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by illumin8 15y ago
Usually they didn't. Zelda was the first NES cartridge with battery backed memory for save games, which was unique at the time, but all games still had to run on the 6502 processor.
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by illumin8 15y ago
It won't kill desktop gaming. Upgradeable consoles have been tried before and they don't work. When only a percentage of your customers upgrade you just fragmented your market. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to buy PS3 games i
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by illumin8 15y ago
I think the app store can definitely support games that are $20 or $30. Already Square has released several titles approaching $20 in price, and they have been very successful. Nintendo is leaving money on the table because of NIH (not inv
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by illumin8 15y ago
How would you make an iPad less fragile? It's already a pretty durable hunk of metal. The only thing I think you could do would be to wrap it in rubberized plastic like a toughbook, but then you'd end up with a 2" thick brick of rubber th
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by illumin8 15y ago
The exploit code targeted 4G users on Android, so yes, Android was (one of) the attack vectors. Or rather, certain carriers poor implementations of 4G on Android.
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by illumin8 15y ago
China's defense spending is less than half of the US. This is not an inevitability. Learn the facts before you go spouting off nonsense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
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by illumin8 15y ago
I was going to reply, but dkokelly below summed up my thoughts exactly. By saving the lives of our soldiers, there is a very real chance that they will go on to take the lives of some enemy soldiers in the future. So, doing any business w
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by illumin8 15y ago
I have Flashblock and I didn't see any ads.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The funny thing is that if the DoD contracted out to build these, they would end up costing over $1 million each. There are a lot of unique opportunities for startups that are willing to use off the shelf technology and package it in uniqu
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by illumin8 15y ago
The fundamental problem is that we have completely inadequate rail infrastructure in the US. Why is it that everything has to go by truck? Trucks are extremely inefficient compared to trains, and are much more likely to be involved in tra
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by illumin8 15y ago
Dude, I'm glad you took the FB offer. Don't discount the value of money. Stay there until the IPO, get your much deserved money, and then have the freedom to work wherever you want to work for the rest of your life. You must be very intel
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by illumin8 15y ago
I think you numbers are way off. The average user is using less than 100MB a month. If your assumption is correct that the top users are using 12x as much data (don't know where you got this info) - it seems like they'll be throttling any
853.
by illumin8 15y ago
With a market cap of 23.06 billion, Samsung isn't exactly a small company. I think Apple is going after companies where it believes it has a significant chance of winning. Whether you believe software patents are a bad idea or not (I cert
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by illumin8 15y ago
Right, the headline is a little dramatic. I think the ECB was extremely careful in the crafting of this deal to do everything possible to NOT trigger a technical default. A default is a delay or missing any coupon (interest) payments or fa
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by illumin8 15y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the bottleneck was due to Oracle. I was saying the exact same thing you are saying - it's due to memory or CPU limitations in their application server, which forces them to heavily shard. If Redis can help them
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by illumin8 15y ago
Yeah massively available like Gmail - I meant after it opened up from invite-only status. Email is easy to bootstrap because any client can talk using SMTP. Social does not have a protocol - although that might be cool if it did so we didn
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by illumin8 15y ago
This is really a great article - detailing the extent of the malware and fake anti-malware market.
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by illumin8 15y ago
That's why I said social is not like email. I'm more comparing the Google+ rollout to Wave, since some of the features seem to be similar to Wave.
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by illumin8 15y ago
If they pull a Wave and only invite users in small groups it is doomed on arrival. This thing needs to be free and massively available like Gmail. Social is not like email - you need wide participation in order for it to succeed.
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by illumin8 15y ago
I realize that for most FPS or RTS titles, Redis might not be a perfect fit because the dataset is small for each map and the number of players never exceeds some preset limit like 64, but I think Redis might really shine as a means of stor
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by illumin8 15y ago
Right, he says you will need to have electric motors to at least assist (hybrid technology) with rapid acceleration. Apparently this engine is probably very efficient at a fixed speed/rpm, and doesn't provide the torque of an ICE.
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by illumin8 15y ago
No thanks. Abusing government resources that are intended for real refugees that have had to flee war zones and oppressive governments is not only unethical and rude, it could also land you in jail for welfare fraud.
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by illumin8 15y ago
It sounds like a lot of fun, but how do you save for your retirement? If you spent 10 years doing this, wouldn't you be too far behind to catch up and end up living a poor lifestyle when you should be traveling and enjoying your later year
864.
by illumin8 15y ago
Objectified - a great documentary about good industrial design and what makes products usable.
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by illumin8 15y ago
Inside Job - the best documentary I've seen on the financial crisis of 2008 and what led to it.
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by illumin8 15y ago
If this is actually the Loopt business model, to offer deals that the businesses have not agreed to, you should fully expect to be sued in court for trademark infringement very soon. How could you be so short-sighted? You are driving traf
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by illumin8 15y ago
Valid point, but if you were writing code meant to run on the web, you should be expected to know a little bit about the server stack that will host your application.
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by illumin8 15y ago
Wireshark should be a required tool for any developer writing netcode. If you don't understand the OSI model, or how a 3-way handshake works, how can you possibly debug your code? I've had to work with customers before who were writing cod
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by illumin8 15y ago
I think that's a very valid point. I've had some wtf discussions with software engineers that were widely respected in their careers (usually Microsoft MVPs, for some reason) yet didn't understand something as simple as how to configure a
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by illumin8 15y ago
Please allow me to use a car analogy: If you want to get a job as a mechanical engineer and design car engines for a living, you don't necessarily need to know how to be an auto mechanic, however, if you spent a summer rebuilding a classic

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