The law isn't so clear in the UK: rights like free speech don't seem to carry so much weight over here.
There was a case a while back where someone sued an ISP when they didn't remove libellous Usenet posts which was settled out of court in favour of the plaintiff. I'm not sure of the effect that has had on ISPs, or if the law has changed since.
I use it every day to run Windows and Linux for various apps that only run on those platforms (Codewarrior/Symbian+Palm, mostly). We also use virtual machines for working on different build environments: no worrying about having the correct SDK version and environment variables, just unzip the VM and go. Web developers use it so they can test on IE. Basically, there is lots of software that is available on one OS only, and virtualisation is cheaper than several computers and easier than rebooting.
The design issues thing that most annoys me about a lot of games is the cheap way they add more hours of gameplay. It's like the designers came up with the game and then thought "oh no, the reviews are all going to say it's only 10 hours long, what do we do?". If your game idea is only good enough for 10 hours play, then make the game 10 hours long. Don't:
- add reprise levels: all the ideas from previous levels, but in a different order! - force backtracking: what fun, revisiting the same areas I've already completed. Paper Mario:TTYD did this and it killed the game for me - Fiddle with the save points so the player has to repeat more of a level after dying
I like Edge enough that I recently took out a subscription. The reviews are generally well-written, much more interesting to read than anything I've found online.
The price isn't too bad in the UK - £4. How much do they add on in the US?
Wow, people seem to have some really varied opinions on Eternal Darkness: every related discussion seems to split equally between people saying it's the best game ever and people who found it really dull. I guess I'll have to pick up that £8 2nd hand copy that's been in my local Gamestation for the last year and find out.
I know the feeling: I had to fix up some code recently with around 120 similar functions, each of which started with the same ten lines of code with one number changed. I'd have thought that by the ten or twentieth time of Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, the coder would have stopped and thought about it, but apparently not.
I had a chance to play with an E61 recently and really liked it. The new Series 60 OS is significantly faster, I believe partly because Nokia are using a new compiler now.
A trojan doesn't need to change the system config to cause damage, though. It could delete user files, or cause all sorts of problems: email everyone in your address book, for example.
British schools very rarely use any Apple computers: they used to be entirely Acorn/BBC, but I think when those went obsolete they switched to Wintel completely.
I don't see many non-techies who actually knows how to use MS Office, though. Most people I see stumble through with a knowledge of a few commands and lots of hunting around. Ideas like styles or even page breaks seem to be beyond them. That's people whose job description requires a knowledge of Office.
Are people like that really going to be any less productive if they're used to OpenOffice/Wordperfect?
I count maybe ten in this thread already, and you can add me to the list of happy Ubuntu to Mac OS X switchers. I still have several Ubuntu or Debian machines around, but 90% of my day-to-day work is done on Mac OS X, with Parallels for the rest. Working on a Mac is a much better experience than Ubuntu ever was.
What's to stop an artist going into business for themselves? Hire a studio and make your music available for paid download on your website. You can't call the approach of the recording industry immoral unless the artists have no choice about signing.
It seems to be around 6% from iTunes, which is a bit low. However, that rate is set by the contracts which the musicians involved signed, which was their choice. With allofmp3, the musicians have no choice and get nothing.
Wow, that sucks. I guess I can see how people would find that feature so useful then. Strange, banks here (UK) are trying to encourage people to do everything online and stop going to branches. I don't even get any interest on my current account unless I log into the website once a month.
IIRC, the AMRAAM is only really fire-and-forget at short range, at longer ranges it needs the launching aircraft to keep tracking the target and provide course updates until the missile gets close enough to use its own radar. Otherwise it just flies towards where the target would be if it didn't change course, which is pretty unlikely.
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The law isn't so clear in the UK: rights like free speech don't seem to carry so much weight over here.
There was a case a while back where someone sued an ISP when they didn't remove libellous Usenet posts which was settled out of court in favour of the plaintiff. I'm not sure of the effect that has had on ISPs, or if the law has changed since.
I use it every day to run Windows and Linux for various apps that only run on those platforms (Codewarrior/Symbian+Palm, mostly). We also use virtual machines for working on different build environments: no worrying about having the correct SDK version and environment variables, just unzip the VM and go. Web developers use it so they can test on IE.
