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Re:.kkrieger on Sunday April 23, 2023 @04:22PM (#35680150)
The demoscene is still going strong and attracts young blood. Check out the Revision events: https://youtu.be/EJ7KAD0NyGw
I watched the Video but besides the "king entering the city ceremony" it didn't show what it makes it unique compared to other city states around the world.
Telekom and Microsoft partnered together a long time ago to fix this problem but it turns out in european public comunal and state procurement projects that cloud offerings play a very insignificant role since its largely all on-prem IT projects and so that partnership was closed.

I'm just writing this because a lot of comments are getting the wrong idea from this and causing some weird mix of hysteria and europhoby. In the grand scheme of things, there is no money lost for Azure and AWS, the potential of the once in a full moon cloud projects from public european institutions wouldn't even amount to something that would be described as pocket chance.

There is no tidal wave, Telekom partnered a long time ago with Microsoft for an EU only azure offering and it was sacked quickly because the demand from public procurements where too low since those largely require on-prem solutions.
This is about getting qualified in comunal/state procurement and not general public business.
There is no tit for tat, we european citizens don't want our personal data to be accessible to the US government and their respective secret agencies.

The US government will not back up from their policy and so we do neither but since we otherwise enjoy a great partnership and alliance, we take this issue pretty "dry and emotionless", trust me, there are no hard feelings or ill intentions.

Not a problem with consumer facing services but usually problematic with comunal and state related projects that store personal data.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:53PM (#31870534)
It’s used in the Ford EV line: https://youtu.be/agpDIZmGRTw
This is incorrect since the onboard HDMI output can be used for that as well (or a secondary GPU).
Re:Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:14AM (#24752409)
It’s not essential but this is one of Unity’s revenue sources, so they will advertise it . In fact, one key aspect to finding success (disclosure: I am an ex Unity AssetStore publisher) in the AssetStore is to persuade buyers in thinking your asset is essential for making their project come true. It’s all about selling shovels and dreams.
I think Blender is already at to top when it comes to 3D, although it lacks the integration into professional creative pipelines/workflows.
I think you get that with FBX but it's not a big deal since most time you create your own materials.
Re:Another heavily-funded AR headset startup is shutting down on Saturday September 14, 2019 @05:25AM (#20969742)
Nice, I developed something similar but for the medical field and HoloLens!
wow that was quite the anti-salespitch...
Re:More businesses are not accepting cash on Sunday December 30, 2018 @04:11AM (#18788224)
I have never seen that happen anywhere in the EU.
Re:More businesses are not accepting cash on Sunday December 30, 2018 @04:09AM (#18788218)
In Spain most Chinese Euroshops will when you pay in cash not give you a receipt until you ask and then they will give excuses why you don't need one.
Re:Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:31PM (#18780705)
huh, besides the BS, isn't the file loaded into RAM first anyway?