and it wasn't even mine. This, however, won't happen:
There are many aspects of the application that I don't have time to refine, and other developers could definitely improve upon my work.
You'll never get people to make meaningful contributions to your project, unless it's huge and has a good community, which some accounting program won't. Most likely, someone will hire you to do this modifications you want to do, and that's how you'll make your money. That's what I did.
Old people don't like things in computers, they like to "hold the information in their hands" and ridiculous things like that. What they'll do is have someone print it for them, and because printing is easier than photocopying it (less human supervision required), they'll just make even more copies to share whith any old person who needs one.
Of course, we'll be able to grep through it, so it's cool.
is necessary. Maybe not literally "next-gen", but the reality is that we have 2 different leagues of development: the wii and psp (also the "old PCs", and according to sony, the ps2), that are still viable platforms, are on one league, and the 360 and ps3 (and the top of the line PCs) are on another.
This might not comply with the current marketing hype (sorry, the wii is not "next-gen"), but the fact is that some companies have to develp for the next-gen league, because they're too big and can't support themselves unless they release $60 games, and some companies are too small to afford the people required to develop the stuff needed for a next-gen product (huge poly-count, 256k ram limit, etc). Or maybe they just want to stay on the "prev-gen" to grab the money left by the big companies moving on to the next-gen.
Either way, we'll continue to see releases for both categories, probably from different companies.
what's your point? that "internet fanfiction" is never going to be good enough as the work of "real writers"? it will be once writers start exploring the medium themselves, this guys are taking the first step.
on the internet? without depending on the big corporations? madness!
I'm glad they're coming to their senses really.. This whole thing was about the writers benefitting from the "work once, get paid forever while you sit on your ass" business model, which is already dead (see the music industry), and on top of that they wanted to tie themselves to some huge corporation to do it. Great strategy.
I'm sure the women that work in games are jugling their carrer and home life and it's so wonderful and empowering, but are the women who _play_ the games like that? I'm sure it's something like a 12-25 demographic that has as much time to waste as everyone else..
By "iPhone dev team" do they mean the team at Apple that develops the iphone? why would they get to decide if the tool gets released without input from their corporate overlords? or is it just a bunch of people in their mom's basement who have nothing to do with apple that like to call themselves 'the iphone dev team'? in that case, why wasn't this open source in the first place? who runs a binary that can probably brick your iphone without having the source?
Shouldn't that be Debian family? Knoppix is also a somewhat popular desktop (at least it was at some point), and it's not exactly ubuntu, so it's not just a purist's argument (at least that's my excuse).
I've never played them, but I laugh my ass off watching videos of all those "nintendo" games for the cd-i. Maybe the player (and certainly the developers) had to suffer for it, but the result is very entertaining.
why would they need a physics system? People are complaining that you had to micromanage the heros on WC3, what can realistic physics add, other than more little useless details (oh no! the Goliath tripped over a rock on the ground, I better go help him!)
I'm not a fanatic who thinks physics are just a gimmick to replace good gameplay (I loved hl2), but it should be interesting to see what they're doing with this. Otherwise it sounds like they're caving to "peer pressure" (all the cool game engines are doing it!)
if this is aimed at all those government officials and tv stations and other news outlets that kept calling it a 'terrorist threat' well after they knew it wasn't, then they deserve it (it's not like they didn't pick up the phone and call cartoon network the second the cofee boy said "look, it's those dudes from adul swim")
I remember from a couple of years ago (I don't have a link tho), the URL for the website of a contestant of "australian idol" was missprinted (they dropped the.au I think), and the visitors ended up on a dead gay (male) porn star's website instead. So the big ISPs in australia took over the domain and redirected the users to the other boring website. It wasn't silent (they actually put a notice that they were being redirected), but still, the poor dead gay porn star guy had no say in the matter.
I consider australia to be a part of the "free world", so yeah, it happens.
True. there are some 'physical' aspects too (it's portable, the screen flips in a bunch of ways, etc), plus the power consumption, the screen size/changing resolution, etc. you can't emulate all that.
Also I don't really care for this attitude of "you just contribute to the upstream packages and we'll get them into the machine". I know it's about "helping the children" and all that (and I appreciate, being from one of the supposed "launch countries" I've experienced our public education first hand), but a lot of people contribute to open source for their own "selfish reasons", and something like this would be a great incentive for them.
I'd love to develop games for the OLPC, if only there was a way for us (especially the indie developers, which is what GDC is supposed to be about) to get access to the machine. It seems like they're making an effort to keep it _away_ from us tho, so I'm not sure why they'd come out with this announcement.
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and it wasn't even mine. This, however, won't happen:
There are many aspects of the application that I don't have time to refine, and other developers could definitely improve upon my work.
