I'm using FlashBuilder 4.7, and that is how I make my Android Aps. Flash does not give a good way to read the screen resolution in Android(I searched this problem for over a year). I actually wrote a hack in my program where the user basically calibrates the screen size to his device. I put a giant zoom button to the right and a giant zoom button to the bottom. If you press it, the screen gets incrementally bigger until the zoom buttons are no longer on the screen. I save that data to local, and you never see them again.
I want a program where I can take a video camera(aka smart phone), and walk around inside a building, aiming the camera around the walls and all over. And the end result would be a 3d model of the building I was in. This would be great for making video games. And attach it to the Google Car: And we could play Need for Speed: Cannon Ball run.
FCC doesn't care about the people. The government is supposed to regulate business so the businesses don't screw us so hard. The opposite is true now. Businesses buy off politicians so they can screw us twice as hard. I'll just leave this here.
There are a lot of things that if source code was available, other people could build on it and make higher quality products. In the absence of source code, people need to start from scratch often rebuilding the wheel.
Competition for money might get people to strive to make better pieces of art. But on the flip side, this same competition will sue your pants off for any reason they can find so you don't compete with them either.
An on an unrelated note, I had an idea for a zombie video game like Ground Hog day today. When you die, it starts out as the beginning of a zombie pandemic. As you die and play through it over and over, you get secrets to where weapons and supplies are. You find tricks you can use to survive and save people. Eventually you find out who caused the zombie pandemic. You can then kill him before he goes through with it. I'm not sure an ending where you serve in prison is a good ending though. I didn't think it the whole way through, but it sounded like a good premise for a zombie game.
This is an example of both oligopoly collaboration for inflated prices and corporations regulating the government instead of governments regulating the corporations. The collaboration for higher prices is with all the telecoms being buddy buddy and not even encroaching on each other territories as a general working premise. You don't see UPS and Fedex trying to sue away the post office because it unfairly competes. Comcast/Verizon just know they're getting away with higher prices for less service than you can get in other places. Afterall it costs money to upgrade your service, and their users are gonna pay them anyway whether they get 3mb/s or 1000 mb/s. Keeping legitimate competitors out of the picture who didn't get the memo,"Low quality service for high prices" further perpetuates the myth that you can't do anything better than what they're doing now.
The day when electric cars become also the economic decision is a revolutionary day for poor people. Some poor people struggle to make ends meet in part because of gasoline cuts into their income from commuting to work. Electricity costs about 1/10 as much as gasoline now, and with infrastructure upscaling, it could cost less in the future. So basically driving around would be free. People who rarely leave their house to conserve on fuel would be free to drive around. Maybe the roads would be more crowded, but they'd have the ability to frugally shop around at more stores for lower prices. This is because a poor person will spend more time to get better deals. The reason poor people don't travel to several stores at once now is because the gasoline prices say if you travel too far, what you gain in savings will be lost in fuel. With essentially free fuel, a poor person could be a more keen savings oriented shopper.
There's several advantages people don't realize to keeping much of your code in one source file. Ctrl+f is much more powerful, the less fragmented your code is in different files. Your code is much easier to read for new coders on the project than someone who puts 100 lines of code in 200 different files. You reserve other files for stuff that really benefits from the OO style so you don't lose flexibility. There's probably several other reasons to go for a gigantic single file, but the only major downside is that it affects compile time. I'm not going to downplay that, losing a few seconds per compile can add up if you're hyper agile like myself. But to say that there are no benefits for keeping your project in a single file is to be ignorant of alternative coding styles that are still high quality, manageable, and readable.
To conclude: Don't claim I'm using the software wrong when I find a bug in it.
MMORPGS are big man:) The number of lines in your code automatically mean you coded badly. It could mean your code is very complex with a lot of functions.
I'm not sure if it is Eclipse or Flashbuilder, but if you go over about 60k lines of code, you start getting type lag that gets progressively worse the more lines of code you write. If you like writing large systems in procedural while using OO sparingly, you can easily end up with 200-400k lines of code in one file.
