Children don't tend to dart out in front of airliners
The computer has a 100ms advantage on humans when it comes to reaction, let alone the awareness of it's surroundings (360 degree) at all time. At to this the respect of speed limits and it makes for a much safer car in residential neighborhoods as long as the software and computer hardware is sound.
Eye glasses don't help the lazy eye, instead it helps both eyes and prevents premature fatigue. Using an eye patch over the good eye helps make the lazy eye's muscles more enduring but this only helps if you continue doing it.
I just hope this guy isn't a criminal because he will prove the government to be right in their actions and that's the end of data privacy freedom (or what is left of it)
So the morale of the story is the same. Bad business is bad business. It's not the 5% that sunk you, it's the fact that you didn't build a building worth selling.
The car repair analogy isn't a good one. A better analogy would be to compare it to the engineering design process to make the car.
Refactoring is the action of reviewing the code and re-writing it (internally only). Refactoring is in most cases done to increase readability and reusability (once again, internally only) which usually results in better maintainability. A by products of refactoring is detecting defects and optimization opportunities.
Key here is that the process may reveal optimization opportunities and software issues.
Refactoring is the action of reviewing the code and re-writing it (internally only). Refactoring is in most cases done to increase readability and reusability (once again, internally only) which usually results in better maintainability. A by products of refactoring is detecting defects and optimization opportunities.
Articles like this cause an over reaction as it intends to on/.
Fact is that the right expertise will be brought in to asses who was involved in making sure the illegal content remained on the servers. The court system is in place to allow each individual charged to defend themselves. After all they are innocent until proven guilty. In a case like this I would think it's very hard to point fingers at employees unless there's a data trail.
How do you go bankrupt from 5% of revenue? Isn't your costing model flawed from the beginning then? Unity offers their engine for next to nothing yet if anything Unity has allowed indie games to surface and make money.
If you read the license agreement, the 5% royalty is only taken after the first $3000 quarterly. So as a developer if you make $10 000 per month (after store fees), the royalty will cost you ((10 000 - 3000) x 0.05) = $350. That leaves you with $9650 per month.
Like one investor once said to me. If your product is good enough to sell on a royalty, whoever buys it should be more than capable of capitalizing on it's success. If 5% is too much for you to make money on you should look at other options.
The royalty system has existed for a long time and many people got rich both from the royalty and from taking advantage of the success of the one selling the royalty.
Let me ask you this. How much money have gaming companies made by using existing Engines? Far more than the $2.5 Billion. Mojang had a great idea and made it happen with his own engine. He had to invest TONES of time and money to get there and luckily it all worked out for him in the end. Unfortunately most businesses don't go that direction. So rule to thumb, if you don't need to re-create an engine, don't!
And same goes for being a miserable person. I know the stereotype is that older people are miserable, but trust me, most miserable older people were miserable young people. They just let it out more, because as you get older you have fewer inhibitions (see the point about sex above).
Good job on this post but I disagree on this part. Experience in life makes you less patient to ignorance. I'm not talking about ignorance as in "lack of having lived" but rather the ignorance that is people just not caring about other around them. It's usually the same issues that have been around for a long time that you can tell will never be fixed since it hasn't changed in 15 years. E.g. Making sure there's toilet paper for the next person. Not having your high beams on everywhere you drive. Being polite online. The list goes on.
Good business people don't re-invent the wheel, they improve upon it. If you can't build a game lucrative enough to cover the 5% then you should stay away from making a game.
I'm just suggesting that when you take an OS that has been QC'd to the extreme you can't compare it with dropping a different OS (even if it's the same kernel) and expect it to be flawless. In this case, if you use the same kernel and driver version I would suggest that it should work flawlessly BUT throw a couple of curve balls such as a different kernel and drivers and you are playing a different ball game that may require the expertise. To be honest I would think doing that in the first place requires expertise.
And after all those changes to the device, do the games still run as consistently as with the pre-packaged highly QCd version? I would suspect the answer is WHO KNOWS until you hit a problem.
1, the group of linux users who are on what amounts to a religious crusade against nonfree software and refuse to buy any software, period.
That has always been my pet peeve with Linux. I long ago left the community because I can't feed my children with free software projects. Linux service is where it's at and in my books I wasn't good enough at it and didn't care much for it since most of the demand in front of me was paying customers running on MS.
