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   Apple Patent Integrates Cellular Antennas into MacBook and iMac Keyboards(patentlyapple.com)

   1 points by mambodog 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   This is a great example of following the letter of a standard, but not the spirit.
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   Honestly, no one should be using URL shorteners on HN. Use a footnote[1] if necessary. [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=hi,+this+is+a+footnote
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   John Carmack Interview: GPU Race, Intel Graphics, Ray Tracing and Voxels(youtube.com)

   3 points by mambodog 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   I would have thought "patent troll" typically describes patent owners who produce no actual products, and only hold patents with the intention of extracting money from others. Apple clearly does produce actual products.
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   The guy behind Atomontage has stated that he's got his engine averaging less than one bit per voxel (he estimates 753 bits or less per 1000 voxels)[1] by applying a variety of compression mechanisms[2], so at least that part of Notch's as
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   I think the videos on the Atomontage channel show something I can actually see being a game, for example it shows destructible environments and terrain deformation, editing tools, and clever use of simulated DoF and a gameplay perspective t
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   Every time this comes up I like to point people to the Atomontage Engine[1], which takes (what I think is) a more pragmatic approach, combining voxel and polygon graphics. Voxels are used where appropriate (eg. landscape, destructible build
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   by mambodog 15y ago

   They're here already. NVIDIA Research paper describing one approach: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/88889/laine2010i3d_paper.pdf Open source implementation: http://code.google.com/p/efficient-sparse-voxel-octrees/
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I imagine it is named as such because they are using evercookie[1], off the shelf. [1] http://samy.pl/evercookie/
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    Someone's already capitalising on this market: http://www.ipoonow.com/
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I am working on something similar to this, though I've implemented a renderer like that of a game, with all visible elements being rendered at 30 fps, foregoing DOM manipulation for writing HTML text directly to innerHTML[1], and culling no
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    The issue is not with blocking access to Google+, it is with the (impending) deletion of his ~2 years worth of emails. I don't believe you need to be 13 years old to use email, I know I was using it at around Alex's age.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    *2038 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I've been working on a Doom/Build style game engine for the browser so I've been reading Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book[1] which has been very insightful. It covers key aspects of the development of Doom and Quake, and I highly re
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    My aggregator/filter for Australian news stories is http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/ Beware the comments threads though, there be dragons, and rather cynical people.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I really wouldn't recommend The Australian. This is a newspaper who have stated in editorial that it is their goal to "destroy" the Australian Greens party. Agenda runs thick in their editorial decisions.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I would expand that: The general level of reader commentary on newspaper websites is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    This is an article on a mainstream newspaper's website. Despite what they might think of themselves, the reader base mainly consists of people who know rather little about how computers and the internet work.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    "Full Screen Mode" is not really about full screen. It is an attempt to simplify the concept of virtual desktops, making it more intuitable to ordinary humans, while also putting applications or tasks into a linear arrangement so that they
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    Apple went back on that policy some time ago. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development...
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I feel like hq4x is probably a better choice for upscaling videogames, as it feels like it better maintains the original 'intent' of the art, which was, after all, designed with low-res in mind. The Microsoft algorithm, on the other hand, s
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    Here's a whole collection of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQyWoBXb2M On a related note, I'm always amused by Youtube video descriptions breathlessly claiming "NO COPY RIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENEDED".
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I was pretty sure iAds only ran in native apps and hence could use OpenGL directly And that would be the flawed assumption that has led to your confusion. iAds are built with HTML/CSS/JS only, not native code.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I'm amazed that people are taking offense to my mentioning of the "F-word". Have people already forgotten what Java applets entail? At least with Flash, getting people to install/update it on demand is not entirely unlikely.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    When I say "in most situations" my implication is that for most 3D applications in the browser such low level interaction with the 3D API is not necessary. Most people building things with WebGL in the future will not be working with WebGL
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    Adobe are adding their own "Stage3D" API (aka Molehill) to Flash. I realise that there are some situations where you want an "OpenGL-alike" like WebGL (especially if you're porting something already written in OpenGL). However, for most use
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I imagine that a Flash fallback would be more practical in most situations.
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    Once flexbox, grids and calc come out as official specs, you'll still have to wait until all browsers implements them, and then wait again until enough users update How would the situation be any different for AXR?
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    by mambodog 15y ago

    I've bought Pixelmator, but every time I try to use it I find that it's just significantly different enough from Photoshop that I lose all my speed and efficiency, and just feel like I'm wasting time. I would really have preferred if it was