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If VR really gets traction it's probably just a matter of time until Facebook releases a Second-Life-like MMO VR platform tied in with their social network. There will always be good MMORPGs that are subscription fee based, but the majority of VR experiences will be ad-supported with paid premium options.

> real-time dithering

Wasn't dithering done before the encoding? I thought that was the reason he needed ordered dithering.

I wonder if it is feasible to compress cached canvases, either as part of pdf.js or natively in firefox.

  You were excited in 1996-Feb-29 when 5.002 was released?

Not everyone on hn is in their early twenties, i suppose.

For people without flashplayer:

  rtmpdump -r 'rtmp://cp262207.edgefcs.net/ondemand/techchannel/10385/videos/OW10002.Claude_Shannon-FL8_550x310_700K' -o Claude_Shannon_Demonstrates_Machine_Learning.flv

I think swap files are written page-wise, so as long as the start of the page file is aligned, all the writes should be aligned. (assuming memory page size and SSD page size are the same)

I think it's part of their philosophy. They don't want to encourage people to use a non-free operating system.

edit: also, supporting windows is a lot of additional work

As far as i understood there weren't any "fake" pods, the third-party pods where properly labeled. Also, some might consider it a negative impact on the user experience if they cannot use third-party pods any longer, or if the original pods get twice as expensive.

I guess heavy obfuscation is more to blame.

Can you recommend a paid european mail service?

Maybe its just recordings of the fish being fed.

I think he meant there is nothing good about complexity and bringing down the whole system on a crash. For the Linux kernel this is probably an unfortunate necessity, for an init system it is not.

"A plugin is needed to display this content." is all i see ;)

"perhaps due to an advanced civilization with more aesthetics than sanity" :)