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I was invited to do a lecture and presentation at Coventries Gaming design course on computer arts a few years ago.

There's a studio there Full-Fat who I've worked with in the past.

I did a degree in Illustration and Information Design and then did an MA at the RCA (Royal College of Art)

I'm not sure I can recommend a dedicated games degree course, as there not taken that seriously by the industry. Your better of choosing a subject your interested in say either art and design or computer design software/engineering or possible a pure maths course, and then apply for a position once you've graduate.

I work for a studio in the South East as an art team leader.

Hope that helps.

 

Well... Since you asked. I used to be a stripper.

 

wow rep! thx for these info!
i want to design hardware.when ur saying art and design it has not bother with computers isnt it?
maybe i will choose virtual engineering if u heart that.

 

art and design including both traditional media and digital illustration.

for the most part games companies really like good university graduates that have learned core subject skills, so proper object oriented or machine programming, maths, traditional art and design. Talent is the key thing, as you can get training in everthing else.

Making games isn't that hard in itself, so long as your organised and you know what it is you want to achieve.

any how, back to the thread

 

Hehe, speaking of which, is anything getting anything this christmas to spice up there tech side of life.

Im hoping to get myself a nice big wall mounted tv for my xbox and Advent.

 

I really want one of those new LED TV's. 42" will do, the picture is unreal, but still a tad expensive

 

hey someone state that he have issuse with 9.12 ccc.
which are they?
i cant find with my lap
535/895 gpu clocks.no aticrap UNTIL now
also what about the youtube link i sent.u have same flash?

 

Used to be? You're only 50! Come on, I want PICS

 

Whoops sorry double post

 

Yeah i have to say they do look fantastic, went to york for a day to check out the elctronics store however i did see all 3 next to each other, and i may have even chosen plasma believe it or not over LED, granted both look fantastic but im pretty sure plasma had the edge over quality, and it was cheap as chips too.


i win lena!

 

Um, you do know I'm a dude, right?

Oh, forgot to mention... my mother was a stripper too! We both worked in the DC metro area, even worked together for awhile.

 

Yea, but they have a notoriously short life span and use as much electricity as CRT displays.

 

sweet , at what age did you retire ?

I 2nd that , LED any time .. or IF your are very rich , OLED is the way to go

 

I actually have to disagree, these days from what most people as well as professionals, tell me that there life time have really increased, although i'd still favour LED and LCD over it anytime, Plasma's are doing really well, and for rediculously cheap prices, although yeah, power requirements mad haha.

Whats the difference with O Led?

 

picture quality is way better than the 3 mentioned above

 

Haha, shame i haven't spotted any of these yet, what about projector technology, anyone been tempted by it?

 

I've been .. for quite some time now but space is against me would love to do some gaming on a white sheet i doubt it would be that good though , but still worth a try

 

Age 41.

Ok, now for the "truth". Most people do assume either something exotic, or furniture refinishing. Actually the "lay" term for my profession is Offset Photo Lithography. I used to to by hand what is now done by desktop publishing programs (i.e. Quark Xpress, Photoshop). "Stripping" is the term we use for putting the negatives together for burning on printing plates for the presses.

 

Haha, you just broke lambos heart my friend

 

is this laptops cd drive, really loud, cause the side piece had to be snapped back on to mine, and i just entered a cd, which i never do and its pretty loud

 

Nope, my Optiarc AD-7560S is rather quiet. In fact the whole system is very quiet. Does it sound loud with everything, or just certain types of disks?

 

idk , it was a dvd for my friends router

 

OLED dosn't require a backlight to function, and so draws less power, are extreamely thin, within a cm or so and draw much better contrast ratios, generally within limits of many millions of units to one. That means anything tonaly going from black to grey has millions of variations of grey.

Pretty awesome technology, and in Japan there are super hi-definition versions of this which make 1080p look pants. Shame were really behind the technology curve in Europe and America.

 

catalysm did u overclock q9000?
also have u see my video ? about flash and noise..

 

New display driver available from msi ! Am i the only one using the 1 supplied my msi ?

 

After seeing the Ultimate edition of GOW3 (blood and metal! hell yeah! ) i REALLY want a ps3 , time for me to get into console again

 

Wow, that does sound pretty rediculous, i will be definately scouting out to see a preview for one of these things now

Lets hope they pull mainstream some time over the next load' years

Nope so CPU Overclock, just the overdrive for now, may try pushing clocks higher with GPU tool or a flash.

That random flash i think happens all the time lena, when the windows window is complete, it blinks (possible skipping tmm?) i have this too but its no problem .

 

There's some mp3 players , Digital picture frames and laptop using the tech .. i'm surprised you haven't heard of it till now .. the downside is the life cycle and price tag

 

Kinda going off topic (but not, cos you guys started the 1080p thing)

I'm still torn between buying plasma or LCD.. I know all the arguments re images being burnt into plasma's, which arent really a prob so much these days but wondered what you guys think.

You get a better pic on a plasma and some of the new ones are awesome.

 

LCD gets my vote . at the end of the day , it's down to personal choice .. and depends what you going to use it for , HD contents or normal viewing

 

It is a difficult choice. The true TV connoisseur will say Plasma, possibly the Panasonic Vierra as true king of the HD 1080p TV’s.

However the LCD’s have caught up rapidly in the last 16 months and are almost comparable. Also there now dirt cheap, and great value for money. Get a high spec LCD like the Samsung UE, and you will gob smacked by how utterly gorgeous the picture is. Is pricy though.

There’s not a huge difference in power consumption, although anything above 42 inch on a Plasma is getting more expensive to run. The LED and OLED models consume around a third of the power of LCD and possibly as much as a fifth of the Plasma.

