Recent content by shado_temple

I'm no historian, but if I had to guess, it mostly had to do with the amount of effort we had to put into agriculture back then. Even as late as the 1840's, nearly 70% of the American labor force [http://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america] had to work to grow enough food to sustain the...

The simple answer is, yep! The trouble right now is that there are jobs that people don't want to do, don't want to learn how to do, or just plain can't. The example I brought up above is viable because there'll be a need for workers that just can't be fulfilled by each country's population...

As creepy as it may be, there's a lot of research going into projects like this for Human-Robot Interactions (HRI). One main driver is that we're running into an issue of a rapidly-aging population with a lack of qualified/interested healthcare staff to support them. Countries like Japan are...

Does anyone know how long the game is? I already bought it, and fully intend to enjoy the ride regardless, but I want to know if I can just knock it out in one evening, or if it'll take me a few days to get through it.

Challenge accepted. -The Escapist Community

As someone who lived all 4 years on campus, I'd definitely say to at least give your first year a shot on-campus. My dorm had something of an unofficial "open door policy", where if you were sitting in your room doing anything that didn't need to be private, you'd leave your door open. While I...

Half Life 2: YOU CAN DIRECT THE ROCKETS?!?!? Spent a good 20 minutes on each of the first two helicopters, trying to dumb rocket them to death.

Inspiration: IEEE Spectrum's podcast: The Job Market of 2045 [http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/tech-careers/the-job-market-of-2045/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=012413] We live in an interesting time: the advancement of technology is moving at a breakneck pace...

I'd love to join in, but your meeting time happens to be right in the middle of one of my classes. It's a bit of a shame, as I've been looking to get into the highlander scene.

Well, that makes it slightly less fun. A cool idea, to be sure, but I was hoping for more of their GRID idea worked into just having the "server" be your gaming PC on a decent connection.

Except that it will support Steam. During the CES presentation they debuted this in, the little guy ran Steam's Big Picture mode, both on the attached screen and on a connected 4K TV. OT: I would love to pick this up, if it weren't for the fact that the streaming won't be supported by my...

I finally had a chance to play the 4th episode today, and, as with those previous, it blew me away. A few bits may have been a bit more predictable than others, but some bits, like and of course, As for my picks, So...thoughts? Choices? Criticisms? Praises? Captcha...

I think both the idea and the price is just about right. I had initially thought $100 was a tad steep, but then I remembered that Valve has already dealt with giving the public a certain permission at the same price: their "Something Special for Someone Special". For those unaware, it was a...

Kind of surprised that I had to dig to find a topic relating to it. The episodes just keep getting better, though this one was certainly the most depressing. I don't want to spoil anything, but telltale has certainly picked up the idea from the comic series that

To be fair, this is day one of the bundle. They still have two weeks for that average to rise, which it undoubtedly will.