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asdfs
13y ago
Elaborate? I don't understand what you're suggesting.
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13y ago
He drove around a parking lot once, searching for the charging station.
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13y ago
>but also to bring forward a set of hardware technologies that won't be in the mainstream for a while. Can you elaborate on this? I'm not seeing anything on the Indiegogo page that isn't more or less on track to be availa
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13y ago
I do wish that it had been 'JKL;' instead of 'HJKL'. Pulling my fingers from their resting position has always bothered me.
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13y ago
I believe that 3.0 actually coincided with some Linux-related anniversary.
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13y ago
Can you use Time Machine to shuttle data via a USB stick? How well does it work when you have more than two drives that you want to keep mostly synchronized?
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13y ago
Wouldn't you suffer from lower bandwidth than over PCIe, though?
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13y ago
Can't one produce effectively the same setup as X11 with a compositor that has a plugin system dedicated to surface positioning?
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13y ago
Interestingly, methane from livestock is a large factor. >According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equiv
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13y ago
Not if the default is to boot from an SSD soldered onto the mainboard, or tucked away in a device that is not designed to be opened.
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13y ago
Modern X applications mostly shuffle around pixmaps anyway. X11 drawing primitives are not used very often at all.
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13y ago
Flash video typically uses hardware decoding.
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13y ago
I believe OnLive uses Flash or some other plugin to stream content. As far as I can tell, the breakthrough that OTOY is claiming is this: - They've developed a new video compression format and implementation that provides better compression
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13y ago
I found this blog post to be an excellent ingroduction to ed, for the uninitiated: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/actually-using-ed/ And of course there's the obligatory: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
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13y ago
Any references?
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14y ago
This is relevant: http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2013/04/interview-cary-wa... It's a turn-based RPG in Excel.
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14y ago
Does anyone know how OCuLink (similar to Thunderbolt, but by the PCI SIG) is coming along? There doesn't seem to be much public information.
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14y ago
"Inseperable from Magic: The Manufacture of Modern Semiconductors" — an overview of semiconductor fabrication (and its current challenges) by a former Intel engineer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 "The Atomic Level of Porn"
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14y ago
That seems like a somewhat poor example. When people first saw the iPad, it was quite rightly explained as "basically a big iPhone", which was completely sufficient to get an idea of the product.
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14y ago
It's basically a Facebook branded home screen. Instead of the regular home screen with a bunch of icons to launch different applications, the home screen is now essentially a Facebook application. There's also some stuff to access Faceboo
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14y ago
The eventual goal is to have a "career mode" (there are currently stub menu entries in the UI), which will likely be similar to what you're envisioning.
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14y ago
I'm not sure that those jokes are comparable. There's no negative stereotype in a penis size joke.
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14y ago
Ironically, it's the lack of options that keep me from using Mozilla's other product, Firefox for android. Things like not being able to set a home page, not being able to choose between thumbnail dropdown tabs and regular, always-visible
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14y ago
X-rays are only produced by the unrolling of tape in a vacuum. So presumably no risk here.
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14y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.
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14y ago
Can you elaborate on "pipe injection"? I can't find references to the term after brief searching, and I'm curious.
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14y ago
Hopefully it'll be like the other Google-branded devices, and it'll allow you to install what you want on it easily.
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14y ago
Was 4chan an inspiration for this? It seems much like a mix between 4chan and a more typical phpBB-style forum. It's quite similar to what 4chan would be if threads were archived forever (which is actually the case for some boards), if 4ch
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14y ago
Check out his QuakeCon keynote. It's basically him talking for an hour about technical things that interest him.
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14y ago
Was the DoD primarily using Windows XP up to this point? It would make sense for them to move to 8 if that was the case, given the longer support lifetime.
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