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Comment: What the....? (Score 0) 545

by Apagador-Man (#36433554) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul?

Emacs is the way to go! And as a matter of fact, I wrote a Lisp Script that just creates the webpage for me!

It's pretty slick. See, in my client meetings, I record what they want, I then transfer the mp3 to the machine and the script listens to it and Viola! creates the website exactly the way the customer describes it! I then get a fat check and take off in the Ferrari with my porn star of the day and we shag like Tasmanian Devils - without the cancer - Poor Devils!

At least that's what I remember after I take these cool looking pills and downing them with Scotch while viewing porn ....

For some time I've had this nagging doubt... WHY do so may people from English speaking countries use "Viola!"? Is it cheer ignorance that makes then write that instead of the french "Voila!"? I mean if it is sarcasm directed at those who actually make that mistake, a sarcasm that has grown into common online usage, I find it funny. If it really is a mistake.. well, I find that sad. The "triumphant", "in your face" sounding remark just turns into something that is vaguely reminiscent of a young child that keeps biting his own tongue, trying to speak. LOL-worthy, if in a sad way.

Comment: Meltdown menace (Score 0) 497

by Apagador-Man (#35171894) Attached to: Maximum Items You've Powered From a Single Outlet
From a single outlet I have, often all on at the same time:
2 Desktop PCs
1 Laptop
1 Fan
1 Printer
1 Creative Subwoofer + speakers
1 Screen
1 USB Hubs
1 External HDD


At times I also add
1 second External HDD
1 Shaving machine


On the outlet besides it:
1 big ass crt TV
1 vcr
1 blueray reader
1 wii
1 ps2
1 cable tv box
1 5.1 surround sound system
1 Desktop
1 Screen
1 External HDD
3 x Christmas lights
1 Lamp

Comment: Re:Let me see if I understand (Score 0) 106

by Apagador-Man (#31919646) Attached to: EA Launches <em>Ultima</em>-Based Browser Game
Travian?

UUuuhh... another shiny browser based game... The cheer quantity of web based games with similar rules/mechanisms is just mind bogging.

For over a decade now there have been such games. Calling it Ultima doesn't make it better than all the other crapfest around.

They are defecating on the memories of those that were fond of the ultima franchise, and hoping to gain frm it, too.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Code Review of Doom For the iPhone 161

Posted by Soulskill
from the old-dogs-new-tricks dept.
Developer Fabien Sanglard has written a code review for id Software's iPhone port of Doom. It's an interesting look into how the original 1993 game (which he also reviewed to understand its rendering process) was adapted to a modern platform. "Just like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom was rendering a screenframe pixel per pixel. The only way to do this on iPhone with an acceptable framerate would be to use CoreSurface/CoreSurface.h framework. But it is unfortunately restricted and using it would prevent distribution on the AppStore. The only solution is to use OpenGL, but this comes with a few challenges: Doom was faking 3D with a 2D map. OpenGL needs real 3D vertices. More than 3D vertices, OpenGL needs data to be sent as triangles (among other things because they are easy to rasterize). But Doom sectors were made of arbitrary forms. Doom 1993's perspective was also faked, it was actually closer to an orthogonal projection than a perspective projection. Doom was using VGA palette indexing to perform special effect (red for damage, silver for invulnerable...)."

Comment: Re:Management Types... (Score 0) 323

by Apagador-Man (#30831190) Attached to: CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage
Are you on some bad crack or just living in your own little version of reality?

To me, what GP seems to be saying is that CBS is a corporation that exists for the sole purpose of making money. Let us suppose, even if for a moment, that whatever media CBS owns is seen as something to make money with, which is CBS's main goal.

If some dudes make a copy of their media and delivers it to the general public, CBS won't be getting as much money as they might otherwise.

We live amidst cut-throat capitalism. What matters most to a stockholder in this tanking economy? A cultural icon, or some money to fill his pockets with?

Because of course, a corporation's objective will be to deprive it's stockholders from some immediate financial gain, just to preserve a cultural icon.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. -- Andrew Lang

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