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by randallu 13y ago
The CA map is interesting too, because it has the cleanup sites with some information on them: http://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/map/default.asp?global_... It seems like gas stations typically leak a lot of gasoline into the ground. I
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by randallu 13y ago
Maybe they'll even send the top guy to jail (but later release him to run the olympics...)
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by randallu 14y ago
Is this nVidia's driver? Or some random code that can draw a solid color triangle on a tegra? Where's the shader compiler backend and the rest of libGLESv2?
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by randallu 14y ago
Rdio is a great example as they currently don't use any form of DRM (if you use the Chrome UA and don't have flash player installed). So I could download songs from Rdio and save them away, but I've never bothered because I want to listen f
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by randallu 14y ago
Presumably this downloads new executable code (or bytecode) rather than data. I could put up a shell app which does the same thing to download exploits after a while. This is why Apple has the "don't download code" rule (and why they had a
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by randallu 14y ago
OAuth rather than POST. I don't want a bunch of client apps storing passwords in plain text.
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by randallu 14y ago
JavaScript is the new PostScript (how old a Sun guy are you?)
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by randallu 14y ago
Ha, I bet this one will crash and burn over Fiji too. More information here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec They don't like X for all the normal reasons, they think Wayland might be like X but haven't investigated (I think you can replac
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by randallu 14y ago
But you don't need SurfaceFlinger to get multicontext GL out of Android GPU drivers... You only need to use the "gralloc" buffer allocator and give EGL an address from there and you can start rendering to the framebuffer or offscreen. Surfa
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by randallu 14y ago
Amazing it has 256MB RAM considering how stingy they are on RAM in iOS devices -- 256 was all the original iPad had, and the experience suffered from it (esp after the iPad2 became popular and apps got "more relaxed" on memory consumption).
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by randallu 14y ago
I saw my first Model S driving from Marin over the Golden Gate bridge. I see a lot of them about where I live in Palo Alto -- four in one journey last weekend (two on 101, two on Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto), then one the next day at pre
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by randallu 14y ago
Actually it looks like URLs do go to google's suggestion service as you type into Chrome's URL box. I tried typing " http://then and it suggested a UPS package URL and "thenicestplaceontheinter.net". I've not been to either of those pages
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by randallu 14y ago
One can buy Android devices (like the MK802) which cost $50 and are similarly sized with similar functionality. Doesn't seem like a big stretch to build an image for one which just connects to a remote desktop.
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by randallu 14y ago
KWQ wasn't super easy to port to other platforms -- it's completely gone now and WebKit has much better abstractions.
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by randallu 14y ago
So does YMail have anything to do with this -- if you were logged into Yahoo and visited the bad page then Evil, Inc would still get your Y and T cookies, right? I have received "Check out this cool link" emails from friends who use Yahoo m
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by randallu 14y ago
If they start a nuclear reactor business then GE will really be in trouble!
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by randallu 14y ago
It is so incredibly depressing to watch Amazon blow an amazing opportunity with shitty software. They can outsell anyone, but the Kindle Fire OS work is dreadful -- if they could manage to build a competitive UI then they could probably mar
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by randallu 14y ago
The method they use for vectorization is cool (vectorizing Y, U and V independently) and also illustrates why subsampling UV yields such good results (for standard raster-based codecs). Ultimately however vectors are far more expensive to r
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by randallu 14y ago
I hope they do threading some day...
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by randallu 14y ago
Source: https://github.com/mjg59/shim The issue is getting binaries you build signed, I guess (i.e.: Debian can't build Shim and get a signed binary at the end, so having source isn't important to them; however if you want to contribute f
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by randallu 14y ago
Maybe if they fix those graphics performance bugs!
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by randallu 14y ago
Not really, all of the shaders come from the Android View System and are pretty simple (could probably have been done with the fixed function pipeline). In general, you're right, you can "shade too hard" (consuming too many GPU cycles) and/
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by randallu 14y ago
Cool, looks oddly familiar: http://2012.beercamp.com/
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by randallu 14y ago
Interesting, though using "position: absolute" for everything would be a problem on varying screen sizes (or for a more complex UI). The CSS3 flexibox module can accomplish a lot of "app" layouts pretty easily, however (and you can mix and
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by randallu 14y ago
There used to be a "simulator" build of Android, where all of Android got shoved into one process, but it was flaky and broken as of Android 1.0 and never got revived. For the things I've done on Android (games, slideshows, etc) I've been a
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by randallu 14y ago
Only the kernel code is available on malideveloper.com though you can probably obtain binaries for the userland stuff (EGL, GLESv2) easily enough. ChromeOS is close enough to normal Linux (normal libc, etc) that it should be possible withou
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by randallu 14y ago
Nice. It's neat that the top layer is written in JS and is malleable -- Cinnamon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_%28user_interface%29 ) is an interesting project too (uses the GNOME3 platform, but implements a new UI which looks m
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by randallu 14y ago
The trackpad "CLUNK" on an MBP is pretty loud and annoying, and incredibly random if you're not the one doing it...
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by randallu 14y ago
Actually, Chrome's WebGL implementation is somewhat inefficient since another process actually talks to the driver (separate process from the one executing JS). This shouldn't matter if you can factor your render loop into uploading texture
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by randallu 14y ago
I'm sure Samsung would do it if they had a modicum of competence in platform building -- see Bada, Tizen, SLP (Samsung Linux Platform). They've spent fortunes on these and gotten nowhere; they know what's going on and are completely unable

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