When I say I'm competitive in FPS, I don't mean I'm doing eSports. I just beat more asses than beat me, I guess you would say. And Super Smash Bros is way beyond my ability and my endurance.
But truly, for the 99% of gamers that don't do eSportsj professionally, services like GeForce NOW are gonna be plenty good. I'm goddamn impressed with it. It's fun to play games on my Macbook that have never been ported to macOS. I like the idea of not having to invest a couple of grand every year into a gaming rig.
Now excuse me, youngster, because it's time for my evening vodka & prune juice and the reruns of Columbo are starting.
Oh, I agree with you completely. I'm not giving up on having my own bespoke gaming PC sitting next to me, warming my feet. Plus, not all the publishers are offering their stuff on GeForce NOW. No Origin games, or EA, for example. Most everything that's on Steam and Uplay is there, but not the Microsoft games like Forza Horizon (I'm a big racing game fan).
But this is going to disrupt the market, imo. My guess is that publishers will start to offer their own game-streaming clouds, and that's why they're holding out.
I'm not really happy about the change to the cloud "game as service" model, but if my experience is any indication, it's coming nonetheless.
Yes, GeForce now might be good enough for people who find current consoles with dips below 24fps perfectly acceptable.
Look, I know it's crazy, but I'm playing 60 fps consistently. I'm not smart enough to know how it's being done, I just know it's happening. My big gaming PC has a 144Hz monitor, and that even looks flawless on this nvidia cloud thing. Now, I'm fairly close to one of their server farms (less than 100mi) so maybe that makes a difference.
You really ought to sign up for the beta. They're still letting people in as they load-test it. I'd like to hear what you think after you try it out.
That means you never properly played PC games at >=60fps with 80ms between pressing a button and reaction on the screen.
You sound like the kind of guy who thinks he can hear the difference between cheap speaker wire and expensive speaker wire.
No, if you played on GeForce now, you would never know you weren't on your own computer. I'm playing competitive FPS against people on high-end gaming machines and consoles and they don't notice except that I'm always just above them on the leader boards.
I've been beta-testing GeForce NOW since the beginning and I believe this cloud gaming is going to have a huge impact on the market. I can run the latest AAA games on ultra using a PC that doesn't come close to meeting system requirements or on my Macbook pro. And I mean smooth. As in no lag. First person shooters, racing games, whatever. They play great, and don't feel any different than playing them on my own system.
Now, it's been a free service to me because I'm beta-testing (you have to own the games, of course), and I really don't know how much nVidia is going to charge for this once it's released. But if it's $5/month, I'd pay for this all day long. At $20/month, probably not. You also need a really good internet connection with unlimited data because it uses up a LOT of bandwidth.
If government is so incompetent, why haven't you succeeded with your anarchy?
It's not anarchy, but Democrats swept the Kansas statewide office elections.
To give you an idea of how bad the Kansas GOP is, the people of Kansas elected a Native American lesbian to Congress over a Republican guy that Donald Trump campaigned and did rallies for and endorsed, and in a district that has been Republican for just about ever.
The simplest explanation is usually correct. In this case, the government is incompetent
Incompetent goes without saying. If they were halfway competent, the state's economy wouldn't be in the toilet and they might not have had to commit election fraud to stay in power.
The state still owes $2 million on the equipment, which it bought in 2016 as part of a failed plan to develop a centralized storage system, call Kansas GovCloud, for computer information. That idea was canceled by state IT officials who said it was too expensive. Instead, the state contracts with an outside company to store data on remote servers.
The idea was cancelled when IT experts explained to the governor and secretary of state that this equipment could make it harder to engage in election fraud and that could inadvertently cause the votes of black and Hispanic people to be counted.
Kansas has had one of the most corrupt state governments for decades. Finally this year, the citizens of Kansas had enough and threw the Republicans out of office in the hope that they would accidentally fall into a hole somewhere 40 miles outside Topeka and never be seen again.
Apple did this on purpose. They're playing 4-D chess while the rest of the industry is playing checkers. By saying "this is normal", they're distracting from other issues they have. Apple won and you lost, so suck it up, buttercup. iPad purchases have consequences. And it's still better than a Surface.
Is there any way I can set Twitter to just give me President Trump's tweets? I want to shoot that shit straight into my veins.
I'm starting to love that crazy old fucker, and part of me will be sad when he's gone. Probably in a couple of weeks, the way he's going.
He and I have a lot in common, you know. I am to Slashdot what Trump is to Twitter. That's how beloved I am. I'm inclined to wake up in the middle of the night and post all kinds of incoherent shit. Also, I sometimes wake up in a urine-soaked bed, except instead of high-class Russian hookers I have to figure out if it was me or my eight year-old cat.
Come on, you know that's not true. Demand always precedes supply.
I think you're just trying to be cute to make a point. Demand will be met, if not by one producer, then by another. Either way, all the money in the system comes from the people paying the bill...the consumer. The customer is always right, and the customer says, put a fucking label on it.
