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by ansible 15y ago
I gave the Unity desktop that shipped with Ubuntu 11.04 a try. And I didn't like it much. When I heard that the 'classic' Gnome desktop (most features of which I didn't use) was being phased out, that prompted me to switch to xfce. Fortuna
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by ansible 16y ago
> About the only games I can name as exceptions are roguelikes, particularly Nethack and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. These are open-source games with no equivalent in proprietary/commercial world. Actually, that's not the case. The gamepl
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by ansible 16y ago
With security that lax at PHPFog, it was inevitable that someone would have broken in. In that sense PHPFog was lucky... had these security problems not come up now, and be exploited by little punks with no larger agenda than vandalism, th
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by ansible 16y ago
I had to laugh at the "ultra simple languages" bit in reference to VB or C. C, at least, is not an ultra simple language. Logo, maybe. But C, no. There's all kinds of nooks and crannies to explore (or get tripped up by).
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by ansible 16y ago
Yes, this is a desperation play. Ideally, they'd have made this decision 2 years ago, and already be shipping their first few WP7 phones.
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by ansible 16y ago
Oh, indeed. My point was that the rest of the kernel (VFS, device drivers, etc.) was already fairly well prepared for MP when ARM multicore came into the picture.
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by ansible 16y ago
Years ago it seemed to me that Symbian was a dead-end. Just reading about the programmer APIs was enough to convince me of that. Motorola finally realized that P2K and their other proprietary stuff wasn't going to cut it for the future. M
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by ansible 16y ago
I agree with you and disagree with Stephenson. From TFA: "Sixty years and a couple of trillion dollars later, we have reached a place that is infinitesimally close to the top of that hill. Rockets are as close to perfect as they're ever go
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by ansible 16y ago
A chunky controller isn't necessary for handheld gaming... but we need something better than a flat touchscreen too. Especially if you're going to play a FPS, you need two analog sticks, and dedicated buttons that you can feel without havin
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by ansible 16y ago
I think a phone with dedicated gaming buttons / sticks can be successful. I doubt that we'll see many Android games retrofitted to the PSPhone. What would be the point for developers to do that? It is just limiting the market for your gam
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by ansible 16y ago
When an A-10 Warthog shoots a tank with depleted uranium (DU) rounds, it definitely leaves behind poisonous dust. Sure, they're 100% wrong that the Predator weapons systems don't do that. Are we really expecting these people (who don't ha
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by ansible 16y ago
Yes, NLP is still a tough nut to crack. The flip side is that if you type just 'hamburger' into maps.google.com, you'll likely get a map of all the hamburger stands near your present location (based on either GPS or your IP address). I'd ar