It was phones/computers, not just computers. Though I do at the moment turn off the cell part of my current phone overnight since it is particularly thirsty, but I don't turn off the entire device. The power cost of keeping it on standby must be tiny, and I often charge it at work anyway..
A job comes into it because if you have a job you won't really notice the cost of leaving your phone on all the time. Keeping your computer on all the time is pointless if you're not running a server, but keeping your phone on is potentially very useful, especially if you don't have a landline.
Fallout 3 seemed to play fine to me on a console, as did Oblivion (which I played far more as I enjoy the game world more). I used to be a PC gaming only guy until a couple of years ago. There are some gaps in console gaming's arsenal, but I'm happy to miss out on a few exclusives for the sake of being free of Windows:) I'd be happy just replaying Civ 1 sometime in the next few years, I haven't ever played any of the sequels - the last time I played it was on my Amiga!
Yeah, so far all I see is.. a roof. Wow. When I was moderately interested in mapping 10 years ago I could have "remade" Duke 3D as well using the Half-Life engine, in 10 minutes.
PS if you use a dock like Docky or AWM, you also can do task switching via that, because as well as being an application launcher, it loads in all your running apps into the dock. Same idea as the OSX dock and the Win7 task bar.
I know all that, the fact remains it isn't in desktop form factor.. it was a joke anyway. If Linux is dead on the desktop it's only because the desktop is dying.
I do Parkour with a few friends several times a week, and we even have our own messageboard where we chat, but Facebook is nicer for sharing stuff like the videos and photos we've taken during sessions, or cool videos we've found on YouTube. It definitely has a place even among people who are already friends. It's also a nice way to get to know new friends (and even their friends/family) better.
Watching The Social Network yesterday almost made me delete my Facebook account, but at the same time it made me realise just how brilliant and revolutionary Facebook was when it came out. I've never really thought of it as anything other than a different form of MySpace, but being able to control what info other groups of people can see on your page is an important concept.
I find telephone calls are anything but polite, they interrupt me when I'm trying to do other things. Facebook is like any other message board. You post when it's convenient for you, other people read when it's convenient for them, and more than two people can communicate simultaneously. Phone calls are a waste of time for Slim's example of organising a party.. if you have a convenient all in one message board/calendar facility like Facebook, that all your friends already use, it makes sense to use it.
That's pretty good so far. Hopefully we can configure the icon bar on the left to hide by default the same way you can hide the task bar on any desktop.
Probably. I use Docky set to autohide, it would work fine with a touchscreen.
Speaking of the task bar, how is task switching accomplished on this thing? I may have missed it in the video. Is there a gesture that does the same thing as Alt-TAB?
If you can do the expose style view with multitouch, I don't see why you couldn't set the alt-tab style switch in compiz to use the same gesture.
My biggest concern, what happens when you want(yes, want) to use the terminal?
Same as when you want to type anything else in? Use the onscreen keyboard, or connect up an external one..
I'm thinking the work to update the actual mod should have been very trivial, though I admit I don't know what the differences were between those versions of the Source engine. I can't really imagine anything that would make it difficult. Any large changes to stuff like networking would be handled automatically by the game engine and have no relevance to mods. Silly little things like map format changes for HDR lighting wouldn't matter, they could just leave HDR disabled, and convert the rest of the map, etc. I was thinking more that MS just paid a lot of money to have CS as an exclusive. It's the sort of thing that would have made me get an XBox over a PS3, were it not a Microsoft Product..
Well, the previous 4 articles were all pretty heavily anti-MS, so I guess they had to do something. Maybe Taco made a few bucks out of it, or just felt like watching some nerd rage.
This is why I bought a console. Consoles are "good enough" for me these days, and the hardware lifecycle is lasting a bit longer this generation, which is nice.
The price of my PS3 2 years ago is probably a lot less than I would have spent on upgrades had I stuck with my PC gaming. And now that I can't fiddle around with the graphics settings in games, I have stopped over-analysing the graphics settings and and constantly tweaking as I always used to do. I now just get on and enjoy the game as it is:)
Even if that were true, you're expecting them to reimplement all those application to what, Linux and Firefox?
The thing about Firefox is that it complies with standards. If it runs on Firefox, chances are it runs on every browser.
Many industry specific apps also run on Linux, it's not a stretch to imagine more tech companies porting their apps to Linux at all.. MS is slowly losing grip on the computing world, and nothing of value will be lost.
Team Fortress 2 runs on the HL2 engine, which had been out for a good while when TF2 came out. By that time I think I'd already bought a PS3 though.
Side rant: I really, really dislike how they brought out the whole Orange Box for PS3, but not CS. It must be trivially easy to get it running on PS3 if the Source engine is working. Yes it's not as good a port as the Xbox version, yada yada, but I'd still have played it a hell of a lot if they brought it out. I'd even pay for it, again.
