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TheComet
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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 17:54
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Notpage.
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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 18:35
What are you guys doing for valentine's day?

I'm probably going to sit at home and program because I'm single and don't care.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 18:40
About the same as me then. I don't even know when it is



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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 19:10
I'm cooking for my girl and then watching movies. I think. Not sure. It's this upcoming Saturday IIRC.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 20:28
I'm cooking for my movie and then watching girls. Online. probably.

ie. Same thing I always do. TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
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How I play Dark Souls:





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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 23:19 Edited at: 9th Feb 2015 23:20
@RND128 Remember this?



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Posted: 9th Feb 2015 23:22
Points are not available

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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 04:48 Edited at: 10th Feb 2015 05:37
Quote: "Points are not available"
That was a lie when you typed that

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Fancy!

Quote: "The Apostrophe Competition - now with postings"
Hey! It's no longer officially called the Posting Competition. I say a point tally be taken, and the winner of the Competition be determined! Winner earns 1 point as a prize. (yeeees, that is very valuable, because it's not normally possible to earn just one point!)

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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 06:26
Hey that's true!
But I have a better idea! Award 12345 points to Easter Bunny first then end the competition!


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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 07:16
Quote: "But I have a better idea! Award 12345 points to Easter Bunny first then end the competition!"
No no no no no no no no no no no no

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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 10:01
We're back from our holidays! It was brilliant. Totally way too much sun and the beaches we swam in the day before had a fatal shark attack, but other than that it was awesome

Quote: "Okay, I'm over it so obviously you're all correct and congratulations on being experts on language. Maybe 'inconsistent' wasn't the correct word to use, but you all know where I'm coming from that it's quite specific. In fact, even this link agrees that it is a very specific use case.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pronouns-possessive-my-mine-your-yours-etc

That's the last I'm going to say about it, grow up and sort the thread title out man."


Sheesh, no need to like that about it... it was just an "on-the-side" debate, nothing serious. And I didn't change the thread title, but I'm finding it strangely annoying so I'll change it back

Quote: "Where is this? I was under the impression you're out west NSW somewhere...? Near Tamworth or something? Lol I wanna visit it"


Oops, forgot to say: Ballina. It's a three-and-a-half hour drive from there back to our place, one I just finished driving (well, Mum drove for an hour to give me a break but otherwise I drove the entire way).

Where do I live? Without telling you exactly where, here:



Quote: "I don't have to even think about it, you're hands down the most irritating character here."


Come now, don't be so irritable. Chill out, man

Quote: "About the same as me then. I don't even know when it is "


+1

Quote: "Now here's a nice set of speakers that are a good price!"


Have a look for Logitech 5.1 speakers. That's what my brother, Dad and I have had for years and they're brilliant, and IIRC quite cheap

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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 13:08
eeew windows vista

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Quote: "nd I didn't change the thread title, but I'm finding it strangely annoying so I'll change it back "


I do apologise then.
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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 23:15
Clonkex = David

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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 23:20
Browsers are so annoying. Firefox developer sometimes only plays youtube videos in 360p and uses a ton of CPU. Firefox plays 720p and 360p but uses a ton of CPU aswell. Chromium uses a ton of ram and a fair bit of CPU

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Posted: 10th Feb 2015 23:34
points are so annoying.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 00:28
Quote: "eeew windows vista"


Ew no! SO not. Windows 7.

Quote: "I do apologise then."


All good, man, all good

Quote: "Clonkex = David"


Yup

Now to eat excessively vinegary s&v chips from Aldi and make my FPV camera mountable and controllable and tidy up the wiring

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Ah, it's just a small taskbar

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 00:33 Edited at: 11th Feb 2015 00:34
Quote: "Ah, it's just a small taskbar"


Yeah because I hate the default style of the taskbar in Windows Vista/7. It's so dumb and impractical. I wish M$ would give you the choice between the two styles and screenshots to compare it during installation, because so often I get the feeling most people would prefer the XP style but don't know you can change it.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 00:59
Quote: "FPV camera"
Ahhh, I so want an FPV plane of sorts. I can't fly an RC plane or helicopter from a third person view for my life, but flying from first person would be great. I know this has probably been mentioned, but how much are you guys spending, in total cost, on your quadcopters?

