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StuBurns said:
Games designed for 60fps will typically use that as a design advantage, for example transition animations can be shorter, so people might feel like the game is meant to be played at 60fps even if they don't know why they feel that, but it will look like a 30fps game.

So yes?

MrBig said:
Is the footage recorded at 30 fps? I doubt it would do that but if it does you can just re-encode it yourself.

Oh i'm not uploading anything. It was just something i was wondering about.
 
Alright, so my sister has this Virus program called Malwarebytes on her computer and despite me advising her to switch, she won't. So doesn't anyone have this program or hear anything about it?

I know she doesn't have the premium version, but the free version.
 
Hey You said:
Alright, so my sister has this Virus program called Malwarebytes on her computer and despite me advising her to switch, she won't. So doesn't anyone have this program or hear anything about it?

I know she doesn't have the premium version, but the free version.

Malwarebytes is awesome dude. It's all I use basically (free version), aside from Microsoft Security Essentials.
 
Hey You said:
Alright, so my sister has this Virus program called Malwarebytes on her computer and despite me advising her to switch, she won't. So doesn't anyone have this program or hear anything about it?

I know she doesn't have the premium version, but the free version.

It's a great program. Don't make her switch, you should!
 
I'm trying to set this MP3 as a ringtone, but it won't let me. I even cut the song using Audacity to 45 seconds. The file is only 307KB. I don't know what's wrong.

Any help?

BTW, my phone is a Samsung touchscreen.
 
I have a youtube video with almost 1 million views. It seems like I should be taking advantage of this somehow... I got offered to be a youtube partner, but the content of the video isn't original so I had to decline. Is there an opportunity here that I'm not seeing?
 
BackwardsSuggestions said:
It's a great program. Don't make her switch, you should!


Thanks for the responses guys. Glad she is using a good program.

And Nah, I'm fine with the one my ISP created. Works well.
 
alehousedave said:
I have a youtube video with almost 1 million views. It seems like I should be taking advantage of this somehow... I got offered to be a youtube partner, but the content of the video isn't original so I had to decline. Is there an opportunity here that I'm not seeing?
Sounds like you saw the opportunity but had to turn it down.

Make some original videos on the same channel, I guess?
 
alehousedave said:
I have a youtube video with almost 1 million views. It seems like I should be taking advantage of this somehow... I got offered to be a youtube partner, but the content of the video isn't original so I had to decline. Is there an opportunity here that I'm not seeing?

Use a popular song in the background. When it get's ID by youtube you'll have a chance to offer Itunes/amazon/etc links that will turn into referral fee for you.
 
alehousedave said:
I have a youtube video with almost 1 million views. It seems like I should be taking advantage of this somehow... I got offered to be a youtube partner, but the content of the video isn't original so I had to decline. Is there an opportunity here that I'm not seeing?
Not with this video, and usually, also not in general. It's hard to get substantial revenue out of YT partnership.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Why do people play the Mac vs PC wars, when literally every program MS makes they make a Mac version for it. Hell, Macs can run Win7 FFS!
It's a few things, Macs cost more for the performance some people think that's stupid, Macs are 'cool', some people hate cool things. And it's really OS X vs Windows, not Mac vs PC, and people just feel different about the systems.

I think Macs are massively better.
 
Sorry French GAF, I need your help again:

How do you say "I have no doubt about that" or "I don't doubt that at all" in the most romantic way in French?

HALP!
 
EricHasNoPull said:
Sorry French GAF, I need your help again:

How do you say "I have no doubt about that" or "I don't doubt that at all" in the most romantic way in French?

HALP!

In a romantic way? "Je ne doute aucunement de ce..." or maybe "Je n'ai aucun doute dans mon esprit que..."

Je ne questionne point...
Je ne doute point de ce...
Aucun doute à ce propos
Aucun doute persiste à ce...
 
Futureman said:
If you are drawing a web comic in moderate detail, what is a good way to color pants denim? Using Photoshop.
I'm assuming you're using a tablet to do this, from your avatar. I'm not sure what you mean by moderate detail, but you can try picking a slate blue color for a solid fill and then pixel locking and going back over it with a lighter blue and opacity and color jitter turned on. It all has to do with the style of the piece though.
 
Below I have a JPEG, a GIF, and a PNG. However, I've renamed the GIF to be a .jpg and the PNG to be a .hug file. And yet, thanks to files containing data about what they truly are, they all load up fine--at least they do for me right now in Firefox 3.

test1.jpg
test2.jpg
test3.hug


What I'm wondering is: Can this be counted upon, or would certain browsers refuse to put up with such charades?
 
