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Re:Cursors on Monday October 20, 2014 @02:56PM (#8483843)
Awesome, reminds me of Antichamber, especially the little hints given.
Re:How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F on Saturday October 18, 2014 @03:14PM (#8476044)
It's possible for it to download compressed data and 323 used uncompressed textures/meshes/sounds/etc.
Re:iPad Mini 3 on Thursday October 16, 2014 @02:47PM (#8466658)
Keeping the A7 is disappointing; I'd expect at least the A8 offered in the iPhones. Looks like the iPad Mini is the new iPod Touch.
Re:iPhone 6 on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:18PM (#8292741)
Going with that logic, Moto G is all the phone one needs, at half the price of the Nexus 5.
Also, just because the GPU can power 4K doesn't mean it will for a reasonably small amount of power, such that the MBA can continue to pull a 12-hour battery life.
Re:Google I/O 2014 on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @08:20PM (#7947510)
Reducing animation speed does not solve the problem. Too many animations can be distracting for me (kwin), increasing animation speed does not remove the distractions.
Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on Friday April 18, 2014 @12:03PM (#7609706)
The header bars finally see more use in 3.12; for Firefox, I'd recommend something like HTile, which removes the header when it's maximized.
Difficult to find an ISP with a backbone that actually can follow through. I'd be interested to know if anyone in Canada has had an ISP successfully stand up to procecution.