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Excuse the blurry picture; trying to find a balance between not having to grab a bloody tripod, and not using flash
But just for fun, my girlfriend picked us up one of these Hydra games development kits from ThinkGeek/Parallax.
It is, to say the least... In Depth. As in, the chip basically has to be told exactly what to do. No display lists, no shells, this is coding hardware to behave like a console. The application development is hosted on a PC and there are some fun toys, the manual is HUGE.
People in the US will have an advantage for instant gratification; the demo libraries all assume NTSC displays.
http://www.parallax.com/
Off topic, as the forum says, but if you like low-level programming and tinkering, you might find this quite fun to play with.
Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpS4PTSBKg
Obviously a pair of bozo's who are trying to advance a specific agenda- maybe Kindle or Ipad, I don't know.
But it seem pretty obvious that they don't know what they are talking about.
Fortunately most of the press about the Nook Color and everything concerning rooting/ROMming NCs is better informed.
Go ahead and click on the link to drive up their stats or just ignore them and let them fade into insignificance.
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Obviously a pair of bozo's who are trying to advance a specific agenda- maybe Kindle or Ipad, I don't know.
But it seem pretty obvious that they don't know what they are talking about.
Fortunately most of the press about the Nook Color and everything concerning rooting/ROMming NCs is better informed.
Go ahead and click on the link to drive up their stats or just ignore them and let them fade into insignificance.
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I almost clicked on the link out of curiosity until I read the last part of your post. Skipped and moving on to other threads.
Those guys are retarded. Have they not seen the videos of it running circles around the GalaxyTab?
We can only hope this is a poor attempt at April's fool. Otherwise /facepalm
These two are just a couple of ass-clowns that are long on bluster and rather short on specifics.
The don't refer to any benchmarks and don't have any illustrations to support their ambiguous contentions.
They claim, in the video, that the Xoom and the Galaxy tabs "blow the nook out of the water.... blah...blah..blah..." yet give no specific benchmark evidence. They say that the NC is underpowered, again without any supporting evidence. They also neglect to mention the enormous price differential.
They make no mention of the lack of camera, microphone, or 3G. These are legitimate shortcomings for those want these features. If they had talked about that, they would have had something. Or if they had talked about the audio sync issue when playing videos, again, we'd have something to talk about.
No, the two whiney little biatches in this video are just unskilled hacks that have no idea how to review a product. They are not Consumer Reports type material. Heck, their product-review-fu is so weak that they're not even up the the lowly hack level of Gizmodo.
Watch the video for the folly of it, but don't take their ill-supported opinions too seriously...
my favorite part of their talk, and granted i got bored within the first 30 seconds, was how with their own verbage showed how uninformed and baseless their claims are. When they said, well you can jailbreak it I started laughing and knew these two jamokes only had iphones and didnt have a clue as to android.
1. Jailbreak - what you do to an iphone/ipad
2. SPL unlocker - what you do to a old school windows mobile phone
3. Unlock/Jailbreak - what you can do to WP7
4. Root - what you do to an android device
verbage is very important it shows your knowledge of the subject area that you are trying to show your expertise in.
hmmm,
I stopped at about the half of the video, because it simply didnt interest me what they were saying.
I had a NC till about 2 weeks ago, had it for about one month. I tried out nearly every Rom and stuff, but i didnt really get happy with it.
I wouldnt say it totally sucks, but I rather have something that is actually working.
I had problems with the sensivity of the screen, I sold it and got a SGT for 80€ more.
A lot better, a lot....
Maybe as a tablet bundled with a good android smartphone, with tethered internet its okay, but as a standalone device as I was intending to use it, it sucked.
But everyone can decide what they buy, I wasnt happy with the NC, therefore I like to hear it even more, that you all are...
oh lol, the "I's"
There's a lot to be said for automation. Thanks to automated processes, our society hums along more nicely than it ever has. But should we include our playtime on the list of things we want to automate? Is it possible to enjoy something like an MMO if we really don't control it at all? If we assemble our army men and wind them up, is watching them go as much fun as controlling what they do?
Ah, such deep questions stemming from such a simple game. Crystal Saga
is a browser-based, free-to-play, Flash-based MMORPG (there's a mouthful) that allows players to do a lot of things, including fully automate the grinding process. I can hear the potential comments already, so click past the cut and let me explain it more.
