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People paid $50+/copy for their browser.

But this stopped precisely in early 1998. Such a major gain for IE from 1997 to 1998 (or before) would have made more sense based on this aspect.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-207681.html
Perhaps it would help to quickly find bugs - http://www.viva64.com/en/viva64-tool/ :)
The first and only movie I saw in 3D before was Avatar and it was almost painful. I avoided 3D since then.
Last weekend I saw Hobbit in HFR 3D by accident: we thought it was in 2D, but got handed the 3D glasses at the entrance.
And what can I say: I enjoyed it, to the point where I think that seeing it in 2D would be a lesser experience. Some fast moving action scenes were still uncomfortable, but nature shots were simply gorgeous.
That would be really interesting. I could imagine that being used in something like Requiem for a Dream to make things feel slightly off.
Turn 10, of Forza Motorsport fame, refuses to compromise render rate in the series. Forza 2 to 4 (no idea for the 1st one, which ran on the original Xbox) are running at a steady 60fps (physics loops at 360ips), even in split screen (at the cost of a few effects, notably cockpit mirror reflections). Technically this really matters when getting the braking point at 400kph down Old Mulsanne. In terms of enjoyment, sure there's only reduced antialiasing, but driving down Bernese Alps close to the guard rail in Forza 4, especially with Kinect head tracking (not enough cash nor room for a triple-head+seat setup), is incredibly immersive.

Forza Horizon though, developed by an all-star team[0] distinct from Turn 10, chose to drop to 30fps, notably for full AA, effects such as motion blur, and features like continuous day/night cycle and realistic car headlights (old bulbs look deliciously warm, and the chromatic effect on the crisp edge of xenon headlights is awesome). As realistic and gorgeous as Forza Horizon is, at speed it feels buttery smooth but not exactly crisp as Forza 4 is. It's like you'd take a low-resolution image and try to make it look nicer by using a blur filter, only this applies to time instead of space, and thus movement.

[0]: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-making-...
I take fault in the post's back & forth collusion of 48/3D being responsible for the bad story & acting. It seemed like Jackson directed on the same level he left off with from the previous series, but the cast wasn't in the same place and weren't operating from that level of experience and familiarity with their characters. They ended up just "acting".

The 48p/3D was memorizing. I think it will take another 2 years to work out the kinks and a decade or more to really explore what can be done with it.
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I tend to think that 'Follow your dreams' is a good advice, but at the same time I also realize that I have to work (a non-dream job) to be able to do so! Many probably don't take into account that following one's dreams doesn't come for free.

For example if my dream was to write novels, I wouldn't take a loan and just write with hope to hit the jackpot but I would have to do some regular work to support my dream: writing.
Just looked on Wikipedia, it is 12 light years away. So how long to get there with conventional technology? I suspect speed isn't even the worst problem, harder to deal will radiation?

Also I suppose any such mission would have to be fully automated, remote debugging would be too frustrating with a 24 year round trip for information.

Have there been any spacecraft besides Voyager even launched beyond the boundaries of our solar system?
I haven't seen evidence that the average facebook user cares that much about the things that you've mentioned.

I fully accept that some of their users (or ex-users) do. I have seen plenty of blog posts and outraged media stories. Yet I haven't noticed any great attrition among my friends on facebook, which is what I would expect to see if people cared much about this stuff.
I came here to say something like this.

I think that sometimes, the fact that the medium you are using is not perfect/too realistic makes your imagination do a lot of the work, and that makes it easier to be immersed in the experience you are having.

That is why I jump into immersion really quickly when playing Mario or even more so reading a book, but a game like Skyrim has a really hard time hooking me in.

I think realism may in some cases be a kind of a red herring when striving for immersion.

For example, I, as a programmer, can be completely immersed in what I am doing without my text editor being "realistic" (whatever a realistic text editor could be :) ).

I think that the state of "flow" and the immersion in some kind of experience (movie, game, book) go hand-in-hand.
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Its called a UDRP, costing around 1 or 2 thousand dollars and takes some time to get. Its also dependant on various factors like whether theyre using the domain in bad faith. If you happen to own the trademark of the exact name that their domain uses, excluding the .com of course, you have a very strong chance of winning the domain. Here's the general info on a UDRP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Res...

And here is a domain name attorney which I highly recommend and who can solve all of your domain related inquiries: http://www.wileyrein.com/professionals.cfm?sp=bio&id=111...
As a matter of fact, there is still a quantum tunnel bug. If you push and release the flippers too fast, the ball goes through them. Not a big deal unless you want to control the ball the same fine-tuned way as with real machines.

