I don't have a source at hand but, IIRC, instead of having leap seconds, Google slightly dilates each second to compensate for that. The time eventually corrects itself.
This explains why CryEngine supports Linux but not Mac. CryEngine requires OpenGL 4.3 as that's what was the easiest translation target for CryTek from DirectX 11.
Oh, I see, didn't realize that.
That is a pity because I would very much like for cross platform gaming to become much more of a thing and Vulkan does seem likely to be a big milestone in that, esp. considering Valve's involvement.
Cross platform gaming equals to game engines abstracting graphics APIs.
Despite urban legends propagating the myth, games consoles don't feature OpenGL APIs as such, rather using more low level ones, even if inspired by OpenGL.
It seems like it's unfair to say "Apple are late with OpenGL features." The third parties could put the same effort into making drivers for OS X that they do into making them (and their crapware frontends) for Windows, but they don't. I may be wrong, but it appears to me that it's Apple doing most of the work.
There's not much hard information on how Apple deals with graphics drivers, but from what I gather they use a unified in-house OpenGL frontend for the hardware-independent layer, then defer to a modified version of the vendors driver for the low-level stuff.
Their frontend only implements up to GL 4.1, so even if the vendors were to release drivers independently there would be no way for an app to access the newer functionality through the OS X frameworks.
I just replaced a dead drive in an old Mini with an SSD, then installed Yosemite. I'm not really an Apple guy, so I was not aware that Yosemite implemented kext (driver) signing, which had the side effect of 'breaking' TRIM support for 3rd party SSDs. It was never supported to begin with, but prior to Yosemite you could enable it by changing strings in the kext; doing so now will render the Mac unbootable unless you globally disable kext signing. Apple does not offer any other ability for a 3rd party to write their own driver to make this work, short of possibly rewriting the entire AHCI stack, which is not feasible.
In the UK, a common loophole for extending "Sunday trading" laws is that, while they can't exchange money for goods, they can let you in the store and collect the things you want to buy so you'll be ready for "opening" and can go straight to checkout.
That was partially it. The other part was the stores that were open during the prohibited times usually sold allowed items also (medicine, food, diapers, etc.)
As far as I know, the law has been repealed. Before I moved away I saw them implement Sunday beer and wine sales (still no sunday liquor sales) and do not remember having difficulty buying the previously restricted items on Sunday.
It was weird entering a Wal-Mart (or other large store) and seeing a large section of items roped off.
This one opens really well, then the inevitable kicks in:
The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system, based on the Constitution's view that it is meant to benefit the public, not the copyright owners. Today, one of the benefits the public wants is the use of computers to share copies.
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