The animation looks impressive. I wonder if games will become sophisticated enough to merit Oscar nominations.
If Andy Serkis kan be nominated for an Oscar in Lord of the Rings for his performance as Smeagol/Gollum, surely the same can happen to voice/motion capture actors in games.
My problem with Microsoft is that they insist on programming everything in-house and lock you in to in-house networks and in-house apps. I prefer a rich ecosystem like the iPhone and Android where people can make their own apps and have them integrate into your social networking life.
Microsoft - once again - seems to want to make all your decisions for you and shove all their products down your throat.
I seriously wonder how many Microsofties will eat their company's dogfood and geniunely love it.
I installed the Netbook Remix with the Unity UI on my Acer Aspire One ZG5 and I *hated* it. Slow, unclear, and very buggy. And this was the last beta. I don't understand the concept of combining the start menu with an off-line and on-line search function in one action. That made launching programs a tedious and frustrating experience. I don't think that this is a direction that Canonical should take at all.
Why build a ray tracer into a 4th game after doing it for Q3, Q4 and ET:QW. Why don't they focus on improving already existing raytracing code into the first 3 games.
I donnow but it seems like they're keeping themselves busy for the sake of looking busy.
2D&D - Pandering to Diablo crowd. Also, whoo, this all tastes a little Vanilla.
---> 2nd Edition D&D (1989) predates Diablo (1997) by at least 7 years...
Yeah. Well I started out on Amstrad Basic, moved on to Pascal, had a brief detour to Java and then came back to Delphi. Now I'm a C# developer. I've been using high-level programming languages my whole life. Unfortunately I didn't get exposed much to C/C++. Just happened that way. So to me C++ is a low-level programming language.
The reason why it's ignored is because it's a pain in the ass to develop for. The options that you have is as follows:
* Download a very heavy C++ ide which was, till recently, locked down. You had to get a "professional" license if you wanted to do something useful. There is the "express" version but it was deliberately crippled. Oh yeah it only runs on Windows.
* If you wanted to distribute your app you had to get it signed. Ok sure yeah that sounds easy enough, but I can't tell you how often I get the "this app is untrusted" message.
* If you're a developer like me who is uncomfortable using a low level language you can go the Java route. Yeah. Write once, debug everywhere. It's a mess. I can't even get my midlet to get the IMEI code of the phone so I can use it for authentication.
* A beautiful middle ground is Python for S60. I tried to install it recently on my Nokia N73. A huge bag of fail.
* Yeah sure Symbian is open source. I want to download the source, build it and run it. Have you read the instructions to get it up and running under Linux? Let's just say that it goes way over my head. I heard on a podcast that Nokia uses some kind of circuit board made by Texas Instruments. Ok, so I need to go get some specialized device just to run the kernel? Please.
* Ooh ooh. There's also Qt Creator. Cool. Tried to install the demos. Didn't work.
* JavaFx.... *sound of crickets*
So basically the choices you have as a developer are too many and every choice leads to a dead end. It's really frustrating. That's why my next phone is the HTC desire. I can download and run the development environment on Linux. I can also be sure that my users will be able to run it without jumping through hoops. Trying to support an app running in Symbian is a nightmare.
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And all the negative press that Wikileaks has been getting recently does not help their cause.
Remember, a lot of people do not know the difference between Wikipedia and Wikileaks.
And now for the printable version with all the tips on one page:
http://infoworld.com/print/145292
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The animation looks impressive. I wonder if games will become sophisticated enough to merit Oscar nominations.
If Andy Serkis kan be nominated for an Oscar in Lord of the Rings for his performance as Smeagol/Gollum, surely the same can happen to voice/motion capture actors in games.
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He's on it like Donkey Kong.
Java has become the Digg of languages.
Goodbye Java, we hardly knew thee...
Dear Internet Explorer,
Please die.
Signed-
The Internet
Java is dead. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I did not say that. You missed the point of my post.
I did not assert that Windows Phone 7 didn't.
