Ah, America, the only UN member apart from Somalia NOT to ratify the Children's Convention. For other international conventions, like bans on land mines or cluster bombs, the American "nuh" is shared by some bigger countries.
But this one? Congress will have their usual "foreign dictat" objections silenced by industry lobbyists.
No, Flash CS5 exports to an XCode Objective-C project which you then compile for the iPhone as a native app.
Anyway how many online Flash games fit comfortably on a 480x320 pixel screen? I am also sure PopCap would not have bothered making their excellent Pants vs Zombies app if they were unable to sell it because people were playing the free Flash version instead.
You start out well, but ends in the usual bile. I gave you a positive mod before I was halfway, at least your particular copy of the usual Apple-hate taught me to read fully.
1. You write a confusing patent application that will take two years to process. You submit it in year X. 2. You keep amending and altering that application every year so the process starts anew. It still shows the X year of filing. 3. Someone who is actually innovative invents something. You rapidly amend your patent so that it describes that invention. 4. The patent is eventually awarded, and you sue the actual inventor for infringement because as everyone can see, you held a patent since year X on that particular idea.
... but if what the programmers and designers make is not a creative work but simply a work-for-hire industry product, how can copyright laws apply? They are there to protect artists and creators, not industry corporations.
Game companies often hire people for whom that is their first job. They have not yet learned that companies are psychopathic abusers, and that your only loyalty is to yourself and your colleagues. Any kindness you offer to the company as such - working for no pay for instance - will never be returned by them.
ID4 was the first movie where I could practically SEE the checklist of "what goes into a blockbuster movie" being marked, item by item. It was so obviously manufactured to please a large cross-section of focus groups, with the right amounts of miniority actors, humor, drama, action, effects, one-liners, romance etc. - not because it suited the story, but because it suited the target markets.
Isn't the whole idea of the Robot/Baley-series that the three laws _can_ be interpreted drastically different?
Yes: The conclusion drawn by R. Daneel in "Foundation and Earth" was that there was a "Zeroth Law" where the protection of mankind trumped the other three laws. Which was why he caused Earth to increase in radioactivity so that people abandoned the Caves of Steel, and why he chose to use the last Solarian as a vessel for his own mind.
Or maintainability. Microsoft were proud when.Net was new-ish that 50+ languages apparently targeted the CLR/CLI, so that a Haskell component can use an Eiffel library.
But what do you do the day your only Haskell programmer decides to leave? And the app he wrote needs to be maintained?
No wonder Microsoft in reality pushes C# despite this abundance of languages.
Good battery life for its device class (tablet PC)... but good luck playing videos on that one-trick pony. The advantages of doing MORE outweighs the disadvantages of a limited device that does its one thing good, but, well, it does one thing.
It's not an e-ink-based e-reader but since it can run software that lets you read electronic books and magazines, not calling it an "e-reader" is just being pedantic. Sort of like insisting that the term PC only applies to IBM's early 1980s computer architecture.
Yes, but you get that "permission" automatically. It's frankly no more a "permission" than say you need "permission" to run rpm/apt-get to install software on Linux.
You do not need to sign software for Android? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
VS Express cannot be used for Windows Mobile development; you need the $300+ version for that. At least according to Microsoft.
And sure you can get the student version after some checking that you actually are a student, but you cannot then use what you build with it for any other purpose than those related to your education.
No, often there will be an equally closed Nintendo Wii, XBox 360 or PS3 lurking under the telly...
If they want to tinker they buy a device they can tinker with. The iPad is not that device, and is not intended to be that device, but there are a shedload of such devices to choose from.
However, it seems that the makers of those devices, instead of trying to market them to potential buyers, prefer to sulk and throw darts at Apple... HELLO! This is a perfect opportunity you are allowing to slip between your fingers!
You belong to the "people have a Windows PC instead of a Mac" camp, but there is no point in such a preference unless you want to play games on "Wintendo". snowwrestler is just as free to assume the family owns a Mac as you are to assume there is a Windows PC.
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Ah, America, the only UN member apart from Somalia NOT to ratify the Children's Convention. For other international conventions, like bans on land mines or cluster bombs, the American "nuh" is shared by some bigger countries.
But this one? Congress will have their usual "foreign dictat" objections silenced by industry lobbyists.
Bart: "I didn't do it, nobody saw me and you can't prove a thing!"
No, Flash CS5 exports to an XCode Objective-C project which you then compile for the iPhone as a native app.
Anyway how many online Flash games fit comfortably on a 480x320 pixel screen? I am also sure PopCap would not have bothered making their excellent Pants vs Zombies app if they were unable to sell it because people were playing the free Flash version instead.
