When I bought this computer I didn’t think I’d need more than 2 GB of memory. Today I’ve finally admitted that I do, and bought anotehr 4 GB, just so I can have eclipse, Developer Studio, Firefox and my Linux VM running at the same time and never have to swap again, ever. Here’s hoping 6 GB will last me a few years.
[vimeo 2772480 w=500 h=282]
This is great. I specifically like the mix of the acutal video with the “how it’s made”.
Bubblicious on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Just when I thought I’d seen everything cool that had been done with the Portal song.
“Theremin Hero” First ever attempt – The Portal song (Still Alive) on Theremin. (via conquerearth)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Project Euler
Thursday night I discovered Project Euler, a site full of math puzzles that can be solved algorithmically in under a minute each. Since then, I’ve solved the first 30-odd of them. Friday night Marcus and I sat down to solve the week’s new problem as it appeared online (we came in among the first 25 or so).
These are great fun. I think about them quite a lot as a background brain task, and I’m rediscovering how cool math problems can be. To make it a coding excercise, I’m trying too write them all in Lua and not in C, and as a result I feel that I’m getting a lot more confident in everyday Lua hacking.
Geeky pleasures.
Raving Rabbids cookies, made by Anna the Red, using the same forms as yesterday’s bento. About the forms:
“Cookies were made by buying large circular aluminum cookie cutters and then reshaped with a pair of pliers. One for the body, one for the mouth and one for the stomach ^_^”
Wow.
Next Christmas!
2009 tech predictions
2008 is over in a couple of hours. Time to make a few predictions for 2009:
- Desktop sales will continue to decline, with Notebooks out-selling Desktops at least two to one in the consumer market. Netbook sales will increase dramatically.
- The PC game industry will ignore this, and continue to target the high-end desktop.
- Touchscreen PCs will be a short-lived fad because there are no applications for it and will likely never be. We’ll be buying even more touchscreen phones instead.
- There will be no new console annoncements this year, although rumors of Microsoft’s next console will pick up.
- There will be no new traditional MMORPG launch which has more than 500,000 customers after 6 months. Churn wil be high for all new MMORPGs.
- The number of Vista installations at the start of 2010 will still be lower than the number of XP installs. DirectX 10 will continue to be a feature for less than 30% of the potential market share. Multi-GPU will continue to be irrelevant.
- At least one Unity3D game with a decent business model will be released and make money.
- The great trend in Indie games will continue, and at least one will be making serious money on a console or Steam.
- CD/DVD game sales will decline. One of the big publishers will finally launch a platform that’s a direct competitor to Steam. Just like in 2008, I will not buy any games that are shrink-wrapped.
- The Flexus ticket system on the Oslo subway will not leave the testing stage.
Happy 2009!