Well if you clone a game to the point where you are using the same art assets and game play, that is cloning. And it should be pretty obvious it is not allowed. You quoted me on remaking gameplay. Xio doesn't remake gameplay or graphics, it copied Tetris. It is different than say making a 2d block based platformer like Super Mario Bros, Mega Man, Castlevania or Metroid. Where you might get sued if you started incorporating goombas to jump on and your main dude is a pallete swapped Mario.
Well to be fair if you remake ANY of the old titles exactly, you're probably going to get a lawsuit. But if you remake things game play, but have different graphics, music, etc, then you're set. I see a lot of good games coming out which are based on old games, but add new features. The bar for free games still isn't too high though, so its not like you even need a lot of new features yet.
Thats the ol music industry's slogan,"There's always a new generation of suckers we can market a new boy band singing recycled music."
Part of me thinks WOW may never totally die as it has lived over 10 years. There will be a new generation who wants to try it.
Flash Indie games knows this concept too. People are remaking old Atari 2600 and NES games and making them free to play/advert/microtransactions. If the major players like NIntendo aren't going to give their player's old rom collections for free/cheap, there will be a short term market for indie devs to recode the past. Everything old is new again.
Castlevania 1 (nesbar.com) was a great game. Castlevania 2 was fun and easy, if you know the trick to kneel at the right place. Castlevania 3 was pretty fun with several characters to choose from. Castlevania 4 for SNES was pretty fun. Castlevania Symphony of Night is generally regarded as one of the best Castlevanias of all time even demanding like 100$ for a copy. But all the 3d attempts have been failures across the board.
What Castlevania should do is make a giant game like Symphony of Night again, only bigger and more dependent on your RPG stats to do well at the end game. The trick would then be to make the grind not feel grindy, such as lots of mini levels you can go on before forwarding your main progression levels.
I think if Castlevania doesn't do it themselves, there's going to be an indie developer who strikes gold. There's even a term called MetroidVania of the side scrolling games, and people are making stabs at it. I just would think Konami has deep enough pockets to afford all the art to make a large scale game.
I don't see why 3d printed guns are such a big deal. It isn't like making a gun is difficult. People in prisons(limited materials) have made zip guns before. To me, it sounds like there's a group of people who feel threatened by 3d printers. They're probably manufacturing folk doing everything in their power to keep printers from catching on. I mean why else would people be trying to do so much anti PR against 3d printers? It is no great feat to make a gun without a 3d printer.
You'd think there'd be an open sourced project for hyperdemocracy. That you can just install in new governments that lets every person vote and petition the government more actively than they do now. It might take a specialized security nationalized Internet that is less susceptible to be hacked. But the code to allow people to petition the government, check how the president is acting vs what the people want, etc etc etc, could be reasonably done with an Open Source Hyperdemocracy ap. So when dictactors are removed, new governments by the people could be set up just by installing software. It might not be the best plan, but it could work. And if it does work, more places would adopt it.
From what I can tell: Windows is trying to move away from the.exe that can hose your system files. As such, they have Ap files and legacy support. You have to trust your legacy support, while the Aps can be run without a worry. This is how it should have been back in windows 98. But still, there is low adoption for 8.1, which means there is less people writing Aps. It is a chicken and the egg problem. No one wants to make aps, and no one wants 8.1 because there aren't many aps. Now in a few OS releases in the future, more and more people will have Ap capable OS, so more people will develop aps. I think over the course of 5-10 years, the whole ap thing will catch on. Windows could have a resurgence because people are no longer afraid of downloads hosing their PC, and can download hundreds or thousands of aps to play with risk free. I think IE could even catch on if it has a "Safe download" mode. Where when you download an AP, IE makes sure it isn't an.exe renamed.
When you're playing games like Quake, there's a difference between a 50ms ping and a 100ms ping. This is why Blizzard has an East Cost Server, a West Coast Server, an Asian Server and a Sea server.
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The moment when you can finally steal the bumper cars from the amusement park and drive them home.
