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Journal: Mod points

Journal by oldmildog

I visit here every day or two. Have been doing so for years and years. Karma shows as Good.

Why do I only get mod points once a year or so?

Oh, and seriously? It's been almost three years since I wrote in my journal?

Comment: Missing from the summary (Score 2) 68

by oldmildog (#34462558) Attached to: Beginning Blender
From wikipedia:

Blender is a free 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated film, or visual effects.

It wouldn't be a Slashdot book review unless it was cryptic about what was being reviewed.

Comment: Assume, for a second... (Score 1) 36

by oldmildog (#31929920) Attached to: Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia
Another post where the author has assumed the reader knows what the product is already. Sure I can go search and figure out what it is, but what's so hard about including a little text like "Joomla! is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla)?

This goes for GIMP, Alfredo, Moodle, Blender, and so on. It's fine to have non intuitive names, but then help your potential users out when they don't know that MonkeySpooge is your amazing open-source PHP framework.
Transportation

MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams 243

Posted by kdawson
from the get-me-outa-this dept.
Pioneer Woman writes "Microsoft announced plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets and will be freely available as part of the company's Live.com site for 72 cities in the US. Microsoft researchers designed algorithms that modeled traffic behavior by collecting trip data from Microsoft employees who volunteered to carry GPS units in their cars. In the end they were able to build a model for predicting traffic based on four years of data, effectively creating individual 'personalities' for over 800,000 road segments in the Seattle region. In all the system tracks about 60 million road segments in the US."
Microsoft

NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007 344

Posted by Soulskill
from the it-wasn't-me-it-was-the-one-armed-driver dept.
PaisteUser tips us to an Ars Technica report discussing how 28.8% of Vista's crashes over a period in 2007 were due to faulty NVIDIA drivers. The information comes out of the 158 pages of Microsoft emails that were handed over at the request of a judge in the Vista-capable lawsuit. NVIDIA has already faced a class-action lawsuit over the drivers. From Ars Technica: "NVIDIA had significant problems when it came time to transition its shiny, new G80 architecture from Windows XP to Windows Vista. The company's first G80-compatible Vista driver ended up being delayed from December to the end of January, and even then was available only as a beta download. In this case, full compatibility and stability did not come quickly, and the Internet is scattered with reports detailing graphics driver issues when using G80 processors for the entirely of 2007. There was always a question, however, of whether or not the problems were really that bad, or if reporting bias was painting a more negative picture of the current situation than what was actually occurring."
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Journal: A year?

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Seriously? It's been a year and two days since I last wrote in my journal?
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Journal: This week...

Journal by oldmildog
This week has been insanely long and drawn out. If this week were 10 miles, I'd be in Finland by now. It feels like next Tuesday.

Kitchen activity is highlighted. Butter up a friend.

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