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Comment forced email (Score 1) 601

by freeschwag (#38206492) Attached to: Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email

we are forced, and push it on upper management, to keep everyone on the straight and narrow. Otherwise, backstabbers galore would have open season to blame anyone for almost anything.

Boss: What? I didn't tell you to buy new computers last week, oh yeah? well prove it or yer fired for unauthorized expenditure of funds.....

Lackey: Here's the email boss, now lets go talk to YOUR supervisor :P

Comment laaame video (Score 1) 482

by freeschwag (#32969086) Attached to: Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense

Really? do they really think we all believe the Navy/Raytheon has the same video capability as say, 1957?
Black and white splotchy jerky dropped frames....really, are the lemmings really that gullible?
Come on now, my phone takes better video then that....
Why am I betting dollars to doughnuts that was highly doctored to fuzz out details, considering camera tech these days, it would be exceedingly difficult to make a video that bad with out significant digital intervention.

Comment This will never fly, accessories are big $$$ (Score 1) 365

by freeschwag (#32818518) Attached to: Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops

Why, because the accessories market is a billion dollar enterprise. Can I get the same standard connector deal on cell phone power connectors too (this topics been tackled on /. a few times if I recall.) For example: WTF, why did they flatten the standard microUSB from Razor ver 1 to Razor ver 2?Not like the new one was uber thin and needed that flatter connector, but sure as shit, I had to buy a new car adaptor, and unless you get a cheap chinese knockoff on eBay those things sell for an assraping $30-50 in the ATT (Anal sTreTching) store.

Comment Really, all good intentions aside... (Score 1) 330

by freeschwag (#32602460) Attached to: Why Intel Wants To Network Your Clothes Dryer

"Ultimately, it's not only about saving money, but also reducing load on the electricity grid by removing needless power use."
Bullshit, ultimately it's about intel finding a technical niche for some bling gadgetry that they can envision selling to most every home in the country if not world, are we so lazy we can't turn off our own TV? Pretty much, who gives a shit how much power the dryer uses? ALOT, mine pops a dedicated 20 amp breaker regularly. I ususally run it just as I'm going to bed so way off of peak hours, just for my convenience really, not due to any conscious effort of when "peak hours" are. We're all getting "smart meters" here in San Diego soon, so you can google your power usage anyway, doesn't that make this tech pretty much moot?
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Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul 262

Posted by samzenpus from the anything-to-beat-this-level dept.
mr_sifter writes "UK games retailer GameStation revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of customers, thanks to a clause it secretly added to the online terms and conditions for its website. The 'Immortal Soul Clause' was added as part of an attempt to highlight how few customers read the terms and conditions of an online sale. GameStation claims that 88 percent of customers did not read the clause, which gives legal ownership of the customer's soul over to the UK-based games retailer. The remaining 12 percent of customers however did notice the clause and clicked the relevant opt-out box, netting themselves a £5 GBP gift voucher in the process."

Comment Re:I'm not conflicted (Score 1) 980

by freeschwag (#31833178) Attached to: Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash?

BAH I'm with em NO FLASH ADS, oh wait, they just introduced the new iAD api in the latest firmware...eff me..

Why isn't my cell service free when my effing screen has more ads than cable TV? Oh I pay for that too. dang.

They eff you in the drivethru that's all I gotta say.
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The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting 251

Posted by Soulskill from the who-called-in-de-fleet dept.
The Guardian's Games blog explores the tendency of modern video games to suffer from poor voice acting, a flaw made all the more glaring by increasingly precise and impressive graphics. Quoting: "Due to the interactive nature of games, actors can't be given a standard film script from which they're able to gauge the throughline of their character and a feel for the dramatic development of the narrative. Instead, lines of dialogue need to be isolated into chunks so they can be accessed and triggered within the game in line with the actions of each individual player. Consequently, the performer will usually be presented with a spreadsheet jammed with hundreds of single lines of dialogue, with little sense of context or interaction. ... But according to David Sobolov, one of the most experienced videogame voice actors in the world (just check out his website), the significant time pressures mean that close, in-depth direction is not always possible. 'Often, there's a need to record a great number of lines, so to keep the session moving, once we've established the tone of the character we're performing, the director will silently direct us using the spreadsheet on the screen by simply moving the cursor down the page to indicate if he/she liked what we did. Or they'll make up a code, like typing an 'x' to ask us to give them another take.' It sounds, in effect, like a sort of acting battery farm, a grinding, dehumanizing production line of disembodied phrases, delivered for hours on end. Hardly conducive to Oscar-winning performances."

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