Well. One thing for sure - subscription model won't work. It works only for AAA titles, others are gradually shifting to micropayments / microtransactions. (Yes, talk about buying an exp points and "money rules". It works, however, for both parties involved - players and devs/prods/publishmen).
As for sunk costs - terms can be discussed , venture capital can be found, even now, if they're having idea and half-assed implementation - they'll get funding to replace facebook ties (what are they, anyway ? authorization ? storage ? publishing ? ) with solutions of their own, then - marketing campaign and true profit in a year or two. They'll lose independence in the process, but that's the price.
Totally worth is. But forget Facebook and other closed platforms - go for your own infrastructure. Basically, what facebook gives developers is audience, an ability to quickly announce your project and make it known among huge auditory. This is a plus on early stages, but it becomes not so significant later, when you'll afford to advertise independantly and effectively, but Facebook-as-an-app-platform limitations will remain. And one more thing - never, ever expect users to be grateful or pleased. I work for company developing and producing Web-based MMOs, and one thing I've learnt over years is - even if you'll hire hookers to give every male player in your project one head job - the only thing you'll listen from them is "why only once ?" - they are lazy, stupid and greedy.
Al-Quaeda exists besides government reports carefully filled with the right amount of scare and FUD ? I know for sure Osama Bin Laden as a single person with a single role does not exist - this is virtual personage. (Why I'm so sure is entirely different matter, but I trust this source) .
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Ok. Let's get this straight: 1. X wire proto is ugly. fscking ugly and so fscking low level I don't even know what to compare it with. Pushing ugliness faster via unix domain sockets (which are, presumedly, zero-copy on Linux ) (does anyone know about FreeBSD/Solaris implementation of UDS ? ) does not help in improving overall picture. 2. Changing protocol to work with higher level blocks (client-based widgets with server-backed structures) will probably break network transparency (since instead of low-level user IO and graphics resources, they'll need to work with complicated scenarios and behaviours) (Keith Packard integrated client-side fonts relatively smoothly, but it was relatively easy task (relative to introduction of client-side widgets, of course)).
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Heh. "At Phoronix", my ass. Once I badly needed one particular bug (proper video init on laptop resume) fixed . Asked about probable fix timeframe/schedule of this bug on lkml , most responses were in form "it's free, we're doing it in our spare time, so don't ask when" . Then I tried to determine if any amount of money can help, asked developers if they can pricetag bugfix/patch and how to pay them - there was no definite answer at all. Children , playing in their sandpit and bearing no responsibility for their code at all, unmotivated and unmotivateable by anything but most basic urges .
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selfness show up on large scale. Jumped Linux ship two years ago in favor of MacOS X, never looking back, starting to get job done, instead of another OS/DE fight won. While I was long-time subscriber to xorg-devel and other related MLs, every holy war fought there was nailing X coffin slowly but surely. Do they still sing "network transparency out of the box" mantra every time someone suggests changing architecture ?
? What about s/n ratio on censored and uncensored forums ? if 5 of 6 posts on latter messageboard are offtopic (goatse, flamewars, irrelevant and trollish) , then s/n ratio of censored forum is waay higher.
True, comrade, so very true ! It's so great to see someone still honouring our restless leaders Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin ! For the Freedom of Earth ! win of communism !
Topic is rather interesting, especially for game developers, among whom I sometimes lurk , but what's the point of simplifying descriptions and problems up to the point of being meaningless and useless ?
Man, you're so full of righteous self-pride,it's amazing, and I'm somewhat jealous of your ability to review yourself both with clarity and humour - such a rare quality in youngsters.
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You're so full of hate. Sorry for you. Did you know Hans personally ? I did. He's very intelligent, although sometimes emotional. He's not a murderer, however.
OMG another antiRussian propaganda thread. What else ? When will somebody state russkies drink blood of innocent American babies on lunch. In another news, USofA is the land of freedom and equal limitless opportunities .
Well, You didn't provided your sources, but I've heard that at least during the Iraqi Freedom Tomahawks were using GPS-assisted targeting until Iraqis obtained GPS jammers, after that precision was highly degraded and Tomahawks targeting systems switched to landscape-image-recognition modes, but landscape here lacks highly distinguishable features, every dune looks like others, and except rivers (Tigris) there are almost none notable landscape features.
Highly precise inertial guidance, OTOH, needs at least highly precise launch coordinates, and those can be obtained via either stargazing or GPS usage (yes, I'm oversimplifying, but you've got an idea).
Care to back your statement with facts ? Not Western media hype akin to Iraqi WMD, but cols hard facts ?
Censoring the Internet ? What a joke. No need to - information exchange is harmless contrary to popular belief.
At least our military won't fsck up in Chechnya mountains thanks to deliberate QoS degradation of GPS-provided coordinates over those regions during one of recent Chechen wars.
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Two suitcase-sized batteries would be somewhat inconvenient for day-to-day use, too.
AOL engineers are extensively using revision control in production environments.
Well. One thing for sure - subscription model won't work. It works only for AAA titles, others are gradually shifting to micropayments / microtransactions. (Yes, talk about buying an exp points and "money rules". It works, however, for both parties involved - players and devs/prods/publishmen).
