Education on Apps and Websites is the future. Right now you can do it if you're an active learner, but it will keep getting better and better. There will be a transition between active learning to spoonfed education over the next 2-6 years. There will be apps you can sit a little kid down on, and they'll learn English and Math without a teacher... In fact I believe at their own pace, kids will be able to learn better than in traditional school! And even more importantly, smart phones keep going down on prices and 3rd world countries are affording tech here and there now where education is really bad. So anything you can get in terms of education on Apps, that is the future. If we're over saturating the app stores, lets make it educational products. Education online might not be for everyone now, but every year that passes makes it better.
Poor people have less nutrition for their body. Poor people have less access to toys and media which exercise the brains. Thankfully smart phone prices are coming down in price, and educational apps are popping up all the time. So in third world countries, people may be able to get education straight from a smart phone. We as app developers should have education in mind. Whether we're doing illustrated story books which the spoken word synched with highlighted words, or we're doing K-12-University lectures and workbook activities... We should focus more on education and helping out over directly our own pocketbooks to a degree.
Political nonsense can always sometimes be used as a tool to push down competitors or elevate yourself with subsidies. If one energy source gets cheap, all other energy sources will stop getting as much profits. So there is always some at least light effort gamesmanship to trip up your competitors, and sometimes it is fierce. Think: If everyone had solar installments and hybrid electric plugin cars, not as many people would need gasoline(demand goes down, gas prices go down). Is the president shutting down coal power plants? Well the gas driven power plants are applauding his action.
Anyone who remembers how badly #AskNeal went down as a hockey fan, I'm surprised anyone would ever post #AskWhatever ever again because it is basically taunting the trolls. Trolls will come, and trolls will go, but don't encourage them.
So many idiots get their knowledge of the candidates by scripted television ads. This is how you end up electing Monty Burns.
If instead there was a website where you could put in issues you find important (checkboxes) and get a record of voting on these issues by people in office, you could see if your incumbent did what you find important. It'd require some hard workers to simplify complex obfuscated legislation into an easy to understand format, so it is not an easy website to make, but it would be valuable.
Then people would be forced to check how their politician did against what they find important before they reelect people at the voting machines.
The thing the C64 has on todays machines is: No matter what software you ran in it, you could boot it up again cleanly. Maybe they should work on getting back that positive trait on modern computers. Even you have to separate the boot hard disk from what can be read/written to, it would be so worth it. Virus fears are the reason I hesitate to browse boldly, or to download and run any.exe.
When you code, the most important thing to do is get your memory architecture built right, then methods just write themselves. Come back later and want to make a better method, you can use your old code as a partial refactor. It is an agile sort of run and gun approach and it works.
Refactoring for the sake of refactoring is often wasted time for the original author for there is ways of understanding code past just nice variable names and indentation. Sometimes even badly formatted code stands out and reminds you what it did to remind you of how it works. But when you code in a group, this doesn't hold true and a refactor can help.
Yahoo has a great news thread that somehow custom tailors to you without you doing anything. It knows I like hockey and video games, but I never clicked any options. Sure yahoo is distracting with all the extra content, and you can forget why you came to the search page, but distractions can be good.
I always figure more search engines are good. We don't want the web to end up with just one search engine to rule them all. The only downside I say Yahoo or Google have is its hard to tell which websites are advertisements because they normally peddle malware. You'd think Google and Yahoo wouldn't allow sponsored links to come up first if they're hosting malware, but I guess the money they get trumps them being more functional.
1) You can use Join.me or Gotomeeting and everyone can share the same picture. Fire up a paint program, and voila whiteboard. I find coding with multiple people actually is cool when everyone can see the screen instead of being uncomfortably bunched together.
2) For a bulletin board todo list, use www.Trello.com
I love telecommuting work, it feels more efficient than in person office work.
My dream for Dreamcast was that one of those JRPG makers would have made a solid MMO, and that there would have been dual: That Lameo Modem along side a LAN connection. Everyone knew online multiplayer was the future. If Dreamcast would have been the hardware for it, things could have been different. The only hard part is that broadband was just beginning to take off in rural areas over the next 5 years. So a lan connection might have been too ahead of its time... Not sure.
If I was the head of Sega, I'd keep making software, but I'd aim for mobile targets. Make Sega games for Android Tablet/Phone with a gamepad option. Start by porting the classics, or even just licensing an emulator for like 5% of sales revenue. The cash would pour in and it wouldn't take any coding time at all, just licensing deals. You might pressure Apple into a joystick driver on ipad/iphone. You could port games to run off keyboard for ipad/iphone. And if Apple won't get off their butts to make a joystick driver, you could make a joystick that operates like a keyboard. Sega would be in the drivers seat, and set up a precedence for other companies to make their old video games run on mobile or lose revenue.
