Brisingr Aerowing wrote:

I don't know what happened

You DO use source control, don't you? :)

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Maybe the iPad is tethered to the iPhone? :D

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Yes, but who would want WMD that have a 95% probability to blow in your face the moment you press the Launch button?

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I'm trying to picture in my head developers with pitchforks... doesn't compute :D

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And of course OpenGL is completely functionally equivalent to whatever MS has to offer, not to mention the tooling. Please, the OpenGL vs Direct3D war is now long lost, mostly through self-inflicted wounds (I can quote posts from OpenGL proponents if you wish). There are some places where OpenGL will reign freely (embedded) and some places it won't enter (Xbox, Windows 8), accept it, move forward and use the right tool for the job.

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It's still fun if you know the french word for snail though (I didn't know the 240Z was nicknamed the Z).

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You need to grow up and stop slinging tips on unsuspecting forum members :mad:

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Considering the 'Retina' technique used by Apple, this means that you'll actually have MORE things shown on a Surface RT display than on an iPad 3. The Retina is using 4 pixels to make 1 point, this is a kind of awesome supersampling which dramatically improves text and line rendering (sharp instead of fuzzy antialiasing), but it means you don't get more stuff on screen than on a pre-Retina iPad, ie you still get 1024x768 points. If you want higher definition, wait for the Surface Pro :)

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Thanks for the update :)

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Because official brainwashing is better than parents' brainwashing? What she learned and is expressing here (if it's legit), is what is being taught in some public schools in the USA now.

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Re: AK47 shot I duck. Then I shoot my M16. Your turn!

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From the article, I gather that the memory bandwidth was proposed as a sorting criterion, not as a limiter. High bandwidth devices would have a higher allowed power usage. From the comments on the article, I gather that this was never a proposal, but rather an old report not yet acted upon.

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Nah, your phishing attempt failed, you didn't wholly fill my screen, and I could see through your smileys! ;p

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IMHO, graphic cards are now drawing ridiculous amounts of power (and generating the corresponding ridiculous amounts of heat). If it takes regulation to make the designers think a little more about efficiency, I'm for it. See what happened when Intel realized the Pentium 4 architecture was inefficient (gobbling energy and dissipating heat), and that faster clocking wasn't the answer. We got the Core 2 CPU, which was both faster and consumed less energy. This trend has continued with Core i* and Atoms getting faster and more efficient. This allowed to design much better laptops (lighter, thinner with longer battery operation) and other devices. So if it is possible for CPUs, it should be possible to improve the GPUs also. The makers are moving in this direction already lately, with the same kind of optimizations to idle mode and the same kind of 'turbo' automatic overclocking for performance. EDIT: and from the comments on the linked post, it seems that there is no such actual proposal in the works...

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Nay, I want my movies in 100MB chunks to be able to store them!

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Mycroft Holmes wrote:

I just want to use the f***ing search facility not play footsie with your data collection system. I may have to go back to FF!

It looks like you've already found the solution to your problem! If you don't want Google's data collection, you need to stop using Chrome. BTW, Firefox has really improved since version 3.6, so it might not be an unpleasant change ;)

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Well, that makes five of us! Three, sir! See, I can count even worse than Arthur!

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Then what should I do? ;p

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Or you could use Mono and their tools or other open source alternatives, if you want to run your stack on FOSS. Microsoft has arguably the best dev tools around, if you're willing to pay the costs. If not, you can mix and match, but you'll get out of the highway and into the country trails...

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Is that supposed to be a (long) joke or is it just stupid spam?

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