Let's make it a sweepstakes. Everyone choose a date and put in $1. Person closest to the date wins the pot.
Just don't organise it on Google Hangouts as that'll probably be shutdown before Stadia.
When will Google shut down Stadia?
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Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#152I appreciate the sentiment here, but this feels incredibly reactive and preliminary. Stadia should have more clearly set launch expectations: there are only a few games worth playing for, most of the cool cloud features aren't there, etc, etc But that doesn't mean all of those things aren't coming? For all intents and purposes, this was a soft launch. Sure Google is going to burn a ton of consumers by launching befor…
That isn't the issue -- it isn't a comment about the quality of Stadia today or even what is possible. It's a comment about Google's propensity to lose interest in products and services and shut them down.
I think the two are inherently connected, no? By assuming Stadia is a failed product out of the box, we just label it as another Google product that is waiting to be shut down.
Google is on the hook for a bunch of titles and features they haven't delivered yet, if they were to "lose interest" in the next six months to a year I'd be pretty suprised
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm unsure what you mean - they said that there should be a space there and Merriam-Webster seems to support that. They put "shut down" and "shutdown" in the same page, and state that the verb version is "shut down". In the "First Known Use" section, it looks like it's just going with what the name of the whole page is.
They added the parenthetical "it should be 'shut down'" in an edit. Originally it was just "Sorry, but pet peeve. Shutdown is not a verb." and I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they weren't just quibbling over a space.
True I edited, but the link to "not a verb" is pretty obvious what they are talking about. Nobody is going to make a site to claim that you can't say "shut down" as a verb phrase, that makes no sense.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#154Sorry, but pet peeve. Shutdown is not a verb. (should be "shut down") http://notaverb.com/shutdown
This does not cause ambiguity to anyone. Its a distinction in search of a non-existent problem. The dictionary will change to follow our usage on this one, and we will lose nothing. Compound words become closed all the time.
i mean, why downvote the GP? there is a good discussion to have here. and i am in fact learning new things. i am all for using one word (less typing) but i am not sure i am ready to see shutdowning...
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#155This makes me shed a solitary tear for Google Reader :'( And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,(
I set up my whole company's communication on Google Wave. RIP Slack, FWIW, is actually quite a bit like Wave was. I feel like if Google didn't screw the launch up so badly, and iterated on the product, they could have had Slack about 5 years before it actually existed.
I was in high school when Google Wave came out so I had no one to really talk to on it or real reason to use it, but I do remember it seeming pretty cool at the time. Looking back it was ahead of it's time.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#156Sorry, but pet peeve. Shutdown is not a verb. (should be "shut down") http://notaverb.com/shutdown
It's a bit ironic that a page devoted to correcting a common orthographic error features a typo of its own: search for "Conjgate". (I would report it to the author, but don't see any contact information.)
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#157Very surprised of general negative sentiment towards Stadia. Why is it like this? Because it's Google, the evil company? Seriously, if any startup launched it in its current state, people would be cheering and blaming it on a new tech/new challenges. But cause it's a very big corporation with top talent it means that they have to release top quality product every time? What the hell... I'm very excited about the proj…
This is honestly out right depressing to think there are people who extract joy out of these kinds of messages. I know this whole thing is meant to be a joke, but come on, people need to get over themselves.
You can live life, have good moments, enjoy and have a good laugh about things without it coming at someone else's expense.
People have spent a good portion of their working life to put this product out there. It has flaws and it's not perfect on day one, sure. It might even get cancelled a year from now. None of that matters nor does it mean we need to make a mockery of their work. So much negativity around us these days. It doesn't have to be this way.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#158So like, what is the counterargument? Google keeps projects alive that drain resources for longer?
I guess I don't understand what people want here.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#159With Stadia's "negative latency" technology, it's like it's already shut down.
FPS games have had this for a looong time. In Quake 3 it's called timenudge and you can have it set to a negative value which means that the client will predict the opponents movement before receiving the next packet from the server.
The CPMA mod then came up with even better adaptive prediction in their netcode.
Without some prediction opponent movement would be jerky depending on the other players ping. The downside is that sometimes shots don't register which are a clear hit on your screen and sometimes weird flick shots hit which are far off the target.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#160This makes me shed a solitary tear for Google Reader :'( And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,(
>And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,( To be fair, Gmail has been my primary email since early 2009 and I'd never even heard of Inbox until people on Leo Laporte's podcast started whining it was going away.
When Inbox first came out I did not like it at all, but once I got used to it I enjoyed it much more than stock Gmail. It was great mixing in reminders and snoozing emails. Gmail has kind of incorporated some of those features, but not as well.