What Are You Doing Right Now
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Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yes! Vacations! Today was my last work day for 2016. What a year... my load average was like 2.5 - 3.0* during the last couple of weeks (months) and I absolutely don't know how I managed to get through all that stuff. Felt like running through a minefield, blindfolded.
Anyway, it's Christmas time now and I won't be back in the office until January 4th.
Time to do some fun stuff. Sadly, my dad doesn't have time this year to work on the model train project. But I've got some pretty interesting ideas on my list regarding communication between Arduino's and more high-level systems (x86/amd64, Raspberry Pi's) using MQTT on my list.
any *NIX admin should get it
Model trains - COOL
I'm not exactly a model train fan, but: AC-based (Märklin H0, M-track) model train tracks controlled by Arduinos, Pi's, C&C Notebook, RabbitMQ and MQTT. Now that's cool
I've been wanting to do that for years. If I didn't move around so much I definitely would be doing that.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
Unity can be coded for all OSes? Why don't they release all of these pc games for linux as well then?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
Unity can be coded for all OSes?
That's why the name is Unity, it's a universal high end gaming platform.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
Unity can be coded for all OSes?
That's why the name is Unity, it's a universal high end gaming platform.
what is it exactly? is it like Java, just installs on top of any OS?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
Unity can be coded for all OSes?
That's why the name is Unity, it's a universal high end gaming platform.
what is it exactly? is it like Java, just installs on top of any OS?
It's an engine
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
Unity can be coded for all OSes?
That's why the name is Unity, it's a universal high end gaming platform.
what is it exactly? is it like Java, just installs on top of any OS?
It's an engine
You can't stick any engine in any car - so how does this help?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Question: Why hasn't anyone created a universal platform with not a lot of dependencies (like Java) for video games? Something that would allow you to run video games on any of the major operating systems. I'm not a programmer and there must be a reason, but I don't know what that would be.
Unity. And many others. It's a common thing, actually.
Unity can be coded for all OSes?
That's why the name is Unity, it's a universal high end gaming platform.
what is it exactly? is it like Java, just installs on top of any OS?
It's an engine
You can't stick any engine in any car - so how does this help?
I don't know. That's why I asked the question
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
pictures or it didn't happen.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
pictures or it didn't happen.
Problem is, there is a shit load of components for which I need to write some code for. I'm concentrating on the communication part right now. Next will be a load of drivers for sensors and actors. Not too hard, but needs to be done. Last but not least, we want to have some central PC (an old notebook in this case) to act as a central monitoring and control interface.
But yes, as promised before, I'll post pictures when there is something worth showing.
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So on my ROG the Function F9 combo wasn't working, and the trackpad was on. Which drove me insane.
Just fixed that by reinstalling the hardware drivers.
So much better now.
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@gjacobse Did you ask cortana why it took so long to get there?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Did you ask cortana why it took so long to get there?
Cortana was probably providing the directions!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Did you ask cortana why it took so long to get there?
Cortana was probably providing the directions!
ha!
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settling into the day after a whole fiasco this morning that could have been avoided with two seconds of common sense
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Did you ask cortana why it took so long to get there?
Cortana was probably providing the directions!
From looking at the route, I would have guessed they were using Apple maps...
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
settling into the day after a whole fiasco this morning that could have been avoided with two seconds of common sense
I sense a PICNIC, PEBCAK, OR id10t issue.
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Talked to someone going to Capella. Turns out it's a for profit trade school, just like ITT. I had an inkling but had not looked into them before. Totally garbage, scam program. You even get to "Minor in Microsoft."
How do people not notice these things before spending tens of thousands of dollars?
