If you expect to wait for a customer to come to you, and say "I want you to create this software for me", do you expect them to fund the whole thing themselves? It'll cost thousands at the least, unless perhaps it's just a bug-fix in code they already have. OK for Companies, bad for individuals. Also, what about Gaming companies? Are they going to spend $5 mil on a game that a customer asked them to make as a SERVICE to that customer, who won't be able to afford it? Not a chance. They'd go out of business during development of their first title. Software as a service is perhaps ok for the "software rental" concept, but requiring development to be done as a service, rather than as a product to sell at retail, is one of the least thought out things I've ever heard.
Forgive me for saying this, but don't Cyrix CPUs suck too hard to actually run *any* software properly? I'm not trying to flame anyone; Cyrix has just never had much success with their non-graphics (now that's old) processors.
I made a character with only about 6 skills, that I worked up to whatever level Supreme Jerk is... Then I cloned him 3 times after I found the cloning chamber, restarted the game with these characters, and finished the game without cheating. You gotta love games with recordable macro keys...:)
SDL has licensing issues. You can't use it for a commercial application since you'd have to include your source code. Thus, it's not of much use unless you are just trying to learn the basics of game development.
Well, I guess there HAVE been movies about Surf Ninjas. Since the Jedi are *clearly* Ninjas (30' Leaping, Sword Wielding, Kung-Fu Ass-kicking Mystics), it would only make sense that they show the many talents of Ninja-kind.
A few hundred years ago, illiterate European
peasants supposedly had 200x the memory we do
now. It doesn't matter if we use a computer to
keep track of dates, or a piece of paper. The
effect is the same: We don't rely on our own
memory for daily things, so our memory becomes
stagnant from underuse.
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If you expect to wait for a customer to come to you, and say "I want you to create this software for me", do you expect them to fund the whole thing themselves? It'll cost thousands at the least, unless perhaps it's just a bug-fix in code they already have. OK for Companies, bad for individuals.
Also, what about Gaming companies? Are they going to spend $5 mil on a game that a customer asked them to make as a SERVICE to that customer, who won't be able to afford it? Not a chance. They'd go out of business during development of their first title.
Software as a service is perhaps ok for the "software rental" concept, but requiring development to be done as a service, rather than as a product to sell at retail, is one of the least thought out things I've ever heard.
Forgive me for saying this, but don't Cyrix CPUs suck too hard to actually run *any* software properly? I'm not trying to flame anyone; Cyrix has just never had much success with their non-graphics (now that's old) processors.
I made a character with only about 6 skills, that I worked up to whatever level Supreme Jerk is... Then I cloned him 3 times after I found the cloning chamber, restarted the game with these characters, and finished the game without cheating. :)
You gotta love games with recordable macro keys...
Windows 95 with IE4.0 installed had the taskbar icon-grouping...
That's right. We would all need to learn how to use swords before we would be considered immortal.
SDL has licensing issues. You can't use it for a commercial application since you'd have to include your source code. Thus, it's not of much use unless you are just trying to learn the basics of game development.
Well, I guess there HAVE been movies about Surf Ninjas. Since the Jedi are *clearly* Ninjas (30' Leaping, Sword Wielding, Kung-Fu Ass-kicking Mystics), it would only make sense that they show the many talents of Ninja-kind.
A few hundred years ago, illiterate European
peasants supposedly had 200x the memory we do
now. It doesn't matter if we use a computer to
keep track of dates, or a piece of paper. The
effect is the same: We don't rely on our own
memory for daily things, so our memory becomes
stagnant from underuse.