Monday 27 June 2011

The Week in News

Chinese people attacked in Paris.  Imagine if an English politician said it had nothing to do with race - they'd be crucified.


The mayor of the 20th district, Frederique Calandra, said she believed the attacks were not motivated by racism.
"Chinese people are attacked very often, not because of racist problems but because thugs have this opportunity of making money easily, because Chinese people are used to carrying cash - a lot of cash," said Ms Calandra.
That would put her out of a job in England.


Japans fastest train looks like a giant penis.  Considering the obvious aerodynamic advantages of such a design, does that mean we will begin seeing Usain Bolt run stark naked?  Only time will tell.

Worlds most inappropriate advertisment.  It's pasted next to a church (who cares about the church part?) and opposite a school.  Whoops.  Actually thinking about it, an advertisment of this nature, posted anywhere, will be seen by children and christians.  Post it on the side of a road and it will be seen, post it on the side of a house and it will be seen.  The point is - advertisments are designed to be seen.  It doesn't actually matter a jot where it's put.

Worlds fastest train cuts a ten hour journey down to three hours.  Them there chinese be up to no good again.  I predict a horrific crash, the government will blame it on dissidents and communism will strengthen its grip on the country for a short while 'in the name of personal freedom and security.'  Oh wait, that's England and America.

It's about 31 degrees or so, and humid enough to make resting my hands on this hot laptop intolerable; so that's all for this weeks news roundup.


On a side-note - The two funniest comments I've ever seen on a youtube video are both present at the top of this one.

On a completely unrelated note - I attempted a pet project last night, of live-streaming my desktop over the internet (just to see if it could be done, really) and I got it working, except for one annoying bug.  It would randomly flicker all over the place, making it a pain in the backside to watch.  Epilepsy inducing.  I'm running an Nvidia card with two screens, and frankly speaking, it could be one of a million different things causing it.

Also, if you want to find a way of stressing out a new computer, try livestreaming something.  The comp needs to continuously capture the video, transcode it, and upload it on the fly.  I was averaging 60% CPU usage when I was in a game.  Taxing stuff.

Ideas welcome on how to fix the flickering.

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