Are you referring to the PS3, and if not, what console is that? Do you really know how many of your games actually use OpenGL?

A 0.5-millisecond difference in a 3.6-millisecond frame time is “hardly worth mentioning”? You know, people get paid a lot to find out how to gain those 0.5 milliseconds in a 33-millisecond frame time.

Sir, this is complete, utter bullshit.

DirectX gets almost nothing “much earlier”, because it has no extension mechanism. With DirectX you are stuck with the latest version. It has obvious advantages, but early features are certainly not amongst them. Think what you want about the ARB, it does release and releases often.

As for the documentation being terrible and vague, that's pretty uninformed, too. Every extension is fully documented and the vendors know precisely what needs to be implemented. There is no Direct3D equivalent of the 600-page OpenGL specification. The DirectX documentation is a programmer’s guide, not a specification. Every single version of the GLSL standard comes with a full grammar of the language which lets you reimplement a parser or compiler. There is no such thing as a grammar for HLSL (the D3D equivalent). What Microsoft calls a “grammar” for HLSL can be found here and anyone not even in the field of graphics programming will immediately understand how much of a joke it is compared to this (pages 166 to 174).

(Source: I work on Windows, Linux, PS3, Xbox and mobile game engines)

Is it time to consider more secure alternatives

Why now? How does Microsoft change anything? It was time to consider more secure alternatives from day zero!

How can one misspell W3C twice in so few words?

Those gas stoves obviously do not heat as much as a real MacBook Pro.

Maybe some day direct brain stimulation will make us able to see these colors that can't exist in the real world.

This was first created in 1938 and is called LSD.

While your statement is logically true, it appears to insinuate that I didn't read the text, whereas I did, so who the fuck are you to insult me by suggesting otherwise, and has the additional problematic characteristic that it has nothing to do with what I am talking about and therefore further supports my personal opinion that Slashdot has become a shithole unworthy of the slightest consideration.

This is biased logic, too. I can bias it the other way: if you're an application developer and you want a platform feature that is not yet released, and you need to wait for 6 months instead of one year, then you will get half your market six months sooner.

Also, as an application developer, I can tell you the worst limitation is the hardware, not the software. Most of the time, missing OS features can be emulated. But if the GPU only has half the VRAM, no update can fix that and the application is likely to need a degraded mode.

It is completely relevant, because with a fair metric the Nexus One and Droid Incredible lines would be all green and would indicate worthier products.

I know it's hard to get a meaningful metric, but this chart makes me wonder about the trustworthiness of the study. There are approximately two major Android releases per year whereas there is only one major iOS upgrade per year. Thus "two major releases behind" means an average of 15 months late for an Android device, whereas "one major release behind" means an average of 18 months late for an iOS device. Yet by the look of the legend, the first one is supposed to be worse than the second one.

... but still use my favourite analog pointing device, thanks to ThinkPads and the awesome trackpoint-enabled ThinkPad USB keyboard.

... is only because I do not have a Mac or Mac OS or iOS. Otherwise, I'm afraid I should reasonably panic.

I think I can guarantee that no chat logs could exist that show Goatse Security members discussing selling or using the information in an illegal way. Or they would be fakes.

I have personally answered requests sent to Goatse Security for a while, and have constantly refused all offers to buy or even have a look at the data. I am pretty sure some of the requests were bait to see just how greedy we were, so if the people who tried are honest, they will be able to confirm that no matter the amount of money proposed, we said no.

I heard USB power was actually OVER 9000!!!