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Re:Why you PHP guys should learn Golang on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:35AM (#4365547)
There's a ton of cheap $5/€5 VPS providers, since Go apps are statically linked you can run Go code just about anywhere...
Re:Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:52AM (#4328719)
That's not really so much of a problem as you might think:

http://www.libsdl.org/

> Imagine a creativity cap.

For the first time I feel I need to say this minor rant...

I had to stop right here and double take on this choice of words. I had to read twice because I was worried that there was a suggestion of artificially limiting creativity with a device.

It's so sad because I can imagine such a limitation being brought upon a populace in my life. At the same time I always imagined that such things as Gibson's or Bank's neural interfaces might provide more than just a collar.

The optimist in me has a hard time looking forward with this.

The following research seems to suggest voice can and does go through super nodes under certain conditions:

http://saikat.guha.cc/pub/iptps06-skype/

Would it be too much of a stretch to assume the clients can be directed to use one of the new Linux super nodes at will?