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By definition, if it's made for console, it's crap. No more console to pc ports.
It's like deliberately buying gas with water in it to fill your tank.
 
Free Sync is AMD's in-house name for their GPU-side Adaptive Sync support. If you want to wish for something Nvidia might and should support, that would be Adaptive Sync which is the generic name that is not tied to any specific vendor's implementation of Adaptive Sync support.
 
I wish that a manufacturer that makes a tablet or detachable screen laptop that has a resolution of 1080p or higher, would also add a connector that allows that screen to be connected to a computer, with full touchscreen capabilities, as well as allowing the tablet to be used as a television replacement for a cable box, gaming system, etc. It would also be nice if there was a button that allowed the screen to switch between its computer mode and monitor mode so that if you paused a video game at a particularly tricky situation, you could easily search the internet for hints and then get right back to your game. I imagine that the screen would be very close to you, probably on a stand that is somehow attached to your keyboard.
 
@SinxarKnights Yikes. Your internet prices are even worse than mine. Mine's $50 something for 3 Mbps (1.8 actual) down. That said that's the best I can get. 5 miles. I live 5 miles from the city limits and no one cares to run lines out here. Heck, we can't even get 3G.

Windows 9 to be purchasable. Don't care how good it is if they make it a subscription, I'm done.

SteamOS to die a fiery death. Last thing I want is to have to use a new OS just to play games. Especially not one associated with Valve. Valve's got way too much control over the market as it is.
 
1. An Internet Service Provider that doesn't consistently throttle my house, and maybe to add, a decent upload speed to match a high download speed.
2. Very interested to see if the Apple Watch blows up the smart watch market. Linux watches please. Maybe not from Ubuntu. Maybe.
3. AMD to have a CPU/APU that at least matches the i5s. Not asking for a Haswell-E killer, but I'm tired of having AMD's highest end chips competing with the i3s and below, for several times the price and power consumption.
4. Hotline Miami 2 to be released. Remember when they told us Q3 2014? Ha.
5. Windows 10 to maybe be at least 15% more decent than 8.1.
6. Elder Scrolls VI, to live up to Skyrim's success, and be not completely broken straight off the shelf.
7. MicroCenter to have their 179.99 4690k's to be instock. Please, I have Christmas money.
 
Windows 9 to be purchasable. Don't care how good it is if they make it a subscription, I'm done.

SteamOS to die a fiery death. Last thing I want is to have to use a new OS just to play games. Especially not one associated with Valve. Valve's got way too much control over the market as it is.
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I agree with you on SteamOS. Valve has enough of a grip on the market already, and they have already flexed their muscle a few times. If SteamOS sees significant success among gaming PCs, they can and probably will release SteamOS exclusives. I really don't want to have to dual-boot SteamOS.

As far as Windows 10 goes, I'm sure you'll be still able to buy it. However, having the OPTION for a subscription would be OK with me if the price is right. Something like $10 a year would actually work out to be quite a bit cheaper for me, and I'd always be able to upgrade whenever I'm ready. Obviously the exact price would vary depending on what version you subscribe to.

Anyway, the option to purchase Windows outright isn't going away any time soon. Especially System Builder licenses.
 


I totally agree about the Windows subscription service - not a good idea. Maybe it could work for enterprise licenses but not for consumer, and especially not for system builders. I do like that they finally included a clause in Windows 8 that gave an exception for system builders.

As for SteamOS? I don't think it should die a fiery death. I think there should definitely be some serious competition for a primary OS for Microsoft, and Steam actually looks like it could take Microsoft since it's open source and already has the lion's share of the gaming audience. The bad thing is EA could create their own Origin OS and give Steam some competition there, and that is a bad idea. :lol:
 


So you're worried about Windows being a subscription service and you hope SteamOS dies so you have no backup plan?
 
1. AMD Releases a competitive CPU.
2. AMD Releases a competitive GPU.
3. More AAA titles on Linux (3 of 6 PCs and 1 of 3 laptops in my house are now Linux)
4. AMD releases an Intel Nuc equivalent for it's 45W mode FM2+ APU parts
5. I'm able to actually read a TH article without accidentally clicking on a pop-in add.
 


The R9 290 and R9 290x are pretty competitive at $270 and $320, and they murder Nvidia at every midrange price-point.
 


In other words law maker stupidity.
 
(1) Moore's Law continues unabated for as long as we live, and then keeps on going.