The producer is selling the product so they can base their label decisions on any damn thing they choose.
The producer doesn't exist without consumers, consumers pay for absolutely everything that the producer has, from the money in the CEO's pocket to the intellectual property to the concrete under the processing house to the trucks the producers use to ship to the grocery stores, and even the fucking label and consumers want the label.
So put the fucking label on it. This is not negotiable and it's not going away. Laws requiring labels are coming because companies don't want to put them on voluntarily. So much of this could have been avoided if they'd just done the right thing in the first place. So now we have to do it the hard way.
Youtube tracks theirs though right? Couldn't twitter do the same?
No. On YouTube, ads are run on specific videos and channels, so you can see which videos are driving the ad revenue.
On Twitter, ads are run on your timeline, and are not attached to any specific tweet. If you follow a bunch of accounts of guitar players, you might get ads from Guitar Center (or if your bio says you play guitar, etc). It's a completely different model from YouTube.
Perhaps we can have it like Slashdot back in the late 1990's A dozen articles a day mostly based on Linux, 3 of them are dupes, 1 is about a minor kernel upgrade, and 3 about some sort of Windows manager. 4 on the Evil Mean Old Microsoft, and 2 on some programming langue authors latest GNU Rant (for or against), then a something else.
that they won't pocket the ad revenue from the extra traffic.
What should they do with that revenue? Remember, there is no way to connect ad revenue to any specific tweets.
Should they a) try to come up with an arbitrary number and refund that percentage of their revenue to advertisers? or b) donate that arbitrary amount of revenue to charity? or c) endeavor to block that suspicious traffic even though it might cost you future revenue?
I am fine with clear labeling, but because it is artificial you automatically place it on the avoid list, because you want to make a decision if it is healthy or not.
The consumer is paying the bill, so they can base their decision on any damn thing they choose.
Ironically, these same people who think that lab grown meat is a great thing are against GMOs. By definition, lab grown meat is a GMO. Non-GMO meat will not grow to size from a "culture".
Maybe you don't get the concept of irony. Sell whatever kind of GMO you want, just put a label on it. Simple. Consistent.
Hey grandpa, YouTube stars have bigger audiences than prime time TV or the network news.
YouTube stars don't even have the biggest audiences on YouTube. Check for yourself. Go see the list of the most-watched videos on YT for any year, including 2018. Not a single YouTube "star" on the list.
Nobody cares. Not even their immediate family cares. The most-viewed videos of 2018 were all music videos of bad records. You could literally show videos of goats being hypnotized instead of every single "YouTube Star" and YouTube would make just as much money. If you can name five of these YouTube Stars you should be ashamed of being such a giant loser.
Get over yourselves. Pewdiepie spouting racist shit isn't that interesting and the people that watch him don't buy shit anyway. Advertisers are starting to realize they're better off targeting their parents. The only good YouTube videos are the ones that show you how to de-bone a chicken or unclog a toilet.
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Oh, I'm an old dude alright.
When I say I'm competitive in FPS, I don't mean I'm doing eSports. I just beat more asses than beat me, I guess you would say. And Super Smash Bros is way beyond my ability and my endurance.
But truly, for the 99% of gamers that don't do eSportsj professionally, services like GeForce NOW are gonna be plenty good. I'm goddamn impressed with it. It's fun to play games on my Macbook that have never been ported to macOS. I like the idea of not having to invest a couple of grand every year into a gaming rig.
Now excuse me, youngster, because it's time for my evening vodka & prune juice and the reruns of Columbo are starting.
Oh, I agree with you completely. I'm not giving up on having my own bespoke gaming PC sitting next to me, warming my feet. Plus, not all the publishers are offering their stuff on GeForce NOW. No Origin games, or EA, for example. Most everything that's on Steam and Uplay is there, but not the Microsoft games like Forza Horizon (I'm a big racing game fan).
But this is going to disrupt the market, imo. My guess is that publishers will start to offer their own game-streaming clouds, and that's why they're holding out.
I'm not really happy about the change to the cloud "game as service" model, but if my experience is any indication, it's coming nonetheless.
Look, I know it's crazy, but I'm playing 60 fps consistently. I'm not smart enough to know how it's being done, I just know it's happening. My big gaming PC has a 144Hz monitor, and that even looks flawless on this nvidia cloud thing. Now, I'm fairly close to one of their server farms (less than 100mi) so maybe that makes a difference.
You really ought to sign up for the beta. They're still letting people in as they load-test it. I'd like to hear what you think after you try it out.
You sound like the kind of guy who thinks he can hear the difference between cheap speaker wire and expensive speaker wire.
No, if you played on GeForce now, you would never know you weren't on your own computer. I'm playing competitive FPS against people on high-end gaming machines and consoles and they don't notice except that I'm always just above them on the leader boards.
I've been beta-testing GeForce NOW since the beginning and I believe this cloud gaming is going to have a huge impact on the market. I can run the latest AAA games on ultra using a PC that doesn't come close to meeting system requirements or on my Macbook pro. And I mean smooth. As in no lag. First person shooters, racing games, whatever. They play great, and don't feel any different than playing them on my own system.
