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  1. Re:My project on Wiimote as Multi-Touch Display Controller · · Score: 1

    You should know that the wiimote does not emit infrared like normal remotes - in case that was your angle. The wiimote is an infrared camera. The IR emitters are in the sensor bar on top of your TV.

  2. Random memory contents? on Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Subby has a different definition of random from the rest of the universe.

  3. Re:Shutdown mechanism? on New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time · · Score: 1

    I don't know WTF "hard-earned work" means, but we are talking about a GAME. A kid who throws a tantrum about lost progress in a game deserves a lesson in priorities.

  4. Re:I'll see your vocabulary and raise you a word. on Recreating Cities Using Online Photos · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ridiculous? WTF? Are you saying it is impressive or not? Idiot.

  5. Re:Woe be to TiVo on Tivo Tries, Cancels PayPerPost Ad Strategy · · Score: 1

    The piss-slow processors they put in these things is infuriating. Press 'guide' and it takes a full 3-seconds for anything to happen. Same for changing channels, etc.

  6. Hopefully they fix... on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hopefully they fix broken signatures when responding to email. Now it places my signature to the very bottom of the email - below the quoted text I am responding to. I am tired of cutting and pasting my sig every time I respond to an email.

  7. CMYK on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Quit screwing with the UI and add CMYK support. I'm not talking about some half baked script- real CMYK support from the bottom-up.

  8. OMG on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 4, Funny

    I got hit by a 1957 Chevy, therefore I must be at least 50 years old.

  9. Myth on QA as a Bridge to a Game Career? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a myth that you have to "break into" the game industry. The truth is if you have a clue what you are doing they will find you. Put a tech demo or game demo togother, put it on a website, and put the URL on your resume. If you don't have a demo, you probably aren't fit for the industry since most successful people there enjoy writing games/demos. Just because you like playing games doesn't mean you like making games. Also, keep in mind they nobody is going to hire you to make YOUR game, they are hiring you to make THEIR game, so your creative ideas are meaningless to potential employers.

  10. AI = obsolete on Next Gen Beautiful But Brainless? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    'AI' refers to an obsolete field of CS which is rapidly being replaced by NN, pattern classification and statistical learning theory. 'Game AI' refers to heuristics that programmers hack together at 3am before shipping a title.

  11. Re:PowerPoint is not the problem on PowerPoint Bad For Learning · · Score: 1

    "So, while its interesting research that reveals that what is widely accepted by experts in the field of communication to be a bad practice is actually demonstrably counterproductive to recall rather than merely an annoyance to the audience that isn't an optimum use of resources, its not any kind of particular blow against PowerPoint, presentation software, or visual aids in presentation, just further reinforcement that having an easy-to-use tool to produce and display visual aids doesn't replace understanding how to effectively use them." What do experts in the field of communication say about run-on sentences?

  12. Re:They want experience on video games on What Game Companies Want From Graduates · · Score: 1

    It is a myth that you have to "break into the industry". If you have half a clue of what you are doing they will find you.

  13. At least on What Game Companies Want From Graduates · · Score: 1

    At least know what the farking dot product is and what it does.

  14. there is already a cure on Mice Cured of Autism · · Score: -1, Troll

    just stop getting immunized.

  15. Re:Impossible! on Blurring Images Not So Secure · · Score: 1

    You do realize that you are completely wrong, right. There are many approaches to blind deconvolution. Many of these techniques are quite old. Although it is a difficult problem, it is not cutting-edge stuff.

  16. Like whatever on iPod Generation Indifferent to Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    What does excite the, like, ipod, or whatever, generation?

  17. Re:By the end of 2007, on Will Wright on the Colbert Report · · Score: 1

    Cities? Like this?
    http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/research.ht ml

    As usual, the games industry is a consumer of research, and inventor of nothing new.

  18. Re:3d engine resources on Open Source Game Development · · Score: 1

    Please not that it takes more than graphics to make a game. After you learn graphics and OpenGL, you will need to learn some datastructures to organize all of your data, AI, Physics simulation, collision detection, audio, UI. Then you will also need art work. So even if you have a great idea and know open gl you are only 5% of the way (at most) toward making a game.

  19. Re:Blinking on Google Staff MD on Carpal Tunnel & RSI · · Score: 1

    This happens to me. In fact, if I am concentrating hard I find that I forget to breathe as well.

  20. Re:Its Simple - Pay CS Majors More on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 1

    Greed may be one motivation, but laziness is the other. Of the kids who I have seen drop out of CS, most go into something "easier": liberal arts, advertising, MBA. I haven't seen any opt for a professional program which entail smuch more work and takes longer to earn a degree. Also, let's not confuse code monkey jobs which are getting outsourced to CS. You can outsource an implementation, but not the design.

  21. Re:Beware Office 2007, it is that good. on Is Microsoft Silent Before a Deadly Storm? · · Score: 1

    I think you are lost. How many nerds are secretaries?

  22. Re:All it would take is a grain of sand on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    I am intrigued. Tell me more about this 'space sand.'

  23. In 50 years: on Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to the violent, sociopathic octogenarians of the year 2050.

  24. Disney's next movie... on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    The first order of business will be to create a CGI animated movie about a cute baby animal whose parents are killed or lost. This prompts a quest which results in the main character meeting a zany sidekick, singing some lame songs, and narrowly escaping a few dangerous situations. In the end, all of the characters are safe and have learned a valuable lesson about life. Some fast food tie-ins will bring in some additional cash.

    Come to think of it, Pixar has been as bad as Disney recently, in every nontechnical area...

  25. Re:Real Solution on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that advertisers think they are being funny, witty, beautiful ... What would be unique is an advertisement that describes the product, instead of trying to be a short film.