Look at who else there is: Nintendo, whose development kit costs more than my car, and Sony, who's fucking Sony. Compared to that, a $100 XNA license is as open as it gets, especially since it doubles as a WP7 license, where it's on par with Apple (nobody really *wants* to write for WP7, but it's a decent gesture.
Oh, and Nintendo originally charged for the web browser.
You also get what you pay for. With Nintendo you'd get proper support where as with you indie licence you get treated like a leper, imo, and your game is shoved away in an indie section which is harder to find than game from "top tier" publishers. Whether it is a good thing or not, Nintendo also doesn't want their online shop flooded with a lot of minecraft clones for example.
The browser was free, they charged briefly, and then went away from that realising it was stupid to charge it. I do agree while they were charging for it that was really stupid
The xbox has the best indie support in the sense that it's cheapest to get onto but that doesn't necessarily mean it's awesome. If you want support from the company, like calls, you need to pay more for that. I'm not sure how many options there are but you can do so at least through some sort of MSDN licence. Which I believe is anywhere from $700 to $12,000.
Keeping in mind this is a company that's shaking down android manufacturers for money with the threats of patent infringement lawsuits too. In my mind, I'm cool with the idea that if they think Android is infringing then they need to do something about it but rather than picking on hardware people which is just a ploy to get them selling WP7 really (they often give more money back to companies that sell WP7) they should go after Google. Android is Google's and if it is genuinely infringing then they're the ones to go after.
I will say Microsoft is changing (imo, because they have to not because they want to), I'll certainly give them credit for that but I think it's still early to be acting like they're the good guys and everyone are the ones who are becoming evil.
IE isn't following web standards and will no doubt fight webgl to the death.
The 360 isn't fairly open. You have to pay for everything and despite the fact MS is the only company that has real experience in browser development it's the only system without a browser in order to stop people from gaining access to something outside of their paywall. Regarding indie development, they treat that like a disease these days and hope it goes away. But in the early days that was a bonus for the PC gamers that they converted to xbox. But now they brag about how much time is spent *not* playing games on the 360 as they try to out "causal" Nintendo.
Their work on hyper-v was so awesome that they were booted out of the openstack and funnily enough people complain it works better with Windows than Linux. Amazing how that happened.
It's wrong what he did but given you can physically harm someone and get no jail time it's disgusting that you get jail time for mouthing off like a mong.
Widescreen is just fine, imo. I can't imagine going back to having a big ass CRT (or two) on my desk and using a 40" HDTV as a second monitor is just awesome. I'll never get anything like that with CRT. Even if they made such a thing it wouldn't fit on my desk.
A house is cheaper than renting in almost all cases. But despite the marriage tax break, a woman will only increase your outgoing costs. The question is, do you want a kick ass computer and monitor or the ability to get easier STD free sex and someone to do the dishes?
You don't need a kick ass stereo or even an HD tv. You can rip the disks and play them on linux so you don't need a drm-laden OS. You just like to bitch.
You can rip blu-rays and I'm fairly certain Linux plays them fine. Between my PS3 and ripping blu-ray disks I don't mind them. In the UK at least you often get the dvd and blu-ray disk for a reasonable price along with a download copy. I don't bother with the download copy because it probably is some DRM enabled streaming copy or some shit and ripping discs is much better.
How is it we're supposed to believe that we're all equal but then also eat this shit about women being better at all sorts of stuff. I actually believe we are equal and a female boss will be as good or as shit as a male boss can be.
In fact I can also say with certainty that the worst run IT department I was in by a female director who was then replaced by another female director. It was still the same old bullshit where the little people mean nothing, everything is all about cost cutting, etc, etc and they found it nearly impossible to fill roles because of the shit job descriptions and awful pay.
Not only that but the company as a whole had more women than men working in it. It in no way improved it.
Quit judging people on credentials other than are they capable of doing the job. Tits and penises don't mean shit. Unless your company does porno.