One thing to bear in mind is only consider 1080p if you have a 1080p source such as PS3 or Blu-Ray, otherwise pick up a serious good quality Vierra that will handle 720p. I can't emphasise how important this decision is, particularly since TV broadcast is set to 720p. In addition how well the TV upscales a broad cast image is imprtant. Some Plasmas, although not the Vierra, have issuses with audio delay, smearing and torn images. Football pitches can be a bugger to render without decent upsacaling of the image.

So your choice really, The Vierra will offer as good a quality as the Samsung but at a third less the price, but will be more expensive to power over a three year period.

 

LCD i really think its down to if the lighting is really spot on, but from what i've seen of plasma, they are really really fantastic, just keep an eye on the resolution though, you definately want something with a nice big res .

Samsung have a really nice plasma out there

http://www.plasmatvbuyingguide.com/

check a few of them out

 

Nice big res is good only IF you watch bluray or other HD contents , for normal tv viewing like freeview or terrestrial(does people still use that? ) it suck big time .. the pixels are blown up and it's not really enjoyable to watch.

Don't trust the sales persons , they will do everything to sell their sh** . and most Tv's in shops uses HD contents on their display to attract customers , but when it comes to normal life it's a different story and most reviews are bias

 

Yeah definately, mind you i have been using standard 720p def for some HD footage recently, i fallen in love with decent quality content

Although for 1080p emulation from my laptop, the 720p tv sucks big time because it tries cramming 1920x1080 pixels into its little 1280x720 (or what not).

 

Couldn't agree more. The whole politics around free to air and terrestrial HD means we the consumer have been short changed as far as 1080p is concerned.

Unfortunately the TV companies plumped for 720p and more channels across the air space rather than less and poorer picture quality.

In real world use, you will rarely get to appreciate 1080p unless your watching Blu-Ray all the time. Normally I'd say you will watch 1080p 5% of the time unless your mega wealthy

I don't since I stream media over a wireless network for TV and movies and have a basic HD box.

The most important thing cataclysm is choose a resolution the suits purpose, then get a set with the very best up scaling and tech you can find.

Something like the Panasonic Viera TC-P42X1 costs just 580 pounds for a 42" tv. I've compared the picture quality of this to 1080p and can't really see any difference since this runs at 600 Hz and has a contrast ratio of 30,000:1

 

Yeah, well to be fair, i wont get a 600hz tv unless im watching transformers 2 haha!

But yeah i definately want to get into the whole kinda blue ray watching and that, its been an amazing experience watching some real HD footage besides youtube lol!

May actually get to use my machines blueray drive .

And gaming in 1080p i game alot and im sure the 4850 will handle well with like no AA etc.

 

I'm going for HDTV mainly and see how it goes.. Read varying contracdictory stuff on Plasma gaming now so might have to see how it goes .. God i need some UKTV here... I was really hoping tvcatchup was going to save me but the havent peered with upc so i'm screwed. Film on is rubbish too and you have to pay..

Looks like a 2m satellite dish is my only saviour!! )

 

Haha, BBCI Ftw, well not really, it does however provide some good quality streaming, so Mock the week christmas special tonight at 9, and sir frankie b is on too !

 

I just upgrade all three of my sat receivers to HD. OMG! What a difference!

 

Kinda looks that way. I installed the latest ATI CCC and drivers this morning. Everything still running smoothly.

 

Hehe yep im using ati 9.12 mobil mod'

 

there's an increase in performance for the 5series , like 20 to 30% .. i doubt there's anything for the 4series .. anyway i'm done with modding , hopefully msi will keeps on supplying its only customer running sweet aswell , no lag etc , it's 8.633 i think .. what's the latest one ? 8.64 ?

 

I'm on 9.12 mobi mod. The Windows 7 drivers by MSI crashed my TV Tuner and a lot of other games. I stopped using stock drivers when I started playing MW2 and it was laggy as hell.

So I upgraded from stock to 9.11, and it was smooth as silk at max settings.

 

u should look amd website more regularly..i have 9.12 since i put on my sig my gpu score


yea catasylsm ok about flash.but about sound what tmm is? also while i boot on 32bit i dont heat sound:

 

If 64bit is OK, why bother with 32bit?

Windows 8 is on schedule to launch in 2012, and supposedly will not have 32bit, only 64bit and 128bit.

 

Your GPU Score went away lena?

Apparently if ATI GPU tool works correctly, you do not need to flash bios?

I think tmm actively scans for screens during boot up, thats what the quick black out is, but as for the sound i think its normal, dont get me wrong its anoying but sometimes it happens.

 

Many questions will be left un-answered , if it does it wouldn't make sense ..
They should have done it with w7 , 64bit only .. 128 will have a similar fate to 64 , only gamers/enthusiasts would venture into it (a lot of you might or will disagree ) besides , 64 is not that widely supported yet even though it's been around for quite some time now

 

Agreed! What really frosts my cookies is the total lack of support on the vendor side. I mean seriously, 64bit was introduced when XP first launched in '01 and later expanded with PRO/Server 2003 back in '05. Yet companies are only now showing a modicum of interest.

 

yep I agree.. vendors , devs even consumers are to blame Imo .. If more people start using it it might make a difference .. I know loads of people who have at least 2 pc's for the past 5 yrs in their home and NEVER heard about the term 64bit

 

I just posted this in the 1722/GX720 forum but thought I'd put it here as parts compatible:

Hey, if anyone is looking for parts, I found a guy on eBay that has a battery from his 1722 for sale. He also says to let him know what parts you're looking for and he'll create an auction for it.