OMG Google finally took over Youtube! 😀 Hehe… check out the news!
Also, look what I just dugg up! The article just amazes me, check it out! 🙂
“It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Or it might turn out to be a little like both. Researchers are aiming to find ways to enable aircraft to change shape during flight to improve performance or efficiency. The University of Dayton project is funded by a $580,000 defense contract to further the development of “morphing” aircraft…”
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Since this seems to be the topic of the week, I might as well create a new post and share some news with you. A whole bunch of you have been asking for the soundtracks for a couple of Vantage demos. And it seems like some of you are not much for waiting. 😀 Anyway, I just captured the soundtracks for “A Simple Way” and “3 Cows Ahead” [click to download]. As for how I did it, well “3 Cows Ahead” is an avi so it’s a simple matter of an audio extraction. However, I tried a whole bunch of extractors and played around with whatever options available, but the result is never perfect for some reason. Specially the beginning of this one sounds far from what you hear on the avi. Keep in mind the fact that I’m no audio expert anyway. :”> So if you know of an extractor which could do a better job, please let me know. “A Simple Way” was of course a different story. I came across this demo capturing software called “kkapture 0.01” a while ago (on pouet.net BBS). It’s an easy to use application which does a pretty darn impressive job capturing both the audio and the video. So I used this to capture an avi of the demo, and then did the same mp3 extraction. The resulting audio quality is rather good. So…enjoy, and I’d certainly appreciate any bits of technical info that you might wanna throw at me. :>
Update: Wheee! Amoivikos [amv] of ASD has just posted a comment containing some very interesting information regarding a number of great scene tracks. Check it out! Always the best info, does this guy rule or what? 🙂
Update: Sorry guys, there is no full version of the “3 Cows Ahead” soundtrack. It was never finished. 
WOW. That’s all that comes to my mind right now. Big red WOOOOOOW. Possibly with a cherry on top….or something in those lines.
You know how sometimes you’re looking for a certain something and then what you come across is completely off topic? Like when you’re Googling for some MOSFET data sheet and you get a soup recipe instead? Well the same thing happened to me today…searching for something I came across something else…and one thing linked to the other…and I ended up HERE. Check out what I’ve found. This demo, called Iconoclast, has been released on July 2005 but I hadn’t seen it before, and if it wasn’t for this freak accident I would never have seen it, and that would have been the loss of a life time!!
So that’s what the WOW is for, this demo ROCKed my world so hard. Do check it out, it’s bloody amazing to put it lightly.
And hey, I was not looking for demos today. 😉
Update: Well I ended up registering an account in that website to leave a (+) for this demo. You might want to do the same!
Update: Hey hey hey people people! Comments regarding how kool this demo is, are NOT to be posted here! By rights they should go THERE! There’s a forum in there right?
Update: Quit asking what I was looking for…… 😛
Update: The “Shout Box” is open now. Feel free to say whatever….
UPDATE: EVERYONE DO CHECK OUT COMMENT #52 ON THIS POST!
UPDATE: EVERYONE DO CHECK OUT COMMENT #72 AS WELL!
My “car excited” friend René just found this article on digg.com and sent it to me. I’m not as car happy as he is but I still find this kool. So check it out!
“Ever wondered HOW MUCH faster an F1 car (when driven by Schumacher) is in comparison to a production Ferrari or a compact car? Check out this on-track fun road test!”
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Seriously! I think I’m totally in luv with this pretty little piece of technology. What am I talking about? Well I’m talking about what u see here in this picture. SONY’s FJ series notebook, and specifically the one in sky blue [what a surprise eh? :P]. It’s actually very cute, and very light. I’ve been using this baby for a while now and I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy with any of my systems before….believe me when I say the interior is even more impressive than the exterior. To name a few of the features that I’m really happy with: the motion eye camera with built in microphone, the comfy keyboard, the double layer DVD+R, the 1.86GHz processor, the 100GB hard drive, the XBRITE LCD and so many more. U can have a look @ the complete specifications here.
To anyone who might be planning on buying a notebook: make sure to have a careful look at this one, u won’t regret it!
A couple of days ago a friend of mine told me something about Google banning the BMW website. Then I read the same thing in an email, and then I saw an article on digg.com about it. It seems that the public opinion on the matter is quite diverse. Some are enjoying this and some…well….not so much! But me, well I’m a bit confused. I mean I don’t quite get the argument that’s going around! First of all, not BMW, but BMW.de has been banned. Well they tried to use doorway pages and they got caught, isn’t that so simple? I mean I don’t understand why some people are getting ticked off with Google for stopping cheaters!! If u owned Google and someone tired to take advantage of it in some unethical manner, wouldn’t u try to stop them?? And hey, what’s this got to do with being big and powerful? Some people seem to think that Google is trying to show off it’s power by banning BMW.de, and that Google is starting to show the “MS symptoms”; well this is like saying that spammers should be allowed to take over the web and anyone who tires to stop them is trying to show off their power! Come on, does that make sense to u?
I honestly don’t know where Google is going with the current speed, but I know one thing for sure, stopping doorway users is in no way a sign of becoming the new big bad.
The IEEE website has a new design. I don’t know how long it’s been there, less than a week probably, but I noticed it last night. The significance of this? Well….just that I really “disliked” the old one. It was quite disorganized, the design of each part of the website sang a different song and certain parts of it were quite ugly! Altogether I thought that for an organization of such size they could probably do better, and since this thought kept coming to my mind every time I visited that site, it was nice to see they actually did something about it. The new design is nice and well organized, so….good job to whoever took care of it!
Now was that “significance” enough? Or is it that there’s about 15 minutes left to my next class and I’m just incredibly bored?? And yes, I’m posting this from ENG406, on the 4th floor of Ryerson Engineering Building. 😛
OH….MY…GOODNESS….Just have a look @ this! The cutest little Robot ever! Pretty natural moves too. Very impressive indeed!
“We’ve all been waiting to finally own a True Walking Humanoid Robot, Kyosho of Japan will release MANOI, the “Ready-Made” Robot (that’s right; no assembly required) for about $1600. Wait til you see him Stand on One Leg and Do the “Wing Wave”…..you’ll want one too!!”
And yeah, I DO want one too! 😛
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Look what I just found on digg [again!] If u’re an engineer, studying engineering [like me! :S], are interested in engineering, don’t like engineering and don’t want to have anything to do with engineers, read this….it’s pretty kool!
“The Engineer of 2020 Project byt the National Academy of Engineering centers on an effort to envision the future and to use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles that engineers will play in the future. Very interesting read.”
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