The hosting company has done nothing wrong. They shouldn't be punished to keep all that data going. If the government wants to punish Megaupload, that's fine, but pay the hosting fees, so you don't end up bankrupting an innocent party while you take months if not years to sort this out.
My macbook isn't locked down. So while it may feel good to rage like an angry nerd over Apple, you're wrong. The mere fact you've made up your mind and don't allow anyone else's opinion to matter just shows you're nothing more than a fanboy. So your opinion is completely invalid.
We'll have to wait and see but it is a fairly minor upgrade even if the screen is very nice. I suspect it's selling well but it's not a revolutionary leap in technology so I wouldn't expect everyone to all of the sudden decide their ipad2 is shit and replace it.
I think you're right in that Google's results are going downhill. The problem is, in my mind, no one else is improving. I'd consider Bing if the results were better. Duck Duck Go is pretty good but still comes nearer Bing than Google and more importantly, searching for non-US content can be a pain even when specifically using identifiers like UK in the query.
I very much appreciate the whole idea of non-personalised results, the lack of bubbling, etc but in the case of DDG it's only really convenient if you're living in the US.
Probably not but people who buy and sell links on other sites to boost ratings, repeat key words more than what is necessary and other such tactics will probably take a hit or so I hope.
It would be nearly impossible to pull off (or at least be really expensive) but for the time being I think really the only way you could defeat the SEO abusers is to have the results manually inspected by humans. But in order to do it in a timely fashion you'd needs tons of people and pay them well so they actually care about their job.
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Look at who else there is: Nintendo, whose development kit costs more than my car, and Sony, who's fucking Sony. Compared to that, a $100 XNA license is as open as it gets, especially since it doubles as a WP7 license, where it's on par with Apple (nobody really *wants* to write for WP7, but it's a decent gesture.
Oh, and Nintendo originally charged for the web browser.
You also get what you pay for. With Nintendo you'd get proper support where as with you indie licence you get treated like a leper, imo, and your game is shoved away in an indie section which is harder to find than game from "top tier" publishers. Whether it is a good thing or not, Nintendo also doesn't want their online shop flooded with a lot of minecraft clones for example.
The browser was free, they charged briefly, and then went away from that realising it was stupid to charge it. I do agree while they were charging for it that was really stupid
The xbox has the best indie support in the sense that it's cheapest to get onto but that doesn't necessarily mean it's awesome. If you want support from the company, like calls, you need to pay more for that. I'm not sure how many options there are but you can do so at least through some sort of MSDN licence. Which I believe is anywhere from $700 to $12,000.
Keeping in mind this is a company that's shaking down android manufacturers for money with the threats of patent infringement lawsuits too. In my mind, I'm cool with the idea that if they think Android is infringing then they need to do something about it but rather than picking on hardware people which is just a ploy to get them selling WP7 really (they often give more money back to companies that sell WP7) they should go after Google. Android is Google's and if it is genuinely infringing then they're the ones to go after.
I will say Microsoft is changing (imo, because they have to not because they want to), I'll certainly give them credit for that but I think it's still early to be acting like they're the good guys and everyone are the ones who are becoming evil.
Sophistication and PHP do not belong in the same sentence together. PHP is the trailer trash of languages.
IE isn't following web standards and will no doubt fight webgl to the death.
The 360 isn't fairly open. You have to pay for everything and despite the fact MS is the only company that has real experience in browser development it's the only system without a browser in order to stop people from gaining access to something outside of their paywall. Regarding indie development, they treat that like a disease these days and hope it goes away. But in the early days that was a bonus for the PC gamers that they converted to xbox. But now they brag about how much time is spent *not* playing games on the 360 as they try to out "causal" Nintendo.
Their work on hyper-v was so awesome that they were booted out of the openstack and funnily enough people complain it works better with Windows than Linux. Amazing how that happened.
So long as they're learning to write code properly and we don't get a flood of even more PHP developers.
