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Messages - nickashley
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« on: July 30, 2010, 07:47:39 PM »
Just want to see what you guys think, you may or may not know that the recent general election resulted in the Conservative party being in power. For the benefit of the americans on here this is a bit like the republicans (High taxes, keeping the rich rich and the poor poor, slight racist undertones ect.). The first thing this new government did was raise the vat rate (which is sales tax) to 20% from 17.5%. As a buisness owner this will cripple my finances and discourage people from parting with their cash, the flip side is that my country is in a lot of debt and their saying its nessisery for a brighter future.
I would really like your oppinions on this as I'm torn for my next vote.
Somthing else you might find amusing, I'm doing some reasearch on just how currupt my local council is. Already my findings are beyond belief but I will post full details when im done.
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« on: July 30, 2010, 12:34:25 PM »
I do watch telly, but as you say not eastenders  So is this your forum and who is the star trek guy nobody seems to like?
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« on: July 30, 2010, 09:47:42 AM »
If I am I didnt know it because I dont know who they were It nice to meet you ivan
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« on: July 30, 2010, 09:33:52 AM »
Yea, I dont allow any of my life to be connected to any girlfriends anymore. Lesson learned in a big way, where are you from (just country / state, im not asking for an address or anything)
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« on: July 30, 2010, 09:26:56 AM »
Ray tracing is not the most efficent way of rendering but can produce stunning results. So I guess you work with polygon rendering then, I did a bit of that using directx and opengl but never really got the hang of it. Have you heard of o3d
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« on: July 30, 2010, 09:25:22 AM »
Not that I know of, I guess I should find out so I dont turn up for work lol. Well if you working there you gettin some money so you ok I spent 6 months without a job and it was hell. In one week my girlfriend of four years broke up with me, I rented a house off her mother so she asked me to leave and then got a call saying I was being made redundent. So I lst my girl friend, my house and my job in one week, oh yea in that week I wrecked my car and broke my hand aswell lol. I lived on a friends living room floor on a matress for 6 months until I got myself sorted out. That kind of experience makes you appriciate what you got, if your living then it all good 
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« on: July 30, 2010, 09:15:26 AM »
I would imagine it would be a bit dull, do you do anything with ray tracing (it my new hobby) and you know somone in Coventry now bananaskittles: what kind of stuff do you work as?
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:50:35 AM »
Are you a coder then probie, I always have prefered coding to the systems/requirements analyst stuff. In my experience it dont seem like you doing anything, I guess I'm a bit too much hands on for the job. It a shame you didnt get the job you would have liked it here, the people here are very "direct" about the way they feel so nothing is hidden it very easy to make friends and get on here. Plus an added bonus is you can get anything you need within a few mins so the weekends are great.
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:29:13 AM »
Cool, did you enjoy your stay. A lot of people say it a bad place but I love it here
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:20:09 AM »
I'm sure he isnt all that bad, he likes star trek so he couldnt be
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:15:35 AM »
ohhh, I will do it rite away. I just get my credit card ..... I was assuming that your picture refered to skittle like tablets that help you have a good time on a friday night
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:12:53 AM »
I'm sorry his account got hacked, I know the people who play that game are very passionate about it unfortunatly when you play warcraft you log into one of their game servers so you are never directly connected to any other players. So the person who hacked the account would never of had any direct interaction with your machine, therefore finding the connection details would be imposable. All I can sugest is to scan your pc for spyware (because they must have got the password somehow), make a stronger password (longer with numbers) and make sure your brother knows never to give his password out even in exchange for free gold (most likely culprit)
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:04:51 AM »
I'm more into my suide or moleskin myself, I didnt know you could get banana skittles lol
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« on: July 30, 2010, 08:02:41 AM »
Really there are pills to do that, if I took some of them i might get up to 2cm long  
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« on: July 30, 2010, 07:58:38 AM »
I think the original message has a hint of sarcasm I generally go by the rule if somthing is free it is a con
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« on: July 30, 2010, 07:56:36 AM »
Hi, I'm new to the forum and I want to introduce myself. I'm nick and I live in the UK in a town called Coventry. I am interested in all kinds of hardware and softwear projects along with anything that is cool and interesting, for example plasma speakers I been experimenting with ray tracing recently and I have seen a lot of people linking ps3's together to try and achieve real time ray taceing, they have had varying levels of success but I have yet to see a 60 frame per second game running on ray tracing. For those of you who know a little about the subject will know that the calculations involved are not trivial and to render a scene using ray tracing with all the bells and whistles can take hours for a single frame. I was thinking last night, why not use a single PIC micro controler for each ray processing the whole scene in parallele. I agree it will take a lot of pics for example in a 300X200 image you would need 60000 single PICS and shared memory may be a problem (although you could use some clever bus techniques). I would be interested to know what everyone thinks, am I on to somthing or am I talking crap lol
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