Whaddaya got there, numbers?
Every once in awhile I find myself describing this concept to people. This presentation does a good job of it.
As GPU’s become more and more flexible, it’s expected that graphics APIs will go away. Flexibility in the rendering pipeline will be a benefit whether you are pursuing photo-realism or stylization.
Either way I’m excited to see what everyone comes up with next.
Seriously, watch this right now. It gets pulled down Sunday evening.
This smooth electronic remix of clips from Alice in Wonderland is really awesome. You can get the free mp3 here.
From the land of Old Hat, I bring you Magical Trevor.
3 and 4 are, not so good.
From: e-potpourri
I’m a sucker for cool graphs. You film people will probably like this one.
Make sure you check out the legend on the right.
It was bound to happen. Maybe it already did and I missed it. Nevertheless here it is.
For a mere $10 you can change your sex in an MMO.
If your store needs a 5 page long confession including tips on how to properly shop there, something is wrong. I’d rather just waltz into Best Buy and get what I want, or if it isn’t an impulse buy, get it online.
In reality though, I don’t trust other people to take care of their discs, so used copies don’t hold much interest for me. I’m certainly not willing to buy a used copy to save a meager $5 off of the new price.
Tips 21 and 22 are pretty good, but I would change them to “Don’t buy third-party peripherals ever.” I worked at an independent used game store through high school. The third-party stuff always feels cheap and breaks quickly.
Internet Duct Tape has a post up talking about GreaseMonkey, how to install it and how nice it can be.
I thought it was funny though, that upon following the link to Userscripts.org you are greeted with a large red banner that gives a dire warning:
“A malicious user is uploading scripts that steal cookies.
Extra caution is recommended when installing recently uploaded/updated scripts.“
The resulting thread is full of good information on the topic, as well as a good number of poor souls who aren’t tech savvy but were using GreaseMonkey. It is too bad that Userscripts.org has to deal with malicious people. Thankfully it is just a case of people grabbing scripts, adding code to farm cookies, and re-uploading them as a new version. Shouldn’t be hard to track, but it still creates somewhat of a minefield for the users.
GreaseMonkey looks like a very nice plug-in for Firefox, but it should come with a good warning for the less technical people. User created content and plug-ins are definitely good in the long run, but you do have to be a bit wary.
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