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Comment Re:Found happiness elsewhere (Score 2) 818

It mostly became impracticle to keep around after distros started taking measures to kill HAL after the HAL team had deprecated itself and was trying to move everything away from it. No idea what version was around then of kde4 though I had switched to it a bit before that since the bugs that existed didn't affect me too much and i didn't like gnome then either.

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How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? 192

An opinion piece at Gamasutra takes a look at the recent success of Kickstarter campaigns for video game projectsDouble Fine's adventure game and a sequel to Wasteland each raised around $3 million. Hundreds of other projects have sprung up, hoping to replicate that success — but will it last? From the article: "I am convinced that Tim Schafer and his team at Double Fine know how to deliver a game (mostly) on time and (mostly) on budget. Brian Fargo too. Is that true for all 314 of the current Kickstarter projects? What about the projects which get started but never finished? If publishers like LucasArts can cancel games that are almost finished or like Codemasters can pay for a game it never saw, what certainty do pledgers have that the game that they have paid for will ever see the light of day? We are still in the early days of our Kickstarter relationship, the early days of falling in love. Everything our partner does is wonderful. We gloss over the risks, we ignore the downsides, because the glory of falling in love is everything. I think we have about six months left of that period. Towards the end of this year, some Kickstarter projects are going to start slipping. Some will see their teams collapse amidst bicker recriminations. Some pledgers are going to start getting very angry."

Comment Re:Electronics Vs Furniture (Score 1) 163

That's because you can accesorize them into pink!

http://compare.ebay.com/like/170541070215?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar
http://www.otterbox.com/strength/strength,default,pg.html

those are just the two i found off the top of google. I'm not sure about laptops, but for phones there's a huge market out there of customizations to make it "you" just like the thousands of others of people who buy the same cover.

Comment Re:Diesel (Score 2) 998

I'm likely to consider diesel myself, though in my area it's actually the other way around price wise, about 20-30 cents higher than gas but it's been far more stable and if you really do get that much better milage it'll still pay for itself given how long the engines usually last.

Comment Re:Wayland vs X (Score 1) 315

Why hope it flops? There's currently projects to do network transparent wayland. In fact it should likely end up working much better than doing X over the network since it will be able to do things that and actually compress the data properly to get better transfer times and won't need so many round trips just to draw something (last i looked X needs about 4 round trips for putting something on the screen, minimum, all synchronous). Along with that you've got the rather annoying problems where X11 doesn't provide any good ways to render things in any decent way that actually works among all the drivers: Xrender [held up by nvidia still for their fencing code], XAA [being dropped since most other drivers have moved on], EXA [i think this is the latest one], UXA [done by intel that's very similar to EXA but uses GEM instead of TTM for memory on the graphics card], and then a number of others that are in embedded graphics DDXs that are only supported by the manufacturer because they don't want to give out code.

The situation with X11 is not as full of rainbows as people seem to think. Because of all the stuff above, most toolkits and libraries have stopped using X11 for doing anything other than pushing bitmaps, they're doing all font rendering in application, all widget drawing in application, all scrolling in application, the only thing the X server gets used for by the applications anymore is to display images and get input. That's what wayland is being written for, to replace the rather horrific design issues of the X11 server for handling the hardware.

Wayland aims to fix all this by instead using the kernel interfaces KMS and indirectly DRI2 (through Mesa). This leaves one interface to talk to hardware to maintain, far less code for bugs to be found in, and makes it possible to support things that X11 can't do right now like supporting hot plugging graphics cards, NVIDIA Optimus (the "support" in linux right now isn't really support. It's running two X servers and copying one of them to the other to make it look like there's only one).

Comment Re: Just Wait (Score 1) 76

Being worked on right now.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocknail/filabot-plastic-filament-maker

Currently waiting to receive mine to give a try, last message from the guy (in the comments, not the posted updates) says that the major systems are working and gives an indication that the issures right now are going to be getting parts sourced and kits made and everything. Still definitely at the hobby stage but it'll work great for recycling bad prints or for reclaiming material from other sources.

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