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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming on Friday August 14, 2009 @01:52PM (#763483)
When these discussions come up, focus drifts towards the "all apps should be browser apps" contention. That's silly, but it's true that more and more apps can benefit from networked components. Would I want to run photoshop in my browser? Hell no, not for a few tech generations. But, would I like photoshop to automagically backup my assets and edit history onto some highly-available, redundantly stored file server? Defintely.
Re:Why Is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google? on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:52AM (#716221)
>What constitutes a monopoly?

IANAL, but I get the impression that antitrust suits are supposed to stop businesses from being anti-competitive, not from out-competing their opponents.

If the issue at the heart of this case is that PageRank may be unfairly directing traffic to Google services rather than competing services, couldn't the investigators just sign an NDA and examine PageRank?

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Re:Twenty questions about the GPL on Monday July 13, 2009 @04:22PM (#702399)
I would be so grateful if you posted an answer key:)
Re:800TFLOPS Multicore IC for Realtime Ray Tracing on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @02:08PM (#694337)
It's amazing that these chips aren't sacrificing precision for performance, operating on Bezier curves.

While we're on the subject of realtime raytracing, does anyone have insight about the polygons vs voxels debate for normal (i.e. desktop apps, games) programmers?