I don't know why so many consider game development a "fun" career. It isn't. I like to drink beer...
I was a game programmer and the studio stocked a beer fridge. But at 14 hours every day, no one would really utilize the supply, except maybe Friday and Saturday nights.
And I never envied the game testers. Before deadlines, sometimes we were directed to basically play the same level repeatedly for a couple days. Lucky for us, it was a pretty cool game.
Game programming really is that much fun, but the hours can kill it. You forget your perspective on time and the outside world. They need a union.
Name one. I have a recent NEC 21" Diamondtron. Sure, it'll sync up to whatever the video card can churn out, but I'm quite confident there's only about 1600 physical 'dots' from left to right.
The font I use has little m's and w's that are basically alternating vertical lines, on-off-on-off-on. It took careful tweaking just to get them distinguished at 1600 and it was clearly not possible at 1900. Look realy really close. I even had to force the vertical refresh down to 60Hz just to keep the signal from blurring too much.
I posted a quaestion to the vim.org list and nobody answered: How do you get cppcomplete to work? It sounds like exactly what I want and I've never gotten a "match", even if I built the tags myself.
Also, I buckled and activated the menu bar just for tagmenu.vim. It just seems more convenient for me than taglist.vim (which I still have ready for console use). I just wish tagmenu.vim didn't have two levels of menus to get the functions (vs. just dump them on the first level like VisualAssist).
So you have $400k to spend, so instead of having a modest limo service meet you at the airport, you're going to drive this awkward liability around the highway, where the lightest fender bender requires a full airworthiness re-inspection.
If I recall back when I got my private license, it seemed like the rental car companies were dropping off cars for lots of people, even out there in the middle of nowhere. What is broken here?
My trusty old CD player died about a year ago, so I surveyed with an open mind. I got a Sony SACD mostly because it was a good CD player. I've only bought 3 SACDs compared to a collection of about 300 CDs.
Is the SACD format better? Rarely and barely. Maybe it's a little smoother in the upper midrange. If you're just listening to pop/rock, I wouldn't bother. This would probably appeal to the classically obsessed. I didn't see any difference between to $700 player and the $5000 player.
But there is one thing someone pointed out in a/. SACD debate way back. You're much more likely to get better recording levels that don't saturate the medium, just because they're not targetting kids with their $50 boom boxes.
Now if you have more than two speakers, which I don't, you might like the 5.1 mode. I'd rather take the money for 6 speakers and use it on 2 superior speakers.
I still haven't seen anything that can make a choral work like Mozart's Requiem sound like a live performance. I had thought it might be the sampling rate, but now I really don't know.
I remember back in 91 or 92 landing at Virginia Tech, and as I taxied in the little 152, there was a crowd gathered and pointing. Apparently they weren't in awe of my piloting skills; they were actually pointing behind me at what looked like a small sailplane landing.
The wings were covered in solar collectors and the small cockpit had two instruments in the panel, a handheld radio, a flimsy plastic seat, and a rack of batteries. They said it could take off on its own power. This sounds a lot more non-polluting than plugging a stack of batteries into the wall (although I'd assume they probably pre-charged the plane beforehand).
I can't find a link as my searches all point to things that look more like stick-and-cloth ultralights. This one was a sleek little fiberglass plane.
I remember an Amiga utility to do drop shadows on all the windows. It looked really cool, but was too slow for regular use.
It looks like this KDE effect is only for menus, which seems to reduce the impact. Also, on the Amiga utility, they gave each level of height a progressively wider shadow (and they casted relatively onto each other). That looked much more natural and gave a believable impression of many floating platforms.
They install a filter on the line to block the analog otherwise. Mine burned out and they ripped it out after having 3 days without access. The cable guy told me that without it, I could get cable for free. I didn't care until my rabbit-ear antenna started showing Enterprise in B&W. The day before the "install", I tried the splitter and got nothing. I'm guessing they had come by later and put in a new filter.
Who needs reactive legal action when more constructive tactics could work. Here's my suggestion:
US gov't says "here's the format and we will only use word processors that can conform". MS, Corel, Sun, etc. update to read and write that format (in addition to their own). How could they not? The gov't has the mass to force a change like that and a lot of the people could get along with a feature set not much greater than html (not that it has to be quite that limited).
Of course, it would be nice to mostly reuse an existing cleartext format, perhaps something like XML that looks something like Word Perfect's "reveal codes".
Until they block telnet ports, this
should work to maintain a VPN.
