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by roc 14y ago
It just seems to me that whatever they're doing with AMD, AMD is going to be able to farm out to other parties. Given that both MS and Sony are using AMD cores paired with GDDR5 memory controllers, it seems almost certain that there's not
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by roc 14y ago
Given the PS4 is using an off-the-shelf x86 processor, how long do you think it'll be until other OEMs are pitching laptops with these same CPUs that have GDDR5 controllers for main memory? How long until Intel matches? How long until basic
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by roc 14y ago
Not to mention the anti-consumer nature of blu-ray and dvd these days: the unskippable commercials, trailers and anti-piracy warnings? These are also not present on Netflix. Some commercials are present in some content on Hulu Plus. But ev
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by roc 14y ago
Deliveries, solicitors, repair people, friends of neighbors, passers-by out for a walk/jog/ride, etc.
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by roc 14y ago
You're talking about developers, no?
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by roc 14y ago
The sad part is that they usually truly don't. Because not only do hospitals have largely-fictional rates they try to pass to insurers, there are also the medicare rates, the medicaid rates, the rates they pass to those trying to pay out-of
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by roc 14y ago
You have two situations when it comes to organizations: The first, is typically called 'bundling'. An organization, say PETA, organizes a donation drive and encourages its members to make their personal contributions to campaigns PETA has
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by roc 14y ago
I don't think it's necessary to use the same standard in personal-use and commercial-use situations. The current law already makes such a distinction. That seems reasonable and consistent to me. So, get back to us when the 9-year-old uses
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by roc 14y ago
They also had no weight to them and what little weight they had was well-distributed. Unless this hypothetical snap-bracelet device also had its weight very well distributed, it's going to tend to spin. Particularly if the total weight is
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by roc 14y ago
And? The claim was the reaction to the Pebble is what motivated Apple. I merely posited the calendar doesn't support that. If you want to generalize it to "Apple is doing something similar to what other people had previously done" that's
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by roc 14y ago
It's not about upgradability. It's about the console I buy today having a comparable shelf-life to one purchased 5 or even 7 years ago. When the 360 in my home office died late last year, I was faced with paying essentially as much as I sp
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by roc 14y ago
I think it's more just about covering the discrepancy between "child's wrist" and "adult's wrist". i.e. making sure the display doesn't try to render to a fixed size, when substantial portions of the 'band' may overlap. I doubt they'd ship
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by roc 14y ago
Considering this patent was filed in mid-2011 and is almost certainly claiming an earlier invention date, I think you may have your order of events backwards.
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by roc 14y ago
No, but they may well buy SteamBox builds that have internals upgraded each year, rather than on whatever schedule is convenient for Sony/MSs profit margin.
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by roc 14y ago
And once it's integrated into your normal glasses tastefully, they just have that pesky social problem of having a voice-control-only gadget in public.
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by roc 14y ago
Would it be worthwhile just to get away from a shared bus (USB) for the Kinect->Console connection?
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by roc 14y ago
Only if we assume that our mitigation efforts against those other problems would be lacking for resources, if we sent some resources to work on space object detection/defense. If we're putting as much money and effort into automobile safety
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by roc 14y ago
I'm not sure I follow. You want to calculate the total employment of all industries enabled by oil and then say that the next barrel of oil is responsible for a proportional number of that total? What about those industries that use oil onl
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by roc 14y ago
Sorry about that. I didn't mean boundary layer as a technical term. I just meant the problem was in the transition from the ground-effect-dominated regime to the regime of traditional flight.
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by roc 14y ago
Again, "a lot" is a statement that is only true in context. And particularly given that Oil's ability to employ is completely dependent upon geological formations that no-one has any control over, it's disingenuous to try to generalize it b
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by roc 14y ago
As I recall, the control problems were in the boundary layer, when the ground effect benefits waned, but before the engines pushed it into 'flight'-proper. That said, it also sounded like it was capable of 'flight'-proper for the same reaso
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by roc 14y ago
If I can help just one other geek avoid the social grief I've suffered, it's all been worth it. ;)
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by roc 14y ago
And how's that scale when we're talking about a population larger than 700k residents? Just because something is factually true in a narrow context does not mean it remains factually true when abstracted to a generality.
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by roc 14y ago
> "I responded with a 5 minute dissection of the question" I used to do this shit all the time. Turns out I was missing the obvious part: people ask imprecise questions, not because they're being intellectually sloppy, but because t
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by roc 14y ago
Markdown is 'lighter' and aimed at the more general case: churning out lightly-formatted text quickly, with as few 'rules' as possible, with page layout concerns addressed by templates defined elsewhere. reStructuredText is 'heavier' and on
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by roc 14y ago
The author's big miss, IMO, is discarding the number of design choices that may appear to be aimed at helping new users, but also simplify mobile use-cases (big tap targets, one clear way to get from A to B) and prevent the accumulation of
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by roc 14y ago
You also have to consider average selling price and DLC sales. Higher ASP + DLC could easily make a 360 version far more profitable for devs than a Wii version, even at half the units.
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by roc 14y ago
To be clear: range anxiety is not irrational because no-one should be concerned about range. Range anxiety is irrational if and when someone is giving outsize importance to the edge cases. It's specifically about the people who don't d
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by roc 14y ago
"Range Anxiety" is a very real (irrational) concern of a large slice of Americans. Regardless of how many trips they make within an electric vehicle's range, they will place outsize importance on edge cases. And between range and recharge t
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by roc 14y ago
When you're writing for an unsophisticated audience, it's generally more profitable to be a good writer than particularly knowledgeable about the subject.

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