Just write it in C++ using Airplay SDK then it compiles on the Windows PC directly to an IPA file for iOS (3 screen sizes), a SIS file for Nokia/Symbian, an Android file (for its one million different screen resolutions and aspect ratios) or normal Windows Mobile. No Macintosh required, and you can test it on the PC for gameplay bugs. Of course if you want to publish for a non-standard (i.e. non iPhone) platform, you have to pay more money for the software license.
WP7 not supported, but more mainstream os's (maemo, brew, bada, webOS, windows phone 6) are since they don't disallow compiled computer languages "native code".
Of course it is a lost sale if the customer wanted to give money to the developer and the shop persuades them not to. I'm a hoarder so I don't get rid of games. If I go into a games shop more than a week after a game is released I am lucky if I am permitted by the retailer to give any money to the developers of the game by buying a new one (since they want to get rid of their used games first). Heck they take *preorders for used games* these days. No wonder EA has responded to this declaration of war by retailers by putting content for single player games online. So the consumer ends up losing.
I don't see second hand books/music/dvds being pushed over new ones at the major retailers - why is that? If there was a delay between new and used sales at the major retailers like there used to be, publishers and developers might feel less squeezed.
Um, there are much more than 50 towns, cities and counties in the USA:-) how would amazon know that some village in the middle of nowhere has increased their local sales tax this year?
Being human is rather good - you can believe the characters behaving as they do. But they are as much at risk of jumping the shark for the third series as anyone else for popular characters/actors I guess.
Also, don't forget slashdot is a US based board so until a US marketing company got British people to design and Taiwanese people to build a mobile phone a couple of years back it was all the time "why on earth would people want to use a mobile phone? They will never take off! They are only used by yuppies and fancy pants foreigners. My 8KHz copper wire phone from Ma Bell has all the connectivity I would ever need". At least that trend seems to have stopped recently!
The PRNG is simply reading the bottom two bits of the ROM space in a certain access pattern. So it is repeatable if you are frame-perfect. But it theoretically varies between different builds of the game (i.e. Japanese versus US).
Chefs, like sports players and weather forecasters are quite often only known locally. For example the only US "football" players widely known would be the Fridge and the Rock, for their film work. So I have heard of Julia Child but not the others.
The most famous English chefs would be Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver (and various TV chefs like the late Fanny Craddick, Ainsley Harriot, Delia Smith, Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnly Wittinstall and others. I don't watch daytime TV but there are many others).
Heston is famous for using liquid nitrogen and other fancy things to produce weird tastes and textures (such as snail porridge), and for "the fat duck" restaurant being rated in the top three in the world.
But it is unfair to rag on US cuisine. It may be extremely difficult for them to find any food that is not growth-hormone/genetically modified/chemically preserved/Pasteurised, but in towns like San Francisco and New York there are a lot of high-quality independent restaurants, and several regional traditions, like the US TV chefs mentioned.
No, the law in the UK acknowledges the existence of age ratings (i.e. BBFC) and has a process for rating them, instead of it just being up to the whim of every judge in the state and how they are feeling on the day. So it is possible for retailers to know if they are breaking the law or not.
A law where you don't know if you are breaking it or not is probably a bad law.
Also they vary from country to country. So a pint is a different number of ounces depending on where you are, and there are several different types of ton. Personally I think it is 1000kg (New Zealand), not 2240 pounds (UK before 1985) or 2000 pounds (Canada):-)
A short ton, a long ton, a metric ton? Heck, the US has about three different sizes of gallons (one for grain, one for water, one for oil) and two different lengths of land miles (survey mile and statute mile) and hence feet/inches/rods/chains/furlongs etc. You may well remember that there are 80 chains to a mile, but is that a survey mile or a statute mile? Sheesh, even your border with Canada is not even accurate.
I'm guessing its a prequel to "Legacy of the Ancients", a role playing game on the Commodore 64, but I am most probably wrong. Maybe it runs on one of those International Business Machine Personal Computers that a small group of people think can run games (when they are not busy running virus scanners and installing software updates).
It's a shame I can't remember seeing it in the UK - it looks like a good show. Short but informative.
Luckily "the sky at night" is still going strong with Sir Patrick Moore at 87 years old, and Carl Sagan used to be on TV also, but it would be nice to have had more astronomy.
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Just write it in C++ using Airplay SDK then it compiles on the Windows PC directly to an IPA file for iOS (3 screen sizes), a SIS file for Nokia/Symbian, an Android file (for its one million different screen resolutions and aspect ratios) or normal Windows Mobile. No Macintosh required, and you can test it on the PC for gameplay bugs. Of course if you want to publish for a non-standard (i.e. non iPhone) platform, you have to pay more money for the software license.
