I read a few articles on the new shiny, but there seems to be no information on how the thermal and related noise situation is. How does the smaller design and needed computing power to drive that screen impact the temperature (under stress)? My old MBP already gets annoyingly hot and loud when i am doing stuff on it.
Like not being able to use a second screen while fullscreening an app?
Sorry, but "usability" for me means to be able to do stuff. Ans not having everything smooth around for up to 3 seconds until i can work with it again.
I dont like the idea of head tracking - the head and the screen are sort of a fixed construct. Using headtracking would just make you roll your eyes ALOT.
With Beta test i meant that MS tries this in parallel to the conventional method to get some stats, and if "A-OK" switch over to the subscription model completely.
This might be a test run to enroll the next generation of consoles solely on that concept....
This brings two advantages to MS: They obviously get more money, and they hamper the used device market. If you HAVE to pay for two years, you are inclined to keep the device for at least as long.
I know that devices are sold at loss, but i think some manager figured some math about A) that the higher income maybe evens out the console and B) they get two potential game sales instead of one...
I once read somewhere "c't is a magazine worth learning german for".
c't is a technology magazine somewhere between casual and pro, and deals with gadgets, computers and their peripherals, mobile phones and more. It reviews the quality of service of hardware vendors, ISPs and such, reports on wage situations in the IT-field and the occasional game. Being very broad in content, they still manage to go indepth (?) if questions arise via reader feedback. I have yet to find a publication in that field that matches the quality of research, writing and running this fine line of easy consumable content without being shallow. Also they used to have the most hilarious April fools articles.
They have a sister magazine called IX, which focuses on linux and security. It's outside my competence field, so i can't say much about it, but it seems it's quite good, regarding to my linux-loving peers.
i opposed smartphones for a long time. I got my first one last year. After choking it with silly apps in the first few weeks, some applications condensed out of it which i do not want to live without anymore. I now have a fake tilt shift cam, a nice reminder system, a remote for my HTPC, a mobile music player and a webbrowser on the go in one device....
Smartphones vs. featurephones are about the same as color TV vs. monochrome TV: sure you don't need it, but after a while you do not want the "old" tech anymore.:
You are not only telling that you don't like other games, you actively bash people that do not share your mindset. It is no miracle that with a "higher than thou" attitude like this, you see every other argument as a "circle jerk-off" by obviously bad gamers that are stupid. No matter how you twist your grammar, that is how you come across, and that counts.
Playing a mindless game might be EXACTLY what i want to do when i need to defragment my brain after a long day of hard work. CoD might be shallow and far from realistic, but i can enjoy it without devoting endless hours of learning its intricacies (?). I did that back in the Q3 times already...
Decrying CoD and BF as "casual" just seems wrong. Both of those games can be played by noobs and pros alike (not on the same server, though), that doesn't make it casual, it just makes it well balanced. You still need a good amount of dedication if you want to climb the ladders. Also, not every game is casual because it uses a different skillset than your preference;-)
" Nothing wrong with that, but these are not games, they are toys."
The definition of a "game" is not how deep the needed strategy goes nor how hard it is. A game is a set of rules in which you try to achieve a set goal. A toy is an object to play with, without rules or goals.
That is interesting, because observation of todays console market suggest otherwise.
The consoles transitioned from novelty to mainstream market in the 90ies (owed in part due to Final Fantasy 7)
A big chunk of games get now to be developed for consoles primarily and ported over to PC. I always thought that aside from piracy issues, market penetration was in fact responsible for that shift....
Slashdot Mirror
"man, imagine the billions of dollars and manhours saved..."
aggressive lobbying against automated cars activated by mechanics, car makers, hospitals, oil magnates
I read a few articles on the new shiny, but there seems to be no information on how the thermal and related noise situation is. How does the smaller design and needed computing power to drive that screen impact the temperature (under stress)?
My old MBP already gets annoyingly hot and loud when i am doing stuff on it.
http://www.bing.com/maps/Help/VE3DInstall/
i mean, they used the aerial photography to model the terrain and texture them.
somehow i cannot find the setting anymore for reference....
for selected citys, Bing hast 3d textured models for a long time. Using the same tech, 45 degree aerial photography using airplane mounted hires cams.
