Same here, pretty much. While the service has been fine, recently I've really begun to hate the interface in the web client. Not only does it try and push it's home-page as some kind of social media site, it hides some of it's most important features (like folder redirection) behind an arcane wall of constantly changing crap, and I've not been able to find that particular function for a few months now.
On the plus side, it's spam filter is actually rather good.
We don't, but if we're responsible for it, we need to take action to slow or reverse it, if we're not, we need to prepare regardless.
Remember, Britain was linked to Mainland Europe before it was flooded as recently as 8,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland Natural or not, if warming is happening, and is increasing, our civilisation is in jeopardy.
There was an Arthur C Clarke short story (I think it was Clarke, it may have been Asimov, but since it contains no robots I doubt it) about this, where they created a system for recording and replaying experiences. Originally it was envisioned for use on things like gastronomers, so that people could enjoy the sensation of eating luxury food without actually eating it.
I wasn't saying they needed a new engine, I was saying that to making a game from scratch, you must first create the engine. Really, if the engine is pre-created, then all you're really doing is modding.
I'm not sure of the benefit of making it such a small timeframe, as that generally restricts the quality of the games to Flash based, or built upon pre-existing code they brought with them (IE, you bring along several man-weeks of labour from a previous game and build on that). It certainly doesn't lend itself to promoting innovation, although it would probably reign in some of the crazier, harder to work ideas that alot of indie devs try, and fail, to implement properly.
Then again, with the rise of small, quick, fun mobile games, that might be a good focus for anyone doing these competitions.
It's client/server architecture that's rapidly extendible depending on demand. The software that manages and runs it is the Cloud Software. Like this, or Microsoft's Azure platform.
AVG i've had no problems with, although for the last few months it pops up with a "AVG Security Update" that sends you to a "Look what we protected you against" page that attempts to validate it's worth. It presents it's global statistics (I think) as statistics relating to you alone. Making you think you've really, nearly, had 12,000 attacks in the last month.
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Ben Goldacre is a Legend, you can't paraphrase that shit. Yo.
you'll also end up with a warm Gin and Tonic, but who said you didn't have to suffer for science?
As opposed to what we do now?
It's Ascension Sunday.
Could be vi they're referencing, and in that case why they just don't do ^W is beyond me
+1 Quite Interesting
Same here, pretty much. While the service has been fine, recently I've really begun to hate the interface in the web client. Not only does it try and push it's home-page as some kind of social media site, it hides some of it's most important features (like folder redirection) behind an arcane wall of constantly changing crap, and I've not been able to find that particular function for a few months now.
On the plus side, it's spam filter is actually rather good.
Go watch the Young Ones
they need to give a months notice
We don't, but if we're responsible for it, we need to take action to slow or reverse it, if we're not, we need to prepare regardless.
Remember, Britain was linked to Mainland Europe before it was flooded as recently as 8,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
Natural or not, if warming is happening, and is increasing, our civilisation is in jeopardy.
except that volcanic soil is some of the most fertile, atleast, when it cools.
1) Flash
2) Photoshop
both were easilly pirateable and crackable so they became incredibly popular.
I admit, that's only two things, but it's a start.
More like someone ran through your garden with a stolen book, and now you have to pay to get a wall put up
There was an Arthur C Clarke short story (I think it was Clarke, it may have been Asimov, but since it contains no robots I doubt it) about this, where they created a system for recording and replaying experiences. Originally it was envisioned for use on things like gastronomers, so that people could enjoy the sensation of eating luxury food without actually eating it.
eventually it was just used for sex.
and society crumbled.
or perhaps it was just a simple typo.
I say that, even though I really hate fruit based cereals...
I wasn't saying they needed a new engine, I was saying that to making a game from scratch, you must first create the engine.
Really, if the engine is pre-created, then all you're really doing is modding.
Jam RollyPolly
I'm not sure of the benefit of making it such a small timeframe, as that generally restricts the quality of the games to Flash based, or built upon pre-existing code they brought with them (IE, you bring along several man-weeks of labour from a previous game and build on that). It certainly doesn't lend itself to promoting innovation, although it would probably reign in some of the crazier, harder to work ideas that alot of indie devs try, and fail, to implement properly.
Then again, with the rise of small, quick, fun mobile games, that might be a good focus for anyone doing these competitions.
He's not the Kwisatz Haderach, he's a very naughty boy.
he gave us more than a few pointers
that's the same combination as my luggage!
They're going to a better place...
Unless they're going to Heathrow.
Oi! I'm Scottish and I resent the implication that we didn't invent it.
It's client/server architecture that's rapidly extendible depending on demand. The software that manages and runs it is the Cloud Software. Like this, or Microsoft's Azure platform.
AVG i've had no problems with, although for the last few months it pops up with a "AVG Security Update" that sends you to a "Look what we protected you against" page that attempts to validate it's worth. It presents it's global statistics (I think) as statistics relating to you alone. Making you think you've really, nearly, had 12,000 attacks in the last month.