I found Android to be a great platform to develop on. The biggest hurdle was using Eclipse after being a Win32/Visual Studio dev for 10 years.
I was attracted to it by the lower cost of entry (I didn't have to buy an apple!) and the lack of a GateKeeper at the app store. The pleasant development framework was an added bonus. The smaller user population isn't as cool right now, but I haven't invested so much into it that I can't afford to wait while the market grows.
I don't go to movies to cry, to crawl my soul picking it apart, to discover some great psychobabble about about the human condition...
I go to a damn movie to be entertained. This trailer appears to deliver.
I see this a lot: "It's just Dances with Wolves". Yeah. I liked Battlestar Galactica & Batman, both of which got a reboot recently and yet managed to not suck. It's James Cameron, not Uwe Boll: he's got experience NOT sucking.
Several people say it's all about selling toys. Nerd Alert: I've got a full set of the Hasbro Titanium BSG ships, plus as many TIE Fighters as I can find, and display cases of Stormtroopers. I don't have any ewoks or jar-jars, tho. Obviously being a toy source totally dooms the franchise.
"OH NOES! TEH GRAPHICS! THEY SUXXORS!" Really? I didn't notice any issues. In a 90sec trailer I didn't see crappy textures, broken models, horrible design, etc. What issues are people seeing ?
"It's just all CGI" Dude, I loved TRON. My money is already spent on on TRON 2. I loved the burly brawl. Transformers is printing cash by the truckloads. Wall-e. Nemo. The Incredibles. Cars. Robots. Toy Story. I don't care if it's all CGI. Why does the CGI bother people with this movie and not the others?
My first reaction to the images of the human base was a flashback to Zion in the Matrix series: large robotic battlesuits defending the base. My first reaction to Pandora was how it looked like it embodied the art for the Naya shard in Magic: The Gathering's Alara expansion: deep forest, massive monsters, and the catlike leonin/nacatal warriors. The Matrix and MtG: yeah, I'm sold.
Yes, but only if you rapidly alternated blinking your eyes. Much like those fancy 3D glasses nowadays, except ET achieved it by sucking so bad it induced seizures.
What would really help would be a VM that would JIT... Dalvik works but is not speedy -- it remains an interpreter. All it really needs is some JIT compilation to take off. Yes, you could do native stuff using the new NDK, but with like 18 announced phones coming out by year-end, I'd rather not get stuck writing custom code for each CPU.
A few years ago I bought a game to play with my son. We'd played the demo and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I went out & bought the retail title.
Turns out there was a known defect in the retail release (now with more SecureROM!) which caused the DRM to fail 100% of the time. The published knew about the problem, but instead of recalling the product from the shelves they allowed CompUSA to sell a known defective game. The publisher very replaced it with a new disc once I discovered their knowledgebase entry on the error message and called their help desk, however I did visit an unofficial patch provider so that my son & I could play the game we had purchased. The unofficial patch wasn't 100% stable, so I rolled back to the new disc as soon as it arrived.
-1 pt for for the major publisher allowing known defective software to be sold +1 pt for them handling it promptly once I complained +1 pt for the cd-crack which let us play our legally purchased game until the new disk arrived
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I heard SecureROM eats babies and molests dead grandmothers.
It's true. I read it here: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1846
they just did a server merge -- now they are down to one EU server and one US server. I logged back on for a few minutes after the merge and pops were pretty high. But that was most likely due to the free play period for veteran players that ended 5/21.
The game itself is still up & running, and they even managed to add some stuff last year: Galaxy Gunships & Phantasm stealth transports.
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Properly emulate the speed of a 286 by maxing out the CPU while drawing one animation.
Chromed.
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I work all day in front of two glowing rectangles.
This videogame-based education sounds like an excellent way to prepare for real life!
I'm still waiting to level-up tho...
Beta testers. They have opinions that are ignored unless they properly align with prepared marketing assets.
YOU LIE!!!!
I found Android to be a great platform to develop on. The biggest hurdle was using Eclipse after being a Win32/Visual Studio dev for 10 years.
I was attracted to it by the lower cost of entry (I didn't have to buy an apple!) and the lack of a GateKeeper at the app store. The pleasant development framework was an added bonus. The smaller user population isn't as cool right now, but I haven't invested so much into it that I can't afford to wait while the market grows.
