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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2013, 04:17:18 PM »
It was about a group of people that went around jumping through wormholes, into alternate versions of Earth and getting themselves into situations.  Unfortunately, every slide is random and they don't know how to get back to their own Earth :(.  And so the Sliders find themselves sliding from Earth to Earth, striving to put right what once went wrong (why not), and hoping each time that their next leap will be the leap home...
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #31 on: July 27, 2013, 12:01:47 AM »
Lol, sounded like you slipped into the "Quantum Leap" intro right there at the end.
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #32 on: July 27, 2013, 07:51:18 PM »
Quote from: dweez on July 27, 2013, 12:01:47 AM
Lol, sounded like you slipped into the "Quantum Leap" intro right there at the end.

I was going to say....

Quote from: Mauve on July 23, 2013, 06:02:57 AM
I bet someone will connect a kinect to a computer and make it work. There will probably be drivers available in the coming years. Which'll be cool, always wanting to find cool ways to use my computer.  ;D

It's already happened at the corporate level.  Optus (singtel) have kinect units all around their hq above big lcd screens.  They id a person walking past and put silly thought bubbles above their head on the screen, saying things like "I need to fart" and such.  The xbox, M$ and kinect logos have been blacked-out with permanent marker ink.

Quote from: SACPOP on July 22, 2013, 01:17:42 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/19/193607513/microsoft-responds-to-fan-outcry-changes-xbox-one-policies

Looks like they've changed some of the problematic requirements. The daily online check-in is no longer necessary, nor is the always on connection. None of these changes seem to address the always-on camera, though, which is kinda the main point of this thread.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/microsoft-shoots-down-government-spying-claims-fails-mention-xbox-one-or-kinect-57637.html

I remember EA trying to force gamers into having an always-on Internet connection to play a certain game (that part I can't remember).  Didn't work.  I don't know why M$ thought that we would all be "Yeah, no worries".

When footage of a child getting changed is captured by a kinect camera and released onto the 'net, then maybe they will think about disabling the always on aspect of their camera....
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #33 on: July 28, 2013, 03:22:01 PM »
Kinect for Windows is here. I wonder if the new Xbox One games will be available for the PC (doubt it) and if they are will the Kinect be forced? It kind of makes $ense that it would. The specs for our gaming computers are greater than that of the new console so that wouldn't be an issue.

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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #34 on: July 29, 2013, 03:22:35 PM »
Quote from: christ on July 29, 2013, 03:31:08 AM
Like the end of "Source Code" when Sam says "Oh boy!".
I need to watch this now, just to see if this (or something similar) happens!  Wikipedia says Bakula is in Source Code, fo' sho'.

Quote from: brickbatz on July 28, 2013, 03:22:01 PM
Kinect for Windows is here. I wonder if the new Xbox One games will be available for the PC (doubt it) and if they are will the Kinect be forced? It kind of makes $ense that it would. The specs for our gaming computers are greater than that of the new console so that wouldn't be an issue.

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One problem I have with higher spec consoles is the higher spec PCs you'll need for the PC port.  I was planning on building a new PC for cheaps, that could still play most of the latest games, but now I'm a little worried about buying hardware that'll not be powerful enough for Half-Life 3 or whatever other fancy game that comes out.

I suppose I should be used to playing the older games :D
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #35 on: July 29, 2013, 09:51:35 PM »
chekovsulu, build what you can afford and upgrade one piece at a time. Don't buy a no-name cheap CPU and make sure it will run an upgraded graphics card (550W - 650W). The onboard graphics with an i5 CPU are pretty decent. It will run several present day games.

Here in the US Newegg is selling the Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 for $219.99 USD.

* The K after i5 - 3570 means it can be overclocked.
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #36 on: July 30, 2013, 09:56:36 AM »
According to the spreadsheet I made in January, I was going to get the AMD FX6-6300, mainly because the AMD CPUs and sockets are apparently compatible across generations (if that's the right word for it).  So I could upgrade the CPU before the motherboard, or the motherboard before the CPU, depending on my budget.  And 6 cores!

I've got the the i5-3570K as my Intel option, because apparently I decided to make a spreadsheet comparing wattage as well as cost :D.  I forgot how serious I became about power usage during winter.

Interesting, the Intel CPU's gone up by £10, whereas the AMD one has gone down by £10.  It's probably demand.  I'm going to finish this spreadsheet next week, it's got me all excited again. :D

I don't seem to have a sheet for heatsinks yet...
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #37 on: July 30, 2013, 01:49:02 PM »
Quote from: chekovsulu on July 26, 2013, 04:17:18 PM
It was about a group of people that went around jumping through wormholes, into alternate versions of Earth and getting themselves into situations.  Unfortunately, every slide is random and they don't know how to get back to their own Earth :(.  And so the Sliders find themselves sliding from Earth to Earth, striving to put right what once went wrong (why not), and hoping each time that their next leap will be the leap home...

That actually sounds really interesting! I'll probably try watching some of that.

Also I'm planning on building a gaming rig sometime soon. Once I get a real job. Not just volunteering  :P!

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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #39 on: August 26, 2013, 03:28:06 PM »
Oo, those are useful!

I came across this the other day:

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An ideal example of this is the popular video game Shadow of the Colossus, which generally requires an efficient CPU with a speed of at least 3.5 GHz (Intel), or 4 GHz (AMD FX), and a decent graphics card. The main reason the AMD FX processors need to be of a higher clock speed than their Intel counterparts is that in the Bulldozer architecture, the number of floating-point units is half the number of total CPU cores. This means each unit is shared between two cores. If one core is currently using the FPU, the other core sharing it must wait to do the same. It is only free to perform integer operations. PCSX2 makes heavy use of floating-point.

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Re: Is the "xbox one" the new telescreen?
« Reply #40 on: August 26, 2013, 06:54:29 PM »
I'm playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 right, now on high settings, with an Intel i3 and a decent video card. I still want the i5.

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