With names like “Beam Me Up Scotchie” and “Phasers on Stun Punch”, there’s no possible way to go wrong if you mix these at your next “Trekker” party… unless the borgs decide to show up of course. Then having a “successful” party is probably the last thing you’ll care about.
I honestly hate to disagree with my fellow geeks, but the previous post contains some erroneous information. It is the result of bad science. Herewith is the actual method used for turning those trees into a beautiful fall display.
Tags: autumn leaves, fall, funny, Video
Ever wonder how a song gets from the guitar to an MP3, or video gets from the camera to your screen? Sure, everyone knows that an MP3 takes up less space than a WAV file because of “compression,” but do you know exactly what compression is?
Xiph.org, which is responsible for all the Ogg media projects (including Vorbis, and Theora), has put together a video which explains just about everything you want to know about digital video and audio, including what “frame rate” is, what a “gamma curve” is, why CRT sets use RGB, and explains everything from the invention of the telegraph to the latest in video computer files.
It’s a very informative watch, and it would have saved me a lot of headaches back when I had to explain concepts such as “interlacing” to coworkers.
It also uses HTML5 and the <video> tag to display the video, but they also provide a downloadable format in WebM and Ogg Theora.
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On one hand, this guy has produced a VERY impressive working 16-bit arithmetic logic unit (which performs arithmetic and logical operations in your CPU).
On the other hand, there’s something just fundamentally wrong in running an ALU on a CPU to power an operating system to render a 3D environment for a video game where you implement an ALU. (And by “wrong,” we mean “awesome.”)
At a dogpark in Cambridge, Massachusettes, Matthew Mazzota installed a gaslamp powered by methane generated from dog poop.
Burning the methane, which is 30 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, helps the environment, he said. And with dogs dropping tons of poop in cities everywhere, he thinks the idea of using its untapped power has broad appeal.
Broad appeal… FOR ME TO POOP ON!
It’s hard to believe someone actually approved something like this to be sold on Amazon.com. There’s even a Kindle edition!
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Okay, we’ve all seen those personality tests which supposedly measure what type of person you are, the most common one being the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was based on the theories of Carl Jung, and the least common one being “What type of hat are you?”
This personality test, created by International Hobo, is designed to see what type of gamer you are – that is, what type of challenges that you look for when you play video games, and therefore what types of games make you happy.
One of the things that I noticed was that while my old roommate and I were both avid gamers, we only rarely enjoyed the same games. I liked Half Life 2 but not Halo; he liked Shadow Complex but not Splosion Man, I liked Oblivion but not Fable, and he did vice versa. And he really didn’t understand why I’d play through Arkham Asylum on “Easy” then go on to play an impossibly hard retro game like MegaMan 9.
We were just different types of gamers – he would probably be more of an “Achiever” type, while I usually end up on the Socialiser side of the scale.
Anyway, this type of classification is useful in finding out what games will engage you, specifically, rather than just be generally “good.”
So, against which type of zombie would you be willing to go against? What is your favorite zombie movie of all time? Let us know in the comments section below!
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