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Nickname Genesys
Email dnelson_1901@yahoo.com
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Description Worth a million in prizes
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Signed On Apr 18, 2010, 06:51
Total Comments 56 (Suspect)
User ID 55658
 
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
17. Re: Out of the Blue May 8, 2013, 23:14 Genesys
 
Efflixi wrote on May 8, 2013, 09:33:
The robotic fly is amazingly cool but I couldn't help but notice it was tethered. I'm assuming the thin wire was for power. When will battery or "engine" technology catch up and be able to power this thing autonomously?

I don't remember where I first saw this short film, but I always think of it when I see "robots the size of a fly" stories: Les ailes de l'ombre

 
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News Comments > Morning Mobilization
4. Re: Morning Mobilization Apr 24, 2013, 20:58 Genesys
 
Tumbler wrote on Apr 24, 2013, 17:25:
In fairness the size of the phone for the Galaxy S3 makes it harder to do things one handed. On my old phone, droid incredible, the size was great for operating the thing one handed. Trying to use the S3 one handed is kind of a joke but I can't say I want to go back to the smaller screens. I'm glad I didn't move up to the Samsung Note though, was considering buying that but after adjusting to the size of the S3 I'm glad I didn't.

I think even the iPhone 5's screen is too big. I can't reach the upper-right corner of my iPhone 4s's screen when it's in landscape mode, so any app that has a button over there is really hard to use. Phones can be too big, and they can be too small. If it's bigger than my wallet or smaller than my keys it doesn't belong in my pocket.
 
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News Comments > Steam Top 10
26. Re: Steam Top 10 Mar 31, 2013, 21:32 Genesys
 
The Half Elf wrote on Mar 31, 2013, 20:27:
Did anyone get Bioshock from GMG and take the cash back instead of the store credit? If ya did, have you received the money yet?
I got mine the same day:

03/28/2013 Debit Card Transaction GREENMAN GAMING LONDON 03/27 $59.99
03/28/2013 Debit Card Transaction GREENMAN GAMING LONDON 03/27 -$14.00
 
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
7. Re: Online Comics Mar 30, 2013, 19:24 Genesys
 
Better do your beekeeping quick Cutter, before Colony Collapse Disorder wipes them out!

I haven't read comics in ages (does the Watchmen movie count?). Recent books:

  • Wool - A community of people living in an underground silo, where the surface had been poisoned. Expressing a desire to go outside is a crime, punishable by making you go outside. I dare you to read Chapter 1 (free, a standalone short story) and not get the full book.

  • Altered Carbon - In the future, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body, making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen, and making murders a whole lot easier to solve. Sometimes. I know, old and has been mentioned here before, but still worth reading. 1st of a trilogy, all pretty good.

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    News Comments > Out of the Blue
    28. Re: Out of the Blue Mar 7, 2013, 21:15 Genesys
     
    Hump wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:30:
    every Logitech mouse does the dbl-click thing after extended use. take it apart and you'll see that the little bar that depresses the actuator button is made of the same soft plastic the rest of the mouse is. After a time it will become squashed and misshapened just enough that it will no longer firmly 'click" the actuator causing a double-click.

    Haha. I bought a couple $10 "Logitech Optical Mouse" mice like 10 years ago and the little plastic bars on all of them bent just like you say :) I think I taped a little bit of paper over the bar to extend it a bit. I should try out one of those newfangled mice someday, but I don't think these ones are ever going to die.

     
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    News Comments > Sunday Tech Bits
    3. Re: Raspberry Pi Mar 3, 2013, 19:21 Genesys
     
    I guess they had to make a lot of hard choices to get the price as low as it is. That probably includes dropping an RTC (which is unneeded on the B, and would push the price of the A pretty close to the B), and using the Broadcom SOC. I'd get one, but I don't know what I'd do with it.

     
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    News Comments > Steam Top 10
    7. Re: Steam Top 10 Feb 10, 2013, 13:31 Genesys
     
    nin wrote on Feb 10, 2013, 13:17:
    Glad to see Anitchamber is doing well!
    I was just going to post that Antichamber looked interesting, sort of like the two Indie games that ended up turning into Portals 1 and 2. Is this the first time it's been mentioned on Blue's? I thought I remembered a previous post about it, but neither the archive search nor Google can find it.
     
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    News Comments > Saturday Tech Bits
    9. Re: Saturday Tech Bits Feb 10, 2013, 12:59 Genesys
     
    Orphic Resonance wrote on Feb 10, 2013, 11:11:
    i was talking about winrar

    its free

    sorry you are wrong, but dont worry.. youll be ok

    Haha, no. RARLAB charges $30 for it. Everyone just downloads the trial and clicks past the "your trial has expired" dialog boxes forever. That doesn't mean it's free :)
     
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    News Comments > Saturday Tech Bits
    3. Re: Saturday Tech Bits Feb 9, 2013, 23:47 Genesys
     
    Yes, I'm always amused when I see computers with eval versions of WinZIP and WinRAR installed, when they could avoid all those dialog boxes by using 7-Zip.
     
