What do you mean since 1998? I'm pretty sure music producers have been in limbo of lost revenue since the invention of the home recording devices like the compact cassette. And the music performers have been in severe limbo of lost revenue since the invention of the phonograph.
But as Lawrence Lessig already pointed out, this hasn't killed culture or entertainment, but resulted in new forms of entertainment (and income through other means).
My PS3 slim wouldn't stay logged in on PSN yesterday evening, didn't have any issues earlier that day. Not sure what the error code was, and I haven't tried it today (because I'm obviously at work).
Also interesting to see that also games on the PS3 have shitty DRM that requires online activation/presence. Are they really trying to kill gaming on all platforms?
You just saved me 50 euros on Assassins Creed. And will probably save me more for future ubisoft games. And no, I'm not going to buy the PS3 counterparts.
A gamepad works great for fighting games, and the standard fixed perspective jump 'n run platform games. But it is really terrible for games where you actually have to aim. It annoys the hell out of me that I can't get the camera where I want with games like Uncharted and Brutal Legend (don't own that many console games). Gamedevs often try to be clear and compensate for this horrible input method. These clever tricks of course should be removed ASAP for the PC version, because there you have a good device for moving the camera and aiming, i.e. the mouse. Camera control is still a major problem on consoles, the often doesn't behave as you want it to. That with multiplaform release there are also bringing this problem to the PC. For example, quite often in Mass Effect 2 (which has good controls on the PC, but an annoying UI) the main character doesn't pop up after taking cover. Suddenly the camera is on the right of the character, being blocked by the a bit of scenery (which you used for cover). As a result, you can no longer see the enemy.
Sure you can download part of the spec. But it has a restrictive license (and only valid 1 year, after that it will self destruct), and it is actually quite useless without the rest of the HDMI spec.
Steam was never good for customers. It was just less bad than various other solutions. Steam just makes up for some of it's customer limitations. But in the end you are still renting games that come with a remote kill switch.
_Do you spend more of your time making the gui look nice or the code running efficiently
Answering "yes" to that question will result is a system crash.
The rest of the questions also looks like bullshit. Writing/interacting with assembly is only needed when your higher level compiler doesn't have full support for the architecture. Assembly should be avoided as much as possible. Why would you need to have more than 3 C and (or?) C++ compilers. Are they for different architectures? Or the same? Why would you need C or C++ compilers when the compiler for your architecture doesn't use C or C++? Why would a CS programmer need more than 1 Linux distro on your home computer? Should (s)he also be a Linux distro tester? Crappy compilers take longer, slow systems take longer, large non modular systems (which are bad) take longer, etc. Longer compile times is usually a bad thing, not a good thing. Forgetting languages? I'd suggest you stop drinking. I can understand you become rusty at a language, but forgetting, that's just bad memory. Also, why good is it when you know 100 variations of brainfuck.
And every site that wants to host their own video content. H.264 also requires a license for hosting content. All those sites will probably stick to Flash if other browsers don't support Theora.
You can give me flack for it, but I'm going to go ahead and say that the Slashdot comment interface is very intuitive. I know the reply button starts a reply. The Cancel button cancels it. The option button lets me see various options. Very intuitive, I have not needed to press any of these buttons to know their respective meaning. That by definition makes it intuitive.
And the "Quote Parent" button adds the prefix "My daddy always used to say..." to your reply.
Gamers would also no longer have to worry about patches and software updates to their gaming titles - one of those annoyances that PC gamers often cite on their way to moving to a console.
I recently bought a PS3 with some games. When I started it I was welcomed with "You need to install the latest PS3 firmware now!". So I had to wait for it to install and reboot. Then I inserted a game and wanted to play, but I was welcomed with "Updates have been found for this game and need to be installed". Which is pretty much identical to the PC, but there you often have the option to install the patch.
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Well, what do you expect from a competitor?
To release a better, or cheaper product.
"100 million lines of code" doesn't say anything. I can write "hello world" in 2 lines of code, or 200 lines of code.
What do you mean since 1998? I'm pretty sure music producers have been in limbo of lost revenue since the invention of the home recording devices like the compact cassette. And the music performers have been in severe limbo of lost revenue since the invention of the phonograph.
But as Lawrence Lessig already pointed out, this hasn't killed culture or entertainment, but resulted in new forms of entertainment (and income through other means).
Enhance!
Pff, I don't care.
