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by dirtbox 10y ago
I'm amazed this hasn't been exploited.
32.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I'm not going to say it doesn't happen, discs always seemed to get lost under piles of paper and eventually wind up sitting in a drawer somewhere, only to be thrown out when that persons office is vacated.
33.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I can't speak for Sierra as I don't know how they store their archive, but I've always found it interesting that some publishers (mostly music and movie really) use facilities such as this http://www.undergroundvau
34.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Sierra only had a hand full of devs who worked in-house.
35.
by dirtbox 10y ago
No, nonsense. Publishers keep everything, certainly the publishers I've worked for. Sierra is one of the oldies that, to my slightly out of date knowledge, still curates an archive of almost every asset for every game they've rele
36.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Valve have become a behemoth despite being one of the most lethargic and inflexible companies around. They're by far the most profitable company to employee ratio and you'd think they would be more capable of taking control of the
37.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Oh god, haha! Someone picked up my original post about it on reddit and wrote an article including my original drawing. http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/22/security-hole-skype-... Ed: Oh my word, hundreds
38.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Last year I discovered a bug that allowed you to call someone's phone and remotely activate it's camera and mic by disconnecting the call while it was ringing - the target's device would simply call you back as if it were a d
39.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Take the refund and pick up a P2 from Best Buy or Target (or regional equivalent) for a fraction of the cost. They no longer appear to be sending anything at all out.
40.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago. I've found the watches to be a joy to use, to develop for and the community is sensational. I have no hopes it'll survive as is with Fitbit. If
41.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Spez edits comments directed at him in a toxic community that has been pretty much the root of the alt-right echo chamber for the last year. I'm just sad he didn't delete the entire sub. /r/golang can do what they like,
42.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Our ZX81 came in a kit, so in essence I already did (with a lot of help).
43.
by dirtbox 10y ago
If I could start learning BASIC on a ZX81 at the age of 7, I'm pretty sure anyone can. This is the era that got me into computers, and hopefully with the Pi and similar programmable devices available that are aimed at educating kids, t
44.
by dirtbox 10y ago
The short of it is they lack an end user at the top to call the shots and dictate to every facet of the company what works best for him.
45.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I like this video explaining the difference between H.264 and H.265 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIesyNuxkg Simplistic as it is, it touches on all the main differences. The only problem with H.265 is the higher requirem
46.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I'm British which I think qualifies me to say it very much was. He had a few inflections of the period, but there's no mistaking it.
47.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I feel like there aren't many professional artists on HN, but from that point of view, Apple have been criminally negligent of the industry that made them and MS have blown their doors clean off. It's a great time for artists, may
48.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I graduated from art school and went on to do commercial illustration, design, 3D work for TV commercials, then movies and ultimately the games industry. I'm not saying the qualification helped, but the guidance and time to shape and h
49.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Hence "within the industry". They were ubiquitous across every single studio. I think the only other computer I saw was a Sun Microsystems server in a repro house that ran the film output.
50.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Apple was never niche within the industry, they were the forefront of mainstream. Now they've alienated absolutely everyone and their only direction seems to be toward proprietary nickel and diming.
51.
by dirtbox 10y ago
I started designing on a Mac II in the late 80s during the emergence of desktop publishing and over the years it became the defacto designer's tool. I have no idea what happened, but apple forgot where they came from and have completel
52.
by dirtbox 10y ago
For comparison, my 27" Wacom Cintiq cost me $2500, which is just a screen with a stylus and the Studio blows it out of the water in every measurable way.
53.
by dirtbox 10y ago
There are far more boring things that have created immeasurable problems, around 2001/2 capacitors began leaking and rendering almost every electrical device that was fitted with useless after around a year of use. By the time the prob
54.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Unless you have a source that shows otherwise, I only know if it doing that if it's formatted wrongly, which is going to be a problem with most things.
55.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Good for you, problem with that for me is I'm not a programer, I'm an artist and this is why Blender isn't used in studios.
56.
by dirtbox 10y ago
This is the big problem with Blender. The interface lacks an artist's eye for what to prioritise and group, what to hide away in a menu with what and what to have out in the open for easy access. It's an incredible piece of softwa
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by dirtbox 10y ago
Correct. I made a quick dump of the telemetry hosts here: https://cl.ly/hZ3q If you have win10, you can add this to your hosts file. The optional portion of the list will block store items, the email client and even things
58.
by dirtbox 10y ago
Weren't GCHQ caught illegally spying on pretty much everyone at a similar level to the NSA? Trustworthy guys to put in charge of something like this.
59.
by dirtbox 15y ago
Hollywood are not in the business of offering a service, only a product. This is mostly why the two aren't compatible and why they aren't interested in developing it. The thinking is that a product is far more profitable and has higher gain
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by dirtbox 15y ago
In my eyes that makes you more responsible than those who do.

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