Some of the better tools are currently for Windows and MacOS. It only makes sense that they would only be available for those OSs since they are well defined and popular platforms. Linux for desktop has too much variability for them to offer a product that simply installs and works without question.
You are speaking of closed devices correct (tables and phones)? Not desktop and laptop PCs as that's a whole other ball game. The article even states the complications with hardware optimization in Linux environments. Devices such as tablets and smart phones don't suffer the same versatility as desktop PCs hence the stable h/w configuration and drivers.
For this to be successful it needs to be easy. If they're port to Linux button works as well as they claim in this article, it makes sense to think the platform will take off. Otherwise very few will waste time on attempting to gain a minor %% of the market.
I'm afraid it's a knee jerk reaction to always panic at the first sight of change. As long as internet as a whole is open (which it currently is), there will always be a place for any type of legal content. Keep in mind that I'm an idealist and have faith that if the authorities (which are also users like me and you) will always react to public outburst. Public outburst will only be of value when people actually take the issue at heart which isn't going to happen until all options have been annihilated.
Television is a great example. There used to be ridiculous amounts of censorship (right from the beginning). I believe it's in the 70s that people generating content started to push the boundaries forcing censorship rules to evolve to the new social standards. I think with the internet it's the opposite. There has been no censorship of mainstream content and these changes MAY be what is needed to bring Internet to an acceptable standard.
I doubt it. The Google search will still find specialized web sites that offer said content. Blogger isn't the only service offering this adult content on the web.
Are there competitors out there? Yes. Will they eat up Google's hits? Maybe eventually. Bing currently is the only search engine showing a potential chance in eating a portion of their market and we have yet to see that become reality even after hundreds of millions having been invested into it.
There was a time where you had to go to the back room of the video store to get adult content. This was in place to keep it's content away from children's eyes and adults that didn't want any involvement with it. Separating said content from the rest of our daily searches is perfectly fine by me.
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Children don't tend to dart out in front of airliners
The computer has a 100ms advantage on humans when it comes to reaction, let alone the awareness of it's surroundings (360 degree) at all time. At to this the respect of speed limits and it makes for a much safer car in residential neighborhoods as long as the software and computer hardware is sound.
Eye glasses don't help the lazy eye, instead it helps both eyes and prevents premature fatigue. Using an eye patch over the good eye helps make the lazy eye's muscles more enduring but this only helps if you continue doing it.
I just hope this guy isn't a criminal because he will prove the government to be right in their actions and that's the end of data privacy freedom (or what is left of it)
So the morale of the story is the same. Bad business is bad business. It's not the 5% that sunk you, it's the fact that you didn't build a building worth selling.
The car repair analogy isn't a good one. A better analogy would be to compare it to the engineering design process to make the car.
Refactoring is the action of reviewing the code and re-writing it (internally only). Refactoring is in most cases done to increase readability and reusability (once again, internally only) which usually results in better maintainability. A by products of refactoring is detecting defects and optimization opportunities.
Key here is that the process may reveal optimization opportunities and software issues.
Refactoring is the action of reviewing the code and re-writing it (internally only). Refactoring is in most cases done to increase readability and reusability (once again, internally only) which usually results in better maintainability. A by products of refactoring is detecting defects and optimization opportunities.
Articles like this cause an over reaction as it intends to on /.
Fact is that the right expertise will be brought in to asses who was involved in making sure the illegal content remained on the servers. The court system is in place to allow each individual charged to defend themselves. After all they are innocent until proven guilty. In a case like this I would think it's very hard to point fingers at employees unless there's a data trail.
Yeah. They'll probably re-write the graphic engine to solve some of the issues as well as speed it up.
How do you go bankrupt from 5% of revenue? Isn't your costing model flawed from the beginning then? Unity offers their engine for next to nothing yet if anything Unity has allowed indie games to surface and make money.
If you read the license agreement, the 5% royalty is only taken after the first $3000 quarterly. So as a developer if you make $10 000 per month (after store fees), the royalty will cost you ((10 000 - 3000) x 0.05) = $350. That leaves you with $9650 per month.
Like one investor once said to me. If your product is good enough to sell on a royalty, whoever buys it should be more than capable of capitalizing on it's success. If 5% is too much for you to make money on you should look at other options.
The royalty system has existed for a long time and many people got rich both from the royalty and from taking advantage of the success of the one selling the royalty.
I don't recall anybody referring to gross receipts. Gross margin is what was spoken about.
