A comparison of gaming engines
Found a great technical comparison between Half-Life 2's Source engine and Doom 3's engine for all who are curious. And the winner is...
Playstation 3 Cell Architecture explained
I'm not a console gamer, but if this article is any indication, the traditional x86 processor may well have a new, fierce competitor coming soon. A snippet from the article:
I for one quite like the idea of watching "Contact" on my TV while a PS3 sits in the background churning through a SETI@home [SETI] unit every 5 minutes. If you know how long a SETI unit takes your jaw should have just hit the floor, suffice to say, Cells are very, very fast [SETI Calc].
Yowsa... The goods (in the form of a 5 part article) are here.
Why 1337 sucks.
If you've ever posted on a message board or chatted on IRC, you have undoubtedly come across "1337-speak". Read here to see why it sucks so bad.
Make Firefox Faster!
Using this little tweak, Firefox will load pages MUCH faster. Works great with broadband connections.
What are you looking forward to seeing in MacWorld?
With MacWorld only 5 days away, I was wondering what new announcements everybody is looking forward to. I'm personally looking forward to hearing about the long-rumored about iWorks suite. Microsoft Office on Mac OS X is slow and kludgy at best (and I'm using a dual 2 Ghz G5). AppleWorks is horribly out of date (better than five years old). We need a modern solution, Apple! I'm also interested in hearing about the sub-$500 "headless" Mac. Argh, the anticipation is killing me already!
The Shadow Internet
Interesting article over at Wired about the shadow Internet, or the so-called "pirate Internet". Check it out.
A new year; lots of new stuff
Boy, haven't posted to the site in a while! Lots of new stuff has been going on. Graduated college, got a real job working for this company, got some new wheels after having driven the same vehicle for the past seven years. Things are certainly looking up. I met a fantastic girl a week and a half ago and we went to the Peach Drop for New Year's.
I'm looking forward to my friend returning from boot camp too. We all miss him. We'll have to have a welcome home thingie for him.