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iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL

Neato. I want to see a game made out of this.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Researchers have successfully teleported wave packets of light

Heh, I wish. Unfortunately, the word teleport here does not mean what everybody immediately thinks. Otherwise, this would mean sooo much more than lower latency gaming.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?

Really?? In what regard?

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?

I just recently transferred all of my domains over from GoDaddy to Moniker, which was relatively painless with their site heavily oriented around bulk transfers. Although the control panel could be better, it is sooo much better than GoDaddy's. When I logged in to GoDaddy to transfer these domains, not having logged in for quite some time, and with their ever changing, incredibly busy design, it took me a good 60 seconds or so to even find the link to the 'domain manager'.

The whole elephant incident alone wouldn't have made me switch, but after wanting to try something new for some time, that was all I needed to put the effort in to finding someone else.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Japan's crisis: one month later

This is some incredible photojournalism. Very eye opening. Thanks for sharing.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: 2011: Current And Future Programming Languages For Videogames

Although I've just started learning it, Haskell seems to be a worthy language for games (even has PPC support?). Even as a low-level "scripting" language of sorts, using FFI...although I'm not sure how easy it is to bind with C++ at the moment.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: IE10 platform preview available - with native HTML 5

Going by the rest of the article, I'm assuming by native HTML5 they mean hardware accelerated compositing? Good for them if so, but 'native' is definitely the wrong word to use, and the development channel of Chrome has supported hardware accelerated compositing for quite some time.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/desig...

Can even try it out in the current stable channel if you enable it: about:flags

IE10 and WebGL is the big question for me, which will be interesting to see pan out given their obviously conflicting position with OpenGL.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Opera launches Opera Mail web app

Awesome.. we really need some Gmail competitors. I love Gmail and all, but they've reigned king with very little real competition for a surprisingly long time.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: New engine shakes up auto industry

"Last week, the prototype was presented to the energy division of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is backing the Michigan State University Engine Research Laboratory with $2.5 million in funding."

I am just as skeptical, but if this is how they get their funding to build that working prototype than I'd say it's fair enough.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

Windows 7 (PC game development). I would probably be on Mac if I could.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

Very nice! It is indeed amazing how much thought and effort was put into this, and it is appreciated. At some point, I'll have to convert for Visual Studio use if someone doesn't beat me to it.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request

Haha, that breeds all kinds of crazy ideas. If one could simulate the world's biosphere and its organisms at the genetic or even cellular level, we might one day be able to predict the effects of evolution on humans and other animals.

MAYBE even with bacteria and viruses to predict and then cure diseases before they even present themselves!

I doubt our understanding of genetics/biology is extensive enough for this yet, not to mention the computing power needed, but it seems quite possible.

iwjames | 15 years ago | on: 36 hours in North Korea without a guide

Absolutely amazing. It does sound like it would be very difficult to travel in N. Korea if you don't speak Russian, Korean, or surprisingly, German.

But, the French speaker was especially surprising, and I would have expected more Chinese influence than there seemed to be (linguistically).