Listen Now:

 NBS Episode 10: Photography Special! [52:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This Weeks Topics:

Apple Pie (merely heated, NOT home made)

Photography with Expert, David Gregory!

Stealing, Borrowing, Using and Abusing Wifi.

Show Comments Richards’ Essay:

Im assured the pie was good, consumed with cream; however, we weren’t given pictures or video of the proceeding consumption nor a taste of the succulent apples or crispy breadcrumbs. The first topic next week will be to discuss in depth whether a crumble can indeed be characterised as a pie? I literally cannot wait. In fact we might start a new NBS: NBS Cooking Reheating PIE MAKING!, uh, Review.

Huge thanks and apologies to David Gregory, who wasn’t only an incredible wealth of knowledge but accepted our barrage of questions for nearly thirty minutes. The Spanish hold nothing to us, when it comes to an inquisition. Although, I’m told, David did expect it.

On Wifi; we recorded this and had the topic logged down for TWO WEEKS (NB: My “curb crawl for Wifi” comments pre-episode 9) and now Twit 59 not only comes out with the same topic but also the SAME CONCLUSIONS as us. May I be first to say: ARGH! You try to do something original and someone bigger not only beats you to it but makes you sound like you basically regurgitate their ideas. Shit. However, much respect to them for reaching the same conclusions as us, after all, we know we’re awesome.

Overall we had a good, straight through run, which means H hasn’t had to labour with the edit. Another week, another small step towards high quality ameteurness. As this isn’t our main line of work we couldn’t call it, Professional.

The phonetic responce this week is provided by 50FootWave, and their track, Animal. You can catch the whole thing at the end.
- Richard

The pictures are clickable for full size. Unfortunately no video because nothing I could find could support Vista. I couldn’t even get a screengrab of Aero in dynamic action.

Several more shots that were too big to put in the post.

- Richard

Listen Now:

 NBS Episode 9: The Next Generation [54:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Topics This Week:

Vista Beta 2

US’ ESRB (versus a government regulated system like in Britain)

Vapourware Games

Show Comments:

I hope you enjoyed my loose Star Trek opening parody. I did promise in episode 8 I would do one. I realise my “Wil Shatner” impression could do with some work, and in fact, that Wil Shatner was in the original star trek not the next generation, which was Patrick Stewart. But the title is also linked into the fact that Vista is “the next generation” of windows so the accuracy of the Trek universe comes second to my ingenious multi-levelled titles.

Thankfully someone fixed my home internet connection so I didn’t have to curb crawl for free Wifi at 11pm. I can’t imagine what that might have ended up like, visualising some “dark car” at the side of the road, a guy in it sporting headphones and a mic and merely the luminescence of a backlight allowing everyone around to question WTF was going on. I honestly don’t think you could breed an any more apparently dodgy situation, especially in small town middle England. Incidentally we’re using it as a topic in episode 10, so stay wired… or, out scouting for wireless; whatever floats your boat.

Hiren’s editing this week, so chose music from the awesomely mellow Soundfreak: You are the joy of my life. We’re having an ongoing argument about how long the music should be in the opening and ending. We’ve come to an arrangement of a 30 second intro and no more than a minute on the exit, and even then that was a struggle for me to achieve since I wanted full tracks leading out, but H wasn’t having anything of it, citing that people switch off after we finish talking. I find that kinda sad, but accept it may be the case. However, it seems this week he’s caved entirely and I’ve got plenty of music in it \o/ Please absorb the ending.

In addition, if anyone reads this, let us know what you prefer. Do you mind our random, free game music choices?? Or moody electronica? How long do you want to listen to music when opening and closing? I hope you’ve got a kick at least somewhere along the line from something you recognise.

Did you notice our, yet again, smoother running and greater conversation flow? With experience we’re getting the whole “internet radio” thing done right. See if you can notice where Hiren and Brett lead in questions for everyone, somewhat far better than my topic intros will ever be.

