There's one big difference between GameSpy and Valve, though: Valve is a privately owned corporation. They're not at the whims of often disconnected or plain and simply stupid shareholders, they're not forced to disclose numbers for anything (and indeed, rarely do), they're not chasing next quarter's profit margin, and perhaps most importantly the owners care about the company, their products, and their fans. I don't see a Carly Fiorina getting on Valve's team anytime soon, if ever.
Going public may give you a big money boost, but it's like selling your soul to the devil.
Which use the Safari rendering engine, as has been said a dozen times above. They're not actually Chrome or Dolphin, they're Chrome UI or Dolphin UI with the Safari rendering engine under it. Hence, performance is always limited by how fast Safari is, and Apple only offers a slower version of the Safari engine for third parties. Likewise for feature support and such.
I believe Obsidian has said that they were approached by publishers to do something along those lines, but they refused. The spirit of Kickstarter isn't compatible with that idea, really. It's supposed to be for projects that otherwise would not be possible or viable to make. Publishers have plenty of money, that they don't want to try making more niche games is their problem. People like Roberts or Braben, while certainly not poor, don't have the kind of money to make games from scratch from their own pocket, so Kickstarter is appropriate for them.
I think there's a good chance that a publisher attempting to weasel its way through Kickstarter would receive a fairly harsh backlash anyway, which is one other reason why they haven't tried. They'd need to entirely hide behind a developer with a good reputation, and I'm not sure there's a developer out there who'd be willing to gamble that on such contrived grounds.
Because legal attacks have worked really, really well against anything that happens on the Internet. Taking down MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay eliminated piracy altogether, never to resurface again. Gone, dead, finished. Burying ad blocking services under lawsuits will totally never make them even more resilient and hard to pin down. No way that'd happen.
Aye, but it's still a stopgap measure. We need to cut our emissions dramatically, not let them climb up at a lesser rate, which is what natural gas would afford us at best. Worse, it's not even a step in the right direction, since it's a dead end: there's no logical way of hopping from natural gas to clean energy.
I didn't expect that the plants being built now would be in reaction to the announced closures, but I'm fairly sure the coal miners are gleefully awaiting Europe to fall onto their lap even more so than before. It's rather obvious that coal power plants later down the line will be built as a result of the closures. This is only the beginning, really.
That's what you get for knee-jerking and planning to shut down all of your nuclear reactors. The promise of replacing that power with clean renewable energy is proving a tad hard to follow up, right? I'm not exactly surprised.
I expect Europe will eventually start driving coal down once more, but it'll take a while to do such a shift, during which time coal will be the stopgap measure. That, or they finally wake up and do nuclear right instead of writing it off entirely.
These sites are using Google's (and Bing's and others') results, collating them and presenting them to the users. Why exactly do they expect Google would play fair with that? It's not like Google specifically provides a service for third parties to reuse their search results. They're setting up an additional, unsupported layer between users and Google, and thus shouldn't be surprised that said layer requires frequent changes to work. Google won't stop and ask "we want to change this, that fine by you?" when they see no profit, no advantage from it.
I've paid $5 on top of an otherwise free OS (I grabbed a student copy of Windows Server 2012 and converted it in a desktop OS). The upgrades over Windows 7 (start screen excepted) more than make up for the $5.
Would I rather not have to install a 3rd party application to restore what I consider basic functionality? Hell yes. Is my decision making fundamentally wrong because I'm willing to live with a (very small) tradeoff? Sorry, no.
The problem is that "moving forward" is forward only for a select few definitions of forward. Tiles are nice on tablets, on phones, on consoles, heck even on touch-enabled laptops, but not on desktop PCs.
Apple didn't lose half their share. The market's absolute size increased, with Android being the main player in that growth, thus Apple's part of the pie shrank even if in absolute numbers it didn't.
Also, if I'm not mistaken those are market share statistics and not sales statistics. Market share won't be quite as affected by the pre-upgrade slump, because an important proportion of iPhone 5 buyers are iPhone owners.
