subspaceman

Nice write up! I love seeing novel uses for game engine tools. I lead a media group at a large museum and have mostly standardized on unity for all sorts of interactives and media experiences. Bookmarking this to checkout the specifics of the pipeline later.

I found the same, though I couldn't bring myself to buy another watch just because it was cheaper. So I bought some NATO straps and have been really happy with them. Perfect watch for me now.

I was so excited about the N900 when it was announced - a linux machine in my pocket! I couldn't justify the price, being freshly out of school though. Nokia advertised a competition asking the public how they would "hack" the device to make something cool. I submitted a proposal to make a bike dashboard - it sounds so basic now, but I wanted a simple way to track my ride and proposed fun little additions like using the ambient light sensor to turn on an external headlight, a horn, etc.

They picked my proposal along with a couple others and gave us some budget to buy hardware and components, and about 3 or 4 weeks to complete the project. It was my first time soldering, first time using an Arduino, and I remember being so stressed out about whether or not it would work.

It all came together in the end and looking back with hindsight now, I really owe a lot to that competition and the phone that let me pretty quickly write python apps on it :) Good times.

Agreed, and anecdotally, we live in a very large US city and know our postman and our UPS delivery guy. It's been extremely helpful on more than one occasion, he even personally texted me when I wasn't home to say he could come by later. I always love chatting with them on the stoop.

This sounds very interesting! Have any pictures?

Apparently the surface connector can do usb-c through a dongle: http://m.windowscentral.com/why-no-usb-type-c-new-surface-pr...

Which, honestly, I might prefer right now since I still use mostly usb 2&3 devices.

Yep, this is exactly what I do with my Surface - except then I do code on it, which is why I picked it instead of an iPad pro. This one device has replaced my MacBook pro while still letting me sketch and draw and annotate.

This is exactly what I just did and it's been great so far. The battery life isn't spectacular for todays standards, but it lasts longer than my 2012 rMBP 15" does now. Quick, light (way lighter than the MBP) and has been fun to draw on. Getting use to windows again takes a bit of time, but with the new Bash integration, my workflow is just about the same.

To find our current apartment in NYC, I just used IFTTT, plugging in the URL of a custom search (neighborhood, price, bedrooms, etc) on craigslist. Worked a treat

The first I can see is that the hololens is self contained (no wires to computer), where this looks like its tethered to a computer

edit: and the FOV looks way bigger on the meta than the hololens

I don't think they're avoiding calling it a tablet, but highlighting the fact that it can be used like a clipboard - as in papers clipped to a board with the pen stuck on top.

> Apart from Razer and maybe Alienware nobody has even tried to really innovate the workstation landscape.

How about Thermaltake? http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001...

I was able to add it to my cart, but clicking "Proceed" did nothing. Refreshed the page and my cart is now empty :(

That's what I noticed as well. Another misuse I see all the time is 'setup' (noun) being used as a verb instead of 'set up'. For example, 'I need to setup this computer today'

Yep. They now have 2 options basically: you can use 'Cascades' which is their modified Qt framework (modified by The Astonishing Tribe who RIM bought - awesome designers/developers) with the eclipse-based IDE, or you can write a 'webworks' app which uses web technologies (html5, js, css) and write it in whatever editor you want. The emulators are fine, but I prefer to push straight to a device

not sure about why not on the ipad, but on my playbook it seems to work fine as well.

I dug around for some cached files and found the following:

Why: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:H52osT6...

Getting it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0I8CMo0...

from the second link I found it's hosted here:

http://www.infochimps.com/collections/million-songs

where you can download a subset as well as the whole thing. I'm downloading the subset now, so I can't comment on the cleanliness or schema yet.

agreed. I came here thinking "terminal", not javascript console