Total number of native and secondary speakers of top languages. 1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion) 2. English (480 million) 3. Spanish (320 million) 4. Russian (285 million) 5. French (265 million) 6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million) 7. Arabic (221 million) 8. Portuguese (188 million) 9. Bengali (185 million) 10. Japanese (133 million) 11. German (109 million)
Just because you live next to Germany and it makes sense to you, it doesn't mean it makes sense to everyone.
Exactly. Like the desktop Windows, the Windows Mobile OS itself isn't open source, but it doesn't limit what you can do or install on the device. That's the main point.
Symbian used to be same way too, and even while they did all certificates for apps, you can still disable that option and install any third party software on it.
But Apple is directly and solely locking up the device without a possibility to disable that. And in fact it would be great if all Wii, PS3 and 360 were open, but it hurts their sales (like with Apple too). Interestingly, Microsoft is most open with the XNA for hobbyist and indie developers.
This is probably better to compare between commercial software and open source software, ie. Windows & Mac OS X against Linux. FOSS usually tends to have more technical people developing the software who don't always remember usability and interface things. After all a lot of things in Linux are still done in CLI too, which is really powerful and scriptable way to do things, but it really isn't something an non-technical end user will find usable.
On the other hand big commercial software like Windows and Mac OS X have dedicated people working on the GUI and usability side of things (Apple is really known for this). These people have more time and money in hands to actually spend thinking about it a lot, while FOSS developers tend to spend it on new features. Which I would do too, since thats the more interesting aspect.
For example there still isn't a good alternative for Visual Studio. The others kind of get there, but theres always some quirks or it just isn't a complete package. It's done for the FOSS developer's needs who is working with it and either some things are missing or aren't just polished as some other parts of the software, especially on UI side.
Exactly, and it's not like there is so much heavy processing cpu wise. Facebook probably has calculated that they can get enough performance out of recoding the runtime (even 1% is large enough for site as large as facebook). While doing that they also create a faster runtime that everyone can use. Everyone moving to write their sites in C/C++ doesn't make any sense.
Also a lot of the site structure can be cached in memcache or accelerating proxies like squid, so you aren't actually interpreting PHP code lots of the time. Facebook also did a lot of work towards memcache, because they are mostly a DB heavy site, not CPU.
Corporations need to apply by laws, There are laws I don't like in my country, there are laws I don't like in US, and there definitely are laws I don't like in China. But if you want to work in any of these environments, you have to go by laws
The iPhone is only success in US (says something about the population?). Elsewhere, without contracts, Nokia and HTC are dominating and Apple can barely sell any. And they've got into big legal battles.
Ignoring asking about it on the Ask Slashdot section (which you intelligently avoided);
Get friendlier with the people that are interested in the project. Not just answering their questions, but actually become a friend with them. Then ask them to do the same to other people. And get friendlier with many of them. It works in real life circles and it works in computer circles - some people are just going to lose interest no matter what you do, so you're better of getting to know as many people as you know (as you're better of getting to know as many girls as possible)
Spreading word about FOSS project is actually no different than what it is in the real world. Charisma, getting people to work with you and having a reason to do so. We would all like everything to be just on mere technical terms, but it really isn't so. Learning to interact with people the best way goes a long way - in business world, in FOSS world, with girls.
Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
I also do not agree with their methods, but that is completely against why you do not. There are probably many pirates who did not check that "submit scores" check box. And they didn't even account into that, they just looked at the pure stats on their servers.
And this is an indie company. They have stated they have no interest suing the players who pirate it but want to gather statistics about the how much pirates there are compared to customers. They have no reason to lie about the stats. And from my experience, these stats are close to any other game other than MMO's.
Anyhow, you are free to have your opinion even if I think you're trolling/like to act as a pro-piracy. I'm done with the discussion.
They do let you know before sale. If you look at the sales page, it lists the extra components needed.
Besides that, while I also think it was somewhat inconvenient, did it really bother that much? I know the slippery slope thing and all, but I was fine with it. As long as it doesn't become a trend.
