While they are preparing for the battle for net neutrality in the US, it seems that FCC has made a good progress in increasing the broadband standard to 25Mbps as the minimum speed. This is useful for the customers to surf the net even faster than before and especially for the business companies that can operate online quite faster as well with lesser lags. Of course, it may made the bad ISPs in the US cry out like a bunch of kids, indicating that this kind of bandwidth is seriously more expensive than ever and that it can attract even more hoggers out there in which tons of technical packets are hogged and transferred more quicker and non-stop in such a crazier way than before. What will those ISPs do, huh? Charge people for browsing at such a high speed non-stop at the stupidly high price? Or maybe slow down the connection speed and break the new prototype rules FCC had recently made?
OK, we have until sometime next month before the net neutrality declaration in the US begins and we don't know what kind of evil things will the US ISPs do to their customers. There were already some trusts about classifying internet under Title II thingy which is one of the important steps of freedom for net neutrality to make things much fair. That will prove on how grown-up the ones working under Team Internet are.
Speaking of Team Internet, there are tons of companies willing to support the real net neutrality but the Team Cable is likely to be the enemy team that consists of various bad ISPs and their connections, so the battle is still going that people in the US have to do something to protect it.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Beatmania IIDX Gameplay report - January 27th
Guess that I had attempted all Level 8 Pendual songs but this is not over yet as there may be additional songs coming in to IIDX Pendual in the future and the Power of Nature and Qpronicle Chord events are still on-going.
For Qpronicle Chord, it has gone to second phase with additional stuffs but then, trying to grind on this is a tedious thing like it may be something like Lincle Kingdom event again. Qprogue and its DX counterpart are kind of worse as you can tell but all of IIDX Spada event songs are already in the game folder by the time IIDX Pendual came out. Also, there may be additional songs by Sound Holic that might have already come out recently and all you have to do is to play the game the amount of times to unlock those songs.
Other good stuff is that I had recently Easy-Assist-Cleared another Level 10 song in IIDX in Hyper. I still had problems in certain patterns of V but when going for Easy-Clear for real as the next step, things are going to be much harder than they look. The previous ones were Close The World and Ancient Scapes but I can't technically prove that to anyone since Spada Leggendaria songs are still Paseli exclusive.
For Qpronicle Chord, it has gone to second phase with additional stuffs but then, trying to grind on this is a tedious thing like it may be something like Lincle Kingdom event again. Qprogue and its DX counterpart are kind of worse as you can tell but all of IIDX Spada event songs are already in the game folder by the time IIDX Pendual came out. Also, there may be additional songs by Sound Holic that might have already come out recently and all you have to do is to play the game the amount of times to unlock those songs.
Other good stuff is that I had recently Easy-Assist-Cleared another Level 10 song in IIDX in Hyper. I still had problems in certain patterns of V but when going for Easy-Clear for real as the next step, things are going to be much harder than they look. The previous ones were Close The World and Ancient Scapes but I can't technically prove that to anyone since Spada Leggendaria songs are still Paseli exclusive.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Windows 10 Live Event
This one's a great event despite the previous controversy I blogged about for Windows 10 the last time but rest assured, the keylogging thingy will be gone in the final version. After this event, there may be the next build released to the public next week, followed by the mobile version next month in prototype form of course.
Features such as Continuum which is almost automatic when switching between tablet and laptop mode, Cortana, Universal App just like Android and IOS, new web browser that looks like Chrome, Cross Play between Xbox One and Windows 10 which is similar to PS4 X PS Vita via Remote Play although I don't know how will that work in addition to using Windows 10 on PC, tablets and phones for playing Xbox One games remotely, Windows 10 on mobile devices, Hololens and Holo-Studios and so on, are coming in the Windows 10 time frame.
