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Gamers speak the names of companies and systems on a daily basis, but many of us don’t know what these words actually mean nor their origin. And so here is a list of many of the biggest companies and consoles and what information is openly known about t
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
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BayImg, an uncensored image hosting service, is the latest side-project from The Pirate Bay folks. The main difference compared to other image hosting services is that they pretty much allow everything on there, freedom of speech above all.
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The Simple Spark Catalog is the place to find all of the really cool web applications, or “apps” that will become an integral part of your life online.
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The software industry might be the world’s greatest breeding ground for new systems of management. From Agile, to Extreme Programming , to Test Driven Development (TDD), the acronyms and frameworks keep piling up. Why?
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Amazing LEGO creations
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Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone’s throw - astronomically speaking - from Earth at a distance of only about 7500 light years. The star is thought to be consuming its nuclear fuel at an incredible rate, w
From Linux.com how to write lolcode:
To declare a variable in LOLCODE, use the I HAS A statement, like so:
I HAS A CHEEZBURGER
Here, we’re declaring CHEEZBURGER as a variable. Let’s take a look at a short script that will iterate CHEEZBURGER and print out its value:
HAI
I HAS A CHEEZBURGER ITZ 1
IM IN YR LOOP
VISIBLE “I has dis many: ” N CHEEZBURGER
IZ CHEEZBURGER BIGGER THAN 11 O RLY?
YA RLY
GTFO
NO WAI
UP CHEEZBURGER!!1
KTHX
KTHX
KTHXBYE
I know it’s an Alfa Romeo…. It’s silver and it’s well spacey and I want it. But what is it?
Sometime later…
I think it’s one of these: Alfa Romeo Montreal (1970-77) “Designed by Bertone, the car’s prototype was launched in 1967 at the Universal Exhibition in Montreal (hence the name) marking the Centenary of the Canadian Federation, as the model that was to be one step ahead of the technical progress of the time. In 1970 Alfa Romeo started mass production of the idea first seen in Montreal and presented it the same year at the Geneva Motor Show. The result was a car of high class and prestige, capable of competition-level performance, but with engine and mechanical characteristics such as to make it practical for everyday city driving. The 8-cylinder V engine was derived from the 33, with Spica mechanical injection, and could deliver 200 bhp, reaching a top speed of over 220 Km/hr. The Montreal’s passenger cabin was refined and elegant, fitted with functional seats, controls within easy reach, and anti-glare instrumentation. The original body was characterised by convex aerodynamic lines, with a flat bonnet and front lights framed by grills, a cut-off tail and bumpers moulded into the line of the body. Performance, safety and comfort were the qualities making the Montreal one of the most highly appreciated luxury sports cars.”
OK so this isn’t a review… just an observation. For a few years now I’ve used iView Media Pro to manage my digital photos. Finder tells me I have 15,586 of them. This obviously grows at a rate of a few thousand a year. The file size of these images also grows every time I buy a new camera. I just bought Nat a point and shoot Lumix DMC LX-2. The 10mp files it produces are about 5mb. If I use my Nikon film scanner as I still shoot 35mm I get 60mb TIFF files. Anyway the point is I need shit loads of storage which means I have to buy more and bigger hard drives to the point where I’m now considering buying a NAS box with 2 Terra Bytes of disk space, or rather 1terrabyte in RAID format. Storage however is a bit of a minor point, well because now it’s cheap… even NAS RAID arrays. The main issue is managing photos… cataloguing them, sorting them, tagging them etc….
I’ve been really happy with iView MP but as of recent developments with their company that I can not discuss because of the company I work for (dontcha just love working in an agencey) I have decided to seek and alternative. As I have a shiny new Mac Book Pro at home and am about to get an even newer one from work (w00t!) then the obvious choice is Aperture….
So I’ve been playing with Aperture for a few days now, and Photoshop CS3 for a few weeks, Photoshop for manipulating images… not filing them, though it can kinda do that these days. Anway my intital impression of aperture is to be honest thoroughly dissapointing:
1. It tries to do too much. Why would I do any photo adjustment in it when I have Photoshop. Come on, Aperture is aimed at the pro market. You’re telling me ‘Pro’s’ dont have Photoshop? SO why put some really half baked photo manipulation functionality into something that is for managing photos… or id it for both?
2. It is a M-E-M-O-R-Y H-O-G. IT needs loads and I cant work out why. iView Media Pro isn’t a memory hog.
3. It does a similar thing to what IPhoto does in terms of semi duplicating your photos….. I noticed the Aperture library was growing in file size…. why??? It should only contain a database and thumbnails? Further investigation show’s it’s generation preview images too (which perhaps explains why importing photos is slow)
4. The UI clunky… ok switching from one app to another always causes issues, but sorry Aperture is clunky as hell.
5. You need a pretty huge monitor to use it well.
Anyway, those are my observations so far… which means to hedge my bets I’m now running iView & Aperture and manipulating photos as usual in CS3…. Joy. No easier then.
there has been been too much lol in this blog of late. must stop. internets are serious business.
So I wonder if there is a planner sat somewhere feeling very pleased with themselves saying “I told you so!!! If we make the logo really shit then the ‘users’ are bound to make LOL’s”
Oh Snap! LOLCats? LOLBots? Hey, here’ssss……. LOLBrandz. LOL!
This looks shopped, I’ve seen some shops in my time and this definitely looks shopped.
Um….. can’t quite get Second Life to work (you know, for research purposes), on a brand new Mac Book Pro 15″ (the higher end model of the two). Basically if my avatar starts walking, after a while, he wont stop, as if the keys / mouse are stuck. Any ideas? can’t find anything about this anywhere?…
Spotted outside Habitat on Tottenham Court Road a few months ago, a beautiful Porsche 911 S. Not quite sure what year it was (being way too metrosexual I’m not one of those men who can work out a cars age by the number plate), but anyway it was immaculate and I want it. It is pretty much my dream car, right colour too.
This looks pretty interesting, the video on the home page makes it look like a load of toss, but the people involved somewhat counter that. Looks like the first release is being built by Razorfish.
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