Arelius

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631.
by Arelius 13y ago
I do think certain providers to allow this. Just not all.
632.
by Arelius 13y ago
It's not an entirely separate fee. On my plan it's $10 extra a month. Which is well worth it to not have to go through either the hassle of tethering a phone, or worry about killing two batteries at once.
633.
by Arelius 13y ago
But the websockets proxy is the primary advantage.
634.
by Arelius 13y ago
You know, this is suggested all the time. But neither is perfect. I personal use a terminal client, but sometimes I'd like to have a client that I can use a mouse on, or is more responsive over bad connections, which can be painful. An
635.
by Arelius 13y ago
I've had the opposite problem, seeing in the past an article about Unity the compositor, being about 3D rendering of some sort and instantly thought Unity 3D the engine. This is likely due to my exposure to the gaming space.
636.
by Arelius 13y ago
That is however a mobile game. Unity is really nice, and if you plan for it, can scale pretty well. It's much more flexible, so it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot, while other engines are less flexible, which can be advanta
637.
by Arelius 13y ago
This algorithm has been written a thousand times, and probably already exists somewhere online, hidden deep within the internet. And as you say, it targets a completely different set of users. Sprite Lamp, is building something for artists
638.
by Arelius 13y ago
The problem is, trackball-style movement is super useful when you get used to it. But is simply awfully unintuitive, and I'd probably never use it somewhere that not something like a professional tool.
639.
by Arelius 13y ago
AMD has been working on it with their APUs... That's why it's in the PS4 now.
640.
by Arelius 13y ago
> You can probably make up for it by having tons of RAM on your PC's video card. You can't "make up" for having shared memory unless the developer is just using it to pretend that they have a machine with like 6 GB of
641.
by Arelius 13y ago
It's possible, but also keep in mind that the 360 chip was a custom PowerPC, that had high manufacture numbers. It's entirely possible that the little-endian functionality was somehow broken to save money or otherwise. But the poi
642.
by Arelius 13y ago
Indeed, you rarely see the same improvements on the same hardware for PCs.
643.
by Arelius 13y ago
Nope, the 360 runs big-endian.
644.
by Arelius 13y ago
Incorrect, the powerPC may be capable of both, but not the xbox360 in practice.
645.
by Arelius 13y ago
No, the machine always runs big-endian.
646.
by Arelius 13y ago
I think the problem is that the economics of offline rendering play out a bit differently. We've been doing offline rendering for a pretty long time now. And compute resources keep going up vs cost and time significantly, but the price
647.
by Arelius 13y ago
I'm not really trying to contradict you, so much as I'm a little humored by some of your suggestions, not because they are naive, but because they are common. > Things like, progressive enhancement rendering This is a very comm
648.
by Arelius 13y ago
The endianess of the Xbox 360 made "already pretty much like developing for Windows" not quite accurate. And causes a lot of problems relating to I/O.
649.
by Arelius 13y ago
Worst case, they get money that they didn't need for the repairs. And they put it to good use doing one of the many other things this super valuable (IMO) non-profit does. They are after all a non-profit.
650.
by Arelius 13y ago
Well you get a few benefits. > stuck in one configuration This is a massive benefit to development everywhere. Additionally to really being able to push the hardware to the limit. It's a lot easier to learn how to properly "abu
651.
by Arelius 13y ago
I think that's true. But I think it's much shorter at least in SF. Something on the order of 15 days to a month.
652.
by Arelius 13y ago
Oh, so this really is a Verizon specific thing, huh?
653.
by Arelius 13y ago
> Also, would anyone talk about FreeBSD vs Linux? What are some reasons to choose each? As a huge FreeBSD supporter, I feel there are many great reasons to choose FreeBSD, between the theoretical: well designed kernel, unified system; di
654.
by Arelius 13y ago
To be fair, Verizon at least, will unlock your phone for international SIM cards if you call them before traveling abroad. Thus allowing you the same advantages. I'd be surprised if AT&T wouldn't do the same.
655.
by Arelius 13y ago
Apologies, I didn't read the spec before hand. I thought you were suggesting that the format have fixed sized fields rather then fields with tagged lengths. In that case I'd agree with you.
656.
by Arelius 13y ago
Because we can store enough things to fill memory?
657.
by Arelius 13y ago
I Think you are getting down-voted by misunderstanding what the parent was saying. The parent is talking about mapping out WiFi and Cell data through a city. Mapping out it's radio spectrum spatially. Not a traditional human usable m
658.
by Arelius 13y ago
Also consider that Lua is widely used on many game consoles and embedded hardware, where even the basic functionality of many posix functions doesn't make sense.
659.
by Arelius 13y ago
I didn't help build it, and I too, would be disappointed.
660.
by Arelius 13y ago
Isn't the USGS planning to discontinue this service shortly?

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