As someone who's also in the e-learning industry I agree. However we've been trying to ditch Flash for a good two years now. It's not happened yet, however, but 99% of our flash output this year has been Captivate slideshows, the 1% has been supporting existing items, and the rest of our output is HTML based content that only suffers on the prettyness side because our clients insist on supporting IE 6. When we can convince them not to we have no issues with it.
And therein lies the problem. The development industry is ready to move on from Flash, but the industries that consume our specific brand of software aren't. Flash won't die because it's no longer supported by mobile devices, but the choices we, as developers, give the clients will slowly wean them off. As they realise they can't have ancient browsers or outdated plugins AND have a competent mobile-enabled site, without having to pay significantly extra for one or the other.
I'll be honest, the last party I went to was organised on Skype. The last party I went to that was organised on Facebook was one that I already knew was happening a week before they put it on facebook, because they told me in person they were throwing one.
I have my facebook account locked down, to the point where anyone but my own family can't see my Date of Birth:P I use facebook like I use twitter, to spam my friends with links to sites that tell them how much they're ruining their privacy using them. Like today I shared http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/
And the fact that these people exist mean you have to regulate.
I would atleast consider 'improper use of a firearm' to be a crime, and firing your weapon when it's possible it would start a wildfire would, to me, be considered improper use. If someone was shooting a gun in the middle of a a fuel leak, you bet your arse they'd be prosecuted for something regardless as to what they were shooting at. Why is shooting on a hot, dry, tinderbox any different?
I'm on a small team who uses Unity for... well, they're not games in the strictest sense, more interactive flythroughs, and when I say small team, I mean there's me, a 3D modeller and an Interface Artist, and the Interface Artist rarely actually loads up Unity. He just passes me the graphics and I build the GUI.
It's fantastically simple to use, if you're programming for it the hardest thing you'll probably need is a working knowledge of Vectors and Quaternions (and even then there's code samples out there for 90% of the stuff you'll want to do). Although the standard 2D GUI script is awful, but, again, there's code out there that bypass it entirely and can do UI's that can rival what Scaleform can do (there were actually rumours of Scaleform partnering with them to include it in the engine, don't know what happened with that tbh)
You don't have much access to anything below game logic and file systems. For programming, you can use C# or a variant of Ecmascript to code on top of the Unity engine API and Mono (basically.NET 2.0), but you don't get access to the graphics pipeline. The closest you get is the shader language. You can use the same scripts to modify the Editor to do stuff too. As such there's loads of 3rd party assets in the store, from Scripts, to models, even entire editing suites (one of my favourites is the Strumpy Shader Editor that, as you can guess, gives you a graphical interface for building shaders). Some are pay-for (for which Unity gets a cut) and some are free (like Strumpy) and if you pay for enough cash and buy enough plugins you can probably forgoe actually coding anything at all. It turns the whole thing into a glorified map maker.
It also uses a fair amount of middleware (like PhsyX and FMOD), which is why you'll never see it open source.
I never had a school meal when I was in primary school, but a few of my friends did. And being at one of the better Glasgow Schools, even back then (early 90s), it was pretty much the same, just without the veg. Also Semolina. They loved to serve Semolina for some disgusting reason.
Damn straight. It can do one thing reliably at a time, and even then simple Web Browsing can be a chore. the Raspi is for hobbyists and as a teaching tool. In that respect it's an awesome achievment. Those expecting it to replace their laptops will be disappointed.
the Abbreviation for Europe is EUR (which is ALSO the abbreviation for the Euro currency, which is confusing too), but people do use EU instead (whether right or wrong), but here, alongside the flag, it's blatantly just idiocy at work.
"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
I was going to say... 60s and 70s were 50 years ago, and were in the last Century whether you mean the last 100 years, or the period 1900-2000, or 1901-2001.
Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.
Or you could could select "Windows 7 Basic" theme and get what pretty much amounts to the Windows 8 theme. It's what I use all the time on Windows 7. I just think it's alot nicer. It has the best bits of the classic interface with the new features of Aero. The screenshots of the Windows 8 interface don't seem to have the rounded corners of 7 (Aero or basic) but do seem to have the right-on-the-edge title bar buttons of Aero (that basic omits) Win8 looks like something between Aero and Basic, I wonder if they'll dump Basic entirely.
There was only a series of Matrix cartoons that ranged from slightly interesting to awesome. There was also that fan-film that ended with a giant mech battle and neo dying.
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As someone who's also in the e-learning industry I agree.
However we've been trying to ditch Flash for a good two years now.
It's not happened yet, however, but 99% of our flash output this year has been Captivate slideshows, the 1% has been supporting existing items, and the rest of our output is HTML based content that only suffers on the prettyness side because our clients insist on supporting IE 6. When we can convince them not to we have no issues with it.
And therein lies the problem. The development industry is ready to move on from Flash, but the industries that consume our specific brand of software aren't.
Flash won't die because it's no longer supported by mobile devices, but the choices we, as developers, give the clients will slowly wean them off. As they realise they can't have ancient browsers or outdated plugins AND have a competent mobile-enabled site, without having to pay significantly extra for one or the other.
