Buying the game gives as signal that you agree with Blizzard-Activision's actions. $1 Billion revenue says that Blizzard-Activision did an excellent job. The following screenshot is a clear indication a lot of people can't stick to their principles: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/images/mw2_boycott.jpg
Despite your undying love of google forcing you to accept everything from them (i'm liberally assuming here), there some legitimately complaints.
Heh, not really. There are a lot of things I think suck the Android, mostly with various standard applications. For example: no proper file browser in the music player; crappy email client which can't handle larger mail directories; no "update all" for through the market; unreliable bluetooth support (although, it could be just my phone); no vector based user interface (specially an issue now that other resolutions are starting to appear); etc.
The ammount of mini apps running around go directly against the idea that's been creeping around of making applications run on less files, like Mac application structure, or so i've heard, does, while the running applications it's a very valid point.
That's not per se an issue with Android but with application writers. Your application shouldn't start a service when it doesn't need to (looking at you "Astrid", I don't have any reminders). An application should do what it was requested to do and then stop. But other applications need to remain active in the background, like my SSH client
Point 1. Open Source As the submitter also pointed out. I don't see any problem with the Apache Software License 2.0 licensed Open Source code of Android. How is that a developer gripe? APL2 allows you to close whatever you want to keep closed.
Figuring out when it's okay to include one of those in your own application requires a crack legal team with a hotline to the EFF.
Actually, that's quite simple. It's ok when Google (the copyright holder) says it's ok, otherwise it's not.
Point 2. The Tyranny of the Activity
Android, by contrast, pushes you to design everything as small, self-contained mini-applications.
That sounds a bit like the old UNIX principle. And what's wrong with having applications that do small things and do it well. I don't want a picture application with it's own twitter functionality, I have a proper twitter client for that. etc.
Point 3. Device Debugging
Why do I hate this extremely useful tool? I hate it because it makes about 40% of my debugging skills nearly useless!
Ok.. so... this article is an humor piece instead of a real article/rant? Or is the writer simply a moron?
Point 4. Applications Never, Ever Quit
but your icon stays in the list of running tasks
Maybe this is a new feature in Android 2.x. But the list of applications you get when holding down the home button is not "running applications" but simply a list of recently started applications. When I leave an application and it has no active processes then it won't show up in the process list. So, I'm quite sure it's not running.
Point 5. The Developer Cooperative Yes, it would be very nice if the end-user could define system resource limits for individual applications. But other than that, I don't want artificial limitations enforced by the OS by default. Some application simply need more resources than others. If an application is crap, I will uninstall it. Just like I do on my normal PCs.
You know what... I'm not even interesting in the other 5 points on the second page.
6) Vendors appear to put more effort into making their user interface "pop" rather trying to minimize resource usage and system impact. For example, Microsoft antivirus creates a system restore point every time the signatures are updated (once a day). Every time a system restore point is created my system become barely unusable for a couple of minutes. You can't control when it updates the signatures (currently for me it's around 23:20). Which brings me to:
7) Vendors want to use their own resistant scheduler service rather than using the standard service that has been in MS Windows since Windows 95. More resource waste.
Why can't I pay with real money instead of fake money which I can only buy in certain quantities so that I will always have left over fake money.
That's the second reason why I won't buy anything from Games for Windows Live Market. The first reason is that I don't trust Microsoft to keep that service running.
I think the proper way to denote year 2010 is Y2K01, just like 14K4 was used for 14400. Of course writing Y2K01 or Y2.01K is more difficult than Y2010, so why bother using that arcane notation.
Can you call a plane that never flew on the Antarctic the first plane on the Antarctic? Because in that case I'm going to build the first hover-car on Earth.
Steam is just as bad, because your content is only available through the "steam device", not "any device", and there is only one company that produces "steam devices".
And after that you will have to reconstruct the document from the OCR output, which will take quite some time because people don't scroll by nice segments (i.e. by consecutive pages) while programming. And there's another issue, libraries. You can't OCR binary files which you don't see the contents of.
Realism would mean you play once for 10 minutes, get shot, possibly through no fault of your own, and are permanently out of the game because in that game you are dead. No one wants that. Reality sucks. War is not fun. Sometimes skill counts but just as often dumb luck or being born on the right side does. War's not meant to be fun. Playing warrior is.
Guess you never played the Rainbow Six games. Because that is exactly what could happen, specially in multiplayer mode it can be quite annoying. But, it'll teach you not to die in the first few minutes:p
But Eric is right. If there are no wrongdoers in the world I wouldn't have to care about my privacy. Only a wrongdoer would abuse your credit card details.
Epic not evil? Read up on the working conditions of their game developers, and how they sabotage any initiative to improve industry-wide conditions, then come back and say that.
Yes, it would be great if Epic (and the rest of the Game Industry) wouldn't demand/need crunch times. But it is not just the game industry that has crunch times. They are everywhere, every job that involves projects with deadlines has crunch times.
And my past 10 year experience with Epic is that they are really supportive with respect to fan made/fan run stuff.
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Buying the game gives as signal that you agree with Blizzard-Activision's actions. $1 Billion revenue says that Blizzard-Activision did an excellent job.
The following screenshot is a clear indication a lot of people can't stick to their principles: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/images/mw2_boycott.jpg
"I'm going to eat at until I explode"
Despite your undying love of google forcing you to accept everything from them (i'm liberally assuming here), there some legitimately complaints.
