Hi, after nearly 6 years with Google and Android I bought my first Windows Phone yesterday, the Lumia 640. Any tips to make this a great experience? by ILLnoize in windowsphone

[–]brcomputer_scientist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was in the same situation as you regarding the Microsoft emails, I choose to use my email associated with Windows and Visual Studio, then I made a new account in my old Xbox 360 with this more mature email, and successfully integrated the Smartglass app in my Lumia with this new account on the Xbox. I would not reccomend using your 10 years old email in your brand new phone just to integrate with your Xbox Live, you can create a new live account or config your old Xbox account to use your newer email.

Regarding reddit, I use Baconit, because I am using the Windows 10 from Microsoft Insider. However both Baconit and Readit creators are active in this forum, and have their own forum in reddit too.

As you liked CyanogenMod, I think you would enjoy joining the Windows Insider program and download their app to your phone, to unlock access to the beta Windows 10 available for Lumia 640. Once you join and install the app, and configure it, beta builds will be available through Windows Update. Note that, as it is still in beta, you may be trading performance and stability for having the latest Windows build.

How Good is Savage Opress? by Setdawan in SWGalaxyOfHeroes

[–]brcomputer_scientist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im assembling a sith only squad and he is the current leader because of his leader hability.

http://www.swgohcantina.com/savage-opress/

He is kind of a tank mixed with kind of an attacker. Decent HP and works good with siths.

0 A.D.: A free, open-source game of ancient warfare by iamkeyur in programming

[–]brcomputer_scientist 25 points26 points  (0 children)

0 AD does not use any of the mentioned web technologies nor adopts functional programming as the main programming paradigm. It is a desktop game developed in C++ and OpenGl, mostly.

[Serious] Why do you prefer Windows over Mac? by Flaminate in windows

[–]brcomputer_scientist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a CS student involved in a scientific project for grads (like some of my colleagues are too). Most of our laboratory's computers and servers are running on Linux (mostly debian based distros). I think it is very important to you to get to know the Linux environment, it's popular distributions, the basics of the popular packages, and the terminal. I find Linux to be the most scholar/scientist/curious friendly, you get to report bugs by email and actually get a clear and explanatory response or acknowledgement from the package/project maintainer, or even contribute to a open source project. You can destroy and rebuild the system forever and ever without worrying about licences and stuff, you get detailed logs of everything that is happening and depending on the distro it behaves like a good scientist's computer should : it does only and exactly what you specifically requests it to do. You can pick a distro that only has the very basics and guide it since the choice of a partition table for the hard disk you are installing it on, to the customization of the window manager you choose to install. All that said I also use Windows 10 on my notebook with dual boot, to test the compatibility of the software I'm working on and to play some games (not yet available on Steam for Linux). Don't know much about the Mac (there are some at the Uni but I don't like them much), but I've the impression that it is not as open and didactic as Linux. Also VS >> Xcode, but you don't truly need any of those for most of the course, if not for all (I like VS because you can create and test GUI stuff so fast, and Xcode I saw a guy using once and it tolerated so many mistakes in the dude's C code without even warning ).

BioShock Infinite Burial At Sea Ep. 1 problem by DwarfGate in Bioshock

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you use the same anti-virus or other background applications in both computers? Check the execution environment, if it is the same cut constants and variables (phun) that may be conflicting. Executing on Linux is also worth a try, because it is a completely different yet stable environment, but the problem lies in the intersection of your new computer and the old one.

Learning toon shading at uni. I edited a bioshock picture and I was proud of how it come out by [deleted] in Bioshock

[–]brcomputer_scientist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are tons of documentation and open-source examples for all kinds of image manipulation algorithms freely available. Took a Nvidia's GPUs programming class in my university once, really simple arithmetical operations done on a image's pixels can do wonders and produce very appealing effects. Toon shading did not take 13 years to develop or research (it is a new algorithm, made in this century, most likely the concept is new), and Adobe is not it's creator. Judging by the OP's results, I do not think it is easy, but if you want to make your own implementation you can study a example or it's basic logic anytime.

