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NWR Forums Discord / Re: For Nintendo, 'Bear' is Too Strong for Wii Owners
« on: October 03, 2008, 07:54:59 PM »
I heard a rumour that a dropbear complained to Nintendo to get the name change...
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TalkBack / Re: Wii Storage Solution Put Forth
« on: October 02, 2008, 04:41:33 AM »
So the solution to the "clean out your fridge" paradigm is to "use a bar fridge as well"?
Good thing I don't care about this VC/Wiiware stuff right now, otherwise I'd be pissed.
Good thing I don't care about this VC/Wiiware stuff right now, otherwise I'd be pissed.
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TalkBack / Re: N+: A Semi-Formal Review
« on: September 30, 2008, 05:23:58 AM »And one hand clapping is easy, you must not be much of a Simpsons fan.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to reference that
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TalkBack / Re: N+: A Semi-Formal Review
« on: September 30, 2008, 04:47:04 AM »<oh-so-wise Reviews Editor walks back to the top of the mountain to contemplate gaming life in solitude>
Come back when you work out the sound of one hand clapping...
yeah, troll post, don't care
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Gentlemen. [TF2 fever]
« on: September 30, 2008, 04:46:02 AM »(I think it was shifty)
Sure wasn't. Haven't had a good online FPS since Call of Duty (and that wasn't that great actually).
But I'm keen to get back into some gamezzz. I'd probably get a 360 rather than a PS3 or a new desktop. I bet that you're rolling around on PC amirite?
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Which forum suicide was better?
« on: September 26, 2008, 06:13:34 AM »
I know of at least one Wandering dupe (which posted before Wandering forum suicided). If the dupe starts posting again, I'm going to call bullshit on his forum suicide.
As for rat, this isn't his first forum suicide, nor was it the funniest.
As for people who announce they're leaving, they're morons (yeah, I know, I did it, big deal). I did it for political reasons and it got a new forum as well. It was worth it even if people think of me as a hypocrite.
I respect those who fade to black (with good reason). Hell, I'm basically a lurker these days aside from an occasional troll post. When people start asking where you've gone - that's when you know you were memorable.
Anything else is just self-gratification...
As for rat, this isn't his first forum suicide, nor was it the funniest.
As for people who announce they're leaving, they're morons (yeah, I know, I did it, big deal). I did it for political reasons and it got a new forum as well. It was worth it even if people think of me as a hypocrite.
I respect those who fade to black (with good reason). Hell, I'm basically a lurker these days aside from an occasional troll post. When people start asking where you've gone - that's when you know you were memorable.
Anything else is just self-gratification...
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General Chat / Re: G-Phone
« on: September 24, 2008, 04:35:56 AM »The iPhone OS is relatively open-source. You can make apps and have access to the things on the phone, and sell them for free.
Its not even an open platform if your app gets banned because Apple feels threatened by your app or just because they don't see the point of it.
As for the gPhone, I'm not really interested. I only use my normal phone for calls and SMSs, anything else can be done on a PC. If the application framework is interesting I might dabble in it.
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TalkBack / Re: Gaming's Graphical Future
« on: September 20, 2008, 04:34:38 AM »That's fixed, because for any console there are only so many pixels that you can put on the screen.
Technically speaking, 3D is also limited by the number of pixels you can put on the screen.
Doesn't matter what "type" of graphics you're doing, the end product is the graphics card switching pixel values and pushing the data to a display device. Its only pipeline operations that differ between 2D (straight pixel operations) and 3D (operations on vertexes and triangles, then rasterised to pixels), the end product is the same.
Unless of course you're mixing up graphical processing power (the processing required to layer 3D objects in a space requires more power than comparable operations with 2D models) with screen resolution (480p vs 1080p)...
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General Chat / Re: International POST like a pirate day.
« on: September 19, 2008, 04:16:44 AM »
Garr, we had an Irish-sounding pirate at work today.
