Pay less to developers and artists for the same job? No, sir. Make less expensive games, make more of the less expensive games, and one will surely be a hit. Don't concentrate your power on one point; if shooting at that point fails, you fail.
How many sequels to the final fantasy series have their been now?
...and are they all THAT much fun?
Anyways, what's their ROI? Is it worth more to work on something innovative (or semi-innovative) such as World of Goo and earn much, much more than you invested and planned, or is it better to work on FFXV (or whatever, I never liked any FF) and earn just enough to justify FFXVI, so that wheel can continue to go round and round?
Is it better to work on 502,660th platformer in the world, or is it better to work trying to design a new genre which might sweep the world given proper marketing?
Of course it's hard to come up with something new, that's why we don't see anything truly new. Which is why the market for new, innovative, smaller games probably isn't saturated.
The official branch is where ever the big distros decide to pull from.
Precisely!
I don't care where the branch came, for I trust in Debian and it's Maintainers. apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client and that's all I care about. Tough for Sun, but that's how it is.
What part of "I thought" you didn't understand? Y'know, "thought" is past tense... I obviously did a web search first. The similarity in names is still fascinating.
Does, for example, Firefox claim full POSIX conformity? Does POSIX demand file to be fsync()ed? No, it doesn't, but you may experience data loss in case of system crash.
I didn't read the POSIX spec, and I can be fairly sure that most FLOSS developers didn't either. And if they did, they surely don't remember every paragraph and every sentence. Not enough to be aware of it at every stage of the development process.
And now a question, does fclose() also call fsync()? That is, if I close the file, can I be reasonably sure that it'll be written to the HDD immediately?
I've been hibernating in the past. Unfortunately the machine slowed down for me horribly after a few days. Also it crashed.
Especially when it crashes I'd like it to boot within seconds. Since I don't get this with either Windows or GNU/Linux (at least not without much much fiddling) I'm sticking with Debian.
Btw if Firefox is one of the key things in that distro, I guess that it more than doubles up the boot time. Also is those few seconds time to login screen, or time to desktop?
My thoughts actually go not with Clarke, but with Asimov and the Foundation series. Remember how that world forgot to work with nuclear technology? And those that remembered were revered as technology priests? Anyone else see the similarity here?
Agreed. I'm born in 1988, but war in Croatia took its toll. So, I was raised on computers in library: 386, old Macintosh II (at least I think that's its name). Also CPC464 was my first home computer. I still dream of coding my own mini-OS for CPC:)
In fact, most browsers which support so-called WYSIWYG textareas (e.g. TinyMCE) actually do have a Dreamweave kinda thingy built in... and Opera allows you to edit HTML and save it, displaying it on the fly. And Netscape Navigator/Mozilla Seamonkey do have Netscape/Mozilla Composer -- so browser developers actually smoke quite similar pot as you do:)
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Pay less to developers and artists for the same job? No, sir. Make less expensive games, make more of the less expensive games, and one will surely be a hit. Don't concentrate your power on one point; if shooting at that point fails, you fail.
How many sequels to the final fantasy series have their been now?
...and are they all THAT much fun?
Anyways, what's their ROI? Is it worth more to work on something innovative (or semi-innovative) such as World of Goo and earn much, much more than you invested and planned, or is it better to work on FFXV (or whatever, I never liked any FF) and earn just enough to justify FFXVI, so that wheel can continue to go round and round?
Is it better to work on 502,660th platformer in the world, or is it better to work trying to design a new genre which might sweep the world given proper marketing?
Of course it's hard to come up with something new, that's why we don't see anything truly new. Which is why the market for new, innovative, smaller games probably isn't saturated.
The official branch is where ever the big distros decide to pull from.
Precisely!
I don't care where the branch came, for I trust in Debian and it's Maintainers. apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client and that's all I care about. Tough for Sun, but that's how it is.
[citation needed, seriously, i'm interested as a gamedev]
charging PC makers $3,400 today for 16GB 1333-MHz RAM modules, a Smart spokeswoman said."
Wow, that's smart. Especially when said by a smart spokeswoman.
From "they"? :)
What part of "I thought" you didn't understand? Y'know, "thought" is past tense ... I obviously did a web search first. The similarity in names is still fascinating.
In Deep-Ones America, Cthulhu eats YOU!
Forgot to check "Post Anonymously" box? :)
Wow, I thought you misspelled Nietzsche :D
Does, for example, Firefox claim full POSIX conformity? Does POSIX demand file to be fsync()ed? No, it doesn't, but you may experience data loss in case of system crash.
I didn't read the POSIX spec, and I can be fairly sure that most FLOSS developers didn't either. And if they did, they surely don't remember every paragraph and every sentence. Not enough to be aware of it at every stage of the development process.
And now a question, does fclose() also call fsync()? That is, if I close the file, can I be reasonably sure that it'll be written to the HDD immediately?
In Soviet Russia, you free TRUTH! ...hm that didn't come out right.
Semantic FBI!
But you are censoring the censors :)
By user tools, do they mean just the tools to control Samba4 or also clientside tools to enforce policies?
I've been hibernating in the past. Unfortunately the machine slowed down for me horribly after a few days. Also it crashed.
Especially when it crashes I'd like it to boot within seconds. Since I don't get this with either Windows or GNU/Linux (at least not without much much fiddling) I'm sticking with Debian.
Btw if Firefox is one of the key things in that distro, I guess that it more than doubles up the boot time. Also is those few seconds time to login screen, or time to desktop?
&ths1isSAVINGit?
My thoughts actually go not with Clarke, but with Asimov and the Foundation series. Remember how that world forgot to work with nuclear technology? And those that remembered were revered as technology priests? Anyone else see the similarity here?
Well, a week would probably be enough for a basic OS... if I had a day to begin with :P
Sadly, the Day is Not Long Enough (007) :/
Agreed. I'm born in 1988, but war in Croatia took its toll. So, I was raised on computers in library: 386, old Macintosh II (at least I think that's its name). Also CPC464 was my first home computer. I still dream of coding my own mini-OS for CPC :)
In fact, most browsers which support so-called WYSIWYG textareas (e.g. TinyMCE) actually do have a Dreamweave kinda thingy built in... and Opera allows you to edit HTML and save it, displaying it on the fly. And Netscape Navigator/Mozilla Seamonkey do have Netscape/Mozilla Composer -- so browser developers actually smoke quite similar pot as you do :)
Too late, you just did it
and scriptless Javascript
[citation needed]
No, seriously.