FrankBooth

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by FrankBooth 14y ago
Making a Kickstarter pledge is no more investing than ordering a pizza.
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by FrankBooth 14y ago
Spawn more Overlords!
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by FrankBooth 14y ago
Cryo's Dune was a completely different type of game (adventure), and was more or less developed and released in parallel to Westwood's Dune. Westwood's Dune is not a sequel at all, it was intended to replace Cryo's about-to-be-canceled gam
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by FrankBooth 14y ago
http://i.imgur.com/Y8g9L.jpg
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by FrankBooth 14y ago
> DotA isn't IceFrog's to give No, but it may be Eul's, who is also a Valve employee.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
Only around a hundred: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_in... Why post a question like that if you're going to be so intellectually lazy?
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
The CEO of MPEG LA is also the CEO of a patent troll company called MobileMedia.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
Transcoding is still expensive for video, but not for audio. There's certainly some cost to transcoding all the world's MP3s, but given that a single modern CPU can encode and decode audio at 100-500x realtime, it's fairly small.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
VLC have no money, so there's little incentive for H.264 patent holders to pursue them. Given that fact, the game theory suggests it is in the H.264 patent holders ultimate interests to allow VLC to be distributed far and wide. That provi
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
The AVC/H.264 patent pool contains over a thousand "essential" patents. So, at a guess, at least hundreds.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
I tried this in Audacity, with the project set to 96kHz and two tones at 25kHz and 28kHz. I couldn't hear either of the tones individually, but I could hear a tone when played together. This is on Windows 7 with the sound card configured
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
It would make no difference at all.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
It's not like it has been a secret: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YYZ_%28instrumental%29
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
Yeah, the viewing distances are cack. There's no way I sit 4" further away from a 17" MBP than I do from a 13" MBA.
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MSFT to GOOG: Please don't kill video on the web(blogs.technet.com)
3 points by FrankBooth 15y ago|0 comments
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
If you aren't interested in a post, don't vote it up and don't comment on it. This type of meta-commentary is not useful. The (as of right now) 161 votes and 99 comments on this post indicate that it certainly is HN worthy to a significan
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
In which a fanboy attempts to justify his fanboyism.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
That seems plausible. However, whatever the true reason is, the end result is that Google is paying people to generate junk content. That's not good for anyone.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
What's that, a terrible implementation of an average idea? The versions of Open Firmware in the wild are notoriously buggy, often to the point that they are barely capable of more than booting the original OS designed for the machine.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
That's an awfully heavyweight approach to something that can be solved just as well using the existing CPU affinity functionality of your OS.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
The entire British government has no merit? Really?
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
He was a Commander, now he's a Knight Commander. Only now may he use the title "Sir".
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
Just below knight? He was awarded a KBE, honorary though it may be.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
Considering the British honours system is _entirely_ political faffery, no, it's not at all surprising.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
There is no way it is less than $100m. The Chrome team is at least the same size as the Firefox team, if not significantly larger. Google probably spent a good chunk of $100m on advertising Chrome; television spots and subway posters don'
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
From the man page: If newfd was open, any errors that would have been reported at close(2) time are lost. A careful programmer will not use dup2() or dup3() without closing newfd first.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
What if the other thread opens the same file?
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
That's fascinating and all, but I'm really not interested in arguing with people about their opinions. I'm not here to argue. If they make claims that are factually incorrect, I'm happy to point them at the facts.
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
> First statement I imply that things aren't getting better, I'll agree that some things are getting better, new features and support etc... but theres a chunk of stuff not getting improved. What things that actually matter aren't being
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by FrankBooth 15y ago
Most of your post is emotion and opinion, so I thought I'd address the part that is factually incorrect: > On a technical note each version isn't really getting any better That's simply not true. To take a single example, the type infe

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