Good thing is that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8.1 and Phone 8.1 users although I don't know if I will be ready for that in the future like upgrading from OEM Windows 7 Home Premium that came with my computer that I have to Windows 10 for instance. Next thing is that the UI is starting to look and behave like the Android UI like there are certain buttons to trigger, the notifications and other stuffs. For notification bar, it may have superceded the one on Android in which each notification has additional actions for you to choose from. Next is Office for Windows 10, Android and IOS which has the ribbon UI in the different form for smartphones but the arrangement of ribbon UI is the same for tablets. Even the new mail app for Windows 10 may happen to have the ribbon UI or something. Perhaps, it's the Outlook app that I'm talking about since it has both the mail and calendar apps. There's also the Hololens which is super-delusional, I'm telling you. You can see cool fictional things to interact with when you have the Hololens on but the others can't. Also, it takes in reality, not virtual reality so call this the AR kind of technology. You can integrate your Holo-Studios creation to the 3D Printer like de-fictionalizing your creation with that. There's the Surface Hub which may look like the Microsoft Smart TV for business use. I don't know if there will be the consumer purpose for that thing. Next, the Cross Play feature between Xbox One and Windows 10 similar to the one for Playstation 4 and Vita. Playing Xbox One games remotely on Windows 10 machines is the first step and especially that you can encounter the players who are playing the other versions of the same game. It's a shameful challenge like trying to play Xbox One or Playstation 4 games remotely on the phones or tablets as if you will need the other kind of USB connection and the controller hooked up to those mobile devices running the companion apps. Like the Playstation 4 companion app where you socialize on stuffs, this is the same for Xbox One. Also, like the Playstation 4, you can video capture stuffs easily without having to buy the external video capture device. Best of all, you can do the same for Windows 10 although there are already tons of video capture programs on PC like Bandicam for example. There's also the video capturing stuff from Steam which is the answer to Twitch.tv. Lastly, the Cortana feature which was previously in Windows Phone 8.1. It's going to be extended to Windows 10 platforms and I'm sure that even the Xbox One will have that as well.
Gaming-wise, there's going to be DirectX 12 which I already mentioned in the previous blog posts, that will be coming to Windows 10 and Xbox One for improvements. Maybe it's to get Xbox One on par with its rival but still, product wars can make us pathetic when we have become adults. Regardless of platforms or product brands, arcade gaming is still an important thing for me.
You know what pissed me off during the event? It's the connectivity interruption during the live stream and unlike MVA Jump Start or perhaps YouTube live stream, this one's a different media player service and it doesn't have various qualities to choose from. It's also sort of like some fags at home were trying to stop me from going further in nighttime events like this like they're trying to take those for trash or something.
Features such as Continuum which is almost automatic when switching between tablet and laptop mode, Cortana, Universal App just like Android and IOS, new web browser that looks like Chrome, Cross Play between Xbox One and Windows 10 which is similar to PS4 X PS Vita via Remote Play although I don't know how will that work in addition to using Windows 10 on PC, tablets and phones for playing Xbox One games remotely, Windows 10 on mobile devices, Hololens and Holo-Studios and so on, are coming in the Windows 10 time frame.
Good thing is that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8.1 and Phone 8.1 users although I don't know if I will be ready for that in the future like upgrading from OEM Windows 7 Home Premium that came with my computer that I have to Windows 10 for instance. Next thing is that the UI is starting to look and behave like the Android UI like there are certain buttons to trigger, the notifications and other stuffs. For notification bar, it may have superceded the one on Android in which each notification has additional actions for you to choose from. Next is Office for Windows 10, Android and IOS which has the ribbon UI in the different form for smartphones but the arrangement of ribbon UI is the same for tablets. Even the new mail app for Windows 10 may happen to have the ribbon UI or something. Perhaps, it's the Outlook app that I'm talking about since it has both the mail and calendar apps. There's also the Hololens which is super-delusional, I'm telling you. You can see cool fictional things to interact with when you have the Hololens on but the others can't. Also, it takes in reality, not virtual reality so call this the AR kind of technology. You can integrate your Holo-Studios creation to the 3D Printer like de-fictionalizing your creation with that. There's the Surface Hub which may look like the Microsoft Smart TV for business use. I don't know if there will be the consumer purpose for that thing. Next, the Cross Play feature between Xbox One and Windows 10 similar to the one for Playstation 4 and Vita. Playing Xbox One games remotely on Windows 10 machines is the first step and especially that you can encounter the players who are playing the other versions of the same game. It's a shameful challenge like trying to play Xbox One or Playstation 4 games remotely on the phones or tablets as if you will need the other kind of USB connection and the controller hooked up to those mobile devices running the companion apps. Like the Playstation 4 companion app where you socialize on stuffs, this is the same for Xbox One. Also, like the Playstation 4, you can video capture stuffs easily without having to buy the external video capture device. Best of all, you can do the same for Windows 10 although there are already tons of video capture programs on PC like Bandicam for example. There's also the video capturing stuff from Steam which is the answer to Twitch.tv. Lastly, the Cortana feature which was previously in Windows Phone 8.1. It's going to be extended to Windows 10 platforms and I'm sure that even the Xbox One will have that as well.
Gaming-wise, there's going to be DirectX 12 which I already mentioned in the previous blog posts, that will be coming to Windows 10 and Xbox One for improvements. Maybe it's to get Xbox One on par with its rival but still, product wars can make us pathetic when we have become adults. Regardless of platforms or product brands, arcade gaming is still an important thing for me.
You know what pissed me off during the event? It's the connectivity interruption during the live stream and unlike MVA Jump Start or perhaps YouTube live stream, this one's a different media player service and it doesn't have various qualities to choose from. It's also sort of like some fags at home were trying to stop me from going further in nighttime events like this like they're trying to take those for trash or something.
