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Xbox 720 rumored to be GPU/CPU powerhouse; always-on Internet required(vg247.com)
2 points by rkalla 15y ago|1 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
There should have been a winky-face after that heading; you are absolutely right that the tech will take us forward in fascinating ways, I was trying to be somewhat snarky about some of the lesser-benefits-to-life enhancements we will see;
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by rkalla 15y ago
Both actually, hence the eating of the lunches: Global Sales ------------- 1. Wii ~95 million[1] 2. Xbox 360 ~66 million[2] 3. PS3 ~62 million[3] Nintendo has made profit on the Wii hardware sales since launch, roughly $50 on
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by rkalla 15y ago
From the business perspective, we all understand the rumored incremental hardware updates here from Microsoft and Sony; Nintendo ate everyone's lunch for 5 years with last-gen, 3-year old tech[1] that cost little to make while Microsoft and
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by rkalla 15y ago
If the rumors outlined in the Ars article are true, there will be nothing to subsidize -- the console manuf are going for the Nintendo model after having their asses fed to them for 5 years while Nintendo turned a profit on 2-year old tech
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by rkalla 15y ago
Very interesting; appreciate you sharing that.
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by rkalla 15y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what car were you looking at?
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by rkalla 15y ago
Didn't know Scion did the no-haggle thing, thanks for the heads up on that. Also imagine the F&I hardsell is how they make up the difference... was the sales agent you were working with responsive/nice/etc or did he seem impatient and w
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by rkalla 15y ago
Interesting find Mark, I never tried dabbling with nice inside the Micro so the HV doesn't strangle it to death... appreciate the tip!
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by rkalla 15y ago
Having read this piece before as well (it was very interesting) there is no surprise that the classic car-buying experience is so combative... it would be like going to a shark-petting zoo where you are required to cover yourself in blood
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by rkalla 15y ago
The techniques Ewan outlines are spot-on; my clarification is for people to have the right expectations of the Micro's, not on the information he provides on tuning a WordPress install. That said, Smalls and up on EC2 will give you more co
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by rkalla 15y ago
Was absolutely concerned about this as well, but then say the timeline they are talking about (almost a decade) and decided to keep my concern in check, at least for another 6 years. I either imagine hardware progressing so far in the next
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by rkalla 15y ago
FWIW: Amazon's Micro instances will burst to saturate unused CPU cycles on the host machine up to a hard-capped limit before being choked to death by the hypervisor. Had he run the Blitz test for 10 mins or more you would see the spike in
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by rkalla 15y ago
I would only add that they gave up their stake after issues with yield for Bulldozer and their Llano platform which is a generation behind at 32nm -- if NVIDIA wanted to play nice with GF at 22nm, I don't know how that would happen. At the
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by rkalla 15y ago
+1 on the Anandtech reviews; prefer the format and benchmark comparisons (they compare more than just the fastest cards, giving you an idea of the bump in performance you might get if you have a few generations old). I have a Radeon 6970 (l
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by rkalla 15y ago
Swearing off Blizz won't save you; it'll just be Valve then or EA or Mojang or Zynga... they'll get you eventually :)
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by rkalla 15y ago
I am very familiar with this thought process... "being totally hooked in is evil and detrimental because movies show me they are!" -- but then you think about it... what if your life IS just better in the virtual reality? How is that a bad
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by rkalla 15y ago
You might want to check all your different retailer's sites (Amazon, Gamestop, etc.) to see if they offer pre-order bundle bonuses as they do with other games.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Blizz has always designed around experience ... in this case I think they decided going with the classic iso view would appeal to the nostalgia and more importantly allow the game to run on more hardware which is probably something they
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by rkalla 15y ago
I would lie if I said the same thought hadn't crossed my mind... while we are still in the era of comments like yours (and mind) being brushed off somewhat half-jokingly, can you even imagine in 10-20 years what kind of addiction-causing ex
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by rkalla 15y ago
I wasn't clear on the role of Java/Scala in Play2, he used the standard "play new app" approach to gen the new app and got all Scala templates, that is what confused me... it wasn't like "play new app -scala" or some specific switch. I've u
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by rkalla 15y ago
Gaetan, excellent demo. You covered 3 technologies that work wonderfully together: Play! 2.0, WebSockets and Canvas. Fortunately the usage of each was all straight forward but you married them together into a creative demo app that didn't r
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by rkalla 15y ago
For a specific example I just implemented recently: a database utilizing MappedByteBuffer's to the main DB file that can transferTo the record requested as-is to the requesting client. The use-cases are certainly specific, but when you need
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by rkalla 15y ago
Has Wicket changed to not require so much code? I wrote a handful of apps using Wicket 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 before realizing I was writing thousands of lines of code to update UI models and backend models that shouldn't be taxing me so much. Us
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by rkalla 15y ago
EPL (Eclipse Public License) requires changes be contributed back after a reasonable grace period (I think 6 weeks or something?)
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by rkalla 15y ago
Just an FYI Intel has announced new chips and future strategy for the mobile market. We will definitely see x86 tablets. AMD wants in as well.
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by rkalla 15y ago
If you are an xfit'er you have probably done the "death by" burpees? "death by" anything is horrible, but burpee's are particularly horrible. Min 1: 1 burpee... yep, then stand around for 54 seconds. Min 2: 2 burpees. ... Min 14: 14 burpees
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by rkalla 15y ago
A lot of good information in this thread; the only bit I would add is that this is a grant and not standard equity-trade funding like you would find the valley. So $50k in cash as opposed to $50k of investment for 33% of your company can be
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by rkalla 15y ago
Maybe the LHC will give us the precursor to the Mass Effect drives/relays/weapons? Or giant talking mud-snail people... but I'll bank on the weapons I think.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Programming is fundamentally a creative process. Watching someone code (especially someone good code) is a lot like watching your favorite painter paint or favorite tennis player play. You are watching an expert dance and swing his way thro

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