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Re: Resident Evil 4 remake will cost $60 on iPhone 15 Pro

Lucid00 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:44:00 -0000

To be fair this is also playable on Mac.

It's basically $60 for a PC game you can play on your iPhone and iPad.

It's the same price as the Steam version and it's the same exact game so I think it's fair.

Re: Microsoft Edge's Super Duper Secure Mode addresses Javascript vulnerabilities in a brand new way

Lucid00 — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:45:34 -0000

JIT is the name of the approach to compiling, not the engine.

The JavaScript engine in Microsoft Edge (the Chromium one) is V8.

Just-In-Time compilation is an approach to compiling (compiling code as the app is being used/code is being found).

There's also Ahead-Of-Time compilation which applies to languages like C, C++ and Java.

Re: KELLY GRINZ - Think About It Now Hosted by REAL KILLS FAKE

Lucid00 — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:13:08 -0000

🙌

Re: Windows Mobile 10 is existing support on the 10th December. These are the phones to switch to.

Lucid00 — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:59:49 -0000

Sad that the Surface Duo isn't running Windows 10X.

Re: Microsoft reportedly still working on a $60 mini Xbox for Project xCloud

Lucid00 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:34:54 -0000

Yeah, I was thinking it should run small UWP apps (and games). Hulu, Netflix, Edge, etc...

Re: Thurrott: It’s “Game Over”, “UWP will disappear”

Lucid00 — Thu, 02 May 2019 07:49:15 -0000

I honestly doubt this, though I wouldn't put it past MS to shut down UWP.

If you ask me, what UWP needs is a new compile target, something new past the idea of just the "write once and run everywhere" approach they've taken, as the value of that won't stand out much longer with iOS apps coming to macOS, Android apps on Chromebooks, and Android apps slowly coming to desktop Linux via Anbox and other solutions.

Microsoft should probably rebuild UWP apps to run like Google's Fuchsia OS or even Silverlight, not needing to be installed but still providing the option. It'd go well with their cloud business and game streaming goals.

The fact that Google is headed down that path should at least raise some eyebrows within Microsoft, and Silverlight existing before Fuchsia gives them some prior code and experience to work with in this space.

They could keep the existing Win32 and UWP app platforms for backwards compatibility (maybe even sandbox the Win32 apps for extra security), and attract developers with the newer platform.

Re: Thurrott: It’s “Game Over”, “UWP will disappear”

Lucid00 — Thu, 02 May 2019 07:37:16 -0000

The issue here is developer awareness.

UWP features coming to Win32 apps isn't new, the only new thing Microsoft has announced there is you can now use those UI controls you've just called terrible.

Since Windows 8, Win32 apps could access most WinRT app features, that carried over into Windows 10 with UWP.

Google Chrome is a good example of an app that hooks into a lot of WinRT/UWP features and nobody notices.

Re: This guy built a smartwatch from scratch, resurrecting the idea behind Pebble

Lucid00 — Wed, 01 May 2019 10:12:14 -0000

I still use my Pebble Time Steel for the same reasons he made this.

It would be awesome if he joined the Rebble community, since they're mostly focused on the same goals (just doing a little bit more, like small app support).

Re: Mozilla outlines plan to replace Firefox for Android with 'Fenix'

Lucid00 — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 01:34:29 -0000

"architecture under the hood (GeckoView instead of Gecko)"

Just here to say that GeckoView is Gecko, it's just easier to embed in Android apps (GeckoView is like WebView for Gecko), still the same rendering engine overall. The goal was just to open up more room for experimentation on the app end of things.

Re: With the Moto G7, Lenovo finally killed the G-series magic

Lucid00 — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:45:40 -0000

I'm still using a Moto G4 and I can't think of a reason to get the G7.

I've been holding out for NFC support for a while now and they still haven't delivered on that. Seriously this is just a gimmicky phone, to me it's just the G4 with Type-C and a notch display.

The camera stuff isn't a big deal to me, anything is an improvement over what I've got.
The spec bump is a given.

The prince bump is unnecessary, the screen isn't a seller to me.
I'm not sure who their target audience is anymore for the G series.

