Tuesday 30 March 2010

YouTube: Now with subtitles... kinda

YouTube recently released the closed caption beta for videos. This uses speech recognition to create subtitles for your videos.

My Avatar review video from back in December was been run though the speech recognition and now was subtitles, but the problem is, for the most part they don't fit with what I'm actually saying.


Most lines end up as like the one above. Which shows about the same understanding of the English language as your average 4chan user.

Like I said, it's currently in beta, so it should get better, but really, here's a thought, why not let the person who made the video write the captions? The 'tuber knows what was said so they can caption it properly.

My challenge now is to make a video where the captions match perfectly.
Saturday 20 March 2010

GoW3 Breaks Kid's Hand

This is the x-ray of an unknown persons hand, interesting I know. Note the two red arrows, these fingers are broken, the cause... playing God of War 3!
So the patients story is that he (or her, but I'll continue using the male term, k?) rolled his knee over his fingers. Now, I've been a gamer for about 16 years now, and I have never been in the position where it's possible for me to roll over my own hand whilst playing. I think someone is just trying to hide some overly embarrassing way that they broke their hand and blame it on something cool.

In Soviet Russia, game beats you!

N4G.com : David Cage: Next Game Coming Sooner Than You Think

The dust hasn't even begun to settle on Heavy Rain, yet David Cage has already begun penning his next game.

N4G.com : David Cage: Next Game Coming Sooner Than You Think

Thursday 11 March 2010

Get Your Arse Into (Net)Gear

(I am SO sorry about the title)

Netgear have joined the list of computer related companies that piss me off to no avail, which really only consists of PC World and Netgear.

Anyway on Sunday my router packed up, no signal, couldn't even connect to it using cables. So after fruitlessly trying to fix it in the usual fashion (pulling the plug, pushing the reset button), I called Netgear support and was met with a plethora of accents, firstly the calm British male who asked me what type of router I was using, followed by the ear-splittingly loud American woman (don't get me wrong, I love american accents, as long as they are below 100 dB) who asked what type of tech support I needed, and finally the strongest Indian accent fathomable, who could only tell me to do what I could read out of the trouble shooting section of the manual. So after 20 min of saying to the guy "Yeah, already done that, still doesn't work" he passed me onto the replacement compartment where they guy hadn't learnt the letter W, "R.O.U...", "No, it's R.O.W...", "OK, so R.O.U.U..." FFS.

Anyway, after that fiasco, I got them to have the new router sent next day delivery, which to give them credit it did arrive next day. I unplugged the old one boxed it up so ship back to them (SHIT... I've still got to do that!) and got the new one all set up, only to find... that the fucking thing wouldn't send out a signal, and would only work wired, not really what I wanted from a WIRELESS router.

So, while rather pissed off, I called Netgear again, and went thought the whole tech support nightmare again, this time responding "It's new out of the box, and I've already done that!" they sent me yet another new one, which I must happily say is sitting in my kitchen, sending out its wi-fi signals of happiness.

All's well that ends well... right?
Tuesday 2 March 2010

Solved, Until Next Time

So at exactly 01:01 this morning, the 8001050f error screen failed to show, which means that everything should be back to normal.

Hopefully it won't make the same mistake in 2011. 2012 should be fine, if not, the world'll end soon anyway so no problem.
Monday 1 March 2010

More PS3 Fail

So, when I bought Heavy Rain SP, they promised me: A premium theme, The Taxidermist DLC and the Heavy Rain soundtrack.

They delivered on 2 out of three (0 out of 3 since the whole 8001050f thing), I was wondering where my soundtrack was when I received this e-mail:


Hello "Phyonix",

Thanks for pre-ordering Heavy Rain Special Edition.

Sony have reported to us that there has unfortunately been a last-minute technical delay to the Heavy Rain official soundtrack, meaning that customers who have purchased the Heavy Rain Special Edition will not be able to download the Soundtrack until 4th March 2010. Sony recommend that you wait until this date to redeem your Special Edition voucher code which is in the game box - you'll then receive all the Special Edition content in one batch.

However, if you choose to redeem your voucher code immediately for the other downloadable content, you won't be able to receive the official soundtrack nor will you be able to use the same code to redeem the soundtrack on 4th March 2010. Therefore, you'll need the following code to enable you to download the soundtrack from 4th March 2010.

Your code is:
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Use on or after 4th March 2010 as per the instructions that came with the game.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

If you've got any questions regarding this, then in the first instance please contact Sony UK customer service on 0844 736 0595.  If they are unable to assist you with your enquiry, or you have any questions specific to your order, then please contact the hmv team on 0845 603 8576. We're open 9am - 6pm, Monday to Friday. Or drop us an email at website.service@hmv.co.uk.
Thanks
Online Customer Service Team
hmv.com

Which is slightly annoying, cause the first thing I did was to use my code to get the free stuff, but they got me covered there. I just hope to God that I can re-download the other 2 things.

8001050f: Sweeping the PS3 World

Yesterday (and continuing on to today) PS3s all over the planet where showing up the error code; 8001050f. Unable to sign in and PSN content corrupted, many people have been looking to Sony for an answer, their response, we haven't a clue. Speculation is that the PS3 was coded incorrectly and thinks today is the 29th Feb, thus causing server desynchronization.

Sony say they are working on a solution, and they ask that you leave your consoles alone for today, If you feel that is beyond you, you have to limit your gaming to games that DO NOT have trophies, such as Modern Warfare 1, Assassin's Creed 1 etc.

So if there is an old game that you stopped playing, now is the perfect excuse to go back and finish it.

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