WP7 not supported, but more mainstream os's (maemo, brew, bada, webOS, windows phone 6) are since they don't disallow compiled computer languages "native code".
People pirate $0.99 iPhone games. I guess they were not cheap enough.
Of course it is a lost sale if the customer wanted to give money to the developer and the shop persuades them not to. I'm a hoarder so I don't get rid of games. If I go into a games shop more than a week after a game is released I am lucky if I am permitted by the retailer to give any money to the developers of the game by buying a new one (since they want to get rid of their used games first). Heck they take *preorders for used games* these days. No wonder EA has responded to this declaration of war by retailers by putting content for single player games online. So the consumer ends up losing. I don't see second hand books/music/dvds being pushed over new ones at the major retailers - why is that? If there was a delay between new and used sales at the major retailers like there used to be, publishers and developers might feel less squeezed.
Um, there are much more than 50 towns, cities and counties in the USA :-) how would amazon know that some village in the middle of nowhere has increased their local sales tax this year?
Doesn't amazon UK (and other internet companies) sell from Jersey (tax haven island) for that very reason?
Yeah good points. But I still prefer "Tora tora tora" to ben affleck :-)
Being human is rather good - you can believe the characters behaving as they do. But they are as much at risk of jumping the shark for the third series as anyone else for popular characters/actors I guess.
With all the historical errors in Braveheart, I wouldn't have been surprised if the Americans had won, just like they did in Pearl Harbour!
And as I submitted, there is an advert for iPhone on the TV in the background :-) such timing!
Also, don't forget slashdot is a US based board so until a US marketing company got British people to design and Taiwanese people to build a mobile phone a couple of years back it was all the time "why on earth would people want to use a mobile phone? They will never take off! They are only used by yuppies and fancy pants foreigners. My 8KHz copper wire phone from Ma Bell has all the connectivity I would ever need". At least that trend seems to have stopped recently!
The PRNG is simply reading the bottom two bits of the ROM space in a certain access pattern. So it is repeatable if you are frame-perfect. But it theoretically varies between different builds of the game (i.e. Japanese versus US).
That is correct. The varying speeds of pacman and the ghosts are also done using bit strings rather than fixed point arithmetic.
"Edge" already has enough trademark problems thanks to Tim Langdell.
Those elements form a series, each further away from the earth: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, America.
The most famous English chefs would be Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver (and various TV chefs like the late Fanny Craddick, Ainsley Harriot, Delia Smith, Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnly Wittinstall and others. I don't watch daytime TV but there are many others).
Heston is famous for using liquid nitrogen and other fancy things to produce weird tastes and textures (such as snail porridge), and for "the fat duck" restaurant being rated in the top three in the world.
But it is unfair to rag on US cuisine. It may be extremely difficult for them to find any food that is not growth-hormone/genetically modified/chemically preserved/Pasteurised, but in towns like San Francisco and New York there are a lot of high-quality independent restaurants, and several regional traditions, like the US TV chefs mentioned.
Your problem was going outside the M25 :-)
Well, except for the cameras of course.
Yeah, but American pr0n (especially Californian) is rubbish. The push towards making it all about snuff movies (i.e. bareback) is also creepy.
A law where you don't know if you are breaking it or not is probably a bad law.
Also they vary from country to country. So a pint is a different number of ounces depending on where you are, and there are several different types of ton. Personally I think it is 1000kg (New Zealand), not 2240 pounds (UK before 1985) or 2000 pounds (Canada) :-)
A short ton, a long ton, a metric ton? Heck, the US has about three different sizes of gallons (one for grain, one for water, one for oil) and two different lengths of land miles (survey mile and statute mile) and hence feet/inches/rods/chains/furlongs etc. You may well remember that there are 80 chains to a mile, but is that a survey mile or a statute mile? Sheesh, even your border with Canada is not even accurate.
I'm guessing its a prequel to "Legacy of the Ancients", a role playing game on the Commodore 64, but I am most probably wrong. Maybe it runs on one of those International Business Machine Personal Computers that a small group of people think can run games (when they are not busy running virus scanners and installing software updates).
Had to take Dramamine for 2 days to avoid nausea
Many people thought the same way after watching Titanic though! :-)
Is that statute miles, survey miles or nautical miles? (It is water after all :-)
Windows XP sorts filenames by decimal. So if they are named hexadecimal files it gets them wrong, whereas a dumb sort would get them right.
Luckily "the sky at night" is still going strong with Sir Patrick Moore at 87 years old, and Carl Sagan used to be on TV also, but it would be nice to have had more astronomy.