I don't go to movies to cry, to crawl my soul picking it apart, to discover some great psychobabble about about the human condition...
I go to a damn movie to be entertained. This trailer appears to deliver.
I see this a lot: "It's just Dances with Wolves". Yeah. I liked Battlestar Galactica & Batman, both of which got a reboot recently and yet managed to not suck. It's James Cameron, not Uwe Boll: he's got experience NOT sucking.
Several people say it's all about selling toys. Nerd Alert: I've got a full set of the Hasbro Titanium BSG ships, plus as many TIE Fighters as I can find, and display cases of Stormtroopers. I don't have any ewoks or jar-jars, tho. Obviously being a toy source totally dooms the franchise.
"OH NOES! TEH GRAPHICS! THEY SUXXORS!" Really? I didn't notice any issues. In a 90sec trailer I didn't see crappy textures, broken models, horrible design, etc. What issues are people seeing ?
"It's just all CGI" Dude, I loved TRON. My money is already spent on on TRON 2. I loved the burly brawl. Transformers is printing cash by the truckloads. Wall-e. Nemo. The Incredibles. Cars. Robots. Toy Story. I don't care if it's all CGI. Why does the CGI bother people with this movie and not the others?
My first reaction to the images of the human base was a flashback to Zion in the Matrix series: large robotic battlesuits defending the base. My first reaction to Pandora was how it looked like it embodied the art for the Naya shard in Magic: The Gathering's Alara expansion: deep forest, massive monsters, and the catlike leonin/nacatal warriors. The Matrix and MtG: yeah, I'm sold.
Sadly, it's why I stopped watching Dark Angel. It was the Car-Car Binks of Post-Apocalyptic Seattle.
Yes. I want that too. Very much. DO EEEEET!!!!
Yes, but only if you rapidly alternated blinking your eyes. Much like those fancy 3D glasses nowadays, except ET achieved it by sucking so bad it induced seizures.
I'd actually be OK with letting the Tim Hortons in.....
Since we already have white LED's, I'd guess the real benefit is the ability to easily fine-tune the colors by adjusting the coating.
They are the awesome mices. Regular mice kill my wrists in a minute; with the VM I can code all day.
Added bonus: it's weird & confusing to those who aren't used to it, so people actively avoid your computer.
I think I saw him in L4D last night :( I threw a Molotov at the horde, and one of them survived by moonwalking back around the corner!
What would really help would be a VM that would JIT... Dalvik works but is not speedy -- it remains an interpreter. All it really needs is some JIT compilation to take off. Yes, you could do native stuff using the new NDK, but with like 18 announced phones coming out by year-end, I'd rather not get stuck writing custom code for each CPU.
HOLY POLISHED SHILLELAGH! You mean the Atlanteans had a second city by Ireland ?
At least we know their server has taken off
He got the "Lp0 is on Fire" error and gave up
The rest will starve.
Until the hungry ones realize the others taste good with ketchup.
...once SOE gets involved this thing is fucked.
Most folks might think it' snot really important, but I think it's important enough for /. to runny it up front.
Watching grammar nazis making fun of innocent mistakes just makes me sickick!
A few years ago I bought a game to play with my son. We'd played the demo and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I went out & bought the retail title.
Turns out there was a known defect in the retail release (now with more SecureROM!) which caused the DRM to fail 100% of the time. The published knew about the problem, but instead of recalling the product from the shelves they allowed CompUSA to sell a known defective game. The publisher very replaced it with a new disc once I discovered their knowledgebase entry on the error message and called their help desk, however I did visit an unofficial patch provider so that my son & I could play the game we had purchased. The unofficial patch wasn't 100% stable, so I rolled back to the new disc as soon as it arrived.
-1 pt for for the major publisher allowing known defective software to be sold
+1 pt for them handling it promptly once I complained
+1 pt for the cd-crack which let us play our legally purchased game until the new disk arrived
I heard SecureROM eats babies and molests dead grandmothers.
It's true. I read it here:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1846
they just did a server merge -- now they are down to one EU server and one US server. I logged back on for a few minutes after the merge and pops were pretty high. But that was most likely due to the free play period for veteran players that ended 5/21.
The game itself is still up & running, and they even managed to add some stuff last year: Galaxy Gunships & Phantasm stealth transports.