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Comment FarCry (Score 1) 9

by FortKnox on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:21AM (#27387155) Attached to: [WII] Mario Kart, Far Cry, Ultimate Board Game Collection

If you want to play a FPS with great story and playability, I'd suggest Metroid:Prime3. Of course, I'd say go get the first two gamecube games and play them so you are entirely into the story and everything in the game, but I'm a metroid fan since the original NES version, so I think its completely and entirely worth it...

Comment That isn't a requirement.... (Score 1) 5

by FortKnox on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:33AM (#27328621) Attached to: Sample programming test question.

Obviously, in the interest of runtime efficiency, I don't want to use the modulus operator, or a for loop, or a switch statement, or a bunch of ifs ...

Seems like mod + for loop would make for the quickest and easiest code. Why make something complex when there is no requirement to do such a thing? This could be a process that runs on its own machine in the middle of the night where those 'wasted' cpu cycles wouldn't matter...

Comment I'd give it to the government (Score 1) 48

by FortKnox on Monday March 23, 2009 @09:07AM (#27296907) Attached to: Would You Keep Your AIG Bonus?

Cause the bailout probably saved my job, otherwise I'd be penniless and jobless...

Comment spam (Score 1) 6

by FortKnox on Friday March 20, 2009 @09:38AM (#27267395) Attached to: Twitter

Spammers already try to use it... they get banned pretty fast...

It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux 261

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 19, 2009 @08:45AM from the burn-the-cake dept.

Glyn Moody writes "There's been a spate of celebrations of Linux's 15th birthday recently. What they're really marking is the 15th anniversary of version 1.0. But do version numbers matter for free software? The 'release early, release often' approach means there's generally little difference between version 0.99.14z, say, and version 1.0. In fact, drawing attention to such anniversaries is misguided, because it gives the impression that free software is created in the same way as traditional proprietary code, working towards a predetermined end-point according to a top-down plan. So how should we be choosing and celebrating free software's past achievements?"

Comment Re:What's their angle? (Score 1) 20

by FortKnox on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @12:43PM (#27243367) Attached to: NYT Reports IBM to acquire Sun for $6.5 Billion

There jvm is bug filled and error prone... and maybe they feel that websphere is threatened by glassfish?

And the ability to have the specs first and have websphere always being the first app server to apply all the new specs coming out can be a boon to marketshare, especially up against JBoss that is eating into websphere, heavily...

Comment Re:Super Mario 64 (Score 1) 10

by FortKnox on Monday March 16, 2009 @10:27AM (#27209821) Attached to: [WII] Browsing with Opera and Super Mario World

When we got my son a DS for christmas, it was the first game I purchased for him to play... yes there is a DS port to the game, and its just like the original (and, yes, he loves it).

Comment Easy... (Score 1) 25

by FortKnox on Monday March 16, 2009 @10:18AM (#27209671) Attached to: If you had to change careers - what would you rather be ...

Teacher
Game Designer
Chef
Carpenter/General Contractor
Professional Athlete (completely unpractical with my age and build, but wth, you said impractical was ok)

Comment #3 on a list by a very specific breakdown... (Score 1) 31

by FortKnox on Monday March 16, 2009 @10:10AM (#27209563) Attached to: 15 more years, atheism will be the #1 belief system in US

If you lump catholicism and all the variations of protestant together as one "Christianity", I think you'll find atheism still isn't close. Yeah, it may get bigger than the protestant sects, but won't get bigger than christianity (or just protestantism, if you ask me) anytime soon.

Comment Re:Siiiiiiigh (Score 1) 4

by FortKnox on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @09:15AM (#27133389) Attached to: STS-119

I've been lucky enough to visit Fl during launches twice. You can be as far away as daytona and still see the launch well... totally worth it to go see it :D

Robot Love Goes Bad 101

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 09, 2009 @02:54PM from the become-my-robot-bride dept.

hundredrabh writes "Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third-generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. Eventually the researchers had to decommission the robot, with a hope of bringing it back to life again."

Comment Re:Uh... (Score 1) 15

by FortKnox on Friday March 06, 2009 @05:28PM (#27097707) Attached to: Koria

I, unfortunately, cannot see the youtube clip, so I'm kinda in the dark... hope everything is well for both of you...

Comment Re:Depends... (Score 1) 9

by FortKnox on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @10:47AM (#27050925) Attached to: Tech Interviewing someone higher up than you?

Good stuff! Thanks.

And answers to the rest: He's getting a .net job, will be a placement, not consultant, so he isn't going to get my job, etc...

Journal Journal: Tech Interviewing someone higher up than you? 9

Journal by FortKnox on Monday March 02, 2009 @02:24PM

First of all, I don't want this published to the frontpage...
Having said that, I have a quick question. I'm a Java guy that manages a few younger java guys. I have been asked to tech a .net guy that (according to his resume) has managed over 30 developers. How do I tech a guy like that? Do I just stick with OO/patterns questions? I know how to tech a java guy, but one that has more experience than me is a daunting task...

Comment Exactly... (Score 1) 4

by FortKnox on Monday March 02, 2009 @11:09AM (#27040099) Attached to: [Wii] How Sony and Microsoft lost to Nintendo

The Wii is the console for those that don't game. True brilliance of Nintendo reclaiming the market...

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