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Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters
by karlcow
& 1 other
This paper presents solutions for one requirement of autonomous characters in animation and games: the ability to navigate around their world in a life-like and improvisational manner. These "steering behaviors" are largely independent of the particulars of the character's means of locomotion. Combinations of steering behaviors can be used to achieve higher level goals (For example: get from here to there while avoiding obstacles, follow this corridor, join that group of characters...) This paper divides motion behavior into three levels. It will focus on the middle level of steering behaviors, briefly describe the lower level of locomotion, and touch lightly on the higher level of goal setting and strategy.
2008
IEBlog : Ending Expressions
by marco
Expressions evaluation has a high runtime cost; web performance experts recommend avoiding them to improve front-end performance
Interazioni: chkuser 2.0
by camel
The original qmail-smtpd accepts by default all messages, checking later for the existence of recipients. So, if the message is delivered to not existing recipients, a lot of additional system work and network traffic are generated, with multiple expensive bouncing if the sender is a fake one.
chkuser has been developed with the goal to improve the acceptance SMTP phase of qmail-smtpd. qmail-smtpd patched with chkuser may check the existence of e-mail recipients immediately in the SMTP acceptance phase of a message and rejects instantly all messages not directed to existing users, avoiding additional traffic, work and messages bounced more times.
Avoiding the “Ouch” Side of Social Media | Serengeti Communications
by Myriam
(via)
Play fair. Clean up your own mess. Say you’re sorry when you hurt someone. Share/give back.
Kelso’s Corner » Blog Archive » Dorling Cartograms – Carbon Atlas – SND Awards
by karlcow
automated charting method as it emphasizes proportions while still approximating geographic relationships (spatial proximity) yet avoiding the abstract art distortion noise common in the fish eye method.
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2007
Nokia wants W3C to remove Ogg from upcoming HTML5 standard
by karlcow
According to the Theora FAQ, "some portions of the VP3 codec are covered by patents," which could be what Nokia is referring to when they talk about "avoiding any patent issues." Unfortunately, virtually every other video codec is also protected by patents.
Valgrind Home
by parmentierf
& 5 others
Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs.
Valgrind
by Regis
& 5 others
Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs.
LDAP Schema Design
by ogrisel
It is possible to make one LDAP directory serve many applications in an organisation. This has the advantage of reducing the effort required to maintain the data, but it does mean that the design must be thought out very carefully before implementation starts.
LDAP directories are structured as a tree of entries, where each entry consists of a set of attribute-value pairs describing one object. The objects are often people, organisations, and departments, but can be anything at all. Schema is the term used to describe the shape of the directory and the rules that govern its content.
A hypothetical organisation is described, with requirements for “white pages” directory service as well as a wide range of authentication, authorisation, and application-specific directory needs. The issues arising from the LDAP standards are discussed, along with the problems of maintaining compatibility with a range of existing LDAP clients.
A plan is proposed for the layout of the directory tree, with particular emphasis on avoiding the need to re-organise it later. This involves careful separation of the data describing people, departments, groups, and application-specific objects. A simple approach to entry design is shown, based on the use of locally-defined auxiliary object classes. The effects of schema design on lookup performance are discussed. Some design tricks and pitfalls are presented, based on recent consulting experience.
Valgrind Home
by jdrsantos
& 5 others
Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your
Avoiding Extreme Accessibility
by marco
Sometime in your life, did someone ever tell you that moderation is the key?
Record as I Am - Avoiding frustration with PHP Sessions
by dzc
& 1 other
(via)
4 tips to help you avoid wasting your time and securing
Creative Wrapping Ideas
by blackgoldfish
Greeting Cards as Gift Tags
Original Purpose: Mantelpiece clutter, proof of popularity.
Aha! Use: Gift tags. Last year's holiday and birthday cards may be too pretty to throw away, but they're probably not meaningful enough to keep. Cut out hearts, flowers, or any other whimsical illustration from the card's cover, avoiding handwritten notes on the opposite side, and stash them with your ribbons and wrapping paper.
Suggestions on v2.78
by korbinus
JS tips for avoiding page scroll while using wheel mouse for zooming in Google Maps api.
BUGS project website
by ms_michel
& 2 others
Many users are avoiding bug-reporting, due to it's often very technical approach, using long, technical terms and a huge input form. "BUGS" offers an easy-to-use and understand wizard when reporting bugs.
"BUGS" offers a step by step "wizard", with pre-determined choices, where users easily can see where they are, what they are doing, and how long it will take to enter the bug report.
BUGS project website
by nhoizey
& 2 others
Many users are avoiding bug-reporting, due to it's often very technical approach, using long, technical terms and a huge input form. "BUGS" offers an easy-to-use and understand wizard when reporting bugs.
"BUGS" offers a step by step "wizard", with pre-determined choices, where users easily can see where they are, what they are doing, and how long it will take to enter the bug report.
The Audio Book Guide
by tashok
You'll learn the best practice weasel methods for avoiding work, besting coworkers, and
hiding your incompetence. To enhance your personal life, you'll find precise instructions
for training your spouse to become your remote-controlled robot, whining like a weasel no
matter how good your life is (even if you're a bestselling author!) and using Weaseleze, the
official tongue of weasels
2006
IBM Small & Medium Business - Banking - References - Banking Primer - Philippines
by frio_ej
Innovation is the key to avoiding commoditisation. Transform your bank into a
David Lebovitz Archives: October 2006 Archives
by srcmax
(via)
The RATP has started a campaign to try to get Parisians to respect each other when riding the métro, including avoiding the noisy, smelly pitfalls of eating a hamburger, not jumping the turnstiles, talking too loud or swearing, having inane, annoying cell phone ring-tones (yeah!), and not putting your stinky feet on the seats.
ASPN : Python Cookbook : weakmethod
by fakechris
use this decorator to create methods that weakly-reference their instance. Useful for callbacks, caches, and avoiding cyclic references.
Imaginary Foundation - Switzerland
by Gérard Delisle
& 3 others
The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. They hold dear a belief in human potential and seek progress in all directions. The small clandestine team is headed up by the mysterious "Director" a 70 something uber intellectual who's farther founded the Dadaist movement. Avoiding direct publicity the team has sought streetwear as an unlikely vehicle for bringing their ideas beyond the academic realm and into popular culture.
