My place of business in the news...

[Nightshade]

The story is about consumer electronics and how they produce alot of heat, but it features my lan gaming center.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/New ... geId=3.2.1

[Dakatsu]

I have a polaroid in my room, and I have to have the fan on, air conditioning, and my door has to be open. My XBox 360 Elite emits alot of heat, but not as much.

[roid]

Details are still sketchy as of this time

groaaaaaan

[Ferno]

that's gotta be code for 'we don't know wtf to say'

[Space-Invader Klein]

*But during the winter, you save costs on heaters .
Thats interesting - you could harness it's energy to make a multi-threaded thermal power converter, just use a cold source like a fridge, and suction pipe the hot air to one place and voila free power~ - were you that dude talking?

[roid]

oops, that was ment to go in another thread

[AceCombat]

- were you that dude talking?

yeah TB, was that you?

[ReadyMan]

if it was, he sure looks different since vegas

[Nightshade]

Nope, I, thankfully, wasn't in that video. That was one of my partners in the business- Tom. Tom's a really nice guy and made the lan center a reality!

[WillyP]

WTF? What do people go in and rent time in a lan, or a membership like a club? There's nothing like that around here, at least that I've ever heard of.

[Testiculese]

Welcome to 1996, Willy!

His lancenter:
http://www.shadowlan.com/

Hey TB, how is biz anyway? Have you picked up enough revenue to cover yourself? Making a decent profit even?

Did you install each game on each machine, or did you make them thin clients (where the game files are installed on the network, not on each machine)? If you tried the latter, I was curious if you had troubles with lag frmo jumping to a server to read game data. How do you play each game without the game disk in the machine?

[Nightshade]

Biz is doing well. We're staying in business and paying the rent.

The games are all imaged and the central server distributes licenses each time a game is launched. CD images are also distributed from the server when needed.

[Floyd]

air conditioning, and my door has to be open.

air conditioning is less effective with the door open!

SCNR

btw. grats on the biz TB

[snoopy]

Thats interesting - you could harness it's energy to make a multi-threaded thermal power converter, just use a cold source like a fridge, and suction pipe the hot air to one place and voila free power~

'Cept then you'd be further burdening your fridge, and you'd probably be lucky to come out even. You could produce some sort of minimal amount of power via a heat engine (with the cold end being room temperature)... but good luck finding anything to run with that amount of power.

[Foil]

His lancenter:
http://www.shadowlan.com/

Hey TB, how is biz anyway? Have you picked up enough revenue to cover yourself? Making a decent profit even?

Biz is doing well. We're staying in business and paying the rent.

Having been there, I can tell you TB is being modest.

You can't see much of it in the video clip, but their place is really impressive. Completely professional center, with everything set up for gamers of all types.

Perfect lighting and plenty of room, PCs along the walls (good gaming boxes, each with quality CRTs and headsets), consoles and large projection monitors, areas with all the needed connections for "bring-your-own-PC" folks. Their user interface is very well done, and they even cater to non-gamers who just want a place to browse the 'net.

The only thing that could make that place better would be if they had an attached Starbucks.

[Sllik]

*blinks*

Fox 4? D/FW? Richardson?!

TB, I might even know you or one of your co-workers in RL lol... how's that for a freaky small world.