If you patched to 3.42 you're already out of luck. 3.41 was the last crackable version (until somebody figures out another exploit).

The spheres would most likely be represented as an equation, not a soup of polygons. It's much more efficient (not to mention a whole lot easier) to raytrace. It's also infinitely precise, which is actually why a lot of people are more interested in raytracing than approximating things with polygons.

For instance, it's a heck of a lot easier to render isosurfaces in a raytracer than turning them into a big polygon soup and rasterizing that.

My trackball doesn't, but I have a bind to hold mouse4 so I can scroll with the wheel. It feels great with the trackball's momentum!

You can install Debian packages on an N900. It's essentially a tiny ARM tablet running Linux.

In my experience the open source ones were actually more stable than the closed source fglrx. Before AMD fixed their driver for Xorg 1.7 my Fedora 12 install was horribly buggy. Random lockups and screen corruption would happen at least once a day. The experimental radeon driver worked great though.

Nowadays fglrx runs fine on Fedora 12 but F13 is already out - I wonder how long it will take AMD to fix their driver this time...

Wine is capable of translating DirectX to OpenGL in realtime, which is how you're able to play that in Linux.

A lot of games in both Windows and Linux use OpenAL (including modern games from id and Epic)

The reality of it is a lot worse than most people imagine. Instead of easily manageable, solid chunks of plastic it's in the form of tons of tiny particles. This makes cleanup extremely difficult as well as makes the plastic much more lethal to wildlife. Animals try to eat the colorful bits, mistaking them for natural food sources: http://coastalcare.org/wp-content/images/issues/pollution/plastic/bird-carcass.jpg

Vi was made for productivity. It was built to help you edit text efficiently over low bandwidth connections (specifically Bill Joy's 300 baud modem). Since Vim has more features designed for convenience, you could argue that it was made so you could be even more productive when editing text.

But it's still loading the ads - all it does is hide them. The whole point of his post was that Chrome adblock still loads them.

they didn't release the source code too! My head would explode if somebody rigged up the engine to play turn based Battletech rules.

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Good to see all the fanboys out in force today...