I'm using FlashBuilder 4.7, and that is how I make my Android Aps. Flash does not give a good way to read the screen resolution in Android(I searched this problem for over a year). I actually wrote a hack in my program where the user basically calibrates the screen size to his device. I put a giant zoom button to the right and a giant zoom button to the bottom. If you press it, the screen gets incrementally bigger until the zoom buttons are no longer on the screen. I save that data to local, and you never see them again.
I want a program where I can take a video camera(aka smart phone), and walk around inside a building, aiming the camera around the walls and all over. And the end result would be a 3d model of the building I was in. This would be great for making video games. And attach it to the Google Car: And we could play Need for Speed: Cannon Ball run.
FCC doesn't care about the people. The government is supposed to regulate business so the businesses don't screw us so hard. The opposite is true now. Businesses buy off politicians so they can screw us twice as hard. I'll just leave this here.
I remember a time when Microsoft had a larger vision for surface.
There are a lot of things that if source code was available, other people could build on it and make higher quality products. In the absence of source code, people need to start from scratch often rebuilding the wheel.
Competition for money might get people to strive to make better pieces of art. But on the flip side, this same competition will sue your pants off for any reason they can find so you don't compete with them either.
An on an unrelated note, I had an idea for a zombie video game like Ground Hog day today. When you die, it starts out as the beginning of a zombie pandemic. As you die and play through it over and over, you get secrets to where weapons and supplies are. You find tricks you can use to survive and save people. Eventually you find out who caused the zombie pandemic. You can then kill him before he goes through with it. I'm not sure an ending where you serve in prison is a good ending though. I didn't think it the whole way through, but it sounded like a good premise for a zombie game.
If I can't code a server and run it out of my house?
Are you saying: Petty street crime targetting kids boom predicted? Or are you saying the kids themselves will just pawn it?
I'd have modded him and you too. His statement is spot on.
>What can you do with two sticks and a string?
The only answer is Nunchucks.
This is an example of both oligopoly collaboration for inflated prices and corporations regulating the government instead of governments regulating the corporations. The collaboration for higher prices is with all the telecoms being buddy buddy and not even encroaching on each other territories as a general working premise. You don't see UPS and Fedex trying to sue away the post office because it unfairly competes. Comcast/Verizon just know they're getting away with higher prices for less service than you can get in other places. Afterall it costs money to upgrade your service, and their users are gonna pay them anyway whether they get 3mb/s or 1000 mb/s. Keeping legitimate competitors out of the picture who didn't get the memo,"Low quality service for high prices" further perpetuates the myth that you can't do anything better than what they're doing now.
The day when electric cars become also the economic decision is a revolutionary day for poor people. Some poor people struggle to make ends meet in part because of gasoline cuts into their income from commuting to work. Electricity costs about 1/10 as much as gasoline now, and with infrastructure upscaling, it could cost less in the future. So basically driving around would be free. People who rarely leave their house to conserve on fuel would be free to drive around. Maybe the roads would be more crowded, but they'd have the ability to frugally shop around at more stores for lower prices. This is because a poor person will spend more time to get better deals. The reason poor people don't travel to several stores at once now is because the gasoline prices say if you travel too far, what you gain in savings will be lost in fuel. With essentially free fuel, a poor person could be a more keen savings oriented shopper.
There's several advantages people don't realize to keeping much of your code in one source file. Ctrl+f is much more powerful, the less fragmented your code is in different files. Your code is much easier to read for new coders on the project than someone who puts 100 lines of code in 200 different files. You reserve other files for stuff that really benefits from the OO style so you don't lose flexibility. There's probably several other reasons to go for a gigantic single file, but the only major downside is that it affects compile time. I'm not going to downplay that, losing a few seconds per compile can add up if you're hyper agile like myself. But to say that there are no benefits for keeping your project in a single file is to be ignorant of alternative coding styles that are still high quality, manageable, and readable.
To conclude: Don't claim I'm using the software wrong when I find a bug in it.
MMORPGS are big man :) The number of lines in your code automatically mean you coded badly. It could mean your code is very complex with a lot of functions.
I'm not sure if it is Eclipse or Flashbuilder, but if you go over about 60k lines of code, you start getting type lag that gets progressively worse the more lines of code you write. If you like writing large systems in procedural while using OO sparingly, you can easily end up with 200-400k lines of code in one file.
