mrhyperpenguin

Sure consistency is great but it doesn't trump everything else. If that were the case we would still be using Nokia style interfaces from the 90s.

Samsung might benefit from adopting the Android 4.0 UI. If they did, assuming other vendors do the same, there would be a more unified UI throughout all Android smartphones, not unlike iOS. And people complain about Android fragmentation...

I have the HP TouchSmart tm2t (a touchscreen laptop) and the touchscreen controls make Windows 8 easy and actually enjoyable to use.

I don't know what Microsoft is trying to do with Windows 8. I know they intended to make touch a first class citizen but it seems like they've forgotten about the mouse and keyboard.

But as you said yourself, there are situations in which this 'humor' is appropriate. The official blog of a government agency is definitely not the place. I would expect this type of language from a no-name blog by a person with the grammar of 16 year-old.

So I assume Google is going to start selling ads and collecting information through autonomous cars?

Can anyone think of any rational behind this? Why would they want to switch people to tiered data plans when there is no effective difference to them?

There are some great people at Bethesda, creating an engine that is capable of what Skyrim is capale is no small feat, so I'm sure they are perfectly aware of what they are doing.

Its hard to believe that they 'forgot' to turn on optimizations or optimize critical code paths, they simply didn't because they are probably fixing show-stopper bugs which is much more important (I'm saying this as a game developer.)

Part of it I believe is that we are spoiled by title updates, they allow developers to ship games earlier (before extensive QA testing or bug fixes) but at the same time is what the fans want and makes sense financially for their company.

So I doubt these modders can do a better job than the professionals at Bethesda, if anything they can do the trivial things that would take any novice programmer a day with a profiler.

Since there are .NET jobs where you live, I would say try and get a job doing that so you can get experience as developer rather than getting experience in a particular language.

Developers learn new languages all of the time. Instead of worrying about a specific language, learn what's common to all programming languages first (software development cycle, testing, VCS's, etc.) because employers (speaking from my own experience) value those skills rather than knowledge in a particular language.

You might also want to check out IronPython (http://ironpython.net/) which is basically Python for .NET.

Does anyone know if there's a picture of Bill Cosby with the sweater?

It seems kind of verbose having to define all of the keyframes and such. Very cool nonetheless.

Am I the only one that agrees with Notch and does think that this "unlimited detail" technology is a scam?

Euclideon is asking for money to develop "new" technology that in reality has been done before and does not have any advantages over a polygon based engine. Everything in their demos can be done (if not better) using a polygon based engine and modern GPUs.

Seriously, just watching one of the videos by Euclideon makes me feel like I'm watching late night tv advertisments. If their tech is as "ground breaking" as they claim, surely they wouldn't need to do as much convincing as they currently do in their videos.