The iPhone may have taken off quickly, but it took Android a little while to get moving. It wasn't until around version 2 (and the Motorola Droid) that it really took off.
"The difference between building a toolchain and in perspective an OS for an eventually self hosted environment vs. building stuff using the.net framework, especially when targeting windows, should have been obvious to a low ID slashdotter."
That is obvious to me. The point I was making is that open source software didn't come out of nowhere. It had to be jump started by something.
Would it be feasible to pre-render every possible scene in the game and then just throw that up based on which direction the user moves? (I realize you'd then have to superimpose the bad guys over the screen, but that's what the original Wolf3d did anyway.) It would be a lot of computation up front, but then you wouldn't be having to have the cloud computer constantly render a new frame. (Possibly some that's it's already rendered).
Or would that take so much time that it's not worth it?
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Best Buy want to trademark a word that means 'fool' or 'crazy'. Sounds about right.
You do realize that if you don't what to have babies you can just not have sex.
Microsoft Word contains a macro language so I guess it'll be banned too.
What are they going to do if he kills himself? Give him the death penalty?
...if these guys could find Obama's Senate records....
But if you need to haul a lot of people/things an SUV is just one vehicle on the road whereas you would need more than one of the compact cars.
They can just do what they already do -- tax electricity.
But does it work in iOS?
I thought they just got 15 years of free marketing!
The US spent $500,000 and all we got were shrimp on treadmills.
Jeff Atwood has a post about technical debt: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/paying-down-your-technical-debt.html
"we're talking about the elimination of the wall switch"
I'm not going to have the lights on all night just because my tablet's battery is dead and I can't run the light app.
"Sarah Palin's emails have created more jobs than the last $2 trillion in federal stimulus." -- David Burge
The iPhone may have taken off quickly, but it took Android a little while to get moving. It wasn't until around version 2 (and the Motorola Droid) that it really took off.
"The difference between building a toolchain and in perspective an OS for an eventually self hosted environment vs. building stuff using the .net framework, especially when targeting windows, should have been obvious to a low ID slashdotter."
That is obvious to me. The point I was making is that open source software didn't come out of nowhere. It had to be jump started by something.
They didn't have wireless networks when I was in school you insensitive clod.
"smartphones or these tablets with twice as much power"
But smartphones come with monthly subscription fees. I'd feel better about letting a child play with a Nintendo DS than my smartphone.
Why weren't all these new organizations clamoring to read the health care bill?
The desire to scoop everyone else.
"four years as Senator Al Gore's science adviser"
Al Gore had a personal science adviser when he was a Senator?
I wonder, when RMS was writing the GNU tools, how did he do it without open source tools...
And don't build them in areas prone to earthquakes.
Would it be feasible to pre-render every possible scene in the game and then just throw that up based on which direction the user moves? (I realize you'd then have to superimpose the bad guys over the screen, but that's what the original Wolf3d did anyway.) It would be a lot of computation up front, but then you wouldn't be having to have the cloud computer constantly render a new frame. (Possibly some that's it's already rendered).
Or would that take so much time that it's not worth it?
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Hold off judgment until we hold them ourselves? You must be new here.