troymc

66 ms·

691.
by troymc 13y ago
Here's a song for the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0s5Kn9QXtU
692.
by troymc 13y ago
Unity can already publish Oculus-compatible games for Windows, Mac and Linux. I think Unreal Engine can too. Big game studios use those engines. SteamOS might be able to optimize for the Oculus Rift in ways that Windows and Mac OS can'
693.
by troymc 13y ago
Will I be able to get an export/backup of all my aggregated data (as files)? I'd pay for that service alone. Something like CloudPull for my QS data.
694.
by troymc 13y ago
I just read about that in Asimov's autobiography. He wrote it when he was a grad student at Columbia and was worried that it (a satire of chemistry papers) might harm his chances of passing his final (oral) PhD examination. His examine
695.
by troymc 13y ago
It's probably not a good idea to make a decision for a specific app based on the average behavior across all apps, unless your app is "average." A calculator app is an outlier; it is not an average app. It's also an
696.
by troymc 13y ago
I wonder if this new generation of robots might be able to do certain kinds of agriculture which, until now, have resisted automation, such as coffee harvesting on steep hillsides.
697.
by troymc 13y ago
That would be the "Zeroth Law", zeroth because it supersedes all the others. A version of it first showed up in Asimov's short story "The Evitable Conflict": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ev
698.
by troymc 13y ago
When developing low-level or systems software, there are many programming languages to choose from, but C and C++ continue to be often-chosen. When developing software to run natively in all browsers, there's one choice: JavaScript. So
699.
by troymc 13y ago
I live in Burnaby, where we have a community mailbox. It's never been robbed, as far as I know. It's encased inside a secondary metal container so we need two keys to get to our mail. Meanwhile, home mailboxes (near the front door
700.
by troymc 13y ago
The article gives the average costs: The average cost of door-to-door delivery is $269 per address per year. The average cost of group mailboxes is $117 per address per year. It's easy to understand why. It takes less time and effort t
701.
by troymc 13y ago
What do you call it when tens of thousands of volunteer birdwatchers pay for their own personal efforts (in time and money) to do bird monitoring in the UK? Cumulatively that's a lot of money, not "small potatoes." http:&#x2
702.
by troymc 13y ago
Here's the Penn webpage about their T-Cell Immunotherapy for Leukemia: http://www.penncancer.org/tcelltherapy/
703.
by troymc 13y ago
Some alternatives, self-hosted and otherwise, are listed at http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/
704.
by troymc 13y ago
I'm not sure, but I suspect that the Portal 2 reference might itself be a reference to the recurring Muppet Show sketch "Pigs in Space" (pronounced Piiigs innn Spaaace). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYjbkRk
705.
by troymc 13y ago
This tender is just for monitoring publicly-available stuff on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. Every big brand already does that. For example, Starbucks almost certainly has software watching for mentions of the word "Starbucks." T
706.
by troymc 13y ago
If you're curious about HTML, CSS, etc. then by all means, go ahead and learn the basics and build a simple site. (The other comments give some pointers.) If you just want a simple business website, then you don't need to learn an
707.
by troymc 13y ago
They claim that it's "biodegradable." I don't know the details, but I'm guessing the polymer breaks apart into smaller, benign pieces over time? I wonder if that means they have to make it right before using it, and
708.
by troymc 13y ago
Could you please explain, for the layman, why resistance isn't an issue?
709.
by troymc 13y ago
I've also enjoyed many a live music performance in Second Life. It's wonderful to be able to text chat with friends, and even with the musician, during shows. (The musician can ignore the text chat if they want, so it's only
710.
by troymc 13y ago
I think it depends on the music. Lots of people watch live hockey on TV.
711.
by troymc 13y ago
Tabs are a design idea that predates the web. You'll find them on physical file folders, binders, and address books, for example. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that tabs were invented hundreds of years ago.
712.
by troymc 13y ago
It uses MathJax to do the equation rendering, see: http://www.mathjax.org/ The diagrams are rendered to SVG (vector graphics, supported by all modern web browsers).
713.
by troymc 13y ago
Sometimes, you don't even have to be better (e.g. VHS vs. Betamax).
714.
by troymc 13y ago
The current global population of black swans is around 500,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan
715.
by troymc 13y ago
I once thought that large-scale macro-economics was derived from empirical behavioral economics and microeconomics, similar to the way thermodynamics is derived from basic laws of physics (via the methods of statistical mechanics). That&#x2
716.
by troymc 13y ago
"These are really great illustrations! What tools did you use?" "I used Adobe Illustrator and then exported them as SVG files." "SVG files are just text files. They look kind of like HTML. You should really use Vim
717.
by troymc 13y ago
The National Association Of W Lovers is not going to be happy about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkiCTDcV51k
718.
by troymc 13y ago
His appeal is precisely that he's non-technical. There's a large audience for that. If Pogue was the only tech reporter, there'd be a problem, but he's not. The web is full of extremely technical blogs and forums.
719.
by troymc 13y ago
Maybe Inking Habitat? Note the ability to export to EPUB3, which can include video, and there are EPUB3 reader apps for all platforms. If you want to sell the ebook on Amazon, you'll probably have to convert it to KF8. Edit: If you wan
720.
by troymc 13y ago
The fundamental problem is that Facebook's "agreement" seeks to undermine a core aspect of the web, which is that everything --- everything --- sent across the wire is to be interpreted as a suggestion (not a requirement).

More ›