Tmmrn

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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> Microsoft tried to create a closed system, but they were prevented by governments worried about them consolidating their power forever. Now, we are faced with two closed systems fighting for power, ios and android. Am I in opposite wor
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
What about using it on anything that isn't windows or mac os? Isn't it kind of the point of web browsers to render webpages in a common open language instead of being a host for proprietary vendor specific plugins? What's the
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> Microsoft could come up with their own license that was "open source" but not "free software" The important question then would be: Could you legally port directx to *nix from this? If not, then what'd be the p
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Works fine on intel and radeonsi in linux in firefox nightly and chromium. In firefox the textures are noticeably darker for some reason.
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
So all the advantages the "steamboxes" have over consoles are actually disadvantages. > The logic of buying a ‘games machine’ where the games selection will always be more limited than on a standard PC or Mac makes little sense
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
I don't really understand stuff like that. > The Windows trust and value proposition was always compatibility, There are other platforms, you know? If you say "compatibility", you might want to add "compatibility with
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
... http://www.opengl.org/wiki_132/images/RenderingPipeline.png (blue = programmable)
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
On the one hand you keep reading "developers need to eat" and on the other hand you keep reading comments like yours. Buying the alpha means paying for continuous development... Also, you get a new download of the current state ev
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Android != tablets or phones. Thanks to android being open source people can take it and build ...stuff.. with it. I'm sure you have heard of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouya And while it's very low-end,
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> if it were, you could write a piece of music as easily as you could appreciate it. Yea, but maybe it would still be exactly 1.000.000 times as hard.
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Since your basis for morality seems to be "evolution" and "nature" (in quotes), would you be in favor of shutting down all hospitals immediately?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Well, now we'll never know.
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> the damn hard work, risks, and clever strategies used in growing Microsoft. Why are these only positive adjectives? You could have included unethical, anticompetitive and illegal just as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Ok, many people here said it, but still. "Asked to name the most innovative tech company, they’ll say Apple or Google. And they’ll do it with a straight face, while sitting in a chair made by Microsoft. Wait, Microsoft makes chairs? No
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Was this test with openvg? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVG
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> and I'm sure with some tweaking of compression options you could make a .mp4 video with higher quality and a fraction of the size of the equivalent .gif. No tweaking needed. Test it yourself: Download any of those huge gifs and en
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
1. Can I develop an open source blu ray player with full aacs support and put it on my website without getting sued?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Don't you love when games get "released on PC"?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> Apple hardware What exactly is that?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> Also it is my OS on my pc. It's not like people wouldn't tell you otherwise. "Proprietary software means, fundamentally, that you don't control what it does; you can't study the source code, or change it. It&#x
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Sounds like zsh http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/zsh/cd.html
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
$ pacman -S applescript error: target not found: applescript $ pacman -S photoshop error: target not found: photoshop $ ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-linux] Hm, which of those can I use?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> I've tried all the open source MSPaint alternatives, and none of them even come close to being as good as MSPaint. KDE's kolourpaint is basically a clone with more features: http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
By the way, "outproxy" is the word for them. (In case others don't know)
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
I have never really looked into it, but searching the archlinux aur for multitouch a few things come up: easystroke-mt - Use mouse and screen multitouch gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys. touchegg - Multitouch gesture recognizer Obv
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Do you need to "live without multitouch gestures"? I don't have a macbook, so I have never tested it, but the Archlinux wiki speaks of two drivers xf86-input-multitouch and a fork xf86-input-mtrack https://wiki.arc
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
The most important question: Can you buy it without windows?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Yea, it's more expensive and not so upgradeable and you lose a few seconds by setting it up. The display adapters should be only a few dollars, so maybe not ideal, but hardly a really good reason. There's not really a reason why a
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
On a modern powerful laptop you can easily connect three 2540x1440 or bigger resolution displays. Keyboard and Mouse, obviously. Best to have them at an usb hub so you only need to plug in one cable (or a docking station). Fast is relative.

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