BTW, it works OK with Windows 7 (64), just copying it from an old installation. I like the game... 170M :-)
Is it only me that finds this ironical to be on the HN front page along with the one where Carmack laments games being only 30 fps?
if a company is still active after 10 years, earns good money, employes a lot of people and still manages to build good and valuable products, then they are - in my point of view - an impressive success-story.
That's why I have a Lenovo s300 with an Intel HD graphics card only. Best Linux laptop I've ever owned.
>If you are planning to run linux, seriously re-consider buying laptops with hybrid graphics.

Yes, best buy in my opinion is thinkpad with only intel graphics or if you have discrete graphics, turn it off in bios (it works as expected). There are no problems with (over)heating, everything works out-of-the-box. It seems that thinkpads are well supported in Linux as I've had no problems yet.
Whereas the iPad doesn't count because it's just a toy that's only used for 'consumption'.

First they ignore you....

The reality is about a quarter of global computer sales are Macs, iPads or Android tablets and all those categories are growing rapidly. If you include smartphones in the equation, as some aggressively pro-mobile (but not necessarily wrong) observers do, Microsoft already has a minority platform share.
so, is there a site to check which laptops have the best linux support today?
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"I know the pictures are of too low quality to be plastered on a billboard."

Don't be too sure about that. Billboard pictures are very lowres (sometimes even 10ppi) because most of the time they are viewed from a large distance.
When I was younger I did not have the experience of being offended by things said by others (much). Reading the essay brought up some emotions in me that I now identify as being "offended." The story mixes some poignant sharing of difficult life experience with what to me sounds like gibberish. Somehow the shape of the rhetoric is closed off. The jump from the personal/subjective experience to asserted universal truths feels manipulative manipulative to me. Blech
I haven't seen the movie, but I had a very similar experience going from 25fps PAL CRT to full hd LED 100hz - all TV shows just looked amateurish and home made! That's how I would describe it. Eventually after a few months my eyes adjusted and now everything is back to normal.
I've been trying to delete individual photos and I think they limit the rate at which you can do this. I feel it's something like 10 photos per hour. If I try to delete more, they just pop back in on my Android phone.
Hijackings had happened many times. Including with weapons. There was plenty of knowledge that could have easily justified adding secure, lockable cockpit doors. And that would have been a good, low impact way of mitigating against known risks while also taking a whole host of unknown risks off the table or substantially reducing them, including reducing the chance of 9/11 having the impact it did or even being tried.

I think that is one of the changes that more focus on mitigating risk vs. avoiding it might have produced. E.g. when faced with heightened risk of terrorist attacks, a rational response would be to not focus so much on identifying potential attackers and stopping a specific plot, but spending more resources at looking into low impact ways to mitigate the consequences of at various broad modes of attack actually getting underway.

The specifics of 9/11 was probably near impossible to predict, but another eventual hijacking was a near certainty, and an eventual building collapse for whatever reason should have been considered a near certainty, as many high-rises have failed over the years too. The failure to reduce the potential impact of those known risks are the real failures of 9/11, not the failure to prevent the specific plot, as these were broad, known risks and the actual causes leading up to them would be largely irrelevant for a lot of mitigating actions.
Why do you think he's immoral?

If you equate "enabled people to share more of their lives more broadly" with "damaged people's privacy" then I agree, but I'm not sure even a majority would agree with a sentiment of that necessarily being a bad thing. People share what they feel comfortable with, don't they?
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Who's privacy was damaged in a way where the victim didn't voluntarily give it up?
> Personally, I can't see how anything that replicates reality better can be intrinsically bad

Books have the best graphics (followed closely by nethack)

(Relatedly, my disappointment started when they pronounced the dragon's name as Smah-oog, and I've been calling him Smorg for years. The version of the story that happened in my imagination with my personal tastes taken into account FTW)
I'm also a heavy Jekyll user. I work on a Jekyll addon, which will allow live site edits. Imagine static site generator executed on client-side:

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The main trick is to use PhantomJS to pre-generate static site for initial serving.
If you want to run Linux on a laptop you really need to think of it in the same sort of terms as running OX X or something.

I wonder if a better idea would be for the installer in Ubuntu to do a cursory hardware check before installation and let you know what stuff might not work before proceeding.

It can't be good PR and leads to this "Wifi on Linux sucks!" "no it works fine" type threads on tech forums.