Well if you clone a game to the point where you are using the same art assets and game play, that is cloning. And it should be pretty obvious it is not allowed. You quoted me on remaking gameplay. Xio doesn't remake gameplay or graphics, it copied Tetris. It is different than say making a 2d block based platformer like Super Mario Bros, Mega Man, Castlevania or Metroid. Where you might get sued if you started incorporating goombas to jump on and your main dude is a pallete swapped Mario.
Well to be fair if you remake ANY of the old titles exactly, you're probably going to get a lawsuit. But if you remake things game play, but have different graphics, music, etc, then you're set. I see a lot of good games coming out which are based on old games, but add new features. The bar for free games still isn't too high though, so its not like you even need a lot of new features yet.
Oh a sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention
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Thats the ol music industry's slogan,"There's always a new generation of suckers we can market a new boy band singing recycled music."
Part of me thinks WOW may never totally die as it has lived over 10 years. There will be a new generation who wants to try it.
Flash Indie games knows this concept too. People are remaking old Atari 2600 and NES games and making them free to play/advert/microtransactions. If the major players like NIntendo aren't going to give their player's old rom collections for free/cheap, there will be a short term market for indie devs to recode the past. Everything old is new again.
Castlevania 1 (nesbar.com) was a great game. Castlevania 2 was fun and easy, if you know the trick to kneel at the right place. Castlevania 3 was pretty fun with several characters to choose from. Castlevania 4 for SNES was pretty fun. Castlevania Symphony of Night is generally regarded as one of the best Castlevanias of all time even demanding like 100$ for a copy. But all the 3d attempts have been failures across the board.
What Castlevania should do is make a giant game like Symphony of Night again, only bigger and more dependent on your RPG stats to do well at the end game. The trick would then be to make the grind not feel grindy, such as lots of mini levels you can go on before forwarding your main progression levels.
I think if Castlevania doesn't do it themselves, there's going to be an indie developer who strikes gold. There's even a term called MetroidVania of the side scrolling games, and people are making stabs at it. I just would think Konami has deep enough pockets to afford all the art to make a large scale game.
I'm not even on the Internet.
I don't see why 3d printed guns are such a big deal. It isn't like making a gun is difficult. People in prisons(limited materials) have made zip guns before. To me, it sounds like there's a group of people who feel threatened by 3d printers. They're probably manufacturing folk doing everything in their power to keep printers from catching on. I mean why else would people be trying to do so much anti PR against 3d printers? It is no great feat to make a gun without a 3d printer.
You'd think there'd be an open sourced project for hyperdemocracy. That you can just install in new governments that lets every person vote and petition the government more actively than they do now. It might take a specialized security nationalized Internet that is less susceptible to be hacked. But the code to allow people to petition the government, check how the president is acting vs what the people want, etc etc etc, could be reasonably done with an Open Source Hyperdemocracy ap. So when dictactors are removed, new governments by the people could be set up just by installing software. It might not be the best plan, but it could work. And if it does work, more places would adopt it.
From what I can tell: Windows is trying to move away from the .exe that can hose your system files. As such, they have Ap files and legacy support. You have to trust your legacy support, while the Aps can be run without a worry. This is how it should have been back in windows 98. But still, there is low adoption for 8.1, which means there is less people writing Aps. It is a chicken and the egg problem. No one wants to make aps, and no one wants 8.1 because there aren't many aps. Now in a few OS releases in the future, more and more people will have Ap capable OS, so more people will develop aps. I think over the course of 5-10 years, the whole ap thing will catch on. Windows could have a resurgence because people are no longer afraid of downloads hosing their PC, and can download hundreds or thousands of aps to play with risk free. I think IE could even catch on if it has a "Safe download" mode. Where when you download an AP, IE makes sure it isn't an .exe renamed.
When you're playing games like Quake, there's a difference between a 50ms ping and a 100ms ping. This is why Blizzard has an East Cost Server, a West Coast Server, an Asian Server and a Sea server.