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'Gravity' review: try not to scream(theverge.com)
6 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I think it's a very misleading tactic, because then many customers buy based on those benchmarks. Ironically, I believe these smartphone OEM's are a lot less bad than PC OEM's/chip makers. I hate how Intel, Nvidia and AM
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by devx 13y ago
Canonical has an OS for tablets that will be released soon, and they can support any tablet they want, if they order large amounts.
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by devx 13y ago
Making these technologies open source would be a good improvement.
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by devx 13y ago
Just know that if you're approached by NSA or similar, after a course like this, you have a 90+ percent chance to be doing "cyber-hacking" of other nations (allies or "rivals") rather than "cyber-security"
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by devx 13y ago
Governments should use as much open source software as possible, both because of cost reasons, but also in principle (especially now about the NSA scandals, instead of buying proprietary software from American companies).
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by devx 13y ago
Probably, but it would still be a huge win, if we could make it so they could only get e-mails with a normal warrant, from a normal Court (none of that secret courts/"millions of records-are-relevant nonsense). Also, I don&#
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by devx 13y ago
If this ends up happening, does it mean SpaceX will have single-handedly drop the price of commercial space transportation by about 2 orders of magnitude during its first decade of life? I know they were saying initially when they came out
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by devx 13y ago
Maybe it would be acceptable to do something like that "in a time of war". The problem with today's government is that it seems to define everything in terms of an endless war. Cyber-attacks? "We're at cyberwar&qu
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by devx 13y ago
Open source firmware?
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Carmack: AMD's Mantle API could help Steam Machines a lot(tomshardware.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
NSA will be all over stuff like this when it will happen. I can already see them saying "We've got to know what the terrorists are thinking , to protect the nation."
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by devx 13y ago
Could this take advantage of Google's new QUIC protocol, or get any benefits from it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
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by devx 13y ago
I hope we see this in smartphones soon.
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by devx 13y ago
This always seems to happen. They do stuff that is illegal for about 5-10 years prior to even lobbying to make it a law, and then Congress makes it a law, and nobody ever punishes them for doing it illegally before.
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by devx 13y ago
From the people that admitted themselves. Also, let's not forget that Snowden managed to get all sorts of data they didn't even know he took until he went public with it - and they still don't know exactly what he took in ful
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by devx 13y ago
“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” - Adam Savage
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by devx 13y ago
I'm sure a lot will say now that "It was inevitable. Android is made up of multiple OEM's, yadda, yadda...". But I seem to remember not too long ago that "iPad was the iPod of tablets" or something, and therefo
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by devx 13y ago
Throw her in a federal prison for "hurting national security" and for being a "spy and traitor". Fortunately, she didn't manage to "defect" to some of US' enemies - like Russia - so it should be eas
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by devx 13y ago
I don't have that problem myself, but just watching the videos of iOS7 made me think I'd be very frustrated to see all those 1 second animations long everytime I do something. I don't think I could handle seeing those animati
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by devx 13y ago
This is a great series about how innovation and creativity happens, too (hint: through remixes): http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
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by devx 13y ago
You can have a laid back, more clutter-free experience with a controller in front of a TV - and the TV experience is meant to be laid back , anyway.
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Why Reddit needs to switch to HTTPS(plus.google.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|1 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Why didn't ARM call it ARM64? It's hard to believe it didn't cross their minds and decided AArch64 is the better name, so it could be another reason.
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by devx 13y ago
Good. Google shouldn't be able to even "analyze" private communications and data, at the very least not without the user's explicit consent (opt-in). Being in the ToS doesn't count since nobody reads those. Maybe
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by devx 13y ago
If they make their next-gen browser using Rust, I hope they make it 64-bit- only , and optimize it as much as possible for x64 and ARMv8. None of that "support back to Windows XP!" stuff. It wouldn't be necessary (will still
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by devx 13y ago
This just goes to show that companies will put as many DRM restrictions as possible on their devices and content, if there's no backlash, just because they "think" it would be a good idea to do it. I wish the general public w
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by devx 13y ago
First off, Elon Musk has more than a "profit incentive" to go to Mars. He just wants to do it for himself and for human kind. As soon as his SpaceX profits and technology will allow him to do that, he will do it. Neil deGrasse Tys
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by devx 13y ago
You probably should've stopped doing that after the PRISM revelations anyway.
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by devx 13y ago
Yeah, can we get OTR in Hangouts already, Google? (no, not that "we're not archiving it - promise!" OTR)

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