Comment Re:So-called 4D movies (Score 1) 495
I've been lead to believe this is called Feel-Around in the States:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCq_nzlou0Q
Comment Re:flash storage is bad for video a ram disk is to (Score 1) 199
I doubt a good SDD will burn out anytime soon:
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html
I'll sum it up for you, a 64GB drive constantly being written to at 80MB/s will burn out in approximately 51 years.
Comment Re:HTPC gaming chicken-and-egg (Score 1) 195
Both Left4Dead titles support split-screen with a little playing around in the config files, if I remember correctly.
Comment Re:He didn't address suitability of it as a ereade (Score 1) 750
Yeah, it has a e-ink screen, but the contrast (dark gray on light gray) is awful.
It also happens to not cause nearly as much eye-strain, as well as working in bright light.
Comment Re:Or maybe the police could do their jobs! (Score 1) 209
This is the UK we're talking about. They have a camera on every street corner.
Which may be true (no idea if it is), but I bet 95% of them are owned by private companies and not the government.
I'm sure it'd take a large amount of paperwork, and manpower to track all the tapes down for them (if they're even real cameras).
Comment Re:Grand unified Hyperbole of AI (Score 1) 301
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a child would presumably understand the wolf statement literally with hair and everything. Presumably as the list of rules grow (just as a child learns), the A.I.'s definition of what John is would change.
My question is, how do you expect to list all these rules when we can probably define hundreds of rules from a paragraph of information alone.
Would it also create a very racist A.I. that tends to use stereotypes to define everything?
Maybe until so many rules are learnt, it's very hard to statistically define anything, at least until more data is acquired about the object.
Comment Re:6x 22"? What about one large TV? (Score 1) 111
One thing to point out with those videos and the review is that the FOV is like a typical monitor.
That entirely depends on what game you're playing, most games allow you to adjust the FOV at least to some extent, even if you have to dig around in the settings files (which you have to do with most new games now anyway, as they seem to have their FOV set up for 4:3 monitors not 16:10).
Personally I would use 3 monitors and as I'm happy enough playing with 1 monitor, I'd increase the FOV to have the side-screens as peripheral vision; which you can't do with a large screen because you can't 'curve' it or sit closer because of it's pixel density.
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 — Gaming On Six Panels 111
MojoKid writes "AMD's 6-output Radeon has been seen in action at a number of events, but today the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is being officially launched. HotHardware paired the card up with six 22" Dell LCD panels in a 3x2 configuration — with a max resolution of 5760x2160 — and ran it through a number of popular titles including Dirt 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis. For specialized, high-end graphics cards like this, the market potential may be relatively small. If, however, the idea of multi-monitor gaming is appealing to you and you've got the means to score one of these cards (along with multiple displays), you won't be disappointed."
Reader Vigile adds a different analysis of the card's six-monitor gaming: "PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision while RTS and racing games like StarCraft 2 and DiRT 2 were spectacular."
Heroes of Newerth Open Beta About To Start 118
You may recall last summer when we discussed Heroes of Newerth, a title from S2 Games that's based on the popular Defense of the Ancients mod from Warcraft III. We passed out some closed beta keys, and there seemed to be a ton of interest, in part due to the fact that they have a Linux client. Well, if any of you missed it or want to see how the game has progressed since then, now is your chance — the open beta begins tonight (March 31). There's a countdown on the sign-up page that shows when you can register.
Comment Re:From the opinion-piece-pulled-out-of-ass dept. (Score 1) 187
Here's another related Wikipedia article that people might find interesting, suspension of disbelief.
Comment Re:Bummer ... (1st (Score 4, Insightful) 739
Sony already caused massive issues with number crunching by removing the ability to install Linux on the latest slim PS3 models.
The old ones never need to be connected to the internet or have the ability to play the latest games, so they will not need this firmware update and will be unaffected.
This isn't big news, except maybe if they need second hand replacement PS3s.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 518
Can't the original half-life run in OpenGL or software rendering modes?
Does that mean anything for compatibility across platforms?
Comment Re:Why? (Score 4, Informative) 518
Valve doesn't seem to care (all Steam games are getting converted to run on Mac using OpenGL).
I'd like to clarify that it's only Valve games that are being ported to Macs, not 'all Steam games'.
Comment Re:I still say we just move the Earth (Score 1) 219
They'd have to be moving rockets because of course the earth rotates, and as most of earth is covered in oceans we'll have to use some sort of ocean bearing vessel.
I personally suggest we use frickin' sharks with frickin' rockets attached to their frickin' heads.
Comment Re:Hawthorne Effect? (Score 1) 436
It's not only that they need more sleep, it's also that they have a body-clock that is shifted to later in the day.
See this quote from the BBC article:
There's a blip in teenagers where they need to have more sleep, but also their timing of that sleep is shifted so they want to go to bed later and get up later in the morning.
