piece by piece I replaced my software with stuff that ran on Linux. Then I switched OS. That was about 15 years ago and I've been very happy with my experience. I tried OS X for a while because I have an apple laptop, but they kept switching stuff around with each OS update so that didn't last very long.
I'm not worried, I was joking, but yeah that's sad actually
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Who's going to jail? Are the people arrested getting out of jail? What steps will they take to prevent this? What law will be amended so that it is absolutely clear this is not tolerated?
1) Innocent until proven guilty.
2) Legitimate? Um, you're going to have to prove that too.
It's not in the default repos on Mint, I learned this was replaced by libav. I used it to crop some videos for use in OpenShot* by commandline and the parameters seem compatible with FFmpeg. Any reason for the fork? I'm currently reading this to suss it out, hopefully it's good in the long run, and at least I can do what I need to do in the meantime.
*(love it for editing home videos but lacking soundtrack support, added that by commandline too w/libav)
That's funny, whenever I try to use Windows I have a similar problem. My printer doesn't work, 7.1 surround sound card w/optical out doesn't work, TV tuner doesn't allow me to capture in as high a resolution and I get sync problems when recording with the Windows software, and on my laptop every time I want to shut down it takes half an hour for the patches to install before I can close the lid. Found this out because one day I went to use it and when I opened it up I was greeted by a message that Windows was going to shut down soon but still had 10 patches left to install. I don't want to just leave it open, I want to put it away so my kid can't get at it. It also just boots and runs more slowly in general, and all the apps I want to use are already on Linux.
Every once in a while I get tempted to try some game or emulator on Windows but it's just not worth the pain of hunting for drivers, finding decent apps that fill missing functionality in Windows (like proper image/video viewers, proper text file editor, proper sound recorder, etc etc), and then keeping all those apps up to date so I don't run into security issues is a pain because each has their own updater and of course doesn't update through Windows Update. Even installing some basic apps is a pain, I have to dodge the right check boxes and make sure there was nothing stealth installed or my home page wasn't changed or other *completely unrelated* crap doesn't happen.
This is how my Windows experience goes. Every few years I get a hankering to try it, get beaten back by glitches, and think "why did I even bother, it was just a stupid game and I have a console anyway."
Wasn't that the evil software company in a seaQuest DSV episode?
I remember as a kid really wishing TVs were flat like movie screens and without the distortion from the curvature. Don't know why people want that back. Those TVs don't even have controls for adjusting pincushion and trapezoid and whatever else ypou need to compensate for the curve either.
Perfect for games. I've always wanted this ever since ASUS V3800 included LCD shutter glasses with the nVidia TNT2. I played Unreal, Need for Speed, Doom and many others in 3D, it blew my mind as a kid that suddenly all of the games I enjoyed could be enhanced in such a way at the click of the button. Any game that supported a 3D API could be played this way (if your monitor supported 120Hz refresh at that resolution, which limited me to 800x600). The 3DS is great too and showed how 3D could help create new puzzles, Mario 3D Land and Zelda showed that off quite well. I just hope they don't stop building inexpensive 3D displays.
These records have been compromised and the only way authorities have been made aware is by a public leak. Previously this information was surely compromised in secret and lives were at stake. Now that these lives have been made aware they may be safely extracted before they are taken advantage of. Just like a software exploit that may be passed around in the underground (or in the NSA) before Apple/MS/whoever can fix it, people are still vulnerable in the meantime.
We should have complete transparency at the federal level, this makes it easier.
Oh you mean hidden behind the icon of a truck and some green rainbow shape? Brilliant! Don't know why I didn't intuit that.
So if there's no other way for me to do something than to break federal laws, it's OK to break them?! Neat!
No, we do processing for clients that compete with each other.