Make sure you don't have a script blocker running. I have ScriptNo on Chrome and I can see the text just barely on 1920x1200 and fully on 1200x1600 (rotated) with it enabled by default. If I allow javascript to run then it perfectly expands the image so that indeed the apology is at the bottom of the page and I have to scroll (in both screen formats). Its unnecessary on 1920x1200 and extremely unnecessary on 1200x1600 to play that game as they could easily have fit the text at the bottom if they were not trying to hide it.

This technology is nothing new. Its been used heavily since the sixties to bring out vivid colors in all manner of displays (its actually even older than traditional color tv displays). Sometimes they refer to the technology as microdots. I'm not sure I need a LSD screen yet or one that uses PCB bus instead of a PCI bus one.

Pretty much same here different games probably. I've funded 6 games in past 3 weeks or so. 5 of those have already hit their targets. Shadowrun Returns, Wasteland 2 and the DFA game are run away successes I think in this phase. I don't think the 6th one will make its targets.

I think it will be successful for well known but niche titles. I have very few problems giving my money to the original authors of the games as that is probably a safe bet. I have slightly more reservations with new content from unknowns or people who have only good mods in their pocket. But I have invested in both just to see if this spurs on new kinds of development but I'm not giving $15 or $1000 to just anybody as there are few guarantees here that the money will be well spent and I will see anything in return in 1-2 years.

I don't care for the latest action game or multiplayer whatever. I'm far more interested in games with content and choices and a little back story not ones that accurately model the reloading behavior of the latest military firearms. Unfortunately we seem to be getting better graphics and animation and worse content as years go by. These kickstarters are showing that there is a market for older style games from decades past that are being updated for today's computers without having to sell your soul to the publisher in exchange for money.

I personally use Actual Window Manager for my desktop management of windows systems. Lots of options for saving preferred locations for apps and changing behaviors like adding a second taskbar (with start button) to second monitors. Forcing apps to startup on same window as the mouse. Forcing apps to always be on top. Just a lot of little useful things that I occasionally really want.

It has a few flaws especially if the application its hooking is unresponsive and is more expensive than free but worth it in by my book. I don't use Virtual Desktops Switcher much as I don't personally need it but that is its multiple virtual desktop manager and is reasonably easy to use. The product has a 60 day trial so plenty of time to try to see if you like it.

Yep. People only call me at work when they really need get a hold of me. I accomplish this by not letting the company pay for a phone so it does not have to be listed on the company contact list and then I give out my number or call only those I trust with it.

My solution to the email flood is to use lots of server side rules. Most emails are moved immediately to some subfolder under my inbox unless I've whitelisted the person or subject for some reason. I can check the subfolder when I like but its not automatically synced to remote devices. The primary inbox is left for emails that are presumably worth an immediate notification. Automated reports and notices get their own private hole to reside in. Its a little bit of work but it has held up so far.

Symbolic links aka Junctions were added in Windows XP so it is a decade old at least. What is missing was a good built in tool to use them but that is what Mark Russinovich is for.

Each FS have their merits. I don't really need to have README.TXT, Readme.txt, readme.txt coexist in the same folder at the same time so I prefer that part of FAT32/NTFS anyway.

I total agree. My boss pretty much discarded his middle layer in geronimo and rewrote the php layer to directly use the database instead of webservice because performance was so poor on our critical monitoring website.

We use a lot of Java and it just sucks memory and performance like there is no tomorrow. We have one server that we just had to up the memory from 5 GB to 7 GB to 10 GB because the fracken java app was doing god knows what with what should be at most 500 MB of data. I'm sure its bad code and one day we will get a fix from the vendor but this is not the first time I've seen this though never of that magnitude.

On topic we also use a Java Webstart based thick-client HMI and not a week goes by that most I get one comment or another about how much memory it using on users desktops (minimum 256 but usually 400 or so) and how crappy it looks (using swing widgets). My laptop only has 2 GB and between this app, firefox and eclipse I have nothing left and for anything else and have to play games with what apps I have open or risk running off the swap drive. I've only ever used one Java client application that was so well performing, well behaved and nice looking that I didn't know it was Java and was surprised by it usually that is not the case.

I agree it will be rooted but also that Amazon will fight rooting like apple. I think the main reason though will be so people cannot circumvent the onscreen ads on lower price models which would be the first thing I would do. It will be interesting how this shakes out.

I couldn't say why some peoples eyes hurt since that is not my area of expertise but I can tell you that my eyes hurt after reading on my nook color after a couple of hours. I also have a first gen kindle and do not have the same problem with it. I am a software developer and am in front of computer screens all day reading text of monitors without issue.

Maybe its a quality of light issue or refresh rates or something but it happens at least in my experience.

In the end I would put money on tablets winning the battle over e-ink over time unless e-ink vendors can put out some quality color screens that update quickly fairly soon just because they are more versatile at the moment.

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While I did not work in video games, I had similar experiences while working in Canada. Those tax breaks were huge for our company even though I would not call what we did R&D.

One coworker got headhunted into a much better position just due to the fact that he had hands on experience in getting these tax breaks for our company and a sizable bonus based on a percentage of the money he could get for the new company.

We had some Windows and Linux (CentOS) servers that were running on real hardware. We consolidated them to a VMware ESXi host. The windows images moved over seamlessly and without issue. The core linux box with svn, wiki, bug tracker, ... would not migrate properly so we ended up reinstalling the OS and migrating the apps and data by hand. Overall the windows box took the time to copy the data + 15 minutes and Linux took time to copy the data twice and half a day to troubleshoot and reinstall.

Nothing was particularly special in the configurations of either that I recall. I suppose we used the wrong version of linux or something. Also not sure if a HAL would help or hurt here or if it was something with vmware but it wasn't as easy as you pointed out above.

Maybe if one of the Windows images had trouble it would have been 1+ days instead of .5 days or something but then again they didn't.

When I graduated 50% of my Chemical Engineering class was female at that time, all my good friends then were female and one could easily have been a fashion model if she wanted it. Most focused on premed or biochemical.

And William H McNeill breached the subject in Plagues and Peoples in 1976 regarding the rise of Christianity with the black death although maybe not a blunt as perhaps latter literature.

While I don't disagree that PLCs are way over priced. $100,000 sounds a bit too high for a PLC even if its a safety PLC with redundancy. We should be talking $5000 per PLC and then $1000-2000 per IO module (1 IO = 4-8 analog, 16 digital, 6 Thermocouples, ...) before vendor discounts. We instrumented a some sophisticated stuff for $50000 with Rockwell DeviceNet and that was at least a full panel (like 8 racks full of IO). When we switched to custom embedded controllers the cost was something like $3000 for the equivalent hardware. Admittedly their software has a lower barrier of entry and far less development cost but is useful for prototyping before going into full scale production.