Do video games make you violent.
Jun 06Do video games make you violent ?
Problably a little disturbing video, but I could not let it slide. Do videogames make you violent ? Not per se, at least not in the way you think they would.( Shooting your classmates after playing to much Grand theft auto and that). No i'm talking about the kind of frustratons games give you by the sheer complexity of the game. Going bonkers in Packman, warping out after getting eaten by a crock in pitfall .. Or being on the verge of killing your computer after it freezes up in level 52 of world of warcraft. That kind of frustration. Above is a classic example of the latter .. And I must say .. since the kid is German it only makes it better. Don't get me wrong , I love my German neighbours and I think it is the IDEAL language .. to swear in ! .. enjoy.
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The Knightcast Episode 32 : My Macbook.
Jun 06The Knightcast Episode 32 : My Macbook.
Direct link to the show : https://knightwise.com/podcasts/kc060606.mp3
Summary.
This week we do an in depth 'Knightcast Style' review of the 13,3 inch tinkerbell of technology called "The Macbook". Is it all that its cracked up to be ? Is it realy that great or is it all just a fab ? We dive down into the bowels of this Mac laptop and see if it can tune tech into your way of life.
Shownotes.
Intro.
- This weeks events.
- Is grandma Jeanne for real ?
- Knightcast to join Techpodcast Network
- Music : Alexander Blue : Concert
Part one.
- I bought a Macbook : Now what ?
- Buying the parts yoursellf.
- Replacing the parts yoursellf.
- The Black Macbook Hype.
- The better buy ?
- Music : Ugene : Harmony.
Part Two.
- The Pro and the con.
- Music : Absentmachine : Reboot.
Part Three.
- Universal Binaries vs PPC binaries.
- The Isight Camera
- An example of Photobooth.
- BTV : Record video on your Macbook (see above for promo video)
- The Builtin Mike.
- Skype
- Recordpad
- Apple Motion Sensor
- I-Alert You
- Macsaber
- Smackbook
- Parralels
- Signoff.
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Thank you Codemonkey Rob !
Jun 03
He is strange but he is ours ! "C0d3M°nKY3 – "Co-W@X" – R08 "
Some say he only dreams in Binary, Some say he sleeps between cascading style sheets and has Serial modems for breakfast. Some even say he has a keyboard where we have a head. The only thing we know is : We call him Codemonkey Rob. Yep. Its time to pay hail and tribute for the man behind the scene, the cobol behind the code, the wizard behind the curtain : Codemonkey Rob.
All the cool stuff you see before you , the interactive stuff, the smoothly styled stuff, the nicely trim-lined tables, the evenly spaced out characters and not forgetting the rock solid 9500 hits – a – day – withstanding without even flinching bad – ass open source content management technology … its all this dudes work.
Now we might be technocrats, cyber-citizens. We might dance on the pinnacle of the next big thing in technology and take our legendary writing skills to praise the gospel to the masses.. Whenever we are in need , this dude is there. Where our flamboyant literary skills fall short .. where our graphical delusions of what the site should look like far overstep the bounds of our graphical coding abilities. Where the demand we place on the content of the website leans closer towards alchemy then towards computer science. And every single time we come running , our fingers covered in the sticky paste of yet another big web-based-frack-up, screaming his name .. ROB ! I made a Booboo .. THAT is when he is there.
The man behind the Magic.
He looks at us , as Merlin must have looked at King Arthur's stable boys with a look of utter supremacy. His mind purring gently as he is recalculating the letter PI up to the 365th digit, without a calculator and just for fun. As we pour out the very root directory of our heart to him and beg the Almighty Rob for yet another miracle, the only thing he does is smile. His eyes take on this gleam.. this gaze .. If you look real close you see the naked php code dancing behind them. For what feels like an eternity but is only a nanosecond .. he hesitates. … “ No problem “ he then proclaims matter-of-factly .. “will be right done. Peace a cake” And shortly afterwards the miracle is done. With a speed an accuracy that puts Gods little seven-day science project to shame , Codemonkey Rob conjures up another impossibility. So let me take a minute to sacrifice a symbolical hard drive in his honor and say on Behalf of everyone at Knightwise.com : Thank you Code-monkey rob !
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Huh ? What ? Tv ? : Why watch tv when you have the Internet.
Jun 02TV ? erm .. huh ? What ?
I get caught in these moments regularly . “Did you see that on tv yesterday ?” they ask me enthusiastically. As my facial expression starts to equal that of a chipmunk piloting a space-capsule I know i’m in for it again. Oh my .. TV. Apparently this kind of linear one way entertainment is still extremely popular under the masses. Like Zombies they flock together on the couch and watch endless reruns of episodes they have either all seen before or don’t like watching at all. Lobotomized and tasteless from the waste up the munch Sitcom after Sitcom, Reality show after reality show and the 52th rerun of a Simpsons episode they are now unconsciously mumbling along with as the episode progresses.
Higdev : Same crap , more pixels.
Together with the rise of high definition television comes the hype (here in Belgium at least) of tv on demand. The three main tv networks offer ‘tv on demand” where you can have a little “dressed down like a hobo” style pvr record your shows and give you the luxury of minute time-shifting. Now what has been voiced by the people over the last years has been : There is nothing on tv ! The answer of the Tv stations is to roll out technology that lets you see the same crap over and over again, and if you don”t have it , they will just rerun the same crap all over again. It has come to the point where I truely am unable to watch mainstream tv WITHOUT a laptop on my lap to at least surf the internet or do something productive when I’m forced to watch tv.
Tubeless.
But .. However there are times that I to am tied to the tube. Like yesterday for example. Came home .. popped up behind the computer (little chatting , little writing, little skyping to do) and opened up my Itunes folder. Law and behold there was my list of podcasts and videocasts. Since I have subscribed to quite a few I clicked one ( The Haunted new Jersey Videocast ) and while typing up an email in the next window, watched an entire 25 minute episode and be very very entertained. Next up was an hour long DL.TV that brought me up to speed with what was going on in tech this week. Spicing it of with some Geekbreef TV (You have to love Cali Lewis for her work) and some Rocketboom . Now before I knew it … The evening was over . I had watched a selection of video-entertainment that I had personally selected, watched in my own good time and was not bored for a minute. And this weekend i'm looking forward to a free , full featured cult movie thanx to The cult of UHF .. What more could I want ?
Tv … Huh What ?
So next time people ask me .. Did you see this and that on TV yesterday, i’m going to have to give them that blank stare again. What ? Huh ? Like I'm some dumb-ass retard that just bounced on the pavement after falling from a three story building.. While in fact .. i’m already on the next step of the evolutionary ladder in tv entertainment. But the weirdest part is . For me it (like with all technology) it already has surpassed the phase of ‘novelty” and has become a normal everyday experience .. On the edge of real and cyberspace.