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    News Comments > Evening Mobilization
    1. Re: Evening Mobilization Feb 6, 2013, 22:05 Genesys
     
    Technically, they're right, but nobody pays any attention to "removing this will void your warranty" stickers, either. The JB doesn't cause any of this, it depends on the apps you install. I'm sure Apple had to put something like this out after @saurik posted that over 4 million iPhones had accessed Cydia's servers since evasi0n was released on the 4th

    My list of favorite unauthorized modifications:

    Activator (custom gesture/button actions)
    Cyntact (profile pictures in contact lists)
    DietBar (shrinks the top navigation bar, good for iphone 3 and 4)
    Five Icon Dock (what it says)
    FolderEnhancer (nested folders!)
    iKeyWi (5-row keyboard)
    LiveClock (springboard Clock.app icon shows correct time)
    Mail Enhancer Pro (message list coloring, custom sounds, rules)
    NoAccSplash (lets you use the Music app even if you're docked in a player)
    SpringFlash (Activator action that turns the LED on)
    Tab+ (infinite tabs in safari)
    WeatherIcon (Weather.app icon shows weather, plus current temp in statusbar)

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    News Comments > Ships Ahoy - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn
    10. Re: Ships Ahoy - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn Feb 6, 2013, 00:13 Genesys
     
    PropheT wrote on Feb 5, 2013, 23:38:
    SkyUI is good enough that they should just pack it with the game now.
    If you use the keyboard to navigate menus, also take a look at Better Dialogue Controls and Better MessageBox Controls, which adds keyboard navigation to just about every message box, and fixes keyboard selection of items when your mouse is also in the list area.
     
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    News Comments > Evening Tech Bits
    3. Re: Evening Tech Bits Jan 22, 2013, 22:50 Genesys
     
    Android is doing pretty good in the smartphone market, and OS X is doing pretty good on the desktop PC front (BSD Unix instead of Linux, but essentially what you're asking for). Both can command good profit margins due to restricted hardware platforms.

    I don't know if there's a way to counter Windows on the desktop. If you're plain Linux, the GPL is going to hamper your ability to charge for the software on its own (it wants to be freeeeee), so you're going to have to charge for hardware or maybe support.
     
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    News Comments > Steam Strategy Guides Launch
    6. Re: Steam Strategy Guides Launch Jan 17, 2013, 20:45 Genesys
     
    The Steam overlay browser always feels laggy, though. Slow to paint, slow to scroll, and sometimes focus doesn't work right. I wonder if it runs as a separate process from the overlay, or is completely embedded? I usually just alt-tab out to a real browser, except for games that don't take well to alt-tabbing (Skyrim is my main offender).
     
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    News Comments > Valve on VR Latency
    18. Re: Valve on VR Latency Jan 2, 2013, 20:22 Genesys
     
    Krizzen wrote on Jan 2, 2013, 12:03:
    I could go on and on, but it's ridiculous how unoptimized modern games are. Lots and lots hardly even take advantage of CPU extensions like SSE that have been around for years, and a fair majority don't take advantage of multi-core CPUs.

    I'm not saying there aren't game engines that aren't good, but a high demand for "this new VR thing" might push big money toward faster, leaner game engines and give us some serious performance increases.

    Oh, and what better company to push VR than Valve?

    Luckily, there are very few people with better qualifications than Abrash when it comes to optimization.
     
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    News Comments > Out of the Blue
    6. Re: Out of the Blue Dec 30, 2012, 15:58 Genesys
     
    Parenthesis. Brackets have square corners, just like the real-world things you use to attach shelves to walls :)    <- There. I closed your paren for you.    Now we can only talk about Stan Lee's birthday, though...  
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    News Comments > Steam Top 10
    5. Re: Steam Top 10 Dec 30, 2012, 14:02 Genesys
     
    I downloaded the free iOS copy of episode 1 of Walking Dead, and although I wouldn't buy the series myself, it's pretty well-done. Sort of a point-and-click game, but no inventory to speak of and no puzzles. Mainly talking to characters (and there are some pretty significant plot changes you can make), investigating the environment, and the occasional QTE zombie killing of course.
     
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    News Comments > Sunday Metaverse.
    5. Re: Eradicating 'Reply All'. Nov 25, 2012, 18:26 Genesys
     
    gilly775 wrote on Nov 25, 2012, 17:44:
    How about educating the workplace users? I don't feel sorry for the guy in the article; he should have paid attention. I use the button a lot for work but that's because Project Managers like to email multiple people on emails and we have to give status updates to everyone. People should be smart enough to know how and when to use Reply to All. But there is no way (at least in IT) that we could forcibly have it removed for my job.

    Same here. I hate when people don't use Reply All. If the incoming email was CC'ed to multiple people, any replies had better go to everyone too, otherwise the people not included in the reply are going to be missing information and might end up duplicating work.
     
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    News Comments > Deus Ex Film Director & Writer
    7. Re: Deus Ex Film Director & Writer Nov 15, 2012, 22:10 Genesys
     
    I think it'd be easier converting a game like this than a book. Two problems with a book are 1) you've always got way more exposition than is necessary in a movie, so the movie ends up without a lot of the backstory and internal motivation of the characters, and 2) each reader has already filmed their own version in their mind's eye.

    I'd love to see a movie taking on the question of "how much can you change before you aren't human anymore" (or rather, before the people at either end of the augmentation spectrum stop thinking of the other as human), but action sells more tickets.
     
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    News Comments > Valve Confirms New Engine?
    48. Re: Valve Confirms New Engine? Nov 12, 2012, 20:57 Genesys
     
    theyarecomingforyou wrote on Nov 12, 2012, 15:06:
    BobBob wrote on Nov 12, 2012, 14:34:
    You should see this movie but don't read about it too much, to avoid spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
    I'll check it out.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/ is similar but not quite as good imho. You probably never heard of either movie because they came out in 1999 and were completely stomped on by http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ :)
     
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    News Comments > etc.
    4. Re: etc. Oct 26, 2012, 23:59 Genesys
     
    Journey gets my vote for best game soundtrack (samples here) of 2012, also for music most perfectly-timed to gameplay. I just wish it wasn't a PS3 exclusive.
     
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