Because real web developers use Python not PHP (it's for retards) and not ruby (it's for 'rockstar' douche bag 'developers').
Bad programmers need to rely on someone else to do their job for them
I agree, who uses TPB now? It's sucked hard for ages and has been nothing more than a virus distribution system.
It's wrong what he did but given you can physically harm someone and get no jail time it's disgusting that you get jail time for mouthing off like a mong.
Of course if it has a faster mobile connection you'll eat through your data limit faster. What the hell were people expecting?
Widescreen is just fine, imo. I can't imagine going back to having a big ass CRT (or two) on my desk and using a 40" HDTV as a second monitor is just awesome. I'll never get anything like that with CRT. Even if they made such a thing it wouldn't fit on my desk.
A house is cheaper than renting in almost all cases. But despite the marriage tax break, a woman will only increase your outgoing costs. The question is, do you want a kick ass computer and monitor or the ability to get easier STD free sex and someone to do the dishes?
You don't need a kick ass stereo or even an HD tv. You can rip the disks and play them on linux so you don't need a drm-laden OS. You just like to bitch.
You can rip blu-rays and I'm fairly certain Linux plays them fine. Between my PS3 and ripping blu-ray disks I don't mind them. In the UK at least you often get the dvd and blu-ray disk for a reasonable price along with a download copy. I don't bother with the download copy because it probably is some DRM enabled streaming copy or some shit and ripping discs is much better.
How is it we're supposed to believe that we're all equal but then also eat this shit about women being better at all sorts of stuff. I actually believe we are equal and a female boss will be as good or as shit as a male boss can be.
In fact I can also say with certainty that the worst run IT department I was in by a female director who was then replaced by another female director. It was still the same old bullshit where the little people mean nothing, everything is all about cost cutting, etc, etc and they found it nearly impossible to fill roles because of the shit job descriptions and awful pay.
Not only that but the company as a whole had more women than men working in it. It in no way improved it.
Quit judging people on credentials other than are they capable of doing the job. Tits and penises don't mean shit. Unless your company does porno.
The hosting company has done nothing wrong. They shouldn't be punished to keep all that data going. If the government wants to punish Megaupload, that's fine, but pay the hosting fees, so you don't end up bankrupting an innocent party while you take months if not years to sort this out.
baka_toroi beat you to that already by a day and changed vista to fista which I thought was a nice innovative touch.
Sounds like you're a winblows fan.
Nope, the cartoons were good for what they were. There's no need to be a TMNT hipster.
My macbook isn't locked down. So while it may feel good to rage like an angry nerd over Apple, you're wrong. The mere fact you've made up your mind and don't allow anyone else's opinion to matter just shows you're nothing more than a fanboy. So your opinion is completely invalid.
We'll have to wait and see but it is a fairly minor upgrade even if the screen is very nice. I suspect it's selling well but it's not a revolutionary leap in technology so I wouldn't expect everyone to all of the sudden decide their ipad2 is shit and replace it.
Part of watching a movie or reading a book doesn't including joining others and talking about fucking their mom or calling them a faggot.
It just doesn't feel like it says that much and there are tons of pictures of basically the same thing. Talk about padding it out for ad revenue.
I think you're right in that Google's results are going downhill. The problem is, in my mind, no one else is improving. I'd consider Bing if the results were better. Duck Duck Go is pretty good but still comes nearer Bing than Google and more importantly, searching for non-US content can be a pain even when specifically using identifiers like UK in the query.
I very much appreciate the whole idea of non-personalised results, the lack of bubbling, etc but in the case of DDG it's only really convenient if you're living in the US.
Probably not but people who buy and sell links on other sites to boost ratings, repeat key words more than what is necessary and other such tactics will probably take a hit or so I hope.
It would be nearly impossible to pull off (or at least be really expensive) but for the time being I think really the only way you could defeat the SEO abusers is to have the results manually inspected by humans. But in order to do it in a timely fashion you'd needs tons of people and pay them well so they actually care about their job.