Personally I think it should be illegal to make someone pay for a bit of game they already have on the disk. Compatibility isn't a problem. An models that users don't have can default to something else just like the Quake games have always done.
It's just an awful way of bumping up the price of the game without doing so on the box. If they had offered the game cheaper upon the initial purchase then fair enough that would be a bit more acceptable but that's not the case.
If they can't afford to make these games then either their games aren't good enough of there is something fundamentally wrong with their business model and it needs to change so they don't have to nickel& dime people to death.
Let's not forget this game shipped some of it's development off shore to China where they almost certainly saved boats by paying those developers what is almost certainly a fraction of what they would have paid western developers.
I do like Java a lot but Python will force them to make nice neat code, it's easy to learn, has awesome features / support and it's fast enough.
Plus you can just have them open it on the command line and type stuff in and get instance feedback from their work. They won't write a huge program this way but at least while starting out at first it doesn't require either compiling things on your own or learning an IDE at the same time.
Sorry but if you're not willing to share your organs then you shouldn't get any other person's organs. The UK has a situation where they're low on organs because of course everyone is happy to take them but doesn't want to share.
I think making donors have priority is the most fair solution. You can't have organ donation without donors so we need to do something to encourage people to share. They won't need them when they're dead.
You can argue about the value of Wii Play all you want. Like any game, some people like it and some don't. Had they sold Wii Play on its own it would have almost certainly cost $40 so it is effectively free.
I put it in quotes because of course it's not free but it's sure as hell a better deal than you get buying a controller elsewhere.
Most people won't want Ethernet cables running through their living room. Between all my consoles I have enough cables piled under my tv. I don't need yet another one. So yes they've something out to save on costs and opted to bundle the solution in that most people will want and will have the most people don't have their house networked up and may have their modem in the office where it is quite and they can get work done.
Windows Mobile 7 is going to have to be really good to make up for the crap I dealt with on my last Windows based phone. Sure it looks like they've improved the god awful interface but if it's just as buggy and still under performs like my Orange SPV M3100 did then it won't have a chance imo.
We'll see how well they do but until people start using it on a day-to-day basis and feedback positively I'm not going to take anyone's opinion on it seriously.
I'm still not entirely sold on the interface. It is much slicker and isn't trying to replicate Windows on a phone but why can't they just make something that fits the screen rather than making it almost certain I'll have to scroll left and right to find everything and what is the point of making a heading to a section, like People, so big that it's guaranteed not to fit on the screen ever? Again, it looks nice but I can see that getting annoying over time and it reeks of being a lazy solution to making things look nice on various screen resolutions.
You can get a 2nd controller with Wii Play which effectively gives you a "free" controller with a game. It comes with wireless where as, at least with the 360, you need to buy that and Wii games are generally at least $10 cheaper.
Sure some people will buy a lot of peripherals but even then they're generally better deals. For instance you can get Monster Hunter Wii and a classic controller together for less than a PS3/360 game.
Don't use them then. PHP is nice and easy. You don't need frameworks and you can easily write your own. In my spare time I'm slowly building a PHP based CMS and it is very slowly because working on CMS systems as a day job means I find it hard to code them in my free time unfortunately. It will do what I want and hopefully be useful to others as I'll most certainly give it away and do something again to contribute to open source. It may fail and everyone will think it's shit but it will run my sites and I'll use it for others where I feel necessary so it will be as successful as I hoped. Anything over that is a bonus. Just helping one person get into programming is quite satisfying as it is especially if you help them do it properly.
Why? The nice thing about freedom is you can try it your own way. Maybe you won't do it any better but at least you can try. Someone can come along and take your best bits and combine them with the best bits of other frameworks and make the Godzilla of frameworks if they want.
If you feel the documentation of your favourite framework sucks then contribute. Making a great framework isn't just about writing code.
I think we should give this some time. Even his most horrific moments are bigger than a lot star's greatest moments. He has been the captain of the best Star Trek series. I think he might pull at least a modest level of popularity and get the site funding its own day-to-day maintenance. Admittedly though I wish the name was different and not a take on the now Murdoch owned MySpace even if it makes sense.
Isn't she the one whose husband's porn ended up in her expenses? At a guess she wouldn't know how to suck cock otherwise he wouldn't be try to get free porn through her expenses.
