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Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

Ice_2_c_u posted:

so how much are they losing per unit this go around?

the 360 stopped making a loss per unit like 18 months after release

# ? Jun 20, 2015 14:15

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 03:33

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

Valeyard posted:

the 360 stopped making a loss per unit like 18 months after release

excluding the billion-dollar loss due to the rrod i guess

# ? Jun 20, 2015 14:24

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

univbee posted:

excluding the billion-dollar loss due to the rrod i guess

yes, lol

# ? Jun 20, 2015 14:45

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

my og 360 lasted for 6 years, and then spent another 6 months wrapped in a towel and i have no idea how i didnt burn the house down

# ? Jun 20, 2015 14:46

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

PleasureKevin posted:

but they just finished saying xbox would run windows 10 wtf

i mean it's right there

also lol @ "now $349" - a $150 price cut in what a year and a half?

its really impressive that widnows can run on so many kinds of devices and be consistently bad on all of them

# ? Jun 20, 2015 15:37

Neurolimal: Nov 3, 2012

at the date posted:

off topic, but I guess the new "in" thing is being able to see your butt through your skirt????

lol if you dont welcome a future where hot people are showing they butts, forever

# ? Jun 20, 2015 15:42

Happy_Misanthrope: Aug 3, 2007; "I wanted to kill you, go to your funeral, and anyone who showed up to mourn you, I wanted to kill them too."

360 bwcompatibility will propel the bone to new heigh-

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:03

computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

If it really is emulation instead of a native port that's to be expected

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:04

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

for an unfinished feature, its not surprising. if they get it working with the majority of games by the end of the year then thats pretty good

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:10

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

the bit where game publishers choose whether or not they allow their 360 games to run on the Xbox One is complete poo poo

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:12

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

pseudorandom name posted:

the Xbox One is complete poo poo

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:16

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

the xbox one is mega ownage. playing good games with my bros? epic. hmm, maybe id be better playing anime games on the ps4 alone. lol. yeah. lmao.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:22

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

the ipad is the best travel compute

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:29

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:38

Dubstep Jesus: Jun 27, 2012; by exmarx

Valeyard posted:

the xbox one is mega ownage. playing good games with my bros? epic. hmm, maybe id be better playing anime games on the ps4 alone. lol. yeah. lmao.

or you could not buy a games thing because they are trash toys for children

# ? Jun 20, 2015 18:08

Dodoman: Feb 26, 2009; A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret; Lipstick Apathy

computer parts posted:

If it really is emulation instead of a native port that's to be expected

on the giant bomb live stream phil spencer said they're emulating then entire OS, dashboard et al. the xbone sees the 360 OS as a game which then runs other games so yeah there's going to be some performance drops till they optimise it.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 18:11

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Dodoman posted:

on the giant bomb live stream phil spencer said they're emulating then entire OS, dashboard et al. the xbone sees the 360 OS as a game which then runs other games so yeah there's going to be some performance drops till they optimise it.

all in one. input one.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 18:13

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

Dodoman posted:

on the giant bomb live stream phil spencer said they're emulating then entire OS, dashboard et al. the xbone sees the 360 OS as a game which then runs other games so yeah there's going to be some performance drops till they optimise it.

is this mobile first or cloud first?

# ? Jun 20, 2015 18:18

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

PleasureKevin posted:

if only there was a website where you could see content made on the iPad... would be very handy

also, how do I get stupid Remote Desktop for free in Windows 8? like full RDP whatever. I can pay the student rate of 70$ but loving really.

i did this just because i needed something to play video james on,

if you have a .edu email you can sign up for dreamspark and then download "Windows Embedded Industry Pro 8.1 with Update", which is literally the same thing as windows 8.1 pro edition except it doesnt come with any of the metro apps preinstalled

# ? Jun 20, 2015 18:44

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Dodoman posted:

on the giant bomb live stream phil spencer said they're emulating then entire OS, dashboard et al. the xbone sees the 360 OS as a game which then runs other games so yeah there's going to be some performance drops till they optimise it.

they will never fully match the 360's performance on a mobile amd cpu

also the lineup of backwards compatible games is hilariously pathetic and serves well to deflate any xbone fanboy that is rabid about being able to replay halo 3 (the same one they bought again with the master chef collection because there are no other games for xbone, but somehow even worse because its emulated) on ther xbone maybe someday. also lol if you dont think ms is going to try to monetize this with paid bc packs or something

the ps4 is also bad. wii u supremacy

# ? Jun 20, 2015 19:14

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

also lol ho-lol-ens is going to fail miserably http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/how-minecraft-and-halo-make-the-most-and-the-least-of-hololens/

quote:

