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I think you would have a better argument if the sites graphic design didn't appear to copy http://about.me

I like how you can now go into the gallery using streetview http://goo.gl/maps/KAVo

This reminds me of Natural Selection, which has to have been one of the most interesting Half-Life mods I use to play.

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/

This was posted already by the creator : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520916

I still don't get why everyone thinks Augmented Reality is so great. For live TV, ok; but for live performances / talks (like this one) your in the weird position of having to watch the performance happening in front of you, on a screen.

This is the main reason I also use NoScript. Just today I saw two very tech savvy friends get caught out by a Facebook clickjacking attack. With javascript off on untrusted domains, it didn't work for me.

I also use this. Here is the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/

I think there are still some attempts to build things to last:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Svalbard_Glob...

What I said below:

> [I had] a lack of formal education in software development. I've had quite a lot of programming lectures but everything beyond C++ inheritance has been off my own back.

I think the more I've learnt, the more I'm coming to a similar opinion that I could probably write any kind of program I got asked to.

In film effects, I'd probably end up working within an R&D or pipeline department. In games, maybe working on the engine? In true though, I've a very poor knowledge or the structure of a software or games team (though I know most of the inner workings of film effects).

I suppose I label myself as games / graphics programmer because I've always been making/learning about games or effects...

I'm at Bournemouth Uni in the UK. I think it works quite well here for most of the courses (which more of a focus on film effect and game content) to be under the media umbrella, but for outliers like me it feels a bit odd receiving a Bachelor of Art for writing a (simple) games engine. Now I'm finishing an MSc which has a focus on programming for film effects.

One of the downsides I've felt from my experience is a lack of formal education in software development. I've had quite a lot of programming lectures but everything beyond C++ inheritance has been off my own back.

Another factor with Bournemouth is there is a strong (and positive) influence from the London film effects houses. There is almost an assumption that on finishing, you go work for someone in films which (going back to the original point) just adds to the separation from traditional CS.

I have to agree, that's the way I see it. I'm just finishing a computer animation / games programming degree and I'm about to start looking for work.

The only other thing I'd add, from my point of view, is my games (and graphics) programming skills and training have always seemed completely separate to traditional software development. For instance, there is a computer software course at my university but it's in a different department (in engineering, mine is in 'media').

I think, at least from the point of view of a graduate, traditional and games programming seem like two different industries...

Nice. There's some odd bugs with a couple of the trains... I've just seen one travel from Kings Cross to West Ruislip, off the tracks and in under a minute.

I have another issue with the paywall.

With NoScript on, the links on The Times site just don't do anything (they just redirect back to the homepage). Surely some sort of noscript option is possible...

I've been experimenting with bzr-git, pushing my bazaar branches to github... so far, so good (though I've not really done any 'social' stuff yet or been branching other peoples work).

I also got NoScript's cross-site scripting filter kicking in which is never a good thing...

I'd say an ugly robot that stays upright and does the job is better than a nice looking robot on its side...

Personally, I prefer Weenie Google : http://www.toosmalltouse.com/

I do like how they both search-as-you-type (on the results page)... is there any way of getting the real google to work like that?

I remember being told this at school, a quick wiki search turns up some stuff here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#History

"[Printing] introduced further inconsistencies, partly because of the use of typesetters trained abroad, particularly in the Low Countries. For example, the h in ghost was influenced by Dutch."

"No e-mail service has really treated the mail messages differently based on who sent them,"

I guess my filters in gmail don't count...

The site's started to hit Firefox's "Reported Web Forgery!" page...

"This web page at ismycreditcardstolen.com has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences."

Is that actually 3D or just an offset on the images? (I might just have bad 3D glasses)

Surely this won't actually effect you when you want to do a script. If you want the size of a file, 'ls' (and most commands I think) gives you it in bytes, not KiB or KB or whatever...

Personally, I prefer the simpler graphics like those of Michael Paukner (http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/) or David McCandless (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/).

I completely missed the point on this post (NoScript was blocking twitter feed). Thought it was some attempt to advertise the Conservatives...