November 2006
8 posts
The new golf
All told, at least 10 million people pay $15 and up a month to play these games, and maybe 20 million more log in once in a while. Some players call World of Warcraft “the new golf,” as young colleagues and business partners gather online to slay orcs instead of gathering on the green to hack away at little white balls. Says eBay Inc. founder and Chairman Pierre M. Omidyar, whose...
How much should consultants charge?
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Defeating GMail’s spam filter 101
Apparently the best way to defeat GMail’s spam filter seems to be to self-confess by including the word spam in the subject line. This is not actually the first time I have noticed this.
technorati tags:gmail, spam, filter, assasin, inbox
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BrightTex’s ClarityPro scanner can detect skin...
After measuring the extent of sun damage on a customer’s face, for example, Clarity Pro provides a graph showing the maximum number of minutes the person should spend under the sun, based on daily ultraviolet indexes. The device also measures areas of unhealthy redness and tabulates how many pores are afflicted by acne-causing bacteria and excessive sebum, an oil the body produces that...
Trying Windows Live Writer
Just testing Wordpress support in Windows Live Writer. Technorati tags: wordpress, live writer
Private banking industry in Singapore
SINGAPORE has added a new twist to the increasingly fierce battle for Asian private banking talent - an informal non-poaching agreement that effectively protects two local banks from aggressive foreign rivals.
In an effort to capture a share of Asia’s newly created wealth, Singapore-based private banks will have to triple the total number of client relationship managers, or personal...
Valve: re-engineering game engines for the latest...
Game engine pipeline before optimizing for multi-core:
Build world lists (background, scenery, etc.)
Build object lists (players, nonplayer characters, items)
Graphical simulation (particles, ropes, sprites)
Update animations (such as skeletal animation used for character movement)
Compute shadows
Draw (send display commands to the graphics card)
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On Seaside: “share everything†philosophy
Seaside, RubyOnRails, Python Django, CakePHP shares some common idea. But I find only in Seaside the complete and automatic session/request management, and a true MVC process. Why other languages cannot take a similar approach? There are only technical difficulties or there is also some other equally good reason in your own opinion?
It has very little to do with language. Fundamentally it...