If you mom has issue with buying overpriced things online then she shouldn't be allowed to shop online.
The app, imo, is totally valid as long as it does what it claimed even if it's over priced because no one forced you to buy it. Apple should reinstate it.
I absolutely agree. My grandma eventually reached the point where she was too old to drive. She rode the brakes, her reaction time was awful, and she couldn't see or hear anything. So, her children made her stop driving and they drove her around when she needed to go places. Same thing here. If you're so old that you're fumbling around and buying $1000 apps without even knowing it... maybe it's time for you to stop buying iPhone apps.
Yeah... there are *loads* of video game ideas. Look into jobs for game design... every piece of game design job info you find will say something along the lines of, "If you're looking into being a game designer because you have some pet project that you want to see happen - don't hold your breath."
Re: Idea theft - If your idea is truly unique and you're worried about it being stolen I'd definitely immediately put a copy of what you've got so far on a disc and mail into yourself. That can *roughly* provide evidence that you had the idea before someone took it from you.
As for shopping it around... the others are right. If you want to convince people you've really got to build a compelling demo. People will understand that the graphics aren't amazing. There's a reason architects build models and programmers (should) provide UI mockups... A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Telling them the gameplay is unique and cool isn't nearly as effective as letting them find out for themselves.
PFF. Escape vehicles? We don't need any escape vehicles! This thing is indestructible. Nothing could go wrong. In other news, the ISS has been renamed the "Titanic Space Station".
People think doping in the real olympics is bad... Just wait until they see hacks during the nerdlympics! Speed hacks, aim bots, wall hacks... It'll be awful.
That's a slippery slope... before you know it you've got both halves of the pairs team wearing them... then it's only a matter of time before you see a team that's got what no other team has... "twin dongs" in thongs. (See Blades of Glory).
It doesn't really matter what they wear anyway, because they've got those flesh colored leggings that help protect their legs from looking like something out of a horror movie every time they fall.
Well... You'd actually have to do those technically difficult maneuvers in order to get the points. You don't get points just for saying that you're going to do them...
I've always had a hard time with this too. It's always seemed that most judged events end up with really controversial results. Sometimes I feel like if you can't distinguish the competitors by weight, height, distance, or time then it shouldn't be a competition.
...of course, then I watch someone like Johnny Mosley do absolutely absurd things in the Freestyle event during the Winter olympics and you realize that these people are tremendous athletes and their sports do deserve to be part of the olympics. (Rhythmic Gymnastics is the exception. What do those people do that regular gymnasts can't do better?)
I'm all for any attempt to fix the judging. There have been instances in the past where the most skilled athlete clearly didn't win. Not like, "it was close" but more like "if this was basketball, the guy that should have won would be Michael Jordan and the person that won would be someone that had just seen a basketball for the first time in his life."
What is it with planes? The only reason planes were so effective in 9/11 is because they TOOK IT OVER and FLEW IT INTO A BUILDING. That sort of thing won't happen again. I have a feeling everyone on the plane would fight it. Continuing to secure them like they're bloody fort knox is ridiculous. If the only reason we're worried about it is the potential for loss of human life... we're wasting our time. Why bomb one plane when you could blow up a whole airport terminal? Anyone remember Oklahoma city? Much more devastating than just a plane blowing up in mid-flight.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all about security where it's needed and where it's appropriate. I'd prefer not to be killed by a terrorist just as much as the next guy... but we've got to maintain some perspective here. You can't stop someone willing to commit suicide from killing people. Look at that guy in Japan that ran over people in a mall with a truck and then started stabbing people. He was armed with a KNIFE.
Throwing away our rights for the illusion of security depresses me.
Those messages are a lot less funny when your brother/sister/mom/dad/cousin/bff/whatever really *has* just died of dysentery/starvation/typhoid/whatever.
I have a feeling those third parties also provide some level of validation / identification. There's a huge potential for abuse... fake blog entry on your competitors site stating that this quarter's expected profits ended up being a huge loss anyone?
That's assuming hacking, although you wouldn't even have to go that far. Just make your own look alike blog with your own press releases. People have been duped by Internet fakes countless times... The only difference is that now it'll send a company's stock tumbling or skyrocketing.
Haha, I pointed that out to contrast FOSS with what Microsoft does. I, personally, don't care too much about their pricing outside of the crazy overpricing of Vista.
