Posts by Jimlad

Destroying the city to save the robocar

Frayn, not Frayne

“If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation, don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations"

EE looks at its call charges, hikes a bunch, walks off giggling

Re: Change in contract terms ?

I read this as being about charges incurred for going above outside the bundled calls/text provided for within the contract.

It's more like a bank changing its overdraft fees.

RADIOACTIVE WWII aircraft carrier FOUND OFF CALIFORNIA

Re: 13-tentacled octopuses

Triskaidekapus

UK data cops warn Optical Express to stop spamming 1000s of customers

Odd marketing strategy

I would have thought previous customers of laser eye surgery are unlikely to need more.

Microsoft previews new Visual Studio, .NET

"Trace features are for the lazy"

Simplistic tosh. You're leaping on a simplified description of a feature, and making some pretty ill-informed comments about its purpose.

Features like this are entirely valid and valuable, and don't imply a hacky approach to development - they are primarily diagnostic tools, and key to efficient diagnosis is cutting down your search space.

Modern renderers can be very tricky beasts to work with, with visual glitches potentially the result of megabytes of artist-authored content (i.e. outside the programmer's control), multiple interacting shader programs and engine-level polygon-processing - working back from the output to the culprit buffers and shaders is an absolute godsend.

While you're at it, why not chuck the debugger on the bonfire, because it shouldn't be necessary.

Video games go off quicker than tomatoes

Dodgy calculation

What a daft comparison: price including retailer markup versus buyback price. All this represents is what a poor position consumers are in trying to sell to retailers.

The "depreciation" would be captured either by wholesale price versus buyback, or new price versus second hand (on the shelf) price.

Ads watchdog: PS3 graphics 'discernibly' better than Xbox

Colours more vivid...

Seriously? Reds redder, blues bluer? Xbox 360 in inability to output full range of RGB values shocker.