I might buy a Moto X4 next just because it's cheap right now and then move on to Nokia from there.

Re: Leak: Microsoft’s new Chromium Edge will support Google Chrome’s extensions and web store

Lucid00 — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:19:16 -0000

Better battery life and performance then Chrome

I wouldn't get my hopes up. It's basically Chrome now.

Re: Google working to bring JavaScript app support to Fuschia

Lucid00 — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:51:34 -0000

Row Hammer, Spectre and Meltdown being dangerous on web apps would apply to Fuchsia native apps regardless as Fuchsia apps don't have to be installed to run.

Also, JavaScript getting the same treatment as other languages in Fuchsia isn't the same as the web getting the same treatment.

JavaScript doesn't automatically mean web.

Skype for Windows is currently written in JavaScript, as a native app that you have to install.

Also, web browsers have sandboxing for a reason. Any flaws in that just require a browser update. Just like any OS flaws require an OS update (only difference is it's much easier to update a browser).

Re: Rumor: Microsoft planning Xbox Game Pass and more for Switch

Lucid00 — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:25:07 -0000

Microsoft isn't exactly doing that, but it's something like that.

Microsoft's strategy for gaming is Windows 10 UWP and Xbox Live.
UWP and XBL together is basically a console just sans hardware.

Toss in hardware from 3rd parties (Windows 10 devices) and the Xbox One hardware which has a core fanbase and altogether Microsoft has over 800 million devices running their store, their game software platform and Xbox Live, More than the competition by far.

Toss in Game Pass with xCloud on Switch and Android, and that number grows even more.

So Microsoft isn't really leaving the hardware business (new Xbox'es are still on the way), they're just making it so you don't need the specific Xbox hardware to play their games [it's optional now], you just need something that they have ownership and control over (Windows 10 or xCloud).

Re: Rumor: Microsoft planning Xbox Game Pass and more for Switch

Lucid00 — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:17:30 -0000

It's not likely at all for Persona to come to anything other than PlayStation.

Only mainline Persona title to make it to anything other than a PlayStation is Persona 1, and it went to Windows (which got everything PS1 back then).

I won't say "never" as I don't know what could happen. Shoot Microsoft could put money down to get Persona on Xbox to help them with the Japanese market, but I still think it's not likely.

Re: Micosoft’s new Skype for Web no longer supports ChromeOS or Linux

Lucid00 — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:05:58 -0000

Ridiculous considering that the differences between Chrome for Windows and Mac and Chrome for Linux and Chrome OS aren't much, I doubt Skype for web is using the few features that separate them.

Re: Rumor: Microsoft planning Xbox Game Pass and more for Switch

Lucid00 — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:24:49 -0000

I think this is a play to get more games on Xbox One honestly.

If Xbox One games stream to the Nintendo Switch, it's more a reason to build games for Xbox One and Nintendo gains from this by technically getting Xbox exclusives and other games that wouldn't come to the Switch on it.

I wouldn't ever bet on Microsoft exiting the console hardware market at this point, it helps with their Windows 10 / Microsoft Store sales.

Re: Switch SP? Gameboy Classic? What do you want from Nintendo's next dedicated handheld?

Lucid00 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:01:35 -0000

I think this is what's going to happen.

I'd say the only downside will likely be the smaller screen making some games difficult to read text and such, but I think that'll be solved by Nintendo letting devs tailor their games to the smaller screen (and maybe some sort of magnifying glass function if possible).

Re: Microsoft engineer spanked for proposing Mozilla gives up on Gecko Firefox rendering engine

Lucid00 — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:29:34 -0000

Just here to say Windows 10 Mobile does run UWP apps. It still does, it's why even with support ending the Microsoft Store still works on it.

Just chiming in to say that.

Re: RetroArch emulators coming to Xbox One in early 2019

Lucid00 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:18:52 -0000

Game streaming isn't the future of Xbox, it's just to get their subscriber numbers up.

Streaming will never be good enough (there'll always be something new like 4K to make it "slow" again, plus lack of offline play) and Microsoft even hinted at so in their promotional video for xCloud.
xCloud is just their last-mile strategy, "Here's access to Xbox games and services for people that won't buy an Xbox".

