Comment Re:John Carmack ditched OpenGL (Score 1) 515
Yea, thats all true. Sadly they were the guys that buggered up OGL3. Oh well!
Comment OGL V D3D (Score 1) 515
OpenGL and not Direct3D.
OpenGl is best in my view simply for cross platform. If OGL3 was what it was to be it would have been better. In the end legacy won that battle.
Submission + - Chrome OS leaked build (pcworld.com)
Dark_Matter88 writes: Rumourmills have started extra early on this leaked build of the chrome OS browser. It has many interesting features including a new logo and a system tray like area in the tab bar
Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form 366
destinyland writes "AI researcher Ben Goertzel peeks at the new Ray Kurzweil movie (Transcendent Man), and
gives it 'two nano-enhanced cyberthumbs way, way up!' But in an exchange with Kurzweil after the screening, Goertzel debates the
post-human future, asking whether individuality can survive in a machine-augmented brain.
The documentary covers radical futurism, but also includes alternate viewpoints.
'Would I build these machines, if I knew there was a strong chance they would destroy humanity?' asks evolvable hardware researcher Hugo de Garis. His answer? 'Yeah.'" Note, the movie is about Kurzweil and futurism, not by Kurzweil. Update: 05/06 20:57 GMT by T : Note, Singularity Hub has a review up, too.
BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith 448
kokito writes "OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda reviews Haiku, the open source successor of the Be operating system. According to the review, Haiku faithfully/successfully replicates the BeOS user experience and 'personality,' boasting very short boot times, the same recognizable but modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons, a file system with support for metadata-based queries (OpenBFS) and support for the BeAPI, considered by some the cleanest programming API ever. The project has also recently released a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain, clearing the way for bringing up-to-date ports of multi-platform apps such as Firefox and VLC, and making it easier to work on Haiku ports in general." (More below.)
Comment Re:Whiskey Byproducts (Score 1) 170
I'm a scot, and i agree.
Comment x86 (Score 1) 123
I think the most interesting development of netbook microprocessors is the rejuvination of mips. That and ARM9. when a laptop is used to type and surf with low power and form factor, why use x86?
Comment Re:Think Different! (Score 1) 696
The linux desktop lacks unity. Give people a choice and they won't make their minds up. I love linux, and I love what it can do, but to the mainstream users, the user interface is the main difference between operating systems. Take away X windows, put in a GUI that can't be customized much and make it minimalist. This is how Linux can win. Mainstream users don't need billions of settings dialogs, they want to switch on, log in and work (or play). Take the original EEEpc interface for example. It is simple, has minimal settings and is wonderfully efficient to use. Although, the Distro there has its best feature as its worse. It dumbs down linux, which, to be honest, is needed for the new Linux user, but what happens when they get comfortable?
Comment Re:But (Score 1) 395
I predict a mod for 'Dead Space'
Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS 419
snydeq writes "Microsoft today introduced Windows Azure, its operating system for the cloud. The OS serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers build apps that span from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones. Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."
XKCD Improving the Internet ... Yet Again 204
netbuzz writes "Comic creator Randall Monroe suggested in a recent xkcd strip that YouTube comments would be better — or, more precisely, less idiotic — if only those posting them were forced to hear their words read aloud first. Well, YouTube has gone and made this "audio preview" a reality, albeit an optional one. And, it's not the first time that xkcd has contributed to the betterment of the Internet, as those who are familiar with last year's "Internet census" and its use of a Hilbert curve may remember."