Quote: "I hate the default style of the taskbar in Windows Vista/7. It's so dumb and impractical."
I go back and forth. For a while I had the big task bar with long icons, then little task bar with long icons, and now the big task bar with square icons. I switch things up really often. My friends make fun of me for how often I change my iPad's background, like every three days. Every week or so on my computer.

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Quote: "Yeah because I hate the default style of the taskbar in Windows Vista/7. It's so dumb and impractical. I wish M$ would give you the choice between the two styles and screenshots to compare it during installation, because so often I get the feeling most people would prefer the XP style but don't know you can change it."

The small task bar is so much better, but is very poorly done in Windows 7. Why anyone would want to keep the start button the same size with a smaller task bar is beyond me. I have the task bar up top and have a few tabs pinned on chrome. If you don't know what pinned tabs look like in chrome, it's this:


So when I have pinned tabs overlapped by the start button, it makes them almost impossible to use.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 02:36 Edited at: 11th Feb 2015 02:37
Clonkex, Lol so you pretty much live in the middle of nowhere? Somewhere around Pyes Ck Road by the looks of it?


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WORLD - CRUISE

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Quote: "I know this has probably been mentioned, but how much are you guys spending, in total cost, on your quadcopters?"

I'll get back to you on that number Will you want that to include things like the battery charger and transmitter/controller? Those can be used across multiple quads so they aren't really part of the build but you have to have them.

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Quote: "I know this has probably been mentioned, but how much are you guys spending, in total cost, on your quadcopters?"


In total, I've spent about $650-700 on my quad. I've not counted exactly yet. Bear in mind, however, that my quad is more expensive than most will be. Mine's quite large and has a lot of unnecessary stuff on it that cost a fair bit. My brother considered buying a quad for himself and worked out a really nice 250mm FPV racing quad would be about $450-500, IIRC.

For anyone looking at getting into RC multirotors or planes: Go have a look at FliteTest on YouTube. They're an awesome channel with great beginner series.

Quote: "The small task bar is so much better, but is very poorly done in Windows 7. Why anyone would want to keep the start button the same size with a smaller task bar is beyond me. I have the task bar up top and have a few tabs pinned on chrome. If you don't know what pinned tabs look like in chrome, it's this:"


I remember thinking the same thing about the Start button when I first used Windows 7, and I agree it's a bit silly, but I'm used to it now quite like it. I didn't even know you could pin tabs in Chrome.

Quote: "Clonkex, Lol so you pretty much live in the middle of nowhere? Somewhere around Pyes Ck Road by the looks of it?"


Approximately, yeah. Not Pyes Creek Road exactly but thereabouts

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 12:55
For anyone looking at getting into RC multirotors or planes: Go have a look at my points

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 13:15 Edited at: 11th Feb 2015 13:16
Quote: "Ahhh, I so want an FPV plane of sorts. I can't fly an RC plane or helicopter from a third person view for my life, but flying from first person would be great. I know this has probably been mentioned, but how much are you guys spending, in total cost, on your quadcopters?"


I think the base cost of my tricopter was about 350$. Then I spent another 250 for all the FPV gear (monitor+reciever, transmitter, camera and extra battery). I have also spent atleast 100$ on replacement parts now aswell. And that's not counting the transmitter which I had before.

Also, I don't think I would recommend starting out with FPV before knowing how to fly Line of sight. It's a lot easier to get the craft tuned in while flying LOS and then moving to FPV than I assume it would be if you go straight to FPV. It will also save you some time and money if the FPV gear stops working and you can recover by flying LOS.

Multirotors are cool but I suspect it might be easier and cheaper to start out with a plane. I have never flown one myself but they are a lot cheaper and if you lose controll of a plane, it will glide down slowly while a multirotor starts spnning out of controll and falls like a rock I think it might also be easier to fly a plane FPV because the thing I had the most difficulty with during my 3 FPV flights was knowing what direction the copter was actually moving in, I sort of got the hang of it but it was hard.

Edit: If you want to get into flying multirotors, get a hubsan x4 or Blade Nano QX. They are a lot of fun and will teach you the basics of LOS flying (and FPV if you get a more expensive version) and they are incredibly crash resistant.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2015 14:42
Gotcha, those prices are about what I expected to hear. That Hubsan x4 is way cheap!

