I grew up wanting to be a game developer. I spent a lot of my free time as a kid in front of a computer writing code, designing my own games. But as I get older and am actually out in the workforce the thought of working 80 hour weeks making a salary on the lower range of what programmers in general make has turned me away from the industry. The next step, once the majority of CS majors have been scared away from game programming, is the farm the work out to programming "sweat shops" in other countries to make rehashes of the same games that have been coming out for years. Unless there are some major changes in the game industry the only real innovations are going to end up coming from indie game developers who work some other job to make a living and develop games in their spare time.
Voting machines should print human-readable paper ballots, verifiable by the voter, that can also be counted by machine, and those ballots should be put in a locked metal box and then counted under supervision of all the major political parties to produce the official tallies.
Al Gore: Jim, let me here tonight issue a warning to the enemies or potential enemeies of the United States: you may think you know the location of the "lock-box". Maybe you do. Or maybe that's a decoy. Or a dummy "lock-box". Only the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, myself and Tipper are gonna know for sure.
I've been using Joomla for a while now and it is definitely the way to go in the Mambo vs. Joomla decision. Joomla is really great for personal sites because of the vast number of themes/modules/plugins/etc. out there. The only problem is that a lot of these 3rd party components are far from being a stable, polished final product. I think that if Joomla wants to be used more in the business world then it probably has a lot of work to do, but for less "mission critical" uses Joomla is the way to go. I think that Joomla could learn a lot from another big open source CMS, Drupal, when it comes to building a CMS for business uses.
As an aside, is it required that all CMSs have ridiculous names?
Apparently the cookie that gets set by that javascript changes several things on google because it also slightly changed the look & feel of gmail. It's not a big difference and it definitely looks unfinished. I am guessing this cookie just lets you run google's latest betas perhaps?
The author is talking about 1.8" hard drives like what is used in the iPod. I don't know about you but I have seen Apple selling any 400gb iPods yet...
Well my favorite equation is something that a lot of/.ers may not understand. S(e^x) = f(u^n). Generally the integration symbol is used instead of S but you get the point....
Is the 2nd battery in the modular bay, i've taken this thing to lan parties and stretched around 5+ hours of use out of it. It is really nice that even in its max battery mode it still has enough power to play UT2004 in a high res with the effects turned up. Say what you want about Dell but battery life was my main reason for choosing them and I couldn't be happier with it.
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I grew up wanting to be a game developer. I spent a lot of my free time as a kid in front of a computer writing code, designing my own games. But as I get older and am actually out in the workforce the thought of working 80 hour weeks making a salary on the lower range of what programmers in general make has turned me away from the industry. The next step, once the majority of CS majors have been scared away from game programming, is the farm the work out to programming "sweat shops" in other countries to make rehashes of the same games that have been coming out for years. Unless there are some major changes in the game industry the only real innovations are going to end up coming from indie game developers who work some other job to make a living and develop games in their spare time.
Voting machines should print human-readable paper ballots, verifiable by the voter, that can also be counted by machine, and those ballots should be put in a locked metal box and then counted under supervision of all the major political parties to produce the official tallies.
Al Gore:
Jim, let me here tonight issue a warning to the enemies or potential enemeies of the United States: you may think you know the location of the "lock-box". Maybe you do. Or maybe that's a decoy. Or a dummy "lock-box". Only the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, myself and Tipper are gonna know for sure.
I've been using Joomla for a while now and it is definitely the way to go in the Mambo vs. Joomla decision. Joomla is really great for personal sites because of the vast number of themes/modules/plugins/etc. out there. The only problem is that a lot of these 3rd party components are far from being a stable, polished final product. I think that if Joomla wants to be used more in the business world then it probably has a lot of work to do, but for less "mission critical" uses Joomla is the way to go. I think that Joomla could learn a lot from another big open source CMS, Drupal, when it comes to building a CMS for business uses.
As an aside, is it required that all CMSs have ridiculous names?
Apparently the cookie that gets set by that javascript changes several things on google because it also slightly changed the look & feel of gmail. It's not a big difference and it definitely looks unfinished. I am guessing this cookie just lets you run google's latest betas perhaps?
Is there really any market for this? I know I definitely wouldn't want to be tied to my PC every time I wanted to make or receive a phone call.
whoops.... s/have/haven't
The author is talking about 1.8" hard drives like what is used in the iPod. I don't know about you but I have seen Apple selling any 400gb iPods yet...
Well my favorite equation is something that a lot of /.ers may not understand. S(e^x) = f(u^n). Generally the integration symbol is used instead of S but you get the point....
umm.... http://labs.zap2it.com/ztvws/ztvws_login/1,1059,TM S01-1,00.html zap2it data direct
or xmltv...
Is the 2nd battery in the modular bay, i've taken this thing to lan parties and stretched around 5+ hours of use out of it. It is really nice that even in its max battery mode it still has enough power to play UT2004 in a high res with the effects turned up. Say what you want about Dell but battery life was my main reason for choosing them and I couldn't be happier with it.