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Re:Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL on Thursday April 21, 2011 @08:02AM (#2470296)
Neato. I want to see a game made out of this.
Heh, I wish. Unfortunately, the word teleport here does not mean what everybody immediately thinks. Otherwise, this would mean sooo much more than lower latency gaming.
Re:Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar? on Thursday April 14, 2011 @04:20PM (#2448262)
Really?? In what regard?
Re:Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar? on Thursday April 14, 2011 @04:01PM (#2448189)
I just recently transferred all of my domains over from GoDaddy to Moniker, which was relatively painless with their site heavily oriented around bulk transfers. Although the control panel could be better, it is sooo much better than GoDaddy's. When I logged in to GoDaddy to transfer these domains, not having logged in for quite some time, and with their ever changing, incredibly busy design, it took me a good 60 seconds or so to even find the link to the 'domain manager'.

The whole elephant incident alone wouldn't have made me switch, but after wanting to try something new for some time, that was all I needed to put the effort in to finding someone else.

Re:Japan's crisis: one month later on Thursday April 14, 2011 @12:41PM (#2447468)
This is some incredible photojournalism. Very eye opening. Thanks for sharing.
Although I've just started learning it, Haskell seems to be a worthy language for games (even has PPC support?). Even as a low-level "scripting" language of sorts, using FFI...although I'm not sure how easy it is to bind with C++ at the moment.
Re:IE10 platform preview available - with native HTML 5 on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @01:40PM (#2438245)
Going by the rest of the article, I'm assuming by native HTML5 they mean hardware accelerated compositing? Good for them if so, but 'native' is definitely the wrong word to use, and the development channel of Chrome has supported hardware accelerated compositing for quite some time.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/desig...

Can even try it out in the current stable channel if you enable it: about:flags

IE10 and WebGL is the big question for me, which will be interesting to see pan out given their obviously conflicting position with OpenGL.

Re:Opera launches Opera Mail web app on Saturday April 09, 2011 @01:41PM (#2427608)
Awesome.. we really need some Gmail competitors. I love Gmail and all, but they've reigned king with very little real competition for a surprisingly long time.
Re:New engine shakes up auto industry on Friday April 08, 2011 @08:59PM (#2426163)
"Last week, the prototype was presented to the energy division of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is backing the Michigan State University Engine Research Laboratory with $2.5 million in funding."

I am just as skeptical, but if this is how they get their funding to build that working prototype than I'd say it's fair enough.

Windows 7 (PC game development). I would probably be on Mac if I could.
Re:Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators on Thursday March 31, 2011 @08:57PM (#2394472)
Very nice! It is indeed amazing how much thought and effort was put into this, and it is appreciated. At some point, I'll have to convert for Visual Studio use if someone doesn't beat me to it.
Haha, that breeds all kinds of crazy ideas. If one could simulate the world's biosphere and its organisms at the genetic or even cellular level, we might one day be able to predict the effects of evolution on humans and other animals.

MAYBE even with bacteria and viruses to predict and then cure diseases before they even present themselves!

I doubt our understanding of genetics/biology is extensive enough for this yet, not to mention the computing power needed, but it seems quite possible.

Re:36 hours in North Korea without a guide on Saturday January 29, 2011 @06:24PM (#2156756)
Absolutely amazing. It does sound like it would be very difficult to travel in N. Korea if you don't speak Russian, Korean, or surprisingly, German.

But, the French speaker was especially surprising, and I would have expected more Chinese influence than there seemed to be (linguistically).