Xbox One worse off, with crashes, stuttering, and frame rates as low as 17FPS.
Usually it's just PC players that get stiffed when it comes to launch day bugs—the disastrous Arkham Knight port being a prime example—but Just Cause 3 is reportedly causing problems on PC and console. Reports are coming in from multiple media outlets and Reddit users that JC3 is suffering from random frame rate drops, crashes, and disappearing oceans, to name just a few problems.
An early analysis of the the Xbox One version from NX Gamer claims that playing the game for more than hour leads to loading times of over 15 minutes, with the frame rate dropping to as low as 17FPS. NX Gamer also experienced multiple crashes—which is a particularly big problem for a console game—and other problems which could only be resolved by a full system reboot.
"This just looks like memory leakages where it's clearing out RAM," NX Gamer's video analysis says. "Some of the AI goes mad, the physics can react really oddly, and unfortunately on top of all these problems, the performance with a game that's totally designed around blowing stuff up and having this chaotic world doesn't perform very well at all."
Mehr als 90 Prozent der bayerischen Kommunen wollen sich den Breitbandausbau fördern lassen. Um die Bundesförderung attraktiver zu machen, hat das Land seine eigenen Mittel aufgestockt. (Netzpolitik, Glasfaser)
Mehr als 90 Prozent der bayerischen Kommunen wollen sich den Breitbandausbau fördern lassen. Um die Bundesförderung attraktiver zu machen, hat das Land seine eigenen Mittel aufgestockt. (Netzpolitik, Glasfaser)
Laut Mozilla-Chefin Mitchell Baker sollte die Entwicklung von Thunderbird und Firefox künftig strikt getrennt stattfinden, wovon beide Programme profitieren sollen. Möglicherweise wird der freie E-Mail-Client gar aus dem Mozilla-Projekt ausgegliedert – entschieden ist aber noch nichts. (Thunderbird, Firefox)
Laut Mozilla-Chefin Mitchell Baker sollte die Entwicklung von Thunderbird und Firefox künftig strikt getrennt stattfinden, wovon beide Programme profitieren sollen. Möglicherweise wird der freie E-Mail-Client gar aus dem Mozilla-Projekt ausgegliedert - entschieden ist aber noch nichts. (Thunderbird, Firefox)
Even if 4K TVs were popular Black Friday and Cyber Monday steals, there continues to be a lack of 4K content to watch on them. DirecTV wants to provide a solution: the company's SVP of Video and Space Communications Phil Goswitz confirmed at New York's TranSPORT conference that DirecTV will launch a live 4K broadcasting service sometime in "early 2016."
At the conference, Goswitz explained that the company currently has the ability to transmit up to 50 new UHD channels, and live sports transmissions are already being tested as part of next year's rollout. DirecTV already has the hardware in place, and according to Goswitz, the company wants to get ahead of cable companies and provide viewers with 4K content they can't get from their cable companies. "I think the belief that there are technology challenges is a bit of a misinformed myth," he said. "I think technology throughout the entire ecosystem is ready. But I think content is king; the plane is ready to take off and there is no king on board."
Goswitz went on to say that DirecTV is "moving into working with partners" to create more 4K content. Currently Netflix and YouTube have some 4K video ready to stream, but most companies continue to focus on hardware. Roku and TiVo recently came out with updated set-top boxes ready for 4K streaming, but they still have to work with the finite amount of 4K content available.