I couldn't keep a straight face when he said "Arrr, top 'o the mornin' to ye"
I couldn't keep a straight face when he said "Arrr, top 'o the mornin' to ye"
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General Chat / Re: Aspirations in life. What are yours?
« on: September 16, 2008, 06:14:30 AM »Damn, no one else has any goals?
Graduated, moved out of home, moved interstate, started a new job last week. Too busy to make any more short-term goals aside from surviving this new job and enjoying my time in a new city.
EDIT: I should clarify that this has happened in the last month (with the last three happening in the last fortnight).
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: The world ends in three hours!
« on: September 16, 2008, 05:19:23 AM »True. On one hand particle science as we know it will literally crumple at the foundation and make us go back and rethink everything; on the other hand LHC will be a business debacle basically stall and maybe even discontinue truly expensive science.
This isn't the first particle collider ever built. Its just the largest and most powerful one currently. Here's a list of others (past and present).
As for destroying what is known about particle physics, I highly doubt the current body of knowledge will be thrown out as a result of anything that goes on. They've already been doing this sort of experimentation in the past (and found elements like quarks), so they know a lot about particles smaller than your average atom.
If anything, it will add more clarity and breadth to the body of knowledge about particle physics, because researchers have speculated about the building blocks of atoms over the last 50 years (everything after the A-bomb basically), but the technology hasn't been feasible until recently.
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But there are already things in place that the LHC has formed that will survive no matter what the outcome. For instance, the scientific network of computers from all over the globe, connected and interactive, has allowed scientists to communicate better than ever before.
I'm fascinated about how it can transmit the volume of data they're talking about (terabytes? petabytes?) around the world in a timely manner for researchers, and whether they're sharing what they find through the network (it would be awesome to teleconference and work with others in real-time to manipulate and report on the data) or through more conventional means.
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General Chat / Re: Whom would win a fight?
« on: September 14, 2008, 02:08:09 AM »You have some idea of who Worf is if you know he's from Star Trek, though you called him emo which no one who'd ever seen any episode of Star Trek he was in would do.
Well, the badge on his suit kinda gives it away, and that's the extent of my knowledge of Star Trek.
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General Chat / Re: Whom would win a fight?
« on: September 13, 2008, 10:27:50 PM »Quote
Whom would win an emo fight?
Fixed. And thus, Batman would win because I have no idea who the other person is (proud to not a Trekkie too).
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Mafia XXVII: Mad Science. Sign-ups begin now!
« on: September 13, 2008, 05:57:33 AM »And as I got voted out, words words words
To quote Zapp, you give me too little credit
Someone needs to drive a DeLorean through this game and do some Back-to-the-Future-inspired Mafia-ness. I'm afraid it won't be me (long story, only time for trolling these days), but I'll try and keep an eye on the action.
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TalkBack / Re: Animal Crossing and Wii Speak Bundle Priced
« on: September 11, 2008, 04:48:20 AM »
That's a steep price for me to waste my time gatecrashing other people's villages and complaining about the weeds...
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Politics piss me off
« on: September 10, 2008, 04:54:47 AM »
"Mr. President, Sir. People are becoming a bit confused by the way your and your opponent are, well, constantly holding hands."
"We are merely exchanging long protein strings. If you can think of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it! "
"We are merely exchanging long protein strings. If you can think of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it! "
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: The world ends in three hours!
« on: September 10, 2008, 04:41:53 AM »
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
I'm fairly certain they disproved the "doomsday claims" using scientific modelling done in the 1930s.
They talk about it at length here: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/20/1158097.aspx
I'm fairly certain they disproved the "doomsday claims" using scientific modelling done in the 1930s.
They talk about it at length here: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/20/1158097.aspx
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General Chat / Re: I am in Las Vegas
« on: September 08, 2008, 04:41:50 AM »Sveven must be a real girly man if he's afraid of gambling. I bet he's also scared of family values and victory in Iraq.