I don't like the server clause, but they never check (or they don't care). And, even though they use DHCP, the addresses never change. I've inquired about @Work, but it's not available in my area. Maybe AT&T knows that if they start switching addresses or blocking ports, we'll switch to DSL in an instant. Ok, maybe it'll take a few weeks.
I'd say charge us like the cell phones. You get
n bytes per month and get charge m nanocents
per byte after that, as long as n is adequately large and m is fair. I don't believe that the average personal page or small business web site comes close to the demands of a music/movie trader.
The idea of antialiased font rendering sounds great, but in this implementation it seems to cause me increased eye strain.
I download the images and compared the slashdot pic in xv next to Netscape 4.75 using Lucida B&H 12 which is about the same size. The antialiased version makes me strain my eyes.
I question why there red and yellow pixels when antialiasing black text on a blue-grey background.
Is this just limited color depth and, if so, what's it like in 24bit?
The only other reason I've could imagine for the colorful text is if they're trying to compensate for the displacements of the individual color elements, like with LCD screens.
In either case, I can see the tiny red and yellow edges on my screen.
If they weren't located in the middle of the rain soaked NW,...
Normally I don't like to let the secret out, but I'd rather have Linux sysads move in than lawyers or such. If you're not a Linux fan, read no further.
NW Oregon is utopia. There are not four seasons, but two. Nov-Mar it rains, constantly. You live with it. But, the summer is sunny every day. You save up the water during the winter so you don't get the draughts. The annual temperature varies from about 50 to 85 (of course there are occasional exceptions). Portland has the best downtowm I've seen including movie theaters with beer.
I've seen a lot of strong opinions about how domain names should be handled. I don't understand why we can't just pick a few unused TLD's and serve the names the way we want to.
To try it out, I put a.hom record on granitecanyon and told my local nameserver to forward all "hom" requests to their nameserver. `nslookup` picked up my new entry no problem and still gets all the.com's the old way just as it has before. I also read the ".hom" site with my browser just to make sure.
Of course, people have to consciously act to be able to access these domains, but we have to start somewhere. With enough momentum, the Linux distributions might pick up the lines in their config files.
For the simple details of how I did this and some suggestions for how to regulate these spaces see this page.
Note: I don't necessarily suggest we use granitecanyon specifically, or that we don't at least consult with their admins first.
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A quick Google suggests that a typical peak might be 50W, but an average laptop consumption is more like 10W.
That would be 1200W to recharge, about what a vacuum cleaner uses.
I don't know why so many consider game development a "fun" career. It isn't. I like to drink beer ...
I was a game programmer and the studio stocked a beer fridge. But at 14 hours every day, no one would really utilize the supply, except maybe Friday and Saturday nights.
And I never envied the game testers. Before deadlines, sometimes we were directed to basically play the same level repeatedly for a couple days. Lucky for us, it was a pretty cool game.
Game programming really is that much fun, but the hours can kill it. You forget your perspective on time and the outside world. They need a union.
> Most good CRT's go up to 2048x1536
Name one. I have a recent NEC 21" Diamondtron. Sure, it'll sync up to whatever the video card can churn out, but I'm quite confident there's only about 1600 physical 'dots' from left to right.
The font I use has little m's and w's that are basically alternating vertical lines, on-off-on-off-on. It took careful tweaking just to get them distinguished at 1600 and it was clearly not possible at 1900. Look realy really close. I even had to force the vertical refresh down to 60Hz just to keep the signal from blurring too much.
I posted a quaestion to the vim.org list and nobody answered: How do you get cppcomplete to work? It sounds like exactly what I want and I've never gotten a "match", even if I built the tags myself.
Also, I buckled and activated the menu bar just for tagmenu.vim. It just seems more convenient for me than taglist.vim (which I still have ready for console use). I just wish tagmenu.vim didn't have two levels of menus to get the functions (vs. just dump them on the first level like VisualAssist).
So you have $400k to spend, so instead of having a modest limo service meet you at the airport, you're going to drive this awkward liability around the highway, where the lightest fender bender requires a full airworthiness re-inspection.
If I recall back when I got my private license, it seemed like the rental car companies were dropping off cars for lots of people, even out there in the middle of nowhere. What is broken here?
FvwmProxy (a little out of date; see the main Fvwm page for the recent version)
My trusty old CD player died about a year ago, so I surveyed with an open mind. I got a Sony SACD mostly because it was a good CD player. I've only bought 3 SACDs compared to a collection of about 300 CDs.
/. SACD debate way back. You're much more likely to get better recording levels that don't saturate the medium, just because they're not targetting kids with their $50 boom boxes.