Basically, there is lots of software that is available on one OS only, and virtualisation is cheaper than several computers and easier than rebooting.
The design issues thing that most annoys me about a lot of games is the cheap way they add more hours of gameplay. It's like the designers came up with the game and then thought "oh no, the reviews are all going to say it's only 10 hours long, what do we do?". If your game idea is only good enough for 10 hours play, then make the game 10 hours long. Don't:
- add reprise levels: all the ideas from previous levels, but in a different order!
- force backtracking: what fun, revisiting the same areas I've already completed. Paper Mario:TTYD did this and it killed the game for me
- Fiddle with the save points so the player has to repeat more of a level after dying
I like Edge enough that I recently took out a subscription. The reviews are generally well-written, much more interesting to read than anything I've found online.
The price isn't too bad in the UK - £4. How much do they add on in the US?
Wow, people seem to have some really varied opinions on Eternal Darkness: every related discussion seems to split equally between people saying it's the best game ever and people who found it really dull. I guess I'll have to pick up that £8 2nd hand copy that's been in my local Gamestation for the last year and find out.
I know the feeling: I had to fix up some code recently with around 120 similar functions, each of which started with the same ten lines of code with one number changed. I'd have thought that by the ten or twentieth time of Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, the coder would have stopped and thought about it, but apparently not.
That goes beyond stupidity into the realms of absolute idiocy, assuming it's an accurate report.
512Mb is fine for most things on MacOS. These aren't intended as Photoshop workstations, after all.
I had a chance to play with an E61 recently and really liked it. The new Series 60 OS is significantly faster, I believe partly because Nokia are using a new compiler now.
A trojan doesn't need to change the system config to cause damage, though. It could delete user files, or cause all sorts of problems: email everyone in your address book, for example.
Isn't Sober-Z just another email trojan - it seems to require the user double clicking on the attachment to run. No system is safe against trojans.
British schools very rarely use any Apple computers: they used to be entirely Acorn/BBC, but I think when those went obsolete they switched to Wintel completely.
I don't see many non-techies who actually knows how to use MS Office, though. Most people I see stumble through with a knowledge of a few commands and lots of hunting around. Ideas like styles or even page breaks seem to be beyond them. That's people whose job description requires a knowledge of Office.
Are people like that really going to be any less productive if they're used to OpenOffice/Wordperfect?
Archimedes! We considered ourselves lucky if we got to use the BBC Master. I think UK state schools were the only people to ever use the Archimedes.
I count maybe ten in this thread already, and you can add me to the list of happy Ubuntu to Mac OS X switchers. I still have several Ubuntu or Debian machines around, but 90% of my day-to-day work is done on Mac OS X, with Parallels for the rest. Working on a Mac is a much better experience than Ubuntu ever was.
I question the morality of what they are doing
What's to stop an artist going into business for themselves? Hire a studio and make your music available for paid download on your website. You can't call the approach of the recording industry immoral unless the artists have no choice about signing.
It seems to be around 6% from iTunes, which is a bit low. However, that rate is set by the contracts which the musicians involved signed, which was their choice. With allofmp3, the musicians have no choice and get nothing.
How much of the money from allofmp3.com goes to the artists that actually made the music?
Wow, and from your one data point we can extrapolate to an entire industry.
Wow, that sucks. I guess I can see how people would find that feature so useful then. Strange, banks here (UK) are trying to encourage people to do everything online and stop going to branches. I don't even get any interest on my current account unless I log into the website once a month.
Different locales do things differently, I imagine the submitter is European.
Is that feature really that useful? All online bank accounts offer that service already, all you need is the account number.
IMHO, that's the best way for games to be: the story serving the gameplay. If I want a really good story, I'll read a book or watch a film.
I think a Gamecube to play it on would cost less than a copy of RE4 at the moment. I saw Mario Kart+Gamecube for around $60 the other day.
IIRC, the AMRAAM is only really fire-and-forget at short range, at longer ranges it needs the launching aircraft to keep tracking the target and provide course updates until the missile gets close enough to use its own radar. Otherwise it just flies towards where the target would be if it didn't change course, which is pretty unlikely.