Comment Ubuntu 9.10 (Score 0, Offtopic) 433
The new Ubuntu version just came out. I upgraded right away and things are fine.
Open Source FPS Game Alien Arena 2009 Released 142
Alienkillerrace writes "The open sourced, freeware FPS game Alien Arena 2009 has been released (Windows and Linux). The improvements to the game engine are very significant, and have surely raised the bar for free games of this genre. All surfaces in the game are now rendered using GLSL, not only improving the visual quality, but the performance as well. Interesting new effects like post-process distortions using GLSL have been implemented, as well as light volumes, better per-pixel lighting (reminiscent of UT3), and shaded water. Equally notable is that the sound system has been completely rewritten using OpenAL, allowing for effects such as Doppler, and adding Ogg Vorbis support. The game is free to play and available for download on its official website. It has a stats system and a built-in IRC client in its front-end game browser."
Comment Depends what you want (Score 1) 918
I would say that it definitely depends what job you want to be working in four years. If you want a public sector full time employment (FTE) job, you pretty much need the paper. Competition for those jobs and even promotion is done so "fairly" that the best people on paper will always get them over better practitioners that don't qualify as much on paper. These are jobs with a lot of down time, red tape, and job security. A lot of people want that. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a more challenging and dynamic programming job at a private company or as a consultant; then experience, know-how, and reputation of those are what keep you in rolling in the dough.
As a hiring manager with a FTE staff and that hires consultants, I can tell you that for me, age has nothing to do with it.
Comment Re:Ask a bunch of random people on the internet? (Score 1) 547
Because there's always the risk that a lawyer's advice is biased. They may advise you to fight it out in court if they don't have a busy schedule next month and need the extra money.
Comment Re:Usable Navigation (Score 1) 606
Technology is never having to remember anything
Comment Re:A free (Score 1) 606
www.redtube.com
you don't need to buy a new iPhone for that
Comment Re:What are you trying to do? (Score 1) 904
These must be government workers
Comment Re:I think you jumped the gun a little. (Score 2, Insightful) 489
I'm sure your engineering professor was teaching a new never-before-taught class every day, and it was theory that is unique from other engineering programmes... Sarcasm aside, my point is that to get where you are, you needed some of these brokers to help you get there. Hollywood does this too by story telling.