If there is already a free solution to make calls over WIFI, why should I pay someone 5$ for it. Or maybe this service isn't for me. Maybe it is a "technical ignorance tax". Hey there are even cell phones you can pay 8$/month for now and make calls anywhere without being restricted to wifi.
Libraries have too long been a place where people could share information, books, movies, and games. This senseless devaluation of media hurts content producers. You've done society a disservice for too long libraries. Your time is coming.
The software Uber uses isn't particularly complex. A lone coder could code it up very rapidly. The only thing it got going for it in terms of competition is that,"Why should people use a different service when this one works?" So if another country wanted to make an Uber competitor and ban Uber, they can do it very easily. Every different country could have its own version of a smart phone summoned taxi service and it wouldn't cost that much in term of dev hours to the profit gained for not using someone else.
When I heard about self driving cars becoming possible, I immediately thought that some corporation with big pockets should buy a bunch and then write a basic ride share application to allow people to schedule taxis and get to work. I didn't even hear of Uber before this, but I did theorize a taxi service could be launched without even self driving cars. What Uber does in terms of an ap is not complex nor difficult to code. Google should just code their own ride sharing ap for when their self driving cars become feasible. I still don't have high hopes on self driving cars becoming feasible any time soon, but I understand why Google wants to give them positive press.
Watch the game from a bunch of different angles. Put several different TVs in a sports bar with all the different angles, get way more customers. Then mic up all the players and choose the channel you want to listen to. It'd lead to famous trash talk segments when video with sound are linked on forums.
Exactly, it isn't science that steers you wrong, its the people who want to make a buck off the new fad.
Everything I learned in physics still applies: If you want to burn calories, you need to do work. F=ma. W=Fs. Go out there and move more. Put 1-2 hours of exercise in a day(it doesn't even have to require strenuous effort, skip the pushups), and have a reasonable diet then you'll get in shape over the course of 6 months.
Science is correct, but the way people use scientific results can be disingenuous. For example I saw Lucky Charms reported as a health food because it had oat pieces and oats are scientifically seen to promote heart health...
When someone asks me for the score of a game, I tell them,"NFL prohibits descriptions of accounts of the game without their expressed written permission."
It doesn't bode well for Linux that it is also not the year of the Windows Desktop or Apple Desktop. It is the year of the smart phone. The year of the desktop may never return. Desktops are better suited for developers and smart phones are better suited to consumers.
What would make me actually like Windows would be if its operating system was virus resistant so I could download any.exe I wanted and have it run in a sandbox.
I'm not skilled as an open source project manager or working on any open source project. So I'm afraid I don't know how that works. There's really not a lot of code that needs to be written either. There's only like a year of code or so, and then a year or so of play testing, tweaking, and features to add.
I mean if some of you guys wanted to collaborate with me because you think the idea sounds neet, leave me your reddit.com ids here or some way to contact you. Like I said in my original post, I could really use someone who knows how to communicate from JavaAS3(Flash) via sockets. But I can also use artists, and beta testers too.
I wasn't going turn based... But yes, the sessions are planned to be many hour events, but you don't need to play the whole thing. When you're not on, there's a small penalty in addition to custom AI taking over.
Touch pad is perfect for games where you make choices in drop down menus like a turn based strategy game, or a game like Final Fantasy. The touch pad generally fails for action oriented reflex/twitch video games as the controls aren't crisp.
I understand this. The project is mostly a hobby project that I may or may not be able to put time into because I'm already working on another project. So while I've made video games in the past, I'm not sure I'll actually finish this. I just don't want to dash anyone's hopes right now.
If the thing materializes better, I'd definitely like to have someone who knows marketing on board and how to make a successful kick starter. If you know anyone like that, let me know. I even have a use for a marketer now if they know how to get a quality match-3 game popular.
I too am working on a space civilization style simulator for Ipad/Android tablet.
My theory was that with all the fame of games like Clash of Clans, why not take competition one step further to games like Risk, Civilization, or Master of Orion?
Touch pad is perfect for those turn based games like that. They're just a bit more challenging to write since you need to write a custom active server since P2P would just invite hackers to ruin your day.
I could talk more on this project, but its so early in development that it isn't anything more than a hobby affair. I was thinking of taking my time on this one, sculpt it just right, and have good polish on it for 2-4 years out from now. One of the things slowing me down is that I can't seem to get Java to communicate with AS3 via sockets. So it is looking like I'll probably have to write my game server in C/C++ which will be a challenge without garbage collection, nice arrays, debugging, nice strings, an ide, and so forth.
