Iit doesn't make sense to code in ASM anymore.
With computing expanding towards more and more parallelism, I can clearly see that one should learn to start coding in the most abstract of way and let the tools do the optimisation for him...
I second this choice.
For some zealots it's hard to admit but the performance is really good, you have commercial backing of the biggest software company on the planet.
Recently a commercial company (Tuxera) was formed to provide commercial support for NTFS-3G and provide paid-for version of the driver for MacOS and Linux in addition to the free NTFS-3G.
So the future and cross platform access is looking really good.
On the other hand, if I were just a little bit more adventurous, I would much rather use Sun ZFS for storage to have even better reliability, flexibility than with equivalent hardware RAID. But this pretty much requires a separate NAS box running OpenSolaris just for that.
For me and many other garage hackers that just doesn't cut it, all I have is one laptop running a really fancy looking BSD and two external drives (NTFS) and some backup scattered over the Internet...
All I'm hoping for is that one day Apple will reintegrate ZFS support, it's already been promised, implemented and now ditched...
I don't think they're really charging much more for it, maybe an extra $1, although the one's I've looked at seem to contain more songs than the standard album.
The point is you buy the whole album and pay a lot more that you would just buying a song or two.
It would also be quite impossible to play FPS or other kinds of games with this type of setup.
I think Quake 3 engine has been open-sourced a while ago.
I wonder if it'd be possible to use that game (and maybe other games, apps) as a benchmark to test the efficiency of various input methods.
If you can win on Nightmare on q3dm17, it's good/quick enough for me at least.
The whole sentence is an oxymoron.
I sparingly code in my spare time, but if someone requires me to do that kind of misses the whole point.
I'd recently given up on an otherwise very interesting job, just because they required me to complete an assignment - about two full days of coding, testing, etc (at the very least) on top of a 5 hours interview, even thought they were aware I'm already in a full-time job and that I might have some better things to do in the little bits of spare time that I have...
Seriously, if they'd stop to think about, they really should focus on giving players games that have lasting value and are re-playable.
I bough Half-Life ages ago and still haven't sold my copy, because it allows me to play Counter-Strike. Later I bought Half-Life 2 Counter-Strike Source etc, but I keep the original as it's got it's own merits.
This solves some major problems for the publisher: used games market and tight deadlines.
If you keep players occupied for an entire year, you can probably charge a bit more for such game...
Currently EA publishes a new sport title every year. I think they should just admit it and start selling yearly updates, becuase those title are really not that revolutionary - they just contain up-to date player names, stats, maybe some minor graphic tweaks.
No wonder that they have to spend so much on marketing, it would take a hell lot of an ad to convince me to buy fifa 09 if I had fifa 08 already (not that I have any)...
Finally...
Those clashes between Marvel characters and DC Comics ones got boring so now it's time for:
Daisy vs Wolverine
Pinocchio vs Spiderman
Cinderella vs Juggernaut
If they film any of those I am soo going to see this..
"May your future be limited only by your dreams." -- Christa McAuliffe