Having said that, I don't understand the problem with Linux wiping the Windows install? The only problem I have ever had is with Windows installs overwriting GRUB in the MBR.

You can usually dual boot both OSes with them both being blissfully unaware of each other. So I assume he's doing something weird there.
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Frankly I would be happy if next-gen games would actually achieve steady 30 fps. Doubly so if the games would achieve that with some reasonable resolution. That would already be a massive improvement to the current state of affairs, where games dip to 20 fps or so with sub-hd resolutions.
Investment of $500MM is going to result in very poor ROI if this is a PR exercise. It's going to be roughly a few days (perhaps a week) of "Zuck is nice" news stories and then be mostly forgotten.
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I did see the movie in 2D (the parallax effect in 3D movies distract and give me headache).

My experience was that for the first half hour, I felt that some scenes were there just to please the 3D movie. A tree that goes into the screen, a big rock on top of the characters to give perspective, a bird that goes to the depth of view...

Also, the first part (will avoid spoilers), all the CGI was noticeable, and also felt the gamma filters were way too high (fake HDR ?).

For the rest of the movie I did not feel it, so I either forgot about it and decided to enjoy the movie, or maybe they did stop using the tricks.
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Yeah it would definitely be interesting to get his take. But in the meantime making decisions with the best info at hand! :)
Maybe they're coming around to a more effective western technique:

"we're good guys" facade combined with stealth oppression :-P

I kid.. I kid...
An interesting comparison with videogames, where higher FPS is striven for. 60FPS would be considered optimal (on consoles at least, PCs can go much higher).
When I saw The Hobbit 3d 48fps, I wasnt looking for any specific differences from the status quo. And i didnt notice any. If someone has to really look for the differences to notice them, then they are relatively unnecessary. I like that they are trying to push the envelope tho.
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Doing a phd with the hope of improving your salary is one of the worst ideas ever.
Well a better example would be Ground Turismo 5 which runs in 1080p @ 60fps, but that's besides the point. Games that look good in screenshots will always sell better.
What do people working at VC firms (as opposed to partners at VC firms) make? I don't think anywhere near enough to make paying a couple of hundred dollars per week just for showing up late negligible.

E.g, http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/salary/venture-capital-compen... lists 'analysts' and 'associates' at between 80 and 250k. Not the kind of money to light cigars with 20 dollar bills (certainly not in NYC).
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Whenever a photo is shared through Facebook it is run through facial recognition software and the results are sent to every police agency that is interested. We know that policy agencies have picked people up on information attained in this way.

Some of the worlds police agencies are evil. Whenever you use Facebook to share photos or some other personal information you are equipping potentially evil police agencies with a potent weapon that can be used against you and your friends.
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I suspect it was an error on the part of a programming director at the network, and that it will probably cost them their job. To my knowledge, China hasn't taken any steps towards freedom of speech and this would be a pretty weird way for them to start.
A link to your portfolio or some of your work on your profile would always help ;)
> Have there been any spacecraft besides Voyager even launched beyond the boundaries of our solar system?

No.

> So how long to get there with conventional technology?

I don't have any precise numbers but I guess it would be in the neighborhood of 100000 years one-way with today's technology (if even possible)
One major reason why I disagree with the article. Social phenomena are impossible to fully compute as human beings do not just apply to comprehensible laws of physics, but there is a whole different dynamic of behavioral and social factors involved that makes statistic modelling a great deal more complex. Unlike the author I also do not think that this problem can just be resolved with technical means, there will always be uncertainty about human behavior and thus Black Swans.
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broken hardware and bad driver support is not a linux fault...

if you blame someone for something than blame the right people not the one that are trying hard to give you something better for free!

I got a zenbook with a intel hd4000 and i get better battrylife and no overheat than on windows...
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I remember those days vividly. How do you compete with "Free?"

And, unlike today, where an alternative browser is just a click-away on a high speed link for even the average layperson, the vast majority of the world back then (geeks not included) got their browser through the channel that delivered software to them - and, for most computers users, the operating system was the ultimate channel. Downloading something as huge as an entire browser was not likely undertaken. Your average user had something like a 56 Kilobit modem back in 1998.

So, when the IE browser was free, and bundled through every-channel Microsoft could get their hands on - it was the end of times. Entire buildings on East Middlefield road, Mountain View associated with the consumer/business sales of Netscape Communicator/Navigator were shuttered. The layoffs were apocalyptic.

