This. OpenCL is C based so it shouldn't be that hard to pick up. The efficient algorithms will be basically the same no matter what language or bindings you use.

Those are game engines. They will do nothing to help him use the GPGPU capabilities of his graphics card.

Minecraft.

The big issue with games on Android vs iOS is that Apple typically have very powerful hardware while Android devices for the most part don't. Then you have different GPU architectures, so what runs well on lets say a Adreno chip won't necessarily work on a Tegra one and vice versa. It really isn't all that different from what PC development is like if you are actually supporting Laptops & Desktops with varying chips and capabilities. I think you hear a lot of complaints from game developers because they are using prebuilt engines and those aren't always easily patched. They are great to put content together quickly but you are pretty helpless if you run into some technical issue. For example, I've seen issues with Unity and z-buffer fighting on some of my Android devices while my own custom built scene-graph renders content without issue. Inheriting other people's bugs sucks but I don't think it has anything to do specifically with the Android platform.

It sure is. He says that it supposedly isn't and is basically stock Android, but after quickly looking at a review of the device it is running some form of Motoblur. It might not be as bad as other Motorola devices were but it is definitely not stock.

The CIA is not associated with the NSA. The CIA is an independent organization while the NSA is part of the Department of Defense. So no, Amazon did not bite the hand that feeds it. If anything, based on how the various government bureaucracies view each other, the CIA loves Amazon even more.

I get why everybody is stocking up on tinfoil right now but based on what the NSA can supposedly do, hosting stuff internally isn't going to keep it away from them. After all, Microsoft is handing over all of the zero-day exploits and they are free to peruse the source to the Linux and BSD kernels.

Without developers maintaining editors/viewers, open formats are only slightly more usable than proprietary ones. 100 years is a really long time from now as far as technology goes. I wouldn't be so quick to say that open formats will still be easily accessible.

This project barely has anything to do with electronics. They had a box with a small display attached. They stuffed the raspberry pi and cables into the box. I get trying to promote things that are accessible for the less experience, but what in the article would actually help a newbie learn? It is a useless piece of fluff split over a few pages and is only there to garner page views.

They allow centers for guitars, why not allow them for data?

Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

He is an American.

And they did that without DRM!

Uh-oh. It looks like he also reads slashdot!

It is only pointless if you are the one investing in and running CPUs and GPUs to do the mining. He isn't. Instead he is costing the users more than he is going to receive, but that is still more than nothing.