I think the ultimate conclusion from the gaming vapourware chat is that no one should ever announce a game. Ever. Until it’s done and on the shelf. Sort of like a nice suprise. Unless you can live up to the hype you create AND release it on time, which inevitably never happens for some reason or another. Usually because of gaming executives over-estimating how much they can crack their whips before their arms get tired.

I’ll grab some screenshots of Vista, shortly, to show everyone what we’ve been talking about.

Much respect to Mike Fethers for his time and effort as our guest this week Thanks dude!

- Richard

Hey all,

We just wanted to take a minute to let you know:

1) there is a small delay in this week’s episode due to fathers’ day; and,

2) we’re very sorry about that.

We DID record an episode, but it was sans one of our members, and that’s never a good thing. We are hoping to get it sorted out, but he lacks internet at the moment… of course, we’re discussing the possibility of original pirate material as Rich goes surfing for a WiFi connection in his car. Assuming he can find one of the nearly infinite unsecured, unencrypted hotspots, we’ll be in for a treat. We could even pretend it was part of the plan. If we’re really lucky, we might even get to hear him being arrested.

So if you see some funny looking dude parked down your street tomorrow night with a laptop and a headset, it could be an identity thief…or it could just be Rich.

- Brett

Look, If Im out with my laptop and someone invites me in to surf their internet, it would be rude to say no. Even if it is at 11pm. It’s not like cracking encrypted routers and stealing peoples info. If windows defaults to it of its own accord then I’m innocent, officer. Im doing it for the ‘cast, afterall.
- Richard

Hopefully we’re on for this weekend as well, with plus one.

- Richard

We have also had another message getting through…feedback for Episode 7 has been, well, less than positive. We thank those of you who sucked it up and listened on anyway, following us into Ep. 8, which seems to have been one of the best we’ve released so far. I hope we continue that trend, but at the very least we now know what to do and NOT to do with guests.

Anyhow, for those of you who took a moment to drop a line or let us know your thoughts on the issue, it’s greatly appreciated. And for those who keep listening through our own learning curve, thanks even more!

- Brett

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 NBS Episode 8: Google Office Physics.. Podcasting! [48:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Topics This Week

AMD/ATI potential; multiple graphics cards; electrical bills; 3rd GPU Physics; interactive physics versus graphics calculated physics approximations; dedicated physics processing… tangent.

Podcasting!

Google Office; conspiracy theories; usability of Google products; market movements against Microsoft; Gmail and Hotmail; website appeal; web 2.0 sites

Show Comments

Hopefully it’s not too quiet for everyone and the sound quality is probably the best we’ve ever had! Woo!

It’s getting harder and harder for me to write cynical posts about what happened because we’re reducing our mistake making to a minimum. I said “Creative Graphics Cards” instead of sound cards, but because I’m editing, it got cut! Heh.

The first topic has a massive tangent which makes it quite long to listen to, but it works itself out in the end.

Well, to be honest, it wouldn’t be a suprise that I’ve never even heard the word dictionary to most people. “The most illiterate of the intelligentia..” I suppose I should be flattered I’m at least considered, intelligent.
We have actually only made 7c through Google ads. And what makes it sadder is that we’re probably at least 7c more profitable than most podcasts out there.

Brett is silky smooth this week when it comes to changing topics. You could throw water over him and he wouldn’t even be wet.

It’s a good job we don’t have to pay royalties for saying the word, Google, as that 7c would be LONG GONE. Admittedly it’s not my conspiracy theory too, it’s a combination of a few other peoples I liked and was just regurgitating.

This Weeks Musical opener is the Theme of MUSHA Aleste, from the Mega Drive. I don’t know why, but old skool 8 bit game music always makes me smile (hence, why I use it so often). I’ve never actually played the game, but Brett assures me it was arguably the best the Mega Drive had to offer. I can’t agree having spent many-a-evening playing Streets of Rage 2 on ultra hard.

The ending is from Minibosses SuperMario track.

- Richard