These are software developers just about within a commute of where I live (except High Moon, who talked about SCRUM in an interview). I've had job interviews with most of them. Design processes are usually mentioned.
So, uhm... You don't know either, but your devotion is such that you believe that the prophet Steve Jobs has something and if I dare question this possibility I'm an Apple basher.
Well, most of the games industry is in love with Scrum. I have met Gwaredd though. He's one of the few people I've met who actually knows about design methdologies.
Yes. It's convenient jargon. Scrum is a design methodology. Sprints are short project segments where a defined piece of work is completed. Waterfall is the traditional requirements, design, implementation, verification, maintenance way of developing software.
We use these terms because it's very long winded to spell out what we mean in much the same way that we say wi-fi when talking about a wireless system for transmitting data between general purpose computing devices.
The thing about games is that what looks good in the design doesn't always work in an actual game. You can't determine whether something is fun without creating a sample and playing it. Then you work out how to tweak it to make it work or make it better. You need an iterative approach.
The "customers" in this case are the designers (and possibly the testers).
I've received a graphics card and three games purely on the basis that I worked on the development teams. This wasn't because I demanded. It's just typically the done thing.
Evidently though, Google didn't think Linux was a part of the development process. Fair enough. It's up to them.
Now, if I made a Windows CE based product and Microsoft wanted some samples I'd be tempted to send them without asking the reason. They might have a good reason and if not it wouldn't cost me that much. However, other companies may see things differently.
Is he saying that because a subsidised Nexus 1 + contract is $49 more than an unsubsidised Nexus 1 + contract, they're selling the phone for $49? I think his maths is backwards. Either that or the phone would be $1 if T-Mobile increased their subsidised contract price by $2 per month.
Well, it's not really about whether people are happy with it. It is quite clearly dishonest and in an ideal world, all dishonesty of this sort would be illegal.
The problem is there's no clear line about what is and isn't legal. Hiding recurring charges in small print should be illegal and may well be unenforcable, whereas putting reasonable limitations in the small print is just a means to be sure all the information is provided.
Well, it's certainly misleading, deliberately so, and is intended for financial gain. I wonder if there is a possibility of fraud. Putting terms in with the full knowledge that people aren't going to read them is surely deception. Surely gullibility of the victim isn't a defence.
Now, if it is true that the PTO is incapable of rotating a piece of paper, that is sad news indeed.
Although everyone assumes that the fax is received using a fax machine. Speaking for myself, I've received only a handful of faxes in my life, but none of them have been on paper. Presumably the website interface had a button that would have rotated them, but I can't be sure (It was never an issue). However, their fax software may not ave this feature for some obscure reason.
It's possible that it's a fully automated system, and the programmers and testers simply didn't consider that someone might flip the document, so nobody put the line of code if(isInverted()) flip(); in.
Well, we don't know what software they use. Using off the shelf scanner software would require a lot of manual intervention which the system is meant to avoid, and OCR is just an example of the sort of system. It may be as simple as an automated queueing system. The patent clerk clicks a button and the next received fax appears on his screen. If it's upside down the software may have no way at all to invert it, and certainly no way more convenient than a simple request to resend.
But if it's a totally automated system, there might be no intermediate image. Computer receives fax, does all processing, rejects if it can't read it. Software wasn't written with upside down faxes in mind. The simplest solution to this is to tell the sender to resend the other way up.
(rejected for length; hardly an issue given the length of recent epics).
Wouldn't it have had a 6 hour running time? That's pretty epic, and the cinemas will lose a lot of ticket sales since they only get half as many showings per screen.
I run firefox, thunderbird an MSN app and a twitter app on my netbook.
It would make no difference at all to me if I had Linux rather than Windows. I also have a desktop PC which I occasionally use. That has Windows and would require an alternative for a lot of applications if I were to change to Linux. But the netbook doesn't replace the PC. It supplements it and has no need to be compatible with the desktop in any way.
As the games are BROADCASTED to the PUBLIC open and free, doesn't that make any copyright null and void?
No. But if they're transmitted using public airwaves, people should have the right to demodulate and watch them, and not have to pay extra for the privilege just because they happen to have worked out a way to make more money from it.
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These are software developers just about within a commute of where I live (except High Moon, who talked about SCRUM in an interview). I've had job interviews with most of them. Design processes are usually mentioned.
Ah... So that is the ultimate question to life, the universe and everything to which the answer is 42.
So, uhm... You don't know either, but your devotion is such that you believe that the prophet Steve Jobs has something and if I dare question this possibility I'm an Apple basher.
