The Xbox 360 pulls 160 Watts of power: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=4 66036. The average car (or deep cycle, which would be a good idea for this use) battery fully charges at 100 amp hours, providing 12V. Which is 1200 Watt Hours.
Therefore your Xbox 360 will run for 7.5 hours just on battery charge.
Looking at an in car LCD screen, http://www.xenarc.com/product/700y.html 8 Watts seems reasonable for an LCD screen. This brings operating time down to about 7 hours.
Assuming that 200 Watt Hours would want to be left in the car as a way to start it and provide heating etc, that gives us 1000 Watt Hours to power the Xbox and about 6 hours of game play.
God help the condition of the battery if they don't use a deep cycle battery but it could work.
This means it is illegal for a shop of any kind to sell or rent an "18" certificate title, like GTA:SA, to a person who is, or appears to be, under the age of 18.
I think the fault in the case of Grandma v. Rockstar/Take 2 is the US system for regulating video game sales. I work as a games tester, sadly I started after GTA:SA was tested over here as it would have been one of the guys in my team who would have the job of looking for the hot coffee style content, and I had to sign all sorts of paper work to say that I would work on material that was not yet rated, and that would be "18" or "R18" certified (R18 is basically porn, not to be sold out side of licenced adult shops). If the industry are this paranoid about the unfinished games being too extreme, they must be very careful about the finished titles.
It is really common for games to have content in them that isn't used.. for example, Half Life 1 I know had hundreds of textures that were never used, including the debug textures with "I AM NOT A TEXTURE!" scrawled all over them. There is no point in spending weeks trawling through your game files removing content you may or may not need. I don't blame Rockstar/Take 2 one bit for this, but I place the blame squarely with the parents, and in this case grandparents, of those kids who have been exposed to material not suitable for them.
One day, when I'm ready to have kids, I will make sure that I play they games first, before they see them. Maybe I won't complete them, but if I'm playing a game that's a bit suspect for kids anyway, like GTA:SA, I will make sure I'm there, watching them when they play it. If it turns out to be Kirby Land, I'll let them play it alone.
I personally don't think a 14 year old kid should be on the internet on their own anyway so they shouldn't have found the hot coffee mod, or at least not have the opportunity of using it without their parents knowledge.
I was part of a team at my UK university that built a robot inspired by the Darpa Grand Challenge. We ran off battery power and theorised we could go for 5-6 hours on twin 16Ah lead acid batteries. We moved at a steady fast walk so unscientifically we moved at 3mph... so maybe we could have covered 18 miles on the batteries we carried. We didn't look into fuel power because of the low budget we had, £1,500 rather than the 10's of thousands in the Darpa teams budgets.
My team happened to win our challenge, but we used GPS navigation, Ultrasonic transceivers for avoidance and a full mini ITX XP box to control the robot. Oh, and a snazzy case to make sure we got into the paper!
It's a good challenge to emulate, all of us in the 4 teams learnt a lot about robot control and team work.
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The Xbox 360 pulls 160 Watts of power: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=4 66036. The average car (or deep cycle, which would be a good idea for this use) battery fully charges at 100 amp hours, providing 12V. Which is 1200 Watt Hours.
Therefore your Xbox 360 will run for 7.5 hours just on battery charge.
Looking at an in car LCD screen, http://www.xenarc.com/product/700y.html 8 Watts seems reasonable for an LCD screen. This brings operating time down to about 7 hours.
Assuming that 200 Watt Hours would want to be left in the car as a way to start it and provide heating etc, that gives us 1000 Watt Hours to power the Xbox and about 6 hours of game play.
God help the condition of the battery if they don't use a deep cycle battery but it could work.
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Peter
Microsoft are saying that the 360 will be compatable with the most popular Xbox titles through emulation.
IGN has it: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/639/639136p1.html
It is the sweet sweet mother of all goodness.
I see dead fairies.
=:-O
I have the UK edition of the XBox version of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. I bought it on the day of it's UK release, 10th June 2005.
s ifiedWorks/AB362EDBC3607DE980256F25001B824D?OpenDo cument, which was awarded by the same body that certifies any DVD, video, cinema film or game and under UK law (The Video Recordings Act 1984, ammended in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) this certificate is legally enforcable.
This game carries an "18" certificate, see here for confirmation http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/Clas
This means it is illegal for a shop of any kind to sell or rent an "18" certificate title, like GTA:SA, to a person who is, or appears to be, under the age of 18.
I think the fault in the case of Grandma v. Rockstar/Take 2 is the US system for regulating video game sales. I work as a games tester, sadly I started after GTA:SA was tested over here as it would have been one of the guys in my team who would have the job of looking for the hot coffee style content, and I had to sign all sorts of paper work to say that I would work on material that was not yet rated, and that would be "18" or "R18" certified (R18 is basically porn, not to be sold out side of licenced adult shops). If the industry are this paranoid about the unfinished games being too extreme, they must be very careful about the finished titles.
It is really common for games to have content in them that isn't used.. for example, Half Life 1 I know had hundreds of textures that were never used, including the debug textures with "I AM NOT A TEXTURE!" scrawled all over them. There is no point in spending weeks trawling through your game files removing content you may or may not need. I don't blame Rockstar/Take 2 one bit for this, but I place the blame squarely with the parents, and in this case grandparents, of those kids who have been exposed to material not suitable for them.
One day, when I'm ready to have kids, I will make sure that I play they games first, before they see them. Maybe I won't complete them, but if I'm playing a game that's a bit suspect for kids anyway, like GTA:SA, I will make sure I'm there, watching them when they play it. If it turns out to be Kirby Land, I'll let them play it alone.
I personally don't think a 14 year old kid should be on the internet on their own anyway so they shouldn't have found the hot coffee mod, or at least not have the opportunity of using it without their parents knowledge.
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Peter
The software and the interfacing was the main task of the teams. Without either of these, you have nothing.
I was part of a team at my UK university that built a robot inspired by the Darpa Grand Challenge. We ran off battery power and theorised we could go for 5-6 hours on twin 16Ah lead acid batteries. We moved at a steady fast walk so unscientifically we moved at 3mph... so maybe we could have covered 18 miles on the batteries we carried. We didn't look into fuel power because of the low budget we had, £1,500 rather than the 10's of thousands in the Darpa teams budgets.
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Here's a picture from our local paper http://www.etingley.com/photogallery/index.php?ac
My team happened to win our challenge, but we used GPS navigation, Ultrasonic transceivers for avoidance and a full mini ITX XP box to control the robot. Oh, and a snazzy case to make sure we got into the paper!
It's a good challenge to emulate, all of us in the 4 teams learnt a lot about robot control and team work.
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Warfire
This item is in the same town as me... this makes me want to buy it.
5 ,00.asp...
I have seen Tie Fighter computer case mods too.. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,182367
Imagine the look of this on it.
Beautiful.
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Warfire