As if there aren't free games on the app store...
Do you think PopCap could make money off the paid version of Plants vs Zombies if every iPhone user could play the free Flash version instead?
Their hate for Apple is stronger than their hate for prorietary, closed-source products from Adobe.
You start out well, but ends in the usual bile. I gave you a positive mod before I was halfway, at least your particular copy of the usual Apple-hate taught me to read fully.
Apparently it wasn't submitted; the app was probably just distributed using ad-hoc distribution, so it will only work for three months.
You forgot the other way:
1. You write a confusing patent application that will take two years to process. You submit it in year X.
2. You keep amending and altering that application every year so the process starts anew. It still shows the X year of filing.
3. Someone who is actually innovative invents something. You rapidly amend your patent so that it describes that invention.
4. The patent is eventually awarded, and you sue the actual inventor for infringement because as everyone can see, you held a patent since year X on that particular idea.
... but if what the programmers and designers make is not a creative work but simply a work-for-hire industry product, how can copyright laws apply? They are there to protect artists and creators, not industry corporations.
Game companies often hire people for whom that is their first job. They have not yet learned that companies are psychopathic abusers, and that your only loyalty is to yourself and your colleagues. Any kindness you offer to the company as such - working for no pay for instance - will never be returned by them.
It's more like they are redefining evil to suit their needs.
"Provide no privacy" should be more fitting, what with the Buzz cock-up and all.
Norway, but neighboring Sweden and Denmark have roughly the same.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Email: Spamville.
Telephone: Telemarketers.
Facebook: Way less of either.
ID4 was the first movie where I could practically SEE the checklist of "what goes into a blockbuster movie" being marked, item by item. It was so obviously manufactured to please a large cross-section of focus groups, with the right amounts of miniority actors, humor, drama, action, effects, one-liners, romance etc. - not because it suited the story, but because it suited the target markets.
But I was not 12 at the time.
Isn't the whole idea of the Robot/Baley-series that the three laws _can_ be interpreted drastically different?
Yes: The conclusion drawn by R. Daneel in "Foundation and Earth" was that there was a "Zeroth Law" where the protection of mankind trumped the other three laws. Which was why he caused Earth to increase in radioactivity so that people abandoned the Caves of Steel, and why he chose to use the last Solarian as a vessel for his own mind.
It is a bad thing when portability matters.
Or maintainability. Microsoft were proud when .Net was new-ish that 50+ languages apparently targeted the CLR/CLI, so that a Haskell component can use an Eiffel library.
But what do you do the day your only Haskell programmer decides to leave? And the app he wrote needs to be maintained?
No wonder Microsoft in reality pushes C# despite this abundance of languages.
Living in a country with a 25% sales tax I laugh at your pithy 8%. HA HA HA!
Well, they are locked to your Amazon account; you can read them on any Kindle reader, whether the device, the iPhone app, the PC client, Mac client...
But (preferrably non-DRM) open formats like ePub are best of course.
Good battery life for its device class (tablet PC)... but good luck playing videos on that one-trick pony. The advantages of doing MORE outweighs the disadvantages of a limited device that does its one thing good, but, well, it does one thing.
It's not an e-ink-based e-reader but since it can run software that lets you read electronic books and magazines, not calling it an "e-reader" is just being pedantic. Sort of like insisting that the term PC only applies to IBM's early 1980s computer architecture.
Yes, but you get that "permission" automatically. It's frankly no more a "permission" than say you need "permission" to run rpm/apt-get to install software on Linux.
You do not need to sign software for Android? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
While PCs are free? Do you include the cost of the stove when you calculate the cost of a meal?
I thought we were talking about iPhone vs. Windows Mobile development: If you are taqrgeting Mac OS X there is no $99 fee so the point is moot.
VS Express cannot be used for Windows Mobile development; you need the $300+ version for that. At least according to Microsoft.
And sure you can get the student version after some checking that you actually are a student, but you cannot then use what you build with it for any other purpose than those related to your education.
No, often there will be an equally closed Nintendo Wii, XBox 360 or PS3 lurking under the telly...
If they want to tinker they buy a device they can tinker with. The iPad is not that device, and is not intended to be that device, but there are a shedload of such devices to choose from.
However, it seems that the makers of those devices, instead of trying to market them to potential buyers, prefer to sulk and throw darts at Apple... HELLO! This is a perfect opportunity you are allowing to slip between your fingers!
You belong to the "people have a Windows PC instead of a Mac" camp, but there is no point in such a preference unless you want to play games on "Wintendo". snowwrestler is just as free to assume the family owns a Mac as you are to assume there is a Windows PC.