Whatsapp Plus banned by Whatsapp
Whatsapp Plus is said to be the third-party extension to the original Whatsapp but the extension has some flaws according to Whatsapp themselves indicating the privacy concerns for using that. What Whatsapp does is to ban the users of Whatsapp Plus perhaps for privacy safety reasons or something. Sure, there might be encryption feature in Whatsapp recently like what iMessage and FaceTime were already having the same security level but then, it looked like Whatsapp Plus has been used by millions of customers and trying to ban them all for that reason is a difficult thing.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Megatex of last year
There was obviously one realization I had in my mind, Megatex doesn't seem to be that mega-large or anything in comparison to other IT shows I attended at Singapore Expo. Other IT shows like PC Show or SITEX looked kind of large and new to me with more brands, newer computer technology and other stuffs that expanded into multiple halls. Maybe I think that Megatex is the last IT show of every year before declaring Happy New Year or something.
This one I attended last month, there wasn't anything special or new about this. Just a short exploration of this that occupied one hall before moving back home.
This one I attended last month, there wasn't anything special or new about this. Just a short exploration of this that occupied one hall before moving back home.
Beatmania IIDX & SDVX III Gameplay Report - January 21
There's not much to say about the change other than the re-arrangement of the machines and the addition of another Groove Coaster machine, making it a total of 4 this year in comparison to 3. Also, the coin insertion behavior is different this time for Beatmania IIDX machine. Instead of having 4 credits per card scan, it's 1 credit per card scan just like other Bemani game machines.
There might be additional updates for SDVX III which would have additional songs added this week with the so-called opening theme, Independent Sky by Sound Holic. What I did yesterday was to skill analyze myself again but it's not over yet as I still have one more Skill Analysis course to go to get myself reflected again. Also, for Beatmania IIDX, I had already attempted every Level 8 IIDX Tricoro songs except for some song by IOSYS that has casino stuffs as I'm completely against anything related to gambling that I avoid it like it's a plague to education. All it is left to attempt the remaining Level 8 IIDX Pendual songs but then, when it comes to on-going events like Qpronicle Chord and Power of Nature, I don't know if I will continue to make any more progress.
Speaking of Power of Nature event, I made a mistake by clicking on the button that drained down the power by certain percentage. I shouldn't have clicked on that until I reached 100% or something so it looked like I wasted my efforts. Speaking of waste of efforts, not all Level 8 IIDX songs can be cleared easily with Auto-Scratch turned off as I need to know what the patterns are like and see if there are difficult ones or not.
There might be additional updates for SDVX III which would have additional songs added this week with the so-called opening theme, Independent Sky by Sound Holic. What I did yesterday was to skill analyze myself again but it's not over yet as I still have one more Skill Analysis course to go to get myself reflected again. Also, for Beatmania IIDX, I had already attempted every Level 8 IIDX Tricoro songs except for some song by IOSYS that has casino stuffs as I'm completely against anything related to gambling that I avoid it like it's a plague to education. All it is left to attempt the remaining Level 8 IIDX Pendual songs but then, when it comes to on-going events like Qpronicle Chord and Power of Nature, I don't know if I will continue to make any more progress.
Speaking of Power of Nature event, I made a mistake by clicking on the button that drained down the power by certain percentage. I shouldn't have clicked on that until I reached 100% or something so it looked like I wasted my efforts. Speaking of waste of efforts, not all Level 8 IIDX songs can be cleared easily with Auto-Scratch turned off as I need to know what the patterns are like and see if there are difficult ones or not.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Recent Twitter hack with next WW?
If the on-going cyber-spying from various agencies is not that stupid or evil enough, here comes like the news of the stupidest hack I've ever seen at Neowin. This regards UPI and New York Post being compromised and after the cyber-attack, it seems that UPI had already got aware that their Twitter account was compromised and took down various tweets made by those low-leveled cyber-idiots. Of course, after this blog post or perhaps any other similar article you can find on the net, it will take some time for those idiots to be tracked down and detained or something. The tweets as entered by those hackers may look like some of the stupidest online rumor-like tweets the public had seen and this level of cyber-penetration is totally BULLSHIT! How did this become the public news like that?
Even with the strong standard security like having stronger password, there may be other technical ways for cyber-attackers to penetrate your stuffs with any motives we can guess of. I don't have time to blog more about the same cyber-spying agencies as they have been going way too far in their evil technical schemes they call the legal methods to catch the bad guys. Even with the recent service encryption by tech-giants, there may be other bullshits we can see and predict of against it as if a bunch of whiners may want to get through it because they think it may open doors to cyber-criminals that way undetected. What about normal citizens like us seeking higher privacy level? Have they even known about that besides the bad guys?
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