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by hastur 15y ago
Video footage from that article: http://youtu.be/4iboFV-yeTE Of course you have to remember - only a fraction of all incidents get filmed and posted on the web. For every such event there are ten you'll never see.
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Western govts turn a blind eye as Arab allies keep massacring protesters(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by hastur 15y ago|1 comments
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by hastur 15y ago
Graphics is very much an issue. Look at the web demos of the Irrlicht guys: http://www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/demos.html I'd say that's an absolute minimum in terms of sophistication. And yet, some of it barely runs on a modest hardware
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by hastur 15y ago
And BTW, I really hate to put you down like this. I have dreams of my own of one day writing an MMO game, that would mostly be handled by a server and the client would run in a browser. Perhaps the clue is not BF3-level graphics, but someth
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by hastur 15y ago
Well, I'm not that familiar with the internals of JS engines, perhaps some browsers are capable of partial compilation. On the other hand, this is a dynamic language (as in: data types and other pieces of code can change in run-time), with
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by hastur 15y ago
Well, maybe 20 years was too far of a shot. But I assume you're associated with the Irrlicht game engine, so I assume that when you write "is WebGL the future?", you don't mean "will it be useful at all?" or "will some silly casual games be
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by hastur 15y ago
Could you write (graphically) Battlefield 3 in WebGL, assuming you'd be able to compile it to run efficiently? As for your second question, JS is very useful, I love JS, I write 90% of my code in JS. But we're talking sophisticated 3d apps
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by hastur 15y ago
LOL, what is JavaScript then, if not interpreted? I'm not going to get into a semantic argument, perhaps to you Java is not interpreted either, but to me anything that doesn't compile to a binary directly executable on the CPU is substandar
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by hastur 15y ago
Definitely not. The performance is pathetic, the feature set is pretty basic. WebGL is where compiled 3d apps/games were, like, 20 years ago. Yes, I know it will improve, but so will compiled products. The sheer fact that WebGL is interpret
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by hastur 15y ago
It's absolutely awesome that he questioned them in such detail. So far I've had mixed feelings about Franken's performance as the defender of electronic rights of citizens, but I have to admit, he picked up the ball here. (Or maybe someone
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by hastur 15y ago
Obviously it's a PR move, but still, a good one! Congrats to Sprint for having balls!
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by hastur 15y ago
The good stuff is the original post by Rep. Lofgren, not the comments below it. She's making a good point about how to approach your Congressmen, so please do.
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by hastur 15y ago
Good point. On a separate note, I'd like to also list the Congressmen that were the most vocal and eloquent supporters of SOPA during the hearing: Smith (R-TX), Goodlatte (R-VA), Berman (D-CA). Please make sure your friends and families ass
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by hastur 15y ago
I don't think it was actually signed yet, but they've agreed on signing it. So yeah, it's a foregone conclusion, a matter of days - if not hours - before the Commission signs it. The Parliament is a separate matter. I think they're just goi
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by hastur 15y ago
I live in Poland and I watched almost the whole hearing because I care. (Although we have a bigger problem in the EU right now - ACTA is about to be signed by the Commission, Parliament vote pending in a couple of weeks.) Big thumbs up for
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by hastur 15y ago
HOW IS THIS NEWS? And who are the retards that vote it up? Please, make sure you also vote, when Fox reports that a Congressman farted with his mic on.
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by hastur 15y ago
Lofgren just pulled out ACTA. Big plus for her.
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by hastur 15y ago
Representative Polis just submitted for the hearing record the lyrics of the song "Internet is for porn". :)
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by hastur 15y ago
Issa is pretty impressive. Considering he's Republican - even more so. Also big thumbs up for Polis, Lofgren, Chaffetz.
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by hastur 15y ago
Darn, at first I read "medical _patients_ must die". ;)
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by hastur 15y ago
If the MPAA boss is a retard, why don't we isolate him in a mental institution?
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by hastur 15y ago
Wow, someone at HP has balls. Very impressive.
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by hastur 15y ago
OLD NEWS (if you watched any interviews with KR, you knew this years ago)
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by hastur 15y ago
Why would you use a data vis lib for drawing a couple of lines? Wouldn't raphael.js be more appropriate? (i.e. efficient)
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by hastur 15y ago
How can I flag Lieberman as terrorist? No, sorry, he's worse than that. A terrorist kills a couple of people, a few hundred if he's really lucky. By contrast, this guy is a big contributor in screwing a nation of 300 million people. How do
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by hastur 15y ago
Julien, can you say something about the company itself? Or if it's just your personal side project - state that. I can't find any info on the website. (Note: this fact might be discouraging for more serious customers.) Are you in any way re
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French court orders ISPs to block cop-watch website(jurist.org)
5 points by hastur 15y ago|1 comments
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by hastur 15y ago
Why on Earth would you want to do that? You should go for HTML5, when you need stuff that can't be done with HTML4. But we're talking about not adding anything new, just translating to HTML5 something that worked perfectly well in HTML4. Yo