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Me wonders, with this new "do it all at once" changes, that there wont be problems. I still remember when playing the first game that decided to load textures in the background, how balkey the performace was. I just wated it to finish the one task, so i could continue to play. Glorified benchmarks (which they admit already they dont know what is optomised for what) do not show the worst problem when gaming.
If they end up having to re-linearise through various other waiting, because something doesnt handle parellisation of it all smoothly, then they could end up with things more complex again and slower still. Like many patchings done for many other things, effecting all things. Patch the drivers and everyone gets the same.
AMD has a clear strategy. Survive 2015 and spend most money on R&D for next-gen parts. Then recapture market share by releasing these parts when they're ready in 2016.
NVIDIA has been focused on destroying AMD. GameWorks is specifically designed to cripple AMD.
AMD is taking a shot back at NVIDIA, but DirectX 12 is simply taking advantage of AMD's architectural advantages. AMD is not closing off anything to NVIDIA, they want to play fairly.
AMD is not blocking optimizations the way NVIDIA is.
AMD prefers open standards. NVIDIA technologies form a closed platform.
then again, that might be more of a sideeffect of having a lot smaller driver team
if amd sorted out linux drivers, they could push Quantum as the "ultimate steam box", because nobody else has shown anything noteworthy in that direction
@DragonLord in the war between the 2, it is still depressing to me that all of the tech sites still compare the speed of similars, when it could be apples and oranges completely. There is very Minor talk and very few times where "what is rendered" does it look the same? as both have slightly diffferent methods, it is a travesty to set both the same (general) way. and to not display that they both make the same picture.
Either one of them can implement one Cheap Trick, as seen by hack drivers, and change thier FPS by large ammounts at the same pixel res and same AA AF stuff, and Who is looking at what picture each renders ? The one site that covered that one time showed variations between the 2 renders that were a significant difference.
So to me there is 3 things i want to know. 1) how fast is it 2) how does it handle the worst problems in gaming , when the frame rates SUX 3) how does the picture look. If you ask me these glorified review/testsings are missing 2/3rd of the picture.
any one of them. i have only to date seen one close analisis of how the 2 render different pictures of the same game. and even that was only like a few games covered.
We also know that depending on the game itself , variations in frame rate, changed some based on regular releaced drivers (not hacked drivers). You can see people reporting at various places how a simple version change of driver Fixed or didnt fix a problem, and how their game frame rates have Not or have changed any. So todays review, does not even represent tomorrows drivers :-)
like write "Gamers: It’s safe to upgrade to Windows 10" then read 50+ comments below it, or at steam itself , that well "that depends" who you ask, and what lame old game they are playing that is not working. and 1/2 the time they do not know for sure if it is one other problem. (problem they caused themselves)
The writers are making blanket statement over and over again, and it is less and less of them putting in disclaimers like "well we don't really freaking know, because how can we".
They are still interesting reads, and keeping up with what some peoples opinions are that day. Many of which "time will tell" and "your results may vary" and "let's see just what comes of it". I got time :-)
I hope microsoft makes a one stop settnig page for all the communication Windows does. They really need to do it. Even if all versions of Windows had it to some degree
The emphasis throughout the textbook we used is that businesses need to focus on delivering value to their customers. Repeat customers drive long-term revenue. Short-term profits at the expense of consumers are not the answer.
@Ramhound The issue is striking the right balance. Some degree of data collection is a necessity for national security, but it must not be done in such a way that normal, law-abiding citizens are subject to invasive tracking.
The PRISM scandal shows that the NSA has been going too far.
I do not even care about my "privacy" with microsoft, nor am running any need to hide, I had a completely different adjenda , of having things hold still Stop , so i could figure out what is happening. And there was a lot of stuff going on, that certannly did not shut off correct with the buttons.
...and (speculation, but not implausible) a very real risk of getting the board of directors arrested for "harboring terrorism" or a similar criminal claim.
...even though there is no intention to aid terrorism!
@DragonLord aid terroism? like 300billion in arms sent to packastan while they were "allies" harboring the $$$ expencive fugitive they wanted. It would be one hell of a courtroom drama to have Yahoo be herassed for such things, if there was wild "justice for all" courtroom drama .
@DragonLord No offense, but you do that... a lot. Like, probably close to 8 or 9 times now. It makes you come off as a bit of a drama queen. When you're feeling like posting something like that in the future, just take a deep breath, sleep on it, and come back tomorrow and keep grinding. You'll probably feel better after you sleep on it. You seem to overreact to your own feelings.
@DragonLord I believe that to be true, that the admin has knowlege of such things, and also psycological drama to round up the economy. But their information was shown to be 100% wrong many times. and Were in a Republic. Leaving only the excuse that there is some timely or secret things that "need to be withheld" , and 90% of the time that too is horescrit. How many timely and secret things were withheld about BinLaden to find out (again) that he was camping out at our own allies?
