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Comment: Re:Game engine? (Score 1) 199

by mlc (#43327545) Attached to: Cuban Video Game Recreates Revolutionary History
According to Revista Tino :

Para su producción se utiliza el Visual Studio 2005 y el lenguaje de programación Visual C++. Que aunque es de licencia propietario, para la construcción y para el manejo del motor de juego 3D, es el más efectivo. También se utiliza el lenguaje de script Simkin. El motor Génesis 3D y el kit de herramientas de Génesis 3D son utilizados para el diseño y comportamiento de la plataforma de juego, el MilkShape 3D 1.8.1 y el 3D Studios Max 9.0 se utilizan para el diseño y animaciones 3D, el Adobe Suite CSS 3 se emplea en el tratamiento gráfico 2D, el Sony Vegas 5.0, el Fruity Loops y el SoundForge son utilizados para el tratamiento de video y sonido.

People without Spanish skills can probably just look at the capitalized words and get the idea.

Comment: Re:Kindle HD (Score 2) 120

by saihung (#43001515) Attached to: HP Back In Tablet Game With Android-Based 'Slate7'

Indeed. The audio from my Touchpad with ICS is better than what comes out of my laptop speakers, and better than anything I've heard from another tablet of any description.

The debacle over the Touchpad / webOS was thanks to Apothekeer and the total failure to promote the damned things, or to push bugfixes out in a timely fashion. It didn't have to end that way.

Comment: Re:Who cares ? (Score 3, Insightful) 148

by saihung (#42946551) Attached to: Ubuntu For Tablets Announced

iOS has existed since 2007. The iPad has been in existence for less than 3 years as a freestanding product. Don't fool yourself. However entrenched you think one operating system or manufacturer may be in this sector, all it takes is a little bit of rot and a solid kick to turn the entire thing onto its head.

Comment: Re:Idiot. (Score 5, Insightful) 633

by saihung (#42646519) Attached to: Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding"

Is there a reason you're so angry at someone who's never done anything to harm you?

I don't know if you're a lawyer, and I don't know if you've ever dealt with clients who have been bullied into signing things. I am, and I have. Your fantasy version of the perfectly rational college student making calm and collected decisions when he's being threatened with prison, from people who are his authority figures and who he assumed were there to help protect him, is ludicrous.

This disclosure won't affect whether a court ultimately determines that the contract was signed under duress. And now that there is going to be some extremely hostile press against the company (I hope), such a lawsuit may never materialize. In which case breaking the agreement may have been the smart thing to do.

Comment: Re:that's what the job killing lines get you stuff (Score 3, Insightful) 143

by saihung (#42601207) Attached to: NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution

That is exceedingly sloppy thinking. Pollution is a problem of combined effects from multiple sources. Your claim that the USA, or Europe, or Japan reducing their respective pollution outputs "won't make a difference" isn't just an overstatement, it is false. EVERY bit makes a difference. The same logic you just used justifies every kind of petty offense in the world.

Collective problems require incremental solutions. Just because you cannot personally observe the effects of every increment doesn't mean it's irrelevant.

Comment: Re:Good bye (Score 2) 218

by saihung (#42556699) Attached to: Symbian Sells Millions, Despite Nokia Pushing Windows Phone

Have you actually used a Symbian device recently, or is this just a knee-jerk reaction? I have an E6-00 with the latest release of Belle on it, and I like it a lot. It's stable, the battery life is great, and it has a physical keyboard. It does everything I need a smartphone to do, which is why I thought we bought the things to begin with.

Comment: Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 1387

1. Refusing to change because people who area old don't like it will mean that we never accomplish anything. Get on the train or get off the tracks, grandpa.
2. No need to wait.
3. Hello circular reasoning, my old friend!
4. That's stupid. Incredibly stupid. There is nothing special about the USA. If it fails to take steps to better integrate itself into the global economy, it will simply be bypassed.

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