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by aristidb 14y ago
I don't see evidence in that article that the new pricing is better than the old. Did you test how well it performs before announcing that it is "fixed" now? Don't get me wrong, the reasoning for these changes makes some sense, but without
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by aristidb 14y ago
Minecraft is not a MMORPG. People either play locally, with the possibility to invite people on the local network to one's own game, or on servers that are run by third parties (the Minecraft makers don't run any). Some servers may have ext
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by aristidb 14y ago
I think a legal system should very much be stable, but it should also be flexible enough not to prevent innovation elsewhere from happening.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Due to faster download times it can apparently actually _boost_ battery life in some web surfing scenarios. Not that it matters if your network has no LTE.
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by aristidb 14y ago
You can get those beneficial effects with trade secrets and NDAs, if _those_ are legally protected. All without a f*ing monopoly grant.
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by aristidb 14y ago
It seems like it overvalues Gists a bit. :)
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by aristidb 14y ago
Maybe it's because the 2010 MBA had NVidia graphics, and the 2011 has Intel.
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by aristidb 14y ago
It's _barely_ playable on my 2011 MBA. Seems like the limitation is on the CPU side though. Either it's fairly unoptimized, or this relativistic stuff is just really demanding. It's quite awesome anyways. Funnily if you change direction, th
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by aristidb 14y ago
I understand fully well that it is not _difficult_ to drive a lot of pixels if you want. Many modern cheap cards and IGPs however cannot, for whatever reasons: they physically have no support for dual-link DVI. Maybe they saved 50 cents on
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by aristidb 14y ago
Nobody would accept 2D-only these days. And in a world where people buy $500 PCs, you can't expect a $250 GPU to be the norm.
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by aristidb 14y ago
A card with 6 outputs costs a few bucks. The Intel HD4000 I believe has support for 2x2560x1600 I believe. Note that you're also comparing components with vastly differing prices. Maybe the market for $2000 monitors just isn't big enough. E
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by aristidb 14y ago
Just like they don't have an official Windows 7 app...
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by aristidb 14y ago
Well there's at least 27" TFTs with 2560x1440 and 30" TFTs with 2560x1600. I guess part of it must be that single-link DVI and older HDMI doesn't allow for more than 1920x1200, and cheaper graphics units would be overwhelmed with anything o
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by aristidb 14y ago
Just a few thoughts: - Certainly easier to use than https://script.google.com - How about a UI for inspecting the storage object? And why is "storage" _not_ JSON serializable? - The whole thing gives the impression of "for disposable, not
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by aristidb 14y ago
Fortunately number of apps in the mobile space is still pretty well correlated with number of important apps, so the marketing is not fully uninformative.
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by aristidb 14y ago
When I bought my Linux laptop, it _was_ brand-new. But that was in 2009. :)
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by aristidb 14y ago
I totally need to get a gaming-capable computer to run Linux on, and install Steam on it! (Currently my Linux laptop just has old Intel graphics which is ... rather underpowered. Also need to wait for Steam-for-Linux to become public, obvio
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by aristidb 14y ago
Here's the thing: I think salary alone is a better indicator than salary adjusted by cost of living. The reason is that there is also quality of life, which is hard to measure. I think that in the absence of a dedicated measure for quality
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by aristidb 14y ago
This is the biggest difference (quote from semver.org): "Major version X (X.y.z | X > 0) MUST be incremented if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API. It MAY include minor and patch level changes. Patch and
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by aristidb 14y ago
While it is true that some of those problems are real, this level of rudeness is just not acceptable. Especially the accusation of "inbreeding". One thing that is wrong is the lack of "semantic versioning". There is the Package Versioning P
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by aristidb 14y ago
Even once Steam is on Linux, most games won't be. Much like Steam is on Mac but the vast majority of games don't support it. However: 1. You should install Steam for Linux anyway! (Once it's public.) 2. I read games in virtual machines actu
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by aristidb 14y ago
Dying? At $612K of $750K raised with 31 hours to go? Is there something I don't understand there? EDIT: Realizing that mods might change the title at any time, it is right now "Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying"
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by aristidb 14y ago
Clearly markets are the problem and not wasteful government programs that e.g. subsidise water given to farmers in desert areas.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Are you sure your data coverage is good? I've noticed that with sinking latencies and rising bandwidth (but probably mostly the latency), data consumption rises. For me at least.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Can somebody explain what precisely this page means?
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by aristidb 14y ago
Apple charging more than the stand-alone market price for storage upgrades... just like they have done forever? It's called bundling and price discrimination.
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by aristidb 14y ago
"if Windows 8/RT can run their legacy apps, that is a big win." Except Windows RT cannot, and Windows 8 can...
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by aristidb 14y ago
I think that's for each individual platter, of which a modern 3 TB hard drive has typically 3 or 4.
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by aristidb 14y ago
The wording is slightly ambiguous: You could read it as if it would display both the repository global latest commit and the current directory latest commit. This is not the case. It only shows the directory latest commit. Which is awesome!
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by aristidb 14y ago
I think this video is relevant to remind people just how much Bill Gates is the man of "Windows everywhere". If it had been only his decision, the XBox would probably also run some variant of Windows.

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