I need to clarify what I mean when I say "fully automated." It's not as though you can tell your little on-screen character that you want it to go here, attack this, and rescue that. It's not quite that in-depth. Basically the developers have added in a system that allows you to place your character into "AFK mode." How much time he can remain in AFK mode depends on a special item that you can get from quests or from the cash shop (I was AFK for hours and hours and never spent a dime), and what happens during that AFK time depends on what specifically you told your avatar to do during that time.
You're essentially telling your character which mobs to attack, when to heal or use a healing potion, and whether to loot or not. As I say in the livestream, you "set it and forget it" like the Ronco Rotisserie. You can also click a link in your quest to auto-walk back to town or to a specific NPC, and you can auto-walk to any number of quest objectives. In fact, you can play this game and level up without ever really using more than a few buttons.
Gaming purists needn't worry; this system is not new or uncommon. In fact, if you have ever played EVE Online, Alganon or a few other titles, you have automated your play. Yep, if anything, the offline skill training that EVE popularized is much less labor-intensive than Crystal Saga's AFK mode. While I AFKed in Crystal Saga, I had to at least watch for enemies in case I was overwhelmed. Clicking "learn" in a game like Alganon takes no work at all. Hours or days later, you log in your character to find him or her smarter than before! The wonders of science!
More good news: You don't need to worry whether other players, readers, or super-cool column writers care about how you play. Crystal Saga is for younger players, true, but accessibility is not only for them. I found the automated system to be really fun. In an AFK way, of course. I liked coming back to backpacks filled with goodies, and I still had to go back to town and sell the items and organize my skills. In fact, I've realized that AFK modes in games like Crystal Saga only shine light on how incredibly boring and trivial leveling-up has become in many MMOs. The archaic system of advancement hasn't changed in years and years, so why not do away with the process, or make it something that we simply don't have to sit there and watch?
Again, I know what you are thinking. "But that's what makes MMOs fun!" I get that many of you might feel that playing the game is the fun part. I agree that playing is fun. But grinding is not. Of course, this raises another question: Why didn't Crystal Saga just design a better way of leveling? Or better yet, why doesn'tCrystal Saga do away with leveling altogether and invent a brand-new way to play MMOs? Good question, Beau. I think the answer is that these devs do not care to redesign the entire process but instead want to speed it up and get you to the good stuff. In a world filled with "AAA," indie, and free-to-play games that are all filled to the brim with massive amounts of grind, I appreciate these AFK systems that are showing up more often. Give me a cash shop filled with every single item in the game and we have a deal.
I've been playing Oblivion a lot lately. We have all probably played it a lot. If not, we jammed on Morrowindbefore that. Remember "fast travel?" You know, the ability to click on an area in the map and instantly transport there, instead of traveling the long, literal way on horseback? We have all used it at some point. I use it when I am faced with an incredibly long (but not difficult) ride. If it is dangerous and within a 15-minute window, I will be on the trail. Games like Crystal Saga allow for the same choices, and I appreciate that. Long ago I lost the feeling that even the mere presence of such systems tainted my gameplay. They exist, and I don't care.
The rest of the game is fun and colorful, including the pet system. I like the fact that the game runs on anything and that there are always players around. Other than those few facts, there's not much more you need to know about your first several hours in the game (which is how long I generally spend in a game before writing this column). It sort of pains me to say so, but the existence of an "AFK mode" is about the only thing I came across that makes Crystal Saga much fun. It sounds weird, but I got the same feeling when I found pocketfuls of goodies that I used to get when I logged into EVE and saw that my skill training was completed. It's worth checking out, even just to surprise yourself.
Next week I will be looking at Starjack Online, a free-to-play empire-builder that has sucked me in. For some reason, the game does not allow me to stream or video it, so look for a screenshot-heavy article next time. Now, go log in!
Attention Mods/XDA staff. We have permission from svetius to post this here. I wasn't sure about doing this either, so I made sure to ask first. We will not directly link to our site so that we do not leech traffic from XDA. We aren't trying to compete with XDA either. We are looking for interns/unpaid staff interested in tech and mobile news, so the job board doesn't fit us.
Alright guys, here's the deal. I'm looking for video/podcast personalities for a website I'm involved in. The site is Install or Not dot com. I'm not linking to it directly so we don't get in trouble with XDA by leeching their traffic.
