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10 years ago
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on: Oculus Rift
Yea, I am sure that is the goal. But in order to provide a clean, seamless experience, you need to render what is roughly 3x the amount of data compared to normal 1080p monitors. You'll also want to make sure you don't have dropped frames as that would have a huge impact in the experience. You need high framerates and responsive feeback so that motion sickness is minimized. As you can see, there are a lot of reasons why a high-end graphics card is required. So yes, that is the goal but we can't get there right now.
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10 years ago
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on: Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal
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10 years ago
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on: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
Synthwave is another one too
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11 years ago
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on: Valve CEO: 'Pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just 2 days'
The game publisher, Bethesda, determined that amount. I think everyone would agree it's steep but that's what the games publisher wanted. If they rolled out these mods for different games, those publishers could choose a different percentage for splitting it.
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11 years ago
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on: Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
One thing that confuses me is that series of events:
1)There was a speaker on the stage talking about women in the industry.
2)He happened to bring up an image of a girl in a tech shop.
3)Hank and his friend had several exchanges with the sexual jokes.
The timeframe doesn't seem right. For one, they were talking and giggling while someone was presenting? Is this a common thing? Another is that they were speaking louder than a whisper. Really? Making sexual jokes while someone is presenting in a louder than whisper volume? I don't know. It doesn't add up. Maybe they were really being that immature or your first quote is dramatized.
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11 years ago
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on: Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
You're right but it's still vague. It wasn't made clear on how or if they went about getting new jobs. How many resumes sent out? How many interviews? We don't know what their experience level is...etc...etc. Those questions miss the point of what you are getting at (gender/minority bias) but there is still a technical angle in getting a job.
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11 years ago
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on: I am the fold
If you zoom in, it becomes a much smaller number. So, you are right that the zoom level affects the values recorded.
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11 years ago
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on: I’m an Anti-Braker
How many were vaccinated during for program? It's indicated later in the article that 5 out of 11,000 had an adverse reaction during trials. I wonder if a similar rate was observed during Canada's vaccination program.
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11 years ago
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on: Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests
Isn't the Hyperloop built with a low-pressure vacuum? Wouldn't a break in that vacuum cause the pods to slow down/stop?
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11 years ago
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on: Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor
Check out stuff from 'Discover 2014'. Discover is HP's tech showcase event. I linked a video below from Day 2 of this years showcase. About halfway through, Martin Fink goes into a bit on how it's supposed to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxn5ru7klUQ
JibberMeTimbers
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11 years ago
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on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
There is also the recent Android commercial as well!
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11 years ago
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on: A Raw Deal in Michigan
What happens in the rich candidate vs poorer candidate elections then? The richer one would get a lot more viewership and exposure, increasing his chances to win.
It doesn't solve the problem.
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11 years ago
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on: Most Math Problems Do Not Have a Unique Right Answer
As for the armor plating question, did the plate the engine because of its size? The engines combined make up a smaller surface area than the other places but it was still shot up quite a bit. It would be less weight and not to mention it would be more 'mission critical'.
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11 years ago
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on: Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft
Contractors can be cheaper than employees, despite paying a higher salary. The reason is that they don't need to do so much legal work or pay their insurances and etc, etc. When a project is finished, they can just end the contract and avoid all of the legality. I've known many people that leave their job as employee and get contracted to the same company for those reasons (and more).
