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April 04, 2014Tech News Today 979: Facebook's Little Secret?
Is anonymity a great idea that supports both privacy and free speech? Nest issued a recall on its smart smoke detector, Apple may have acquired Novauris for better voice recognition, and more.

Hosts: Mike Elgan and Jason Howell

Guests: Scott Budman, Mathew Ingram, and Chris Davies

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32min
April 03, 2014 Home Theater Geeks 200: Days of Future Past
Scott talks about the past and the future of home theater with Gene Dolgoff, Robert Heron and Tyll Hertsens on our 200th episode!

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guests: Gene Dolgoff, Robert Heron, and Tyll Hertsens

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks.

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1h 12min
April 03, 2014Tech News 2Night 58: Mozilla's CEO Resigns
Mozilla's CEO is out, Turkey lifts its Twitter ban, the US secretly creates a Cuban "Twitter," Vine starts private messaging, the iOS bug that disables Find My iPhone, Google could get into mobile phone service, and Gmail is experimenting with new features.

Host: Sarah Lane

Guest: Jon Fingas

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15min
April 03, 2014Know How... 87: Titanfall Goat-Bloat Simulator in Low Def
We discuss Titanfall's clever anti-cheat system, tweaks to make your games run and look better, get rid of Adobe bloat, and creating the ultimate low def effect.
Titanfall's anti-cheat system
We hate cheaters as much as you do, Article.
Titanfall uses "FairFight" by GameBlocks to determine if a player is cheating.

They detected cheating from the release of the game, but they waited... noting cheaters, but not taking any action.

If you were detected using an aimbot or otherwise trying to game the network, starting on Friday, March 21st, you started you game in a private lobby with the simple message "FairFight Cheat Detected"
You can keep playing Titanfall... BUT ONLY WITH OTHER CHEATERS!
Tweaks for Gaming
Fixing V-Sync Problems, you need to disable the in game option for v-sync and open your graphic card options.
Disabling Intro Videos and More
To disable the intro videos go to Orgin, right click on your Titanfall Icon and go to "Game Properties" from there you can add "- novid"

You can also do "- high" to force Titanfall to load as high CPU prioity

If you want to make sure you're getting 60fps use the command "+cl_showfps 1" and you'll see in the top right corner your fps

Finally if you want to ensure having smoothness, disable or set shadows to low
Reducing Adobe Premiere Bloat
Users of Adobe Premiere Pro may find their drives inexplicably filling to capacity. The problem is that Adobe creates a cache of rendered files in the "Common" folder. Over time, these files can add up to tens or even 100s of Gigabytes. You can safely delete these cached render files and Adobe will simply recreate them if you ever need to open those projects, but first... you have to find the folder.
Enable the Viewing of Hidden Folders
Start

Control Panel

Folder Options

Select the "View" Tab

"Show hidden files, folders and drives"
Navigate to your Adobe Common Media Folder
"My Computer"

"C:"

"Users"

"(Your User Name)"

"AppData"

"Roaming"

"Adobe"

"Common"

"Media Cache Files"

Delete Everything in the folder!

To find out more about Goat Simulator go here

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Bryan Burnett

Connect with us!
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39min
April 03, 2014Coding 101 11: Python: Getting Started
This week we are introducing our newest module, Python with Code Warrior Dale Chase!
How to Install Python
Go to Python.org and click on Python 2.7.6 under "Download". Choose the installer package for your operating system and click on them. The file will be downloaded. It is important to download 2.7 because 3.4.0 is NOT compatible with our lessons. If you want more information on what the differences are between 3.x and 2.x, please check out this handy information.
Note: Python is AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDED ON MacOS X ... however, you should probably download the latest rev2 version.

Viewer submissions and questions will be back next week!
To see all the code used in today's episode, go to Our Github Repository for Module 2
Ivory Tower
Compiled vs. Interpreted Languages
Compiled languages are reduced to a set of machine-specific instructions before being saved as a executable file
Intepreted Languages are saved in the same format that you entered, then converted into machine language "Just in Time" - when they are needed.
Compiled Languages generally run faster, but are a little trickier to develop since they much be compiled for each platform that may use the program

Interpreted Languages generally run more slowly than Interpreted languages, but are more convienent for developers.
Whitespace
In C#, you ended a line of code by typing ";"

In Python, the WHITESPACE deliniated lines of code
Dynamic Variables
In C#, we had to explicitly declare variables to reserve memory space.
INT (Integer) = 2 Bytes 65536

LONG INT (Integer) = 4 Bytes 4,294,967,296

CHAR (Character) = 1 Byte 256

FLOAT (Floating Point) = 4 Bytes 4,294,967,296

We had to tell C# EXACTLY what type of data would be going into the variable, and it would reserve the necessary space in memory.
We don't have to do that in Python.
Variables in Python are declared AUTOMATICALLY when a value is stored in the variable.

Here's how it works.

Var1 = 100 -- This becomes an INT

Var2 = "Hello World" -- This becomes an STRING

Var3 = "3.14" -- This becomes a FLOAT
Python has several Data Types:
Numbers
(int, long, float, complex)
Strings
Contiguous Set of Characters
Lists
Arrays
Tuple
Read-Only Lists
Dictionary
A Hash Table

Output to Screen

print "Hello World"

or

Yo = "Hello World"

print Yo
Input from user:
Python has a built-in function called "raw_input()"

When you use this function as follows:

var1 = raw_input("What's your age?")

print var1

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Shannon Morse

Guest: Dale Chase
Get in Touch With Us!
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42min
April 03, 2014 The Social Hour 156: Will Weinraub, LiveNinja
Amber & Sarah chat with LiveNinja's Will Weinraub on the future of live video chats, Google+ makes view counts public, OkCupid's stance on the Firefox browser leads Mozilla CEO to step down, search Twitter via date range, social media jobs at HootSuite University, the rise of Upworthy, & more!

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane

Guest: Will Weinraub

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1h 2min
April 03, 2014 This Week in Computer Hardware 261: Your $500 Gaming PC is Here
More on DirectX 12, frame rating Battlefield 4 on Mantle, a $700 4K monitor, a $550 gaming PC, and more.

Hosts: Ryan Shrout and Josh Walrath

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58min
April 03, 2014Tech News Today 978: The Cuban Twitter Was a US Plot
A Cuban social network created by the US government to undermine the Cuban government, Google finally splits its stock, Europe gets strong net neutrality, and more.

Hosts: Mike Elgan and Jason Howell

Guests: Jillian D'Onfro, Rolfe Winkler, and Maggie Reardon

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today.

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39min
April 03, 2014 OMGcraft 148: Spotlight: Minecraft Space Invaders
Chad plays the classic arcade game Space Invaders in Minecraft.

Host: Chad Johnson

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OMGcraftShow

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6min
April 02, 2014 The Giz Wiz 1462: Oh, It Does Bounce!
Automatic jar opener, an iPhone and iPod case that holds earbuds, magnetic putty, and more!

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Chad Johnson

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/weekly-daily-giz-wiz.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

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48min

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