Actual street names removed in case someone actually executes this well thought out Burglary plan!
Everyone loves Google maps but not as much as your garden variety burglar. In the past they had to engage in the risky practise of scoping out properties security and entry/exit points to plan their burglary operations. Now they have a birds eye view of every property in their town. They can perfectly plan their burglaries, available blind spots, whether they can 3 point turn their Burgle Van™ or whether they should use the Getaway Car™ option and burgle on foot and charge down a bank or some such with the loot.
Having had a play with it for both work and personal reasons over the last week I just simply want to say ‘i have no idea where this would fit into my life’. For someone like myself I’m already verging on the loony bin when it comes to technology intertwining and ruinin….ruling my life, adding a 4th screen (outside of the magic ‘THREE SCREENS’ master plan of Microsoft) seems wrong.
My daily life consists of 2 iphones (work, home), 1 macbook (work), a fixed pc (work), PC laptop (home) and usually a bit of the ol telly, trying to fit in using the iPad ended up being a chore… which… kind of had me a little sad, why sad? because it felt like I was getting old wanting to cling to a laptop on the couch instead of a tablet. What this all told me is that I simply want my current gen iphones to be faster (re: gen4) much more then I want an extra device to skim websites or the main thing I ended up doing, playing Plants vs Zombie.
Until these things are as thin as and flexible like paper I think ill be staying clear. Phil how do you find yours? I’m guessing you have laptops too at home so it would essentially replace one of them when couch surfing?
A third instalment to the franchise that most of us here sank FAR too much time into, is slowly approaching. Very slowly. Infact so slowly, a 2010 release is almost all but removed from the realm of possibility. I started salivating over this announcement approximately two years ago, and haven’t stopped since. A release date would be appreciated soon, before my husband leaves me, alone in my drool puddle, to chase after someone younger, drier, and more attractive.
Set in Sanctuary, a (somewhat) new generation of warriors are tasked with the job of saving the world from the forces of evil. These include a Witchdoctor, a somewhat familiar Barbarian, the Wizard, and the Monk, all with options to play either male or female versions. A fifth class is yet to be announced. Considering the action role play hack and slash genre is not exactly a niche market, where this game has the potential to rock socks seems to be in the battle sequences and monsters, with the attention to detail seemingly having the potential to reach never-before-seen heights.
Monsters that utilise the 3D environment by scaling walls, static AND random level generators for enriched replays, new armour pieces, NPC sidekicks instead of generic hirelings, and the simply moreish tidbit from IGN’s Command Prompt Podcast (Episode 41) that sent shivers down my spine – “every creature model will have around 35 unique death animations” – all ensure that this game is going to blow my freaking mind. Anyone else chaffing at the bit to get their hands on this puppy? Heard any leaked info or have any speculations on the 5th and final character class? Rumours are flying around of a 300+ people LAN (LAN without LAN, evidently enough) in Melbourne upon release. Guess who will be there with huge freaking bells on. <3
Lookie what we have here Intels new 6 core, 12 thread processor — the 3.33GHz Core i7-980X. I can feel Nez working out the cost estimates now for his next upgrade and if he really can part with that last kidney of his At least for the majority of us we can look forward to this and kind of ‘#’s of processor overkill’ to be in our future box/laptop in a few eons time.
And yes yes, I know that The 8ball is merely becoming a dumping ground for any kind of online video that crops up but seriously that is some impressive green screen effects going on right there. Makes you wonder when they will reach the point where by every single thing is green screened aside from the actors (that is until we perfect that too).
This is something of an eye opener for what is possibly in store for us in the later part of this century. With mobile computing/Internet increasing at a lovely rate (all be it else where in the world) there are already a number of iPhone apps that allow for some form of Augmented Reality. Keiichi Matsuda explains:
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.
Less a little of the extreme advertising and this system would actually help us ‘connected generation’ to keep the umbilical cord flowing with juices from our always awake, always waiting friend the Internet.
Another video that came out today about bing maps, shows live video being augmented over top of a street view image. Very impressive, scroll to 3mins for the build up.
Total rip from FlowingData but well worth putting things in perspective… providing your brain doesn’t implode.
And the original oldskool version complete with creepy music and what could only be imagined as your high school chemistry teacher narrating, Powers of Ten.
It’s called “Wikipedia”, it’s the 5th most read website in the world. It’s completely non commercial and has no advertising, sadly they don’t have enough money to run it without having to commercialise it in some way soon.
Please, if you use Wikipedia regularly … come on … of course you do! Then please donate so it can remain clean, tidy, free of advertising and commercialism and become even better! I gave $20 today, I think it’s worth that much, actually it’s probably worth more than that, I gave Plug’s Mo $20 and let’s face it, THAT WASN’T WORTH SHIT!!! (luv ya pluggles!)
Go on, click the link and donate, they deserve it, they RULE.
Sequences is ALSO September in predictive text. You could accidentally use these words in the following embarrassing ways on your predictive text capable mobile phone.
“I think I’ll get some more chickens in sequences.”
“I’ll use my random September generator to decide the inmates order of execution.“
At least for the majority of us we can look forward to this and kind of ‘#’s of processor overkill’ to be in our future box/laptop in a few eons time.
(luv ya pluggles!)
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