Train of Thought

2011-05-11

Minecraft sux! Ok, actually the game rocks, the problem is the software. I mean it crashes regularly often and is darn slow. Look at it, there are max a couple of hundred polygons on screen and my atom + ion platform can't play it. As comparison, that platform scored an average frame rate of 50 on the Half-Life 2: The Last Cost benchmark. It definitely does not help that it is written in java...

I registered for the Junien this week end.

Tilt.

This is odd, I have no pending thoughts. Meta discussion / thoughts rock.

... 2 minutes of silence ...

It is interesting, it feels like I designed my website into a corner. I was thinking about adding links to things like my github page or rather a blogroll if you will. But I can't think of a really good way to do it. The design looks really clean and adding any more seems to clutter it. I am thinking of links at the bottom of the site. What would also work, since I basically only want to link to my github site, would be a corner image. Hmmm, how about a peal off, that shows links to different things of mine...

It is interesting how rubber ducking works. You explain your problem to someone, for example your rubber duck, and by talking you end up solving your problem. To bad I don't have a rubber duck. But, I think that most blogs are for that purpose...

... that or plain propaganda.

I plan to release my first revision of spdr the next week end. It seems feasible, let's see.

... 8 hours later...

I thought about changing my version numbers of my free software projects from traditional major.minor.patch to revision based. The thing is that 0.3.0 seems kind of lame, especially since this version is stable for quite some time. I will probably use a scheme following revision.patch. So the next release of, say libxmlmm will be r4. If any quick bug patches are needed then they the release will be r4.1.

The only problem is, how to flag alpha and beta versions. But since I don't do that so often, this is probably not so much of an issue.

The big story is "Microsoft bought Skype"... and I could not care less. Slashdot is up in arms about it, but I don't really get it. Microsoft probably will not change the current situation, that would be suicide. In my opinion Microsoft does not need the technology, since they could build their own. The move is more along the lines of removing the only viable opposition. The problem for Microsoft is, that if they discontinue supporting GNU/Linux and MacOS they will just herd the people to Google and friends. And that can definitely not be in their best interest. But then again it's Microsoft, they don't tend to make the rational decisions.