As far as I understand it (which could be wrong). LMG and FP Media will be two separate entities, so Linus (on paper at least) isn't involved in FP as he is also one of it's content creators (so as to not have any conflict of interest).
Hence, Luke "leaving" LMG.
Sort of like this...except the content creators remain their own entities...they aren't owned by FP.
Basically, "we" will pay Floatplane Media to subscribe to their service and in turn they will pay LMG, Bitwit etc. for access to their content.
They're all completely separate entities working in harmony. This is why on WAN show they mentioned that Floatplane will actually have to pay LMG for renting out office space etc.
In effect, FP becomes a sort of Netflix and the creators are akin to production companies like Fox etc.
Just be careful, because really cheap cables are CCA type (copper clad aluminum), they basically make them out of aluminum and then plate them with a thin layer of copper to save money.
There are online stores specialized on networking equipment but stores that sell electronic components also sell cables of all kinds.
You have Farnell in UK and their http://cpc.farnell.com store for smaller purchases , they have a bunch of ethernet cable in their store.
Of course with the extremely recent verge over to the new video platform, Vessel did anybody manage to secure any unique usernames? (yes i know every username is different :rolleyes: )
Just the other day I heard my Mother scream only to hear that something told her she had won 1million pounds... >,> Telling her the truth was a little hard
Just the other day I heard my Mother scream only to hear that something told her she had won 1million pounds... >,> Telling her the truth was a little hard
The alleged crime occurred months ago. However the news story about the accused not being fit to stand trial is new this week.
This may be related to tech because of the way it has influenced society which resulted in a crime to be committed. The stories may be non technical in the sense that they are fiction, but it is likely been obtained through the Internet which is very relevant in everything that is tech-related.
In conclusion, I feel that the OP should not be persecuted by the many posters in this thread.
As opposed to Europe, where 12 year olds stab people for money and the hell of it?
Granted, these 2 need to be taken out of the gene pool. Just prevent them from procreating for the love of the future of the species.
Incorrect, the media will use this to say "see? video games make people do bad things!" the same way that they pretend drugs do the same thing, completely writing off the idea of personal responsibility for your own actions.
Back in 2011, Silverstone showed off their TJ12 concept case, a case that could hold six dual slot graphic cards....
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/06/06/silverstone-show-tj12-concept-case/
Unfortunately this concept case didn't go into production. In this yr's computex it seems TJ12 has gone a big change, as Silverstone posted this on their facebook page a few hrs ago...
It seems TJ12 would be the cube case, Lian Li D8000-like case, although not much detail was revealed yet... (including how many gpu it supports)
https://m.facebook.com/SilverStoneHK/photos/pcb.696876183704690/696876010371374/?type=1&source=48&refid=52&__tn__=E#!/photo.php?fbid=696876143704694&id=217554344970212&set=pcb.696876183704690&source=48
*update: VR-Zone Chinese has a little description on this case, in Chinese....
" 最後則是這次的旗艦產品TJ12，參觀者應該都會被直逼小冰箱的體型給嚇到，可以說是 SilverStone 的不計 成本之作，外觀上走簡約造型，面板為全鋁合金，光是面板重量就要直逼一般的機殼，內部同樣使用了煙囪 式設計，但加上了導流板讓氣體接近排出口時的速度越加快來帶走高階零組件的熱氣，底部四顆180mm 風 扇組成的空間可以讓使用者有不同的水冷排安排，頂部具有熱插拔的DriveBay 設計，整體只有壯觀兩個自可 以形容，不過讀者應該也發現了作為一個巨無霸機殼這樣的硬碟空間似乎還是不太夠，這點銀欣表示未來還 會在作調整，售價方面也是未定，但相信絕對不便宜。"
In summary, the description satated that:
-the front panel is made of aluminium alloy
-there are spoilers inside the case to accelerate airflow
-there are 4 180mm fans at the bottom of the case, capable of mountng radiators (should be similar to the arrangement in rv02/ft02/rv03, i think)
-the case features the 90 degree motherboard mounting from RAVEN RV01
-there are hot-swappable drive bays on the top portion of the case (maybe similar to the hot swappable drive bay design in ds260, i think)
- Silverstone is still tweaking the design of the case, and no words on the pricing of it.
http://chinese.vr-zone.com/115901/silverstone-shows-massive-new-case-product-at-computex-2014-04062014/
*update 2:
TechPowerUP published an article about this case, and it looks like a magnified ft03 to me....
