SonA just built (with my help) a stonking PC. I put a 240Gb SSD in there thinking that would be fine for the hot new games and they could be moved to the platter when needed. 1 week later he's at 90% full. Plenty of games are around 40Gb - Evolve and Arkham Knight to name two.
SonB got a XBone with 500Gb drive - a bunch of Games with Gold later and he's at 80% full within 2 weeks.
F*ck knows where it all goes. Obscene disregard for compression and efficiency?
This. Naively I hope that the days of Neuromancer/SnowCrash/Vurt/Ready Player One are upon us, tools and hardware are there to create immersive experiences that evolve gaming out of the pit it's in. Bought Titanfall for the kids - they got 2-3 days out of it before getting bored and going back to Minecraft, we don't need another Shiny Doom. Playground Tag games, even with giant robots, are fine for 5 mins but as a 40 something year old I yearn for something a little more cerebral - didn't seem to have any problems finding smart, challenging games as a kid on my speccy/C64/Amiga. The experiences today are pretty much the same as games in the early 90's just easier and prettier. Design by committee and market research gets you faster, prettier horses. The new renaissance will be led by the auteurs making 'experiences' out of and for the love of it, not from the study of analytics, and monetisation streams. System Shock, Elite, Civ, Myst. We started with benchmarks like Robotron, where the fuck did we go wrong?
Lawn? I remember when all this were fields.
Tried to search for something on/. on an ipad at the weekend, saw the beta layout for the first time (the humanity!) browser crashed after paging through 3 pages. Maybe the standalone readers are needed for basic functionality – after studiously ignoring the beta kerfuffle I now see the point – they really have killed slashdot with that design.
In college my tech Professor asked when we would expect to abandon paper as a reading device, I said when the resolution is indistinguishable and I can roll it up and put it in my pocket, this was around 1992. He offered the opinion it was only 10 years out - there were reports of flexible lcd's even back then. e-Ink screens made me nervous for a while but I'm still clinging to my dead tree novels for now.
Pretty sure you're asking a facetious question but for those who don't know (like myself prior to Saturday night, walking through N4 with my brother):
Hotblack Desiato is the name of a North London estate agent (Realtor for the merkins), which was adopted by Douglas Adams for the name of the frontman of plutonium rock band Disaster Area. +1 for serendipitous comment threads, also I'm reading the book to my kids for their bedtime story.
Drones surveying with IR, metal detector and possibly ground penetrating radar could sweep an area defined by GPS and produce a map of suspect spots.
Such a setup would be so useful for general surveying/archaeology/treasure hunting it must already exist? A quick search shows a few results for agricultural surveys.
I don't know if when they are 'deployed' whether there are regular patterns that could be used for machine recognition?
Use a pen of goats or heavily armoured versions of Big Dog to detonate. Or design something like the StrandBeest to wander around and stomp on every square inch.
You could also crowd source the clearance of a particular area, cheap heavy ground pounding robots with video feeds driven around by 'the internet' - potential of setting off a real life mine would supply drivers 24hrs a day.
128 comments in and someone finally mentions his current project!
Godus sounds interesting, like massive persistent version of Populus. I read something recently that described how they had overhauled large parts of the game in response to beta testers comments which is how it's supposed to work, isn't it? Wouldn't happen in a big studio with millions already committed.
There's some genuinely innovative aspects to the game, such as a Joe Public (the winner of his last project 'Curiosity') being granted overall God status in the game - to be benevolent or a dick as they see fit and taking a cut of the profits.
Admittedly a lot of what sounds interesting about it is probably from Molyneux's own hype but then you have to aim high to have any chance of producing something great. Ill judged comments about antidepressants aside, would you be more welcoming to him if he said "We're basically just recreating Populus with prettier GFX?"
I would jump at the chance of working with someone with overreaching ambitions and massive industry experience.
No - they were playing Stud poker and the summary states "he must have known the croupiers cards", ergo they were playing Caribbean Stud or similar variation where it is player vs house.
They don't. They don't care who wins or loses as it is PVP. The house takes a percentage of each pot (the 'rake') so house is always winning whilst players play.
How's little Johnny going to feel eating lunch from a brown paper bag every day when all of his friends have the latest daily fad lunchbox?
That a great idea - I'm going to print my kids some sliced bread shaped sandwich cosys.
I built myself a RepRap Mendel in April - after the initial thrill of building it and calibrating to get good prints, I haven't used it much. The reality is designing/slicing/printing/iterating takes a *lot* of time and there are great limitations/challenges to printing with FDM style printers.
My advice to anyone dabbling would be to use a bureau or community printer, you get the benefit of calibrated output, access to much higher resolution and sintered laser systems that can print with metal or silicon. Having said that, I wouldn't discourage anyone from going the self built route, it was fcking good fun and immensely satisfying. I have intimate knowledge of the machine as I assembled every nut and bolt, quality and build area exceed commercial printers of twice the price.
Slashdot Mirror
That's the problem with the modern internet, don't you care about data caps? load times? mobile users?
Can we at least get a "tada.mp3"?
The HHGTTG Text adventure > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
See, that's actually funny. Someone mod parent up.
SonA just built (with my help) a stonking PC. I put a 240Gb SSD in there thinking that would be fine for the hot new games and they could be moved to the platter when needed. 1 week later he's at 90% full. Plenty of games are around 40Gb - Evolve and Arkham Knight to name two.
SonB got a XBone with 500Gb drive - a bunch of Games with Gold later and he's at 80% full within 2 weeks.