As for sunk costs - terms can be discussed , venture capital can be found, even now, if they're having idea and half-assed implementation - they'll get funding to replace facebook ties (what are they, anyway ? authorization ? storage ? publishing ? ) with solutions of their own, then - marketing campaign and true profit in a year or two. They'll lose independence in the process, but that's the price.
Totally worth is. But forget Facebook and other closed platforms - go for your own infrastructure. Basically, what facebook gives developers is audience, an ability to quickly announce your project and make it known among huge auditory. This is a plus on early stages, but it becomes not so significant later, when you'll afford to advertise independantly and effectively, but Facebook-as-an-app-platform limitations will remain.
And one more thing - never, ever expect users to be grateful or pleased. I work for company developing and producing Web-based MMOs, and one thing I've learnt over years is - even if you'll hire hookers to give every male player in your project one head job - the only thing you'll listen from them is "why only once ?" - they are lazy, stupid and greedy.
Hm, I thought Fallout was meant to be postnuke RPG, not postindustrial .
Al-Quaeda exists besides government reports carefully filled with the right amount of scare and FUD ?
I know for sure Osama Bin Laden as a single person with a single role does not exist - this is virtual personage. (Why I'm so sure is entirely different matter, but I trust this source) .
Ok. Let's get this straight:
1. X wire proto is ugly. fscking ugly and so fscking low level I don't even know what to compare it with. Pushing ugliness faster via unix domain sockets (which are, presumedly, zero-copy on Linux ) (does anyone know about FreeBSD/Solaris implementation of UDS ? ) does not help in improving overall picture.
2. Changing protocol to work with higher level blocks (client-based widgets with server-backed structures) will probably break network transparency (since instead of low-level user IO and graphics resources, they'll need to work with complicated scenarios and behaviours)
(Keith Packard integrated client-side fonts relatively smoothly, but it was relatively easy task (relative to introduction of client-side widgets, of course)).
Heh. "At Phoronix", my ass.
Once I badly needed one particular bug (proper video init on laptop resume) fixed . Asked about probable fix timeframe/schedule of this bug on lkml , most responses were in form "it's free, we're doing it in our spare time, so don't ask when" . Then I tried to determine if any amount of money can help, asked developers if they can pricetag bugfix/patch and how to pay them - there was no definite answer at all. Children , playing in their sandpit and bearing no responsibility for their code at all, unmotivated and unmotivateable by anything but most basic urges .
selfness show up on large scale. Jumped Linux ship two years ago in favor of MacOS X, never looking back, starting to get job done, instead of another OS/DE fight won.
While I was long-time subscriber to xorg-devel and other related MLs, every holy war fought there was nailing X coffin slowly but surely. Do they still sing "network transparency out of the box" mantra every time someone suggests changing architecture ?
? What about s/n ratio on censored and uncensored forums ? if 5 of 6 posts on latter messageboard are offtopic (goatse, flamewars, irrelevant and trollish) , then s/n ratio of censored forum is waay higher.
but it's made in the Hollywood basement (c) RHCP
Uh huh. Calm down and realize it's USofA who's largely responsible for current situation - lift embargo, and _then_ blame Castro.
True, comrade, so very true ! It's so great to see someone still honouring our restless leaders Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin ! For the Freedom of Earth ! win of communism !
Topic is rather interesting, especially for game developers, among whom I sometimes lurk , but what's the point of simplifying descriptions and problems up to the point of being meaningless and useless ?
Man, you're so full of righteous self-pride,it's amazing, and I'm somewhat jealous of your ability to review yourself both with clarity and humour - such a rare quality in youngsters.
You're so full of hate. Sorry for you. Did you know Hans personally ? I did. He's very intelligent, although sometimes emotional. He's not a murderer, however.
Something is surely wrong, when instead of fscking her right proper he sits her down with Ubuntu...
She's hot indeed. Check Alina Kabaeva pics , see for ourself. And, by the way, newspaper's license wasn't revoked. GP got his facts wrong.
OMG another antiRussian propaganda thread. What else ? When will somebody state russkies drink blood of innocent American babies on lunch.
In another news, USofA is the land of freedom and equal limitless opportunities .
Well, You didn't provided your sources, but I've heard that at least during the Iraqi Freedom Tomahawks were using GPS-assisted targeting until Iraqis obtained GPS jammers, after that precision was highly degraded and Tomahawks targeting systems switched to landscape-image-recognition modes, but landscape here lacks highly distinguishable features, every dune looks like others, and except rivers (Tigris) there are almost none notable landscape features. Highly precise inertial guidance, OTOH, needs at least highly precise launch coordinates, and those can be obtained via either stargazing or GPS usage (yes, I'm oversimplifying, but you've got an idea).
Care to back your statement with facts ? Not Western media hype akin to Iraqi WMD, but cols hard facts ? Censoring the Internet ? What a joke. No need to - information exchange is harmless contrary to popular belief.
At least our military won't fsck up in Chechnya mountains thanks to deliberate QoS degradation of GPS-provided coordinates over those regions during one of recent Chechen wars.
Congrats, dude. Or condolences, depending on..
Yes. You're right. I'm an elitist. So what ?
Laws, yes ! Tom Cullen likes first posts ! But...