You US and your stupid contracts while buying device. Here in Europe you buy the device, then you ask your mobile operator to send you an extra SIM card so you can attach it to iPad in addition to your mobile phone and 3G usb device. All on same service contract and price.
Now continue reading a little bit more and you see that
after factoring both of these in, the piracy rate would still be 82%, and we should keep in mind that this number doesn’t include those who never opted to submit scores to the leaderboard (it’s an option that’s off by default). so while it’s possible that the actual piracy rate is lower than 90%, it’s unlikely that it’s significantly lower.
Have you actually done code development? There are language options and if's for exactly this purpose. Based on parameters, some code will be build to the exe and some will be not. It can still exist in the source files, but compiler will ignore it.
While your other text was insightful, I don't really agree to this. Making a system to support this won't be much work for a software company. The system will most likely be something that only needs to ping every 60 seconds or around that, so there won't be any latency issued in the game itself. And somewhere else in the discussion was that it's more costs for them - but what is some extra $500-1000 per month for auth servers for a company that is size of Ubisoft, if they can get much more sales from casual people because of it?
I completely agree with you. This whole thing just asks for "fail". The whole thing is completely unintuitive, has the same closed approach as iPhone and doesn't have any technical or usability options one would think would be good. Missing a pen too.
And no, I do not want to buy every single software from an App Store that I would like to use. I want there to be freeware and shareware programmers, and I WANT TO DEVELOP SOFTWARE MYSELF. Even Microsoft's tablets are more open than this. Give me choice.
I won't be buying this. Ridiculous prices to pay even more for the software. It's funny to see what will come out of this. This will most likely be a slap on Apple's face and they will fall back to earth from their cloud castles.
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Because they can start learning it when they actually need it? The top languages in the world:
Total number of native and secondary speakers of top languages.
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
2. English (480 million)
3. Spanish (320 million)
4. Russian (285 million)
5. French (265 million)
6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
7. Arabic (221 million)
8. Portuguese (188 million)
9. Bengali (185 million)
10. Japanese (133 million)
11. German (109 million)
Just because you live next to Germany and it makes sense to you, it doesn't mean it makes sense to everyone.
Exactly. Like the desktop Windows, the Windows Mobile OS itself isn't open source, but it doesn't limit what you can do or install on the device. That's the main point.
Symbian used to be same way too, and even while they did all certificates for apps, you can still disable that option and install any third party software on it.
But Apple is directly and solely locking up the device without a possibility to disable that. And in fact it would be great if all Wii, PS3 and 360 were open, but it hurts their sales (like with Apple too). Interestingly, Microsoft is most open with the XNA for hobbyist and indie developers.
This is probably better to compare between commercial software and open source software, ie. Windows & Mac OS X against Linux. FOSS usually tends to have more technical people developing the software who don't always remember usability and interface things. After all a lot of things in Linux are still done in CLI too, which is really powerful and scriptable way to do things, but it really isn't something an non-technical end user will find usable.
On the other hand big commercial software like Windows and Mac OS X have dedicated people working on the GUI and usability side of things (Apple is really known for this). These people have more time and money in hands to actually spend thinking about it a lot, while FOSS developers tend to spend it on new features. Which I would do too, since thats the more interesting aspect.
For example there still isn't a good alternative for Visual Studio. The others kind of get there, but theres always some quirks or it just isn't a complete package. It's done for the FOSS developer's needs who is working with it and either some things are missing or aren't just polished as some other parts of the software, especially on UI side.
Masten
Masten Space Systems will fly anything you want into space and back for $250/kg:
Not at all that pricey actually. Could easily launch a few pizzas there, just as a pleasant surprise for some astronauts walking by.
Launching myself would still be like $25 000 though, even if I go without a space suit.
Exactly, and it's not like there is so much heavy processing cpu wise. Facebook probably has calculated that they can get enough performance out of recoding the runtime (even 1% is large enough for site as large as facebook). While doing that they also create a faster runtime that everyone can use. Everyone moving to write their sites in C/C++ doesn't make any sense.
Also a lot of the site structure can be cached in memcache or accelerating proxies like squid, so you aren't actually interpreting PHP code lots of the time. Facebook also did a lot of work towards memcache, because they are mostly a DB heavy site, not CPU.
