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Comment: He never was making a VR port. (Score 4, Interesting) 300

One thing to realize is that Notch really never had any plans of making a VR port of Minecraft. In the past, he has stated that because of the JAVA technology used in Minecraft, it was too difficult to do it right, and they were having a problem making the UI work. They weren't very thrilled with the way the Minecrift mod did it, and wanted to do it better, but it just wasn't possible.

(In fact, the Minecrift mod doesn't even work with anything higher than 1.6, which means you can only use it in singleplayer or on servers that never upgraded. This is because of how much things have changed in the code between 1.6 and 1.7.)

So, Notch actually abandoned the effort sometime last year.

Last year: "We aren't making a Rift port because it's just too difficult with our current codebase."
Yesterday: "We aren't making a Rift port because Facebook."

To me, it sounds like a convenient excuse to cover up the fact that their codebase is really messy and can't do as much as they wish it could. We can blame it on Zuck now!

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Comment: The Xbox 360 Does Not Do Offline Updates (Score 1) 274

by Blackwulf (#34145442) Attached to: $2,000 Bounty For Open Source Xbox Kinect Drivers

Actually it's the PS3 that has offline updates and downloads, and even then, only when you buy the Playstation Plus service and activate the feature as it's disabled by default. (And, it only downloads the update, you still have to update it yourself.) The Wii checks for "messages" but does not download or update anything unless you're there at the machine. The Xbox 360 does not wake up to install or download things, it does it when you log into Xbox LIVE.

Sorry for bringing facts into your rant, I know that's not what you're supposed to do on teh intarwebs. But it might be interesting information for someone who doesn't know anything about the wake up features of the current gen consoles.


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Comment: Re:Macbook battery life is insane (Score 1) 291

by CySurflex (#27533121) Attached to: My laptop's battery generally lasts ...
FYI - on MacBook Pros (maybe on MacBooks too?) - when you close the lid it goes into sleep mode, the little white led stays solid / on all the time, and the HD is still on and you still need to be careful of shaking/moving it too much. After you wait a few minutes it hibernates automatically, you can know its done if the led starts blinking/pulsing slowly, then its safer to move the laptop around.

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