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Comment Urban Dictionary has been notified (Score 2) 136

I wonder if his name will take hold the way Streisand's did...

delauter
"The act committed when one person threatens to sue another for using the first person's name without authorization.
  Delautering is the next level and more general form of scientologying, which is suing or threatening to sue for calling Scientology bogus."

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Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124

MojoKid writes "There's no doubt that gaming on the Web has improved dramatically in recent years, but Mozilla believes it has developed new technology that will deliver a big leap in what browser-based gaming can become. The company developed a highly-optimized version of Javascript that's designed to 'supercharge' a game's code to deliver near-native performance. And now that innovation has enabled Mozilla to bring Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the browser. As a sort of proof of concept, Mozilla debuted this BananaBread game demo that was built using WebGL, Emscripten, and the new JavaScript version called 'asm.js.' Mozilla says that it's working with the likes of EA, Disney, and ZeptoLab to optimize games for the mobile Web, as well." Emscripten was previously used to port Doom to the browser.

Comment Engagement (Score 1) 839

TV audience engagement currently requires (positively or negatively) engaging content. That's why you see people using sites & social media to engage around television shows.

Manufacturers & broadcast companies don't HAVE to cater to their users' engagement desires, but I don't think there's much to debate on the value of doing so. Interacting well with your customers and building a strong community around your brand are known ways to develop profit centers.

If TV isn't broke, why fix it? Because the status quo is ok as your business's starting point, but shouldn't be the end goal.

Comment Re:Sad to say it (Score 1) 711

Have you ever actually undergone an actual ADHD test & not simply a psychological evaluation? It's a battery of tests that incorporates psych evals, IQ tests, memory tests, and attention-measurement tests. I'm not sure what test you're referring to, but regardless, you're trolling. This is a very real condition and without educating yourself about the disorder, it's incredibly difficult to overcome. And purely medicating ADHD is nearly unheard of as an actual solution to the issue (note: this is not to say that it doesn't happen, but that it isn't a solution & the doctors/parents doing this are acting irresponsibly). Medication should be paired with coaching & therapy. I could go on, but really, all I wanted to do was ask that you stop your ignorant trolling.

Comment Re:Why ... ? (Score 1) 93

Here are some quick marketing-style bullet points about the latest version of Flash Player (including the 3D API): http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ I wasn't able to find any details on the implementation of Quake Live, but I wouldn't be totally shocked if the Flash Cross-Compiler (compiles C/C++ into Flash) is involved. I'm expecting someone to blow my mind with that somehow.

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