rgbFilter Episode 009 – Fan Expo Wrap – Show Notes
It’s our return to a regular recording schedule after Fan Expo, and we’ve got all the details on the Swag Bag Giveaway.
Before I launch into that though, this week we welcome back an old friend and wrap up Fan Expo (even though we still have extensive interviews in upcoming weeks).We also get our tech on as we talk a bit about Google’s new browser Chrome, the CDMA version of the HTC Diamond phone, review the awesome game Braid and the equally awesome documentary Frag.
Speaking of Frag, on to the Giveaway!
Prizes include the following…
1 Batman – The Killing Joke Remastered, and signed – Brian Bolland
1 Bodycount signed – Kevin Eastman
1 Evil Dead Musical pack
– XL What the F*#K Was That t-shirt
– 1 Evil Dead Musical novelty axe
1 Hoverboy prize pack
– Hoverboy #1 signed
– Hoverboy DVD signed
1 x Aliens Predator Pack
– Birth of the Hybrid diorama
– Cpl. Hicks figure.
2 x United Free Worlds Pack
– United Free Worlds #1
– United Free Worlds t-shirts XL
Each of the above packs include a copy of the pro-gaming documentary Frag.
In addition, we have 2 additional copies of the film, for a grand total of 10 Swag Bags.
What do you have to do to get in on this? Here’s the details.
Register at rgbfilter.com/register, then send us an email at show@rgbfilter.com with ‘giveaway’ in the subject, and include your user name somewhere as well.The deadline for entries is Monday Oct. 13th 2008 at midnight Eastern, and winners will be announced in the following episode.
So what are you waiting for?
Nice outing! I really liked the review of Frag.
I have to say through I disagree completely about what Scott McCloud did for Google Chrome. I found to be like watching paint dry — AND I kept waiting for him to point out how ridiculous it is that we are even still talking about implementing things like garbage collection in a modern programming language. It reads to me like an indictment of the modern web industry written by someone who doesn’t understand that the situation is a farce, and instead takes a bunch of quite *ordinary* advances that have been missed due to vested interests and incompetence, and interprets them as brilliant innovations. I’m not sure if I should blame McCloud specifically — let’s just say that I think the narrative he was handed by Google is utter bullshit.
I’m not much of a programmer, so I’m not going to disagree with you over that, though to be fair to Scott McCloud, the narrative WAS mostly people working on the project.
I’d have to agree with Alex that the style of delivery is definitely inviting to more people than a dry web page with bullet points, though why they opted for all that blue instead of either B&W/greyscale or straight up colour is beyond me.
The blue has a ’50s Guide-To-Using-Your-New-Blendomatic feel. If it was an attempt to achieve irony — it didn’t work.
Yeah, I’m not sure who should have caught the bogus storyline. I guess McCloud was paid so much cash to toe their line that he wasn’t about to do any independent research — this was just an E-Z street pickup job for him.
I will say that the separate process for each tab, does rise to the level of a true innovation — but it’s one that people have no idea how much it’s going to cost them in resources. Every tab is like a separate application, with it’s own separate execution thread AND memory space. So … ever had 30 tabs open at once. How smooth would YOUR system be with 30 *applications* open at once? (And imagine they are all web browsers, to boot.)
Google Chrome is exactly like Android — highflown ideas but when you get down the bare bones native tech, it’s actually at a huge disadvantage to the competition. (i.e. Android is based on Java whereas the iPhone and Symbian phones are native, so Android will *always* — as in FOREVER — be at a performance disadvantage on the same hardware.) Same goes for Google Chrome.
When everybody has 8GB standard memory — MAYBE.
Everything else besides the separate processes thing was bogus in my book.
This may be a 2-dimensional comment, but while the blue in teh comic has a *LOT* to do with the ’50s feel, I’m also gonna suggest it has a lot to do with the fact that the Chrome UI is, in fact, way Blue 🙂
AdGeek has spoken 🙂
You ruined it. I wasn’t supposed to know that it was blue until they release the Mac version. 8)
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