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Comment Re:Direct X vs Open GL (Score 1) 496

by Vegar on Thursday August 02, 2012 @05:03PM (#40861221) Attached to: Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution?

The only issue is that they are claiming that Open GL version runs better then the Direct X version is we really do not know if they are the same graphic detail.

Is it not safe to assume that Valve know the ins and outs of their own games?

Comment Re:GNOME Survey (Score 1) 315

by Vegar on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @01:20PM (#37751878) Attached to: Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3

How many are really still holding onto their 2.x installs like myself? Using GNOME for about 10 years now and am looking for a decent replacement for 2.32 (or until gentoo gets rid of 2.x)

I recently switched to Xfce 4.8, and I find it being a good GNOME 2.x replacement (if you change the very odd panel layout to something more gnome-like). If you cherry-pick some of the (better?) GNOME applications to go along with you for the update, it'll make the transition even easier (like gedit, gnome-screensaver and possibly nautilus).

Comment Re:Wrong math. (Score 1) 167

by Vegar on Sunday April 17, 2011 @08:19PM (#35851320) Attached to: A 9V Battery To Your Brain Can Improve Your Gaming

First of all: it was 0.002 amps, not 0.002 watt.

Second: You cannot compare current (amps) to power (watt) like it was done in the summary. Power is the product of current and voltage (P=U*I, or P=V*I if you're American). 2 mA can in fact be 100% of the amount drawn by a 100W light bulb if the voltage across the light bulb is 50kV (50000*0.002 = 100) (Assuming the bulb was built for 50kV, but that is a whole different story)

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Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 82

by Vegar on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:10AM (#33300264) Attached to: Owning Virtual Worlds For Fun and Profit

I once coded for a free MMO

This wouldn't happen to be the MMO wherein there is a lot of Entropy, if you know what I mean?

Palm Pre and WebOS Get Native Gaming 49

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:48PM from the break-out-your-rocket-launcher dept.

rboatright writes "WebOS developers have been waiting, and with the 1.3.5 release, Palm's open source page suddenly listed SDL. Members of the WebOS internals team took that as a challenge and within 24 hours had a working port of Doom running in SDL on the Pre, in a webOS card. 48 hours later, they not only had Quake running, but had found in the latest LunaSysMgr the requirements to launch a native app from the webOS app launcher from an icon just like any other app. At the same time, the team demonstrated openGL apps running. With full native code support, with I/O available via SDL, developers now have a preview into Palm's future intent with regard to native code SDK's, and a hint of what's coming."

The Trousers of Reality 63

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 04, 2010 @02:44PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

gregrolan writes "The Trousers of Reality — Volume 1, Working Life is indeed a book about finding balance and satisfaction in life work and play. The author's thesis can be applied to almost any discipline, but it is from his background as an IT consultant that most of his professional examples are drawn. He considers success in this field pretty broadly and addresses the technical, management, political, personal, and social aspects of the IT profession." Read on for the rest of Greg's review.

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