mirashii

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   by mirashii 14y ago

   I would highly recommend watching this, and keeping in mind how such a thing could be useful in games. http://worrydream.com/#!/InventingOnPrinciple For a concrete example of usefulness in games, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32SFF
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   by mirashii 14y ago

   Three to four years is an absolutely terrible window. Applecare lasts 3 years and they're introducing OS updates that make the devices obsolete just outside of that window? Compared to both Windows and Linux, Apple is the absolute worst on
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   by mirashii 14y ago

   Generally these things would have to be done in hardware, bumping up the price by a non-negligible amount. Additionally, it would increase the input lag on the monitor, something manufacturers are trying to avoid.
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   by mirashii 14y ago

   As is true with most things, this is a case of where consumers need to vote with their wallets. While it would be great if the world ran on great intentions and thinking for the future, the reality is that money talks today, and today is th
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   by mirashii 14y ago

   There actually were projects which did this years ago. One of them was called fcache (by Jens Axobe), which had the same goal but achieved it in a filesystem independent fashion by using an extra partition and placing all data read during b