Halp! Tried a restore after MS update and it now give me this helpful message. The OS (win 7 pro) was preinstalled so no disks. Does any kind person know where I can download a clean ISO?
retroking1981: Fuck this place I'm off to the pub.
Sorry AJ had to go on a long drive. It's an HP elite 8300. Got to the recovery software but repair option didn't work. Would back up and reinstall but guessing the OS is on the small partition as there's not enough room. Plugged an external in but it's greyed out. Was hoping some actual MS Disk not HP recovery software would load the missing/damaged file. Any advice welcome!
retroking1981: Fuck this place I'm off to the pub.
In theory, it shouldn't make any difference having a disc; the files should be the same. I'd say get hold of a Linux boot drive, copy your files off and do a full restore from the recovery partition.
I can see the potential in the system, but I think I'd be more impressed if I saw a demo based on a scene that was more 'unbelievable'. Like a scene and a rig that supported a strong, human performance of some kind.
Always makes me laugh to see those 'making of' outtakes, where an actor is talking to a dragon or something, and they cut to the original shot of a man holding a pillow as a proxy... This tech will be awesome for a director then, when inevitably repurposed.
But I suppose this is all about proof of concept.
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Well, they've been at it a few years now - I mentioned it more because at the time they announced that kind of previs and film support use case, so did CryEngine, but now CryEngine and Crytek itself are circling the drain.
Interesting dev work - essentially a cloud-based MMO SDK/engine that seems to be very indie-friendly. Only thing I can't find is anything about the costs for running the workers on their cloud.
After hearing it mentioned along with the canning of Ion, I figured it was pie-in-the-sky vapourware, but it sounds pretty mature to be in open alpha/beta/whatever. Could give a lot of smaller indies access to multiplayer shared world tech that they would have no chance of doing off their own back. So, yeah, where's my bloody zombie apocalypse survival game then, dammit!
Yeah, sounds interesting, but from the couple of Wired articles I just read it sounds like that Narula there put a bunch of his family money behind it (helps having a billionaire dad I suppose) to start it up with his Cambridge chums, and presumably had the contacts to hook that VC money, and I just can't imagine the financials paying off outside of maybe MoD/DoD type research.
Yeah their business plan sounded unduly optimistic to me. Obvious their employees are hyped and believe it, and there's talk of high valuations, and some very smart people there - but actual won deals & non-slideware applications seem thin on the ground.
The generous salary was the main reason I was disappointed to not even get as far as a technical interview!
I'm all about the cloud / containers/ serverless at my current job in fact - we're also trying to feel out how to best use it all...