Der Kabelnetzbetreiber Unitymedia will im kommenden Jahr erstmals Internet mit 400 MBit/s anbieten. Dazu gibt es auch ein neues Kabelmodem. (Unitymedia, Internet)
Der Kabelnetzbetreiber Unitymedia will im kommenden Jahr erstmals Internet mit 400 MBit/s anbieten. Dazu gibt es auch ein neues Kabelmodem. (Unitymedia, Internet)
Ein Roboter soll Menschen in Zukunft am Amsterdamer Flughafen den Weg zeigen. Derzeit läuft ein erster Test, in dem er einigen Hindernissen ausweichen muss. (Roboter, Technologie)
Ein Roboter soll Menschen in Zukunft am Amsterdamer Flughafen den Weg zeigen. Derzeit läuft ein erster Test, in dem er einigen Hindernissen ausweichen muss. (Roboter, Technologie)
Aus einem Kohlenstofffilm haben Wissenschaftler mit einem Laser an der freien Luft Diamanten erzeugt. Für den Verlobungsring sind die Kristalle allerdings noch nicht ganz geeignet. (Wissenschaft, Internet)
Aus einem Kohlenstofffilm haben Wissenschaftler mit einem Laser an der freien Luft Diamanten erzeugt. Für den Verlobungsring sind die Kristalle allerdings noch nicht ganz geeignet. (Wissenschaft, Internet)
Omate has been producing smartwatches running Google Android software since before Google actually launched a version of Android optimized for wearables. Now the company is getting ready to launch a new model called the Omate Rise. It’s a round watch with a 1.3 inch, 360 x 360 pixel touchscreen display, support for WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, […]
Omate has been producing smartwatches running Google Android software since before Google actually launched a version of Android optimized for wearables. Now the company is getting ready to launch a new model called the Omate Rise. It’s a round watch with a 1.3 inch, 360 x 360 pixel touchscreen display, support for WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, […]
An artist / collective famous for hilariously butchering famous tracks has just suckered several news outlets into publishing a textbook “copyright fail” story. D.J. Detweiler, whose work has to be heard to be believed, implied that Soundcloud claimed copyright infringement on a ‘remix’ of a famous silent track. In fact it was a carefully orchestrated stunt.
Considering the amount of publicity a wrongful DMCA notice can generate these days, it’s no surprise that when a gift of a story presents itself, people are happy to jump on board.
Unfortunately, however, some stories are more complex than they first appear and when that complexity is borne out of a deliberate desire to mislead, chaos is bound to ensue.
On November 25 a tantalizing piece appeared in Electronic Beats detailing how in an apparent desire to protect copyright, Soundcloud had finally gone too far. A follow-up piece from YourEDM put meat on the bones.
“Just when you thought Soundcloud couldn’t get any worse, they strike again harder than ever. Now reaching an all time low, Soundcloud has removed a track that is nothing but 4 minutes of pure silence due to ‘Copyright Infringement’ claims,” it declared.
The piece was uploaded to an account operated by D.J. Detweiler and consisted of a remix (if one could ever be possible) of the John Cage ‘track’ 4’33”, a famous performance consisting of nothing but silence.
“That’s right, a song that has literally no sound was flagged for removal. How? Because Soundcloud is lazy and takes shortcuts to flag and remove content,” the YourEDM piece continued.
“Instead of crawling the uploaded content for copyright material, which takes a decent amount of CPU power, Soundcloud has resorted into cutting that process out entirely and beginning to flag content based on JUST the track title.”
As recipes for outrage go, this was an absolute doozy and no wonder it was picked up by several publications in the days that followed. However, as is now becoming painfully obvious, the whole thing was a giant stunt. A statement from Soundcloud obtained by Engadget revealed the cringe-worthy truth.
“The upload referenced in the screenshot was not a track of silence and was taken down because it included Justin Bieber’s What Do You Mean without the rightsholder’s permission,” the company said.
“The respective user uploaded the track under the title “4’33”,” which is also the name of John Cage’s famous piece of silence but it was not, in fact, silence.”
So what were D.J. Detweiler’s aims? Well, trolling the press appears to be one. In a biting follow-up amid several retweets of regurgitated articles on the same topic, D.J. Detweiler posted the following image.
