Zynga's market share is declining not because of the competition from other game vendors, but because people are waking up to the fact that Zynga really only has three games under a bazillion brand names: the click and grind "adventure" that gives you little leeway to change the game's outcome; the farming game; and gambling games.
Zynga has never invented anything unique. They've just relied on their special arrangements with Facebook to get a leg up, and now that those special arrangements are coming to an end, they're finding they've wasted their time on same-old-same-old that no one wants to bother with anymore instead of actually innovating by developing and deploying new game concepts.
People get bored with click-and-grind once they realize they can't "win" unless there is something else about the game to keep their attention, like a real RPG offers with it's character development and choices along the way. Zynga offers you little to no such choices.
Whether that's true is entirely in the mind of the developer or project lead who initiates a project.
I've no interest in saving anyone from reinventing the wheel with my work. I just want to share what I've spent many years working on, hopefully see it used, and ensure that any enhancements/changes to it are published instead of being held in a proprietary state.
I don't believe what I've worked on all these years is any way related to a common wheel. It's not quite like anything else I've seen elsewhere, though others have used different techniques to achieve similar results.
Being ignorant about what the code you're building a product from is no one's fault but the vendor's. I agree 100% with the ruling.
Too many people like to try to play the "I didn't know" card. You're responsible for knowing what you're distributing, especially when you're charging for a product.
I recently worked for a company that had to completely rework a piece of their product line because one developer decided he liked a GPL'd library better than a more-free-for-commercial-use library. It cost them a good three months of development time to rewrite the code with the rejected library.
The developer in question thought free is free; he never read the details of the license, nor asked any of his coworkers about licensing issues. He wasn't fired or anything, but he was reprimanded.
Tell that to my friend's wife who became pregnant 5 weeks after giving birth.
This business about women not being able to get pregnant after childbirth is not based on scientific fact. It's based far more on legends and lore, and about as accurate as the Bible.
Now all we need is a bazillion immigrant labourers to run around the fields with syringes injecting plants.
Let me know if they ever figure out how to apply this bacteria to seed before planting or spraying after sprouting. Then they'll have something worth talking about.
The key point is cultivated citrus. That isn't to say there aren't wild species and strains which have developed an immunity to the problem. But without investigating those wild species, we're doomed to the naval gazing failure of thinking that which we grow commercially is the only thing that matters for breeding.
So called "news" papers nowadays are 50% "editorial opinion" (i.e. made up bullshit), 25% advertising, 20% "human interest" (i.e. celebrity gossip), and 5% left over for actual content worth reading. The online versions are no better.
The US administration enabled laws to allow holding people indefinitely without trial.
Congress and the Senate have made it clear that they don't care about the facts of the case: Snowden is guilty in their eyes.
Snowden would be a fool to leave Russia for some small country. Russia has nukes that will make the US think twice before pulling a "Bin Laden" on him.
The NT kernel was based on VMS in it's core design, which is what matters, not the APIs. VMS APIs were based on FORTRAN interfaces, while NTs were not, so of course they're not "compatible."
The key feature that I remember from my operating system class is that instead of semaphores, NT/VMS were based on the concept of "critical code sections" -- a completely different approach for implementing the locking needed for parallel code.
After all, that cigarette you snuck is grounds to cancel your policy.
It was originally a pretty good design
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Originally it was a pretty good design, based on the concepts implemented by DEC's VMS system. It only got butchered later by people who didn't know their stuff as well as the original engineers.
Warts and all, Windows owes it's lineage to VMS and the once mighty DEC.
I've heard there are still places running VMS-based hardware.
Do you consider something like BigDecimal in Java to be a variable?
Surprisingly enough, this restriction in Erlang is compensated for quite handily through it's functional programming approach. It took me a while to grok it, and I'm still no expert, but it's definitely off the beaten path and quite powerful. I've applied a number of techniques I learned from a couple of years of Erlang programming to my work in other languages. It forced me to "think different", and that's not always a bad thing.
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Zynga's market share is declining not because of the competition from other game vendors, but because people are waking up to the fact that Zynga really only has three games under a bazillion brand names: the click and grind "adventure" that gives you little leeway to change the game's outcome; the farming game; and gambling games.
Zynga has never invented anything unique. They've just relied on their special arrangements with Facebook to get a leg up, and now that those special arrangements are coming to an end, they're finding they've wasted their time on same-old-same-old that no one wants to bother with anymore instead of actually innovating by developing and deploying new game concepts.
People get bored with click-and-grind once they realize they can't "win" unless there is something else about the game to keep their attention, like a real RPG offers with it's character development and choices along the way. Zynga offers you little to no such choices.
