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Comment Re:You are confused (Score 1) 324

If that's the case and you mean game developer or software engineer. generally they look for somebody with a bachelor's in computer science or something similar. ie game development from the game development schools. about programming languages you can start with c++ but if you want to be proficient you dont wanna stop there learn lua, c#, python and any other programming language that you see in job descriptions. i seen even ruby on some companies. this will vary by your position if you are a tools programmer they prob want you to be decent at c# so you can create user interfaces. my best recommendation for you is join a mod team where you can code on c++ or any of those languages. and read job description from company's you would like to work with to see what they are looking in new graduates.

Comment how do i stopped playing wow (Score 1) 811

easy i saved all my items from the mail into my bank tell everybody goodbye didnt give a shit when they said i was important and all the excuses and closed the game. 5 days later subscription ran off also stopped reading news about it on wow specific websites like wowinsider.com and mmo-champion.com. 2 weeks later new patch came out and i was like meh ill play later when i have time in my life.

Comment Re:No - there are plenty of safer alternatives (Score 1) 486

I am a student at a game development school when we started our programming 1 course everybody said to never have warnings on your code and to fix all of them. and they told us about the _s version of printf etc. 3 months ago i started looking into porting all my old code to my new ubuntu desktop. because i want to learn how to make games for linux and was surprised that it didnt compile. now i have to or leave the "unsafe" versions on my code or disable the warning.

Comment Re:Stupid Sony (Score 1) 77

They are just trying to limit the amount of piracy. i am sure that somebody on sony agrees the put homebrew and backup games on the psp thing. but it also opens the door for piracy i wish someday a console will let you do backups so only you can use. instead of having to rely on hacking the console for it. on a unrelated note my starcrafts disk are all dead beyond repair if i had a backup of them i would not have to go download them from piratebay. (keys are lost too fyi so no blizzard downloader)

Comment Re:Just rip off the band-aid (Score 1) 496

i never wanted to upgrade to vista but since i work at making games. i wanted to work on directx 11 and 64 bit so i had too. they prompts get annoying BUT. you have to realize something those prompts are what let you use your computer without getting a virus or accidentally deleting the wrong files. so i learned to live with the prompts for the greater good. ie my security. but some people prefer convenience instead of safety.
Government

Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post 766

The Recording Industry of America's favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet's Declan McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA's lucrative business for his DC law firm: "An article on his law firm's Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo," not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds, "Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal's being appointed Copyright Czar."
Earth

Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773

myrdos2 writes "A host of common chemicals is feminizing males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. Many have been identified as 'endocrine disruptors' or gender-benders because they interfere with hormones. Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys, which may offer a clue to the mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys. It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone. And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per milliliter of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years."
Security

U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143

An anonymous reader writes "The UK appears to be watering down its national ID card system, with the revelation by the government that it will now only check the cards against a central biometric database in a minority of cases. Critics are saying it not only renders the whole scheme pointless, but will pose a security risk by making it far easier to use copied or cloned cards. 'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud: 'The majority of instances where people use their identity cards will be day-to-day situations where the cards offer a convenient method of proving identity such as a young person proving their age to buy alcohol,' he said.'"
Privacy

Every Email In UK To Be Monitored 785

ericcantona writes "The Communications Data Bill (2008) will lead to the creation of a single, centralized database containing records of all e-mails sent, websites visited and mobile phones used by UK citizens. In a carnivore-on-steroids programme, as all vestiges of communication privacy are stripped away, The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says this is a 'necessity.'"

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