Actually, you can (I assume you use Family Sharing). Either you or your kids Steam client needs to go "offline" and you'll be able to play games from same collection simultaneously.
I don't believe you can, as of a few weeks ago in any case.
When you drop offline, any shared library you had access to will drop off. When changing connectivity during a session, your games terminate within 5 minutes.
Future Crew and their Second Reality got me into demo scene back in 90s! Those were the days when we coded proof of concept demo effects which we later optimized using inline assembly in Borland C++. Shouts go out to Asphyxia for great demo-programming tutorials.
To stay on topic, what is the true news value here?
Anyone know of some good/great demo-programming tutorials of similar quality for the modern age? I teach kids programming (and math and stuff) at a youth centre, and some of them are wicked smart and would dig this like I digged it when I was their age.
But I can't really expect them to go pixel-bashing in the ancient Turbo Pascal IDE (regardless how great it is), nor do I believe that `mov ax, 13h; int 10h` still even works on modern OSes, without an emulator ;-)
I got one of them coding a cool interference circles effect and a Mandelbrot-zoomer in Processing. It's Java without the boilerplate to get a window and gfx primitives, which is just great. But afaik nobody in the scene uses it. It is used by digital/generative artists, but they often have the hardware power to get away with inefficient Java implementations (nor is their work always as "shiny" as demoscene productions, demoscene always[0] aims to impress, digital art can have diferent motivations).
BTW--just to gloat a bit here--I saw .kkrieger at the big screen on BP04 when it was released whoohoo ahem
[0] yes there are exceptions but no they don't win parties :-p
None of my stuff was included because it really wasn't good enough.
Also the guy who did most of the music for the Synergy Megademo, Joris de Man, went on to do music and sound effects for Killzone and lately Horizon: Zero Dawn. So proud of him.
Ok, I would assume this is something that might differ between countries. Here in Scandinavia I've met extremely few people running their desktops exclusively on WiFi since it's generally unreliable when having lot of devices talking to same AP/WiFi router in a noisy environment with lot of other networks taking up same frequencies. Actually, I would say running Powerline to desktops is more of a standard approach here.
Uhh.. Hi, I'm a Scandinavian (Swede). I got a desktop exclusively on WiFi. I've never seen an office or a home actually use "powerline" (Network over electricity network).. Oh well, one anecdata against another anecdata :-)
Powerline networks are mainly utilized by people living in concrete multi-story houses that either do not wish to install a proper Ethernet backbone to all rooms or take a gamble with WiFi due to higher cost, thickness of walls or other reasons that might seriously affect connectivity as mentioned before.
I used to run my own IT support company with several employees (think Geek Squad) having both enterprise customers aswell as private sector and people running Powerline is actually a lot more common than you might think (my parents for instance are running it along with WiFi in their house - deskop, IPTV and camera surveillance is on Powerline while tablets and phones are on WiFi).
During all my years in IT I've encountered two situations which I can remember where WiFi was used on a desktop machine instead of Ethernet or Powerline - one was a car dealership where they had a salesman sitting in a "glass box" and they were sharing building with another company (so, no Powerline) and other situation was a enthusiast that built himself a new computer and his new Asus motherboard came with 802.11n built-in..
Personally, I am running all my desktop machines on a 10Gbit CAT6a network I have at home (I do have a WiFi as well but it is on another VLAN with no access to network infrastructure - mainly used by kids) where I have possibility to stream multiple 4K streams from my FreeNAS server while downloading huge files of the Internet without even breaking a sweat - try to do that over a WiFi connection and you'll hit into a brick wall pretty fast.
The reason wifi is more common in the US has to do with cost.
Most people when buying a new house can stomach (not sure why, because it can't be a large portion of the overall cost of a new house) multi-line pulls from each room to a central wiring closet. Plus, you have to have that central closet (or panel at a minimum) somewhere out of the way, and most people just don't get that kind of tech (the idea of a central area for a home server, plus networking stuff, etc).
So - the lines aren't installed (at one time, houses were offered with the option, and if you are willing to pay today, you can still get it - but most people don't). After the fact retrofits aren't done because such an install is very difficult to do (especially in modern houses with horizontal firebreaks between the verticals, little to no attic with vaulted ceilings, etc) - which also means its expensive.
So instead, people go with wifi. It's cheap, no need for a dedicated wiring/network termination panel and/or closet, and can be taken down and taken with you if/when you move.
Personally, I prefer a wired system; when I moved into my house I installed a few drops myself where I knew there'd be some dedicated hardware (TV area, my office, library, and my shop); the other rooms I never installed anything because it didn't matter. For those, the wifi I have fills in those blanks adequately. I ran all the lines back to a custom wiring closet I built in my shop, and terminate everything there (plus a few of my servers live there too).
This sounds plausible to me. Here in Omaha, when I lived in an apartment and there were 30+ APs visible I had to be careful to pick the frequency based on what worked and what didn't, and when I did get it to be reliable I had short range. I am pretty sure this was just because of noise and cross-talk.
Now in a house I see maybe 10 APs and they are all at the edge of their range and I rarely need to tinker with it and it works all the way across the street.
Personally, I visit hackaday.com almost daily. It contains a bit of hardware news along with a bunch of interesting projects (called hackaday.io). Main focus of the website is modding of HW and SW though
I am one of the unfortunate owners of a Nexus 6P whose device was abrutely shutting down at random occasions. The phone would shut down when battery level usually was below 60% and I was out walking. At first I though it had something to do with it being cold outside (I live in Sweden) but later I proved that was not it. Phone itself has not been tampered with (running official Android, 7.1.1 OTA) and is in near mint condition with protective case used.
Anyways, I did what most people do not do and unlocked bootloader, installed TWRP and Pure Nexus Project 7.1.1 ROM and am happy to report that issue is now completely gone (I did stress-test it several times in below zero temperatures) !
