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by nkassis 15y ago
Actually a few people were experimenting with the idea before the Google guys did it. They just did it better. In the plex talks about that in the first couple chapters.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I don't think many people want videophones. That would mean having to wear pants and t-shirts all day and combing your hair. That's to me why it never became reality. So in effect people didn't know they wanted SMS but when they got it they
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by nkassis 15y ago
Not exactly, it might be deterministic but that doesn't mean you can predict what will happen without running it. Same as understanding the forces of a hurricane doesn't let us make very good prediction on it's path without using huge amoun
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by nkassis 15y ago
What is sad about this is a lot of things that were created in the early 1900s will now be lost forever since copies cannot be made and archiving the works on a different medium would infringe copyright. Trying to get the rights for those t
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by nkassis 15y ago
bah, not really if you use editors like emacs or vim. I'd suggest also using screen to maintain a dev session going. screen lets you start shells and detach from a session without closing any of them (useful for long running jobs too). In t
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by nkassis 15y ago
Not holding hope that the next person will do much better. It sad considering how talent they still seem to have. Looking at the Yahoo UI people and the people behind hadoop. I'd like to see them push web applications more. They seem to hav
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by nkassis 15y ago
but copyright last a long time, Apple couldn't copyright their UI design so I guess this shouldn't be able to be copyrighted either but you never know.
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by nkassis 15y ago
doesn't really explain much. One of the comment claims it's not copyrighted but why?
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by nkassis 15y ago
Yeah I had a reaction like this in the past, but I got to meet the people who worked on a similar project as mine and they did their thing completely independently. I can't say the same of another group who took my css files for their site.
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by nkassis 15y ago
Yeah, that caught my eye too. I was waiting to see if there was any engineering or science degrees in the group they selected but nope. All BAs.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I wonder why it's so expensive to run the thing? I mean, it should be pretty cheap to deliver small applications like that. Maybe the labor to check all the new apps?
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by nkassis 15y ago
Well... if the records are released I don't think they should change. Someone record at 50 isn't the same as at 60. Unless these are live datasets.
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by nkassis 15y ago
hmmmm..... Looks like I should use IE instead of chrome.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I have cable internet in Quebec and the cap is really low. 120gb a month is to me quite low. I watch most of my tv,news,sports online now and I have to actively monitor it. Does nothing to reduce my total bw rate usage while I'm streaming.
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by nkassis 15y ago
That's what I admire about John Carmack. He wants people to hack his games and do stuff with them. He pushes to release old engines as GPL (soon the Doom 3 engine will be released, offering some real game code to study for people wanting to
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by nkassis 15y ago
". I also try to keep in mind that I'm not typical. ... So when I judge a UI I literally stick my Mom on it... she's 68" Well she no more typical a computer user than you are I would think. I like to see a curve of typical computer users a
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by nkassis 15y ago
That's true but at some point he clicked and reversed his position when he saw the potential. Without him Pixar would have struggled to deal with the partnership with Disney. He did push a lot of buttons at Disney that got Pixar the deals t
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by nkassis 15y ago
It's a good question. I'd bet maybe not production code but I'm sure they write some utilities and things for themselves.
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by nkassis 15y ago
All I can think of while reading this is, that must be where the crystaline entity comes from ;p
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by nkassis 15y ago
I have to agree about Math as an alternative. While I was not a great Mathematician ( a few classes I barely managed) but the content is very interesting and often mind boggling. Stictly CS would have been maybe more direct for my choosen j
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by nkassis 15y ago
It's interesting that the president has the ability to waive ITC imporation bans. But the author calling the patents Apple is using to sue "Inventions" is a little bit far fetched.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I have no fear for apple's survival at least in the near 5+ years. Things will change but the talent that builds the products is still there. The coders, the designers ... all that needs to happen is for the culture created by Jobs to stick
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by nkassis 15y ago
Everyone already knew it was most likely going to be Tim Cook. He's been pegged the successor for a few years at the very least.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I still think that kind of thing is very different than what is going on here. That's theft, and it's not patent infringement but copyright infringement. If apple had claim that their code or that the chips in samsung's phones were taken fr
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by nkassis 15y ago
This to me feels different than fake cisco gear. In the case of the fake cisco gear they are built to look and pass for cicso gear even running stolen copies of cisco catalyst and IOS software. Samsung isn't claiming their phone is an iPhon
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by nkassis 15y ago
This book: Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics, Third Edition ( http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Programming-Computer-Graph... ) Is pretty good and complete. The first chapter is a review of vector and matrices and th
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by nkassis 15y ago
Probably likely once American engineers look at the plan.
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by nkassis 15y ago
probably the same thing happened here. Vibration will cause latency in reading disk. If the hd platter are jumping around the needle will have a hard time reading it. That probably explains the spike. Time to buy some SSDs ;p
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by nkassis 15y ago
Microsoft did it back in the day with the Xbox but I don't think it's a good strategy to use against a 70b in cash company who can match your prices to kill you. With that said if you did drive down the price for everyone Apple would be in
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by nkassis 15y ago
Also don't miss http://www.learningwebgl.com for more advanced tutorials.

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