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by digi_owl 8y ago
RH management basically do not care, because most of this happens in Fedora. With RHEL, RH basically snapshots whatever churn that is happening in the larger Linux ecosystem, and maintains said snapshot for a decade or more.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Sounds somewhat similar to what Intel started offering recently, in collaboration with AMD. Basically a Intel CPU and an AMD GPU in a single package, for use in laptops that needed something beefier than an Intel GPU but didn't have th
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by digi_owl 8y ago
There is a reason why the principle people being xdg-app/flatpak are from the Gnome camp. It is basically their band-aid for a self-inflicted wound, while blaming the distros...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yet at the other end you will find people that in full earnestness argues for further locking down, because "owners" can't trusted with proper maintenance. This is why the "home" PC varaiants of Windows 10 force reb
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Or more like never unless you get Apple to front it...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> Animation by essentially "panning" inside a larger pre-rendered image is one of those tricks Hand animated cartoons would often used that trick as well. The anime Bubblegum Crisis used a massive cityscape painting for their p
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yeah, i just pulled up a list of RPi variants to check and it has been releasing new generation Bs every 2 years or so. In those years it has gone from a 700mhz single core ARM11, to a 1.4ghz quad core Cortex A53. The c64 in contrast stayed
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I think it may be less "constraint" and more "fixed platform". Meaning that every C64 was like very other C64, so you knew what you had to work with on the hardware side. You could see this with consoles as well, as the
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by digi_owl 8y ago
"Locality"? BBSs were more of the than not local, with some federation in that the operator or someone he trusted would exchange data between the local BBS and some distant BBS. Similarly IRC used to house a high number of very lo
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Aka a bouncer?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Only for Google to spam-hole anything sally sends...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me of a video from Sexycyborg i ran into a a while back where she visited what may well be described as a walk in vending machine. She could pick out what she wanted to buy on a touch screen in the wall, it would come out pre-heated
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by digi_owl 8y ago
These days there are an absurd number of abstraction layers in any computing stack. Fire up anything electron based, and you are looking at scripts being JITed inside a "VM", sitting on top of an OS that abstract away the hardware
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Sadly the complication is "skin deep". Thanks to some odd choices when designing defenses, your best bet for survival is piling on as much life boosters as you can muster. After that it is all about picking up as much damage boost
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I did something similar with a set of manuals for a Microprose B-17 simulator. Thing is that one of the manuals where more of a history text book going over all the tech and such used to guide the bombers to their targets.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
They reuse some religious themes etc, but other than that they are not related what so ever...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Weird, my impression was that the Guild Wars people were ex-Microsoft. Do wonder where i picked that up...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seem to recall Bono went on record and praised the Chinese Firewall during a copyright hearing some years back...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
"We were so preoccupied with whether we could, that we didn't stop to question if we should"?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Keep in mind that the big success of the current Google CEO is ChromeOS. Basically a minimum OS booting straight to a browser. As "everything" is supposed to live inside a browser window, there "naturally" needs to be ri
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by digi_owl 8y ago
A large part of the initial appeal of Netflix, in particular for foreigners, was that they seemed to house digitized versions of straight-to-VHS movies that never left USA. But after the initial raving success, the big studios have been cla
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by digi_owl 8y ago
That is the eternal problem of automated security stuff, the action may be legitimate or not based on context. And code is notoriously blind to context.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Tolkien at least had that attitude towards LOTR being printed in paperback in USA in the 60s (never mind that the publisher did so on questionable legal grounds).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Hell, USA didn't sign the international copyright convention until 1980!
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by digi_owl 8y ago
depends on what segment you are looking at (phones anyone?). Never mind that MS have a long long history of playing dirty. I distinctly recall that back when the netbook first appeared, MS did a 180 on their efforts to kill Windows XP becau
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Their theory seems to be that if i don't back him, then him or his cohort will throw me to the wolfs at a bad moment. Sadly this line of thinking just reinforce the mentality that the police is at war with the public, in that the only
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by digi_owl 8y ago
There is a "surprising" number of one-man shows in the early gaming world. Also, even though the net didn't exist books did. Not was Another World his first game. And do not belittle the Infocom games, they had perhaps the be
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The VM trick is old hat. Even Infocom used it to allow their games to be playable across a range of micros. Oh and they developed their games on a PDP.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
He has been breaking down the blog into ebooks by year covered, been reading them almost as fast as he posts them.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Andromeda was probably a bad misunderstanding/misrepresentation by the headline hungry press. If we look at recent releases of Android, it has taken on the update scheme of ChromeOS by detaching the Android layer from the Linux kernel.

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