We could walk around the table, lean in, look from above, and kneel to be dead-eyed with the augmented base, and at no point did the content judder in our vision in any significant way. Our tracking was never lost. Unfortunately, that field-of-view crop easily limited the feeling of being immersed in a virtual/real world hybrid; it was more like looking through a tiny magic window into another world than actually being in that world. And while it was an impressive training cut scene, this demo also didn't give us much idea of how HoloLens would work for actual gameplay.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 19:19

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

hololens is going to blow you away, pal

# ? Jun 20, 2015 19:31

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Valeyard posted:

hololens is going to blow you away, pal

with how bad it is, maybe

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:12

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Beeftweeter posted:

with how bad it is, maybe

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:13

Raere: Dec 13, 2007

idk if this was posted yet

http://www.howtogeek.com/219700/what-is-wi-fi-sense-and-why-does-it-want-your-facebook-account/

quote:

This feature lets you share Wi-Fi network access with your Facebook, Outlook.com, and Skype contacts. It works in the background, automatically sharing networks you choose to share and downloading credentials for Wi-Fi networks your contacts have shared with you.

...

Like many other applications and services, Wi-Fi Sense can tap into your network of Facebook contacts. If you give it access to Facebook, it�ll share any shared networks with your Facebook friends and automatically download any networks your Facebook friends are sharing with you.

That�s the point of Wi-Fi Sense�s Facebook access � it allows Windows 10 to determine who your friends are so it can share Wi-Fi networks with them in the background. Technically, �Windows Wi-Fi� is a third-party app that accesses your Facebook friends so Microsoft knows who you�re friends with.

...

You might not want to use Wi-Fi Sense. Bear in mind that the sharing is indiscriminate � if you use it, it will share access to your Wi-Fi with all of your Facebook friends without letting you pick and choose who gets access.

You can choose to opt out of this by changing your wireless network name, or SSID, to end with _optout. In other words, if your network name is currently �HomeNetwork�, Microsoft would like you to change the name to �HomeNetwork_optout� to opt out.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:39

Linguica: Jul 13, 2000; You're already dead

Raere posted:

You can choose to opt out of this by changing your wireless network name, or SSID, to end with _optout. In other words, if your network name is currently �HomeNetwork�, Microsoft would like you to change the name to �HomeNetwork_optout� to opt out.

Didn't Google do some similar bullshit like this where they told people who didn't want their wifi to be indexed to change the SSID to some specific thing

tech companies, I swear

edit:

quote:

We�re introducing a method that lets you opt out of having your wireless access point included in the Google Location Server. To opt out, visit your access point�s settings and change the wireless network name (or SSID) so that it ends with �_nomap�. For example, if your SSID is �Network�, you�d need to change it to �Network_nomap�.

So what if you want to opt out of both the Google thing and the MS thing. Guess you're SOL

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:40

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

sound like a neat feature. could be handy for when i invite people over-

quote:

Bear in mind that the sharing is indiscriminate � if you use it, it will share access to your Wi-Fi with all of your Facebook friends without letting you pick and choose who gets access.

oh, this is loving stupid

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:48

pram: Jun 10, 2001

lmfao what

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:49

brap: Aug 23, 2004; Grimey Drawer

uhhh, are they just figuring "more users connected, more use of services, more ad revenue?"

this is on par with installing a secret bitcoin miner as part of a software update.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 20:51

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

why the hell would i want to share (the guest) wifi from work, or any of my friends' wifis?

or why would i want my friends to share my wifi to people i don't know, for that matter.

i guess i can now do wizard crimes and then blame microsoft sharing my wifi password to strangers.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 21:15

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

Wheany posted:

i guess i can now do wizard crimes and then blame microsoft sharing my wifi password to strangers.

that proably wont work, for the same reason you cant just say that they hacked into your wifi, or you had an open network

# ? Jun 20, 2015 21:17

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

if that system doesnt get tweaked so that you can block something at a firewall level or put a dns record in place on the network or w/e to opt out i would be surprised. no companies are going to go changing their guest network names around just so that some visiting consultant or sales dude who has that feature turned on doesnt go sharing it with half the world.

# ? Jun 20, 2015 21:20

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

"why the gently caress would anyone want that" describes pretty much any new thing from ms, but that literally made me say "what" out loud when i read it

# ? Jun 20, 2015 21:24