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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I grew up in the "zero tolerance for fighting" era. Even if your parents said it was ok to smack someone if they hit you first, it was drilled into kids by teachers and the administration that there would be serious consequences f
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I think the parent's point was not that modern games are not worth preserving, but that the way they are implemented requires an enormous effort to preserve them far beyond the cost of just copying media, that may not be warranted for
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
There's a small irony here: The enormous success of the Dragon Quest series (currently approaching its 30th anniversary) in Japan was, in no small part, due to the fact that it was designed so that anyone could complete it if they put
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
This jibes pretty well with me, in regards to most games. However, where do games like EVE Online fit in, where (IIRC) a month's subscription is an item in the game world that you can pay real money for and trade with others (who are u
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Children are perfectly capable of all of the things you listed, have you forgotten what it was like to be one? They're certainly naive, less mature, less self-aware, not as bright, and so on, but they're still there. They'r
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
> err, can you link me to the other thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141039 They just mentioned bitcoin mining and didn't go into any detail. > Does AMD GPU hardware have a general advantage mining?
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Maybe their desktop and server CPUs aren't so hot right now, but I don't think you have to worry about AMD for a while. All of the current generation of consoles have AMD GPUs, those GPUs are on the same die as an AMD CPU for two
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
http://www.quinndunki.com/OGOL/GATE.html
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
You're right, I should have mentioned long commutes in public transportation as the other main usage scenario of portables (especially in their country of origin), but that's not as relevant a consideration to (what I'm assum
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Wow, thanks for posting this. I read about this game on Micah's blog a few years ago and while I had forgotten the name until now, it's been stuck in my mind ever since. Maybe I'll actually give it a shot this time!
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>Still though, what is the point of making this distinction? Like, I don't think anyone ever /was/ asserting that running cgminer or holding some doges makes you "as legit" or "in the same vein as" some
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
To be fair, most people use their 3DS/DS/Vita/PSP/whatever more like a tablet than like a phone. They're meant for curling up on the couch on a lazy afternoon (or, uh, as something to keep you occupied on the toilet
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Why on earth are you taking this personally? All I'm saying is that I hold the community of tech professionals to a different standard than I do every random person running cgminer, and that "tech" shouldn't be judged by
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>What does encryption, proof of work algorithms or anything else have to do with one's likelihood of being gross towards women? I think it's safe to say that the average Bitcoin user, today in this year 2014 , only cares about
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I think that says more about the Bitcoin community than it does anything about the tech community, though. I imagine the average Bitcoin user as more a fedora-toting internet troll than a crypto-enthusiast. If you look at various cryptocurr
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Kinda off-topic, but why do you use Google's DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)? Unless I'm missing something, by doing so you are basically giving them a record of every domain you access. I don't really trust my ISP either, but why
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
For some reason the OP linked to the blog's front page and not the actual article in question. Here it is for the benefit of anyone stumbling across this in the future: http://www.3delement.com/?p=332
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I commented in another thread about the "4chan users don't buy anything/aren't monetizable" problem[1], but while I used neither service, I don't think that 4chan users were a signficiant userbase of either Can
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
> isn't really known for its willingness .. to be led around by the nose by anyone This part is definitely true. 4chan users will block your advertisements and can smell shilling and astroturfing from a mile away. "Unwilling to
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm probably the only person who can't "touch-calculate" on the number pad to save their life, but still loves the thing for its big honkin' enter key. When I'm using a GUI application and a dialog box pops up,
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
It's not just you. My fear is opposite to the one the author describes: That by using these services, all these messages that I treat as ephemeral are actually being recorded forever, and 20+ years from now something I said offhand to
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
We don't completely ignore math until high school, suddenly say "so there are these things called numbers," expect to get along to algebra in one semester, and then throw our hands up in the air when that doesn't work ou
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I had a bad experience with my high school computer science classes (both the AP Java curriculum and a teacher-designed curriculum). No one learned anything in that class: You either already had some experience with programming and were thu
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I dunno, it seems to be working pretty well for them on the 3DS (the WiiU, not so much...): http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Obligatory NoScript and RequestPolicy plugs: That page loaded in just over a second for me and looked fine.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I didn't want to believe this, but the other day I watched the new Hobbit movie in 48fps with some friends and apparently I was the only one that noticed anything different. The obvious difference in the scenarios you mentioned is inte
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Of course it's theoretically possible, he's saying that there isn't an option in the NVidia drivers to automatically scale up low-resolution display modes to a monitor's native resolution. Purely a software problem. I du
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
B-b-but lisp machines! Tagged hardware architectures!
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Me neither, I'm just saying this "sell your virtual hat collection to pay for video games" future is already here.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
You can? http://steamcommunity.com/market/ Most hats aren't saleable on the market, but you can trade the hats for keys, which you can sell for about $2.25 a pop.

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