I'll be honest, the last party I went to was organised on Skype.
The last party I went to that was organised on Facebook was one that I already knew was happening a week before they put it on facebook, because they told me in person they were throwing one.
I have my facebook account locked down, to the point where anyone but my own family can't see my Date of Birth :P
I use facebook like I use twitter, to spam my friends with links to sites that tell them how much they're ruining their privacy using them.
Like today I shared http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/
http://spacecadetprogram.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/space-cadet-background2-1.jpg
incase anyone's interested
I opened the site, wondered what the problem was, it was perfectly readable, then BAM, 2Meg, 2000x1000px big background image appears.
I'm on a 10 mbps line here and it takes 3 seconds to load that thing. It takes ~1s to load from Cache and I've got an SSD...
Worked in 98 too. Not sure if it worked on ME, but I'm fairly sure it worked on the older NT systems.
And the fact that these people exist mean you have to regulate.
I would atleast consider 'improper use of a firearm' to be a crime, and firing your weapon when it's possible it would start a wildfire would, to me, be considered improper use. If someone was shooting a gun in the middle of a a fuel leak, you bet your arse they'd be prosecuted for something regardless as to what they were shooting at. Why is shooting on a hot, dry, tinderbox any different?
It is dark.
You are likely to be eaten by your companion cube.
Multi-diminutive-young-person-locomotive-transport chariot.
chariots!
Or they could not buy it, and let people do what they're doing already, and still have the potential increase in payware games on Linux...
I'm on a small team who uses Unity for... well, they're not games in the strictest sense, more interactive flythroughs, and when I say small team, I mean there's me, a 3D modeller and an Interface Artist, and the Interface Artist rarely actually loads up Unity. He just passes me the graphics and I build the GUI.
It's fantastically simple to use, if you're programming for it the hardest thing you'll probably need is a working knowledge of Vectors and Quaternions (and even then there's code samples out there for 90% of the stuff you'll want to do). Although the standard 2D GUI script is awful, but, again, there's code out there that bypass it entirely and can do UI's that can rival what Scaleform can do (there were actually rumours of Scaleform partnering with them to include it in the engine, don't know what happened with that tbh)
You don't have much access to anything below game logic and file systems. For programming, you can use C# or a variant of Ecmascript to code on top of the Unity engine API and Mono (basically .NET 2.0), but you don't get access to the graphics pipeline. The closest you get is the shader language.
You can use the same scripts to modify the Editor to do stuff too. As such there's loads of 3rd party assets in the store, from Scripts, to models, even entire editing suites (one of my favourites is the Strumpy Shader Editor that, as you can guess, gives you a graphical interface for building shaders). Some are pay-for (for which Unity gets a cut) and some are free (like Strumpy) and if you pay for enough cash and buy enough plugins you can probably forgoe actually coding anything at all. It turns the whole thing into a glorified map maker.
It also uses a fair amount of middleware (like PhsyX and FMOD), which is why you'll never see it open source.
It does, to Scots.
I never had a school meal when I was in primary school, but a few of my friends did. And being at one of the better Glasgow Schools, even back then (early 90s), it was pretty much the same, just without the veg. Also Semolina. They loved to serve Semolina for some disgusting reason.
What I want to know is what would have happened if he'd pulled out a Dildo.
I misread it as Cardigan Kingpin, like he was selling bootleg Edinburgh Woollen Mill gear.
and that's the point. the Aeolipile was just that: A Steam Engine in it's most basic form. It failed to be a game changer on it's own.
Damn straight. It can do one thing reliably at a time, and even then simple Web Browsing can be a chore. the Raspi is for hobbyists and as a teaching tool. In that respect it's an awesome achievment. Those expecting it to replace their laptops will be disappointed.
the Abbreviation for Europe is EUR (which is ALSO the abbreviation for the Euro currency, which is confusing too), but people do use EU instead (whether right or wrong), but here, alongside the flag, it's blatantly just idiocy at work.
"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
I wouldn't make fun of Jaws either, he'll eat you. Either the guy or the shark...
Same with Torchlight, I was pleasantly surprised, when I loaded it up to show some workmates, that I had my character and progress saved online.
I was going to say... 60s and 70s were 50 years ago, and were in the last Century whether you mean the last 100 years, or the period 1900-2000, or 1901-2001.
Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.
Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15
Maybe we Europeans can get our Xooms updated to ICS now.
Or you could could select "Windows 7 Basic" theme and get what pretty much amounts to the Windows 8 theme. It's what I use all the time on Windows 7. I just think it's alot nicer. It has the best bits of the classic interface with the new features of Aero.
The screenshots of the Windows 8 interface don't seem to have the rounded corners of 7 (Aero or basic) but do seem to have the right-on-the-edge title bar buttons of Aero (that basic omits)
Win8 looks like something between Aero and Basic, I wonder if they'll dump Basic entirely.
There was only a series of Matrix cartoons that ranged from slightly interesting to awesome.
There was also that fan-film that ended with a giant mech battle and neo dying.
everywhere but the Netherlands and Chile