At 11/19/09 01:03 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: The future

One thing I'm looking forward to (I'm switching tracts a tad here) is wireless power. A lot of the major electronics companies are currently working on it and it seems to be going well. I think it's the next big technological innovation - a subtle thing that will change the way we do things, or at least improve all of our devices considerably. I don't think it'll be used (or is being targeted at) home appliances, but things like mobile phones, laptops, portable game consoles.. being able to charge them constantly without having to plug them in will be a big thing. It'll be like having an unlimited battery on your iPod :3

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I'm gunna just whore mine for a second. I've only just got it and it seems quite nice, but I really hate yahoo, mainly for it's bastardization of exclamation marks.

it just makes sentences confusing to read...

At 11/19/09 05:43 PM, liaaaam wrote:

At 11/19/09 01:03 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: The future

One thing I'm looking forward to (I'm switching tracts a tad here) is wireless power. A lot of the major electronics companies are currently working on it and it seems to be going well. I think it's the next big technological innovation - a subtle thing that will change the way we do things, or at least improve all of our devices considerably. I don't think it'll be used (or is being targeted at) home appliances, but things like mobile phones, laptops, portable game consoles.. being able to charge them constantly without having to plug them in will be a big thing. It'll be like having an unlimited battery on your iPod :3

I doubt the efficiency of wireless power.

If it's transferred as waves, the waves will dissipate as the device gets farther from the source, killing the efficiency of the power. Like a wireless signal gets weaker as you get farther away, wireless power would do the same and you'd be wasting energy (which is quite valuable right now).

Not saying it can't be made efficient, but I think everything will have its own internal power source (think super long lasting battery) before wireless power actually becomes worth it.

I don't trust Wi-Fi at all, my relationship with my connection is in thin ice, so I really don't think being able to recharge home appliances though wireless energy waves without reducing the power charge is a really achievable idea, although if it does get done, I'll shove my words up my ass and hope until the install those below every square foot of ground.

At 11/19/09 05:43 PM, liaaaam wrote:

One thing I'm looking forward to (I'm switching tracts a tad here) is wireless power

I mean if you think about, satellite dishes receive a crapload of energy all the time. if you sat or stood in one of those you'd be microwaved

i just came back from an open studio at capilano university. place has the best animation studio in BC.

anyways i attended a bunch of workshops and found out what i needed for a portfolio, with a final workshop of being able to chat with grad students of the animation courses and eat free pizza and pop. there weren't as many people in that workshop as they thought so there was so much pizza left at the end.

but the highlight of my day was when i was thankful i brought my flash drive, because i was able to work on quincy the quadriplegic amputee on windows 7 ultimate, in flash CS4, on the FUCKING CINTIQ 21UX HOLY SHIT!!!

i'm totally going to capilano when i grad.

At 11/19/09 09:03 PM, Starogre wrote:

At 11/19/09 05:43 PM, liaaaam wrote:

One thing I'm looking forward to (I'm switching tracts a tad here) is wireless power

no man! Bluetooth EVERYTHING.

Just imagine, your home theater system has only 1 cord per box. Power for the TV, power for the surround sound, (wireless power to each speaker >__>)

BUT ALL OF THEM CONNECTED VIA BLUETOOTH! No more bajillion cords in and around teh back of the TV/whatevah

<3

Speaking of future technology, did anyone see Microsofts vision for 2019? The future looks chilly.

At 11/20/09 12:18 PM, Jimp wrote: Speaking of future technology, did anyone see Microsofts vision for 2019? The future looks chilly.

Looks the same as the system they were using in the movie Iron-Man, pretty cool. I don't like the idea if the 'window like' screen though. Keeping your identity safe is hard enough as it is without offering an 'open window' to your details.

I mean in the scene with the man in the office, you could clearly see right through his screen from the other side and see what he was working on.

I had a thought though , what if your house gets its on OS/development platform and you could make apps for it, that would be interesting.

I'm just dying to hack someone's house. Y'know...burn their crumpets, expose their porn/sex toy collection at inappropriate times, incinerate their mail, watch them poop and put it on youTube, etc.

Yeah...the future is so bright, I gotta wear nightvision goggles.

They missed something major out of that vision of the future.
People will still be fucking miserable.

At 11/20/09 03:11 PM, Doomsday-One wrote: They missed something major out of that vision of the future.
People will still be fucking miserable.

Bad day? :P

At 11/20/09 03:48 PM, knugen wrote: Bad day? :P

Na, my day went fine; I'm just a cynic.

At 11/20/09 04:12 PM, citricsquid wrote: Any news on the job (only been a day, but whatever!)?

Nope, and with the weekend coming up I think it will be next week at best.

Also what sort of stuff did they want to know, did they care about your previous projects (did you show ng-medals.com etc.)?

I made a simple portfolio page for a uni course about a year ago which I showed to them but it basically had only games (Flash and C++), the only site on there was this one. I did mention NGM among stuff I've done, but I was aware even before I contacted them that I would have to try to sell my general programming skills more than specifically PHP because I haven't used it very much to be honest.

I'm currently studying at uni, if I didn't do that then I would probably have made sure to prep myself with everything I've got for this interview, but as it is I feel like getting the job would just be a bonus and because of that I pretty much just went with it. The general feeling is still that it went well though :)

I'm killing myself over the fact that I decided to animate a close up of my character hooking a worm on a fishing rod. Animation is so brutal >:|

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1258752720

I used to be a regular in the Flash forum years ago...

Hi, everybody!

At 11/20/09 05:27 PM, Nemo wrote: I used to be a regular in the Flash forum years ago...

