At the Game Developers Conference this year, Dolby’s Jason Page spoke about next-gen audio on the PS3. To sum things up, MIDI, which has been around forever, conjures up music in games of the past… beeps and boops. Since then, game developers have moved towards pre-recorded audio tracks.
With advances in audio sampling, and enough CPU power to output virtually unlimited amounts of audio samples simultaneously, he predicts a shift BACK to MIDI based in game music, allowing the music to interact with what’s happening in the game. Remember Super Mario Bros background music seamlessly changing when you get a star? Expect to see that again in future games.
Looks like someone having a really boring day figured out how to superzoom into Google map’s satellite view. So first, you find a site you want to see, and click on satellite view:
Then, by changing a parameter in the URL like so:
Select a location and switch to satellite view. Zoom in as far as you can, and click ‘link to this page’ at the top right. Now replace the ‘z’ parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery.
You end up with a super high detail zoom’d in image:
Of course, only some map areas support it, so your mileage may vary.
Much like yours truly (except to a much more insane degree), Paris Hilton is in love with herself. Apparently, her home is decorated with portraits of her everywhere, from the entrance to the dining room. Now that I know this, and with her topping my “Celeb-Top-5-Fuck-List”, my envision of how it will go down has gotten even better… being at her place… surrounded by Paris everywhere… regardless of which room our acts of passion takes us… all 30 seconds of it. More Paris below:
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