Elysian Shadows

I need to know what the best format is, for audio, video, image and 3D for a game. By best format I'm referring to being efficient quality AND compression, so maybe mostly lossless? I just ripped the entire audio from Altered Beast and am now actually attempting to rip images through recording and ...

If the is a reason why singletons are a bad design then fine, I'll certainly won't be using them in the future but you can't just say "this caused me to rewrite our engine" and "I spent to days fixing the toolkit because of a singleton". I'll accept they are bad design when I se...

Anyone with an opinion on Lisp? I've heard people go "oh, it's outdated, no one uses it, etc etc." and a select few say things like "it's made me a far better programmer" or "it's the reason I can rapidly create effective tools and software while others take several times a...

It's because Steve Jobs hates your freedom.

avansc wrote:http://text20.net/node/12

pretty neat. you can test the eye tracking yourself, its java so should work on any platform.

That's pretty cool. Too bad you have to be on the DFKI Kaiserslautern intranet to get the source code.

Yeah, I definitely might look into it. And screw all of you KDE haters. I've been using KDE4 for awhile, and I fucking love it. Nothing looks cooler than having a 60" 1080p TV in the living room hooked up to your Kubuntu server to show off the globe/snow/cube special effects. ;) Agreed. KDE4 i...

GyroVorbis wrote:Damn that's spiffy. But I'm running Ubuntu, and have always preferred KDE over GNOME. Is this look replacing GNOME?

"The new look will also be applied to Ubuntu's derivatives Kubuntu and Xubuntu."
So they've created a theme for KDE too.

This shit morally enrages me and saddens me at the same time. There is really no reason for this kind of bullshit, unless a company is worried that the "spinoff" is going to be better than anything the company could make. But even then, that's called being pathetic. I agree. Plus, the gam...

DeFormat wrote:With WampServer, you can create console programs in PHP inside the php framework...

Dude, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. I've never even considered PHP to be a good web language.

Does anyone have any tips for learning a new programming language or a new game programming library? Is it a good idea to take notes on each chapter of an programming book? Also, what would you consider to be the best API out there? I was thinking OpenGL or SDL, but I can't make up my mind. I have ...

This question means nothing. It's not about which languages you "know." (What do you do, go around memorizing the syntax for as many languages as you can?) Once you become a competent programmer, you should be able to pick up a new language in anywhere from a day to a week to suit your cu...

They seem to have made a lot of people mad due to privacy issues with Buzz:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10451428-256.html
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/google-buzz-privacy/

Java and Python are kind of like cars. Java is like a 5 speed manual, and Python is like an automatic. They both do the same thing, but the manual gives you more control and insight into what the car is doing. I wouldn't say Java gives you more control. In fact, I'd say Python gives you more contro...

Anyway, Apple is claiming that "HTML5" will become the new rich web standard, and that flash will fix or die. Interesting. I mean, fuck. I know I wouldn't be upset if Flash died. It's always be crappy and unstable. With HTML 5 having support for video, and combining the canvas tag and svg...

I've heard that python is pretty good, but I have never used it myself So you recommend java? if so is it simple? Because i still haven't completely decided but I cant start programming until summertime because of school work. I'd say start with Python. Java's not a bad language, but in my opinion ...