March 2009
7 posts
Hunted
Since OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released, with its native Mac OS X port, I was dying to have NeoOffice removed because even in its 2.2 incarnation it was excruciatingly slow, notably when navigating styles. What’s more the 3.x branch has had many performance improvements and bug fixes in many areas, along with many features I like and use, like export to MediaWiki.
Since now however, I...
“That should turn out to be a win for everyone.”
– John Carmack on pacific derivative works
Easy cash
Some BBC article (again):
Despite the growth in new platforms, games still need a modicum of programming talent and the ability to engage audiences.
A modicum? Hell, I should be making millions right now then…
Boyd Multerer, a general manager at Microsoft, said: “You need some programming skill but it’s more about having a good story and an idea for what is fun.*
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Ruled out
Consoles VS PCs… This argument never ends. Two months ago you could read how PC games were bound to a certain death due to massive amount of what people like to call “piracy”. Now you can read that they thrive up to the point of ruling supreme. Seriously. Then you wonder why I can’t believe in the slightest data in journalistic sources, unless I triple-checked it myself and...
Unrevolution
Some people just hope for the best… Thin client dreams at its best. I just wonder how the duck they would stream 1920x1080p to my HDTV through my DSL line (end point), let alone stream it for thousands of people (source point). It just does not scale.
Besides, consoles more and more become home appliances, or rather, part of the local home network of communicating appliance modules. For...
Bewildered
Lately Scribble has been updated. I don’t remember what was the update text but I’m fairly sure it didn’t mention ads. It is already painful to have a free app being updated to an ad-supported one by masquerading it behind a generic ‘bug fix’ update, but having done so in the way they did that one is just even more insane: basically a huge dialog pops up when the app...
Nailed
NIN released yet another album for free, this time in a joint effort with Jane’s Addiction and Street Sweeper. The idea is to promote their upcoming tour. This is “just” an EP, so there’s not many songs but they’re awesome, and the three groups styles make a perfect blend.
As always many high quality formats are available, DRM-free. Note that once you submitted your...