Best postl. That's like going to Atlantic City to see the beaches!
What else is there to do in Atlantic City? Anything?
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TalkBack / Re: Retaking 'Fanboi'
« on: September 06, 2008, 12:01:26 AM »Will Farrel on roller skates.
"He's such a dreamboat"
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TalkBack / Re: Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball to be Released on Wii
« on: September 05, 2008, 08:53:07 AM »Three unannounced teams, Vikings and Cyborgs are still a possibility!
Does Team Reggie know how to play dodgeball? That could be the one of the secret teams...
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TalkBack / Re: Retaking 'Fanboi'
« on: September 05, 2008, 06:54:26 AM »It seems to me that you're just playing semantics to take on and/or justify a label.
Translation: NOBODY CARES
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General Chat / Re: Not to be an open source tool....
« on: September 04, 2008, 06:48:31 PM »While it sounds interesting it's still a proprietary Microsoft technology and history has taught me to be wary of such things.
Web Slices is an superset of the hAtom microformat. It can be implemented by other browsers if they feel the urge. Nice troll though.
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General Chat / Re: Not to be an open source tool....
« on: September 04, 2008, 09:32:12 AM »Do you design for standards or do you design for IE? Chrome is like Safari in that it's based on Webkit, and Safari is the most standards-compliant browser out there but can be tripped up by some non-standard stuff that will work in IE or Firefox.
It's such a shame that Webkit-based (or KHTML-based if you want to be historically correct) are in the minority. Otherwise this would be a brilliant idea.
Standards compliance a pissing contest done by people who have too much time on their hands. For those of us in The Real World (tm), we have to cater to what the users are running. Standards are fine for setting goals when a company develops a new browser (IE8B2 passes Acid2, but IE6 is still one of the major browsers and it can't do transparent PNGs without workarounds) but once its out in the wild, we have to put up with its quirks.
Being able to say that "Browser X is more standards compliant than Browser Y" is dumb because the majority of people don't care. They just want their favourite sites to work in their preferred browser. So its popularity that dictates where my time is spent.
Having just ranted a bit about the browser wars, I'll ask a bit about what interests me currently in the browser space - integration.
Mozilla are prototyping an framework called Ubiquity to enable this. Its in a pre-alpha stage, but there's some reading here and an introduction use-case about it here from one of the Mozilla devs. Its an implementation enabling developers and users to easily build their own plugins to manipulate web content in the browser, and share it between diferent sites.
IE8 is bringing out Web Slices, which uses microformats similar to RSS on retrieve content from a web server. The format and the data is up to the developer, but it will initially appear on the website like a widget. It is also introducing Web Accelerators to build context-sensitive addons to reference other sources (translators, mapping tools, mailing, blogging) and enable better integration in the browser. I'm not going to go into great detail about this because I haven't spent much time on it. There's more reading here.
My question to insano (and other Safari users/devs out there) is "What is Safari doing in this space?"
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General Chat / Re: Not to be an open source tool....
« on: September 04, 2008, 01:44:51 AM »I tried it. It doesn't like some of my web designs, which work perfectly fine in Firefox, IE7 and IE6. Probably why its still beta.
How does IE8 Beta 2 look for your designs? Its actually stable enough for everyday use (but I can't tear myself away from FF3 to make it my main browser).
As for Google's browser, it came with a "all your posts are belong to Google" EULA. Which quickly got rewritten. High-larious.
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General Chat / Re: Chicken Discussion
« on: September 02, 2008, 04:28:50 AM »BTW, Lamb is the BEST red meat. Hands down.
The post was awesome until you put your foot in your mouth.
Give me a thick cut of beef (or porterhouse steak or T-Bone steak if we're being specific) and BBQ it up medium-rare with a bit of pepper to taste. Or perhaps you Yankees don't know how to BBQ right.
Anything lamb is a distant second to this king of cuts.
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