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by jcl 17y ago
Major software vendors would never have had a platform to standardize on, so they would have to try and pick a winner and loser. Consumers wouldn't know which platform to buy to run program X, and when that platform goes away, how will the
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by jcl 17y ago
That's hardly a solution. There is no way, short of a massive letter-writing campaign, for a software publisher to look at flagging sales and know that it was due to onerous DRM. More likely, they'd blame it on piracy and go looking for e
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by jcl 17y ago
It costs money to run servers, and they would have to run much more powerful servers in order to be running game logic for each player. Heh... This is assuming that they do not realize that the more players are connected, the bigger the
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by jcl 17y ago
It's not that outlandish of a proposal. The application does not need to be savable at all times; it just needs to be savable at some point, which could be a point when the game state is particularly easy to capture. For example, most a
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by jcl 17y ago
RAM snapshots will only work if all of game state is local, and the remote server is being used as a glorified backup system. However, if only a portion of the game state is local to the client, a snapshot of RAM will not be sufficient to
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by jcl 17y ago
To feel safe, secure and taken care of, girls are now turning to men with brains. These women see a direct correlation between brains and dollah-dollah bills y’all and geeks have brains for days. It's a weak correlation; there are plenty
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by jcl 17y ago
Of course, in this case Twain is guilty of statistics. The group of people most likely to die (old, infirm, sick) are more likely to be in a bed than on a train. And the people in New York beds spend a significant fraction of the year the
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by jcl 17y ago
I don't know if this qualifies, but there was an article about a mosquito-killing invention a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516916
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by jcl 17y ago
Or is this a case of Win7 using the available/unused memory for caching kinda like what Linux does? And, if so, whose bright idea was it to tell the user that this memory was "unavailable" in the task manager? The whole thing is rather si
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by jcl 17y ago
Sounds a little like the philosophy of BookCrossing: http://www.bookcrossing.com/
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by jcl 17y ago
Not to restate the obvious, but e-mail goes around in plaintext. Whatever Google is doing with your e-mail can also be done by your ISP (and your recipients' ISPs, and anyone between). One could make the case that hosting on Gmail has grea
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by jcl 17y ago
Some related FeedbackArmy-related posts, including some reviews: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=785489 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376956 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373900
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by jcl 17y ago
The command "git" itself is not exactly international-friendly. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git We must simply assume that Linus was trying to annoy as many people as possible.
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by jcl 17y ago
Oh? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/6c49...
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by jcl 17y ago
For the ﬁrst time ever, Barbie® asked the world to help her select her next career. Actually, Barbie® asked the internet . And it chose a computer career, which is about as surprising as moot winning the Time 100 poll. (Edit: See the or
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by jcl 17y ago
I believe there's at least one website review service that is build on top of Mechanical Turk, if that helps any.
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Yes. The question in the article was regarding SGI's initial use of custom ICs in development, and the relative superiority of using gate technology to prototype.
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by jcl 17y ago
Q: Would you use today something like FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) for such systems? He answers the question by basically saying, "No, if we started today, we'd never be able to compete with Nvidia and ATI." However, there is
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by jcl 17y ago
Reminds me "Four legs good, two legs bad" from the Animal Farm. ...which, naturally, was the other well-known book that Amazon deleted from the Kindle. :)
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by jcl 17y ago
Yes, that is correct. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060019
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by jcl 17y ago
More explanation and pictures at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage (...including the fact that Austria still uses dazzle on speed trap booths to confuse motorists.)
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by jcl 17y ago
It's mostly a brilliant manipulation of public expectations. The article illustrates it beautifully: the creation of the matrimonial diamond ring in America and then Japan, the manipulations needed to sell small diamonds one year and big d
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by jcl 17y ago
As I understand it, one thing LLVM can do that GCC can't is run-time compilation and optimization: generating code on the fly and compiling it to run at native speeds, maybe also profiling several different versions and picking the best. T
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by jcl 17y ago
In a series of mock gunfights with colleagues Bohr always drew second and always won. Heh... Considering that all the participants were scientists, I'm surprised they concluded that one event caused the other.
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by jcl 17y ago
Vorbis, however is really in the league of mp3/aac/wmv, so in the case of audio, picking Vorbis is really a no-brainer. Maybe on desktops, but not on portables. For whatever reason (bad implementations?), Ogg Vorbis takes more processing
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by jcl 17y ago
In the case of this particular review, however, I think the "helpfulness" votes indicate that readers enjoyed the review more than found it helpful. Other "helpful" reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Whole-Milk-Gallon-128/dp/B00032...
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by jcl 17y ago
FWIW, some fans are making a film to coincide with the strip's 15th anniversary: http://www.dearmrwatterson.com It seems they haven't secured an interview with the man himself, but they have interviews with a mix of other people.
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by jcl 17y ago
Apparently there are styluses that will work with capacitive screens. http://robrohan.com/2009/02/27/diy-iphone-stylus-the-free-ca...
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by jcl 17y ago
I have to wonder if it is perhaps due to the resolution of the iPhone. As I understand it, most iPhone apps are hardcoded to the iPhone screen size, so if Apple wanted to reuse iPhone apps on the iPad, it would either need to use an itty-b
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by jcl 17y ago
Would it be cool if the AA site searched all airlines (like Kayak does)? Oh, I would use that thing. That's like saying "Wouldn't it be cool if Amazon displayed the prices of all of its competitors (like PriceGrabber does)?" It's a confl

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