I fucking hate AVG Antivirus
sonictempest So I read this story on Slashdot this morning and reacted the same way any sane techie would: \”My god, AVG is a pile of crap. I need to get…
Science/Tech
Solid-state drives = fail?
This article from Tom\’s Hardware on the myths of solid-state drive power consumption is pretty illuminating, and rather hilarious given how companies like Apple and ASUS have been pushing SSDs…
Odds and Ends
Not much in particular I want to talk about…just dealing with various things that have been happening recently. I got a new video card recently – a GeForce 8800GTS 512MB…
Take back the Web on Tuesday
As you can see, I\’ve added a banner to the right for Firefox Download Day 2008. The occasion? Firefox 3 is finally being released. Technically it\’s been out there for…
This is seriously impressive
A full 3D engine, with dynamic lighting, textures, bump mapping…written in Flash. I remember reading a while back that Quake II had successfully been ported to Java, 8 years after…
Touching is good
Bill Gates and He Who Flings Chairs apparently just gave a brief demo of some of the new features that will be in the successor to Windows Vista. Click here…
The scaling question
I\’ve mentioned before that scaling performance in PC games to lower-end systems is very important. Upon reading Sheba\’s post on the same subject, I thought it would be apt to…
Doug Lombardi thinks Crytek are a bunch of idiots
Well, no, he doesn\’t. But at least this snippet from this interview with him from Shacknews suggests that he thinks that sane system requirements are entirely a developers\’ responsibility: Shack:…
The answer to the programming problem I posted
Well, AN answer, at any rate. Click through if you want to see it, but hold off if you want to try it out for yourself.
Riddle me this
A few of the guys in my team have a fairly regular ritual of going to the espresso bar on the first floor to swap anecdotes and design/programming problems over…