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Archive | November, 2007
Vista Speech Recognition + Programming = Super Awesome
Another great movie sent in by a long time reader. The utter disaster of trying to program using Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition technology is hilarious. I’d encourage you to at least watch a few minutes of it, before you throw your keyboard out the window. Remember when voice recognition was going to replace keyboards and mice [...]
Continue reading...Foreign Exchange Trading via Games
27. November 2007
When you think of “foreign exchange trading” don’t you think of something that looks hellishly complex with trend charts and eye-rapingly wonderful graphs like you see above? I do. Well a long time reader sent in a story about eToro, foreign exchange trading software that masks the complexities of foreign currency markets in the guise of [...]
Continue reading...Motion Capture Technological Evolution
26. November 2007
MIT has developed a kick ass new mo-cap technology that involves wearing a suite that emits radio frequencies in addition to recording acceleration and directions of the limbs. This allows for mo-cap in previously unavailable situations, like driving a car, where traditional mo-cap relies on video cameras capturing key points on character’s bodies and faces [...]
Continue reading...10 Lesser Known PS3 Tricks
26. November 2007
Digital Home put together a list of 10 tricks to do with the PS3 that “Sony doesn’t tell you about”, while some of them weren’t that interesting or ground-breaking, there was 1 in particular I had no idea you could do: 4) Download game saves Chances are someone out there has already beaten that boss for you [...]
Continue reading...How World of Warcraft Works
26. November 2007
HowStuffWorks (a great site to browse through when you want to learn about something) just posted an article on how WoW works… like technically how the client/server communication and game design works. Might be an interesting article for folks that are technically inclined, curious, or always wanted to know how MMORPGs are designed to do what [...]
Continue reading...Rumor List for XBox 360 Fall Firmware Update
26. November 2007
Microsoft is going to be releasing a fall firmware update for the 360, and while nothing official has been reported, this is the rumored list so far: Compatibility with 3rd party wireless controllers Compatibility with messenger pad Xbox Live Vision firmware upgrade, sharper image filtering Many more Vision Cam settings Screensaver settings - when away from Xbox 360, screensaver will [...]
Continue reading...Copyright Law Reform
26. November 2007
Bruce Schneier linked to a paper written by John Tehranian titled: “Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap“. The most interesting part of the paper is more or less captured on Bruce’s blog where John takes copyright law and applies it literally to a very normal scenario for some John Doe author that ends [...]
Continue reading...Meglev Wind Turbine: 1000x More Efficient Than Windmill
26. November 2007
What you see in the distance is a mockup of the Maglev Wind Turbine that is reportedly 1000x more efficient than a standard windmill. The massive boost in efficiency comes in the form of the Maglev requiring 100 acres of land where a standard 1000-mill farm of windmills requires around 64,000 acres of land. Additionally the [...]
Continue reading...Chuck Norris is a Crazy Bible Thumper
25. November 2007
… part me thought this would be the last guy I would see running around, thumping his bible on everyone’s head. Chuck Norris: Douchebag for a Greater Tommorow. Seriously, he thinks bible studies should be added to every school’s curriculum…
Continue reading...Game Problems All Around
25. November 2007
Ugg… looks like a shit-storm of problems for gamers this holiday season. First 1-Up fires off a “preview” of it’s time with the “near final” copy of Half Life: Orange Box for the PS3, and said it’s just a useless pile of crap; ridden with bugs and unplayable in parts. Given that Valve’s head honcho, Gabe [...]
Continue reading...2girls1cup
25. November 2007
WARNING: I won’t link to the 2girls1cup video, but it’s easy enough to find on Google. The content is on par with goat.se or tubgirl scaled up a few times. How I came across this new internet meme of disgust was I ran across funny “reaction” videos of people seeing the video for the first time, [...]
Continue reading...Sign of the Apocalypse?
24. November 2007
Is it April 1st already? Personally, I’d take this with a ton of salt, but rumors are that we might see Duke Nukem Forever in 2008. An insider reveals that significant progress has been made on the PC code of the game and development has finally picked up its pace over the year. The game’s [...]
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Humor & Funny
- Are You Pregnant Ref? Cause You Missed the Last 2 Periods!
- Dwight, from The Office, Undergoes Serious Nerd-Torture
- Let’s All Pray for the Stupid People…
- Britney “Southern Gut” Spears is… Looking Good? New “Womanizer” Music Video
- Creepy Gay Kid Happy Birthday
- 82-year-old Hugh Hefner’s Heart Broken by GF Who’s, Like, “OMG what?? We won’t have kids!?”
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27. November 2007
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