I totally agree with the onset time. I was like, "I don't think I got a good hit, lemmme try again.... oh wait..." Then half the kitchen we were standing in dropped into a waterfall of yellow fleur de lis bathroom tiles. It wasn't a dreamy vision of a waterfall either, it was a vivid in your face waterfall of tiles - so real I kept my hand on a friends back to keep him from falling in.

Hey, no worries,
The video just wasn't getting any votes, (other than yours or mine.)

I've been noticing my PQ fill up lately and I know this vid was bound for my PQ.
If a video doesn't have more than 2-3 votes after a day and half, I toss it so I can hurry up and get something else posted - I have no patience sometimes... especially when I'm finding other stuff out there I know/think will sift.

My decision to discard was purely my own - not to worry..., perhaps I'll try to promote it and bring it back, we'll see how it does the second time around... ??
Cheers!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Andrew-Breitbart-DESTROYS-Rachel-Maddow
In reply to this comment by enoch:
hey man,
i wasnt giving ya grief over that beitreach (however you spell his name) video.i was commenting on the video and the tile but nothing against you my man.
why did you discard it?
could have made for a great discussion.
anyways..
just wanted you to know what was up and that i wasnt targeting you at all.
till next time.
namaste.

I think all four of those things in the "not crazy about" category are pretty universal, to a certain extent. And I'd probably disagree that wanting a nice TV would be superficial materialism -- I think most of us spend more time in front of the TV than we'd care to admit, so getting a good one would actually enrich your life a little bit (unlike Italian tile floors or granite countertops or whatever is trendy).

Dag -

Solar power has and will come a long way since it's conception. Remember this is an industry just coming out of its infancy.

The issue about batteries deals with the storage of the energy produced, not the actual production of energy. The currently most popular energy storage device is the battery (which the technology seems to be advancing every year), but there are alternatives to that including: hydrogen gas (a converter splits water and stores the hydrogen gas for later use - either heat or electricity production), compressed air (some energy production facilities use underground caverns pumped full of compressed air and then covert that into energy when needed), or simply a lack of storage by people that tie to an existing electrical grid.

Dannym is quite correct on the new production techniques have advanced. Currently there is a company that has been able to produce solar powered sheets of plastic. They have taken the advances of nanotechnology and applied them to this field. The conversion rate isn't great, but the cost of production are much less than traditional methods. The idea is that it can be made into siding for houses, roof tiling, etc.

I haven't read about the Thorium reactors. I can safely assume that there have been advances in that field in the last 30 years as well. I will look into that. Thanks for the link. I used to work in reactor plants, but had no desire to continue that work in the civilian world. All the nuclear plants in the US are east coast, california, or stuck in the midwest (and a small one in colorado.) I love the pacific northwest and had no desire to be anywhere else. It just something about the mountains and water... and looking across the water to see more mountains. Part of my soul is here and I'd rather not leave that. Oh yeah, a point - I haven't looked into newer designs. And I will look at that information and try to withhold my predisposition towards doubt as I personally think that solar is a much better way to go until we crack the fusion problem. I think that solar should always play a part, even if it is as simple as facing your house to true south with windows and building a trombe wall, eutectic salt chambers, etc. So much less energy would be spent if we focused on a little bit of good engineering in the housing market and conservation.

Remove the first in the code and it validates fine to this:

<object id="551471258" width="540" height="394">

>> ^demon_ix:
OCTOPUS?!? You dare call the dark lord Cthulhu a mere OCTOPUS?!?


Seriously! Octopus, pfft.

>> ^Lodurr:
One of the only fantasy RPG conventions not included in Dragon Age is the thing about freedom--an open world to explore, where the main quest can get eclipsed by the much more interesting side quests. This was present in Oblivion, Morrowind, and the Baldur's Gate series, so I'm surprised no one's really commented on it. ...