Quote: "It's a lot easier to get the craft tuned in while flying LOS and then moving to FPV than I assume it would be if you go straight to FPV"
That's probably the case for me with a quadcopter. With a more traditional plane, I have plenty of experience flying planes in simulators, so maybe that would make a difference? I can't fly those line of sight for the life of me. But a quadcopter, maybe.

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Yea, quadcopters might be easier to fly LOS than planes, you don't have to get into a situation where you are flying towards yourself which makes everything a lot harder. When I started flying quads I quickly learned to always keep the quad pointed away from me until I got good enough to fly sideways and eventually backwards

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Gotcha, that makes sense. When I fly LOS planes, things always go well until I have to turn around.

One time, I had this relatively large (maybe 4 foot wingspan) beginner's RC plane, and upon flying it toward myself, I crashed it into a fence. That in itself didn't do that much damage, but the wing, made of foam, was held to the plane by only two rubber bands. So when the wing ran into the fence cable, it got pushed back into the still quickly spinning propeller. Foam chunks flew everywhere. We'll just say the wing didn't fair its encounter with the propeller so well.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2015 10:23 Edited at: 13th Feb 2015 10:24


Maybe she wouldn't be so fat if she actually walked around a little once in a while.
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Posted: 13th Feb 2015 13:09
That is seriously gross. I think we can all agree this is REAL indecent exposure!

In other news, we watched one of the latest episodes of Top Gear over tea tonight and they had some guy from Breaking Bad as the star. We'd all heard about the show (Breaking Bad), and each of us realised we'd heard rave reviews about it from our friends, so we decided to give it a go. After just two episodes I'm rather liking it, but I'm interested to see if it can maintain it's cleverness

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Quote: "For anyone looking at getting into RC multirotors or planes: Go have a look at FliteTest on YouTube. They're an awesome channel with great beginner series."

I've found an even more valuable resource to be RCModelReviews. Watching a few of his videos will help you pick up all kinds of other related knowledge you may not have realized could be so useful

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Quote: "I've found an even more valuable resource to be RCModelReviews. Watching a few of his videos will help you pick up all kinds of other related knowledge you may not have realized could be so useful"


Awesome, thanks! I'll have to take a look at that!

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Posted: 14th Feb 2015 03:52 Edited at: 14th Feb 2015 03:53
So I shall most likely be entering a situation (can't say what it is) soon where I will need to be able to record decently high quality footage of myself speaking. I have found a place where I may record, but I have a few questions regarding lighting and cameras and such.

In the way of lighting, the room I shall be recording in has no good interior or exterior lighting (it is a shed ). I also need a backdrop of sorts, so I am considering purchasing this.

The reviews are pretty solid considering the price, which isn't terrible by any means. So the question is this: do I really need that? I simply just need a decent background, such as a green screen (that also comes with a black and white back drop), and I also need soft, even, well colored light that avoids shadows (hence the two lights that it comes with). I am sure I can achieve all that with the kit, but maybe I could do the same with homemade things? Eh, probably not. I suppose I am randomly rambling on here, but if anyone has any tips regarding lighting, I would love to hear them.

Hopefully my crappy cellphone's 5MP camera shall do a fine job filming the subject, assuming the lighting is good.

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Posted: 14th Feb 2015 04:35 Edited at: 14th Feb 2015 04:46
In my (extremely limited) experience with filmmaking, I'd say yes, that would do exactly what you want The screens are only thin so you'd need a wall behind them to work effectively (otherwise you'd see through them), and some people report one or other bulb not working on delivery, but for the price I'd say it's a pretty darn good kit

Quote: "Hopefully my crappy cellphone's 5MP camera shall do a fine job filming the subject, assuming the lighting is good."


What's the phone? Also, the 5MP is irrelevant in this situation since movie recording resolution is always independent of stills res.

EDIT:

Quote: "but maybe I could do the same with homemade things?"


Off the top of my head, here's some ideas: For the backdrop, use several clean, white sheets attached to a wall. Use several because only one may be too thin. For lighting, you'd want very bright, white bulbs (downlights might work?). To spread the light, maybe you could wrap a couple of large boards tightly with white sheets and bounce the light off them (you may need a couple of friends to hold the boards for you), but you'd probably also need a more direct light source as well.

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Quote: "The screens are only thin so you'd need a wall behind them to work effectively"
Yeah, that's one of my concerns. The kit does come with three different sheets, albeit different colors each, but perhaps I could hang all three at once to prevent see through.

