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Richard - who has written 25 posts on Richard’s Corner.

a software developer and film fanatic from Las Vegas, NV.

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Graph It! Updated

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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The newest version of Graph It! is now online.  Here is a list of the latest updates:

National debt data added for 2009
National employment data added for 2009
Re-designed the interface a bit

If you have ideas for potential enhancements to this project, please feel free to leave a comment.  You can also contribute if you have some [...]

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Valentine’s Day Weekend in Cali

Friday, April 9, 2010

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My wife and I spent Valentine’s Day weekend in California this year.  These are some of the photos we took.

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Revisionist Gaming History?

Friday, April 9, 2010

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Any “top ten first person shooter” list that puts GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64) at #1 is a shitty list:

GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64)
Half-Life 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Quake II (PC, Nintendo 64, Mac, PlayStation)
Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast, Mac OS, PC, PlayStation 2)
Halo (Xbox)
BioShock (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC)
Doom (PC)
Counter-Strike (PC, Ma OS Xc, Xbox)
Call Of Duty 4: [...]

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Time to Buy More Netflix Stock?

Friday, April 9, 2010

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Michael Pachter:
The company remains confident about its growth prospects, expecting net subscriber additions in 2010 of 3.2 – 4 million. We think that this growth, while likely to continue for two to three years, is unsustainable. We believe that 800,000 of the subscribers added in 2009 were from the addition of Netflix to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 dashboard, and [...]

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The Gloves Come Off

Friday, April 9, 2010

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In case you haven’t heard, Apple released it’s new iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement.  Among the changes is wording that seems to ban the use of languages other than Objective-C to write iPhone applications.
Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shares his opposition to this move by Apple:
Now let me put aside my role as an official representative [...]

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