Grow up.
The most important question is "Has Apple found a niche for this product that other Tablet PC manufacturers have been unable to find?"
Call them up and ask them?
When they screw us they use lube!
Well, most of the games industry is in love with Scrum. I have met Gwaredd though. He's one of the few people I've met who actually knows about design methdologies.
You don't need to be told. Waterfall is a description of the design process, not an advocated design process.
I can imagine an agile, iterative model being used in-house, at least for some parts.
This is exactly how it works.
Yes. It's convenient jargon. Scrum is a design methodology. Sprints are short project segments where a defined piece of work is completed. Waterfall is the traditional requirements, design, implementation, verification, maintenance way of developing software.
We use these terms because it's very long winded to spell out what we mean in much the same way that we say wi-fi when talking about a wireless system for transmitting data between general purpose computing devices.
Kuju, EA, Ignition, High Moon, Creative Assembly. Probably a few others but the only games company I know that isn't explicitly is Climax.
The thing about games is that what looks good in the design doesn't always work in an actual game. You can't determine whether something is fun without creating a sample and playing it. Then you work out how to tweak it to make it work or make it better. You need an iterative approach.
The "customers" in this case are the designers (and possibly the testers).
I've received a graphics card and three games purely on the basis that I worked on the development teams. This wasn't because I demanded. It's just typically the done thing.
Evidently though, Google didn't think Linux was a part of the development process. Fair enough. It's up to them.
Now, if I made a Windows CE based product and Microsoft wanted some samples I'd be tempted to send them without asking the reason. They might have a good reason and if not it wouldn't cost me that much. However, other companies may see things differently.
But that comment didn't make the front page of Slashdot, Linus's mobile phone purchase did.
Is he saying that because a subsidised Nexus 1 + contract is $49 more than an unsubsidised Nexus 1 + contract, they're selling the phone for $49? I think his maths is backwards. Either that or the phone would be $1 if T-Mobile increased their subsidised contract price by $2 per month.
Well, it's not really about whether people are happy with it. It is quite clearly dishonest and in an ideal world, all dishonesty of this sort would be illegal.
The problem is there's no clear line about what is and isn't legal. Hiding recurring charges in small print should be illegal and may well be unenforcable, whereas putting reasonable limitations in the small print is just a means to be sure all the information is provided.
Well, it's certainly misleading, deliberately so, and is intended for financial gain. I wonder if there is a possibility of fraud. Putting terms in with the full knowledge that people aren't going to read them is surely deception. Surely gullibility of the victim isn't a defence.
Now, if it is true that the PTO is incapable of rotating a piece of paper, that is sad news indeed.
Although everyone assumes that the fax is received using a fax machine. Speaking for myself, I've received only a handful of faxes in my life, but none of them have been on paper. Presumably the website interface had a button that would have rotated them, but I can't be sure (It was never an issue). However, their fax software may not ave this feature for some obscure reason.
It's possible that it's a fully automated system, and the programmers and testers simply didn't consider that someone might flip the document, so nobody put the line of code if(isInverted()) flip(); in.
Well, we don't know what software they use. Using off the shelf scanner software would require a lot of manual intervention which the system is meant to avoid, and OCR is just an example of the sort of system. It may be as simple as an automated queueing system. The patent clerk clicks a button and the next received fax appears on his screen. If it's upside down the software may have no way at all to invert it, and certainly no way more convenient than a simple request to resend.
But if it's a totally automated system, there might be no intermediate image. Computer receives fax, does all processing, rejects if it can't read it. Software wasn't written with upside down faxes in mind. The simplest solution to this is to tell the sender to resend the other way up.
Don't think that exists in OpenGL ES.
(rejected for length; hardly an issue given the length of recent epics).
Wouldn't it have had a 6 hour running time? That's pretty epic, and the cinemas will lose a lot of ticket sales since they only get half as many showings per screen.
I run firefox, thunderbird an MSN app and a twitter app on my netbook.
It would make no difference at all to me if I had Linux rather than Windows. I also have a desktop PC which I occasionally use. That has Windows and would require an alternative for a lot of applications if I were to change to Linux. But the netbook doesn't replace the PC. It supplements it and has no need to be compatible with the desktop in any way.
As the games are BROADCASTED to the PUBLIC open and free, doesn't that make any copyright null and void?
No. But if they're transmitted using public airwaves, people should have the right to demodulate and watch them, and not have to pay extra for the privilege just because they happen to have worked out a way to make more money from it.