Not only that. The issue with that perspective is scale. The tiny minority of Athenian "citizens" is compared against large swathes of the current population, regardless of age, education or wealth. This would be akin to saying that human intelligence peaked 50 years ago by sampling only the scientists who worked on the Manhattan project and comparing them to the entire population of the US now. It may very well be true that those Athenians would be very intelligent were they born now instead of then, but that doesn't change the fact it's an extremely biased sample. We just tend not to have historical writings from people living in slums or from slaves.
I'd warn against Drupal. Since it leverages the rather hefty node structure in Drupal, it's very hard to scale up properly. For a forum like what you've linked, with less than a thousand posts, that's fine, but a forum with tens of thousands of posts slows down to a crawl where phpBB or other dedicated forum solutions have no issue running.
I'm sure you can optimize Drupal further, but it requires a lot more work than using a straight, if not integrated, forum package.
You're complaining Visual Studio is bloated and them recommend Eclipse?
I just install a minimal install of VS with most options turned off and the thing's just fine. It's also lightning quick, unlike Eclipse's lumbering demeanor, and its UI is a lot more flexible than Eclipse's.
So that students can convert their free Server 2012 license (from Dreamspark) into a usable, full-blown desktop OS?
It's what I've done, and I sure am glad Microsoft keeps leaving that ability in their server OS, no matter how incongruous it might seem at first glance.
Bear in mind that even if this study is entirely true, that still leaves us a few billion years with most current stars. Billion years. Like, orders of magnitude larger than humanity's complete lifetime from primates to 21st century.
Star Trek could happen thousands of times in that span.
Someone would come up with another app that let you search through your other apps. They could call it... a search engine, maybe?
Then we'd rename those apps as "web pages", as they're pages networked together in a giant web.
Then someone else would think of making a single, unified app viewer, which would let you browse through multiple apps in an interlinked fashion. Browser could be a good name for that.
Dude, that sounds so revolutionary. Nobody would've thought of that before.
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Alternatively, go down the UK route, which has a full order of magnitude fewer gun-related homicides or suicides than the US.
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of ideologies, eh?
There's one big difference between GameSpy and Valve, though: Valve is a privately owned corporation. They're not at the whims of often disconnected or plain and simply stupid shareholders, they're not forced to disclose numbers for anything (and indeed, rarely do), they're not chasing next quarter's profit margin, and perhaps most importantly the owners care about the company, their products, and their fans. I don't see a Carly Fiorina getting on Valve's team anytime soon, if ever.
Going public may give you a big money boost, but it's like selling your soul to the devil.
Which use the Safari rendering engine, as has been said a dozen times above. They're not actually Chrome or Dolphin, they're Chrome UI or Dolphin UI with the Safari rendering engine under it. Hence, performance is always limited by how fast Safari is, and Apple only offers a slower version of the Safari engine for third parties. Likewise for feature support and such.
I don't know how more western a game can be than being made by an American developer under American leads using largely American and European workers.
You mean bar Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, their actual flagship games?
The 200 series is 4 generations old. I'd call that fairly old, at least in computer hardware terms.
I believe Obsidian has said that they were approached by publishers to do something along those lines, but they refused. The spirit of Kickstarter isn't compatible with that idea, really. It's supposed to be for projects that otherwise would not be possible or viable to make. Publishers have plenty of money, that they don't want to try making more niche games is their problem. People like Roberts or Braben, while certainly not poor, don't have the kind of money to make games from scratch from their own pocket, so Kickstarter is appropriate for them.
I think there's a good chance that a publisher attempting to weasel its way through Kickstarter would receive a fairly harsh backlash anyway, which is one other reason why they haven't tried. They'd need to entirely hide behind a developer with a good reputation, and I'm not sure there's a developer out there who'd be willing to gamble that on such contrived grounds.
Because legal attacks have worked really, really well against anything that happens on the Internet. Taking down MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay eliminated piracy altogether, never to resurface again. Gone, dead, finished. Burying ad blocking services under lawsuits will totally never make them even more resilient and hard to pin down. No way that'd happen.
The wind turbines say "Whoosh!"
Aye, but it's still a stopgap measure. We need to cut our emissions dramatically, not let them climb up at a lesser rate, which is what natural gas would afford us at best. Worse, it's not even a step in the right direction, since it's a dead end: there's no logical way of hopping from natural gas to clean energy.
