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Comment Re:stream machine (Score 1) 48

I'm not sure that that 20% is accurate. At least a few of them are really just wrapped in Wine, rather than actually made to run natively under Linux or OS X. This does, however, suggest some potential options that they could take when a vendor can't or won't offer a native version of their game:

  • Some Games: Try to run the game under a vendor-supplied Wine wrapper
  • Some Games, if vendor doesn't supply a wrapper: Try to run the game under a steam-supplied, somewhat optimized Wine wrapper
  • All Games: Try to run game under a default/user optimized Wine instance

Comment Re:stream machine (Score 1) 48

It's a great metaphor, as long as the context is dice gaming rather than leaf burning - you pick a bunch of components (or a complete machine where someone else picked a bunch of components), install SteamOS*, and hope that they all work well and work together well

*and a second machine with Windows installed on it so you can play windows games.

Comment Re: Something Else (Score 1) 227

What I always find amazing year after year in this game is the technology. I don't think there are many spy agencies, let alone games that have this level of advanced tech. They got drawing plays on your screen before the weatherman got green screens. They got automated wire cameras before traffic cams.

They did however do bullet-time wrong. Tried to cheap out with far too few cameras, using "interpolated" frames to pad out the motion.

Comment Re:Why even use a webcam? (Score 1) 263

Surely the best idea is to continue to use the marker board, and type the freaking menu into the website. That way it will be easy to read for everyone, especially those with poor vision (through larger fonts), no vision (through screen readers), or using mobile devices (probably the most likely device someone would use for finding a restaurant, actually. Definitely the most likely device someone would use from within the restaurant if they don't have a good view of the board).

Comment Re:Anyone know how Zotac cards hold up? (Score 1) 66

...their caps on their average boards now are military grade.

I was surprised that this is part of the marketing for gaming graphics cards. I'm curious as to what specification or certification qualifies them for this classification. I'm also curious as to whether this means that they're better than "consumer" grade, and if so, if that means they're better for consumer uses.

I'm not sure I'd go out of my way to go to a restaurant offering "military grade" cuisine...

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