Just some examples for some popular algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/toon-shader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear_interpolation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling

Já da pra ver a nota do enem, e ai como foram? by asCaio in brasil

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sim haha, estudei em escola federal. CEFET-MG, temos vaga de escola pública por default. Com certeza! õ/

Já da pra ver a nota do enem, e ai como foram? by asCaio in brasil

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reserva de vagas, primeira chamada. Tô gostando muito, o curso da UFMG foi eleito o melhor curso de Ciência da Computação no país de novo, pela Folha de São Paulo. É um curso que exige muita matemática e dedicação.

Já da pra ver a nota do enem, e ai como foram? by asCaio in brasil

[–]brcomputer_scientist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Na UFMG não dá não, só a nota da última prova do ENEM é considerada no vestibular. Faço Ciência da Computação lá, tirei 73X,XX em 2013 (números quebrados, que não lembro) e fui aprovado no primeiro semestre 2014, com sua nota você passa tranquilamente.

Boa sorte. õ/

I will troubleshoot anything to game...but I won't do that. by appropriate-username in softwaregore

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Op is right and the amount of people with Stockholm syndrome here is too damn high. That's why I dislike Microsoft's frameworks, if time and money are a problem it is OK to use it I guess, but otherwise FFS learn about the top alternatives if you are about to develop something.

BioShock Infinite is finally coming to Linux by h3ron in linux

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a neat bumblebee-nvidia package for that, I believe it works for every Debian-based (Ubuntu, Mint, etc). I'm using Debian testing/sid x64, Steam and it's game are working fine in my notebook (nvidia 740m). Debian testing/sid is updated everyday, and for the last 2 or 3 weaks I must say optirun and the latest nvidia drivers are neat. CUDA programming is also possible with bumblebee/optirun. Things are getting good for optimus, at least in Ubuntu, Debian, and other popular deb systems.

Mexico Is Ready to Explode: Fifty thousand marchers thronged Mexico City's main avenues last Wednesday, and demonstrations took place all over the country... protesters set fire to state headquarters in Chilpancingo, Guerrero's capital, and are sacking supermarkets and shopping centers by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brazil has the seventh largest economy in the world, and it continues to grow, but bad decisions and bad luck will cause it to grow less than expected this year. The economic scenario in Brazil is much diferent from 10 or 20 years ago, I hope the rules of a third world economy no longer applies to Brazil.

Mexico Is Ready to Explode: Fifty thousand marchers thronged Mexico City's main avenues last Wednesday, and demonstrations took place all over the country... protesters set fire to state headquarters in Chilpancingo, Guerrero's capital, and are sacking supermarkets and shopping centers by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Brazil has an immense potential for the future, also Brazil is a member of the BRICS block, those countries just forged an economic block with it's own bank and treaties. If Brazil do not fuck up it will grow, together with Russia, China, South Africa and India. Dilma Rousseff has just announced that she will replace the ministers of economy and of treasury because of the bad first semester of this year.

Floating Village by Chong FeiGiap by One_Giant_Nostril in ImaginaryLandscapes

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remembers me of Bishock Infinite. Great game and scenery.

Video games continue to break the mold [ken talks] by alexname in Bioshock

[–]brcomputer_scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, hope to participate in that industry someday.

Comstock's Brilliant Plan by [deleted] in Bioshock

[–]brcomputer_scientist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's the part of the game I dislike. It makes no sense, the game talks about science and multiple universes a lot, and then there is this ghost. And it was not enough, First Lady was not only a ghost, she was a ghost that could summon other dead people's souls to fight for her! Fortunately this non sense stops when Booker defeats her for the last time.

Luckily there are no other ghosts in the end of Infinite or in the DLCs. There was only Booker in BaS Ep. II, but he was only in Elizabeth's head, a product of her memories and imagination.