Whether that's true is entirely in the mind of the developer or project lead who initiates a project.
I've no interest in saving anyone from reinventing the wheel with my work. I just want to share what I've spent many years working on, hopefully see it used, and ensure that any enhancements/changes to it are published instead of being held in a proprietary state.
I don't believe what I've worked on all these years is any way related to a common wheel. It's not quite like anything else I've seen elsewhere, though others have used different techniques to achieve similar results.
The same as the theory that you can't get pregnant from intercourse your first time if you're a virgin.
My friend's wife was breastfeeding.
It's rumour and heresay, not scientifically proven fact. Plain and simple: it's an old wive's tale.
Nonsense.
Apple should have done their research in the first place. They count on the patent office being lax with their approvals.
That is all.
Being ignorant about what the code you're building a product from is no one's fault but the vendor's. I agree 100% with the ruling.
Too many people like to try to play the "I didn't know" card. You're responsible for knowing what you're distributing, especially when you're charging for a product.
I recently worked for a company that had to completely rework a piece of their product line because one developer decided he liked a GPL'd library better than a more-free-for-commercial-use library. It cost them a good three months of development time to rewrite the code with the rejected library.
The developer in question thought free is free; he never read the details of the license, nor asked any of his coworkers about licensing issues. He wasn't fired or anything, but he was reprimanded.
I didn't even *skim* the article. :P
Tell that to my friend's wife who became pregnant 5 weeks after giving birth.
This business about women not being able to get pregnant after childbirth is not based on scientific fact. It's based far more on legends and lore, and about as accurate as the Bible.
The politicians who approved the legislation are heavily invested in Dell and HP stock.
If so many people believe this, why aren't they upset about it? Where are the protests? The marches? etc?
Now all we need is a bazillion immigrant labourers to run around the fields with syringes injecting plants.
Let me know if they ever figure out how to apply this bacteria to seed before planting or spraying after sprouting. Then they'll have something worth talking about.
The key point is cultivated citrus. That isn't to say there aren't wild species and strains which have developed an immunity to the problem. But without investigating those wild species, we're doomed to the naval gazing failure of thinking that which we grow commercially is the only thing that matters for breeding.
Selective breeding of disease-resistant plants instead of monoculture of juice oranges.
There is a world of difference between selective breeding for desired traits and GMO technologies that insert foreign genetics.
"Real" newspapers don't exist already.
So called "news" papers nowadays are 50% "editorial opinion" (i.e. made up bullshit), 25% advertising, 20% "human interest" (i.e. celebrity gossip), and 5% left over for actual content worth reading. The online versions are no better.
"Real" news is dead in North America.
Only an hour? Ah, I remember the good old days of spending an entire day getting the Xconfig files right for one monitor...
Start up Visual Studio. Enable a breakpoint in C/C++.
Insert a CD and start playing it.
Run your program and wait to hit the breakpoint.
Now wait until the CD player skips to the next track.
Guaranteed blue screen.
The US administration enabled laws to allow holding people indefinitely without trial.
Congress and the Senate have made it clear that they don't care about the facts of the case: Snowden is guilty in their eyes.
Snowden would be a fool to leave Russia for some small country. Russia has nukes that will make the US think twice before pulling a "Bin Laden" on him.
The NT kernel was based on VMS in it's core design, which is what matters, not the APIs. VMS APIs were based on FORTRAN interfaces, while NTs were not, so of course they're not "compatible."
The key feature that I remember from my operating system class is that instead of semaphores, NT/VMS were based on the concept of "critical code sections" -- a completely different approach for implementing the locking needed for parallel code.
VMS pre-dated BSD substantially, and NT is basically a rewrite of the VMS kernel.
And your HMO.
After all, that cigarette you snuck is grounds to cancel your policy.
Originally it was a pretty good design, based on the concepts implemented by DEC's VMS system. It only got butchered later by people who didn't know their stuff as well as the original engineers.
Warts and all, Windows owes it's lineage to VMS and the once mighty DEC.
I've heard there are still places running VMS-based hardware.
Point is it's a stupid hangover limitation from the 32-bit CPU era.
Do you consider something like BigDecimal in Java to be a variable?
Surprisingly enough, this restriction in Erlang is compensated for quite handily through it's functional programming approach. It took me a while to grok it, and I'm still no expert, but it's definitely off the beaten path and quite powerful. I've applied a number of techniques I learned from a couple of years of Erlang programming to my work in other languages. It forced me to "think different", and that's not always a bad thing.