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Education on Apps and Websites is the future. Right now you can do it if you're an active learner, but it will keep getting better and better. There will be a transition between active learning to spoonfed education over the next 2-6 years. There will be apps you can sit a little kid down on, and they'll learn English and Math without a teacher... In fact I believe at their own pace, kids will be able to learn better than in traditional school! And even more importantly, smart phones keep going down on prices and 3rd world countries are affording tech here and there now where education is really bad. So anything you can get in terms of education on Apps, that is the future. If we're over saturating the app stores, lets make it educational products. Education online might not be for everyone now, but every year that passes makes it better.
Poor people have less nutrition for their body. Poor people have less access to toys and media which exercise the brains. Thankfully smart phone prices are coming down in price, and educational apps are popping up all the time. So in third world countries, people may be able to get education straight from a smart phone. We as app developers should have education in mind. Whether we're doing illustrated story books which the spoken word synched with highlighted words, or we're doing K-12-University lectures and workbook activities... We should focus more on education and helping out over directly our own pocketbooks to a degree.
Political nonsense can always sometimes be used as a tool to push down competitors or elevate yourself with subsidies. If one energy source gets cheap, all other energy sources will stop getting as much profits. So there is always some at least light effort gamesmanship to trip up your competitors, and sometimes it is fierce. Think: If everyone had solar installments and hybrid electric plugin cars, not as many people would need gasoline(demand goes down, gas prices go down). Is the president shutting down coal power plants? Well the gas driven power plants are applauding his action.
Anyone who remembers how badly #AskNeal went down as a hockey fan, I'm surprised anyone would ever post #AskWhatever ever again because it is basically taunting the trolls. Trolls will come, and trolls will go, but don't encourage them.
So many idiots get their knowledge of the candidates by scripted television ads. This is how you end up electing Monty Burns.
If instead there was a website where you could put in issues you find important (checkboxes) and get a record of voting on these issues by people in office, you could see if your incumbent did what you find important. It'd require some hard workers to simplify complex obfuscated legislation into an easy to understand format, so it is not an easy website to make, but it would be valuable.
Then people would be forced to check how their politician did against what they find important before they reelect people at the voting machines.
Twitter should have a way to disable picture tweets altogether. One main reason I left facebook was the meme spam.
The thing the C64 has on todays machines is: No matter what software you ran in it, you could boot it up again cleanly. Maybe they should work on getting back that positive trait on modern computers. Even you have to separate the boot hard disk from what can be read/written to, it would be so worth it. Virus fears are the reason I hesitate to browse boldly, or to download and run any .exe.
When you code, the most important thing to do is get your memory architecture built right, then methods just write themselves. Come back later and want to make a better method, you can use your old code as a partial refactor. It is an agile sort of run and gun approach and it works.
Refactoring for the sake of refactoring is often wasted time for the original author for there is ways of understanding code past just nice variable names and indentation. Sometimes even badly formatted code stands out and reminds you what it did to remind you of how it works. But when you code in a group, this doesn't hold true and a refactor can help.
Yahoo has a great news thread that somehow custom tailors to you without you doing anything. It knows I like hockey and video games, but I never clicked any options. Sure yahoo is distracting with all the extra content, and you can forget why you came to the search page, but distractions can be good.
I always figure more search engines are good. We don't want the web to end up with just one search engine to rule them all. The only downside I say Yahoo or Google have is its hard to tell which websites are advertisements because they normally peddle malware. You'd think Google and Yahoo wouldn't allow sponsored links to come up first if they're hosting malware, but I guess the money they get trumps them being more functional.
1) You can use Join.me or Gotomeeting and everyone can share the same picture. Fire up a paint program, and voila whiteboard. I find coding with multiple people actually is cool when everyone can see the screen instead of being uncomfortably bunched together.
2) For a bulletin board todo list, use www.Trello.com
I love telecommuting work, it feels more efficient than in person office work.
My dream for Dreamcast was that one of those JRPG makers would have made a solid MMO, and that there would have been dual: That Lameo Modem along side a LAN connection. Everyone knew online multiplayer was the future. If Dreamcast would have been the hardware for it, things could have been different. The only hard part is that broadband was just beginning to take off in rural areas over the next 5 years. So a lan connection might have been too ahead of its time... Not sure.
If I was the head of Sega, I'd keep making software, but I'd aim for mobile targets. Make Sega games for Android Tablet/Phone with a gamepad option. Start by porting the classics, or even just licensing an emulator for like 5% of sales revenue. The cash would pour in and it wouldn't take any coding time at all, just licensing deals. You might pressure Apple into a joystick driver on ipad/iphone. You could port games to run off keyboard for ipad/iphone. And if Apple won't get off their butts to make a joystick driver, you could make a joystick that operates like a keyboard. Sega would be in the drivers seat, and set up a precedence for other companies to make their old video games run on mobile or lose revenue.