Is the SACD format better? Rarely and barely. Maybe it's a little smoother in the upper midrange. If you're just listening to pop/rock, I wouldn't bother. This would probably appeal to the classically obsessed. I didn't see any difference between to $700 player and the $5000 player.
But there is one thing someone pointed out in a
Now if you have more than two speakers, which I don't, you might like the 5.1 mode. I'd rather take the money for 6 speakers and use it on 2 superior speakers.
I still haven't seen anything that can make a choral work like Mozart's Requiem sound like a live performance. I had thought it might be the sampling rate, but now I really don't know.
I remember back in 91 or 92 landing at Virginia Tech, and as I taxied in the little 152, there was a crowd gathered and pointing. Apparently they weren't in awe of my piloting skills; they were actually pointing behind me at what looked like a small sailplane landing.
The wings were covered in solar collectors and the small cockpit had two instruments in the panel, a handheld radio, a flimsy plastic seat, and a rack of batteries. They said it could take off on its own power. This sounds a lot more non-polluting than plugging a stack of batteries into the wall (although I'd assume they probably pre-charged the plane beforehand).
I can't find a link as my searches all point to things that look more like stick-and-cloth ultralights. This one was a sleek little fiberglass plane.
I remember an Amiga utility to do drop shadows on all the windows. It looked really cool, but was too slow for regular use.
It looks like this KDE effect is only for menus, which seems to reduce the impact. Also, on the Amiga utility, they gave each level of height a progressively wider shadow (and they casted relatively onto each other). That looked much more natural and gave a believable impression of many floating platforms.
He saves roughly $40 a month on cable
AT&T basic cable is $8/month.
They install a filter on the line to block the analog otherwise. Mine burned out and they ripped it out after having 3 days without access. The cable guy told me that without it, I could get cable for free. I didn't care until my rabbit-ear antenna started showing Enterprise in B&W. The day before the "install", I tried the splitter and got nothing. I'm guessing they had come by later and put in a new filter.
Who needs reactive legal action when more constructive tactics could work. Here's my suggestion:
US gov't says "here's the format and we will only use word processors that can conform". MS, Corel, Sun, etc. update to read and write that format (in addition to their own). How could they not? The gov't has the mass to force a change like that and a lot of the people could get along with a feature set not much greater than html (not that it has to be quite that limited).
Of course, it would be nice to mostly reuse an existing cleartext format, perhaps something like XML that looks something like Word Perfect's "reveal codes".
Ahhh. Reveal codes. Those were the days.
I don't like the server clause, but they never check (or they don't care). And, even though they use DHCP, the addresses never change. I've inquired about @Work, but it's not available in my area. Maybe AT&T knows that if they start switching addresses or blocking ports, we'll switch to DSL in an instant. Ok, maybe it'll take a few weeks.
I'd say charge us like the cell phones. You get n bytes per month and get charge m nanocents per byte after that, as long as n is adequately large and m is fair. I don't believe that the average personal page or small business web site comes close to the demands of a music/movie trader.
I download the images and compared the slashdot pic in xv next to Netscape 4.75 using Lucida B&H 12 which is about the same size. The antialiased version makes me strain my eyes.
I question why there red and yellow pixels when antialiasing black text on a blue-grey background. Is this just limited color depth and, if so, what's it like in 24bit?
The only other reason I've could imagine for the colorful text is if they're trying to compensate for the displacements of the individual color elements, like with LCD screens. In either case, I can see the tiny red and yellow edges on my screen.
Normally I don't like to let the secret out, but I'd rather have Linux sysads move in than lawyers or such. If you're not a Linux fan, read no further.
NW Oregon is utopia. There are not four seasons, but two. Nov-Mar it rains, constantly. You live with it. But, the summer is sunny every day. You save up the water during the winter so you don't get the draughts. The annual temperature varies from about 50 to 85 (of course there are occasional exceptions). Portland has the best downtowm I've seen including movie theaters with beer.
http://www.munra.com/baboon/portland.html
Beaverton, Oregon
To try it out, I put a .hom record on granitecanyon and told my local nameserver to forward all "hom" requests to their nameserver. `nslookup` picked up my new entry no problem and still gets all the .com's the old way just as it has before. I also read the ".hom" site with my browser just to make sure.
Of course, people have to consciously act to be able to access these domains, but we have to start somewhere. With enough momentum, the Linux distributions might pick up the lines in their config files.
For the simple details of how I did this and some suggestions for how to regulate these spaces see this page.
Note: I don't necessarily suggest we use granitecanyon specifically, or that we don't at least consult with their admins first.