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AMD64 would bring more cache pressure on the CPU, but also a lot more memory for caching the world, plus more registers, a better instruction set… For a game, I expect memory would make a large difference.

It was on the front page, I saw it when it was at 40 points or so.

You give examples of blobs, not DRM. Unless you are referring to the direct rendering manager, I have not encountered any DRM in years of using Linux on the desktop.

Two years at least:

> Consideration of £8.4m - initially £4.2m, then two further payments up to £4.2m in total over next 24 months against performance related targets

Sensors could manage with some sort of interferometry to rebuild an image from multiple pixels across multiple sensors. The signal processing would be similar to what is used for medical scanners. We could also see a convergence with radar, combining those pixels and algorithms with an active source.

The spam followers I pick up seem to target lists of “followers of X”, where X is marginally topical to their spam.

MySQL's warnings are silent, in the sense that the web application will never act on them. Guessing instead of failing early is a poor choice for a relational database, and is only explained by MySQL favouring ease of use and porting over data integrity.

It still implies the Direct3D implementation stayed at 270fps. I wonder how Windows+OpenGL fared before the optimisations; presumably it was lower than 270 or OpenGL would have been the baseline.

The way US politicians are funded, they do not give a shit about this hypothetical lone inventor. This is just a romantic ideal used by the pro-patent lobby to glamorise patents.

This submission's title (taken from the blog post) is more interesting.

Shouldn't this loophole be closed? Something like: only allow the exclusive owner of a patent to sue potential infringers. That isn't enough to make shell companies a losing proposition, though, because they still contain the risk of losing a suit. I prefer the bond idea, it is a simple and more direct route to making NPEs liable for their actions.

You still need the graph to run the recommender. This algorithm would help new users get up to speed quickly, with better results when the social graph is large; it's just another network effect.

The data was bundled with the domain sale, thankfully. It's a shitty move that they took it offline for an unspecified duration, and that they don't plan to handle existing urls.

Use the HTML validator Firefox extension. It will give you quasi-sensorial awareness of how the pages you visit are doing.