plug-in | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:17:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png plug-in | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Dell apologises for marketing its laptops towards cheaters in China https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/laptops/damien-cox/dell-apologises-for-marketing-its-laptops-towards-cheaters-in-china/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/laptops/damien-cox/dell-apologises-for-marketing-its-laptops-towards-cheaters-in-china/#respond Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:15:01 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=370047 Dell took a strange turn at the unveiling of its 8th generation gaming laptops in China last week, as the company placed a rather large focus on how the laptops allowed players to cheat more easily than other products by allowing for more plug-ins to be running simultaneously. Dell Australia has since gotten wind of …

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Dell took a strange turn at the unveiling of its 8th generation gaming laptops in China last week, as the company placed a rather large focus on how the laptops allowed players to cheat more easily than other products by allowing for more plug-ins to be running simultaneously. Dell Australia has since gotten wind of the controversy, enforcing the company’s policy on supporting fair gameplay and chastising its Chinese arm for the comments made.

PC Authority was the first outlet on the case, highlighting Dell’s unusual focus on the use of “plug-ins” within games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Dell’s Account Director and spokesperson Sally Zhang reportedly praised the Chinese gaming community for being innovative and dominant for using third-party programs to give themselves an unfair advantage, promising that the new line of laptops can “run more plug-ins to win more at Chicken Dinner.”

This was accompanied by a video that showcased the various cheats within PUBG, from more commonplace wallhacks and aimbots to players running significantly faster, reloading and reviving at an increased speed and generally causing havoc in an otherwise competitive title. Of course, the new laptops were also placed in cutaways as the true focus of the presentation.

Sister site PC PowerPlay ended up getting a response from Dell Australia, stating that the company is “fully committed to supporting fair play in online gaming” and does “not encourage nor endorse any behavior that undermines fair gaming practices.”

There’s no doubt that this has caused damage to Dell’s otherwise prolific appearance in the eSports scene, with the company often appearing as a high-profile sponsor. Keen to remind people of the hard work it has done in helping the platform grow, Dell states that it “has a strong track record in partnering with gaming teams, aiming at providing world-class gamers with the ultimate experience.”

“In an attempt to communicate the power of the new Dell G Series, inappropriate modification examples were used in Dell’s product launch event in China last week,” concludes the statement. “This does not reflect our global gaming culture or strategy. We condemn any modifications misused in gaming.”

China doesn’t have a particularly wonderful reputation within the PUBG community as it is, given that it has been publicised as the region most responsible for the game’s plethora of cheaters. Luckily for international PUBG players, PUBG Corp is finally toying with the idea of a region locking its servers, which, alongside the ping limiter and anti-cheat, should quell most instances of problems crossing regions.

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KitGuru Says: With more power from the 8th generation chips, it goes without saying that it will be able to run more plug-ins, but using it as a marketing scheme was a poor move. The comprehensive response from Dell, however, makes it pretty clear where the company stands on the use of its devices and cheating. What do you think of Dell’s blunder?

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37 million plug-in electric vehicles on roads by 2025, claims report https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/37-million-plug-in-electric-vehicles-on-roads-by-2025-claims-report/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/37-million-plug-in-electric-vehicles-on-roads-by-2025-claims-report/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:45:42 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=317137 As prices for electric vehicles continue to fall and availability of charging stations improve, we could have as many as 68 million electric and hybrid vehicles around the world by 2025, with more than half of those being plug-in vehicles. Much of this will be driven by reduction in production costs for batteries used in their …

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As prices for electric vehicles continue to fall and availability of charging stations improve, we could have as many as 68 million electric and hybrid vehicles around the world by 2025, with more than half of those being plug-in vehicles. Much of this will be driven by reduction in production costs for batteries used in their designs.

With Tesla's Gigafactory(s) expected to come online fully in the next few years, there are expectations of big drops in the manufacturing costs of the lithium-ion cells which power many of today's electric and hybrid vehicles. As prices for those vehicles fall in turn, Navigant Research's report believes we'll see an explosion of these sorts of vehicles in the consumer market.

As of September last year, there were less than 2.5 million plug-in electric vehicles around the world. That is cars that are powered entirely by electricity. Those numbers are set to explode by 2025, the report claims, suggesting we could have as many as 37 million of these sorts of fully electric vehicles around the world by then.

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Tesla's Model 3 could go a long way to making EVs mainstream

Based on recent-ish (2014) numbers, there are around 1.3 billion cars on the roads around the world, so that sort of figure would represent around 2.8 per cent of the total number of cars on the road. That's far better than today, but considering the number of global cars will likely grow by 2025, that's still not too substantial a figure.

What is more substantial is the total of electric and hybrid cars, which includes those that are predominantly electric. Those figures suggest that we could have nearly 70 million by 2025.

Navigant believes that a big part of this increase will come from the growth in interest in long-range plug-in electric vehicles. It cites Tesla's Model 3 as having as many as 400,000 pre-orders at the time of the report's writing. It's expected that the proliferation of cars like the Model 3, could help make electric vehicles far more of a mainstream phenomenon than they are currently.

That will be required to drive the growth that Navigant predicts.

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KitGuru Says: I know not all of you are fans of autonomous vehicles, but how do you feel about electric ones? I'd love a Tesla Model 3, but even that is a little out of my price range until we get a few years beyond launch and there are some second hand models kicking around. 

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Microsoft confirms Metro-style IE 10 will not support plug-ins https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/operating-systems/stephen-dougherty/microsoft-confirms-metro-style-ie-10-will-not-support-plug-ins/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/operating-systems/stephen-dougherty/microsoft-confirms-metro-style-ie-10-will-not-support-plug-ins/#respond Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:18:47 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=76959 Microsoft provided a brief overview on Tuesday of its Internet Explorer 10 web browser that will be a part of Windows 8. The details shared confirm that there will be two versions of it; a normal Windows application not unlike existing versions of IE, and a second “Metro-style” touch-friendly browser that fits in perfectly with …

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Microsoft provided a brief overview on Tuesday of its Internet Explorer 10 web browser that will be a part of Windows 8. The details shared confirm that there will be two versions of it; a normal Windows application not unlike existing versions of IE, and a second “Metro-style” touch-friendly browser that fits in perfectly with the whole Metro world.

What's particularly interesting to note about this is that the Metro-style browser will not support any plugins whatsoever. We heard whispers of Microsoft's intent to do away with IE plugins in Metro as far back as October last year and now Microsoft's lead program manager for the Internet Explorer team,  John Hrvatin confirms it.

The desktop browsing experience and most plug-ins were not designed for smaller screens, battery constraints, and no mouse. Providing an easy way to the Windows desktop is the last resort when no comparable plug-in free fallback content exists. Any site that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins. Even browsers that do support plug-ins offer many ways to run plug-in free”.

Should a site require any add-ons, an alert will pop up like the one shown in the image above which will provide a means to re-launch the site in the desktop version of the browser; although Microsoft wants to stress the point to web developers that they should be actively working on ways to eliminate plug-in requirements from their sites altogether.

Thankfully the company did eventually take to open standards including HTML5 and CSS3 while getting rid of Silverlight, but this gives another visible indication that Adobe's Flash days are certainly numbered.

KitGuru says: I wouldn't be at all surprised if Google jump in with a Metro-based Chrome browser that will support plugins.

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