This. Is. Just. Awful. Just so you’re up to speed, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 7 on October 22nd and as part of their launch promotions, they’ve asked people to host launch parties for the new OS. If chosen as a host, you’d have received a free Signature Edition of Windows 7 Ultimate and run a chance to win a $750. The video above was created for these chosen hosts as both a promotional tool and somewhat of an instructional video on how to host one of these parties. Never mind now though since confirmations are already being sent out. The point here is just how freaking horrible and asinine the above video is.
I have an idea. Watch it, and then in the comments here tell us what you’d rather do than attend a Windows 7 launch party? Myself, I’d rather spend an entire day cleaning old dentures with a toothpick.
If you thought you had problems storing all the RAW files from your digital SLR camera, imagine having to deal with the stream of data coming from a digital motion picture camera capturing footage at 24 frames per second or higher. That’s why researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany have developed the FlashBox which docks to a digital film camera, like the ARRI D21 or the Sony F35, and stores up to 500GB of footage on a couple of swappable SSDs.
At just 5.1 x 3.1 x 2.8 inches in size and 3.3 pounds the FlashBox is remarkably light and compact, but it can capture and store Bayer raw sensor data in resolutions up to 2048×1000 pixels, or compressed using the JPEG2000 codec. A built-in LCD also allows the footage to be played back as soon as it’s captured, and a “multi-level prompting process” ensures recorded scenes don’t get accidentally overwritten which is one of the few times when nagging software is a definite plus.
The FlashBox will be available to select beta testers sometime in the Spring of 2010, but a prototype will be exhibited at the IBC (International Broadcast Convention) show in Amsterdam starting on September 11.
You kind of have to watch this video. It’s a short clip with Jem Stansfield from the UK show Bang Goes The Theory where he demonstrates a vortex cannon. This device will shoot out air at 200mph, in what looks like a smoke ring but is in fact moisture from the air condensed into visibility by the pressure differential within the vortex.
Who cares? Well just watch the video and see what a friggin’ little cloud can do.
We’re about a week late reporting on this heart-wrenching video, but we thought you’d all still be interested in hearing about Gene Simpkins, a man afflicted with a rare condition called “Moto-Neural Demyelination”, otherwise known as Duke Nukem’s disease. Why the name? Sufferers go through life with an involuntary neural compulsion to act like they’re part of a first-person shooter game.
I totally appreciate how awesome this video is, but it seems to me that an aircraft might not be the smartest place to be in the middle of a lightning storm. But hey, what do I know, I’m just one of those weird people who likes not dying.
Actually, aircraft are quite safe from lightning. It is estimated that each commercial aircraft gets struck about once a year, but the lightning gets safely conducted over the skin of the plane and never makes it inside. Much better than standing under a tree.
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We all know that Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms shut down last week, but what exactly were they working on? Many people (myself included) have wondered if they’ve just really been screwing around these last dozen years. However, evidence has surfaced that proves to the contrary.
The video doesn’t actually look half bad. If it were finished, it might be something that I’d check out. Certainly not what I would expect from 12 years of development, but worth a look. Something tells me that this isn’t the last we’ll see of in-game Duke footage.
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There has been a bit of controversy surrounding the state of multiplayer action in Dead Rising 2. First there’s no mention of it, then a rep from mental mill (the middleware developer for the title) let it slip that it was indeed in the game. Shortly thereafter another mental mill rep tells us that the last guy misspoke. All of this over multiplayer? Sheesh. Not sure why it was such a huge secret, but Capcom development head Keiji Inafune finally confirmed once and for all that there will be online multiplayer. Now was that so hard?
In other related Dead Rising 2 news, there’s an awesome new trailer for the game. Left 4 Dead is a great zombie game, but you don’t get to strap two chainsaws to a stick or wear a moose head. I can’t wait. Check out the trailer after the jump.
My main computer is pretty fast, with a nice overclocked Core 2 Duo, speedy RAM and a kick-ass video card. Unfortunately it does have one piece slowing it down. While my hard drive is SATA (none of that ancient IDE crap here), I’d love to switch it out for a faster SSD drive. My main issue is that the speed gain just doesn’t justify the price. But what if price was no object? Just what could you do with say, 24 top-of-the-line SSD drives? You can open the entire Microsoft Office suite in half a second. You’d have transfer speeds topping out at 2GB. You’d even be able to make the kick-ass video seen above.
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