Hell, I have a G1 and it's fine unless I load some long webpage full of Javascript and I'm talking about something worse than Slashdot which it handles fine.
Even if you look at Wordle ( http://www.wordle.net/ ) which isn't 3D but it's a fast loading, fast running slick applet. It shows you in the hands of the right people Java is at least as capable as Flash (more so imo) but it has a bad reputation for anything fun.
Unfortunately Java had such a shitty beginning with applets which weren't perfect and when they were being used it was generally for something god awful and ugly. That has scared a lot of people from developing applets or using applets.
I get the impression as well that developers just assume Java should do everything easier and when it doesn't just wipe your ass for you they claim it's broken and bloated. Sure it has an ass load of libraries but you still need to know how to code and optimise in Java just like any other. It's not Flash by any means.
Flash is a lot easier to get something working for inexperienced people because for a starter there are no threads and while any serious Flash app will likely be done strictly in actionscript, you can get quite far as a newbie pointing and clicking in a gui and writing less code than you would in Java.
Doing something Doom in Flash would still be a major task but for the 900 billion games that are basically "how far can you throw the baby, kitten, whatever" or "punch the guy's balls, woman's face, etc" you can do that more easily in Flash than Java and due to the restrictions it will generally run better because you can't do something like fuck up threads.
Internet traffic is anything but consistent. This is destined to fail because we're just not at a point where you can reliably stream a whole game. Hell we still have issues with multi-player games that only need to send minimal data. Also from the sounds of it, $14.95 only gives you access to some games and you have to pay extra for premium games which no doubt means any new game worth playing.
If you want to buy a handicap version then yes it is cheaper. However if you want Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate which appears on Amazon.com for $284.82.
That's the difference. Back then that had one product for everyone. Now to continue their monopoly they need to the growing number of people becoming increasingly annoyed with Windows by making it appear cheaper by selling versions lacking features.
Windows 1.0 may not have come with as much software as well but I could add and remove any and all software instead of wasting space on awful programs whose purpose is to help maintain their monopoly and destroy competition by devaluing numerous products.
That may be true but at least, so far, it is in the hands of decent people rather than people who could honestly say it required a whole set of work and charge you again. Valve have been pretty reasonable imo. They do need to protect their games and so far, from my experience, it's been the best option.
The annoying this is most of my Steam games probably will never work natively on a Mac but this is a huge step towards me moving away from Windows for everything rather than using it as my gaming box.
I always support sites with decent ads or as long as the majority of their ads aren't bad. Slashdot has given me the option to disable ads for which I can assume comes from the fact I do occasionally click on ads (minus the lame blu-ray ones awhile back) and quite frankly I rather just click on some ads than pay because paying means I should visit more often to get my money's worth and it becomes a chore or I don't visit and I throw money away.
The whole thing is rubbish. They only mention Canada's broadband penetration percentage when we already know it's higher than in the US and I agree with what you said about Akamai. There are still some aluminium phone lines running between me and the exchange and I still typically get 6+ megs of my 8 meg DSL connection. Sure some sites can be slower but, for instance, if a site gets slashdotted, that doesn't mean my connection is bad.
Quite likely because the internet is shit on dial-up these days and you have to give up your whole day just to watch a couple videos on Youtube. So it really any surprise people don't use the internet when they don't have broadband? I guess if you're happy with falling behind the rest of the world and value the idiotic population (like birthers) enough to allow them to fall behind even more and grow then keep things as they are.
When everyone moves off their farm to get broadband, who is going to grow your food? Most of those options will be unacceptable as more things are done on the internet. Dial-up is already well past its due-date.
They're already running fiber across the US to connect up each coast and everyone's running cables across the ocean which is logically the most expensive thing to do.
Huge chunks of fiber are already running over some of the most rural areas but they're just not connecting up those people in between coasts. It's not like they have to run cable from New York to Kansas to give someone in Kansas broadband.
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Personally I think it should be illegal to make someone pay for a bit of game they already have on the disk. Compatibility isn't a problem. An models that users don't have can default to something else just like the Quake games have always done.
It's just an awful way of bumping up the price of the game without doing so on the box. If they had offered the game cheaper upon the initial purchase then fair enough that would be a bit more acceptable but that's not the case.
If they can't afford to make these games then either their games aren't good enough of there is something fundamentally wrong with their business model and it needs to change so they don't have to nickel& dime people to death.