I am a huge fan of open-world, sandbox style games. The first game that I got massively intrigued with was Ultima 6 -- I played it at least semi-regularly for around 2-3 years, yet I almost completely ignored the main story. I just enjoyed exploring the extremely large world, building up my character, etc. Morrowind came close to that for me. Oblivion was good, but seemed like a step back in gameplay and overall experience from Morrowind. Having everything in the world be scaled to your level bothered me a lot -- Dragon Age scales enemies and loot, but it doesn't feel as forced to me, at least not yet.

I also loved the Baldur's Gate series, but I don't feel like they were open-world games. They had multiple distinct location maps, just like Dragon Age does. There were more areas in either BG game than in DA, but it takes a lot less time and fewer artists on the development team to crank out (notably well made) 2D areas than 3D maps.

So I guess that in my opinion Dragon Age is more directly related to Baldur's Gate than Oblivion/Morrowind or Ultima (not surprising since the developer is the same, and refers to it as a 'spiritual successor'). I am 100% happy with Dragon Age as a new Baldur's Gate-esque game. It doesn't innovate, but it didn't need to for me to enjoy it.

I would be greatly pleased if there was a new, entirely non-original rehash of the design philosophy and sandbox experience of the Ultima games but put into new graphics and interface. In other words, Dragon Age is to Baldur's Gate as this would be to Ultima. Unfortunately it seems that sandbox style games are falling more and more out of favor, which I understand to a certain extent due to the fact that it would be a massive undertaking to create a world as large as Ultima 6's with 3D environments instead of sprite tiles...

Looks to work fine for me.

The validator outputs this code:



Try that.

the tile here doesn't even address the most important points made , again , the left in america needs some chutzpah.

10/gui doesn't seek to eliminate the keyboard... they even show a keyboard in the video. Don't know where people are getting that idea from.

westy's concern of keeping track of 10 figures occurred to me, also, but you clearly don't need to use all 10 fingers; 4 is enough to do every necessary operation.

The window manager needs some polish, in my opinion, but it's not wholly bad. It feels like they can't decide if they want to be a tiling window manager or stacking window manager. They can't be a completely free SWM or some of their gestures break down, but sometimes it's nice to not be locked into a strict TWM either. Someone will find that happy medium, though, even if it's not these guys. There's no reason to throw out the entire concept just because they haven't quite nailed the WM.

is the shower right there by the toilet?

between :41-42, the camera sweeps and you see shampoo, and then handles. all tile room as well. coo.

Then when the winter comes do we all paint our roofs black? It would save a lot of energy that would be used to heat our homes.
Then we could pass a law to have our roofs painted white by June. We would all have to remove our studded tires and paint our roofs or pay the fine!
I don't think this will catch on.
Years ago, a kid at a science fair invented a roof shingle that changed is reflectivity when the seasons changed. When the sun is at a high angle(summer) the roof tile reflected light. when the sun is at a low angle (winter) the tile appeared dark, and absorbed the heat. like those little hologram images that are on lots of things these days.
Sounds Greener then painting the world white.

Thanks for posting this, thegrimsleeper!

>> ^thegrimsleeper: Infinity Ward always makes sure their games run at 60fps on the consoles. Although they had to lower the resolution of CoD 4:MW to 1024x600 to get it to run at 60fps.

Actually, the framebuffer size is due to a limitation of the Xbox 360. The 360 has only ~10 MB of eDRAM, which means it can't fit an HD (even 720p) framebuffer with antialiasing without using tiled rendering. This is more expensive and a big price to pay if you're trying to get your frame rendered in 16.67 ms. So, as a starting point, you use the biggest buffer you can fit with antialiasing for the majority of your scene (rendering the UI using tiling, since you want it pixel-accurate). If you're content to make a 30fps game, then the hit from tiled rendering isn't nearly as big a chunk of your frame.

More info: HD problems in Xbox 360 and PS3

Tags for this video have been changed from 'remodel contractors, floor replacement, tile floor, basement remodel, floor, basem' to 'banned, redacted, in west philadelphia born and raised' - edited by rasch187

that's brilliant. i'm gonna have to rotate my avatar between that, rasch's and the original. you got talent!

love the reflections on the tiling. it's pretty fucking creepy.