Another aim appears to be recreating the work of Cage to prove a point. Although Cage’s track 4’33” was supposed to be silent, ‘performers’ are expected to be present but not play. Unless done so in a vacuum, the resulting ‘performance’ therefore includes ambient noise. Equally, it appears that D.J. Detweiler’s ‘silence’ is now intentionally causing noise around the Internet too.
“We are making a remix of the original performance of John Cage. The only different thing is that we are making it on the internet in 2015, instead of doing it in a space like a theater, like John Cage did. The whole environment around what we’re doing is the performance because everybody’s reacting.”
But trolling and frivolity aside, it does appear that DJ Detweiler have a copyright message to deliver.
“When John Cage wrote that piece, one of the main reasons was because he was trying to ask, who owns the silence? Who has the copyright for the silence?” they ask. “The laws surrounding copyright at this point seem highly outdated and need some sort of reformation, and we just want to push that.”
While the group have certainly achieved their aims, it’s perhaps a bit of a shame that’s been achieved at the expense of publications who mainly appeared to have sympathy with often overreaching copyright law.
That being said, when one looks at DJ Detweiler’s Facebook and homepages (epilepsy warning!), the value of doing more research really starts to pay off.
DJ Detweiler are taking part in a panel discussion about “branding, hype and trends” this Thursday at the 3hd Festival in Berlin. He’s described as an individual there but at this point, who knows?
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are chasing the dream of low-cost, recycled rockets.
Four reusable RS-25 engines will power NASA's SLS rocket as it ascends into space, and then they'll be discarded. (credit: NASA)
On the Monday before Thanksgiving NASA made what it deemed a momentous announcement: the space agency had awarded $1.16 billion to Aerojet Rocketdyne for rocket engines that would power its “Journey to Mars.” By contrast, a few hours earlier, the private space company Blue Origin secretly launched a rocket into space and safely landed it. The contrast between the deal struck in corridors of Washington D.C. and what had happened in the desert of West Texas could not have been more stark.
The engines that will power NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, were first developed in 1970. These RS-25 engines that gave the space shuttle its thrust were engineering marvels; with some refurbishment NASA could use them over and over again. But now NASA is funding a contract to restart production of those old engines because they would no longer be reused. Like the rest of the massive SLS rocket, its engines will be used once and then burn up in the atmosphere.
In contrast to the billions of dollars NASA spends on legacy hardware, Blue Origin has received about $25 million from the agency during its 15-year existence. That’s less than the cost of a single RS-25 engine. With the launch of its New Shepard vehicle, Blue Origin has gone not only for reusable engines but a reusable booster and a reusable spacecraft. Why? Because this approach is much, much cheaper than throwing flight-quality hardware away after every launch.
Mehr als 90 Prozent der bayerischen Kommunen wollen sich den Breitbandausbau fördern lassen. Um die Bundesförderung attraktiver zu machen, hat das Land seine eigenen Mittel aufgestockt. (
Laut Mozilla-Chefin Mitchell Baker sollte die Entwicklung von Thunderbird und Firefox künftig strikt getrennt stattfinden, wovon beide Programme profitieren sollen. Möglicherweise wird der freie E-Mail-Client gar aus dem Mozilla-Projekt ausgegliedert - entschieden ist aber noch nichts. (
Der Kabelnetzbetreiber Unitymedia will im kommenden Jahr erstmals Internet mit 400 MBit/s anbieten. Dazu gibt es auch ein neues Kabelmodem. (
Ein Roboter soll Menschen in Zukunft am Amsterdamer Flughafen den Weg zeigen. Derzeit läuft ein erster Test, in dem er einigen Hindernissen ausweichen muss. (
Aus einem Kohlenstofffilm haben Wissenschaftler mit einem Laser an der freien Luft Diamanten erzeugt. Für den Verlobungsring sind die Kristalle allerdings noch nicht ganz geeignet. (
Considering the amount of publicity a wrongful DMCA notice can generate these days, it’s no surprise that when a gift of a story presents itself, people are happy to jump on board.
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