3) win lawsuit
My PS3 slim wouldn't stay logged in on PSN yesterday evening, didn't have any issues earlier that day. Not sure what the error code was, and I haven't tried it today (because I'm obviously at work).
Also interesting to see that also games on the PS3 have shitty DRM that requires online activation/presence. Are they really trying to kill gaming on all platforms?
You just saved me 50 euros on Assassins Creed. And will probably save me more for future ubisoft games. And no, I'm not going to buy the PS3 counterparts.
A gamepad works great for fighting games, and the standard fixed perspective jump 'n run platform games. But it is really terrible for games where you actually have to aim. It annoys the hell out of me that I can't get the camera where I want with games like Uncharted and Brutal Legend (don't own that many console games). Gamedevs often try to be clear and compensate for this horrible input method. These clever tricks of course should be removed ASAP for the PC version, because there you have a good device for moving the camera and aiming, i.e. the mouse.
Camera control is still a major problem on consoles, the often doesn't behave as you want it to. That with multiplaform release there are also bringing this problem to the PC. For example, quite often in Mass Effect 2 (which has good controls on the PC, but an annoying UI) the main character doesn't pop up after taking cover. Suddenly the camera is on the right of the character, being blocked by the a bit of scenery (which you used for cover). As a result, you can no longer see the enemy.
Brains? Really?
I guess when you outlaw brains, only outlaws will have brains.
Sure you can download part of the spec. But it has a restrictive license (and only valid 1 year, after that it will self destruct), and it is actually quite useless without the rest of the HDMI spec.
Steam was never good for customers. It was just less bad than various other solutions. Steam just makes up for some of it's customer limitations. But in the end you are still renting games that come with a remote kill switch.
So.... they can still use sourceforge.
Specially because sf.net is limited by the US laws concerning exporting software to certain countries.
And $500573 for a serious security bug?
QuakeLive doesn't run in the browser. It is just the Quake 3 engine wrapped into a browser plugin.
Not according to your list.
I can answer yes to 7 of your 8 questions. Only the last question is a "no". I haven't forgotten any language, but quite some are a bit rusty.
We use "real" languages (predictable languages) like C, C++, Ada, Fortran, and assembly.
Why is parent modded Insightful? This is clearly funny. Specially C++ or assembly is just funny.
Answering "yes" to that question will result is a system crash.
The rest of the questions also looks like bullshit.
Writing/interacting with assembly is only needed when your higher level compiler doesn't have full support for the architecture. Assembly should be avoided as much as possible.
Why would you need to have more than 3 C and (or?) C++ compilers. Are they for different architectures? Or the same? Why would you need C or C++ compilers when the compiler for your architecture doesn't use C or C++?
Why would a CS programmer need more than 1 Linux distro on your home computer? Should (s)he also be a Linux distro tester?
Crappy compilers take longer, slow systems take longer, large non modular systems (which are bad) take longer, etc. Longer compile times is usually a bad thing, not a good thing.
Forgetting languages? I'd suggest you stop drinking. I can understand you become rusty at a language, but forgetting, that's just bad memory. Also, why good is it when you know 100 variations of brainfuck.
It's mostly just problem for Mozilla
And every site that wants to host their own video content. H.264 also requires a license for hosting content. All those sites will probably stick to Flash if other browsers don't support Theora.
DRM makes the game worth less. Online activation makes the game 50% less worthy, limited online activation makes the game another 50% less worthy.
You can give me flack for it, but I'm going to go ahead and say that the Slashdot comment interface is very intuitive. I know the reply button starts a reply. The Cancel button cancels it. The option button lets me see various options. Very intuitive, I have not needed to press any of these buttons to know their respective meaning. That by definition makes it intuitive.
And the "Quote Parent" button adds the prefix "My daddy always used to say ..." to your reply.
You may say, well, if you put all your commands in English, then only English speakers can use your app.
Actually, you don't have to be able to speak English. As long as you can read it you're fine.
I recently bought a PS3 with some games. When I started it I was welcomed with "You need to install the latest PS3 firmware now!". So I had to wait for it to install and reboot. Then I inserted a game and wanted to play, but I was welcomed with "Updates have been found for this game and need to be installed". Which is pretty much identical to the PC, but there you often have the option to install the patch.
I thought it's still RIAA's Department of Justice.
If copyright is extended jobs are lost. You don't need to hire people to create new stuff because you can still earn money from the ancient stuff.