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That's a good point. But the end result should be "lots of great games". And I can't find them.

This paragraph best sums it up:

“Watch this—it never fails,” he said, bending over his computer keyboard. On one of his twin monitors, Hecker pulled up the movie-trailers section of Apple.com; on the other, he loaded the upcoming-releases page of GameSpot.com. The movies, Hecker pointed out, encompassed a huge diversity of topics and approaches, from buddy comedies to period dramas to esoteric art films. The video games, on the other hand, were almost all variations on a single theme: outlandishly attired men armed with gigantic weapons, shooting things.

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/the-most...

Sure there might be an outlier of a good game somewhere. But the current market drives future innovation.

And the current market is "crap sells well". Let's guess what everybody is working on...

Oh no, my point isn't about cause and effect. I believe that when they set out to do a great graphics engine, they don't have derivate, tasteless games in mind. They're actually doing innovative, great things well worth their time.

The problem is the other half of their studio, which creates games based on those engines. This is where all the problems lie. No taste.

And it's not just Far Cry and Crysis. Check out their recently released iOS game "Fibble". It's tasteless horse radish.

Well, an audience that doesn't look for variety, that instead only wants to hear the same story told over and over again - that's an uncultured audience in my book, no matter what story.

It's my opinion, baddox. Look at this video (from the atlantic jonathon blow article), then tell me the state of video games is just fine: http://bcove.me/vf4eof01

Yes. Portal was also an amazing use of modern game tech without being destructive.

If you look at sales, 95% of Cry Engine game boxes sold were first person shooters. I don't expect anything different for the future.

All that great tech, and the end result is just another game where you shoot people until they're dead, then repeat with more people. Sad, really.

There are two books co-authored by Patterson and Hennessy. Which one do you mean? "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" or "Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface"?

Agree. Larry was a child of its time. There should be no remake of "National Lampoon's Vacation", and for the exact same reason, for LSL.

Great stuff. I'd love if it kept spinning if I released the mouse button during a movement.

Note that while the iPad does indeed have a capacitive sensor element about every 6mm, the resolution when using a finger or stylus equals one pixel.

The reason all those stylus balls are so big is to always be close enough to a at least one sensor element.

I had the same issue. Thanks for clarifying. This is something that should be improved in the next version.

Didn't I just say I can tell the difference? What's your point? This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction!

I just unpacked mine. Looks gorgeous.

Although, I can still perceive the individual pixels if I look close enough. This is what I expected, because I often hold the iPad at about the same distance as an iPhone, and the iPad has still lower res (326 vs 264 ppi). It's not yet this "device that hides its technology in plain sight beyond any human capability and therefore appears magical". But it's very, very beautiful anyway.

Here's hoping that Apple will someday produce a 3x display with 396ppi :-D

Not to forget that she is put into a glass box with the number five on it...

Interesting. From your screenshots, Apple's maps are so bad it's not even funny. It's just very, very bad. Steve would've never allowed such a thing to ship.

Is this a first sign that without an asshole with taste at the top, the erosion of Apple is inevitable?

Don't you think that submissions are motivated by getting to the home page? So with time, submissions become similar to what's on the home page.

If the home page is so bad according to you, wouldn't you agree that the actual submissions still be a sub-par source for your filter, and a different source would be preferable?

As an alternative, just trust the HN home page algorithm.

Stories seem to move up to a relevant max rank position, stay there and then move back down. Big stories stay in the top 5 for 20+ hours.

Here's what I do: If I only have time to look at 5 stories per day, I visit once per day at any point in time and look at the first 5 stories. If I have time to look at 20, look at the first 20.

Set yourself a timeout, start reading at the top, stop when the time is up, repeat after 12 or 24 hours. Works very well for me, I get the best stories, and feel pretty well informed.

According to the screenshots, the spotlight icon is no longer on the top right, getting shuffled over to the left by presumably a new icon to invoke notification center.

That's a really bad choice. The corners are the click targets fastest to reach (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law ), and demoting searching in favor of 'reading messages that have popped up before' doesn't strike me as quite well-balanced.

My problem with those responsive web sites is that they only react to changes of the browser window width, but not the height.

For example, on this page, you can change the width so that we only see 3 short sentences. But if you change your browser height from 800x800 to 800x350, you still get the full, long text, but it's cut off in the middle, and there is a scroll bar. If the author's intent was to try hard to show those 3 short sentences without readers needing to scroll, then it fails here.

Responsive websites should be thinking "ok, I've got this amount of space here, let's fill it in the best way possible", not "ok let's make 3 designs based on browser width".

My thoughts:

- thanks for the free apps, I appreciate it

- I don't like "roadblocks". Why don't you change the design on mahalo.com to feature your message prominently?

- mahalo.com looks cheap, improve the design

- why are you blogging on Google Plus? Blog under your own domain. That way the page design could also inform me of your design values, plus that space around the blog post could be used to show me a preview and guide me to your main page.

Me too. I was very unhappy with the way the mouse felt on OS X. I even considered switching. Then I found SteerMouse, and now I'm a happy camper. Highly recommended.

The way I understand it, who controls the root servers can take down .se as a whole, but not individual .se domains.

If the US would take down .se as a whole, big diplomatic issues would arise immediately, with the end result of either removing root server control from the US or a split of the domain system (between the US and an opposing global entity). But even then, as long as people inside Sweden have their computer pointed up to their ISP dns server which in turn has it pointed to the .se dns server, turning off .se in the root server would not stop swedish people from using swedish sites without any interruption.

One of the things that might happen is that you get out of the car in the city, and the car drives itself to a parking space a few kilometers away. This will make all those inner urban parking spaces available for better use again.

Why don't we let GPS satellites and NTP broadcast both "regular time" and International Atomic Time (TAI), and let each user use the one that fits best?

So: satellite navigation, financial services and flight control systems use TAI, everybody else uses regular time?

To make the difference obvious and prevent misunderstandings, TAI could even have a different form, like a pure integer of "seconds after date X". So nobody except programmers for financial services and other specialized systems would ever get to see TAI, and everybody's happy?

Apologizing, damages, plus laying the internal groundwork that it never happens again.

He ate at least one Wurstenschnitzel too many.

That problem has actually already been solved for at least 5 years. There are multiple solutions that do all the necessary calculations, among them:

- PC Solution by Matrox http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_...

- Hardware Solution by RGB Spectrum http://www.rgb.com/products/EdgeBlendUnit/

1) Resolution is much higher this way (11520x8640 instead of 4000x2000) 2) Go for a doctorate in multimedia studies and tell your prof you need 50 screens. Or - try a company that rents multimedia equipment. If you work there, they've always got lots of spare equipment laying around and interested in people that love to find new usages for them. If you're in Switzerland, try http://www.habegger.ch/en/