Monthly Archives: July 2016

Where’s the love for the latter half of the rainbow? via /r/Minecraft

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Where’s the love for the latter half of the rainbow?

In Minecraft, we have a lot of nice blocks, there's no denying that. But something I've noticed is that Minecraft block colors tend to lean towards the warmer, "cozier" reds, yellows, oranges, and browns, as well as grayscale colors.

Just look at the blocks added in 1.9 and 1.10: we got magma, nether wart, and red nether brick: all noisy red blocks. We got End Bricks and Bone blocks, which are both light yellow-tinted blocks. We did get the new Purpur blocks, which are very desaturated purples, which is nice.

But look: There are no indigo/deep blue building blocks! We have blue wool and lapis, a decorative and a storage block, respectively.

But look: There aren't any magenta/hot pink building blocks

But look: There are two pure green building blocks, both of which are hardened clay!

But look: The only purple blocks are extremely light and desaturated or ridiculously dark (unless you count Blue Stained Clay)!

I think I've gotten my point across. I might make a suggestions post once I have a good idea for what materials could be these colors, but for now it's just a rant.

Submitted July 19, 2016 at 06:49PM by FufuTheGargoyle
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Purported Photos Featuring Apple iPhone 7 Family Of Devices Surfaces

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Over the last few months, several purported photos of the iPhone 7 were “leaked.” But many of those photos looked distorted or ended up being completely fake. Fortunately, Nowherelse.fr recently published several realistic images of the iPhone 7 family of devices it found on the Weibo social network. You will notice in the leaked images that there are three devices in the iPhone 7 family rather than a pair.

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This Startup Is Turning Luxury Sleepwear Into The Next Big Trend In Performance Apparel

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By 2020, athletic apparel is projected to be a $66 billion industry. With more high profile celebrities stepping in to spotlight and championing active wear, as witnessed with Kanye West expanding his collaboration with Adidas and Beyoncé introducing her Ivy Park line, the segment has transcended the fitness world and seamlessly evolved into a global fashion trend.
Nike is reportedly expected to generate upward of $2 billion in sales from womenswear by 2017 , attributing its scale to a higher demand for items such as sports bras, tights and training shoes. With an estimated worth of $500 million in 2014, Under Armour has also experienced tremendous growth in the category. Despite being home to several high-profile male athletes such as Steph Curry and Cam Newton, Under Armour’s womenswear is catching up and  could potentially surpass the escalating success of its menswear, which has traditionally more than doubled in worth.

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Apple Supplier Luxshare Eyes Taiwan Acoustics Maker, Underscoring China’s Tech Rise

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Luxshare Precision Industry, a mainland China electronics supplier to Apple, has signed a preliminary agreement to pay up to $89.5 million for as much as 60% ownership of a Suzhou-based acoustic devices company owned by Merry Electronics of Taiwan. Luxshare, which makes connectors,  hopes the agreement will boost its acoustics business, according to a company statement on Monday.

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OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 ya tiene su release candidate

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openmandriva 3.0 rc

Hace unas pocas horas, y a través del blog oficial, se produjo el anuncio oficial del lanzamiento de la primera RC (release candidate) de OpenMandriva 3.0, la cual ya está disponible para que los usuarios puedan comenzar a probarla en pos de, como siempre sucede en estos casos, encontrarle bugs de funcionamiento y detalles que puedan ser solucionados de cara a la versión final. Para quienes no la conozcan, decir que se trata de la continuación de aquel excelente proyecto que fue Mandrake Linux primero, y que tras la fusión con Conectiva Linux pasó a llamarse Mandriva pero que como bien detallamos alguna vez, estuvo en problemas financieros.

La comunidad tomó la posta y OpenMandriva es una distro bien ‘cutting edge’ como les gusta decir a los angloparlantes, y que básicamente quiere decir que intentan ofrecer las versiones más nuevas de todos los paquetes. No solo eso, añaden características tales como el sistema de archivos F2FS (específicamente diseñado para unidades SSD) y por otro lado esta distro de GNU/Linux está creada utilizando por completo el compilador LLVM Clang (el cual supuestamente ofrece algunas ventajas de rendimiento respecto al compilador más conocido de GNU).

Entre las novedades de aplicaciones y servicios que OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 RC1 nos trae podemos mencionar al escritorio KDE Plasma 5.6.5, KDE Apps 16.04.2, Mesa 12.0.1, Systemd 230, el kernel de Linux 4.6.4, X.Org Server 12.0.1 y apps como VLC, Plasma Media Center, Krita, ShowFoto o digiKam entre otras. Por otro lado, se mejoró la traducción a varios idiomas y el soporte para i586 (mantener el soporte para hardware más antiguo siempre ha sido una de las premisas aquí) a la vez que se han corregido varios bugs que en la beta estuvieron presentes en el paquete GnuPG.

Ya podemos descargar OpenMandriva Lx 3.0 RC desde su espacio en SourceForge, y entre los requisitos que nos recomiendan los desarrolladores encontramos 1,5 GB de memoria RAM y al menos 10 GB de espacio en disco. Más detalles podremos encontrar entre las notas de lanzamiento.

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