I don't get that. Every time I read something about the DS, they're talking about its wi-fi capability and how people want to be able to link up their DSs to play and communicate with the people around them. Somehow though, that doesn't apply to their console.
It's short-range communication. Think of it as the wireless version of the Gameboy link cable. And Nintendo already has this in the Gamecube: just attach a few more controllers to the box. You get no monthly fees, don't have to hook up to a LAN and configure (or pay a per-minute call for modem traffic), and you get to hang out with your friends.
Actually, you can make a separate tree for the lock files. Not that hard, just check out the administrative CVSROOT directory and examine the config file (if I remember correctly). It's there in someone of the files.
The reason is actually simple: if you make a game that isn't overly dark, you have to focus much more on generating good graphics. More light makes it easier to spot the lack of polygons, and the use of bland or fuzzy textures.
The XBox has the greatest visual capabilities, no doubt about it, and the PS2 has the largest market share. Nintendo's Gamecube has something else: the best game development kit. If you want to create good graphics on the PS2, you have to spend an enormous amount of time compared to the Gamecube. XBox is much better, but you STILL have a much easier ride with the Cube.
Since you can code something up faster for the Cube, you can also spend more time optimizing the code and can therefore offer brighter, more colourful graphics.
You shouldn't have much problem if you really wanted a job. The language barrier might present a problem at some times, but they should be few and far between. Children are being taught English from a very early age (used to be 10, think it's even earlier now).
Don't know of any open positions with those qualifications, but I would recommend looking at anyone of the smaller firms (up to 50 people). It gives you greater responsiblilty, but also provides you with more challenging tasks and actual appreciation of your wizardry.
You're obviously not living in the "real world". Here, an engineer uses the tool that the PHB management selects for him, based on buzzwords, what competitors are doing, and what schmoozing vendors have sold to them.
I'm not following you here. Are you implying that Sweden isn't part of the real world? My company has developed several applications for very different purposes. Our non-PHB just tells us what the end result should be like, and the engineers select the best method to get there. C or assembler for low-level vehicle programming, C++ (actually, Borland C++ Builder) for GUI applications, Java on Linux for server-side development. We select the technology, make it work and the Boss can keep on doing his favourite duty: send out invoices to our customers.
That's the world I'm living in. Plus paid overtime, five weeks of vacation etc etc. Welcome to the real world.
Photoshop Albums, or whatever it's called, was ported to Linux. They used a toolkit based on C++ made by a company from Norway, because the $1000 spent was immediately given back to Adobe in the form of faster development. Therefore they could sell their product earlier, and save a lot of money on salary.
As a person with high knowledge in OOAD, C++ and UI design, Qt is way beyond Gtk-- which actually looks and feels like a wrapper around a C library. Like the absurdly worthless MFC, actually.
You're right, of course. Creating an intelligent installer system that abstracts the creation of icons, checking if an application is installed and even choice of UI (KDE/Gnome/Windowmaker/curses). The problem here is quite odd - if I were to write a wonderful system that could do everything that you could ever demand, people would STILL complain and duplicate my work because it was written in C++ and not C.
However... The Qt/GTK+ non-workandlookalike crap can be solved in a pretty easy way. Make a small library that they BOTH use to draw widgets. That is - both 'new QButton("OK")' and 'gtk_new_button_with_label("OK")' would generate a component that looks, feels and IS the same. How come that neither of the two have proposed this and seen that it sucks considerable less than the current way?
Why can't the Galileo frequencies be placed extremely near or inside the same frequency spectrum as GPS uses? The US will be free to jam Galileo all they want, but they will give up GPS precision(sp?) at the same time. It's a lose/lose situation, and everybody is happy.
Swedish company Sectra released their secure GSM phone named Tiger in October 1999. This phone was in use by the Swedish military before that, too. And you don't need some shoddy Windows implementation for the encryption.
Too bad you can't see me right now. Currently syncing my SonyEricsson T610 with my Mac. Been using it since I first received it. Oh, and a USB Bluetooth thingie cost about $50. In Sweden, with hellish VAT. If you were offered $170 for something similar, the seller was on drugs.
This tiny little thing is bugging the hell out of me, actually. These days, you can afford to perform a case-insensitive comparsion of two UTF-8 strings instead of strncmp(). Even in Unix. Perhaps this should be the standard, and a special mount flag enables old-hat case sensitivity?
I am an Internet Explorer user simply because I need to be able to access ANYTHING on the net that my clients throw at me.
Except for XHTML that uses the MIME-type application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html. Or using position:fixed; in CSS. Or using transparent PNG:s. Or doing any of the other not-that-advanced things that IE just hasn't implemented, or gor a faulty implementation of.
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It's short-range communication. Think of it as the wireless version of the Gameboy link cable. And Nintendo already has this in the Gamecube: just attach a few more controllers to the box. You get no monthly fees, don't have to hook up to a LAN and configure (or pay a per-minute call for modem traffic), and you get to hang out with your friends.
Back up this statement with facts, Coward. Or better yet: make a movie about it, and distribute worldwide. :-)
-No, it's pronounced... Ni!
