mambodog

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by mambodog 16y ago
Because... Windows? Plenty of thumbdrive and portable harddrive manufactures make use of this 'feature' to show a splash menu/crapware launcher on insertion of the drive, so I guess they like the idea.
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by mambodog 16y ago
Also, don't forget Chrome OS: Diet Linux on the Desktop (okay well, desktop as positioned vs. Linux for servers)
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by mambodog 16y ago
I use a prepaid phone for an inbound-only number for my business. Just gotta remember to add some credit if I'm still using it in a year's time, so the number doesn't get repossessed.
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by mambodog 16y ago
I don't know about Viacom's channels, but I swear nearly every major label musician/artist's channel that I've been to lately has had at least one of their videos missing due to a takedown request from their own record company. That said, m
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by mambodog 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all Youtube HD videos either H264 (.mp4) or H264 in an .flv container? I don't see why a particular container format would prevent hardware decoding of the H264 video stream.
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by mambodog 16y ago
I'm still getting 60% (of one core) CPU utilisation playing HD youtube videos. Playing HTML5 video tag version of the same video, its only about 20% utilisation. As far as I can remember, 60% is about what it was at before, so I'm not reall
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by mambodog 16y ago
I've no friends, so I'm just playing two-handed. Try it for an extra challenge..
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by mambodog 16y ago
The article repeats itself a fair bit, doesn't it?
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by mambodog 16y ago
When (I'm hoping it's 'when') this becomes stable I'm thinking a Mac port of this would make a lot of people happy. Despite Steve's fighting words I think most Mac users out there would prefer not to be second-class citizens on the web, and
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by mambodog 16y ago
You should have tried googling for 'sigur ros parentheses'.
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by mambodog 16y ago
You know what's worse than that? People using 'nyt' for the word 'night' (ie. 'last nyt'). At least n-e-1 actually phonetically resolves to something sounding like 'anyone'. In my mind, 'nyt' would be 'nit' (or maybe nyit?). On the other ha
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by mambodog 16y ago
So, any bets on how long until litigation from the H.264 patent pool turns up?
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by mambodog 16y ago
Logic on Mac, Cubase if you're stuck with Windows, Native Instruments Massive is a pretty awesome synth (for beginners and pros) and Izotope Ozone for mastering. Logic has pretty much everything else you need included but if you go with Cub
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by mambodog 16y ago
I produce electronic music. These days production is all computer based, and tech knowledge gets you a long way. Also if you can learn tech skills you can probably also come to understand things like dynamics processing and frequency ranges
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by mambodog 16y ago
I know this is O/T, but I'm finding it incredibly aggravating that I have to put my mouse in the border of the page to scroll the article, lest the Scribd Flash box steal my mousewheel movements... I'm guessing this is to do with the OSX Fl
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by mambodog 16y ago
I love how they are making use of what is essentially a 'Flash hack' commonly used by shady types to get around popup blockers – load a Flash object and use that to launch a new window – to show a popup preaching the virtues of Flash.
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by mambodog 16y ago
When that spreadsheet of Facebook alternatives was posted the other day, this one ticked the most boxes. Taking a look at their site though, I was greeted by talk of protocols and invited to 'get code'. I know its just early days, but this
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by mambodog 16y ago
For a start, I didn't realise the extent of Flash's Mac woes. I'm familiar with the problems with CPU usage during video playback (hence I implemented YouTube's relatively solid player in the site), and since switching to Mac as my main OS
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by mambodog 16y ago
I'm just finishing up developing a Flash-based rich media website. My target audience includes a large contingent of 'art people' so performance on Mac is fairly important. "We love Apple"? Seeing the jerky, sluggish performance and massive
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by mambodog 16y ago
provided it came from a high level source (ie they didn't download it off limewire) then i very much doubt it. the original group doing something like that would be scene suicide. keep in mind these groups are only doing it for the kudos.
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by mambodog 16y ago
Despite this article not offering much new info, it was worth it for the closing comment.
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by mambodog 16y ago
Well... for a penny, yes.
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by mambodog 16y ago
I can see the Penumbra engine being used to build some 90's style point-and-click adventure games in first person 3d, if someone was so inclined. Maybe even something along the lines of Myst. However those genres are probably dead for a rea
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by mambodog 16y ago
When I saw the title of this post my brain brought up mental images of 'minigun' and 'autocannon' and sort-of combined the two, and as such this really wasn't what I was expecting... neat, though.
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by mambodog 16y ago
I'm mainly interested in hearing if any new Unity3d games are being allowed under the new ToS. The last we've heard from the Unity team is this from two weeks ago: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/04/10/unity-and-the-iphone-os-... It's not e
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by mambodog 16y ago
Ahhh geez! I'm in Australia and I really could have used this a few hours earlier...
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by mambodog 16y ago
In some ways Apple is really positioned well to facilitate really great 3d graphics performance on the Mac, due to the fact that they only have to support a relatively small number of hardware configs, especially only a few GPUs, and only o
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by mambodog 16y ago
These days the main method is to use an optical drive emulator like Daemon-Tools, although in the last few years there has been a bit of a game of cat and mouse between games blacklisting virtual drives and tools that allow you to 'hide' th
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by mambodog 16y ago
The point I was trying to make was more along the lines of: "If you want to sell me a Mac game, be sure you're selling me a portable multi-platform licence for that game". I guess I wasn't exactly succinct.
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by mambodog 16y ago
I think a big part of the problem with the Mac games market is that to some people, Mac games are worth less. I myself would never buy a Mac-only game (ie, a Mac OS only license) despite being a fairly avid gamer (and game design major) and

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