The article touches on some important points and is a decent summary of current problems with Republican Party rhetoric. Some similar things have been said by a few among the Republican old guard, though it's easy to imagine that they have an ulterior motive in wanting the party to be seen as respec...

LOL WUT?

Jack Tramiel?

6502 was pretty sweet in all seriousness.

Commodore Semiconductor Group LOL

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Android really seems like a double-edged sword for a home console. On one hand it means that there are existing games to port and that it will be a bit less work to put together the BSP and SDK. On the other hand virtually all extant Android games are designed around the assumption of a relatively s...

It is 896 kb. The sizes are in bytes, not KB. main.dat alone wouldn't fit on the disc if the sizes were in KB. Anyway, if I paste the letter posted in the OP into a text editor, make sure there's a newline at the end of the file, and recode to have MS-DOS line endings, it's 895 bytes. My guess is t...

You have it exactly backwards. The file is on the retail release and is not on the Echelon release. If you're going to write such giant walls of text the least you could do is read other peoples' posts properly first.

Considering that it hasn't yet been discontinued and that there are still upcoming games, I think it's still running its course.

This sounds very much like tax protester kookery. Many of them adhere to bizarre conspiracy theories about how the US government is actually a corporate entity owned and operated on behalf of <insert nefarious powers here -- Rothschilds, Bilderbergers, Illuminati, etc.> with no Constitutional author...

MVC is proprietary, but there's exist a free version of this compiler. This is true for now, but MS has announced that the free compilers for Visual Studio 11 will only be allowed to build Metro apps. They have also removed the compilers from the Windows 8 SDK package. The reaction to this has been...

The key thing here is that there is almost no real cost embodied in an additional copy of a program. The real cost is in the work done to produce and support the program. In the retail proprietary software world, this cost is mostly sunk up front by the developer/publisher and when you buy a copy of...

predictable speed of acces to the element in the container class (as you all already knew, those times are described as a various variants of O(n) function for each class). Yes, but watch out for the words "amortized constant time" (or similar) in those descriptions. It's a way of saying ...

Another thing is that a lot of OO libraries/runtimes/frameworks are built by people who think of real-time applications as a small esoteric corner of the universe, and hence don't optimize for predictability/consistency of performance. For example, they don't care if some iterations of your game loo...

FUN FACT OF THE DAY: "POST" IS AN ACRONYM FOR "POST UP MY POST".

BlueCrab wrote:He really is that crazy by the way. Just saying.

Steve Ballmer wrote:Developers developers developers developers developers developers. DevELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers develop... Yes!

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I can understand why someone might want to avoid using a web browser for this kind of thing (most forum layouts are crap, just like most blog layouts), but It seems like there should be some kind of open protocol/format for this purpose rather than a proprietary app/plugin/API combo. For example I'v...

The way I see it, is that it's all about taking control away from consumers (a form of capitalism if you will). All in all, large corporations in the tech industry are ever moving forward in trying to take full control of how, when and where you purchase your content/product. And it seems that slow...

Hopefully there will be more use of DX11 than just the shaders. AFAIK, shaders pretty much do everything these days, to the point that "shader" is really a misnomer anymore. I don't know about DirectX, but on modern ("core profile") OpenGL you can't even render anything without ...

gcc doesn't know how to parse the asm to figure out whether the code is reading and/or writing any given variable: Output operand expressions must be lvalues; the compiler can check this. The input operands need not be lvalues. The compiler cannot check whether the operands have data types that are ...

I think the way it works is that GCC guarantees the mapping when those variables are referenced by name as operands in an asm block. However, the mapping is not necessarily maintained beyond that (e.g. the variables might "really" live in memory and are just copied in/out of the specified ...

Does your school have full-text access to IEEE Transactions journals? That's where I'd look. See http://ieeexplore.ieee.org for their search engine, preferably from an on-campus computer. This search covers more than just journals, but once you've plugged something in there will be a checkbox on the...