-Nnnnnu!
-No, ni!
(sorry, just can't resist a Monty Python reference)
Actually, you can make a separate tree for the lock files. Not that hard, just check out the administrative CVSROOT directory and examine the config file (if I remember correctly). It's there in someone of the files.
He refers to the "Click of Death", something that happened to a damn lot of Zip and Jaz drives.
http://grc.com/tip/codfaq1.htm
Let me guess. You're american, right?
http://www.goscandinavia.com/
Apart from setting off every stupid spam filter in the world (GNude)... :-)
Could it be koa (acacia koa)? It's the only Hawaiian wood type that I know about.
The reason is actually simple: if you make a game that isn't overly dark, you have to focus much more on generating good graphics. More light makes it easier to spot the lack of polygons, and the use of bland or fuzzy textures.
The XBox has the greatest visual capabilities, no doubt about it, and the PS2 has the largest market share. Nintendo's Gamecube has something else: the best game development kit. If you want to create good graphics on the PS2, you have to spend an enormous amount of time compared to the Gamecube. XBox is much better, but you STILL have a much easier ride with the Cube.
Since you can code something up faster for the Cube, you can also spend more time optimizing the code and can therefore offer brighter, more colourful graphics.
Oh boy, a Gentoo Live-CD... So you just have to boot it, wait for glibc+KDE to compile and THEN you can use it?
Wonderful! I would love getting 5V/0.5A wireless to my mouse!
You shouldn't have much problem if you really wanted a job. The language barrier might present a problem at some times, but they should be few and far between. Children are being taught English from a very early age (used to be 10, think it's even earlier now).
Don't know of any open positions with those qualifications, but I would recommend looking at anyone of the smaller firms (up to 50 people). It gives you greater responsiblilty, but also provides you with more challenging tasks and actual appreciation of your wizardry.
I'm not following you here. Are you implying that Sweden isn't part of the real world? My company has developed several applications for very different purposes. Our non-PHB just tells us what the end result should be like, and the engineers select the best method to get there. C or assembler for low-level vehicle programming, C++ (actually, Borland C++ Builder) for GUI applications, Java on Linux for server-side development. We select the technology, make it work and the Boss can keep on doing his favourite duty: send out invoices to our customers.
That's the world I'm living in. Plus paid overtime, five weeks of vacation etc etc. Welcome to the real world.
Photoshop Albums, or whatever it's called, was ported to Linux. They used a toolkit based on C++ made by a company from Norway, because the $1000 spent was immediately given back to Adobe in the form of faster development. Therefore they could sell their product earlier, and save a lot of money on salary.
As a person with high knowledge in OOAD, C++ and UI design, Qt is way beyond Gtk-- which actually looks and feels like a wrapper around a C library. Like the absurdly worthless MFC, actually.
You're right, of course. Creating an intelligent installer system that abstracts the creation of icons, checking if an application is installed and even choice of UI (KDE/Gnome/Windowmaker/curses). The problem here is quite odd - if I were to write a wonderful system that could do everything that you could ever demand, people would STILL complain and duplicate my work because it was written in C++ and not C.
However... The Qt/GTK+ non-workandlookalike crap can be solved in a pretty easy way. Make a small library that they BOTH use to draw widgets. That is - both 'new QButton("OK")' and 'gtk_new_button_with_label("OK")' would generate a component that looks, feels and IS the same. How come that neither of the two have proposed this and seen that it sucks considerable less than the current way?
Slashdot seems very pro-Gnome, mostly because... Well... I have no fucking idea why, actually.
Why can't the Galileo frequencies be placed extremely near or inside the same frequency spectrum as GPS uses? The US will be free to jam Galileo all they want, but they will give up GPS precision(sp?) at the same time. It's a lose/lose situation, and everybody is happy.
Fuckers.
Actually, the correct word would be "vanvardat kolli pa aldreboende" if you are to believe recent news.
Swedish company Sectra released their secure GSM phone named Tiger in October 1999. This phone was in use by the Swedish military before that, too. And you don't need some shoddy Windows implementation for the encryption.
About 40-50% size reduction using the free Flac codec isn't unusual. Say 300MB for a 60-minute CD.
Too bad you can't see me right now. Currently syncing my SonyEricsson T610 with my Mac. Been using it since I first received it. Oh, and a USB Bluetooth thingie cost about $50. In Sweden, with hellish VAT. If you were offered $170 for something similar, the seller was on drugs.
Poisoned. Simply great.
I saw Motorhead two years ago. Painfully loud. Thanks to the enormous amounts of volume, your ears were too busy being in pain to pick up the songs.
Case sensitivity in filenames. *shudder*
This tiny little thing is bugging the hell out of me, actually. These days, you can afford to perform a case-insensitive comparsion of two UTF-8 strings instead of strncmp(). Even in Unix. Perhaps this should be the standard, and a special mount flag enables old-hat case sensitivity?
Except for XHTML that uses the MIME-type application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html. Or using position:fixed; in CSS. Or using transparent PNG:s. Or doing any of the other not-that-advanced things that IE just hasn't implemented, or gor a faulty implementation of.