" SilverStone Temjin TJ12 was the elephant in the room at its Computex booth. This jumbo cubical case is huge - perhaps bigger than Lian Li PC-D600. Unlike the PC-D600, and Corsair's smaller Carbide Air 540, the TJ12 isn't a vertically-partitioned two-compartment case. Its motherboard tray (supports ATX, E-ATX, XL-ATX, and HPTX) is oriented along the plane of its front panel, with rear-I/O facing upwards. Add-on cards can easily be as long and tall as they make them. At the bottom of the case, are four large fans, with a mesh, onto which you can latch on radiators of all shapes and sizes. The drive cage and PSU bay are suspended along a sloping panel, in a way that they don't obstruct anything near the motherboard tray. The actual "front-panel" is located at the top. So the TJ12 is essentially a case you put on your floor. and access its goods from the top."
Topics that shall be discussed: - Graphics - Controls and Functioning - Gameplay - Sound and Story - Conclusion.
Graphics:
Watch Dogs was released only yesterday with big expectations, despite the graphics just not being quite the same as revealed in E3 ’12. Despite that, I was not disappointed. Before we go on, my specs:
Intel Core i5 4670 @ 3.4Mhz, 3,8Mhz turbo. Ice X HD Radeon 6950 2GB 8GB RAM @ 1333Mhz 120GB Kingston SSD. (I know!)
I was genuinely amazed with what my specs were able to pull off. I am able to run at medium with high textures and high shadows (because of my CPU), and the game looked quite spectacular at a solid 50-60FPS throughout, at 1920x1080p. Especially the sunsets and nighttimes were beautiful, but the game did have a bit of a slow render rate, as in the vehicles and pedestrians loaded quite close by. This couldn’t be changed in the settings and was quite annoying. Apart from that they did a good job around midtier GPU’s at least, but I’ve heard MANY complains from higher end GPU’s (GTX 780, Radeon R9 280/290x etc.) running on higher settings with severe FPS drops. Let’s hope these issues are fixed in coming patches. The textures genuinely looked quite awesome and I felt really good driving in the city, looking around.
Physics I’ll include with Graphics. It’s a bit wonky, this one. From one side I really like the physics and it might be a little over the top, and from the other it’s not that great and a bit underwhelming (when smashing against a small wall for example.) It’s personal but I don’t care too much about it, it’s ‘’passable’’ for me. Don’t expect huge explosions, but do expect enemies falling on the ground from 50M up on a building.
- Controls and Functioning
This is the biggest problem for me. At the start the game felt VERY weird, especially the menu with a crapton of acceleration which I had to turn off in the variables file. Kind of put me off. Apart from that controlling felt a bit unnatural but I got used to that very quickly and it was quite comfortable since then. The controls are easy but dear lord, the game is a pain in ass to control with the mouse. I thought this game was natively built on PC? That didn’t show. The vast majority of menus didn’t have mouse cursors and you had to ‘’guess’’ where your mouse pointer’d be. Also shooting felt a bit off at first, but I got used to it.
Driving a car is my biggest complaint however. Cars feel very stiff and not very responsive. Outside of a few that feel ‘’okay-ish’’, the vast majority of cars actually feel like I don’t want to drive them. Over time you kind of get used to it, but it never is and will be the driving other open world games have, it’s just a bit less mobile and more stiff. Motor cycles on the other hand I like quite a bit and I’ve enjoyed driving on them, especially with that awesome jacket Aiden Pearce has.
Things like looking around take a while of getting used to as well, but once you do feels natural and alright.
- Gameplay The world feels quite alive. I really like little features they added in, or the THOUSANDS of possible conditions the people are in. ‘’Frequent watcher of police reality TV-series’’, or ‘’Remarried’’ for example. Funny little things. What saddens me is that none of their conditions really have an impact at that point in the game. They don’t react more angry because they were ‘’recently dumped’’, or an ‘’ex-police officer’’. I understand that’d be a LOT of coding to do however, so maybe next time! The world outside of that also feels quite alive. Always there are atleast some cars and pedestrians around, and you can actually go into a LOT of buildings, however irrelevant they may be. You can order a coke at a cafeteria, get new clothes (obviously), buy a gun and then threaten the shopkeeper, take his money and run..! So yeah, a lot of things to do in the city.
