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A Master's In CS or a Master's In Game Programming?
Rustcycle asks: "I'm attending the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, which has just announced that they are offering a Master's Degree in their Games and Media Integration (GMI) program. There is a fair amount of overlap between the GMI curriculum and the CS courses, so I'm considering a switch in degrees. If you were hiring MS grads outside the game industry for visualization work, am I worth more to you with the more specialized program or would you be more interested in me if I had more exposure? Within the gaming industry, how much does a specialized degree compel a company to hire a recent grad?" -
Day of Defeat Half-Life Mod Released
alwsn writes "The greatly anticipated Half-Life mod Day of Defeat has just had v1.0 released. This is an amazing World War Two team-based mod, and there's a stand-alone retail release on May 6th. DoDHQ has a good list of mirrors - also, here's a BitTorrent link. Keep those file windows open once you finish downloading." Thanks to many submitters for pointing this out. Please note that you need a retail version of either Half-Life or Counterstrike to run this downloadable version, although, as mentioned above, the retail box will be a stand-alone title. -
Tiny New Chips Win ChipCenter Award
phi1o writes "Ever wonder why a burrito-sized pentium is also called a "micro" chip? Me too... This page @ ChipCenter shows a new line of chips from National Semiconducter that are *really* small. They're all analog and of course nowhere near as complex as a P3, but you gotta wonder if processors are headed down this road in the future, to where they are mostly silicon rather than ceramic and plastic. On the one hand, this will make for smaller devices. On the other, it's gonna make building anything without a giant factory (ie in your bedroom.... hardware geeks with me?) much more difficult. I don't know what to think. "