"THE HIVE" - Introduce Yourself In Here - & Random CHAT Thread

[Ilves]

Originally Posted by AlexOfSpades

This "PC Picture" thing reminded me of this classic thread:

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=114812

Good times.

[HERESY]

Oklahoma. Man it's like as soon as this country starts healing from one crazy incident or disaster something else pops up.

[FrankCSIS]

Originally Posted by HERESY

Oklahoma. Man it's like as soon as this country starts healing from one crazy incident or disaster something else pops up.

The sheer violence of mother nature is mind shattering. Don't know if it's climate changes, or a cyclic thing, but it does look more and more like one long rough patch of harsh events.

Monday night anecdote: Following up on what I said in the "Canon Jensen" thread, I've recently been exposed, much to my own fault, to a habit which has slightly altered the perception of my everyday dwellings. I did know it was going on somewhere, and it is, of course, nothing new. But I knew of it on an anecdotal level, like everything else you hear about and immediately stop thinking of. What surprises me is its scope. What affected me is how it's been going on, literally inches from me, without ever so much as a hint of suspicion on my part, on hundreds of different occasions.

This is one part work deformation, and two parts unhealthy curiosity, but I always religiously read what's written in bathroom stalls. It has been quite useful in one instance at work, but the rest of it is pure amusement. A website link written in crayon sent me face first, horrible pun intended, into the world of cruising. As I said, nothing new under the sun, but it appears there is an actual app for it, to find the locations in your neighbourhood, and this, across the world. As it turns out, there are hundreds upon hundreds of very active locations in Montreal, at least twelve of which I frequent on a weekly basis. And while I was always absolutely oblivious to what was going on while I was passing by, a lot of situations and memories are suddenly making a whole lot of sense, in the funniest of ways.

It's now impossible not to think of it each time I'm in those locations. I am, however, having the grandest of times looking around for who frequents the place, and try and guess who's passing by like me, and who's actually there for some cruising.

[spyhopping]

Uh oh. I wonder if there's a similar app which would change my lovely view of Oxford forever.

Originally Posted by HERESY

Oklahoma. Man it's like as soon as this country starts healing from one crazy incident or disaster something else pops up.

Really awful.

[FrankCSIS]

Discussing the new Box in the gaming thread feels oddly off-topic.

Why is it that every electronic object feels compelled to accomplish all the tasks of every other electronic object? I must've missed the presentation where Whirlpool announced an oven that could freeze your food, wash your dishes and dry clean your clothes. How grand it would feel to have five different appliances which all did the tasks of every other appliance. I could use a different one every day and feel the perfect sense of completion in my wonderful life!

[AlexOfSpades]

So, the new xBox

~ Requires you to install games

~ Allows you to browse the internet

~ Has Skype compatibility

~ Allows you to watch TV quickly

Multitasking is great right?

Wait... with all those features... is it...

slowly becoming a computer? >_>

[Jerion]

Originally Posted by FrankCSIS

Discussing the new Box in the gaming thread feels oddly off-topic.

Why is it that every electronic object feels compelled to accomplish all the tasks of every other electronic object? I must've missed the presentation where Whirlpool announced an oven that could freeze your food, wash your dishes and dry clean your clothes. How grand it would feel to have five different appliances which all did the tasks of every other appliance. I could use a different one every day and feel the perfect sense of completion in my wonderful life!

It does feel odd to talk about it there.

Not sure I agree with your consternation over device capability overlap in general, but there is a question of "Why is this actually useful in this context" that doesn't always seem to get asked for some things, consoles included.

Uh oh. I wonder if there's a similar app which would change my lovely view of Oxford forever.

It probably exists. Be thankful for discretion.


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I've been marathoning LOST. Currently on Season 5, and I think it's the best of the seasons. For those who know: Dammit, Kate.

[FrankCSIS]

Wellllll, I must have five different types of entertainment devices in the living room with the capabilities of being the one entertainment center to rule them all, on top of a phone, a tablet and a laptop who can all do most of this with some tweaking, and a pc who has already been doing it all since 2000 rolled around. Oh, and a so-called intelligent tv programmed on basic linux which offers most of that stuff right off the box, without the need for any external device.

Sooooooooo....why do I need this Box, again? In fact, why do I need a quarter of that stuff, when they all "do it all"? It's pitifully obvious they've put all these features in to disguise their home site, which will be a center of influence for what's hot, and who will bring in guaranteed revenues through partnerships.

Edit: Also, have you noticed how he pulls out his phone to control the navigation when it becomes too complex for simple gestures? One box necessary, my foot! The primary problem of TV web navigation remains entirely unsolved.

[Reven]

Originally Posted by AlexOfSpades

So, the new xBox

~ Requires you to install games

~ Allows you to browse the internet

~ Has Skype compatibility

~ Allows you to watch TV quickly

Multitasking is great right?

Wait... with all those features... is it...

slowly becoming a computer? >_>

PC's are to "elitist" so Microsoft has to repackage it into one big black box and pretend once every 5 or so years that all these so called features are new and exciting instead of being as old as dirt in the PC world.

Now all Microsoft has to do is find a way to sell Windows OS to console gamers...

[Shralla]

Xbox One is pretty much running Windows. It does have windows after all. Finally.

[-=fox=-]

The thing is so big, it has windows and a house number.

[Reven]

Originally Posted by Shralla

Xbox One is pretty much running Windows. It does have windows after all. Finally.

But I think Microsoft would love nothing more than to sell windows OS updates to console gamers. $150 for Windows 10 just to play the next COD game?...double the market double the money.

It may not be on the table yet, but I see something like this further down the road for Microsoft, either late in the coming generation or early in the next.

[Stellazira]

I wonder if the Kinect has improved for gaming. When I first saw people using it at PAX '10 people looked like they were going to snap their spines while playing a dance game.

If you need to move like that in order to have the camera register what's going on, then you need to keep working on it.

I had an Xbox but not a 360. The Xbox One looks even more like a dumbed down PC with a camera, which is not all that appealing when you have two serious gaming PC's in the house already.