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Thanks El Poco I always enjoy your opinions. It's basically SaaS, which becomes more attractive the poorer we become. Rent instead of buy. Short termism.... Renting absolutely promotes inequality.

Perhaps you've heard recently about micro$oft and their cloud-oriented xbox strategy. This means you just need a thin client to display graphics rendered on the cloud and to handle the controller (pardon the pun). It's already rolling out. What does this mean for the industry? * M$ can...

Thinly veiled attempt to tap the Lee Majors fanboi market. :cool: Sounds cool. Best of luck!

In some countries if you smoke marijuana they cut off your lips

I’m playing Metroid Prime (GC) and am about to give up. Now you guys motivated me to game more and actually complete games which I am proud to be doing, usually. But I’m at super annoying boss. It’s not fun or clever. Just blasting, dodging and bombs. But your visor gets fogged up and you can’t...

I consider video games to be about the highest art form. They are usually made by small companies consisting of super creative and passionate people. The art is for profit and I think that´s ok - and there must be IP - at least because developers deserve to get paid. And gaming is actually...

what new i-handy features are you most excited about?

I had at least one cool apple gadget once, a tv tuner card for my mac in '94. It allowed me to plug in the cable and watch any channel on a small low resolution window. This was early cd-rom days and I wasn't aware of anyone else watching full tv on their computer. But my idea was to play SNES...

if the hdmi issue turns out to be hardware related will there be a pyra recall? :cool:

Bunch of mumbling tea drinkers this lot. Not saying they don't have their charm. They have a few interesting takes. Also: John Cleese content.

do we have realtime audio translation yet? obviously that will be big. maybe NN's aren't fast enough** yet.

Corporations are only as Evil as governments let them be. That's what people are distracted from. Politicians blame corporations (and foreigners) because they are easy targets but eg inequality is created by government policy. On the news yesterday it was reported that EU was fining these BIG...

Let me give another example of pointer shenanigans, in C. To explicitly control memory layout you can cast a certain region of memory to an object or struct. byte[] memory = byte[1024]; // allocate memory byte* mem_ptr = memory; //...

so "head" points to the next free memory location in the heap. if you want to reserve 50 bytes you need to update head=head+50 so you get those bytes and no one else takes them. i use compare-and-swap so if head gets updated concurrently it's detected and you can try to grab the next 50. it's...

Real gaming / not emulation. But with the benefits of emulation .. :D

So data caches are kinda trendy these days and I always thought most were crap because they use TCP and do all that copying. Wouldn't it be faster and cooler if it just used shared memory? Then I realised I could do it in a decentralized, serverless way if I use compare-and-swap atomic cpu...

We could have a governor that only scales up the frequency for interactive processes. Seems to be exactly what we want?

I'm surprised you haven't written your own userspace governor by now. ;o

Can't you just set the governor in /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils ? Conservative governor uses small step sizes so that seems good for our more granular frequency spectrum (as well as battery devices) Ondemand governor can ignore niced processes - cool. I would use this feature if it's in the...