You didn't read how the licensing works.
First $3000, no cost to the dev.
5% on anything else quarterly.
As a gaming studio, if your costing model doesn't include the 5% then you need to hire someone to help you with the business side of things.
Let me ask you this. How much money have gaming companies made by using existing Engines? Far more than the $2.5 Billion. Mojang had a great idea and made it happen with his own engine. He had to invest TONES of time and money to get there and luckily it all worked out for him in the end. Unfortunately most businesses don't go that direction. So rule to thumb, if you don't need to re-create an engine, don't!
And same goes for being a miserable person. I know the stereotype is that older people are miserable, but trust me, most miserable older people were miserable young people. They just let it out more, because as you get older you have fewer inhibitions (see the point about sex above).
Good job on this post but I disagree on this part. Experience in life makes you less patient to ignorance. I'm not talking about ignorance as in "lack of having lived" but rather the ignorance that is people just not caring about other around them. It's usually the same issues that have been around for a long time that you can tell will never be fixed since it hasn't changed in 15 years. E.g. Making sure there's toilet paper for the next person. Not having your high beams on everywhere you drive. Being polite online. The list goes on.
Good business people don't re-invent the wheel, they improve upon it. If you can't build a game lucrative enough to cover the 5% then you should stay away from making a game.
I'm just suggesting that when you take an OS that has been QC'd to the extreme you can't compare it with dropping a different OS (even if it's the same kernel) and expect it to be flawless. In this case, if you use the same kernel and driver version I would suggest that it should work flawlessly BUT throw a couple of curve balls such as a different kernel and drivers and you are playing a different ball game that may require the expertise. To be honest I would think doing that in the first place requires expertise.
And after all those changes to the device, do the games still run as consistently as with the pre-packaged highly QCd version? I would suspect the answer is WHO KNOWS until you hit a problem.
Of what I've seen on forums it's hit and miss. Seems to be a hit with technically savvy Linux users, not so much with non tech users.
1, the group of linux users who are on what amounts to a religious crusade against nonfree software and refuse to buy any software, period.
That has always been my pet peeve with Linux. I long ago left the community because I can't feed my children with free software projects. Linux service is where it's at and in my books I wasn't good enough at it and didn't care much for it since most of the demand in front of me was paying customers running on MS.
Some of the better tools are currently for Windows and MacOS. It only makes sense that they would only be available for those OSs since they are well defined and popular platforms. Linux for desktop has too much variability for them to offer a product that simply installs and works without question.
Android, MacOS, even the PS4 and Wii's are intermediate steps towards Linux.
Yes, they are but you can't call Android Linux or PS4 Linux. Linux after all is just the kernel and it doesn't dictate how good the OS is.
You are speaking of closed devices correct (tables and phones)? Not desktop and laptop PCs as that's a whole other ball game. The article even states the complications with hardware optimization in Linux environments. Devices such as tablets and smart phones don't suffer the same versatility as desktop PCs hence the stable h/w configuration and drivers.
For this to be successful it needs to be easy. If they're port to Linux button works as well as they claim in this article, it makes sense to think the platform will take off. Otherwise very few will waste time on attempting to gain a minor %% of the market.
I'm afraid it's a knee jerk reaction to always panic at the first sight of change. As long as internet as a whole is open (which it currently is), there will always be a place for any type of legal content. Keep in mind that I'm an idealist and have faith that if the authorities (which are also users like me and you) will always react to public outburst. Public outburst will only be of value when people actually take the issue at heart which isn't going to happen until all options have been annihilated.
Television is a great example. There used to be ridiculous amounts of censorship (right from the beginning). I believe it's in the 70s that people generating content started to push the boundaries forcing censorship rules to evolve to the new social standards. I think with the internet it's the opposite. There has been no censorship of mainstream content and these changes MAY be what is needed to bring Internet to an acceptable standard.
I doubt it. The Google search will still find specialized web sites that offer said content. Blogger isn't the only service offering this adult content on the web.
Are there competitors out there? Yes. Will they eat up Google's hits? Maybe eventually. Bing currently is the only search engine showing a potential chance in eating a portion of their market and we have yet to see that become reality even after hundreds of millions having been invested into it.
There was a time where you had to go to the back room of the video store to get adult content. This was in place to keep it's content away from children's eyes and adults that didn't want any involvement with it. Separating said content from the rest of our daily searches is perfectly fine by me.