If you are interested in becoming a personality and can commit to several hours a week in recording audio and/or video, please post a reply here, and we'll talk about it.
There are three unpaid positions available at the moment. We're looking for video personalities, podcast personalities, and media editors. Requirements for the positions are listed below. You may be able to do more than one thing if you want to and are good enough.
All positions must adhere to the following rules:
- You MUST be able to commit at least five hours per week to recording and researching the shows.
- Media editors may need to commit ten or so hours, depending on skill if they are doing shows as well. You need to be available during the week and on weekends.
- You must be able to work within the site guidelines that we set.
- You must be able to be fair and unbias in your discussions. I don't care if you hate Windows Phone, iOS, or Android. You have to be a fair reporter.
To apply for a spot, please prepare a sample of your ability for me to preview.
Podcast sample should feature you talking about two different articles of your choosing for a minimum of ten minutes. Podcasts are meant for spinning out the news and discussing it with others. Try to put your own spin on the news. Make it entertaining. It doesn't need to be funny, it just needs to hold my attention. Feel free to work on submissions as a team if you know other people who want to be involved.
Video samples should follow the same guidelines as the podcast. I'd prefer to see a ten minute video of you talking about a few articles or topics that interest you. Videos are more generally targeted than podcasts. Again, this needs to be interesting and entertaining. it does not need to be funny, it just needs to hold the viewer's attention. Videos are solo pieces.
Editors should either team up with others who are submitting clips, or make a work on their own from the podcast and video guidelines. If you have prior experience in editing, you may submit any prior work as well, so long as it is appropriate. (no porn )
FYI: The positions are unpaid internships.
Site guidelines are set by myself and the owner. They may change from time to time, but you will always know in advance. Generally, just use common sense. It's not MTV or Cinemax; it's a tech news blog.
We don't want excessive profanity in any media on the site. A few bad words throughout the media is fine, but nothing excessive, and nothing horrible. If you can't say it on cable TV, you can't say it on our site either.
Be open to new ideas and other operating systems or OEMs. I don't care how much iOS pisses you off, or how bad Samsung screwed you over on a phone. You will report on the news in a fair and balanced manner. This includes reporting on iOS, Apple, Motorola, RIM, webOS, Symbian, and anything else you can think of that might make you cringe. If you can't wrap your head around being fair to everyone, do not apply.
I too being involved in the site can say, this may look like not such an appealing postition for now, as it's unpaid - but we will surely value your contribution, which can in future but you on our regular team.
Some of the incentives of doing the job are:
Attend tech events
Gadgets to review
Meet big shots of the tech arena
Make a name and get fame for yourself
Adds value to your CV, which employer would not like a person who is popular on the internet ? This might become your full time job, who knows ?
A business card with a fancy position
An identity which can never be erased, yes that's the beauty of the internet - you might be gone and forgotten in the world, but on the internet your name and work will always stay !
And some other perks too, which I'd rather not mention on a public domain.
Besides, I would also like to tell you, you don't need to be a pro at anything to do this job, just be enthusiastic, dedicated and responsible - though you should know tech and shall be able to speak english !
Age, Nationality, Location, Occupation or Gener all of those do not matter as far as you can do the job !
So hit us up if you think you are in for it !
PS: If you think, audio or video is a bit too steep you can even write for us
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Okay guys. I would like to participate in it. As you previously said that we can even write articles for you, I might be interested
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If you guys know anyone who might be interested in doing this, please send them here as well.
Bump to the top, for the interested lot ! Send those PMs right away
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Interested, or just sending to the top?
We're looking for news writers as well.
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Interested, or just sending to the top?
We're looking for news writers as well.
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Too ugly for on air but yes I am interested in a writer position. Unpaid is completely fine with me. Plus a bump for old xda'er buds.
Greetings, all.
I'm a 68 year old woman who is about to become a widow, after 46 years of marriage, which is probably way more than you want to know.
The primary reason I'm here is that I'm trying to root my Nook Color, and having problems finding the necessary software; it seems to have disappeared from the internet. Yes, I know my Nook Color is outdated, and I don't much care; it still has the potential to be a functional e-reader, except that B&N forced an unnecessary software update on it and now it refuses to boot. I'm hoping that if I can root it I'll still be able to use it. If that doesn't work I'll attempt to get B&N to replace it with a newer Nook that will actually work, but I doubt that would be successful.