Let's not forget this game shipped some of it's development off shore to China where they almost certainly saved boats by paying those developers what is almost certainly a fraction of what they would have paid western developers.
I do like Java a lot but Python will force them to make nice neat code, it's easy to learn, has awesome features / support and it's fast enough.
Plus you can just have them open it on the command line and type stuff in and get instance feedback from their work. They won't write a huge program this way but at least while starting out at first it doesn't require either compiling things on your own or learning an IDE at the same time.
Sorry but if you're not willing to share your organs then you shouldn't get any other person's organs. The UK has a situation where they're low on organs because of course everyone is happy to take them but doesn't want to share.
I think making donors have priority is the most fair solution. You can't have organ donation without donors so we need to do something to encourage people to share. They won't need them when they're dead.
You can argue about the value of Wii Play all you want. Like any game, some people like it and some don't. Had they sold Wii Play on its own it would have almost certainly cost $40 so it is effectively free.
I put it in quotes because of course it's not free but it's sure as hell a better deal than you get buying a controller elsewhere.
Most people won't want Ethernet cables running through their living room. Between all my consoles I have enough cables piled under my tv. I don't need yet another one. So yes they've something out to save on costs and opted to bundle the solution in that most people will want and will have the most people don't have their house networked up and may have their modem in the office where it is quite and they can get work done.
Windows Mobile 7 is going to have to be really good to make up for the crap I dealt with on my last Windows based phone. Sure it looks like they've improved the god awful interface but if it's just as buggy and still under performs like my Orange SPV M3100 did then it won't have a chance imo.
We'll see how well they do but until people start using it on a day-to-day basis and feedback positively I'm not going to take anyone's opinion on it seriously.
I'm still not entirely sold on the interface. It is much slicker and isn't trying to replicate Windows on a phone but why can't they just make something that fits the screen rather than making it almost certain I'll have to scroll left and right to find everything and what is the point of making a heading to a section, like People, so big that it's guaranteed not to fit on the screen ever? Again, it looks nice but I can see that getting annoying over time and it reeks of being a lazy solution to making things look nice on various screen resolutions.
You can get a 2nd controller with Wii Play which effectively gives you a "free" controller with a game. It comes with wireless where as, at least with the 360, you need to buy that and Wii games are generally at least $10 cheaper.
The attach rate as of last summer was 6 games per Wii which is a savings of $60 on software. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23308
Supposedly the attach rate jumped up to 8 games per Wii over Xmas giving purchasers a $80 savings on software. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/01/wii-attach-rate-soared-to-81-for-december.ars
Sure some people will buy a lot of peripherals but even then they're generally better deals. For instance you can get Monster Hunter Wii and a classic controller together for less than a PS3/360 game.
Don't use them then. PHP is nice and easy. You don't need frameworks and you can easily write your own. In my spare time I'm slowly building a PHP based CMS and it is very slowly because working on CMS systems as a day job means I find it hard to code them in my free time unfortunately. It will do what I want and hopefully be useful to others as I'll most certainly give it away and do something again to contribute to open source. It may fail and everyone will think it's shit but it will run my sites and I'll use it for others where I feel necessary so it will be as successful as I hoped. Anything over that is a bonus. Just helping one person get into programming is quite satisfying as it is especially if you help them do it properly.
Why? The nice thing about freedom is you can try it your own way. Maybe you won't do it any better but at least you can try. Someone can come along and take your best bits and combine them with the best bits of other frameworks and make the Godzilla of frameworks if they want.
If you feel the documentation of your favourite framework sucks then contribute. Making a great framework isn't just about writing code.
I think we should give this some time. Even his most horrific moments are bigger than a lot star's greatest moments. He has been the captain of the best Star Trek series. I think he might pull at least a modest level of popularity and get the site funding its own day-to-day maintenance. Admittedly though I wish the name was different and not a take on the now Murdoch owned MySpace even if it makes sense.
Deviant Art's audience is, in theory, very limited but it's been around for some time and, as far as I know, not going away.
Isn't she the one whose husband's porn ended up in her expenses? At a guess she wouldn't know how to suck cock otherwise he wouldn't be try to get free porn through her expenses.
Hell, I have a G1 and it's fine unless I load some long webpage full of Javascript and I'm talking about something worse than Slashdot which it handles fine.
