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6 mm (0.24") thick ipod announced
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clicky
I would say something profound, but I can't think of anything.
The thing is just as thick as the plugin connectors. |
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Posted September 10, 2008 3:21:14 PM
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Save a draft copy of PMs horribly broken
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I was trying to preview my PM, and discovered a wonderful bug.
Open a reply to a private message, edit it, quote a few blocks of it, but don't send.
Choose the send later option, to save it in your unsent bucket.
Open the message in the un... |
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Posted August 30, 2008 3:06:29 PM
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Still not there: Preview on PMs
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There is (still) no way to preview private messages before sending them.
I know this has shown up on the forum a few times, but somehow it never gets high enough on the priority list.
Any news on it?
Should I start sending... |
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Posted August 30, 2008 3:02:04 PM
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Why do we set ourselves up for failure?
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I've been bothered lately by how critics and gamers rate games. It seems that are only two types of ratings:
* Blockbuster, wow, amazing, best ever, must buy! (generally metacritic rating over 8.0)
* Crap, shovelware, a quick buck, meh. (g... |
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Posted June 19, 2008 12:39:14 PM
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Hard Choice: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, Lotus...
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A game industry veteran got tired of making games and started an exotic car rental business in Las Vegas.
He's offering a big discount (25%) on exotic car rentals for anyone in the games industry.
http://www.eminenceluxury.com/vehicles/s... |
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Posted April 28, 2008 7:22:39 PM
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News Discussion forum doesn't have "Add to favorites" button
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The News Discussion forum doesn't have an "Add forum to favorites" link in the main forum page or in the individual comments view.
In order to add it to my favorites, I needed to get the link from another page and swap in the correct forum ID.
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Posted April 14, 2008 2:05:19 PM
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Following Your Passions: Why a co-worker just left games.
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Someone just left our studio after a year, and sent around a final good bye letter. A few paragraphs say the most important part:
Quote:You guys have the greatest jobs in the world. Not because you make video games or make a decent living... but b... |
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Posted August 17, 2007 3:34:09 PM
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(singing) I get paid to get high!
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Just around the door to my cube is the server room.
There is a crazy guy in there painting.
He's singing "I get paid to get high! I want to go fly! Oh woo hoo hoo, mr magoo, you did it again ...."
A few minutes ago it was "Oh yeah! Oh yip... |
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Posted March 2, 2007 3:51:10 PM
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What did you do with your newly discovered time?
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Hello everybody. It's my first time at a meeting like this.
My name is frob, and I am a gd.net-aholic.
(crowd): Hello, frob.
Over the past 10 days, I have accomplished many great things with the extra hours.
I have worked on a came... |
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Posted February 13, 2007 1:45:05 AM
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Answer to FAQ: Cost of a DevKit
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I suggest this gets added to the FAQ. The FAQ for "Business of Game Development" points to this forum's FAQ for costs of console development kits.
Spark's lawsuit ended up releasing a whole lot of information.
Their contract worth USD$8.5M i... |
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Posted January 16, 2007 6:23:38 PM
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A good portfolio?
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Quote:Original post by Amyrildora
Game Design, Programming, Web Design, Modeling, and Animation.Web design isn't really a game development topic, so crossing it off.
Pick one job family. Become expert in it. It is fine to pick up a basic... |
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Posted January 5, 2011 5:09:15 PM
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Programming changed? Forever?
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Quote:Original post by Ravuya
Ternary computers aren't particularly new. The Soviets made some, and I'm sure the Western world did too.It wasn't just "The Soviets". All the major powers and several major schools globally invested in building their... |
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Posted January 5, 2011 1:46:26 PM
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How to make a sin/cos lookup table (for faster trig function)
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Quote:Original post by Bow_vernon
I mean the implementation detail, or maybe you know a good link/resource on that subject. Sorry for all the trouble, Im tweaking my engine. Anyway thanks for those replied.
There is no need unless you are work... |
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Posted January 5, 2011 2:07:03 AM
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30th birthday next week... what do?
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Quote:Original post by sdaq
this kind of snuck up on me. I live in the US and don't have a passport. what should I do for my 30th bday?
Dress in black and mourn your youth.
More seriously, you need to give some constraints for such an ope... |
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Posted January 5, 2011 1:57:12 AM
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Windows 7 WTF? Can't install fonts without admin priviledges??
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Quote:Original post by Grimunlock
Quote:Original post by Washu
If there's no IT department, then who has admin privileges? That is all that's required to install the font.
we have "a guy" who has Admin Privileges, and the guy is out on exte... |
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Posted January 4, 2011 5:22:03 PM
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cut-scene lag
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Quote:Original post by ic0de
Ok so you insist its edited.
Thanks. It actually makes sense this time.
Did you pause your game simulation and stop other updates while the movie is playing?
Having multiple simultaneous rendering systems is al... |
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Posted January 4, 2011 5:07:31 PM
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Console Rpg
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Quote:Original post by Demx
The problem is that when i put an extra thread (2 in all) to control abilitie cooldowns the game became much slower with big lag when creating the tile-based map..
When i changed priority of the process with task manager... |
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Posted January 4, 2011 4:51:45 PM
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So i quit my job and told them they suck!
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Quote:Original post by vrok137
Quote:Original post by way2lazy2care
Quote:Original post by VerMan
(18K/yr EUR with mid-senior tasks responsibilities, headaches, stress, etc, etc)
dude that's close to minimum wage. That's pretty weak :-/
I c... |
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Posted January 4, 2011 1:31:47 PM
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Help with string to integer & comparison code.
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Quote:Original post by Thsotus
I already solved the code myself. I just used atoi() before the if-else comparisons, and compared the int number to 1~8 instead of comparing the string to it.
On parsing numbers, note that atoi() returns 0 on fa... |
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Posted January 4, 2011 1:00:24 PM
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Game based on spherical coordinates
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Quote:Original post by Butabee
The problem is that I'd have to do the conversion about a million times per frame, which I think would get expensive pretty fast.
Costs are relative.
First, be more careful on your estimates. I think you over... |
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Posted January 4, 2011 12:46:58 PM
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