Gaf I need your help, it all started when I got tired of WoW. Ever since then I have been trying to play other things to do with my time. I even got into Diablo 2 again. Now I just don't know what to do anymore, I don't know what's wrong with me I just don't feel like playing anything i have right now. It's so damn depressing really that I don't know what to do at all and I'm just here surfing gaf. How do I get started in playing something and keeping focused on playing it through. How do I get in the mood like I used to?

and no I don't want to do anything else non-gaming related.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Below I have a JPEG, a GIF, and a PNG. However, I've renamed the GIF to be a .jpg and the PNG to be a .hug file. And yet, thanks to files containing data about what they truly are, they all load up fine--at least they do for me right now in Firefox 3.

http://joshuajamesslone.name/temp/test1.jpg
http://joshuajamesslone.name/temp/test2.jpg
http://joshuajamesslone.name/temp/test3.hug

What I'm wondering is: Can this be counted upon, or would certain browsers refuse to put up with such charades?
I've never heard of this being a problem. I just tested, and they display fine in Firefox 4, Chrome 10, and IE 8.

If you are thinking of using this method to upload an animated avatar for these forums, I'm pretty sure it would work. But you would be banned as soon as a mod saw it.
 
G-Fex said:
Gaf I need your help, it all started when I got tired of WoW. Ever since then I have been trying to play other things to do with my time. I even got into Diablo 2 again. Now I just don't know what to do anymore, I don't know what's wrong with me I just don't feel like playing anything i have right now. It's so damn depressing really that I don't know what to do at all and I'm just here surfing gaf. How do I get started in playing something and keeping focused on playing it through. How do I get in the mood like I used to?

and no I don't want to do anything else non-gaming related.

Did you ask in the Gaming-Edition of this thread?

Sorry, I have no suggestions. I feel like you once in awhile, really don't know how it passes
 
AIRic said:
In a romantic way? "Je ne doute aucunement de ce..." or maybe "Je n'ai aucun doute dans mon esprit que..."

Je ne questionne point...
Je ne doute point de ce...
Aucun doute à ce propos
Aucun doute persiste à ce...

Hollie shit you gave me too many AIR, now I am confused to which one to use?!?!

EDIT: I ran all of them through (Yahoo) Bablefish and the third one on your list there seemed to be the most in context of the subject being discussed. "Aucun doute à ce propos" = "No doubt on this subject"

I think it was a great idea to give quite a few different examples, this way I had a choice to pick the best one.

Thanks!
 
Decom said:
I've never heard of this being a problem. I just tested, and they display fine in Firefox 4, Chrome 10, and IE 8.
Thanks.
If you are thinking of using this method to upload an animated avatar for these forums, I'm pretty sure it would work. But you would be banned as soon as a mod saw it.
Heh, nah. I was thinking about a little Greasemonkey script using local images that would either be a pretty simple search/replace if it could dumbly use one extension, or much more complicated if it would need to keep track of thing 1 being a PNG, thing 2 being a JPEG, and so on.
 
How did we go from this:
785px-Bott4.jpg

Top Speed:437 MPH
to this:

765px-Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg

Top Speed: Mach 3.3

We made that leap within 16 years?! How in the flying fuck? What kind of Vodoo did Lockheed have?
 
TacticalFox88 said:
How did we go from this:
785px-Bott4.jpg

Top Speed:437 MPH
to this:

765px-Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg

Top Speed: Mach 3.3

We made that leap within 16 years?! How in the flying fuck? What kind of Vodoo did Lockheed have?

How fast is Mach 3.3? Oh and aliens helped humans out with their Superior TEC.
 
VASPER said:
How fast is Mach 3.3? Oh and aliens helped humans out with their Superior TEC.

*looks up ole wikipedia*

The speed of sound is 768 mph, so...3.3 times the speed of sound...


....how the hell did they do that in only 16 years?! Even the designs looks awesomely modern!!
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Why do people play the Mac vs PC wars, when literally every program MS makes they make a Mac version for it. Hell, Macs can run Win7 FFS!
Without getting into why I don't like Apple's operating systems, I only use Windows because I can build my computer, development support, and gaming (otherwise I'd use Ubuntu). But I don't really like Microsoft and I don't think that the Microsoft programs would be the concern were they unavailable on Macs--there are a lot of programs that don't run on them.