That link should be http://www.runescape.com/
For some reason it ate part of my text mentioning the iphone and tagged Windows onto the end.
One of the biggest games online uses Java and 3D. http://www.runescape.comwindows/ Mobile will likely be running in Java.
Project looking glass was done in Java http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass
Even if you look at Wordle ( http://www.wordle.net/ ) which isn't 3D but it's a fast loading, fast running slick applet. It shows you in the hands of the right people Java is at least as capable as Flash (more so imo) but it has a bad reputation for anything fun.
Unfortunately Java had such a shitty beginning with applets which weren't perfect and when they were being used it was generally for something god awful and ugly. That has scared a lot of people from developing applets or using applets.
I get the impression as well that developers just assume Java should do everything easier and when it doesn't just wipe your ass for you they claim it's broken and bloated. Sure it has an ass load of libraries but you still need to know how to code and optimise in Java just like any other. It's not Flash by any means.
Flash is a lot easier to get something working for inexperienced people because for a starter there are no threads and while any serious Flash app will likely be done strictly in actionscript, you can get quite far as a newbie pointing and clicking in a gui and writing less code than you would in Java.
Doing something Doom in Flash would still be a major task but for the 900 billion games that are basically "how far can you throw the baby, kitten, whatever" or "punch the guy's balls, woman's face, etc" you can do that more easily in Flash than Java and due to the restrictions it will generally run better because you can't do something like fuck up threads.
How do you know the baby wasn't a master lock picker?
I think I'm willing to take the darkest pits of Africa over Detroit. After all they never had to deploy Robocop to Africa.
Internet traffic is anything but consistent. This is destined to fail because we're just not at a point where you can reliably stream a whole game. Hell we still have issues with multi-player games that only need to send minimal data. Also from the sounds of it, $14.95 only gives you access to some games and you have to pay extra for premium games which no doubt means any new game worth playing.
Fuck that, I'll still with physical consoles.
If you want to buy a handicap version then yes it is cheaper. However if you want Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate which appears on Amazon.com for $284.82.
That's the difference. Back then that had one product for everyone. Now to continue their monopoly they need to the growing number of people becoming increasingly annoyed with Windows by making it appear cheaper by selling versions lacking features.
Windows 1.0 may not have come with as much software as well but I could add and remove any and all software instead of wasting space on awful programs whose purpose is to help maintain their monopoly and destroy competition by devaluing numerous products.
That may be true but at least, so far, it is in the hands of decent people rather than people who could honestly say it required a whole set of work and charge you again. Valve have been pretty reasonable imo. They do need to protect their games and so far, from my experience, it's been the best option.
The annoying this is most of my Steam games probably will never work natively on a Mac but this is a huge step towards me moving away from Windows for everything rather than using it as my gaming box.
I always support sites with decent ads or as long as the majority of their ads aren't bad. Slashdot has given me the option to disable ads for which I can assume comes from the fact I do occasionally click on ads (minus the lame blu-ray ones awhile back) and quite frankly I rather just click on some ads than pay because paying means I should visit more often to get my money's worth and it becomes a chore or I don't visit and I throw money away.
Playing something on 3 windows based machines isn't cross platform.
The whole thing is rubbish. They only mention Canada's broadband penetration percentage when we already know it's higher than in the US and I agree with what you said about Akamai. There are still some aluminium phone lines running between me and the exchange and I still typically get 6+ megs of my 8 meg DSL connection. Sure some sites can be slower but, for instance, if a site gets slashdotted, that doesn't mean my connection is bad.
Quite likely because the internet is shit on dial-up these days and you have to give up your whole day just to watch a couple videos on Youtube. So it really any surprise people don't use the internet when they don't have broadband? I guess if you're happy with falling behind the rest of the world and value the idiotic population (like birthers) enough to allow them to fall behind even more and grow then keep things as they are.
When everyone moves off their farm to get broadband, who is going to grow your food? Most of those options will be unacceptable as more things are done on the internet. Dial-up is already well past its due-date.
They're already running fiber across the US to connect up each coast and everyone's running cables across the ocean which is logically the most expensive thing to do.
Huge chunks of fiber are already running over some of the most rural areas but they're just not connecting up those people in between coasts. It's not like they have to run cable from New York to Kansas to give someone in Kansas broadband.