Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Ironmonger]

I found something close to my mobile desktop idea. However, this is still far heavier than what I had in mind, and the concept isn't anything new; it seems to be based on existing industrial PCs.  Despite those two points, I'm glad to see that something like this exists.

[Tytan]

Fuck I should be asleep.

http://www.newegg.com/All-All-in-One-PCs/SubCategory/ID-3309?Tid=23501

Don't know if this helps, and not to be to technical, but these should be all pcs with all the bits in the monitor.

[Ironmonger]

@Tytan

I've already looked at a lot of those designs, but I'll give them another look. The four issues that come to mind regarding that type of All-in-One are cooling, high center-of-gravity, cost, and upgradability. The second one can be mitigated with a proper stand, but that would inevitably enlarge the small footprint of the design, which goes against one of the perks of that form factor. The first one is tricky because, even with parts from Intel and Nvidia, the PC might start to throttle. It's just hard to efficiently cool the small space that houses the components. That could be fixed with a larger housing, but then one runs into balance issues with the case's stand and added stress on the hinges that tilt the screen.

I'm working on a clamshell-style All-in-One made of steel for strength and aluminum and plastic for saving weight. The idea is to outperform gaming laptops while still being semi-portable, completely upgradeable, and relatively cool.

[Katarn]

@Iron
You can fix parts like motherboard (and everything on it) to wall. With suitable isolation material. Fix power block to same wall, same to drives. Since there will be no 'small box for hardware to suffocate in' it would give decent cooling effect, but it might look ugly...but somewhat original. Also there is problem of all this pile of expensive shit to just falling on the floor/desk/cat/you and smashing to pieces.
My friend once 'built' his PC in something like pizza box.

Though like I've said to you some time ago - for good cooling effect you should look for Cooler Master, Aero cool, etc chassis and then build everything around it.

[Ironmonger]

@Katarn

That first bit is an interesting thought... I like it. I'll keep that in mind for an office project, but right now I need something more portable.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Guess what I just pre-ordered?


This is going to be so cool.

[Valikdu]

...the reviewer wasn't kidding that you can get stuck in Pillars' character creation screen for hours. I'm just reading all the lore there now.

[O. Hinds]

Guess what I just pre-ordered?


This is going to be so cool.

Neat.
Though the "TOUCHLESS GESTURES", "No more looking down to fumble with knobs, buttons or touch screens." bit is another thing making me think of this:

For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was waver your hand in the general direction of the components and hope.  It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.

On another note, I've been reading about and watching some videos of teletypes recently.  Pretty impressive machines, I think.  I also found one page describing the noise as a "fabulous electro-mechanical cacophony), which seems to me like a nice phrase.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Well, yeah. Actually I only intend to use it for vehicle & navigation data (speed, RPM, next-turn-to-goal, speed limits & potentially radar zones if I were to subscribe to such a service...).

The notification & entertainment data seems like it'd be hazardous.

Once I have it in my hands we'll see how I can set it up. They promise a high degree of user customization (in term of which data you can choose to display).

[Harmony Ltd.]

On another note, I've been reading about and watching some videos of teletypes recently.  Pretty impressive machines, I think.  I also found one page describing the noise as a "fabulous electro-mechanical cacophony), which seems to me like a nice phrase.

This makes me think of something...

From my training on airplanes from a period where electronics wasn't what it is today, and seeing that teletype in action; I have to say it is impressive just how much ingenuity people in the 20th century have had to come up with to give some degree of "intelligence" to things at a time where microprocessors or even transistors didn't even exist yet.

I really respect mechanical engineers. The amount of thought they have to put into mechanisms to do something that we today can solve far more easily with a few printed circuit boards and some lines of code is impressive.

Of course, what we do today is built on the foundations of what they did before, but still... Have you seen how complex these old mechanisms are?

Though this impression I have may be born only from the fact these mechanical constructs allow us to perceive their complexity, whereas modern electronics could as well be magic from how it do things without letting us see just how exactly it does it.

[O. Hinds]

I have had similar thoughts.

[Harmony Ltd.]

For over a week now, this is has been and still is what wakes me up in the morning.


Where has my life come to?...

[Katarn]

You sick bastard....

[Stringtheory]

For all those who liked Ruby Quest or are interested in horror point and click adventure games, I'd like to recommend, now six years old, The White Chamber. From the little I've played so far it's basically the same setup as Ruby Quest (wake up in a pod with amnesia and weird shit is happening in the facility you're in). The art's beautiful 80's style anime graphics, in fact the same guy who did the TIE Fighter short also did the art for it, so it's amazing:

Sample Screenshot:

I haven't gotten very far yet, but I've already found two bad ends one due to my own curiosity getting the better of me, and the other from not figuring out a puzzle in time.

[Scienza]

For all those who liked Ruby Quest or are interested in horror point and click adventure games, I'd like to recommend, now six years old, The White Chamber. From the little I've played so far it's basically the same setup as Ruby Quest (wake up in a pod with amnesia and weird shit is happening in the facility you're in). The art's beautiful 80's style anime graphics, in fact the same guy who did the TIE Fighter short also did the art for it, so it's amazing:

Sample Screenshot:

I haven't gotten very far yet, but I've already found two bad ends one due to my own curiosity getting the better of me, and the other from not figuring out a puzzle in time.

Oooh, I've been meaning to play that. Ruby Quest was the shit.

On an unrelated note:

[Ironmonger]

On an unrelated note:

[Tytan]

The new daily show host has been announced.:

[Downloaded Skill]

Oooh, I've been meaning to play that. Ruby Quest was the shit.

On an unrelated note:

 I wonder what preparsatans were made in anticisatan of that event.

[Icy Shake]

For anyone who is still sore over "Magical Mystery Cure," or who just likes the Mr. Plinkett review format: a long-ass analysis of how that episode ruined everything. Guy knows the format, and makes the points both comprehensively and engagingly.

[O. Hinds]

Ah, yes, I read that earlier and found it interesting.

[Scienza]

I really wish this was actually a thing.

[Frost]

Hijinx and Tomfoolery

[Harmony Ltd.]

Oooh, I've been meaning to play that. Ruby Quest was the shit.

On an unrelated note:

 I wonder what preparsatans were made in anticisatan of that event.

Related?...



I certainly agree with the sentiment.

[Valikdu]

I empathize with this picture:

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[Stringtheory]

I empathize with this picture:

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Wow, I never realized they put that much research into the military stuff, guess I'm a normal person then...

[RoboRed]

I empathize with this picture:

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Dem Flanker-D's, tho...

[Katarn]

Happy birthday, swicked!

[O. Hinds]

Oh, happy birthday!

[Guest]

Happy birthday indeed!

[Frost]

Have an adequate another-year-of-being-inexorably-drawn-into-the-reaper's-dark-embrace, Swick.

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