(2) Elon Musk releases a line of products that take 18650 batteries and/or 123A batteries (instead of AAs, AAAs, Cs, Ds) on the day his GigaBatteryPlant opens. They are sold under the "Tesla" name.

(3) Microsoft gets a clue, fixes their broken virtual memory implementation, and their broken threading model.

(4) Apple release OSX as an operating system.

(5) Microsoft resumes support for all old OSes, and sells "old" OSes for $5 per copy. (e.g., DOS, Windows 95, NT, 2000, XP, etc.)

(6) Microsoft build decent virtualization into all their OSes, then releases (sells) VM images of all "old" OSes for $5 each. They even support at least one hypervisor for Linux and OSX.

(7) Microsoft encourages software vendors to sell "old" software as VM appliances, and provides tons of support for this on MSDN. Suddenly, most GOG installs work in one of a few virtual appliances they sell. Older CAD/CAM systems are now secure from hackers.

(8) Microsoft stops hiding the internal of Windows and brings it out in the open. You can turn on a mode in all versions of Windows to teach Yourself new things every time You log into Your PC. Magically, it is not Clippy 2.0, nor is it Bob 2.0.

(9) Since all legacy software is virtualized, Windows 10 is based on Linux, and shares binary-level compatibility with OSX.

(10) The BSA appoints Mike Masnick as their spokesperson, and embraces the CWF+RTB business model

(11) The US Marshals main goal for 2015 is to arrest dirty cops who conduct illegal wire taps, and the IT people who help them. Alcatraz is reopened to hold these hardened criminals who are beyond hope of rehabilitation.

(12) All ex-post-facto copyright law are thrown out.
"The first thing we do is..." --Shakespeare
 

Would be nice but questionable in practice
(2) Elon Musk releases a line of products that take 18650 batteries and/or 123A batteries (instead of AAs, AAAs, Cs, Ds) on the day his GigaBatteryPlant opens. They are sold under the "Tesla" name.
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Uhh...why? Those batteries are rare and expensive
(3) Microsoft gets a clue, fixes their broken virtual memory implementation, and their broken threading model.
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While they are at it, fix their (now more than ever) broken UI
(4) Apple release OSX as an operating system.
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Well it IS an OS. It is just not licensed to run on non Apple hardware
(5) Microsoft resumes support for all old OSes, and sells "old" OSes for $5 per copy. (e.g., DOS, Windows 95, NT, 2000, XP, etc.)

(6) Microsoft build decent virtualization into all their OSes, then releases (sells) VM images of all "old" OSes for $5 each. They even support at least one hypervisor for Linux and OSX.

(7) Microsoft encourages software vendors to sell "old" software as VM appliances, and provides tons of support for this on MSDN. Suddenly, most GOG installs work in one of a few virtual appliances they sell. Older CAD/CAM systems are now secure from hackers.
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Why?
(8) Microsoft stops hiding the internal of Windows and brings it out in the open. You can turn on a mode in all versions of Windows to teach Yourself new things every time You log into Your PC. Magically, it is not Clippy 2.0, nor is it Bob 2.0.
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Agreed.

More open source from Microsoft. Also, I would like to see them include GNU tools
(grep,sed,coreutils..etc...)
And a decent command shell. One that supports things such
as substituting the output of a command as the argument as another (like backticks in bash)


(9) Since all legacy software is virtualized, Windows 10 is based on Linux, and shares binary-level compatibility with OSX.
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LOL -- About as realistic as teleportion
(11) The US Marshals main goal for 2015 is to arrest dirty cops who conduct illegal wire taps, and the IT people who help them. Alcatraz is reopened to hold these hardened criminals who are beyond hope of rehabilitation.
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All illegal activities of police, military and government to stop would be nice
(12) All ex-post-facto copyright law are thrown out.
"The first thing we do is..." --Shakespeare
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That reminds me. A complete copyright overhaul that takes account of the digital age
and is more reasonable and less biased for the big corporations would be big on my wish list.

 
"Barring this, my back-up wish would be that no one ever pre-order an MMO ever again" That's basically why I don't buy MMO's anymore so many failed ones that come and go that are cash grabs or miserably over ambitious by teams with no hopes of ever living up to there expectations.

In fact same can be said about games in general too ambitious, bug ridden, or unfinished in general. I'm just buying games with mod capabilities from now on they tend to be held to a bit higher standard or are at least capable of fixing the gaps developers left open due to the cost of development.
 

Linux?
 
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