JWASM is for lazy developers. I develop my webapps in machine code and I even wrote my own internet to improve performance.
Exactly. Completely FUD from the GP. And still moderators modded it up.. sad.
Unless they're mute.
Well, you have to think about it under more. This story is NOT about pizza!
Corporations need to apply by laws, There are laws I don't like in my country, there are laws I don't like in US, and there definitely are laws I don't like in China. But if you want to work in any of these environments, you have to go by laws
Visual Studio is free for students.
The iPhone is only success in US (says something about the population?). Elsewhere, without contracts, Nokia and HTC are dominating and Apple can barely sell any. And they've got into big legal battles.
Ignoring asking about it on the Ask Slashdot section (which you intelligently avoided);
Get friendlier with the people that are interested in the project. Not just answering their questions, but actually become a friend with them. Then ask them to do the same to other people. And get friendlier with many of them. It works in real life circles and it works in computer circles - some people are just going to lose interest no matter what you do, so you're better of getting to know as many people as you know (as you're better of getting to know as many girls as possible)
Spreading word about FOSS project is actually no different than what it is in the real world. Charisma, getting people to work with you and having a reason to do so. We would all like everything to be just on mere technical terms, but it really isn't so. Learning to interact with people the best way goes a long way - in business world, in FOSS world, with girls.
Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
I also do not agree with their methods, but that is completely against why you do not. There are probably many pirates who did not check that "submit scores" check box. And they didn't even account into that, they just looked at the pure stats on their servers.
And this is an indie company. They have stated they have no interest suing the players who pirate it but want to gather statistics about the how much pirates there are compared to customers. They have no reason to lie about the stats. And from my experience, these stats are close to any other game other than MMO's.
Anyhow, you are free to have your opinion even if I think you're trolling/like to act as a pro-piracy. I'm done with the discussion.
okay now I cant say anything else than /cry
They do let you know before sale. If you look at the sales page, it lists the extra components needed.
Besides that, while I also think it was somewhat inconvenient, did it really bother that much? I know the slippery slope thing and all, but I was fine with it. As long as it doesn't become a trend.
You US and your stupid contracts while buying device. Here in Europe you buy the device, then you ask your mobile operator to send you an extra SIM card so you can attach it to iPad in addition to your mobile phone and 3G usb device. All on same service contract and price.
Comments of a guy who copied everything else in the industry
Now continue reading a little bit more and you see that
after factoring both of these in, the piracy rate would still be 82%, and we should keep in mind that this number doesn’t include those who never opted to submit scores to the leaderboard (it’s an option that’s off by default). so while it’s possible that the actual piracy rate is lower than 90%, it’s unlikely that it’s significantly lower.
But I'm off for the night. Laters!
That's not Steams fault, it's Rockstar's fault.
Have you actually done code development? There are language options and if's for exactly this purpose. Based on parameters, some code will be build to the exe and some will be not. It can still exist in the source files, but compiler will ignore it.
While your other text was insightful, I don't really agree to this. Making a system to support this won't be much work for a software company. The system will most likely be something that only needs to ping every 60 seconds or around that, so there won't be any latency issued in the game itself. And somewhere else in the discussion was that it's more costs for them - but what is some extra $500-1000 per month for auth servers for a company that is size of Ubisoft, if they can get much more sales from casual people because of it?
But will it support gprs too on places where 3G isn't available? It's something it really need to have.
I completely agree with you. This whole thing just asks for "fail". The whole thing is completely unintuitive, has the same closed approach as iPhone and doesn't have any technical or usability options one would think would be good. Missing a pen too.
And no, I do not want to buy every single software from an App Store that I would like to use. I want there to be freeware and shareware programmers, and I WANT TO DEVELOP SOFTWARE MYSELF. Even Microsoft's tablets are more open than this. Give me choice.
I won't be buying this. Ridiculous prices to pay even more for the software. It's funny to see what will come out of this. This will most likely be a slap on Apple's face and they will fall back to earth from their cloud castles.