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Intel Ad: Jokes... Hilarious
Ughhhh.... liked the commercial until the crowd of people making the noise at the end. I can't stand corporate marketing of "our people" like that. Such fucking..... jizz raggery.
Now that you've mentioned it...
WERE MONSTERS INCORPORATED! WE SCARE, BECAUSE WE CARE!
*sigh* I unfortunately agree. This is coming from the same company that now disowns who actually invented the microprocessor because the 70s were inconvenient for them. Hell they used an actor in the "Inventor of USB" ads? I can only imagine now that all those people at the end are all actors and never even stepped foot inside Intel headquarters and have AMD processors on their home computers
Visualizing Empires Decline
TYT: Sarah Palin is still stupid
Unfortunately she has about 6,124,789 miles to go before I would ever vote for her, though.
Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
So you take their money anyways and THEN call the police? Sorry, dick move on their part. By the way, I've worked for small business before and I know how it is. You win customers by providing good service, and lose customers by providing shit service. Simple, end of story.
Hell, I once had a dining experience that would make Mr. Pink want to shoot up the entire resturant and without me asking the manager not only comped the meal but also offered free desserts on top of it. This is how you get people to keep coming back despite the fact you just lost money in the short term.
Super Mario Bros. Skills (Wii version!)
8-bit L4d
FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT
*takes out his geek card*
If I had to guess what would closely emulate this as a real system, it would be this one.
Bombproof Wallpaper.
Err wait... there was no load on the top of that wall. It seems to me this wallpaper might stop bomb fragments but won't exactly prevent the wall from collapsing under the weight above it. Cool idea, but I have a hard time seeing how this would actually work.
(Perhaps a better demo is if they made a small shack with the stuff, set off an actual bomb in it rather than use a wrecking ball. Why call it bomb proof wallpaper when you did'nt even use a bomb?)
Mr. T changes World of Warcraft with the Mohawk Grenade!
Flight 1549 Computer Reconstruction.
Know Your Meme: AutoTune - With Professor Weird Al Yankovic
On the top of Burj Dubai's Spire - 818 m (2,684 ft)
London in 1927 - Early Colour Silent Film
Here is the actual process http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/stained.htm and the wiki page for the man behind the tech. Although I would take the "invented" part with a grain of salt from the credits as it seems he just ripped off a previous process and called it his own
Really cool to see a very rare colour process used on an even rarer film. I wish there was more of this and other rare processes. Most of it likely has permanently vanished due to rotting away
In Defense of the Katana: A pwnage in 3 chapters
5,000 volts is enough to crush a soda can
ATI/AMD's DirectX-11-Techdemo Ladybug (DoF, Focal Lens)
This was back in 2003... on DirectX 9
What this video is basically saying to me is "We still have not reached the full potential that DirectX 9 offered, but buy our new videocard anyways!".
To be fair, that demo also ran at complete dogshit speeds on a 9800 Pro at the time with stuff like DoF turned up, modern cards handle this very easily.
Google Navigation = Death of GPS Makers
Apple and Google had a falling out over maps on the iPhone, so don't expect this to ever show up on that device. Apple is attempting to go it alone for maps now, which might be a poor result considering how good Google Maps was on the iPhone. What it will hurt are commercial GPS apps on the iPhone.
In the meantime, for reasons shole stated this will NOT be the death of normal GPS. A standalone device can be had now for $100-$150 when an Android phone is significantly higher priced not to mention the monthly fee. Your standalone device will literally work in the middle of nowhere and your Android is tied to your mobile cell coverage. No signal = no maps. Standalone GPS devices were hot items for Christmas because of convenience, low cost, and they have significantly better battery life than your average smartphone.
I can only hope though it also improves the quality of said standalone devices, which have their own problems like charging far too much for map updates and/or clunky + slow interfaces that respond as well as attempting to swim through mud. If Google released a non-Android GPS that did what this demo does in a say a $200 device, THEN Garmin/Tomtom can start to panic.
Gas on the right, brake on the left. Got it.
Bill Plympton sucks (Blog Entry by gwiz665)
ZOMFG THE SWINE FLU! (Blog Entry by rottenseed)
(Your yearly flu can be just as deadly as swine flu, I can only guess the fuss is that H1N1 is... more bad?)