Now, it's been a free service to me because I'm beta-testing (you have to own the games, of course), and I really don't know how much nVidia is going to charge for this once it's released. But if it's $5/month, I'd pay for this all day long. At $20/month, probably not. You also need a really good internet connection with unlimited data because it uses up a LOT of bandwidth.
Don't be jealous. It doesn't suit you.
We haven't met his foster parents. Alexa might have been on to something.
It's not anarchy, but Democrats swept the Kansas statewide office elections.
To give you an idea of how bad the Kansas GOP is, the people of Kansas elected a Native American lesbian to Congress over a Republican guy that Donald Trump campaigned and did rallies for and endorsed, and in a district that has been Republican for just about ever.
Incompetent goes without saying. If they were halfway competent, the state's economy wouldn't be in the toilet and they might not have had to commit election fraud to stay in power.
The idea was cancelled when IT experts explained to the governor and secretary of state that this equipment could make it harder to engage in election fraud and that could inadvertently cause the votes of black and Hispanic people to be counted.
Kansas has had one of the most corrupt state governments for decades. Finally this year, the citizens of Kansas had enough and threw the Republicans out of office in the hope that they would accidentally fall into a hole somewhere 40 miles outside Topeka and never be seen again.
Apple did this on purpose. They're playing 4-D chess while the rest of the industry is playing checkers. By saying "this is normal", they're distracting from other issues they have. Apple won and you lost, so suck it up, buttercup. iPad purchases have consequences. And it's still better than a Surface.
#WhereAppleUsersGoOneTheyGoAll
#TrustThePlan
I first read the headline as "Apple Twerks...".
I think I may have been spending too much time browsing Instagram.
Is there any way I can set Twitter to just give me President Trump's tweets? I want to shoot that shit straight into my veins.
I'm starting to love that crazy old fucker, and part of me will be sad when he's gone. Probably in a couple of weeks, the way he's going.
He and I have a lot in common, you know. I am to Slashdot what Trump is to Twitter. That's how beloved I am. I'm inclined to wake up in the middle of the night and post all kinds of incoherent shit. Also, I sometimes wake up in a urine-soaked bed, except instead of high-class Russian hookers I have to figure out if it was me or my eight year-old cat.
Food porn is the best porn. It's amazing what can be done with a simple radish.
At least, that's what I've heard.
Come on, you know that's not true. Demand always precedes supply.
I think you're just trying to be cute to make a point. Demand will be met, if not by one producer, then by another. Either way, all the money in the system comes from the people paying the bill...the consumer. The customer is always right, and the customer says, put a fucking label on it.
The producer doesn't exist without consumers, consumers pay for absolutely everything that the producer has, from the money in the CEO's pocket to the intellectual property to the concrete under the processing house to the trucks the producers use to ship to the grocery stores, and even the fucking label and consumers want the label.
So put the fucking label on it. This is not negotiable and it's not going away. Laws requiring labels are coming because companies don't want to put them on voluntarily. So much of this could have been avoided if they'd just done the right thing in the first place. So now we have to do it the hard way.
No. On YouTube, ads are run on specific videos and channels, so you can see which videos are driving the ad revenue.
On Twitter, ads are run on your timeline, and are not attached to any specific tweet. If you follow a bunch of accounts of guitar players, you might get ads from Guitar Center (or if your bio says you play guitar, etc). It's a completely different model from YouTube.
And don't forget: one reader poll!
I miss those polls.
What should they do with that revenue? Remember, there is no way to connect ad revenue to any specific tweets.
Should they a) try to come up with an arbitrary number and refund that percentage of their revenue to advertisers? or b) donate that arbitrary amount of revenue to charity? or c) endeavor to block that suspicious traffic even though it might cost you future revenue?
That's utter nonsense.
The consumer is paying the bill, so they can base their decision on any damn thing they choose.
Put a label on it.
Maybe you don't get the concept of irony. Sell whatever kind of GMO you want, just put a label on it. Simple. Consistent.
I like how you took the joke in a seasonal direction, while still keeping it light. Well done (which is how I like my lamp, with a nice mint sauce)
YouTube stars don't even have the biggest audiences on YouTube. Check for yourself. Go see the list of the most-watched videos on YT for any year, including 2018. Not a single YouTube "star" on the list.
Nobody cares. Not even their immediate family cares. The most-viewed videos of 2018 were all music videos of bad records. You could literally show videos of goats being hypnotized instead of every single "YouTube Star" and YouTube would make just as much money. If you can name five of these YouTube Stars you should be ashamed of being such a giant loser.
Get over yourselves. Pewdiepie spouting racist shit isn't that interesting and the people that watch him don't buy shit anyway. Advertisers are starting to realize they're better off targeting their parents. The only good YouTube videos are the ones that show you how to de-bone a chicken or unclog a toilet.