Go to reddit.com, and allow people to suggest punishments. The most upvoted punishment after 1 day becomes the punishment.
If there is already a free solution to make calls over WIFI, why should I pay someone 5$ for it. Or maybe this service isn't for me. Maybe it is a "technical ignorance tax". Hey there are even cell phones you can pay 8$/month for now and make calls anywhere without being restricted to wifi.
Libraries have too long been a place where people could share information, books, movies, and games. This senseless devaluation of media hurts content producers. You've done society a disservice for too long libraries. Your time is coming.
The software Uber uses isn't particularly complex. A lone coder could code it up very rapidly. The only thing it got going for it in terms of competition is that,"Why should people use a different service when this one works?" So if another country wanted to make an Uber competitor and ban Uber, they can do it very easily. Every different country could have its own version of a smart phone summoned taxi service and it wouldn't cost that much in term of dev hours to the profit gained for not using someone else.
When I heard about self driving cars becoming possible, I immediately thought that some corporation with big pockets should buy a bunch and then write a basic ride share application to allow people to schedule taxis and get to work. I didn't even hear of Uber before this, but I did theorize a taxi service could be launched without even self driving cars. What Uber does in terms of an ap is not complex nor difficult to code. Google should just code their own ride sharing ap for when their self driving cars become feasible. I still don't have high hopes on self driving cars becoming feasible any time soon, but I understand why Google wants to give them positive press.
Watch the game from a bunch of different angles. Put several different TVs in a sports bar with all the different angles, get way more customers. Then mic up all the players and choose the channel you want to listen to. It'd lead to famous trash talk segments when video with sound are linked on forums.
Exactly, it isn't science that steers you wrong, its the people who want to make a buck off the new fad.
Everything I learned in physics still applies: If you want to burn calories, you need to do work. F=ma. W=Fs. Go out there and move more. Put 1-2 hours of exercise in a day(it doesn't even have to require strenuous effort, skip the pushups), and have a reasonable diet then you'll get in shape over the course of 6 months.
Science is correct, but the way people use scientific results can be disingenuous. For example I saw Lucky Charms reported as a health food because it had oat pieces and oats are scientifically seen to promote heart health...
When someone asks me for the score of a game, I tell them,"NFL prohibits descriptions of accounts of the game without their expressed written permission."
It doesn't bode well for Linux that it is also not the year of the Windows Desktop or Apple Desktop. It is the year of the smart phone. The year of the desktop may never return. Desktops are better suited for developers and smart phones are better suited to consumers.
What would make me actually like Windows would be if its operating system was virus resistant so I could download any .exe I wanted and have it run in a sandbox.
I'm not skilled as an open source project manager or working on any open source project. So I'm afraid I don't know how that works. There's really not a lot of code that needs to be written either. There's only like a year of code or so, and then a year or so of play testing, tweaking, and features to add.
I mean if some of you guys wanted to collaborate with me because you think the idea sounds neet, leave me your reddit.com ids here or some way to contact you. Like I said in my original post, I could really use someone who knows how to communicate from JavaAS3(Flash) via sockets. But I can also use artists, and beta testers too.
I wasn't going turn based... But yes, the sessions are planned to be many hour events, but you don't need to play the whole thing. When you're not on, there's a small penalty in addition to custom AI taking over.
Touch pad is perfect for games where you make choices in drop down menus like a turn based strategy game, or a game like Final Fantasy. The touch pad generally fails for action oriented reflex/twitch video games as the controls aren't crisp.
I understand this. The project is mostly a hobby project that I may or may not be able to put time into because I'm already working on another project. So while I've made video games in the past, I'm not sure I'll actually finish this. I just don't want to dash anyone's hopes right now.
If the thing materializes better, I'd definitely like to have someone who knows marketing on board and how to make a successful kick starter. If you know anyone like that, let me know. I even have a use for a marketer now if they know how to get a quality match-3 game popular.
I too am working on a space civilization style simulator for Ipad/Android tablet.
My theory was that with all the fame of games like Clash of Clans, why not take competition one step further to games like Risk, Civilization, or Master of Orion?
Touch pad is perfect for those turn based games like that. They're just a bit more challenging to write since you need to write a custom active server since P2P would just invite hackers to ruin your day.
I could talk more on this project, but its so early in development that it isn't anything more than a hobby affair. I was thinking of taking my time on this one, sculpt it just right, and have good polish on it for 2-4 years out from now. One of the things slowing me down is that I can't seem to get Java to communicate with AS3 via sockets. So it is looking like I'll probably have to write my game server in C/C++ which will be a challenge without garbage collection, nice arrays, debugging, nice strings, an ide, and so forth.