I had to look up "self-entitled" as I haven't really heard it used before, and I got the impression more that it's for people who want and take what they don't really deserve or know how to use, perhaps like some rich asshole buying a supercar despite not knowing anything about how to drive. I think there is a difference between that and standing up for your beliefs, but there is also something to be said for having cool stuff.
I don't think standing up for your beliefs and refusing to give in to hypocrisy are the same as being "self-entitled". If you didn't have a choice it would be all the more impressive (though of course, also rather naive and stupid).
I believe you may be right, but I also believe that some people are incredibly short sighted and didn't want to take the risk. Fuel in the US is still crazy cheap compared to here in Europe.
Fair enough. I suppose I must have absorbed the 3D effect and perhaps even thought consciously about it. The few times I've really enjoyed the 3D effect are wide open vistas - for example like in Beowulf, the first 3D film I saw there are some stunning night shots looking out over the mountains.
Yep I saw that, don't remember really noticing the stuff in the background being 3D though. I think the concept would work just as well on a 2D screen. I don't really have anything against 3D as such, I think it's cool, but I don't miss it when it's not there. High resolutions and sound quality are more important to me than 3D at the moment, especially as I'm unsure as to any long term effects of watching 3D movies using current tech - ie whether it could slightly affect the way you perceive depth in real life if you're watching/playing 3D content a lot.
How do you expect 3D to "improve the overall storytelling process"? Or even high quality video and sound for that matter? This isn't about the story, it's about immersion.
What do you mean you "lose interest"? Are you trying especially hard to notice the 3D effect? Since it's fixed position 3D it won't react to your vision like a normal real life scene, so I think trying to study it too hard might be what gives any headaches.. I wouldn't know as I've never had motion sickness or any other problems from playing games or watching movies.
Still haven't worked out the best tactic for watching 3D movies myself, such as should I try to refocus for objects in the background etc? But I think the best way is probably just relax and not think about it too much.
I certainly don't want them "improving the overall storytelling process" by pushing objects pointedly towards the camera every few scenes though.
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It was phones/computers, not just computers. Though I do at the moment turn off the cell part of my current phone overnight since it is particularly thirsty, but I don't turn off the entire device. The power cost of keeping it on standby must be tiny, and I often charge it at work anyway..
A job comes into it because if you have a job you won't really notice the cost of leaving your phone on all the time. Keeping your computer on all the time is pointless if you're not running a server, but keeping your phone on is potentially very useful, especially if you don't have a landline.
And still haven't got a job, and don't have people communicating with them?
Fallout 3 seemed to play fine to me on a console, as did Oblivion (which I played far more as I enjoy the game world more). I used to be a PC gaming only guy until a couple of years ago. There are some gaps in console gaming's arsenal, but I'm happy to miss out on a few exclusives for the sake of being free of Windows :) I'd be happy just replaying Civ 1 sometime in the next few years, I haven't ever played any of the sequels - the last time I played it was on my Amiga!
Yeah, so far all I see is.. a roof. Wow. When I was moderately interested in mapping 10 years ago I could have "remade" Duke 3D as well using the Half-Life engine, in 10 minutes.
There is a lack of badassery in gaming these days, actual badassery, not all this pretentious teen crap we see every generation.
O RLY? Next you'll be saying that Sean Connery was the best Bond, and Twilight isn't a real vampire movie! Hah!
Blow it out your faaaace.. no wait..
PS if you use a dock like Docky or AWM, you also can do task switching via that, because as well as being an application launcher, it loads in all your running apps into the dock. Same idea as the OSX dock and the Win7 task bar.
I know all that, the fact remains it isn't in desktop form factor.. it was a joke anyway. If Linux is dead on the desktop it's only because the desktop is dying.
I do Parkour with a few friends several times a week, and we even have our own messageboard where we chat, but Facebook is nicer for sharing stuff like the videos and photos we've taken during sessions, or cool videos we've found on YouTube. It definitely has a place even among people who are already friends. It's also a nice way to get to know new friends (and even their friends/family) better.
Watching The Social Network yesterday almost made me delete my Facebook account, but at the same time it made me realise just how brilliant and revolutionary Facebook was when it came out. I've never really thought of it as anything other than a different form of MySpace, but being able to control what info other groups of people can see on your page is an important concept.
I find telephone calls are anything but polite, they interrupt me when I'm trying to do other things. Facebook is like any other message board. You post when it's convenient for you, other people read when it's convenient for them, and more than two people can communicate simultaneously. Phone calls are a waste of time for Slim's example of organising a party.. if you have a convenient all in one message board/calendar facility like Facebook, that all your friends already use, it makes sense to use it.
That's pretty good so far. Hopefully we can configure the icon bar on the left to hide by default the same way you can hide the task bar on any desktop.
