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by tobiasu 15y ago
Hmm, what's so amazing about it? It's a voxel graphic engine, of course it's going to have great detail and no polygons (duh). That's not new. Commanche had this in 1992... I'm not at all an expert in this area, can someone who is explain w
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by tobiasu 15y ago
As I read it, the alternative implementation should branch of at a single point in the code. The alternative path usually requires modifications in the functions and data it's calling and using. But instead of going through the code adding
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by tobiasu 15y ago
I don't know a single app(?) whose names he mentioned in this article. I simply can not connect these new product/startup names with what they're supposed to be doing for me. Curious if anyone else has this experience.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Couldn't read the article as the server is overloaded. But I have some thoughts about the headline. This may contain some hyperbole, you have been warned. I don't understand Berlins appeal. It has one fatal flaw: no industry. In my opinion
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by tobiasu 15y ago
The fact that Apple built general purpose computers does not make the head of the company the most important figure of gaming.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Eh? I run OpenBSD as a "desktop" and I use 3D acceleration to play 3D games and all that stuff. Even playing videos these days requires DRI support in the kernel. With a bit of careful hardware selection, 3D acceleration works out of the bo
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by tobiasu 15y ago
> - ancient userland pthread implementation Indeed, being worked on with rthreads. > - worst SMP implementation of any mainstream OS There's slow progress to push back the kernel biglock. > - no unified buffer cache Very few peo
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Ahh, sometimes I wish computers still had real front panels. How nice it would be to quickly manipulate physical memory and registers when a machine crashed.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Ridiculing serves as an information overload protection, it shuts the inventor up and prevents ones brain to explore the idea in more depth. One has to respect that people don't want to be bombarded with information. They have a life, too.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Yes, I'm sure the ancient UNIX haters handbook is totally relevant to the shortcomings of X11 at the end of 2011. Edit: deleted comment refered to this http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
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by tobiasu 15y ago
How is X11 a horrible disaster?
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Yes I did. My reply was to someone who assumed "no license" would grant him "all rights" (public domain) when in fact it does not give him any rights. For the copyright owner, the reverse is obviously true. You and the other downv^Wredditor
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by tobiasu 15y ago
No license/no copyright declaration means no rights in all countries that have signed the Berne Convention ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_convention ). This includes the USA since 1989.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Nice try, Mark.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
It is possible that Linux does not reinitialize the wireless chipset in the right way, leading to a performance loss after hibernation. Quite a common bug in that area. The level of detail in this bug report is a little low...
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by tobiasu 15y ago
It looks like this way of organising the source (src) tree started in 4.1BSD (1982?). Before that, all the commands lived under /usr/src/cmd/. See http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/usr/src and http://minnie.tuhs.org/cg
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Relax, there is no reason to get so worked up about a little trolling. Someone who just two hours ago told us that his favourite tools are emacs and a terminal emulator certainly doesn't have any weight in the anachronistic tool debate. Mos
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by tobiasu 15y ago
But... computer scientists don't write code! That's not what they're studying, it's not their job! Writing code is what women do. "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
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by tobiasu 15y ago
> The only downside to this is it is for all users Look up the Match command, you can limit ForceCommand and many others to a specific "User, Group, Host and Address."
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by tobiasu 15y ago
A nullpointer exception in java is the exact same notification that C gets. A segmentation fault has nothing to do with C, it's an exception raised by the CPU. Printing a stack trace also has zero to do with C, but I would bet that the code
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Thanks :)
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Does HN make the first character of the title upper case? It's iOS. IOS is Cisco's Internetwork Operating System. Please get it right.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
IBM talks about up to 100 layers, not 1000. Not all components have the same power requirements or are even powered up at the same time. Also this is IBM research. They don't need to make robust processors for the consumer market. If the CP
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by tobiasu 15y ago
So, Mr. Upton, what are your plans regarding making the SoC datasheet available for real hackers? (Not that I have any hope that Broadcom would change its ways...)
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by tobiasu 15y ago
No.