The gist of the article is that that's because it's too expensive to do dynamic vis and dynamic lighting everywhere. Anyone that's ever played on some horrible Source map (DOD, CS, TF2) where someone's packed it full of dynamic lights knows what I'm talking about too.
I agree that it'd be awesome to see the lights wrap around objects and cast real shadows... but when you've got 20 zombies running around while you're running around and you've got to calculate the shadows based on the light emanating from both you and the handful of environmental lights - things get interesting.
Blizzard is trying to avoid making Diablo III - Crysis edition... and that's commendable.
I've been writing software of some sort for about 10 years; naturally I've been involved in computers even longer than that... and I'm curious - what exactly is there to be optimistic about as far as Microsoft's attitude toward OSS? How would Microsoft opening the source to any of its stuff really change anything?
I keep seeing people get all excited about this. Just because something goes open source doesn't mean it's going to be free. Even if Microsoft opens everything tomorrow they will still be a huge monopoly capable of charging whatever they want to charge.
hrm. Yes... 6cm *would* be quite a bit larger. What's funny is when I first did the math in my head roughly I did it right but then when I used the calculator I just used the diameter rather than the radius. Ahh well. I was working on a nasa project for a while but I got kicked off the team. Something about meters and feet not being the same. I don't know.
Yeah. Then just chain everyone to their chair and weld the office doors shut too so that no one can come in and launch any kind of physical attack either. That + Linux = better than gov't security.
No, the MSFT products get "approved" in 24 hours because they've been working with the NSA throughout the dev cycle adding backdoors for them. The NSA already knows that the security holes are because they put them there.:P
no, No, NO! I'm not falling for that one again. Last time, my friend asked me to send him some money so I faxed it to him. All of sudden I've got the FBI breathing down my neck. Something about making counterfeit bills.
So... for those of you that are trying to make a "cylindrical object" that's about 3cm in diameter and 20cm long you're going to end up paying (pi)9*20*$1.87 = $1057. That seems a little spendy... maybe you guys are better off taking a wood working class.
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Picture? Here ya go -
I can also do a polar bear in a snowstorm -
*whew* I'm exhausted. That'll be $50 please.
If you mom has issue with buying overpriced things online then she shouldn't be allowed to shop online. The app, imo, is totally valid as long as it does what it claimed even if it's over priced because no one forced you to buy it. Apple should reinstate it.
I absolutely agree. My grandma eventually reached the point where she was too old to drive. She rode the brakes, her reaction time was awful, and she couldn't see or hear anything. So, her children made her stop driving and they drove her around when she needed to go places. Same thing here. If you're so old that you're fumbling around and buying $1000 apps without even knowing it... maybe it's time for you to stop buying iPhone apps.
Yeah... there are *loads* of video game ideas. Look into jobs for game design... every piece of game design job info you find will say something along the lines of, "If you're looking into being a game designer because you have some pet project that you want to see happen - don't hold your breath."
Re: Idea theft - If your idea is truly unique and you're worried about it being stolen I'd definitely immediately put a copy of what you've got so far on a disc and mail into yourself. That can *roughly* provide evidence that you had the idea before someone took it from you.
As for shopping it around... the others are right. If you want to convince people you've really got to build a compelling demo. People will understand that the graphics aren't amazing. There's a reason architects build models and programmers (should) provide UI mockups... A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Telling them the gameplay is unique and cool isn't nearly as effective as letting them find out for themselves.
Yes I am ashamed of myself.
...That's what she said.
Yeah... he obviously hasn't seen the bullet recreation scene from Dark Knight. Poor little fellah.
PFF. Escape vehicles? We don't need any escape vehicles! This thing is indestructible. Nothing could go wrong. In other news, the ISS has been renamed the "Titanic Space Station".
People think doping in the real olympics is bad... Just wait until they see hacks during the nerdlympics! Speed hacks, aim bots, wall hacks... It'll be awful.
That's a slippery slope... before you know it you've got both halves of the pairs team wearing them... then it's only a matter of time before you see a team that's got what no other team has... "twin dongs" in thongs. (See Blades of Glory).
It doesn't really matter what they wear anyway, because they've got those flesh colored leggings that help protect their legs from looking like something out of a horror movie every time they fall.
Well... You'd actually have to do those technically difficult maneuvers in order to get the points. You don't get points just for saying that you're going to do them...
I've always had a hard time with this too. It's always seemed that most judged events end up with really controversial results. Sometimes I feel like if you can't distinguish the competitors by weight, height, distance, or time then it shouldn't be a competition.
