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Posted by metlslime on 2002/12/23 18:24:21

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5.5 Here

#24171 posted by - on 2014/03/23 16:03:10

#24172 posted by - on 2014/03/23 16:07:11

oh, 1.5 gigs was demos which are now deleted.

Cute

#24173 posted by Spirit on 2014/03/23 16:51:46

#24174 posted by FifthElephant on 2014/03/23 20:16:16

Spirit this wasn't me bragging, I was just musing over how a 50mb game is taking so much space these days. Although I am curious as to how much data is on quaddicted

Not Really Well Organised

#24175 posted by Spirit on 2014/03/24 09:49:19

63M ./filebase/repacked
357M ./filebase/trash
2.9G ./filebase
119M ./files/advertisements
3.9G ./files/movies
5.7G ./files/engines
939M ./files/models
349M ./files/mods
280M ./files/misc
999G ./files/shamblersmom
1008M ./files/music
1.5G ./files/maps
689M ./files/commercial
20M ./files/demos
4.7G ./files/idgames2
1.2G ./files/temp
417M ./files/wads
856M ./files/tools
22G ./files
198M ./reviews/screenshots
68G ./webarchive

Facebook Buys Occulus Rift

#24176 posted by Kinn on 2014/03/26 02:40:07

heh.

http://news.sky.com/story/1231940/facebook-in-2bn-oculus-virtual-reality-deal

#24177 posted by - on 2014/03/26 03:15:20

it's either a great thing for Oculus Rift because they will have a huge network to back them up and great for Facebook will have an actual product to sell in what is potentially the next big market...

or it's absolutely awful news where Facebook shovels shit into it and destroys everything great about the Oculus Rift.

it will likely be a mix of the two. let's hope for more of the former than the latter.

Backlash Already Started Maybe?

#24178 posted by Kinn on 2014/03/26 03:30:49

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2014/03/25/notch-minecraft-on-oculus-canceled-facebook-creeps-me-out

Minecraft on occulus cancelled - oh noes

Also

#24179 posted by Kinn on 2014/03/26 03:31:31

Lollin at the fact Teh Carmack now works for facebook. Dunno why, just seems wrong.

Wow,

#24181 posted by metlslime on 2014/03/26 08:27:25

first spam I've seen in a while... maybe the first spam since google's Penguin update?

It's The Metaverse Baby

#24182 posted by Spiney on 2014/03/26 13:41:33

Didn't see that coming...

#24183 posted by JneeraZ on 2014/03/26 16:48:41

"Minecraft on occulus cancelled - oh noes"

Yeah. Now I'll have to live with playing Minecraft on every other device in my life.

#24184 posted by oh, that person on 2014/03/26 17:02:06

mfw

<-goggles

#24185 posted by Lunaran on 2014/03/26 17:42:20

People are probably concerned because Facebook has an utterly atrocious track record for supporting developers.

http://www.bogost.com/blog/oauth_of_fealty.shtml (extreme hyperbole warning)

While nobody expects Facebook is going to just fire all the cool people and begin running things their way tomorrow, nobody expects the two entities to remain entirely isolated from each other either.

The real question behind it all: what can Oculus do now that they couldn't do without Facebook? Not Facebook's money, but Facebook as an organization. Surely they've had suitors making offers left and right, so what are the hard reasons they, as people who just want to make awesome VR goggles, would choose Facebook?

The answer can't be as cynical as "their bid was the highest," but at this point it doesn't seem like anyone can think of any others. No one knows why this news should be exciting, so it must be bad. Perfect recipe for nerd rage (it was a Cool Thing that people Really Wanted that they Almost Had and now it's been Taken Away!)

FB Deal

#24186 posted by Spiney on 2014/03/26 18:02:50

from JC's twitter

"For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week. I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR."

"I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale."

Anyone Doing Web Developement (with DBs)

#24187 posted by necros on 2014/03/26 21:39:56

what languages do you use, what languages do you prefer?

Groovy And Grails

#24188 posted by SleepwalkR on 2014/03/26 21:42:53

#24189 posted by FifthElephant on 2014/03/26 23:03:20

The quotes from Carmack do more for me to explain what's going on than anything said so far.

Sleepwalkr

#24190 posted by necros on 2014/03/27 01:53:45

seems like those are mainly if you have your own server or have direct access to the server os? when i look at server hosting options, i've never see grails.

Yes, That's True!

#24191 posted by SleepwalkR on 2014/03/27 06:46:12

#24192 posted by necros on 2014/03/27 22:04:22

anyone have opinions on python for web dev?

...

#24193 posted by necros on 2014/03/27 22:10:56

and also web2py vs .net? i've looked at some comparisons, but they don't really mean much to me as i'm a noob.

FB Tech Stuff

#24194 posted by stevenaaus on 2014/03/28 01:10:20

No dubt that what they do is a big technical achievement. I see they're hiring Linux filesystem (Btrfs) gurus
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY0NDk

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