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Re:Take a look inside Steam Deck! on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:10PM (#28778456)
The "teardown" video was quite well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxnr2FAADAs. Their openness is an interesting contrast with other manufacturers.
One thing that stands out is that the group that has been previously infected (both unvaccinated and single-jabbed post-infection) has been selected for survival already. I personally wouldn't draw the conclusion they propose from that population.
Re:First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:50AM (#27712232)
I don't want unification so much as the ability to run full macOS off of my phone when docked to a display. It is a simple request on the face of it and Apple is about the experience and hiding complexity, so even if it is hard to implement, once the hardware is capable (and it has been for a while) this is arguably a very nice feature to have for many.
Re:Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal on Thursday February 25, 2021 @09:12AM (#26262886)
My personal favorite method was to have a script sms me at the end of a long running task with the status code, last few lines if any error and how long it took to run.
The article mentions that they are building extra circuitry to circumvent any bad cores. Not much detail but at least they have addressed this.
Re:Why I'm Breaking Up with the Apple Watch on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:20AM (#9692839)
To her point on fitness, even if I know exactly how much I'm doing and whether or not I'm in shape I actually do want something unobtrusive recording my vitals so that I can have a baseline in the future to compare against in case something truly is wrong, especially knowing what factors have changed over time and maybe being able to correlate them.
Re:What's new in Xcode 7 on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:10PM (#9682811)
This is the first time you could install apps on your device without paying for a membership. Previously you could design and test through a simulator for free, now he can build and actually use his app without paying extra as he isn't distributing.
Re:Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:33AM (#9426931)
So apps for cars would be rejected? Tesla is literally a "mobile platform", hehe.
Re:Delphi's self-driving car on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @10:22AM (#9263102)
I'm interested in finding out what kind of inter-car communication these companies are considering; direct reports from cars on the scene as well as official beacons that cars can subscribe to along highways and in cities.
I think that's the issue though, hard to compete with getting it all for free without any lawyers or needing to even ask, especially when you are a paying customer. It will take time but with the source for Unreal being on GitHub it has the potential of becoming an actual "open" standard of sorts given how much the community can contribute back. It also makes it a greater platform for experimentation for universities and students in addition to smaller shops that can't afford to license it. Usually when a company says that the source can be negotiated separately the price is of the form of: "if you have to ask..."
Unreal Engine comes with full source updated live on GitHub, that is worth its weight in gold, sadly not even the Pro Unity subscription version comes with that option.
Re:Stripe – Apple Pay on Monday October 20, 2014 @02:02PM (#8483545)
One day they'll probably let you enter your user id and password to get it started then scan your fingerprint on a device to confirm. Why not?
I would guess 0. My understanding is that you are rendering at the full higher resolution then simply computing the proper subpixels on the offset displays to align them right. You still need all the data there using the full amount of memory otherwise you can't really perform the calculations necessary for the subpixel/temporal interpolation.
Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:22PM (#8049612)
L3 as a consumer broadband provider. Cut out all the other middle-men.
Re:This app says 'yo' and has raised $1 million on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:20PM (#7911305)
But the other side must also have the app which limits it. Also, a million?

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