Probably. I use Docky set to autohide, it would work fine with a touchscreen.
Speaking of the task bar, how is task switching accomplished on this thing? I may have missed it in the video. Is there a gesture that does the same thing as Alt-TAB?
If you can do the expose style view with multitouch, I don't see why you couldn't set the alt-tab style switch in compiz to use the same gesture.
My biggest concern, what happens when you want(yes, want) to use the terminal?
Same as when you want to type anything else in? Use the onscreen keyboard, or connect up an external one..
Tablet != desktop, even if it's lying on your desk top :)
I'm thinking the work to update the actual mod should have been very trivial, though I admit I don't know what the differences were between those versions of the Source engine. I can't really imagine anything that would make it difficult. Any large changes to stuff like networking would be handled automatically by the game engine and have no relevance to mods. Silly little things like map format changes for HDR lighting wouldn't matter, they could just leave HDR disabled, and convert the rest of the map, etc. I was thinking more that MS just paid a lot of money to have CS as an exclusive. It's the sort of thing that would have made me get an XBox over a PS3, were it not a Microsoft Product..
Well, the previous 4 articles were all pretty heavily anti-MS, so I guess they had to do something. Maybe Taco made a few bucks out of it, or just felt like watching some nerd rage.
This is why I bought a console. Consoles are "good enough" for me these days, and the hardware lifecycle is lasting a bit longer this generation, which is nice.
The price of my PS3 2 years ago is probably a lot less than I would have spent on upgrades had I stuck with my PC gaming. And now that I can't fiddle around with the graphics settings in games, I have stopped over-analysing the graphics settings and and constantly tweaking as I always used to do. I now just get on and enjoy the game as it is :)
Even if that were true, you're expecting them to reimplement all those application to what, Linux and Firefox?
The thing about Firefox is that it complies with standards. If it runs on Firefox, chances are it runs on every browser.
Many industry specific apps also run on Linux, it's not a stretch to imagine more tech companies porting their apps to Linux at all.. MS is slowly losing grip on the computing world, and nothing of value will be lost.
Team Fortress 2 runs on the HL2 engine, which had been out for a good while when TF2 came out. By that time I think I'd already bought a PS3 though.
Side rant: I really, really dislike how they brought out the whole Orange Box for PS3, but not CS. It must be trivially easy to get it running on PS3 if the Source engine is working. Yes it's not as good a port as the Xbox version, yada yada, but I'd still have played it a hell of a lot if they brought it out. I'd even pay for it, again.
I had to look up "self-entitled" as I haven't really heard it used before, and I got the impression more that it's for people who want and take what they don't really deserve or know how to use, perhaps like some rich asshole buying a supercar despite not knowing anything about how to drive. I think there is a difference between that and standing up for your beliefs, but there is also something to be said for having cool stuff.
I don't think standing up for your beliefs and refusing to give in to hypocrisy are the same as being "self-entitled". If you didn't have a choice it would be all the more impressive (though of course, also rather naive and stupid).
I believe you may be right, but I also believe that some people are incredibly short sighted and didn't want to take the risk. Fuel in the US is still crazy cheap compared to here in Europe.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/paris-auto-show-jaguar-cx75/ :)
with fuel at less than 3 USD per gallon, why bother?
Just because you've harvested your crop and have a large current supply, doesn't mean you shouldn't plant seeds for next year.
I know it's not a car analogy, but the article is already about cars, so why not a farming analogy?
Fair enough. I suppose I must have absorbed the 3D effect and perhaps even thought consciously about it. The few times I've really enjoyed the 3D effect are wide open vistas - for example like in Beowulf, the first 3D film I saw there are some stunning night shots looking out over the mountains.
Yep I saw that, don't remember really noticing the stuff in the background being 3D though. I think the concept would work just as well on a 2D screen. I don't really have anything against 3D as such, I think it's cool, but I don't miss it when it's not there. High resolutions and sound quality are more important to me than 3D at the moment, especially as I'm unsure as to any long term effects of watching 3D movies using current tech - ie whether it could slightly affect the way you perceive depth in real life if you're watching/playing 3D content a lot.
How do you expect 3D to "improve the overall storytelling process"? Or even high quality video and sound for that matter? This isn't about the story, it's about immersion.
What do you mean you "lose interest"? Are you trying especially hard to notice the 3D effect? Since it's fixed position 3D it won't react to your vision like a normal real life scene, so I think trying to study it too hard might be what gives any headaches.. I wouldn't know as I've never had motion sickness or any other problems from playing games or watching movies.
Still haven't worked out the best tactic for watching 3D movies myself, such as should I try to refocus for objects in the background etc? But I think the best way is probably just relax and not think about it too much.
I certainly don't want them "improving the overall storytelling process" by pushing objects pointedly towards the camera every few scenes though.