I'll give it to Microsoft, they certainly cut off Netscape's air supply. Of course, as a result of their actions, The United States Government decided they had violated elements of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 - in particular tying, and that resulted in a decade of oversight that may have done them more harm than Netscape ever would have.
I really liked the 48fps version too. It has so many advantages over 24fps, especially in 3D. I would quite like to see a 48fps 3D version if only for the increased brightness but that doesn't appear to be a thing yet :( I guess they had to cut it down from the already ridiculous number of variations though.
don't bother donating to ubuntu. they don't fix bugs. they just add new "features" instead that break so many other things you forget about the initial bug altogether. try out debian or linux mint or any other distro. ubuntu is for sadists.
I had the opposite experience yesterday. A colleague and I were tracking down a rare race condition that became more likely with more threads. A signal handler was being re-entered, which the man page suggested shouldn't happen because by default the signal is blocked during handler execution.

Because this was Linux, we were able to read the kernel source to see what actually happens. It turns out that the signal is only blocked for the current thread, and Linux will deliver it to the first unblocked thread instead.

This misunderstanding also came from a less explicit API doc, although not outright incorrect. But because we had full stack source we didn't need guesswork, a good night's sleep or inspiration. Just curiosity and persistence.

There's a zen-like calm to knowing you can always, always follow a bug through the entire system, that everything happens for a reason and you can open an editor and see what those reasons are.

I will miss this deeply if I ever return to closed-platform development.
We'll need either three or four quantum leaps in technology, or a sudden discovery that invalidates much of what we know about physics and/or cosmology, before even the Alpha Centauri planets become reachable. "Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand."
Speaking of which, how cool is it that Instagram's official blog is a tumblr? That infrastructure is everywhere!
Have 50 open right now, I use them as combination todo / for-later lists, and know many others who do the same.
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Why even bother with internship? I think this kind of system where you have to work for free just sucks...

Also it sounds to me as if you are actually a pretty good programmer. Not many people would be able to stand debugging their code for hours. And frankly, I think it is normal that it takes this long to get a complex algorithm running. That is why in most programmer jobs, you don't implement any fancy algorithms at all. You use libraries for that, and only do primitive CRUD operations using some framework.

Personally I would have to Google A* again, too, and I have never heard of "rope". Spline only rings a bell, I think it is used in graphics programming, but I wouldn't know what algorithm is behind it.

Reading further, I think you are also picking tasks that are too hard, like hacking around with NVidia device drivers? Why not experiment with a nicer and cleaner environment like HTML5? I must admit your choosing NVidia device drivers would seem a bit like a red flag to me, like a failure of judgement - why would you pick something horrible like that. Which is of course a bit insane, because we need mad hackers to drive forward technology. I am just saying...

But I think you underestimate your coding skill by a wide, wide stretch. Most people couldn't even begin to hack on NVidia device drivers. (Or maybe not device drivers - not sure what you were trying to do, but it sounds like low level stuff).

Wondering what you would charge for implementing a small project?
In this instance he says he didn't dual boot, he just installed Linux with the intent of destroying his Windows install.

I have no idea how his previous installs went wrong.

I do know that some machines have weird partitioning, and using the menu install of (eg) Fedora isn't easy in that situation. Since many machines have weird recovery partitions I'm gently surprised at Fedora for that oversight.

But, also, when I started using computers it was hard. I had to learn (I had to read it in a book) what "Ctrl C" meant. I was learning what a VDU was; the difference between RAM and discs; what High Density meant with discs. I had to learn about bat files and ANSI control codes and a bunch of stuff. And if I didn't learn I couldn't just give up and go back to the other OS that was working, because there wasn't one.

People spend years gaining knowledge about an OS and they tinker it to get it just right. It's going to take more than a week to get this new OS install perfect. (Having said that, it shouldn't take a week to get it installed.)
Disclaimer: I worked on Forza Horizon.

I think the main issue with Horizon was actually the open world, even with some serious LoDing that proved render intensive. Also the motion blur as you mentioned. There's always trade-offs to be made, and the 360 isn't getting any faster.

One thing I think perhaps more studios should try is running the main game loop at a different rate to the render loop. As you rightfully pointed out, the physics simulation runs at 360fps in Forza, similarly there's nothing to stop the game from double-buffering some of the game state and running the game at 60fps (including input). Part of the big issue of 30fps games (especially racing ones) is that the input lag becomes much bigger than in 60fps. You're normally looking at at least two frames of input lag - one to process the game, one to render it - so at least 66ms minimum for any button press to take effect. It normally tends to be about 100ms for 30fps games, and 50ms or so for 60fps, which makes the game feel a lot more responsive.