> Bill has been the archetype for what a moderator on Stack Exchange should be. His patient, fair and calm demeanor even in the face of criticism is legendary; his diligence and skill in handling the numerous difficult problems that face Stack Overflow users are inspiring.
As a high-reputation user, I should be setting an example, not acting out.
I shouldn't be saying things like "stop terrorist threats now, privacy can come later".
Yes, terrorist threats are real. But there are ways to combat them without unduly infringing upon privacy.
I suspect it's the "communist" ideology at play here, dictators trying to take over the world by force (the exact opposite of what communism is and how it's supposed to work under Marxism)
As sleep has been rather odd to me, but mostly figured out mentally. Why sleep in the moddle of moving a terrabyte? why sleep while in the middle of a download. because Stuff Never Stops, in the machine, so the designers had an odd way of determining the sleep timer stuff.
Sounds good in theory, but does not work in practice.
> This is an argument that cannot be settled. No large socialist or Communist state ever managed to create a population of ideal Communist citizens--though it is worth noting that many contemporary Russians voice regret for the disappearance of old patterns of cooperation in the new capitalist era and are decidedly ambivalent about the virtues of competition.
Allowing backdoor access to public file sharing et al. affects the "general public" but those with any infosec knowledge can keep things private regardless.
It's not that communism isn't an ideal societal structure. The issue is that true communism (Marxism or otherwise) is not feasible to implement, at least in part due to intrinsic issues in human nature. It just doesn't scale.
Without encryption how would they know who the enemy is :-) anybody knows there is way to much data, it is only encrypted data then that they look at :-)
@HackToHell that is weird, because there are people who are configuring it different ways and have not reported such things. Completely the opposite superuser.com/questions/947530/… we have DLs wont even monoff
I have macbook pro retina I use OSX. The reason I am using Windows is because of SQL Server and Visual Studio. So, I had no reason to buy a valid copy. So, far I am happy with windows 8.1(original free copy) + free activator. If I upgrade to window 10 will it free activated version. Or you have to pay money for activation?
@HackToHell it isnt likely that a "driver" problem (being loads of drivers out there still not stabalised) would cause the sleep timer to trigger, and the OS to put things to sleep. So you could spend hors playing with > powercfg /energy >powercfg -lastwake & >powercfg -requests
@androidplusios.design You may be able to activate Windows on a DreamSpark key. Note that you can only use this for educational purposes, and not in a commercial setting.
a couple of people have claimed that shifting fron an insider early releace stuff to updating it to a releaced version, has kept them activated. I think time will tell if it stays that way.
technically you can only purchase standalone retail windows 10 licenses. you only get an oEM license if it comes on the device....I only clarify that because that is a huge pet peave of mine :$
Windows 8.0 was the lastv ersion to have a "upgrade" license.
I cant see going through the "fun" people have with trying to stay activated, and get the tons of critical updates, being worthy of the 119$ home price.
The problems they can have with these things, costs people trying to help them more than that. :-) and half of that stuff they need help with has probably been fixed.
@JourneymanGeek there's a software purchase I want but can't currently get: izotope.com/en/products/audio-repair/rx the price on the advanced is quite eye-poppingly huge, but it's worth the money in terms of what it can do... just don't have the money lol
EDA software is an extreme example of this. Licenses cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per seat and there are only a few thousand licensees each year.
Probably not billions in this case, and the market is a bit larger, but it's not mass-market software.
@DragonLord I'd say their market is expanding rapidly, with the increase in the number of hobbyist music artists, and even the huge increase in the number of professional music artists.
They must be experiencing enormous growth. Ditto for Cakewalk, Ableton, bla bla... all the DAW stuff, sound processing stuff... Celemony...
@DragonLord there have been times when people charging too much , would have sold more even at those rediculous costs if the stuff worked great , was recommended often. Economies of scale bring forth patches :-)
I'm a paid licensee of Cakewalk Sonar Ultimate and Celemony Melodyne Editor. Building up my base of audio software, plus I have Sony Vegas Pro 13. And I want iZotope. Got a Blue Yeti mic too
@DragonLord now see, that kind of licensing model is awesome -- being friendly to hobbyists or non-commercial artists is very much appreciated
Adobe, iZotope, et al. who like to charge the same (ridiculous) fee to everyone, are just reducing net utility in the world without providing any financial benefit to themselves, because people who can't afford your software but need it are going to either not use it, or pirate it
they seem to be so inflexible that they'd rather make $0 than risk potentially leaving money on the table when a high-roller (or a company) comes to them looking to spend thousands
