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Tactic Southpaw Technology - http://www.southpawtech.com/index...
Asset Management and source control
- Robert Blum
Give Software LLC - http://www.give-soft.com/blog/
An Asset Management/Version Control system
- Robert Blum
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I'm not sure we really want the budget committee writing the healthcare bill. That's how reconciliation works.
- Cliff Gerrish
Exactly. It lands on the President's desk as tax/budget reconciliation, with major reforms stripped to get it thru. What concerns me is the newest press meme; that is, that health care reform is a very unpopular thing, that jobs are all that matter. Of course, they don't think far enough to figure out that jobs/health ins. are inextricably entwined...that would require...oh, third grade level thought.
- Karoli
I didn't know how it works. This is a pretty good explanation for newbies The “reconciliation” process is a fast-track process that originally was used to facilitate the passage of deficit-reduction legislation. The process was intended to protect hard-to-pass legislation that would reduce entitlement expenditures or raise taxes from a filibuster in the Senate, and thereby to ensure...
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- Linda
It's the part when the gaming element comes into place, where the whispers from the masters become amendments and the gains become status quo. Every effort to make it a hollowed out effort stuffed with currencied fluff to feed the pigs who stock the PACs and lobbies with the politicians fodder, the debt called in, the deed done.
- Aron Michalski
Aron, your pessimism is...refreshing somehow. I see I need to amplify my 9/5/09 summary of the strategic plan discussed w/congressional progressives back in September....
- Karoli
Not refreshing, actually... Invigorating. ;-)
- Karoli
The swiftboating attack is fairly basic: you have to choose between jobs and healthcare. (Although the attackers don't really have any interest in job creation).
- Cliff Gerrish
To defeat the trough riders is a goal worth embracing.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Jobs are not an issue to those who never have to look for work, never have to worry about paying a hospital bill or housing their family. The people it comes down to in the Senate don't have a personal stake in the issue; they deal with it either in the abstract or even sadder, as a party line article to defend like a goal line on a Thanksgiving football game.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Well, that's the problem, of course. For conservatives, jobs are simply the talking point of the day. For liberals, they're a major political headache. For businesses, they're the stick and the carrot. For people, they're survival.
- Karoli
Amazing that a thing that we moan about, fear losing, depend upon and sometimes wish we didn't have can be so many things to everyone else.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
During the debate on Saturday, a Democratic Senator said this: "Losing your job means losing your self-esteem, and your health insurance." I was amazed at how viscerally I reacted to that. It just cut to the heart of everything.
- Karoli
It sure does mean that. Even when it's an entire plant closure, your self-esteem takes a big hit. And healthcare - that's even scarier. 'Cause right when you're out of income, you get hit with additional costs. Brilliant system.
- Robert Blum
Carlos Gil Watching the Obama Jobs Summit on Facebook right now, the key to job creation is to hold companies that received stimulus money accountable for job creation / loss. Create a "community reinvestment act" and provide tax breaks for those companies that create / retain a certain # of jobs per year. SAW THIS POST ANDTHOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE IT. LINDA
- Linda
Thoughts Serializer - http://harkal.sylphis3d.com/2006...
Interesting take on HDR rendering, and how to make it more dramatic
- Robert Blum
Rendering Huge Triangle Meshes with OpenGL - http://www.sci.utah.edu/~bavoil...
Performance notes for rendering large triangle meshes, and what OpenGL calls to use for best performance
- Robert Blum
From HLA to MMOG and Back Again - http://www.openskies.net/papers...
Abstract: In order to simplify development of HLA compliant networked applications, we have created alternate, higher-level APIs to access the networking functionality. In order to realize a networking infrastructure that enables Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG), not only must the infrastructure support the number, but the game developers must be willing to adopt it. Since the learning curve for HLA is rather steep, these simpler, higher-level APIs were required to support the computer game development community.
- Robert Blum
[Shader Library] Night Vision Post Processing Filter (GLSL) | The Geeks Of 3D - 3D Tech News - http://www.geeks3d.com/2009100...
How to make your rendering look like viewed through a night vision goggle
- Robert Blum
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? - http://www.research.ibm.com/people...
Color choice for visualization of data
- Robert Blum
MakeHuman - http://www.makehuman.org/blog...
Make Human models
- Robert Blum
Half-Life 2: Episode Two Stats - http://steampowered.com/status...
A sample of data analysis done for Steam/HL2 See where players die most often, what maps are preferred, etc..
- Robert Blum
CIG09_IOI.pdf (application/pdf Object) - http://www.itu.dk/~yannak...
Using metrics to identify different player types
- Robert Blum
What every Programmer Should Know about Memory - http://people.redhat.com/drepper...
Overview over different types of memory and how they impact you
- Robert Blum
codersnotes.com - Ramblings - Graphics - Two-channel framebuffers for next-gen color schemes - http://www.codersnotes.com/notes...
Render color graphics using only two channels, freeing up one additional channel for "other"
- Robert Blum
Texture compression for HDR, based on S3/DXT compression
- Robert Blum
HDRComp.pdf (application/pdf Object) - http://www.ppsloan.org/publica...
Rendering from compressed HDR textures
- Robert Blum
10 WordPress Plugins Every New Blogger Should Install - The 2.0 Life - http://www.the20life.com/2009...
List of wordpress plugins
- Robert Blum
SDA - GSS 1972-2008 Cumulative Datafile - http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin...
Wealth of socio-economic data from surveys, cross-referencable in any way you can thing of
- Robert Blum
mloss | All entries - http://mloss.org/software/
A catalog of OSS solutions in machine learning
- Robert Blum
Red Sweater Blog – Crash Reporter Roundup - http://www.red-sweater.com/blog...
A list of crash reporters for osx
- Robert Blum
BWToolkit - Interface Builder Plugin for Cocoa on Mac OS X - http://brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolk...
Must-have toolkit for interface builder and OSX
- Robert Blum
Real-Time Rendering » Blog Archive » Good list of classic graphics papers - http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog...
List of classical CG papers - a must-read
- Robert Blum
Timeconstant Splines - http://www.unseen-academy.de/timecon...
Clever way to subdivide/organize bezier splines so that you can map a time t (0-1) to the length on the spline travelled
- Robert Blum
Siggraph | meshula.net - http://meshula.net/wordpre...
Lots of notes on previous siggraphs
- Robert Blum
StringMap | meshula.net - http://meshula.net/wordpre...
Implementation of a ternary tree
- Robert Blum
Windows Sockets - http://www.sockets.com/winsock...
A thorough introduction to WinSock32 and the pitfalls in there. You do want to have this "on tap" when writing Windows networking apps
- Robert Blum
Goplan 2.0 - http://www.goplanapp.com/
Another basecamp competitor - slightly more relaxed in what it allows in the free version. (I think, at least)
- Robert Blum
activeCollab - Project Management and Collaboration Tool - http://www.activecollab.com/
Project management tool, similar to basecamp. The main difference - you buy a version that you can install on your server, and then get the full source code
- Robert Blum
ProjectPier.org - http://www.projectpier.org/
Opensource project management - kind of a clone of basecamp
- Robert Blum
FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator - http://freelanceswitch.com/rates...
A simple calculator that helps you determine an hourly rate that will cover your expenses & cost of living
- Robert Blum
A WSGI web development framework for Python. Works on AppEngine, too
- Robert Blum
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