For a change, MS was first.
Like not being able to use a second screen while fullscreening an app?
Sorry, but "usability" for me means to be able to do stuff. Ans not having everything smooth around for up to 3 seconds until i can work with it again.
I dont like the idea of head tracking - the head and the screen are sort of a fixed construct. Using headtracking would just make you roll your eyes ALOT.
Sometimes i swear at it.
--- I, too, rolled my eyes at Apple making a common-use word like "Jailbreak" an "unword", ----
It was an unword from the beginning. It's not a "jailbreak" it's a goddamn security hole.
I want the same drugs you are taking, dude. Just not that much :-)
With Beta test i meant that MS tries this in parallel to the conventional method to get some stats, and if "A-OK" switch over to the subscription model completely.
This might be a test run to enroll the next generation of consoles solely on that concept....
This brings two advantages to MS: They obviously get more money, and they hamper the used device market. If you HAVE to pay for two years, you are inclined to keep the device for at least as long.
I know that devices are sold at loss, but i think some manager figured some math about A) that the higher income maybe evens out the console and B) they get two potential game sales instead of one...
Seeing more and more reports of near passes. Frigging Bugs must be out of target practice and are homing in on us! Get NPH!
Being picky could also being understood as "trying to make out what is true and what is fabricated on a profile"
(Did not read TFA, obviously)
The mask as it is used everywhere has nothing to do with the real Guy Fawkes. It was designed for the comic V for Vendetta by DC
I once read somewhere "c't is a magazine worth learning german for".
c't is a technology magazine somewhere between casual and pro, and deals with gadgets, computers and their peripherals, mobile phones and more. It reviews the quality of service of hardware vendors, ISPs and such, reports on wage situations in the IT-field and the occasional game. Being very broad in content, they still manage to go indepth (?) if questions arise via reader feedback. I have yet to find a publication in that field that matches the quality of research, writing and running this fine line of easy consumable content without being shallow.
Also they used to have the most hilarious April fools articles.
They have a sister magazine called IX, which focuses on linux and security. It's outside my competence field, so i can't say much about it, but it seems it's quite good, regarding to my linux-loving peers.
i opposed smartphones for a long time. I got my first one last year. After choking it with silly apps in the first few weeks, some applications condensed out of it which i do not want to live without anymore. I now have a fake tilt shift cam, a nice reminder system, a remote for my HTPC, a mobile music player and a webbrowser on the go in one device....
Smartphones vs. featurephones are about the same as color TV vs. monochrome TV: sure you don't need it, but after a while you do not want the "old" tech anymore.:
You are not only telling that you don't like other games, you actively bash people that do not share your mindset. It is no miracle that with a "higher than thou" attitude like this, you see every other argument as a "circle jerk-off" by obviously bad gamers that are stupid. No matter how you twist your grammar, that is how you come across, and that counts.
Playing a mindless game might be EXACTLY what i want to do when i need to defragment my brain after a long day of hard work. CoD might be shallow and far from realistic, but i can enjoy it without devoting endless hours of learning its intricacies (?). I did that back in the Q3 times already...
Decrying CoD and BF as "casual" just seems wrong. Both of those games can be played by noobs and pros alike (not on the same server, though), that doesn't make it casual, it just makes it well balanced. You still need a good amount of dedication if you want to climb the ladders. Also, not every game is casual because it uses a different skillset than your preference ;-)
" Nothing wrong with that, but these are not games, they are toys."
The definition of a "game" is not how deep the needed strategy goes nor how hard it is. A game is a set of rules in which you try to achieve a set goal. A toy is an object to play with, without rules or goals.
Because people having sex spend way less money than people waging wars.
Exactly! It should be called a near hit!!!!! (George Carlin)
That is interesting, because observation of todays console market suggest otherwise.
The consoles transitioned from novelty to mainstream market in the 90ies (owed in part due to Final Fantasy 7)
A big chunk of games get now to be developed for consoles primarily and ported over to PC. I always thought that aside from piracy issues, market penetration was in fact responsible for that shift....
Statler and Waldorf, is that you?
In Heavy Rain it was included in such a way that you felt it coming (not a pun) a few minutes before - just like in RL