If you're going to use the argument that Macs can run Windows, you could just say... get, or build, a significantly cheaper computer that runs Windows. I have a Windows desktop that's pretty damn good and it cost me less than $800. I'm pretty sure you can't get a decent Mac for less than $1000 and the hardware would be insanely inferior.

When I talk to people who are some degree of technologically impaired and to whom money is not an issue, I tell them a Mac would be a good choice. I think if Macs were cheaper than PCs, they would make sense to me.
 
G-Fex said:
Gaf I need your help, it all started when I got tired of WoW. Ever since then I have been trying to play other things to do with my time. I even got into Diablo 2 again. Now I just don't know what to do anymore, I don't know what's wrong with me I just don't feel like playing anything i have right now. It's so damn depressing really that I don't know what to do at all and I'm just here surfing gaf. How do I get started in playing something and keeping focused on playing it through. How do I get in the mood like I used to?

and no I don't want to do anything else non-gaming related.

I have the same kind of problem. I have a huge backlog, but sometimes I just don't know what to play. I tend to get obsessed with one game, and if i'm bored with it, I just give up playing altogether.

What I tried for a week or two (and it works so far) is making a plan of my gaming time, and which game I'll be playing on which day.

I don't know how much free time you have, but this way forced me to play some games I know I wouldnt be playing otherwise. No more than 3-4 at a time though.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
How did we go from this:
785px-Bott4.jpg

Top Speed:437 MPH
to this:

765px-Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg

Top Speed: Mach 3.3

We made that leap within 16 years?! How in the flying fuck? What kind of Vodoo did Lockheed have?
alien technology. :p

the blackbird was truly a machine ahead of it's time.
 
From the Blackbird's wiki page:
During reconnaissance missions the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to allow it to outrace threats; if a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate.
Badass.
 
Can a mod explain why the 'What are you listening to?' thread was locked? Seems totally random to me and there was nothing posted even warning us it would be locked.
 
Jedeye Sniv said:
Can a mod explain why the 'What are you listening to?' thread was locked? Seems totally random to me and there was nothing posted even warning us it would be locked.

I was wondering the same thing. I don't any reason to shut it down.
 
He did explain it, no megathreads.

I don't get why we can't have megathreads though, they're better I think. Especially for games, it always seems stupid to have like four Portal 2 threads active at a time, all repeating a lot of the same discussion points.
 
ch0mp said:
News tends to get missed if you aren't keeping track of the megathreads.
When there is news within news we get title changes, I don't see why we can't do that with megathreads i.e. 'Portal 2 Megathread : Play Cogs!' or whatever the latest thing is.
 
ch0mp said:
News tends to get missed if you aren't keeping track of the megathreads.

Ironically I do the opposite, read the megathreads and miss the little 4 page affairs. Still, at least we know where we stand, we need a thread for each album we listen to!

Also, by this logic the iOS supermegathread should have been locked and dropped months ago.
 
Why do Olympic athletes have stupid names? Lolo Jones, Picabo Street, Apolo Ohno (yeah I know it's his real name)-- I don't get it. Do they come up with nicknames to sound catchy to get Wheaties deals or what?
 
StuBurns said:
He did explain it, no megathreads.

Thing is, it's not about a game or an upcoming movie or album or anything like that, there is no news to miss. It's just like the TV and Movie thread, a place to share what we're into at the moment without having to make a new thread every time. It has a purpose but no real downside.

I'm sure they have a good enough reason it's just a little surprising, that's all.

Ah, nevermind, I just saw the post EvilLore added to the thread. Guess someone just has to make one for April.
 
MomoPufflet said:
Why do Olympic athletes have stupid names? Lolo Jones, Picabo Street, Apolo Ohno (yeah I know it's his real name)-- I don't get it. Do they come up with nicknames to sound catchy to get Wheaties deals or what?
My "I'm pulling this outta my ass" guess is that 99% of the time a child with talent or love for a sport will have parents that say "well thats nice but you're gonna go to school and then college and forget about that other nonsense". Whereas maybe kids that show proclivity to a sport and have parents that let them follow their dream of ice skating in a circle really fast or ski jumping off a giant ramp have really free thinking, hippy parents.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
How did we go from this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bott4.jpg/785px-Bott4.jpg[IMG]
Top Speed:437 MPH
to this:

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg/765px-Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.jpg[IMG]
Top Speed: Mach 3.3

We made that leap within 16 years?! How in the flying fuck? What kind of Vodoo did Lockheed have?[/QUOTE]
The real leap was prop->jet engine. After that it was all a matter of refinement.

And the jet engine was invented in the 20s-30s. So it was more like 30 or 40 years.
 
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