This reminds me of an article I read maybe a year ago about the quality of PC games slipping. When it's so easy for a developer to release a patch or a fix, sometimes even before the game is released, what does this say about the developer? Personally, I'm someone who can't stand to make mistakes that have to go back and be corrected, especially if someone else points them out. Once I finish a project, I want it DONE. I'll test it several times, to make sure it works. And this isn't even for something i'm selling, it's a dinky php or perl script for use on my website. Does UbiSoft have any pride, for crying out loud? I mean, these are the guys who brought us Rayman and Rayman 2, come on, the French can do better than this.
In the console industry, while you don't have to worry about developing for multiple types of hardware, it's unthinkable to have to release an update to a game. It would cost enormous amounts of money. The developer does their own QA, and then the console manufacturer does further QA after that. With Microsoft's X-Box, and the PS2 now coming out with hard drives, I hope this won't lead to lower QA standards in the console gaming industry.
"Hey Redhat: You want to get onto the desktop in a big way? Use some of that IPO cash to cut a deal with some hardware vendors. Make a sleek box, it doesn't even have to be X86. Just put state of the art 3D hardware in there; Fund the development of the API's to make it happen, e.g. OpenGL, SDL, whatever - and then make sure that the hardware runs out of the box. Need to get NDA's from NVidia? Fine - just make sure that it works with your product. Give people the platform, and good things will happen. The platform isn't just linux, and it's not just hardware, either. "
I really like this idea. Though it sounds similar to what the Indreama is doing, if this were a sub $1K b0x (with no monitor, just let me put it on a switch with my current b0x), I'd definately be interested in it.
So then if the insurance company finds something, for example, you are genetically predisposed to a type of cancer, or are already showing signs of having a disease, would they have to inform you of it? Seems to me, if they didn't, and you don't treat it, because you don't know about it, and you DIE, would they be liable?
Actually, the Japanese manga (comic) Dragonball has been around for quite awhile (since sometime in the 1980's I believe) so I seriously DOUBT that they are violating Motorola's trademark.
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This reminds me of an article I read maybe a year ago about the quality of PC games slipping. When it's so easy for a developer to release a patch or a fix, sometimes even before the game is released, what does this say about the developer? Personally, I'm someone who can't stand to make mistakes that have to go back and be corrected, especially if someone else points them out. Once I finish a project, I want it DONE. I'll test it several times, to make sure it works. And this isn't even for something i'm selling, it's a dinky php or perl script for use on my website. Does UbiSoft have any pride, for crying out loud? I mean, these are the guys who brought us Rayman and Rayman 2, come on, the French can do better than this.
In the console industry, while you don't have to worry about developing for multiple types of hardware, it's unthinkable to have to release an update to a game. It would cost enormous amounts of money. The developer does their own QA, and then the console manufacturer does further QA after that. With Microsoft's X-Box, and the PS2 now coming out with hard drives, I hope this won't lead to lower QA standards in the console gaming industry.
"Hey Redhat: You want to get onto the desktop in a big way? Use some of that IPO cash to cut a deal with some hardware vendors. Make a sleek box, it doesn't even have to be X86. Just put state of the art 3D hardware in there; Fund the development of the API's to make it happen, e.g. OpenGL, SDL, whatever - and then make sure that the hardware runs out of the box. Need to get NDA's from NVidia? Fine - just make sure that it works with your product. Give people the platform, and good things will happen. The platform isn't just linux, and it's not just hardware, either. "
I really like this idea. Though it sounds similar to what the Indreama is doing, if this were a sub $1K b0x (with no monitor, just let me put it on a switch with my current b0x), I'd definately be interested in it.
So then if the insurance company finds something, for example, you are genetically predisposed to a type of cancer, or are already showing signs of having a disease, would they have to inform you of it? Seems to me, if they didn't, and you don't treat it, because you don't know about it, and you DIE, would they be liable?
Actually, the Japanese manga (comic) Dragonball has been around for quite awhile (since sometime in the 1980's I believe) so I seriously DOUBT that they are violating Motorola's trademark.