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Because if you're creating a 2d game, it can be rendered reasonably fast in your browser. Full 3d is a different problem. However, a game like Monaco, with super simple controls bu…

As a recently graduated student... ohmygod I wish I had this in college (only because I don't use matlab daily). The tutorials are lovely and I don't have to haul myself to a lab t…

>"They haven’t excited the front-line developers -- the ones who made Amazon who they are," he said. "Those will be hard to influence." That may be true, but at the end of the day,…

After Aliens: Colonial Marines, I really hope they don't spread their teams too thin across too many products... Borderlands was great, but given they've done almost exclusively fi…

To be totally honest, if you heard a huge explosion behind you, would YOU stop to see what happened? Personally I'd book it harder.

My mom still has no problem using QuickBooks and doing all the required web stuff at work with a Pentium 4 and 512mb ram. She literally just bought a new desktop because quickbooks…

"Windows is done". What a final statement. PC sales may be mostly done. A desktop that was bought 10 years ago can still run fine today - and many still are. We reached a point in …

Why don't they fix Facebook on android before releasing a new product? It frequently "shooooops" for me - crashes, lags, hogs resources, and otherwise does unexpected things. I'm v…

Wow, they built this when their Facebook app on android still consumes an ungodly amount of system resources? I have no faith in this from a technical perspective.

Your current banking transactions aren't anonymous either. It's a nice additional security layer for people that want it, but by no means is it required.

Yes, correct. Typo.

> How is the non-tech user ever going to be able to use this with anywhere near level of trust/safety they do with current traditional currencies. Near everyone I know, regardless …

I'm not really sure why you say it's so hard. You install the bitcoin wallet. You sell something for bitcoins, and you give them your private key address in your wallet. You receiv…

US government declares it an illegal currency, and if you accept bitcoins at your business you will be investigated. Game over.

Correct, and there are merchant services set up to do exactly this.

It totally stands within reason that until it has wide spread adoption and regular people stop caring about what the exact exchange rate is that we will see large runs like that. A…

That's about to be a total non-factor once all the ASICs online. http://launch.avalon-asics.com/ and http://www.butterflylabs.com/ The hash rates are order of magnitude faster than…

Source, on the whole, is http://bitcoincharts.com/ You can break down all the numbers yourself. You can also get a giant history table of all buy/sells with times from either bitco…

Oh, this literally happened yesterday. Someone sold off 5k bitcoins (~USD $450k at the time). That's exactly what happened. Big sell off from 95 to 80ish, and then it sprang back t…

>As an asset class it's far too volatile Volatile, sure. Depends if you want to invest long term with it, and you understand the risk. > As a currency it's too impractical and ther…

As I understand, you can't hit those speeds with just a rocket engine. The HTV-2 is considered a rocket glider - it needs a rocket to propel it to altitudes and speeds where the SC…

I found it really interesting to read about the underlying tech, scramjets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet

Is there a single analytics product on the market today that can give me this solution? Is there a product that's self-hosted? If there is either, I haven't found them. I built the…

Thank goodness. Maybe - MAYBE - this could give EA a breath of fresh air. So many pieces of AAA IP have been squandered...