Apple: OS X Mountain Lion Exceeded 3 Million Downloads in 4 Days
Apple has just issued a press release on the success of OS X Mountain Lion, made available last week for download in the Mac App Store:
Apple® today announced that downloads of OS X® Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing had this to say:
“Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever,”
Let’s just say three million of those downloads were at $19.99, that’s a cool $59,970,000 in revenue in just four days, or $14,992,500 per day, or $624,687.50 per hour. That’s a nice chunk of change for Apple.
So far, reviews of Mountain Lion have been quite positive, although some users have been confused at the limitions of AirPlay Mirroring for Macs, as it requires one from mid-2011 or newer.
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Dropbox: Yes, we were hacked http://gigaom.com/cloud/dropbox-yes-we-were-hacked/ Dropbox reports that the recent spam attacks that impacted some European customers occurred when hackers used passwords obtained from outside sites to access some Dropbox accounts. The company promised a new two-factor authentication option and offered other tips.
Unreal Engine 4 – New Screenshots From SIGGRAPH 2012 Epic Games has released the SIGGRAPH 2012 tech presentation of Unreal Engine 4 and as you may have guessed, this presentation includes some new screenshots from Epic’s next-generation engine. Below, you can find screenshots that showcase Interactive Indirect Illumination and Ambient Occlusion Using Voxel Cone Tracing, Voxel Lighting, Area Light Specular, IB Lens Flares, Reflections, Shadows that receive Translucency, Volumetric direct and indirect lighting, and one million particles on screen. In addition, the presentation claims that the Elemental Tech Demo was running on a single GTX680 at 1080p with 30fps (and not 60fps as we were told back in E3). Enjoy!
Unreal Engine 4 tech demo: Graphics Have Hit A Ceiling
With the next generation of consoles upon us some of the hot button topics are: the Wii U’s power, Unreal Engine 4 vs. Cry Engine 3, and the mystery surrounding the Xbox 720 and PS4 specs. Most of the speculation and big topics relate to raw system power. Whose console can display this, and what console can run that and how the PS4 can support 4K resolution (whatever the hell that means). Sometimes gamers lose sight of what actually makes gaming fun. Don’t get me wrong graphics are important. A lot of Wii games could have really used that HD bump like Xenoblade and the Last Story. But, as I watch this real time demo of Unreal Engine 4 and hear the guy go on about all this new stuff they can do and all of these lighting options here, I found myself saying: “graphics have hit a ceiling”.
During the Unreal Engine 4 Tech Demo I failed to see how opacity lighting was going to make my games more fun to play. I played Uncharted 2 years ago on my PS3 and the lighting looked just fine. As a matter a fact it still looks damn good today. I understand it is the beginning of a new generation and the graphics will no doubt get better, but were used to seeing huge leaps and the supposed next gen doesn’t look much better. And more importantly I fail to see where these new graphical updates will enhance my gameplay. With HD it was a huge step. A new form of visual prowess. HD was a Benchmark, that will be very difficult to top. Not to mention last gen had major bump in disk space with Blue Ray. All indications point to blue-ray or proprietary 25 GB single-layer media being the standard. I’m looking at the Last of Us and the game looks fantastic. In my eyes it looks just like the Unreal Engine 4 or damn close to it. I don’t see the huge differences that get gamers riled up arguing across message boards everywhere. I’ve even played the Witcher 2 maxed out on a decked out rig and I was not like, Holy crap I need to have these graphics. Even the “Cry Engine 3 Crysis Dynamic toad leaping” tech demo didn’t show the leap many people are claiming the next generation to have.
The one thing that I want to hear about the next gen engines is how are they going to be optimized for the PS4 and 720? Epic has went on record saying the Wii U is optimized for Unreal Engine 3 but can be scaled to run the Unreal Engine 4. Personally I want the engine that will get me the best performance. If I can run a game on the PS4 with Unreal Engine 3 and it runs at 60 FPS and 1080p no sweat then give me that. If the same game was bumped up to Unreal Engine 4 but up-scaled to 1080p and 30 FPS like most PS3 and 360 games are, then I’ll take the previous. I’ve always wanted to play Uncharted or Killzone in 60 FPS sporting the graphics the PS3 can push. I don’t need much next gen…. just a little bump, which were getting, and 60 FPS on most games.
These are my thoughts on Next gen. I understand many people are comfortable with 30 FPS and would rather have better graphics than smoother gameplay. However, if there could be a happy medium between the two then the next generation should be a treat to all gamers no matter what system you game on.
Unreal Engine 4 - GT.TV Exclusive Development Walkthrough
Θα παρακολουθήσετε τη δραστηριότητα, θα δείτε ότι τα κόκκινα σημεία είναι οι στόχοι των επιθέσεων, ενώ τα κίτρινα σημεία είναι τα honeypots που μοιράζονται τα στοιχεία τους στην απεικόνιση. Στην κάτω μεριά της οθόνης δε, θα δείτε σε πραγματικό χρόνο την προέλευση και τον στόχο των επιθέσεων.
Η Jane Silber, CEO της Canonical, αναφέρει για τη νέα έκδοση: “Το Ubuntu 12.10 είναι ένα λειτουργικό σύστημα για την εποχή των πολλών συσκευών. Κάνει τη ζωή του χρήστη σημαντικά πιο εύκολη δίνοντας του πρόσβαση στο υλικό του από οπουδήποτε: online, σε σκληρό δίσκο, στη δουλειά, στο σπίτι, στο τηλέφωνο και φυσικά στον υπολογιστή του. Για όσους σκέφτονται να αναβαθμίσουν το σύστημα τους, το Ubuntu 12.10 είναι μια ευκολότερη και γρηγορότερη εναλλακτική επιλογή σε σύγκριση με τα ανταγωνιστικά λειτουργικά συστήματα για desktops”