I didn't expect that the plants being built now would be in reaction to the announced closures, but I'm fairly sure the coal miners are gleefully awaiting Europe to fall onto their lap even more so than before. It's rather obvious that coal power plants later down the line will be built as a result of the closures. This is only the beginning, really.
That's what you get for knee-jerking and planning to shut down all of your nuclear reactors. The promise of replacing that power with clean renewable energy is proving a tad hard to follow up, right? I'm not exactly surprised.
I expect Europe will eventually start driving coal down once more, but it'll take a while to do such a shift, during which time coal will be the stopgap measure. That, or they finally wake up and do nuclear right instead of writing it off entirely.
These sites are using Google's (and Bing's and others') results, collating them and presenting them to the users. Why exactly do they expect Google would play fair with that? It's not like Google specifically provides a service for third parties to reuse their search results. They're setting up an additional, unsupported layer between users and Google, and thus shouldn't be surprised that said layer requires frequent changes to work. Google won't stop and ask "we want to change this, that fine by you?" when they see no profit, no advantage from it.
Correction, Apple sells dreams only to crush them a year later.
I've paid $5 on top of an otherwise free OS (I grabbed a student copy of Windows Server 2012 and converted it in a desktop OS). The upgrades over Windows 7 (start screen excepted) more than make up for the $5.
Would I rather not have to install a 3rd party application to restore what I consider basic functionality? Hell yes. Is my decision making fundamentally wrong because I'm willing to live with a (very small) tradeoff? Sorry, no.
The problem is that "moving forward" is forward only for a select few definitions of forward. Tiles are nice on tablets, on phones, on consoles, heck even on touch-enabled laptops, but not on desktop PCs.
Stardock would release a new update in no time. They're not exactly new to this kind of stuff, what with WindowBlinds and other such products.
Apple didn't lose half their share. The market's absolute size increased, with Android being the main player in that growth, thus Apple's part of the pie shrank even if in absolute numbers it didn't.
Also, if I'm not mistaken those are market share statistics and not sales statistics. Market share won't be quite as affected by the pre-upgrade slump, because an important proportion of iPhone 5 buyers are iPhone owners.
Not only that. The issue with that perspective is scale. The tiny minority of Athenian "citizens" is compared against large swathes of the current population, regardless of age, education or wealth. This would be akin to saying that human intelligence peaked 50 years ago by sampling only the scientists who worked on the Manhattan project and comparing them to the entire population of the US now. It may very well be true that those Athenians would be very intelligent were they born now instead of then, but that doesn't change the fact it's an extremely biased sample. We just tend not to have historical writings from people living in slums or from slaves.
I'd warn against Drupal. Since it leverages the rather hefty node structure in Drupal, it's very hard to scale up properly. For a forum like what you've linked, with less than a thousand posts, that's fine, but a forum with tens of thousands of posts slows down to a crawl where phpBB or other dedicated forum solutions have no issue running.
I'm sure you can optimize Drupal further, but it requires a lot more work than using a straight, if not integrated, forum package.
You reap what you sow, in other words?
You're complaining Visual Studio is bloated and them recommend Eclipse?
I just install a minimal install of VS with most options turned off and the thing's just fine. It's also lightning quick, unlike Eclipse's lumbering demeanor, and its UI is a lot more flexible than Eclipse's.
So that students can convert their free Server 2012 license (from Dreamspark) into a usable, full-blown desktop OS?
It's what I've done, and I sure am glad Microsoft keeps leaving that ability in their server OS, no matter how incongruous it might seem at first glance.
Bear in mind that even if this study is entirely true, that still leaves us a few billion years with most current stars. Billion years. Like, orders of magnitude larger than humanity's complete lifetime from primates to 21st century.
Star Trek could happen thousands of times in that span.
Someone would come up with another app that let you search through your other apps. They could call it... a search engine, maybe?
Then we'd rename those apps as "web pages", as they're pages networked together in a giant web.
Then someone else would think of making a single, unified app viewer, which would let you browse through multiple apps in an interlinked fashion. Browser could be a good name for that.
Dude, that sounds so revolutionary. Nobody would've thought of that before.