...of course, then I watch someone like Johnny Mosley do absolutely absurd things in the Freestyle event during the Winter olympics and you realize that these people are tremendous athletes and their sports do deserve to be part of the olympics. (Rhythmic Gymnastics is the exception. What do those people do that regular gymnasts can't do better?)
I'm all for any attempt to fix the judging. There have been instances in the past where the most skilled athlete clearly didn't win. Not like, "it was close" but more like "if this was basketball, the guy that should have won would be Michael Jordan and the person that won would be someone that had just seen a basketball for the first time in his life."
Yeah, those poor things are best remembered as they were... not as what Hollywood has mutated them into.
*peels sticky notes off of monitor and throws them in trash*... *whew*. I should be safe now!
What is it with planes? The only reason planes were so effective in 9/11 is because they TOOK IT OVER and FLEW IT INTO A BUILDING. That sort of thing won't happen again. I have a feeling everyone on the plane would fight it. Continuing to secure them like they're bloody fort knox is ridiculous. If the only reason we're worried about it is the potential for loss of human life... we're wasting our time. Why bomb one plane when you could blow up a whole airport terminal? Anyone remember Oklahoma city? Much more devastating than just a plane blowing up in mid-flight.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all about security where it's needed and where it's appropriate. I'd prefer not to be killed by a terrorist just as much as the next guy... but we've got to maintain some perspective here. You can't stop someone willing to commit suicide from killing people. Look at that guy in Japan that ran over people in a mall with a truck and then started stabbing people. He was armed with a KNIFE.
Throwing away our rights for the illusion of security depresses me.
Those messages are a lot less funny when your brother/sister/mom/dad/cousin/bff/whatever really *has* just died of dysentery/starvation/typhoid/whatever.
I have a feeling those third parties also provide some level of validation / identification. There's a huge potential for abuse... fake blog entry on your competitors site stating that this quarter's expected profits ended up being a huge loss anyone?
That's assuming hacking, although you wouldn't even have to go that far. Just make your own look alike blog with your own press releases. People have been duped by Internet fakes countless times... The only difference is that now it'll send a company's stock tumbling or skyrocketing.
Haha, I pointed that out to contrast FOSS with what Microsoft does. I, personally, don't care too much about their pricing outside of the crazy overpricing of Vista.
The gist of the article is that that's because it's too expensive to do dynamic vis and dynamic lighting everywhere. Anyone that's ever played on some horrible Source map (DOD, CS, TF2) where someone's packed it full of dynamic lights knows what I'm talking about too.
I agree that it'd be awesome to see the lights wrap around objects and cast real shadows... but when you've got 20 zombies running around while you're running around and you've got to calculate the shadows based on the light emanating from both you and the handful of environmental lights - things get interesting.
Blizzard is trying to avoid making Diablo III - Crysis edition... and that's commendable.
I've been writing software of some sort for about 10 years; naturally I've been involved in computers even longer than that... and I'm curious - what exactly is there to be optimistic about as far as Microsoft's attitude toward OSS? How would Microsoft opening the source to any of its stuff really change anything?
I keep seeing people get all excited about this. Just because something goes open source doesn't mean it's going to be free. Even if Microsoft opens everything tomorrow they will still be a huge monopoly capable of charging whatever they want to charge.
So, FOSS / OSS fanboys - why all the excitement?
hrm. Yes... 6cm *would* be quite a bit larger. What's funny is when I first did the math in my head roughly I did it right but then when I used the calculator I just used the diameter rather than the radius. Ahh well. I was working on a nasa project for a while but I got kicked off the team. Something about meters and feet not being the same. I don't know.
HOOOOOOOT POCKET! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zewDAa99Ns8
Yeah. Then just chain everyone to their chair and weld the office doors shut too so that no one can come in and launch any kind of physical attack either. That + Linux = better than gov't security.
No, the MSFT products get "approved" in 24 hours because they've been working with the NSA throughout the dev cycle adding backdoors for them. The NSA already knows that the security holes are because they put them there. :P
no, No, NO! I'm not falling for that one again. Last time, my friend asked me to send him some money so I faxed it to him. All of sudden I've got the FBI breathing down my neck. Something about making counterfeit bills.
So... for those of you that are trying to make a "cylindrical object" that's about 3cm in diameter and 20cm long you're going to end up paying (pi)9*20*$1.87 = $1057. That seems a little spendy... maybe you guys are better off taking a wood working class.
Turn around time was in the video... said about 10 days to get to your house.