Heh, not really. There are a lot of things I think suck the Android, mostly with various standard applications. For example: no proper file browser in the music player; crappy email client which can't handle larger mail directories; no "update all" for through the market; unreliable bluetooth support (although, it could be just my phone); no vector based user interface (specially an issue now that other resolutions are starting to appear); etc.
The ammount of mini apps running around go directly against the idea that's been creeping around of making applications run on less files, like Mac application structure, or so i've heard, does, while the running applications it's a very valid point.
That's not per se an issue with Android but with application writers. Your application shouldn't start a service when it doesn't need to (looking at you "Astrid", I don't have any reminders). An application should do what it was requested to do and then stop. But other applications need to remain active in the background, like my SSH client
That's a implementation issue, not a design issue. He claims the design is inherently bad, which I don't think is the case.
The problem with that is that I might want to have music playing while I do other things like webbrowsing.
Point 1. Open Source
As the submitter also pointed out. I don't see any problem with the Apache Software License 2.0 licensed Open Source code of Android. How is that a developer gripe? APL2 allows you to close whatever you want to keep closed.
Actually, that's quite simple. It's ok when Google (the copyright holder) says it's ok, otherwise it's not.
Point 2. The Tyranny of the Activity
That sounds a bit like the old UNIX principle. And what's wrong with having applications that do small things and do it well. I don't want a picture application with it's own twitter functionality, I have a proper twitter client for that. etc.
Point 3. Device Debugging
Ok.. so... this article is an humor piece instead of a real article/rant? Or is the writer simply a moron?
Point 4. Applications Never, Ever Quit
Maybe this is a new feature in Android 2.x. But the list of applications you get when holding down the home button is not "running applications" but simply a list of recently started applications. When I leave an application and it has no active processes then it won't show up in the process list. So, I'm quite sure it's not running.
Point 5. The Developer Cooperative
Yes, it would be very nice if the end-user could define system resource limits for individual applications. But other than that, I don't want artificial limitations enforced by the OS by default. Some application simply need more resources than others. If an application is crap, I will uninstall it. Just like I do on my normal PCs.
You know what... I'm not even interesting in the other 5 points on the second page.
6) Vendors appear to put more effort into making their user interface "pop" rather trying to minimize resource usage and system impact. For example, Microsoft antivirus creates a system restore point every time the signatures are updated (once a day). Every time a system restore point is created my system become barely unusable for a couple of minutes. You can't control when it updates the signatures (currently for me it's around 23:20). Which brings me to:
7) Vendors want to use their own resistant scheduler service rather than using the standard service that has been in MS Windows since Windows 95. More resource waste.
Why can't I pay with real money instead of fake money which I can only buy in certain quantities so that I will always have left over fake money.
That's the second reason why I won't buy anything from Games for Windows Live Market. The first reason is that I don't trust Microsoft to keep that service running.
http://xkcd.com/303/
I'm starting to wonder if there is a case where no XKCD comic applies.
I think the proper way to denote year 2010 is Y2K01, just like 14K4 was used for 14400.
Of course writing Y2K01 or Y2.01K is more difficult than Y2010, so why bother using that arcane notation.
Can you call a plane that never flew on the Antarctic the first plane on the Antarctic?
Because in that case I'm going to build the first hover-car on Earth.
Steam is just as bad, because your content is only available through the "steam device", not "any device", and there is only one company that produces "steam devices".
I don't understand how Open Source fits into this list. Open Source isn't new. It's much older than 10 years.
And after that you will have to reconstruct the document from the OCR output, which will take quite some time because people don't scroll by nice segments (i.e. by consecutive pages) while programming. And there's another issue, libraries. You can't OCR binary files which you don't see the contents of.
Realism would mean you play once for 10 minutes, get shot, possibly through no fault of your own, and are permanently out of the game because in that game you are dead. No one wants that. Reality sucks. War is not fun. Sometimes skill counts but just as often dumb luck or being born on the right side does. War's not meant to be fun. Playing warrior is.
Guess you never played the Rainbow Six games. Because that is exactly what could happen, specially in multiplayer mode it can be quite annoying. But, it'll teach you not to die in the first few minutes :p
So basically, you get screwed?
Assembly? please.
Rewrite everything with butterflies.
You should have used the cracked executable for Mass Effect that didn't contain the DRM.
[..] SMS messages [..]
Yes, those really add up.
But Eric is right. If there are no wrongdoers in the world I wouldn't have to care about my privacy. Only a wrongdoer would abuse your credit card details.
Epic not evil? Read up on the working conditions of their game developers, and how they sabotage any initiative to improve industry-wide conditions, then come back and say that.
You can at least provide some links to articles that support your claims. Are you referring to the Mike Capps interview where he said that he demands people to put in their effort and an extra mile when needed (i.e. crunch times?) Maybe you should read this (followup interview): http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/22/joystiq-interview-epics-michael-capps-responds-to-accusations/
Yes, it would be great if Epic (and the rest of the Game Industry) wouldn't demand/need crunch times. But it is not just the game industry that has crunch times. They are everywhere, every job that involves projects with deadlines has crunch times.
And my past 10 year experience with Epic is that they are really supportive with respect to fan made/fan run stuff.
Running in circles three times doesn't matter, in the end you're still at the same place where you started. So BD's 1080 sounds useless to me.
WTF are you talking about? Where is the car?
If more people learned the power of saying "no" the world would be a better place.
No
Actually, people in the UK drive on the wrong side of the road. Most of the world drives on the right side of the road.