Quote: "What's the phone? Also, the 5MP is irrelevant in this situation since movie recording resolution is always independent of stills res."
Good point! It is an LG Lucid 2, and it is capable of shooting video at 1920x1080. However, I notice that shooting with 1280x720 allows the camera to zoom out further than it can at 1080p, which I may possibly need, depending on how much room I have to get the camera far out away from me. I am fine with the quality of both of those resolutions. My main concern with the camera is its noise in low light conditions, but hopefully a decent lighting setup will get rid of those issues.

As for home improvised things, I saw a neat video about putting a light inside of a cardboard box lined with white material, or putting a light inside of a Styrofoam cooler. I think I will probably get the actual kit, though.

My latest concern is one of audio. Perhaps I should get a microphone that I could wear on my shirt? Watching a video with some shooting tips, the presenter brought up a good point: if I record audio using my phone's microphone, lots of background noise could be picked up, and my voice may sound generally distant. Ahhh, just had a thought, someone else in my household may have a shirt mount microphone I could use.

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Posted: 14th Feb 2015 11:24
Quote: "It is an LG Lucid 2, and it is capable of shooting video at 1920x1080. However, I notice that shooting with 1280x720 allows the camera to zoom out further than it can at 1080p, which I may possibly need, depending on how much room I have to get the camera far out away from me. I am fine with the quality of both of those resolutions. My main concern with the camera is its noise in low light conditions, but hopefully a decent lighting setup will get rid of those issues."


I've not heard of that phone before so can't give any specific recommendations, but my general recommendation is to simply try it out. Test it in various lighting conditions and see what the results are like

Quote: "but perhaps I could hang all three at once to prevent see through."


That's what I'd do.

Quote: "My latest concern is one of audio. Perhaps I should get a microphone that I could wear on my shirt? Watching a video with some shooting tips, the presenter brought up a good point: if I record audio using my phone's microphone, lots of background noise could be picked up, and my voice may sound generally distant."


Unfortunately I have very little experience in the realm of microphones. I've made films before using a crappy $2 karaoke mic from Clarks and I've recorded game voiceovers with my Corsair gaming headset. About the only other mic I've used is the one in my JVC camcorder's stereo mic... it's probably the best one we have. I'd love to buy a decent desktop condenser mic for YouTube recording but alas I haven't the money for it

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Why has a thread about programming been locked on a development forum?
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Quote: "Why has a thread about programming been locked on a development forum?"


What thread are you referring to?

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Posted: 14th Feb 2015 12:56 Edited at: 14th Feb 2015 12:59
Yeah, which thread?

EDIT: This one? Because it was severely off-topic and not a TGC-friendly topic to begin with.

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Off topic, yes, but How was it not suitable for TGC?
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Quote: "Off topic, yes, but How was it not suitable for TGC?"


The off-topic part was suitable. The on-topic part wasn't. That is, TGC does not want their products being used for (controversially) malicious purposes and therefore doesn't want such things being discussed on their forums.

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The conversation had moved away from it, and was an actual insightful debate for once - locking didn't remove the original post so I don't see what purpose it served.
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Posted: 14th Feb 2015 13:36 Edited at: 14th Feb 2015 13:37
Quote: "The conversation had moved away from it"


...and in doing so, became off-topic. The idea is that if you want to discuss those things, create a thread for it. That way it can be more easily found by searching, for instance. (Although in this case I don't recommend creating a thread for discussing single-file programs vs multi-file programs - I was pretty much the only person actually arguing for single-file programs, and I've come around, so your thread would be pretty boring )

Quote: "and was an actual insightful debate for once"


The thing is, for those of us who had been debating the original topic since the start of the thread, the shift to the new topic felt like a continuation of the original topic. It didn't feel like a civilised debate; more a heated debate on the verge of exploding.

Regardless, our reasons for locking threads are not up for debate. I'm explaining them in this case because I want you to understand our reasons for locking it; I believe the forum will be a better place if everyone understands the reasons certain threads are locked

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Quote: "...and in doing so, became off-topic. "


So? It's not like locking it is going to allow the OP to keep the discussion on track since they can no longer post in it themselves. Better to recycle an existing thread than make a new one, no?

Quote: "It didn't feel like a civilised debate; more a heated debate on the verge of exploding."


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