People compare this game to GTA V, and they do so falsely. The game is an open world, bit of a ‘’mayhem’’ game like GTA and Saints Row, but not precisely. It’s got a lot of interesting mechanics that make me interested. The hacking (usually most hacks are done by holding Q), are very quickly intuitive and can be used for strategy very efficiently. Exploding the explosives on a guard for example, or lifting a bridge right before police rides over it is and feels SO rewarding and adds a whole new level of enjoyment to the game. The overall mechanics feel well implemented into the core gameplay; a GTA-style open world RPG. Stealth & Hacking: The game allows you to be very stealthy (although doesn’t always prefer if you do, which is kind of a letdown) especially in Gang Hideout sidemissions. More on this later. You can be so creative going stealth, and no mission is ever the same. If you pick a lot of skills in the ‘’hacking’’ tree, you’re in for a treat. You can disable comms, distract people (For example, they just killed a dolphin it says on their condition, and you ‘’distract’’ them by playing a dolphin sound. Very limited and only on gang members, understandably!). Also you can explode explosives on top of someone who’s wearing grenades. A fun example: In the beginning of the game, you get ambushed. There were snipers with grenades on the rooftops. Behind them there was an electrical device you can blow up. I did that, the sniper fell off the roof, I exploded his grenade while nearly on the ground, he blew up the car and his other three gang members. That just feels great and is so much fun, it just never gets old.
Sidemissions and things to do:
Along with Stealth, this is where the game TRULY shines. There is just so much to do in Chicago. You can do Gang hideouts (invade a hideout, knock down a certain individual and get out) Fixer contracts (Catch someone, distract the police etc.) Criminal Convoy (Disrupt and kill someone and his ride, then get away or kill his entire escort.) and numerous other things like playing a game of poker or chess. The game is almost too distracting from the main missions sometimes! You frequently get called that a new Criminal Convoy has been found for you to mess up, for example. There’s also crimes you can solve if you want to. This’ll bring your reputation bar up if you solve them while killing or bringing the criminal down. (You can become an ‘’anarchist’’ or a ‘’vigilante’’. These things will have minor impact on the game except some cute noticing by pedestrians etc. You get it up by solving crimes and missions, and down by killing people or police!) Gunplay Gunplay is kind of a minus about this game for me. As stated I have minor mouse issues with the game but the shooting feels a bit shaky sometimes. Outside of that, gunfights are pretty fun once you get the hang of it and you’re easily killed if you put your difficulty high enough! It's an okay part of the game, just like most open world games. Don't expect Battlefield/Planetside 2 level shooter here!
Police: A minor point, but the police in this game is kind of weird. You pretty much only get police on you when a pedestrian calls the police, and you’ll have a chance to interfere (this happens when you pull your gun out in public, or steal a car VERY frequently and is very annoying.). If you fail to interfere, a scan goes down at your location and once it reaches a 100%, (aka you stay within the scan range) police comes after you. The police catch-n-run is very fun though, especially playing with bridges and using traffic to blow up their cars!
Multiplayer:
This is an interesting part of the game, because if it works well, it’s awesome. Problem is, it doesn’t work well. Right now the Ubisoft servers are often down and don’t work properly, or there are some other errors. A lot of hackers have also been spotted already. I haven't dug into multiplayer too much because the game itself is just so much fun, but..! Personally, the mode that stands out and is my absolute favorite is the ‘’Intrusion’’ mode, where you hack another player (and seamlessly join his game!) and hope he doesn’t spot and kill you before you do. Of course, you can get this done to you too! Very awesome, especially when it’s a tough match. After your game you’re back in your world, like nothing happened, It’s really good fun.
Story & Sound The game features music from pretty known bands (Rise Against) and other artists. They seem to have had a lot of budget go into copyrighted material to use for their game. A lot of music I’ve never heard of before too though, so that’s good! The sound of the overall game is rich and well, except gunshots. They sound fairly bad and aren’t very exciting. The ambient sounds or the street performers though, are top notch and a pleasure to listen to.
Story I won’t go to much into because I’m afraid I might spoil stuff, but the story up to this point has got me gripped pretty good, and I want to know what happens next! The dialogue is always very good and very strong characters come up. A lot of messed up ones aswell, obviously. It's pretty deep so far and I'm liking the character progression (or regression at start of the game) we're getting. It's by no means a Call of Duty campaign! From the getgo you do realize this is a story about revenge however. So if you’re not into that, then you won’t care too much. Still really good however! I’m in the middle of act II for people who want to know.
Conclusion & Verdict:
I was REALLY anticipating this game considering I’ve been waiting for it for two years now. I didn’t expect it to be perfect, I don’t really do that with Ubisoft games anyway, but I expected a lot. And expectations were met. I really like the game so far and I will for quite some time. To give some sort of indication: Tuesday it came out for me at 9am. I started playing at 1PM and played (with a 2hr break) until 3AM. I felt really emerged and the game looked good too. I had quite a bit of fun with a friend on Free roam mode and can’t wait to try that out with more than 2 people.
I hope you liked and gained knowledge from this review! Leave any constructive feedback below! Thanks!
PS: Pictures are a bit low res, Imgur didn't work with me and I messed up a bit. Sorry!
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