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Is openage ready enough to allow you to actually play games?

full text: http://sci-hub.io/10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.05.001

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Where is RLE encoding used a lot nowadays? Or is this code mostly an academic exercise?

Intel suggests we program their GPUs and FPGAs with OpenCL. So, in theory, programming FPGAs could be not much harder than GPUs.

Couldn't install Ubuntu on a Mac? Technically, it works.

If I like a particular tea, do you allow me to buy it again, afterwards? It would be reasonable, I think.

> which means a small

Not that small, actually: phones keep getting bigger and bigger over time, a tendency that even Apple succumbed to. It still proves your point, though: manufacturers are optimizing for a stable environment where users are ok with using an unwieldy phone.

ok, how does that work: did all those people sign up with Magic?

But does it use an open source toolchain? Also, where does it say that it runs on ICE40?

> 800+ scores.

What is this number and how does one get to know it?

That's Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_...

I don't think price reduction was among the primary goals of this project.

Still, would you prefer to not have an option to disassemble the PC and replace it piecemeal? I know I wouldn't: more options is good. Also, in theory modularity creates possibilities for users to create uncommon configurations that would not otherwise be manufactured or cost impractically much (because of their rarity); it is not the case for Fairphone, but is the case for the PC and should be the case for Project Ara.

E.g. I have been modifying my PCs for low noise the way that should be outrageously expensive to buy serially. With Project Ara I should be able to assemble a high-end phone without the camera; a phone that goes all-out on battery life at all costs, etc. Fairphone has a noble goal to develop a smartphone with minimal harm to people and the planet, not necessarily a cheap or modular one: it is repairable (called modular here) only as a means to extend it useful life and thus reduce harm to the planet, even at the users' expense.

Won't the next LTS release require signing, as well as the regular version? And by LTS here you mean the ESR version, right?

Aren't there already email solutions out there that treat email as a to-do list, divide it into discrete projects and so on? I believe there should be some, based on Allen's GTD method, if nothing else. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done)

By the way, you can really actually still buy the refrigerators with rounded corners, if you want: http://www.smeg.com/refrigerators/double-door-refrigerators/

Thanks!

Now I feel guilyt for wanting an Aprilia SR50 :( (one of the few modern two-stroke scooters) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprilia_SR50

Looks like Smart Feature Phones won't materialize :( https://youtu.be/JIiIjjIsuzc

Though they aren't quite saying that, I guess there'll be no new Firefox OS Smart TV's, too? http://www.techradar.com/news/television/6-best-smart-tv-pla...

Interesting tidbit: Pi Zero is really $5, despite being British, too.

And I here thought FIX is a fictional protocol devised specifically for this game...

Lakka is based on OpenELEC. Does this mean that it should make as good a media player as OpenELEC?

Why does bitdash require Flash? I tried to use it (Firefox 38 on Linux) but it says:

"No supported technology was detected, i.e. neither Flash nor the MediaSource Extension was found and no HLS manifest was given or HLS is also not supported. Please download the Flash Player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ or try another browser."

So, there are no smaller telecom companies (internet providers) in the US?

What language is Dwarf Fortress written in?

It is closed source, isn't it? I assume it is, like ADOM, to keep the secrets. Though there is an obvious solution: you could separate the game data from the engine, and open-source the engine, for public benefit and participation.

Odroid C1+ is a better alternative, as it has hardware gigabit Ethernet and still inexpensive ($35). [1]

Raspberry Pi's have USB-based Ethernet; it has poor throughput and I heard reports of Ethernet hanging under load. It's better to have something with proper hardware networking and, ideally, disk controller for heavy usage scenarios.

[1] http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code...

This is revolutionary enough for me. Make an electric car for everyone on Earth and you've used up all available lithium; what are you going to do then?

I wonder how can delivery with drones be more economically effective than with cars and drivers, with "distances of 10 miles or more"? Which, if I'm not mistaken, still somewhat exceeds capabilities of today's drones.

That's why I am switching to ESR branch of Firefox: to only have to deal with the new crap Mozilla introduces, once a year. I think I'll also need to create a script to run after installation or something like that, which will set the defaults right for me. It is a good idea for Ubuntu and some other programs too, anyway.

This is the most unbelievable and I heard it before: when an open source software starts including proprietary bloatware like that, one might think there is money involved...

I don't know if it's an open course hosting platform, but there's http://02geek.com/