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At USC, developing game coders

At USC, developing game codersGotta love my alma materAlways looking to the future for new ideas for degreed studies. Much like the Film School was very cutting edge in my day - now it is engineering and games. Good use of the outrageous tuition fees - money well spent.

Tags: Games, game coder, USC, game

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

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The war for mobile developers is on: Do you have to pick sides?

The war for mobile developers is on: Do you have to pick sides?Maybe not...You really overestimate how many home consumers will buy those silly iPhone Apps. There's a lot of junk in the App store right now and it will take some time to separate the wheat from the chaff....

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Mobile App, Apple iPhone, SOURCE/OPEN SOURCE/OPEN SOURCE/OPEN SOURCE/OPEN SOURCE/OPEN, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no

Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, noThe choose their words carefully. Like "has access to" a computer withSilverlight. They might lead you to think that one in four computers has Silverlight installed. But, NO, that just means one in four persons has access somewhere, somehow, to Silverlight, though possibly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Silverlight 2

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

13 reasons IT hates metrics

13 reasons IT hates metricsYou Missed the Most Important Point...Management likes metrics because numbers on paper or PowerPointless makes it appear that they know what they're talking about, are meeting "goals" and showing "improvement". Unfortunately, IT metrics don't really measure anything meaningful. Take "Lines of Code" for example. On the...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app

A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...

Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Apple patent describes music metadeta wireless transfer to iPod, iPhone

Technology described in a newly published Apple Patent application appears to describe the wireless transfer of metadata about music files played or stored on desktop or notebook computers to a portable music player such as an iPod or an iPhone.That's at least the way the Patent application entitled Portable media...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Open source is bad for vendors

Open source is bad for vendorsAny limitations?"Patents and copyrights were conceived as individual rights, not corporate goods. And open source proves that inventions can be even grander than before if rights to the work are held in common."But what about corporations such as IBM that use open source as a...

Tags: open source, Open Source IS, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Ballmer's Macaca moment

Ballmer's Macaca momentallISONPlease at least get the name right.It's worse than usual -- Jeremy reads and posts here.paying billsI'm a software engineer. I have spent time and money getting degrees from Universities. I also spend time learning more about software and programming. These skills are not easy to learn and...

Tags: Development tools, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Gaffe, Microsoft Corp., programmer, OSS, patent, Unix, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2006-12-21

Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?

Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...

Tags: General, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Pick your poison: Porn or World of Warcraft

A couple of threads of the "bad" or "dark side" of technology stories are running their course this week. On the one hand, CNN is doing a series on online porn addiction, claiming that the porn business makes more than all professional sports combined and is, therefore, an insidious threat...

Tags: World of Warcraft

Blog posts 2006-10-17

HP probed third CNET reporter, family

HP probed third CNET reporter, familyALL hacks should be investigatedI've never met a hack or politician that was worth jack and it would be good to investigate all of them for their crimes IMO.How many more @ CNet have been targeted?This HP ID fraud case seems to get nastier each...

Tags: Social Security, Business ethics, Operational accounting, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-09-21

Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM counters

Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM countersI was just about to email you thisGuess that is what I get for waiting a night.What a load of bunk that this. When it comes to personal data or another exploit that affects the customer, Microsoft takes their sweet time....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Fairplay, patch management, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-08

Screenshots: Vista rates your PC

Screenshots: Vista rates your PCWill there be a separate tester programme?Will there be a separate tester programme that we can run on our computers without first having to buy Vista?PC RatingI don't think rating of the PC poses an issue personally, it's Microsoft's way of selling new PCs in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, T2400, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-15

Microsoft seeks new deadline in EU case

Microsoft seeks new deadline in EU caseSOS, DD with MICROSUCKS !!!It's always the same game with MICROSUCKS...Stall, divide and conquer. Given enough time, IMO MICROSUCKS will either bribe the right people or overwhelm the EU authorities with legal mumbo jumbo until they get tired and give up. MICROSUCKS has all...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., source code, API

Discussion threads 2006-02-02

The bottom rung of the programming ladder

The bottom rung of the programming ladderPythonAlthough at one point MS may have invested in ActiveState a few years ago, they didn't really endorse Perl--but that doesn't mean anything either.Perl is 'ubiquitous' and, of course, 'open source' and runs on 'any' platform.Python adoption will continue to grow and have its...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, offshoring, Perl, Python, programming

Discussion threads 2006-01-05

Software flaws--the root of evil

Software flaws--the root of evilVERY SIMPLE SOLUTION - FINE MICROSUCKS $100 BILLION !...and ALL software mfgs. who distribute insecure, BUG RIDDEN, Piss Poor code and O/Ss!If MICROSUCKS was PROPERLY prosecuted for CONSUMER FRAUD, which they have knowingly committed since Windows was released to the public WITHOUT FULL DISCLOSURE of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, Microsoft Corp., security, Piss Poor, root cause, O/S

Discussion threads 2005-06-15

Unreal Tournament 2004 Remote Strike mod (Windows)

This mutator for Unreal Tournament 2004 replaces all the weapons with all-new custom weapons such as the shotgun. The mutator also gives players the ability to deform terrain using guns and explosive weapons. Remote Strike is set at a time not far in the distant future where true remote control...

Tags: Weapon, Microsoft Windows, Mr_Romanov, Robots, Games, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-07-28

Red Hat adds legal firepower

Red Hat adds legal firepowerSCO, meet Butt.. now kiss it goodbye.Every day SCO exists on borrowed time..Is it just me or have I not heard much of anything...coming out of SCO of late? Not that long ago seemed a week would not pass by when SCO would make some...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux War, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-05-18

Linux developers compete for 'dream'

Linux developers compete for 'dream'Unfortunate Name!Hackfest is an unfortunate name for this event. It caries negative connotations.Way to go Linux ! Go Linux !!!>> Developers will compete to write the highest-quality program running on Linux that can play the cookies version of Tetrinet, a Tetris-like game.Finally Linux is improving......

Tags: UNIX, Hacking, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, hackfest, Linux, hacker, LINUX IS, Elegance

Discussion threads 2004-01-06