F*ck knows where it all goes. Obscene disregard for compression and efficiency?
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Surely by now we should have kinect based stuff to turn handwaving into working code?
Judge Dredd had one of these! Sooner or later all Mega City tech will be real.
Why is this modded -1? The wheels of the skateboards in Snow Crash are the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
Same as all software. AmIRight?
This. Naively I hope that the days of Neuromancer/SnowCrash/Vurt/Ready Player One are upon us, tools and hardware are there to create immersive experiences that evolve gaming out of the pit it's in. Bought Titanfall for the kids - they got 2-3 days out of it before getting bored and going back to Minecraft, we don't need another Shiny Doom. Playground Tag games, even with giant robots, are fine for 5 mins but as a 40 something year old I yearn for something a little more cerebral - didn't seem to have any problems finding smart, challenging games as a kid on my speccy/C64/Amiga. The experiences today are pretty much the same as games in the early 90's just easier and prettier. Design by committee and market research gets you faster, prettier horses. The new renaissance will be led by the auteurs making 'experiences' out of and for the love of it, not from the study of analytics, and monetisation streams. System Shock, Elite, Civ, Myst. We started with benchmarks like Robotron, where the fuck did we go wrong?
Lawn? I remember when all this were fields.
Tried to search for something on /. on an ipad at the weekend, saw the beta layout for the first time (the humanity!) browser crashed after paging through 3 pages. Maybe the standalone readers are needed for basic functionality – after studiously ignoring the beta kerfuffle I now see the point – they really have killed slashdot with that design.
In college my tech Professor asked when we would expect to abandon paper as a reading device, I said when the resolution is indistinguishable and I can roll it up and put it in my pocket, this was around 1992. He offered the opinion it was only 10 years out - there were reports of flexible lcd's even back then. e-Ink screens made me nervous for a while but I'm still clinging to my dead tree novels for now.
It is - you can go up to 1200ma if you have the PSU to support it http://www.raspberrypi.org/for...
Get one of these - works just fine (although was only £8 when I bought one), hdmi>dvi cables also work.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pro...
Pretty sure you're asking a facetious question but for those who don't know (like myself prior to Saturday night, walking through N4 with my brother): Hotblack Desiato is the name of a North London estate agent (Realtor for the merkins), which was adopted by Douglas Adams for the name of the frontman of plutonium rock band Disaster Area.
+1 for serendipitous comment threads, also I'm reading the book to my kids for their bedtime story.
Ownership by Facebook immediately makes it technology I don't want. Not now, not ever.
What if Facebook bring out a jetpack?
+1 for checkio, helped me move from 'knowing the syntax' to 'can do useful stuff'.
From the small sample of my kids' friends - yes, girls are equally into Minecraft.
Drones surveying with IR, metal detector and possibly ground penetrating radar could sweep an area defined by GPS and produce a map of suspect spots.
Such a setup would be so useful for general surveying/archaeology/treasure hunting it must already exist? A quick search shows a few results for agricultural surveys.
I don't know if when they are 'deployed' whether there are regular patterns that could be used for machine recognition? Use a pen of goats or heavily armoured versions of Big Dog to detonate. Or design something like the StrandBeest to wander around and stomp on every square inch.
You could also crowd source the clearance of a particular area, cheap heavy ground pounding robots with video feeds driven around by 'the internet' - potential of setting off a real life mine would supply drivers 24hrs a day.
128 comments in and someone finally mentions his current project!
Godus sounds interesting, like massive persistent version of Populus. I read something recently that described how they had overhauled large parts of the game in response to beta testers comments which is how it's supposed to work, isn't it? Wouldn't happen in a big studio with millions already committed.
There's some genuinely innovative aspects to the game, such as a Joe Public (the winner of his last project 'Curiosity') being granted overall God status in the game - to be benevolent or a dick as they see fit and taking a cut of the profits.
Admittedly a lot of what sounds interesting about it is probably from Molyneux's own hype but then you have to aim high to have any chance of producing something great. Ill judged comments about antidepressants aside, would you be more welcoming to him if he said "We're basically just recreating Populus with prettier GFX?"
I would jump at the chance of working with someone with overreaching ambitions and massive industry experience.
I take it you haven't seen a nook glow or a kindle paperwhite then? They are backlit e-ink devices.
No - they were playing Stud poker and the summary states "he must have known the croupiers cards", ergo they were playing Caribbean Stud or similar variation where it is player vs house.
They don't. They don't care who wins or loses as it is PVP. The house takes a percentage of each pot (the 'rake') so house is always winning whilst players play.
How's little Johnny going to feel eating lunch from a brown paper bag every day when all of his friends have the latest daily fad lunchbox?
That a great idea - I'm going to print my kids some sliced bread shaped sandwich cosys. I built myself a RepRap Mendel in April - after the initial thrill of building it and calibrating to get good prints, I haven't used it much. The reality is designing/slicing/printing/iterating takes a *lot* of time and there are great limitations/challenges to printing with FDM style printers.
My advice to anyone dabbling would be to use a bureau or community printer, you get the benefit of calibrated output, access to much higher resolution and sintered laser systems that can print with metal or silicon. Having said that, I wouldn't discourage anyone from going the self built route, it was fcking good fun and immensely satisfying. I have intimate knowledge of the machine as I assembled every nut and bolt, quality and build area exceed commercial printers of twice the price.
These guys are developing a lower cost and potentially customizable alternative: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anthromod/3d-printed-robotic-hand