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by DerekL 11y ago
Starting with the Nintendo Entertainment System, most video game consoles have included lock-out technology to prevent the console from running unlicensed software. Has any console manufacturer been stopped from doing this by antitrust law?
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by DerekL 11y ago
I also tried “6*a(1/sqrt(3))”. On my machine, it only took 1m36.243s instead of 1m58.411s. I wonder what determines the execution time.
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by DerekL 11y ago
The title misspells “Xbox”.
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by DerekL 11y ago
> Also, Swift doesn't do garbage collection. That may cause problems when trying to build a shared GUI framework. Do GUI frameworks require garbage collection? Cocoa doesn't. But the current Android frameworks are written to fu
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by DerekL 11y ago
Interesting theory that Steve Jobs sabotaged the Apple II GS, but I'm not sure how that could have happened. Maybe he put a curse on John Sculley? The price comparison is not accurate. A floppy drive was $399 (or $299 for a 5.25")
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by DerekL 11y ago
> Why is there still no bluetooth mouse support (or some replacement) on the iPad Pro. Because iOS apps would have to be revised to support mouse clicks, scroll wheels, mouse overs, contextual menus, etc. Or maybe iOS would just treat th
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by DerekL 11y ago
No, read Stack Overflow's survey. Just over half of the developers use Windows.
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by DerekL 11y ago
> Obviously this could also be used in conjunction with a driver taking over. If it requires a driver to take control to avoid a crash, then it's not self-driving. “Self-driving” or ”fully autonomous” means no human driver at all.
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by DerekL 11y ago
Okay, I read that and now I get it. Each live cell has at least three ancestors. Two or fewer of these ancestors come from a forbidden direction, so at least one comes from an allowed direction. Among all of the ancestors from an allowed di
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by DerekL 11y ago
>By the rules of the game of life it's easy to show every living (c,n+1) has at least one living father and at least one living mother. This statement seems incorrect. It's true that every living cell has a living mother, but t
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by DerekL 11y ago
We still do use faxes and pay phones, but now they are less popular than email, mobile phones, etc.
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The description of Woz as a “legendary recluse” seemed bizarre, then I noticed that this article is from 1995.
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And the title is just wrong. The article's title is “Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data”. It's about proposing new laws, and has nothing to do with a lawsuit.
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by DerekL 11y ago
Good idea. I wouldn't mind it so much if it were only half the year, but now it's almost eight months long.
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by DerekL 11y ago
Apps can use JavaScriptCore, and JavaScriptCore can use JIT, but these can't happen together, because third-party apps aren't permitted to execute writeable memory. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22281265&
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by DerekL 11y ago
Good point. But the solution isn't to ask Apple to break into the phone. Instead, when you set up an iPhone, it should be possible to set up a passcode separate from the user's passcode. I was wondering about this. I was thinking
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by DerekL 11y ago
The title should say “The one million dollar potato photograph”. I was wondering if it was a photo of a million potatoes, or a mosaic made out of one million potatoes.
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by DerekL 11y ago
> But former Apple CEO John Sculley's most catastrophic mistake was committing the company's computers to the PowerPC processor, while Microsoft, IBM, and Intel teamed up to make Windows run on the cheaper, more popular x86 chi
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by DerekL 11y ago
>I don't know about uptime, but most of the new programming languages have no undefined behavior (a Java program always behaves as a Java program whatever your bugs are), while most of the old languages do have undefined behavior (e
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Back then, that was pretty good. The best resolution of any other video game console was 320 by 192. NTSC can't show much more detail than that when using an RF or composite input. Higher resolutions didn't appear until the PC Eng
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> The only think I miss is the ability to lookup the definition of a French or Spanish word. By default, it only looks up english definitions when you click on words (if somebody knows how to achieve this, i'm interested!). Go to pr
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Here's a better article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945964
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by DerekL 11y ago
The Sansa Clip sounds like a good idea, but the storage is limited. For instance, the Clip Jam is limited to 40 GB (8 built-in plus 32 on the card). These refurbished iPods go up to 256 GB. You could split your music among multiple cards, b
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by DerekL 11y ago
In the algorithm's redistricting of Maryland, two of the districts have parts on either side of the Chesapeake Bay. The algorithm should consider the actual travel time between two points, and not the straight-line distance.
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Also, the president mentioned redistricting reform in his State of the Union address. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/12/10758738/obama-state-of-the-uni...
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by DerekL 11y ago
The article misspells the name of the company. It was “Apple Computer, Inc.”, not “Computers”.
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I think that this rule applies to C89 too. I don't have an official copy of the standard, but I found a draft here: http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#3.5.7 “If there are fewer initializers in a
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Who knows? Apple almost never announces features until they have a firm delivery date. They are listed in the participants in the Vulkan spec (see the PDF https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/libr
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An open standard is not the same thing as open source. As far as I can tell, Apple beat Sun by two months. Apple released Darwin in April 2000, and Sun released StarOffice in July 2000.
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I'm in the SF Bay Area, and many theaters are showing it on the 17th starting at 7PM.

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