I used to be an editor at MicroCornucopia magazine; I play classical guitar; and I'm a filker (https://wiki2.org/en/Filk_music). I'm also a longstanding member of 6502 Group, which is basically a social club for computer geeks, located in the Denver, Colorado area.
MargretMinette
MargretMinette said:
Greetings, all.
I'm a 68 year old woman who is about to become a widow, after 46 years of marriage, which is probably way more than you want to know.
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I'm sorry to hear that! 46 years of wonderful memories I hope.
MargretMinette said:
The primary reason I'm here is that I'm trying to root my Nook Color, and having problems finding the necessary software; it seems to have disappeared from the internet. Yes, I know my Nook Color is outdated, and I don't much care; it still has the potential to be a functional e-reader, except that B&N forced an unnecessary software update on it and now it refuses to boot. I'm hoping that if I can root it I'll still be able to use it. If that doesn't work I'll attempt to get B&N to replace it with a newer Nook that will actually work, but I doubt that would be successful.
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Here is the forum you need.
MargretMinette said:
I used to be an editor at MicroCornucopia magazine; I play classical guitar; and I'm a filker (https://wiki2.org/en/Filk_music). I'm also a longstanding member of 6502 Group, which is basically a social club for computer geeks, located in the Denver, Colorado area.
MargretMinett
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More than a few of our moderators are retirement age, like @Oswald Boelcke , @Badger50 just to name a couple.
I'm a little curious: Who are considered the "cool kids" in those circles? The knitters and Bingo players, or the computer nerds?
@MargretMinette A very warm welcome to XDA. My greetings to the Eastern roots of the Rocky Mountains are coming from Germany. I hope you'll always get the support and assistance you require. And I hope, the forum, to which @V0latyle pointed you, is a good start.
And yeah, I can proudly admit I'm become 66 years yound in May...
In case of any question or if assistance is required please do not hesitate to contact the moderators team.
Regards
Oswald Boelcke
In filk circles the "cool kids" are the ones who write their own songs. Slightly less cool, but still very cool, are the ones who write good parodies of other people's songs. But in reality, basically we all like one another and the first rule of filking is never to criticize anyone else's performance. As for computer nerds, anything to do with science or technology falls squarely into the realm of filk. As for knitting, the filkers seem to like the temari balls I embroider (do a Google search on "temari balls" for lots of pretty pictures), and one of our coolest members also uses a drop spindle to create yarn from cat fur. Another of our coolest members is almost always making something or other from beads while listening to other performers. We're an eclectic bunch.
In 6502 Group the "cool kids" (and at this point we're none of us kids any longer) are the ones who come up with fun projects using inexpensive parts, or write new programming languages - I'm not very cool because my preference is coding in Pascal. On the other hand, I'm the one who finds the YouTube videos about squirrel mazes and such, which everyone enjoys, so I hold my own.
In both groups, we're all there by choice, and we all like and respect one another. We're also all old enough to know the value of diversity, in talents and skills as in everything else.
V0latyle said:
I'm a little curious: Who are considered the "cool kids" in those circles? The knitters and Bingo players, or the computer nerds?
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In filk circles the "cool kids" are the ones who write their own songs. Slightly less cool, but still very cool, are the ones who write good parodies of other people's songs. But in reality, basically we all like one another and the first rule of filking is never to criticize anyone else's performance. As for computer nerds, anything to do with science or technology falls squarely into the realm of filk. As for knitting, the filkers seem to like the temari balls I embroider (do a Google search on "temari balls" for lots of pretty pictures), and one of our coolest members also uses a drop spindle to create yarn from cat fur. Another of our coolest members is almost always making something or other from beads while listening to other performers. We're an eclectic bunch.
In 6502 Group the "cool kids" (and at this point we're none of us kids any longer) are the ones who come up with fun projects using inexpensive parts, or write new programming languages - I'm not very cool because my preference is coding in Pascal. On the other hand, I'm the one who finds the YouTube videos about squirrel mazes and such, which everyone enjoys, so I hold my own.
In both groups, we're all there by choice, and we all like and respect one another. We're also all old enough to know the value of diversity, in talents and skills as in everything else.