You'll never get people to make meaningful contributions to your project, unless it's huge and has a good community, which some accounting program won't. Most likely, someone will hire you to do this modifications you want to do, and that's how you'll make your money. That's what I did.
Of course, we'll be able to grep through it, so it's cool.
is necessary. Maybe not literally "next-gen", but the reality is that we have 2 different leagues of development: the wii and psp (also the "old PCs", and according to sony, the ps2), that are still viable platforms, are on one league, and the 360 and ps3 (and the top of the line PCs) are on another.
This might not comply with the current marketing hype (sorry, the wii is not "next-gen"), but the fact is that some companies have to develp for the next-gen league, because they're too big and can't support themselves unless they release $60 games, and some companies are too small to afford the people required to develop the stuff needed for a next-gen product (huge poly-count, 256k ram limit, etc). Or maybe they just want to stay on the "prev-gen" to grab the money left by the big companies moving on to the next-gen.
Either way, we'll continue to see releases for both categories, probably from different companies.
what's your point? that "internet fanfiction" is never going to be good enough as the work of "real writers"? it will be once writers start exploring the medium themselves, this guys are taking the first step.
on the internet? without depending on the big corporations? madness!
I'm glad they're coming to their senses really.. This whole thing was about the writers benefitting from the "work once, get paid forever while you sit on your ass" business model, which is already dead (see the music industry), and on top of that they wanted to tie themselves to some huge corporation to do it. Great strategy.
I'm sure the women that work in games are jugling their carrer and home life and it's so wonderful and empowering, but are the women who _play_ the games like that? I'm sure it's something like a 12-25 demographic that has as much time to waste as everyone else..
By "iPhone dev team" do they mean the team at Apple that develops the iphone? why would they get to decide if the tool gets released without input from their corporate overlords? or is it just a bunch of people in their mom's basement who have nothing to do with apple that like to call themselves 'the iphone dev team'? in that case, why wasn't this open source in the first place? who runs a binary that can probably brick your iphone without having the source?
Shouldn't that be Debian family? Knoppix is also a somewhat popular desktop (at least it was at some point), and it's not exactly ubuntu, so it's not just a purist's argument (at least that's my excuse).
It's NEVER Lupus.
where is your god now?
It's Lupus.
My friend was raised conservative Christian, and his parents wouldn't let him read or see science fiction or fantasy.
no Bible jokes yet? I'm dissapointed.
I hope he kept backups.. I wonder if he is being asked if he'll leave los angeles because of this.
Once it learns there's so much damage he can take, he'll know pain. From there is straight to world domination.
isn't that what Dell is charging for it?
I've never played them, but I laugh my ass off watching videos of all those "nintendo" games for the cd-i. Maybe the player (and certainly the developers) had to suffer for it, but the result is very entertaining.
we stop giving variables and methods stupid names like 'thisVariableIsAnAuxiliaryCounter'?
not really.. all she has to do is remotelly open a window with some horse porn
in the form of 'girls with longer ring fingers are lesbians'. Now we can add "poor verbal skills" to the old "lesbian trapped in a man's body" joke.
why would they need a physics system? People are complaining that you had to micromanage the heros on WC3, what can realistic physics add, other than more little useless details (oh no! the Goliath tripped over a rock on the ground, I better go help him!)
I'm not a fanatic who thinks physics are just a gimmick to replace good gameplay (I loved hl2), but it should be interesting to see what they're doing with this. Otherwise it sounds like they're caving to "peer pressure" (all the cool game engines are doing it!)
if this is aimed at all those government officials and tv stations and other news outlets that kept calling it a 'terrorist threat' well after they knew it wasn't, then they deserve it (it's not like they didn't pick up the phone and call cartoon network the second the cofee boy said "look, it's those dudes from adul swim")
I'm bidding as soon as I can get an account set up.
I remember from a couple of years ago (I don't have a link tho), the URL for the website of a contestant of "australian idol" was missprinted (they dropped the .au I think), and the visitors ended up on a dead gay (male) porn star's website instead. So the big ISPs in australia took over the domain and redirected the users to the other boring website. It wasn't silent (they actually put a notice that they were being redirected), but still, the poor dead gay porn star guy had no say in the matter.
I consider australia to be a part of the "free world", so yeah, it happens.
It's useless anyway. the guy is running computers that can execute visual basic; he alredy got pwnt a long time ago.
Also I don't really care for this attitude of "you just contribute to the upstream packages and we'll get them into the machine". I know it's about "helping the children" and all that (and I appreciate, being from one of the supposed "launch countries" I've experienced our public education first hand), but a lot of people contribute to open source for their own "selfish reasons", and something like this would be a great incentive for them.
I'd love to develop games for the OLPC, if only there was a way for us (especially the indie developers, which is what GDC is supposed to be about) to get access to the machine. It seems like they're making an effort to keep it _away_ from us tho, so I'm not sure why they'd come out with this announcement.