Hi, everybody!

I know i've seen you around ;3 Welcome back

Christ i need to start coming back on here. I'm SO LAZY.

MODERN WARFARE 2 TAKING UP MY FUCKING LIFE

Free web-based photoshop:

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

At 11/20/09 06:17 PM, zrb wrote:

At 11/20/09 05:54 PM, hdxmike wrote: Now add a line to make the C into a D , coincidence ? I THINK NOT ! :P

I don't get it ? DOD42 ?

Weren't you supposed to stop using the internet? Stop now or I'll call your parents.

At 11/20/09 05:57 PM, BoMToons wrote: Free web-based photoshop:

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

omg that's awesome. i can get to photoshop from any computer now! haha

At 11/20/09 06:46 PM, zrb wrote:

At 11/20/09 06:31 PM, Toast wrote: Weren't you supposed to stop using the internet? Stop now or I'll call your parents.

They aren't at home :)

That's horrible. Listen to your parents.

Also,

music

Vote 5. :P
My adventure of the day - drinking a pot of coffee and then shopping with sister and mother for many many hours. Also I'm trying to quit drinking cold turkey for what seems like the 5th time this year.

And now something selfish...
DANG I love my dress gloves, suit, and top hat. It's quit the outfit and rather comfortable. Plus - the top hat makes me feel and look good. :3

At 11/20/09 07:11 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: DANG I love my dress gloves, suit, and top hat. It's quit the outfit and rather comfortable. Plus - the top hat makes me feel and look good. :3

You are such a unique character. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Remember when you died?

At 11/20/09 08:43 PM, BoMToons wrote:

Remember when you died?

silly bomtoons, you can't remember getting shot in the head!

I'm disappointed by MW2... The single player (I know I shouldn't be playing the game for the single player, stfu) was written by a three-year old. It's such a bunch of uncohesive bs that if I had written the piece of garbage I wouldn't want my name in the credits. The action and scripted events are pretty good. But somehow I get the feeling the guys at IW just thought up a random bunch of scenes with explosions and some cool sets and wrote a story around that. They're like the Michael Bay of videogames.

The multiplayer is pretty good, but it never managed to amaze me as much as MW1 did. Too many stupid collectables/unlockables etc. Yuck.

Flash Player 10.1

Has anyone else installed this yet? It's fabulous. The list of features on the release page (labs.adobe.com btw) are all the generic crap ("ubiquitous bla bla") but the main feature is hardware decoding of H.264 video. I installed it on the PC I have in my kitchen (a communal computer for youtube/newgrounds/reddit ;p) which has pretty low specs (1.8ghz single core >:/) so full screening any video used to make it stutter terribly, but now everything runs full screen perfectly. It has a 7800GT so I guess theres finally some use for that =]

At 11/21/09 03:41 AM, Xeptic wrote: mw2 rant

I didn't enjoy the single player very much either. It's not awful, it's just incredibly generic.. it's a good game engine, and if they had wrote a good story it would have been awesome. Instead they threw a few things in (sorry if I ruin anything here >_>) such as the airport massacre (especially the ending), the white house, the space thing, the end knife fight thing.. just to try and be different, but without need for it. In COD4 they had the excellent nuke going off and the American character dieing, that was brilliant, and they tried to recreate it in this but it just doesn't really fit in. I didn't think any of the set pieces were particularly good either. I enjoyed some of the missions but not much, I only really kept playing so I could complete it (I knew it was short and theres no point NOT completing it). I did it on hardened, I probably would have enjoyed it more on normal because there were some really annoying instances - like on the oil rig (not a bad level), at the end with all the smoke.. took me about 10 tries to finally get through that, and I think I'm a pretty good gamer >:/

Them Crooked vultures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_vH3H8L PI
this song is called new fang
dave grohl nirvana, foo fighters
jhonsy led zeppelin
josh homme queens of..
yesh !

At 11/21/09 09:06 AM, patu1 wrote: Them Crooked vultures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_vH3H8L PI
this song is called new fang
dave grohl nirvana, foo fighters
jhonsy led zeppelin
josh homme queens of..
yesh !

That sounds pretty awesome indeed. In fact, I think I'm gonna go get it.

At 11/21/09 03:41 AM, Xeptic wrote: I'm disappointed by MW2... The single player (I know I shouldn't be playing the game for the single player, stfu) was written by a three-year old. It's such a bunch of uncohesive bs that if I had written the piece of garbage I wouldn't want my name in the credits.

I don't really play multiplayer. I'm old. I hate 13 year olds rapping in my ear and insulting me every 20-30 seconds.. ect.. ect..

... but I thought the single player was great. The story was excellent, though hard to follow at some points a bit. I thought the cohesiveness of the story was fine.

At 11/21/09 09:52 AM, Johnny wrote: I don't really play multiplayer. I'm old. I hate 13 year olds rapping in my ear and insulting me every 20-30 seconds.. ect.. ect..

I know how you feel... One of the first things I'm usually forced to do is mute almost everyone in my team. Still, the multiplayer is what I bought the game for, the 5 hour campaign is too short to spend 60 euros on... And the mp in MW1 was great.

... but I thought the single player was great. The story was excellent, though hard to follow at some points a bit. I thought the cohesiveness of the story was fine.

Maybe I was a bit too harsh, my expectations were too high. I just can't help but notice the game feels kinda empty/soulless. This game had such a huge budget, I was expecting some high quality writing, with characters you care about, a logical/deep plot, without the plottwists you see coming hours before they take place, recycled stuff from MW1 etcetera. It's still a good game, don't get me wrong, but it's nowhere close to what I hoped it would be.