My problem with Microsoft is that they insist on programming everything in-house and lock you in to in-house networks and in-house apps. I prefer a rich ecosystem like the iPhone and Android where people can make their own apps and have them integrate into your social networking life.
Microsoft - once again - seems to want to make all your decisions for you and shove all their products down your throat.
I seriously wonder how many Microsofties will eat their company's dogfood and geniunely love it.
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I installed the Netbook Remix with the Unity UI on my Acer Aspire One ZG5 and I *hated* it. Slow, unclear, and very buggy. And this was the last beta. I don't understand the concept of combining the start menu with an off-line and on-line search function in one action. That made launching programs a tedious and frustrating experience. I don't think that this is a direction that Canonical should take at all.
Can anybody explain the appeal of Unity to me?
Can anybody provide a link to the roadmap? I'm wondering when Java is going to be removed from LibreOffice.
Any decisions as to what Java will be replaced with?
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Why build a ray tracer into a 4th game after doing it for Q3, Q4 and ET:QW. Why don't they focus on improving already existing raytracing code into the first 3 games.
I donnow but it seems like they're keeping themselves busy for the sake of looking busy.
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The implementation of some of the monsters is wrong. I died when I tried to jump on a creature which I know can be jumped on.
2D&D - Pandering to Diablo crowd. Also, whoo, this all tastes a little Vanilla. ...
---> 2nd Edition D&D (1989) predates Diablo (1997) by at least 7 years
Are there any pictures or videos of the event?
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I read "Valve Trademarks 'HOPA'"
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Finally a good idle post...
uhm. Isn't that the entire idea behind Open Source?
Why wouldn't they be allowed to take the Android source code and make their own OS out of it?
As a matter of fact they can collaborate with Google on this... If I'm not mistaken it's called a "Community" which consists of "Collaborators".
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My point exactly! (See my post elsewhere in this thread).
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I have picked it up. A few months ago. And then I realised: It's not for me. I'd rather be programming in C#, (Iron)Python or Scala.
Yeah. Well I started out on Amstrad Basic, moved on to Pascal, had a brief detour to Java and then came back to Delphi. Now I'm a C# developer. I've been using high-level programming languages my whole life. Unfortunately I didn't get exposed much to C/C++. Just happened that way. So to me C++ is a low-level programming language.
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The reason why it's ignored is because it's a pain in the ass to develop for. The options that you have is as follows:
* Download a very heavy C++ ide which was, till recently, locked down. You had to get a "professional" license if you wanted to do something useful. There is the "express" version but it was deliberately crippled. Oh yeah it only runs on Windows.
* If you wanted to distribute your app you had to get it signed. Ok sure yeah that sounds easy enough, but I can't tell you how often I get the "this app is untrusted" message.
* If you're a developer like me who is uncomfortable using a low level language you can go the Java route. Yeah. Write once, debug everywhere. It's a mess. I can't even get my midlet to get the IMEI code of the phone so I can use it for authentication.
* A beautiful middle ground is Python for S60. I tried to install it recently on my Nokia N73. A huge bag of fail.
* Yeah sure Symbian is open source. I want to download the source, build it and run it. Have you read the instructions to get it up and running under Linux? Let's just say that it goes way over my head. I heard on a podcast that Nokia uses some kind of circuit board made by Texas Instruments. Ok, so I need to go get some specialized device just to run the kernel? Please.
* Ooh ooh. There's also Qt Creator. Cool. Tried to install the demos. Didn't work.
* JavaFx. ... *sound of crickets*
So basically the choices you have as a developer are too many and every choice leads to a dead end.
It's really frustrating. That's why my next phone is the HTC desire. I can download and run the development environment on Linux. I can also be sure that my users will be able to run it without jumping through hoops. Trying to support an app running in Symbian is a nightmare.
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So, in theory, this should be able to run DOOM 3 in 3D. I donnow, it sounds cool to me.
So, basically, an HTML 5, canvas based VNC client ... Hasn't this been done before?