The future of Xbox is Windows 10 and UWP. That's what they're leaning to.

They've been pushing backwards compatibility, cross buy, cross saves and cross play heavy for a reason, even cross play and saves with other platforms (Xbox Live on Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android for instance).
They've even repeatedly mentioned being interested in bringing backwards compatibility to general Windows 10 PCs.
Link: https://www.onmsft.com/news...

Their end game is just "Buy it from the Microsoft Store on Windows 10".
My only worry is they seem to be tilted against physical copies of games (no cross buy for them, rumors of a console without a disc drive).

But other than that, their strategy seems to be less about streaming than Sony's does.
It's just about Windows 10.

They've even started to tout their Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass subscriber numbers over console sales, as this number would count all Windows 10 users (plus Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 and Xbox 360 users).

Seriously listen to any moment they talk about the future of Xbox Live, they always say something like "We want people to play anywhere, anyway they'd like".
Windows 10 being on desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, VR headsets, AR headsets, etc... fits that bill.
It also fits the mold of competing with Android, iOS, the web and even the Nintendo Switch (handheld and home console all in one).

Game streaming doesn't fit that mold.

EDIT: Also just to share, the Xbox division made Microsoft $10 billion this year. Higher than it ever has. It's doing just fine. Also they partly credit that to "cloud services", but xCloud doesn't exist yet. This means they're talking the Microsoft Store and subscriptions.

Link: https://www.ign.com/article...

Re: Finally! Sony officially announces that PSN name changes are coming soon, with provisos

Lucid00 — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:31:54 -0000

The issue is they can't change how the old games access user accounts because of this old system.

So if any game tied your game save or linked account to your PSN username, things would get screwed up when you loaded the same game save with a newly changed username, and there's no way Sony can fix that.

The only answer was to do what they're doing now, ages ago to limit the amount of games using the old system, but Sony was stubborn, stuck to it and just told everyone "It can't be done".
Now they've realized it looks bad on them to leave things as is as everyone might just jump ship to another platform (Xbox, Steam, Nintendo, etc) thanks to cross-play so we get this mess.

Re: Android turns 10, but here’s a look at the Google device that came ‘Sooner’ [Gallery]

Lucid00 — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:08:48 -0000

I remember this device.

I used to use the early Android emulator in this era, it used to have an XMPP API baked right into the OS for Google Talk and other things.

Re: Boogie Stars In Snickers Commercial

Lucid00 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:51:06 -0000

Elton John kind of sounded dope on that beat, I won't lie lol.

Re: EA is Taking Another Crack at Single-Player Star Wars, Battlefront II

Lucid00 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:26:44 -0000

"Where’s Ahsoka Tano? She was easily the best part of the series."

That's because this DLC is based on the movies, not the show (Star Wars Episode II: The Clone Wars).
Episode 2 and 3 were during the Clone Wars, Genosis was even in episode 2.

Ashoka would have to be apart of an entirely separate DLC pack considering the theme (hopefully something Rebels themed).

Sadly this'll likely mean we'll never see a playable Ventress in this game.

Re: PWA roadmap for Windows revealed at Build 2018

Lucid00 — Tue, 08 May 2018 11:14:02 -0000

It could allow for non-store installations just without WinRT APIs.

Chrome and Firefox on Android (and soon Windows, Mac and Linux) and technically Safari on iOS all allow for non-store installations, I think it'd be silly for Microsoft to not play suit there.

Most installed PWAs are just a window with no UI anyways.
Remove the WinRT APIs and the risk to this is almost none (all that's left are the regular old web browser risks).

EDIT: Turns out the Microsoft Edge team haven't decided yet either. https://twitter.com/kyleald...

Re: Xbox is adding Discord functionality, but not for voice chat

Lucid00 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:51:37 -0000

"But, Xbox needs to keep its platform secure, and granting full access to third-parties flies in the face of that notion."

Discord could just build a UWP app for Xbox One. Microsoft literally doesn't care if you do that. There are already several options for this, it's how Skype on Xbox works.