Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Yes, Electronics Arts is evil, but having checked out the Battlefield 2142 demo, I caved in and bought the full game. If you're not aware of the controversy, here's a partial list of bugaboos:
The game contains a mild form of targeted in-game advertising via billboards seen in the game world. ...
Posted in Games | No Comments »
Monday, October 30th, 2006
I've come very late to using webfeeds, having only started a few months ago, but I've bought in to syndication to the point of removing all the sites I syndicate from my bookmarks. No more aimlessly wandering through my bookmarks to see if my regular blogs have updates.
My first foray ...
Posted in Tech | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
For an example of the inadequate video quality I was talking about in the previous post, check out my 13 part tutorial on how to edit MediaWiki wikis. I made this tutorial to help others contribute to the project.
In all, this tutorial runs an hour and a half. Considering the ...
Posted in Learn Programming | No Comments »
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
With the H.264 codec, you get fantastic video compression for screen capture because it's smart enough to recongnize an essentially unchanging screen. The image quality is near perfect with an under 1k bit rate for an umoving image.
So it's quite annoying that both Google Video and Youtube (and in fact ...
Posted in Tech | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
The oblique threats to violate network neutrality coming from the telecom industry essentially come down to one thing: no one wants to be a commodity provider because there's never an opportunity for turning a commodity into a golden goose. With a commodity, the seller pretty much gets back just what ...
Posted in Tech | 6 Comments »
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Seven rants about successful programming give or take two.
Posted in Learn Programming | No Comments »
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
This obnoxious come-on actually gets it mostly right about programming myths:
Myth #1: Computer programming is for technology geeks.
The reality is that the Project Manager, Business Analyst, Tester, Manager, Sales Executive, Recruiter, Technical Writer, Web Developer, Web Designer and other roles in the programming industry require different personality types ...
Posted in Learn Programming | No Comments »
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Too much?
Posted in Tech | No Comments »
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Tomorrow I'll post an argument about whether or not the claims RMS (Richard "Not Milhous" Stallman) makes regarding freedom have justification, but today I want to talk about some things on which RMS is clearly wrong, and they all relate to terminology:
"open source" is a perfectly good term for ethical ...
Posted in Tech | No Comments »
Friday, October 20th, 2006
I've decided that the opening course, data representation, should sneak in the basic concepts of hash functions and cryptography:
Number representation A discussion of bits and how they can be used to represent numbers.
Text representation How bits can be used to represent text.
Introduction to ...
Posted in Learn Programming | No Comments »
